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North Carolina Libraries
Volume 60, 2002
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COMPANION TO oUNCLE TOMTS CABIN.�
U T Gay t A:
AN EARLY PICTURE
or
Lito at the Sunth,
BY C. HowiLte y.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY DARLEY.
* Who is God and where is he?� continued the negro, his nostrils dilating and his chest
heaving; odoes he not sit in heaven and mark the unexpressed wailings, the inward prayers,
and the heart sickness of those thousands of thinking, rational, and immortal souls, whom
the white men drive and beat as they do their oxen and their horses? Do you know that
the negro as well as the white man bas an undying spirit that looks to heaven, and that it
will meet ity masterTs xs an equal at the bar of God? Master! * Ged only is my master? "~
Vide Pace 109,
LONDON :"HENRY LEA, 22, WARWICK LANE.
Calvin Henderson Wiley (1819-1887), North CarolinaTs first native novelist and its first superintendent
of common schools, wrote two historical novels in a conscious effort to record important events
in North Carolina history for fiction readers. The second of these, Roanoke (1849), was
reprinted in England in 1852 as Utopia. The cover illustration is from the copy in the
Snow L. and B. W. C. Roberts Collection, Verona Joyner Langford North Carolina Collection,
J. ¥. Joyner Library, East Carolina University.
EDITORIAL STAFF
EpiTor
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East Carolina University
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Greenville, NC 27858
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E-mail: jonesp@mail.ecu.edu
Associate Epitors
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Reference Department
Duke University Library
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Durham, NC 27708-0175
Tel: (919) 660-5925
Fax: (919) 684-2855
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UNC-Chapel Hill
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Book Reviews Epitor
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New Hanover County Public Library
201 Chesnut St.
Wilmington, NC 28401
Tel: (910) 772-7858
Fax: (910) 341-4357
E-mail: dhodder@nhcgov.com
LacniapPe EpIToR
Suzanne Wise
Belk Library
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608-2026
Tel: (828) 262-2798
Fax: (828) 262-3001
E-mail: wisems@appstate.edu
Wirep To THE Wor-p EDITOR
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Academic Library Services
Joyner Library
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858
Tel: (252) 328-0265
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INDEXER
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Joyner Library
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858
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UNC-Chapel Hill
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Asst. Ep. FoR Pustic LIBRARIES
Joan Sherif
Northwestern Regional Library
111 North Front St.
Elkin, NC 28621
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E-mail: jsherif@nwrl.org
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East Carolina University
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Greenville, NC 27858
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Information Technology Librarian
Jackson Library
UNC-Greensboro
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Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
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| mum FEATURES
4 A Catechism of Books, Joseph Bathanti
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11 Passing the Torch: Reminiscences with Frances Bryant Bradburn, Editor Emerita, North Carolina
Libraries, 1985-2002, Plummer Alston oAl� Jones, Jr.
14 Making Connections: North Carolina Libraries and Grantmaking Foundations, Janice Steed Lewis
26 Library and Information Science Research 1999-2001: A Bibliography of MasterTs Papers from
the University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science
46 The Case for Digitizing Fiction with History, Nancy Patterson Shires
53 From Manteo to Murphy: Young Adult Historic Fiction Set in North Carolina, Pat McGee
| 60 Library and Information Science Research 2002: A Bibliography of MasterTs Papers from the
University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science
86 Library Cooperation and the Development of the North Carolina Information Network (NCIN):
From the Great Depression Years to 1992, Diane D. Kester and Plummer Alston Jones, Jr.
103 Cyber-Fundraising and North Carolina Public Libraries, Timothy C. Hunter
1109 Library and Information Science Research 2001: A Bibliography of MasterTs Papers from the
University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science
COLO \\\ JESS Ue oe RE REET
From the Editor: LoveTs Labor Reconsidered, Plummer Alston oAl� Jones, Jr.
From the President: The Tie That Binds, Ross Holt
25 About the Authors
28 Lagniappe: North Caroliniana: Storming the Hill: North Carolina Librarians Become Lobbyists
for a Day, Suzanne Wise
30 Wired to the World: Anonymisers, Ralph Lee Scott
31. North Carolina Books, Dorothy Hodder
39 NCLA Minutes
44 From the Editor: Unity v. Diversity: The Dilemma of Professionalism, Plummer Alston oAl� Jones, Jr.
| 45 From the President: Libraries Make a Difference, Ross Holt
59 About the Authors
Lagniappe: North Caroliniana: ACRL from the Inside: An Interview with Recent ACRL President
65 ; ;
Mary Reichel, Suzanne Wise
69. Wired to the World: Get a Handle on Spam, Ralph Lee Scott
70 North Carolina Books, Dorothy Hodder
77 NCLA Minutes
84 From the Editor: A Community of Practice, Plummer Alston oAl� Jones, Jr.
85 From the President: Throw Me the Money|, Ross Holt
111 About the Authors
112 Lagniappe: What Is It Like to Be a Special Librarian at the Center for Creative Leadership?,
Carol Avis Keck
116 Wired to the World: Computer Housekeeping, Ralph Lee Scott
117 North Carolina Books, Dorothy Hodder
125 NCLA Minutes
129 Index to North Carolina Libraries, Volume 60
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North Carolina Libraries is the official publication of the North Carolina Library Association. Art direction and design by Pat Weathersbee of Books, etc., Winterville, NC.
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LoveTs Labor
Reconsidered
2 " Spring / Summer 2002
hatTs happened to North Carolina Libraries?� The simple answer is
that North Carolina Libraries has been undergoing a physical
transformation from print to electronic. The more complex answer
is that the NCL Editorial Board has been involved in a process of
introspection/reconsidering NCLTs mission and discussing how NCL could be
more efficiently and less expensively produced.
We reached consensus to publish North Carolina Libraries on the
World Wide Web. We are no longer depending on the help of guest
editors to identify authors to address a chosen theme for each issue. From
now on, each issue of NCL will include articles on several topics rather
than on one selected topic.
North Carolina Libraries is one of three publications for the NCLA
membership. Tar Heel Libraries, a print newsletter of NCLA and the State
Library of North Carolina, edited by State Library consultants, Frannie
Ashburn and Kevin Cherry, and NCLATs electronic newsletter, E-News,
edited by Marilyn Schuster of the University of North Carolina at Char-
lotte, together keep NCLA members aware of current library events in North
Carolina and inform us of the many accomplishments of NCLA
members.
The North Carolina Libraries Editorial Board is composed of experienced
volunteer editors who represent a cross-section of the North Carolina Library
Association " academic, public, school, and special librarians, as well as
library educators. Associate Editors are Joline Ezzell of Duke University, and
Mike Van Fossen of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Assistant
Editors are Paula Hinton and Page Life, both from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill; Diane Kester of East Carolina University; and Joan
Sherif of the Northwest Regional Library System. Terry Brandsma of the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, our Web publishing consultant,
will work with graphic designer, Pat Weathersbee of Books, etc. in Winterville,
to get North Carolina Libraries on the Web.
We are continuing special columns that have been very popular over the
years, including oNorth Carolina Books,� edited by Dorothy Hodder of New
Hanover County Public Library, oLagniappe: North Caroliniana,� edited by
Suzanne Wise of Appalachian State University, and oWired to the World,�
edited by Ralph Lee Scott of East Carolina University. Michael Cotter, now
retired from East Carolina University, has agreed to continue to serve as
Indexer and will compile the annual index.
North Carolina Libraries will continue to be indexed by H. W. Wilson
Company. Manuscripts will be refereed by at least two editors. The electronic
version of North Carolina Libraries will be available at http://
www.nclaonline.org/NCL. The North Carolina Library Association will
maintain an archive of all electronic issues.
We are considering producing an annual print cumulation of North
Carolina Libraries issues for those who prefer a print record. Please let us know
what you think of this idea and of the new electronic version.
North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 60
Prom the Presideut
Ross Holt, President
The Tie
That Binds
North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 60
n behalf of the North Carolina Library Association, | would like to
welcome you to the first edition of North Carolina Libraries online.
While it may seem a dramatic transformation to some, itTs the next
logical step for this award-winning professional journal, which has
been in continuous publication since 1942.
You'll still find a juried, academic journal with the same integrity that won
NCL three national awards. Although there are a few changes in con-
cept "the issues will not always revolve around central themes, and
quotidian NCLA business will move to other venues " NCL will evince
the same quality and coverage that you have come to expect. And you
won't have to wait for it to arrive in your mailbox!
Conversion of NCL to the electronic format also comprises one
element of an overall NCLA effort to improve communication with
members and create more of a sense of community among North
CarolinaTs librarians, library paraprofessionals, library educators, and
library supporters. ItTs a matter of putting the right information in the best
format most effectively to reach our members, and to reach nonmembers in
the library community. With our thanks to Johnny Cash, we're keeping the
end out for the tie that binds " on the Web, via e-mail, in print, and any
other way we can.
The appearance of NCLTs first electronic issue coincides with an overhaul of
the NCLA Web site, the first such change more or less since the its inception.
Our goal was to reorganize the way information was presented on the site,
the idea being that a first-time user should be able to find whatever informa-
tion he or she needed about NCLA without any difficulty.
On the site, you'll notice that information is organized into four main
groups. In the upper left corner are links to everything you need in order to
do business with NCLA, from joining us to getting a bill paid or finding out
about a particular association policy. In the upper right corner are links to
NCLATs association-wide activities and pursuits: the Biennial Conference, the
Leadership Institute, Intellectual Freedom, Literacy, and so on. Down the left
margin you can go directly to a section or round table. In the right hand
margin you'll find links to up-to-the-minute reports from the NCLA E-News and
upcoming events.
The central panel, using graphics from our professionally designed table-
top display, describes the organizationTs mission and goals, and will change
from time to time as warranted to feature big NCLA events or projects.
The debut of the electronic NCL also meets up with publication of the
second issue of Tar Heel Libraries, our print newsletter published in cooperation
with the State Library of North Carolina. ItTs a most impressive, 12-page tour-
de-force of tidbits and community-building news.
So NCLA is moving on all fronts and in all formats. | hope you enjoy this
issue of NCL, and find its new format agreeable. Let us know what improve-
ments we can make as we undertake this major transition.
Spring / Summer 2002 " 3
A Catechism of Books
by Joseph Bathanti
got my first library card in 1958 while I was still five years old. It was orange
and, from a writerTs point of view, I view it as a union card.
Throughout my life, libraries have remained an evangelizing presence in the
same way the Catholic church has, though gentler, and much less judgmental.
Technically a lapsed Catholic, I am not a lapsed reader.
Not incidentally, in fact, the first library I ever knew, the East Liberty Branch of the
Pittsburgh Carnegie libraries, was next door on Larimer Avenue to Saints Peter and
Paul, the Catholic Church in which I grew up. They seemed extensions of each other,
giant otherworldly Gothic buildings, hewn of mountain granite, hung with doors a
story high. Inside, they both had that marble, vaulted ceiling, chandeliered, on-tiptoe,
candle-lit hush that inspired reverence. Instead of a cross lording over its door lintel,
like the church, the libraryTs threshold was guarded by two pedestaled lions.
The first rule I had instilled in me about libraries " one that I still observe "
was that, as when in church, one observed silence. It was a holy place in which the
only allowable sound was a whisper. To carry the analogy further, I viewed librar-
ians, all women then, as having taken a set of vows, like nuns or monks. There was
a no-nonsense severity to them. Terrifically busy, they wore spectacles and oxfords,
white blouses and dark cardigan sweaters. Their hair had filigrees of grey in it and
they were all approximately fifty years old. Reflexively, like the nuns, their index
fingers darted vertically to their lips: Shhh.
But, unlike the nuns who taught me at Saints
Peter and Paul School, which was directly behind
Thro ug hout my life. libraries have the church and but a spit or so away from the
4 library, they seemed to like children. Especially
remained an evangelizing presence in reading children, huddled devoutly at little tables
. and chairs; children with questions about books;
the same way the Catholic church children stumbling up to the enormously long
has, though gen tler, and much less checkout desk (like a symbolic prop in a Kafka
novel), juggling a chest full of books and their
j U dg mental. Technicall ya | apsed library cards. There a librarian would throttle a stack
Catholic, |am not a lap sed reader. of books like a short order cook flipping hotcakes.
. : SheTd whip open those jacket covers, one after
another, and tattoo with her stamp " I was fasci-
nated by this " the gummed-on odate due� slips
with the exact day in burgundy ink that those
borrowed books must be returned. Or else: a penny
per book for each day late. Then they handed over the stack to you, smiled in
benediction, and called you ohoney.� So shimmering in their delight " another
soul saved " they could have been stained glass.
I didnTt think they got paid; they were reading missionaries. Their purpose on
earth was, like a religious zealotTs, to bring the word. In this case, the ones en-
shrined in books. Their sole reward for this witness was the pure epiphany of
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beholding a child in the throes of reading, surely a fast track to heaven. Because I
ascribed to them a vocation, I figured that come nightfall, they retreated to clois-
tered cells somewhere on the premises, and remained through the night immured
among their beloved books. They obviously didnTt need much. They were able to
subsist on the penny-per-day fines. Like the conductors at the East Liberty train
station that was once, before my birth, just across the avenue, they launched
thousand of journeys. Not incidentally, it was from that very station that Gerald
Stern, the great poet, and Andy Warhol himself left on the same redeye for New
York, prompted, who knows, by the books some intrepid librarian had handed over
to them at the East Liberty Branch.
I donTt remember many of the books I borrowed at the library. But, there was
one I loved particularly, about a Pilgrim boy who becomes best pals with an Indian
boy. I checked it out again and again. And there was the Cowboy Sam series. Sam
and his pals on a cattle drive, around the campfire, thwarting stampedes, bringing
rustlers to justice. There had to have been many others, but like Robert Lowell says
in his poem, oJean Stafford, A Letter,� omy mind economizes so prodigally, I think
ITve suffered theft.� What I remember best, what was most astonishing, however,
were the sheer numbers of books, their beauty, their fragrance, their looming
weighty secret presence, room upon room, rowed and racked to the ceiling, ladders
that rolled along the gleaming shelves for the librarians to mount upon a whim. My
impulse was to genuflect. I had to keep reminding myself that I wasnTt in church. It
was next door. Eventually, in a middle-sixties frenzy of contemporizing a classic
immigrant neighborhood that had withstood two world wars, the Depression, and
Modernism, the city tore the library down for what they called ourban renewal.�
What happened to the books I couldnTt say, nor the librarians. Ignorance de-
scended; people moved away. As in oSleeping Beauty,� a great thorn hedge grew up
around the neighborhood, and it was blighted.
But there were other libraries. When Saints Peter and Paul shut down, another
casualty of ourban renewal,� I transferred to Sacred Heart School which actually had
its own library. A huge cart, actually, that once a week parked in the hall. I began
obsessively reading baseball biographies: Mickey Mantle, Jackie Jensen, Bob Turley,
Mel Ott, Sal Maglie: all white men. I came from a neighborhood and family that
were less than tolerant when it came to African Americans, and I canTt claim that I
myself had a more liberal bent back then. Yet that library cart planted in me the
first seeds of tolerance. I became an integrationist by reading about the Jim Crow
hardships the first black players endured by crossing the color line into the major
leagues: Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Willie Mays, Satchel Paige.
It was from the Sacred Heart library in 1967, when I was in eighth grade, that I
borrowed The Catcher in the Rye. Having heard the title all my life, it seemed, I
checked it out with blithe indifference. I returned it, however, a changed person,
and in complete secrecy. I figured no one in that building but I had ever read it,
with its molten expletive lifting off the page in three harrowing dimensions. A
librarian, I tell you, had placed fire in my hands, a little old lady wearing the black
habit and bonnet of the Sisters of Charity.
With the old East Liberty library gone, I migrated to the main library in the
university district. The Carnegie Library. An enormous Parthenon-like building, of
the same architecture as my now vanished childhood library, but exponentially
grander and mitered into the Carnegie Museum.
