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have a friend who does not believe that it makes a difference whether you vote or not.
Yet he will go to considerable effort to find campaign signs to display in his front yard.
He even works for the election of those candidates, particularly in local elections, whom
he knows and believes in or believes in and wants to know. Over the period of a cam-
paign, he may even do some fairly assertive things to get to know candidates. Once
during a school board primary, he spent several hours on the phone calling all the folks in his
address book to solicit their support for a friend/candidate in an upcoming election. He really
seems to understand the importance of communicating with and for those who may be or are
our elected leaders and assumes that he can, by getting to know a candidate or an elected
official, make a difference in how things go.
Obviously, many others believe in the idea that communicating your interests and needs
to elected officials is an important civic responsibility. The American Library Association, for
example, is one group that clearly values and works diligently to express its opinions and
influence the way things go in Washington. So does the North Carolina Library Association
when it sends a delegation to Washington to participate in the ALA Legislative Day that occurs
annually. Again this year, a North Carolina delegation journeyed to D.C. to participate in the
annual ALA Legislative Day. The group included Augie Beasley, chair of the NCLA Govern-
mental Relations Committee, Dave Fergusson, Beverley Gass, Karen Perry, John Via, Claudette
Wiese, and John Welch.
To give you some idea of what the days (the actual day is preceded by an all-day briefing
session conducted by ALA Washington Office Staff) are like, some of those folks who attended
agreed to share their impressions of the event with you. With a two-paragraph limitation, the
edited results yield a glimpse at what occurred.
Dave Fergusson writes of the number of congressmen, aides, and other staffers that he
visited. His experience was typical of all members of the delegation.
When it comes to personal contact and presumed transmission of ideas, the visits we made
to five legislators this year went as well as I can remember.... Representative Cass Ballenger
represents part of Forsyth county and was the first in a string of Congressmen who pro-
claimed support for the E-rate. He praised the new Beaver Library in Hickory during our 25
minute meeting. Next, we popped in on our leader Augie Beasley as he visited Representative
Walter B. Jones. Since none of us lived even remotely near the manTs district, we spent time
with an aide, but were well received. We then visited with Mike McIntyreTs aide, who knew as
much about the E-rate as we did, and then met Congressman McIntyre.
After being bedazzled by the luncheon choices in the Longworth Building cafeteria, we
visited our own Congressman, Richard Burr. Again, support for the E-rate and a 40-minute
talk that showed a real interest in the future of library services. We finished up with Repre-
sentative Mel Watt, who had also attended the NCLA breakfast. We believe he is very
supportive of libraries.
Claudette Wiese shares her experience of seeing the government at work and attempting
to influence those who do the work.
Being a representative to Library Legislative Day was a stimulating experience, to say the
least. On Monday, ALA held an all-day workshop on issues concerning libraries. There were
suggestions on how to lobby our congressional delegation. The E-Rate, Internet filtering, and
the Title VI program were of particular interest to me as a school librarian.
On Tuesday, North Carolina sponsored a breakfast for NC Congressmen and, in some
cases, their aides. Then visits were made to the offices of Representatives Etheridge and
Hefner and Senator Helms. In between times, I managed to visit the Library of Congress and
the Senate where a bill was being introduced. It was interesting to watch our Senate in
action. I would encourage everyone to visit Washington and drop in on his or her representa-
tives and senators.
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Augie Beasley appears to be equally impressed by the opportunity to do some lobbying and
the city itself.
Being part of ALATs Legislative Day is more than just talking to legislators about the
importance of libraries, although that is the primary reason we go to Washington. It is
meeting librarians from other parts of the country and learning that they have the same needs
and problems that we have in North Carolina. And it is seeing that, as a group, we do have a
voice in Washington and can influence legislation.
Fascinating, exhilarating, stimulating, and tiring best describe my feelings about Legislative
Day in Washington, D.C. Just being there is a visual and aural treat and experience. There is
vitality and energy in D.C. that is missing in Charlotte. Even the strident ohonk� of a
jaundiced cabby as he careens past, barely missing you at an intersection is a treat. The city is
dlive.... I do think I would enjoy living there. But then, who retires to Washington, D.C?
Finally, we have Karen PerryTs picture. Is it a bit of Baroque? Rococo? Impressionism?
Surrealism? Whatever. But her last stroke turns to realism.
We stood in the Jefferson Hall of the Library of Congress, our national treasure, where so
many other famous Americans had placed their feet. Looking up at the wonderful literary
frescos, we walked peculiarly, as though inebriated with the colors and images surrounding us.
It was dramatic, so bright, not what you expect from granite and marble. oOh my,� said Beverley
Gass, NCLA President. oLetTs go up and look down,� said Augie Beasley, NCLA Legislative
Chair. oGreat! I can take a picture from down here,� said Karen Perry, NCASL Past President,
leaning safely on the stone landing. Claudette Wiese, NCASL Legislative Representative, followed
Augie to the balcony. Karen framed the picture to include the words Library of Congress with her
friends. She spied John Welch, Assistant State Librarian, on the center floor. oJohn, come pose
with the statue holding up the torch.� Congressman Price asked, oHave you been to the
Library of Congress?� Congressman Coble asked, oDid you see the Library of Congress?
They've done great things over there.� oIt is just beautiful,� said Congressman Watt.
Our visit to Washington was a success for North Carolina libraries. We made our case for
funding and fair use while we linked the visible symbol of the Library of Congress as represen-
tative of all our libraries back home. It was fun.
And it was. Join us next year on May 3-4 for the annual pilgrimage to Washington. Perhaps
_ it will be filled with as much wonderment as it was for me and Karen Perry, who upon visiting
Representative Howard CobleTs office found two committee staffers from Representative CobleTs
Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary of the
United States House of Representatives, awaiting us. Not only did we have their undivided
attention, the staffers gave us pieces of hard candy that said oI love libraries!� Could it have
been that they wanted to persuade us that the pending oDatabase Protection� legislation was a
good thing despite ALATs stance? Who knows? And who was lobbying whom?
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From the Editor
With this issue, North Carolina Libraries launches a new feature. Interspersed throughout the year, we will highlight the
careers of a variety of the stateTs librarians and library leaders through oral history, in the belief that we cannot understand
our present or plan for our future without understanding our past " and that this is best understood through the words of
the individuals involved. The inauguration of this feature looks at three special North Carolina library leaders: Florence
Blakely, Dr. Ed Holley, and Elinor Swaim. We have plans to interview many others. We will welcome your suggestions and
willingness to interview these individuals. Tapes of these interviews will be deposited in the NCLA archives.
Interview with Florence Blakely
Durham, NC, April 21, 1998
by Rose Simon
About Florence Blakely ...
This interview offered me the opportunity to renew an old and special acquaintance. Decades ago, and
months before | entered library school, Blakely took me on my first working tour of an academic
reference collection. She was then head of reference in Perkins Library at Duke University. In years
following, | would visit her from time to time on her own turf, and | remember watching her run from
the desk to the reference stacks and back to secure a prompt answer to a telephone query. She literally
loved the reference chase; and good public service was the core of her work. She has been a generous
contributor to the profession on the state, regional, and national levels, and she has graciously wel-
comed and supported generations of new librarians in the early years of their careers.
Blakely was born in Clinton, SC, and was graduated magna cum laude from Presbyterian College.
She earned her B.S. in L.S. and M.A. in L.S. degrees from Peabody College, and was elected to Delta
Kappa Gamma and Beta Phi Mu honor societies. She served as reference librarian at the Greenville (SC)
Public Library before going to Duke University, where she served in reference from 1948 to 1956, and
as head of reference from 1956 to 1979. She has been recognized for her outstanding professional
accomplishments in a number of ways, including the award of a Council on Library Resources Fellow-
ship in 1970, and the Isadora Gilbert Mudge citation in 1974. Twice she served as a visiting lecturer in
the library school at UNC-Chapel Hill. Blakely became Assistant University Librarian for Collection
Development in August 1979, and she served as Acting University Librarian. With good reason, the
highest library staff award at Duke University is the Florence Blakely Award.
NCL: What was your undergraduate major, and how did you
come to choose librarianship as a career?
FB: I was born in Clinton, South Carolina, in 1923. There I
went to high school and to Presbyterian College. We had 11
grades, so I started college when I was barely 17 and I was
graduated in December 1943 " because we were on the
quarter system; and because all the boys were gone "except
the would-be preachers. I majored in history and English.
I was a student assistant in the library at PC (Presbyte-
rian College), and thatTs what turned me into a librarian.
My first mentor was a neighbor, Isaac Copeland, who be-
came head of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC.
Isaac came back to Clinton as the Librarian at Presbyterian.
He was a true model of a professional librarian, and he let
me do everything, which was great. I read shelves, cata-
' loged (catalog? ME catalog?), and I didnTt know what refer-
ence work was, but I found it to be the most interesting
part of the job: students coming up, saying, oHey, ITve got
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to have something on Florence Nightingale, quick.� It was a
fun thing.
NCL: How did you decide to go to George Peabody College for
your B.S. in L.S. degree?
FB: When I was about to finish college, Isaac said, oFlo-
rence, I want you to go to Peabody.� I said, oI canTt go to
Peabody. I borrowed money to go to college. What would I
go to Peabody on?� He said, oITll get you a job.� So, he
wrote to Mrs. Ruth B. Duncan, who was the reference li-
brarian at Peabody College. (He had been Librarian there.)
And I borrowed more money.
In September of 1944, I went to Peabody " on the train,
of course " troop train, no place to sit down. I think I sat on
my steamer trunk. I had never been anywhere away from
home. I had a very mind-expanding year at Peabody. I took
my reference course under Margaret Knox. She was a very
young, good reference teacher " very hard, very demand-
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ing; but I knew that was IT, because reference was fun. And
I saw books that I would never see in a little college library "
reference books " and I found that just fascinating.
When I was about to finish, Isaac said, oFlorence, I
want you to go to Greenville and work for Ellen Perry in
the public library.� And I said oOkay.� (I didnTt have any
other plans.) So Miss Ellen Perry hired me to be a reference
librarian at the age of 22. She, too, was truly a role model.
She was a marvelous lady, very proper, but she had a sense
of humor. Straight as an arrow. She wore a little brown felt
hat when she left the library every day. She was a good
Episcopalian. She had been to Carnegie Library School un-
der the first real library
school teachers. And I soon
understood why Isaac said I
should work for her. She was
a model reference librarian.
