Library Magazine, Spring 2011

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Monika Rhue, Director of Library ServicesBrenda Almeyda, Information Literacy and Reference LibrarianGeneen Clinkscales, Educational Technology LibrarianAndrea Hylton, Systems LibrarianBarbara Malloy, Evening AssistantBrandon Lunsford, Archival Services Librarian/ILLMarcella McGowan, Serials and Electronic Resources LibrarianMichelle Orr, Collection Development and Digitization LibrarianBarbara Allen, Administrative AssistantBarbara Carr, CatalogerWilson Goodson, Circulation and Media Support TechnicianRuth Faye Richards, Digitization and Serials Control TechnicianRosalind Moore, Circulation and Public Services CoordinatorGloria Russell, Acquisitions Assistant

Library Staff

From the Director’s DeskLibrary Partnerships: ILLI Buddy Mentorship Program Harvey B. Gantt Internship A.C.E. ScholarsLibrary Programs & Services: Malcom X ExhibitLibrary Projects: Yearbook Digitization Golden Legacies Alumni Book FairLibrary Testimonials Professional Activities & Announcements: Library Resources ASERL Exchange ProgramScrapbookBackpages: Meet the Staff Library Hours Editorial Staff

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From the Director’s Desk The James B. Duke Memorial Library at Johnson C. Smith University is very fortunate to have maintained quality resources in these hard economic times. The library’s mission is to make sure students have the resources they need to be successful while pursuing their academic career here at JCSU. The university has had to make some tough decisions about budget cuts this past year, but the library’s book budget and electronic resources were not cut. This is because the President’s vision at Johnson C. Smith University is strong, and that vision is to create a “quality educational and applied research environment.” The library’s resources must reflect this vision, and as Director of Library Services I am dedicated to making sure that every book and every database purchased helps to meet the needs of our most valued customers: our students. It is my goal to have JCSU’s students consistently rate their library experiences, library resources, and library facility very highly. The library is on that path. In this publication you will hear testimonials from our student users, faculty, and community users about how they value the library and what we have to offer. You will read about our library partnership with the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts and Culture, which allowed JCSU’s students to receive hands-on experience in museum studies. This issue also talks about the library’s partnership with UNC Greensboro to provide internships for UNCG Library Science ACE Scholars. The library also echoes the President’s vision that JCSU should enjoy “strong community relations.” Since 2008, the library has offered several outreach programs. This year the library launched the Alumni Book Fair, a partnership with the Alumni Affairs office, to showcase graduates who have authored books. We also sponsored the Golden Legacies Oral History Project, which recorded the campus experiences of alumni and tells the stories of their love for JCSU. The library partnered with the Lyceum committee to exhibit and discuss Malcolm X’s visit to JCSU in 1963, with personal testimonials from JCSU alumni Dr. Franklin D. Colclough and Dr. Richard F. Dozier. In 2010, the library also completed its information literacy buddy mentorship program, which provided support to 25 representatives from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to improve or develop their information literacy programs. As you can see, the James B. Duke Memorial Library has an active role in supporting the overall vision of the University. The library has dedicated staff members who are talented and ready to serve, and we understand the need for Johnson C. Smith University to transform. Trans-formation is good for the future leaders of the world, and they are the men and women whom we are pledging to educate. In honor of change, the library has launched Urban Outlook: The James B. Duke Memorial Library Magazine, which will be full of stories that highlight the library’s transformation. The library welcomes the opportunity to be a part of Johnson C. Smith Univer-sity’s journey in becoming Charlotte’s Premier Independent Urban University.

To The Future,Monika Rhue, MLISDirector of Library [email protected]

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By Monika R. Rhue

ILLI BuddyMentorship Program

The James B. Duke Memorial Library is using the valuable experience it has gained in the Information Literacy field to train other librarians at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. In 2008, Johnson C. Smith Uni-versity was awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to host a Post

Information Literacy Leader-ship Institute (Post ILLI) and to establish the Information Literacy Buddy Mentorship Program (IL Buddy). On October 10-12, 2008, JCSU hosted the Post ILLI confer-ence. The Institute was open to 46 HBCU librarians who attended the previous Information Literacy Leader-ship Institute sessions hosted at JCSU on November 4-9, 2007 and February 10-15,

2008, and twenty-seven HBCU librar-ians attended the Post ILLI. After the Post ILLI,

Library Partnerships

Top: Information Literacy Leadership Institute 2007-2008 participants.

