From
The Bookshelf
Central
Savannah River Area Library Association Newsletter
Volume
39, Number 1, April 2006
ECGRL
MCG Library
Morris Museum of Art Library
Paine College Library
Reese Library
About the Association/Contact Information
Optimism is Contagious
The past year brought several significant optimistic milestones. Reese Library at ASU is about to join buildings with the new Student Center to follow the national trend toward greater integration of student services. We wish them well.
The new ECGRL public library in Burke County opened fall 2005 near the Waynesboro campus of Augusta Technical College to better serve their populations. The library building is a part of the Waynesboro Park Complex with recreational facilities. Another ECGRL branch also opened in the fall. Diamond Lakes is part of the Richmond County Recreation Complex off Windsor Springs Road. This long-awaited facility serves the Hephzibah and South Augusta area.
The new ECGRL Columbia County Library opened March 27th in the new Evans Government Complex. The grand opening is scheduled for April 21–29. To share in the celebration, the Association’s spring meeting provides a guided tour at the Circulation Desk on Saturday, April 29th at 1:00 p.m. For directions, see mapquest.com (Address: 720 North Belair Road, Evans GA).
All of these public library projects reflect the recent trend to centralize community services. Not to overlook the new Headquarters Library for downtown Augusta, the passing of the SPLOST last November provided a welcome relief after a long struggle to fund a new public facility. After selection of an architect, the process of balancing “form and function” in the floor plans is underway. The actual construction is slated to begin fall 2006.
The optimism continues as public library advocates focus efforts on increasing the per capita funding in Georgia. This major step can help offset the rising cost of print materials, but the state would still be low in national rankings. Nationwide, libraries are experiencing cuts in hours and services if not the closing of branches. The public protests when branches are closed, but input earlier in the budgeting process is vital to a proactive approach. I urge all who recognize the value of libraries to join their local county’s Friends of the Library organization as it can serve as an advocate at local and state levels. For membership information, please contact your local Public Library. The Columbia, Burke, and Richmond County phone numbers are under the “Libraries” drop-down menu at the ECGRL Homepage. Express your optimism!
One final reminder: the CSRA Library Association dues support the Elizabeth M. Tyson Memorial Grant at USC – Columbia. The annual contribution of $300.00 is remitted each fall. Please send in your new or renewal membership application to Fay Verburg at ASU. Completing the application will assist in updating the membership roster.
Optimistically yours,
Debby Barron, President
Our April 29th meeting will be a guided tour of the new Columbia County Library in the new Evans Government Complex area; 720 North Belair Road, Evans GA. The 29th is part of the grand opening celebration extending from April 21–29th. We will meet in the Circulation Desk area at 1:00 p.m. for a tour to be followed by a brief meeting.
After the meeting you may wish to attend other events "on your own." At 2:00 p.m. there will be a reception for and book signing and author talk by Louise Shivers, author of Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail and Whistling Woman. Ms. Shivers lives in Columbia County and is the writer-in-residence at Augusta State University. At 4:00 p.m. local author and retired English teacher Naomi WIlliams (Two Rivers) will speak and sign copies of her book.
Picturing Augusta: Historical Postcards from the Collection of the East Central Georgia Regional Library
During the very early 1900s—at the height of America's Golden Age of postcard popularity—teacher Ella C. Mayo collected picture postcards depicting popular scenes in Augusta GA. Her collection provides an intriguing snapshot of early twentieth-century Augusta, and the pictorial coverage of the city's many different facets offers insights into its remarkable history. Now, users can explore this remarkable story online through GALILEO's Digital Library of Georgia in Picturing Augusta: Historic Postcards from the Collection of the East Central Georgia Regional Library.
Georgia HomePLACE (Providing Library and Archives Collections Electronically) encouraged this collaborative digitization project, supported with Federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
Picturing Augusta depicts the commercial development, economic prosperity, and social customs of Augusta and its inhabitants during the opening years of the twentieth century. Collected by Augusta school teacher Ella C. Mayo (later Belz) at the turn of the twentieth century through 1914, the postcards include images of notable Augusta landmarks such as the Augusta Canal, Augusta Country Club, Bon Air Hotel, Lake Olmstead, Meadow Garden, Medical College of Georgia, and the Partridge Inn. Several relate specifically to Augusta's position as the second largest inland cotton market in the United States—they show cotton fields, harvested bales, cotton mills, and other scenes of production associated with the cotton industry in Augusta. Many of the scenic postcards depict views along the Savannah River as well as commercial and residential streetscapes along both Broad and Greene Streets.
