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North Carolina Librarie
Summer 2001
Sport: The Liveliest Art
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Volume 99, Number 2
ISSN 0029-2540
ORTH.
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gees «= SPORT: THE LIVELIEST ART
Suzanne Wise, Guest Editor
Summer 2001
52. Diamonds Are a PublisherTs Best Friend: The Baseball Mystique and Scholarly
Publishing, Steve Wilson
57 Take me out to the ball game .... The Importance of Archiving Sporting Activities,
Russell S. Koonts
61 Telling the Story: Museums and Libraries Partner to Make Sport History Live,
Jim Sumner
64 oITm not surfing. This is my job.� James R. Meier
67 Sideline: Webliography of General Sports Sites: The Big Four, Suzanne Wise
68 Public Libraries Step Up to the Plate: Knowing and Responding to the Needs of Our
Rapidly Changing Communities, Lena Gonzalez
71. Sideline: Sports Fiction, Suzanne Wise
72 Ten Best Sports Titles ... in My Public Library, James R. Ruszczyk
in My Media Center, Stephanie Fiedler
in My High School Library, Kim P. Mayo
in My Academic Library, Gerald Holmes
symm 0S RReRRmemapnean ae a YR, ERNE
50 From the President
78 Lagniappe: Vroom! Racing for Educational Excellence, Suzanne Wise
81. Wired to the World: GORP, Ralph Lee Scott
81 About the Authors
82 North Carolina Books
90 In View Of ... Cornelius Branch Library
Q1. NCLA Minutes
* Serials librarians please note: North Carolina Libraries is moving to a 3 issue/year
cycle in 2001: Spring 2001, Summer 2001, Fall 2001.
Ab faces troctrache at There were 2 issues in 2000: Spring/Summer 2000, Fall 2000.
Checkpoint, 60
Current Editions, 85
Ebsco, 94
Mumford Books, 93
Parkway Publishers, 49 Cover: Cover photos are courtesy of the Appalachian State University Archives.
Phibig, 63
Quality Books, 89 North Carolina Libraries is the official publication of the North Carolina Library Association.
SIRS, front cover Art direction and design by Pat Weathersbee of TeamMedia, Greenville, NC.
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From the President
Plummer Alston ~AlT Jones, Jr., President
Milestones in
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orth Carolina libraries and librarians continue to make news at the state,
regional, and national levels. LetTs see what has been going on since the
beginning of 2001!
On behalf of NCLA, I attended the Second Statewide Leadership Confer-
ence on Access to Special Collections at High Point on April 4, 2001. During
this conference a new Web portal to be maintained by the State Library of North Carolina
was unveiled and dedicated by the new Secretary of the Department of Cultural Re-
sources, Lisbeth ~LibbaT C. Evans. The new Web portal is called NC ECHO (Exploring
Cultural History Online). The URL is www.ncecho.org.
NC ECHO provides Web access to special collections in libraries, archives, and
museums across the state. This project is 100% supported by federal Library Services
Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Mu-
seum and Library Service (IMLS).
On February 25, 2001, PLCMC became the only public library in the southeast, and
one of only two public libraries in the United States, to present oThe Buffalo Soldier: The
African American Soldier in the U.S. Army, 1866-1912 " From the Collection
of Anthony L. Powell.� The exhibit highlighted the history of the Buffalo
Soldiers, whose legacy dates back to the U.S. wars against the Native Americans
during the 1800s. In addition to showcasing rare photographs and artifacts,
oThe Buffalo Soldier� inaugurates the new oGallery L� at the Main Library.
StoryPlace, an animated story and activity site for children published by
North C. arolina the PLCMC is being co-branded as part of Lycos.Zone www.lycoszone.com in
an agreement recently reached with Lycos.com. LycosZone, a childrenTs Web
site, is part of Lycos, the popular search engine and information portal. PLCMC
Li b rari ansh Ip V is the first library to co-brand a Web site with a major Internet portal. The new
70 " Summer 2001
site has been live since January 30, 2001.
I would like to have a reorganization meeting several times during the
Biennial Conference this fall to discuss various options for revitalizing NCASL.
ITm looking forward to this opportunity to get input from the NCASL members
who have remained within NCLA.
It is my distinct pleasure to be a part of the planning committee for the
work of the NCLA Endowment Committee under the leadership of Elizabeth J. Laney,
Chair. NCLA will be celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2004. In recognition of this
momentous event in NCLATs history, the members of the Endowment Committee have
accepted the challenge of building the NCLA Endowment to $100,000 by 2004. Letters
have been written to the various constituencies of NCLA. Please be generous!
I have been in contact with Meralyn Meadows of the Stanly County Public Library,
former chair and organizer of the North Carolina Library Paraprofessional Association, to
work with current chair Frances Lampley to revitalize the round table. I am very excited
about having Meralyn return to a leadership role with NCLA.
Theron Bell, a library advocate par excellence, is chair of the Public Library Trustees
Association. She hopes to be in contact with all friends of the library organizations in the
state and local public library trustees in order to plan some exciting programs for the
upcoming Biennial Conference this fall. Theron, who hails from Robbins, is also a
member of the State Library Commission.
The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) recently launched Kudzu, a
system of linked online catalogs at thirteen research libraries. Kudzu connects more than
180,000 students and faculty to more than 23 million volumes. You can preview Kudzu at
www.aserl.org. Wake Forest University is one of the 13 ASERL members, along with
Tulane University, Clemson University, Auburn University, Virginia Commonwealth Uni-
versity, Vanderbilt University, Mississippi State University, and Universities of Mississippi,
South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee-Knoxville, Alabama-Birmingham, and Louisville.
Mary Reichel, University Librarian at Appalachian State University and President-
Elect of the Association of College & Research Libraries, has been named the first Carol
Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor for Library and Information Studies. The professor-
North Carolina Libraries
ship was established through a gift from Irwin and Carol G. Belk of Charlotte and
matching funds from a state program designed to attract and retain exceptional
faculty. Reichel was also the recipient of ACRLTs Miriam Dudley Instruction Library
Award in 1999.
Ken Eudy of Capital Strategies, Inc. is the first lobbyist registered by the State of
North Carolina to advocate the position of libraries of all types, but particularly public
libraries, with regard to the Internet filtering legislation being debated by both houses
of the North Carolina Legislature. Eudy is volunteering on a pro bono basis to protect
the rights of library patrons to freedom of access to material on the Internet.
A new NCLA brochure and display have been developed by the NCLA Membership
Committee. Our thanks to Peggy Quinn of Wake Technical Community College for
her coordination of efforts that have led to the availability of an up-to-date brochure
describing NCLATs goals, strategies, and information about membership in NCLATs
sections and round tables. The trifold display is designed to allow flexibility in the
presentation of information and to be customized to meet the needs of the section or
round table using it. To obtain a supply of brochures and to reserve the display for
your upcoming events, contact the NCLA office at ncla@mindspring.com.
The Third Biennial NCLA Leadership Institute was a tremendous success. On April
5, 2001, I received a letter to the NCLA Executive Board from a participant in the
recent 2001 NCLA Leadership Institute. The participant expressed her gratitude for
being able to participate in such a useful program. oThe Institute made me reflect on
who | am as a person, who | am as a librarian within my institution, and who I have
the potential to be as a leader in the greater North Carolina library community.� Wow!
The 2001 participants made a presentation at the April 20th meeting of the NCLA
Executive Board and reaffirmed their willingness to take on leadership roles with
NCLA. Thanks to George Taylor of the Forsyth County Public Library System, Chair of
the NCLA Leadership Institute, and all who worked so diligently to provide a mean-
ingful experience for our future library leaders! I have appointed as co-chairs for the
2002 Leadership Institute Teresa McManus (Fayetteville State University) and Robert
James (Wake Technical Community College).
Since October 1999 gifts have continued to come into the NCLA office. Please
continue to send your contributions to NCLA and note oFloyd Relief Fund� in the
lower left-hand corner of your check. Send your checks to Maureen Costello, NCLA,
4646 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4646. NCLA now has a FAX number
(919-839-6253) in addition to the regular line (919-839-6252). Remember that the
damage done by Hurricane Floyd in the fall of 1999 to eastern North Carolina libraries
is still being addressed daily by our colleagues. Please be generous in your support of
their efforts to restore library buildings and services!
This is my last column as your President. In place of this column, the Conference
issue will present an interview with Ross Holt, who will have assumed the NCLA
Presidency at the Biennial Conference to be held October 2 "5, 2001 in Winston-
Salem. I know that Ross will do an excellent job of keeping the NCLA membership
abreast of all the library happenings across our productive state. North CarolinaTs
libraries are living, dynamic treasures. LetTs keep them thriving!
A placement center will be held during the
NCLA Biennial Conference in Winston-Salem.
The center will be open Wednesday through Thursday, October 3-4, 2001, from 10:00 to 4:00.
Information about position openings, candidates, library school programs and
continuing education will be available.
Candidates for positions must register for the conference, but do not have to be members of NCLA
to take advantage of this service.
Registration for the conference is available on the NCLA Conference Web site:
www.nclaonline.org.
For additional information contact Connie Keller at keller@elon.edu or phone (336)278-6578.
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Diamonds Are a Publisher's Best Friend:
The Baseball Mystique and Scholarly Publishing
he publishing of sports books is
a bit like a sport itself. Thriving
on competition, it entails
scorekeeping, stamina, learning
on the run, a good sense of bal-
ance, the knack for working with
forceful personalities, the will to suc-
ceed .... The analogy slows like the
running back who realizes that he lost
the ball twenty yards back. Those who
succeed in sport have sculpted phy-
siques, eight-figure contracts, and the
adoration of millions, whereas the re-
wards of publishing books about them
are, shall we say, subtler.
Sports publishing is at least as com-
plex as the average sport, though, with
even more layers and nuances. An as-
tonishing range of books is written and
published each year, covering all sports
and serving all types of readers. Some are
written for mass appeal, cashing in on
an athleteTs 15 minutes of fame, a gameTs
peaking popularity, a current contro-
versy. But many other sports books are
out there, far from the bestseller lists yet
warmly embraced by libraries and seri-
ous readers: sober for-all-time references,
meticulous statistical compilations
(sometimes setting out entirely new, in-
tricately developed performance mea-
surements), scholarly examinations of
sport and culture, works of literature and
criticism, photographic collections,
painstakingly researched biographies
and histories, instruction manuals, me-
andering recollections, and other cat-
egories too numerous to mention.
72 " Summer 2001
by Steve Wilson
Baseball may no longer rank as the
biggest spectator sport in the United
States, but it still reigns in publishing.
Many of the above book categories sim-
ply do not exist for other sports"care to
name a penetrating analysis of the lit-
erature of hockey? A poignant collec-
tion of football poems? An alternative
statistical ranking of soccer goalies?
Consistently, writers and publishing
executives extolling books on a trendy
sport pause to admit that obaseball is
still in first place,�! obaseball is still
king,�? or obaseball is by any yardstick
the most popular sport of readers and
book buyers.�? ItTs almost too obvious
to bother stating.
Numbers bear out such assertions. A
search for obaseball� on Amazon.com in
fall 2000 turned up 6,892 book listings;
the nearest competitor*, football, had
5,060, and no other sport came close:
3,366 hits for basketball, 3,296 for golf,
2,143 for soccer, 1,722 for hockey, 1,478
for tennis, and 134 for NASCAR. Simi-
larly, an InfoTrac search
for obaseball books�
turned up 52 articles,
while similar searches on
other sports produced 28
golf articles, 10 tennis, 6
football, 5 basketball, 5
soccer, 3 hockey, and 1 NASCAR. And in-
terestingly, an InfoTrac search for obase-
ball� in the New York Review of Books
scored 6 hits; of the other aforemen-
tioned sports, only soccer registered,
with a single hit. This crude methodol-
ogy cannot produce accurate data on
any single sport, but to me it appears to
indicate three things quite strongly: that
more books are published about baseball
than other sports; that baseball books
are themselves written about more than
their counterparts on other sports; and
that baseball enjoys a unique percep-
tion of legitimacy as a serious subject.
(Admittedly, thin evidence appears
above for the last contention, but con-
sider also that oBaseball and American
Culture� is the subject of both an aca-
demic conference whose proceedings are
published annually and a 4,500-entry
bibliography published in 1995.4 In ad-
dition, the 896-page Cultural Encyclope-
dia of Baseball (McFarland, 1997] has
been warmly received within and be-
... To the fan, baseball becomes
something more encompassing
than a small-g game, more
complex than a diversion, harder
*Chess, though usually
classified as a sport, deserves
separate consideration and is
not included here.
to know than a mere sport.
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yond baseball fandom. Football fills
more stadium seats these days, but what
are its odds of exciting that kind of in-
tellectual interest?)
Special Fans of a Special Sport
For most fans, one sport is special " per-
haps itTs basketball, for its unceasing
motion, the beauty of unexpected arcs
and fluidly moving bodies. Or football,
for the power that is its hallmark. Or ten-
nis, for the wits and finesse demanded.
Or auto racing, for its thrilling speed,
maintained over such time and distance
as to lend a faintly epic quality.
Baseball, the true devotee will say,
exhibits all of these qualities, and ex-
ceeds their sum. The krank (how many
sports have a specially coined term for
their fans " and one old enough to
sound archaic, at that?) sees baseball not
as a game, but, in a phrase familiar well
beyond diamond fandom (though just
short of Yale-Harvard), as The Game. To
the fan, baseball becomes something
more encompassing than a small-g
game, more complex than a diversion,
harder to know than a mere sport. To
many Americans, the triumphs and fail-
ures of baseballTs heroes connect with
national character, the times of the
country, the fiber of the populace; such
is the power of names like Gehrig,
DiMaggio, Robinson, McGwire, Ripken,
and Rose. Herbert Hoover credited base-
ball with furnishing, next to religion, oa
greater impact on American life than
any other institution.� When the for-
tunes of the game itself take a dip, as
they did during and after the 1994-1995
playersT strike, cultural commentators
write of the countryTs being out of kilter.
All this may say something mean-
ingful about baseball itself, but that is
(and has been, plentifully) a matter for
discussion elsewhere. What it says about
the baseball fan, not the game, is the
thing that interests publishers " who,
frankly speaking, are not always given to
leisurely reflection upon the subjects
they publish. To publishers, baseball
To publishers, baseball
enthusiasts are a special breed:
more single-minded than other
sports fans, hungrier for
minutiae, more conscious of
their gameTs history and lore.
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enthusiasts are a special breed: more
single-minded than other sports fans,
hungrier for minutiae, more conscious
of their gameTs history and lore. They
tend to be lifelong followers of their
sport, not trenders who may jump away
when another game catches the publicTs
fancy. They stay involved in their sport
out of season. And they read books " or
buy them anyway, which is all a pub-
lisher really requires: books of all kinds,
year in, year out.
The experience of baseball fandom
has even been the subject of books like
psychologist William FreedmanTs More
Than a Pastime: An Oral History of Base-
ball Fans (McFarland, 1998), in which
fans of all ages oexplain baseballTs place
in their lives and in the lives of the
American people, their communities,
and the nation.�® It might not be accu-
rate to say that baseball fans are as a
group more contemplative than devo-
tees of other sports (professional wres-
tling might be the exception, were it a
sport), but it is hard to doubt that some-
thing in the nature of baseball tends to
inspire introspection, reflection, aes-
thetic enjoyment " just what one often
seeks in reading a book.
Is it the deliberate pace of the game,
which allows action to be generously
punctuated with moments of quiet
drama? The complexity of baseballTs
rules, customs, language, history? End-
less theories can be " have been " pos-
ited. Whatever the reason, baseballTs
faithful experience their game in a
unique way.
Thus baseball fans will embrace
books that would surely fail in other
sports. True, the standard complement
of athlete biographies and autobiogra-
phies (oQuick, get it on the shelves be-
fore heTs arrested!� one can almost hear
editors shouting), osuccess in life�
books by winning managers (oQuick,
before heTs canned!�), and how-to
manuals tend to bring in the big dollars,
as in other sports. But baseball fandom
has at its core enough truly devout stu-
dents of the sport to sup-
port, at a far more modest
sales level, a successful flow
of books more specialized,
more scholarly, more arcane
than the mass market gener-
ally sees.
These books, from
scholarly commercial pub-
lishers like McFarland
(whose annual baseball list is
largest at nearly two dozen
titles), Greenwood, and
Scarecrow, plus some univer-
sity presses such as Nebraska, Southern
Illinois, and Oxford, deliver the heavy
factual detail, on mainly historical sub-
jects, that only the fan of a certain schol-
arly bent wants. There are lots of Yankees
followers around, for example, but it
does take an uncommonly intense, long-
standing interest to fork over $32.50 for
a 494-page book lavishly recounting
only the teamTs season-opening games,
as does New York Yankee Openers: An
Opening Day History of BaseballTs Most
Famous Team, 1903-1996, by Lyle Spatz
(McFarland, 1997) "a modestly profit-
able publication.
There is, of course, a great difference
between a serious fan and a serious
reader. One thing that distinguishes
baseball, at least from unscientific obser-
vation, is the number of adherents who
are serious on both counts. TheyTre not
even very hard to find, on the whole:
often they are members of the Society
for American Baseball Research (SABR),
the preeminent organization of people
who think hard about the game. SABR
publishes books and journals, keeps
track of current literature in the field,
bestows research awards, holds an an-
nual convention, and in many other
ways mimics academic organizations. Its
members are so immersed in the fabric
of the game that they may care more
about a pivotal 1904 game than last
nightTs upset, and they are hungry to
learn even more.
They also enjoy new ways of look-
ing at their favorite subject. They some-
times reinvent statistics to reflect factors
not accounted for in traditional mea-
sures; hence Bill JamesTs term osaber-
metrics,� widely used since the 1980s.
They savor arguments over could-have-
beens: What if Ted Williams hadnTt lost
five prime years to military service in
two wars? What if the major leagues had
opened the door to African Americans
sooner? What if the 1919 World Series
had not been fixed? Those are almost as
good as arguments over the justice of se-
lections for the Hall of Fame, the effects
of interleague play, or the evils of artifi-
cial turf and the reserve clause. How bet-
ter to while away the long winter
months?
Serving Up the Books
McFarland, the company publishing the
most baseball titles today (and, in the
interest of fair disclosure, my employer),
has drawn heavily on the SABR member-
ship for both authors and customers. A
strongly library-oriented publisher,
McFarland brought out its first baseball
titles in the mid-1980s, very much as an
Summer 2001 " 92
experiment. The early titles, marketed
almost exclusively to libraries, were ref-
erence books, including a 22,000-entry
bibliography.
They sold well enough to justify
continuing and slightly broadening the
experiment. Steady sales, more and more
often coming from individuals, and an
ever increasing flow of baseball manu-
script proposals gave evidence that
something good was in motion. Not
only was a pool of highly capable au-
thors chafing to be published, having
been turned down in some cases by
trade houses that deemed their works
too specialized, but a
market was waiting.
Both libraries and the
baseball cognoscenti
wanted just this kind of
book " the more spe-
cialized the better, it
sometimes seemed.
Three parties with
like interests had con-
verged. McFarland was
looking for fresh sub-
jects and solid informa-
tion rather than best
seller flash, and the au-
thors it published were
not drawn by the bright
lights of trade publish-
ing. The sturdy, serious
look of the books was
no detriment to cus-
tomers who welcomed what were often
gap-filling works for their baseball col-
lections. As McFarlandTs baseball list
steadily gained mass and stature, it as-
sumed an annually greater role in the
companyTs output.
By the mid-1990s McFarland was
publishing over a dozen baseball titles a
year, ranging more widely in descrip-
tion. Unique reference works were al-
ways most desired, having generally the
longest and most remunerative sales life,
but statistical studies, league and team
histories, interview books, topical stud-
Baseball aficionadosT
liking for books may
give print reference
works a measure of
protection well into
the future.
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ies, and general histories plugged along
soundly. Biographies were increasing in
number and sales success. That pattern
has continued to the present, with the
annual list growing steadily. A brief look
at the major types of baseball books that
have succeeded for McFarland shows
that baseball readers are a sophisticated
audience with wide-ranging interests.
Reference
For a researcher or at-home baseball
scholar, nothing is more welcome than
a reference work collecting vast amounts
of previously hard-to-find information
in one place. Such
books are sought by li-
braries and individuals
alike, and publishers
love them because
they are high-dollar
titles with long shelf
lives. Books like The
Baseball Encyclopedia
and Total Baseball are
perennially strong sell-
T, SEI
ers in the trade
world, and more
specialized works
have been success-
ful for scholarly
prusbleiis:hexss
McFarlandTs Base-
ball: A Comprehen-
sive Bibliography
and its two supple-
ments, by Myron J.
Smith, Jr.; Ballparks of North America, by
Michael Benson; The Cultural Encyclope-
dia of Baseball, by Jonathan Fraser Light;
A Biographical Dictionary of the Baseball
Hall of Fame, by John C. Skipper; and
Baseball Records Registry: The Best and
Worst Single-Day Performances and the Sto-
ries Behind Them, by Joseph J. Dittmar,
are examples of reference books that
have capitalized well on vacant niches.�
Authors who write or compile one
reference book tend to return to refer-
ence for their following projects. Occa-
sionally publishers even oconvert� an
author to reference works after a mono-
graph or two, though most authors seem
predisposed in one direction or the
other.
SULTURAL
DE
The future of the reference book, as
electronic resources of various types be-
come more ubiquitous, is the focus of
much discussion at present. Baseball and
other sports books are not immune from
these concerns, but it is not clear how
much damage Internet products will do
them. A Publishers Weekly article in
March 2000 addressed the electronic
threat to sports books but drew no firm
conclusion. Jeff Neuman, vice president
and director of sports books at Simon &
Schuster, expressed pessimism, stating,
oTt is becoming increasingly difficult to
publish the kind of popular sports refer-
ence books that used to do very well. I
wonder if the generation that used to
turn to books for popular reference now
only associates reference with online
and so the book is less popular.�8
Popular reference is a category apart
from the more specialized, more expen-
sive works that scholarly and reference
publishers like McFarland produce. The
reputation for unreliability that taints
online resources in general may aid the
prospects of print refer-
ence works. Buyer pref-
erences are another
powerful influence,
aligned so far with
books for the most part.
2 A As Lyons Press president
Tony Lyons pointed out
in the same Publishers
Weekly article, oPeople
é love big, heavy refer-
ence books on subjects
that they like.�? Base-
ball aficionadosT liking
for books may give
print reference works a
measure of protection
well into the future,
given the undeniably
superior aesthetic expe-
rience that a thick book,
beautifully typeset on good paper, deliv-
ers in comparison to anything on a com-
puter screen. BaseballTs faithful are rev-
elers in simple sensory delights.
Biography
Trade publishers regularly churn out,
with mixed success, biographies of the
biggest names in sports, treating baseball
much like any other sport (except for its
greater store of famous players).
BaseballTs lore is such that figures from
the gameTs past, even the distant past,
still fascinate students of the sport "
and the player need not be a Cobb or
Ruth or Mays to be a good subject for a
scholarly publisher. Successful biogra-
phies for McFarland have generally been
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devoted to great players whose names
may be unfamiliar to the casual modern-
day fan, but hold magic for the SABR
member or other enthusiast with a zest
for the history of the game. Names like
Honus Wagner, Rube Waddell, Jimmie
Foxx, Mel Ott, Hack Wilson, and Al
Lopez " remarkable players and person-
alities, not already written into the
ground " are just the ticket for that au-
dience.
Team and League Histories
The stories of prominent minor leagues,
early major leagues, and individual
teams are often ideal material for schol-
arly or enthusiast-oriented books. Large
trade publishers ignore minor leagues es-
pecially, assuming the market to be too
limited. A limited market is fine for a
publisher like McFarland, if it is a well-
defined market. Nineteenth-century
baseball, for instance, is a hot research
area for the SABR crowd, so McFarland is
even receptive to histories of nine-
teenth-century teams: books on the New
York Giants, 1870-1900, and the Cincin-
nati Red Stockings, 1869-1870 (yes, two
years!), have been low-key successes in
recent years.
Negro Leagues
BaseballTs dirtiest injustice, the exclusion
of players of color from the established
professional leagues until midway
through the twentieth century, gave rise
to a parallel game that built a rich his-
tory of its own. Largely overlooked un-
til the last few decades, Black baseball is
an irresistible subject for many students
of the game today. That it produced
players whose talent equaled or sur-
passed the top White players of the day
is incontrovertible; the effect of these
playersT absence from the game as it de-
veloped into AmericaTs national pastime
is impossible to estimate. Many books
have been published on Black baseball
since the 1970s (by both trade and schol-
arly publishers) and many more remain
to be written, though unfortunately re-
searchers are limited by the lack of full
and rigorous statistical records and by
spotty contemporary reportage. The tan-
talizing air of mystery that has resulted
will keep the appetite for information
strong.
Local Interest
What baseball fan is not interested in
how the game has been played close to
home, wherever that may be? North
Carolina has a strong baseball heritage,
and as a North Carolina publisher,
McFarland has been lucky to receive
some very strong manuscripts about Tar
Heel baseball. Two popular titles are Pro-
North Carolina Libraries
fessional Baseball in North Carolina: An
Illustrated City-by-City History, 1901-
1996, by J. Chris Holaday, and The Inde-
pendent Carolina Baseball League, 1936-
1938: Baseball Outlaws, by R.G. (Hank)
Utley and Scott Verner. Also close to
home is Textile League Baseball: South
CarolinaTs Mill Teams, 1880-1955, by
Thomas K. Perry.!° The market for such
books is by no means exclusively local,
but the interest they stir up at home is
very strong. Everyone feels proprietary
about the home team, after all.
Literature
No survey of this kind would be com-
plete without mentioning a category in
which baseball stands almost alone
among sports. Widely considered the
most aesthetically involving of modern
sports, baseball has inspired a large body
of literature, including novels, short sto-
ries and poetry (even McFarland, a non-
fiction publisher, has issued several vol-
umes of baseball poetry). George
Plimpton has famously suggested that
the quality of literary sports writing is
inversely proportional to the size of the
ball!! " apparently setting the stage for
the great table tennis novel or golf
bildungsroman, but in fact extolling
baseball literature. Sports fiction is a sub-
ject for separate study, however.
Will Baseball Be Dethroned?
Though its supremacy among sports as
a publishing subject is longstanding and
universally acknowledged, wavering
only in rare lean years such as followed
the strike of the mid-1990s, baseball is
not the top spectator sport in the United
States today, having been displaced by
football long ago. Football is published
fairly heavily by trade houses, but it is
not generally regarded as a cultural phe-
nomenon worthy of serious study and
has not been a strong subject for schol-
arly publishers.