It was like a city. Books spilling from every crevice, every newspaper and peri-
odical known to mankind, an archive that dated back to Genesis. Where aged books
transmigrated when they died, and came to matter even more as ghosts, where new
books were born. Floor after floor of paper, room after room furnished with Persian
carpets, easy chairs, reading lamps. Like being marooned in a Merchant Ivory film, a
battalion of librarians at your beck and call, white gleaming tiny-octagonal-white-
tile Victorian bathrooms more spacious than most peopleTs homes. Where I would
meet my girlfriend and we would hide whispering in the blessed arbors of the open
stacks, on the tallest floors against the rafters, the dehumidifiers wheezing their
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approval. It had not occurred to me, at that time, that I would not live long enough
to read each book that resided in that building.
When I entered the mighty Hillman Library as a student at the University of
Pittsburgh, I couldnTt believe it. It was as large, larger even than the Carnegie, but
without that patrician air of formality that I loved so much. It thrummed with
people, students mainly, in their mad seventies costumes, many of them draped
asleep over the loveseats and overstuffed chairs sprinkled everywhere, stacks of
books on the end tables like a cluttered living room, many of them draped on each
other, making out heavy, cigarette smoke twirling up into the lights like intellectual
exhaust; and professors and all manner of misfit and archetype haunting the place,
talking to themselves. And the architecture: it was open, airy, glass and more glass,
art deco married to Frank Lloyd Wright and Bucky Fuller. I loved it. Wow.
I hurried upstairs to the section on the Romantics and hauled off as much Keats
as I could carry "I had a paper due"muttering to myself as I hitchhiked home,
oThou still unravished bride of quietness.� Whatever that meant, but filling me
with its iambic fever, a line I would never forget. It became a part of my psychic
library. I particularly love poet Maxine KuminTs account of her studentsT discomfort
at her requiring them to memorize poems: oI tell the students who groan and the
ones who do not that I am doing them a favor: I am providing them with an inner
library to draw on when they are taken political prisoner.�
By the time I left Pittsburgh for North Carolina with a masterTs degree in English
(what else?), I knew I wanted to be a writer. I applied to VISTA, was accepted, and
assigned to work with prison inmates in and around Charlotte, an assignment that
ended up being quite congenial to writing. But I didnTt know anything about
writing except that it took a lot of longing " which ITve always been good at. Long
before I ever had a North Carolina driverTs license, I had library card at the Char-
lotte-Mecklenburg public library on Tryon Street in downtown Charlotte. Not so
downtown then, and the library not half so glittering. But it was charming and
devout, and it was there that I first became acquainted with, actually saw in the
flesh, so to speak, the first little magazines and periodicals I was destined to publish
in, though at the time nothing seemed more remote.
I was puttering away on my poems and stories, by then, and I needed some-
where to send them. ITd pull them off the periodical wall: Southern Humanities
Review, Southern Poetry Review, Tar River Poetry, Carolina Quarterly, South Carolina
Review. I'd leaf through and find out the names of the editors and the addresses. To
actually see and touch those magazines, to be able to copy those names and ad-
dresses into the little pocket notebook that surely all writers carried to accommo-
date the capricious muse, made me feel like a writer. It wasnTt long before those
rejection slips started pouring in.
Then there are the little, often tiny, North Carolina libraries that over the past
many years have endeared themselves to me. Nothing spectacular about them at all,
their architecture is merely functional, frequently stark, sometimes merely a storefront
such as the one in Old Fort, in McDowell County, where children can check out not
only books, but toys, where I found a cassette tape of French monks singing Gregorian
chants, recorded live on Easter morning " in the 14th century for all I knew.
These little libraries stand as outposts in their respective counties, peddling
much more than books. The Hampton B. Allen Library, for instance, in downtown
Wadesboro in Anson County, stands as the nexus of the countyTs culture. When we
lived in Anson County, it hosted a lecture series, the bloodmobile, a support group
on adolescent pregnancy, the community theatre, and was also headquarters to
Moonsong Productions when Stephen Spielberg was in town filming The Color
Purple. It was also the site of a baby shower our friends had for my wife and me a
few weeks before our first son was born.
I could bow my head and recite the litany of libraries, a long prose poem, I have
traveled to in this fair state, and in each one there was a surprise waiting for me in
the persons of North Carolina citizens fiercely devoted to the word.
In Davie County where I have spoken so often, I can now greet people by their
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first names; in Harnett County in Lillington; Haywood County in Waynesville,
where the President of the Friends of the library is a British man named Robin; in
Burke County where I spoke this past February 4th and met an elderly couple who
had traveled three hours from Macon County to hear my talk on autobiography
because they were writing a family genealogy; the Henderson County library, crawl-
ing with poets; the Franklin County Library in Louisburg; the Nantahala Regional
Library far out in remote Murphy, where my son Beckett (named after the great Irish
writer Samuel Beckett) portentously took his very first.steps (an obvious metaphor
for reading or vice versa) " in a library, no less; Robeson County Library in
Lumberton where, for some reason, I started my talk by saying that ITd bored people
before, but never killed anyone, which got a lot of laughs until a man in the back
row keeled over with a heart attack; the amazing Elkin Public Library, situated on a
creek over which lean on opposite banks what must be the stateTs largest and most
beautiful beech and sycamore trees, to which I traveled on six successive Sunday
afternoons in 1997 to talk about poetry to a dozen acolytes of verse (they loved the
inscrutable A.R. Ammons), now old friends, where one Sunday the mayorTs wife
pulled into the parking lot next to me as I was locking my car, and sweetly drawled,
oWe donTt lock doors in Elkin�; the Yadkin County Library in Yadkinville, just a few
doors down on Main Street from a fish camp, where a very old woman gave me the
recipe for bird pie (any kind of bird); the Stanly County Library in Albemarle to
which I miraculously made it on time, nearly 80 miles in 90 minutes, back roads and
traffic signals notwithstanding, St. Christopher riding shotgun; the Union County
Library in Monroe where I was presented after my talk with what still ranks as my
favorite honorarium of all time, apart from money, of course: a small two-bladed,
brown-handled penknife that I still use when I fish; the Elbert Ivey Memorial Library
in Hickory where the woman who introduced me
pronounced my name a different way each time she
mouthed it so for a while I forget myself how it is
4 said; the Sandhills Regional Library in Rockingham,
/ COU | d bow m y h ead an d recite th e where I met a woman who had been a student at
; i i Black Mountain College; the Gaston County Library
litany of libraries, 2 long roe where only five people showed for my reading,
have traveled to in this fair s tate, three of whom were the librarian who had invited
. F me, my wife, and myself; MooresvilleTs tiny public
and in each one there was @ SUI prise library thatTs impossible to find; Perquimans
waiting for me in the persons of County Library in historic Hertford where I snapped
3 nae 4 a picture of my sons flanking the Catfish Hunter
N Or th Car oli na citizens fi er cel y monument, the sea air blowing in from the
Chowan Sound; the Thomas Hackney Braswell
rd. y
devoted to the word Library in Rocky Mount; Ashe County Public
Library on a downtown West Jefferson peak sur-
rounded by the Blue Ridge; the North Regional
Library in Raleigh; the opulent Morrison Regional
Library in Charlotte; University City Library in
Charlotte; the Dallas Library; Watauga County Public Library, where a county com-
missioner and a city councilwoman were in attendance for my reading, surely a sign
of radical local politics; the Davidson County Public Library, where I delivered a talk
on Palm Sunday of last year, and was able at its conclusion to trot across Main Street
and pick up blessed Easter palm from a Latino Catholic Church; the Davidson
Branch Library in Northern Mecklenburg County.
My visit in September of 1997 to the Mitchell County Library, way up in the
mountains, in Bakersville, merits special mention. Accompanied by my wife and two
sons, then 10 and 5, we whirled out of Statesville in mid-afternoon and arrived,
starving, not long before my talk at The Oaks, a bed and breakfast the library had
reserved for us. There are no motels in Bakersville. The Oaks was run by Cindy
Sharpe, a wonderfully friendly, accommodating woman, who had taken a writing
workshop I had taught years before at Mayland Community College. She and her
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husband, who was off on business, had recently bought the Oaks, an enormous old
three-storied southern home with a wrap-around porch and balconies fringing each
floor. It had been built in the early 1800s, and needed some work, but it was painted
white, and loomed quite cheerily against the firmament, Roan Mountain purpling
in the dusk. I hurried in, changed into my requisite tie and coat, and, with direc-
tions to HelenTs, the local cafe, a few doors down from the library, ripped into
downtown Bakersville.
HelenTs was jammed. The menu featured the usual Southern fare. They had
Italian hoagies. I knew I was taking a chance, but I figured a sandwich would be
quick. I had to eat. Growing twitchy with hunger, I watched the clock push toward
seven oTclock which was when my program was scheduled to start. At five minutes
until the hour, I left my family in HelenTs to dine without me. My first stop was the
car where I drank the kidsT little travel juice boxes, gnawed a pear to its nub, then
sprinted along Main Street (the street of choice for public libraries in North Caro-
lina) to the library.
The Mitchell County Library, directly across the street from First Baptist Church,
a big red brick building with painted white columns and a shiny white cupola, is
storefront-like, situated in a tiny intersection that I assume is the town square. Thus,
from their panel of windows my audience, exactly thirty men and women, all very,
very, very old and extra Caucasian, wondering where in the world I was, had
watched me, their esteemed visiting scholar, come flying down the street, tightening
his tie and still chewing. Realizing this at the last moment, with some mortification,
I barged in on them, was greeted by the relieved librarian, my host, and sat through
her introduction, trying to get my breath.
My subject was A Visitation of Spirits, by Randall Keenan. It is an a much-praised,
finely written, unrelievedly grim and nihilistic tome written in a very impressionis-
tic style about one night in the life of Horace Cross, a brilliant, homosexual, teen-
aged black boy living in the stultifying small fictional North Carolina town of Tims
Creek. Because of his self-loathing, Horace attempts through ceremonial magic to
turn himself into a red-tailed hawk and when that does not work he wanders the
landscape naked and finally kills himself with his grandfatherTs shotgun in front of
his minister cousin.
No one liked the book. Many of the citizens there hadnTt finished it. They found
it profane, offensive. Why would anyone write such a book? What was wrong with
young people today? What did those people in charge of the program (the oLetTs
Talk about It Program,� administered by the North Carolina Humanities Council)
mean sending them a book like this to read? Two old men unapologetically went to
sleep. My head swiveled from disgruntled face to disgruntled face. I said things like,
oYes, maTam� and oYes, sir.� I told them that I hadnTt written the book. I tried in my
presentation to guide them through its various levels " this is why othose people�
had paid me " HoraceTs conflicts with his family, the church, the racist stranglehold
the rural South still had on him, and of course his sexuality. At each rebuff, my
blood sugar dropped precipitously. Across the street the Baptist church seemed to
sneer, then levitate with disapproval. Becoming nearly catatonic, I found myself
agreeing with them. Maybe it was a bad book.
Thank God, time ran out and it was time for cookies, party mix and punch. I ran
to the refreshments and starting shoveling it in before I fainted, while the audience
crowded around me with some incredulity. Someone asked me where I was from. I
hated to tell them, but I had told enough lies for one night.
oPennsylvania,� I nearly whispered.
A few of the folks nodded. That explained it. I hurried to add that my wife was
from Georgia and my sons were native Tar Heels. They shook my hand and told me
how much they had enjoyed it. That after hearing me talk about the book, they had
found a lot to like in it. I was quite a brainy fellow and they were proud to know
me. A few said that now maybe they'd go back and finish the book. Some swore
they still wouldnTt. No offense. They loaded me down with goodies to take back to
my family. One lady even gave me some poems of hers to critique. They hoped ITd
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come back, and I assured them that that would be my pleasure.
When I arrived back at The Oaks everyone was seated at a table set up in the
front yard, studying the harvest moon, pasted up against the Roan. Along with
Cindy and my family there were two other women, friends of Cindy: Shannon, who
had literally had her baby under water; and Holly, who had worked for a while at
the McDowell County Prison. We had lived in Old Fort for two years and I had
visited that prison several times.
In the summer of 1976, six weeks or so before I arrived in North Carolina, there
had been a horrible and controversial fire there. Once the fire started the officers in
charge left the burning cellblock with the keys in fear of a purported escape and ran
for help. Nine inmates died. Holly and I chatted about this. She, of course, knew
about the fire. She told me that on the cellblock floor at the prison there are im-
printed indelible outlines of the nine dead men " like the Hiroshima shadowgraphs
of vaporized Japanese.
Cindy told the story of waking once in the middle of the night in The Oaks and
witnessing hovering above her a grey-headed, olong-lipped,� old woman in a short-
sleeved gingham dress. CindyTs small daughter had been sleeping with her, and the
hovering woman had said, oI like her. SheTs sweet.�
Cindy replied,�I like her too. But you better go before you scare her.� And the
woman vanished. Poof. You see things around here, Cindy told us. Plenty of sounds
too. We realized weTd be spending the night in a haunted house, which, now as the
moon swelled and swelled, detaching itself from the mountain and threatening to
roll into the yard, no longer looked so cozy, but somewhat sinister. The kids had
been down at the goat pen feeding the goats, so we were sure they hadnTt heard any
of this.
I eventually got around to eating my sandwich from HelenTs which my wife had
toted back in styrofoam. Then we went inside and got ready for bed. The boys
refused to sleep alone, so the four of us crowded into a big four-poster bed, the kind
dead people rise from in Poe stories, in a cavernous room. All night the house
chattered, the too bright moon nudged the deliquescent panes of antique glowing
window glass, and the children kicked at us. I couldnTt stop thinking about A
Visitation of Spirits.
Mere hours later, at 6:15 a.m., we hit the pitch, fog-shrouded road and wended
our way down the mountain to the Piedmont and our home in Statesville. The kids
went to school " my wife home-schooled our older son " and I punched in at
Mitchell Community College. I met my first class, which was assigned to do re-
search, at 9 oTclock in the College library. On the ground floor are periodicals, long
rows of weighty reference texts, various machines and computers, photocopiers, all
the freight of technology. My students, intoxicated with twenty-first century artifi-
cial intelligence, went to work, staring at screens that stared back at them.
The books live on the next floor up, and I loved to take the white marble steps
up to them just to walk the stacks for respite like a beat cop, making sure all is well
in his neighborhood. When I came to the College in 1990 to teach English, I began
ordering books for the library. Mainly books of contemporary poetry and fiction,
areas where the collection was sorely lacking. For the next eleven years I ordered
hundreds, especially from Spring Church Books in Pennsylvania, but also from
university and small press catalogues. At least once a month I would turn in my
frequently voluminous picks to Rex Klett, the head librarian. Each time I fully
expected a reprimand. What did I mean spending all this College money on books?
Thousands of dollars. Who did I think I was?
But I was never chided. In due time ITd receive a memo that the new books had
come in and were awaiting my inspection before being shelved. ITd drop what I was
doing and hurry down to the library and there theyTd be behind the main reference
desk on a three-tiered cart: Adrienne Rich, Richard Hugo, Jean Genet, University of
MichiganTs Poets on Poetry Series, all of Fielding DawsonTs books from Black Sparrow
in California, a trove of books on the Beats, new bios of Samuel Beckett, Frank OTHara,
and Robert Lowell, the journals of Thomas Merton, the novels of Paul Auster. And, the
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way I did when I was just a little boy, back on Larimer Avenue in the old East Liberty
Branch, ITd pretend they were all mine, and theoretically they were.