She whipped me into shape.
She did not put up with slop-
piness of any sort. She had
her standards and you met
them. I was the only refer-
ence librarian there. It was a
grand experience, and we
became very good friends.
After two years of refer-
ence, I decided to get some
other experience in the
county system. So I moved
down to the basement to
work with Mary Cox. She was
a wonderful person, a profes-
sional, too; but she was not -
as proper as Miss Perry was. I
spent a wonderful year going
out on the bookmobile,
working the branches.
Photo courtesy of Florence Blakely.
NCL: What brought you to Duke University?
FB: In the spring of ~48, I got a free ride to Nashville. It was
just for a couple of days, and I thought, oWell, ITll drop into
the library school and see if any of the old teachers are
there.� I went into the deanTs office and we talked a little
bit and he said, oWould you be interested in going to Duke
University as a reference librarian?� I said, oWell, it never
occurred to me. ITd really rather go to the University of
North Carolina� (because I had friends at PC, like Isaac,
who'd gone on there). He said, oWell, I canTt help you
there, but I have a letter from the Duke Librarian, and
theyTre ready to hire a reference librarian. You want me to
send your name in?� And I said, oWhy not.�
Well, soon the Duke Librarian invited me to an inter-
view. I got on the train, and got off in Raleigh, rode a bus to
Durham, took a city bus; got off at the hospital, and asked,
oHow do I find the library?� (It wasnTt Perkins Library then,
it was just the library.) The head librarian, Dr. Benjamin
Powell, was not there at the moment, so I was interviewed
by the head of the reference department, Lucille Simcoe,
and the retired librarian, Mr. Breedlove, whoTd been there
about a hundred years. (He was filling in.) No formality
whatsoever. No written application. They didnTt ask for
refer ... oh, they asked me if I knew anybody currently on
the staff, and I said, oYes, Jane Sturgeon is from my home-
town.� So they hired me, for $2,400 a year. That was a lot
more than I was making in Greenville!
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So in September of 1948, I came to Duke"with my
steamer trunk again " and lived close to the East Campus. I
was overwhelmed! There were those books " those refer-
ence books that I had seen at Vanderbilt. And, of course, at
Greenville Public we hadnTt had them. But I was a public
librarian at heart " always will be.
NCL: What was work at Duke like, and what were some of the
greatest professional challenges you faced during your career?
FB: The Duke reference department had three librarians and
one was chronically ill and never there, so there were really
two of us. Lucille Simcoe was
head. She was a Randolph-
Macon grad who had gone to
library school at Columbia,
and she was a good teacher.
She informed me shortly af-
ter I got here, oWell, weTll be
going to freshman classes� "
about 50, I think it was, En-
glish classes " oinstructing
them about the library.� I
said, oI canTt do that! ITm not
a public person. I donTt make
public speeches.� oWell,
youTte the only one here!� So
I did!
We had a small library
staff, so it was a family.
I remember that the refer-
ence department telephone
was out in the hall under the
big clock. We didnTt even
have one in the department.
The reference office was
about 4 x 4 " it was a tiny
little closet " and there was just room for one person at a
time in there.
I well remember when the first copier came to the li-
brary. It was one of the early models and it was down in the
basement. It was a huge, huge monster. We were one of the
early libraries in the Southeast to use the Xerox machine to
reproduce catalog cards, and never thought about the
copier being a public service. The first copier in reference
was an old thermafax. That was horrible. We had to make
change; we had to do all these things for the machine.
Then we got a real Xerox machine out in the hall, but guess
who had to maintain it? The reference staff. And we had to
issue borrowerTs cards to outside borrowers. Now, why the
circulation staff couldnTt, I donTt know; but we had to issue
borrower's cards. All the odd jobs. We were filing cards into
the North Carolina Union Catalog, and I made every argu-
ment in the book and some that werenTt in the book and
everybody agreed " Miss Gertrude Merritt agreed " oYes,
itTs not right for you to, but thereTs nobody else to do it, so
you do it.� So, we had student assistants doing it. (They
could have had student assistants doing it.) Anyway, itTs
typical, itTs just typical.
But in that little reference department, I had a chance
to learn the collection and to work with fascinating faculty;
and we covered that desk a heck of a lot of hours a week,
the two of us.
NCL: When did you get used to doing the freshman BI? "
even before it was called BI.
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FB: Yes, we didnTt know it was BI. I guess the torture was
that first year. Then I got a pattern and a flow and enjoyed
it. I actually did enjoy it. But we didnTt have slides or any-
thing like that. All we had was the blackboard. I would
draw the outline of the library and the various departments
and talk about them. ThatTs about all there was to it! Even-
tually, we did slide shows. But it never got boring. ITve al-
ways been interested in the interaction between faculty and
librarians. Some of the freshman English instructors were
gracious and welcoming. They stayed, they showed interest,
and the students showed interest. Others said, oOK, good-
bye.� And so you did the best you could.
Lucille left after about one year, and Mrs. Catharine
Pierce came in. SheTd retired from Swarthmore. She was
head of reference for several years until she retired from
Duke. In 1956, Dr. Powell, who was my boss from the time
I went to Duke until 1975, called me in and said, oMiss
Blakely� " he always called me Miss Blakely until the last
few years " oMiss Blakely, I hear from Bill Hamilton and
other faculty that you are a pretty good reference librarian,
and, do you think maybe you could be head of this depart-
ment?� I said, oWell, I donTt know. ITve been here seven
years. I guess Ill try it.� �Well, thatTs fine. And in time, Miss
Blakely, you'll make $5,000 a year.�
So I became head of the department. We had an open-
ing, I think, because we had only three members for a good
many years. And the department needed to add a staff
member ... still does. But the first one we took in was Mary
Canada, who was my colleague for the rest of my career
and who became head after I went to collection develop-
ment. Mary had been the undergraduate librarian, mainly
reserves, and then had gone to UNC to library school. She
studied under Miss Susan B. Akers. And that was the best
thing that ever happened to the reference department.
Mary was a wonderful teammate. She and I balanced each
other. I mean, I get spread in too many directions. And
Mary is organized: she knows what sheTs doing, and she ac-
complishes a heck of a lot. She and I shared the work
through the years. And gradually we added other staff. Ev-
ery year my annual report was a documented case for add-
ing staff. Sometimes it would work! (But the thing was, we
were really a team. I never knew how to run a department
any other way, but as a team. I donTt think you can run a
reference department from the top down.) And when we
moved into the new building in 1970, we REALLY had to
expand the staff. Business just took off, of course, because
the desk was visible when you walked in, instead of being
out of sight upstairs in the Gothic reading room, as it had
been in the old building.
NCL: Did your feelings about reference work ever change over
those thirty years?
FB: Not about reference work, but the pace became frantic
and stressful and I was tired of trying to keep together a
team of rugged individualists, all of whom were brighter
and better reference librarians than I was. You always want
to hire people who are smarter than you are, but they are
prima donnas. I liked them, and they were wonderful. But I
was just plain tired. I loved collection development anyway,
had been working in it all along. So I was happy to change
jobs, although my heart was still in reference. ItTs still in
reference. But when J left it, I left it completely, because you
canTt be in two places. I never went back.
Collection development was extremely interesting. I
saw the world from a whole new perspective when I
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changed offices. I was dealing with things ITd never dealt
with before, and I was learning " dealers, overseas and do-
mestic; serials budget, I mean budget, THE BUDGET.
Anyway, I sympathized with my predecessor Gertrude
Merritt so much, and I realized I used to give her a hard
time; but she was really generous. She had let the reference
staff be bibliographers of sorts. I still think that reference,
the front line people, are in the best position to see whatTs
coming over the hill. Where are you going? What areas will
you need to build? A bibliographer who is not in touch
with the public canTt get that overview.
We had a good time in the ~60s building an alternative
press collection. We went heavily for periodicals and pam-
phlets and for books on things like how to build a bomb.
Now we are the only library in the country that has some
of those materials. The Library of Congress, in fact,
the Oxford English Dictionary people, would write frequently,
saying, oI bet you have this. And would you please xerox
it.� It makes you feel good. That crazy stuff is research ma-
terial. Mr. Powell would question it sometimes, but
Gertrude Merritt didnTt bother us.
I never had a real boss. Mr. Powell never bothered me.
Jake Waggoner, the assistant or associate librarian, was offi-
cially my boss. All I did was ask him for support. They
never said, oYouTre doing a good job.� They didnTt say,
oYouTre doing a bad job.� They just let me alone, which was
fine with me. Mr. Powell did bother me a little bit when we
got into the new building because he had bought this fine
coffee table-type furniture, and I said, oMr. Powell, the stu-
dents will have their feet all over that.� oThey better not.� I
said, oI canTt help it. TheyTre going to have their feet on it.�
They did! They moved everything around for their comfort
and convenience. They used sofas to take naps, of course.
And he finally called me in and said, oMiss Blakely, I would
appreciate it if you would keep students from bringing food
and drink into the building. And tell them to sit up straight
and keep their feet off the tables.� I said, oMr. Powell, we
are busy. WeTll do what we can.� And thatTs all I ever prom-
ised him! Bless his heart, he was a true Southern gentleman.
And he ran the place like a benevolent plantation owner,
because Duke in those days was run like a plantation.
I'll never forget the struggles of the ~70s, when the li-
brary lib movement started. ThatTs when the professional
staff organized, and he went along with us. He didnTt fight
us, but he didnTt understand why we were doing this. We
had a thorough, very efficient committee set up a staff
ranking structure that still works fine. I think at one point
we tried for faculty status, but we knew weTd never get it at
Duke. We did get a professional status, and we had seats on
some of the campus committees. The faculty respected the
reference department very much, but they just couldnTt tol-
erate the idea of us having faculty rank; and I can under-
stand that. I wasnTt going to publish. That wasnTt my mission.
NCL: Who were some of the other librarians who inspired you, or
whom you saw as leaders and/or builders within the profession?
