Volume 23, Number 1 -- Spring 2001

School of Library and Information Science to Revamp Banquet The Jefferson Davis Presidential Library Marcia Bates Gives Lazerow Lecture Kim Fender to Receive Award as Outstanding Library and Information Science Graduate Hannelore Rader to Give Banquet Lecture Kitty McClanahan Recognized for 'Legendary Leadership' at UK SLIS The Overfields and UK, a Family Thing Elizabeth Smigielski Goes from NLM to Uof L Kornhauser Health Sciences Library Moral: Be Careful What You Ask for Alumni Activities Among Recent Graduates Contact Information

School of Library and Information Science to Revamp Banquet, Present Outstanding Alumna/us Award at October Reunion Committee of Graduates Works with Director Sineath to Plan Fall Event    FOR SEVERAL YEARS following its inception in 1984, the Outstanding Alumna/us Award was presented at the reception the School held in conjunction with the ALA annual conference. About a decade ago, however, it was decided to present the Outstanding Alumna/us Award at the spring banquet and to ask the recipient of the award to give the Karen Cobb Memorial Lecture. Now, another change is in the works. The Outstanding Alumna/us Award will no longer be presented at the spring banquet. Instead, it will be the centerpiece of a reunion that the School will sponsor each fall. This year, the reunion will be the weekend of October 6-7, and the Outstanding Alumna/us Award will be presented at a banquet on Saturday the 6th.     For help in planning the reunion, Dr Sineath turned to CINDY BROWN ('82), Director, Boone County Public Library, KY; JUDITH GIBBONS ('78), Director, Field Services Division, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives; and JOE MILLER ('92), Coordinator of Computing Services, UK SLIS.     According to Dr Sineath, the weekend of October 6-7 was chosen because the Keeneland fall meet opens that Saturday and because the UK football game that day is away. "From comments we've received," he said, "we know that Keeneland is popular for people visiting Lexington, and the fall meet is especially nice, due to the weather in October."     Those who attend the reunion will be welcomed at a Saturday morning reception in the William T Young Library Gallery. There is no event planned for that afternoon, so that those who wish to go to the races at Keeneland may do so. There will be a banquet Saturday evening, at which the Outstanding Alumna/us Award will be presented. The final planned event of the reunion will be brunch on Sunday at the Tates Creek Branch of Lexington Public Library. Dedication of the branch, LPL's newest facility, is set for early March; it will replace the Lansdowne Branch.L     More information will be provided in a June mailing to graduates, including the name of the hotel holding a block of rooms. In the meantime, questions or comments may be sent to Dr Timothy Sineath (tsineath@pop.uky.edu), Cindy Brown (labrown@bcpl.org), Judith Gibbons (Judith.Gibbons@kdla.net), or Joe Miller (jbmill00@pop.uky.edu). [Return to Table of Contents] The Jefferson Davis Presidential Library by Gwendolyn Green Librarian/Archivist Jefferson Davis Presidential Library at Beauvoir    Editor's note: Ours is a field in which a person can go from the frying pan straight to the fire -- from graduate school directly to a position of considerable responsibility and autonomy, bypassing the years that some people spend climbing the administrative rungs of organizations. It is not unusual, for example, for a graduate to have, as a first professional position, the directorship of a small public library. In such a move, although the organization is small, the problems and issues the new graduate has to contend with are anything but, as the new director discovers very quickly.     We suspect Gwendolyn Green has had some of that experience in her role as Librarian/Archivist at the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library at Beauvoir. Gwendolyn completed the master's program in December 1997 and went directly to Beauvoir and her current position. She graduated from Transylvania University in May 1996 with a major in history and minor in political science, and while a student at "Transy" she worked in the library. While in our program, she worked as assistant to the curator at Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate. In addition, she held a Graduate Assistantship in Special Collections here at UK. In what follows, she writes that because of her experiences and interests, "The position at Beauvoir appeared to be the perfect job for me, but I had major surprises in store for me when I arrived."     Gwendolyn's article about Beauvoir and her experiences there was published in the fall 2000 issue of Mississippi Libraries, and we thank her and editor Ann Branton for permission to print an edited version. Beginnings    The Jefferson Davis Presidential Library celebrated its grand opening May 30, 1998. Located on the grounds of Beauvoir -- the last home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis -- this $4.5 million project was paid for by the taxpayers of Mississippi. It was not the first library at Beauvoir, however. Sarah Dorsey, the third owner of the Beauvoir property, had a personal library, and when Jefferson Davis purchased the home from Mrs. Dorsey in 1879, he moved his own library into Beauvoir House. Beauvoir was the site for the Jefferson Davis Soldiers Home between 1903-1957, and a library was maintained for the "inmates" (Confederate veterans, their wives and widows). A fourth facility, the Jefferson Davis Memorial Library was destroyed by Hurricane Camille, shortly after its dedication in 1969.     