I memorized where they were shelved and at a momentTs notice could lay
hands either for a student or myself on Flannery OTConnorTs letters The Habit of
Being or Martin EsslinTs The Theatre of the Absurd. 1 walked among them, pulling out
this one, then another, feeling in their spines immortality. Some ITd save for an-
other day, but unable to refrain I grabbed a couple of newly shelved lithe volumes
of poems, and headed back down to my charges. One of them met me at the
bottom of the stairs with a question about parenthetical documentation. When I
finished explaining to his satisfaction, he asked, oWhat's upstairs?�
On the way home from work, I stopped at the Iredell Public Library where I
chatted with the librarians. At least two of them are poets. They informed me that
the book my wife had asked them to hold was ready. I checked out a couple of
foreign films, the only place in town to do such a thing, and a few oLone Rangers�
for the boys. On the way out, I browsed the discard shelf: paperbacks a dime,
hardbacks a quarter. I found eight mint condition Nevil Shute paperbacks. Unable
to resist I hustled back to the checkout desk, dug in my pockets and realized I
didnTt have a cent.
oT can write a check,� ITd said to Martha.
oDonTt worry about it,� she said. oWeTll put it on your tab.�
Instructions for Manuscript Preparation for
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North Carolina Libraries seeks to publish articles and reviews of print and
nonprint materials of professional interest to North Carolina librarians and
the worldwide library community.
Manuscripts should be double-spaced (text and notes) and submitted on
disc or e-mail attachment in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format to Al
Jones, Editor, North Carolina Libraries, at jonesp@mail.ecu.edu.
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in the bottom right-hand corner of a separate title page. Each page should
be numbered consecutively and carry the title (abbreviated, if necessary) in
the upper right-hand corner.
Notes should appear at the end of the manuscript in a section called
oReferences.� The NCL editors will refer to The Chicago Manual of Style,
latest edition. The basic citation formats for books and periodical articles
are as follows:
1. Keyes Metcalf, Planning Academic and Research Library Buildings
(New York: McGraw Hill, 1965), 416.
2. Susan K. Martin, oThe Care and Feeding of the MARC Format,�
American Libraries 10 (September 1970): 498.
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review of a manuscript by at least two jurors, the decision to publish or not
to publish will be communicated to the author, along with the expected
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Library Literature. The Indexer of North Carolina Libraries prepares an annual
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Passing the Torch:
Reminiscences with Frances Bryant Bradburn,
Editor Emerita, North Carolina Libraries,
1985-2002
by Plummer Alston oAl� Jones, Jr.
PAJ: Frances, we have been colleagues and friends since 1989 when I began my
tenure with the Editorial Board of North Carolina Libraries. You have been an
inspiration to me and to all your many friends in North Carolina and across the
country. Your tireless dedication to making North Carolina Libraries the best state
library association journal in the country has resulted in the journal winning the
coveted H. W. Wilson Award for Best State Library Journal, not once, but twice, in
1992 and 1995.
We as members of the North Carolina Library Association owe you a debt of
gratitude that we will never be able to repay fully. I hope that you will allow us
one further favor"sharing with us your reminiscences of your seventeen-year
tenure as Editor of North Carolina Libraries.
When you began your tenure as Editor of North Carolina Libraries in 1985, at
what point were you in your professional career? What convinced you to take on
the challenge? What were the concerns facing not only North Carolina Libraries
but also the North Carolina Library Association?
FBB: Goodness, I was so new! I had just been hired as a regional media and technol-
ogy consultant by the Department of Public Instruction, and was excited and
enthusiastic about everything. Frankly, I didnTt need any convincing once my
boss, Sam Shugart, said OK. That was the big hurdle " ogetting permission.� I
truly wanted and needed to work on this journal. As my mother has said,
oFrances has always edited something.� ItTs a great love. As for concerns facing
both the journal and the Association, we were really in one of those golden
eras " at least I remember it as that " in which there were very few problems.
There seemed to be enough money, everyone was getting along (at least I
thought they were!), and professional associations were considered vital to a
personTs professional career. It was a slower, quieter time " and I canTt believe ITm
actually saying that. I sound like my grandmother!
PAJ: What kept you going through seventeen years of editorship? Were there
mentors along the way who offered expertise and/or encouragement?
FBB: Definitely the people, especially the NCL Editorial Board members. People so
enjoyed doing a good job. We have just always had the best time together; it was
a social as well as a professional environment for all who participated. Another
important thing that kept me going was that the membership continuously gave
me feedback that the journal was important to them. So many people told us
what was important and we worked really hard to create a journal that met the
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i eu ha Dn Dace ee aR tt Ze aN ec al) RA 5 Be cia nae ered i aghs Da oe, e
entire membershipTs needs, not just one segment of the Association. As for men-
tors, frankly the gentleman who handled the printing of the journal when I took
over, Bob Renkenbil, basically walked me through the process regardless of what
it was. He taught me how to do a paste-up " thatTs how NCL was laid out then "
it was like cutting out paper dolls " how to calculate pagination, everything. He
was a true friend and it was very difficult to tell him that we were moving on to
the computer.
PAJ: What were the highpoints of your tenure as Editor of North Carolina Libraries?
Were there issues of the journal that you felt were especially noteworthy and
timely in their coverage of topics of interest to the library community at large?
FBB: I have to confess that one of the greatest experiences was redesigning the
journal back in the early 1990s. We went from a small journal to a full-sized
magazine with a photographed cover. These were HUGE steps for the journal. Pat
Weathersbee and I did this at her house after work several Fridays over the course
of those few months. Gary would cook dinner and Pat and I would pore over her
latest layout design. It was the most heady experience imaginable, almost like
birthing a baby!
As for individual issues, I have always loved the local history issues " they
really were the essence in great how-to-do-this-well manuals. And the issue in
which we interviewed our older library leaders. They have so much to teach us. I
hope you will continue those interviews on an occasional basis. We did an
oextra� issue back in 1992 oCrisis in Librarianship.� Howard McGinn was guest
editor, and I think it clinched the second H.W. Wilson Award for us. (Yes, there
were actually three H.W. Wilson Awards. The first was awarded in 1981, when
Jonathan Lindsey was editor.) And, of course, I canTt forget the 50th anniversary
issue. My research for the history of the journal led to my entire future personal
life " John Welch!
PAJ: Realizing that every endeavor has its disappointments as well as its elations,
what were some of the problems you encountered as Editor? Were there situa-
tions you would have handled differently, if you were given the opportunity to
address them afresh?
FBB: I guess my greatest disappointments came with some regularity. Having to
reject an article has always been hard for me. People have so much of themselves
invested when they write an article and send it off for publication " I know that
from first-hand experience! Telling them that it needed work or was just not
acceptable was horrible, and frankly, I often procrastinated. Another huge disap-
pointment for me was when the school librarians decided to leave NCLA. I will
always believe that we are more effective as one rather than separate organiza-
tions, but I just couldnTt fight the overwhelming sentiment on that.
What would I handle differently? I donTt spend a whole lot of time asking
myself that question, but I guess I would have spent more time doing the job"I
never felt I gave it enough time, especially the last couple of years. There was
always something that could have been done better if I could have devoted more
time to it.
PAJ: What have been the most difficult problems facing the North Carolina Library
Association throughout the years of your tenure as Editor of North Carolina
Libraries? How was the publication of the journal affected by those problems?
FBB: Money, and NCL was at the heart of issue. North Carolina Libraries has always
been the major Association expense, and constantly justifying its existence was
stressful and oh, so frustrating, We really were a very inexpensive publication
when you looked at the cost of printing newsletters and bulletins, BUT we were a
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huge expense regardless of the rationale. It was the most inexpensive professional
development anyone ever invested in, but it still was tough to finance. And
basically the journal stopped growing because of
it. We all know that nothing stays stagnant; it
either goes forward or backward. I believe that
inertia was hard for all of us to be a part of. For
years we tried to make it appear that it was
growing by changing features, etc., but ITm not
sure we fooled anyone. Definitely not me!
PAJ: How do you view the transition from the print
to the electronic publication of North Carolina
Libraries? Are there special pitfalls that I as the
new Editor and the new Editorial Board should
avoid?
FBB: It was inevitable and it is certainly more
financially viable. In truth, I worry about the
wonderful professional growth and social experi-
ences that will be lost without the editorial board meetings. I know I would have
had a hard time building up a sense of community and loyalty without the
regular face-to-face contact that our meetings and the yearly retreat fostered. I
also confess to wondering who really reads online journals. I use them for re-
search, but I donTt just browse them at the doctorTs office, during lunch " you
know what ITm saying. ITm delighted that you plan to do at least one print
issue " of the entire yearTs articles. I think thatTs a great compromise, and ITll look
forward to getting my first issue!
PAJ: Where are you now in terms of your professional career and what do you think
will be filling your time now that you have decided to step down as Editor of
North Carolina Libraries? What are the special challenges and exciting opportuni-
ties ahead for you?
FBB: LetTs not even go there! ITm writing this after having riffed 3 people in my
division during this horrible state budget crisis and as we are waiting to find out
the fate of our programs for the coming year. My greatest challenge is trying to
keep school library media and instructional technology programs funded " and
people in those positions " during this devastating time in our stateTs history.
ThatTs only considered exciting if you have a perverse sense of adventure!
PAJ: What special advice do you have for me as the new Editor and for the new
Editorial Board of the electronic North Carolina Libraries?
FBB: Have fun and learn everything you can. I have said many times that working
on the North Carolina Libraries Editorial Board was the very best professional
development experience anyone can have. You are exposed to so many ideas as
well as all the different areas of librarianship, and you are challenged to make our
profession understandable and important to others. ItTs a wonderful opportu-
nity " celebrate it!
PAJ: Thank you for sharing your reminiscences from your special vantage point as
North Carolina Libraries Editor Emerita. I know that the members of the Editorial
Board and I will be calling on you frequently for advice based on your seventeen
years of experience at the helm of the best state library journal in the nation.
Enjoy life to the fullest, Frances, and remember that your opinions matter now
more than ever!
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Making Connections:
North Carolina Libraries
and Grantmaking Foundations
by Janice Steed Lewis
ibraries of all types face funding challenges. From the small public library
competing with police and fire departments for scarce tax dollars to the
large academic library hit by double-digit inflation rates for journal sub-
scriptions, libraries often must look to outside funding sources to supple-
ment their budgets.
Grantmaking foundations are a fertile source of funds. In 2000,
foundations in the United States made grants of approximately $27.6 billion, an
increase of $4.3 billion from the previous year.! Libraries receive a respectable share
of these funds, but there is undoubtedly room for growth. For example, the Foun-
dation Center recently analyzed grants of $10,000 or more awarded in 1999 by
1,016 large foundations. These foundations awarded 108,169 grants
with a total dollar value of $11,574,183,000. The largest share of
G rantmaking grants " over 26% " went to educational institutions. These grants
were valued at $4,070,185,000 " 35.2% of the total awarded. Librar-
foun da tions are ies received less than one percent of all grants (706) with a value of
a fertile source $95,011,000 (0.8%) of the total. Arts/humanities organizations
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received 3.7% of all grants, while museums/historical societies
of funds. received 4.2%.�
Past articles in North Carolina Libraries have addressed library
fundraising in general, offered advice on how to write winning grant
proposals, and given fundraising tips.* This article focuses on
grantmaking foundations " what they are and how to obtain information about
them. It also identifies a number of foundations that have made grants to North
Carolina libraries in the recent past, as well as others that appear to be good targets
for funding proposals from libraries.
Types of Foundations
A foundation is oa nongovernmental, nonprofit organization with its own funds "
and program managed by its own trustees and directors that was established to
maintain or aid educational, social, charitable, religious, or other activities serving
the common welfare, primarily by making grants to other nonprofit organiza-
tions.�* Foundations can be categorized as either community or private.
Community foundations are publicly sponsored organizations that make
grants for social, educational, religious, or other charitable purposes in a specific
community or region. Their funds are derived from many donors rather than a
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single source, as is usually the case with private foundations. Funds are held in an
endowment and the income earned is used to make grants. Community founda-
tions are usually classified under the tax law as public charities and are subject to
different rules and regulations than private foundations.° Giving by community
foundations is growing faster than giving by other types of foundations, rising an
estimated 21.5% in 2000, following a record 26.8% in 1999. During the last decade,
giving by community foundations quadrupled.°®
Private foundations are divided into three types: independent, company-
sponsored, and operating foundations. Independent foundations are grant-making
organizations whose funds usually come from an individual or family.� Examples
include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Duke Endowment, and the Z.
Smith Reynolds Foundation. Independent foundations traditionally make the
majority of grants to libraries.®
Company-sponsored or corporate foundations are private foundations whose
grant funds are derived from the contributions of a profit-making business. A
company-sponsored foundation may have close ties with the business and take the
companyTs interests into account, but it is a separate legal entity. Direct corporate
giving programs, by contrast, are administered within the company itself.? Promi-
nent company-sponsored foundations include the Hewlett-Packard Company
Foundation, BellSouth Foundation, and the Duke Energy Foundation. The large
number of recent corporate mergers has had a deleterious effect
on the number of company-sponsored foundations. While all
other types of foundations increased from 1998 to 1999, the
number of corporate foundations dropped slightly.!° For example,
North Carolina is home to NationsBank Foundation, located in Charlotte, terminated when
several large foundations.
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NationsBank merged with BankAmerica. NationsBank
FoundationTs assets were transferred to the new Bank of America
Foundation.!! A similar outcome is likely when First Union
Corporation and Wachovia Corporation complete their merger. In
1999, The First Union Foundation ranked nineteenth in total
dollars awarded in the state of North Carolina by foundations, while The Wachovia
Foundation was twentieth. Combined, the two funds would have ranked elev-
enth.!2 Only time will tell if the combined foundation will maintain this level of
giving in the state.
Operating foundations are private foundations that use their resources to
conduct research or provide a direct service. An operating foundation may award
some grants but the total is relatively small compared to the funds used for the
foundationTs own programs.!° The J. Paul Getty Trust is the largest operating foun-
dation in the United States.'4 The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the Casey
Family Program are other well-known operating foundations.
Giving in North Carolina
North Carolina is home to several large foundations. Bank of America Foundation,
the Duke Endowment, Foundation for the Carolinas (a community foundation),
and Burroughs Wellcome Fund (an independent foundation) are on the 2001
Foundation Directory list of top 100 foundations by giving.T The Duke Endowment
and Burroughs Wellcome Fund, along with the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust
(an independent foundation), qualified for the Foundation CenterTs list of top 100
foundations by assets.!°
Not surprisingly, four of these five foundations (all but Burroughs Wellcome
Fund) are among the top grantmakers in the state. Joining them are Z. Smith
Reynolds Foundation, The Cannon Foundation, and William R. Kenan, Jr. Chari-
table Trust (all based in North Carolina), and three out-of-state foundations: The
Ford Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation.!�
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation made $35,117,615 in grants for olibraries
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and public access to information� in 1999 and $69,784,783 in 2000.!8 The bulk of
these grants were made through the foundationTs U.S. Library Program, whose
mission is to opartner with public libraries to bring access to computers, the
Internet, and digital information for patrons in low-income communities in the
United States and Canada.�!� States are prioritized for funding according to
need.�° North Carolina was included in the third round of funding. In 2000,
libraries in the state received $5,801,080.2!
Researching foundations
Print and online directories are helpful sources of information about foundations.
These directories usually list large and/or representative grants made by founda-
tions, but often do not provide a comprehensive list of grants. They usually note
restrictions specific foundations impose, such as geographic limits, or prohibitions
on the use of funds for capital projects or operating support. Much of the informa-
tion contained in directories comes from the filings foundations make with the
Internal Revenue Service. Most of these filings are now available on public Web
sites, so that researchers have access to the complete primary source material itself
and can get it in a more timely fashion than is provided by many directories.
Foundations are generally exempt from federal income taxation under section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. However, if a foundation has annual gross
receipts in excess of $25,000 it must file an annual information return. Private
foundations must file a Form 990-PF: Return of Private Foundation or Section
4947(a)(1) Nonexempt Charitable Trust Treated as a Private Foundation. Other tax-
exempt organizations, including community foundations, must file Form 990,
Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax, or Form 990-EZ, Short Form
Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax.�� These forms require the
foundation to provide information about its revenue, assets, operating expenses,
contributions, grants paid, compensation of officers and trustees, employee sala-
ties, and program funding areas. Form 990-PF also requires that a foundation
indicate if it only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and
does not accept unsolicited requests for funds. If it makes grants under other
conditions, it must provide information about grant application procedures,
submission deadlines, and any restrictions or limitations on awards. This informa-
tion is found in Part XV, Line 2 of Form 990-PF. The grantseeker may want to
exclude foundations that do not accept unsolicited requests from its initial list of
potential targets. It might decide to pursue a longer-term strategy aimed at inform-
ing the foundation about its programs, accomplishments and goals, with the
ultimate aim of becoming a opreselected� beneficiary. Likewise, the information
about geographic restrictions will help the grantseekers identify foundations with
particular interest in their geographic areas and exclude those that focus elsewhere.
