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Savannah River Area Library Association Newsletter
Volume
38, Number 2, October 2004
- President's Message
- In
the News
Guest Column - by Patricia Boerner
About the Association/Contact Information
It is with great pleasure that I serve this year as the association's President. The executive board (Derek Marshall, Vice-president; Nancy Morrison, Secretary; Martha Bryant, Treasurer; and myself) met on September 9 to plan the programs for the coming year. I am excited about the programs that we have scheduled and I hope that each of you will make plans to attend as many programs as you can.
The first meeting will be held at Nancy Carson Library in North Augusta, SC
on October 20, 2004. Our speaker will be Jill Busbee. Jill has been a resident
of Aiken County all of her life. She has taught high school English at Strom
Thurmond High School for six years and is currently the media specialist at
North Augusta Elementary School. She has two daughters, Rani and Autumn; two
cats; and one dog. She enjoys playing piano and guitar, reading, and working
in her yard. Of all experiences she's had in her life, her trip to South Africa
has been the most rewarding and life changing. Ms. Busbee's presentation will
highlight the South African landscape, its flora and fauna, aspects of the
educational system with emphasis on the library, and life in a village. We
will meet at 6:30 pm for refreshments and the program will begin 7:00 pm (after
a brief business meeting.)
So that you may plan ahead, here is a peek at our meetings for 2005. On January 11 we will be meeting at the Augusta Museum of History for a presentation by museum curator, Gordon Blaker. This meeting will be a daytime meeting. Then, on March 17 (St. Patrick's Day, appropriately enough), Dr. Ed Cashin will speak to us about Berry Benson. This meeting will be held in the evening at Reese Library in the new Special Collections room. Details for these meetings will be forthcoming. Our May meeting is still in the planning stage.
A special Bylaws Revision Committee consisting of Tom Sutherland, Camilla Reid, and I met on September 10 to discuss changes to the 1979 association bylaws. A draft revision to the 1979 CSRA Library Association Bylaws was sent to members of the association via e-mail and regular post (for those members unable to receive e-mail). We will be voting on whether to adopt these revisions at our October meeting.
One of my goals for the coming year is to increase membership in our association. So, please encourage your colleagues to join!
Fay VerburgGuest Column - "All those in favor...," by Patricia Boerner
In 1998 during the 100th Anniversary of the Alaskan Gold Rush my husband, Bob, and I visited Juneau. Our interests led us to the Public Library. It is established on the 4th floor of a parking garage strategically located on the main thoroughfare which borders the waterfront. If you're a pedestrian the elevator takes you from the ground floor directly to the library. THERE the entire 4th floor is surrounded by full-length windows. So bright, so light! AND the view, overlooking Juneau and the docks, boats, and seaplanes, is fascinating. We brought information home to our Public Library --- why NOT have a high-rise library overlooking the many church steeples on the Augusta skyline and the effective Savannah River? Seemingly our Public Library is NOT going that route, so now may I encourage visionaries of Augusta State University and Reese Library to build upwards! Why not consider a 4th floor of full-view windows with an enclosed skywalk to connect Reese Library to the new Student Center? What could be more effective?
I am Patricia Boerner and I approve this message.
On August 21, Reese Library hosted a luncheon and open house for the newly renovated Special Collections space on the third floor of the library. This was held in conjunction with the Augusta Genealogical Society's 25th Anniversary three-day celebration.
Pictured at left are (from left to right): Nancy Harlin, Camilla Reid, Carrie Adamson, and John O'Shea.
The new hours for Special Collections are 9:00 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday.
There are two new employees in Reese Library: Nancy Harlin (pictured above) and Deborah Tritt. Both began working in May 2004. Nancy is a Library Assistant III in Special Collections. In her previous life Nancy bought and managed a horse farm in Edgefield County, SC for several years. "I boarded horses and gave riding lessons, although my passion was directed towards the Arabian breed in particular. I was active in the show circuit in both Western Pleasure and Hunt Seat Equitation for a number for years. I have a great love and compassion for all of God's creatures and have a strong commitment to their well being."