The new Picturing Augusta web site allows visitors to browse the collection of online postcards by collection order, publisher, subject, or title. The web site also provides extensive orientation and contextual materials to help visitors better understand the significance and meaning of those historic artifacts. The “Introduction to Historic Picture Postcards of Augusta” essay provides overall orientation to the topics, buildings, and landscapes depicted on the postcards. Additional sections provide related links, suggested readings, and related archival materials.
Saralyn Ingram
Sandy Allison will be retiring from the Maxwell Branch where she has worked since September 2001. She previously worked for the Warren County Library.
Patricia Atkinson retired December 2005 after over 30 years with the headquarters library in the Technical Services Department.
Meredith Chandler, Burke County Sardis Branch manager, is retiring this month.
Dick Leach, former ECGRL director, retired in December 2005 from the Live Oak Public Library System in Effingham County.
Alice Walker, ECGRL Assistant Director, will retire in August 2006.
Augusta Richmond County Public Library
Evenings in the Appleby Garden
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"Evenings in the Appleby Garden" concert series, fun for the whole family, starts May 23, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. with a performance by Keith Gehle, classical guitarist. The Appleby Branch Library is at 2260 Walton Way at Johns Road. Contact the library at 706-736-6244 for additional details concerning upcoming concert dates and performers. |
Diamond Lakes Branch Library Opening
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| The groundbreaking for the Diamond Lakes Branch was May 18, 2004. The grand opening ceremony was held at 11:00 a.m. on September 9, 2005. The Community Center and Library represents a cooperative endeavor between the Library and the Recreation Department to better serve the residents of south Richmond County. |
Burke County Library
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The new Burke County Library opened in Waynesboro in August 2005. The 16,000 square foot building is double the size of the old library. Special features include a large children's area, a Georgia Room with up-to-date research technology, a media-equipped meeting room, and a collection of new books and DVDs. |
The public ribbon cutting and open house was held on September 18, 2005. Governor Sonny Perdue attended the formal dedication of the library on September 19. |
ECGRL news submitted by Saralyn Ingram
Medical College of Georgia - Robert B. Greenblatt Library
Darra Ballance has taken the position of Instructor and Learning Resources Coordinator of the Georgia Statewide AHEC at the Medical College of Georgia. Darra, a South Carolina native, received her library degree from the University of South Carolina and has served as a librarian for University Hospital and for the Savannah River Site. The MCG Greenblatt Library is pleased that she has joined and is able to continue to be involved with the CSRA librarians.
Submitted by Lyn Dennison
The Center for the Study of Southern Art, the library of the Morris Museum of Art, is continuing to grow, recently acquiring a new server for the library's automation system and new workstations and printers, thanks to the generosity of Dr. and Mrs. Peter Klacsmann and an anonymous donor. With nearly 13,000 volumes of books and sound and video recordings, and more than 15,000 vertical files, the library will soon be purchasing more shelves and filing cabinets.
The library had its third successful book sale this past November, relying mostly on donations, since the collection of books and journals is of permanent research value and rarely weeded. As part of an informal exchange program, the library regularly sends its exhibition catalogues and brochures to approximately 400 art and museum libraries around the country and receives many valuable items in return.
Part-time curator of research Karen Klacsmann adds artist information to our vertical files from her research and contributes biographies of our artists to AskArt.com and the Georgia Encyclopedia Online.
Library assistant Matt Glubrecht, in addition to regular duties, is working on an inventory of the papers of Xenia Zed, an artist and influential early editor of Art Papers magazine. Volunteer Drusilla Carter, a recent graduate of the library school at the University of South Carolina, is working on an inventory of the papers of Larry Connatser, an artist who lived and worked in Savannah and Atlanta. Librarian and archivist Cary Wilkins is also working on the Connatser papers and acquiring materials for upcoming exhibitions of work by Maybelle Stamper, the Murphy family of Savannah, Hubert Shuptrine, Lyle Bongé, and Zelda Fitzgerald.