Analyzing past grants made by foundations can help grantseekers identify the
best matches between their program interests and foundationsT funding interests.
Part XV, Line 3 of the 990-PF form " oGrants and Contributions Paid During the
Year or Approved for Future Payment� " provides this information. The founda-
tion must list the name and address of each grant recipient, the purpose of the
grant, and the amount. If a foundation makes more than ten or fifteen grants per
year, it usually attaches a separate schedule that lists them. Grantseekers can also
check Part I, Line 25 of the 990-PF form to get a quick appraisal of a foundationTs
grantmaking capacity. It provides the total of the ocontributions, gifts, grants paid�
during the tax year.
Comparable information can be found on 990 and 990-EZ returns. Part I, Line
22 gives the total of grants and allocations made during the tax year. A schedule
must be attached which lists the recipientTs name, address, amount given, and type
of activity. Part III of the 990 return asks the organization to describe its accom-
plishments for its four largest program service areas.
Private and community foundations must make their last three annual infor-
mation returns available for public inspection. The organization is required to
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provide copies of these documents upon request without charge (other than a
reasonable fee for reproduction and postage costs). However, if the organization
has made its return owidely available� by posting it on the organizationTs World
Wide Web page or having it posted as part of a Web-based database of similar
returns, it does not have to comply with individual requests for copies of its
return.�* Two nonprofit groups, Guide Star: The National Database of Nonprofit
Organizations and the Urban InstituteTs National Center for Charitable Statistics,
have developed free Web sites containing databases of 990 and 990-PF returns.
The databases can be searched by foundation name, keyword, geographic loca-
tion, or employer identification number.*4 Grantsmart.org has a free database
that includes only 990-PF returns.°
The Foundation Center is another wonderful tool for grantmakers and
grantseekers alike. Established by foundations, its mission is to support and
improve institutional philanthropy by promoting public understanding of the
foundation field and helping grantseekers succeed. It collects, organizes, and
disseminates information on U.S. philanthropy; conducts research on trends;
provides education and training on the grantseeking process; and ensures public
access to information and services through its Web site, print and electronic
publications, five libraries, and a national network of cooperating collections.�°
The Foundation CenterTs Web site includes:
" Statistics
" prospect worksheet
- list of more than 200 Cooperating Collections around the U.S. which make
the Foundation CenterTs publications and usually its database accessible to
the public
" gateway to foundation Web sites
" the Foundation Finder " a free look-up tool that provides basic facts on
more than 61,000 private and community foundations in the U.S.
(particularly useful for those that do not have Web sites)
" 990-PF search feature, using GrantSmart.org database
- proposal writing short courses
"articles from Philanthropy News Digest
-a bibliographic database called oLiterature of the Nonprofit Sector�?�
Many large foundations issue annual reports and/or have Web pages that
contain information useful to grantseekers. Some, however, only list selected
grants (usually grants above a certain amount, or grants that are representative of
the foundationTs subject and/or geographic focus). The thorough researcher will
still want to check the foundationTs 990 or 990-PF filing to help identify the most
likely potential donors.
Other valuable sources of information include North Carolina Giving, published
by Capital Development Services.?® A Web version of the directory called North
Carolina Giving Online offers more frequent updating of foundation profiles. It can
be searched by subject, county, foundation name, and name of individual deci-
sion-makers. Capital Development Services also has a free e-mail alerting service
that provides updated information about selected foundations based in the state
and a free online counsel service.�?
The following tables identify foundations that either have made grants to
libraries in the state recently or that appear to be good candidates for doing so.
The first table consists of foundations located in the state that have made grants
to libraries or Friends of Library groups within the state. The second table lists
national foundations that make grants in North Carolina and give to libraries (but
have not necessarily made grants to libraries within the state). The third table
contains foundations that give in North Carolina and give to educational and
cultural institutions, but not specifically to libraries. All the foundations accept
unsolicited requests for funds, as of the date sources were checked. None (except
The Kresge Foundation) places restrictions or limitations on funding, apart from
Spring / Summer 2002 "" 17
North Carolina-related geographic restrictions, and each lists funding interests that
appear to be good matches for many library-related grant proposals. Information
about these foundations was obtained from their Web pages, their annual reports,
and the most recent 990 and 990-PF returns available in September 2001. Two
years of data is provided for some foundations, to show variations in the scope of
their funding interests.
Twenty-four foundations are included in the first table. They range in size from
the Hurley-Trammel Foundation, which made grants of $134,000 in 1999, to the
Bank of America Foundation, which made more than $90 million in grants nation-
wide. Seven community foundations are listed. Libraries may wish to investigate
more closely funding possibilities from community foundations. These organiza-
tions are seeing rapid growth in their asset value and have increased both the
number and the size of grants made. By definition, they have a local focus and
appear to be good targets for library grant proposals, particularly those aimed at
programming, outreach efforts and focused collection development. As the table
indicates, several areas of the state have their own community foundations. Most
other areas of the state are served by the North Carolina Community Foundation.
This umbrella organization has 47 community affiliates, each with its own board of
directors. Each affiliate makes its own determinations about spending funds locally.*°
The North Carolina Humanities Council made the largest number of grants to
libraries. The Council makes planning grants, mini-grants for scholar stipends and
travel expenses, and large grants for lecture/discussion series, performances, discus-
sions, exhibits, film/video/radio productions, etc. Many of the library grants
awarded in 2000 were made as part of the CouncilTs oLetTs Talk About It� reading
and discussion program.*!
Six foundations located outside the state were selected to represent the variety
of opportunities available to grantseekers. Corporate foundations in particular are
likely to make grants in communities in which corporate branches or plants are
located. For example, FMC Foundation, located in Chicago, is a company-spon-
sored foundation that concentrates giving in
locations where it has plants, including Gastonia
and Bessemer City. With independent foundations,
Al though much work will remain in a connection between the person or persons who
writing the grant proposal, making
the connection
established the foundation and the state or com-
munity is often vital. In the case of the Janirve
between libraries and Foundation, the foundation is officially located in
Florida, but the majority of its grantmaking in
g rantm aki ng f oun dati ons focused on western North Carolina and most of its
18 " Spring / Summer 2002
has never been easier. officers live in that area. The Kresge Foundation is
one of the few foundations that emphasizes grants
for capital projects, including construction, reno-
vation and purchasing real estate and major
equipment. It has funded numerous library renovation and expansion projects
across the country for both public and academic libraries. However, certain organi-
zations, including elementary and secondary schools and community colleges, are
ineligible for grants.°�
The 23 foundations listed in the third table have funding interests compatible
with many library needs. These foundations have made numerous grants to public
and private schools, colleges and universities, museums, literacy programs, and
similar organizations in North Carolina.
The foundations profiled here are just a starting point for the determined
grantseeker. Using the tools described in this article, he or she will be able to
identify additional grantmaking foundations whose funding interests match the
grantseekerTs program needs, ascertain the foundationTs size, verify grant applica-
tion procedures, and obtain contact information. Although much work will remain
in writing the grant proposal, making the connection between libraries and
grantmaking foundations has never been easier.
North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 60
Table 1: North Carolina foundations that made grants to libraries or Friends of Library groups within
the state: |
Financial 990-PF Line 25 /
Name Location Year-end 990 Line 22 Grants to Libraries Amount
Bank of America $90,999,532
Foundation Charlotte 12/31/99 $6,547,029 innc | Public Library of Charlotte $ 35,000
Burlington
Industries Greensboro 9/30/00 $ 833,546 Braswell Memorial Library $ 2,500
Foundation
Cannon Friends of the Harrisburg Branch Lib. $150,000
Foundation Concord 9/30/99 $9,913,819 Union Co Library Fdn. $ 30,000
Appalachian Community Law
CenterLibrary/Resource Center $ 2,500
Cannon Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Reg. Library $ 25,000
Foundation Concord 9/30/00 $9,250,163 Belmont Abbey College
(library renewal) $ 50,000
Friends of Madison Co. Library $ 25,000
Town of Scotland Neck (lib. addition) $ 25,000
Cape Fear
Community Wilmington 9/30/99 $ 409,662 Friends of New Hanover Pub. Library $ 1,000
Foundation
Cape Fear
Community Wilmington 9/30/00 $ 697,498 Friends of New Hanover Pub. Library $ 3,824
Foundation
Community
Foundation of Greensboro 6/30/99 5)739)633 Friends of Greensboro Public Library $212,500
Greater GSO
Cumberland
Community Fayetteville 6/30/99 $ 1,526,596 Annie H. McEachern Public Library
Foundation Cumberland County Public Library
Dover Foundation $ 1,088,213 Cleveland County Lib System
Wilkes County Public Library
Burke Co. Public Library
Dauphin Co. Library
Friends of Hilton Head Br. Library
First Union Fdn. Charlotte 12/31/98 $19,449,564 Galax-Carroll Regional Lib. Fdn.
Friends of the Durham Library
Jacob S. Mauney Mem. Library
Robeson County Public Library
Watauga Co. Public Library
Cleveland County Mem. Library
8/31/99
A] FHF OO HF 8! OO
Foundation for the Public Library of Charlotte &
Carolinas Charlotte 12/31/98 $17,001,133 Mecklenburg County $ 25,381
Union County Library Fdn. $ 5,200
Harry L. Dalton
Foundation Charlotte (Maye) $ 170,000 Duke University Libraries $ 5,000
Harry L. Dalton Manlius Library $
Foundation Charlotte 7/31/00 $ 251,240 Pub. Lib. of Charlotte & Mecklenburg $ 3,000
Hillsdale Fund Greensboro 12/31/98 $ 1,750,800 Friends of Greensboro Public Library $ 50,000
Hurley-Trammell
Foundation Salisbury 12/31/99 $ 134,000 Rowan Public Library $ 5,000
Jefferson-Pilot Greensboro Public Library $ 37,500
Foundation Greensboro 11/30/99 $ 1,789,520 Pub. Lib. of Charlotte/Mecklenburg $ 100
J.W. Burress
Foundation Winston-Salem 12/31/99 $ 514,900 UNC Friends of the Library $ 1,000
Mary Duke Biddle Friends of Durham Library $ 2,000
Foundation Durham 12/31/99 $ 1,240,145 New Garden Fr School Library $ 3,500
North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 60 Spring / Summer 2002 " 19
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Table 1 continued ...
Financial 990-PF Line 25 /
Name Location Year-end 990 Line 22 Grants to Libraries Amount
Mary Norris Preyer Greensboro Public Library $ 5,000
Foundation Greensboro 6/30/99 $ 172,000 Reading Connections $ 2,000
Mermans
Foundation Matthews 12/31/00 $ 1,990,955 Matthews Library $ 25,000
Friends of Emerald Isle Library $ 500
North Carolina Friends of Kinston-Lenoir County
Community Raleigh 3/31/99 $ 967,394 Public Library $ 500
Foundation Watauga Library $----900
Macon County Public Library $ 1,400
Granite Falls & Hudson Libraries $ 1,500
North Carolina Friends of Madison Co. Library $ 1,000
Community Fdn. Raleigh 3/31/00 $ 963,664 Hickory Public Library $ 19,300
Leslie Perry Memorial Library $ 1,000
Archdale Library Friends $ 1,000
Davie County Public Library $ 1,000
Stanly County Public Library $ 1,000
Macon County Public Library $ 1,000
Friends of Transylvania County Lib. $ 1,000
Ashe County Public Library $ 1,000
North Carolina Braswell Memorial Library $ 1,000
Humanities Council Greensboro 10/31/00 $, 239,075 Hickory Public Library $ 1,000
Onslow County Public Library $ 1,000
Shepard-Pruden Memorial Library $ 1,000
Pettigrew Regional Library $ 1,000
Davie County Public Library boi 5 SOO
Asheville-Buncombe Library $ 1,000
Friends of Haywood Co. Pub. Library $ 1,000
Lilly Pike Sullivan Municipal Library $ 1,000
Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Reg. Library $ 1,000
Carteret County Public Library $ 1,000
King Public Library $ 1,000
Stonecutter
Foundation Spindale 3/31/00 $ 517,230 Spindale Public Library $ 5,000
Friends of Chapel Hill Library $= LOO
North Carolina Research Friends of Health Sciences Library $500
Triangle Triangle 6/30/99 $ 6,061,202 UNC Health Sciences Aff Library $ 2,500
Community Park Friends of the Lib. at UNC-CH $750
Foundation Southwest Harbor Public Library $ 500
Wachovia
Foundation Winston-Salem 12/31/99 $10,171,030 CEL Regional Library Fdn $ 3,000
Weaver
Foundation Greensboro 12/31/98 $1,706,450 Greensboro Public Library $ 15,000
Destin Library $ 5,000
Winston-Salem Forsyth County Library $ 6,608
Foundation Winston-Salem 12/31/98 $ 11,340,720 Elkin Public Library $ 3,067
Fogler Library $-"--500
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North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 60
Table 2: Selected foundations located outside the state that either have made grants to libraries in the
state or that have made grants within the state and to libraries elsewhere:
Name Location
Financial
Year-end
990-PF Line 25 /
990 Line 22
Representative Grants to
Libraries & to NC Recipients
Pierpont Morgan Library
New York Public Library
Amount
$
$
ABC Broadcasting New York City 12/31/99 $ 2,930,184 St. AugustineTs College $ 7,500
Foundation Fayetteville State University $ 5,000
N.C. Central University $ 5,600
Shaw University $ 5,000
N.C. Museum of Life & Science $
Pierpont Morgan Library $
Drue Heinz Trust Pittsburgh 12/31/99 $ 2,524,355 Sewickley Public Library $
Beginning With Books $ 20,000
Rockland (ME) Pub. Lib. $ 33,000
Enoch Pratt Library (Pittsburgh) $ 2,500
FMC Foundation Chicago 11/30/98 $ 1,841,256 Hoopeston Public Library $ 2,000
S. Charleston (WV) Pub. Library $
Chicago Public Library $
Salvation Army of Gastonia $
Carteret (NJ) Free Pub. Library $ 1,100
Chicago Pub. Lib. Fdn. $ 2,000
FMC Foundation Chicago 11/30/00 $ 2,146,793 Enoch Pratt Lib. (Pittsburgh) $ 2,000
Free Library of Philadelphia $ 2,500
Newberry Library (Chicago) $ 5,000
Rockland (ME) Pub. Library $ 34,000
Janirve Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Regional
Foundation Palm Beach 12/31/99 $ 4,210,202 Library $ 20,000
Bloomfield College (NJ: library) $ 500,000
Carthage College (WI: library) $ 800,000
Claremont School of Theology
Kresge Foundation Troy, MI 12/31/00 $132,043,000 (CA: library) $ 400,000
(from 2000 College of Charleston (SC: library) $ 700,000
Annual Report) Davidson College $ 900,000
Guilford College $1,000,000
Johnson C. Smith University $ 500,000
Peace College $ 500,000
Elon College $ 250,000
Wingate University $ 250,000
UW Gladys B. Thayer Oceanic Free Library $ 5,000
Gladys Brooks New York City 12/31/98 $ 1,247,000 Friends of Shelter Island
Foundation Library Society $ 5,000
UW Gladys B. Thayer Friends of Shelter Island
Gladys Brooks New York City 12/31/00 $ 1,830,080 Library Society $ 10,000
Foundation
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Spring / Summer 2002 " 21
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Lib. $ 100,000
Table 3: Foundations that give in North Carolina and give to educational and cultural institutions, but
not specifically to North Carolina libraries:
990-PF Line 25 /
990 Line 22
Financial
Year-end
Name Location
A.E. Finley $1,532,755
Foundation Raleigh 11/30/99 ($857,885 to
educational
groups)
Alex Hemby
Foundation Charlotte 12/31/98 $560,433
Charlotte 5/31/99
Belk Foundation $2,504,914
Belk Tyler
Foundation Charlotte 12/01/98 $ 591,096
Broyhill Family
Foundation Lenoir 12/31/99 $1,851,495
Bryan Foundation Raleigh 6/30/99 $ 222,500
Representative Grants Amount
N.C. State Univ.