Above: Information Literacy Leadership Institute ILLI Training Session, Library Room 213.

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Information Literacy Buddy Surveys taken in 2010.

participants then became eligible for the IL Buddy Mentorship program that ran from 2009-2010. This project was mentored by skilled information literacy librarians who served as “buddies” to fellow HBCU institu-tions to provide additional support in helping them improve or develop their information literacy programs. The IL Buddy team consultants were Corrine Bishop, Andrea Hylton, Beth Martin, Terrence Mech, and Monika Rhue. In addition to having their information literacy proposals reviewed before the Institute, attendees received one-on-one time with the consultants to answer further questions. The Post ILLI assisted partici-pants in the revision of their information literacy mission statements, evaluating technology needs to implement on-line IL tools, and reviewing elements to craft a strong IL proposal based on Association of College and Research Libraries standards. Assistance was also provided in developing assessment questions and tools, as well as stan-dardized templates and rubrics for their new information literacy programs. The results indicated that the IL Buddy Mentorship Program was successful. Forty-six percent of the participants completed their information literacy proposal. All the participants agreed that the assessment tools were very helpful towards implementation of their program. The James B. Duke Memorial Library was proud to be a trendsetter for other HBCU’s in developing and implementing a strong information literacy program, and was honored to host these sessions and to guide other institutions to this model. To learn more about JCSU’s IL Buddy Mentorship program, please visit the website at http://library.jcsu.edu/ILBuddy.

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Library Partnerships

The James B. Duke Memorial Library recently partnered with the newly renovated Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts and Culture to introduce JCSU students to the museum stud-ies profession. The library helped support the Gantt Center Capac-ity Building Organization Enhancement initiative by recruiting two JCSU students for internships at the center. The first two students to participate in the program were Carlette Reid and Michael Webb. Both students received hands-on training in recording pieces of art, researching artists and their artwork, docent training, and installa-tion and de-installation of exhibits. This partnership was funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the project is in its second year of recruitment. The second phase of the project will involve helping the Center add to its online collections by digitizing the museum’s Hewitt Collection as well as work-ing with other artifacts related to African American culture.

By Monika R. Rhue

THE HARVEY B. GANTT CENTER FORAFRICAN ARTS AND CULTURE INTERNSHIP

Right: The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts and Culture.

Below: Michael WebbAbove: Carlette Reid

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In August 2009, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) awarded academic scholarships to fourteen students from culturally diverse back-grounds through the Academic and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) Scholars Program. Funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the ACE Schol-ars Program is a collaborative effort between UNCG and nine other North Carolina universities to increase the number of culturally diverse librarians working in academic libraries. The ACE Schol-arship provides students with tuition, fees, and a stipend, as well as internship and mentoring opportunities while they complete a two-year Masters of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) degree program. Johnson C. Smith University’s Duke Memorial Library is one of the ten participating libraries in the diver-sity initiative. During 2010, two ACE Scholars, Deborah Kallina and Damion Miller, chose to do an internship at the JCSU Library. The ACE Scholars worked with JCSU librarians, gain-ing valuable experience in all areas of librarianship, including information lit-eracy, collection development, digitiza-tion, archives, cataloging, and reference. The second cohort of ACE Scholars will begin their two-year MLIS program this fall, and we look forward to having more ACE students intern with us again. Contact Dr. Sha Li Zhang at [email protected] for more information about the ACE Scholars program.

A.C.E ScholarsBy Deborah Kallina

Damion Miller and Deborah Kallina

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Malcolm X ExhibitBy Brandon Lunsford

