IN THIS ISSUE * Henderson Library Adds Shepard's Citations Law Database * Library Hours for Summer 2003 * ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods * C.W.O. Turner's Writings on Effingham County History * Friends of Henderson Library Membership Levels * National Archive Documents Go Online * Henderson Library Recycling Committee

Henderson Library Adds Shepard's Citations Law Database

Zach S. Henderson Library with the support of the Bulloch County Law is pleased to announce access to Shepard's Citations. To use this database you will need to know a publication citation for the case you have selected. This can be easily obtained by using LexisNexis in GALILEO (go to Legal Research|Get a Case); or you can locate cited sources in the Bulloch County Law Collection on the fourth floor. The purpose of Shepard's Citations is to present the treatment and history for the case you have selected, i.e., federal and state court cases citing your case, as well as cross-reference and citations to that case in other citations, legal periodicals, texts and annotations. Users will also be able to print, e-mail or download their result list from the LexisNexis command button. Obtain assistance and information on accessing Shepard's Citations at the library Reference Desk (681-5645).

Library Hours for Summer 2003

Henderson Library will offer a reduced schedule of service hours during summer school, beginning May 11 and running through July 31. The Library will be open Monday through Thursday from 7:30 a.m. until midnight, Friday from 7:30 a.m. until 10 p.m., Saturday from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday from noon until midnight. The Library will return to its Sunday - Friday 24 hour service schedule when Fall Semester 2004 begins. The reduced summer schedule reflects low demand for late hours during the summer, and cuts in the Library's budget due to the state's economic woes.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Summer Program in Quantitative Methods

The Summer Training Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, sponsored by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), will take place June 23-August 15, 2003 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The program serves Consortium member institutions such as Georgia Southern University by offering a comprehensive, integrated program of studies in research design, statistics, data analysis, and social methodology. In general, emphasis is focused on those courses and subjects that are not normally integral parts of the curricula of member institutions, because most colleges and universities find that it is not practical to support the sort of specialized offerings that form the core of the Summer Training Program's curriculum. Methods of quantitative analysis are studied within the broader context of substantive social science research.

The underlying objectives of the ICPSR Summer Training Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research are:

* to offer instruction for the primary development and "upgrading" of quantitative skills by college and university faculty and by nonacademic research scholars,

* to extend the scope and depth of analytic skills for graduate students, college and university faculty, and research scientists from the public sector,

* to furnish training for those individuals who expect to become practicing "social methodologists,"

* to create an environment that facilitates an exchange of ideas related to the development of methodologies on the frontier of social research, and

* to provide opportunities for social scientists to study those methodologies that seem to have special bearing on specific substantive issues.

For further information, see http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/training/summer/ or contact Bede Mitchell, Dean and University Librarian, at wbmitch@georgiasouthern.edu or 681-5115.

C.W.O. Turner's Writings on Effingham County History

Since the 1970's, and increasingly in recent years, Chief Warrant Officer Norman Vincent Turner has been doing research projects on the history of Effingham County and producing booklets summarizing his findings. Recently he has given 36 of these works to Henderson Library. They cover diverse episodes and aspects of the County's history, from the battle of Patton's Swamp during the American Revolution to the dedication of a Confederate monument, from a list of Colonial brands and marks to a list of 19^th-century doctors, dentists, pharmacists and veterinarians, from a lynching in 1920 to a tick epidemic during the same period. The history of businesses like the Brinson Railroad and the Effingham Canning Company also figures in this variegated collection.

National Archive Documents Go Online

Henderson Library Recycling Committee

The Library's Recycling Task Force first met in December 1999 to discuss what could be done to make recycling in the library easier, and therefore, more successful. Since that time, RTF (which officially became the Recycling Committee in FY03) has identified some good recycling practices that were already in place, and initiated and enhanced others. Among the library's list of successes are:

• recycling bins are strategically placed and better labeled.
• a survey shows increased student awareness of recycling in the library, and an increased number of patrons who were surveyed now recycle when in the library. This survey will be done again on Earth Day this April.
• many items in the library are recycled by staff, including paper, aluminum, PET plastic, and cardboard. Many other items, such as styrofoam peanuts, boxes, and padded envelopes, are reused for shipping by Interlibrary Loan.
• used toner cartridges and cell phones are collected and sent to an organization where they are recycled or safely disposed of.
• used holiday and greeting cards are collected and sent to St. Jude's Ranch for Children where they are made into new cards.
• eyeglasses are being collected to send to Lions Club for the first time.

Along with actually participating in the recycling program, the Recycling Committee included in its mission raising environmental awareness. To this end, the committee sets up Earth Day exhibits each year in April, invites artist Tom Amettis to offer an "Art from Found Objects" workshop (free, and open to the public Monday, April 21 from 10-2), with the help of Information Services librarians created and update a brochure on information sources on the environment (online at www2.georgiasouthern.edu/library/broch_ref/environment.pdf), maintain a web page at www2.georgiasouthern.edu/library/rtf, and have recommended and donated books to the collection on environmental topics.

There are like-minded groups on campus that faculty, staff, and students are invited to get involved with including SAGE and GSEN.

Join us on the Library's pedestrium on Monday, April 21 from 10-2 for Tom Amettis' "Art from Found Objects" workshop, and remember ­ Earth Day is Tuesday, April 22. Happy Earth Day!

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