FB: My chief mentors were Isaac Copeland and Ellen Perry. I
would also call Frances Neel Cheney a mentor. I did not
really know her when I was in library school because at that
time she was working at the Library of Congress. I went
back to Peabody in the summers of ~59 and ~60 for a ore-
tread,� because by then everybody was getting an M.S. in
L.S. and I had a B.S. in L.S. ThatTs when I got to know
Fanny, as a friend. And Isabel Howell, who was the librarian
of the state library there. I spent a lot of time with them,
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and that was a turning point in my professional life. Fanny
was always neck deep in ALA, and while I had been a mem-
ber, I had never been active. There wasnTt anything for ref-
erence librarians in ALA. All the meetings were about tech-
nical services, and I didnTt know other reference librarians
around the country. They urged me to try to get a section
of the Reference and Adult Services Section started in the
Southeastern Library Association. So I did.
But the real turning point in my career came in 1970.
ThatTs when I got the Council on Library Resources Fellow-
ship. That was absolutely the most wonderful three months
in my whole career. I went coast to coast to visit 14 large
academic libraries, and did a survey of the reference depart-
ments. It was heaven! Pure heaven! In doing this, I made a
network of reference librarians. oOkay, o I said, owe all need
to be able to get together and talk shop.� I had some
money left in my grant and I asked the Council, oWould it
be all right if I invited the librarians that I visited all over
the country to meet for breakfast in Detroit? They said,
oO.K.� And that was the beginning.
The next move was to try to start a discussion group.
There were no discussion groups at all in the Reference and
Adult Services Section. I asked Mildred Nilon at Colorado
and Ann Seyboth at Ohio State, oWould you like to join me
in petitioning for a discussion group to be formed for heads
of reference like they have for the big heads of tech ser-
vices?� They did, and we did. We started the first ALA refer-
ence discussion group. And in time, we decided we should
have a chapter of Reference and Adult Services section in
NCLA. People love to get together and talk shop.
One professional colleague who helped me a lot was
Mae Tucker, of the Charlotte Public Library. I think I met
Mae at NCLA in Asheville, at the Junior Members Round
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Table meeting. It was MORIBUND. We decided that we
could work together and either kill the round table or make
something of it. So at the next meeting we called a session
to kill it: oIf this is not going to be a live organization, we
should just disband.� You should have seen the people turn
up to declare it alive! Mae and I did a lot of mischief over
the years. She was, is and was, a wonderful reference librar-
ian. A great colleague, too.
NCL: Tell us about Doralyn Hickey. | know that she was a per-
son of stature in the library profession.
FB: She was. I knew Doralynn before she became a librarian,
although she had worked in the library at Rice. She came to
Duke to get her Ph.D. in religion, and worked part time in
cataloging in the Duke library, where we became friends.
Once she got into cataloging, she immediately figured out a
better way to do things! Immediately! And Gertrude Merritt,
my good friend and colleague through all these years, was
the kind of person who welcomed this. Doralynn finally
decided that sheTd better go to library school, even, I believe,
before she finished her dissertation. She worked with Ralph
Shaw, who was very big on early automation of libraries,
VERY big. She went to Rutgers because it offered a cutting-
edge program. (At that time, automation meant running
rods through punched cards.) And she was really a pioneer
in library automation. She was really a visionary person.
After she got her Ph.D., she came back to work in the
library. One day Carlyle Frarey came in " he had been our
associate librarian " and he was then dean of the UNC li-
brary school. He said, oDoralynn, would you like to teach
in our library school?� She said, oWell, I hadnTt thought
about it, but, yeah!� They fought like cats and dogs! She
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fought with every dean she ever had! And in time she be-
came a dean. Perfect retribution, ITd say.
She taught at UNC for some time. Students hated her
or loved her, and it was about an equal match. If you hated
her, you hated her! Not personally, but as a teacher. And if
she was your kind of teacher, you worshipped her. She was
a very complicated person. I think she was one of the out-
standing librarians of this generation, a true prophet. But
she didnTt like being a dean at the University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee. She liked to give grief, not take it; so eventually
she went to the University of North Texas to teach. There
she developed cancer. She continued to meet class, wearing
a wig, until just a few days before her death. She was going
to meet her obligations. She never told them she had can-
cer. That kind of strength is almost overwhelming. I'll al-
ways appreciate her. She fits in the colleagues category,
good colleagues.
NCL: What were some of the greatest professional challenges
you faced during your career; and how do you see the future of
libraries and librarianship unfolding now, in the Information Age?
FB: Changes in the library profession"automation and its
effects. ItTs a different world. I couldnTt work in it. I mean, I
would not be at home with it now, but I appreciate it and it
has really changed the world. The information explosion,
of course, literally was, and is that " an explosion. I re-
member in 1948, saying out loud to somebody who
thought I was insane, oIt would be so nice if all the WhoTs
Whos were indexed and you could just punch a button to
get information.� I was ready for automation!
Before automation, we always had the problem of
reaching students other than at the reference desk, and it
never bothered me just to reach them at the reference desk.
During the height of the BI revolution, the thought was,
oYou should put student assistants on the desk and offer
research service by appointment.� You know, reference li-
brarians have offices out back somewhere. I could never see
that. And ITve had many a discussion with colleagues about
the importance of being on the front lines, because thatTs
where you find out what the question is and teach people.
Nobody asks a straightforward question, usually. ThatTs not
the way people work. And I remember we reference librarians
experimented, and we tried to train students to offer front-
line service. That never worked " students wanted to help
their friends, not refer them to somebody else.
An article came out recently about the state of under-
graduate instruction. Duke has always done well by under-
graduates, but now theyT~re setting up new senior capstone
courses, all requiring independent research. TheyTre creat-
ing a Center for Teaching, Learning, and Writing, and guess
whoTs a partner in it " the library. The time has come. It
took automation, the computer, to do it. The faculty has
started asking for instruction on the use of the Web for
themselves and for their students. ThereTs your opening!
ThatTs the revolution! The librarians are going to be work-
ing with faculty on instruction. And I just got an article off
the Web that seems to confirm this. ItTs about a new Web
site on American Studies resources and it refers to a series of
interviews with professors and librarians who explain how
they took advantage of multimedia and hypertext to create
this site. There you have it. ThatTs all yours.
NCL: My world.
FB: Your world and you're living in it and you are lucky. If I
could start over it would be fun, but I donTt want to start
over. ThatTs for you.
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Interview with Edward G. Holley
Chapel Hill, NC, April 27, 1998
by Tommy Nixon
About Professor Edward G. Holley ...
A major figure in 20th century American librarianship, Edward G. Holley has served his chosen profession as
library administrator (Director of Libraries, Univervity of Houston, 1962-1971), library educator (Dean &
Professor, School of Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, 1972-1985, and professor thereafter), and library
historian. He has produced over 100 books, articles, and essays on topics as diverse as library biography, the
history of library education, copyright, library administration, and the place of personal morality in public life.
Indefatigable in his service to librarianship, he has served on countless high level committees, worked for
accreditation standards, defended the MLS, testified before Congressional committees, and acted as library
consultant. As ALA President during turbulent times (1974-1975), he was largely responsible for establishing
a federated system for ALA (oevery tub on its own bottom�), thereby saving the 100-year-old association
from likely financial disaster. While at Houston he not only oversaw a major addition to the library and a
significant enrichment of the collection, but was responsible for hiring Charles D. Churchwell as Assistant
Director for Public Services, the first black professional on that campus (1967). As Dean of the Library School
at Chapel Hill, he recruited stellar faculty, established a doctoral program, and expanded the Master's
program to two years, providing a core curriculum known famously to students during the Holley years as
oThe Block.� As professor and advisor, he has been an inspiration to his students and has directed a number
of significant doctoral dissertations. His own writing is characterized by intellectual rigor, thoroughness, and
fair-minded critical assessment. He has been the recipient of almost every major award his profession can
bestow, notable among them the ALA Scarecrow Press Award for his published dissertation, Charles Evans,
American Bibliographer (1964); the ALA Melvil Dewey Award (1983); the ALA Joseph Lippincott Award (1987);
Distinguished Alumnus Awards (Peabody Library School, Vanderbilt University, 1987; Graduate School of
Library and Information Science, Univervity of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1988); the Academic/Research
Librarian of the Year Award (Association of College and Research Libraries, 1988); and the Beta Phi Mu Award
(1992). Holley was named William Rand Kenan, Jr., Professor in 1989 and held that distinguished professor-
ship until his retirement at the end of 1995. In 1994 he was honored with a festschrift, For the Good of the
Order: Essays in Honor of Edward G. Holley, the title bearing witness to his tireless professional devotion. (For
an eminently readable and perceptive overview of HolleyTs life and career, See James V. CarmichaelTs essay,
oRicher for his Honesty,� in the above-mentioned volume.)
Although now retired, Dr. Holley is currently hard at work on a history of UNC-Chapel Hill which seeks to
explain UNCTs emergence from a small college to a major American university. Once more, on this date " o
For the Good of the Order� " he graciously consented to take time out from his busy schedule to be
interviewed for this oral history project.
This is an interview conducted with professor emeritus Dr. Edward G. Holley under the auspices of the
North Carolina Library Association. We're in Dr. HolleyTs office in the School of Information and Library
Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. The date is Monday, April 27. The interviewer is Tommy Nixon, a former pupil of
Dr. HolleyTs and currently a reference librarian in Davis Library.
NCL: I'm interested in how you became a librarian. What people and that was very rare in those days to have a
events or persons were instrumental in your decision to public library in a county, in a small town like that. And,
pursue a career in librarianship and what made you choose this just opened up whole worlds to me. I spent a lot of
library science as your doctoral discipline at a time when most Sunday afternoons there " it was open on Sunday after-
library directors probably had-Ph.D.s in areas other than noons. Mrs. Moose noticed me and she said, oYou know,�
library science? she said. oEdward,� (everybody called me Edward in those
days). oYouTre here a lot on Sunday afternoon. How would
EH: Perhaps we need to go back to when I started out in like you like to keep the library open for me?� It was open
the Giles County Public Library. The librarian was Frances I think from 1 to 5, or 2 to 5, or something like that. I
Hampton Moose who had her library science degree from thought that would be all right. She showed me how to do
Columbia. Now imagine, this is a town of 3,000 - 3,500 things, and she paid me with the money from the fines
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she collected.
When I went away to David Lipscomb, I had intended
to be an English teacher because I loved English literature,
American literature. I thought I was going to be an English
teacher. Well, they didnTt have a librarian at this college,
and it was right after the war. The dean was the titular
head of the library, but that first year I worked in the
library, and there was an elderly woman who was finishing
her degree and she was sort of the supervisor. She had no
training in librarianship whatever. Well, I really actually
ran that library for about three years.
