From The Bookshelf
Central Savannah
River Area Library Association Newsletter
Volume 36, Number
2, January, 2001
Happy New Year!!! I hope this year brings only good things for all. We had a great meeting in December at the USC-Aiken library. Thanks to Ms. Jane Tuten and our USCA members for being such gracious hosts to twenty or so participants. Thanks also to Amy Duernberger for making all the arrangements at the Ruth Patrick Center.
Several decisions were made at the December meeting regarding our membership dues and the annual membership cycle. In the past, the membership year was from June to May. Fay Verburg, membership coordinator, suggested the membership follow the calendar year. The officers thought it an excellent idea and so did the members, passing this request by unanimous vote. Thus, the membership year is now January to December.
The second item that was brought up for a vote and raised some discussion was membership dues. Our dues have been $5.00 for years, with $3.00 going to the Elizabeth Tyson Scholarship fund. The officers proposed raising the dues to $7.00 with $3.00 continuing to support the Tyson Scholarship. The remaining dollars will go into our general account to be used for operating expenses (mailings, printing newsletters) and for other scholarship opportunities.
For further information on membership dues contact Fay Verburg, (706) 667-4906. And speaking of membership, I urge you to renew your membership. If there are new faces in your library, invite them to the next meeting and encourage them to join. Hope to see many of you at the February meeting.
-- Susan
In the News
"Seagull in Savannah," taken by Lillian Wan of ASU.
CSRA Library Association February Meeting
The CSRA Library Association Meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 14, 2001 at the Lucy Craft Laney Museum located at 1116 Phillips Street. The tour will be from 10:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m., followed by a special Black History Celebration luncheon (with guest speaker Dr. Jimmy Carter, local historian) from 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Cost: Tour - $2.00 Luncheon - $10.00, catered by Food by Calvin's. You may participate in all or part of the program. It is arranged as a pay as you go affair.
Please join us for this occasion. If you have any questions about our program, please contact David White at (706) 667-4908 or e-mail: dwhite@aug.edu
Ebooks at the Savannah River Site
In September of 2000, the Savannah River Site (SRS) Library in Aiken purchased a collection of electronic books, or ebooks, from netLibrary, a firm that specializes in delivering prepackaged collections of ebooks to public, academic and special libraries. The ebooks are accessible through the netLibrary web site, which allows customers to search the full text of the ebook, view pages, and reserve them for a period of time. The ebooks are digitized versions of printed books, complete with illustrations, cover shots, and page numbers. Authentication is provided by IP recognition, but once a customer creates a username and password, he can visit the netLibrary site from any web-enabled computer in any location, either at work or away.
Because the Library had funds at the end of the fiscal year, we began to seriously investigate purchasing a group of ebooks. netLibrary had recently put together two collections on mechanical engineering and electrical/optical engineering, and provided us with title lists for each collection. We evaluated these ebook titles against our own holdings and determined that the mechanical engineering ebooks would be the best fit. There are about 30 books in the collection, all published by Marcel Dekker. With the license signed, netLibrary placed the SRS logo on our customized home page on their web site.
Library staff proclaimed the arrival of the ebooks on the library's website and provided links to the netLibrary site and the title list. All the ebooks were cataloged, and hypertext links were added to the catalog records so that customers could go straight to the full-text ebook. We publicized this new resource using screen shots from the netLibrary site in presentations and demonstrations to engineering staff around SRS. Announcements about the ebooks were also included in the SRS daily news email message, which is distributed across the Site to everyone with an e-mail account.
We had hoped that the ebooks would be used at least as much as a printed book, and so far we are pleased with the results. (Usage statistics are easily obtainable from netLibrary.) Our plans are to add to our ebook holdings in the near future.
ECGRL-Main library Reopening February 19
Construction and reshelving continue at the downtown facility with a projected reopening of mid-February. The critical issue is building security. If the construction workers on the second floor need the outside doors open, security will be a serious concern. Also, some computer furnishings are further delayed in delivery. We trust that the completed remodeling will enhance use of the library resources and the public will forgive us for the inconvenience.