Campbell University
Peace College
216,b25
10,000
30,000
$
$
Cecil Community College 1,000
Triangle Radio Reading Serv. 3,000
Wake County Literacy Council 5,000
UNC-Educ. Fdn.
Davidson College -
Queens College
Museum of the New South
Appalachian State University
Davidson College
Shaw University
Queens College
Gaston Co. Literacy Counci
Museum of the New South
Greensboro ChildrenTs Museum
Forestview High School
25,000
1,000,000
14,000
5,000
40,000
50,000
25,000
10,000
Davidson College 101,602
Nash Community College 10,000
East Carolina University 73,880
Methodist College 102,754
Barton College 10,000
Rocky Mount Academy 6,000
Meredith College 100,000
Converse College 50,000
163,800
Education Fdn. of Caldwell Co. 10,775
South Caldwell High School 5,000
Hickory Museum of Art 1,150
Caldwell Co. Historical Society 2,500
Mt. Olive College 50,000
Meredith College 10,000
Hobbton High School 15,000
Duke University 5,000
C. Hamilton Sloan 12/31/99
Foundation
Raleigh $ 327,250
Carolina Power &
Light Foundation
(now called Progress
Energy Foundation)
Winston-Salem 12/31/99 $4,997,137
Greensboro 12/31/99
Cemala Foundation $1,662,927
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$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
Caldwell Comm. Col. & Tech. Inst. $
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
N.C. Art Museum 1,000
Wake Education 1,000
Mt. Olive College 10,000
Campbell University 10,000
East Carolina University 30,000
Fayetteville State University 25,000
Piedmont Community College 25,000
Johnston Community College 2,000
Person County Education 10,000
Asheville City Schools 4,000
Exploris 100,000
Chatham Co. Educ. Fdn. 8,750
Wake Co. Communities in Schools 30,000
Greensboro College 13,000
Guilford College 75,000
NC A&T 50,000
High Point/Greensboro Community
in Schools S235, 000
Oak Ridge Military Academy $ 27,500
Guilford County Schools $ 720,816
North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 60
Table 3 continued ...
Financial 990-PF Line 25 /
Name Location Year-end 990 Line 22 Representative Grants Amount
Greensboro College $ 50,000
Cemala Foundation Greensboro 12/31/00 $1,377,422 Guilford County Schools $ 427,280
UNC-Wilmington $ 10,000
Coltec Charitable Charlotte 6/30/00 $22,725 Communities in Schools 7257000
Foundation West Des Moines Lib. Friends Fdn. $ 5,000
Queens College
Dee and Rick Ray Charlotte 12/31/99 $ 321,536 N.C. School of the Arts
Foundation Charlotte Prep Middle School
Central Piedmont Com. Col.
Davidson College
Elon College
Lenoir Rhyne College
Dickson Foundation Charlotte 12/31/99 $1,068,527 N.C. Central Univ. Fdn.
Pfeiffer College
Museum of the New South
N.C. Museum of Art
Thomasville High School
Doak Finch Charlotte 10/31/99 $ 235,000 Thomasville City Schools
Foundation Davidson Co. Comm. College
Davidson Co. Comm. College
Comm. Schools of Thomasville
Doak Finch Charlotte 10/31/00 $ 247,000 Arts Council of Davidson Co.
Foundation East Davidson High School
Thomasville City Schools
Belmont Abbey College
Davidson College
First Gaston Gastonia 9/30/99 $ 589,517 Gardner Webb University
Foundation Gaston Co. Tech. High School
Gaston Literacy Council
Gaston Co. Museum of Art & History
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
Belmont Abbey College $
Davidson College $
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
Gardner-Webb University
First Gaston Gastonia 9/30/00 $1,179,512 Gaston College
Foundation Gaston Co. Museum of Art & History
Gaston Co. Tech. High School
Gaston Literacy Council
UNC Wilmington
Methodist College
Florence Rogers Fayetteville 3/31/00 S97 9 Robeson Comm. Col. Fdn.
Charitable Trust Louisburg College
Fayetteville State University
CC Schools (combined)
Durham Tech. Community Col.
Glaxo Research Guilford College
Wellcome Triangle 12/31/99 $ 4,762,892 UNC School of Public Health
Foundation ParkU NC-Wilmington
Shaw University
East Carolina University Fdn.
Irwin Belk Furman University
Educational Charlotte 12/31/98 $ 340,000 Winston-Salem State Univ.
Foundation
175,000
325,000
508,152
172,000
300,000
75,000
100,000
10,000
90,000
50,000
25,000
50,000
10,000
50,000
3,000
Wingate University
Catawba College
Davie Family YMCA
J.F. Hurley Salisbury 12/31/99 $ 559,200 East Rowan YMCA
Foundation Livingstone College
N.C. Transportation Museum
Rowan Museum
North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 60 Spring / Summer 2002 " 23
See Gace nae
Table 3 continued ...
Financial
Location Year-end
Lance Foundation Charlotte 6/30/99
990-PF Line 25 /
990 Line 22
$ 379,500
Smith Family Burlington 6/30/99
$ 138,000
Representative Grants
Crees AE
Indep. College Fund of NC
Communities in Schools
Central Piedmont Community
College Foundation
Alamance Community. Col. Fd.
Burlington Day School
AHA
Foundation
Thomas Austin
Finch Foundation
Tom Davis Fund
Winston-Salem 12/31/99
Winston-Salem 12/31/99
$ 468,093
$ 283,640
Z. Smith Reynolds
Foundation
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Winston-Salem 12/31/99
$12,986,763
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Davis, Jordan. oSex Education Books for Young Adults: An Evaluation and Comparison
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Duckett, Kimberly. oBringing Professional Knowledge and Identity into a Grassroots
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Ellison, Melinda. oTHer Books Not HisT: Women and Their Book Collections in Medieval
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Gao, Tao. oProcessing Numeric Table Data in Electronic Formats: Eye Movement Pat-
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movement patterns; Statistical tables; User information-seeking behavior.
Gilchrest, Alison. oFactors Affecting Controlled Vocabulary Usage in Art Museum
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Special subjects - Museums; Information systems " Special subjects " Art;
Authority control; Museums " Collection management " Data processing.
Lee, Rebecca M. oThe Situation of the Bookstore and Its Implications for Libraries.� May
2001. 44 pages. Headings: Bookstores " Evaluation; Bookstores " Relations with
libraries.
Nixon, Donna. oAn Evaluation of How Copyright, Licensing Agreements & Contract
North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 60
See
Law Are Interacting to Restrict Academic Library Interlibrary Loan Abilities.�
May 2001. 59 pages. Headings: College and university libraries " Interlibrary
loans; Copyright; Licensing agreements; Uniform Computer Information
Transactions Act; Publishers and publishing " Licensing agreements.
Murphy, Janet. oInformation Seeking Habits of Environmental Scientists: A Study of
Interdisciplinary Scientists at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.� June 2001. 49 pages. Headings:
Information needs " Environmental scientists; Information services " Special
subjects " Environmental scientists; Survey " Information needs.
Parsons, Jennifer Simpson. oWeb-Based Library Tutorials: How Are We Doing?: An
Evaluation of ARL Member Libraries.� July 2001. 42 pages. Headings: Biblio-
graphic instruction - College and university students; Bibliographic instruc-
tion -Evaluation; Computer-assisted instruction " Evaluation; Internet " College
and university libraries; Research libraries " Evaluation.
Quillen, Christine Lynn. oHelping Readers Find Books: An Evaluation of Four ReadersT
Advisory Sources.� July 2001. 77 pages. Headings: Fiction " Selection; Public
libraries " Reference services; Reader guidance; Reading interests; Subject access;
Subject headings " Special subjects " Fiction.
Roth, James M. oServing Up EAD: An Exploratory Study on the Development and
Utilization of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Finding Aids.� May 2001. 48
pages. Headings: Archives " Technological innovations; Encoded Archival
Description (Document type definition); Information theory.
Toney, Hannah Rains. oIntranets as a Tool for Communication, Collaboration and
Knowledge Management.� July 2001. 20 pages. Headings: Intranets; Web
portals; Web sites.
Vaughn, Thomas Allen. oCarolina EPI.� May 2001. 87 pages. Headings: Information
systems " Information interfaces and presentation; Information services - Web-
based services information systems; Information interfaces and presentation "
Group and organization; Interfaces hypertext/hypermedia " Navigation.
Williams, Joe M. oLethal Sampling Methods and Whale Research: An Investigation of
Publication Data and Scientific Values.� May 2001. 40 pages. Headings: Ethics;
Librarianship " International Aspects; Periodicals - Marine Sciences; Publishers
and publishing " Scientific and technical literature.
Winters, Autumn. oThe Infoshop as a Community Information Resource: A Study of
Internationalist Books.� May 2001. 65 pages. Headings: Infoshops; Alternative
Press Index; Bookstores " North Carolina; Special collections " Special subjects "
Underground literature.
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he iisuiitibe "(North Carclincana
*Lagniappe (lan-yapT, lanT yapT) n. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. [Louisiana French]
compiled by Suzanne Wise
Storming the Hill:
North Carolina Librarians Become
Lobbyists for a Day
oTt was exciting!�
oT felt I made a difference.�
oTt was empowering.�
oTt is probably one of the most important things I have ever done as a
librarian.�
These and similar reactions were shared by six librarians from North
Carolina who participated in oPlant Grassroots @ Your Library� on May 7,
2002, the 28th annual National Library Legislative Day sponsored by the
American Library Association (ALA) to put librarians and legislators in touch
with each other. Librarians from all over the United States converged on
Washington, DC, to meet their legislators and discuss issues important to
libraries and their constituents. North Carolina was represented by Nancy
Gibbs of Duke University, Peggy Hoon of North Carolina State University,
Linda McDaniel of Harnett County Public Schools, Ann Miller of Duke
University, Allan Scherlen of Appalachian State University, and John Via of
Forsyth County Public Library. As chair of the North Carolina Library
AssociationTs Governmental Relations Committee, Peggy Hoon coordinated
the event, organizing her troops and making appointments for visits with
legislators.
Most of the North Carolina delegation had participated before and knew
what to expect. The only rookie, Allan Scherlen, was concerned about not
being sufficiently informed about the details of issues to be an effective
advocate. He and other newcomers discovered that the job of advocacy is
easier than one might expect. ALA sponsored briefing sessions the day before
National Library Legislative Day, giving delegates fast track summaries of the
issues. The discussions were reinforced with concise handouts of the key
points of legislation and otalking points� of what libraries want from their
legislators. Allan says he emerged from the sessions confident and ready to
ostorm the hill.�
Delegates were asked to focus on a few core issues, including passage of
the Museum and Library Services Act of 2002, which includes re-authoriza-
tion of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA); passage of the
oTEACH Act,� which updates the distance education provisions of the Copy-
right Act in light of advances in digital transmission technologies that sup-
port distance learning; and various copyright issues, including the database
protection legislation being proposed by North Carolina Representative
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Howard Coble and others, which would include broad language providing
protection for commercial databases and potentially denying free access to
basic factual information in the public domain. Academic librarians also
brought to the table the chilling effect on scholarship of Presidential Execu-
tive Order 13233, which claims executive privilege over past presidential
records beyond the 12-year limit. They encouraged legislators to support HR
4187, oFurther Implementation of the Presidential Records Act,� which would
annul it.
Tuesdays are reserved in Congressional offices for visits by individuals
and groups lobbying for certain issues, and the halls were packed with staffers
and lobbyists. Staffers specializing in legislation affecting libraries welcomed
the librarians and talked with them about the issues raised, asking questions
and taking detailed notes. Staff members commented that it was great to
meet the people behind the issues and that it gave them a better perspective
of constituentsT concerns. Staffers were delighted to receive the packet of
information prepared by the State Library of North Carolina which detailed
exactly how LSTA funds have been used in their districts. Ann Miller and
Allan Scherlen were fortunate to be in Representative Howard CobleTs (R-NC,
6th Dist.) office when he was present and to have the opportunity to talk to
him directly. He brought in the council for the House Judiciary Committee to
participate in the discussion of the database protection legislation, and some
lively debate ensued. Delegates also saw Representative Bob Etheridge (D-NC,
2d Dist.) briefly and ran into Representative Mel Watt (D-NC, 12th Dist.) in
the elevator.
There were several opportunities to interact more informally with col-
leagues and legislative personnel. NCLA hosted a luncheon for North Caro-
lina delegates and staffers on Legislative Day, and at the end of the day ALA
sponsored a reception for all delegates, legislators, and staff members. Repre-
sentative Coble attended, the only North Carolina legislator to do so.
Delegates strongly emphasize that follow-up is important. Once you have
made personal contact with legislators and staffers you should write, e-mail,
or call them regularly. You are now more than just a name, and your support
and suggestions have more weight. You may be asked for input. Allan
Scherlen says he hopes to develop good working relationships with the
staffers he met and looks forward to participating next year.
It is crucial to offer support as well as to ask favors. Nancy Gibbs urges
librarians to go to public forums and to invite legislators to visit their libraries
when they are ohome.�
North Carolina needs more librarians to participate in this exciting
opportunity to experience the democratic process first hand. It is amazing
how powerful you can be in affecting legislation if you tell your story to your
representatives. Shortly after their visit, a staff member for Representative
David Price (D-NC, 4th Dist.) called Ann Miller to let her know that he had
signed on as a co-sponsor for HR 4187. oITd like to think our visit and AllanTs
impassioned arguments made a difference!� she said. To join the delegation
next year, monitor the NCLA listserv (ncla-l@soe.ecu.edu) or contact Peggy
Hoon, Chair, Governmental Relations Committee, at 919-513-2045. As Nancy
Gibbs commented, oIt was fantastic. Nobody can look you in the face and say
theyTre against libraries!�
Spring / Summer 2002 " 29
UW 0c to the \\ Oat
orld
by Ralph Lee Scott
Anonymisers
W: have all become increasingly aware that, for com-
mercial and perhaps other reasons, our use of the
Internet can and is being tracked. For most of us this track-
ing has become a major concern as unwanted e-mail (com-
monly called SPAM) has begun to clog our incoming mail-
boxes. There are a variety of ways to combat both the track-
ing and the receipt of unwanted e-mail. One of the ways
of dealing with this problem is the use of an anonymiser
service, many of which are available over the Web.
Every time you visit a Web site, publish over the
Internet, or send an e-mail from your home or business
mail system, you provide useful information about your-
self. You send details of where you are located, your inter-
ests, habits, computer type, and browser type as you move
from page to page on the Internet. Many Web sites and
Internet providers track this information, which is then
sold to marketers and advertisers. You send this informa-
tion every time whether you want to or not. If you do a
Google search on oComputers Internet Proxies Prox-
ies Free� you will find a list of eighteen free anonymisers.
Proxy servers can be used to both hide your real IP
address (the true location of your computer location on
the Internet) as well as provide a hidden e-mail address
that masks your true identity on the Web. You can think
of your IP address as the street address where your com-
puter is located. Servers on the Internet use this address to
communicate with your computer. Each computer has a
number of ports through which you allow Internet infor-
mation to enter and leave. For example, in the IP address,
216.150.33.56:80, the 80 is the port number. Since there
are potential hackers who spend all day scanning for open
ports on computers, you need to hide your real address
from them. Proxies and anonymisers will also block cook-
ies, Java, JavaScript, and other hidden tracking schemes.
If you want to use cookies, anonymisers will also encrypt
your URL request so that you cannot be tracked.
Anonymisers also provide a firewall for your computer that
will allow you to surf the Web, send e-mails, and access
newsgroups without compromising your home or work
computer.
