IN THIS ISSUE * Memorial Gift in Honor of Dr. Bryan Deever * Celebrating GALILEO's Fifth Anniversary * Author Randall Floyd to Speak, Sign Books at Friends of Library Dinner * New Era in Photocopying at the Library * Interlibrary Loan Offers New Service to Faculty * GALILEO's New Look * Library to Install New Online System * Library Receives NEH Preservation Grant * Clermont Lee Gift to Special Collections on Elliotia racemosa * Library Assignment Review Service is Offered * Libraries Prepare for the 21st Century * Harper Photos from Presley Gift on National Wildlife Federation Website * Some Resources of Interest to Faculty * Continuous Book Sale * Current Awareness Service for Faculty Is a Hit * Building Update: Computer Tables, Carpet, Lighting

The Library has received a generous gift of books from the Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Research, in honor of the late Dr. Bryan Deever. In making the gift, the Department stated:

"Dr. Bryan Deever was a faculty member in the Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Research at Georgia Southern University from September, 1989 till his tragic death on April 12, 2000. Bryan received his Ph.D. in Curriculum Studies / Social Foundations of Education from Miami University (Ohio) in 1989 and joined the Georgia Southern University faculty the same year. Bryan was an outstanding teacher, scholar, and leader both within the College of Education and throughout the University environment. One of Dr. Deever's most lasting contributions to Georgia Southern University was the creation of the Doctoral program in Curriculum Studies. Dr. Deever was a scholar who was highly respected by his students. Students often spoke of his availability and the care and concern he showed to them. Many considered him to be a friend as well as a mentor. The books included in the Bryan Deever Memorial collection were selected and given by the department with these students in mind. The collection will be vitally important for many students as they progress through their doctoral programs. We are thankful to Bryan for all of his contributions and will remember him with joy."

In February of 1995 the Georgia General Assembly and Governor Zell Miller approved legislation for Georgia Library Learning Online, nicknamed GALILEO. The original initiative involved the sharing of web-based access to bibliographic databases among the 34 institutions of the University System of Georgia. Since then GALILEO has expanded to include all public educational entities, public libraries, and private colleges and universities. September 21, 2000 is the fifth anniversary of GALILEO's unveiling for public use, and in the last legislative session a resolution proclaiming GALILEO Day was passed.

Help celebrate GALILEO Day by visiting Henderson Library on September 21 and learning more about GALILEO and Henderson Library services. A GALILEO birthday cake and other refreshments will be available, and the winner of a contest to answer questions using GALILEO will be awarded a beautiful thermometer designed by the astronomer Galileo (1564-1642).

Augusta author E. Randall Floyd will be the featured speaker at a dinner at the Statesboro Inn sponsored by the Friends of the Zach S. Henderson Library on Thursday, September 21. This event will be the culmination of GALILEO Day activities (see previous story) and will include a presentation and book-signing by Mr. Floyd.

Mr. Floyd's twelfth book, being released in the spring of 2001, is High Moon on the Marsh, based on a true story about an enterprising young slave who goes off to war with his master, a Confederate captain from Retreat Plantation on St. Simons Island. Previous works include the historical novel Deep in the Heart, also set during the Civil War and based on the unsent letters from soldier Wiley Nessmith to his wife, which are now stored in Henderson Library's Special Collections. The author also writes a syndicated column that is carried in 45 newspapers including The Statesboro Herald. E. Randall Floyd is a native of Baxley, Georgia who taught journalism at Georgia Southern University and history at Augusta State University before becoming a full-time writer.

Mr. Floyd's talk will focus on the Civil War and his two novels set in that era. He will describe his research for High Moon on the Marsh, and contrast the book with his bestselling Deep in the Heart, as they tell the story of the war from two completely separate angles-Deep in the Heart from the common foot soldier's point of view, and High Moon on the Marsh told from the planter aristocrat's experience.

