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Culture Keepers III: Making Global Connections. Proceedings
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of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association
(BCALA) National Conference of African American Librarians
(3rd, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, July 31-August 3,
1997) .
American Library Association, Newark, NJ. Black Caucus.
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Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education;
*Librarians; Library Collection Development; Library
Education; Library Networks; Library Services; Professional
Development; Public Libraries
*African Americans
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ABSTRACT
The 49 papers presented in this volume are evidence of the
research, scholarship, and professional nature of the offerings of the third
National Conference of African American Librarians, sponsored by the Black
Caucus of the American Library Association. The papers are arranged into nine
tracks and Pre-Conference topics: I: Library Connections: An International
Information Exchange"; "Pre-Conference II: Globally Connecting the Stories
for Children and Young Adults"; "Making Global Connections and the
Information Superhighway"; "Making Global Connections in Library and
Information Science Education"; "Making Global Connections in Collection
Development and Archives"; "Making Global Connections in Public Library
Services"; "Making Global Connections in Academic Library Services"; "Making
Global Connections in Law Librarianship"; "Making Global Connections in
Recruitment and Professional Development"; "Making Global Connections with
Authors and Publishers"; "Making Global Connections"; and "Contributed
Papers." Topics include mentoring library students; academic library
development; cooperative cataloging; information networks; equity and the
Internet; public health connections; recruitment of African American
librarians and faculty; preservation and archival collection development;
fundraising; library instruction; the concept of Black librarianship; linking
librarians with at-risk students; serials management; residencies as career
launching pads; finding legal information on the Web; dealing with diversity;
multiculturalism; church libraries; and customer service. (Includes an
index.)
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Conference Proceedings
3rd National Conference of
BCALA
African American Librarians
Winston-Salem, NC
July 31 August 3, 1997
Culture Keepers III:
Making Global
Connections
Conference Proceedings of the 3rd
National
Conference of African American
Librarians
July 31 August 3, 1997
Edited by
Teresa Y. Neely
Colorado State University Libraries
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO
and Members of the BCALA
NCAAL Conference
Proceedings Committee
Black Caucus of the American
Library Association
Newark, New Jersey
June 1999
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Table of Contents
Introduction
ix
BCALA Officers, Executive Board and Committee Chairs
Mission and Purpose of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association
xi
National Conference Planning Committees
xii
Conference Proceedings Editors
xv
Pre-Conference I: Library Connections: An International
Information Exchange
Another look at Africa and African Americans
E. J. Josey
1
Saving the day: Making global connections to preserve cultural ephemera
David Dorsey
9
South African dream
Fannette H. Thomas
17
South Africa's children: Hope and possibility
Khafre K. Abif
21
Mentoring African and African American library students
Ismail Abdullahi
47
Virtual libraries: The future of Africa's information infrastructure
Daaim Shabazz
51
University libraries in South Africa: Development during transition
G. H. Hafajee
61
Program for cooperative cataloging
Beacher I. Wiggins, Gracie Gilliam and
Cornelia Owens Goode
71
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Pre-Conference II: Globally Connecting the Stories for Children
and Young Adults
Stories to tell
Glennette Tilley Turner
77
Marginalization of the story
Evelyn Coleman
79
Diversifying the experience in story
Irene Smalls
85
Concurrent Sessions
Making Global Connections and the Information Superhighway
An analysis of African American, African, and library links on institutional websites
Cynthia Coccaro
89
Equity and the Internet: African Americans' access to the information superhighway
Bettty Blackman, Stephanie Bras ley, Audrey Jackson, Suzanne Johnson,
Joyce Sumbi and Binnie Tate Wilkin
99
Public health connections on the information superhighway
Joan Redmond Leonard
111
Making Global Connections in Library and Information
Science Education
The need for the recruitment of African American librarians
E. J. Josey
125
Making Global Connections in Collection Development
and Archives
Another frontier: Archival pioneers at historically Black colleges and universities focus
South Carolina State University historical collection
Lela Sewell
131
Keepers of the culture: African American special collections
Lucious Edwards
137
Models for establishing archival programs (panel moderator)
Karen L. Jefferson
141
Developing archival infrastructure at HBCUs: The Winston-Salem State
University conspiracy model
Carter B. Cue
143
Beginning an archives program: The case of the University of Maryland
Eastern Shore
F. Keith Bingham
149
Building Infrastructures through education and research
Tommy L. Bogger
155
Preserving our heritage: The SOLINET /ASERK/HBCU Cooperative
preservation agreement
Sandra K. Williams
159
Making Global Connections in Public Library Services
Customer service with class
LaTonya Foshee-Hatton and Gerald M. Schwab
167
Fundraising: Library development 101
Phyllis Hodges
175
Making Global Connections in Academic Library Services
Academic outreach from coast to coast: The National Black MBA Association
experience
Em Claire Knowles
185
Bridging to success: Library instruction and the Summer Bridge Program at
California State University, San Marcos
Gloria Rhodes
191
Connecting African Americans to other dimensions for life-long learning
Alice M. Baker and Yvette Pierce
199
In Our Opinion: The concept of Black librarianship
Gladys Smiley Bell and Andrew P. Jackson (Sekou Molefi Baako)
209
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LARKS: Linking librarians with at-risk students
Felicia Harris Hoehne, Jo Ann Lahmon, Thura Mack
and Janette Prescod
215
Serials management in a changing environment
Deborah Broadwater
223
The multicultural population: Making the library an interesting place
Jocelyn Poole and Audrey Tandy
229
A career in academic librarianship: Residencies as a launching pad
Raquel Cogell, Detrice Bankhead, Lucinda Hall and Cindy Henriksen
233
RPT: African American librarians in academic libraries
Janice H. Dost
251
Recruitment, retention, and tenuring of African American faculty
Maurice B. Wheeler, Ph.D.
259
Making Global Connections in Law Librarianship
Webbing the law: Finding legislative information using GPO Access
Gwendolyn N. Halford
265
Webbing the law: Finding legal information on the Web
Rhea Ballard-Thrower and Edna S. Dixon
277
Making Global Connections in Recruitment and
Professional Development
success
African American librarians in the profession: Education, recruitment and
Discrimination, racism and sexism
Teresa Y. Neely
285
Preparing African American librarians for a multi-dimensional global society
Benjamin Speller, Jr.
293
Recognizing and dealing with diversity issues: An Overview
Barbara Best-Nichols
299
Connecting with future culture keepers: Recruitment through scholarships
Madeline Ford, Connie Freeman, Tamara Stewart,
Victoria Ruth Hill and Merlene Jackson of the NYBLC
305
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Making Global Connections with Authors and Publishers
Follow in their footsteps
321
Glennette Tilley-Turner
Multicultural books alive: Roots of an African American Christmas: The Johnkankus
325
Irene Smalls
Making Global Connections
Church libraries: Generating community awareness and reaching captive audiences
Gleneice Robinson and Harry Robinson, Jr.
333
Contributed Papers
African American academic librarians: Getting back to our service roots
337
Anita D. Haynes
Gift books to Africa
Joyce Faye Fletcher
345
Welcome to the dance: A global partnership between librarians and library
technical assistants
351
Willie D. Hardin
Is perception reality? A survey of customer service at selected HBCU libraries
357
Inez Lyons
Towards a networked community of Africans in the Diaspora
363
John Agada, Ph.D. and Ma lore I. Brown, Ph.D.
Quest for equality: Louise Kerr versus the Enoch Pratt Free Library
379
Lisa M. Boyd
385
Index
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