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              September 2008 Volume 4, No 28
Jackson as a Place:
Growing for Tomorrow
Herbert Conferences Span the Atlantic World
UNCG Libraries Win Grants
Edward R. Murrow:
Guilford County’s Connection
September 2008 Volume 4, No 28
LIBRARY COLUMNS is published periodically by the University Libraries at
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Barry Miller, Editor
Violinist ( 2007) watercolor by Garland Gooden
Jackson Library needs renovations to allow it
to continue to grow to meet the University's
needs. A recent space assessment study
offers recommendations.
IN THIS ISSUE
From the Dean of University Libraries ...................................... 1
Jackson as a Place: Growing for Tomorrow............................... 2
Herbert Conferences Span the Atlantic World .......................... 4
Leading the Way........................................................................ 5
Amy Sacker, Boston Book Designer .......................................... 6
Scholarly Communications Update ........................................... 7
UNCG Wins Federal Minority Grant......................................... 8
UNCG Receives Grant for Civil Rights Web Site....................... 9
Carmen Deedy ........................................................................ 10
Among Friends ........................................................................ 11
of the University Libraries
Edward R. Murrow: Guilford County’s Connection .......... 11
Schlosser and Covington to Speak .................................... 13
Gifts that Keep On Giving ................................................ 14
by Linda Burr, Director of Development
Library Receives Alumnae Papers...................................... 15
On Exhibit: Watercolors by Garland Gooden ................... 16
Library Faculty and Staff News................................................ 17
Services You Should Try ........................................................... 22
Sawasdee: A Lecture Trip to Thailand ...................................... 23
Student Worker Perspectives ................................................... 24
Calendar of Upcoming Events.......................... inside back cover
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from the Dean of University Libraries
Rosann Bazirjian, Dean of University Libraries
I ’ d like to focus this column on some new faces in
the University Libraries, each representing excit-ing
programs and associations with which we have
been involved. The University Libraries are striving
to reach out and collaborate, and as a result, we
have been given the opportunity to work with new
and talented individuals. Not only does working in
our libraries enrich their professional experiences,
but our staff gains the benefits of working with
professionals who bring new backgrounds and
experiences with them. Tonja Hunter
is a talented librarian from Lawson
State Community College. She was
with the libraries from July 14- 25 as
part of the ASERL- HBCU Alliance
Librarian Exchange program. As a recipient of this
grant, she focused on information literacy, working
closely with librarians in our Reference and
Instructional Services Department.
Susan Wiesner is our new CLIR ( Council on
Library Information Resources) Fellow. The Libraries
are indeed very fortunate to be selected for a CLIR
Fellow because so few libraries are chosen. These fel-lowships
are designed to integrate subject PhDs into
the library environment to serve as a bridge between
the libraries and academic faculty. Susan is working
with Dr. Robert Hansen and the theatre arts collection
that he donated to our University Archives to digitize
and integrate this collection into his coursework.
In addition, Mr. Xiao Chen ( Associate Director)
and Ms. Ling Xu ( Head of Acquisitions) are spend-ing
four months as visiting librarians from Shanghai
University of Finance and Economics. International
exposure greatly enhances the work of the libraries,
and encourages partnerships with libraries abroad,
thereby strengthening global connections.
Finally, Jason Alston is our Post MLS Diversity
Resident. We are extremely fortunate to have him
with us. He will spend one year rotating throughout
various departments in the libraries, and will focus
on one area of interest his entire second year. This
experience will provide Jason with the skills he
needs as he continues on with what will be a very
successful and productive career.
All of these talented individuals are spending
time with the University Libraries, and we are
enriched by the opportunity to work with them.
Further, collaborating with programs, associations
and international universities has expanded the
reach of the UNCG Libraries. I’m proud of our
involvement in these initiatives and look forward
to developing more as the years continue.
LoveStories Sometimes the library houses more stories than
you realize.
Amid the stacks of books, tucked away in study
carrels, students meet, study, sleep and sometimes
fall in love.
University Libraries is looking for those love
stories. Did you meet your spouse- to- be during late
night study sessions on the fourth floor of Jackson?
Did you fight over a reserved reading? Did you
find a quiet corner and talk more than study?
Rosann Bazirjian, Dean of University Libraries,
knows it can happen. She got engaged in the stacks
of the library at the University of West Florida.
Please send your stories to Rosann Bazirjian,
Dean of University Libraries, UNCG, P. O. Box
26170, 202 Jackson Library, Greensboro, N. C.
27402- 6170 or email rvbazirj@ uncg. edu.
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Jackson as a Place:
Growing for Tomorrow
Where We’ve Been
“ Arrangement provides flexibility, with ample areas
for staff work and full service to college community”
S o wrote Charles M. Adams in 1948, describing
the new library building being constructed at the
Woman’s College of The University of North Carolina
in Greensboro. When it opened in 1950, Jackson
Library became a showcase for college librarians and
architects, and WC Librarian Adams himself became
a recognized expert on library construction.
Since then, Jackson Library has grown and
changed in many ways, keeping pace with a bur-geoning
campus community and investing in a
collection that supports the mission of not only the
college, but each and every school and department
on campus. Growth of the campus and expansion
of library services began almost as soon as its doors
opened. In its first decade the Library was immedi-ately
caught up in changes to faculty research
requirements, the consolidation of campus archives,
and, influenced by a concept of unfettered access by
students whose academic requirements depended
upon access to books, the need to open closed stacks.
Growth and expansion of campus program
offerings, higher professional degree opportunities,
and the transition from Woman’s College to The
University of North Carolina at Greensboro signifi-cantly
impacted the library in both holdings and
status. A renovation and book tower addition that
opened in 1974 provided space for a growing collec-tion
along with enhanced services, and allowed
librarians and staff to move forward in the execution
of professional activities and the development of
programs to support the university’s mission.
Technology has played a major role in the changing
needs of Jackson Library. This includes changing
materials formats, which need special housing or
equipment for access, and the computer and its
impact on resources, access to information, study
habits, and research processes. The last twenty years
have seen a variety of space modifications, mostly as a
result of technological changes and continued growth.
A constant factor in the history of Jackson Library
has been that the library serves a significant need
within the university community. Students need
and use the library modifications to fortify the skills
needed to succeed in life. A survey in the June 2006
issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education listed
having a good library as the second most important
reason identified by prospective students for
choosing a college.
Today, Jackson Library is once again in need
of physical change to keep up with a growing
academic community. Space for collections, archives,
and manuscripts is full, while space for students to
study and collaborate has been reduced in the past
10 years to accommodate more shelving. What is
the next step in ensuring that the Library remains a
suitable place for providing the space and services
needed to meet student and faculty expectations?
Where We Are Headed
Academic libraries across the country have faced
multiple challenges in the past decade, trying to keep
up with changes to learning, technology, student and
faculty perspectives, and a new world of information
at one’s fingertips. We have worked collaboratively to
identify the needs of students and to stay in touch
with changing learning styles, new instructional
methods, and new expectations for how the library
supports the educational experience.
Libraries today serve as a central hub on campus,
a mecca for the social side of learning. Group study
assignments, combined with a higher technological
expectation for the output of projects, drive students
into academic libraries with an expectation that the
By Michael Crumpton, Assistant Dean
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space and equipment should accommodate those
activities. Other expressed needs and desires for
convenient services in the library include cafés,
copy centers and common interactive areas.
At the same time, some students expect the
library to be their haven for quiet study, protected
from the noise of dormitories, student centers, and
other high traffic areas. These students and those
serious researchers need a library designed for
study, research, and reflection.
Similarly, Jackson Library seeks to serve the
diverse needs of students and faculty. The librarians
and staff at Jackson Library actively embrace this
collaborative point of view. They are involved in
professional organizations that share these changed
expectations for higher education, participate in
assessment activities focused on learner involve-ment,
and closely evaluate choices that need to be
addressed with existing resources.
Recent successes include the creation of
Collaboratories offering group study areas with
technical support, implementation of a 24/ 5 schedule
during fall and spring semesters to provide round
the clock access to the physical building, and
instructional activities designed to enhance students’
performance throughout their academic careers.
Space and resource limitations, however, cause even
these success stories to fall short of their potential, and
constraints on available space cause grave concern over
our future ability to serve students and faculty properly.
Space Assessment Study
In the spring of 2008, Lambert Architecture of
Winston- Salem conducted a space assessment
study to provide recommendations for the use of
space at Jackson Library for the next ten years, prior
to an expected library addition as per the campus
Master Plan. The goals of the study were to identify
appropriate changes in existing spaces to accommo-date
growth and expanding service and material
needs. Specific attention was given to:
• People- oriented space and service points, including
additional group study space, individual study options,
additional Collaboratories, and other requested service
needs as demonstrated through assessment measures;
• Expanded options for specialized materials such as
archives, special collections and government documents,
with an assumption that remote storage options are
available for lower use and/ or duplicated format items;
• Increased space for instructional use in order to
accommodate larger classes;
• Better use of existing space that has traditionally not
met its full potential.
This study, completed in May, featured a
programming phase in which library faculty and
staff provided input, as well as two presentation
meetings for further discussion and feedback.
The space consultant also employed specialists
with library experience and structural engineers
to evaluate the technical requirements.
The final recommendation was packaged, as
requested by the Dean of University Libraries,
in five phases costing approximately $ 1 million
per phase. Because the Libraries will need to find
funding for this project, a phased approach will
allow the changes to be addressed in steps.
These recommendations will affect each floor of
the main building and the first two floors of the
book tower. The recommended work considers
future anticipated construction and proposed
student traffic changes throughout the building.
In total, the recommended changes will:
• Increase space available for users in both individual and
group study activities by approximately 14,000 sq. ft.;
• Expand and improve instructional spaces;
• Allow for the continued development of University
Archives and Special Collections;
• Provide a combined Government Information and a
Data Services Center;
• Enhance services and provide better access for students
working at non- traditional times.
The Library Administration supports these
recommendations and feels that this investment
will bridge the gap between current overcrowded
conditions and expansion plans of the future.
