{"title":"Spotlight on Special Libraries: T. H. E. Library at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond","authors":"Anne Hallerman","doi":"10.21061/valib.v58i4.1232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/valib.v58i4.1232","url":null,"abstract":"A jingle on Richmond radio once promised: “Our name is our motto, and we live up to our name.” At the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, T.H.E. Library … Teach, Help, Engage does just that. Our name reflects our mission to “connect Bank departments and staff to timely, quality information resources to promote collaboration, inform decisionmaking and achieve objectives.” While we are formally part of the Research Department, we serve the entire bank in many ways.","PeriodicalId":29991,"journal":{"name":"Virginia Libraries","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67763405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Virginia Arts of the Book Center (VABC)","authors":"B. D. Sun","doi":"10.21061/VALIB.V58I4.1237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/VALIB.V58I4.1237","url":null,"abstract":"I remember being drawn, almost beyond my control, into a room that smelled of thick ink and well-seasoned wood; a place where large type drawers held tiny metal letters, and a background whir and whistle left me to believe something special was taking place. Various book-related elements — paper, ink, bindings, cover boards, woodblocks, and cutting utensils — were strewn about the room, and eye-catching examples of printed fonts and picture images were propped up against the baseboards. I had stumbled into the McGuffy Arts of the Book Center in downtown Charlottesville, and the hub of activity left me wishing I could extend my day trip.","PeriodicalId":29991,"journal":{"name":"Virginia Libraries","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67763607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Openers: The Book As Art","authors":"B. D. Sun","doi":"10.21061/VALIB.V58I4.1229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/VALIB.V58I4.1229","url":null,"abstract":"I f a picture paints a thousand words — as the adage suggests — then why am I using written language to compile my “Openers”? Why not simply paint a picture that sums up what I’d like to convey instead? Well … for starters, I can’t paint, or at least not very well, which is why I have tremendous admiration for those who can. When I pick up a book that contains eye-capturing images — whether a children’s picture book, a young adult comic strip, an illustrated dictionary, or a coffee table volume — my “reading” experience is transformed. The visual art fires up a portion of my brain that allows me to “marvel” in a completely different way.","PeriodicalId":29991,"journal":{"name":"Virginia Libraries","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67763395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thinking Outside of the Book: Recycled Book Art at the Library","authors":"Markye Barber","doi":"10.21061/VALIB.V58I4.1233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/VALIB.V58I4.1233","url":null,"abstract":"A 1960s book on Gothic art has been painstakingly cut and spliced with images from Disney’s and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland . Shockingly bright in his black-and-white environment, the March Hare peers out from behind pointed arches, while a pensive blue Caterpillar lounges among the crowds at Golgotha. Next to this, a beat-up hardback copy of Steven King’s The Stand has been transformed into a tome bound in stitched skin, scarred and bleeding, with a milky eye embedded in the cover. The next book is an old encyclopedia volume, whose pages have been folded and sprayed with adhesive to keep them open and stiff: across the fanned-out paper, the artist has stenciled a message: “PRINT IS DEAD.”","PeriodicalId":29991,"journal":{"name":"Virginia Libraries","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67763414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Young Adult (YA) Book as Art","authors":"A. Pavis","doi":"10.21061/VALIB.V58I4.1236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/VALIB.V58I4.1236","url":null,"abstract":"A nyone who says that books are not art has never read Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro or Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. Nor have they read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green or The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. These novels evoke emotion in those who read them, not just from the plot, but from the perfect word choice and phrasing. Hundreds of authors have created literary masterpieces for us, and those titles are found in school curricula and public libraries, on bedside tables and underneath pillows. But sometimes books are more than gently woven words and carefully crafted paragraphs. Sometimes there are images to correspond with the words, giving the reader the ultimate experience: text and images sewn together so as to enhance the reader’s imagination (“I wonder how that would look in real life?”) and curiosity (“That’s how!”). Books are art, and just like when critiquing a da Vinci