The buffet dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. and feature roast beef au jus and roast turkey breast. Tickets for the dinner are $20 a person and include preferred seating for Mr. Floyd's presentation. Those who wish to hear Mr. Floyd's presentation, purchase books and attend the book-signing without having dinner are welcome at no charge and should arrive at 7:15 p.m. Tickets may be purchased through September 15 by calling the Library Administration Office, 681-5115, or by stopping at the Statesboro Mall's Community Booth on Friday, September 8 between noon and 4 p.m.

The Henderson Library will be partnering with Auxiliary Services to provide eight new digital photocopiers on September 1. As part of this partnership, patrons will be able to use Eagle Express cards to make copies. The cost of a copy will be 10 cents. At the same time, the Henderson Library will stop charging for copies made from microfilm and microfiche. Auxiliary Services will transfer the copy value from the old cards to the new cards, so patrons who currently have a Henderson Library copy card will not lose the money they have on it. Units of the University which have a departmental card will be provided with an Eagle Express card. Any value they currently have on their old cards will be transferred to the new card. The Library will have an Eagle Express dispenser in the lobby area on the second floor, so users of the Library will be able to buy cards or put value on the cards any time the Library is open. Besides photocopying, the Eagle Express card can be used at any of the campus restaurants, many vending machines, all campus retail outlets, the Print Shop, and other places on campus, so it will be a convenience to students to be able to use one card for such a variety of services.

The Interlibrary Loan (ILL) department is now mailing borrowed books and videos directly to Georgia Southern University faculty in their campus offices. This service is only for those items requested from other libraries through the ILL service - not for materials owned by Henderson Library. Any borrowed material deemed "Library Use Only" by the owning library will be kept at the circulation desk for use in Henderson Library. An e-mail notification is sent out daily to those people who have ILL materials waiting for them at the circulation desk. Faculty members who do not want books mailed to them may so indicate on the ILL request form in the address or notes field. Their requested materials will be held at the circulation desk, as is the practice for students and staff.

All students are being encouraged to provide ILL with a campus address for the delivery of their photocopied articles and chapters. This will save money for postage and supplies, and people will get their articles sooner.

A brochure is now available that explains many key points of Henderson Library's Interlibrary Loan Service. You may pick one up in the library, or contact ILL and they will send one to you. The e-mail address is ill@georgiasouthern.edu, phone is 681-5405 and fax is 681-5034.

Over the summer GALILEO's homepage underwent a make over. The new look streamlines the use of GALILEO by giving you direct access to the database. categories along with links to the other resources you are used to getting from the GALILEO homepage. Many of the database search screens are also different. Instead of providing a standardized GALILEO interface, you now have access to the original version of most databases, as provided by the database publisher. This change gives you access to the most up-to-date version of the database and, for those databases that offer full-text/full-image copies of articles, gives you access to the images of the article pages.

The Information Services Department will offer workshops in using the new GALILEO on September 5^th at 9am and September 11^th at 6pm. Please come and get reacquainted with an old friend.

The newest part of the GALILEO service is expected to be introduced in the Henderson Library in January 2001. At that time we plan to change from our existing DRA (Data Research Associates) online catalog to the Voyager system provided by Endeavor, Inc. We are part of the third phase for GIL, the GALILEO Interconnected Libraries. This new system is described as follows in library catalogs throughout the University of Georgia System.

GIL - GALILEO Interconnected Libraries for the University System of Georgia, initially funded by Governor Miller and the General Assembly, with continuing funding from Governor Barnes and the General Assembly for the Citizens of Georgia.

The new catalog will be web-based and look very different from our existing catalog. If you'd like to see what the new catalog will look like, go to http//gil.peachnet.edu/ and click on any institution with a blue star. Those institutions already have the new catalog system.

If you have any questions or you would like further information about this process, please contact Ann Hamilton at 681-5115 or ahamilton@georgiasouthern.edu.