Acting upon this space assessment project is vital
to ensure that Jackson Library can maintain pace in
its efforts to support the academic programs and
curriculum of the University. Everyone’s support will
be needed in many ways to carry forward these
ideas into workable solutions. Charles Adams’
words are just as important today in the Library’s
physical role in the campus community,“ arrange-ment
provides flexibility, with ample areas for staff
work & full service to college community”, and
we will need your help to stay that way.
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Herbert Conferences Span the Atlantic World
by Dr. Chris Hodgkins, Professor of English
“ L iving well is the best revenge,” wrote the
English poet George Herbert, and even
though Herbert died in 1633, lately he has been
living well indeed. Dr. William Finley, Director
of Special Collections, and Dr. Christopher
Hodgkins, the Class of 1952 Professor in English,
have organized two of the world’s largest- ever
gatherings on Herbert— one of which will gather
at UNCG this fall.
The first of these conferences,“ George Herbert’s
Pastoral: Poetry and Priesthood, Past and Future,”
met this past October 4- 7 and explored Herbert
in his place and time, as country parson of a
quiet, rural parish in the Wiltshire village of
Bemerton— which is a short stroll from the cathe-dral
town of Salisbury and the grandeur of Wilton
House. The conference met at Sarum College, in
the shadow of the cathedral spire, and gathered
many of the leading Herbert scholars
from around the globe. Participants hailed
not only from the U. K. and U. S., but also
from Canada, France, Iran, Australia, New
Zealand and Japan.
Most of those attending said it was
about the best academic gathering they’d
ever attended and will come to UNCG’s
conference scheduled for Oct. 9- 11, 2008, “ George
Herbert’s Travels: International Print and Cultural
Legacies.” If you join them, you will hear
addresses and papers from about 60
experts relating Herbert to nearly 30 dif-ferent
poets and writers around the
world— including Donne, Clifford, Ferrar,
Crashaw, Harvey, Vaughan, Baxter, the
Wesleys, Cowper, Coleridge, Emerson,
Dickinson, Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, Weil,
Stevens, Bishop, Larkin, Thomas, Hecht,
Hollander, Hill, Heaney, and Strand.
The conference will open at 7: 30 p. m. on
Thursday, October 9 with a shared poetry reading
by Carl Phillips, currently a Chancellor of the
American Academy of Poets, and Mark Strand,
former U. S. Poet Laureate and winner of the
1999 Pulitzer Prize. This event is free and open to
the public as well as to conference attendees.
Conference activities will include keynote
addresses in the Elliott University Center by
distinguished scholars Richard Strier of the
University of Chicago ( Saturday, October 11 from
11- 12), Judith Maltby of Corpus Christi College,
Oxford ( Friday, October 10 from 11: 30- 12: 30), and
Elizabeth Clarke of the University of Warwick
( Friday, October 10 from 3: 15- 4: 15); more than 40
papers presented in 18 panels; reflections and
readings from other poets writing in and about
the Herbert tradition, including Stephen Yenser,
Mary Jo Salter, and UNCG’s Jennifer Grotz; a
Friday evening banquet followed by a UNCG
Chamber Choir performance of Herbert settings
old and new; and a discussion of future plans for
the founding of a George Herbert Society.
The conference centerpiece will be our
world- class George Herbert collection in
the Hodges Reading Room at UNCG’s
Jackson Library— a gift of Amy M.
Charles, professor of English here from
1956 until her death in 1985— containing
dozens of rare Herbert editions, including
first editions of all his works and nearly every
edition since. She assembled the collection
while writing her still- standard biography,
“ A Life of George Herbert.”
These conferences are being sponsored
by the University Libraries at UNCG, the
Departments of English and History, the
Center for Creative Writing in the Arts, the
MFA Writing Program, the Class of 1952,
and the Atlantic World Research Network.
For more details, pre- registration, and PowerPoint
presentations on the Salisbury Conference and the
Herbert collection, visit www. uncg. edu/ eng/
george_ herbert/. All UNCG faculty, students, staff
are welcome to attend the conference at no charge
and do not need to pre- register.
Carl Phillips
Mark Strand
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T he UNCG Libraries’ information technology
unit ( ERIT) is widely recognized for its leader-ship,
creativity, and numerous inventions. Hundreds
of libraries across the nation and around the world
now use products and services that ERIT created as
part of the UNCG Libraries’ commitment to cutting-edge
research and to meeting the emerging needs
of tomorrow’s library users. Here are a few examples
of ERIT innovations:
Journal Finder Link Resolver— UNCG was the
first school in the country to create a tool that
makes it much easier to get to online full text
articles in newspapers, magazines and journals.
Today, nearly every academic library in the coun-try
has followed UNCG’s lead in implementing a
link resolver, and forty colleges and universities
have paid UNCG to run Journal Finder for them.
( http:// journalfinder. uncg. edu) Journal Finder was
recently sold to WT Cox Subscriptions.
Book Reviews— The UNCG Libraries were the
first in the United States to utilize an exciting
new technology ( OpenURL) to build links to
book reviews from within the Library Catalog.
Blackboard library content— ERIT was first in
the United States to write a program that identi-fies
the “ best” library resources in a subject area
and makes them appear within the relevant
Blackboard classes when students login.
Saving money through bulk purchasing—
ERIT created the first large “ virtual consortium”
that allows libraries to save money by buying in
bulk. The Carolina Consortium now includes
nearly 130 institutions that collectively save
over 150 million dollars per year by working
with UNCG.
Gaming— ERIT created the first information
literacy game that can easily and readily be
adapted to cover a variety of different topics.
Newspapers— Back when most people had
never even heard of the “ World Wide Web” and
google. com didn’t exist, ERIT created the first
large web site for accessing online newspapers.
The site has won numerous awards, including a
favorable review in the Los Angeles Times.
Given ERIT’s track record for innovation, it is
hardly surprising that members of the unit are
highly sought after as speakers and consultants. The
department’s most recent annual report recorded
more than 50 conference presentations ( many of
which were invited presentations— including
speeches at the Royal Society in London, and the
National Press Club in Washington, D. C.). The U. S.
Department of Education, The UNC System, and
others have enlisted ERIT’s aid as paid consultants.
But as they say – “ imitation is the sincerest form of
flattery”– and it is very telling that ERIT’s creations
are used both at large, prestigious schools such as
CalTech and UNC- Chapel Hill, and at smaller,
lesser known institutions like Walsh University,
Austin College, and Randolph Community College.
At the UNCG Libraries, we are particularly pleased
that our products and services are so widely used
throughout our state, and that they have proven
invaluable to community colleges, historically black
colleges and universities, and other underfunded
institutions. Today, ERIT continues to work on new
ideas and programs that will empower students and
faculty at UNCG and beyond to more readily access
online information.
LEADING
THE WAY
by Tim Bucknall, Assistant Dean, University Libraries
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Amy Sacker, Boston Book Designer
by Mark Schumacher, Reference Librarian
Editor’s Note: University Libraries employees are
often very engaged with research and inquiry in a vari-ety
of subject fields. Among those is Reference Librarian
Mark Schumacher, whose article follows. In the Summer
2008 issue of Style 1900: Antiques & Interiors, author
Anne Stewart O’Donnell profiles book designers and
artists, reproducing a number of Schumacher’s photo-graphs
of illustrations, and points out “ his infectious
enthusiasm for all things Amy Sacker” which has been
“ a continuing inspiration.”
I n the late nineteenth century, book design in
America was evolving, as single- color, embossed
covers gave way to more colorful designs reflecting
the aesthetics of the Art Nouveau and Arts
and Crafts movements. One region of the
country where women book designers
and other female artists were particularly
prolific was the Boston area. It is in this
setting that Amy Maria Sacker ( 1872- 1965)
developed her considerable skills, designing
book covers for several local publishers,
including Joseph Knight, Estes & Lauriat
and its successor, L. C. Page & Co. She also
designed numerous covers for Little,
Brown, Houghton Mifflin, and other
publishers, beginning about 1900. Beyond
her work as a book designer, she was also a
respected illustrator, a painter, and excelled
in jewelry, basketry, leatherworking and
other decorative arts.
The Boston area was home to the
School of the Museum of Fine Arts and
later the Society of Arts and Crafts, where
Sacker met many of the leading female
artists of the day, including fellow book
designers Sarah Wyman Whitman ( 1842-
1904) and Marion Louise Peabody ( b.
1869). Anne O’Donnell, Executive Editor
of the journal Style 1900, has described in
considerable detail the interactions among
these artists and craftspersons, as well as
Sacker’s preparation of a new generation of artisans
through her teaching at the Cowles School before
opening her own School of Design.
Sacker’s work is interesting to me for a variety of
reasons, some purely artistic, some more historical. I
enjoy the fact that her covers display a wide range of
styles, from pure Art Nouveau, as in covers for Elwyn
Barron’s Manders ( 1899) or Mary Crowley’s A
Daughter of New France ( 1901), to a so- called “ poster
style,” using clean lines to present a scene, as for Julia
Dorr’s In Kings’ Houses ( 1898) or Willis Boyd Allen’s
The Pineboro Quartette ( 1898). Other individual titles,
such as The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ( 1901), show
a definite eastern or oriental influence.
Another aspect of her work that interests me, but
which is quite hard to research, concerns
the re- uses and variations one finds in her
work. I have found one particular design,
for instance, on at least twelve different
titles. Her designs appear on later editions
without her monogram, or redrawn, or
blind- stamped instead of in color. Minor
changes and simplifications of the original
design occur frequently, without apparent
reason. Cover designs are used later for
books with nothing to do with the image.
For instance, a sedate young couple read-ing
on a bench for an Alcott novel later
appear for a book called Their Canoe Trip!
Unfortunately, the primary documentation,
including contracts with illustrators and
book designers, seems no longer to exist.
Calls and e- mails to Boston libraries turn
up no good leads.
Most of the work I have done on Amy
Sacker’s work can be seen on my Sacker
web site available at www. library. uncg.
edu/ depts/ ref/ staff/ mark/ SackerHome
Page. htm. There you can find images not
only of her covers, but also her book illus-trations,
some of which are quite striking
( eg., Little Daughter of Liberty ( 1899)) and
her often stunning bookplates. There I also
thank the many people who have helped with this
project, including Amy’s grand- niece Fran Rogers.
