Julie Hersberger Update
Julie Hersberger enjoyed both a conference and some vacation time this past summer in Italy. With other researchers from Ireland, Canada, Oregon and New York, Hersberger presented a session at the Sunbelt Conference in Riva del Garda, Italy in July. She visited Rome, Florence, Verona and Pompeii while there.
Hersberger is also enjoying volunteering at the Interactive Resource Center (a homeless day center in Greensboro) while preparing to revisit a study on homelessness, social networks and information as social capital. With the advent of cell phone technology and social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, etc. are the homeless able to leverage more social support or does information technology make little or no difference? She has also helped form a national group of researchers from different disciplines around the country who study homelessness and information. The group skypes periodically to share their work. In February at the iConference in Seattle the group will present a fishbowl session on their research. The use of ‘observation weeks’ in the LIS 688 Information Use and Users course was so successful that the plan is to collaborate with Dr. Donna Lanclos (ethnographer in residence at UNC-Charlotte’s Atkins Library) to submit a session proposal for NCLA and ALISE with the collaboration of students from the class.
Nora Bird
Nora Bird is continuing work on Community College Librarianship with Michael Crumpton, Assistant Dean of the University Libraries at UNCG. They presented a poster entitled Grassroots library users: Workplace information literacy and community college libraries at South Carolina Library Association Annual Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC. They will present a related poster at the upcoming Association for Library and Information Science Educators (ALISE) conference in San Diego, CA, entitled Are All Academic Librarians the Same?: Identifying Unique Competencies for Community College Librarians.
If you would like to follow work done on this topic, go to https://sites.google.com/a/uncg.edu/cc-librarian-project/ or the project blog at http://communitycollegelibrarian.wordpress.com/
Nora, Mike, and Beth Martin, alumna and the LIS Charlotte Coordinator, are collaborating on an IMLS grant entitled ECCL (Educating Community College Librarians) that will be submitted on December 15th. Contact her if you are interested in more information.
Jim Carmichael update
Jim Carmichael has edited an issue of Libraries and the Cultural Record on American Libraries in the Great Depression. He also has an essay in the upcoming second edition of Ellen Greenblatt’s Gay and Lesbian Library Service (which is now titled LGBTQIA Library Service).
Second iDEAL Summit
On behalf of the Department of Library and Information Studies (LIS) I am delighted to invite you to participate in the second iDEAL Summit on Monday, November 15, 2010, noon-6:00 pm, at the Elliott University Center. This year’s theme is “LGBTQI out on the open shelves: Serving Hidden Communities”, with the main panel, also as the Fall 2010 lecture of the UNCG Libraries and LIS Lecture Series, taking place 1:30-2:45 pm. The panelists are:
· Mario Ascencio – Director, Corcoran Library in Washington, DC and recent past president of REFORMA.
· Jim Carmichael – Professor of Library and Information Studies, UNCG, much of his research has focused on the history of LGBT issues within librarianship
· Trae Middlebrooks – MLIS Student and Academic and Cultural Enrichment Scholar
· Polly Thistlewaite – Head of Public Services, City University of New York Graduate Center Library and long-time volunteer at and chronicler of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.
· Moderator: Nathan Belyeu, Master of Education Student and Coordinator for LGBTQI Health, The Wellness Center of Student Health Services
At LIS, we are connecting people, libraries, and information through research, teaching, and service to enrich living and working in a global environment. We recognize that diversity and social contexts determine the extent to which communities can access information, and library and information professionals can bridge information gaps. Through the iDEAL Summit (iDEALS), we are bringing together LIS students, faculty, staff and alumni, the regional professional community and other stakeholders to discuss and work on how we address information, diversity, engagement, access and libraries (iDEAL) in our education, research, practice and community. iDEALS provides participants the opportunity to address three goals around this year’s theme:
1. DIALOGUE (exchange/connect) – What are your concerns, ideas and solutions regarding LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual and allies) information needs?
2. ACTION (engagement/reciprocity) – what skills/knowledge/expertise do you/we have and can contribute/share to advance LGBTQIA information needs?
3. TRANSFORMATION (change) – what is the change you want to see in addressing LGBTQIA information needs and how do we add it to our institutional/policy agenda?
For those who cannot join us at UNCG, we will be video streaming the panel and plenary sessions live. Please join us at: http://lis.uncg.edu/news-and-events/ideal-summit/watch-ideals-2010/. Online attendants may ask questions by using their Facebook, Twitter, AOL, or MySpace accounts.
