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24th May 2012 You are invited to attend the MLA-ACRL 2012 Spring Meeting at the Mississippi Library Commission in Jackson on Thursday, May 24, 11:30 a.m. -1:30 p.m.
We are excited to have Corrie Marsh, Associate Dean for Collections and Scholarly Communication at the University of Southern Mississippi Libraries, and Dr. Stacy Creel, Assistant Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Southern Mississippi, as our guest speakers this year. They will present on their experiences with the institutional repository at USM.
The schedule for the meeting will be:
11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Check-in and lunch
12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Presentation by the speakers
1:00 p.m. -1: 15 p.m. Q & A
1:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. MLA-ACRL business meeting
If you would like to attend the meeting, please completed the registration form below. The registration fee is $10.00 and includes a drink and either a box lunch or salad. Please indicate your lunch preference on the registration form. Payment can only be accepted by check. Make the check payable to the Mississippi Library Association. The registration deadline is May 7, 2012.
Mail your completed registration form and payment to :
Jennifer Brannock
University of Southern Mississippi
118 College Drive #5148
Hattiesburg, MS 39406
If you have any questions about the meeting, please feel free to contact me at Jennifer.Brannock@usm.edu or 601.266.4347.
Jennifer
MLA-ACRL Vice Chair
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Jennifer Brannock
Special Collections Librarian
Jennifer.Brannock@usm.edu
The University of Southern Mississippi
McCain Library & Archives
118 College Drive #5148
Hattiesburg, MS 39406
Phone 601.266.4347
Fax 601.266.6269
Web Http://www.lib.usm.edu/spcol
Posted: March 26th, 2012
27th Apr 2012 Friday, April 27, 2012, from 9:00 a.m. until 3:30 p.m.
Mississippi Library Commission, 3881 Eastwood Drive, Jackson
The 2012 Spring Workshop will present topics on cataloging books for the accelerated reading program, the special issues surrounding the cataloging of kits, an update on RDA, and a panel discussion on journal evaluations.
The workshop fee is $10.00. Please complete the Registration Form (below) and mail it with your check to arrive by Thursday, April 26, 2012. See you at the Workshop!
Registration forms:
The schedule for the meeting will be:
9:00 a.m. Welcome
Karen Davidson, Chair, Technical Services Round Table
9:10 – 10:10 RDA: Implementation New and Views
Bob Wolverton, Jr., Associate Professor/Database Maintenance/Authority Control Librarian,
Mississippi State University
10:10 -10:25 Break
10:25 -11:25 Cataloging for the Accelerated Reading Program
Sandra Freeman, Library Media Specialist
Green County School District
11:25 – 1:00 Lunch (on your own)
Registration forms are above.
Make checks payable to Mississippi Library Association.
Registration and payment must be received by Thursday, April 26, 2012.
Please complete a separate registration form for each participant.
Mail the completed registration form and a check for $10.00 to:
Crystal Giles, R.C. Pugh Library
Northwest Mississippi Community College
4975 Highway 51 North
Senatobia, MS 38668
1:00 – 2:15 Kits: Catalogers in the Wilderness
Lona Hoover, Associate Professor/Cataloging Librarian, Mississippi State University
Melody Dale, Library Associate/Monographic Copy Cataloger, Mississippi State University
Sheryl Stump, Associate Professor/Cataloger, Roberts-LaForge Library, Delta State University Marty Coleman, Assistant Director, Technical Services, First Regional Library, Hernando, MS
2:15-2:30 Break
2:30-3:30 Journal Evaluation at MSU: Past, Present, and Future
Mary Ann Jones, Assistant Professor/Coordinator of Electronic Resources, Mississippi State University
Laurel I. Sammonds, Assistant Professor/Coordinator of the Veterinary Medicine Library, Mississippi State University
Derek Marshall, Assistant Professor/Serials Librarian, Mississippi State University
3:30 p.m. Conclusion
Posted: March 26th, 2012
8th Apr 2012 National Library Week is April 8-14 
The Mississippi Library Association NLW posters are available for download below. We hope that libraries around the state will download and print these materials for use in their libraries and communities.
Posted: March 15th, 2012
The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation in partnership with the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries announced today the winners of the 26th Annual Ezra Jack Keats New Writer and New Illustrator Book Awards. The 2012 awards ceremony will be held on April 12th in conjunction with The University of Southern Mississippi’s Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival. Margery Cuyler, an award-winning children’s book author and publisher at Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books, will be guest presenter.
“Fifty years ago, Ezra’s book The Snowy Day, which featured an African American child, broke the color barrier in mainstream children’s book publishing when it was embraced by families across racial, economic and ethnic lines,” said Deborah Pope, Executive Director of the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation. “Like Ezra, this year’s Book Award winners have, in their own way, celebrated the similarities—and differences—of people whose life experiences are dramatically varied.”