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A year after the Faculty Senate created the Scholarly
Communications Committee, UNCG is making
progress on its goal of working collaboratively
with campus administrators and faculty members
to develop and implement a program offering
leadership and direction toward altering the current
course of scholarly communication, so that it is
economically sustainable and ensures the widest
possible access to the scholarly record.
Much of the first year has been a process of
educating, training, and establishing dialogue about
the many scholarly communications issues. There
are a number of terms bandied about in the litera-ture
and at conferences, and the Committee was
engaged in defining and learning about them as
they prepared the University to implement some. In
addition to a series of committee discussions and
faculty forums, faculty were mailed packets with
information about scholarly communication, author
rights with regard to copyright, and open access.
Two faculty forums were held, with another planned
for the Fall. The first, held in Fall 2007, featured UNCG
speakers Skip Capone, Jerry McGuire, and Tim
Bucknall talking about “ Taking Control of Your
Scholarship: New Trends in Copyrights, Patents,&
Publishing.” The Spring 2008 Forum featured David
Shulenberger, Vice President for Academic Affairs for
NASULGC,* speaking about “ Open Access to
Scholarship: Benefits for the Scholar, University, and
Society.” The third forum, planned for September 19,
will feature John Unsworth, former chair of the
American Council of Learned Societies Commission
on Cyberinfrasture for the Humanities and Social
Sciences. In its final report, the Commission described
the increasing use of information technology for
research and teaching in the humanities and social
sciences, and endorsed author rights, open access
and institutional repositories, among other things.
As the year progressed, the Scholarly
Communications Committee and the University
Libraries began to establish structures for improving
scholarly communication and meeting various
objectives. The University Libraries began a cooper-ative
effort with the libraries of four other universi-ties
in the UNC system ( Appalachian State, East
Carolina, UNC Wilmington and UNC Pembroke) to
create a consortial institutional repository ( IR).
Software development for the IR is now complete.
The University Libraries are also investigating
using SEDONA, which is already being used at
UNCG to collect and maintain faculty demographic
and professional data, to harvest information and cre-ate
a searchable database of citations to faculty publi-cations
and presentations, with direct links to the text
of the publications in the IR or commercial databases.
The University Libraries are also cooperating with
the Office of Research to inform and assist faculty
who receive NIH grants. The NIH Public Access Policy
ensures that the public has access to the published
results of NIH funded research. The policy was devel-oped
from law passed in December 2007, and it man-dates
that grant recipients receiving NIH grants must
post copies of journal articles resulting from those
grants to PUB Med, the NIH’s open- access repository.
The policy took effect on April 7, 2008.
What can UNCG faculty do? In addition to
educating themselves about their rights as authors
and learning about developments in scholarly
communication through study and attendance at
forums, faculty are encouraged to speak with the
Committee and their library liaisons about new
developments with the institutional repository
and other issues they find of interest.
Scholarly Communications Update
by Stephen Dew
* National Association of State Universities and Land- Grant Colleges
Scholarly Communication Forum
Speaker: John Unsworth is on the
cutting edge of setting national pol-icy
on electronic scholarship. He is
the former chair of the American
Council of Learned Societies
Commission on Cyberinfrastructure
for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Date: Friday, September 19, 2 p. m., Maple Room,
Elliott University Center. A reception will follow
the presentation and Q& A session.
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T he University Libraries and the Department of
Library and Information Studies at UNCG have
received an $ 862,014 Laura Bush 21st Century
Librarian Program Grant from the federal Institute
of Museum and Library Services ( IMLS).
The funds will be used to
recruit 12 minority students
into the Library and
Information Studies ( LIS)
program at UNCG, provide
them with internship
opportunities at 10 partici-pating
academic libraries in North Carolina, pair
them with experienced librarians for mentoring, and
offer them cultural enrichment activities during their
two- year LIS program. The students also will have
the opportunity to attend library conferences and
other professional meetings.
“ We all recognize that the services we receive are
first and foremost driven by people,” said Dr. Anne-
Imelda M. Radice, director of IMLS.“ Well- equipped
and educated librarians and pre- professionals are at
the heart of effective library services. The grants
awarded through the Laura Bush 21st Century
Librarian program sharpen the skills of today’s
library staff and train the next generation of library
professionals and faculty.”
According to Radice, the agency received 90
applications requesting more than $ 49,090,000
during this grant cycle. The UNCG project was
chosen along with 30 projects from other institu-tions
“ identified by reviewers as examples of those
that would significantly increase the number of
students enrolled in master’s and doctoral level LIS
programs.” The multifaceted grant program supports
tuition assistance, curriculum development, service
expectations, job placement, recruitment of non-traditional
library students, and support for doctoral
candidates to teach library science and research.
Since 2002, when First Lady Laura Bush
announced the President’s support of a multi-million
dollar initiative to recruit new librarians, the
institute has funded 2,913 master’s degree students,
178 doctoral students, 1,166 pre- professional
students, and 5,629 continuing education students.
The program is designed to address the shortage of
school library media specialists, library school facul-ty,
and librarians working in underserved communi-ties,
and to prepare for an anticipated shortage of
library leaders, many of whom are expected to retire
in the next 20 years.
“ I am thrilled to learn
this wonderful news,” said
Dr. Sha Li Zhang, assistant
dean for collections and
technical services at the
UNCG Libraries, and the
project director/ principal investigator of this grant.
Zhang said the grant will offer substantial support
to increase diversity among LIS students, which will
ultimately lead to increased diversity in the library
profession.
She credited Rosann Bazirjian, Dean of University
Libraries, with providing vital support.“ Her vision
and commitment to diversity are an important
strength of this grant application,” Zhang said.
Under Bazirjian’s leadership, the libraries created a
permanent diversity committee two years ago.
“ With this grant we will be able to recruit,
cultivate, and graduate minority librarians into the
academic library workforce,” said Bazirjian. She said
libraries need a diverse workforce to serve an
increasingly diverse group of users.
The co- principal investigators of this grant are
Rosann Bazirjian, dean of University Libraries; Dr. Lee
Shiflett, professor and chair of the LIS department;
Gerald Holmes, reference librarian/ diversity coordina-tor;
and Dr. Julie Hersberger, LIS professor. The deans
and directors of the participating libraries have enthu-siastically
supported this grant application. They are:
• David Bryden, director of library services, High
Point University;
• Waltrene Canada, dean of the university library,
North Carolina A& T State University;
• Mary Ellen Chijioke, library director, Guilford
College;
• Kate Hickey, dean and university librarian, Elon
University;
• Dr. Gwen Peart, library director, Livingston College;
UNCG Wins $ 860,000 Federal Grant to Train Minority Librarians
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• Monika Rhue, acting director of library services,
Johnson C. Smith University;
• Dr. Mae Rodney, director of library services,
Winston- Salem State University;
• Dr. Lynn Sutton, director of Z. Smith Reynolds
Library, Wake Forest University; and
• Dr. Joan Williams, library director, Bennett
College for Women.
“ This project is a genuine collaboration between
an LIS program and the ten academic libraries,” said
Shiflett. He believes that the program presents a
unique opportunity to aggressively recruit ethnic
minority students through the participating institu-tions.
These institutions will expose students to a
variety of library functions and activities through
internships.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is
the primary source of federal support for the
nation’s 122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. The
institute’s mission is to create strong libraries and
museums that connect people to information and
ideas. The institute works at the national level and
in coordination with state and local organizations to
sustain heritage, culture and knowledge; enhance
learning and innovation; and support professional
development. To learn more about the institute,
please visit www. imls. gov.
T he University Libraries at UNCG have
received a $ 74,616 grant to create a web
site with photos, letters, oral histories, newspaper
clippings and other materials documenting the
modern civil rights era in Greensboro.
The project, CivilRightsGreensboro, will unite pri-mary
source material from 1945- 1980 held at
UNCG, Guilford College, Greensboro College and
Duke University. The money comes from the federal
Institute of Museum and Library Services and is
awarded by the State Library of North Carolina.
“ I believe CivilRightsGreensboro will become a
cornerstone resource in the study of civil rights
generally and in the study of our city’s history,” said
Cat McDowell, digital projects coordinator for
University Libraries and the principal investigator
for the grant.“ Diverse documentation of significant
events, people, and issues during the local civil
rights movement would not have been possible
without collaboration between the partner institu-tions,
and I look forward to working with them to
create an informative, engaging website.”
CivilRightsGreensboro is a natural progression
and extension of the Greensboro VOICES project,
an oral history digital library created in partner-ship
with the Greensboro Public Library and
funded by the Community Foundation of Greater
Greensboro. In the process of transcribing oral
histories and writing web page content, UNCG
project staff became intimately aware of local
events in the civil rights movement, the existence
of related material at other community archives,
and the need to gather these resources in a
virtual hub. For more information about the
Greensboro VOICES project, visit
http:// library. uncg. edu/ greensborovoices.
The funding is formally known as an NC ECHO
digitization grant. ECHO is short for Exploring
Cultural Heritage Online. The grants are awarded by
the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the
Department of Cultural Resources. The state pays
for the grants with federal Library Services and
Technology Act ( LSTA) funds from the Institute of
Museum and Library Services ( IMLS), which invests
dollars to expand learning resources and access to
information for individuals from all walks of life.
IMLS is the primary source of federal support for
the nation’s 122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums.
The institute’s mission is to create strong libraries
and museums that connect people to information
and ideas, and fulfill their mission as centers of
lifelong learning. It works at the national level and
in coordination with state and local organizations
to sustain heritage, culture and knowledge;
enhance learning and innovation; and support
professional development.
UNCG University Libraries to
Create Civil Rights Web Site
IMLS Grant continued from page 18
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C armen Agra Deedy has been traveling around
the world, writing and telling stories for almost
twenty years. She received her most cherished review
from a third- grade student named Brad, after a class-room
storytelling visit. In a handwritten letter, Brad
thanked Deedy for visiting his class and wrote,
“ We ‘ lauft’ so hard. Casey’s retainer fell out.”
At UNCG, a unique partnership has been forged
to bring this outstanding children’s book author
to the Triad.