Meanwhile, when I graduated in 1949, I had by that
time decided that I wanted to be a librarian. So Peabody
College, which is also in Nashville, had a good program
and had some marvelous people there " the famous
Frances Neel Cheney being one of the major ones. Won-
derful woman, magnificent woman.... she knew every-
thing!
NCL: Connections with agrarians?
to marry. Then when we came back from Washington,
D.C., in 1956, I went back to finish the course work and
take the preliminary exams. I was planning to go ahead,
now that I had the G.I. bill, you see, which was very
lucrative in those days. So we went back to Urbana, and I
finished, took the preliminary exam, and was ready to
barrel along on the dissertation. I found out that this other
fellow was going to study plantation libraries, and my
advisor, Les Dunlap, who was associate librarian at the
time but also on the faculty, said, oOh, donTt worry about
that. There are a lot of topics. You know, have you ever
read Charles EvansT introduction to his bibliography?�
Well, I hardly knew Charles Evans, period. And his
bibliography? He said, oNow there was an interesting man!
You ought to go down and read that preface. You should
do that. � He was so dogmatic. oYou know, his papers must
be around somewhere.� I looked at it and thought, oWell,
this is not a bad idea.� I wrote to the family, the Evans
family, they were in Chicago, and got some encouraging
words. Then Les called me up to his office and said, oEd,
. we need a new librarian for
EH: Oh, she knew, yes, she
knew all the agrarians and all
that. So I took my degree there
and I think I got a pretty good
degree for the time. It became
very clear to me, by that time,
that I wanted to be an aca-
demic librarian. But then it
also became clear to me that if
you wanted to be in academia,
it would be very much to your
advantage to have a doctorate.
So I decided that I would
explore the options. I remem-
ber Fannie Cheney, when I told
her that I was going off to
Illinois. She said, oWhy donTt
you get an honest-to-God
doctorate in English or history!
Why do you want to go and
get a degree in library science?�
And I said, oWell, I thought
that people who were hope-
fully going to be administrators
and so forth in the library
world really needed to know a
the educational philosophy
and psychology library,�
which was one of the big
libraries in the main
building.
NCL: They have a fairly
decentralized system as I
remember.
EH: And he said, oITd like
for you to go down and
take a look around at that
library. You can work on
your dissertation at the
same time you know.� Well,
I did that. And it was a lot
of work. We had kids
during that period and I did
that for five years and
enjoyed it immensely!
Enjoyed working with the
faculty and the graduate
students and so forth. Had
a great time! WouldnTt take
good deal more in-depth about
librarianship.� I got a graduate
assistantship [at Illinois]. But it was really a revelation to
me, too. There was this magnificent library with its
millions of volumes and, it was just a kid turned loose in a
candy shop for me.
I also ran the photographic reproduction laboratory. I was
a half-time graduate assistant.
Meanwhile, I was pursuing both librarianship and
American history. I did a minor in American history under
some wonderful people .... So I was pursuing that. By that
time I had pretty well decided that I wanted to be not only
a librarian, but also a library administrator. It seemed to
me that a doctorate was a good thing if you wanted to do
that so you could be like all the rest of the faculty. I was
going to do a dissertation on plantation libraries. But I was
interrupted. I had to go on active duty toward the end of
the Korean Wat...
So I took three years off to do that and in the process
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anything for that experi-
ence.
When I did finish my Charles Evans biography and
defended it, I was then looking... I really wanted to be an
administrator somewhere. Meanwhile, I did a speech or
two on Charles Evans to the Illinois Library Association
and some other group, and the Evans family subsidized a
trip that I made to the east to the American Antiquarian
Society and places where Evans had lived and worked. I
began looking around, and while there had been a lot of
openings earlier, the ones that seemed to be available did
not too much impress me.... So I thought, oWell, ITm
probably going to be around here another year.� Then the
University of Houston asked me to come down and talk
with them about their situation. ThatTs when I went to
Houston and stayed for almost 10 years. And had a
wonderful time there! Finished up the revision of the
biography for the Illinois Press...
NCL: For which you received the ALA Scarecrow Press Award.
North Carolina Libraries
EH: Right, right, that was a great scholarly success but it
didnTt make much money.
NCL: Seems to go hand-in-hand sometimes.
EH: It seems to do that. But I had a wonderful experience
at Illinois. Bobbie Lee hated Illinois because it was this flat
land, and we had all these little kids running around and
all that. But it was a good time for us. Houston was differ-
ent. I told Bobbie Lee, oI donTt want to go to Houston.� I
never wanted to go to Texas! I mean, I just donTt think
they have anything down there that would interest me at
all.� Well, they brought me down there in the middle of
April, or no, I guess it was in late March...
NCL: This was about 1962?
EH: This was in 1962, and they said theyTd heard a lot
about me and would like to invite me down.... Well, I did
go down. There was snow and ice on the ground in
Urbana. Houston, nobody told me about Houston sum-
mers, but Houston was just blossoming out all over the
place. And I discovered that it was a pretty good staff. I
had heard that these really first-rate people who had been
so upset because theyTd had 11 years of lack of leadership.
They wanted somebody to come in whoTd do something
about that.
NCL: | know there was a big addition to the library, and also |
think you probably doubled the size of the collection and got
some rare books.
EH: Oh, it was a wonderful time to be there, and that
experience was marvelous. A lot of people asked me to
come and interview. And I think one or two just insisted
that I did, but I didnTt want to leave Houston .... At any
rate, Houston was a great place for me. It was a place that
was building. It was a place that I could handle and handle
well. And thatTs probably a bad way to say that these days,
but I donTt mean, you know, that I was a dictatorial type. I
was not. But they needed somebody who would give them
leadership. And so we had a wonderful time in Houston.
We spent almost a decade there. Then I got into the library
education business.
NCL: Before we go to that, could you talk a little bit. | think
itTs fairly well known about the time in Houston that you had
the expansion in the library and added to the collection. |
donTt think itTs as well known about your efforts in terms of
minority recruitment. ITm thinking specifically about the
appointment of Charles Churchwell as assistant director for
public services. How controversial an appointment was that,
at the height of the civil rights movement in the Deep South?
EH: The associate director was retiring. When I went to
Midwinter in New Orleans, I ran into Charlie Churchwell,
whom I had known.... and I said, oWell Charlie, what are
you up to?� He said, oWell, I just defended my dissertation
and ITm looking to see what else I want to do. I could go
into library education, but I donTt think I want to do
that,� because he taught at Prairie View, which is one of
the black schools in Texas. But he said, oI think I want to
go into administration.� Immediately light bulbs went off
in my head. So I said, oWell, letTs keep in touch.� I thought
that I needed to go back home and see what I could do. I
went back home to the staff and said, oI think ITve solved
our problem.� Now, mind you, these, except for one male,
these were all Southern women.
North Carolina Libraries
NCL: In the mid 1960s ...
EH: ~67 or something like that. So, they said, oWell, I
donTt know.� Mrs. Wykoff said, oI donTt care what color he
is, is he competent?� And I said yes, I thought so and I
knew that the Dean would write a nice letter for him and
so on. I went over to the provost and said, oJohn, I think
ITve solved our problem.� And I said, oI want you to know,
heTs Black.� And he said, oEd, you know we donTt discrimi-
nate.�
NCL: There were no Black administrators at Houston at the
time though.
EH: There were no Blacks, period. Charlie was the first
one. So, I knew no such thing. But they obviously were
going to try to get other.... Because by that time affirma-
tive action was really beginning...
NCL: So in that sense you did have administrative support.
EH: Oh, absolutely! And I had the support of the staff.
They said, oWell, it will be different, but weTll try.� You
know, I was really very fortunate that we had people who
were open to this kind of situation. And so Charlie came
down for an interview, and of course just charmed every-
body. I said, oCharlie, ITll make you associate director...�
And he said, oEd, I donTt think ITm ready for that. Why
donTt you just make me assistant director for public
services?�
NCL: Was there much violence in Houston at that time in
terms of the civil rights movement?
EH: Not really until the death of Martin Luther King.
NCL: Which had its impact everywhere.
EH: Had its impact everywhere. Well, we had several Black
faculty members by then, but Charlie was crucial in
keeping things calmed down among the students.
NCL: That would be in the spring of ~68.
EH: Right, right. But it was a wonderful time to be a
librarian, at least where I was. WouldnTt take anything for
it. And I had these wonderful women librarians who had
been so frustrated by lack of leadership and wanted to do
things.
NCL: And that and the confluence of funding was a wonder-
ful solution.
EH: We brought in some bright young people as well. We
had a great time. Of course, I got very much involved in
the state and was on a lot of the committees, and I was on
some boards. My book was published during that period.
But Texas was good for us. In a lot of ways we left Houston
reluctantly. But by that time I was beginning to think I
wanted to do something else. ITd always had such a poor
opinion of most-library schools in those days, and I
thought, oWell, ITd like to try my hand at that.� Unlike, I
guess, most directors, I had proof of my scholarship;
published articles that most of the faculty who were here
at the time knew.
NCL: Turned down Columbia, thankfully for us.
EH: Yes, I did turn down Columbia. Everybody was aghast.
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I guess it shook them. They couldnTt conceive of anybody
turning down Columbia. But, you know, we had children
who were in junior high and in elementary school. There
was no way I was going to take those kids to New York
City. The UNC Associate Dean of Business, Claude George,
had written and said that they had a position open here,
and they would like to talk with me. I wrote back and said,
oWell, I was going on leave.� I had planned this leave.
That was when I got the Council on Library Resources
grant to chase around and look at urban university
libraries. He said, oWell, what kind of excuse is this? Come
on up and talk with us.� And I said, oWell, you know if we
get serious with each other, I will feel compelled to come
back for a year, because ITm on leave.� I came up here and
talked with them anyway, and was impressed with the
chancellor and the provost.
NCL: Was Sitterson chancellor in ~72?
EH: Sitterson was chancellor. Actually, he quit
chancelloring about the time I arrived. I didnTt know any
of the people on the faculty " zero. In fact, I knew
nobody here, ITd just heard good things about the Univer-
sity of North Carolina. It became clear that what they
wanted was some leadership in the school. You know, they
had had either four deans or acting deans in a period of
about 12 years. Charlie Morrow said, oEd, you know when
we wrote you, we had decided we should either go get
leadership or we should close the place down.�
NCL: This was 1971-72.