The Morris Museum of Art has completed an agreement to acquire nearly 1,000 works of art from noted Washington, D.C., collector Julia J. (Judy) Norrell. The significant acquisition includes paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, sculpture, and folk art and encompasses the portion of Ms. Norrell's collection related to the South. Among the highlights of the collection are photographs by Eudora Welty, Henri-Cartier Bresson, Walker Evans, and Ben Shahn, and paintings by William Tolliver and Eldridge Bagley. Major works by African American artists John Biggers, Beverly Buchanan, Jonathan Green, Juan Logan, Whitfield Lovell, and others are included. Visionary and self-taught artists include Howard Finster, Clementine Hunter, Mose Tolliver, and Minnie Adkins, to cite just a few. Several well-known artists, such as William Christenberry, are represented by many works in a number of different media.
Read more about the museum and library and about the current and upcoming exhibitions and programs at the museum by going to our web site, www.themorris.org.
Cary Wilkins
The Collins-Callaway Library is now a wireless environment. The system was installed so that there is a wireless connectivity anywhere within the two-story building. Students may check out laptops for use internally.
Submitted by Suzette Hollins
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The library welcomed two new employees to the Circulation Department in April. Jan Alexander (left) has her B.A. in English from ASU. She has customer service experience with a credit union, an insurance company, a food bank, and as a substitute teacher. She is also a Red Cross Volunteer and has recently finished disaster relief work in Texas. Yadira Payne (right) has her B.A. in Spanish, with a Cultural Diversity minor, from ASU. She has written and illustrated two bilingual children's books. She is the newsletter editor for the Friends of the Columbia County Libraries and has been a volunteer in an elementary school media center. This month she is beginning an online graduate program with Drexel University in Library and Information Science. |
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| Reese Library celebrated Black History Month in February with a display which tracks the Underground Railroad during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The display was created by Mellie Kerins, Outreach Librarian, and Martha Corkrin, Outreach Assistant. The quilt pieces were hand-sewn by Martha's grandmother around 1942. |
Reese Library has received an American Library Association/Nextbook "Let's Talk About it! Jewish Literature" grant. The theme for this book discussion program which will take place in fall 2006 is "A Mind of Her Own: Fathers and Daughters in a Changing World." Camilla Reid, Assistant Professor and Associate Library Director is the Project Director. Dr. Robert Bledsoe, Assistant Professor of German is the Program Scholar.
Submitted by Mellie Kerins & Camilla Reid
Jennifer Little, Reference/User Education Librarian, resigned in June 2005, to accept the position of Coordinator of Instruction at the SUNY Brockport library. Nicole Jacques, Reference Librarian, resigned in June 2005, to further her studies in Spanish at Middlebury College in Vermont. She is now employed by the Guilford College library in Greensboro, NC.
Tom Hobbs, Reference Librarian, traveled to Bath, England, in June 2005, to present a paper on John Nichols, Georgian era printer/publisher and obituarist for The Gentleman’s Magazine, the first magazine in the English language, at the International Association of Obituarists annual conference. Tom moderated a panel discussion on the past and future of the South Carolina AAUP at the fall 2005 South Carolina Conference of the American Association of University Professors held at Furman University in Greenville SC. In April 2006 he made a presentation to the joint conference of the Tennessee and Southeastern Library Associations in Memphis. His topic was “The Obituary: A Dying Art Turned Lively Again.”
Christie Hull joined the Public Services Department as Reference Librarian in August 2005. Christie was previously Reference Librarian at Bob Jones University in Greenville SC. Christie has been appointed Program Coordinator for the College and University Section of the South Carolina Library Association. She played a key role in organizing the section’s May 2006 workshop on “Conquering the Tenure Terrors.”
Paul Lewis, Documents Librarian, co-authored an article with Brenda Chawner titled "WikiWikiWebs: New Ways to Communicate in a Web Environment" in the March 2006 issue of Information Technology and Libraries published by the Library and Information Technology Association of the American Library Association.
Rose Parkman Marshall joined the Public Services Department as Instruction Coordinator in September 2005. Rose was previously Coordinator of Library Instruction at the Thomas Cooper Library of USC Columbia.
Brigitte Smith, Interlibrary Loan Supervisor, attended the LIBRIS Conference at Midlands Technical College in Columbia in May 2005.