Because of the library history associated with Beauvoir and with Davis, many felt the development of a presidential library in honor of Jefferson Davis was appropriate. With support from Governor Kirk Fordice and the Mississippi Division of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans, Beauvoir received $1,500,000 in bond funds in 1993. Additional funding was denied in 1994, and planning had to be put on hold as the casino boom caused construction costs to sky-rocket. The project was resurrected in 1995 when Governor Fordice signed a bill allotting Beauvoir an additional $3,000,000 in state funds for the presidential library project. This was an unusual situation with the state legislature constructing a library for a private institution. Collections and Facilities    The presidential library consists of three major components: museum, theatre, and research library. The museum area and the film presentation in the theatre concentrate on the life of Jefferson Davis. The exhibits highlight his career as West Point graduate, dragoon on the Western frontier, marriage to Sarah Knox Taylor (daughter of Zachary Taylor), plantation owner, marriage to Varina Howell and their family, officer in the Mexican War, U.S. Representative and Senator, Secretary of War under Franklin Pierce, President of the Confederate States of America, his capture and imprisonment after the War Between the States, and his last years at Beauvoir.    The mission of Beauvoir is to educate the world about the life and times of Jefferson Davis and the Confederate soldier; therefore, the research library collection focuses on nineteenth-century Southern history, particularly Jefferson Davis and the War Between the States. There are approximately 6,500 books including works on American history, Southern history, the War Between the States, limited genealogy resources and some fiction. The archival collection includes photographs, letters, manuscripts, envelopes, postcards, newspaper clippings, institutional history as well as minutes books and programs from Confederate heritage organizations. The correspondence is primarily from the Jefferson Davis family. In addition, there are index card records from the Soldiers Home and some supplemental research files.     To date, most of the book collection is cataloged and on the shelf with the exception of those items that need original cataloging. Work has begun on organizing the archival collection. Original documents are being scanned and printed with a volunteer's scanner/printer. These items will be placed in a notebook that will be available to our patrons. This will help reduce wear on the original documents. If the library acquires the necessary equipment, most of the archival material will be scanned and made available on CD-ROM. Trials and Tribulations of a Beauvoir Librarian    Beauvoir has been collecting books, manuscripts, photographs and other materials for many years; but the collection was not cataloged or properly cared for. Addressing these concerns would be a difficult task for any librarian, but especially for one just out of graduate school. I love history, especially the War Between the States; and while I was attending graduate school, I worked as the assistant to the curator at Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate, and as a graduate assistant in Special Collections at the University of Kentucky. The position at Beauvoir appeared to be the perfect job for me, but I had some major surprises in store for me when I arrived.     I began working at Beauvoir in February 1998 just months prior to the grand opening of the presidential library. My first tasks were editing exhibit text, preparing manuscripts for exhibition, and various other odd jobs related to the new museum. As many librarians know, some strange things go into the planning processes for a new facility. I was very surprised to find that the planning committee had no intentions of purchasing a desk for me. (I convinced them otherwise.) At the time of the grand opening, neither the shelving nor the office furniture had arrived.     With all of the attention surrounding the grand opening, it was extremely difficult trying to explain why the research portion of the library was not ready. I had only been on staff for four months and had spent most of my time helping get the museum area of the presidential library ready to open. But visitors had no way of understanding this or the difficulty of providing access to an uncataloged collection.     Another challenge has been the shift from museum only to museum and library. The institution's policies need to be changed and updated. Before the establishment of the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library, the library/archives collection was not a separate entity, and the collection was the responsibility of the curator. It must be decided how to separate the two collections. We are facing questions such as: Is a book that was owned by Jefferson Davis an artifact or a rare book? Is its purpose for exhibition or research? Should we have one all encompassing policy for all Beauvoir collections, or should there be distinct policies one for the library/archives and one for the 3-D artifact collection? This will be an ongoing transition. About the Presidential Library    Beauvoir, The Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library, is a private non-profit organization owned by the Mississippi Division, United Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. Most of our materials are received by donation. The Reading Room has been named in honor of James West Thompson who donated approximately 2,000 books from his personal library.     