Greenblatt Library News
ABBE Regional Library News
Reese Library, Augusta State University
Fay Verburg and Diane Black received a matching grant to microfilm nine Reese Library manuscript collections. This grant awarded from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board (GHRAB) was intended to promote preservation of and access to historical documents in Georgia's repositories and local government offices.
The impetus for the grant was the realization that many key military collections of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were deteriorating and facing permanent loss. Reese Library wanted to insure that these valuable collections would not be lost, but preserved for use by scholars and researchers of local and/or military history.
Eight of the collections chosen for microfilm preservation were originally cataloged in 1997 as part of the Georgia Archives and Manuscripts AutoMated Access (GAMMA) Project . One of the most important benefits of the project has been the ability to provide links between collections held in different repositories in Georgia as well as those in other repositories outside the state.
The ninth collection microfilmed is the history of the Augusta Arsenal as compiled by Ruby M. McCrary Pfadenhauer. Mrs. Pfadenhauer worked at the Arsenal from 1925 to 1955 and served as Public Information Officer, Historian and Special Writer. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, publications, and photographs. The collection was donated to Reese Library by Mr. Herman Pfadenhauer in 1998.
The following titles have been microfilmed. (Detailed finding aids are available at Reese Library. Finding aids were created by Bill Wells, project assistant.)
Archie Butt Camp No. 5 records, 1898-1928.
United Spanish War Veterans.
Augusta Arsenal records, 1861.
Berton E. Daniel World War I diary, 1917-1919. Camp 435 records, 1878-1917.
Confederate Survivors Association.
Clinch Rifles minutes, 1851-1861.
George S. Storrs papers, 1862-1864.
Letters to Lucy W. Walton, 1917-1919.
Marcellus A. Stovall papers, 1860-1879.
Ruby M. McCrary Pfadenhauer papers, 1816-1997Currently Diane and Fay are working on a project to digitize the finding aids and make them available on the Reese Library web site.
Staff Highlights
ABBE Regional Library System
- Mr. Roderick Lee has been named the Manager of the Aiken County Public Library in Aiken, SC. He was previously employed as director of the Wyoming County Public Library in West Virginia.
- Ms. Elizabeth Caldwell has been named Reference Librarian at the Aiken County Public Library in Aiken, SC. She received her Master's in Library and Information Science from the University of Alabama in May of 2000.
- Ms. Kelley Fields has been named as the new Children's Librarian at the Barnwell County Public Library. Ms. Fields graduated from South Carolina State College with a Bachelor's in Child Development in December of 2000. Her postition at the Barnwell County Public Library is funded by a grant received from the First Steps Partnership Board of Barnwell County.
- Ms. Rachel Pirkle has been named Children's Librarian of the Aiken County Public Library. She was previously employed as a preschool teacher with South Aiken Presbyterian Daycare.
- Ms. Jennifer Jones has been named Reference Librarian of the Nancy Carson Library in North Augusta. She was previously employed as a Librarian at the Sewickley (Pennsylvania) Public Library.
ECGRL
- The new director of ECGRL System is Gary Swint who has been Coordinator for Audio-Visual Services and Library for the Blind for the System. The new director has assumed his new duties as of Monday, January 29, 2001. The System is grateful to members of the Search Committee and the Regional Board for their time and effort. When the open house for the downtown library is scheduled, please attend to enjoy the beautiful changes and congratulate Gary.
- ECGRL welcomes Sherryl James as Local History Librarian. After months of noise, dirt, and inconvenience from remodeling, Sherryl is enthusiastically anticipating reopening. She participated in reorganizing the GA Reference collection and re-cataloging local history titles by county. Sherryl was graduated from the University of Hawaii in 1998 after retiring from the Signal Corps in 1995. Her first public library positions were in Oahu, Hawaii. The staff is pleased that she and her family plan to remain in Augusta.
- Linda Beck, of the ECGRL Information Department, is enrolled in her first course at the College of Library and Information Science at USC. The staff is very proud. Best wishes on her successful completion of degree requirements.