EH: Right, we came in January of ~72. And I had said I
wouldnTt come. ITd go back [to Houston] for the full
academic year. But Phil Hoffman, president, said, oEd,
donTt worry about that. Your leave was for past favors, not
future.� oYou know,� he said, oI told you when Columbia
was trying to get you that I didnTt think it was a good idea
for you to take Bobbie and the children off to New York
City"but now, if you really want to do this, North
Carolina is a good place to go.� ....Well, what I did say was
that weTd compromise. ITd come in January. And ITd come
back and see that everything was in decent order before I
took off. Which I think was the thing that one ought to
do. So thatTs what I did. And, we were very impressed with
the campus and the people. Bobbie Lee didnTt really want
to leave Houston and her friends and so forth. But she
thought if we must go, that this was a good place to go....
NCL: Let me ask you, you came here, you hired a lot of folks,
some really stellar faculty, you expanded the masterTs pro-
gram to two years, and famously had the block as a core
curriculum and | believe. . .
EH: Infamously sometimes.
NCL: Infamously or famously, depending on the perception of
the student | guess, and also in ~77 you established a doctoral
program, which | believe was the second library doctoral
program in the South, behind Florida State maybe.
EH: It was a good period. But I donTt want you to think,
and I wouldnTt want anybody who subsequently hears this
to think, that what I did here was done by myself. There
were some good folks here. Dr. Gambee was a fine person
and good teacher. Margaret Kalp was a good teacher.
Doralyn Hickey, of course, was already creating a name for
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herself in cataloging and classification. But they needed
some new people, clearly. And that first year, I was very
fortunate. Haynes McMullen at Indiana, he had been at
Indiana a very long time " 19 years I think " and he said
that if at some point in the future I had an opening that
heTd like to be considered for it. Well, I went to Charlie
Morrow and said, oCharlie, weTve got this opportunity
with this marvelous man who is a full professor and a very
distinguished writer in our field, but I donTt know how I
can manage it.� And he said, oWell, letTs see what we can
figure out.� i y
NCL: Charles Morrow was provost at that time?
EH: Yes, Charlie was provost during almost all of my
tenure here, and he was a great support, let me tell you!
Charlie and [ had a wonderful relationship. When I would
try to figure out how we were going to do things, ITd just
go up and talk with Charlie. And ITd say, oCharlie, ITve got
this problem,� and he would always come up with some
type of solution. I enjoyed very much working with him.
But he said, oYou know, youTve got money here and here
and here. Put these pieces together.� I wasnTt quite sure
what the salary should have been, but I put together as
good a package as I thought I could manage, with CharlieTs
help. So we brought Haynes here. Just before ~75, Charlie
called me, and said they wanted to start a doctoral pro-
gram here. Charlie knew and I knew that you couldnTt do
it with the faculty that were here, that you were going to
have to have some high-powered stuff somehow. So
Charlie called me one day and said, oEd, how would you
like to have a Kenan professorship at the school?� I said,
oCharlie, I would love to try!� And he said, oWell, the
trustees are unhappy because weTre not spending enough
of the Kenan money. We need to fill these positions. Mind
you, it canTt be you.� And I said, oThatTs all right Charlie.�
He said, oIt has to be somebody from outside.�
NCL: The Kenan was used as an incentive to draw...
EH: ThatTs right, to bring distinguished people. And so I
went to the faculty and said, oWe have this opportunity
for a Kenan.� I said, oWell, now, if you had to go get the
best person in the country, whom would it be?� Doralyn
Hickey said, oWell, Les Ashheim, of course, but he would
never leave Chicago.� And I said, oHow do we know if we
donTt ask?�
I thought, well, sheTs probably right, but I never let
that stand in the way of my attempting. I had never met
Dr. Ashheim " his name, of course, I knew " so I brought
him down here, and he talked with the people, and of
course charmed everybody. I never will forget that last
night; I took him out to dinner just before he was to catch
the plane back to Chicago, and I said, oWe would really
like for you to come and occupy this distinguished chair.�
And he said, oWell, what could I really do for this school?�
which I think was characteristic of Ashheim"he didnTt
put on airs or whatever. I said, oWeTre going to start a
doctoral program. ItTs already in the works. You have had
a long career in this area, and we really need somebody
like you to come and help us with that program.� This was
before all this affirmative action and all the other candi-
dates, so I could pretty much do what I wanted provided I
had somebody to supply the money, and so I said, oI'll be
writing you a letter.� Wrote him a letter, he accepted, and I
told him what the terms were, what the salary was. I donTt
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remember what the salary was, but it was very good. In
fact, Charlie had asked me would it bother me if he made
more money that I did. And I said, oCertainly not, if we
get the kind of person we want. I will not worry about my
salary.� I thought I was being paid very well anyway.
NCL: The KenanTs a hefty supplement.
EH: Supplement, it was $10,000 on top of a full professor-
ship and so, Les came, and of course he and Haynes
together. Haynes had had lots of experience with the
Indiana doctoral program. Very distinguished people. And
we were also able to lure Bob Broadus the following year.
NCL: Where did he come from?
EH: He was in Chicago. I believe he came here from one
of those major state universities in Northern Illinois. But
he had published a lot of things and had taught and so
forth.... So there, in the short space of four years, I was
able to bring to the campus three first-rate, research-
oriented faculty. They had an enormous impact on what
was done. I never had a whole lot of interest in curriculum
and stuff like that myself, but we did start committees to
do the block. It was a very stodgy curriculum.
NCL: When you came?
EH: Yeah, we all knew it, I mean, it was no secret, and we
decided that we would go for a two-year program, which
everybody else thought was foolish. But, we decided that
you could not provide all of the things that people needed
in todayTs world on the 36 hours or whatever it was, so we
went to 48. At that time, we were also re-forming the
masterTs degree and introduced the block. ITd like the
record to show that I had very little to do with the curricu-
lum. I was not interested in such matters. We had a lot of
people who were, and were very good at it, and I didnTt see
any reason why I should be. They didnTt need it, a dean
who did all of that. We had good people here who knew
what they were doing.
I think the block was a really innovative thing. We
owe that to Doralyn Hickey, we really do. Haynes
McMullen worked on it a lot too. The students hated it
and the faculty hated it, but it was a good program. It
provided a basic core. It was the one place where every-
body had to start off on the same level. I think it lasted,
probably as long as most curriculum changes, and then we
went back. I think it was too bad that we had to abandon
that, or thought that we had to abandon that. But, that
was done after my period, so I do not criticize because
we've moved in a very different direction and needed to
move in a very different direction. So I donTt have any
problem with that at all. Different times call for different
strategies.
The key to having a first-rate program is having good
people and letting them do their thing. ITve known a lot of
directors and deans of library schools who want to be the
whole show, and ITve never understood that. Why in the
world would anybody, who has enough to do if he or she
is an administrator, fiddle around with the curriculum and
all this other stuff, when the job is to see that the place is
running along in a good way and competent people are in
charge and go out and find the money to help them do
what they need to do?
NCL: Well, ITm just wondering what youTre most proud of in
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terms of the deanship here because, one thing kind of led to
another with the faculty and the doctoral program and
expanding the masterTs program.
EH: You know, thatTs a hard one. We had a lot of accom-
plishments. We did really well. We had a lot of administra-
tive support. That doesnTt come casually, thatTs an effort.
ITm happy that I was able, personally and with some of the
faculty, to become more visible on campus so that the
school was known on the campus for having a first-rate
program. ITm very proud of that. ITm very proud of the
faculty that we brought here. Like most people, most
deans, we had one or two losers, but they didnTt last long.
You know, you donTt win ~em all. But we always had great
students, had an incredible campus, and working with the
caliber of students we had here was just really wonderful. I
loved teaching, and wish I could have done more of it; we
just get unusually good students. I donTt think I had
anything to do with that " that was true before I came
and that was certainly true after I quit dean-ing.
One of the things that I did that I think helped a lot,
and one of the things I worry about today is now that we
have so many students to deal with, ITm not sure that we
relate to the state, the profession of the state as well as we
did early on.
NCL: A lot of ground to cover ...
EH: Oh, it is. The state is growing, itTs bigger. It is very
important though, in a state university, that you not
neglect the people in the state.
NCL: Was there anything that you would have especially
wanted to happen for the school that did not happen? It
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of the goals that you had set, | would
think.
EH: I donTt know that there was
anything particularly that I had
disappointments in. My real disap-
pointments were the poor choices we
made " as well as the great choices "
but thatTs not something that anybody
can ever, you know, thereTs nothing
you can do about that. You just hope
that you have brought people here
who have a trial period, and then if
they donTt work, you can say oThanks,
but no thanks.� And you do need to be
just very tough about that, and I think
I was tough about that.
NCL: You have to uphold the reputation.
EH: I think weTve done very well on
that score ... I can say honestly that I
have enjoyed my whole career. I guess
ITve been fortunate. I think there are a
lot of people who are brighter than I,
who somehow didnTt do that well in
administrative positions. And I think
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and son Jens Holley, the librarian.
thatTs so sad.
NCL: Hard to say, but it was a propitious time in terms of after
World War Il and libraries expanding. Just a great time to be
where you've been. | donTt want you to give away too much
on this, but youTre working on a history of UNC. My under-
standing is itTs trying to explain the emergence of UNC as a
major national university. Is there anything that has greatly
surprised you or challenged your initial historical assumptions
about UNCTs development?
EH: Oh, I think what ITve learned in my research has just
opened up a whole field for me. Of course I had heard that
UNC was a great university and was prepared to believe it.
But, when I came here, I did not really have any inkling of
how far back it goes. ITve studied enough higher education
that I know whoTs on the top and who is on the bottom
and all that, and ITm still interested in that, but as ITve
delved into it, it is very clear thereTs a progressive pattern
that reveals itself. ITve been fortunate to interview people
in their 80s, one or two in their 90s, who still had their
marbles and who could talk about right after the first
World War and things like that. But, itTs clear that this
university, well, for one thing, it and Texas had more
money than the other Southern states. Now that may be a
surprise...
NCL: Than Virginia?