The research library is open Tuesday-Saturday 9:00-12:00, 1:00-4:00. It is closed every Sunday and Monday, Thanksgiving and Christmas days. No admission is charged for the research library. (Admission is charged for the rest of the property including the museum area of the presidential library.) All research must be conducted on-site; no material circulates. Researchers are responsible for all photocopy or photographic reprint costs plus postage. Access may be limited to rare or fragile items. The genealogy resources are very limited, and researchers should not expect to do extensive genealogy research. The research library is located on the second floor of the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library. Research requests are accepted in person, by letter, telephone, fax, or e-mail. [Return to Table of Contents] Marcia Bates Gives Lazerow Lecture     Dr Marcia Bates, Professor of Information Studies at UCLA, delivered the fourth annual Lazerow Lecture at the University of Kentucky on October 13. She spoke on the topic "The Biological and Social Consequences of Information-Seeking." The Lazerow Lecture series is sponsored by ISI in Philadelphia. The University of Kentucky sponsor is the School of Library and Information Science.     Professor Bates' introduction set the stage for what followed: "We have looked at information seeking in the field of information studies principally from a social science standpoint. Elsewhere in the world of research, however, in the fields of evolutionary psychology, anthropology, and biology, very exciting work is going on that is bringing much greater understanding of human beings as a species that evolved and thrived under certain environmental conditions."     Dr Bates devoted much of her talk to discussing relevant literature from other disciplines. We thought Pamela E Sandstrom's notion, in "Scholars as Subsistence Foragers," to be especially suggestive. According to Professor Bates, "Sandstrom likens information seeking and gathering by researchers to foraging practices of animals, and applies an anthropological theory called Optimal Foraging Theory to information seeking."     Turning to Gregory Bateson, Professor Bates elucidated the difference between "value seeking" and "information seeking," which Bateson contrasted. According to Dr Bates, in value seeking, a person "has an idea in mind and goes out into the world to bring that idea into being." The idea is realized "through actions taken on the world." In information seeking, a person "sets out to create ideas about the world, to learn about the world so that an understanding of part of that world will [be] imprinted in the thought and memories of that person." According to Dr Bates, the two "are qualitatively different…. In one case, one imposes one's will on the world; in the other case, something of the world is imposed upon the person."     Professor Bates asked why information seeking arose. Speculating it might be adaptive behavior, she visited Darwin's principle of natural selection. From there, she turned to the ideas advanced by Steven Stanley in his book Children of the Ice Age, especially about the significance of the ice age to the appearance of hominids. According to Bates, "The key adaptation for hominids … was our large, general-purpose brain." Then, Richard Dawkins made an appearance. It was Dawkins who, in The Extended Phenotype, introduced the term "meme," which he said "'should be regarded as a unit of information residing in a brain,'" which plays a role in culture and knowledge transmission.     According to Dr Bates, some see in meme a "parallel concept" to gene, the former having to do with cultural transmission as the latter does with genetic transmission. The important thing, Dr Bates pointed out, is that "with memes as well as with genes, when circumstances change drastically, it is change or die."     Nearing the end of her talk, Professor Bates asked, "Are there behaviors and capabilities that developed earlier for other purposes and have been turned and applied to information seeking behaviors?" She turned to the work of Barbara Kwasnik, who, in "A Descriptive Study of the Functional Components of Browsing," reported the results of a study of "browsing behavior of people in a farmer's market and in picking out a gift for a friend in a product catalog."     According to Dr Bates, the browsing that Kwasnik observed "is not the systematic scanning often assumed for browsing in the literature. People instead engage in glimpses, looking here, looking there, stopping to look at something, then moving on." She suggested that the behavior observed by Kwasnik "would appear to be very suitable for berrypicking in the wild," and she asked if it isn't also the "kind of behavior that we adapt to browsing recorded information?"     