Anonymizer.com is a commercial service that provides
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anonymiser service. It provides 20 passes through sites that
you can use for free. If you want more direct access to
more Web URLs the current Anonymous Web Surfin� ser-
vice costs $14.99 for three months of unlimited use. The
site is Web-based www.anonymizer.com) and requires no
software to be installed or configured on your computer.
The Anonymizer Secure Tunneling service for $29.99, also
for three months, includes all of the features of the oAnony-
mous Web Surfing� service as well as a firewall.
Another anonymiser is The-Cloak.com www.the-
cloak.com. The-Cloak functions in much the same way
as Anonymizer.com. It also limits both the number of si-
multaneous users and the number of Web sites that you
can visit at one time. For information on how to config-
ure your browser to use this service, check the FAQ page,
and for additional information on why you need an
anonymiser service check out the oWhy?� pages, both on
The-Cloak Web site.
MagusNet Public Proxy server (www.magusnet.com)
has been in operation since September of 1997 and pro-
vides an anonymous pass-through proxy service. It also
offers a service that will hide your Web site and make it
available only through its proxy service. Using the
MagusNet proxy server to go to a Web site, you must type
the following in your browser:
http://proxy.magusnet.com/-_-http://[enter the URL here].
Public proxy servers are not restricted to computer sites
just in the United States. For example, you can view a list
of public proxy servers available through a Web site in the
United Kingdom called The-Scream www.the-
scream.co.uk/html/resources/proxies.html. The-Scream
lists fourteen public proxy servers and their associated free
access ports along with proxy setting instructions for your
browser. The-Scream lists some software that will modify
the html address before it reaches your browser, including
Muffin, ByProxy, Proxomitron, and WebWasher.
Finally, an Australia Web page called the Anonymous
Browsing Quick-Start Page allows you to enter the URLs
needed to access any number of anonymisers. This quick
start page can be reached by pointing your browser to:
www.space.net.au/~thomas/quickbrowse.html.
North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 60
____ NORTH CAROLINA
ac,
Dorothy Hodder, Compiler
andwiched between the American Revolution and the Civil War,
the War of 1812 seldom merits our attention. Except for the
burning of Washington and JacksonTs after-the-fact victory at
New Orleans, few people know or remember much about it. To
be honest, American military forces were not very successful
during the conflict save for the warships of the tiny U. S. Navy. In single-
ship battles during the war, the Americans beat the British, the worldTs
greatest naval power, in six of seven encounters. The U.S.S. Wasp, a
sloop-of-war under the command of North Carolinian
Johnston Blakeley, won one of the most famous of those
Stephen W. H. Duffy. Victories. - :
; Born in Ireland in 1781, Blakeley and his family
Cap tain Blakeley and the Wasp: immigrated to Wilmington when he was two and he spent
; his formative years in North Carolina, including time at
The Cruise of 1814. the University at Chapel Hill from 1796-1799. In 1800, he
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001. secured an appointment as a naval midshipman and
348 pp. $34.95. ISBN 1-55750-176-9. subsequently was posted to various warships fighting the
Barbary pirates along the North African coast. From1804"
1812, his career slowly progressed as he served on several
different Navy ships and finally was promoted to his first
independent command.
Congress declared war on England on June 18, 1812,
and Blakeley was given command of the Wasp the follow-
ing month. The Wasp was launched in 1813 and in 1814 Blakeley and his
crew received their sailing orders " to proceed to the English coast,
harass and capture British merchantmen, and engage and destroy Royal
Navy ships as the opportunity presented itself. Between June and Septem-
ber 1814, BlakeleyTs ship captured thirteen merchant ships, defeated
H.M.S. Reindeer, and fought a draw with H.M.S. Avon. In the fall of 1814,
Blakeley and the Wasp disappeared without a trace somewhere in the
Atlantic.
Stephen DuffyTs well-crafted and well-documented narrative provides
a wealth of excellent information not only on Blakeley himself but also
on conditions in the U.S. Navy during the period 1800-1814. His careful
research includes details on ships and personnel as well as on the vagaries
of politics and command that influenced the NavyTs development. Duffy
has a sailorTs detailed knowledge of how sailing ships were built and his
description of the battle between the Wasp and the Reindeer is superb
historical writing. Illustrated with black-and-white photos, this work has
an extensive bibliography, copious notes, and an index. University and
public library collections and libraries interested in maritime or military
history should add this book to their collection.
"John Welch
Enloe High School
North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 60 Spring / Summer 2002 " 7]
atherine LandisTs novel Some Days ThereTs Pie presents a moving story of
friendship between two women, Rose and Ruth.
In her early twenties Ruth escaped from Summerville, Tennessee,
with a stereo salesman, married secretly, and moved into her husbandTs
apartment in Huntington, on the east coast of North Carolina. Married
life was happy for Ruth until her husband got religion and tried to drag her into it.
Yearning for her own free life, Ruth drove away from her husband. In Lawsonville,
North Carolina, she met Rose, a legendary 79-year-old newspaper reporter. With
RoseTs help, Ruth found a job as receptionist and settled down in
Lawsonville. RoseTs dramatic stories, her strength in facing sickness
and death, and her upright character greatly influenced Ruth. RuthTs
Catherine Landis. "_]ife and outlook on the world changed greatly as her friendship with
Some Days ThereTs Pie.
the older woman developed.
Landis achieves her delicate narration using simple yet vivid
New York: St. MartinTs Press, 2002. 291 pp. _ language. The novel portrays detailed aspects and settings of life of a
$23.95. ISBN 0-312-28384-9. small town in North Carolina. Besides Ruth and Rose, characters
William R. Trotter.
such as RoseTs daughters Carol and Alma, her friend Cecil, and
RuthTs friend and neighbor, Michael, are distinctively and vividly
described.
RoseTs good moral teachings to Ruth are inspiring. There is sweetness and
bitterness, happiness and sadness, ups and downs in life, but if we keep doing the
right thing, oone right thing after the other, some times it works out,� and we
will get our piece of pie some day.
Catherine Landis used to be a newspaper reporter in North Carolina. She grew
up in Chattanooga and now lives with her husband and children in Knoxville,
Tennessee. Some Days ThereTs Pie is her first novel. Recommended for public
libraries, school libraries, and academic libraries with recreational reading collec-
tions and North Carolina collections.
"Anping (Annie) Wu
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
illiam R. TrotterTs latest novel, The Sands of Pride, is impeccably researched
and a fascinating reading experience. The Sands of Pride focuses on the
first three years of coastal North CarolinaTs Civil War. Using both fic-
tional and historical characters, the author draws a vivid picture of North
CarolinaTs Civil War experience. Readers meet Union and Confederate
soldiers as well as smugglers, planters, wives and daughters, slaves, free men,
politicians, and spies. These characters are so well written that readers who are
unfamiliar with the historical characters will have difficulty distin-
guishing them from the fictional characters. (The author includes a
list of characters so that readers can separate the two.)
The setting of the novel is detailed and lovingly written without
The Sands of Pride: »eing an impediment to the flow of the story line, and helps bring
to life the various areas the characters visit. The reviewer recognized
A Novel of the Civil War. settings in Wilmington and Fort Fisher, Raleigh, the Piedmont, the
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2002.
753 pp. $28.00. ISBN 0-7867-1013-6.
mountains, and even Virginia. The reader walks with Wilmington
civilians to a Rebel party at the Bellamy Mansion, visits Governor
Vance in his office, crawls through the scrub with soldiers, and
72 " Spring / Summer 2002
fights with sailors at Topsail Island.
William R. Trotter based his research on his nonfiction trilogy The
Civil War in North Carolina, one volume of which was used by Charles Frazier for
his novel Cold Mountain, and the depth of this research shows. This novel will be
enjoyed by adult readers of military and historical fiction, and will especially be
appreciated by those with an interest in North Carolina and the Civil War.
" Mary Rose Kleinfeldt
New Hanover County Public Library
North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 60
icture postcards made their debut in the United States after the 1893 Columbian Expo-
sition in Chicago. On December 24, 1901, the use of the words opost card� was granted
by the U.S. government to private printers and the openny� postcard quickly became
one of the most popular and inexpensive means of communication. A perfect marriage
with tourism, the postcards in this book portray Blowing Rock, North Carolina, as a
wonderful place to experience the natural beauty of the
i i Rg F mountains. The Blowing Rock Historical Society bor-
Blowing Rock Historical Society. _ rowed from a number of postcard collectors to produce
~ : 7 a representative selection of area scenes from the turn
Post Cards of Historic Blo Mpg Rock. of the 20th century to 1975. Printed in color on fine
Boone, NC: Parkway Publishers, Inc., 2002. paper, this book will leave any mountain afficionado
136 pp. $25.00 ISBN: 1-887905-54-5. owishing they were there.�
" Beverly Tetterton
New Hanover County Public Library
alt leads the reader on the life journey of heroine Anna Maud Stockton Barley at the turn of
20th century, from her cheerful and imaginative childhood to her miserable death in her early
forties. Anna lived a happy life with her parents, sisters, and brothers in Deerfield, North
Carolina, when she was young. Hungering to start a family when she grew up, she married
twice-widowed local farmer John Barley and moved to a small village named Faith in western
North Carolina. For over ten years in this never-changing village, AnnaTs life as a wife, mother,
and stepmother was hard, boring, and simple. Her only sources of joy came from friendship with
several women in the village and reading novels. A move to Queensburg brought her a better house
with electric light and inside plumbing, but the community rejected the family and
she was lonely for her old friends and kin. In spite of yearning for romance and a
Isabel Zuber. different life, Anna stayed with her husband and her children until she passed away
in pain and misery in her early middle age.
Salt. Although Salt reveals the life of a typical farmerTs wife raising many children
New York: Picador, 2002. 368 pp. ina small village in the last century as hard and unchanging, it is a beautiful
$25.00. ISBN 0-312-28133-1, Work with a unique and special quality. The story spans the turn of the 20th
century, and brings to life many aspects of a farmerTs family and community life.
Set in western North Carolina, the novel presents beautiful and charming moun-
tain sceneries with forests, trees, creeks, and springs. The authorTs description of Anna and her
familyTs daily life is as vivid and real as if they were happening before the readerTs eyes. Isabel
Zuber brilliantly places quotations about salt between chapters to bring out the bitter, sorrowful
tales of family separation, connection, community rejection, fighting, and death.
Isabel Zuber lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is a poet and has published two
collections of poetry, Oriflamb and WinterTs Exile. Salt is her first novel.
This novel will be a valuable addition to the fiction collection of public libraries and school
libraries, and to the recreational reading collection or special collection of academic libraries. It is
suitable for collections of southern literature in any kind of library.
" Anping (Annie) Wu
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
his reprint of Caldecott Medalist Gail HaleyTs collection of traditional Jack sto-
ries is narrated by Poppyseed, a grandmother and storyteller modeled on Ms.
HaleyTs grandmother and other storytellers she has known. The use of tradi-
tional wood engravings executed by Ms. Haley and traditional omountain speech�
for the narratorTs voice helps to set the stories in their Appalachian home,
Gail E. Haley. "_ distinguishing them from their more familiar European precedents. This
° collection of eight Mountain Jack stories with an additional retelling of
Mountain J ack Tales. oMuncimeg and the Giant� will be enjoyed by patrons of public and school
Boone: Parkway Publishers libraries. Includes appendixes on the collection of the stories, wood cutting,
Incorporated, 2001. 120 pp. $14.95. glossary of terms, and bibliography.
ISBN 1-887905-51-0. " Mary Rose Kleinfeldt
New Hanover County Public Library
North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 60 Spring / Summer 2002 "- 73
orth Carolina benefits from the numerous retirees who bring exciting personal
histories into our communities. In So Turn the Years, Leonora Rogers gathers a
lifetime of illuminating poetry. An Englishwoman born in Egypt in 1918,
RogersTs father was the hydraulic engineer in charge of building the lower
Aswan Dam. She lived most of her adult life in England, Southern Africa, and Iowa.
Heir to at least four generations of prodigious watercolorists, Rogers exhibits her
own accomplished paintings in the Triangle. Her poems, word paintings themselves,
excel at visual clarity and a watercoloristTs delicate but technical precision. Having
taught herself poetic craft at the feet of British master poets,
particularly early twentieth century formalists, she has ab-
sorbed their strict power without succumbing to the tedium
and overused sentimentalities often found in imitative or
So Turn the Years. amateur work.
RogersTs poems are neither imitative nor amateur. They risk
much, and one hears, as Hillsborough photographer Elizabeth
Matheson observes in her rich forward to this book, those
~Sntrepid and somewhat alarming 19th century travelers� in
them. Rogers shares much with those self-sacrificing, self-
preserving English, Danish, and Dutch women seduced to the African bush and high-
lands by romantic, dashing, rainbow-seeking fathers, lovers, and husbands. Doris
Lessing, Isak Dinesen, and Olive Schriener all come to mind, who, while living a ro-
mance, strengthened their bodies, realized the Self, and made themselves and their lives
larger than their menTs dreams.
RogersTs life was not without its difficulties, exotic color, and constant change. The
poems reflect and narrate it with a steely eye and architectural faith in the poem. She
builds each poem as she must paint her landscapes, with a gentle wash that accrues
layers of distinguished and distinguishing thought so that at the poemTs (and the
paintingTs) end, one finds a whole world created. This is not just news (as Pound, whom
she claims not to understand, demands poets give more than), but revealed knowledge
(as her countrywoman Denise Levertov required). The world seems fresh, dissected, and
yet restored in RogersTs poems.
Given different poetic opportunities in her life, Rogers might have joined the ranks
of such poets as H. D., Loy, Levertov, and Rich. There is a brave, exploratory, almost
religious vision, with jazz and classical overtones, in the poems. But Rogers, also a
scientist, considers mathematics as well in one poem, written for Trachtenburg, the
discoverer of Speed Mathematics, and in another poem, oNatural Geometry.� Her poems
meld abstract thought with natural image in sympathetic, accessible, yet unusual combi-
nations.
One of my favorite poems, oFor Adrienne Cecile Rich,� captures the essence of
RogersTs achievement. She sees RichTs rebellion against male-dominated poetry as a
mutual symbol of women oliving in the skin of their feelings,� unlike their male compa-
triots, and their opositions staked out within limits / By our choices, our male alter-egos
/ And our loving commitments.� She senses that oDuty and a habit of introspection
constrains us,� and then with the terrific power of the whole woman concludes the
poem: oBut we are more than these / We are a real force in the world.�
Rogers offers poems of moving romance, of child-birthing and rearing, the natural
world (oThe Lament�), personal psychology and spiritual-seeking (oWho Speaks for Me�),
ironic self-portraits (oThe Artist Housewife�), mature love (oThoughts of an Older
Woman� " a masterpiece of erotic memory), and the African veldt, Mexico, the Ameri-
can Midwest, and England. oReflections,� a meditation on mortality, takes place in the
bath: othis body ... / Rises dripping, ready for the towel " Oh! Angels / Be ready with
white towels when I need you.� If this is sentimentality, it is a sentimentality of the hard-
edged, well-won life, which knows whereof it came, where it has been, and where it goes.
If word gets out, public libraries will find this book leaping off their shelves, and
academic libraries should well consider the usefulness of such a book for literary,
womenTs, and cultural studies.
Leonora V. Rogers.
Raleigh: Pentland Press, 2001. 81 pp. $17.95.
ISBN 1-57197-279-X.
"Jeffery Beam
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
34 " Spring / Summer 2002 North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 60
hough many readers of American history are familiar with the
basic story of Sir Walter Raleigh and the Lost Colony of Roanoke
Island, few realize that the island was later to become an impor-
tant landmark in the history of African American freedom from
slavery. Patricia Click, in her book Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke
Island FreedmanTs Colony, 1862-1867, traces the history of the freedmenTs
colony on Roanoke Island during and after the Civil War. Drawn from
many areas of North Carolina and beyond, liberated slaves made their way
to Roanoke Island where they were promised a home and protection.