Since 1985, the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award has been awarded annually to an outstanding new writer and new illustrator of picture books for children (age 9 and under) by the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by the late Keats and dedicated to enhancing the love of reading and learning in all children. The Book Awards come to the de Grummond for the first time this year from the New York Public Library.
“We are thrilled to be presenting the Book Awards with The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation,” said Ellen Ruffin, Curator of the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection. “The success of Ezra’s first book, which earned the coveted Caldecott medal, gave him the encouragement to create many more children’s books. It is our hope that this recognition will have the same impact on this year’s winners. Who knows—one day their books might join Ezra’s in the de Grummond collection.”
The Book Award was created to acknowledge and encourage budding children’s book authors and illustrators who impart Ezra Jack Keats’ values—the universal qualities of childhood, a strong and supportive family and the multicultural nature of our world.
The 2012 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award Winner Is:
Meg Medina for Tia Isa Wants a Car
Publisher: Candlewick Press
In Tia Isa Wants a Car, first-time picture book author Meg Medina tells the story of Tia Isa, who dreams of buying a car, and the niece who helps her save. As hard as they work, money is tight—especially since everything goes into two piles: one for here and one for family members far away so that they too can come to the U.S. one day.
Medina’s idea for the book began with memories of her family’s first car. “My aunt’s car was a light-blue Wildcat that stalled everywhere and was awful to park on crowded streets,” she said. “But that car could take us anywhere we wanted in this new country; it was freedom.”
The 2012 Ezra Jack Keats New Illustrator Award Winner (and New Writer Honor) Is:
Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw for Same, Same but Different
Publisher: Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company, LLC
Through vivid illustrations and an inviting point-of-view, Kostecki-Shaw introduces readers to two pen pals—Elliot, who lives in America, and Kailash, who lives in India. By exchanging letters and pictures, the boys learn that they both love to climb trees, have pets, and ride a school bus. Their worlds might look different, but they are actually similar. Same, same but different!
In addition, for the first time in the history of the Ezra Jack Keats Book Awards, honorable mentions were awarded:
2012 New Writer Honor
Nicola Winstanley for Cinnamon Baby
Publisher: Kids Can Press, Ltd.
2012 New Writer and New Illustrator Honor
Anna Witte (writer), Micha Archer (illustrator) for Lola’s Fandango
Publisher: Barefoot Books; Rei/Com edition
2012 New Illustrator Honor
David Ercolini for Not Inside this House!
Publisher: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic
The Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Criteria
To be eligible for the 2012 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award, writers and illustrators must have published no more than three books. Entries must have a 2011 copyright date, and have been submitted to the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation by December 30, 2011. The winners receive a gold medallion as well as an honorarium of $1,000. The selection committee is comprised of early childhood education specialists, librarians, illustrators and experts in children’s literature.
For a complete list of Ezra Jack Keats Book Award winners, visit http://www.ezra-jack-keats.org/news/ezra-jack-keats-award-winners/
For information about submissions, visit: http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/keats_illus.shtml
About the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation
The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation supports arts and literacy programming in public schools and libraries across the country, with the goal of bringing the joy of reading and learning to all children while highlighting the importance of diversity in children’s books. In addition to the Ezra Jack Keats Book Award, the Foundation sponsors the Ezra Jack Keats/New York Department of Education Bookmaking Competition for grades 3-12, and the Ezra Jack Keats Minigrant Program, among others. For information about the Foundation please visit www.ezra-jack-keats.org.
About the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection
The de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi is one of North America’s leading research centers in the field of children’s literature. The Collection holds the original manuscripts and illustrations of more than 1300 authors and illustrators, as well as 180,000+ mostly American and British published books dating back to 1530. Since 1985, the de Grummond Collection has been the home of the Ezra Jack Keats Archive, which includes manuscripts, typescripts, sketches, dummies, illustrations, and proofs for Ezra Jack Keats’ books.
Submitted by
Ellen Hunter Ruffin
Curator and Associate Professor
de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection
McCain Library and Archives, USM
Posted: March 13th, 2012
SFC Timothy J. Koehn’s full time job is Librarian at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Jackson County Campus, in Gautier, MS. He is with the Mississippi Army National Guard as a Helicopter Maintenance Supervisor. In his hand he is holding Flat Stanley sent to him by his neice Jessica from Round Rock, Texas. Her First Grade class is doing a Flat Stanley project and she asked her Uncle Tim if he would show Flat Stanley the sites in Afghanistan while he is there. Even in a war, SFC Koehn still uses his library skills to help the soldiers in his unit with college courses, researching, and helping his niece with a school literature project. For more on Flat Stanley see http://www.flatstanley.com/. A reader, SFC Koehn has done plenty of reading since his arrival and is never far from a book, magazine, or newspaper.