EH: Well, not more than Virginia, but VirginiaTs a special
case, as VirginiaTs own historian says. So the thing that
surprised me most was when I was looking at the Southern
landscape and beginning to dig around in this, I was
surprised that Virginia was not in there. But the first study
of graduate study in the U.S. was in 1925, and in that
particular study only we and Texas, Texas with three
departments and we with two. Then, when the next one
came in ~34, Texas had 12 and we had 11 departments.
And then I think Duke had 8. And, you know, thatTs when
arose a saying in Yankeeland that North Carolina was the
farthest South you could go and still get a decent educa-
tion! So, itTs been fun working on this, and ITve thoroughly
enjoyed it. ITve just now got to get on with it. And one of
these days, weTre gonna have a book. ITm determined.
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Interview with Elinor Swaim
Salisbury, NC, April 21, 1998
by Thomas Kevin B. Cherry
About Elinor Swaim ...
Elinor Henderson Swaim began her work with libraries in 1946 when the Asheboro Public Library Board
asked her to write a radio show to celebrate that library's tenth anniversary. She soon joined the
Asheboro board and served on it until 1962, becoming as she has laughed, a ofly on the wall� at state-
level discussions regarding issues such as public librarian certification and suggested salary levels for
librarians. Moving to Salisbury, NC, she became a grassroots organizer for the then quickly growing
Republican Party in North Carolina. Her political work led to appointments " and she always asked that
some of them be library-related.
She joined the Rowan Public Library Board of Trustees in 1979, serving as trustee chair from 1984-
87. In 1986, she led Rowan CountyTs first successful bond referendum effort in 25 years; the drive was
for a new library headquarters building. Appointed to the North Carolina Library Commission, she
chaired that body from 1985-1989. She became a member of the United States National Commission
on Libraries and Information Science in 1988, and was elected the CommissionTs vice chairman in 1990.
From 1993 until 1994, she was the acting chairman of the Commission. While on the National Com-
mission, she took special interest in library and information services to Native Americans. In 1987,
Swaim served on the National Planning Committee for the Second White House Conference on Library
and Information Services.
Swaim has served on the North Carolina GovernorTs Commision on Literacy and Basic Life Skills, the
Alliance for Math and Science, and NC 2000Ts National Education Goals Committee. She has been a
member of the Presbyterian SynodTs Committee on Colleges and Universities, was a delegate to the First
National Congress of Church-Related Colleges and Universities, and was the first woman to serve as a
trustee of Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, VA. She has been a trustee of the North Carolina
Symphony Society and a board member of the North Carolina Arts Council, helping to establish the
Association of Symphonies of North Carolina.
Swaim, a member of the first graduate class in Health Education at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, was one of the first health educators in North Carolina. In 1988, The North Carolina
Public Library Directors Association gave her its Distinguished Service Award. In 1995, the North
Carolina Library Association made her an honorary member. In 1996, the American Library Association
Washington Office honored her on its 50th anniversary celebration, and in 1997, the National Commis-
sion on Libraries and Information Science gave her its silver award on the occasion of that bodyTs 25th
anniversary.
For more than fifty years, Elinor Swaim has worked for libraries. With her rambunctious wit and
quiet determination, she is a tireless campaigner and always among friends" thatTs because it doesnTt
take long to become a friend of ElinorTs. Making friends is her talent, and she has put it to good use,
especially in the political arena. Noting her familyTs history, she laughs, oITve been interested in politics
for many generations. My great, great grandfather was in the legislature, and three of his sons. And one
of his sons was the first Secretary of State of the Republic of Texas and a member of Congress.� Libraries
have benefited greatly from Elinor SwaimTs genetic disposition.
NCL: We're going to talk with Mrs. Swaim about one aspect That was the Depression and there probably wasnTt much
of her many-faceted career as a... to make a sandwich of, but I would sometimes climb up in
a tree or somewhere with a book and read and read to my
ES: General busy body. nears Govtent
NCL: As a mover and a shaker. What's your earliest memory of
a book or a library? NCL: What was the first library that you really got active with,
ith?
ES: Well, I was a reader growing up. And my favorite thing emeahciecl
to do was to go away and hide somewhere with a sand- ES: Well, my whole life has been filled with accidental,
wich made of bread and tomato catsup, have you ever? pre-destined events, and I truly believe there is a wonder-
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ful Providence or a good angel, or somebody, leading me
around. Because most of the good things that have
happened to me have been totally unplanned, unsought,
and wonderfully serendipitous.
I went to Asheboro after World War II with my
husband. I had been working as a health educator and had
a weekly radio program in Fayetteville in the Fort Bragg
area where I was assigned during the war. I was working in
venereal disease control. My theme song was oSome little
germ is going to get you someday.� People in Asheboro
learned that I could write a radio program, and the second
program that I was asked to write, other than some that I
was doing for the Health Department there, was the Tenth
Anniversary Celebration of the Asheboro Public Library.
Before television, the way that people celebrated was to get
a special radio program on the local radio station. So, we
wrote one about the way the Asheboro Public Library was
formed. A group of young women there met to play
bridge, and they decided they would form a bridge club.
The more they talked about it, the more they realized they
would rather form a library. So, they went around door to
door and collected books, and secured a place for the
library up over the drugstore that was operated by one of
the important men in town. And the volunteers actually
operated the library themselves.
NCL: So where did you go after you left Asheboro? "
ES: We left there in 1961 or 2; and came directly to
Salisbury. I was not connected with the library in
Salisbury, although, my mother lived on Bank Street, and I
was in and out of the library. I guess I must have gotten
back into the library by way of politics. I got into politics
for love, and politics opens doors for people. Almost every
interesting job that I have had has been related to politics.
ITve always thought that politics was not a bad thing because
itTs related to people. The reason that I became active here
in Rowan County is that we had such a lively group of
people at that time, who were among the first local elected
Republicans, and they happened to be our friends.
NCL: Were you a Democrat before you came to Rowan County?
ES: No, I was a Democrat before I got married. And so was
everybody in North Carolina, almost. I remember my
father bringing me to the window to see a Republican go
by in Catawba County. I got into politics because a Baptist
proposed to me. There are several things that are very
important to me " one is being a North Carolinian,
having been here on both sides for so many generations.
ItTs really a sense of place for me. I cannot imagine living
in any other place in the world. And neither could I
imagine being a member of any church that was not
Presbyterian. So, when the Baptist proposed, I said, oWell,
I canTt marry outside the Presbyterian Church.� And he
said, oWell, thatTs all right, nobody in my family ever
married a Democrat. You can become a Republican, and
I'll be a Presbyterian.�
The importance of being active politically, is that if
you do certain work, and you help to elect certain people,
then they want to reward their friends. Almost all of the
interesting appointments that I have had, have come by
way of politics.
NCL: Do you remember what kind of things you did for your
first campaign?
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ES: Well, I wrote radio spots. And traveled around and
spoke to groups about Phil Kirk. But, mainly, my early
work in politics was organizing precincts and doing
grassroots work " and raising money for his campaign.
NCL: Do you remember your first speech.
ES: I remember the very first speech I made as a health
educator. It was to a large PTA meeting, and it had to do
with the health of the child, and I fainted right on the
stage while I was making the speech and had to be carried
off, feet first.
NCL: Tell me about your campaigning for Rowan Public
LibraryTs bond referendum.:
ES: I meant to bring something that ITm going to give you
for your archives sometime. ItTs just a page out of a
calendar, a big calendar that I had stuck on cardboard and
written down all the places that we were going to give
programs. I believe I counted 65 programs. We went to
small senior citizen groups and churches. We went to fire
departments, to volunteer fire stations, to any kind of a
gathering that would listen to us, to talk about the library.
We had a list of all the organizations in the county, and we
wrote and asked them if we couldnTt give a program. And
you know, a lot of groups are looking for a program ...
NCL: Was it an exciting time?
ES: Yes, it was a slenderizing time, too. I lost ten pounds.
We were so busy that we didnTt have time to eat. We went
to a lot of eating events. I remember standing in one of
the senior clubs in a church in Landis or China Grove. We
were all standing around and holding hands and singing
the final hymn. This charming, older man next to me was,
I learned, the father of one of our leading Democrat
activists in Rowan County. When we said amen, I said,
oITm going to go back and tell your son that you were
holding hands with a Republican.� And he said, oHoney,
that wonTt surprise him. I married one.�
We focused that campaign on the idea that the
average homeowner would pay $3.20 more taxes each year
to get the headquarters library" ofor the cost of a pizza,�
you can have that wonderful new library.
NCL: Why didnTt you ever run for office?
ES: I guess I didnTt have time. Or maybe, I just had to stay
in one place too much. I never really particularly wanted
to run for office. ITd rather elect other people and enjoy
the spoils. But that idea followed me all the way to
helping elect governors. There were so few Republicans in
those early days that when Governor Holshouser was
elected, I was invited to be on several different boards, but
I couldnTt make up my mind what I wanted to be on.
ThatTs how I happened to be on the North Carolina Arts
Council. Because the first board, if I had known then what
I know about it now, was the Archives and History Board,
and I turned that down. Then they offered me a couple of
other things, and finally the secretary of Cultural Re-
sources said, oElinor, ITm going to offer you one more
thing. If you donTt do it, youTre not going to be on any-
thing. You have to be on the Arts Council. ThatTs whatTs
left for me to appoint you to.�
NCL: How did you meet all those people who made appoint-
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ments, etc.? In what capacity would you have met them all?
ES: Because of the activities of my parents, I met a lot of
people in North Carolina who were omovers and shakers�
when I was growing up. People like Albert Coates, and
Frank Graham, and Justin Miller, and folks like that would
visit our home. My mother taught at Greensboro for
several years and knew every Chancellor at UNCG, except
Dr. Mclver, the first president.
We were talking about appointments, and thatTs how I
got on the State Library Commission. And I really didnTt
know then what I should do. But, I did know that when
Governor Martin was selected, and somebody from his
appointments office called and asked if I would like to be
on the Council on the Status of Women. I said, oNo, I
donTt care a thing about the status of women. I would like
to be on the Library Commission, depending on who the
chairman is.� They said, oWould you like to be chairman?�
And I said, oYes.� So, I did not know very much, and I
have always depended on the professional librarians to tell
me what to do.
NCL: Tell me how you got on the National Library Commission.
ES: LetTs see. Because I was a politician, I began going to
Washington with library leaders every Library Day in order
to visit our congresspeople. I knew some of them, and
thatTs why it was a good thing for me to do.