An award- winning Cuban- American children’s
book author and storyteller, Carmen Deedy is
coming to UNCG on Monday, September 15 for a
series of appearances that will culminate in a 7: 00
p. m. presentation,
free and open to
the public, in the
University’s Elliott
University Center
Auditorium.
Earlier in the day,
she will perform
on campus for
elementary school
children and their
teachers at an
event sponsored
by the UNCG
School of
Education. During
an afternoon
session, Deedy will
speak to School
of Education
students.
Deedy’s visit is made
possible through the
cooperation of the School of Education, the Library
and Information Studies Department’s Cora Paul
Bomar Fund, the Department of Curriculum and
Instruction, the Center for Creative Writing in
the Arts, the University Libraries, the Teaching
Resources Center ( all at UNCG) and BOOK-MARKS:
the Triad's Festival of Books.
Born in Cuba before emigrating to the U. S. and
growing up in Decatur, Georgia, Deedy has
developed a devoted following among storytelling
aficionados, and her books for children are winning
numerous awards. The latest, Martina the Beautiful
Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale, is a Pura Belpré Honor
Book, presented to a Latino/ Latina writer and
illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and
celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an
outstanding work of literature for children and
youth. The award is co- sponsored by the
Association for
Library Service to
Children ( ALSC), a
division of the
American Library
Association ( ALA),
and the National
Association to
Promote Library and
Information Services
to Latinos and the
Spanish- Speaking
( REFORMA), an
ALA Affiliate.
The preceding
Saturday ( September
13), Deedy will appear
at the Bookmarks
Festival in Winston-
Salem, where she
will be sponsored by
the UNCG School of Education.
BOOKMARKS: The Triad’s Festival of
Books, is a free event with the goal of
providing a positive experience with
books for people of all ages. Past festivals have
drawn up to 7,500 attendees. More information
may be found on their website at www. bookmarks-bookfestival.
org/
Like Deedy’s young fan, UNCG invites readers to
“ come laugh ‘ til your retainers fall out.”
UNCG Libraries, School of Education, Library and Information
Studies Department Reach Out to Laugh and Learn
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“ Greensboro! For me the Carolinas still have that
emotional and sentimental pull. I guess I have still
got cousins at half the crossroads in the state. Both my
parents were born in North Carolina, and so were my
grandparents. In fact, my grand- parents, when they
were young, lived on adjoining farms.”
— Edward R. Murrow,
Greensboro Daily News, December 5, 1954
M any Guilford County residents know that
pioneering CBS broadcaster Edward R.
Murrow was born here before moving to the state of
Washington as a child with his family. Many may not
know about his family’s previous long residence in
the area and engagement in the history of his native
state. In correspondence following my article pub-lished
by the News & Record on Murrow’s April 25
birthday, Selena Post, Murrow’s cousin, wrote me
saying ” I believe Edward R. Murrow’s North Carolina
roots are very much integral to who he became and
what he accomplished.“
Post writes, “ He is so very much a faithful product
of his great grandfather, Andrew Murrow— an early
Republican leader who, orphaned at age 6, was
raised by Joshua Stanley and his wife Abigail Hunt
Stanley. Mendenhall Plantation on
the High Point Road has the replica
of the false- bottomed wagon used
by Andrew and relative Isaac
Stanley to transport slaves to Ohio
on the Underground Railroad.”
Andrew Murrow was one- quar-ter
Cherokee, and the Murrows
faced the challenges of that mixed
racial heritage for generations.
When Andrew married in 1845, for
example, his wife was disowned by her Quaker
meeting congregation, which was apparently
opposed to slavery but not comfortable with having
a mixed race congregation. Though they reinstated
her and invited Andrew to join as a “ birth- right
Quaker” himself, he refused. While his children
became pillars of the Quaker meeting, he never for-got
the incident. Some biographers believe that the
family’s Whig and later Republican politics may have
arisen out of opposition not only to slavery but to
the party of Andrew Jackson, who had forced the
Cherokee down the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma.
Andrew’s son, Joshua Stanley Murrow, though not
a man of great wealth, served as a State Senator from
Guilford County in the 1887 General Assembly and
acquired a sizable farm. According to family stories,
he was a key figure in the maneuvering that resulted
in the establishment of North Carolina A& T State
University, though the institution was not created
until 1891 and documentation is scarce. Andrew’s
son, the broadcaster’s father Roscoe, was a farmer on
Polecat Creek, about 12 miles south of Greensboro on
the Randolph County line. Before leaving for
Washington, he had inherited and acquired 320 acres,
on which he farmed and supported his family.
On his mother’s side, Murrow’s
grandfather was Guilford Countian
George Van Buren Lamb, a
Confederate soldier who earned a
battlefield promotion to Captain of
the 22nd North Carolina regiment
( the Davis Guards) and served with
Stonewall Jackson. Years later,
Grandfather Lamb showed his
grandsons, including young Ed,
where a musket ball still remained
Edward R. Murrow: Guilford County’s Connection
By Barry K. Miller, Director of Communications and External Relations
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in his body, and told them stories of
being present when Jackson fell at
Chancellorsville. Murrow’s grand-mother
Lamb was Isabelle Coble
before she was married, the Cobles
yet another prominent Guilford
County family.
While his father Roscoe is seen as
a hardworking man, restless follow-ing
his service in the Spanish
American War, Murrow’s mother,
Ethel Lamb, is sometimes portrayed
by his biographers as the stern but
strong figure who held the family together. Charles
Kuralt, himself a North Carolinian, worked with
Murrow early in his career and later said of the family:
“ It was a strict household. Ed Murrow’s mother for-bade
smoking, drinking, card playing, and work, or
play, on Sunday. A chapter of the Bible was read in the
house each evening and several chapters on the
Sabbath. Ed Murrow grew up to be a smoker, a
drinker, an enthusiastic poker player, and not much of
a Bible reader. But some of Ethel Lamb Murrow’s
other precepts took better hold of his life. She taught
her sons to be responsible, to be in control of their
lives, to respect other people, including the opinions of
other people, to love the land, and to keep the peace.”
Ed’s mother had another, gentler, side, too. Prior to
her marriage, she attended the State Normal and
Industrial School ( now UNCG) during the 1893- 94
school year, and began teaching school thereafter.
Biographer Alex Kendrick says that she was known
for her meat pies and biscuits, and that cousins often
came to her house and often spent the night togeth-er
in the family’s home. Writes Florence Smith Lowe,
a contemporary of her sons, “ to look at her, one
would never think that she was an “ iron lady.” She
was just over five feet tall, weighed perhaps 85
pounds ( soaking wet as one of her sons put it). The
appearance of frailty was enhanced by an unusual
hair arrangement: two long braids of colorless hair
wound around and around on the back of her head,
which must have required 50 hairpins to hold it in
place and which gave the impression that she could
easily fall over backwards. She spoke in a quavery
voice with a southern drawl, but the words she spoke
were well chosen and directed toward the interests
of whomever was concerned—
unhurried, quiet and serene…[ In
Washington] she found time to be on
the school board so that she could
help in making commonsense deci-sions.
Early on, she had a firm convic-tion
that her three sons were to go to
college and that the only way that
could come about was through hard
work; given their lack of resources,
each boy would have to earn his own
way. Mr. Murrow got a job as engineer
on the train that hauled the logs out of
the woods for the Samish Bay Logging Company. As
soon as the boys were old enough, they, too, worked
summers as whistle punks and axers.
Charles Kuralt wrote, “ from his mother, he
[ Murrow] learned a striking manner of speech, a kind
of old- fashioned precision with inverted phrases like
“ this I believe” and verb forms like “ it pleasures me”
which, as [ biographer] Alex Kendrick points out, Ed
Murrow, used, on and off the air, all his life.
Ethel Lamb Murrow also suffered from asthma, a
condition perhaps foreshadowing Ed’s life- long
respiratory trouble and eventual death from lung
cancer in 1965 at age 57. His brother also suffered
from the disease, dying a year later. Along with seek-ing
economic opportunity, it was for Ethel’s health,
biographers indicate, that the family left North
Carolina to live in the Pacific Northwest near some of
their Coble relations, though Murrow’s father
retained the North Carolina land until the 1920s.
Ed Murrow returned to North Carolina for period-ic
visits with relatives throughout his life. In 1930,
while serving as president of the National Student
Federation of America, his first job out of college, he
addressed the student body of the North Carolina
College for Women on “ College: Problems and
Inter- collegiate Relationships.” Reporting his visit, the
Carolinian newspaper noted that he had just
returned from Europe, where he studied the prob-lems
of other nations as compared with those which
confront American college students.” Following the
talks, he appeared at a tea in the Students’ building.
Unofficially, he may have been garnering support for
his plan to integrate the Federation’s annual meeting
Edward R. Murrow at one year and c1941
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A 1954 graduate of Woman’s College ( now UNCG), Maud Gatewood was a powerful force in the North Carolina art community. Painter,
teacher, activist and staunch individualist, she delighted viewers, inspired students, supported organizations. These sketches were made during
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G reensboro writers Howard Covington Jr. and
Jim Schlosser will offer their perspectives on
Greensboro’s history during its bicentennial year in
a free program sponsored by the Friends of the
UNCG Libraries this fall. The two Friends members
have each recently written books to help us under-stand
Greensboro’s past.
Covington’s Once Upon A City: Greensboro N. C.’ s
Second Century is a narrative history
of Greensboro in the 20th century.
During that time, the city rose from a
country town to become a manufac-turing
and financial center for central
North Carolina. Covington will talk
about the people and events that
shaped the city during that time. The
book was released in 2008 by the
Greensboro Historical Museum.
Covington is a former
newspaper reporter
and editor and the
author of more than 17
biographies and corpo-rate
histories. He lives
in Greensboro.
Schlosser’s book,
The Beat Goes On: A
Celebration of Greensboro’s
Character and Diversity,
collects more than 100 his-tory-
related articles written
during native Schlosser’s
41 years with the News &
Record. It was edited by
historian Gayle Fripp and
published
by the
Greensboro Bicentennial
Commission. Schlosser’s columns
profile neighborhoods, buildings,
railroads, and other features that
made Greensboro what it is.