or Matisse painting, there is no incorrect interpretation or opinion. Therefore, allow me to give you my interpretation of young adult novels as art, in terms of illustrations outside as well as inside the cover.","PeriodicalId":29991,"journal":{"name":"Virginia Libraries","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67763565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"President’s Column - Being a Leader","authors":"Connie Gilman","doi":"10.21061/valib.v58i3.1219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/valib.v58i3.1219","url":null,"abstract":"I have long been interested in leadership. In fact, my senior high school thesis was titled “Why Men and Women Seek and Accept the Responsibilities of Leadership.” That interest has been with me ever since and has grown over the years. “Yes,” you might say, “That’s obvious! You’re President of the Virginia Library Association, and you’ve been a member of the Virginia Library Leadership Academy since its inception.”","PeriodicalId":29991,"journal":{"name":"Virginia Libraries","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67763353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Library Legislative Days in Washington","authors":"J. Sanderson","doi":"10.21061/valib.v58i3.1222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/valib.v58i3.1222","url":null,"abstract":"E very year state library associations join together to support the legislative concerns of the American Library Association (ALA). Delegations such as the representative assembly from the Virginia Library Association (VLA) travel to the nation’s capital for a full day of workshops followed by a day of visits to Congressional offices. This year the two-day event took place on April 23–24.","PeriodicalId":29991,"journal":{"name":"Virginia Libraries","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67763487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Openers - The Space Between","authors":"B. D. Sun","doi":"10.21061/valib.v58i3.1218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/valib.v58i3.1218","url":null,"abstract":"I recently found myself wondering what Virginia Libraries is really all about (once you make it past the marbled covers). Clearly the journal focuses on libraries, and its geographical center is the Commonwealth of Virginia. So it makes sense that the articles explore various aspects of libraries and librarianship as they relate to the public, special, school, research, and academic libraries within the boundaries of the Old Dominion. Sometimes referred to as “The Mother of Presidents,” our state lays claim to some of the country’s most important history — from the Jamestown settlement, to the Battle of Bull Run, to the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom — and this heritage is handsomely represented in our libraries.","PeriodicalId":29991,"journal":{"name":"Virginia Libraries","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67763344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Allison Scripa, Edward F. Lener, Cherly B. Gittens, Connie Stovall
{"title":"The McNair Scholars Program at Virginia Tech: A Unique Model of Librarian Mentoring","authors":"Allison Scripa, Edward F. Lener, Cherly B. Gittens, Connie Stovall","doi":"10.21061/VALIB.V58I3.1224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/VALIB.V58I3.1224","url":null,"abstract":"L ibrarians are involved in many aspects of the McNair Scholars Summer Research Experience at Virginia Tech — a unique component of the federal program that allows low-income, first-generation college students and those from underrepresented ethnic groups to prepare for future doctoral study through involvement in research and other scholarly activities. McNair Scholars who are accepted into the summer research program attend seminars, network with colleagues during special-focus luncheons, participate in an annual research conference, prepare for the GRE, conduct research and prepare presentations, and receive significant library instruction and individualized research assistance from the university’s librarians.","PeriodicalId":29991,"journal":{"name":"Virginia Libraries","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67763522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Virginia’s Emerging Leaders: An Update and Suggestions for the Virginia Library Association","authors":"B. Appleton, Megan Hodge, Matthew J. Jabaily","doi":"10.21061/VALIB.V58I3.1223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21061/VALIB.V58I3.1223","url":null,"abstract":"ALA’s Emerging Leader program was founded in 2007 by then-ALA President Leslie Burger as one of her presidential initiatives. Its goal is for participants to network, gain a greater understanding of how ALA works, and to learn about leadership both theoretically and practically, all of which results in participants being placed “on the fast track to ALA committee volunteerism as well as other professional library-related organizations” (ALA, 2011).","PeriodicalId":29991,"journal":{"name":"Virginia Libraries","volume":"31 1","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67763492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}