Jane Tuten, Library Director, has been reappointed to the Aiken County Library Board and elected Treasurer of the ABBE Library Board. She received a grant from PASCAL to attend the Council on Library Resources Conference, “Managing Digital Assets: A Primer for Library and Information Technology Administrators,” in February 2005.
Randall Watts, Technical Services Librarian, made a presentation to the North Carolina Serials Conference in March 2006, on the topic of de-selection. His title was “Yes, As a Matter of Fact, We Are Throwing Those Away: A Small Public University Library Deals with De-Selection.”
Jane Tuten, Randall Watts, Christie Hull, and Rose Marshall attended the South Carolina Library Association annual conference in October 2005.
Jane Tuten and Jennifer J. Little (SUNY Brockport) have had an article accepted for publication in College & University Libraries (Haworth Press). The article is entitled “Strategic Planning: First Steps in Sharing Information Literacy Goals with Faculty Across Disciplines” and is scheduled for publication in fall 2006.
Patricia and Bob Boerner have four family members graduating this May: a son, Karl, earning his Masters in Public Administration at Columbus State University (Georgia Law Enforcement College), another son, Andre', receiving his Baccalaureate Degree from Augusta State University (Andre' is class Valedictorian), and two high school seniors—granddaughter Kellie, in Knoxville TN, and grandson Ben, in Acworth GA. Historically, ten Boerners are alumni of the Jr. College of Augusta, Augusta College, and Augusta State University. Let's hear it from the "Amen Corner."
Jeff Heck, Automation Librarian at Augusta State University, was inducted March 17 into Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's largest honor society. He also has become Assignments Editor for the Georgia Library Quarterly, a publication of the Georgia Library Association. As Assignments Editor, he will coordinate editing of the articles in preparation for sending them to layout. Jeff also has been named as delegate by the Kiwanis Club of Uptown Augusta to the Kiwanis International Conference to be held in Montreal, Canada, in June 2006.
Dr. Bill Nelson, Reese Library, was awarded the Nix-Jones Award (October 2005) by the Georgia Library Association, "...for distinguished service to Georgia librarianship." The award "recognizes substantial contributions to the library profession... and outstanding support of Georgia libraries."
Appointed chair, National Standards and Accreditation Committee, Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), 2005-2007.
Library Consultant, Library Program Review, Drury University (Springfield MO), March 8–9, 2006.
Workshops:
"Assessment in Academic Libraries: Using ACRL Standards for Continuous Evaluation," (with Bob Fernekes), Preconference to ACRL 12th National Conference, Association of College and Research Libraries (Minneapolis), April 7, 2005.
"Practical Library Assessment: Applying the ACRL Standards for Libraries in Higher Education," (with Bob Fernekes), Preconference to Southeastern Library Network Annual Conference, SOLINET (Atlanta), May 4, 2005.
"ACRL Standards for Libraries in Higher Education: Practical Application for Academic Libraries," (with Bob Fernekes), Preconference to Association of Christian Librarians Annual Conference (Columbia SC), June 13, 2005.
"Creating a Continuous Assessment Environment: Practical Approaches for Academic Libraries," (with Bob Fernekes), Preconference to Canadian Library Association Annual Conference, Canadian Association of College and University Libraries (Calgary, Alberta), June 15, 2005.
Presented a series of three workshops (with Bob Fernekes) at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, November 30–December 2, 2005.
"Assessment in Academic Libraries: Using the ACRL Standards for Continuous Evaluation," (with Bob Fernekes), (Preconference to ALA Midwinter Conference), Association of College and Research Libraries (San Antonio), January 20, 2006.
"Practical Library Assessment: Applying the ACRL Standards for Libraries in Higher Education," (with Bob Fernekes), SOLINET sponsored workshop (Mobile AL), February 24, 2006.
"Practical Library Assessment: Applying the ACRL Standards for Libraries in Higher Education," (with Bob Fernekes), OHIONET (Columbus OH), March 15, 2006.
"Creating an Environment of Continuous Assessment: Practical Approaches for Academic Libraries Applying the ACRL Standards," (with Bob Fernekes), NELINET (Boston), March 22, 2006.
Presentations:
"Trends in Library Outcomes Assessment," Poster Session, American Association of Higher Education Conference (Atlanta), March 18, 2005.