On October 5, 2010, over 100 JCSU students and alumni came to the auditorium at Biddle Hall where Malcolm X spoke 47 years ago to hear the eyewitness accounts of two JCSU alumni who heard the original speech in 1963. As the kickoff for the Malcolm X exhibit that was hosted in the James B. Duke Memorial Library featuring articles and car-toons from the Charlotte Observer and Charlotte News about Malcolm’s visit to the city, the library hosted a panel discussion about Malcolm’s visit to JCSU. Smith alums Dr. Robert Dozier and Reverend Franklin Colclough shared their reminiscences of Malcolm’s 1963 speech, and writer/activist Makheru Bradley spoke about his place in the civil rights move-ment of the 1960’s. Not many of the JCSU family even realize Malcolm appeared here, but on January 30, 1963, the controversial leader of the Black Muslim movement and Nation of Islam activist spoke to a full house in the Biddle Auditorium. Malcolm X’s visit to JCSU was a powerful, and until now largely unknown, part of the history of the school and for the relevance of JCSU to the Civil Rights movement. Many white Americans, and some African Americans, were alarmed by Malcolm X and the things he said, and often dismissed the Nation of Islam as a “Muslim cult.” From his adoption of the Nation of Islam in 1952 until he left the organization in 1964, Malcolm X taught that

black people were the original people of the world, and that white people were a race of devils. He and the Nation of Islam were often described as hatemongers, black segregationists, vio-lence-seekers, and a threat to improved race relations. Civil rights

Left: Rev. CocloughPatrons enjoy-ing refreshments in the Inja Hong Gallery of the James B. Duke Memo-rial Library where exhibit was hosted

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Above: Charlotte Observer cartoon from February 1, 1963

black people to his cause, and his trip in January 1963 to JCSU and the Hi-Fi Country Club was one of those many trips. Many students were lucky enough to hear Dr. Dozier and Rev. Colclough give a rare and inspiring first hand analysis of what it felt like to hear Malcolm X speak at JCSU, and it was even more impressive to have them share these memories in the space where he actually spoke those words almost half a century ago. Please come to the Inez Moore Parker Archives at the James B. Duke Memorial Library to learn more about these historic events!

Above: Charlotte Post editorial from February 1, 1963.

organizations denounced Malcolm X and the Nation as irresponsible extremists whose views were not representative of African Americans. JCSU’s president in 1963, Dr. Rufus Perry, was one of many locally prominent black leaders to sign a statement denouncing Malcolm’s visit to his school. While the civil rights movement fought against racial segregation, Malcolm X advocated the complete separation of African Americans from white people, and he also rejected the civil rights movement's strategy of nonviolence and instead advocated that black people use any necessary means of self-defense to protect themselves. He often travelled around the country trying to recruit young

Featured Exhibit

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Golden Legacies: JCSU Oral HistoryBy Ruth Faye Richards During Homecoming weekend on October 23, 2010, the Inez Moore Parker Archives partnered with MLIS students from UNC-Greensboro’s Library Science program and students from Professor Jonathan Hutchins’ Introduction to Public History class to interview JCSU alumni about their memories of Smith. Alumni were interviewed in short sessions that asked them two basic questions.: First, “What moment or event from your time at JCSU is memorable to you?” and secondly, “What was the social life like at JCSU?” The alumni had a variety of fascinating memories of their time at Smith. Dorethea Wade (class of 1983) was a part of the university choir and later applied what she learned from music in her life as a business teacher. Verta Looper (class of 1970) remembered Smith being a supportive environment. Gladys Robinson (class of 1971) talked about sorority life and how the JCSU family taught her the importance of knowing who you are as a person. The project continued past that Saturday in October as Professor Hutchins’ Public History class worked on transcribing many of the interviews. Thus far, the interviews and the experience of meeting the alumni leave one with a true sense that when you come to JCSU, you’re a part of the Smith family for life. As we continue to transcribe and edit these interviews, we look forward to uncovering more stories of how JCSU has positively impacted lives. If any alumni are willing to come to the Archives to be interviewed about their time at Smith, please help us add to our growing oral history collection!

Yearbook Digitization By Michelle Orr

In the summer of 2010, the James B. Duke Memorial library partnered with the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center to digitize our archived collection of yearbooks. The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center housed at the Wilson Special Collection Library at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and is supported by the State Library of North Carolina with funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The Yearbook Digitization Project has been their first state wide endeavor and includes Appalachian State University, Elon University, and Meredith College to name a few. The Inez Moore Parker Archives procured a special team to transfer 61 issues of the Bull to the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center in July of 2010. There they were digitized in full color using a high-speed "Scribe" book scanner developed by the Open Content Alliance and then made available online through the Internet Archive. The entire imaging and uploading processes only took the Center approximately two and a half weeks to finish. The yearbooks, ranging from 1929 to 2007, are now available at http://digialnc.org/insti-tutions/johnson-c-smith-univerity. The James B. Duke Memorial Library was so pleased with the effortless service of the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center that we partnered with them one more time in order for them to host 102 digitized archival images from the Inez Moore Parker Archives. These images range from campus buildings, past presi-dents, homecoming ceremonies, and other images that depict the rich history of Johnson C. Smith University.