NCL: What would you do when you visited the
congresspeople?
ES: You make appointments ahead of time on Library Day
and hope that they will be in"frequently, they are not in
their offices. You meet with the staff person who would
deal with library issues and give your spiel about why we
need federal money, and why we need federal aid, for the
states, in library development. But the way that I got on
the National Commission " I was up there lobbying, and
they had an event at the Library of Congress. The Chair-
man of the National Commission on Libraries
and Information Science made a speech. I had
never heard of such a thing as the National
Commission on Libraries, and on the way
home (I was riding with the Assistant State
Librarian, Howard McGinn and with John
Welch) I said, oHave we got anybody on that
Commission from North Carolina?� They
said, oNo, we did a long time ago, but we
havenTt anybody now.� And I said, oWell, we
ought to. WeTre the best state library in the
country, and weTre not on that. I believe I
could get on that. I know some people in
Washington who make the appointments.�
A really good friend of mine was working,
at that time, in the Appointments Depart-
ment in the Reagan White House. I had been
on the National Board of Republican Women
for about 10 years, and I knew a lot of lead-
ing, important Republican women across the
country. I had known her for a long time, by
three different names " long enough for her
to have been married several times. I just
called her and said I would like to be on that
commission. You know, I had first called the
commission, and they said, oOh, thatTs very
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National Library Commission. Barbara Bush was recognized for her literacy work;
the group thatTs planning the White House Conference?� I
said I didnTt want to be on that " I wanted to be on the
commission. They told me there was no vacancy on the
commission. And I said, oWell, just put my name down.�
Within about 3 weeks, somebody resigned from that
commission and they called and asked me if I wanted to
be on it. Sure enough, it didnTt take but a couple of
months to get on the National Commission, whereas,
some real solid library people like Jean Simon, Paul
SimonTs wife, worked for more than a year. She wrote all
these letters, got a lot of recommendations, and was so
thrilled when her efforts finally paid off; because she loved
libraries and she knew she could do a lot for them. But, I
just sort of went in the back door, the way I have always.
NCL: How were you chosen to help announce the Year of the
Young Reader?
ES: Well, thereTs a very important man whoTs been in
Washington many, many years named Bill Cochran. I
roomed with his sister in college, and he married the
daughter of my first cousin, so I have known Bill Cochran
since college and since he and Terry Sanford ran the
Graham Memorial while they were in Law School. When
he saw my name on the list of people for his Senate
Committee to approve (his committee oversees the work
of the Library of Congress and all the relations of the
government with the Library of Congress), he said, oWell,
I'll put my friend from North Carolina, on that.� So,
thereTs a reason for everything; and itTs not always because
you're real important.
To become a member of the National Library Commis-
sion, you have to be investigated by the FBI. That was so
funny. Two men came to Salisbury and stayed almost a
week investigating me. They talked to all my friends, and
they asked questions, like, oWould she embarrass the
President?� And all my friends said, oYes, she would dance
with a glass on her head.� Apparently, they didnTt see
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anything harmful about that. My first appointment did
not last too long, so they came back and investigated me
again when I was re-appointed by President Bush. That
time an FBI man came to my house. He said, oThe last
time we investigated you,� (he had a stack of papers,
several inches thick), oa lot of people told us that you
would embarrass the president by dancing. What is this
about a glass on your head?� I went back in the hall where
I had a picture somebody had taken of me with a saucer
and a cup and a beer bottle and candle in the beer bottle
all balanced on my head. I showed it to him, and I said, oIf
you could do that, wouldnTt you do it?� The truth of the
matter is, my head is flat on top, and I donTt have any
trouble balancing things on it.
NCL: You visited the Oval Office during ReaganTs term " right?
ES: I would like to tell you one little story about that visit
to the Oval Office. I had been attending meetings where
the President spoke, and I saw him from a distance. And I
was in Washington for a briefing when the speech writer
and some of the people who planned his schedule told us
about his upcoming trip to Russia. I asked the PresidentTs
speech writer if he would try to insert some of the lines
from oUlysses,� my favorite poem. I thought Reagan could
do that so well. oCome my friends, Ttis not too late to seek
a better world. Push off and sitting well in order, smite the
sounding furrows for my purpose holds to sail beyond the
stars of all the Western Seas until I
die.� He was then the oldest President
that weTve had, and I just could
imagine how he would sound saying
that in his waning months of office.
And I told the speech writer that I
wanted that in one of his speeches.
And then, a few months after that, I
was in Raleigh at the State Republican
Convention when the news came on.
It was President Reagan, giving his
speech to the British Parliament. He
closed saying, oAnd as your poet said,
~Come my friends, ~tis not too late to
build a better world.T� I was so
excited when I heard that, I just
couldnTt believe it. I had tears
streaming down my face.
When I got to the Oval Office a
couple of months after that, the
members of the Year of the Young
Reader committee all went in, shook
hands with the president, and had our pictures made
individually with him. We gave him a tee-shirt for oThe
Year of the Young Reader.� He signed the proclamation,
and the Librarian of Congress said a few words, and the
Secretary of Education said a few words. And Mr. Reagan
said, oWell, I am glad to sign this; because I was a young
reader ...� Everybody stood around, and it got to be real
quiet. Nobody said anything. So I spoke up, oWell, I knew
that you were literary when I heard you quote from
~UlyssesT in your speech to the British Parliament.� And he
said, oWerenTt you nice to remember what I said?�
NCL: What is your secret behind building and maintaining a
network of people.
ES: Well, of course, in any kind of work that you do, the
important thing is the people and the friendships, I think.
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Elinor Swaim & husband, Bill.
ThatTs the main thing thatTs interested me, in every field
that ITve worked in. The wonderful people that I worked
with on the Board of the North Carolina Symphony, like
Paul Green, and people that I wouldnTt have missed
knowing for anything in the world. The same is true of the
library people; you get attached to certain folks. ThatTs
why I have had so much fun going to Library Day. ITm
very fond of a lot of the people who are in the Congress,
and very close friends with some of them.
NCL: | want to know what your lobbying technique is. When
you walk into a CongressmanTs office, what do you do?
ES: Well, if the congressmanTs there, heTll say, oWell, thatTs
just Elinor. But there she is again.� The reason that they
want me to go on these trips is because the congressman
know me, and I know them. And I have had close associa-
tions with them for a long time.
NCL: Do you just come out and tell them what the issue is?
ES: ThatTs right. I have lived in the same house for 35
years, and in the last few years, ITve been in three different
Congressional districts " without moving. You know how
in North Carolina, everybody is connected to everything.
When I was in the 8th District, my congressman was a
Democrat. His administrative assistant was married to the
daughter of one of our dearest employees at Carolina
Maid, one of our ladies who helped run everything there.
ThereTs always a close connection. Like
Bill Cochran, even if heTs the leading
Democrat, he is still my college
roommateTs brother, my second
cousinTs husband; so you canTt escape
the ties that you have back home. And
ITve always had those, with the Demo-
crats and the Republicans.
NCL: Just ElinorTs Web. She spins it
everywhere. What do you think is your
proudest ~library momentT?
ES: There have been a lot of them, a
lot of them connected with my Indian
friends. One was when I saw my
Eskimo friend who was the last Native
American to race in the Iditerod. I had
known him in Washington, where he
had been all dressed up in his three-
piece suit, helping me in the White
House Conference. And then, I saw
him in his fishing clothes " his parka and everything " in
the Eskimo village and speaking the Yupit language. I saw
the tears stream down his face, when we came, and he
couldnTt believe that I had come there with the National
Library Commission. That was a real moment of pleasure
for me.
NCL: Do you see an increasing or a diminishing role for folks
like you, sort of library advocates and activists?
ES: I think you will always need cheerleaders and people
who love to work for libraries. I canTt imagine not needing
all the help we could get, especially in the legislature. I
love to write to my friends in the legislature and in the
Congress about library subjects. ItTs just a real joy to be
able to use your connections, and hope that you do a little
bit of good.
North Carolina Libraries
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by Ralph Lee Scott
Zurfing the Net
ired of those goofy search engines that leave you with
56,789 hits on your topic, when what you need is
seven relevant Internet sites? Try oZurfing� the Net
instead of just plain surfing! ZurfRider is a recently
(1997) developed search tool that can help you make sense
of todayTs confusing Internet searching tools. ZurfRider can
be downloaded from: www.zurf.com. A free download trial
with a 50-search limit is available, while for the fantastic
price of $19.95 you can get an unlimited version.
ZurfRider is a truly revolutionary Internet search tool that
brings the power of dozens of search engines to your desk-
top. The list of things it can do is almost a catalog of search
engine problem-solvers. Instead of having to go from one
search engine to another, ZurfRider calls dozens at once and
then organizes the results together based on content.
ZurfRider automatically verifies that each link is valid before
display; thus you will never go into a dead link again. When
search statements are faulty, ZurfRider prompts you by ask-
ing questions based on your search. For example, if you
search ohto dogs,� ohot dogs� would be suggested as an al-
ternate term. ZurfRider highlights terms that match your
search; thus you never have to wade through canine pages
when looking for ohot dogs.� No more references to sites
such as oItTs Hot in Phoenix Today as the Dogs Get Off the
Plane "ASPCA Provides Gratis Drinking Water for the Ani-
mals.� The software attempts to provide an intelligent inter-
face for the search query. For example, in the ohot dog�
search, ZurfRider was able to determine that this search was
related to: food, eating, and restaurants, but not warm Fidos.
Results were displayed in traditional Windows-grouped fold-
ers for easy sorting. The first site retrieved was a link to the
oTen Top Hot Dog Restaurants.� An embedded window al-
lows the searchers to select the words that most nearly rep-
resent what they are looking for and not select unwanted
terms such as pets, animals, etc.
While ZurfRider is looking over the ~Net, it prompts you
with a status window that tells you how things are going, and
lets you stop at any time. ZurfRider can determine the lan-
guage of the site, and thus eliminate all those references with
the Japanese characters that do not display on your screen.
This software package groups search results into folders when
large numbers are retrieved, and then you can easily discard
folders you do not want to view. You can also store previous
searches for future recall.
