Holiday Hours at CML
July 1, 2009 – 2:48 pmThe Curriculum Materials Library will close at 5pm July 2 and will be closed July 3, 4, & 5. Normal hours will resume on Monday, July 6th.
Congratulations to Virginia Benjamin!
July 1, 2009 – 8:07 amWe wish Virginia Benjamin, Faculty Liaison for Electronic Library Services and EndNote trainer extraordinaire, a fond farewell and congratulations upon her retirement. Virginia has been with the UGA Libraries in different capacities for forty years.
Thanks to Virginia’s efforts, the Libraries will continue to manage the site licenses and training for EndNote and RefWorks. If you would like help with these citation management programs, please see http://www.libs.uga.edu/liaison/endnote/training.html.
We’ll miss you, Virginia!
Oral History Newsflash
July 1, 2009 – 7:52 amI am extraordinarily pleased to announce that our oral history project, Reflections on Georgia Politics, has renewed its partnership with Young Harris College. If you have been following any of our posts on the project, you may be aware that Reflections began at Young Harris in the fall of 2006, as a public program for the College’s Institute of Continuing Learning (ICL). Bob Short, author, interviewer, and knowledgeable soul on all things Georgia politics, organized and produced the program. When the Russell Library came on board in late 2007, Reflections became a traditional one-on-one oral history series independent of ICL.
Renewing formal ties with Young Harris College, a partnership that will lend critical support to producing and processing the Reflections collection, was a priority for Bob and me, and was supported by Russell Library Director Sheryl Vogt and University Librarian William Gray Potter. President of Young Harris College, and former Georgia Secretary of State, Cathy Cox was also committed to the project. Cox, who has donated her papers to the Russell Library and has already taken her turn in the interview chair opposite Bob for the series, recognized the value of this project to Young Harris, UGA, and all students of Georgia history. Working with Jay Stroman, Young Harris College’s Vice President for Advancement, we were able to sort out the final details in recent weeks. The partnership will create greater access for scholars and students across the state, providing internet portals to the program through both UGA and Young Harris. Additionally, transcription and DVD copies will be made available at both the Russell Library and Young Harris’s Duckworth Library.
Welcome Young Harris – we are happy to have you as our partner!
Post by Craig Breaden, Head of Media and Oral History, Russell Library
Library hours: Independence Day
July 1, 2009 – 7:35 amThe hours for the Main and Science Libraries are as follows:
Wednesday, July 1st: 7:30am until 10pm
Thursday, July 2nd: 7:30am until 5pm
Friday, July 3rd: The Libraries are closed
Saturday, July 4th: The Libraries are closed
Normal operating hours for Summer Semester resume on Sunday, July 5th which are:
Sundays: 1pm until 10pm
Mondays thru Thursdays: 7:30am until 10pm
Fridays: 7:30am until 6pm
Saturdays: 10am until 6pm.
Please view the Libraries’ Hours page for more information about hours.
New Collection Open at Russell Library
June 29, 2009 – 9:19 amThe Richard Russell Library is pleased to announce that the Henry Tift Myers, Sr. Papers are now open for research. Lieutenant Colonel Henry Tift Myers, Sr., a native of Tifton, Georgia, was the first Presidential pilot, and transported Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman around the world. He captained of a trio of legendary airplanes— “The Guess Where II,” “The Sacred Cow” and “The Independence”—that were forerunners to the modern Air Force One. He also piloted several members of Congress, high ranking military officers, visiting royalty, and other VIPs and guests of the United States government. Among his notable passengers were Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Mexican President Miguel Alemán, King George II of Greece, and Winston Churchill. He captained the 1943 global war front flight that carried Senator Richard B. Russell and the Special Senate Subcommittee to inspect military installations. Myers was also the holder of a number of air speed and flight distance records.
The Henry Tift Myers, Sr. Papers document both his personal and professional life from 1931 to 1968, with an emphasis on his service as the first Presidential pilot during World War II. The collection contains a number of fascinating items, including Myers’ wartime flight logs, navigation charts, photographs from the then-newly liberated Paris, and drawings of “The Independence.”
The Russell Library is open for research from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday. For further information on the Henry Tift Myers, Sr. Papers, please contact russlib@uga.edu or (706) 542-5788. Or, visit us online at http://www.libs.uga.edu/russell/
Civic Engagement with Russell Forum for Civic Life in GA
June 29, 2009 – 9:13 amSave the Dates! Russell Forum for Civic Life in Georgia announces summer forum schedule and fall training dates and details.
The Russell Library’s civic engagement program, Russell Forum for Civic Life in Georgia (RFCLG) will host two National Issues Forums discussion programs this summer and a 2-day moderating and issue framing training institute in October at the Russell Library. Some details below and more to come! There will be two informal forums this summer to get to know two new issue guides from the National Issues Forums on the economy and tackling childhood obesity:
Regaining American Prosperity: Building an Economy That Works for Everyone: Once we restart the economy, how can we build it into a place where we would want to live?
When: July 31, 2009
Where: Russell Library, 3-4:30 p.m.
(parking passes available to all attendees)
Moderator: Jan Levinson
Weighing the Options: How Can We Encourage Healthy Weights Among Georgia’s Youth?
When: August 28, 2009
Where: Russell Library, 3-4:30 p.m.