Library Projects

Left to right: Deborah Kallina, Michael Webb, and April Everett assisted with interviews for the Oral History Project.

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During Homecoming 2010, the James B. Duke Memorial Library and the Office of Alumni Affairs hosted the 2nd Annual Alumni Book Fair. Our goal was to offer JCSU graduates the opportunity to share their publications with the JCSU family and to strengthen their bond with the University. The authors had the opportunity to discuss, advertise and sell their books. The following authors participated to help make this event a huge success:

Alumni Book FairBy Geneen Clinkscales

Right: Stanley Frazier, class of 1975, “Maroons”

Left: Toye L. Fennell Jenkins, class of 1989, “On the Bed and Off the Bed” and “The Way God Made Me”

Left: Edward C. Lee, class of 1993, “Husbands, Wives, God”

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Library Testimonials“The library is open to everyone! In addition to the library’s primary student clientele, I am appreciative of JCSU which welcomes and encourages the use of its library services and facilities by members of the community and visitors. In general, it goes a long way to meet the college’s educational commitment to the community and to support the educational mission of JCSU. With what I see of its resources…thousands of books & magazines, art collection, a comprehensive periodical collection with access to journals in electronic and paper format, this is a great place to begin your research project. As a frequent patron, I am so thankful for the librarian and the research information desk assistance and their know-how to help me find easy answers while visiting the library.”

James PeakeHealth & Lifestyle Coach

“Over the past four year, the James B. Duke Memorial Library has provided me with essential tools and resources that have enabled me to achieve academic excellence. Whether I need additional study materials to ace my next test or to improve the quality of research for my senior paper, the library has always catered to my every need. Perhaps one of the most beneficial services offered- and my personal favorite-is the positive study environment offered by group and individual study rooms. Without a doubt, utilizing the library has definitely helped me matriculate to the self-suffi-cient young lady I am today.”

Santtuccee BellWork Study Student

“As an instructor for descriptive and inferential statistics, I was in need of a SMART classroom where both students and myself could interactively work with SPSS. The James B. Duke Library and JCSU IT staff worked promptly, professionally, courteously, and in collaboration and unity, to set such this infrastructure up in the multimedia teaching classroom of the James B. Duke Library. Everyone, from Brenda Almeyda at the James B. Duke Library to Darius Griffin of JCSU IT, has been tremendously helpful throughout the process. We now use the multimedia teaching classroom at the James B. Duke Library on a scheduled basis as students work with SPSS to complete analysis of their survey results.” Wayne WilliamsSocial Sciences Faculty

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“I worked in the Inez Moore Parker Archives and Research Center from mid-July to mid-December, and really appreciated the opportunity to learn while helping Brandon Lunsford file a backlog of documents and photographs. My activities included adding boxes of documents to several university archives collections, including the Public Relations, Office of the President - Dr. Dorothy Cowser Yancy, and Irwin Belk Stadium Complex collections, as well as updating the Archives Finding Aid accordingly. I surveyed the contents of several of the Peeler Photography tubs, and was especially pleased to arrange two collections, the REACH 2010 collection, and the Church History of Pilgrim Congregational Church of Pomona Park, Florida, and write the Finding Aids for both. In addition to my work in the physical archives, I was able to help Michelle Orr with Digital Smith by scanning photographs, saving them as .tiff and .jpeg files, and applying metadata

in preparation for uploading to the online Photograph collection. My time at Smith was also greatly enriched by all of the welcoming and generous people I met at the library and on campus.”

Ellen Show Volunteer Worker

“The JILL classes have been instrumental in the Senior Investigative Paper process for science majors. Through interactive workshops, our students learned best practices for searching the scientific databases, evaluating web-sites, and citing sources.”