Dr Bates concluded her talk on what she referred to as "the biological stratum of our information seeking behavior" by suggesting "the Information Age did not begin in 1945 or 1960 or 1990, but rather tens of thousands of years ago when early members of the Homo sapiens species followed their curiosity to learn new things, then shared what they learned with others." [Return to Table of Contents] Kim Fender to Receive Award as Outstanding Library and Information Science Graduate    KIM FENDER ('83), Librarian/Director of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, has been chosen to receive the School's Outstanding Alumna/us Award for 2001, which will be presented in October. Kim joined PLCH in 1988 and has been Librarian/Director since January 1, 1999. In 1993 she was assigned to the Deputy Librarian's Office-Main Library Services, and in 1995 was promoted to Assistant to the Director. In 1998 she became Head, Information Systems. Kim has been President of the Cincinnati Chapter of SLA. At this time she is a member of the Ohio Library Council Government Relations Committee and a Board Member of the Greater Cincinnati Library Consortium and the Ohio Public Library Information Network. [Return to Table of Contents] Hannelore Rader to Give Banquet Lecture HANNELORE RADER, University Librarian and Dean at the University of Louisville, will give the 2001 Karen Cobb Memorial Lecture at the School's Alumni and Awards Banquet. The banquet will be Friday April 27 at Spindletop Hall. Hannelore, who has been at UofL since 1997, holds BA (in Russian, Spanish), MLS, and MA (in German literature) degrees from the University of Michigan. She was the Association of College and Research Libraries 1999 Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. [Return to Table of Contents] Kitty McClanahan Recognized for 'Legendary Leadership' at UK SLIS     Current student KITTY MCCLANAHANreceived the SOASIS (Southern Ohio Chapter of ASIST) Student Chapter Member-of-the-Year Award "for her legendary leadership in helping establish the ASIST Student Chapter at the University of Kentucky." According to the notice of the award, Kitty "helped recruit 59 new student members, developed the student chapter technical programs and presented a research paper at the 22nd Communications Research Symposium at the University of Tennessee." (ASIS is now the American Society for Information Science and Technology.) [Return to Table of Contents] The Overfields and UK, A Family Thing     When current student WENDY OVERFIELD applied to the School's master's program, she was living in Iowa, where she was a student at the University of Northern Iowa. She listed her permanent address as Dodgeville, Wisconsin. Wendy wrote, in the statement that is required with the application, that one reason for her interest in UK was family connection: "my grandfather and both of my parents attended Kentucky."     It turns out the family tie with UK is remarkable. Both of Wendy's parents, who met as undergraduates at UK, are students here again. Her mother, Linda, is working on a BS in horticulture, 30 years after completing a BS in human nutrition here. Wendy's father, Dr James Overfield, is working on a second Ph D, in agronomy. He has a BS and Ph D in animal science, from UK and the University of Illinois, respectively.     Wendy's grandfather, Ralph Overfield, got his BS in animal science at UK in the late-1930s. After World War II he was the first Animal Scientist at the Agricultural Experiment Station in Princeton, Kentucky. The Experiment Station is a part of UK.     Wendy's younger sister, Becky, is student teaching in Frankfort. She has yet to attend UK, but she is getting close: She resides in UK housing and dates a UK student. Wendy has a first and a second cousin who attend UK, and both of her maternal uncles attended UK. Surely, the family has earned a tuition discount. [Return to Table of Contents] Elizabeth Smigielski Goes from NLM to UofL Kornhauser Health Sciences Library    We received a nice note from ELIZABETH SMIGIELSKI ('98), which we pass along:     I'm a real person at Kornhauser [Health Sciences Library, University of Louisville]. The gig with NLM became one year at NLM in Bethesda, and then a second year still with NLM but "stationed" at Kornhauser. As a medical library ambassador, if you will. I finished that in August of 2000 and, lo and behold, was hired as Coordinator of Library Marketing at Kornhauser in September 2000. I'm quite happy here. The job is interesting, diverse, creative, and, at times, fun. Morale is quite good here; it's a peaceful place without too many turf wars, at least not ones that I can't avoid stepping in.     I thought about staying at NLM. It is an extraordinary place, full of quirky people (some a bit overeducated) doing nifty work, but DC was really far from home, for me and my husband, and damn if it isn't an expensive and frantic town to live in. Much better to spend a sabbatical-like year there in a dinky apartment where one needn't worry about things like property tax and schools, but instead can live like a tourist. I'm going to send out a note to the SLIS listserv promoting the fellowship, in case anyone is interested.     