The hot rising sport for trade pub-
lishing in the last decade or so " even
before Tiger Woods " has been golf.
Oddly enough, golf writing has been lik-
ened to baseball writing, as in a 1997
Publishers Weekly report on sports pub-
lishing:
The one positive thing that golf
has learned from baseball is that
it is developing a literature of its
own. ~Golf writersT commentaries
are more reflective to begin with
because the game is not an excit-
ing game, per se,T says BantamTs
[editor Brian] Tart. ~So you rumi-
nate a lot more if youTre a golf
writer, and you do if youTre a
baseball writer too. If youTre a
football writer itTs all action. Golf
is a relationship game.T!�
An unusual aspect of golf as a pub-
lishing subject is that a great many of its
followers actually participate in the
sport; in fact, as sportswriter Roger Kahn
has said, it is a sport obest played, not
watched.�!9 The experiential bond thus
formed surely boosts the popularity of
some types of golf books, but it has no
clear impact on scholarly or reference
titles. Despite a furious period of golf
publishing, during which there has been
ono more profitable area of sports pub-
lishing,�!4 a Booklist oSpotlight on
Sports� wrap-up of reference sources in
September 2000 concluded that oGolf
reference works are a little thin.�!5 With-
out a substantial body of references,
player biographies, and other serious
works, golf will not approach baseballTs
status in print.
Another sport inspiring much pub-
lishing activity of late is stock car racing
(generally referred to simply as
NASCAR). Surprisingly, NASCAR has also
been compared seriously to baseball:
~NASCAR is like baseball,T says
Scott Huler, author of A Little Bit
Sideways: One Week Inside a
NASCAR Winston Cup Race Team
(MBI, $14.95). ~ItTs a sport that
completely supports a literature.
It has the same rhythms as base-
ball: a long, slow contest, little
tiny adjustments, and suddenly
they have a profound effect and
so reward concentration and
people with a long attention
span. NASCAR right now is like
baseball 100 years ago.T!®
The comparison may be a bit far-
fetched, but NASCARTs popularity is in-
disputable. Whether that will translate
into the kind of multifaceted, fiercely
devoted book audience that baseball
has long attracted cannot be predicted
at this early date.
Conclusion
If any proof of baseballTs unique stature
in publishing were needed, comparisons
like those above tell the story. To make
an argument for another sportTs book
prospects, standard practice is to explain
how it is ojust like baseball.� But baseball
is one of a kind. No other sport in
America has its enduring appeal, its
power to inspire artful reflection, its im-
pact on society. Popular publications will
always reflect ephemeral trends, but
among a serious readership baseballTs
pull is unfaltering.
Summer 2001 " 79
References
1 Dermot McEvoy, oA New Player
Roars Onto the Sports Scene,� Publishers
Weekly 246:12 (March 22, 1999): 54.
2 Ibid.
3 Keith Dawson, oPlaying Ball with
Books: Publishers in the Spectator Sport
Arena Find Celebrity and Team Titles
Are a Gamble, but Statistics Are a Sure
Bet,� Publishers Weekly 237:7 (Feb. 16,
1990)e23.
4 The annual conference proceedings,
since 1997, are published in Alvin L.
Hall, series ed., The Cooperstown Sympo-
sium on Baseball and American Culture
(Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2000- ).
Addressing the same topic is Donald E.
The Summer People
John Foster West
2000, 244 pp.
ISBN: 1-887905-27-8 Softcover, $14.95
1974 is a summer of discovery in the unfamiliar
NC mountains for newly widowed 24-year-old
Anna DeVoss. AnnaTs mother-in-law
Walker, and B. Lee Cooper, compilers,
Baseball and American Culture: A The-
matic Bibliography of Over 4,500 Works
(Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1995).
5 David H. Nathan, ed. The McFarland
Baseball Quotations Dictionary (Jefferson,
NC: McFarland, 2000), 194.
© G.S. Rowe, Untitled review, Nine: A
Journal of Baseball History and Social Policy
Perspectives, vol. 8 (Fall 1999): 65.
T The Baseball Encyclopedia: The Com-
plete and Definitive Record of Major League
Baseball, 10th ed. (New York: Macmillan,
1996); John Thorn, Pete Palmer, Michael
Gershman, and David Pietrusza, eds.,
Total Baseball: The Official Encyclopedia of
Major League Baseball, 6th ed. (New York:
Total Sports, Inc., 1999); Myron J. Smith,
Mason Jars
in the Flood
and Other Stories
Gary Carden
2000, xii, 210 pp.,
ISBN: 1-887905-22-7.
Hardcover, $20.00
persuades her to spend some time alone in Meet Gary Carden, storyteller, folklorist,
the familyTs Watauga County summer home. Playwright and author, and award-winning
Winner of First Appalachian Consortium English instructor, drama director and grants
Fiction Award by John Foster West, Writer for the Eastern Band of Cherokee
acclaimed author of Lift Up Your Head, Tom 'ndians. Two plays, oThe Raindrop Waltz�
Dooley, The Ballad of Tom Dula, and Time 2nd oLandTs End� have been recently
Was. (Reprint)
Letters From James:
A High Country Love Story
Ruth Layng
2000, 350 pp. ISBN: 1-887905-23-5,
Softcover, 19,95
produced in Atlanta, Key West, and San
Francisco. His video, oBlow the Tannery
Whistle!� has been presented on PBS, and
is a perennial favorite with his storytelling
audiences.
Grandfather
James, a young Irishman fighting
in France in WWI, corresponds
with Jennie, a native of Zionville, NC
about the horrors of war as well as
the hardships and joys of
Appalachian mountain life. o..A
new novel so mature and so
enjoyable you wish it would not end.�
John Foster West, Emeritus
Professor of English, ASU
Spring 2001 releases:
All in a DayTs Work
Londa L. Woody
ISBN: 1-887905-44-8; 86 pp. Softcover; $9.95
Historic general stories of Macon and surrounding
North Carolina counties. Beautiful pen-and-ink
illustrations by Gail Blakely Wood.
The Animals of
Grandfather Mountain
Laurie Mitchell Jakobsen
A delightful autobiographical account of the day-to-day
life of Grandfather MountainTs animal habitat keepers.
Mountain:
A Profile
Miles
Tager
1999, xvi, 110 pp., bibl.,
Photographs, Index.
ISBN: 1-887905-17-0.
Softcover; $14.95.
Grandfather Mountain: A
Profile returns to the origins of
this living entity, tracing its unique |
development " geological,
meteorological, natural,
prehistoric, and modern humans
" to the present day. Miles
Tager, winner of numerous
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Mountain Times, lives at the base
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Parkway Publishers, Inc.
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Phone & Fax: (828) 265-3993
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visit us at www.parkwaypublishers.com
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Jt., Baseball: A Comprehensive Bibliography
(Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1986); Base-
ball: A Comprehensive Bibliography, Supple-
ment 1 (1985-May 1992) (Jefferson,
N.C.: McFarland, 1993); Baseball: A Com-
prehensive Bibliography, Supplement 2
(1992 through 1997), (Jefferson, N.C.:
McFarland, 1998); Michael Benson,
Ballparks of North America: A Comprehen-
sive Historical Reference to Baseball
Grounds, Yards and Stadiums, 1845 to
Present (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland,
1989); Jonathan Fraser Light, The Cul-
tural Encyclopedia of Baseball (Jefferson,
N.C.: McFarland, 1997); John C. Skip-
per, A Biographical Dictionary of the Base-
ball Hall of Fame (Jefferson, N.C.:
McFarland, 2000); Joseph J. Dittmar,
Baseball Records Registry: The Best and
Worst Single-Day Performances and the Sto-
ries Behind Them (Jefferson, N.C.:
McFarland, 1997).
8 Dermot McEvoy, oHitting to All
Fields: Sports Publishing Brings Its Game
to New Categories and New Markets,�
Publishers Weekly 247:12 (March 20,
2000): 59.
° Ibid.
10]. Chris Holaday, Professional Base-
ball in North Carolina: An Illustrated City-
by-City History, 1901-1996 (Jefferson,
N.C.: McFarland, 1998); R.G. (Hank)
Utley, and Scott Verner, The Independent
Carolina Baseball League, 1936-1938:
Baseball Outlaws (Jefferson, N.C::
McFarland, 1999; Thomas K. Perry, Tex-
tile League Baseball: South CarolinaTs Mill
Teams, 1880-1955 (Jefferson, N.C.:
McFarland, 1993).
11 George Plimpton, oThe Smaller the
Ball, the Better the Book: A Game Theory
of Literature,� New York Times Book Re-
view, May 31, 1992: 16.
12 Dermot McEvoy, oAs Baseball Fades,
Golf Puts a Tiger in Its Tank,� Publishers
Weekly 244:14 (April 7, 1997): 38.
13 David H. Nathan, The McFarland
Baseball Quotations Dictionary (Jefferson,
N.C.: McFarland, 2000), 113.
4 Dermot McEvoy, oHitting to All
Fields: Sports Publishing Brings Its Game
to New Categories and New Markets,�
Publishers Weekly 247:12 (March 20,
2000): 52.
15 Don Maxwell, oReference Sources on
Sports,� Booklist 97:1 (Sept. 1, 2000): 171.
16 Dermot McEvoy, oA New Player
Roars Onto the Sports Scene,� Publishers
Weekly 246:12 (March 22, 1999): 54.
McFarlandTs baseball books may be found on
the Web site www.mcfarlandbaseball.com.
Print catalogs are also available by phone (800-
253-2187), e-mail (info@mcfarlandpub.com) or
mail-in request: McFarland & Company, Inc.,
Publishers, Box 611, Jefferson NC 28640.
North Carolina Libraries
Take me out to the ball game ....
The Importance of
Archiving Sporting Activities
kay. I admit it. Like many
Americans, I spend more
time reading the sports sec-
tion than all other sections of
the morning paper combined.
While I might not be able to tell
you who is leading the race for
governor, I have no problem in telling
you the Major League Baseball divi-
sional leaders or the number one team
in the most recent National Collegiate
Athletic Association poll. As I shame-
facedly make these confessions, I find
solace in a comment attributed to the
late Supreme Court Justice William O.
Douglas. oThe story goes that on an
early morning flight from the West
Coast to Washington, D. C., a reporter
noticed that when the stewardess gave
Douglas the morning paper he flipped
immediately to the sports page. The Jus-
tice caught the question in the
newsmanTs eyes and said something
like; ~I always look at sports first because
I want to read about manTs achieve-
ments before I see his failures that make
the front page.T�!
Thus, sports have infiltrated popu-
lar culture. Many Americans can recall
where they were and what they were
doing when a memorable sporting
event occurred. For example, I remem-
ber as clearly where I was on September
8, 1998, when Mark McGwire broke
Roger MarisT home run record, and June
19, 1986, when I heard that Len Bias,
possibly the most gifted athlete I ever
saw play basketball, died of a cocaine
overdose, as I do watching the space
North Carolina Libraries
ee
by Russell S. Koonts
shuttle Challenger explode shortly after
take-off on January 28, 1986.
Why do sports hold such a place in
American popular culture? Newspaper
and television reports bombard the
public with news about athletic activi-
ties, commenting on the competitions
and the latest sports-related scandals.
For much of the public, sports are syn-
onymous with the National Football
League (NFL), the National Basketball
Association (NBA), Major League Base-
ball (MLB), the National Collegiate Ath-
letics Association (NCAA) football and
basketball, and the Olympics. Prevailing
headlines might lead one to conclude
that all of these activities are scandal-
ridden and profit-making.
Take, for example, recent events
surrounding the Olympics. The Salt
Lake City Olympic Committee gained
worldwide notoriety when it came to
light that large sums of money and ad-
ditional perks were offered to members
of the Olympics Selection Committee to
ensure that their city was chosen as the
site for the 2002 Winter Olympics. Al-
though the city succeeded, the selection
process was tainted, and many mem-
bers lost their positions on the Selection
Committee.
Athletes do not escape such delving
coverage, either. Two examples occurred
during the 2000 Summer Olympics in
Sydney, Australia. So interested was the
worldTs population in the sporting
events that for every athlete participat-
ing in the Summer Games, there were
three members of the media present.
Two of the athletes who garnered most
of the attention were the American
sprinter Marion Jones and the Roma-
nian gymnast Andreea Raducan. While
early stories from the Games reported
their athletic accomplishments, the
tone of the reports changed once it was
discovered that Raducan and JonesTs
husband, the world champion shot
putter C. J. Hunter, tested positive for
banned substances. Although both
individuals claimed innocence " in
RaducanTs case she had a cold and took
two cold pills prescribed by her teamTs
doctor that, unfortunately, contained
the banned stimulant " the ensuing
explosion in the mediaTs coverage of
these events overshadowed the athletic
performances.
The true picture of athletics is con-
siderably different. Athletics actually
comprise many layers of activities: pro-
fessional, intercollegiate, intramural,
and individual sports. Humans have a
natural propensity for sports, and with
the current value placed on physical fit-
ness and health, most individuals are
involved in athletics in one way or an-
other. From infancy, most of us partici-
pate in some level of sporting activity.
Accordingly, many of these activities are
recorded for posterity. These recordings
may range from the proud parentsT vid-
eotape of their infant playing with a
ball for the first time, or a scrapbook or
photo album of their childis sporting
events, to the physical education, intra-
mural, and/or organized team sport par-
ticipation that are documented in the
Summer 2001 " 7/7
dreaded opermanent record� we were
always warned about during our school
years. Furthermore, the sporting activi-
ties and events that we take part in as
adults rate similar documentation.
Whether the actions take place in a
City Parks and Recreation league, a
health club class, or club sports team, all
organized sporting events produce
records of outcomes, lists of partici-
pants, and overall team standings that
are maintained by the sponsoring en-
tity. With the plethora of documenta-
tion being created, one question may
come to mind, oWhat happens to all of
these records?�
Archives and libraries play an im-
portant role in documenting athletic
and life experiences played out on every
athletic field. In the case of North Caro-
lina State University, as with most ma-
jor colleges and universities, the man-
agement and preservation of these
records fall under the domain of the
University Archives. Filed together, the
records detail the history, administra-
tion, and educational accomplishments
of the University, as well as document-
ing the UniversityTs intercollegiate, in-
tramural, club, and individual athletic
endeavors.
Coverage of these athletic contests
occurs in college, local, and national
media reports, carrying results of games
and feature stories about the players
and coaches. News information and
athletic offices capture the events in pic-
tures and video and through news re-
leases sent to the local and national
media. Published souvenir programs
and reports, films, videos, and still pho-
tographs chronicle the games and ac-
complishments of local teams, supple-
menting the statistics and doumenting
more fully the teamsT events. While the
sport-specific associations such as the
NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAA, and the North
Carolina High School Athletic Associa-
tion (NCHSAA) maintain some statis-
tics, a fuller statistical record should be
available at the institution or with
the individual team.
On the surface, a collection of
game statistics, scorebooks, game
programs, and correspondence
may not seem very exciting or
worthwhile. After all, local news-
papers carry game summaries, re-
sults, box scores, and statistics. A
sports archive, however, is more
than a simple collection of results.
There are numerous uses and un-
told numbers of individualsT per-
sonal stories and information on
participantsT achievements valued
78 " Summer 2001
by athletic departments, public rela-
tions offices, historical researchers, and
individual athletes and fans. The fol-
lowing stories illustrate the various uses
of sports archives.
Recently, while preparing to pro-
cess the NC State Athletics Depart-
mentTs records, I found myself faced
with a perplexing issue. An initial sur-
vey of the collection showed the follow-
ing: there are 60 shelves of materials
(about 180 linear feet) dating from the
late 1890s to the early 1990s. The vast
majority of the files contains newspaper
clippings recounting game activities,
plus several Departmental scrapbooks
pertaining to particularly successful in-
dividual teams, specifically the 1974
and 1983 NCAA basketball champions.
Discussions with my office col-
leagues on the necessity of keeping cop-
ies of the clippings provided no clear-cut
decision, so I contacted a fellow archivist
at Duke University, described the collec-
tion, and asked about the necessity of
keeping years of newspaper clippings.
After all, I argued, we have the press re-
leases written by the Sports Information
Office and the official game statistics
and results as they were reported to the
NCAA. Furthermore, the clippings
showed the effects of ageing, poor qual-
ity paper stock, yellowing, and crum-
bling. Finally, I reasoned, keeping all of
the clippings would increase processing
time threefold, since all articles would
need copying onto acid-free paper.
After listening to my questions, my
colleague from Duke recounted the fol-
lowing event: During a recent college
basketball season, the University of
Kentucky won a game after being be-
hind by thirty points. The papers and
newscasts that carried the report of the
game cited the comeback as the great-
est rally in NCAA history, stating that
no team had made a comeback from a
greater deficit to win a game. After hear-
ing the report of the game and ogreat-
est comeback in NCAA history,� a
With the plethora of
documentation being.
created, one question
may come to mind,
oWhat happens to all of
these records?�
former member of the Duke basketball
team contacted the Duke University Ar-
chives stating that he remembered a
game from his playing days where Duke
rallied from thirty-one points down to
win. The caller asked the archivist to see
if he could find anything on the game.
Having access to one of the largest
sports-related collections in the nation,
thanks in part to an active Sports Infor-
mation Office, the archivist found the
game files in question. The official game
statistics, which are forwarded to the
NCAA for their files, showed that Duke
was behind by a twenty-nine-point
margin at half time, one less than
KentuckyTs thirty-point deficit. Fortu-
nately, the Sports Information Office
kept newspaper clippings of the game.
One such clipping in the file stated that
DukeTs opponent, after leading by
twenty-nine at halftime, scored the first
basket of the second half, thus taking a
thirty-one point lead before Duke ral-
lied to win the game.
With this information in hand "
oafter all,� my friend continued, owe are
talking Kentucky basketball here� " the
University quickly called the news ser-
vices to report that the Kentucky win
was not the ogreatest comeback in
NCAA history.� My friend made his
point; we will be keeping all of the
game-related news clippings.
Next, before a Presidential visit to
the NC State campus, inquiries were
made to the archives requesting a list of
presidents who had visited the campus,
either while in office, or at other times
in their careers. A search of the Athlet-
ics DepartmentTs files yielded the fol-
lowing story concerning a baseball
game played between N.C. State and
Yale University on April 3, 1948. In a
game that the Wolfpack lost 9 " 6, the
articleTs author recounts how Yale used
a opair of two-baggers, four free tickets
to first, and a hit batsman� to score five
runs in the first and all but win the ball
game. Although N.C. State eventually
scored several runs, the Wolfpack pitch-
ing could not stop oYaleTs husky first
sacker,� George Bush, as he collected a
single, double, and a triple on his way
to scoring two runs and collecting three
runs batted in (RBIs) in leading the Elis
to victory.�
Finally, a young woman came into
the NCSU Special Collections with a re-
quest. She had met a young man who
often spoke of playing soccer at NC
State. Since it soon would be his birth-
day, she wanted to surprise him with a
scrapbook of clippings and photographs
from his days playing for the Wolfpack.
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After poring through the Athletic
DepartmentTs records, searching
through four years of the student news-
paper, The Technician, and looking at
various photograph collections and
yearbooks, she was unable to find any
record that her friend did anything but
attend the University. What I would
give to have been present at that birth-
day party!
In her publication stressing the
importance of documenting all aspects
of a college or university, Helen Samuels
suggested that athletics belongs in the
category ofoster socialization.� When
she shared this proposal with a group of
archivists, many disagreed: athletics be-
longs in oprovide public service,� sug-
gested an archivist from a large mid-
western state university, while another
colleague felt that it belonged in opro-
mote culture�; an archivist from a Big
Ten institution suggested that they were
both wrong, as athletics clearly belongs
in osustain the institution.� Samuels
says that, in fact, her colleagues were all
correct. Each of the individual archivists
identified nuances of athletics that are
important at their institutions and that
suggest what should be documented.? It
is important to note that, while the re-
mainder of this article discusses the role
of athletics on college campuses, the is-
sues detailed apply to aspects of athlet-
ics at all levels.
The differing views and impres-
sions of athletics expressed by the
above-mentioned archivists reflect the
multitude of driving forces behind in-
tercollegiate athletic programs. While
the expressed views pertain to major in-
tercollegiate athletic programs, sports
play a much greater role on campuses
across the nation. Only a small portion
of students at any college or university
participate in conference-sanctioned
athletic events. This fact does not di-
minish the importance of sports to the
vast majority of students.
In order to be as inclusive as pos-
sible, an athletics collection policy
should strive to document as many ley-
els of participation as possible. Types of
athletics on campus include, but are not
limited to: 1) intercollegiate programs,
2) intramural and club sports, and 3) in-
dividual programs. Unfortunately, the
amount of documentation created by
these various categories does not corre-
spond accordingly to the number of stu-
dents that participate. Because intercol-
legiate athletics can bring not only pres-
tige but also substantial revenues, aca-
demic institutions generally establish
departments to manage participation in
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these programs. These departments, as
official entities, produce the vast
amount of documentation that eventu-
ally makes it into an archive.
Intercollegiate Programs
In August 1852, crew teams from
Harvard and Yale participated in the
first intercollegiate sporting event in
United States history. Since then, inter-
collegiate competition has been a part
of the American academic scene. Base-
ball and football eventually joined crew
as the most popular intercollegiate
sports. At the dawn of the twentieth
century, however, the violence of foot-
ball games, questions about eligibility of
players, and financial scandals caused
many institutions to drop the sport.
Many leaders urged that football be re-
formed or abolished from intercolle-
giate athletics.
oPresident Theodore Roosevelt
summoned college athletics leaders to
two White House conferences to en-
courage such reforms. In early Decem-
ber 1905, Chancellor Henry M.
MacCracken of New York University
convened a meeting of 13 institutions
to initiate changes in football playing
rules.�* At a subsequent meeting on
December 28 in New York City, the In-
tercollegiate Athletic Association of the
United States (IAAUS) was founded by
62 members, officially was constituted
March 31, 1906, and took its present
name in 1910. In 1921, the first NCAA
national championship was held: the
National Collegiate Track and Field
Championships.*
As a coordinating body for intercol-
legiate athletics, the NCAA establishes
the guidelines and rules under which its
member institutions operate. Addition-
ally, the NCAA preserves intercollegiate
athletic records and maintains a oNa-
tional Statistics Service� for member in-
stitutions. The service publishes weekly
and annual statistical reports for specific
sports and maintains the original reports
submitted to it by each member institu-
tion. These game reports often serve as
the basis of most college and university
sports-related collections. Other coordi-
nating athletic associations, such as the
National Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics (NAIA) and the National Junior
College Athletic Association (NJCAA), do
exist and exercise similar administrative
guidance.
Varsity Letters describes intercolle-
giate athletics as part of the function
ofoster socialization� at the individual
institutions. Such programs, however,
have implications that connect Athletic
Department activities and their docu-
mentation to that of other University
functions. Policy issues " financial,
athletic, and educational " are docu-
mented in the administrative records of
the governing board, senior officers,
alumni association, and athletic direc-
tor. Negotiations with athletic associa-
tions and records of controversies and
suspensions appear in both the admin-
istrative files of the college and the
records of the association. Therefore,
the documentary issues have implica-
tions in many areas.®
Attempting to document intercolle-
giate athletics can prove time- and
space-consuming. The size of the archi-
val collection often reflects the activity
of the sports information office and the
importance of the various programs. For
comparison, the NC State Athletics De-
partment record series measures 180 lin-
ear feet (excluding photographs and au-
dio-visual materials) while Duke
UniversityTs collection measures over
500 linear feet (including game films).
Intramural and Club Programs
As previously mentioned, the percent-
age of students participating in intra-
mural and individual athletics is signifi-
cantly higher than those who partici-
pate in intercollegiate athletics. While
students on athletic scholarships are the
most visible, the overall success of any
athletic program is the effect it has on
the vast majority of the students attend-
ing an institution. NC State presently
offers 51 intramural and 46 club sports
opportunities as compared to 20 inter-
collegiate athletic teams, including
cheerleading and band.
To encourage and support partici-
pation in competitive athletics among
the members of the academic commu-
nity, most institutions provide facilities,
equipment, and officials for intramural
and club sports. Many institutions en-
courage participation by students, fac-
ulty, and staff. Most of the administra-
tive and financial support for intramu-
ral and club activities comes under the
purview of the Physical Education De-
partment and falls within the adminis-
trative structure of the Division of Stu-
dent Affairs. Club sports usually include
a wider range of athletic competition
and provide an opportunity to compete
against clubs at other institutions.
Unfortunately, extensive docu-
mentation of intramural and club ath-
letic activities does not occur. NC State
uses different approaches to document-
these programs. Since intramural sports
are sponsored and administered by the
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Physical Education Department, the
records are maintained by the depart-
ment until they are transferred to the
University Archives; club sports, on the
other hand, require a different ap-
proach. Most club sports, although un-
der the institutional administration, are
expected to be self-sufficient. As such,
records of participation, management,
and outcomes are maintained by the
individual clubs. To collect these
records, the NCSU Archives deals di-
rectly with the club and its officials, re-
lying upon the club to regularly deposit
its records with the archives. This docu-
mentation requires constant effort as
leadership of the clubs changes, often on
a yearly basis. Also, additional informa-
tion on intramural and club sports ap-
pears as articles and reports in campus
newspapers and student newsletters.
Individual Sports
The last, and perhaps the largest group
of athletic endeavors consists of the in-
dividuals who pursue sports activities
on their own. They may run, swim, take
aerobics, play basketball or tennis to at-
tain personal fitness goals or as a form
of relaxation. Since most of these activi-
ties occur outside the formal program
arena, most individuals participate on
their own, thus producing no records of
activity.
Documentation may appear only in
annual reports containing estimates of
the number of people who use the ath-
letic facilities for their own activities.
While less than accurate, these figures
indicate the number of players and types
of activities. Other sources may come
from campus newspapers or other photo-
graphic documentation of campus life.
As sports and sporting events creep
deeper into popular culture, the appe-
tite for historical information increases.
Long after the events have faded from
recent memory, the records and accom-
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plishments continue to live in our col-
lective mind. Libraries and archives play
an important role in ensuring that team
and individual accomplishments re-
main available for research, review, and
reflection, forever providing a place
where human achievements outweigh
their failures.
References
! William H. Beezley, The Wolfpack
... Intercollegiate Athletics at North Caro-
lina State University (Raleigh: University
Graphics, North Carolina State Univer-
sity, 1976), ix.
2 News and Observer (Raleigh) (April 4,
1948), 11:2
3 Helen Willa Samuels, Varsity Letters:
Documenting Modern Colleges and Univer-
sities (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press),
23.
4 NCAA Online. oHistory� http://
www.ncaa.org/about/history.html
(February 2, 2001).