Deborah is a Library Assistant II working in Government
Documents and is currently enrolled in the University of South Carolina's
School of Library and Information Science. Previously she worked as a
legal assistant/paralegal in San Francisco, Charleston, and Augusta.
There is a new display titled "Stephen Vincent Benet at the Augusta Arsenal" on the first floor lobby of the library. It was done in recognition of Georgia Archives Week and highlights the time Benet spent here while his father was the commander at the Augusta Arsenal, 1911-1919. An American poet and author, Benet was born in Bethlehem, PA in 1898. After graduating from Yale, Benet published several volumes of verse, including A Ballad of William Sycamore (1923), and several novels, of which Jean Huguenot (1923) and The Spanish Bayonet (1926) are the best. He is most famous for "John Brown’s Body" (1928), a long narrative poem of the Civil War (Pulitzer Prize, 1929), and his short story, “The Devil and Daniel Webster.” Included in the display is a typewriter he allegedly used to type poems under the Arsenal Oak during his teenage years. Everyone is welcome to come and take a look!
A Minor Poet - by Stephen Vincent Benet
I am a shell. From me you shall not hear
The splendid tramplings of insistent drums,
The orbed gold of the viol's voice that comes,
Heavy with radiance, languorous and clear.
Yet, if you hold me close against the ear,
A dim, far whisper rises clamorously,
The thunderous beat and passion of the sea,
The slow surge of the tides that drown the mere.
Others with subtle hands may pluck the strings,
Making even Love in music audible,
And earth one glory. I am but a shell
That moves, not of itself, and moving sings;
Leaving a fragrance, faint as wine new-shed,
A tremulous murmur from great days long dead.
After an extensive facelift, the Trenton Branch Library and Visitors Center opened for service following a grand re-opening ceremony on September 19, 2004. The library moved from its previous one-room location to the more spacious Walter Wise building, donated by the Wise family to the Town of Trenton for use as a library in January 2000. The library's previous location was a one-room clapboard building constructed in 1920. The new library and visitor's center includes more than 2,000 square feet for library services, collections, and staff. The library is fully automated with four public use computers, reader seating, public restrooms, and designated library parking. The visitor's center, housed within the library, includes several displays of brochures and information about Trenton and the surrounding region. The total cost of the project was $66,500, including an $18,500 grant from the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor. The Trenton Town Square is a designated site on the S.C. National Heritage Corridor, a 240-mile corridor winding through 14 South Carolina counties.
Groundbreaking Ceremony
On May 18, the Public Library and Recreation Departments of Richmond County hosted a groundbreaking for the Diamond Lakes Recreation Center/Library. The new facility represents a cooperative agreement between the two agencies to better serve the residents of south Richmond County. At 14,000 square feet it will be the largest library branch in Richmond County. The facility will be open within the next two years and is financed by SPOLST funding from phases III and IV.
The Gold Rush Country & Baby Doe Tabor was the subject when the history book discussion group cosponsored by Augusta-Richmond County Public Library and the Augusta History Museum met in September. The topic was particularly appropriate as the Augusta Opera was performing The Ballad of Baby Doe that week. The discussion group will continue the series with talks on Oglethorpe & the Colonial History of Georgia and The Travels of Lewis & Clark.
Sixteen volunteers, including library staff, Friends of the Library, and one library board member volunteered to work at the library’s booth. Over 10,000 attendees, including more than 2000 children, were expected to attend the major, three-day festival this year.
Carolyn F. Amos has been appointed Head of Children's Services for the East Central Georgia Regional Library and will coordinate children's programming in Burke, Columbia, Glascock, Lincoln, Richmond and Warren counties. One of Ms. Amos's goals in the position is to expand children's services by providing more outreach activities to schools, daycares, and other educational programs involving children. Her first major project is to organize and coordinate the region's extensive Vacation Reading Program.