SFC Timothy J. Koehn, 1108th TASMG of Gulfport, MS at the Bazaar at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom.
Posted: March 12th, 2012
Razzle-dazzle rhythms… Spectacular showmanship… Energizing entertainment…
The Charles H. Templeton Ragtime Jazz Festival, now in its 6th year, delivers all of this and more. Now is the time to register and make plans to attend the 6th annual Charles Templeton Ragtime Jazz Festival at Mississippi State University Libraries. This signature festival features some of the most talented pianists around in a setting that has come to be known for its warmth, hospitality, and uniqueness.
Concerts, “living room” sessions, and lectures center around the unique Charles H. Templeton, Sr. Collection in MSU Libraries, home of more than 22,000 pieces of sheet music, 200 musical instruments, and extensive memorabilia from the 1800s – 1930s. All document the distinctly American approach to the “business of music.”
The 2012 Festival will feature four artists returning to the Templeton Festival and one making his first Festival appearance.
- Jeff Barnhart is a highly regarded pianist, vocalist, arranger, bandleader, recording artist, composer, pedagogue, and entertainer who appears as a soloist and band pianist at parties, festivals, clubs, and cruises in all corners of the globe. Due to his versatility, vast repertoire, and vibrant energy, Jeff is in increasing demand as a participant in all-star jazz ensembles around the world and has recorded as both pianist and vocalist on over 75 full-length albums.
- Brian Holland has performed ragtime, jazz, and stride piano for almost 30 years. Classically trained (and Grammy Award-nominated) but with a keen ear for improvisation, Holland has a dynamic, driving style that has been described as “clear as Waterford crystal.” He has been named a World Old-Time Piano Playing Champion three times and, now a retired champion, serves as a judge for the competition. Most recently, Holland has gone international with performances in Rwanda and a subsequent recording project on the Mohawk Productions label.
- Carl Sonny Leyland discovered boogie woogie at age 15 and was inspired to go to the piano and begin on a path that would become his life’s purpose. Whether solo or with his trio, the Carl Sonny Leyland Trio, Leyland’s playing displays an infectious spontaneity, providing plenty of surprises. While he possesses the necessary vocabulary to pay tribute to the greats of old, Leyland refuses to limit himself to this and prefers to let each performance be an opportunity to say something new.
- Martin Spitznagel has been hailed as a remarkable, astonishing, and “face-melting” musical talent. His virtuosic technique, sophisticated touch, and sparkling repertoire have left audiences across the country enthralled. Spitznagel, who has been a featured performer at the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival, the Indiana Ragtime Festival, the West Coast Ragtime Festival, and New York’s Ragtime-Jasstime Festival, just to name a few, is the 2007 winner of the World Old-Time Piano Playing Contest and the 2010 winner of the Scott Joplin Foundation’s “Train Town Rag” composition contest.
- David Jasen is one of the most highly regarded authorities on ragtime music. He is a collector of books, recordings, piano rolls, periodicals, catalogs, and sheet music that cover the gamut of American popular music. An adviser to the Charles Templeton Ragtime Jazz Festival since its inception, Jasen brings an extraordinary knowledge of ragtime and history, enriching the Festival experience and providing a dimension rarely seen in other Festivals.
Festival participants will join a host of loyal fans in Starkville for an event that is fast becoming known as one of the best of its type. Evening concerts will be featured in Lee Hall’s historic Bettersworth Auditorium, while the daytime sessions and tours of the Templeton Collection will be held in Mitchell Memorial Library.
The 6th annual Charles Templeton Ragtime Jazz Festival is sponsored by the Mississippi State University Libraries, the Charles Templeton, Sr. Music Museum, the Starkville Area Arts Council, the Rotary Club of Starkville, the Greater Starkville Development Partnership, and, in part, by grants from the Mississippi Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Tickets are available for daily events, evening concerts, and for the entire Festival by visiting https://library.msstate.edu/ragtime/festival/tkts/index.html or by contacting Festival planning committee member Lyle Tate at ltate@library.msstate.edu or 662-325-2559.
Submitted by
Lyle Tate
Special Projects Coordinator
Mississippi State University Libraries
Posted: March 12th, 2012
Mississippi State University Libraries’ University Archives Department announces the addition of new finding aids for the collections of MSU Presidents.
“So far we have seven pdf versions of these inventories available to our patrons,” said Ryan Semmes, Assistant Archivist at MSU Libraries, “and they cover MSU’s presidents from its beginnings with Stephen D. Lee in 1880 to Buz Walker in 1930.”