The Zach S. Henderson Library was awarded a $5,000 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities that will serve as the first step toward the development of a comprehensive preservation plan for the Library's collections. The grant's funds will be used to contract with preservation consultant Julie Arnott, who is Manager of Preservation Services at the Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET). Ms. Arnott will assist in the assessment of our current conditions and practices, and will then prepare a long-term preservation plan for the Library.

As the largest information repository and provider in Southeastern Georgia, and as the only library at Georgia Southern University, the Zach S. Henderson Library must ensure that its collections are maintained according to the highest preservation standards. The State of Georgia has made a considerable investment to build Henderson Library resources (the latest valuation of the collection is close to 25 million dollars), and all necessary steps must be taken to protect and preserve the resources for the benefit of current and future generations of students, faculty, and Georgia citizens.

Ms. Arnott brings many years of preservation experience to this project, having served at SOLINET since 1992. Prior to 1992 she was a preservation librarian at the University of Michigan, Yale University, and Washington University in St. Louis. Ms. Arnott earned her Master of Library Science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The project will commence in September and should be completed by December 30, 2000.

Clermont Lee, retired landscape architect of Savannah, has donated her papers on Elliotia racemosa to Special Collections. The Elliotia, named after South Carolina naturalist Stephen Elliot (1771-1830), is a shrub with a spectacular white bloom in summers which grows wild only in south Georgia and is therefore, like wiregrass, a symbol of this region. Accumulated over many years, Ms. Lee's papers consist not only of articles and field notes about the shrub, but also of documentation and letters about the origins of Candler County's Charles C. Harrold Nature Preserve, which contains wild stands of it.

Are you planning to have your classes do a library exercise or use specific library resources during the semester? In this age of rapidly changing database interfaces and subscription cancellations, keeping up with what is current at the library can be challenging. Let the Information Services Department help. We will be glad to review library assignments with you to make sure your instructions are as up-to-date as possible. Contact Laura Davidson (ldavidson@georgiasouthern.edu) or Jocelyn Poole (jpoole@georgiasouthern.edu) by e-mail or phone (871-1315) to make arrangements for a librarian to help you with the assignment.

"In September 1999, 80 academic library leaders came together to engage in a series of discussions and working sessions at the ARL/OCLC Strategic Issues Forum for Academic Library Directors in Keystone, Colorado. These discussions created The Keystone Principles, a set of principles and action items to guide academic libraries' efforts and establish a foundation for joint future-oriented action based on traditional academic library values. (Preamble, The Keystone Principles.)

Several photographs from those taken of the flora, fauna, and people of the Okefenokee Swamp during the early years of the twentieth century by Dr. Francis Harper (1886-1972) have been put on the Okefenokee section of the National Wildlife Federation's website. These photographs are a small sample of hundreds taken by Dr. Harper which are now part of the Delma Eugene Presley Collection of South Georgia History and Culture, donated to the Library's Special Collections last year. They can be accessed at the NWF's website under the titles "Why care?" and "Learn more." A larger sample remains accessible on the Special Collections website. We can expect that further interest will be shown in this irreplaceable historical treasure.

The announcement of Dr. Presley's gift is reprinted below from Current Issues Only #91:

The Library maintains a link on its homepage that alerts and updates busy faculty about important information. Find about great new and established resources at this one-stop site. It will save you time and energy. A contact list of librarians shows the liaisons for each college and how to reach them for one-on-one consultations or other questions and concerns. The Faculty Research section offers two excellent web sites for information on obtaining funding for research through Georgia Southern as well as federal government and foundation funding links. The Library keeps binders of GSU "Proposals Funded" for faculty to peruse at the A/V Reserve desk. A line-up of sources under Conferences and Proceedings with databases like Current Contents appear in GALILEO.

Two new special services are now offered at Zach Henderson Library: 1) The Library maintains a site license for UnCover Reveal which is an automated current awareness service that will e-mail the table of contents of selected issues directly to faculty members. For more information, see story below. 2) A modest Dialog Account for searching in databases not included in the regular menu is available to faculty on an appointment basis with a reference librarian. New announcements about full-text journals now available from JSTOR and others are worth checking. An informative FAQ section, an explanation of Interlibrary Loan Services plus other helpful links are included.