This is a story of a refugee people caught in, as Click notes, oa com-
plex and intriguing mixture of evangelical, traditional republican,
and abolition sentiments that were tempered by the crucible of
Patricia C. Click. the military experience.� ClickTs book is more than the story of the
freed slaves; it is also the chronicle of northern evangelical protes-
Time Full of Trial: The tant missionaries struggling to perform their benevolent work
Roanoke Island FreedmanTs
while being frustrated by the military administration. Though the
military had the ultimate authority in the ocontraband camps,�
Colon y, 1862-1867 religious missionaries took an active role in many of the human
4 e
services, especially education. Amid owretched and chaotic condi-
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina tions� fraught with administrative corruption, lack of food,
Press, 2001. 205 pp. unpaid wages, and abuse of the colonists by the very soldiers who
Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-8078-2602-2. were meant to protect them, many of the refugees from slavery
Paper, $18.95. ISBN 0-8078-4918-9. nevertheless gained useful literacy and other skills from the
missionaries while on the island.
Patricia Click, an associate professor in the Division of Tech-
nology, Culture, and Communication at the University of Vir-
ginia, and author of The Spirit of the Times: Amusements in Nine-
teenth-Century Baltimore, Norfolk, and Richmond, delivers a well-docu-
mented, much-needed history of a little-known aspect of the Civil War
and Reconstruction in North Carolina. She employs numerous primary
resources, such as unpublished diaries and private papers, as well as
records from the National Archives. Her book includes copious endnotes,
a thorough index, a bibliography, and an appendix of key documents,
lists, and letters. Time Full of Trial is an essential addition to North Caro-
lina public and academic libraries, as well as libraries that seek to have a
more complete picture of the American Civil War and the African-Ameri-
can struggle from slavery to freedom.
" Allan Scherlen
Appalachian State University
n 1885 John Haymes Mills founded the Thomasville Baptist
Orphanage to provide a Christian environment for children,
most of whom were very young and had lost one or both
parents. The original intent was to keep the children for a
MichaelT CoBiackwall: short time, but most ended up living there to adulthood.
From these beginnings, Baptist ChildrenTs Homes of North Caro-
A Place for Miracles: lina has changed its focus many times and grown from a single
location to campuses and group homes from the mountains to the
Baptist ChildrenTs Homes of coast. A photograph on every page greatly enhances the telling of
North Carolina.
this broad and yet very personal history. It is the hope of the
author that A Place for Miracles will share the omap of our journey,
Boone, NC: Parkway Publishers, 2002. our learning, and our successes,� so that readers will find oboth
238 pp. Cloth, $19.95. ISBN 1-887905-50-2. inspiration and models� for similar endeavors.
Paper, $14.95. ISBN 1-887905-49-9. "Beverly Tetterton
North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 60
New Hanover County Public Library
Spring / Summer 2002 "- 79
n this collection of short stories, 18 award-winning North Carolina authors
share their creative reactions to the phrase oracing home.� Sharlene Baker,
a creative writing professor in the Triangle and author of Finding Signs,
conceived the idea for and edited this work. She recognizes in her note
from the editor that the short story is olosing ground� and that oshort
story writers are some of the most highly gifted " and unnoticed " artists
walking among us in the US.� This compilation is not only an introduction to
some fresh voices from around the state, many of whom will be new to readers,
but also a tribute to the vanishing art form of the short
story.
Sharlene Baker, editor. Most of the selections in Racing Home feature realistic
Racing Home: New Stories by
Award-Winnin g friend about treating Ernest HemingwayTs depression with
fiction, such as Robert WallaceTs oShocking Ernest
Hemingway,� in which Hayden writes letters to his girl-
electrotherapy. Readers subtly learn who the real patient
North Carolina Writers. is. In Vivian Hague SatterwhiteTs oStranger Now,� a young
Durham: The Paper Journey Press, 2001.
193 pp. $16.95. ISBN 0-9701726-1-3.
girl babysat by elderly Miss Verdie witnesses the woman
being shot and robbed by her own son, and overhears the
woman tell the police who the perpetrator may " or may
not " be.
Other authors lead readers down alternate paths such
as the supernatural, in Christopher FarranTs Faustian oThis BloodTs for You.� Race
driver Ronnie has never won a race until he makes a pact with the Dracula-like
L.T. Penry of PenryTs Mattress Warehouse. Dark humor also plays a part in
FarranTs story, as it does in oFish Camp� by Joseph Bathanti, when some country
locals mistake a medievalist professor for movie star Titus Clay. Mystery holds a
place in MariJo MooreTs oSirenTs Voices,� in which teenage Siren hears scented
voices telling her to warn her mother about her affair with Judge Ripley. These
voices seem to know a lot about what is going on in town when SirenTs mother
is arrested for the judgeTs murder.
The compilation incorporates a range of characters, settings, time periods,
and themes, allowing readers to absorb one story after another and eagerly await
finding out how each author uses oracing home.� The stories contain strongly
developed characters, and their real strength lies in their consistent high quality.
Racing Home belongs in every academic and public library with a North Carolina
collection. As Randall Kenan notes in the foreword, this work proves that North
Carolina continues to produce extraordinary writers.
" Angela Leeper
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
he North Carolina Division of Archives and History has released the ninth
edition of its Guide to North Carolina Highway Markers, updating the list for
the first time since 1990. The highway marker program was authorized by
the General Assembly in 1935. The first state marker was
planted by a roadside in Granville County on January 10,
Michael Hill, ed. 1936, to honor John Penn, one of North CarolinaTs three
signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Guide to North Carolina Unlike previous editions, the new guide sorts markers
H ig h way Markers by county. Related photographs and county maps have
also been added to this edition. Today there are more than
Ninth Edition. Raleigh: Division of Archives and 1,400 markers across North Carolina, including at least
History, Department of Cultural Resources, 2001. one in each of the 100 counties. Every Tar Heel library
243 pp. $14.00. ISBN 0-86526-298-5. should have one or more copies of this important guide.
" Beverly Tetterton
76 " Spring / Summer 2002
New Hanover County Public Library
North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 60
rt. Hadden has fleshed out her Harvard dissertation into a worthy publica-
tion covering colonial experiments in slave patrols, their development and
spread because of growing fear of slave uprisings and reprisals, and the
people who joined such patrols. She makes clear distinctions between rural
and town patrols, and notes but does not fully discuss why white owners
allowed slaves as much discretion and personal freedom as they did. Non-owners, it
would appear, were more likely to insist on patrols and to belong to a patrol than
slave owners themselves. The book is organized thematically and is especially good on
Sally E. Hadden.
handling the attitudes of the slave patroller and the slave. A
final section insists on continuity between the slave patrols
and post-Civil War town police and the Klan. Little or
Slave Patrols: Law and Violence " »°thing is said about areas that did not have patrols or
promoted them only at times of crisis.
in Virginia and the Carolinas. Hadden has been most diligent in doing her research:
Harvard University Press, 2001. 340 pp.
$35.00. ISBN 0-674-00470-1
notes take up about a third of the book, which also includes
an index and a few illustrations, but no maps. Nonetheless,
she extrapolates conclusions about a large area from very
scattered evidence over a wide period of time. She musters
her story well and makes a significant contribution to pre-
war southern history. This book belongs in all North Carolina college libraries and in
larger public library collections.
" Patrick Valentine
Wilson County Public Library
n her first book, Marjoleine Kars takes a look at the group of pre-Revolution-
ary North Carolinians who were known as the Regulators. Taking their
name from a movement in England of 1655, the Regulators set out to
regulate and reform government abuse: oRegulators saw themselves not as
enemies of government but as its true defenders.� It was the omalpractices
of GranvilleTs court officers and public officials� that led this group of North
Marjoleine Kars.
Breaking Loose Together:
The Regulator Rebellion in
Pre-Revolutionary
North Carolina.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 2002. xi, 286 pp.
Cloth, $49.95. ISBN 0-8078-2672-3.
Paper, $19.95. ISBN 0-8078-4999-5.
Carolinians, composed mainly of the farming class, to seek reform of
the system of taxation and court procedures that oppressed and
impoverished them. They felt that the system lacked checks and
balances, which led to abuses and extortion by the sheriffs who were
appointed to collect taxes yet seemed never to pass the taxes on to
the royal government.
Kars presents this work in a logical chronological order, while
focusing on particular aspects of Colonial North Carolina life. Her
study is divided into three sections: Economics, Religion, and Politics
" each interesting as a cause of the eventual Battle of Alamance, the
penultimate blow to the Regulator cause described in her final
section, oWar.�
KarsTs use of quotes from letters, diaries, and contemporary
publications is intriguing. The reader becomes well acquainted with
Regulator Herman Husband, British Royal Governor Tryon, and
TryonTs close friend Edmund Fanning. Kars is adept at describing the
hardships that drove North Carolina farmers to protest and to lash out at a government
impervious to the corruption that impoverished a large portion of the population.
Breaking Loose Together is indexed and includes a bibliography of unpublished,
primary, and secondary sources. It is lightly illustrated. The authorTs in-depth treatment
of many aspects of colonial life give the reader a full view of what it was like to be a
farmer in pre-Revolutionary North Carolina. Recommended for libraries with a concen-
tration in North Carolina history. The author's scholarly treatment of the topic lends
itself well to academic libraries, while the easy-to-read format makes it a good choice
for public libraries.
North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 60
" Caroline Keizer
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Spring / Summer 2002 " 7/
alle Crucis (pronounced Valley Crew-sis) is a jewel in the crown
of mountain peaks adorning northwestern North Carolina. Today
this beautiful valley located a few miles from Boone reflects
contemporary culture, with stylish boutiques and passing cars
blaring rock music. For many years, however, it was virtually
undiscovered. Roads were few and the terrain was difficult. Some summer
visitors came to board with residents of the valley, but it was a
quiet rural community.
The author, who has previously published a general history
of Valle Crucis (Valle Crucis: A History of an Uncommon Place, Mast
My Valle Crucis: General Store, 1995), spent his childhood summers there. Rever-
end I. Harding Hughes and his wife Josephine first visited the
The 1930s. valley in the summer of 1924, when their son was less than a
year old, and decided to build a summer cottage of their own.
Young Greensboro architect Lorenzo Winslow, who later served
as oArchitect to the White House� in the nationTs capital from
1933 to 1952, was retained to design a rustic dwelling. In 1926
the Hughes family moved into the cottage they named
Tapawingo, ohouse of joy.� It had no insulation, no telephone,
and no electricity, and required the fording of two creeks during
wet weather, but they loved it.
The author chronicles life in Valle Crucis during the Depression era
and afterward, telling stories of the local families, institutions, and
activities that framed their lives. The schools, churches, stores, recre-
ations, and the difficult times that were weathered with grace all form a
picture of a small community of hardworking people who respected and
helped each other. Hughes remembers blackberry pickings, dances at the
Mission School, going to church, evenings spent playing board games or
listening to his fatherTs ghost stories, his friend Herman BurkettTs o{mpor-
tant knowledge� about fishing and snakes and the lay of the land, and
outings to Grandfather Mountain and Dutch Creek Falls. Good cooks
abounded " donTt read the mouth-watering descriptions of meals at the
Taylor and Mast homes on an empty stomach! He recounts the effort that
was required to get an education, with children walking steep paths over
mountain ridges and fording streams on foot bridges to get to school in
all kinds of weather. He chronicles the histories of the ofirst families� of
the valley " the Taylors, Masts, Schulls, and Bairds " as well as others
who lived way up the ohollers.�
My Valle Crucis is an interesting combination of informal reminis-
cence and careful research. While the writing style resembles a casual
conversation, the book is well-documented and each source of informa-
tion is footnoted. A bit of gentle editing would have tightened the story
here and there and a map of the places mentioned would be helpful, but
this is a charming tale with a rhythm of its own. The accompanying
photographs add much to the text, and the subject index is quite useful.
The author interviewed many people who lived or spent summers in
Valle Crucis and quotes them at some length, to the benefit of the narra-
tive. One hears again and again that life was hard but the people good. It
was a time and place of strong family values and a sense of community.
To many, their time in Valle Crucis was heaven on earth.
My Valle Crucis is recommended to all libraries whose readers would
enjoy a sprightly, easy-to-read story of life in a tiny North Carolina
mountain community during the Depression. It makes one wonder
whether life today, with its emphasis on consumer goods, is much of an
improvement after all.
I. Harding Hughes, Jr.
Valle Crucis, NC: The Mast General Store,
2002. 178 pp. $14.95. No ISBN.
Call 828-963-6511 for purchase information.
"Suzanne Wise
Appalachian State University
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NortH CAROLINA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD
Friday, January 25, 2002
Student Services Center
Randolph Community College, Asheboro, N.C.
Attending: Ross Holt, Martha Davis, Diane Kester, Teresa McManus, Vanessa Work Ramseur,
John Via, Al Jones, Peggy Quinn, Paula Hinton, Dale Cousins, Theron Bell, Patrick Valentine,
Joline Ezzell, Evelyn Council, Jennie Hunt, Linda Hearn, Sherwin Rice, Jan Blodgett,
Laura Weigand, Terry Brandsma, Jean Rick, Phillip Barton, Elizabeth Laney,
Catherine Wilkinson, Peggy Hoon, Michael Sawyer, Robert James, Mark Pumphrey,
Robert Canida, Teresa Wehrli, Beverley Gass, Irene Laube, Suzanne White, Sue Williams.
Call to Order and Welcome: President Ross Holt called
the meeting to order at 10:10 a.m. Debbie Luck,
Director of Library Services, welcomed the NCLA
Board to Randolph Community College and shared a
short history of the institution.
Introductions and Mechanics of Executive Board:
Since this was the first meeting of the biennium with
new officers and section/roundtable chairs, Ross
summarized basic procedures for the meeting. Officers
and section and roundtable chairs comprise the voting
members of the Executive Board. Meetings are con-
ducted according to RobertTs Rules of Order with Phil
Barton as Parliamentarian. If a report is being made in
which there is a motion, the motion is considered to
be on the table and can be acted upon rather than
having to move the motion to Old or New Business.
Section and round table reports should be submitted
to the NCLA Web site previous to the meeting. If not,
copies for each participant can be brought to the
meeting.
President Holt moved section reports with action
items to New Business.
PresidentTs Report:
Full report: http://www.nclaonline.org/
execmtg_2002.htm
Ross Holt reported many positive things going on in
NCLA even though a number of NCASL members left
NCLA to form a new organization. The October NCLA
Conference was successful with an offering of 80
programs. NCLA has had some problems related to
member services. In the 2002-03 biennium, we need
to be aggressive in the restoration of excellent member
services and in recruitment of members for NCLA.
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TreasurerTs Report:
Full report: http://www.nclaonline.org/
execmtg_2002.htm
Treasurer Diane Kester distributed an edited version of
the TreasurerTs Report. Balance in the operating budget
on December 31, 2001 was $851.83. Four thousand
dollars ($4000) was taken out of reserves and $10,000
out of past conferences to fund project grants for
conference programs. As of December 31, 2001, NCLA
has $31,459 in the checking account and $35,214 in
money market/investment accounts. Diane is cur-
rently working on resolving some problems with
credit card transfers.
Membership Update:
Secretary Martha Davis, who has recently been work-
ing to update the membership database, reported that,
as of January 25, there were 739 members in 2001 and
64 members in 2002. The membership forms, which
have been revised to include a date and a place to
contribute to the Endowment, can be found on the
NCLA Web site. All Executive Board members were
encouraged to submit 2002 membership forms and
payment today or as soon as possible. Beginning with
this biennium, memberships are renewed twelve
months from the month of payment instead of at the
end of the calendar year. A process will be developed
to notify section and round table chairs of new mem-
bers. Security issues have to be considered in order to
make the membership list available from the NCLA
Web site.
SECTION/ROUND TABLE REPORTS
(Full reports for ChildrenTs Services, Documents, Public
Library, Reference and Adult Services sections and the
Spring / Summer 2002 " 79
NC Library Paraprofessional Association, Round Table
on Special Collections, and Technology and Trends
Roundtable can be located at http://
www.nclaonline.org/execmtg_2002.htm.
