News and Announcements
SCLA now has a new YouTube channel. Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/SCLibraryAssn
On Wednesday, November 8th, Dr. Susan Isaacs-Bright, SRS Lead Librarian, was selected to receive the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) Director’s Award in recognition of her contributions to SRNL and its customers. She was nominated by Dr. George Wicks, SRNL researcher, for her work in establishing a SRNL-Medical College Georgia Library (MCG) cooperative agreement. Dr. Isaacs-Bright worked with Ms. Tamara Lee, Director of the MCG’s Robert Greenblatt Library, Dr. George S. Schuster, MCG’s Associate Dean of Dentistry, and Dr. Wicks to develop an agreement that allows SRNL scientists to use MCG library resources when they partner with MCG faculty to perform
medical research.
Check out the SCLA Newsletters archive page.
MORE: News for South Carolina Libraries (from the South Carolina State Library’s web site)
Check out the ALA Statement on Core Values
PASCAL Plan for the South Carolina Digital Library
A Year One Plan for the South Carolina Digital Library has been
approved by the PASCAL Board. A Five Year Plan is in draft form,
including such issues as outreach to and working with K-12 educators,
faculty, and college/university students; training for smaller
institutions; planning for the long-term maintenance of the databases
and digital objects; and planning and carrying out a statewide
collaborative digital project.
The Year One Plan includes 9 Task Forces, which need your help! If you
are interested, please volunteer some time and become involved with one
of the task forces. Simply email Kate Boyd (boydkf@gwm.sc.edu), Jim
Cross (jcross@clemson.edu), or the Task Force leader and tell them which
one you would like to join. We are hoping that the Task Forces will
meet sometime this spring and we will have a meeting in May of all the
Task Forces.
Task Forces
Finding Aids - Elizabeth West westec@gwm.sc.edu
Metadata Guidelines - Douglas King kingdp1@gwm.sc.edu
Scanning Guideliens - Kate Boyd boydkf@gwm.sc.edu
Funding and Governance - Dr. Samanatha Hastings shasting@gwm.sc.edu
Technical Task Force - Rick Moul rmoul@gwm.sc.edu
Collection Development - Beth Bilderbeck bilderbk@gwm.sc.edu
Education Group - Don Stewart stewart@scdah.state.sc.us
Promotion and Marketing - Gyspye Teague - gteague@clemson.edu
Training -Jim Cross jcross@clemson.edu
More details on the Plan and what PASCAL has been doing since the South
Carolina Digital Collections Conference last August will be in the next
issue of the SCLA Newsletter.
Poetry Northwest Announcement
This is Kevin Edwards, editorial assistant with Poetry Northwest. The reason
I’m writing you is I would like to know if the South Carolina Library
Association would be willing to post an announcement for Poetry Northwest on
their listserv or newsletter. A few library associations (e.g. South Eastern
Library Association and Montana Library Association) have already agreed to
post an announcement for us in order support Poetry Northwest’s come back,
and we hope to garner support from you as well.
We’d like to announce to all the different libraries across the country
that, after a three-year hiatus, Poetry Northwest will be returning as a
biannual publication (appearing in March and October), with the new,
come-back issue scheduled for March 2006. The University of Washington has
appointed poet and critic David Biespiel as editor, and editorial offices
are now at The Attic Writers’ Workshop, in Portland, Oregon’s creative
Hawthorne district. Besides the new editor, new address, and new
contemporary look and layout, what hasn’t changed, however, is the
magazine’s focus on publishing first-rate poetry, reviews, and essays by
writers from all over.
In this first come-back issue, for instance, we’re proud to continue Poetry
Northwest’s tradition of publishing some of the best poetry by established
and emerging poets in the US, Britain, and beyond, by including fine poems
by Robert Bly, Marilyn Hacker, Richard Kenney, C. K. Williams, Stanley
Plumly, and Christian Wiman.
Also each month Poetry Northwest’s web site, www.poetrynw.org, will feature
a web site exclusive as an extension of the magazine. Some months will
highlight poems in a forthcoming issue, others will present poems from the
archive, and still others will present poems, prose, and audio created and
solicited exclusively for this site.
For a sneak preview of this month’s upcoming issue, please see the attached
copy of our cover and table of contents from the March 2006 Issue. Thank you
for your consideration. We’d really hope that you can support us, by helping
us spread the word. Thanks again.
Best,
Kevin Edwards
Editorial Assistant
kedwards@poetrynw.org
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