Subjects range from the lowly to
the lofty, profiling personalities like
Johnney Davis, downtown’s last
pool shark, and local congressional representative
Charles Stedman, who, when he died in 1930, was
the last Civil War veteran in Congress.
Following their presentations, each writer will
answer questions and sign copies of his book.
Proceeds from the sale of the Covington book
go to support the Greensboro Historical Museum;
those of the Schlosser book support the
Bicentennial Commission.
The Stories of Greensboro:
an Evening with
Jim Schlosser and
Howard Covington.
Presentations followed by book signings.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
7: 00 p. m. Cone Ballroom C
Elliott University Center.
Free and open to the public.
Schlosser and Covington to Explore History of Greensboro
at Friends of the UNCG Libraries Program October 22
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For the past two issues of Library Columns I have
had the privilege of highlighting special gifts made
to the University Libraries as part of the Students
First Campaign. While the campaign has been
highly successful, there are still distinctive unmet
needs: two of them are creating an endowment for
preservation and supporting the Friends of the
UNCG Libraries Speaker Series.
Preservation
Acquiring and making primary source materials
accessible to students, faculty and researchers is a
vital part of our mission. The Hodges Special
Collections/ University Archives & Manuscript
Collection contains the
historical records of the
University, including those
from all of the University
Chancellors; the manu-scripts
and records of local
citizens and organizations,
including the records of
businessman and philan-thropist,
Joseph M. Bryan; a
growing collection of manuscripts from prominent
NC writers, including Randall Jarrell and Margaret
Maron; and the Women Veterans Historical
Collection, which documents the female experience
in the armed forces through manuscripts, oral
histories, and memorabilia.
Preservation of valuable records is an expensive
and labor- intensive task. For every box of historical
materials, an archivist may invest up to eight hours
to sort, store in acid proof boxes, index, and prepare
for storage. The cost is estimated at $ 189 per linear
foot. To illustrate the investment of time and
materials, a collection of papers filling four filing
cabinets would cost approximately $ 11,400 to
preserve for study and research. We believe that
this “ labor of love” is worth the effort, because the
benefit for future generations is immeasurable.
We are pleased to be the recipient of
Congressman Howard Coble’s papers, spanning
more than twenty years of North Carolina political
history. The estimated cost to steward this impor-tant
gift is roughly $ 150,000. This estimate includes
paying two graduate assistants to complete
the preservation process and make the records
accessible to researchers. Several generous support-ers
have already contributed to the fund, but we
need additional benefactors to complete it.
Friends of the UNCG Libraries Speaker Series
and Dinner
The Friends of the UNCG Libraries Speaker Series
& Dinner celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2009!
During its first fifty years, the series has welcomed
exceptional speakers such
as Theodore Sorensen,
former special counsel,
adviser and speechwriter
to John F. Kennedy,
and novelists Tom Wolfe
and Mickey Spillane.
Distinguished individuals
like these present
thought- provoking talks
that challenge and inspire students, faculty, and
community members to broaden their world views.
Over the years costs to sponsor this event have
risen dramatically. We would like to keep dinner
attendance as an affordable option for members
and friends, while continuing to bring in nationally
recognized authors and speakers. Establishing a
$ 200,000 endowment would generate about $ 9,000
every year to keep the event viable and affordable
for the wider public.
If you have interest in supporting either of these
areas, I would be very happy to talk with you. In
the meantime, thank you for your Friends of the
Libraries memberships and annual and leadership
gifts. Your generosity illustrates how the Impact of
One contributes to the Power of Many.
Linda Burr, Director of Development
lgburr@ uncg. edu / 336.765.4110
Gifts That Keep On Giving
by Linda Burr, Director of Development
“ A library is not a
luxury but one of the
necessities of life.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The Manuscripts Division of UNCG’s University
Archives is delighted to announce the receipt of
author Isabel Zuber’s papers.
Isabel Zuber was born in Boone,
North Carolina. She received her
bachelor’s degree from Appalachian
State University and her Master of
Library Science degree from UNCG.
For many years she worked as a
librarian at Wake Forest University.
She is the author of two books of
poems and a novel entitled Salt, which won the
First Novelist prize from Virginia Commonwealth
University in 2003.
Zuber’s donation was facilitat-ed
by another UNCG alumna,
writer and teacher Emily Herring
Wilson. Wilson studied writing
with Randall Jarrell when UNCG
was Woman's College, and went
on to graduate study at Wake
Forest University. She participat-ed
in the state's first Poetry in the
Schools programs in the 1960s, and has written and
edited books documenting southern women’s
history. In 2006 Wilson received the North Carolina
Award for Literature, and in 2007 she was named
John Tyler Caldwell Laureate.
Zuber and Wilson are long- time friends and
colleagues. In 1975 they joined with fellow
Winston- Salem resident and book reviewer Betty
Leighton to found Jackpine Press, which published
writers, especially poets, with roots in North
Carolina, whose work might otherwise have been
ignored by major publishing houses.
Wilson began donating her papers and those of
Jackpine Press to UNCG in 2002. Over the course of
2007, Zuber donated a dozen boxes containing man-uscripts,
notebooks, diaries, and correspondence.
Our collections include many other noted women
writers with ties to our university and state,
including: Mebane Holoman Burgwyn, Jean Farley,
Heather Ross Miller, Octavia Jordan Perry, Lettie
Hamlett Rogers, Julia Montgomery Street, Eleanor
Ross Taylor, Augusta Walker, and Sylvia Wilkinson.
Please visit our website at www. library. uncg. edu/
depts/ archives/ mss/ literature. asp to learn more about
these collections.
University Libraries Receive Gift of Alumnae Papers
Friends of the UNCG Libraries Book Discussion Group
Join the Friends of the UNCG Libraries for their Book Discussion Group this Fall. This open and welcoming forum allows participants to engage
in discussion led by an informed member of the UNCG community. This year we explore the theme of Sustainability through nonfiction and fic-tion
works. Meetings are held in the Hodges Reading Room on the second floor of the Jackson Library, except for the January 26 session.*
To reserve your space, please call Barry Miller at 336- 256- 0112 or go online to: http:// library. uncg. edu/ fol/ register/
Isabel Zuber
Emily Herring Wilson
A Walk in the Woods,
by Bill Bryson.
Discussion Leader:
Dr. Greg Grieve,
Religious Studies Dept.
Monday, September 29,
2008, 7: 00 p. m.
Animal, Vegetable and Miracle:
A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver.
Discussion Leader: Dr. Anne- Marie
Scott, Nutrition Dept.
Monday, January 26, 2009, 7: 00
p. m., Sticks & Stones Restaurant
* Due to elevator construction, there will be
no handicapped access to the 2nd floor of
Jackson Library the evening of January 26;
meeting will be held st Sticks & Stones
Restaurant.
Essays by Wendell Berry
& Thomas Berry.*
Discussion Leader: Ann Berry
Somers, Biology Dept.
Monday, November 24, 2008,
7: 00 p. m.
* Wendell Berry: “ Native Hill”
Print copy in The Art of the
Commonplace: The Agrarian
Essays of Wendell Berry, edit-ed
by Norman Wirzba.
* Thomas Berry: “ The Meadow
Across the Creek”
Electronic copy at
www. thomasberry. org/ Essays/
MeadowAcrossCreek. html.
Print copy in The Great Work:
Our Way into the Future, by
Thomas Berry NY: Crown
Publishing Group, 2000.
The Crystal World,
by J. G. Ballard.
Discussion Leader:
Fred Chappell, Professor
Emeritus of English.
Monday, October 27,
2008, 7: 00 p. m.
The Maytrees, by Annie Dillard.
Discussion Leader:
Dr. Hepsie Roskelly, English Dept.
Monday, February 23, 2009,
7: 00 p. m.
* Due to elevator construction, there will be
no handicapped access to the 2nd floor of
Jackson Library the evening of February 23.
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Linville Falls watercolor 2008
Toledo etching
On Exhibit
Currently on exhibit in the Jackson Library Reading room is a
collection of watercolors, etchings and pen- and- ink renderings
by Greensboro artist Garland Gooden.
A South Carolina
native, Garland
Gooden Jr. holds a
degree in English
from Clemson
University. He has
worked for over thirty
years in advertising
and marketing com-munications
as art director,
copywriter and graphic designer for agencies in Florida and North
Carolina. Since 1993 he has owned a graphic design studio in
Greensboro, serving clients across the US.
A self- taught pen- and- ink artist, he was tutored in
etching by Noyes Long
at Appalachian State
University, and began
working in watercolor
in 1999 under
Greensboro artist
Nancy Bulluck. Garland
resides in Greensboro
with his son and
hiking partner, Graham.
On Highway 58 watercolor 2005
Flag watercolor 2007
1. Check- out privileges from a collection of more than one million volumes.
2. Access within the Library to a vast collection of electronic databases as well as
professional and resourceful library faculty and staff.
3. Exclusive membership in the Friends of the UNCG Libraries Book Discussion Group,
offering intimate discussions with acclaimed writers and outstanding teachers.
4. The availability of gift memberships and honorary or memorial donations. You can
show your loved one you care and support vital university services and resources.
For more information, contact the Administrative Offices at 336- 256- 0112.
Be a Friend Invite someone you know to join the Friends of the UNCG Libraries
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Jason Alston is our first Diversity
Resident. The new two year
Residency Program was estab-lished
to further increase the
diversity of the Library's profes-sional
staff and foster the growth
and development of a new librari-an.
The Residency will encourage exploration of all
aspects of academic librarianship. The Resident will
participate in the University’s diversity initiatives
and collaborate with the UNCG Library and
Information Studies program in developing
programs related to diversity.
In May of 2008 Jason was awarded a Master's
degree from the School of Library and Information
Science at N. C. Central University. While in the
program, Jason interned at the H. Leslie Perry
Memorial Library in Henderson, NC. As a graduate
student, Jason was selected by the Association of
Research Libraries as a Diversity Scholar and was
also named a Diversity Scholar by the Institute of
Museum and Library Services. At NCCU, Jason
completed a research project entitled “ Factors
Affecting Young African Americans’ Decisions
to Enter Library School.” Prior to entering the
Master's program in Library and Information
Science, Jason was a reporter and columnist for the
Henderson ( NC) Daily Dispatch. He received a B. A.
in English from The University of North Carolina at
Wilmington in 2005.