From time to time Henderson Library receives gifts of books which are not needed in our collection, either because we already own a sufficient number of copies of the titles or the books are outside the scope of our collection development goals. The Friends of the Henderson Library organization is now sponsoring a "continuous sale" of the books which we are not adding to the Library collection. Additional books are put out almost every week on the sale shelves in the lobby near the circulation desk. Come by and browse for hardcover titles priced at fifty cents each and paperbacks at twenty-five cents apiece. The monies go into the Friends of the Library account for use in purchasing books for the Library's permanent collection.

The Library has received many enthusiastic responses to UnCover Reveal, a current awareness service that e-mails directly to faculty members the tables of contents of the latest issues of up to 50 scholarly periodicals. In addition, as many as 25 keyword searches may be specified and run automatically against the UnCover database on a weekly basis, with the results also e-mailed to the faculty member. UnCover's database includes more than 18,000 periodical titles from which to choose. There is no cost to faculty members for this service. Articles which are identified as desirable through this service may be ordered for fax delivery at the faculty member's expense, or Henderson Library will assist in determining which of several free access avenues could be followed: the article may be available in a traditional printed periodical to which the Library subscribes, it may be available for downloading from GALILEO, or it may be obtainable quickly through interlibrary loan.

Instructions for registering for UnCover Reveal: Point your web browser to the UnCover Reveal URL http://uncweb.carl.org:80/reveal/. Click on the option for new Reveal users and follow the registration instructions. The minimum information you must complete is name, e-mail address, and a password of your choice. Other information is only necessary if you choose to order and pay for articles to be faxed to you. Be sure to note the Profile Number assigned to you.

Once you complete registering, you will need to wait at least 24 hours while UnCover validates your Profile. After you have waited 24 hours, return to Reveal's website and follow the instructions above except when you get to the screen that offers you a chance to create a new profile, click on the "I Have a Profile" graphic. At the next screen, log in with your Profile Number and Password. Click on the "Enter" box. You will be sent to the Main Reveal Screen. UnCover will begin running your keyword searches by at least the week following your registration. You may not received any table of contents results for up to a month after registering, especially if all your periodical selections are published monthly or quarterly.

If you have any questions, please contact the Library's Information Services desk, 681-5645.

Two major building projects have reached completion as of Fall semester: the Library's roof was replaced and the building's exterior was cleaned. In addition, there are several upcoming improvements to the facility as we near the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Zach S. Henderson Library building in 2001: ahamilton@georgiasouthern.edu

1. New Computer Tables - Thanks to the Student Technology Fee, the Library has been able to purchase new computer tables for the more than 300 computers available to the public. The new tables have wire management capacity that will make the computer areas much more efficient and attractive than in the past. They also have matching finishes which blend with other newer furnishings like the Sauder chairs on first and second floor. We hope you will come by to see our newest additions.

2. New Lighting - In order to provide more adequate lighting for studying, the University will be replacing all of the Library's light fixtures over a period of three to four years. Funding is being provided to install new lights on the third floor during the coming academic year. This will lead to some minor service disruption, which we will make every effort to minimize. To see how much brighter the newer lights will be, you may see some sample lights that have been installed in the ceiling just outside Special Collections on fourth floor.

3. New Carpet - The first phase of a project to provide new carpet for the Library will begin this year with the third floor. The plan is to install a different color of carpeting on each floor to assist with providing directions for customers. The carpet project will be phased in over several years because providing new carpet for the entire Library will cost over half a million dollars. The primary color in the third floor carpet will be maroon in a shade very close to that of the Sauder chairs on first and second floor. The dates for the carpet installation have not been set, but the project will probably begin after the new lights are in place. As part of the carpet installation project we stipulated that the shelving be moved without having to remove the books. This is accomplished by specially designed equipment, thus minimizing disruption to library use.