I have my own office here, full of lamps. I try not to use the fluorescents unless I'm really pinched. People are quite taken with the lamps. Someone else has even gone our way and turned off the fluorescents. When my brother was teaching elementary school art, he installed lamps and turned off the overheads. He noticed a difference in the kids. The fire marshall got on him for the excessive cords and nixed it, though. This poured concrete bunker has bassackward design. The stacks are along the windows and the offices are in the core of the building. We don't even benefit from the obligatory atrium. [Return to Table of Contents] Moral: Be Careful What You Ask for In mid-November we received a report from MARY JO HIGGINS THOMAS ('85), which follows:     The last time I sent anything to the newsletter, I had ventured to Arkansas (Hope, in fact, the home of our soon-to-be ex-President) to create a library at a former vocational-technical school turned community college. Well, after seven years at that position I figured that I had met almost all of the challenges there, and began looking for challenges anew. And boy did I find them.     In July 1999 I moved my family to Jacksonville, IL where I took over as Director at Henry Pfeiffer Library at MacMurray College. Mac is a small, private, liberal arts institution with a small, but growing enrollment. This college has been around since 1846, and began as Illinois Women's College. And, honestly, I could not tell that much had been accomplished in the library since the '50s, when it became coeducational!     I walked into a library that housed three computers (one a 386!), "approximately 140,000" books (no one really knew), a reputation for being unfriendly to students, no policies, dirt-mold-mildew everywhere, and a lack of awareness among even the professional staff that the library world had turned a few times since the '50s! Positives - and there were some - included a new administration for the college, a reasonable budget (once I eliminated duplicated expenditures!), a faculty who really WANT a good library, students who had been BEGGING for change, and a Board of Trustees who are supportive both in word and deed. Of course, the moral here is: be careful what you ask for, for you will surely get it!     At the beginning of my second year here quite a bit of progress has been made in several areas, and I can BEGIN to feel like this is actually a library, and not just a dump for books and grouchy people. I thank my lucky stars constantly for the good start I got at UK (then, the CLIS), and for the faculty and staff there who encouraged risk taking (particularly: Nancy Dare, Mike Harris, & Larry Allen). I figure that, after four to five more years here, I can take on ANY challenge -- maybe even figure out how to measure 'quality of life' gains for library patrons!     What is the rest of the class of '85/'86 doing? There is never much in the newsletter on any of them. [Return to Table of Contents] Alumni Activities GRACE MCGAUGHEY ('47) sent the NEWSLETTER a nice note recently. She was the first librarian at Jesse Clark Middle School here in Lexington. She then moved to Indianapolis where she was a librarian at Short Ridge and North Central High Schools. Then, it was off to Woodbridge, VA, where she was librarian at Elizabeth Vaughan Elementary School. Eventually, she returned to Lexington and was librarian at Russell Cave Elementary School. She retired in 1984 and lives in Lexington, and she assured us she is enjoying retirement. BARBARA HATHAWAY ('75) is librarian at Henderson High School, Westchester, PA. MILTON HATHAWAY ('75) is Director of Libraries and holds the Walter Annenberg Chair, The Episcopal Academy, Merion, PA. MARIAN WINNER ('77) retired June 30, 1999, as Library Director, Northern Kentucky University, and has moved to Charleston, SC. For a number of years Marian taught collection development for us at NKU and in recent years added the academic libraries course. She was a popular member of the School's adjunct faculty, and her course evaluations would have been the envy of many. Without exception, those who were involved in early efforts that led to the Kentucky Virtual Library say that Marian was a leader in developing the KVL. With e-mail, graduates report in who probably wouldn't if they had to use snail-mail; and we suspect we owe, to the convenience of e-mail, a report this fall from RICK BUCHANAN ('80). Rick, who earned a JD at UK, was a reference librarian at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law Library, College of William and Mary. In 1991 Rick went into the private practice of law, in Roanoke, VA, and then took a position as an assistant prosecutor with the Roanoke County Commonwealth's Attorney, where he has been for four years. Rick's wife, PATTY POWELL, who isn't a graduate of this School but whom some readers will remember from her days as a librarian at UK, is the Catalog Librarian at Roanoke College, Salem, VA. Rick and Patty's daughter, Carolyn, is in the sixth grade. DORIS RANEY ('82) has retired from Lexington Public Library. At the time of her retirement she was Manager of the Beaumont Branch. JUDY STEPHENSON ('85) is now a professional fundraiser in Florida engaged in a $7 million campaign for the expansion of the library at Jacksonville University. Judy told us that for fun she works one night a week as the reference librarian at Florida Community College in Jacksonville. Judy said, too, "I had not been to the School's web site in a long time. It is very nice. The information regarding faculty and other students helps one feel connected."     