S Ibid.
6 Samuels, 102-3.
SSS SS SSS SSS
Useful sport archives locations and Web sites:
A list of North Carolina repositories that hold sports-related collections
would prove too lengthy as an addendum. Suffice it to say that most
colleges and universities in the state maintain records relating to their own
institutionTs athletic endeavors. Additional resources include the North
Carolina Division of Archives and History, the North Carolina Museum of
History, and the numerous county and municipal parks and recreation
departments. Some especially noteworthy sport archives are listed.
National Baseball Hall of Fame (Coopers-town, NY).
http://baseballhalloffame.org/index.htm.
Contact and address information: http://baseballhalloffame.org/contact/
address.htm.
Library and archives: http://baseballhalloffame.org/library/index.htm
Professional Football Hall of Fame (Canton, OH).
http://www.profootballhof.com/.
Archives and information center: http://www.profootballhof.com/home/
services/library.cfm.
National Basketball Association Hall of Fame (Springfield, MA).
http://hoophall.com
National Collegiate Athletics Association (Overland Park, KS).
http://www.ncaa.org.
NCAA sports statistics: http://www.ncaa.org/stats/.
North Carolina High School Athletic Association (Chapel Hill, NC).
http://www.nchsaa.unc.edu/.
Special Programs: http://www.nchsaa.unc.edu/specialprograms/
index.html
Links to various North Carolina special collections and/or archival repositories:
http://rtpnet.org/snca/links.htm
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Telling the Story:
Museums and Libraries
Partner to Make Sport History Live
here do sport history,
museums, and libraries in-
tersect? The answer: in a
well-researched, well-docu-
mented, well-interpreted mu-
seum exhibit on some aspect of
sport history.
To see how we get there, I wish to
start with a brief discussion of sport his-
tory. The study of sports is a part of a
broad post-World War II movement in
American history sometimes referred to
as The New Social History. To oversim-
plify, historians have increasingly
moved away from their traditional fo-
cus " politics, war, economics, and for-
eign policy, all usually from the perspec-
tive of famous people " to studies that
include race, gender, social customs,
and the lives of ordinary people. Sport
history, as a distinct field of academic
study, came of age in the United States
in the 1970s. The struggles of John
Rickards Betts, generally regarded as the
founder of American sport history, illus-
trate the distance traveled by sport his-
tory after the war. Betts completed his
doctoral dissertation, Organized Sport in
Industrial America, in 1951. Yet his work
was met with disinterest in the schol-
arly world. He was unable to find an
academic market for his studies until
the late 1960s. He began work on what
would be published as AmericaTs Sporting
Heritage in the late 1960s but died be-
fore its completion. It was published in
unfinished form in 1974.1
By the time of BettsT death, sport
history was being taken seriously for the
first time. In 1971 the American Histori-
North Carolina Libraries
by Jim Sumner
cal Association devoted a session to pa-
pers on sport history. Two years later the
North American Society for Sport His-
tory (NASSH) was founded and began
publishing a juried academic journal,
the Journal of Sport History. Several years
later, two founders of the group, John
Lucas and Ronald Smith, published the
first widely used academic textbook for
sport history classes.�
In the ensuing quarter century,
sport history has become part of the aca-
demic scene in both America and Eu-
rope. This makes sense. After all, mil-
lions play sports and millions watch
sports, sometimes with great emotional
involvement. Sport is big business.
Many of the twentieth centuryTs great
social battles have been fought on sport-
ing fields. The study of sport can and has
been approached through the prisms of
technology, higher education, gender,
economics, race, labor, community, in-
ternational relations, and many others.?
NASSH, the Society for American Base-
ball Research (SABR), the Popular Cul-
ture Association, the America Culture
Association, the International Centre for
Olympic Studies, and other organiza-
tions have encouraged research, created
college courses, and published scholarly
and popular publications on a wide
range of sport history topics. The Journal
of Sport History has been joined by the
Journal of Popular Culture, the Canadian
Journal of History of Sport, the Journal of
American Culture, Nine: A Journal of Base-
ball History and Social Policy Perspectives,
and the International Journal of the History
of Sport, as outlets for sport historians to
disseminate their latest research. Jour-
nals as varied as the Maryland Historical
Magazine, History News, Virginia Caval-
cade, and Now and Then: the Appalachian
Magazine have devoted entire issues to
sport history.* State history journals and
popular history magazines, such as
American Heritage and Smithsonian rou-
tinely carry articles on sport history. Ken
BurnsTs popular PBS series on baseball
brought solid sports scholarship to huge
audiences, while movies such as A
League of Their Own and Cobb are light-
years away from the typical hagio-
graphic sports movies of the 1940s and
1950s. Subjects such as the reintegration
of major league baseball after World War
II, the rise of spectator sports in the
1920s, the use of sports as an instrument
of the Cold War, the struggle of women
to gain access to the sporting pie, and
the commercialization of the Olympic
Games are all examples of how the na-
ture of a society can be studied through
sport.
There is no reason why history mu-
seums cannot join the fun. A history
museum basically has two broad pur-
poses: to collect, preserve, and study his-
torical artifacts, and to make its collec-
tion and subsequent research available
to scholars and the public. Although
interactive exhibits, virtual museums,
Web sites, and other accoutrements of
the modern age of computers and bytes
are increasingly becoming part of the
museum experience, the exhibit is still
the primary way of communicating with
the public. Exhibits are more than just
displays. Good museums donTt just dis-
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play artifacts. Exhibitions require inter-
pretation, and interpretation requires re-
search and thought.® Of course, the
great thing about research is that it can
be used in so many different ways. The
same research that informs an exhibit
can be used in a computer interactive
exhibit, a Web site, or a publication.
The first thing a museum must do
for an exhibit on sport, or anything else
for that matter, is acquire artifacts. His-
tory museums donTt collect artifacts ran-
domly, and they donTt accept everything
offered. Many museums have broad col-
lection plans based on geographical
lines, such as a state, county, city, or
region. Others are chronological, focus-
ing on a specific time period. Still others
focus on a certain subject area, such as
technology, agriculture, or aviation.
Within these broad areas, many muse-
ums define areas in which they wish to
specialize, based on the history of their
region, the availability of a particular
class of artifact, or even the interest and
expertise of the curators. Based on these
variables, along with space and conser-
vation requirements, a museum must
decide whether to acquire artifacts as
part of its permanent collections or
whether to borrow them for the dura-
tion of a particular exhibit.
Whether to collect an artifact in an
appropriate classification depends in
large part on how this artifact compares
to others in the collection and to pos-
sible additions to the collection. In order
to accomplish this, the museum may
need access to basic studies of artifact
classes. Once the decision is made to
acquire a specific artifact, the next step
is to study it. Research on an object is
both internal and external. Internal re-
search includes basic documentation:
size, shape, material, color, and so forth.
More important is to determine how this
artifact relates to others of its type. How
does it fit into a technological frame-
work? Was it mass-produced or made in
Exhibits are the primary way
museums educate their public,
the primary way museums use
their artifacts to tell a story.
This research is where libraries
and museums have their most
fruitful interactions.
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the home? Is it typical or atypical? Is it
at the beginning of a line of develop-
ment or at the end? When and where
was it manufactured? Who owned it and
how was it used? This kind of research
may involve manufacturersT catalogs,
instruction manuals, advertising materi-
als, photographs, maps, and city directo-
ries.�
It is important to recognize that an
artifact is also a primary source. It should
be made available for study to scholars
both inside and outside the museum.
Most museums display only a fraction of
their holdings at any one time, but all
artifacts need to be conserved. Smaller
museums may not be able to afford full-
time professional conservators, so the
staff may need access to books on mu-
seum conservation.
Artifacts become public when they
are placed on exhibit. Again, it is crucial
to understand the difference between a
display and an exhibit. A display is cre-
ated by simply arranging a group of un-
related artifacts, with an identifying
label, but with no attempt to link them
together. Many museums have exhibits
known as ovisible storage,� where arti-
facts are displayed in this way. There are
valid reasons for this, including showing
a popular artifact not otherwise sched-
uled for exhibit.
Exhibits are something else entirely.
Exhibits are artifacts interpreted, arti-
facts placed in context. Exhibits are the
primary way museums educate their
public, the primary way museums use
their artifacts to tell a story. In the words
of Roy Brigden, the obasic job of a cura-
tor is to interpret artifacts in context.�®
This research is where libraries and
museums have their most fruitful inter-
actions. Larger museums have their own
libraries and professional librarians.
Smaller museums may well have to de-
pend on those books in the personal
collections of the staff and a close coop-
erative relationship with the local li-
brary. Regardless of where
this is done, the product of
this research must meet sev-
eral criteria. It must be rel-
evant to, and understandable
by, a broad public. It must be
based on solid scholarship.
Most of all, it should fit to-
gether in such a way that sto-
ries are told, points are made,
insights are gained.? Casual
visitors to a museum fre-
quently have no idea how
much research goes into a
major exhibit. One of a
curatorTs jobs is to distill mas-
sive amounts of research into succinct
label copy, all the while communicating
the key elements of an artifact and put-
ting the artifacts and the label copy to-
gether in such a way that the story is
told.
Many of the primary sources widely
used by researchers are generally found,
not in mainstream public libraries, but
in manuscript repositories typically
found in universities or in government
offices or archives. These include diaries,
letters, account books, and official
records such as deeds, wills, tax books,
and census returns. Since this kind of
material is rarely available through inter-
library loan, a librarianTs job in this case
will probably be to point a researcher in
the right direction; however, many li-
braries have local history collections and
such published primary sources as city
directories.
Secondary sources are another mat-
ter. Relatively little sport history has
made it into state, county, and local his-
tories. For example, the most recent aca-
demic North Carolina history text, Wil-
liam S. PowellTs North Carolina Through
Four Centuries, contains one paragraph
on sports, a description of colonial
sports related to militia muster.!° Most
county histories older than a few de-
cades will have little or nothing on sport
and many newer studies follow suit. Jean
AndersonTs Durham County is an ex-
ample of a more recent county history
that does include sport history.!!
Much sport history has been written
in the form of biography. Among the
large number of sport biographies avail-
able, many fall into the as-told-to auto-
biography category. Despite the wealth
of valuable material in these books, they
must be approached with caution. His-
tories of teams, franchises, and leagues
are common, but are usually written for
fans, not scholars.
Scholarly works on sport date
largely from the last 30 years. Much of
this has been published in journals and
magazines. In order for researchers to
use this material, they need access to
first-rate bibliographies and they need
the ability to acquire the articles. Librar-
ians should note that the Journal of Sport
History regularly publishes annotated
bibliographies of sport history articles
appearing in a variety of journals.
The most popular sport from an his-
torical perspective has been baseball.
There are several reasons for this. Base-
ball predates the Civil War in much of
the country, giving it a history un-
matched by newer sports such as foot-
ball or basketball. Even in North Caro-
North Carolina Libraries
lina this northern import was widely
played by 1870. In addition to age, it
also has universality. Hardly a commu-
nity, college, or school is without a tra-
dition of baseball. Baseball seems to
speak to some basic aspects of the Ameri-
can experience, hence its designation as
the oNational Pastime.� There are orga-
nizations devoted solely to baseball his-
tory and research and numerous publi-
cations devoted to the sport.!2
Two types of primary sources are in-
valuable for sport historians. One is oral
history. Some libraries may well have
strong local oral history collections, but
in most cases a librarianTs job again will
be to point the researcher in the right
direction. Equally crucial are contempo-
rary periodicals: newspapers, magazines,
programs, brochures. I know of few sport
histories that donTt rely heavily on news-
paper accounts. Museum curators study-
ing sports will most likely have to de-
pend on microfilm copies of old news-
papers. Their librariesT ability to procure
these will prove crucial to a project.
With the growth of the Internet, the
ability of a librarian and a researcher to
surf the Web will become an increasingly
important component of a well-con-
ceived research plan. The accessibility of
any journal is increased dramatically if
it is in electronic form. The Amateur
Athletic Foundation of Los Angles ar-
chives numerous sport history titles at
its Web site, including the Journal of Sport
History. Equally valuable is the North
American Sport Library Network
(NASLN) site.13
Of course there are numerous sport-
specific halls of fame. The best known
are probably the National Baseball Hall
of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown,
New York, the Pro Football Hall of Fame
in Canton, Ohio, and the Naismith Me-
morial Basketball Hall of Fame in Spring-
field, Massachusetts. These and others
have broad constituencies, which range
from the most casual fans to the most
serious scholars. Their Web sites have
useful information and point the way to
future research. !4
The collaboration of museum cura-
tors, librarians, and sport scholars pro-
motes effective sports history exhibits
through a combination of informed ar-
tifact acquisition, supported by primary
and secondary research, conducted in
libraries and online, and augmented by
oral history interviews. The result is a
sport history exhibit that informs and
engages visitors.
References
1 John Rickards Betts, AmericaTs Sport-
North Carolina Libraries
ee
ing Heritage: 1850-1950 (Reading, Mass.,
et al: Addison-Wesley Publishing Com-
pany, 1974). Biographical information
on Betts can be found in the bookTs
foreward and preface.
2 John A. Lucas and Ronald A. Smith,
Saga of American Sport (Philadelphia: Lea
& Febiger, 1978).
3 See Steve Geitschier, oCollecting His-
torical Material Devoted to Sport,� His-
tory News 47 (March/April 1992): 5, for
an archivistTs take on sports history.
4 Also see Maryland Historical Magazine
87 (Summer 1992); Now and Then: the
Appalachian Magazine 9 (Fall 1992); and
Virginia Cavalcade 48 (Summer, 1999) for
examples of local journals devoting all of
most or an issue to some aspect of sport
history.
5 Rosemary E. Allan, oResearch: Social
History "a Case Study,� in John M.A.
Thompson (ed.), Manual of Curatorship:
A Guide to Museum Practice (London:
Butterworths, 1984), 179. For definitions
of a museum see G. Ellis Burcaw, Intro-
duction to Museum Work (Nashville:
American Association for State and Local
History, 1975), 9-12.
6 Edward P. Alexander, Museums in
Motion (Nashville: American Association
for State and Local History, 1979), 159-65.
7 Roy Brigden, oResearch: Social His-
tory Collection,� in Thompson, 170,
171; Alexander, 159.
8 Brigden, 170.
2 Gaynor Kavanagh, History Curator-
ship (Washington: Smithsonian Institu-
tion Press, 1990), 54-58.
10 William S. Powell, North Carolina
Through Four Centuries (Chapel Hill: Uni-
versity of North Carolina Press, 1989).
For North Carolina sport history, see Jim
L. Sumner, A History of Sports in North
Carolina (Raleigh: North Carolina De-
partment of Cultural Resources, 1990)
and Charlie Harville, Sports in North
Carolina: A Photographic History (Norfolk:
Donning Company, 1977).
1ljean Bradley Anderson, Durham
County: A History of Durham County,
North Carolina (Durham: Duke Univer-
sity Press, 1990).
12 The Society for American Baseball
Research, commonly known as SABR,
was founded in 1972. The organization
has thousands of members and pub-
lishes several annual surveys on various
aspects of baseball history. Although
written for a popular audience, much of
SABRTs research is of high quality and is
essential for an understanding of
baseball history. Further information
can be found at http://www.sabr.org.
SABR has a lending library for members.
13 The URL for the Amateur Athletic
Foundation of Los Angeles is http://
www.aafla.com. The URL for the North
American Sport Library Network is
http://www.sportquest.com/naslin.
Also useful is http://www.baseball-
links.com.
14 The National Baseball Hall of
FameTs URL is http://www.baseballhall
offame.org. It has extensive baseball ar-
chives. The Pro Football Hall of FameTs
Web site is http://www.profootballhall
of.com, while the basketball hall is at
http://www.hoophall.com. Other
sports have comparable organizations
and sites.
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oITm not surfing. This is my job.�
by James R. Meier
erious sports fans, like their teams, can be quite aggres-
sive and demanding in their requests for information.
They donTt want to know just how many career wins
Warren Spahn had, but how many he had against each
team. They donTt want to know just how many recep-
tions the Baltimore Ravens had last year, but how many
were by their tight ends. Besides statistical questions, there are
also rules interpretations, genealogical and biographical re-
quests, sports law and business inquiries, and questions on the
language of sports.
Kickoff
Each day in my role as Senior Editor for News Research for
The Sporting News magazine, I answer these types of ques-
tions from both internal customers and the public. Because
I have at my disposal a 10,000-volume sports monograph
and reference collection, thousands of individual team
media guides, and a roomful of expert sportswriters and
editors just down the hall, I do not have to turn to the
Internet often for reference purposes.
Still, there are times when the only source for a needed
piece of information is a Web site or other electronic resource.
The 41 sites described here have impressed me as being espe-
cially useful for reference purposes. With the exception of a few
good indexes, most of these sites are odestination� sites that
attempt to have the answer to usersT questions on their pages,
as opposed to ointermediary� sites that link to other sites or
merely give contact information for people who could help.
The vast majority of the clients I serve are adults interested in
the sports that our magazine covers " baseball, football, bas-
ketball, and hockey " and the sites reflect this demographic
group and its needs, though many are appropriate for all ages.
Some of the most valuable ointermediary� sites are asso-
ciation sites. Although these sites have varying amounts of
historical information immediately available, being able to
contact an expert researcher in a specialized sports field can
be the difference between satisfying a clientTs request or fail-
ure. Besides information professional communities such as the
North American Sports Library Network (NASLIN) and the In-
ternational Association of Sports Museums and Halls of Fame
(IASMHF), researchers in the major sports have formed groups
such as the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), the
Professional Football Researchers Association (PFRA), and the
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Society for International Hockey Research (SIHR). Of these
types of sites, the Association of Professional Basketball Re-
searchers (APBR) site at http://hometown.aol.com/bradleyrd/
apbr.html has the most depth of content on the history of
its sport. There are also associations for sports history, law, lit-
erature, sociology, and philosophy. The oAssociations� section
of Gretchen GhentTs directory (see below) has an excellent list
of links to these groups and others.
I have not included the major sports news sites. While
they all do a fine job on current sporting events, no one site
in particular stands out from the others. Also, their usefulness
as reference tools for historical sports information is limited.
The special features they create frequently disappear from
their sites within a few days or weeks. For example, ESPNTs col-
lection of short athlete biographies that make up their excel-
lent oSportsCentury� package http://espn.go.com/
sportscentury is buried deep within their site.
Finally, as with the other lists in this issue, these sites are
just one personTs opinion. If your favorite tool is not included,
please contact me. With the existence of thousands of sports-
related sites, no doubt there are many excellent ones that I
have overlooked or have never seen. As the title to this article
indicates, I do spend some of my time searching the Web for
good sites, but I also enjoy the site review columns in both
Sports Illustrated and ESPN: The Magazine.
The Main Event
Directories and Indexes
YahooTs Sports and Recreation Index
http://dir-yahoo.com/recreation/sports/index.html
I still find myself going here for its ease of use, depth,
and breadth. While certainly not all-encompassing, it is
an excellent starting point for several types of searches.
SPORT Quest
http://www.sportquest.com
An alternative to Yahoo, SPORTQuest, which is main-
tained by the Canadian National Sports Library, has an
excellent index. Its focus is on coaching, physical
education, and international organizations.
Gretchen GhentTs Scholarly Sport Sites: A Subject Directory
http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/ssportsite
Compiled by the chair of the North American Sport
North Carolina Libraries
Library Network, this index is designed for the univer-
sity or college researcher and is especially good in the
areas of kinesiology and the sports sciences. Includes
links to full-text documents and databases with sports-
specific information.
Statistics in Sports: A Section of the American Statistical Association
http://www.amstat.org/sections/sis/
This is not the place to go to find someoneTs batting
average (though they do have links to othersT sports
stats pages), but rather is the place for heavy academic
statistical analysis.
Ralph HickokTs Sports History
http://www.hickoksports.com/history.shtml
A very good starting point for learning the history of a
specific sport. This is a fun site that would be appropri-
ate for middle and high school students as well as
adults.
The Sports Hot Sheet
http://members.xoom.com/hotsheet/sports.html
Fan-produced sites with unreliable information are a
huge problem for sports researchers; therefore, using
only official team sites and the sites for major publica-
tions is highly recommended. To that end, Jack
Styczynski of NBC has created a site with links to all the
official team and league sites and many major newspa-
persT sports sections. Although the site itself is slow to
load, this is one of the best sites out there.
Rick Johnson's Sportspages
http://www.sportspages.com/
Similar to the Hot Sheet, Sportspages is very popular with
my colleagues at The Sporting News, as it has links to
many newspapersT sports sections.
Baseball Sites
Official Rules for Major League Baseball
http://www.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/baseball_basics/
mlb_basics_on_the_field.jsp
The official rules online. No index and no search
function limit its functionality, but still useful to have
available.
Historical statistics
You can find historical player registers and information
on a number of sites including
Total Baseball http://www.totalbaseball.com;
The Baseball Archive http://www.baseball1.com;
The Baseball Almanac http://www.baseball-almanac.com;
and Baseball Reference http://www.baseball-reference.com.
Total Baseball is the official encyclopedia of Major
League Baseball. The Baseball Almanac might be better
for younger audiences with its non-traditional sections
on oU.S. Presidents,� oQuotations,� oPoetry,� and
oHumor.� The Baseball Archive has a good, though not
updated, section on baseball economics. Any of these
sites will work, but as of November 2000, I favor Baseball
Reference due to its ease of navigation and its statistical
currency.
There are no comparable online historical player registers for
minor league baseball, football, or basketball, although a bas-
ketball statistics database can be downloaded from the Asso-
ciation for Professional Basketball Researchers site. For a histori-
cal hockey player register, use Fox SportsT NHL Historical Alma-
nac http://www.foxsports.com/nhl/history/index.sml. How-
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ever, as of April 1, 2001, Fox Sports is redesigning its site and
this almanac is not available.
Other Sports Sites
For coverage of sports besides baseball, youTre best off working
with a major index or one of the official sites. Despite my ear-
lier criticism of fan-produced sites, however, everal valuable
and well-done sites are worth examining.
Jerry PalmTs RPI and BCS Duplicators
http://www.collegerpi.com/ and http://www.collegebcs.com/
I go to these sister sites every week during the fall and
winter. Palm provides excellent duplications of the
NCAA's official Ratings Percentage Index for basketball
and the Bowl Championship SeriesT rankings, and adds
his own commentaries, predictions, and other valuable
college football and basketball information.
College football records
Chris Stassen has year-by-year records for every team in
a database that is sortable to create tables and rankings
over any time period http://football.stassen.com/
records. If you need to go down one more level to
individual game scores for every team, J. J. Hulsebus has
compiled these in a non-sortable database http://
www. michigan-football.com/ncaa/ncaa.htm. A third
excellent site for college football facts and figures is
WAJL10.com http://www.wajl10.com, and the NCAA
is beginning to make available all of its official record
books in Adobe Acrobat PDF files on its site http://
www.ncaa.org/library/records.html.
JayskiTs Winston Cup Silly Season Site
http://www.jayski.com
Despite its unofficial status, this self-proclaimed oportal
to the world of Internet NASCAR info� is valuable as a
central location for finding rumors and news on the
sport and for its many links to official sites for drivers,
teams, and sponsors.
Defunct leagues
Information on leagues that no longer exist is surpris-
ingly popular, yet difficult to get. Paul ReethTs United
States Football League site http://www.geocities.com/
Colosseum/Field/8520/ is the best I have found on the
USFL, and Arthur Hundhausen has a good site on the
old American Basketball Association that includes a link
to a list of other sites devoted to extinct leagues http://
www.geocities.com/~arthurh/.
International Association of Sports Museums and Halls of Fame
(IASMHF)
http://www.sportshalls.com/
Hall of Fame sites tend to be marketing-driven rather
than research-driven, so returns can be mixed. Almost
all the sites, however, will have short biographies and
statistics on those enshrined. The IASMHF site has a
searchable directory of its members with links to each
hallTs site.
Extreme Sports Sites
No, I am not talking about motocross or snowboarding. These
are sites that have an extremely narrow focus on one area of
sports off the field. _
Sports glossaries
http://www.firstbasesports.com/glossaries/
Has basic glossaries for football, soccer, ice hockey, and
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basketball. I have not yet found a good baseball dictio-
nary online to compete with Paul DicksonTs print
edition (The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary. Harcourt
Brace & Company, 1999).
Ballparks
http://www.ballparks.com
The definitive site for information on ballparks and
arenas for the major sports. Site navigation could be
improved, but the content is absolutely first rate on
both current stadiums and those no longer active.
Athletes in court
http://www.cracksmoker.com
An alphabetical list of athletes who have been involved
with the law in some way. Also includes links to major
stories on their problems.
Sports Economics
http://www.sportseconomics.com/Academic/
Links_of_Interest_/links_of_interest.html
A short list of links on sports economics and business.
Fox Sports also had a very good resources section
(http://www.foxsports.com/business/), but this area is
unavailable during the current redesign.
Professional Sports Authenticators (PSA)
http://www.psacard.com
For information on sports collectibles and trading cards
and authenticating items, try PSA or Sportscard Guaranty
http://www.sgccard.com/main.html.
College Nicknames
http://www.smargon.net/nicknames/
What schools use the nickname oAngels?� According to
Adam SmargonTs site on college nicknames, only
Meredith College in Raleigh. The site is arranged
alphabetically by nickname, but if you use the ofind�
function on your browser, you can also search by
school. The site gets bonus points for featuring links
back to the schoolsT home pages.
School Fight Songs
http://www.1122productions.com/fightsongs/
Lyrics for over 400 school fight songs. Not a great
design, but useful information. To actually hear the
songs, try Trevor BarnesT Fight Songs Page, which has
audio files for most of top football schools http://
www.fightsongs.com.
Team and League Logos
http://emblems.tripod.com
Chris CreamerTs Sports Logo Page has a list of over 3,000
logos. Unfortunately, several of the links to logo pages
have died.
A Great Triple Play
Individual game box scores
http://www.sportserver.com/SportServer/
Although box scores appear in almost every newspaper
in the country, you may not have the microfilm in your
collection or may want a faster method of access.
NandOTs SportsServer, a national Web site produced by
the Internet publishing division of The McClatchy
Company, has archives of box scores for the four major
leagues going back through July 1995. I have recently
rediscovered this site and am wondering why I ever
stopped using it. I know of no site that has historical
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box scores for any sport better than this one.
Information Please Sports Almanac (IPSA)
http://www.infoplease.com/sports.html
When I put together my list of best sports reference
books for a presentation to the News Division of SLA in
1999, the IPSA was at the top of that list http://
metalab.unc.edu/slanews/conferences/sla1999/
ref_sports.html. Fortunately, it is also available online.