We will be having a showcase of research posters and library and information initiatives/best practices and invite faculty, students and the professional community to participate. The call for participation is at our website.
The first 60 registrants will receive complimentary parking. Please RSVP by November 3rd using the following link: https://spreadsheets0.google.com/a/uncg.edu/viewform?formkey=dDU1aWU2eHhtNzc1RHdGdTg4Y2NFcGc6MQ. Please contact Cindy Felts with any questions: cpfelts@uncg.edu, 336-334-3477. Registration, online and poster participation information and flyer are on our website: http://lis.uncg.edu/news-and-events/ideal-summit/.
Please share this invitation with others who may be interested in attending. If you wish to assist with or contribute to iDEALS, please do not hesitate to contact me at cmchu@uncg.edu or (336) 334-3481. Your voice and knowledge matter to LIS.
Lee Shiflett
Lee Shiflett (Professor) is on research leave for the fall 2009 semester. He is using the time to complete his book on William Terry Couch, tentatively titled, The Word and the Rope: The Editorial Career of William Terry Couch. He is also preparing classes for his return to the classroom as a member of the LIS faculty in the spring 2010 semester.
iDEAL Summit
iDEAL Summit at UNCG
* DIALOGUE (exchange/connect) – What are your concerns, ideas and solutions regarding iDEAL?
* ACTION (engagement/reciprocity) – what skills/knowledge/expertise do you have and can contribute/share to advance iDEAL?
* TRANSFORMATION (change) – what is the change you want to see and will experience in addressing iDEAL?
Proposed Program
Monday, November 9th, 2009, 1-5 pm
12:30 p.m. Registration, Alexander Room in the Elliot University Center, UNCG (see map).
1:00-2:45 pm Welcome and Dialogue
2:45-3:35 pm Showcase and Refreshments
3:35-5:15 pm From Dialogue to Action
5:30-6:30 pm Reception and Showcase
6:30-8:00 pm Keynote Speech by Camila Alire, American Library Association President
New Department Chair Clara M. Chu is looking forward to meeting with, hearing from and working with you. If you wish to assist with or contribute to iDEALS, please do not hesitate to contact her at cmchu@uncg.edu or (336) 334-3481. Your voice and knowledge matters to LIS.
Please RSVP by Tuesday, November 3rd or if you have a question to Cindy Felts or (336) 334-3477, and we’ll also be happy to add you to the lis-news-L list. The first 60 registrants will receive complimentary parking. Please check back as we will be adding more details on the program as it becomes available.
Julie Hersberger
Julie Hersberger is currently finishing up her term as Jury Chair for the ASIST SIG USE Awards for the upcoming conference in Vancouver. Research efforts include revisiting past studies on both the homeless and their information use environments, and analyzing the stateof public library research articles. She is also collaborating with Dr Crystal Fulton, from the University College Dublin, on a book about ethnographic methodological experiences of researchers in LIS. Working with the ACE Scholars is a new and very enjoyable project as part of the IMLS grant that was a joint effort between the University Libraries and the LIS Department.
Jim Carmichael
Jim Carmichael will be the keynote speaker at the Georgia Library Association meeting in Conyers, Georgia in January. GLA President Carol Stanley (MLIS, UNCG, ’88) invited Carmichael to speak on Georgia Library History, his research specialty. Carmichael received the 1992 Franklin Garrett Award for best article in Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South, the official journal of the Atlanta Historical Society (now Atlanta History Museum).
Carmichael is also editing a special issue of Libraries and the Cultural Record (the current title of The Journal of Library History) on “Libraries and Librarians in the Great Depression, 1929-1941″ to be published in 2011.
Billie Durham
Billie Durham (1981), School Library Media Program Coordinator, attended ALA in Chicago this summer and participated in NCATE Reviewer Training. She has been appointed to serve as a member of the State Library’s Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Advisory Committee for a three year term and attended her first meeting in Raleigh this August.
Billie and her husband Carey recently hosted an evening reception in celebration of the University Libraries of UNCG along with two other couples. The reception highlighted the libraries’ Special Collections such as the textile collection from China and the biomusic collection. Dr. Patricia Gray, professor of biomusic at UNCG, described her groundbreaking research on the musical abilities of bonobo apes for the invited guests. Currently, Billie is especially interested in promoting awareness of and support for a possible re-location of Montgomery County Public Library to a downtown location in Troy. Her travels to school libraries in both the Charlotte and Greensboro areas as part of her supervision duties for the LIS Field Experience continue to keep her in contact with many UNCG LIS alumni.
Billie Durham