ChildrenTs Services Section:
The ChildrenTs Services Section Board met on Decem-
ber 6, 2001, at the Graham Public Library. Tentative
dates for the off-year retreat are October 21-22, 2002,
at The Summit in Brown Summit, North Carolina. The
subject of the retreat will be oLibrary Services for the
Next Generation: Responding to New Challenges.�
The next meeting will be held at the Graham Public
Library on February 26.
College and University Libraries Section:
No report.
Community and Junior College Libraries Section:
Chair Peggy Quinn reported that the first meeting of
the CJCLS Board will be held on Tuesday, January 29,
2002, at Wake Technical Community College.
Documents Section:
Chair Paula Hinton reported that the Documents
Section sponsors two workshops every year. The first
workshop will be held on May 17, 2002, at the
McKimmon Center at North Carolina State University.
More information about the workshop will be avail-
able from the NCLA Web site soon.
Library Administration and Management Section:
Chair Dale Cousins had no report. Because of the
problems with the membership database, the ballot for
election of the 2001-03 LAMS Board has not yet been
mailed. Now that the database is updated, ballots will
go out within the next several weeks.
North Carolina Association of School Librarians:
Al Jones, appointed NCASL Chair, will contact former
NCASL members and try to recruit new NCASL mem-
bers in order to rebuild this section. He will represent
NCASL at the American Association of School Librar-
ians Affiliate Assembly at the ALA Conference this
summer.
North Carolina Public Library Trustee Association:
Chair Theron Bell reported no committee members as
yet. She hopes to have the committee in place by the
next Board meeting in April 2002.
Public Library Section:
Ballots for the Public Library Section 2001-03 Board
have not been mailed relative to issues with the
membership database. Hopefully, the membership list
will be ready shortly and ballots can be mailed within
the next several weeks. Membership promotion and
workshops will be the major goals for this year.
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Reference and Adult Services Section:
Chair Joline Ezzell reported that the RASS Board met
in November 2001 and began discussing a program for
Fall 2002.
Resources and Technical Services Section:
Chair Evelyn Council introduced the new RTSS Vice
Chair. The next RTSS Board meeting will be in Febru-
ary 2002 at Fayetteville Technical Community College.
All board and committee members are in place and are
experienced members of NCLA. The section is already
looking at issues in resources and technical services
and wants to be sure that all programs are not just
academic programs.
New Members Roundtable:
Chair Jennie Hunt held a reorganization meeting
during the NCLA Conference in October. Some com-
mittee appointments have been made but she is still
looking for a Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect. Jennie wants to
contact the new members and get them excited about
NCLA. She will meet with the section Secretary and
Programming Chair in February 2002.
North Carolina Library Paraprofessional Association:
Chair Linda Hearn will have the first board meeting
on February 5, 2002. The workshop that had to be
cancelled at the NCLA Conference on library certifica-
tion for paraprofessionals will be held in April 2002.
American Library Association is offering a membership
package for paraprofessionals. Linda urged library
professionals to encourage paraprofessionals to join
NCLA and ALA.
Round Table on Ethnic Minority Concerns:
Chair Sherwin Rice will lead the round table in con-
tinuing some projects started last year. Major goals are
to have a workshop on diversity issues and try to
increase membership.
Round Table on Special Collections:
Chair Jan Blodgett will hold the first meeting on
February 6, 2002, to begin planning workshops for the
non-conference year.
Technology and Trends Round Table:
Chair Terry Brandsma reported that the first meeting
would be held next month. Since this round tableTs
main speaker had to cancel at the NCLA Conference in
October 2001, Technology and Trends has some extra
money and will be glad to co-sponsor a workshop with
another section.
Committee Reports
(Full reports for the Endowment, Governmental
Relations, Intellectual Freedom, Leadership Institute,
Literacy, and Membership committees can be located
at http://www.nclaonline.org/execmtg_jan2002.htm.
North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 60
Archives:
Chair Jean Rick recently took three boxes of materials
from the NCLA Office to the NCLA archives. For
archives, she also needs any available membership
printouts since 1996. Since she was asked to archive
NCLA Web pages also, Jean asked that Bao-Chu Chang
get a copy to her before any changes are made. In
response to Teresa McManusTs comment that section
chairs need information on what to archive, President
Holt noted that the information is available in the
NCLA Handbook on the Web.
Commission on Charter/Home Schools:
A report will be available at the next Board meeting.
Conference Committee:
Since Vice-President/Conference Chair Pauletta Bracy
could not attend the meeting, a report will be made at
the next Board meeting.
Constitution, Codes, and Handbook Revision:
Chair Phil Barton asked the Board members to forward
names of anybody interested in serving on this com-
mittee. Plans for the committee include a review of the
minutes of the last few years to be sure that all
changes got into the NCLA Handbook, and exploration
of a different format for the electronic version of the
Handbook so that it will print with page numbers and
consecutive pagination. With this accomplished, an
index can be created for the electronic version.
Continuing Education:
No report.
Development:
Chair Elizabeth Laney distributed a list of contributors
and a contribution form for examination by the Board
members. The continuing goal of the Endowment
Committee is to receive a contribution from each
member of NCLA. Only 48 members have contributed
to the NCLA Endowment so far. When they are asked
for large gifts, outside businesses and organizations
look first to see how many members have contributed
to the Endowment before considering a contribution.
The long-term goal is to have $100,000 in the Endow-
ment by 2004. Laney urged all Board members to
contribute some amount now, however large or small,
and plan to contribute again later. An Endowment
Contribution form will be available in each online
issue of North Carolina Libraries. A letter of acknowl-
edgment is sent to the contributor and the person
honored. Teresa McManus complimented Laney on
her work. Beverley Gass expressed concern that a
person who contributed one time will always be
considered a oFriend,� as this seems to discourage
making annual contributions. Laney explained that a
person would move up to the next level of giving as
total contributions accumulate. Gass suggested that
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NCLA conduct an annual fundraising campaign with
some reward attached. President Holt suggested that
members consider making contributions in honor or
memory of another person.
Government Relations:
Chair Peggy Hoon plans to have a meeting of this
committee soon to begin preparations for Legislative
Day on May 6-7, 2002. She encouraged library profes-
sionals to plan to go.
Intellectual Freedom:
Mike Sawyer, Chair of the Intellectual Freedom Com-
mittee, distributed his report and supporting docu-
ments which listed six issues that need to be moni-
tored. To date, he has not received reports of any
challenges to intellectual freedom in North Carolina.
Last year, a form was available on the NCLA Web site
on which to report challenges. Bao-Chu Chang will be
asked to update this form and make it available again
on the Web site. It was suggested that Mike also post
some messages to the NCLA listserv and communicate
with public library directors. Sandy Cooper, State
Librarian, reinforced the fact that the confidentiality
issues addressed in the Patriots Act are very critical to
all libraries"especially public libraries. She referred to
some important Web addresses listed on that handout.
Leadership Institute:
Chair Robert James reported that the Leadership
Institute will be held at Brown Summit on October
14-18, 2002, with Barbara Moran as coordinator. The
application for the Leadership Institute can be found
on the NCLA Web site. Robert is seeking volunteers
for the fundraising and applications review subcom-
mittees.
Literacy:
Chair Mark Pumphrey reported that the Literacy
Committee met in January 2002 and set goals for the
biennium. This committee wants to sponsor an
English as a Second Language workshop this fall and
also do a conference program on this subject.
Membership:
Co-Chairs Teresa Wehrli and Robert Canida reported
that recruitment of members is the number one goal
of this committee. Some suggestions have already
been generated and are available on the NCLA Web
site. Each section chair is asked to submit the name of
a liaison to this committee. The Membership Commit-
tee will invite that liaison to join the committee when
it is concentrating on a certain group of library profes-
sionals. Board members are encouraged to take some
NCLA brochures and plan to use the NCLA display
available from the NCLA Office. The hope is to get a
second display so that one will be available for use on
each side of the state.
Spring / Summer 2002 " 41
Nominating:
Chair Beverley Gass had no report at this time.
Scholarships:
Chair Sue Williams had no report at this time.
OTHER REPORTS
ALA Councilor:
Vanessa Ramseur represented NCLA on ALA Council
for the first time at the 2002 Midwinter ALA Confer-
ence in New Orleans. She found ALA Council and how
it works to be very interesting. She also attended a pre-
conference on library leaders, orientation for new ALA
Council members, and ALA Chapter Relations Com-
mittee meetings. She will submit her full report to Bao-
Chu Chang to be placed on the NCLA Web site.
SELA :
John Via reported that the SELA Biennial Conference
will be held in conjunction with the South Carolina
Library Association in Charleston on October 4-6,
2002. The African American Issues Roundtable, which
was Started by the North Carolina delegation, will
sponsor an all-day pre-conference. Let him know if
you are interested in presenting a program on His-
panic services at the SELA conference.
State Library:
Sandy Cooper distributed newsletters to Board mem-
bers. Recent discussions have revolved around public
school participation in the NCLIVE project. The North
Carolina Legislature has mandated that the State
Library work out a way to collaborate with school
librarians to provide resources in addition to those
available through NC WISE-OWL. The Department of
Public Instruction continues to decline to participate
in NCLIVE.
Old Business:
The only item of old business regarding Charter
Schools will be presented at the next Board meeting.
New Business:
(Full reports for the Round Table on the Status of
Women in Librarianship, Operations Committee,
Finance Committee, and North Carolina Libraries can
be located at http://www.nclaonline.org/
execmtg_jan2002.htm.
Round Table on the Status of Women in
Librarianship:
Chair Laura Weigand described the membership of
this round table as very diverse in gender and library
type and wants to co-sponsor a workshop this fall with
another section. RTSWL also wants to offer a new
award at the conference to recognize the contributions
of someone who advanced the status of women in
42 " Spring / Summer 2002
librarianship. A motion was made to authorize the
award and give RTSWL permission to solicit money for
the award from outside groups. This action would also
require a by-laws change. Ensuing discussion revealed
that NCLA has no written guidelines for the solicita-
tion of corporate funding. The motion was withdrawn
after RTSWL changed its request to having the Board
grant permission to offer a new award. Approval by
the Board is not necessary to create a new award.
Approval by the Board is necessary to authorize
solicitation of funds for awards. President Holt will
appoint a committee from the members of the Devel-
opment and Leadership Committees and the 2001
Conference Exhibits Committee to work on recom-
mendations for guidelines to solicit corporate funding
on behalf of NCLA.
Operations Committee:
Chair Irene Laube passed out copies of the Operations
Committee report and information about options for
the currently vacant NCLA Administrative AssistantTs
position. President Holt explained that Maureen
Costello resigned the position on November 21, 2001.
Since that time, NCLA volunteers have worked to
update office records and deal with customer service
issues. Diane Kester and Martha Davis have recon-
structed the finances and membership database. Irene
Laube and the Operations Committee have been
working on guidelines for the Administrative
AssistantTs position.
Laube reviewed the functions of the NCLA Admin-
istrative Assistant with changes suggested by the
Operations Committee in its meeting on January 11,
2002. In order to maintain more business-like ochecks
and balances,� the Operations Committee recom-
mends that all check requests go directly to the Trea-
surer who will be responsible for generating and
mailing all checks. John Via commented that the
Administrative Assistant should continuously keep
section chairs informed of the addition of new mem-
bers now that memberships run from the month of
payment rather than calendar year. A motion was
made, seconded, and passed to accept the functions of
the NCLA Administrative Assistant as revised.
NCLA Board members next considered the general
description of work and supervision of the NCLA
Administrative Assistant as is now printed in the NCLA
Handbook. The Operations Committee now chaired by
Irene Laube will supervise this position in conjunction
with the NCLA President. Diane Kester said that the
Administrative Assistant should also be responsible for
adding new members to the NCLA listserv. Other
additions included the ability to be bonded and to lift
up to 30 pounds. All NCLA Board members then voted
to accept these changes to the general description of
work and supervision of the NCLA Administrative
Assistant.
NCLA Board members next examined four options
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for office hours and location for the NCLA Administra-
tive Assistant while considering if we want to hire the
best person we can hire or the best person in the
Raleigh area. Option A: The Administrative Assistant
keeps daily office hours in the NCLA Office available
to members from 9:00 a.m. " 1:00 p.m. Option B: The
Administrative Assistant keeps regular office hours in
the NCLA Office, but can have some flexibility in
setting the office hours. Option C: The Administrative
Assistant will work in the NCLA Office two days per
week and maintain phone, e-mail, and fax availability
on other days at an offsite location. Option D: The
Administrative Assistant maintains the NCLA Office in
his/her home or at an office space in the town in
which that person lives.
After discussion, a motion was made by Teresa
McManus that the NCLA Board approve Options A and
C, authorize the Operations Committee to entertain
proposals from candidates for the position, and that
the Operations Committee finally establish the hours
and place of work for the NCLA Administrative Assis-
tant. Phil Barton seconded the motion. Jean Rick
added a ofriendly amendment� that all NCLA records
will physically remain in the NCLA Office. John Via
added a ofriendly amendment� that Option C allow the
Administrative Assistant to work in the NCLA Office at
least one day a week instead of two days a week. The
motion with the friendly amendments passed.
John Via made a motion that the NCLA Executive
Committee be authorized to approve the hiring of a
new Administrative Assistant. The motion passed
without opposition.
Finance Committee:
The Finance Committee report states: oWith several
important issues pending before the Executive Board
at this meeting, most of which have major budgetary
implications, it was difficult to come up with a budget
proposal prior to the meeting.� Therefore, Chair
Catherine Wilkinson, on behalf of the Finance Com-
mittee, presented three budget proposal options and
described the impact of the various issues before the
Executive Board. Proposal C would require less money
to be taken out of reserves. Some suggestions were that
hours for the Administrative Assistant be dropped to
25 hours per week, that the Operations Committee be
given some flexibility in salary for the Administrative
Assistant, and that projects grants and committee
expenses could be reduced. Having provided some
information for the Finance Committee, the discus-
sion was then suspended.
North Carolina Libraries:
New editor Al Jones made a motion that a plaque be
presented to Frances Bryant Bradburn in appreciation
of her service to NCLA as editor of North Carolina
Libraries 1985-2002. The motion unanimously passed.
Jones will also interview Bryant for the next issue of
North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 60
the journal.
Jones then made a proposal on behalf of the
North Carolina Libraries Board to publish the journal
in electronic format. Discussion included the fact that
many state library journals are already electronic and
that an electronic journal will hopefully save money.
The electronic journal will continue to be refereed
and be published quarterly. Jones made a motion that
North Carolina Libraries be converted to a journal
in electronic format with the possibility of an annual
print comulation. The motion passed with no
opposition.
Al Jones is also giving $100 to the Endowment in
honor of Frances Bradburn and challenged other
NCLA members to do the same.
Marketing and Publications Committee:
The Marketing and Publications Committee presented
the following suggestions: to design a new NCLA logo
appropriate for all formats; to redesign the NCLA Web
site; to add member status check, online registration
for conferences and workshops, and other member
services to the Web site; to provide a Web site template
for the section Web sites; and to host all section Web
sites on the NCLA server.
The Marketing and Publications Committee also
proposed that NCLA and the State Library of North
Carolina collaborate to revive the publication of Tar
Heel Libraries. Joint editors of the newsletter will be
Kevin Cherry and Frannie Ashburn of the State Library
of North Carolina. It will be published in print bi-
monthly, will contain news about NCLA and librar-
iansT accemplishments and activities, and will be an
added benefit of membership for NCLA members.
After an examination of the oTar Heel Libraries Draft
Mission Statement,� a motion was made and passed to
revive the publication of Tar Heel Libraries.
Announcements:
NCLA Board meetings will be held in the following
locations:
April 2002, Elon University; July 2002,
Fayetteville State University; October 2002,
Davidson College; January 2003, King Public
Library.
The meeting adjourned at 3:15 p.m.
" Respectfully Submitted,
Martha Davis, Secretary
Approved by the NCLA Executive Board on April 19, 2002.
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