From
The Bookshelf
Central
Savannah River Area Library Association Newsletter
Volume
38, Number 3, March 2005
About the Association/Contact Information
Our January 11 meeting was held at the Augusta Museum of History. Speaker Gordon Blaker entertained us with a round of "What's this Gadget?" while we enjoyed lunch from Hildebrandt's Deli. Sally Farris wowed everyone with her knowledge (my favorite was the sewing bird). After lunch, Gordon gave us an insider's view of the storage room for the museum's artifacts. We finished with a tour of the new exhibit "A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie."
On March 17 (St.Patrick's Day), we will hold our meeting in the Special Collections Room at Reese Library, Augusta State University. Our guest speaker, Dr. Edward Cashin, will discuss Berry Benson (the Civil War soldier on top of the monument on Broad Street). The meeting begins with social time and refreshments at 6:30pm.
Fay Verburg
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| Bob Fernekes and Bill Nelson modeling their "native attire" following a presentation at the Hawaii Library Association annual conference which took place at the Turtle Bay Resort on the north shore of Oahu. | Bill and Bob take a break during the all-day workshop for the University System of Hawaii at Windward Community College (Kaneohe, HI) on the island of Oahu. The beautiful tree in the background is a banyon. |
Stevan Clements, Cree-Walker Distinguished Professor of Communications, talks
about his latest book, Show Runner: Producing Variety and Talk Shows for
Television, at Reese Library’s February Meet the Author program.
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Beth O'Dell became a full time Library Assistant in Circulation in January. She has worked in Reese Library as a student assistant since 1996. Her current duties include mending, managing the microform room and Circulation Desk duties. She will graduate in May with a degree in Political Science.
Carol Waggoner-Angleton has been working in Special Collections as a Library Assistant since January 19th. She and her family moved to Augusta in August 2003. Carol is completing a distance education program in Library Science from the University of Wales. Her previous position was in a corporate library which she ran by herself.
Submitted by Mellie Kerins
East Central Georgia Regional Library
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Author Michael Malone was the featured speaker at the annual meeting of Friends of the Augusta Library held February 1 at the Covenant Presbyterian Church. The ninety-five attendees enjoyed Malone’s humorous stories of life in the South and quotes from Handling Sin and his other novels. The Friends congratulated out-going officers and elected new officers for 2005 including: President, Peggy Lovelace; Vice President, Shirley Hermitage; Secretary, Roxann Bustos; and Treasurer, Rick Cundey. |
On February 21, Gary Swint, Director of the East Central Georgia Regional Library, and B.J. Lester (right), Chair of the ECGRL Board, presented certificates of appreciation to two recent retirees. Nancy Morrison (second from left) retired in December 2004 after 21 years as manager of the Appleby Branch Library. Mrs. Morrison started her career in libraries in Alabama and, prior to coming to Appleby Library, she managed the Harlem Library in Columbia County. Mary S. Maxwell also retired in December having worked 31 years with visually and physically handicapped patrons in the regional AV/Talking Book Center located in Augusta. The Center serves the ten-county area of Burke, Columbia, Glascock, Jefferson, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond, Taliaferro, Warren, and Wilkes counties.
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Submitted by Saralyn Ingram
Columbia County Library in the News - Columbia County Magazine featured an article in its premier edition about the new county library under construction. Georgia Trend magazine's February issue included an article on Columbia County and mentioned the new library.
Library staff, board members, county officials, and architects participated in a hard hat tour of the new library under construction near the Evans Government Complex. This was our first opportunity to walk inside the building, and everyone was quite pleased with how the library is progressing. Construction is on schedule for substantial completion this fall. Furniture and equipment will be installed in November-December, new staff hired and trained in January 2006, and books moved in February. Public opening is projected for March 2006 to be followed with grand opening ceremonies in April. In the meantime, we are completing equipment RFPs, requesting additional staff in the county budget, and building an opening day collection. Friends of the Library began a fund-raising campaign in January to supplement book and equipment funding for the new library.
Submitted by Christina Rice
Dr. Bill Nelson, Reese Library, lead the following workshops:
"Academic Library Assessment: Utilizing the ACRL Standards for Libraries in Higher Education (2004) (with Bob Fernekes), invited presenters, University of Hawaii Library System (Kaneohe, Oahu, HI), October 22, 2004.
"2004 ACRL Standards: Practical Application for Academic Libraries," (with Bob Fernekes), Preconference Workshop for SELA conference (Charlotte), November 9, 2004.
"Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Standards for Libraries in Higher Education," (with Bob Fernekes), invited presenters, Network of Illinois Learning Resources in Community Colleges (Chicago), November 17, 2004.
"ACRL Standards: Practical Application in Higher Education," (with Bob Fernekes), invited presenters, University System of Puerto Rico (San Juan), November 22 & 23, 2004.
"Library Assessment in Higher Education: Applying the New ACRL Standards," (with Bob Fernekes), (Preconference to ALA Midwinter Conference), Association. of College and Research Libraries (Boston), January 14, 2005.
Presentations:
"New Multi-Type Academic Library Standards: ACRL Standards for Libraries
in Higher Education," (with Bob Fernekes), Georgia Library Association-Council
of Media Organizations (GLA-COMO) conference, (Athens, GA), October 14, 2004.
"Libraries in Higher Education: A Compliance Strategy for the New SACS Standards," GLA-COMO conference, (Athens, GA), October 15, 2004.
"Higher Education Standards for Libraries (2004): Library Assessment and the New ACRL Multi-type Standards," (with Bob Fernekes), invited presenters, Hawaii Library Association. conference (Turtle Bay Resort, Oahu, HI), October 24, 2004.
"New Multi-type Academic Library Standards," SELA conference (Charlotte), November 10, 2004.
Publications:
"SACS Standards 2004: A Compliance Strategy for Academic Libraries."
The Southeastern Librarian, 52, No. 3 (Fall 2004), 12-21. Issue available
online at: http://www.jsu.edu/depart/library/sela/SoutheasternLibrarian/Fall2004.pdf
(last accessed 2/14/05)
Acharekar, Anu
Barron, Debbie
Black, Diane
Boatright, Bonnie
Boerner, Bob (Lifetime Member)
Boerner, Patt (Lifetime Member)
Bryant, Martha
Carver, Nancy
Dawson, Mary Jo
Dennison, Lyn (Lifetime Member)
Farris, Sally
Fashion, Mashell
Feinberg, Jennie
Fernekes, Bob
Fogleman, Marguerite
Heck, Jeff
Humphrey, Holden
Lawal, Linda
Lee, Tamera
Lightsey, Nancy
McLean, Elfriede
Morrison, Nancy
Nelson, Bill
O'Shea, John
Patterson, Shelley
Poorbaugh, Susan
Reid, Camilla
Rice, Christina
Rogers, Charlotte
Shelley, Donnell
Shipman, Peter
Speer, Harriet
Sutherland, Tom (Lifetime Member)
Swint, Gary
Tuten, Jane
Verburg, Fay
Waggoner-Angleton, Carol
Walker, Alice
White, David (Lifetime Member)
Wilkins, Cary
Williams, Shirley
If your name is not on the membership
list, please send the application form along
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.