Navigation on the site has improved over the years. It
has a tremendous amount of information on the
previous seasons of all the major sports, and the
~through the yearsT sections provide excellent historical
information. It also has very good sections on stadiums
and the business of sports.
STATS INC. on AOL
Keyword: STATS
All of the sites mentioned throughout are freely avail-
able through the Web, but I would be remiss if I didnTt
mention STATS INC.Ts area within AOL. It provides the
most detailed individual and team statistics available
and has an excellent database of material going back
through the 1990s. Of all the tools on this list, this is
the electronic resource I would miss the most should it
disappear. Unfortunately, their public Web site does not
have this information; you must have an AOL member-
ship to access STATS INC.
Next Season
In 1998, I gave a presentation on historical research on the Web
to NASLIN, and I identified three main problems: locating rel-
evant sites, organizations not putting their catalogs or finding
aids on their sites, and original material not appearing in full-
text on the Web. Today, more organizations are posting find-
ing aids and full-text documents in PDF files on their sites. The
Joyce Sports Research Collection http://www.sports.nd.edu
and the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles http://
www.aafla.org are two excellent examples of this trend. Over-
all, however, these problems still persist for the academic or
historical researcher who needs more than basic reference help.
In addition to the large research centers, some teams are
putting significant portions of their media guides on their of-
ficial sites. At least one school has abandoned printing media
guides altogether and will be putting that information exclu-
sively online. There is a short-term benefit to having the ad-
ditional information more freely available to the public, but I
fear that these schools, like many sites, will not archive their
Web content and therefore, much of it will be lost.
Although only a few of the primary reference titles are
showing up in electronic form today, I do anticipate that we
will see the much needed all-time player registers for football
and basketball soon. In addition to these titles, I would love to
see a minor league baseball all-time register and an all-time
uniform number resource, but I donTt foresee either of those
in the near future.
Finally, we get frequent requests from researchers asking
when the full-text of our magazine, which has been published
weekly since 1886, will be available in a searchable form online.
This is a project that many publications face, but I believe it
will not happen for several years until lawsuits regarding the
copyrights of contributing freelance writers are settled, scan-
ning and OCR technologies improve, and a profitable business
plan for the electronic archives can be developed.
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Sideline:
Webliography of General Sports Sites:
The Big Four
ll the sites discussed here are excellent sources for
current sports news and scores. The layout is uniformly
cluttered, but a staggering amount of information is
available. Specific strengths of each site are highlighted
in the annotations. | evaluated the pages for golf, NCAA
basketball, and automobile racing, and searched specifically
for coverage of Appalachian State University sports.
CBS.SportsLine http://CBS.SportsLine.com offers
excellent all-around sports information. While emphasis is
on the big four " baseball, basketball, football, and
hockey " there is also satisfying coverage of a wide array of
mid-level sports like boxing, soccer, and alpine sports. The
site is notable for its information on sports more popular
outside the U.S., such as cricket, rugby, sailing, and even
chess. For librarians, the real strength of CBS.SportsLine is its
reference value. There are complete compilations of winners
of championships, bowls, and major sports awards, and
members of halls of fame. The sports columns on the site are
archived back to 1995 and are searchable by author or topic.
Multimedia data is available in the form of photos and
audio and video highlights. The photos cover a surprisingly
wide range of sports, from surfing in Hawaii to cricket in
Zimbabwe. As I write this in November 2000, there are the
photos from the murder trial of Carolina Panthers player,
Rae Carruth. For employment seekers, there is a guide to
sports jobs (access requires a membership). Another good
feature is the Alumni Tracker option, which allowed me to
pull up a list of all Appalachian State University graduates
who are currently playing in the NFL (there are four). The
siteTs KidsT Zone offers coverage of the big four sports geared
especially for children, and there is also a section on sports
health. There are two small disappointments. The Search
Center retrieves matches to keywords quickly, but the data
runs a couple of weeks behind. A guide to search tips would
also be helpful. Otherwise, CBS.Sportsline is a good place for
quick, current news and reference information with an
international flavor.
CNNSI.COM http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com . If you
want in-depth sports coverage on the Web, try the Sports
Illustrated/CNN site. It is especially valuable for the many
articles, interviews, and opinion pieces from Sports Illustrated
and Cable News Network. For instance, the MenTs College
Basketball page has an archive of news stories on former
Indiana University coach Bob Knight's fall from grace. A
keyword search on the Motorsports page retrieves a wonder-
ful collection of material on minorities in NASCAR. There is
a piece by Nick Charles, oBlack NASCAR: African-Americans
Still Trying to Make Inroads,� and a number of multimedia
links, including Sybil Scott talking about her father, driver
Wendell Scott, who was the only African-American to win a
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compiled by Suzanne Wise
top level NASCAR race, and comments on minorities in
NASCAR by Willy T. Ribbs, Joe Washington, Richard Petty,
NASCAR officials, and others. Samples from SI for Kids are
available. A design flaw is that the keyword search box is
hidden in a jumble of promotions at the bottom right of the
screen; however, a search can bring good results.
ESPN http://espn.go.com. ESPN is strong in current
news and scores. The StatSearch option can be useful, but
you may have to try several combinations of words to get
what you want. I liked that I was able to view all of Appala-
chian State UniversityTs current athletic activities on one
screen with a keyword search of oAppalachian.� Some sports
have nice frills; the WomenTs Golf page provides rules and
instruction information, a list of books, and links to other
sites. A new feature, ESPNdeportes, offers sports coverage in
Spanish. It is a great hook to attract Spanish speakers to the
library and can also serve as an instructional tool for people
just learning Spanish. Also noteworthy is the collection of
short biographies of sports figures, including racehorses; go
to ESPN Classic and then select SportsCentury. For the
younger crowd, ESPN covers extreme sports thoroughly and
has lots of chat opportunities.
FoxSports http://www.foxsports.com. This site is being
rebuilt and is expected to be unveiled in its new form this
summer. At present it contains primarily current sports news
and scores. LetTs hope that some of its previous features are
incorporated into the new version. In the past, it had a
Sports Business category with information on sports media,
stadia, legal issues, endorsements, and other pertinent
topics, the archives going back a year. The Local Links
option got you to Web sites for newspapers and Fox televi-
sion stations in the region of your choice. I linked to the
Birmingham News and Alabama television sites and read all
about the firing of the Crimson Tide coach, Mike DuBose.
There were hefty video snippets " I found a lengthy one on
the opening of AppalachianTs new Holmes Convocation
Center (and basketball palace). Coverage is primarily U.S.
focused. Using the Sports Search feature resulted in occa-
sional dead ends, where clicking the oBack� button resulted
in the reloading of the same page; when this happens, use
the oGo� function.
To complement these meat-and-potatoes sites, try the
sports categories on the big Internet search engines, such as
Yahoo! Sports http://Sports.Yahoo.com and google.com/Top/
Sports/ http://directory.google.com/Top/Sports/. These
and similar sources are excellent guides to Web sites across
the spectrum of sports. You can find everything from tips on
using the Iditarod sled dog race in classroom activities, to
getting started in rope skipping.
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Public Libraries Step Up to the Plate:
Knowing and Responding to the Needs
of Our Rapidly Changing Communities
ttention North Carolina librar-
ies: Are you responding to the
rapid demographic changes
that our state is experiencing?
An average 400% increase in the
Hispanic/Latino population in
North Carolina within the last
ten years is just one flag to indicate the
need for programs and services relevant
to the changing cultural context of our
state.! Libraries across the state can take
the lead to improve the quality of life
for all residents by becoming more
aware of changing needs and interests
and by appropriately adapting programs
and services.
According to a study commissioned
by the State Library of North Carolina,
oless than three in ten Hispanics had
used a library to obtain information
about the communities in which they
resided.� The reasons that they stated
for not coming to the library were time,
work, location, and the language bar-
rier.2 These facts underscore the need
for librarians to go out and cultivate the
many potential opportunities to intro-
duce libraries to new users, to encour-
age English language acquisition, and
to provide local information.
Thus, new residents not only
find a resource center where
they can pursue their current
interests and meet their imme-
diate informational needs but
also establish a lasting rela-
tionship that promotes life-
long learning and a strong
community. Just like any
sports team, the overall group
suffers if only some of the
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by Lena Gonzalez
players know the rules and strategies,
because they cannot contribute to the
overall success of the team. Step up to
the plate, librarians. Encourage and en-
able newcomers and long-time residents
to access the resources that you have,
and invite everyone to play a vital role
in building a strong community
through the public library.
Learning to Use the Library
Many Hispanics who are new to North
Carolina are also new to our U.S. con-
cept of a public library. In Latin America,
public libraries are almost exclusively
used to pursue academic interests.
People who are not students or research-
ers, rarely frequent bibliotecas or librar-
ies. For popular reading it is much more
common to patronize librerias or book-
stores, so people are more accustomed
to the concept of buying books than
borrowing them. Even when public li-
braries are available, borrowing privi-
leges and hours of operation are very
limited. For example, in Venezuela, bor-
rowers may check out only two items
simultaneously, and libraries tend to be
open only during business hours. Thus,
... itis up to library staff to
step out of the building and
find ways to connect with the
community and initiate the
dialogue.
many immigrants to the U.S. are accus-
tomed to a more restrictive and limited
public library that does not cater to the
community at large. In Mexico there is
a high rate of illiteracy, and many Mexi-
cans in North Carolina have less than
an eighth grade education.* This fact
only perpetuates the long-standing per-
ception that public libraries are only for
learned people. In some Central Ameri-
can countries, rife with political insta-
bility, economic crises, and natural di-
sasters, the masses tend to be focused
on safety and basic necessities. People
are hesitant to trust governmental
sources of information, like libraries, as
reliable institutions that protect indi-
vidual privacy. In Puerto Rico, which is
part of the U.S., public libraries are usu-
ally located in City Hall, and their col-
lections often reflect the political cur-
rent of the day.
Regardless of the prior experience
of Hispanic newcomers to North Caro-
lina, reliable information is critical to
the process of acculturation and resettle-
ment. Public libraries are challenged,
therefore, to cultivate initial interest, so
that there is a forum for introducing the
many dynamic programs and services
that our public libraries offer. It is less
common for newcomers to come into
the library and ask to be informed. So,
it is up to library staff to step out of the
building and find ways to connect with
the community and initiate the dia-
logue.
Making connections with the
community
Public library systems across the state
North Carolina Libraries
have identified the growth in the His-
panic population as a demographic
change that will have great impact on
their collections, programs, and ser-
vices. Many were clamoring for sugges-
tions on how to reach this new popula-
tion most effectively, which led to the
formation of the State LibraryTs Hispanic
Services Advisory Committee, estab-
lished in the fall of 1999 by Robert
Burgin, Assistant State Librarian for In-
formation Technology. Burgin has been
working with leaders in North
CarolinaTs Hispanic community and
Yolanda Cuesta of Cuesta Multicultural
Consulting to offer cultural awareness
workshops for public library adminis-
tration and staff across the state. Par-
ticipants receive training on how to do
effective outreach and needs assess-
ments with Hispanic/Latino popula-
tions. Although these workshops focus
on library services to a specific popula-
tion, many of the lessons learned are
applicable to the diverse immigrant and
refugee populations of our state. In Au-
gust 2000, twelve LSTA grants were
given to conduct needs assessments for
Hispanic communities in different
counties, and although each project was
unique, all of the grant projects had one
key element in common. They identi-
fied local Hispanic leaders and estab-
lished a dialogue with them and the
groups that they represent. According
to Cuesta, conducting community
leader interviews is a great way to start
the needs assessment process. Libraries
may oincur high costs in staff time for
conducting and analyzing [the data] ...
but interviews provide a high quality
and quantity of information.�® Using
this approach, the library not only gains
information about needs and interests
of a particular population but also builds
the foundation of a community rela-
tionship based on trust and the endorse-
ment of the leaders.
Who are the leaders?
Finding leaders in immigrant commu-
nities is not dissimilar to scouting a
good player for a team. Leaders are
talented, charismatic, well-re-
spected, and committed to the
success of the group. Within im-
migrant communities it is com-
mon to find traditionally recog-
nized leaders who are church of-
ficials, educators, directors of non-
profit organizations and busi-
nesses, social activists, and even
politicians. To work exclusively
with these oofficial� leaders, how-
ever, would negate the strong in-
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formal leadership structures that are
often firmly in place.
So where are the non-traditional
places to look for leaders? Another way
of approaching this question is to ask
where people congregate and where
they go to get local information. Con-
sidering the Hispanic population, usu-
ally one of the best-informed leaders
with the most connections is the owner
of a store that sells Latin American prod-
ucts. In Greensboro, Martha Rey, the
owner of Sabor Latino, is also a com-
munity activist and advocate. Custom-
ers from the surrounding neighborhood
and all over the city go to her for ad-
vice, information, and referral. She sells
tortillas, chiles, and pan dulce, and also
gives away essential information to help
people solve their everyday problems
and get settled in their new homes. Es-
tablishing a relationship with small
business owners, who play a similar role
to that of a librarian, will help
strengthen the flow and validity of in-
formation and raise awareness about the
many places, including public libraries,
where people can get information and
referrals.
In addition to responding to the
needs of users, libraries also offer mate-
rials and programs related to the inter-
ests of the community. One common
interest that crosses all ethnic and na-
tional lines is sports, so another place
one might find local leaders is out on
the soccer field. Internationally, soccer
is the most popular sport, so it comes
as no surprise that there are many His-
panic, Asian, and African soccer teams
and leagues around the state, although
the English language media rarely report
on their games. The sidelines or the
bleachers of a soccer field can be great
places to connect with unofficial lead-
ers within the community, so put on
your cleats and head for the field. Team
captains and organizers are respected
community leaders, and it can be en-
lightening to hear their perspectives on
the local needs. Opening this dialogue
is usually the first step to building trust
... establishing a relationship
with small business owners,
who play a similar role to that
of a librarian, will help
strengthen the flow and
validity of information ....
and establishing a relationship so that
the library can win the leaderTs endorse-
ment, an essential part of raising aware-
ness and getting people engaged with
the library. With the leaderTs support,
others will be encouraged to try it out.
Visiting a store or a soccer field may
seem out of the realm of traditional li-
brary service. If we are trying to encour-
age non-traditional users of the library,
however, we may have to resort to al-
ternative methods to establish relation-
ships, trust, and confidence before
people will accept our open invitation
to come to the library. The library staff
and immigrants havea lot to learn and
gain from making connections with
each other. Although one does not typi-
cally find librarians out on the soccer
field or in the local Mexican store, if li-
brarians take the first risk to step out of
the comfort of the library environment
to make initial contacts, new users will
be more likely to take the risk to come
in to the unfamiliar surroundings of a
library. Knowing that there are uniden-
tified and unmet needs in the commu-
nity, libraries should take the lead to
seek out local leaders and establish dia-
logues.
Knowing and Responding to
the Needs of the Community
In addition to working with community
leaders, another way for library staff to
make connections within various immi-
grant populations is to identify a com-
mon need and explore ways to help ad-
dress it. In fact, our central mission as
public libraries is to meet the needs of
the users. This mission not only in-
cludes those who already frequent the
library but also should include poten-
tial users who may not be aware of the
library or may not have access because
of barriers such as language or transpor-
tation.
One common need that often
brings such potential user groups to-
gether is the need to acquire English
language skills. Considering this need,
library staff can connect with new im-
migrant groups at the local commu-
nity college, where adult English
classes are taught around the state.
This is a perfect opportunity not
only to present what the library cur-
rently has to offer but also ex-
change ideas with the classes and
hold focus groups to update the
libraryTs assessment of the needs of
the community. This also gives new
residents an opportunity to have a
voice in the development of pro-
grams and services, ensuring that
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library services are relevant and meet-
ing their needs effectively.
During such class visits, partici-
pants will often express the need for
more opportunities to learn and prac-
tice English, and public libraries are in
a unique position to respond. It has
been found that library-based adult edu-
cation is very effective because the in-
struction is often learner-directed. Li-
braries oare permanent institutions in
local communities that have many re-
sources to support adult learning " for
instance accessible facilities, extensive
collections of books, and a large group
of potential tutors.... Moreover, unlike
other programs and education provid-
ers, libraries do not generally receive
funding that depends on how quickly
they move students into employment
or into more advanced programs.�� In
fact, there are fewer barriers to partici-
pation than at traditional educational
institutions. Public libraries encourage
their students to become lifelong learn-
ers and users of the library.
Another component of the effec-
tiveness of library-based adult education
programs is that participants have in-
stant access to community information.
For example, immigrants are often un-
aware of the services that are provided
by non-profit organizations and agen-
cies. When someone needs a referral for
a health care or social need, a librarian
can easily provide the information on
available services. Though this may
seem like an ordinary reference ques-
tion, for immigrants this basic library
service can be the difference between
getting necessary medical attention or
not. For many newcomers the public
library has become a second home,
where they can learn and practice En-
glish and simultaneously gain access to
essential information, which is a key to
becoming successful and healthy mem-
bers of the community.
As providers of adult education
learning opportunities, libraries have
another advantage over other educa-
tional institutions. Any libraryTs collec-
tion of materials offers numerous selec-
tions written on almost any topic and
at different reading levels. When work-
ing with adult new readers and language
learners, it is important to teach within
the context of a topic of interest or rel-
evance to the life of the learner. Tutors
and teachers could capitalize on an in-
terest in sports and find innumerable
materials to use for lessons. For example,
juvenile biographies about sports heroes
provide high interest reading with more
photographs and more simply written
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text than an oadult� book. Though the
intended audience is children, there is
nothing juvenile about the content of
such materials. Steck Vaughn publishes
biographies of sports heroes (movie, TV,
and rock stars) called oThe Spotlight Se-
ries,� that is formatted as a magazine/
workbook. Although the intended audi-
ence is adult, these materials would be
appropriate for any age. For a reluctant
or struggling reader of English, the news-
paper may present great challenges, and
yet it is a key resource for community
information. Using the sports section
can provide opportunities to practice
reading charts and improve basic read-
ing skills. Words aside, one could just use
photographs from newspapers, maga-
zines or books to spark interesting prac-
tice of conversational English. Although
there are many specialized language
learning materials, it is not necessary to
develop a special collection to meet this
need. Innumerable print resources are
available in any public library that could
assist patrons to improve their English
skills within the context of their inter-
ests and their needs. It is a matter of
thinking creatively about the multiple
uses of materials and promoting them
for both the traditional and non-tradi-
tional audiences.
The Internet is another resource
with unlimited potential for libraries to
offer relevant and high interest materi-
als to encourage new users.® When in-
troducing a new user to the Internet, it
is important to show Web sites that
present information in a clearly orga-
nized and easy-to-read format. CBS
Sportsline is one such example. The site
has a menu across the top of the page
that lists categories of sports with is a
breakdown of each type.? ESPN also
gives a clear list of different sports on
the first screen, and each sub-category
offers short text articles with accompa-
nying photographs and graphics.!° For
the more adventurous, Awezome.com
provides simply written explanations of
extreme sports like mountain biking,
snowboarding and oNo Fear.� The site
not only defines each sport and de-
scribes the equipment needed, but it
also presents some oawezome� photos
of extremists in action.!! Of course,
sports is only one of many interests that
can be used to present the vast resources
of the Internet to new users who want
to learn and practice English. By intro-
ducing the Internet, the library is help-
ing people acquire important informa-
tional skills in English and computers
that are transferable to job and aca-
demic situations. Furthermore, as our
world experiences this online explosion,
it is extremely important that users of
the library and members of our com-
munities become aware of the availabil-
ity of information on the Web, so that
they will be better informed and a more
integral part of our rapidly changing
society.
In terms of a public libraryTs collec-
tion, there is no need for special fund-
ing or a special collection to provide
material support for an adult literacy
program; however, many libraries do
not have the staff to offer their own pro-
gram. Community colleges and other
literacy providers often partner with li-
braries to offer community-based
ciasses, and the library could simply
offer a meeting place, materials, and
technology that might not otherwise be
available. Once adult new users are in
the library, staff members have the op-
portunity to invite the whole family to
come, to promote childrenTs programs,
and to raise awareness about the many
ways that one can use a library. If the
objective of a needs assessment is to find
out what the needs are, then the library
may have to partner with local organi-
zations and agencies to gather data and
implement the changes that are sug-
gested. This kind of partnering helps to
raise awareness about what the library
can offer and establishes long lasting
relationships between the library and
the community.
Conclusion
Opportunities exist for staff to establish
connections, develop relationships, and
raise awareness of the numerous ben-
efits of being a user of the library. Li-
braries make necessary information and
resources available and accessible so that
people can lead more successful and in-
formed lives. Libraries have the poten-
tial to assist newcomers with the com-
mon need to learn and practice English,
and they can do it in an environment
that is convenient, safe, and welcom-
ing to the whole family. Reaching out
to immigrants and refugees gives
people, who are often marginalized and
isolated, the opportunity to be engaged
in and connected to the community.
Conversely, the library will reap many
rewards and benefits from becoming
more involved and attempting to reach
out to new users.
Libraries will build the commu-
nityTs trust and confidence in the insti-
tution, and the library staff will likewise
become more aware and confident
when serving new groups. Connecting
with community leaders will enable the
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library to reach more people and gain
the endorsement of influential persons,
who may become strong advocates and
supporters of the library. Most impor-
tantly, public libraries will fulfill their
missions more completely by having a
comprehensive understanding of local
needs and input from community mem-
bers as to how to best meet those needs.
Thus, the benefits are reciprocal. As the
library reaches out to extend its services,
it will continue to cultivate a relation-
ship with the community that is based
on trust and stewardship. This relation-
ship will not only grow support for the
library; community members also will
begin to feel ownership and become
advocates and contributors to their lo-
cal lifelong learning institution, the
public library.
References
1 Census 2000.
2 oConclusions and Recommenda-
tions,� 2, from oSurvey of Library Needs
for North Carolina Hispanics,� Rincon
and Associates, http://statelibrary.dcr.
state.nc.us/hispanic/summary.pdf.
3 http://www.bnv.bib.ve.
4 Hispanic Plan of Forsyth County
(1999).
~ http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/
hispanic/index.htm, oThe Hispanic Ser-
vices Project of the State Library of North
Carolina is a three-year project that will
result in public librarians having the
skills and resources necessary to provide
appropriate services for North CarolinaTs
rapidly increasing Hispanic and Latino
communities. Primary beneficiaries of
this project will be the growing number
of Hispanic and Latino individuals in
North Carolina. Public library staff will
also benefit from this project since the
skills they learn as part of this project
will be useful in designing library services
to any special population.�
6 oBuilding Community Relation-
ships,� May 2000, 23.
7 oSo I Made Up My Mind: Introduc-
ing a Study of Adult Learner Persistence
in Library Literacy Programs,� by John
T. Comings and Sondra Cuban, Octo-
ber 2000, 2. For the past four years, the
Greensboro Public Library has been par-
ticipating in a national project funded
by the Wallace ReaderTs Digest Founda-
tion to expand and study adult literacy
programs based in public libraries.
8 See Jim MeierTs article, oITm Not Surf-
ing: This is My Job,� in this publication.
9 http://cbs.sportsline.com/
index.html.
10 http://www.espn.go.com.
11 http://www.awezome.com.
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Sideline:
Sports Fiction
compiled by Suzanne Wise
ports fiction has many faces. It ranges from the mysticism of Bernard
MalamudTs The Natural to the action adventure of the latest Dick Francis
racing mystery, from Mark HarrisT classic Bang the Drum Slowly to Dan JenkinsT
outrageous Semi-Tough. There is something for everyone, and it is an easy sell if
you know your merchandise. A friendTs son was converted to the joys of reading
when he discovered that there were stories about his passion, skiing. The library
periodical literature offers many guides to new sports publications (BooklistTs
September 1 issue annually highlights new adultTs and childrenTs sports titles, Library
Journal features a oSpring Baseball Lineup� each February, and Bill Ott often includes
sports books in his American Libraries oQuick Bibs� column), but they are primarily
devoted to non-fiction.
The resources below will help readersT advisors identify and promote sports
fiction. The bonus is that readers enjoy a baseball novel from the 1950s just as much
as one published last month, and the older fiction in the collection circulates.
Beauregard, Sue-Ellen, and Hazel Rochman. oPlaying the Game: Sports Fiction.�
Booklist 83 (March 1, 1987): 1009-1010. Annotated list of young adult and
adult titles.
Brodie, Carolyn S. oNothing But Net: Basketball Materials.� School Library Media
Activities Monthly 12 (January 1996): 46-47. Includes a list of nine novels
suitable for grades three through seven+.
Burns, Grant. The Sports Pages: A Critical Bibliography of Twentieth-Century American
Novels and Stories Featuring Baseball, Basketball, Football and Other Athletic
Pursuits. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1987. Lengthy annotations of
sports fiction.
Grobani, Anton, ed. Guide to Baseball Literature. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1975. The
entries for fiction, humor, and drama, verse, and ballads include titles
suitable for both children and adults.
. Guide to Football Literature. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1975. The football version of
the work above.
Harrah, Barbara K. Sports Books for Children: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen,
NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1978. Arranged by type of sport. Many sections
contain a list of fiction.
Messenger, Christian K. Sports and the Spirit of Play in Contemporary American
Fiction. NY: Columbia University Press, 1990. The bibliography of primary
works cited is quite useful for identifying sports fiction.
Oriard, Michael V. Dreaming of Heroes: American Sports Fiction, 1868-1980. Chicago:
Nelson-Hall, 1982. Outstanding survey and analysis of sports fiction in
the U.S. The appendix includes a lengthy checklist of the genre. Oriard is
a professor of English and former professional football player.
Perry, Phyllis J. Exploring the World of Sports: Linking Fiction to Nonfiction.
Englewood, CO: Teacher Ideas Press, 1998. Curriculum ideas using fiction
oto bring students from the world of imagination into the world of fact.�
Includes baseball, basketball, football, soccer, swimming, and track and
field. A great starting point for collaboration between teacher and
librarian.
Rueth-Brandner, Teri. oSports Fiction for Young Women: Not Enough of a Good
Thing.� VOYA: Voice of Youth Advocates 14 (June 1991): 89-90. Guide to
sports fiction for girls.
Wise, Suzanne. Sports Fiction for Adults: An Annotated Bibliography of Novels, Plays,
Short Stories, and Poetry with Sporting Settings. NY: Garland, 1986. Exhaus-
tive annotated guide arranged by sport.