"Standards for Libraries in Higher Education: Evaluating YOUR Library," Poster Session (with Bob Fernekes), (ACRL 12th National Conference), Association of College and Research Libraries (Minneapolis), April 9, 2005.
"How Should Academic Libraries Address the Requirements of the SACS Principles of Accreditation?," Alabama chapter of ACRL, Alabama Library Association Conference (Birmingham), April 20, 2005.
"How Georgia Academic Libraries are Using ACRL Standards to Comply With the New SACS Standards," (with Ravonne Green and Stephanie Middleton), GLA-COMO Conference (Columbus GA), October 13, 2005.
"Practical Approaches for Implementing ACRL's Standards for Libraries in Higher Education," (with Bob Fernekes), Georgia Library Association Council of Media Organizations (GLA-COMO) Conference (Columbus GA), October 14, 2005.
"Academic Library Standards: SACS and the ACRL, Standards for Libraries in Higher Education," (with Bob Fernekes), Tennessee Library Association/Southeastern Library Association Conference (Memphis), April 6, 2006.
Publications:
"Who Uses ACRL Standards?: Gauging the Use of Standards for Libraries in Higher Education," (Co-author, Bob Fernekes), College & Research Libraries News, 6, No. 5 (May 2005), 359–64.
Peter Shipman, Assistant Professor and Outreach Librarian at the Robert B. Greenblatt Library at MCG, has been chosen as a Governor's Teaching Fellow for the 2006 Summer Symposium. Co-sponsored by the Institute of Higher Education and the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Georgia, the program provides Georgia's higher education faculty with opportunities to develop and improve teaching skills. It was designed to address the need for faculty to use emerging technologies and new instructional tools.
Tom Sutherland has been busy with the planning committee for the 225th Anniversary of the Battle of Augusta. The Augusta Richmond Historical Society plans a commemoration for the 225th anniversary of the Battle of Augusta on Friday and Saturday, June 2 and 3, 2006. Three major events—a seminar, dinner, and a battle re-enactment, are planned to commemorate the siege of Fort Cornwallis, which took place May 22 through June 5, 1781, during the American Revolution.
On Friday afternoon, June 2, from 1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m., a symposium entitled "Fighting for Augusta," relating the events of the American Revolution in Augusta and environs, will be held at the Augusta Museum of History. That evening at 7:00 p.m., a colonial dinner will be held at Saint Paul's Parish Hall. Interpreters in colonial dress will be participating in the meal. Tickets for this event are $50 and may be purchased from Lynn Thompson, 803-279-7560 or lynn@colonialtimes.us.
On Saturday, June 3, at 2:00 p.m., the Georgia Sons of the American Revolution will hold a wreath laying ceremony behind Saint Paul's, the actual site of the siege. At 3:00 p.m. the 434th US Army Band will present a Continental Concert. Then at 4:00 p.m., a battle reenactment will take place on the city's pension property, behind the old railroad depot on Reynolds Street and directly across from the Augusta Museum of History and immediately adjacent to historic Saint Paul's Episcopal church. Geographically, this is almost on the actual site of Fort Cornwallis.
Adams, Marianne
Baker, Eldorah W.
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Marshall, Rose Parkman
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with a check payable to: CSRA Library Association, c/o Fay Verburg, Reese Library,
2500 Walton Way, Augusta, GA 30904. The membership year in the Association runs
from Jan. 1 to Dec 31. Annual dues are $10, of which a portion goes to the Elizabeth
M. Tyson Memorial Fund.
The Central Savannah River Area Library Association includes libraries in the Georgia counties of Burke, Columbia, Emanuel, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson, Jenkins, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond, Screven, Taliaferro, Warren and Wilkes. It includes the South Carolina counties of Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Edgefield, Hampton, Jasper, and McCormick. The largest city in the area is Augusta, GA.
Members of the association consist of librarians and paraprofessionals from public libraries, school media centers, special libraries, and university and college libraries. The membership directory was compiled through lists in the American Library Directory published by R.R. Bowker and lists furnished by school media center coordinators and the regional libraries. The list does not include every library in every county. Please contact editor Fay Verburg if you have any corrections or additions to the directory as well as suggestions or comments about the web site.