Beth Ann Koelsch has been appointed as the
curator of the Women Veterans Historical
Collection at UNC Greensboro. She previously
worked as a project archivist at the Sallie
Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture
at Duke University. Beth Ann graduated in May
2007 with an M. L. S. from the UNC Chapel Hill
School of Information and Library Science. She
also has an M. F. A. in Creative
Writing from the University
of New Orleans and a B. A.
in Psychology from Duke
University. Beth Ann has a great
affection for the Duke Women’s
Basketball Team, her Ipod, and
mid 20th century American popular culture.
Rachel Kuhn Stinehelfer was appointed Human
Resources Librarian at UNCG starting in February.
Most recently, she held the position of Academic
Personnel Librarian at the North Carolina State
University Libraries. Rachel holds a B. A. in Art
History from Wake Forest University and the
M. L. I. S. from UNC Greensboro.
She was the first Library Fellow
at N. C. State when the program
began in 1999 and was later Visual
Resources Librarian in the Design
Library there. A busy mother of
two small children with a husband
in graduate school, Rachel enjoys using the
Library’s books on CD and tape as she makes a
daily commute from Durham.
Dr. Susan Wiesner has accepted one- year appoint-ment
at the UNCG Libraries as a postdoctoral
Fellowship Program recipient. This
program is initiated by the Council
on Library and Information
Resources ( CLIR), an independent,
non- profit organization dedicated
to maintaining and improving
access to information for future
generations. The CLIR postdoctoral fellowship
program offers recent Ph. D. recipients in the
humanities opportunities to develop as scholars and
teachers while learning about modern librarianship,
New Faculty at University Libraries
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Terry Brandsma presented ” Materials Booking in
Java WorkFlows: Just Hype or Worth the Wait?” at the
SirsiDynix SuperConference in April and moderated
” System Admin ( Windows) Sharing Session” at the
same conference.
Two librarians from UNCG were presenters at this
year’s North Carolina Sirsi Users’Group meeting
held at High Point University on May 15, 2008. Terry
Brandsma, Information Technology Librarian, co-presented
with Drew McNaughton of NC- PALS on
“ Upgrading Unicorn: Best Practices for Both Windows
and UNIX Sites.” Anne Marie Taber, Electronic
Resources and Metadata Cataloger, gave a presenta-tion
entitled “ Electronic Resources Cataloging: One
Library's Strategies.” In her role as NCSUG President,
Christine Fischer, Head of Acquisitions, coordinat-ed
the program planning and the day's events. More
than 90 librarians and library staff from throughout
the state participated in the meeting.
Keith Buckner’s art was featured in the “ Facing
South: Portraits by North Carolina Artists” exhibit
March 22- June 1 at the Greenhill Center for North
Carolina Art. Previously this year, Keith’s work
appeared in a show at High Point University's
Sechrest Gallery called " Figurative Works" located
in the Charles E. and Pauline Lewis Hayworth Fine
Arts Center.
Mary Jane Conger and Christine Fischer present-ed
“ Two Heads Are Better Than One: Two Departments
Master EOCRs and PromptCat” at the SirsiDynix
SuperConference.
On Feb. 26, UNCG Business Librarian Steve
Cramer participated in the 2008 North Carolina
Entrepreneurship Summit in the Greensboro
Coliseum as an exhibitor with other business
librarians from Triad- area universities and public
libraries. He talked to many of the assembled gov-ernment
and NGO officers and academics about
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digital resources, e- publishing, archives, and collec-tion
development. This is the first time that the
UNCG Libraries have hosted a CLIR fellow, joining
only six large research libraries in the U. S. that will
offer the Fellowship positions in 2008- 2009.
Dr. Wiesner started at UNCG on August 18. She
will work closely with faculty and students in the
Department of Theater on the materials from the
Robert Hansen Performing Arts Collection housed
in the Special Collections and University Archives.
She will segment out a portion of the collection
that can be used in the classroom environment,
create a digital exhibit, and engage in other related
activities. Dr. Wiesner received her Ph. D. in Dance
Studies at the University of Surrey in 2007. She is a
current CLIR Fellow at the University of Virginia
where she has worked on developing digital proj-ects
and other media for performing art collections
that are being used for classroom teaching.
Beth Filar Williams has been appointed Coordinator
of Library Services for Distance
Education. Most recently, she was a
regional library consultant for the
Colorado Library Consortium
( CLiC) and the Southwest Regional
Library Service System in Durango
( CO). Previously, she was a Map &
GIS Librarian/ Assistant Professor at the University of
Colorado at Boulder. She has also worked as a middle
school librarian, an intern at the National Geographic
Society, at the University of Maryland Baltimore
County library's reference desk, and as web
designer/ research assistant for the Maryland
Departments of Transportation and Education. She
graduated with a B. A. in Geography from the Johns
Hopkins University and a M. L. S. from the University
of Maryland. Beth is very passionate about sustain-ability,
environmentally friendly practices, and how
anyone can take small, easy steps to create a
" greener" world. Visit her Going Green @ Your Library
Blog: http:// greeningyourlibrary. wordpress. com.
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The Music Library’s Tim Cook has
received the second annual
Outstanding Student Library Worker
Award. A native of Salisbury, Tim
recently completed his student
teaching and graduated from UNCG
in May 2008. This Award was estab-lished
in 2007 by David R. Arneke,
Director of Corporate and
Foundation Relations at UNCG.
Nominations are submitted by
University Libraries staff and faculty
and are based on workers’ reliability,
responsibility, conscientiousness,
commitment to customer service,
and teamwork. Tim Cook, David Arneke
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how libraries actively support entrepreneurs and
entrepreneurial education, but also asked what else
we could do to help. The librarians also helped
answer questions about NC LIVE, whose exhibit
was next to ours. Steve also conducted training in
May at the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce's
Annual Piedmont Triad Business Showcase at the
Coliseum Special Events Center. Along with Martha
Thomas, the business librarian at the Greensboro
Public Library, Steve presented on " Business
Information: A Focus on Company & Market
Research." They focused on subscription databases
available through NC LIVE and the public library.
Assistant Dean Michael Crumpton’s chapter, “ Big
Growth is Not a Small Strategy” was published in
Defining Relevancy: Managing the New Academic
Library, published by Libraries Unlimited in late
2007. Mike was also featured in the Special Design
issue in the May 15 issue of Library Journal, show-casing
a green design solution with the architectural
firm of David Milling. Formerly with Wake Technical
Community College, Mike presented three sessions
at the recent North Carolina Community College
Learning Resources Association Conference on the
topics of growth, adult learning in instruction, and
library atmospherics.
Mike Crumpton and Kathy Crowe presented
“ Using Evidence for Space Planning,” a panel presenta-tion
at the Library Assessment Conference: Building
Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, spon-sored
by the Association of Research Libraries.
Stephen Dew was part of a panel presentation: “ The
UNC- System Institutional Repository,” at the North
Carolina Library Association, Resources & Technical
Services Section Spring Workshop in Raleigh ( with
Adina Riggins, Eleanor Cook, and Rob Wolf)
David Guion delivered a paper titled “ Carl Traugott
Queisser ( 1800- 1846) and His Role in the Musical Life
of Leipzig” at the North Carolina Trombone Festival
at the UNCG School of Music on April 5, 2008.
Amy Harris presented “ Beyond Gaming in the
Library: Gaming for Information Literacy”, an invited
presentation, at the Texas Library Association 2008
Conference and co- presented ” Game On ( And On):
Adapting and Extending the Open- Source Information
Literacy Game” at the LOEX Annual Conference.
She and Lynda Kellam co- presented ” The
Del. icio. us Web: A Feast of Free Web Tools” at the
North Carolina Community College Learning
Resources Association Conference.
Scott Rice, Kathy Crowe, Amy Harris and Lea
Leininger published their paper “ From B. I. to Wi- Fi:
Evolution of an Online Information Literacy Program”
in Information Literacy: Programs in the Digital
Age: Education College and University Student,
published in Chicago by ACRL earlier this year.
Sha Li Zhang, Assistant Dean for Collections and
Technical Services at the UNCG Libraries, is Chair-
Elect of the ALA International Relations Round
Table. The purpose of the roundtable is to promote
interest in library issues and librarianship world-wide;
to help coordinate international activities
within the American Library Association, serving as
a liaison between the ALA’s International Relations
Committee and those members of the Association
interested in international relations; to develop pro-grams
and activities which further the international
objectives of ALA; and to provide hospitality and
information to visitors from abroad. The roundtable
consists of more than 1,900 members from the U. S.
and around the world.
PROMOTIONS and OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Keith Buckner has been named Technology
Support Analyst.
Cathy Griffith has been named Interim Head of
Access Services.
Gerald Holmes has been named Reference
Librarian and Diversity Coordinator.
Barry Miller has been named Director of
Communications and External Relations.
Audrey Sage was promoted to Preservation
Services Manager.
Kawanna Bright ( 3rd from right, with members of the Diversity Committee)
recently spoke to the University Libraries faculty and staff about her experi-ences
at the University of Tennessee Libraries in the Diversity Residency
program ( 2003- 2005) and as Chair of the Libraries' Diversity Committee.
Bright is now at N. C. State.
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Stefani Hobbick is very pleased
to return to the conservation field
and now serves as the Preservation
Services technical assistant at
Jackson Library. She worked as
a student assistant in both the
Circulation and Preservation departments at Jackson
Library while earning a B. F. A. from UNCG. She
learned to perform various archival treatments from
Don Etherington and spent two years working at
Etherington Conservation Center before accepting a
position as Exhibition Manager at the Greensboro
Children's Museum.
Jennifer Motszko has joined the University
Libraries as an Archivist. Prior to coming to
UNCG, she worked at the Harley-
Davidson Corporate Archives as
a Museum Technician helping to
preserve the company's history,
artifacts, and clothing. Jennifer
holds a B. A. in History from the
University of Wisconsin– Madison, and an M. A. in
History and an M. L. I. S. from the University of
Wisconsin– Milwaukee.