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Ten Best Sports Titles ...
in My Public Library
by James R. Ruszczyk
This article deals with the top ten sports resources at a small/medium size public library
located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of northwestern North Carolina. The
Wilkes County Public Library, situated in downtown North Wilkesboro, serves a county
population of about 65,000 and a regional three-county population of about 130,000,
comprising Ashe, Watauga and Wilkes counties. While each of the three county libraries shares
resources and funding, this article focuses only on those holdings located at the Wilkes County
Public Library. This is to ensure that the top sports resources have been seen, handled and
evaluated by the writer of this article. The titles in question are not ranked in any particular
order of importance but by author's last name.
American College of Sports Medicine. ACSM Fitness Book.
Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1998.
In order to participate in sports, one needs to be physi-
cally fit. What better title than a fitness book published
by the American College of Sports Medicine? This book
covers the full range of fitness exercises and techniques
and is a unique book for the library. Highly recom-
mended for anyone thinking of starting a sports or
fitness routine.
Flegel, Melinda J. Sport First Aid, updated ed. Champaign, IL:
Human Kinetics, 1997.
What would sports be without injuries? While this book
is written specifically for coaches, it will help anyone
give first aid on the field of play. It is the official text of
the American Sport Education Program (ASEP) and the
National Federation of Interscholastic Coaches Associa-
tion (NFICA). Appendix B contains injury-prevention
stretching routines, and following this is a section on
important sports first aid terms. The book includes a
complete index.
Fortin, Francois, ed. Sports: The Complete Visual Reference.
Buffalo: Firefly Books, Limited, 2000.
Francois Fortin, author of The Visual Food Encyclopedia,
comes up with a new visual reference that is just as fun
and informative, except this time covering 127 different
sports and games. The combination of graphics, concise
text, and photos enables the reader quickly to find
visual guidelines and information about a variety of
sports. Its uniqueness lies in the detailed and beautiful
full-color graphics showing all elements of the playing
field or court, athletesT equipment, and positional play.
A generous 380 pages in length, it includes details on
the history, rules, strategy, equipment used, and the
playing spacesT unique aspects of each sport. This book
is a complete reference, with three indices (terms,
symbols, and illustrations, respectively), which will help
the reader find answers to nearly any question about
sports. Highly recommended for all libraries.
Gietschier, Steve. ChaseTs 2000 Sports Calendar of Events.
Chicago: Contemporary Publishing Group, 2000.
This title is included because of its uniqueness. ChaseTs
has been publishing calendars of events books for years,
and this title follows their thorough coverage of events
around the world. Not only does it cover sporting events
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but it also features various recreational activities, such as
ChicagoTs Windy City Jitterbug Club Dance and the
Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee. Other
entries include birthdays of sports legends and anniver-
saries of great and not-so-great moments in sports from
around the world. A must-have for all libraries and
should be placed on a standing order.
Johnson, William Oscar. The Olympics: A History of the Games.
Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1992.
Even though this book was published in 1992, it is a
great overview of the modern Olympics. The book
begins with a short introduction to the ancient games of
Greece, and then proceeds through the modern Olym-
pics from 1896 to 1992. Filled with interesting and
exciting photographs from all of the modern games, this
is an excellent book for a libraryTs bookshelf. Many
books have been written on the Olympics, and this one
compares admirably. Published in conjunction with the
magazine Sports Illustrated, this is a wonderful book filled
with triumphant and agonizing pictures, with just
enough concise text to make it a pleasure to see and read.
Lipsyte, Robert and Peter Levine. /dols of the Game: A Sporting
History of the American Century. Kansas City, MO: Turner
Publishing, 1995.
The 20th century, coined by Harold Evans and others as
the American Century, brought a plethora of names that
became legends in politics, business, and indeed sports.
Lipsyte and Levine's book is a social history of the many
sporting greats from the 20th century. Such athletes as
Jack Johnson, Jim Thorpe, Jackie Robinson, Vince
Lombardi, Billie Jean King, and Michael Jordan are now
known the world over and live in our countryTs collec-
tive consciousness as some of the greatest athletes ever.
Americans share in the glory of our sports, and this book
reveals the social, economic, and athletic importance of
these great athletes. A provocative profile of our nationTs
biggest sports heroes, Idols of the Game offers a revealing
glimpse of a country in transition.
Longman, Jere. The Girls of Summer: The U.S. WomenTs Soccer
Team and How It Changed the World. New York, Harper
Collins Publishing, 2000.
Possibly the most exciting moment of sports in 1999 was
the U.S. WomenTs Soccer TeamTs defeat of China in an
overtime shootout to win the World Cup of WomenTs Soc-
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cer. This book has been selected because of the influence
this game and this team has had on U.S. sports in general
and more importantly on womenTs athletics as a whole.
With this victory, all womenTs sports gained more respect.
Now, with the Olympics of 2000 completed, womenTs
sports are shining more than ever before. Written by one
of the best sports writers today, Jere Longman of The New
York Times, this is a must have for all libraries.
MacCambridge, Michael, ed. ESPN Sports Century. New York:
Hyperion, 1999.
Much like Idols of the Game, ESPN Sports Century takes a
long look at sports of the 20th Century; however, while
Idols ends in 1995, this book was published at the cusp of
the 21st century, in 1999. It tells the story of each decade
through profiles of the greatest athletes as deemed by a
battery of sports writers and historians, including such
legends as Babe Ruth, Johnny Unitas, Muhammad Ali,
and Pete Rose. The book also covers the major sporting
events that are now part of our American history " the
classic games that members of our society, no matter their
socio-economic status, remember as if they had been
played yesterday. From the classic 1933 NFL Champion-
ship game to the oThrilla in Manila,� ESPN Sports Century
makes its mark as one of the best compendiums of 20th
century sport and athletics that has been written. With
such writers as David Halberstam, Dick Schapp, and Joyce
Carol Oates adding their words and wisdom, this book
should be in every library collection.
PetersonTs Guides Staff. Sports Scholarships and College Athletic
Programs, 4th ed. Princeton: PetersonTs, 1999.
Where would professional sports be without amateurs
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and college athletes? PetersonTs publishes many college
scholarship books and other college preparatory
materials. This specific title focuses on sports scholar-
ships and athletic programs for men and women at
more than 1,700 major colleges and universities in the
United States. The publication covers more than 30
sports and includes detailed data on college facilities,
coaches, and team records. Furthermore, it offers expert
advice on how, when, and where to apply, who to
contact, what to submit, and how to assess the chances
of winning an athletic scholarship. Also included is an
appendix of abbreviations of associations and confer-
ences, as well as menTs and womenTs sports indices.
PetersonTs has published a most useful guide for
students with college aspirations. A must for all public
and school libraries.
Silverman, Al and Brian Silverman, eds. The Twentieth Century
Treasury of Sports. New York: The Penguin Group, 1992.
This last selection for top 10 sports titles is a combined
work of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by some of the
worldTs greatest writers. Some surprises are found in the
names of the authors, including such luminaries in the
field of writing as Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen King, Philip Roth, Jack Lon-
don, Norman Mailer, John Updike, and William Butler
Yeats. The 76 entries offer the full spectrum of literature,
bringing laughter, virtue, hope, and joy to the field of
sports writing. Because of its uniqueness, The Twentieth
Century Treasury of Sports offers any library patron the
joy of discovering great literature through the medium
of sports and athletics. This is a wonderful collection of
stories for any library.
in My Media Center by Stephanie Fiedler
Swift Creek Elementary School is located in southwestern Raleigh. It has a diverse student
population of over 560 children, ages 4 through 11. A note about my selection process " |
selected books based on a variety of factors. If | had used circulation statistics as the sole
criteria for this bibliography, there would have been five books on Tiger Woods alone! Instead,
| tried to choose the best books from a variety of different sports fields. | selected books that
appeal to both genders and on many different reading levels. | chose to focus on nonfiction
books " biographies of famous athletes were chosen in addition to the standard ohow to�
guides. Quality, as well as popularity, was a factor in this process.
Bragg, Linda Wallenberg. Fundamental Gymnastics. Photographs
by Andy King. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications
Company, 1995. |
| Girls are especially fascinated with gymnastics " and
| not just during the Summer Olympics! This book
| provides an excellent overview of the sport. In addition
| to discussing the history of gymnastics, the author gives
detailed descriptions of each event, the equipment used,
and the skills that are tested. Action-packed color
photographs featuring both boys and girls demonstrat-
ing various moves and proper technique are included on
every page. The author frankly discusses common
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injuries and how to avoid them, as well as how to
prepare mentally for competition. Colorful fact-boxes
answer such questions as, oWhat does a coach do?� and
oWhat does a gymnast wear?� In addition to an index,
definitions of common terms, bibliographical references,
and addresses of informational resources are included.
Grades 3-5.
Cline-Ransome, Lesa. Satchel Paige. \llustrated by James E.
Ransome. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster Books for
Young Readers, 2000.
This book chronicles the life of Leroy oSatchel� Paige,
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the first Black pitcher in Major League Baseball and the
first Black player inducted into the Baseball Hall of
Fame. The author's easy and relaxed story-telling style
is well suited to PaigeTs playful on-field persona. The
story at times takes on a tall tale mood " one befitting
a legend. The bold and colorful illustrations effectively
and respectfully chronicle his humble background and
gradual climb to the top of his field. While the author
touches on PaigeTs troubled youth and the frustrations
he felt with the restrictions of a segregated major
league, the positive message of doing what you love
permeates. The conversational rhythm of the story, as
well as the thrilling scenes on the pitcherTs mound,
makes this an excellent read-aloud. Includes biblio-
graphic references. Grades 2-4.
Harvey, Gill. The Usborne Complete Soccer School. London, UK:
Usborne Publishing, Ltd., 1998.
For hard-core soccerfiles! Using both male and female
models, this comprehensive instructional guide clearly
demonstrates, with hundreds of color photographs and
illustrations, the mechanics of the game. Thorough
explanations are given on a variety of skills such as foot
control, heading the ball, turning, dribbling, shielding,
and working on pace. Field diagrams illustrate offensive
and defensive strategies, and practice drills are outlined.
As one soccer-playing student of mine said in amaze-
ment, oIt really teaches you!� Includes index and a world
soccer quiz. Grades 3-6.
Krull, Kathleen. Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the
WorldTs Fastest Woman. Illustrated by David Diaz. San
Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1996.
This is the stirring and inspirational life story of Wilma
Rudolph, the first American woman to win three gold
medals at a single Olympics. Born a sickly child in a
poor family of 22 children, she was crippled by polio
when she was five years old. Despite being told that she
would never again walk, Rudolph found the determina-
tion to overcome her disabilities. Through years of
grueling physical therapy, and with her motherTs help,
she learned to walk again and ultimately became a
world-class athlete. Vibrant acrylic and gouache
paintings are superimposed on sepia toned photo-
graphs to create a nostalgic yet contemporary mood.
During storytimes, my students are fascinated to learn
about polio, a disease that primarily struck children, as
well as to get a glimpse of what life was like in the
segregated South of the 1950s. Grades K-3.
Krull, Kathleen. Lives of the Athletes: Thrills, Spills (and What the
Neighbors Thought). Illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt. San
Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1997.
This irreverent and quirky collective biography goes
beyond the statistics to humanize 20 of the worldTs
most famous sports legends. A wide variety of athletes,
sports, and nationalities are represented. Each profile
includes basic biographical information, a brief synop-
sis of the athleteTs contribution to the world of sports,
career highlights, and an anecdotal-rich discussion of
their lives. There are lots of interesting facts and, as the
subtitle implies, juicy bits of gossip that, of course,
enthrall the children. Students are fascinated to learn
that Babe Ruth loved to eat pickled eels with chocolate
ice cream between games and that Babe Didrikson
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could light matches with the flick of her fingernail. The
whimsical caricatures that accompany each profile add
to the authorTs lighthearted approach. Includes biblio-
graphical references. Grades 4-6.
Mitchell, David. The Young Martial Arts Enthusiast. New York, NY:
Dorling Kindersley, Inc., 1997.
With the popularity of after-school karate, aikido, and
tae kwon do classes, I canTt keep this book on the shelf!
Boys and girls alike are drawn to the high-quality,
instructional photographs that clearly illustrate proper
technique. The short, fact-filled captions also appeal to
young readers. In addition to discussions of the histori-
cal roots of each martial art form, examples of stances
and movements also help to clarify the differences
among the various forms. Emphasis is given to safety
practices, and it is recommended that this manual be
used as supplement to an instructor-monitored class.
Includes index. Grades 4-6.
Riley, Gail Blasser. Top 10 NASCAR Drivers. Springfield, NJ:
Enslow Publishers, Inc., 1995.
This is, after all, North Carolina! My students avidly
follow the careers of their favorite drivers, meticulously
dissect their strategies on the course, and vehemently
debate who has the best car. Ten NASCAR greats are
profiled here, including Sara Christian, who, in 1949,
became the first woman to finish in the top five of a
NASCAR race. Each profile includes basic biographical
information, educational background, records awarded,
and honors achieved. In addition, a chart comparing
the relevant statistics and career winnings of each
driver is provided. The danger of the sport is addressed,
with special emphasis on the safety measures enacted
as a result of injuries to and deaths of NASCAR
drivers.Black-and-white and color photographs help to
illustrate the evolution of the cars, as well as the sport
itself. Includes an index and bibliographical references.
Grades 3-5.
Savage, Jeff. Tiger Woods: King of the Course. Minneapolis, MN:
Lerner Publications Company, 1998.
The Michael Jordan of the new millennium! Something
about Tiger Woods has really struck a chord with my
students. Children who never before expressed an
interest in golf are captivated by him and voracious for
any information about him. This is the cream of the
crop of Tiger Woods biographies. While it does not
include his latest victories (then again, how could
biographers keep current with his seemingly endless
winning streak?), it does provide an in-depth look at
his career and legendary rise to become golf's top-
ranked player. A retrospective look at former African-
American golfers helps to emphasize the historic
importance of TigerTs success. The story of his lifelong
dream to become a professional golfer and his relentless
pursuit of that dream is inspirational. My students also
love to pore over the bookTs many photographs and to
giggle at some of his less-than-flattering preteen
pictures. The author also discusses TigerTs carefully
guarded private life, focusing on his close relationship
with his parents. In addition to a glossary, bibliographi-
cal references, and an index, an address for TigerTs
management group is also provided for all of that fan
mail. Grades 4-6.
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Shahan, Sherry. Dashing through the Snow: The Story of the Jr.
Iditarod. Brookfield, CT: The Millbrook Press, 1997.
Each winter I teach a lesson to third graders about
Balto, the lead sled dog on the historic 1925 oserum
run� to Nome, Alaska. This heroic feat, which saved the
townTs children during a diphtheria epidemic, was the
inspiration for the olast great race on earth� " the
Iditarod. When I tell the children that there is an
Iditarod for boys and girls ages 14-17, they are hooked!
This race sparks the imagination of our children, who
are so far removed from the world of dog sled teams
and mushers. During the two-day race, we get updated
reports from the Internet and track the progress of the
competitors on a map. During this time, Dashing
Through the Snow is my best resource. It offers a realistic,
competitorTs eye-view of the dedication that is required
to participate in the Junior Iditarod. The detailed maps
and stunning color photographs capture the spirit of
the competition. The book describes the grueling
conditions under which the dog sled teams must
compete, outlines the mandatory gear list, and provides
interesting behind-the-scene details of life on the trail,
such as the booties the dogs wear to protect their paws
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against frostbite. Includes an index and a glossary of
oTdita-Talk� words. Grades 3-6.
Weatherspoon, Teresa, Tara Sullivan, and Kelly Whiteside. Teresa
WeatherspoonTs Basketball for Girls. New York, NY: John
Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999.
Thanks to the WNBA, girls are more interested in
basketball than ever before. They now have profes-
sional role models like Teresa oSpoon� Weatherspoon
to turn to for inspiration. In this very practical ohow
to� manual, the author offers oSpoon�-fuls of instruc-
tion, advice, and personal anecdotes. Like all good
instructional basketball books, this one covers the
basics of the game and details the mechanics, all of
which are nicely illustrated with black-and-white
photographs and diagrams. Particular focus is placed on
preventing injuries with proper pre-game stretching
and off-court conditioning. A good deal of attention is
also given to the mental aspects of the game " motiva-
tion, teamwork, learning from mistakes, and maintain-
ing a positive attitude. WeatherspoonTs overall empha-
sis to the reader puts it all into perspective " ohave
fun!� Includes index. Grades 4-8.
by Kim P. Mayo
in My High School Library
Riverside High School is one of six high schools in the Durham Public Schools system. We serve
approximately 1,550 students in grades 9-12. Our diverse student population is 55% White,
37% African American, and there is a large Asian population comprising the remaining 8%. The
Riverside campus, completed in August of 1991, is situated in the northwest portion of Durham
County " one of the best places to live in America, and our high school attracts students
especially interested in engineerng technologies as well as a comprehensive curriculum. Students
are enrolled in six courses each semester; classcs meet for 55 minutes each day. Ninety-three
percent of the class of 1998 are pursuing a post-secondary education, seventy-three percent of
which is at a four-year institution.
The list of top ten sports titles was generated primarily from student recommendations
during a one-week period at the end of the spring 2000 semester. Student patrons were asked
randomly, oWhat is your favorite sports title in our Media Center collection and why is it your
favorite?� There were several duplicate responses. Once all responses were gathered, | analyzed
the circulation statistics for sports titles at the end of the spring 2000 semester; three titles were
added as a result of the circulation statistics.
Bezic, Sandra. The Passion to Skate: An Intimate View of Figure
Skating. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1998.
Sandra Bezic, an accomplished figure skater, offers a
obehind-the-scenes� glimpse into the world of the
training, competition, and performance of the worldTs
most popular figure skaters. We see the color and black-
and-white family photographs of these accomplished
athletes, as well as inspiring photos of them in practice
and competition.
. Chronicle of the Olympics, 1896-2000. New York:
DK Publishing, Inc., 1998.
What a comprehensive resource of the last 100 years of
the summer and winter Olympic Games, including
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illustrations of the many athletes and events that will
forever be remembered! It includes the complete history
of the modern Olympic Games beginning in Athens in
1896 and reveals inside stories surrounding the Games
and the athletes " triumphs, tragedies, and rivalries. A
complete list of medalists and their events is also
included.
Clary, Jack. The NBA: TodayTs Stars. TomorrowTs Legends. New
York: Smithmark, 1994.
Though this is an older title, it continues to be a favorite
with our students. Clary includes short biographies of
major players of the NBA, each with a full-page color
photograph.
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Morris, Ron. ACC Basketball: An Illustrated History. Chapel Hill,
NC: Four Corners Press, 1988.
Many of our students share a love for basketball, and
particularly the ACC. This book continues to be a
favorite as it recounts the oestablishment of rivalries in
the TSOs, the point-shaving scandals ofthe T60s, the rise
to national prominence in the T70s and the mullti-
million dollar media boom� of the T80s. Through
photos and interviews meet people who have made
the conference unique " UNC Coach Dean Smith,
Duke Coach Vic Bubas, and many of the players. Our
students are anticipating an updated edition on the
ACC today.
Myers, Walter Dean. Slam!. New York: Scholastic Press, 1996.
oSlam� Harris is a talented seventeen-year-old basket-
ball player with hopes of someday becoming a profes-
sional ballplayer. His chances of leaving the inner city
and achieving this goal are slim, as he battles mediocre
grades, a quick temper and his coachTs belief that he
may not have what it takes. Walter Dean MyersT fiction
is especially appropriate for the reluctant reader looking
for good fiction. Our students also recommend Ironman
by Chris Crutcher.
Paluch, Mark, general editor. The Book of Rules: a Visual Guide to
the Laws of Every Commonly Played Sport and Game. New
York: Checkmark Books, 1998.
This reference guide presents the rules, equipment, gear
and playing surface, officials and players for more than
30 of the worldTs most played or watched sports in a
stimulating and easy-to-understand format. Color
action photographs provide additional information on
the tactical positions/skills and general excitement
generated in the game. Sports and games are organized
by type, i.e., ball games, bat and ball games, racket
games, hand ball games, and others, and include
AmericaTs major professional and recreational sports,
international games, such as rugby and soccer, as well
as a few games/sports rarely played in the U.S. This
Ten Best Sports Titles ...
in My Academic Library
book is a wonderful resource for student research on
sports and games.
Papanek, John, editor-in-chief. ESPN: The Magazine. Boone, IA:
ESPN, Inc., bimonthly.
Our students have enjoyed this bimonthly periodical
since we added it to our periodical holdings two years
ago. ESPN highlights todayTs sports figures with interest-
ing articles and oversized color-action photographs of
the players of the game. The articles (and advertise-
ments) are geared toward the teen audience.
Radnedge, Keir, general editor. The Ultimate Encyclopedia of
Soccer: The Definitive Illustrated Guide to World Soccer. New
York: Carlton Books, 1994.
Every aspect of the game of soccer is included in this
book " great soccer matches, the ostand-out� players,
memorable competitions and teams, etc. Our students
love any and all books on soccer, but the layout and
illustrations have made this one their favorites.
Richards, Brant and Steve Worland. The Complete Book of
Mountain Biking. New York: Harper Collins, 1997.
This work includes an oa to z� of biking terms; over 260
instructive and inspiring color photos; tips both for those
getting started in the sport as well as the experienced
enthusiast; all-terrain riding techniques and bike main-
tenance information; and a travelogue section describ-
ing mountain biking competitions. The primary author
of this book is the editor of Mountain Bike Rider magazine,
and both authors are avid mountain bike competitors
and enthusiasts. Students find this an excellent moun-
tain biking resource and enjoy the wonderful photos.
Sports Illustrated. New York: Time, Inc., weekly.
Sports Illustrated will always be a popular sports title in
the Media Center! The weekly magazine contains
timely, informative articles on the most famous
athletes of the day, and the readers always wonder who
will be on the next eye-catching cover.
by Gerald Holmes
The Walter Clinton Jackson Library at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro holds
more than 2.6 million items, which includes subscriptions to approximately 5,100 newspa- "
pers, periodicals, and other serials. Within the Library, | serve as the liaison librarian to the
Department of Exercise and Sport Science. The collection supports Bachelor, Masters, and
Doctoral degree programs in this research area. In preparing this annotated bibliography, |
asked for and received recommendations from the Exercise and Sport Science faculty. | also
reviewed the circulation statistics to identify the popular and high circulation areas of the
sports titles in the library collection.
Birrell, Susan, and Cheryl L. Cole, eds. Women, Sport, and
Culture. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1994.
The editors present both the feminist sport studies and
feminist cultural studies perspectives. The collection of
24 articles is divided into five parts: 1) Women, Sport,
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and Ideology; 2) Gender and the Organization of Sport;
3) Women in the Male Preserve of Sport; 4) Media,
Sport, and Gender; and 5) Sport and the Politics of
Sexuality. One chapter discusses the lack of female
coaches to serve as role models for young girls. Bringing
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together a variety of theoretical texts, this book is a must
for most academic collections with a sports emphasis.
Diagram Visual Information Ltd. Rules of the Game: the
Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of all the Major Sports of
the World. New York: St. MartinTs Press, 1995.
Rules of the Game is an encyclopedia of games, rules, and
illustrations covering more than 150 sports. This book is
useful to anyone who is not a sports fan or who is a
novice in a particular sport. A must for all library
collections.
Eitzen, D. Stanley. Sport in Contemporary Society: an Anthology.
Ath ed. New York: St. MartinTs Press, 1993.
This book develops a readerTs understanding of sport in
American society. The 35 articles, written by a combi-
nation of journalists and academics, is divided into five
chapters: 1) Toward an Understanding of Sport;
2) Sport and Socialization; 3) Sport and Violence;
4) Race/Ethnicity and Sport; and 5) Gender and Sport.
Each chapter concludes with a section of references
called ofor further study.� Undergraduate classes in
sociology and physical education would benefit from
this book.
Ray, Richard, and Diane M. Wiese-Bjornstal, eds. Counseling in
Sports Medicine. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1999.
This book is written for medical staff who work with
injured athletes. The editors state that this book is
designed to ohelp you develop your counseling and
referral skills in a way that will enable you to implement
effective patient interaction strategies right away.� The
work is divided into three parts: 1) Introduction to the
Counseling Role; 2) Practical Aspects of Counseling for
Sports Medicine Professional; and 3) Specific Counseling
Issues in Athletic Health Care. Readers will learn about
assessment interviews, how to document counseling,
ethical perspectives, eating disorders, stress, injuries, and
rehabilitation. The book is recommended for sports
medicine students, especially those training to be
athletic trainers and physical therapists.
Messner, Michael A., and Donald F. Sabo, eds. Sport, Men, and
the Gender Order: Critical Feminist Perspectives. Champaign,
IL: Human Kinetics, 1990.
The editors explore new understandings of the old
relationship between men and sport. Through 18
essays, this book focuses on the importance of male
dominance in shaping the nature of modern sport.
Chapters include: 1) Baseball and the Reconstitution of
American Masculinity, 1880-1920; 2) Masculinities and
Athletic Careers: Bonding and Status Differences; and
3) Women Coaching Male Athletes. College libraries
serving gender studies programs will want this book.
Because of the engaging theoretical essays, graduate
students will welcome the gender-related research.
Hall, M. Ann. Feminism and Sporting Bodies: Essays on Theory and
Practice. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1996.
This book focuses on the feminist theories in sport and
physical education. Hall discusses theoretical concepts
and illustrates them with concrete examples. Topics
such as the need for a politicized feminism, womenTs
bodybuilding, tomboys and gender verification, and
why there is a gap between academic knowledge and
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activism in womenTs sports are covered. Undergradu-
ates and other readers looking for an entry-level book
on feminist debates about sport will want this book.
Brooks, Dana, and Ronald Althouse, eds. Racism in College
Athletics: the African-American AthleteTs Experience.
Morgantown, WV: Fitness Information Technology, Inc.,
19233,
In a collection of 10 essays, the editors focus on earlier
discussions of African-American life in higher education
and sport. The book is divided into four parts: 1)
Historical Analysis of Racism and Critical Events; 2)
Recruitment, Retention and Mobility in College Athlet-
ics; 3) Gender and Race Intersections in College Athlet-
ics; and 4) Analysis of Racism and Future Success or
Failure?. An underlying thought throughout most of the
work is the idea that African-American athletes must be
twice as good as their white counterparts to make the
team and to play. Undergraduate classes in sport
sociology and physical education would benefit from
this book.
Alexander, A. Healthful Exercise for Girls. London: George Philip
& Son, 1887.
Healthful Exercises for Girls is an 1887 encyclopedic
guide that provides illustrations of exercises for girls.
The exercises include calisthenics, swimming drills,
chest machine, railway ropes, spiral ladder, parallel
bars, and the running maze. During the late 1800s it
was not expected that girls participate in exercise. The
author discusses the fact that most girls who did
participate in exercise did so after medical advice. The
author urges girls to exercise to prevent rather than
cure medical problems. Recommended for academic or
research collections needing primary sources.