Alexa C. RosypalAssistant Professor of Biology

“I usually teach at least one Learning Across the Curriculum Course per year, and I schedule bibliographic instruction so that the students can learn the difference between peer-reviewed, professional, and popular sources. Learning Across the Curriculum requires that students develop various skill sets, and the bibliographic instruction is a great resource to help the students develop Goal I – Critical Thinking, Skill 2 Identifying sources and determining their reliability as well as develop Goal II – Critical Thinking, Analytical, Skill 4 Understand, analyze, and evaluate a variety of texts.”

Nicola BivensSocial Sciences Faculty

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Library Resources

The James B. Duke Memorial Library prides itself on having exactly what our users need for their research. If patrons are looking for scholarly journal articles, they can browse our extensive collection of online databases. The library has over 60 databases including NC LIVE, JSTOR, ERIC, LEXIS NEXIS, and EBSCO HOST, which cover a wide range of disciplines. If our users want to spice up their research with primary resources, they are one click away with Digital Smith, a digital collection of materials from the Inez Moore Parker Archives that features photographs, original letters, yearbooks, early school newspapers, and other historical items detailing the legacy of Johnson C. Smith University. Our users can also utilize the Information Commons, which features ten individual computer stations and three group stations all loaded with software applications and equipment to create, design, and produce unique and creative multimedia presentations. Patrons can now also access library resources by using their mobile phone. Whether you have a iPhone, Blackberry or a DROID, the library’s resources are just one touch away. For more details about library resource like our research guides, citation guides, e-reserves, and new books and media, check out the library website at http://library.jcsu.edu.

By Monika R. Rhue

I am very excited about my job and fortunate to have the support from my co-workers and our Director in allowing me to participate in the 2010 HBCU Library Alliance/ASERL Exchange Program. “The ASERL Exchange Program provides a

unique opportunity for HBCU librarians and ASERL librarians to gain insight into the

“workings of their respective libraries and to work together to achieve the desired Exchange project outcome.” I had the pleasure of working with Carson Holloway, Reference/Instruction Librarian and Coordinator of Social Science Subject at Duke University. I am working to integrate these learned concepts and ideas into my position.

ASERL Exchange Program

By Marcella McGowan

Professional Activities & Announcements

From left to right: Maud Mundava, Morgan Montgomery, Marcella McGowan, Netta S Cox, Jacqueline Keleher

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Scrapbook

These are some pictures found in the Inez Moore Parker Archives. You can find these pictures, and many more through our Digital Smith* link at http://library.jcsu.edu/digitalsmith.html

Photograph of students studying inside the Carnegie Library

Photograph of exterior of Carnegie Library, back is labeled “Carnegie Library"with a Kodatone stamp dated 1938

Photograph of JCSU Library staff members sitting together in the library. Top of photo is labeled "1972 Library Staff". Caption beneath photo reads "L-R: Mrs. Desai, Mrs. Mary C. Flowe, Mrs. Mattie Grigsby, Mrs. Margie Lewis, Ernest L. James, Miss Belinda Wang, Miss Emma Bell, Mrs. Barbara Gibbs, Mrs Mildred Sanders"

*Access to the digital materials from the Inez Moore Parker Archives has been created for educational, research and personal use as described by the Fair Use Doctrine in the U.S. Copyright law. To secure permission for any other uses, please contact the Digitization Librarian.

Dr. Rufus Patterson Perry looking at the mural of JCSU history in the James B. Duke Memorial Library.

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Barbara Allen Administrative [email protected]

Brenda AlmeydaInformation Literacy and Reference [email protected]

Barbara [email protected]

Geneen ClinkscalesEducational Technology [email protected]

Wilson GoodsonCirculation and Media Support [email protected]

Andrea Hylton Systems [email protected]

Meet the Staff

Ruth Faye RichardsDigitization Assistant [email protected]

Michelle OrrCollection Development and Digitization [email protected]

Marcella McGowan Serials and Electronic Resources Librarian [email protected] 704-378-1115

Rosalind Moore Public Services Coordinator [email protected] 704 371-6745

Gloria Russell Acquisitions Assistant [email protected]

Barbara MalloyEvening Library [email protected]

Brandon LunsfordArchival Services Librarian and Interlibrary [email protected]

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Editor- in- ChiefEditorEditorLayout & DesignCover ArtContributors

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Deborah Kallina, Marcella McGowan, Michelle Orr, Ruth Faye Richards

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