Greenblatt Library, Medical College of Georgia
Peter Shipman, M.L.I.S. is the Outreach Librarian and will deliver library services to MCG's distance education students and faculty and extend library services beyond the traditional library walls. He will also be part of a team that develops and provides library instruction and other curriculum support. He comes from the Stetson University library where he has several years experience managing circulation and interlibrary loan, providing reference services and serving as liaison to the distance learning program. Mr. Shipman received his B.A. from Wake Forest University and his M.L.I.S. from University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
Mr. Peter Shipman, M.L.I.S.
Mr. Ron Wirtz, Ph.D.
Ron Wirtz, Ph.D. is Head of Education and Information Services, a new department formed from merging several areas for a united and multi-faceted purpose. He will lead this department in providing quality reference, education, consultations, liaison, outreach and other direct services for our users. He comes from the American Institute of Baking where he was Vice President of Information and Distance Learning responsible for the technical research library and museum, the distance learning program, Internet services, communications and educational product development. Dr. Wirtz received his M.L.S. from Emporia State University and his Ph.D. in Education from Kansas State University. Besides two degrees in French, he received the Certificat de Langue Francaise, degré supérieur from La Sorbonne, Paris.
Reese Library, Augusta State University
Lillian Wan, Library Assistant III of the Circulation Dept. of Reese Library, had a banner year in 2000. Her accomplishments included:
- Two of Lillian's photos from the 2000 Masters pre-tournament play have been enlarged and installed in the Master's photo gallery in the Augusta Museum of History. Look for the photos of 2000 Master's champion Vijay Singh and 1998 champion Mark O'Meara.
- Lillian was named Employee of the Year by the Mayor's Committee for the Employment of Persons with Disabilities. She was nominated by the Augusta Focus newspaper, for which she serves as a writer and photographer. She received her award at a luncheon in October.
- She also has a photograph in the book, "An Augusta Scrapbook: Twentieth-Century Memories" by Vicki H. Greene, Scott W. Loehr, and Erick D. Montgomery. The book, published November 2000, contains Lillian's photo of Augusta astronaut, Lt. Cmdr. Susan Still, on page 53.
- Lillian donated her 100th pint of blood at Shepeard Community Blood Center on January 2, 2001. It took 20 years of donations, beginning at then Augusta College.
Reese Library Reference/ILL Librarian Melissa Harter (your friendly editor) delivered a healthy baby girl on October 12, 2000 at 6:48 p.m. Sarah Bierly was 8lb 6oz and had a full head of dark hair. Here she is in her holiday finest.
Guest Spot (when the editor does not receive submissions for this space, she will surf the web for items of interest.
I'M ON A COMMITTEE!
Oh give me some pity,I'm on a committee,
Which means that from morning to night,
We attend, and amend, and contend, and defend
Without a conclusion in sight.We confer and concur, we defer and demur,
And reiterate all of our thoughts.
We revise the agenda with frequent addenda,
And consider a load of reports.We compose and propose, we suppose and oppose,
And the points of procedure are fun!
But though various notions are brought up as motions,
There's terribly little gets done.We resolve and absolve, but we never dissolve,
Since it's out of the question for us.
What a shattering pity to end our committee,
Where else could we make such a fuss. --Author Unknown
Source-- Kitty's Daily Mews! http://www.katscratch.com
Employment Opportunities
University of South Carolina Aiken User Education Librarian(search reopened) 12 month tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor. Responsibilities include coordination and expansion of user education program, delivery of print and electronic reference services as part of the reference team; regularly scheduled hours at reference (some evenings and weekends); collection development responsibilities; interest in developing and extending reference services to off-campus students and faculty. Minimum Qualifications: ALA-accredited MLS and two years' recent academic library experience in reference/electronic services with expertise in the use of Web-based resources; strong commitment to public service and teamwork; demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, faculty, staff and students; effective written and oral communication skills. Salary: $39,500 - 42,000 depending upon qualifications Search open until appropriate candidate is identified. Review of applications will begin February 15, 2001. Send letter of application, resume, transcript and three letters of reference to Paul Lewis, Search Committee Chair, Gregg-Graniteville Library, University of South Carolina Aiken, 471 University Parkway, Aiken, SC, 29801. Only complete files will be reviewed. USCA is an AA/EOE.
