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Georgia Southern Professor
Makes $11,000 Donation
 Dr.
Sandra Peacock, Chair and Associate Professor of the History
Department, has a reference set of books valued at $11,000 to
the University Foundation for use by the Zach Henderson Library.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, a 61-volume
set described by the London Times as the "the
publishing event of 2004," has 60,000 pages containing
50,000 biographies of notable figures in British history, and
60 million words.
"I first used the DNB when I was a graduate student starting
to work on my doctoral dissertation," said Peacock. Her
advisor had suggested she consider writing a biography of a
19th century woman scholar named Jane Ellen Harrison. "The
DNB was the first place I looked for information." Henderson
Library Dean Bede Mitchell thanked Peacock for her generosity.
"This is a remarkably valuable resource for anyone interested
in British history."
The DNB is shelved in the reference section and is available
for consultation by Georgia Southern students, faculty or other
Henderson Library patrons.
Branan Foundation Gives to Patrons With
Disabilities Study Room
 The
Mary Allen Lindsey Branan Foundation has given $15,000 to the
Georgia Southern University Foundation to benefit a study room
in the renovated Henderson Library for patrons with disabilities.
The gift will enable us to offer sophisticated learning-assistance
equipment and furnishings suitable for wheelchair users.
Pictured are Jenny Gentry, Wachovia Bank and GSU class of 1981;
Thomas Coghill, Wachovia Bank; Lydia Whitman, Wachovia Charitable
Services; Bede Mitchell, Dean of Henderson Library; Bill Sutton,
Wachovia Trust; and Ann Hamilton, Associate Dean of Henderson
Library.
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Fund Raising Raffle to Benefit Library
Book Endowment
In order to raise funds for Henderson Library's
book endowment, the Friends of Henderson Library are raffling
a 27-inch flat-screen television. Tickets for the drawing
are $3 or two tickets for $5. The drawing will be held
at 9 a.m. on the last day of National Library Week: Friday,
April 15.
GALILEO Releases User Survey Results
The following announcement comes from Karen Minton, Virtual
Services Librarian, Board of Regents of the University System
of Georgia:
- Each year GALILEO invites users to participate in an online
survey that includes questions about the content and functionality
of the GALILEO site and asks for suggestions for improvement.
The 2004 survey was conducted November 9-15 and was completed
by 623 respondents. The survey report is now available in
the Assessment section of About
GALILEO.
More Like This - New Online Catalog Search
Feature
Henderson Library's Voyager catalog has a new search feature
that will expedite finding related publications. When
viewing the results of a search, note the "More Like This"
tab appearing between the "Brief Display," "Full
Display," and "Technical Display" tabs.
By selecting More Like This you may choose to see records of
other books on the same topic or books by the same author.
Click on graphic for enlarged view of entire
screen.
Updates to ICPSR Web Site
 The
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
has upgraded its web site.
The changes include:
- a radically improved download interface
- tab-based navigation
- an update notification service
- a new versioning system to describe files
- new study-level documentation files
- a revised help system.
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ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social
science data for research and instruction, and offers training
in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use. Henderson
Library manages Georgia Southern University's ICPSR membership.
Bulloch County Material in Special Collections
Most of Henderson's Friends
are residents of Bulloch County and may be interested in accessing
- or contributing to - our holdings in the culture and history
of this county. We do not compete with the Statesboro
Regional Library in local genealogical volumes, but we are
proud of what we do possess. The 10 boxes of the Bulloch
County Historical Society which are deposited here contain documents,
photographs, letterboxes of local businesses, and papers of the
Anderson and Rushing families. It is a varied and extensive
collection reaching back to the Civil War. One small item,
for example, is the loyalty oath signed by Confederate soldier
Jesse Metts in 1865. Documents include letters, shares of
stock, plats, deeds, fi fas, and even long-outdated IOU's.
Other organizations represented among our collections are the
American Legion (for World War I), the Board of Education, the
Community Relations Council (of the Civil Rights Era), the Daughters
of the American Revolution, and the Retired Teachers Association.
Prominent people whose papers reside in Special Collections include
Smith C. Banks, Leodel Coleman (for World War II), Ida Mae and
Bertha Hagin, Shields Kenan, Dr. Kemp Mabry and Commander William
M. Rigdon. Business records include those for the old F.N. Carter
Store in Portal (site of the Turpentine Festival) and the 118
ledgers of the E.A. Smith Grain Company from 1912-1960. We have
the research materials for a sociological study of Statesboro
done by a University of Chicago scholar in 1954, as well as the
only known copy of the local Populist newspaper The Silver Dollar
(1896). In short, Henderson Library has original material which
would be of interest to anyone interested in Bulloch County. Online
access is available at http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/specialcollections/main.html
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