Erica Rau has joined the University Libraries as an
Acquisitions Assistant. She is a
December 2006 graduate of UNCG
with a B. F. A. in design. She was a
reference assistant in Jackson
Library for two years and has held
jobs in the graphic design field.
Chad Therrien has joined the
University Libraries as Web
Usability and Library Assessment
Analyst in ERIT. Chad comes
to us with more than 10 years‘
experience in the information
technology field, having worked at several soft-ware/
technology- related companies and the
University of California, Davis. He holds Associate
of Information Technology ( CTEC) and Bachelor of
Computer Science ( BTACS) degrees from Thompson
Rivers University in British Columbia.
Welcome to New Staff
Cindy Slater of the Cataloging
Department has been recog-nized
by her colleagues with the
2008 University Libraries Staff
Service Award. This award was
established in 1997 upon the
retirement of Martha Ransley,
former Head of the Circulation
Department,“ to recognize and
reward members of the SPA
Library Staff who provide
outstanding leadership and service in furthering the
accomplishment of the mission of the Library to
provide service to students, faculty, staff, and mem-bers
of the community which the University serves.”
Slater has thirty years of service in the Cataloging
Department, where her embrace of technological
change serves the Department and the Libraries
well. When the Library first implemented an online
catalog some years ago, for
example, the initial data trans-fer
left the catalog records gar-bled.
Slater’s patience and
familiarity with the system
structure resulted in recovery
of all records— representing
years of cataloging work. As
library systems migrated from
LS2000 to DRA and now to
SIRSI, Cindy has served on
implementation committees and developed work-flow
patterns. She is known in the Department as
the go- to person for technological quandaries. Most
recently, Cindy has served as the cataloging liaison
for the Teaching Resources Center. She completed
cataloging all items for the TRC correctly and ahead
of schedule with a cataloging schema different than
that used for University Libraries materials.
Cindy Slater receives award from Carolyn Shankle
Slater Receives 2008 University Libraries Staff Service Award
two months later in Atlanta. He had quietly been
speaking with campus leaders at certain white
Southern women’s colleges recruiting volunteers to
serve as ushers, “ a flying squadron” of Southern
women who, smilingly but successfully, blocked the
path of delegates moving to walk out of the assembly
when it became apparent that black delegates had
been admitted on an equal footing with whites. Of
this successful effort, he had told his roommate,“ The
women will carry the day… if anyone can.”
By 1942, by now famous for his broadcasts during
the London blitz, Murrow came to Greensboro in
February to speak at Aycock Auditorium about Britain
and the war while his wife raised money for the local
Bundles for Britain Chapter. He described himself as
“ merely a reporter at home on leave for the first time
in three years come to report to you on an island and
a people— a people not all of whom are heroes but
who know fear, a fear which I have shared with them.”
Noting that “ the British people are made of stern stuff,
they are not despairing or despondent,” he cautioned
Americans not to become complacent.“ We are a peo-ple,”
he said,“ who are willing to sacrifice much more
than has been asked of us; we must not commit the
fatal error of demanding too little of ourselves.”
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Data from Inter- university
Consortium for Political and
Social Research Available
Would you like to see polling data on the mood of
the country as we move into the election? Do you
need to know about differences in political attitudes
based on age, race, or ethnicity? UNCG’s University
Libraries has membership in two data archives that
can assist you with these questions and more— the
ICPSR and the Roper Center.
The Inter- university Consortium for Political and
Social Research is the world’s largest archive of
social science data. Through UNCG’s membership,
faculty, staff, and students have access to over 6,300
studies from every discipline of the social sciences.
They also now have access to the Roper Center for
Public Opinion Research, an archive of 500,000
questions from national opinion survey organiza-tions
and news sources, such as Gallup and the
Wall Street Journal.
If you would like to learn more about our
membership, please contact Lynda Kellam, Data
Services and Government Information Librarian,
at lmkellam@ uncg. edu or 336- 334- 5251.
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Laptop Checkout – Library Columns
Beginning in the fall semester 2008, the
University Libraries began offering laptop check-out
to UNCG students, faculty, and staff. Laptops
are available for use both in the Libraries and
outside the buildings. The software on the laptops
primarily includes Microsoft Office; on campus,
however, users may launch applications from the
wireless network. The Libraries’ wireless capability
was upgraded last spring and is now available in
more places throughout the building with
improved functionality.
Although UNCG began a laptop requirement
for freshmen in 2007, we’ve learned through focus
groups that they often choose not to carry them
around campus. Because the Libraries are a major
center for studying and learning, both individually
and in groups, providing laptops is an important
service to help them work on projects when
they’re in the buildings.
Edward R. Murrow Centennial
Celebration: Guilford County
Remembers Its Native Son
A series of programs co- sponsored by the
University Libraries at UNCG and the
Greensboro Historical Museum
All events are free and open to the public.
Tuesday, October 7
Edward R. Murrow and Joseph McCarthy, a See It
Now documentary about the confrontation between
the broadcaster and the Senator, with background and
discussion led by Chuck Bolton, History Department.
7: 00 p. m. Maple Room, Elliott University Center.
Tuesday, October 14
Edward R. Murrow’s Harvest of Shame, a CBS docu-mentary
about migrant farm workers, with background
and discussion led by Nolo Martinez, Center for New
North Carolinians. 7: 00 p. m. Maple Room, Elliott
University Center.
Sunday, October 19
Good Night and Good Luck, a screening of the 2005
theatrical film directed by George Clooney. 2: 30 p. m.
Greensboro Historical Museum.
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Libraries around the country are now
providing different types of services, beyond
traditional services, for their patrons. The
UNCG University Libraries have been
proactive in this area to provide more
services for our faculty, staff, and students.
Let us take a journey with a hypothetical
new professor and see what types of
services are available to her.
As a new faculty member, Dr. Jane Minerva will
be teaching this fall in the area of sports psychology.
Dr. Minerva plans to speak and write several papers
during the year. Besides the well known services the
University Libraries provides ( reference, interlibrary
loan, document delivery, and circulation), Dr. Minerva
will discover more services that are available.
Dr. Minerva has decided to have her class work
in groups on several projects during the semester. To
do these assignments, students will be required to
create a Powerpoint presentation. She has discovered
that Jackson Library has five Collaboratories that
students, staff, and faculty can use by booking a block
of time with the Access Services department. She
chooses a Collaboratory with a large plasma screen
and seating for up to twelve people. The library’s
Collaboratories have become so popular with the
students that the Library plans to add four more.
To teach one of her classes, Dr. Minerva wants to
digitize several photos and place them in her
Blackboard course management system. Learning of
Dr. Minerva’s need, Lynda Kellam, the Data Services
& Government Information Librarian, tells her about
the digital media lab. The lab is available to faculty,
staff, and students by appointment. Services provid-ed
in the lab are scanning of documents, books,
photos, and loose- leaf documents. There is software
available to provide file modifications such as resiz-ing
images, saving documents as pdfs, and more.
Dr. Minerva has been assigned the task of
redesigning her department’s web pages. Having lit-tle
time to work on this, she turns to the library for
help. She learns that Richard Cox, the Digital
Technology Consultant, can give her the support she
needs for her web pages. From him she receives
information on the standard web page
format that the university uses and how to
customize it to fit the needs of her depart-ment.
He also gives her information about
how to make sure the department’s web
pages are ADA compliant.
Dr. Minerva wants to create a journal on
sports psychology and has discovered that
the library assisted Dr. Robert M. Calhoon
in publishing the Journal of Backcountry Studies
( www. library. uncg. edu/ ejournals/ backcountry. asp). She
meets with Cat McDowell, the Digital Projects
Coordinator, and discovers that the Libraries will
provide assistance in creating a journal platform for
her. This type of assistance will include permanent
archiving, OAI compliance, web page design with
AD- compliance, back- ups, server space, scanning
facilities, and advice.
In her first year of teaching, Dr. Minerva has
discovered that there are even more services that
the library offers to faculty, staff, and students. There
is a usability lab where departments can test the
efficacy of their web pages, and statistical software
assistance in SAS and SPSS is available.
The University Libraries continue to perform
needs assessments and to listen to faculty, staff, and
students to find out what types of service they want
provided. It is the mission of the University
Libraries to provide the best service possible and
we are dedicated to continuing to provide these
services and to create new ones for future needs.
Follow Dr. Minerva’s lead and find out what the
University Libraries can do for you!
Services You Should Try
By Beth R. Bernhardt
Beth Bernhardt
Zina Sochirca ( l), Director of
the Free International University
Library of Moldova, with Sha Li
Zhang, UNCG Libraries’
Assistant Dean for Collections
and Technical Services. Along
with UNC- Chapel Hill, NCSU,
UNC Wilmington and ECU,
UNCG has joined in a partner-ship
with the Free Library and
the Belts University Library in
Moldova. We are working on
Interlibrary Loan and the possi-bility
of grants to provide learn-ing
opportunities for Moldovan
librarians in North Carolina.
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Sawasdee kah ( or klab), is a phrase that we heard
everywhere during our recent lecture trip in
Thailand. Thai people use this phrase to show their
respect, warm feelings, and politeness toward each
other and visitors.
Upon invitation from the Library and the
Department of Library Science at the Faculty of
Humanities at Thailand’s Chiang Mai University,
Rosann Bazirjian, Dean of University Libraries, and
Sha Li Zhang, Assistant Dean for Collections and
Technical Services, presented a series of lectures at
the University in February 2008. During our visits to
the libraries in Thailand, we shared recent research
findings, library programs, and services at UNCG
with our colleagues. We also learned about their
best practices during our visits and meetings.
Professor Ratana Na Lamphun, a Library and
Information Studies faculty member at Chiang Mai
University, was instrumental in arranging our visit.
She was a visiting scholar at UNCG in April 2007.
Chiang Mai University, located in the northern
part of Thailand, is one of the oldest and largest
institutions of higher learning in the country.