Grunska, Jerry, ed. Successful Sports Officiating. Champaign, IL:
Human Kinetics, 1999.
This handbook, produced by Referee Magazine, is in-
tended for officials at all levels and across all sports. The
book is divided into five parts: 1) Developing an Offici-
ating Philosophy; 2) Psychology of Officiating; 3)
Personal Fitness for Officials; 4) Managing Professional
Responsibilities; and 5) The Officiating Profession.
Photographs and informative sidebars highlight the
work, which also includes the Sports OfficialsT Code of
Ethics. A comprehensive index completes this hand-
book. Academic and public libraries would benefit from
owning this book.
Whannel, Gary. Fields in Vision: Television Sport and Cultural
Transformation. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Fields in Vision explains the development of sports on
television in the United States and England. The work
discusses the growth of sponsorship and the way
television and sponsorship have reshaped sport. Infor-
mation on broadcasting practices and the promotion of
national events and star athletes all make this book
interesting reading for students learning the business of
sports. The book includes a list of abbreviations, bibliog-
raphy, and subject index. As a practical text, this
informative work is a must for all academic collections
with a sport or business marketing emphasis.
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Racing for Educational Excellence
tock car racing, born in the South-
ern Appalachians, has taken the
nation by storm. oIf baseball is in-
deed the national pastime, then
NASCAR (for the uninitiated, the acro-
nym stands for the National Association
for Stock Car Auto Racing) may be the
national obsession,� noted Dermot
McEvoy in a 1999 article in Publishers
Weekly.! Attendance at NASCARTs three
top racing series (Winston Cup, Busch
Grand National, and Craftsman Truck)
annually approaches ten million
people, and television broadcasts of
NASCAR events garnered the highest
ratings for the last four weekends as this
is being written in spring 2001, beating
out the NCAA Basketball tournament
selection show. Stock car racing is hot,
embraced by men and women (40% of
fans are female), young and old, of all
financial means. It is the perfect vehicle
(couldnTt resist it) to use as an educa-
tional tool, as illustrated by the educa-
tional initiatives below.
Racing Across the Curriculum
Students and teachers in Georgia, Ala-
bama, and Mississippi are oRacing
Across the Curriculum� thanks to a very
successful summer program at the Inter-
national Motorsports Hall of Fame
(IMHOF) in Talladega, Alabama. Mark
Rice, a four-time state teacher of the
year and recipient of a National Science
Foundation award for the best math-
ematics and science program in the
United States, thought learning should
be fun and wanted to develop a theme
for teaching that would interest kids.
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by Suzanne Wise
Stock car racing was a natural fit with
his own interests (his stepfather, the late
Bruce Jacobi, was a race car driver and
Rice was a member of his race crew as a
teenager), so he worked with a group of
eighth grade girls in his classes to gen-
erate curriculum ideas based on
motorsports. The students produced a
CD-ROM that was so exciting it quickly
got the attention of possible sponsors
(copies of the CD are available for edu-
cational purposes from Stringer Hori-
zons Program, P.O. Box 68, Old High-
way ISN, Stringer, MS 39481). NASCAR
Winston CupTs Robert Yates Racing
team and CARTTs (Championship Auto
Racing Teams) Newman-Haas Racing
team and their major sponsor, Texaco,
came on board. In 1999 the IMHOF and
the adjacent Talladega International
Speedway agreed to host a teacher
workshop using stock car racing to
teach a wide variety of subjects, includ-
ing mathematics, science, economics,
and language arts skills. The program
also emphasized character education,
and several young NASCAR drivers, in-
cluding Lyndon Amick and the late
Kenny Irwin, who were concerned
about the poor image projected by
many star athletes, volunteered to par-
ticipate and serve as positive role mod-
els. The original week-long session was
attended by 40 teachers from three
states. Working in teams, the teachers
participated in a variety of creative ac-
tivities. They devised a marketing plan
for Crayola as a race car sponsor, design-
ing race team uniforms and the car
paint scheme, and developing an adver-
tising campaign. They learned how to
teach physics and math in the context
of setting up cars to perform on the
speedway, and actually got to circle the
track as passengers at speeds approach-
ing 200 mph. On the last day of the
workshop the teachers teamed with stu-
dents to try out their new ideas in a
competition. In 2000 the program
doubled, offering two sessions; 80
teachers were selected from more than
2,000 applications. 2001 promises to be
even larger, and Rice hopes eventually
to establish a permanent summer pro-
gram similar to Huntsville, AlabamaTs
internationally recognized Space Camp.
He envisions state competitions for stu-
dents, with the winners coming to
Talladega each year to compete in a va-
riety of academic events, all based on
stock car racing. The program has re-
ceived widespread media attention, in-
cluding a segment on NickelodeonTs
Nick News. It was also featured on the
Japanese version of 60 Minutes.
Rice conducts shorter teacher edu-
cation workshops in cooperation with
other race tracks and has used the
NASCAR model in corporate teamwork
and leadership training programs. He
has accomplished this through partner-
ships with computer and software com-
panies, race teams, racing magazines,
and companies marketing kid-targeted
products. He is joining with others, in-
cluding chairman and racing legend
Bobby Allison, to form the National
Racing Education Association. For more
information, contact Rice at: Mark Rice,
Director of Technology, Aerospace Sci-
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ence Technology Education Center,
Inc., 2633 N. Villa Avenue, Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma 73107.
Reading and Racing
Morgan-McClure Motorsports in
Abingdon, Virginia, wanted to thank
their community for its long support of
their NASCAR Winston Cup race team.
Ginny McClure, wife of co-owner Larry
McClure, had witnessed firsthand the
reading and writing difficulties of many
adults when she was a placement test
administrator at Virginia Highlands
Community College. She designed
oRacing 4 Literacy� (4 being the number
of Morgan-McClureTs Winston Cup car)
as a way to support the acquisition of
reading and writing skills at an early
age. Working with First Lady of Virginia
Roxane Gilmore and the Virginia De-
partment of Education, she began a pi-
lot project with ten schools in 1998.
Students in the third through sixth
grades were given the opportunity to
sign a contract to read a specified num-
ber of books, the number and titles to
be determined by the students, and to
write a book report on each. The pro-
gram has since been modified to con-
centrate on fourth and fifth grade
classes, and has expanded into east Ten-
nessee. McClure and her sister Willma
Blevins, also a Morgan-McClure em-
ployee, read every report, correcting
grammar and making positive notes
and personal comments. For instance,
when a report mentioned that a boy
had a pet dog, McClure wrote, oI have
poodles!� These personal notes are
much prized by the students, who ask
each other, oWhat did she write on your
report?� At the end of the year McClure
visits each class. She tells the students
about the importance of reading and
writing and also talks about stock
car racing and what it takes to field
a team. She then presents the stu-
dents who have completed their
contracts with autographed photo-
graphs of Morgan-McClure driver
Kevin Lepage, a tee shirt, and a cer-
tificate of completion on which she
has personally written the studentTs
name in calligraphy.
McClure says the most difficult
aspect of the program has been the
children who chose not to partici-
pate or who did not complete their
contracts. While it is hard on those
students to see others receiving
prizes, she says that it sends a very
important message about keeping
oneTs word and being rewarded for
honest effort, and it motivates non-
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participating fourth graders to join the
program in the fifth grade.
The funds to underwrite Racing 4
Literacy come primarily from an annual
benefit golf tournament (the August
2000 event netted about $17,000) and
from corporation support. Dana Corpo-
ration, which supplies car parts to ve-
hicle manufacturers, often sends staff
with McClure when she visits classes in
schools near their plants. They reinforce
the idea that working in a factory or ga-
rage usually requires at least a high
school education and good reading and
writing skills. Morgan-McClure spon-
sors a table at local career day activities
to let aspiring mechanics and automo-
tive technicians know that a good edu-
cation is necessary to get a job.
At present the program is used in
78 classes in 31 schools in Virginia and
Tennessee, totaling about 1,600 stu-
dents; in 2000 McClure and Blevins
read 3,100 book reports! McClure is
willing to extend this program to inter-
ested schools, and has even worked
with home-schooled children. For more
information, contact Ginny McClure,
Director, Racing 4 Literacy Program,
The Morgan-McClure Foundation,
26502 Newbanks Road, Abingdon, VA
24210.
Racing for Character Education
In South Carolina, Team Amick, featur-
ing Saluda, South CarolinaTs racing
driver Lyndon Amick, spearheaded
RACE with Lyndon. Recognizing that
race car drivers are role models for
many kids, Team Amick contacted the
South Carolina Department of Educa-
tion and asked what it could do to sup-
port education in the state. The team
decided to focus on character educa-
tion, and Reinforcing Academic and
NASCAR driver Lyndon Amick explores the
Internet with a young fan. Photo used with
permission http://www.lyndonamick.com/
LA_outreach.html
Character Education (RACE) with
Lyndon was born. Four school districts
participated in the pilot project in 1999-
2000, which was underwritten by Team
AmickTs primary sponsor, SCANA.
Fourth- and fifth-grade teachers in these
districts received the oRev It Up: Racing
Across the Curriculum� curriculum en-
hancement program materials devel-
oped by Racing for Kids magazine, which
focus on activities in reading, math-
ematics, science, history, and geogra-
phy. In addition, Lyndon Amick met
with students in each of the four dis-
tricts and talked about his racing expe-
riences. The twenty-two-year-oldTs will-
ingness to speak candidly about han-
dling both success and disappointment
in racing has made the program a big
success. Students participating in the
school districts may be identified as Top
Performers, oall-round students who
demonstrate through everyday words,
deeds and actions a commitment to
living responsibly, dependably, and
with integrity.� Top Performers are
listed on the Team Amick Motorsports
transporters and a brief biography is
displayed on the team Web site
http://www.lyndonamick.com.
Teachers may request copies of the cur-
riculum materials from Zeta Smith,
NASCAR Racing for Kids, P.O. Box 588,
Concord, NC 28026-0588.
North Carolina Racing
Education Programs
Robeson County is offering a new pro-
gram tied to stock car racing. Under the
leadership of Dr. Wilbur Smith, the
school system is establishing a Motor
Sports Academy, which will offer auto-
motive and related classes to students
who may wish to work in the
motorsports industry. The senior faculty
will be joined by several former
drivers and race team pit crew
members, and the two-semester
program will culminate in the stu-
dents actually building a race car.
Dr. Smith and system superinten-
dent Dr. Barry Harding hope the
Motor Sports Academy will be the
first program in an eventual new
technology high school.
Several colleges and universi-
ties offer degrees tailored to stu-
dents who want to work in racing.
Catawba Valley Community Col-
lege has established the Bobby Isaac
Motorsports Technology Program,
named for the late driver and 1970
NASCAR champion. The curricu-
lum, which has attracted students
from more than 30 states and
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Canada, provides a hands-on educa-
tional laboratory simulating a race shop
environment. Rowan-Cabarrus Com-
munity College offers a two-year pro-
gram in motorsports technology man-
agement. The Lee College of Engineer-
ing at UNC-Charlotte offers a
motorsports engineering concentration.
NASCAR plans to open a state-of-the-art
Technical Institute in the Charlotte area
in 2001 to train automotive techni-
cians.
A number of institutions offer occa-
sional courses on motorsports. Each se-
mester Appalachian State UniversityTs
Department of Health, Leisure, and Ex-
ercise Science offers oThe Evolution of
Southern Motorsports,� a course on the
history of stock car racing. UNC-
Asheville has offered oStock Cars and
Southern Culture.� Wake Technical
Community College features a continu-
ing education class, oRace Car Vehicle
Dynamics,� which provides an in-depth
look at race car set-up. Central Pied-
mont Community College sponsored
oA RookieTs Guide to Racing,� taught by
Celia Kelin, owner of a motorsports
marketing firm, and featuring television
racing analyst and former NASCAR
driver Benny Parsons and current Busch
Grand National series driver Tony
Raines. North Carolina State University
sponsors a six-week seminar on the
business of stock car racing.
Several schools have partnered with
race teams to provide both educational
opportunities and institutional public-
ity. Texaco and Robert Yates Racing pro-
vided a fully equipped version of the
teamTs No. 28 car to be used as a labo-
ratory by students at North Carolina A
& T, and they have established the
Texaco/Havoline Racing Team Scholar-
ship and Internship Program, available
to students associated with the
UniversityTs Intercollegiate Auto Racing
Association (ICAR) racing team. Other
schools competing in the ICAR racing
program are Duke University, North
Carolina State University, the Univer-
sity of North Carolina"Charlotte, the
University of South Carolina, and the
University of Virginia. UNC-Charlotte
awards the Alan Kulwicki Memorial
Scholarship, named for the late
NASCAR champion, to a student who
demonstrates excellence in academics
and has a racing background. In Octo-
ber 2000 Richard Petty presented STP
Maximum Performance Scholarships to
two students in Rowan-Cabarrus Com-
munity CollegeTs motorsports manage-
ment program.
Several schools, including Virginia
Tech, the University of Tennessee, and
the University of Nebraska, have been
featured in NASCAR races via one-race
paint schemes on cars. The exposure to
millions of race fans at the track and on
television generates a huge amount of
positive publicity for the institution.
Appalachian State UniversityTs
stock car racing collection was featured
in the November 2000 issue of Stock Car
Racing magazine, which has a reader-
ship of more than 400,000. The article
has generated several donations to the
collection as well as requests for re-
search assistance.
For more information on these and
other educational programs in racing,
log on to the premier stock car racing
Web site Jayski.Com http://jayski.thats
racin.com. Scroll down the list of links
on the left side of the screen and select
oRacing Schools.�
References
'Dermot McEvoy, oA New Player
Roars onto the Sports Scene,� Publishers
Weekly 246 (March 22, 1999): 54.
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ORP (Great Outdoor Recreation Pages) founded by Diane and
Bill Greer in 1995, has more than 100,000 web pages of infor-
mation on outdoor recreation and adventure travel. In addition
to gear and stuff, GORP maintains several discussion groups among the
outdoor and adventure community. This is an example of a topic-spe-
cific portal that fits in with the theme of this issue of North Carolina Li-
braries.
GORP http://www.gorp.com is divided into seven hyperlinks or
main links: Home, Destinations, Activities, Community, Travel, Gear,
and Books and Maps. Home has links to the other folders as well as a
last-minute travel guide (called ProcrastinatorTs Travel Guide) and links
to selected activities/travel areas. The Destinations folder has links to:
US Cities, Around the Globe, City Weekends, Parks, Book a Trip, Best
Adventures, and Discussion Boards. The Activities link is broken down
into interest groups: hiking, biking, paddling, fishing, birding, climb-
ing, fitness, multi-sport, horseback riding, water sports, caving, driving
RVs [sic!], ecology, health, skiing, snow sports, snorkeling, scuba, and
wildlife viewing. Each oactivity� has an oexpert� whom you can read
about and contact for advice. The advice questions are archived for ref-
erence purposes. A typical question might be the one I found in the
Birding expert archives: oCould a Cardinal have a black beak as well as
a yellow?� Sam the Bird Man then launches into a discourse on bird
genetics and gives the opinion that some cardinals may have been feed-
ing on some dark-colored fruit. There are also tabs on the Activities page
for clubs, events, trail finder, book a trip, experts, and trail gear.
The Community tabs gives some of the prior links as well as new
ones: GORP experts, discussion boards, join GORP, family, pets, humor,
food, readersT top ten (places to visit), and tips for traveling with oyour
better half� on the trail. Pets (which I could not resist) got me stories
like Dog Friendly Denver, First Aid for Dogs, Dogs in Spurs, Historic
Hydrants in Washington, DC (I kid you not!), and traveling about
odoggie style.� No links to articles on cats, but then cats (or at least
mine) donTt travel. The travel tab takes one to GORPtravel.com, where
you can select an appropriate travel destination or read about specials.
Gear features links to actual product offerings along with discussions
such as oCanister vs. White Gas,� oStay-dry Strategy,� oBooted Bliss,�
and oGoosebump-free Sleep.� The Gear tab is also divided into Ask
Annie, Buy Gear, Packing Lists (what to pack), Gear Guides, and Gear
Finder. The oBooks and Maps� Folder contains links to book lists and
special book offerings. The only map link was to oMap Adventures� in
Stowe, Vt., which sells oquality topographic maps to the outdoor rec-
reation enthusiast.� Other links on this folder are to: trips, gear, books,
otravel supplies,� and photos. GORP also allows to you customize your
computer with oMy GORP,� screensavers, e-cards, and customized news-
letters.
The downside to GORP is that it appears to be a sort of mining site
that tracks your interests for future use. Also, annoying ads pop up from
time to time, one of which crashed my browser. Still, GORP can pro-
vide you and your patrons with some interesting links to the travel out-
doors.
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ABouT THE AUTHORS
Stephanie L. Fiedler
Education: B.A., Virginia Tech; M.L.S., UNC-Chapel Hill
Position: Media Coordinator, Swift Creek Elementary
School, Wake County School System.
sfiedler@wcpss.net
Lena Gonzalez
Education: B.A., M.A., UNC-Greensboro
Position: Multicultural Services Coordinator, Greensboro
Public Library.
lena.gonzalez@ci.greensboro.nc.us
Gerald Holmes
Education: B.S., UNC-Charlotte; M.S.L.S., UNC-Chapel Hill
Position: Assistant Reference Librarian and Liaison to
the Department of Exercise and Sports Health
and Human Performance, UNC-Greensboro.
gerald_holmes@uncg.edu
Russell Koonts
Education: B.A., M.A., North Carolina State University
Position: Librarian for University Archives, Special
Collections Department, North Carolina State
University. Russell_Koonts@ncsu.edu
Kim P. Mayo :
Education: B.A., Hofstra University; M.L.S., North Carolina
Central University
Position: Media Coordinator, Riverside High School,
Durham. mayok@gte.net
James R. Meier
Education: B.A., M.B.A., Duke University; M.S., University
of Massachusetts-Amherst; M.L.S., North
Carolina Central University
Position: Senior Editor, News Research, The Sporting
_ News, St. Louis, MO. jmeier@sportingnews.com
James Ruszczyk
Education: B.A., University of Florida; M.L.S., Universit
of South Florida :
Position: Adult Services Librarian and Head of Reference,
Wilkes County Public Library, North Wilkesboro.
jruszczyk@ncsl.dcr.state.nc.us
Jim Sumner
Education: B.A., Duke University; M.A., North Carolina
State University
Position: Historian and Sports Curator, North Carolina
Museum of History.
jsumner@moh.dcr.state.nc.us
Steve Wilson
Education: B.A., UNC-Chapel Hill
Position: Senior Editor, McFarland & Company, Inc.,
Publishers, Jefferson.
swilson@mcfarland.com
Suzanne Wise
Education: B.A., University of South Carolina; M.A.,
__ Appalachian State University; M.S.L.S.,
University of Kentucky
Position: Sports and Recreation Bibliographer and
Librarian for the Stock Car Racing Collection,
Appalachian State University.
wisems@appstate.edu
Summer 2001 " 81
___ NORTH CAROLINA ,
Dorothy Hodder, Compiler
riumph of Good Will is an even-handed account of a pitched battle between two talented
and capable men, I. Beverly Lake, Sr., and Terry Sanford. Both were Democrats, with very
different and passionately held convictions about what was best for North Carolina at a
critical juncture in its history.
I. Beverly Lake, Sr. was a highly regarded professor of law at Wake Forest University.
He believed that Brown vs Board of Education was unconstitutional, and he saw the presence of the
NAACP in North Carolina as intolerable outside interference. He described himself as a segrega-
tionist, not a racist, and many North Carolinians agreed. oThe NAACP is our enemy, not the
Negro people,� he told the Asheboro Lions Club. Terry Sanford, a young lawyer and state legislator
from Fayetteville, had known since his Chapel Hill days that he was going to run for governor. He
started running early and hard, focusing his campaign on his intention to improve public schools
and to raise taxes, if necessary, in order to do it.
Sanford was deeply shaken by the run-off of the 1950 U.S. Senate race between his friend,
liberal senator Frank Porter Graham, and conservative Raleigh attorney Willis Smith. Graham was
ultimately defeated with racist tactics, including widespread use of anonymous inflammatory
fliers and misleading ads. Sanford fervently wished to keep the
question of race out of his own campaign.
It was not to be. Three days before Sanford announced his
candidacy for the governotrTs race, four students at North Carolina
Triu m p h of Gc ood Wi II: A&T in Greensboro climbed onto stools at the lunch counter of
WoolworthTs. This quiet, defiant act prompted similar boycotts and
How Terry Sanford Beat a sit-ins across North Carolina and the South. For Sanford the timing
could not have been worse. What followed was a primary run-off
C. ham pion of Segregation and that polarized North Carolinians, largely over issues of race.
Drescher observes that younger admirers of Terry Sanford are
Res haped the Ss Ou th. often surprised to discover that he did not speak out for integration
; during the 1960 gubernatorial campaign. At the time, the closest
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. Sanford could come to this (and still get elected) was to campaign
316 pp. $27.00. ISBN 1-57806-310-8. on a platform of oexpanding opportunities for all people.�
Sanford did win the primary run-off against Lake, but the story
does not end there. In a controversial move, he endorsed John EF.
Kennedy for President over Lyndon Johnson. The risk paid off. Sanford defeated Republican
Robert Gavin for the governorship and delivered North Carolina for Kennedy.
The rift between Sanford and I. Beverly Lake, Sr., never truly healed, although they did
occasionally see one another over the years. Their visions of how to move North Carolina forward
in 1960 were very different, and did not change over time. In 1969 Dr. Lake declined to leave his
papers to East Carolina University because he did not want them oin the custody of an institution
that finds it necessary to apologize for displaying the Confederate flag and singing Dixie.� (LakeTs
son, I. Beverly Lake, Jr., made the papers available to Drescher during the writing of this book.)
Sanford never stopped working on issues related to race. His informal lunches with distinguished
historian John Hope Franklin ultimately led to the high-profile advisory panel on race commis-
sioned by President Clinton and chaired by Franklin.
Drescher, a North Carolina native and a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University,
was a reporter with the Charlotte Observer and is currently managing editor of The State newspaper
in Columbia, South Carolina.
Triumph of Goodwill is a fascinating and readable account of a contest between two important
figures in modern North Carolina political history.
Recommended for public and academic libraries alike.
John Drescher.
" Bryna Coonin
East Carolina University
82 " Summer 2001 North Carolina Libraries
a a ea en ee "
s sport a mirror of our culture, or is our culture influenced by sport? Pamela Grundy,
who is also the author of You Always Think of Home: A Portrait of Clay County, Alabama
(University of Georgia Press, 1991), addresses this question in Learning to Win: Sports,
Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina. The work, based on her
1997 dissertation, is a meticulously researched history of the relationship between sports
in educational settings in North Carolina and their impact on the state as a whole.
Contrary to the bookTs title, emphasis is on the first 70 years of the century. The work is based
not only on published primary and secondary sources, but also a wealth of interviews. A well-
chosen collection of photographs accompany the text, which is illuminated with many quotes
and stories from the participants.
Grundy follows the effects of sports, especially basketball, on men and women, black and
white. In the first decade of the twentieth century, women in high schools, colleges, and
industrial mills used sport as a springboard to escape the ofragile female� stereotype. Basketball
allowed them to engage in strenuous activity, to learn leadership and teamwork skills, to SHOUT
if they felt like it. With the requirements of the game and the changing mores of the time,
uniforms evolved from long skirts to bloomers to cotton satin shorts. In
many towns womenTs games received more attention than the menTs. All
these gains were reversed in the 1940s and 1950s, when physical educa-
tion leaders in the stateTs womenTs colleges, such as Mary Channing
Learn ing to Win: Coleman at the North Carolina College for Women in Greensboro and
Ordie Roberts at North Carolina A & T, worked hard to ban competitive
Spor ts, Educa tion, and womenTs sports in high school and college. They championed a model of
broad participation in moderate exercise, combining social and intramu-
Social Chan ge in Twentieth- ral activities with limited spectators. North Carolina educator Charlotte
o Hawkins Brown recommended a oCharm Movement� to prepare Black
Cen tury North Carolina. women to be a stronger force in American culture, and Margaret Greene
advanced the traditional argument that the health and reputation of
young ladies must be protected. In its first high school athletic code,
adopted in 1952, the state board of education did indeed curtail girlsT
competitive basketball, but the outcome was not what its champions
expected. The void of competitive sports was quickly filled by the
attractions of better roads and more automobiles, television, and the
emphasis on female beauty in the mass media. Girls turned their backs
on sports in favor of cheerleading and beauty contests. Not until the rise of the
feminist movement in the 1960s did womenTs competitive sports make a comeback.
MenTs sports have also had a lasting impact on North Carolina society. The old
boysT club who ran the state at the turn of the century saw sports as a vehicle to teach
teamwork and other skills useful to workers in their mills, to give workers a sense of
family, and to serve as a distraction from long hours and poor working conditions. As
the general population became caught up in school rivalries, winning became increas-
ingly important. UNC president Frank Porter Graham was concerned enough to
propose in 1935 that varsity athletics in the Southern Conference be reformed. The
Graham Plan sought to bring athletics back under the control of the university and
reaffirm the focus on intellectual activity by abolishing scholarships based solely on
athletic merit and requiring every varsity athlete to sign a statement that he had not
received unauthorized financial assistance. The reaction to his report was immediate.
Fans, politicians, the media, and fellow educators decried efforts to control the sports
that were the darlings of their constituencies. With his job in jeopardy, Graham was
forced to admit defeat. The specter of big-time athletics would return in the 1950s
with the scandal of point fixing in college basketball.
Grundy follows the effects of basketball on ending the entrenched segregation
policies of the state. Coaches of Black teams such as North Carolina CollegeTs John B.
McLendon, Jr. and Winston-Salem StateTs Clarence oBighouse� Gaines, used the
discipline, teamwork, and positive attitudes taught playing basketball to prepare
their players to cope with the Jim Crow culture they lived in. In 1968 Charlie Scott took the
floor for the University of North Carolina basketball team, becoming the first Black player in
the state to play on a predominately White team. Scott and his contemporaries worked hard
and followed the rules, hoping to be rewarded for their excellence in spite of their race. Their
success was conditional; they were grudgingly congratulated when they excelled and loudly
condemned for playing like a onigger� when they didnTt.
Learning to Win is an excellent analysis of the history and social effects of school sports in
North Carolina and is especially valuable for the portrait of sports at Black high schools and
colleges. It fills a gap in the literature and is recommended for all academic and public libraries.
" Suzanne Wise
Appalachian State University
Pamela Grundy.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 2001. 362 pp.
Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2619-7;
paperback $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4934-0.
North Carolina Libraries Summer 2001 " 87
ilmington and New Hanover County have long cornered the market on historic
architecture in the Cape Fear region, so it is with just pride that the Duplin County
Historical Foundation has produced, after seven years of work, a book of generous
proportions focusing on the buildings of its area. The volume, illustrated by crisp,
carefully selected photographs, traces the sedate but steady growth of the county and
discusses its architectural heritage. Each chapter is marked by a full-page computer
graphic of an historic building or view, overlaid with a rain-like wash that produces a sense of nostal-
gia. This mood is carried through the historical development essay, which is punctuated by pictures of
demolished structures. Nevertheless, the purpose of the book is to display and discuss the surviving
resources abounding across the county and reveal how they reflect, in the words of the National
Register of Historic Places guidelines, othe history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, and culture
of the region and the nation as a whole.�
The array of architecture built in Duplin County over a period of two-and-a-quarter centuries is a
testimony to the evolution of the art of building, apart from the simple need for shelter, from deep-
rooted traditions of early settlers exemplified by log buildings and Coastal Cottage types to innovative
interpretations of progressive styles: Federal, Greek Revival,
Gothic, Italianate, Queen Anne, Craftsman, and general commer-
cial styles. The fact that owners, carpenters, craftsmen, and
masons made an architectural impact not only on a regional level
but also on a national scale becomes obvious by paging through
MartinTs monograph. Nor were the limits of influence localized,
Along the Banks of the Old for examples of each period of building are well represented in the
13 Duplin townships. Small farms, plantation houses, farm
Northea St: The His torical and structures, mercantile buildings, railroad depots, freight ware-
houses, churches, and schools are direct associations with events
Architectural Developmen t of that bring the past sharply into the scope of the present.
Along the Banks of the Old Northeast is divided into two main
Duplin Coun ty, North Carolina. sections. Section one begins with the settlement and early
: ; ; ; development of the area from 1736 to 1837, including a discus-
Rose Hill: Duplin County Historical Foundation, sion of pre-railroad architecture. Then comes the railroad era,
Inc., P.O. Box 130, Rose Hill, NC 1999. from 1838 to 1875, with fashions that were brought in by the
269 pp. $45.00. No ISBN. railroad and associated industries. Town life and agricultural
prosperity from 1876 to 1943 saw the flourishing of Warsaw,
Magnolia, Wallace, Rose Hill, and Faison along the Wilmington &
Weldon tracks. Commercial, domestic, and farm building activities of the same period are covered in
a chapter entitled oThe Architecture of New Growth,� while a short epilogue brings the reader into
the current era.
Section two is devoted to the core of the project: a catalogue of historic structures arranged in
order of the 13 townships making up the county, each illustrating the various traditions and styles
that form the rich architectural pattern of the Northeast Cape Fear. The book concludes with a useful
glossary of terms used in the text, a bibliography that makes one want to spend extra time at the
library reading further into the sources, and a property name and general indices.
Two drawbacks are the slight but insidious typographical errors or close duplication of words that
occur here and there in the text, and the lack of additional maps. It would have been very helpful to
have each township division accompanied by a map showing the location of each of the buildings
discussed so that the volume could have been used as a field guide as well as an armchair reference.
The author, Jennifer F. Martin, is a native of South Carolina. In 1987, she received an undergradu-
ate degree in history and sociology from the University of South Carolina, followed by a masterTs
degree in history and historic preservation from Middle Tennessee State University. Subsequently, she
completed the survey that resulted in this volume, as well as another project for Macon County. She
joined forces with the North Carolina Preservation Office in their western regional facility at Asheville,
and became National Register Coordinator in the Raleigh office. More recently, she has moved into
the private sector as a member of the firm Edwards-Pitman Environmental, Inc., a historic resources
and ecology survey organization in Raleigh.
Last, but not least, credit for the book is given to two dedicated local people: Leon oSonny� Sikes,
who dreamed of seeing his county in print and found the resources to make it a reality; and to Dr.
William Dallas Herring, oIn recognition of a lifetime of dedicated service to the enrichment and
preservation of our history and heritage; a champion of public education.� In her introduction, North
Carolina Secretary of Cultural Resources Betty Rae McCain wrote, oThis book is a beautiful and faithful
record of the history and architecture of a place and a people with a special grace and generous heart.�
Duplin County has done itself proud through this publication, opening its doors to a wider audience
and inviting them to appreciate its priceless treasures.
Jennifer E Martin.
" Edward F. Turberg
Preservation Consultant, Wilmington
84 " Summer 2001 North Carolina Libraries
Ne A Ee RO aE SS ate SE CE a Se eM SRE NT TM ET NS Te Vo I eM eee Se eee een. See ne a ee ee
istory seems to have almost forgotten oBuncombe Bob� Reynolds, an enigmatic and
controversial Senator from North Carolina who served between 1933 and 1945. For
many years the final word on Senator Reynolds was V.O. Key, who in his classic study,
Southern Politics, noted that othe erratic and irrelevant Bob Reynolds� was the only
example of a clown who had held important public office in North Carolina. Julian
PleasantsTs Buncombe Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Rice Reynolds challenges that
characterization. PleasantsTs work reveals an oddly complex figure, a mix of shrewd campaign sense,
natural charm, public flamboyancy, epicurean self-indulgence, and fatally poor judgment in political
alliances and philosophy.
Pleasants weaves a compelling narrative, exploring the core
elements of ReynoldsTspublic career and private life. His book
follows ReynoldsTs colorful lone wolf campaign of 1932; his
formation of the Vindicators, an anti-war, anti-alien organiza-
tion; his chairmanship of the Senate Military Affairs Commit-
tee; and his ultimate fall from grace with the voters of North
Buncom be Bob: Carolina. Though Reynolds proposed little significant legisla-
tion, Pleasants notes his unremitting efforts to gain federal
The Life and Times of funding for the Blue Ridge Parkway and Smoky Mountains
National Park as an achievement for North Carolina.
Julian M. Pleasants.
Robert Rice Reynold S. Pleasants, who previously coauthored Frank Porter Graham
and the 1950 Senate Race in North Carolina, is an associate
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. professor of history and director of the Proctor Oral History
357 pp. Cloth, $34.95. ISBN 0-8078-S064-0. Program at the University of Florida. This well-researched book,
based on his dissertation, draws upon a rich variety of primary
sources, such as local North Carolina news articles and personal
interviews. It opens a window not only on the life of one of
North CarolinaTs most controversial politicians but also on
many cultural and political issues and events of the times. For
example, Buncombe Bob provides interesting insights into the
pre-World War II isolationist movement and the influence of
the Nazi propaganda machine on well-intentioned members of
Congress with strong isolationist leanings. The book also
pursues some curious tangential topics, such as the controversy
around Charles LindberghTs alleged antisemitism and oun-
American� views. On a lighter side, Bob ReynoldsTs story is
entangled with that of the Hope Diamond, as his fifth marriage
was into the ill-fated family who possessed it.
Buncombe Bob is a well-told story. The subject matter is as
enjoyable for someone completely unfamiliar with North
Carolina politics as it is informative for the North Carolina
specialist. Pleasants provides clear notes, photographs, an
abundant bibliography, and full indexing. The book is an
essential purchase for public libraries with North Carolina
collections and for all academic libraries.
THE LIFE & TIMES OF
ROBERT RICE REYNOLDS
JULIAN M. PLEASANTS.
" Allan Scherlen
Appalachian State University
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n March 1865, the Civil WarTs final drama began as General William T. ShermanTs armies
marched into North Carolina on a drive to link up with Ulysses GrantTs forces near Petersburg,
Virginia. When Sherman realized how well GrantTs forces were doing, he requested permission
to turn his armies westward, and focus on chasing and capturing Confederate General eB:
JohnstonTs Army of Tennessee. Sherman feared that Johnston might slip away from him and
either unite with Robert E. LeeTs forces or escape North Carolina altogether and carry on the
fight elsewhere in the South.
Faced with overwhelming odds, JohnstonTs troops fought delaying actions as long as possible but
only halted the Union army briefly at the battle of Bentonville. Johnston was running out of time and
supplies, and his soldiers began deserting in ever larger numbers while North Carolina political elements
were agitating for a peace settlement. When news came of LeeTs surrender in Virginia, Johnston, ac-
knowledging the inevitable, sought to negotiate the best possible surrender terms. On April 18, 1865, he
met Sherman at Bennett Place near Durham Station and surren-
dered the last major Confederate Army in the field.
] f
Pradlen Marl Mark Bradley has written a masterful study of the end of the
This Astound ing Close: Civil War in North Carolina. Outlining both the military action
and the rapidly emerging internal political struggles on the Union
The Road to Ben nett Place. and Confederate sides, he brings a well-balanced picture of those
final days. We see Sherman, Johnston, Jefferson Davis, and Zeb
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Vance all being caught up in the confusion of the daily, sometimes
404 pp. $34.95. ISBN 0-8087-2565-4.. hourly, political shifts of March 1865.
Bradley also documents how the average North Carolinian
was affected by the warTs last campaign as he describes how both
armies stole food, livestock, and valuables from citizens. Despite the breakdown of law and order,
civilians fared relatively well thanks to restraint by Union troops (a Union officer turned back federal
soldiers who, hearing of LincolnTs assassination, were ready to burn Raleigh).
With extensive research notes, appendices, black-and-white photographs, maps, and an index, Mark
Bradley has compiled a omust read� narrative. This is an excellent example of historical scholarship and
should be purchased by all college, university, community college, and special collections focused on
the Civil War; it is suitable for high school collections also.
" John Welch
Enloe High School
f you want to emulate Forrest Gump, you can now hike interesting and scenic trails from one
end of North Carolina to the other with the help of Allen de HartTs detailed guide to the
Mountains-to-Sea Trail. De Hart is well qualified to write this work, having hiked the trail,
written several earlier trail guides, and served on the North Carolina Trails Association. He
presently serves on the associationTs successor, the Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. Both
of these groups were instrumental in bringing to fruition the North Carolina Division of Parks
and RecreationTs 1977 proposal for the development of a hiking trail across the state.
The 938-mile Mountains-to-Sea Trail, included in the state park system by legislation enacted in
2000, begins at ClingmanTs Dome in the west and crosses 37 counties to reach its terminus at JockeyTs
Ridge State Park in the east. The trail follows existing hiking trails in national parks, national forests,
and municipalities, and Department of Transportation biking trails in other areas, with only two
sections of the trail still incomplete. This guide divides the trail
Allen de Hart. into 38 sections of varying length. For each section, de Hart has
included a brief history of the counties through which the section
Hiking North Car olinaTs passes; length and difficulty of the trail; USGS topographical maps
used; features or emphasis of the scenery or area; trails followed;
Moun tains- to-Sea Tr ail. trail connections; west trailhead; east trailhead; facilities for
camping; lodging and provisions; information and security
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. contacts and phone numbers; a detailed description of the trail
371 pp. $18.95. ISBN 0-8078-4887-5. (hiking guide); diversions, when present; and camp side stories
86 " Summer 2001
(legends of the area, such as the Brown Mountain lights, Tom
Dula, the ghost of Maco Station). The work includes topographical
or road maps for each section of the trail, a 30-page history of the trailTs establishment, and an index.
The guide provides not only directions for hiking the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, but also interesting
and entertaining information about the areas through which the trail passes. More careful proofreading
could have prevented some minor errors in the text (e.g., oColumbia� for oColombia� and oMurrow
Mountain� for oMorrow Mountain�). Nonetheless, this guide will be a very useful addition to the
outdoor/sports collections of both public and academic libraries.
"Joline R. Ezzell
Duke University Library
North Carolina Libraries
ADDITIONAL ITEMS OF INTEREST ...
John Chavis: African American Patriot, Preacher, Teacher, and
Mentor [1763-1838], by Helen Chavis Othow is the inspiring
account of the life of a free Black man from Granville
County. John Chavis fought in the Revolutionary War, was
the first Black person ordained in the Presbyterian Church,
and ran his own Latin school. His descendants, including
the author, continue to be education leaders in the state.
Includes extensive notes, bibliography, index, and Chavis
family photographs and documents. (2001; McFarland &
Co., Inc., Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640; 206 pp.; paper,
$32.00; ISBN 0-7864-0818-9.)
A valuable genealogical resource is North Carolina
Headrights: A List of Names, 1663-1744, compiled by
Caroline B. Whitley, and prepared for publication by Susan
M. Trimble. Grants of land in colonial North Carolina were
based on headright, the number of persons the grantee
brought into the colony, including slaves, bondservants, or
free persons, regardless of age or gender. Grantees could
also leave the colony and return for additional grants before
1712. Headright records are the sole surviving records of
many colonial North Carolinians, and often indicate family
relationships or status. Indexed. (2001; Historical Publica-
tion Section, Division of Archives and History, North
Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 4622 Mail
Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4622; 312 pp.; paper,
$18.00; ISBN 0-86526-296-9.)
One of the founders of the Grandfather Mountain Highland
Games has called Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the
American South, by Celeste Ray, the first serious attempt to
oexplain the overzealous love of tartans and clans by
Scottish Americans.� An ethnographic study with photo-
graphs, dress code, glossary, notes,
bibliography, and index. (2001;
University of North Carolina Press,
PO Box 2288, Chapel Hill, NC 27515-
2288; 288 pp.; cloth, $29.95; ISBN 0-
8078-2597-2; paper, $16.95; ISBN O-
8078-4913-8.)
Wilmington Through the Lens of Louis
T. Moore, by Susan Taylor Block, is a
selection of some 200 of the 900 or
more panoramic photographs Moore
took in the Wilmington area in the
1920s and ~30s. The photographs
belong to the Local History Collection
of the New Hanover County Public
Library. Includes bibliography and
index. (2001; Lower Cape Fear
Historical Society 126 S. 3rd St.,
Wilmington, NC 28401; 336 pp.;
$55.00; ISBN 0-9670410-1-5.)
land Hetag
vancy, North Carolina Chapter, 4011 University Drive, Suite
201, Durham, NC 27707; 131 pp.; paper, $9.95; ISBN 0-
9675026-0-8.)
The Law of Employment in North CarolinaTs Public Schools, by
Robert P. Joyce (2000; Institute of Government, 3330 Knapp
Building, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3330; 509 pp.; paper, $45.00; ISBN
1-56011-303-0) and 20 Questions Nonprofits Often Ask About
Working with Local Government, by Lydian Altman-Sauer,
Margaret Henderson, and Gordon P. Whitaker (2000;
Institute of Government, 3330 Knapp Building, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-
3330; 22 pp.; paper, $6.00; ISBN 1-56011-379-0), are two
useful new publications from the Institute of Government.
General Robert F. Hoke: LeeTs Modest Warrior, by Daniel W.
Barefoot, originally published in 1996, has just been re-
released in paperback. (2001; John F. Blair, Publisher, 1406
Plaza Dr, Winston-Salem, NC 27103; 452 pp.; paper, $17.95;
ISBN 0-89587-237-4.)
Londa L. Wody describes 19 country stores and the families
that operate them in All in a DayTs Work: Historic General
Stores of Macon and Surrounding North Carolina Counties.
Black-and-white illustrations by Gail Blakeley Wood.
Indexed. (2001; Parkway Publishers, PO Box 3678, Boone,
NC 28607; 79 pp.; paper, $19.95; ISBN 1-887905-44-8.)
Mary Herring Wright describes life in North CarolinaTs
school for blind and deaf Black children in the 1920s to the
1940s in Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black and Deaf in the
South. (1999; Gallaudet University Press, 800 Florida Ave.
N.E., Washington, DC 30002-3695; 282
pp.; paper, $24.95; ISBN 1-56368-080-7.)
The Secret to Their Success: How 33 Women
Made Their Dreams Come True, edited by
Emily A. Colin (2000; Carolina WomenTs
Press, an imprint of Coastal Carolina
Press, 4709 College Acres Dr., Suite 1,
Wilmington, NC 28403; 320 pp.; paper,
$15.95; ISBN 1-928556-20-5) and
The Long Way Around: How 34 Women
Found the Lives They Love, edited by
Emily A. Colin (2000; Carolina WomenTs
Press, an imprint of Coastal Carolina
Press, 4709 College Acres Dr., Suite 1,
Wilmington, NC 28403; 343 pp.; paper,
$15.95; ISBN 1-928556-19-1), are the
debut publications of WilmingtonTs
Carolina WomenTs Press. Interview
subjects cover a wide range of women
from the area and state, and include
A Guide to Nature Conservancy Projects
in North Carolina, written and edited
by Margaret Fields and Ida Phillips-
Lynch, is a handy book to keep in the
car while driving around the state. It
has a two-page article on each Nature Conservancy project,
with black-and-white photographs, and directions and
information about public access. (2000; The Nature Conser-
North Carolina Libraries
IN TRE AMERICAN
photos and short biographies.
Nobody Left to Ask: A Memoir of Family,
includes photos and reminiscences by
Phil Link of Reidsville, whose careers
have included pharmacist, painter,
storyteller, newspaper columnist, and town character.
(2001; Down Home Press, PO Box 4126, Asheboro, NC
27204; 69 pp.; paper, $11.95; ISBN 1-878086-90-1.)
Summer 2001 " 8/7
Grabtown Girl: Ava GardnerTs North Carolina Childhood and
Her Enduring Ties to Home, is a collection of family anec-
dotes and photographs compiled by Doris Rollins Cannon.
(2001; Down Home Press, PO Box 4126, Asheboro, NC
27204; 144 pp.; paper, $14.95; ISBN 1-878086-89-8.)
Mayberry Memories: The Andy Griffith Show Photo Album, is a
coffee table-sized book by Ken Beck and Jim Clark, full of
comments from participants. Episode summaries included.
(2000; Rutledge Hill Press, PO Box 141000, Nashville, TN
37214; 246 pp.; $34.99; ISBN 1-55853-830-5.)
Entering Normal is an engaging novel by
Anne D. LeClaire, featuring Opal, a young
mother who leaves a dead-end relation-
ship in North Carolina and relocates
herself and her young son to the New
England town of Normal. Her next-door
neighbor, who has never recovered from
the death of her own son, is determined
not to get involved, but gradually warms
to the pair. When OpalTs parents and ex-
boyfriend sue for custody, the two women
learn how closely they can rely on each
other. (2001; the Ballantine Publishing
Group, 1540 Broadway, New York, NY
10036; 352 pp.; $24.00; ISBN 0-345-44572-
4.)
A Year In Our Gardens: Letters documents
the exchange of horticulture and other
lore between Nancy Goodwin of Piedmont
North Carolina and Allen Lacy of southern
New Jersey. (2001; the University of North
Carolina Press, PO Box 2288, Chapel Hill,
NC 27515-2288; 208 pp.; cloth, $27.50;
ISBN 0-8078-2603-0.)
An Uncommon Woman is a novel of domestic violence, set in
the mountains of North Carolina, by Rick Herrick. (2001;
Parkway Publishers, PO Box 3678, Boone, NC 28607; 182
pp.; paper, $14.95; ISBN 1-887905-45-6.)
The Apple Indians, by Doug McGuinn, is the story of a man
fighting to save the North Carolina mountain land he has
inherited, and which is sacred to local Indians, from devel-
opers. (2001; Parkway Publishers, PO Box 3678, Boone, NC
28607; 315 pp.; paper, $19.95; ISBN 1-887905-46-4.)
Time Will Tell, by Trevy A. McDonald, is a novel of friend-
ship between three African American women, one of whom
is an anthropologist and feminist scholar in Research
Triangle Park. A ten-year reunion is the catalyst for the
women to evaluate their own journeys and their relation-
ships with each other. (1999; Reyomi Publishing, PO Box
52001, Durham, NC 27717; 320 pp.; paper, $14.95; ISBN 0-
9670712-0-8.)
Last year saw an unusual spate of thrillers with North
Carolina connections. SBI agent Clark Hager tracks a serial
killer in Winner Take All, by High Point police detective Jeff
Pate (2000; Harlan Publishing Co., 5710 High Point Road,
PMB 280, Greensboro, NC 27407; 358 pp.; $25.00; ISBN 0-
9676528-0-4). A discontented Charlotte fund-raiser is
suspected of a vicious attack on his own wife in Six Figures,
88 " Summer 2001
by Fred G. Leebron (2000; Alfred A. Knopf, 201 E. 50th,
New York, NY 10022; 224 pp.; $22.00; ISBN 0-375-40640-9).
Three young women hiking in the North Carolina moun-
tains face vengeful enemies In the Forest of Harm, by Sallie
Bissell. (2001; Bantam Books, 1540 Broadway, New York, NY
10036; 305 pp.; $21.95; ISBN 0-553-80128-7.) An attorney
who moves to Rocky Mount to recover from personal
tragedy is persuaded to search for a young woman who
disappeared while investigating labor practices in China,
and uncovers a web of greed and international intrigue in
The Great Divide, by T. Davis Bunn. (2000; Doubleday, 1540
Broadway, New York, NY 10036; 391 pp.; $22.95; ISBN 0-
385-49615-X.) Quadriplegic detective
Lincoln Rhyme, just checked into UNC
Medical Center for high-risk experimental
surgery, is called on to assist with a murder/
Kidnapping case which leads through
North CarolinaTs swamps in The Empty
Chair, by Jeffery Deaver. The case is compli-
cated when RhymeTs assistant and lover,
Amelia Sachs, sides with the suspect. (2000;
Simon & Schuster, Rockefeller Center, 1230
Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
10020; 427 pp.; $25.00; ISBN 0-684-85563-
1.) And forensic anthropologist Tempe
Brennan runs afoul of outlaw motorcycle
gangs while investigating the deaths of
children in Montreal and North Carolina in
Deadly Decisions by Kathy Reichs. (2000,
Scribners, 1230 Avenue of the Americas,
New York, NY 10020; 333 pp.; $25.00; ISBN
0-684-85971-8.)
Play Dead, (2000; Berkley Publishing Group,
375 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014; 257
PPp.; paper, $5.99; ISBN 0-425-17362-3), and
Deadbeat, by Leo Atkins, a pseudonym for
Clay Harvy, are a promising start to a series
featuring six-foot-seven P.I. Connor Gibbs (maybe he used
to work for the CIA, maybe not) unraveling the mysteries of
central North Carolina. (1999; Berkley Publishing Group,
375 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014; 312 pp.; paper, $5.99;
ISBN 0-425-16781-X.)
Blanche White spends a summer in her North Carolina
hometown, helping her best friend run her catering
business, solving a murder, and mulling over the violence
facing black women in America in Blanche Passes Go. This is
Barbara NeelyTs fourth mystery novel featuring Blanche,
whose experience doing domestic work gives her sleuthing
a decided edge. (2000; Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson
St, New York, NY 10014; 275 pp.; $22.95; ISBN 0-670-
89165-7.)
Storm Track is another engaging entry in Margaret MaronTs
series on small North Carolina town judge Deborah Knott.
Hurricane Fran rages in the background as murder and
other illicit affairs come to light. (2000; Warner Books, Inc.,
1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020; 260
pp.; $22.95; ISBN 0-89296-656-4.)
Unholy Covenant: A True Story of Murder in North Carolina, by
Lynn Chandler-Willis, is the stuff thrillers are made of"a
loving wife killed by her greed-driven husband and his
brother. Although suspicion was clearly on the husband, he
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had planned so carefully that the 1995 murder was not
finally resolved until 1999. (2000; Addicus Books Inc., PO
Box 453327, Omaha, NE 68145; 294 pp.; paper, $17.95;
ISBN 1-886039-41-0.)
BashinT Bob Clarke & Other Tales of Heartache and Hunger
Creek is a collection of folksy anecdotes by Father Robert W.
South, a retired Episcopalian minister who lives in Wash-
ington, NC, and served in churches in Georgia, North
Carolina, and Vermont. (2000; Woodhaven Publishing, 104
Woodhaven Ct., Greenville, NC 27834-6930; 141 pp.;
paper, $14.95; ISBN 0-9667116-2-9.)
All public libraries in the state and any special collections
on Southern Culture need Bless Your Heart, Tramp, a collec-
tion of humorous columns on life in Eastern North Caro-
lina by the acid-tongued Celia Rivenbark, formerly of the
Wilmington Star-News. (2000; Coastal Carolina Press, 4709
College Acres Dr., Suite 1, Wilmington, NC 28403; 210 pp.;
paper, $11.95; ISBN 1-928556-22-1.)
The Papers of William Woods Holden, Volume I, 1841-1868,
provides interesting insights into one of the most turbulent
eras in North Carolina history. William Woods Holden, one
of North CarolinaTs most controversial and enigmatic
figures, was an editor of the Raleigh North Carolina Standard,
a state legislator, and a leader in the antebellum Democratic
Party. He supported the secession of North Carolina from
the Union, but eventually became an outspoken critic of
the Confederate cause. An organizer of the stateTs Republi-
can Party, he was elected governor in 1868 and supported
the political and civil rights of African Americans. Horace
Raper is editor and W. Thornton Mitchell, associate editor.
(2000; Historical Publications Section, Division of Archives
and History, 4622 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-
4622; 457 pp.; cloth, $40.00; ISBN 0-86526-292-6.)
The first of a planned series of documentaries, Society in
Early North Carolina, A Documentary History, illustrates what
everyday life was like in colonial North Carolina. Subjects
include the settling of the colony, free and indentured
servants, immigrants, religion, education, entertainment,
criminality, health, urbanization, taverns, and travel.
Sources include both published and unpublished docu-
ments. Editor and compiler Dr. Alan D. Watson comments,
oIndividually and collectively these sources reveal the
marvelous diversity of life among early North Carolinians.�
(2000; Historical Publications Section, Division of Archives
and History, 4622 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-
4622; 359 pp.; paper, $20.00; ISBN 0-86526-293-4.)
In Our State, North Carolina Quizzes, BroadfootTs of Wendell
has reprinted 144 versions of the oState Quiz,� a popular
feature in the monthly magazine, Our State, Down Home in
North Carolina. Researched and compiled by Alan Hodge,
the quizzes appeared in the magazine from October 1990 to
October 2000. Subjects include geographical features and
places of interest, history, North Carolina people, natural
history and phenomenon, arts and leisure, agriculture,
business, industry, transportation, and miscellaneous North
Carolina potpourri. Answers are, of course, included, but of
particular interest is the index which will lead you to your
favorite North Carolina topic. This book is full of trivia fun
for all ages. (2000; BroadfootTs of Wendell, 6624 Robertson
Pond Road, Wendell, NC 27591; 177 pp.; paper, $14.95;
ISBN 1-56837-3888-0.)
