| Zach S. Henderson Library |  |
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Georgia Southern University |
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Henderson Library in National Survey of Library Service Quality Henderson Library is one of more than 300 university libraries participating in a national electronic survey being conducted by Texas A & M University and the Association of Research Libraries. In addition to offering participating libraries an opportunity to obtain valuable feedback on their performance, the researchers are attempting to identify academic library service norms and best practices by pooling the data. The survey will be an important part of Henderson Library's strategic planning, because it will: * help us better understand how the Georgia Southern University community rates library services; * allow us to benchmark Georgia Southern against the other participating university libraries; * help us identify where to focus on service improvements for Georgia Southern users. A random sample of all Georgia Southern students and faculty has been selected. Those in the sample will be invited to complete the web-based questionnaire, with complete assurance that their responses will be confidential. In fact, no identifying links between responses and respondents are retained after the results are aggregated and analyzed. Only combined data are reported, and we will share those results with the Georgia Southern community. Survey respondents will be given the opportunity to be included in a drawing for a Palm Pilot or other prizes, without sacrificing the confidentiality of their responses.New Databases Added To GALILEO Two databases have been added to GALILEO's Digital Library of Georgia: Georgia Historic Books and Historic Architecture and Landscapes of Georgia: The Hubert Bond Owens and John Linley Image Collections at the Owens Library. Georgia Historic Books database contains full-text, fully searchable books related to Georgia's history and culture. Most titles
were written from the 19th to early 20th century and focus on Georgia history, biography, and literature. This database will
ultimately contain about 300 titles. Currently, 76 titles have been entered. Selected titles include A history of Tybee Island,
Ga.: and a sketch of the Savannah & Tybee Railroad by Beale H. Richardson, Echoes from the battlefield: or, Southern life
during the war by Noble C. Williams, and The making of a statesman and other stories by Joel Chandler Harris. Books in this
collection have been selected from bibliographies on Georgia history and also on the advice of historians, librarians, and other
experts on the literature and history of Georgia. Historic Architecture and Landscapes of Georgia: The Hubert Bond Owens
and John Linley Image Collections at the Owens Library contains images of important and representative architectural sites
and landscapes in the state, with an emphasis on Athens and Middle Georgia. Included are images of color slides and black
and white photographs taken from the 1940s through the 1980s. Images in this collection are drawn from collections held at
the Owens Library in the College of Environment and Design at the University of Georgia.
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Civil War Letters in Special Collections Tell Tragic Story Special Collections has received a group of six original letters written by Confederate soldier Asbury Wesley Hodges (1829-1864) of west Bulloch County to his wife Rutha and their four children, as well as one letter from her to him. The laminated letters were donated by Mr. William H. Moore, a descendant of Rutha, who married Hardy Moore following her husband's death. Photocopies and typescripts of twenty letters of the correspondence are at the State Archives, all of which were printed in the Bulloch County Historical Society's 1987 A Bulloch Tapestry. Hodges enlisted in 1862 despite poor health that meant spending much of the war in hospitals. Although he had spent some time in Virginia, he was killed fighting Sherman's advance into Georgia, either at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain or Peachtree Creek; both the details of Hodges' death and his burial place are unknown. |