University of South Carolina Aiken Technical Services Librarian 12-month tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor. Responsibilities include administration and coordination of technical service functions including: acquisition of print and electronic resources, electronic licensing agreements, fund accounting, collection maintenance of print/digital materials, serials/materials processing; regularly scheduled hours at reference (some evenings and weekends); collection development; supervision of 3 fte staff. Minimum Qualifications: ALA-accredited MLS and two years' recent academic library experience in acquisitions; strong commitment to service and teamwork; demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, faculty, staff and students; effective written and oral communication skills. Salary: $42,000-46,000 depending upon qualifications and experience. Search open until appropriate candidate is identified. Review of applications will begin February 15, 2001. Send letter of application, resume, transcript and three letters of reference to Thomas Hobbs, Search Committee, University of South Carolina Aiken, 471 University Parkway, Aiken, South Carolina 29801. Only complete files will be reviewed. USCA is an AA/EOE.
Zach S. Henderson Library, Georgia Southern University, seeks applications for an Information Services Librarian, Computer Services Specialist. Responsibilities are providing general reference services and bibliographic instruction in conjunction with other librarians in Information Services; teaching classes and coordinating other forms of library provided instruction in the use of computers (from Windows basics to the use of advanced software packages such as Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Access); training library student assistants to support basic hardware and software use on library computers; developing the look and feel of computing in the library on public access computers; selecting software for use on library computers; organizing the basic computer interface; identifying new software and technologies to support student computing on campus; serving as a technology/software trainer to library faculty and staff and to University faculty; in conjunction with other, independent labs on campus, designing support services for student computing; coordinating training and services with the Systems Librarian and Systems Department; and other duties as assigned. Qualifications: Required: ALA-accredited MLS or other ALA-accredited advanced degree; strong background in computers and applications software; familiarity with HTML and web authoring tools; aptitude for teaching; ability to establish and maintain successful working relationships with staff, customers, and the university community; demonstrated oral and written communication skills. Preferred: Active participation in at least one professional organization, experience as a faculty member, and the ability to work with a diverse population. Reporting to the Head of Information Services, the position is a 12-month, tenure-track faculty appointment. Salary ($33,000 minimum) and rank will be based on qualifications and experience. The position will begin July 1, 2001.
Application Procedure: A complete application consists of
• a letter describing specifically the applicant's qualifications for the position,
• an essay of two or three paragraphs discussing issues in use of information technology by college students,
• a résumé, and
• the names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and fax numbers (if available) of three professional references.
Finalists will be expected to make an oral presentation during the onsite interview. Postmark deadline: February 28, 2001. Send application to: Laura B. Davidson, Search Chair Zach S. Henderson Library Georgia Southern University Post Office Box 8074 Statesboro, GA 30460-8074 Fax: (912) 681-0093 E-mail: Ldavidson@gasou.edu
*indicates paid through given date
Deborah Barron
Diane Black *2001/2002
Gloria Brodie
Pat Bush *2002/2003
Roxann Bustos
Wanda Calhoun
Nancy Carver
Mary Jo Dawson
Lyn Dennison
Amy Duernberger
Sally Farris
Ann Faulk
Partricia Golgart
Bernice Hankerson
Melissa Harter
Mary Anne Heim
Cassandra Henry
Thomas Hobbs
Kristin Howard
Susan Isaacs
FayeLewis
Elfriede McLean
Nancy Morrison
Dr. Bill Nelson *2000/2001
Margaret Novinger
John O'Shea
Tom Sutherland
Claudia Taveres
Josephine Taylor
Carrie Thompson *2002/2003
Fay Verburg
Claudia Waldrop
Alice O. Walker
David White
Cary Wilkins
Ada Williams *2001/2002
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 runs Jan 1 to Dec 31. Annual dues are $7, of which $3 goes to the Elizabeth M. Tyson Memorial Fund.
About the Association and People to ContactThe 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 consists 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 co-editors Melissa Harter or Fay Verburg if you have any corrections or additions to the directory as well as suggestions or comments about the web site.