Joe Miller does his customary excellent job maintaining the web site, whose URL is http://www.uky.edu/CommInfoStudies/SLIS/ MARY JO HIGGINS THOMAS ('85) is Director of Henry Pfeiffer Library at MacMurray College., Jacksonville, IL. We goofed! In the fall NEWSLETTER we wrote that ELLEN SCHELLHAUSE ('88) is Regional Information Officer for Health Visions, a for-profit organization. In fact, Health Visions is a not-for-profit organization. On August 1 JILL BUCKLAND ('89) became head of the University of Kentucky Education Library. SUZANNE DURHAM ('89) is Special Collections Librarian, Virginia Union University, Richmond, VA. SUSAN MARTIN ('90) left Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives and is Collection Development Librarian, Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY. "Living in Oregon makes Alaska seem like it's in our backyard," according to STEPHANIE MIDKIFF ('94). "My husband and I took a trip down the Inside passage on the Alaska ferry this summer, stopping and bicycling in Juneau, Sitka (site of the Russian government before Alaska was purchased by the U.S. in 1867), Petersburg, Queen Charlotte Islands (B.C.). Now, we are hosting a Japanese cultural intern in our home." And, Stephanie added: "P.S. I've been very happy with my career change to library science in 1994." On November 1 JO STAGGS-NEAL ('94) accepted the position Serials Acquisitions Librarian and Coordinator of the Storage and Maps Facility with the Science/Engineering Team, University of Kentucky. NATALIE CUMMINS ('95) is Volunteer and Program Coordinator, The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, here in Lexington. STACY VOELLER ('95) is the Electronic Resources Librarian at Minnesota State University, Morehead, from which she graduated. CARRIE HERRMANN ('97) is Access Services Coordinator, Boone County Public Library, which is in Northern Kentucky. REGAN CONE PARKER ('97) is Director of Development for UK's College of Arts and Sciences. KAYE ARNOLD ('98) is Head of Access Services at Morehead State University here in Kentucky. Kaye told us that Access Services encompasses circulation, the 50,000-item Learning Resource Center, all non-print materials (including videos, CD-ROM, CDs, etc.), and the photocopiers. ELIZABETH SMIGIELSKI ('98) has finished her National Library of Medicine Internship and is now Coordinator of Library Marketing, Kornhauser Health Sciences Library, University of Louisville. EDITH CUMMINGS ('99) has been promoted to Assistant Manager of the Young Adults Services Department, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IN. Edith also serves on a YALSA selection committee, "Selected Videos and DVDs for Young Adults." Her term began in October of last year and runs until January 31, 2002. C J HOUTCHENS ('99) is Resource Sharing Librarian, American University Library, Washington, DC. In the position she plans and oversees interlibrary loan and document delivery operations, provides reference service, and teaches in library instruction. NICOLE JUSTICE ('99) is Web Content Editor/ Information Architect at the dot-com firm Intelliseek. JACKIE RADEBAUGH ('99) is in the Network Development MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress [Return to Table of Contents] Among recent graduates: KATRINA BOWLING is a Graduate Teaching Assistant, English Department, University of Cincinnati. JIM BLANTON is on the staff at Chesapeake, VA, Public Library, where he works in reference and is in charge of the local history collection. Jim also does collection development for the local history collection and acts as the liaison to the local history society, which, he told the NEWSLETTER, works hand in hand with the library. MATILDA DAVIS is on the staff at Greenwood-Abbyville Public Library, SC. TERRI FURGASON is Children's Librarian, Daviess County Public Library, Owensboro, KY. BARBARA HOMAN is a Children's Librarian at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. RONALD JONES is Head of Circulation, University of Cincinnati Law Library. SEAN KINDER is Humanities/Social Science Librarian, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green. Sean had an article, "The French Experience with the Internet," published in the fall 2000 issue of Kentucky Libraries. AMY LORSON is an Adult Reference and Information Services Librarian, Louisville Free Public Library. SHARON MCGEE is Education Librarian, Blazer Library, Kentucky State University, Frankfort. MARTIN O'CONNOR is on the staff at the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. MELINDA ROBERTSON is on the staff at Allara Library, Pikeville College, Pikeville, KY. JOHN SCHLIPP is Assistant Professor, Government Documents and Electronic Reference Librarian, Blazer Library, Kentucky State University, Frankfort. [Return to Table of Contents] The NEWSLETTER is published twice-yearly. When submitting material, bear in mind these deadlines: for publication in the fall issue, September 1 and for publication in the spring issue, February 1. Material should be sent to: NEWSLETTER Editor School of Library and Information Science University of Kentucky 502 King Library South Lexington KY 40506-0039 Contributions may be sent by electronic mail to: carrigan@pop.uky.edu and by FAX to: NEWSLETTER Editor (859) 257-4205         © 1998 School of Library and Information Science