Semmes went on to share that University Archives anticipates adding at least five more similar finding aids before the end of the spring 2012 semester.
For more information on these new presidential inventories and on MSU Libraries, please visit http://library.msstate.edu/specialcollections/archive/presidents or contact Semmes at 325-9355.
Submitted by
Lyle Tate
Special Projects Coordinator
Mississippi State University Libraries
Posted: March 12th, 2012
Hinds Utica Campus Historic Photos Archived on Digital Site
Hinds Community College has begun participation in the MS Digital Library cooperative with a collection of 22 photographs depicting the history of Hinds Utica Campus, particularly in its early days as Utica Normal & Industrial Institute and Utica Junior College (a designated Historic Black Institute) . The copyrighted materials can be found at http://www.msdiglib.org/cdm4/browse_inst.php.
Hinds Community College Digitizes Catalogs and Yearbooks
Hinds Community College Libraries has recently digitized and made available most of the school’s catalogs (through 1999) and yearbooks (through 2011) from its inception as an Agricultural High School in 1917. The digitized annuals also include yearbooks from the Hinds – Utica campus, formerly Utica Junior College, and from Hinds Agricultural High School located on the Utica Campus. The project was made possible through the LYRASIS Mass Digitization Collaborative – a Sloan Foundation grant-subsidized program. To view the collections, simply visit http://www.archive.org/details/hindscommunitycollege
Traveling Exhibit Available
Utica Normal & Industrial Institute was founded by William H. Holtzclaw Jr. in 1903. Renamed Utica Junior College and later merged with Hinds Community College in 1982, it has since been designated an Historically Black College or University. The Utica Normal and Industrial Institute Traveling Exhibit, subtitled The History, The Legacy, and The Promise, consists of nine panels that chronicle select periods of the Utica Campus history. The exhibit is tentatively set to tour beginning April 2012. It is currently on display on the Hinds Utica campus. Created by Utica Campus librarian, Jean Greene, the exhibit was financially supported by funding from Title III. For more information or to book the exhibit, contact Jean Greene at JBGreene@hindscc.edu or 601.885.7034
Photo credit: Jean Greene
Utica Traveling Exhibit
Submitted by
Mary Beth Applin
District Dean of LRCs
Hinds Community College
Posted: March 12th, 2012
The inaugural issue of SLIS Connecting is available at http://aquila.usm.edu/slisconnecting/. SLIS Connecting is the journal of The University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Library and Information Science. The purpose of the journal is to share news, information and research with future students, current students, alumni, faculty, and the general population through selected faculty publications, invited student publications, and through regular columns. The journal is a bi-annual publication (September and February). Information on how to submit updates and articles of interest can be found online.
Submitted by
Stacy Cree
SLIS, Assistant Professor
University of Southern Mississippi
Posted: March 12th, 2012
The Jackson-George Regional Library System has re-started free public computer classes at their branch libraries after being without a computer trainer for several months.
Recently, the library system hired Janet Head Beatty as the new Staff Development and Training Coordinator. She will facilitate public computer classes at branch libraries and work to provide training for staff. Janet earned her Bachelor’s degree at the University of Southern Mississippi and taught previously at the Ocean Springs High School – Keys Technology Center. Organizations she has served were Future Business Leaders of America, DECA and others. She and her husband Robert live in Moss Point and have a son and daughter.
Current offerings include “Introduction to Computer Basics” and “Job Search Skills” which requires basic computer knowledge. Classes will be held every month at different library locations in Jackson and George counties.
To get more Mississippians on what is called the Information Superhighway, the MSU Extension Offices are conducting educational efforts, public information campaigns, and training programs throughout the state. They are seeking partnerships in this effort with what they call “anchor institutions” and wisely recognize public libraries as social anchors in each community.
To augment the Library System’s monthly classes, the Mississippi State Extension Service and the Library System have scheduled additional computer literacy classes for the general public during the Spring.
MS State Extension office agent Andy Collins, Region 2 Broadband Education Coordinator, will conduct classes on a wide-range of subjects dealing with computer use and technology in order to create greater awareness and educate the public. Free classes include: Bully Patrol – Understanding and Preventing Cyber-Bullying, Becoming an Internet Detective – Finding Resources On-Line, Facebook 101, Google 101 – Using Google Search Features, and Twitter 101 – How to Follow on Twitter.
For information on Mississippi Broadband Connect Coalition, visit http://broadband.ms.gov. For information about JGRLS, visit www.jgrls.org.
Beatty
Submitted by
Rex Bridges
PR & Marketing Manager
Jackson-George Regional Library
Posted: March 12th, 2012
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