Ms. Amos is a graduate of South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC, and Atlanta University from which she received a Master's Degree in Library Science. She was previously employed by Denmark Technical College, Denmark, SC, as Dean of the Library & Instructional Technology. Ms. Amos is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
Paul H. Lewis,
USC Aiken Library, delivered a presentation titled "WikiWikiWebs: New
Ways of Interacting in a Web Environment" at the Library and Information
Technology Association 2004 National Forum, October 9th in St. Louis, Missouri.
Dr. Bill Nelson, Reese Library
Workshops:
"ACRL College Library Standards: Practical Application for Academic Libraries,"
Preconference Workshop (with Bob Fernekes),
Kentucky Library Association (Barren River State Resort, KY), April 14, 2004.
"The New ACRL Standards and Library Assessment," (with Bob Fernekes), Western InterLibrary Organization (Kansas City, MO community college district), April 23, 2004.
"Overcoming Road Rage on the Highway to Assessment: Utilizing Standards to Advance Your Library's Mission," Association of Christian Librarians (ACL) annual conference (Springfield, MO), June 7, 2004.
"Academic Library Assessment: Practical Approaches for Creating a Continuous Assessment Environment," (with Bob Fernekes), Florida Chapter of ACRL and the Southeastern Library Association (Orlando), June 25, 2004.
"Using ACRL Library Standards to Address SACS Standards," (with Bob Fernekes), Oglethorpe University (Atlanta), July 22, 2004.
Presentations:
"Defining and Measuring Library Contributions to Institutional Goals,"
Medical Library Association Conference, (Washington, DC), May 25, 2004.
Panelist, "Connecting Quality with Standards: Assessment Measures for the Academic Library," ACL Conference (Springfield, MO), June 8, 2004.
"Higher Education Standards for Libraries (2004): Library Assessment and the New ACRL Multi-Type Standards," Illinois Library Association (Chicago), September 29, 2004.
Publications:
"Library Standards in Higher Education: An Overview." Encyclopedia
of Library and Information Science. Published online July 21, 2004. (Article
was solicited by this peer-reviewed publication).
Descriptive review of the workbook published by Bill Nelson and Bob Fernekes: Standards and Assessment for Academic Libraries: A Workbook, Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2004. Reviewed by Susan Scott in College & Undergraduate Libraries, 11 (1), June 2004, 83-86.
John O'Shea, Special Collections librarian for Reese Library, spoke about locating genealogy and local history sources in Reese Library to the Augusta Genealogical Society at their monthly meeting on October 7.
Jennifer Pinckney, Public Services Librarian at Aiken Technical College, celebrated the birth of a daughter on June 1, 2004. Eliana Yvette arrived weighing a healthy 9 lb. 10oz.
Adamson, Carrie
Anderson, Gail
Arnett, Vickie
Baker, Camilla
Ballejo, Jean
Barron, Debbie
Black, Diane
Boerner, Patricia
Boerner, Robert
Bryant, Martha
Bustos, Roxann
Carter, Melody
Carver, Nancy
Combs, Darra - pd through '05
Danes, Fred
Daniels, Joyce - pd through '05
Feinberg, Jennie
Fogleman, Marguerite - pd through '06
Hobbs, Tom
Ingram, Saralyn
Joyner, Susanna
Kerins, Mellie
Knight, Elizabeth
Lee, Tamera
McLean, Elfriede - pd through '05
Morrison, Nancy
Nelson, Bill - pd through '05
O'Shea, John
Owen, Bonnie
Pack, Paulette - pd through '05
Patterson, Shelley David
Pirkle, Rachel
Reid, Camilla
Rice, Christina
Shipman, Peter
Summers, Keesha
Sutherland, Tom
Timmerman, Betty
Verburg, Fay
Walker, Alice
White, David - pd through '06
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
$7, of which $3 goes to the Elizabeth M. Tyson Memorial Fund.
About the Association
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.