(parking passes available to all attendees)
Moderator: Jill Severn
The Russell Forum is also very excited to announce that it will be hosting a public policy institute on October 15th & 16th, 2009, where staff & guest speakers will teach issue framing and deliberative moderating skills. The institute will have a topical focus on health care and health disparities—hot issues these days! Details about scholarships and the registration process will be forthcoming later in the summer. If you are interested in participating or want more information, please contact Jill Severn at 706-542-5766.
RFCLG PPI Moderating & Issue Framing Workshop
When: October 15-16, 2009
Where: Russell Library, UGA Main Library, UGA Campus Athens, GA
How Much: Cost is $50 for both days, and $25 for each day; scholarships available.
We are hard at work developing a new Web site for the Russell Forum for Civic Life where we can share information, research, and events connected to civic engagement in the Athens area and around the state! Stay tuned to the Russell Library blog for more updates and information.
New from RefWorks: RefMobile!
June 25, 2009 – 4:12 pmRefWorks has launched a new Mobile Phone interface: RefMobile.
RefWorks is a subscription citation management software freely available for to students, staff, and faculty at UGA.
RefMobile allows RefWorks users access and use their RefWorks account from any PDA.
For more information, see RefWorks’ press release.
You can use RefMobile by going to http://www.refworks.com/mobile/
New Books at the CML!
June 19, 2009 – 10:15 amAuthor: University of Chicago. School Mathematics Project. 
Title: Everyday mathematics : [Grade 2]
Edition: 2nd ed.
Call Number: Cur Mat QA135.5 .E92 2001 Grade 2
Title: Everyday mathematics : teacher’s resource package. Grade 4
Call Number: Cur Mat QA135.5 .E92 2002 Grade 4
Title: Everyday mathematics : Fifth grade
Call Number: Cur Mat QA135.5 .E92 2002 Grade 5
Title: Houghton Mifflin mathematics
Call Number: Cur Mat QA135.5 .H68 2002
New Books at the CML!
June 16, 2009 – 11:07 am
Author: Culham, Ruth. 
Title: Picture books : an annotated bibliography with activities for teaching
writing : 6-trait writing
Edition: 5th ed.
Call Number: Cur Mat LB1044.9 .P49 C84 1998
Author: Fisher, Ann Richmond.
Title: Take home skill-builders for fall : activities that involve school, parents and child
Call Number: Cur Mat LB1048 .F56 1998
Author: Fisher, Ann Richmond.
Title: Take home skill-builders for winter : activities that involve school, parents and child
Call Number: Cur Mat LB1048 .F57 1998
Author: Kaback, Suzanne.
Title: Back-to-school book
Call Number: Cur Mat LB1555 .K33 2003
Author: Bebko, Anne R.
Title: Language! roots
Call Number: Cur Mat PE1112 .B43 1998
Author: Greene, Jane Fell.
Title: Language! : a curriculum for at-risk and ESL students at grades 1-12 :
writing, spelling, reading, grammar, language, vocabulary
Call Number: Cur Mat PE1112 .G73 1995
Author: Small, Marian. 
Title: Good questions : great ways to differentiate mathematics instruction
Call Number: Cur Mat QA20 .I53 S63 2009
Author: Bryant, Jennifer.
Title: River of words : the story of William Carlos Williams
Call Number: Juv PS3545 .I544 Z5823 2008
Merritt Papers Now Open at Russell Library!
June 15, 2009 – 9:09 am
A collection of correspondence, clippings, speeches, journals photographs, audiovisual material, and memorabilia belonging to the second woman to serve in the Georgia State House of Representatives is now available for research at the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies.
Janet B. Scarborough Merritt was elected to represent Sumter County (at the time, the 68th district) in the Georgia State House of Representatives in 1964. The only woman in the State House when she was elected, and the first to represent Sumter County, Merritt called herself a “full-time” representative. During her tenure she authored or co-authored over one hundred bills. Of particular note was Merritt’s ongoing battle to change Georgia’s state flag. In 1969, Merritt sponsored a bill to change the Georgia flag adopted in 1955, shortly after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling, back to the 1879 version, which did not include the Confederate battle flag. After a rousing speech on the House floor from former Governor Marvin Griffin, who strongly opposed the change, the bill was tabled and later re-introduced in 1971, when it was defeated. Merritt also supported improved retirement plans and higher salaries for civil workers and school teachers, and was a proponent of tourism in Georgia, helping to establish the Andersonville Civil War Prison as a National Historic Site. Merritt also had a strong interest in rural housing issues, and was active in the state planning and community affairs committee.
In 1972, after a reapportionment, Merritt was defeated for re-election by her former colleague in the House, Oliver Oxford, in a run-off. She ran against Oxford a second time in the 1974 election, but was again narrowly defeated. The collection documents Merritt’s six campaigns, her time in the state legislature, and her community activities including heavy involvement in the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) and the Order of Women Legislators (OWLS). The topic of the role of women in government is thoroughly documented throughout her numerous speeches and writings.
Above Left: Gov. Jimmy Carter signing an executive order establishing the Study Commission on Andersonville to create a Civil War memorial. Representative Merritt , a member of the commission, is wearing an oversize confederate flag tie after her attempt to change the Georgia State flag was defeated. Merritt introduced two bills to change the State flag back to the 1879 version and was defeated in both 1969 and 1972
The Russell Library is open for research from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday. For further information on the Janet B. Merritt Papers, please contact russlib@uga.edu or visit http://www.libs.uga.edu/russell/.
Post by Katherine Shirley, Head of Arrangement and Description, Russell Library