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The Cornelius Branch Library,
a branch of the Public Library
of Charlotte & Mecklenburg
County, opened the doors of its
5,500 sq. ft. building in
February 2000. The facility is a
joint effort between the citizens
of Cornelius, located about 20
miles north of Charlotte; town
leaders; the county commis-
sioners; and the Public Library
Board of Trustees. Located
across from the Cornelius
Elementary School, the branch
has established a special
relationship with the school as
a way to serve the communhityTs
children. The librarians foster
this emphasis on childrenTs
services by providing programs
inside the branch and through
outreach efforts in the
Cornelius community.
90 " Summer 2001
The beautiful garden pavilion at the library is
the perfect retreat for patrons to enjoy a
good read. The branch provides reading and
reference materials for patrons of all ages,
including books, basic reference resources,
video- and audiocassettes, newspapers, and
magazines. Book rentals of popular titles
appearing on the New York Times bestsellersT
list are also available, as well as large-print
items and books-on-tape for adults and
children.
Thanks to Rita M. Rouse, Programming and
Communications Director at the Public Library
of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, for the
photographs and their captions. If you have
suggestions for photographs of library build-
ings or activities that could be shared with
others through this column, please contact
Joline Ezzell at (919) 660-5925 or
joline.ezzell@duke.edu.
North Carolina Libraries
NortuH CAROLINA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD
April 20, 2001
Wake Technical Community College
Raleigh, NC
Attending: Philip Banks, Phil Barton, Theron Bell, Pauletta Bracy, Terry Brandsma,
Ann Burlingame, Robert Canida Il, Bao-Chu Chang, Sue Cody, Dale Cousins, Martha Davis,
Dave Fergusson, Carol Freeman, Beverley Gass, Paula Hinton, Gerald Holmes, Ross Holt,
Peggy Hoon, Al Jones, Diane Kester, Elizabeth Laney, Teresa McManus, Peggy Quinn,
Brenda Stephens, Jerry Thrasher, Patrick Valentine, John Via, Catherine Wilkinson,
Bobby Wynn, and John Zika. Visitors included: Jenny Barrett, Jane Casto, Tim Daniels,
Bonnie Fulp, Meredith Goins, Sebastian Hierl, Robert James, Juedi Kleindienst,
Elizabeth Leonard, Vanessa Mullis, and Linda Ramsey.
Welcome and Call to Order: Al Jones called the meeting to
order at 10:15. Robert James, Director of Library Services, Wake
Technical Community College, welcomed the board.
Approval of Minutes for January 26, 2001: The minutes were
approved with one correction. Paula Hinton reported for the
Documents Section, but is chair-elect of the section, not chair,
as written in the minutes. Frank Molinek is the Chair for 2001.
PresidentTs Report
Full report: http://www.mindspring.com/~ncla/april2001/
pres.pdf
President Jones announced that he had been interviewed by
reporters for the Associated Press and Spectator Magazine about
Internet filtering in libraries. George Taylor and Teresa
McManus were congratulated on the success of the Leadership
Institute. Patrick Valentine asked that names of Leadership
Institute participants be sent to the nominating committee.
Al attended the conference where the new portal for the spe-
cial collections of North CarolinaTs libraries, archives, and mu-
seums was unveiled. NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage
Online) is now online at www.ncecho.org. Al sent a mes-
sage to members of the North Carolina Association of School
Librarians to volunteer for the open positions on their board.
The section exists, but is currently without leadership. Open
sessions will be held at the biennial conference to discuss the
revitalization of the section. The Endowment committee is
trying to build an endowment of $100,000 by the 100th an-
niversary of NCLA in 2004. Meralyn Meadows has agreed to
chair the paraprofessional section. Hurricane Floyd relief con-
tinues. Robert Canida asked how much has been collected.
Treasurer Diane Kester will include this information in the
report for the next board meeting.
TreasurerTs Report
Full report: http://www.mindspring.com/~ncla/april2001/
FinancialReport.html
Operating accounts total $149,779.25 and total assets are
North Carolina Libraries
$215,315.17. Section and roundtable account balances are
posted online at http://www.mindspring.com/~ncla/
april2001/subAccountbalances.html. Budget Report is at
http://www.mindspring.com/~ncla/april2001/
operating.htm. Treasurer Diane Kester noted that the associa-
tion is over $10,000 in the black at the end of the third quar-
ter. By managing grants for the State Library, the association
has significantly increased its income. The Commission on
School Librarians was not budgeted for, but its needs were cov-
ered by income from the grants administration. The
CommissionTs expenses included travel for the consultant and
commission members.
Section/Roundtable Reports
ChildrenTs Services Section
Full report:
http://www.mindspring.com/~ncla/april2001/CSS.htm
Chair Ann Burlingame noted that the section is discussing the
future of collaborating for sponsorship of the North Carolina
Book Award, which was co-sponsored with the NCASL. Plans
for the conference include a breakfast meeting with Mary
Calhoun, author of High-Wire Henry and Honestly, Katie John.
College and University Section
Chair Bobby Wynn reported that the sectionTs conference plans
include a session with Deana Markham.
Community and Junior College Libraries Section
Full report:
http://www.mindspring.com/~ncla/april2001/cjcs.htm
Chair Carol Freeman reported that the section had a table for
recruiting at the NC Community College System Learning
Resources Association (LRA) annual conference in Raleigh on
March 14-16. The section is sponsoring a workshop entitled
oLibrary Web Page Design for the Community College Library�
at Guilford Technical Community College on May 18. Confer-
ence plans include a luncheon with Eliot Engel presenting
Summer 2001 " 91
oQueen Victoria and the Victorian Novel� as well as a session
with NetLibrary representative Mike Echery on the oNuts and
Bolts of NetLibrary.� Several other conference ideas are still
being considered, and the section welcomes co-sponsorship
opportunities with other sections.
Documents Section
Chair Paula Hinton reported that the Spring workshop will be
held on May 4 in Raleigh. The sectionTs conference plans in-
clude a session with Grace York, coordinator of the University
of Michigan LibrariesT Government Documents Center.
Library Administration and Management Section
Full report:
http://www.mindspring.com/~ncla/april2001/lams.htm
Chair Martha Davis and Dale Cousins, Chair-elect, reported on
conference plans. A pre-conference program will be presented
by Tom Moore, Director of the Wake County Public Library, on
oOrganizational Cultures, Systems Thinking, Model 1/2 Think-
ing.� Linda Belans from NPR and UNC Radio will present a
session on gender and communications at the conference on
Wednesday afternoon. On Thursday, Ross Holt will be doing
a session on leadership styles and winning leadership strategies
as it relates to his research on leaders of the Revolutionary War.
Debbie Lambert, LAMS Personnel and Staff Development In-
terest Group Chair, is also coordinating a luncheon/table talk
for the mentoring interest group during the conference.
NC Association of School Librarians
No report.
NC Public Library Trustee Association
Chair Theron Bell reported that the section will hold a Thurs-
day morning program for trustees at the conference. Negotia-
tions are underway for a speaker. The section is also working
with Brenda Stevens to co-sponsor a luncheon.
Public Library Section
Full report:
http://www.mindspring.com/~ncla/april2001/pls.htm
Chair John Zika reported that the section will sponsor a lun-
cheon with author Margaret Maron as speaker. Plans for addi-
tional sessions are also underway, including programs on the
topics of Internet policies, cataloging Internet resources, and
library advocacy.
Reference and Adult Services Section
Full report:
http://www.mindspring.com/~ncla/april2001/rass.htm
Chair Philip Banks announced that the section wants to recruit
a board member to represent Special Libraries. Negotiations for
a conference speaker are underway.
Resources and Technical Services Section
Full report:
http://www.mindspring.com/~ncla/april2001/rtss.htm
Chair Teresa McManus announced the appointment of
Sebastian Hierl, Collection Management Librarian for the Hu-
manities and Social Sciences at North Carolina State Univer-
sity Libraries, as RTSS Collection Development Interest Group
Chair. RTSS is seeking nominations and applications for three
RTSS awards to be presented at the NCLA Conference. The RTSS
Student Award is awarded to a student or recent graduate in-
terested in collection management, acquisitions, cataloging,
92 " Summer 2001
serials, or technical services related areas. The RTSS Significant
Contributions Award is given to recognize individuals who
have been leaders, and who have made significant contribu-
tions to development of resources and technical services solu-
tions in North Carolina libraries. The third biennial RTSS award
is for the best article from North Carolina Libraries relating to
RTSS interests. Send nominations for the RTSS Awards to RTSS,
c/o NCLA, 4646 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4646.
New Members Round Table
No report.
NC Library Paraprofessional Association
No report.
Round Table for Ethnic Minority Concerns
Full report:
http://www.mindspring.com/~ncla/april2001/REMCO.htm
Chair Robert Canida reported that REMCO is sponsoring or co-
sponsoring the following programs at the conference: oFund-
ing for the Future: Library Services to Hispanic and Latino
Populations,� oChildren Are Our Future: Combining Fun with
Languages at Storytime,� and oPlanning for the Future: Our
Library Diversity Committee Planning.�
Round Table on Special Collections
No Report.
Round Table on the Status of Women in Librarianship
Full report:
http://www.mindspring.com/~ncla/april2001/rtswl.html
Vice-Chair Brenda Stevens reported that conference planning
is underway.
Technology and Trends Round Table
http://www.mindspring.com/~ncla/april2001/tnt.htm
Chair Terry Brandsma gave information on three programs
TNT will offer at the conference. A pre-conference workshop
is entitled oWeb Tools for Librarians.� Conference programs are
oNever Having to Say YouTre Sorry: A Software Solution for
Integrating E-Journals and Document Delivery for Compre-
hensive Article Access,� presented by Beth Bernhardt and Tim
Bucknall, from UNC-Greensboro, and oTechnology, Knowledge
and Our Future: Of Tornadoes, Yellow Brick Roads, OZ and Li-
brarians,� by Stephen Abram, VP Corporate Development,
Micromedia Limited, IHS Canada.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Archives
No Report.
Commission on Charter/Home Schools
Co-Chair Pauletta Bracy reported that surveys have been devel-
oped and sent to all North Carolina charter schools and pub-
lic libraries. Results will be reported at the next board meeting.
Conference
Full report: http://www.mindspring.com/~ncla/april2001/
conf_com.htm
Chair Ross Holt thanked all sections for planning an informa-
tive, lively, and exciting biennial conference. The program now
includes over fifty conference sessions and programs, three pre-
conferences, nine luncheon programs (over three days) and a
North Carolina Libraries
tour of the film school at the N.C. School of the Arts. The ven-
dor reception will feature a mariachi band and the all-confer-
ence reception will have a swing band. Plans are underway to
add a conference finale with a dessert reception and book sign-
ing with North Carolina authors. The pre-registration packets
will go out on June 1. Twenty exhibitors have paid for booths
so far. Since most payments come in May, this is a promising
sign. The first general session will feature Mercury astronaut
and NetLibrary board member Scott Carpenter.
Constitution, Codes and Handbook Revision
Chair Bao-Chu Chang presented each board member with a
printed copy of the Handbook. She asked that all superseded
copies be handed in. With the exception of the presidentTs
copy, copies of the Handbook are assigned to the office, not to
the individual, so the Handbook should be passed on as each
board member is replaced. Bao thanked Maureen Costello for
finding appropriate clip art for the cover of each copy. Over the
weekend, the Web version of the Handbook will be updated.
Continuing Education
No report.
Development
Full report:
http://www.mindspring.com/~ncla/april2001/
endowment.html
Chair Lib Laney announced that each board member should
have received a letter requesting a $100 donation to the En-
dowment. Another letter will go to all members. Everyone in
NCLA should feel like they have a part in the Endowment. She
encouraged everyone to contribute something. As the commit-
tee begins requesting contributions from large donors, they
typically ask how many people in the association contribute.
Those who contribute before the end of conference will be
listed as ofounding members� of the endowment. The commit-
tee will next seek contacts for corporate donors. Other con-
stituencies will also be approached, including trustees and
members of friendsT groups.
Finance
Chair Catherine Wilkinson announced that project grants are
available. A .pdf version of the application is online at http:/
/www.nclaonline.org/GrantPagesforNCLA.html.
Governmental Relations
Full report:
http://www.mindspring.com/~ncla/april2001/govrelrt.htm
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Chair Peggy Hoon reported on plans for National Library Leg-
islative Day in Washington, D.C., on April 30 and May 1, 2001.
Representative Walter Jones is sponsoring a brunch for NCLA.
Bookmark bouquets comprised of bookmarks from libraries all
across the state will be presented to each office.
Intellectual Freedom
Chair Jerry Trasher led a lengthy discussion concerning bills
pending in the North Carolina Legislature concerning Internet
filtering. The status of the bills is changing rapidly. Attorney
Ken Eudy has proposed registering as a lobbyist for NCLA to
oppose the bills. An update at the conference may be presented.
Leadership Institute
Teresa McManus thanked all those who mentored the partici-
pants in the 2001 Leadership Institute. Several participants
attended the board meeting to express thanks and present the
vision statement which emerged from the Institute.
Literacy
Full report
http://www.mindspring.com/~ncla/april2001/literacy.htm
Conference plans include three sessions, one of which will be
a luncheon. All literacy-sponsored events will be held on the
same day and members of literacy organizations will be encour-
aged to attend the conference on that day.
Membership
Full report:
http://www.mindspring.com/~ncla/april2001/
Membership.htm
Chair Peggy Quinn presented the new tabletop display for
NCLA. Maureen Costello will handle reservations and ship-
ping. The updated membership brochure will be ready in
about a week. Nominations are sought for the NCLA Life Mem-
bership, Honorary Membership, and Distinguished Library
Service Awards.
Nominating
Chair Dave Fergusson reported that the ballot is set. Biographi-
cal information for candidates will be in next issue of North
Carolina Libraries.
Publications and Marketing
No report.
Scholarships
Chair Gerald Holmes reported that May 15 is the deadline for
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Other Reports
North Carolina Libraries
Full report
http://www.mindspring.com/~ncla/april2001/ncl.htm
Al Jones reported that the next issue will be sent in May. Ed-
ited by Margaret Foote, the issue has library research as its
theme. Suzanne Wise will guest edit the following issue on
sports. After these are published, the journal will move away
from the theme issue format. Instead, each section and
roundtable will be asked to submit one article per biennium.
North Carolina Books and Lagniappe columns will continue,
as well as the presidentTs column and the NCLA Board minutes.
ALA Councilor
No report.
SELA Councilor
John Via reported on the Southeastern Leadership Conference
in Atlanta. The next conference will be held in Charleston in
conjunction with the South Carolina Library Association on
October 23-25, 2002. The African American Issues Roundtable
has been established. The Southeastern Librarian continues to
be published in paper. Frank Allen, from the University of Cen-
tral Florida, is editor. John Via is chairing a committee to look
at the SELA dues structure.
Old Business
A lengthy discussion was held concerning a deficit in the
NCASL sub-account. The expenditures for the conference held
prior to the section officersT resignations exceeded revenues.
LEADER IN
94 " Summer 2001
Treasurer Diane Kester will continue to review the account and
report again at the next board meeting. Teresa McManus intro-
duced the following motion: the Finance Committee should
study the issue of sections and round tables exceeding the ex-
penditure of funds in their sub-accounts and return recommen-
dations to the NCLA Executive Board. The motion was sec-
onded by Phil Barton and passed unanimously.
In response to a question concerning renewal forms, it was
noted that bulk mail is not being delivered on time. Maureen
Costello will re-send renewals. The membership expiration date
appears on all labels generated by the Administrative Office.
New Business
Ken Eudy, a political activist, former executive director of the
Democratic Party, and Capitol Strategies president, has offered
to serve as a registered lobbyist for NCLA on a pro bono basis
to provide input on Internet filtering bills currently before the
North Carolina General Assembly. Ross Holt introduced a
motion the Ken Eudy be asked to register as a lobbyist for NCLA
for the purpose of input on S$ 987 and S$ 1032. Carol Freeman
seconded. Following discussion, the motion was amended to
read: NCLA will engage Ken Eudy on a pro bono basis to reg-
ister as a lobbyist to address NCLATs concerns about Internet
filtering bills currently before the legislature. Mr. Eudy is to
report developments to President Al Jones.
State Library and State Library Commission
No report.
The meeting adjourned at 2:05 p.m.
" Respectfully submitted,
Sue Ann Cody
Secretary
North Carolina Libraries
NortTuH CAROLINA LiBRARY ASSOCIATION 1999-2001 EXECUTIVE BOARD
PRESIDENT
Plummer Alston oAl� Jones, Jr.
Corriher-Linn-Black Library
Catawba College
2300 W. Innes Street
Salisbury, NC 28144
Telephone: (704) 637-4449
Fax: (704) 637-4304
pajones@catawba.edu
VICE PRESIDENT/
PRESIDENT ELECT
Ross Holt
Randolph Public Library
201 Worth Street
Asheboro, NC 27203
Telephone: (336) 318-6806
Fax: (336) 318-6823
rholt@ncsl.dcr.state.nc.us
SECRETARY
Sue Ann Cody
Randall Library, UNC-Wilmington
601 College Road
Wilmington, NC
Telephone: (910) 962-7409
Fax: (910) 962-3078
codys@uncwil.edu
TREASURER
Diane D. Kester
East Carolina University
105 Longview Drive
Goldsboro, NC 27534-8871
Telephone: (919) 328-6621
Fax: (919) 328-4638
kesterd@mail.ecu.edu
kester@soe.ecu.edu
DIRECTORS
Phillip Barton, Director
Rowan County Public Library
P.O. Box 4039
Salisbury, NC 28145-4039
Telephone: (704) 638-3020
Fax: (704) 638-3013
bartonp@co.rowan.nc.us
Patrick Valentine, Director
Wilson County Public Library
PO Box 400
Wilson, NC 27893
Telephone: (252) 237-5355
Fax: (252) 243-4311
pvalentine@wilson-co.com
ALA COUNCILOR
Jacqueline B. Beach
Craven-Pamlico-Carteret
Regional Library
400 Johnson Street
New Bern, NC 28560
Telephone: (919) 823-1141
Fax: (919) 638-7817
jbeach@ncsl.dcr.state.nc.us
North Carolina Libraries
SELA REPRESENTATIVE
John Via
Forsyth County Public Library
660 W. Fifth Street
Winston-Salem NC 27101
Telephone: (336) 727-2556
Fax: (336) 727-2549
EDITOR, North Carolina Libraries
Frances Bryant Bradburn
Educational Technology
NC Dept. of Public Instruction
301 N. Wilmington Street
Raleigh, NC 27601-2825
Telephone: (919) 807-3292
Fax: (919) 807-3290
fbradbur@dpi.state.nc.us
PAST-PRESIDENT
Beverley Gass
M.W. Bell Library
Guilford Technical College
P.O. Box 309
Jamestown, NC 27282-0309
Telephone: (336) 334-4822
x2434
Fax: (336) 841-4350
gassb@gtcc.cc.nc.us
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Maureen Costello
North Carolina Library Association
c/o State Library of North Carolina
4646 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-4646
Telephone: (919) 839-6252
Fax: (919) 839-6252
ncla@mindspring.com
SECTION CHAIRS
CHILDRENTS SERVICES SECTION
Ann Burlingame
Wake Forest Public Library
400 E. Holding Avenue
Wake Forest, NC 27587
Telephone: (919) 554-8498
Fax: (919) 554-8499
aburlingame@co.wake.nc.us
COLLEGE ano UNIVERSITY SECTION
Bobby Wynn
Charles W. Chestnut Library
Fayetteville State University
1200 Murchison Road
Fayetteville, NC 28301
Telephone: (910) 486-1520
Fax: (910) 486-1312
Bobby@Lib1 .uncfsu.edu
COMMUNITY and JUNIOR
COLLEGE SECTION
Carol Freeman
Forsyth Technical Comm. Col.
2100 Silas Creek Parkway
Winston-Salem, NC 27103
Telephone: (336) 723-0371
ext. 7291
Fax: (336) 748-9395
cfreeman@riscy.forsyth.tec.nc.us
DOCUMENTS SECTION
Mary Horton
Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Wake Forest University
PO Box 7777
Winston-Salem, NC 27109
Telephone: (336) 758-5829
Fax: (336) 758-5538
hortonm@wfu.edu
LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION anp
MANAGEMENT SECTION
Martha Davis
Davidson County Comm. College
PO Box 1287
Lexington, NC 27293-1287
Telephone: (336) 249-8186
ext. 270
mdavis@davidson.cc.nc.us
NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF
SCHOOL LIBRARIANS
No officers at present.
NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC
LIBRARY TRUSTEES ASSOCIATION
Theron Bell
P.O. Box 1059
111 Cornelius Drive
Robbins, NC 27325
Telephone: (910) 948-3448
PUBLIC LIBRARY SECTION
John Zika
Public Library of Charlotte &
Mecklenburg County
North County Regional Library
16500 Holly Crest Lane
Huntersville, NC 28078
Telephone: (704) 895-0616
jzika@plcmc.lib.nc.us
REFERENCE anp ADULT
SERVICES SECTION
Phillip Banks
Asheville-Buncombe Library System
67 Haywood Street
Asheville, NC 28801-2834
Telephone: (828) 255-5213
pbanks@ncsl.dcr.state.nc.us
RESOURCES ano TECHNICAL
SERVICES SECTION
Teresa L. McManus
Charles W. Chestnut Library
Fayetteville State University
1200 Murchison Road
Fayetteville, NC 28301-4298
Telephone: (910) 486-1520
tmcmanus@lib1.uncfsu.edu
ROUND TABLE CHAIRS
NEW MEMBERS ROUND TABLE
Marian Lindsay
Guilford Middle School
401 College Road
Greensboro, NC 27410
Telephone: (336) 316-5833
Fax: (336) 316-5837
NORTH CAROLINA LIBRARY
PARAPROFESSIONAL ASSO.
Meralyn Meadows
Stanly County Public Library
133 E. Main Street
Albemarle, NC 28001-4139
Telephone: (704) 983-7322
ROUND TABLE FOR ETHNIC
MINORITY CONCERNS
Robert Canida II
Sampson-Livermore Library
UNC-Pembroke
PO Box 758
Pembroke, NC 28372
Telephone: (910) 521-6369
canida@uncp.edu
ROUND TABLE ON SPECIAL
COLLECTIONS
Kevin Cherry
State Library of North Carolina
4640 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-4640
Telephone: (919) 733-2570
ROUND TABLE ON THE STATUS
OF WOMEN IN LIBRARIANSHIP
Laura Weigand
Forsyth County Public Library
660 W. Fifth Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Telephone: (336) 727-2549
|_weigand@forsyth.lib.nc.us
TECHNOLOGY AND TRENDS
ROUND TABLE
Susan Smith
Box 7777 Reynolda Station
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC 27109
Telephone: (336) 758-5828
Fax: (336) 758-8831
smithss@wfu.edu
NCLA
North Carolina Library Association
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Editor ChildrenTs Services Reference/Adult Services
FRANCES BRYANT BRADBURN PAMELA STANDHART SUZANNE WISE
Instructional Technology Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg Belk Library
NC Dept. of Public Instruction Cornelius Branch Library Appalachian State University
301 N. Wilmington Street 21105 Catawba Avenue Boone, NC 28608
Raleigh, NC 27601-2825 Cornelius, NC 28031 (828) 262-2798
(919) 807-3293 (704) 655-9409 wisems@appstate.edu
it ore Sioa pstandhart@plcmc.lib.nc.us Resources and Technical Services
radbur@dpi.state.nc.us
College and University PAGE LIFE
Associate Editor ARTEMIS KARES Davis Library CB#3914
ROSE SIMON Joyner Library UNC-Chapel Hill
Dale H. Gramley Library East Carolina University Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Salem College Greenville, NC 27858-4353 (919) 962-0153
Winston-Salem, NC 27108 (252) 328-2263 page_life@unc.edu
aes sa karesa@mail.ecu.edu Round Table for Ethnic Minority Concerns
simon@salem.edu
Community and Junior College BRIGITTE BLANTON
Associate Editor LISA C. DRIVER Greensboro Public Library
JOHN WELCH Pitt Community College PO Box 3178
Enloe High School PO Drawer 7007 Greensboro, NC 27402-3178
128 Clarendon Crescent Greenville, NC 27835-7007 (336) 373-2716
Raleigh, NC 27610 (252) 321-4357 ncs0921@interpath.com
Seti ae oye Idriver@pcc.pitt.cc.nc.us Round Table on Special Collections
pipaisente KEVIN CHERRY
Book Review Editor MICHAEL VAN FOSSEN State Library of North Carolina
DOROTHY DAVIS HODDER Reference Documents 4640 Mail Service Center
pres ny pune Co. Public Library Davis Library CB #3912 Raleigh, NC 27699-4640
estnut Street University of North Carolina kcherry@library.dcr.state.nc.us
mitsaingkon: Niege49 | Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Round Table on the Status of Women
. af 772-7858 (919) 962-1151 in Librarianship
dhodder@co.new-hanover.nc.us mike_vanfossen@unc.edu JOAN SHERIF
Lagniappe Editor Library Administration and Northwestern Regional Library
PLUMMER ALSTON JONES, JR. Management Section 111 North Front Street
Corriher-Linn-Black Library JOLINE EZZELL Elkin, NC 28621
Catawba College Perkins Library (336) 835-4894
2300 W. Innes Street Duke University jsherif@ncsl.dcr.state.nc.us
Coie ee ? Durham, NC 27708-0175 Technology and Trends
ajones@catawba.edu (919) 660-5925 DIANE KESTER
ei joline.ezzell@duke.edu Librarianship, Ed. Technology,
Indexer New Members Round Table & Distance Instruction
MICHAEL COTTER RHONDA FLORENCE East Carolina University
Joyner Library Florence Elementary School Greenville, NC 27858-4353
East Carolina University High Point, NC a (252) 328-4389
Greenville, NC 27858-4353 (336) 819-2120 kester@soe.ecu.edu
(252) 752-8854
; d rholbroo@guilford.k12.nc.us Wired to the World Editor
cottermi@mail.ecu.edu
North Carolina Library RALPH LEE SCOTT
Advertising Manager Paraprofessional Association Joyner Library
HARRY TUCHMAYER SHARON NOLES East Carolina University
New Hanover Co. Public Library Southeast Regional Library in Garner Greenville, NC 27858-4353
201 Chestnut Street 908 7th Avenue (252) 328-0265
Wilmington, NC 28401 Garner, NC 27529 scottr@mail.ecu.edu
(910) 772-7857 (919) 894-8322
htuchmayer@co.new-hanover.nc.us snoles@co.wake.nc.us
Public Library Section
JOHN ZIKA
Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg
North County Regional Library
16500 Holly Crest Lane
Huntersville, NC 28078
(704) 895-0616
jzika@plcmc.lib.nc.us
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