Founded in January 1964, the University now con-sists
of 17 faculties ( i. e., colleges and schools), with
more than 25,000 students. The university libraries
include one main library and 19 individual libraries
residing in faculties, institutes, and research centers
to support discipline- oriented teaching and research
needs. The spacious five- story main library building
also hosts an American Corner, sponsored by the
U. S. Embassy, and the Northern Thai Information
Service, a repository for materials about the north-ern
part of Thailand, the Shan State in Myanmar,
and the Yunnan Province in Southwest of China.
During our meeting with the librarians and library
administration, Mrs. Pensuwan Nakhapreecha, the
Library Director, explained that the libraries at the
Chiang Mai University embrace the living library
concept. The concept was an initiative from the Thai
Prime Minister to promote the learning atmosphere
in libraries and to transform the country into a
knowledge- based society. The Libraries’open learning
space, inviting and appealing layout, furniture and
seating arrangements, and living plants throughout
the main library are illustrations of the living library
concept. The library is proud to be a leading resource
center supporting the university’s mission. Our
lectures were attended by more than forty librarians,
Library staff, and LIS faculty members. Questions and
answers were exchanged at the lectures, during the
meetings, and throughout the library tours.
In Chiang Mai, we were also invited by Ms.
Mayuree Yawilat, the Library Director at the private
Payap University, to meet with the library’s adminis-trative
team. We took advantage of this opportunity
to exchange ideas with Thai colleagues on chal-lenges
facing academic libraries in our two coun-tries.
In Thailand, public universities are often per-ceived
as superior to private schools, but Ms. Yawilat
assured us that the Payap Library strives for quality
services to its users as well. The Library also houses
a museum that centers on the culture and heritage
of northern Thailand and a Stock Exchange Corner
providing information on finance, savings, and
investment management. During our stay at Payap,
we also met with the officer from the university’s
international program, to explore their interest in
establishing a student exchange program with
Sawasdee: A Lecture Trip to Thailand
By Sha Li Zhang, Assistant Dean for Collections and Technical Services
continued on page 24
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There is a library for every stage of a person's
life. When I was little, my mother took me to
visit the children's section at the public
library, fostering my love of reading. As I
grew older, I enjoyed going to my school
media center. The library was not only a place to
study, but also a break from the monotony of everyday
classes. In high school, a friendship began when I
taught another student how to search for materials in
the library; she is still my friend ten years later. That
should have told me to pursue a career in libraries, but
I had other plans. Not until my third year of college
did I begin to form a more adult appreciation of
libraries. As the work for my major grew more difficult,
I learned to value the academic library and its
resources. Many resources that I needed were obscure;
I was frustrated when I could not locate some crucial
item by using Google or any other search engine.
Finally I went to the library, and with some persever-ance,
found what I had been seeking. I also learned
something about myself, for I really enjoyed the chal-lenging
research. Two years later, unhappy with my job
and considering a career change, I remembered how
much I had enjoyed both helping people and
doing academic research. At last I realized: I
wanted to work in a library!
My first introduction to Walter Clinton
Jackson Library came when I was accepted
into the Library and Information Studies
( LIS) master’s degree program. Jackson
Library is a great place for students to visit,
either for quiet study time or to meet up with others
so that all can work together on school projects. I
also enjoy using all of the library’s resources. Most
people do not stop to think about the differences
between the information found on the internet and
that which is available through the Library’s web-site.
From the viewpoint of both a student and
( almost) a librarian, I know how many services pro-vided
by the library are often taken for granted.
Now in the final stages of the LIS program, I will
be graduating this May*. This is an exciting time in
my life: having successfully obtained a position as
Reference and Instruction Librarian, I will be start-ing
my new career as a professional librarian in an
academic setting. I owe much of my success to the
staff and resources of the University Libraries and
all the other libraries in my life.
* Editor’s note: she did graduate in May.
Sarah Bonner
Library Student Worker
Student Worker Perspectives
Edited by Anne Marie Taber, Electronic Resources and Metadata Cataloger
UNCG. Rosann has conveyed that interest to the
International Programs office at UNCG.
The final stop of the lecture trip took us to the
Library of the Department of Science Services under
the Thai Ministry of Science and Technology in
Bangkok. This government library provides science
and technology information resources in both the Thai
and English languages. Unlike the personnel struc-tures
in most academic libraries in Thailand, this
library consists of eight professional librarians, 10 sci-entists,
and one computer technical officer, to provide
discipline- based information services. The Library
emphasizes quality, and according to Library Director
Mrs. Mayuree Pongpudpunth it has met the new ISO
9001: 2000 quality management standards. This process
is a model for us when we are planning our assess-ment
of service and programs at the UNCG Libraries.
Though not without its challenges, including 30- plus
hours of traveling to get there and lost luggage, the
opportunity to exchange with and learn from library
colleagues in Thailand made the trip a worthwhile
experience. We want to say korp- kun kah ( thank you)
to our Thai library colleagues for their warm welcome
and hospitality during our visits to their institutions.
Thailand continued from page 23
Calendar of Upcoming Events and Exhibits
Sponsored by the University Libraries and the Friends of the UNCG Libraries
Events
Monday, September 8: University Libraries/ LIS Lecture
Series: “ Transforming Libraries” presented by Dr. Michael
Stephens. 2: 00 p. m. Claxton Room, Elliott University
Center. Seating limited, priority given to LIS faculty,
students, employees of the University Libraries at
UNCG, and their guests.
Monday, September 15: An Evening with Storyteller and
Children’s Book Author Carmen Deedy. 7: 00 p. m. EUC
Auditorium, Elliott University Center. Free and open to
the public. Co- sponsored by UNCG School of
Education, the Curriculum and Instruction Department,
the Library and Information Studies Department, the
Cora Paul Bomar Lecture Fund, the University Libraries,
and the Center for Creative Writing in the Arts.
Friday, September 19: Scholarly Communications Forum:
John Unsworth. 2: 00 p. m. Maple Room, Elliott
University Center. Free.
Monday, September 29: Friends of the UNCG Libraries Book
Discussion— AWalk in the Woods by Bill Bryson, led by
Dr. Greg Grieve, Religious Studies Department. 7: 00 p. m.
Hodges Reading Room, 2nd Floor Jackson Library. Free
and open to the public. Register by calling Barry Miller at
336- 256- 0112 or online at www. library. uncg. edu/ fol/ register/
Tuesday, September 30: Celebration to recognize the
recent achievement of promotion and tenure by faculty
members of The University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. 4: 30 p. m. Cone Ballroom, Elliott University
Center. By invitation. Co- sponsored by the University
Libraries and the Provost’s Office.
Edward R. Murrow Centennial Celebration: Guilford County
Remembers Its Native Son, a series of programs co-sponsored
by the University Libraries at UNCG and
the Greensboro Historical Museum.
Tuesday, October 7: Edward R. Murrow and Joseph
McCarthy, a documentary screening about the con-frontation
between the broadcaster and the Senator,
with background and discussion led by Chuck Bolton,
History Department. 7: 00 p. m. Maple Room, Elliott
University Center. Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, October 14: Edward R. Murrow's Harvest of Shame, a
documentary screening about migrant farm workers, with
background and discussion led by Nolo Martinez, Center
for New North Carolinians. 7: 00 p. m. Maple Room, Elliott
University Center. Free and open to the public.
Sunday, October 19: Good Night and Good Luck,
a screening of the 2005 theatrical film directed by
George Clooney. 2: 30 p. m. Greensboro Historical
Museum. Free and open to the public.
Thursday, October 9 - Saturday, October 11: George Herbert’s
Travels: International Print and Cultural Legacies, an inter-national
conference co- sponsored by the University
Libraries, the Departments of English and History, the
Center for Creative Writing, the MFA Writing Program, the
Class of 1952, and the Atlantic World Research Network.
Most events in the Elliott University Center. See
www. uncg. edu/ eng/ george_ herbert/ for more information.
Wednesday, October 22: The Stories of Greensboro: an
Evening with Jim Schlosser and Howard Covington.
Presentations followed by book signings. 7: 00 p. m.
Cone Ballroom C, Elliott University Center. Free and
open to the public.
Thursday, October 23: University Archives Open House.
3: 00 - 6: 00 p. m. Hodges Reading Room, 2nd Floor
Jackson Library. Free and open to the public.
Monday, October 27: Friends of the UNCG Libraries Book
Discussion— The Crystal World by J. G. Ballard, led by
Fred Chappell, Professor Emeritus of English. 7: 00 pm.
Hodges Reading Room, 2nd Floor Jackson Library. Free
and open to the public. Register by calling Barry Miller at
336- 256- 0112 or online at www. library. uncg. edu/ fol/ register/
Monday, November 24: Friends of the UNCG Libraries
Book Discussion— Essays by Wendell Berry &
Thomas Berry led by Ann Berry Somers, Biology
Department. 7: 00 p. m. Hodges Reading Room, 2nd
Floor Jackson Library. Free and open to the public.
Register by calling Barry Miller at 336- 256- 0112 or
online at www. library. uncg. edu/ fol/ register/.
Exhibits
Through October 1: Chinese Art from the Lelia Judson
Tuttle Collection. Jackson Library, 1st floor
Through January 2, 2009: Selections from Manuscripts
( items will be rotated). Jackson Library/ Elliott University
Center Connector.
Through December 31: Student Life. Jackson Library,
1st floor.
October 1 through November 16: George Herbert
Collection ( for Herbert Conference). Hodges Reading
Room and 2nd floor lobby, Jackson Library.
October 1 through December 11: Selected books chosen
by UNCG faculty recognized for tenure and promo-tion.
Jackson Library, 1st floor.
November 3, 2008 through December 31, 2009: Vintage
Holiday Cards from the University Archives and
Manuscripts. EUC/ Jackson Library Connector.
A new online exhibit featuring vintage postcards
of University related buildings, scenes, and
events is also now available at
www. library. uncg. edu/ depts/ archives/ exhibits/ postcards/.
SOLINET’s annual conference was
buzzing in May when Michael Stephens
addressed the members of the southeast-ern
library cooperative. Now the confer-ence
keynoter is coming to UNCG to talk
about transforming academic libraries for
the ongoing University Libraries/ LIS Lecture Series. His
lecture will be Monday, September 8 at 2: 00 p. m. in
the Claxton Room of the Elliott University Center
Photo by Cindi Trainor
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