The Zurf Incorporated Home Page features a monkey
covering its eyes and suggests that users stop monkeying
around with the Internet and get serious with an intelligent
search engine. The ZurfRider slogan is oShred the Web� im-
plying that the software will zip you to your site with a search
tool that has a brain. ZurfRider is integrated with MS Inter-
North Carolina Libraries
net Explorer for faster results running under Windows95. It
works just fine with NetscapeTs Navigator, but lacks some of
the tight software integration found with Explorer. ZurfRider
is about half the cost of its competitors: QuarterdeckTs
WebCompass 2.0 ($49.95); SymantecTs Fast Find ($49.95); and
ForeFrontTs WebSeeker ($49.95). CompetitorsT software also
lacks many of ZurfRiderTs features. For example, no competi-
tor offers the ability to group related results together or the
intelligent query re-definition feature of ZurfRider.
The package can be purchased only over the Internet
with a credit card. Files are shipped/downloaded in a com-
pressed/zipped format and must be unpacked to install. Af-
ter unzipping, run the file called: zurf.*. Several known bugs
are documented on the www.zurf.com Web site. The most
serious one I encountered occurs when launching a URL. The
user receives the message o" embedded� rather than gaining
access to the URL in the browser. The solution to this error
message is to reinstall the browser. It appears that reinstall-
ing the browser after installing ZurfRider corrects most known
bugs. A oFeedback Form� is also on www.zurf.com for report-
ing additional bugs you encounter. All in all, the software ap-
pears to work well and is amply supported for your $19.95.
Librarians always want to know: oCan I do Boolean search-
ing with ZurfRider?� The answer is yes, but only on those
search engines that allow Boolean operators. Using Boolean
searching will help refine the results, however some systems
do not use these operators, so they cannot always be relied
on. Since ZurfRider allows you to pick and choose search en-
gines that use Boolean operators, you can avoid those en-
gines that do not offer this feature. I think it is always good
to try using the operators and then look over the results. This
is part of redefining your search strategy. In arranging the
search results, ZurfRider always favors those hits that have the
complete phrase, such as ohot dogs,� over those sites that just
have ohot� and odogs� listed. It all depends on what you are
looking for, but ZurfRider is hard to beat! An undesirable fea-
ture is that you cannot print directly from the search screen.
First you have to oSelect Results in Browser,� then you can
print from the browser.
Other interesting things you can do with ZurfRider are
to play its theme music while you surf (Zahn-Perry song en-
titled of course oZurfTs Up!�); learn how to surf efficiently us-
ing a oBeginnerTs Course�; check out the lingo in the
oSurfonary�; and finally visit the ZurfRider mascot, oPhil the
Wonder Dog.� All in all, ZurfRider is quite a deal for $19.95
and also a whole lot of fun! This software actually finds stuff
for you on the Web. It is like a second brain. Perhaps oHal,�
the computer in 2001, has been turned on again and has re-
turned as ZurfRider.
Summer 1998 " 79
____ NORTH CAROLINA
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Dorothy Hodder, Compiler
on F. Sensbach sets the stage for a truly remarkable and revelatory history when he
opines that oif ever a group of European immigrants to American should have been
temperamentally equipped by ancient pedigree to abhor slavery, it was the
Moravians.� Ironically, these former serfs and descendants of fifteenth-century
Czech Protestant Pietists, the Unitas Fratrum, or Unity of Brethren, adopted a
decidedly different stance once in the Piedmont hills of North Carolina.
Once in Wachovia, the name of the one-hundred-thousand-acre plot purchased
from John Carteret, Earl of Granville and lord proprietor for the northern part of
North Carolina, the Moravians reasoned anew about slavery. The drawing of the
divine lot convinced them that earthly slavery, administered
within a framework of brotherly love and respect for fellow
Christians, both black and white, was necessary, at least
Jon F. Sensbach. temporarily, if their community was to survive.
A Sepa rate Canaan: The Moravians were not unacquainted with African
slavery, as it flourished in the West Indies. As early as the
The Making of an Afro-Moravian 1730s, the Moravians were among the first Protestant
World in North Carolina, 1763-1840 missionaries to preach the New Testament Gospel to
ie é
Africans there. Many of these Africans were originally from
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early the West Coast of Africa and sold into slavery in service of
American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia. predominately English, Dutch, Danish, and French colo-
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. nists. Some of these West Indian slaves were later trans-
342 pp. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN 0-8078-2394-5. ported to servitude in the New World. Such was the plight
Paper, $17.95. ISBN 0-8078-4698-8. of the first Afro-Moravian in North Carolina, Sam, a
76 " Summer 1998
Mandingo, later christened Johann Samuel. Sensbach
chronicles the milestones in the life of Johann, including
his capture in West Africa, his initial servitude in the West
Indies and Virginia, his christening in 1771 in North
Carolina, his marriage to Maria in 1780, their emancipation in 1800, their banish-
ment from the church in 1813, and, finally, their deaths near Bethania in 1821.
The provocative title of SensbachTs fascinating history derives from the different
interpretations that black and white Christians have attached to the Gospel. He
explains that European Christian immigrants perceived America as a new Israel.
Afro-Christian slaves, on the other hand, saw America as merely another Egypt"
simply substitute African slaves for Israelites. Enslaved African Americans in
Wachovia osaw clear parallels between their own tribulations and the struggle of
the Israelites to escape Egyptian bondage and regain freedom in Canaan.� These
German-speaking Afro-Moravians were searching for a ousable faith� that would
allow them to sustain their particular and separate vision of salvation, or Canaan,
in the Piedmont hills or the West Indian tropical forests.
The very last sentence of the oAfterword� in SensbachTs history of the
Afro-Moravian religious experience in North Carolina is totally unexpected in
view of the rough road that black Moravians have had to walk in their search for a
separate Canaan. We are totally caught off-guard with the simple statistic that
olo]f the approximately half-million Moravians worldwide, three quarters are of
African descent.�
This evenhandedly written and painstakingly researched testament belongs on
the shelves of every academic library throughout the country and every public
library in North Carolina, where students and citizens turn for a clearer understand-
ing of the sometimes distinctly separate roles of religion in American life.
" Plummer Alston Jones, Jr.
Catawba College
North Carolina Libraries
n Homebody, Card does a oSteven King� better than King has done in a very long time. He
peoples the Bellamy house, a derelict Victorian house in GreensboroTs College Hill area, with
Don, a man with a tragic past; Sylvie, a homeless ex-library school student with some very
strange powers; and Miz Judea, Miz Evelyn, and Gladys, three ancient ladies-of-the-evening
whoTve been trying to escape from the house for over 60 years. The supernatural bubbles just
under the surface from the first page to the last. One never quite knows whoTs real, whoTs not, or
even who's on the side of olight� and whoTs on the side of odark.�
Readers of CardTs well-known science fiction (EnderTs Game and its sequels
among others) or fantasy (Seventh Son and its sequels) will find this book very
different in style, mood, and theme. On the other hand, fans of 1992Ts more
Orson Scott Card. mainstream Lost Boys will find themselves back in familiar territory. So will
fs anyone who lives in Greensboro. Trips to the Friendly Center Harris-Teeter
Homebody : A Novel. and to fast-food-row on Wendover at I-40 for drive-through cuisine anchor
New York: HarperCollins, 1998. Don, and the reader, to a very concrete and specific reality. Meanwhile,
291 pp. $24.00. ISBN 0-06-017655-S. developments within the house cause Don to re-think and re-adjust to a
constantly changing set of possibilities. One tiny quibble, for the librarians in
the audience: Card is deeply confused as to what constitutes library school.
Sylvie appears to have been finishing her Ph.D. in library science at UNC-G,
her senior paper being on othe system of filing active documents during World War II.� Also,
SylvieTs roommate, Lissy, who escapes flunking out of undergraduate school by stealing other
peopleTs work, manages to assume SylvieTs identity and degree, reporting for work at SylvieTs first
professional job without benefit of a day of said library school.
It is a shame that Cindy, the tough-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside, real estate agent who
helps Don acquire the Bellamy house, doesnTt have a more integral part throughout the story. She
starts out a wonderful, strong, and complicated character and then simply disappears midway
through the book. She is much more appealing than Sylvie, who dominates the second half.
This suspenseful and at times truly spooky story will ring oh-so-true to anyone who has ever
renovated an old house, or with anyone who has really loved and felt particularly safe in their per-
sonal space. I know my house can move things like hammers and hide things like nails when it feels
itTs been neglected too long. Why, just last week I found the kitchen flashlight in the strangest place ....
" Rebecca Taylor
New Hanover County Public Library
im Crow laws " the vague set of rules and laws which institutionalized discrimination in the
early part of this century " are what Leon Tillage grew up with in Fuquay, North Carolina.
Separate water fountains, eating places, the Ku Klux Klan, and the pervasive attitude, even
among many Black people, that ocolored� were inferior to whites, is the reality that Leon lived
with every day, and teaches about on every page of this small book.
Leon, now in his 70s, works as a custodian in Maryland. His willingness to share the story
of his childhood has earned him deserved recognition in that state. Susan Roth heard his story
from her young daughter and urged Tillage to allow her to help him publish his account. The
result is this story, illustrated by RothTs simple collages.
LeonTs Story will undoubtedly be required reading for sixth grade and up
for the forseeable future. Young people who are learning about Jim Crow laws,
Leon Walter Tillage and Susan Roth. sharecropping, and the struggle against discrimination will read this book as
7 accompaniment to textbooks.
Leon's $ tory . Will they like it? Probably not. This book is broccoli without cheese sauce.
Told from the point of view of a very pragmatic old man, the story will come
across as preachy to the average middle-schooler. Tillage is certainly correct
when he implies that he had it tough and kids today have it much easier, but
when he uses the phrase ocheap� when referring to his Christmas gifts and
(no kidding ) describes his four-mile walk to school in the freezing cold, heTs
gonna lose some young readers.
There is not a laugh or smile to be found in this book. Neither is there a tear. Tillage describes
his fatherTs violent death matter-of-factly, in just a few sentences. Circumstances and laws are the
stuff of this oral history, not feelings. Readers may wonder if Leon Tillage has more stories to tell:
warm stories or funny stories. And wonder, too, whether Susan Roth colored the telling with more
than her collages.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
107 pp. $14.00. ISBN 0-374-34379-9.
"Jan Brewington
New Hanover County Public Library
North Carolina Libraries Summer 1998 " 77
hese two Ashe County books share a common focus and both mirror the Foxfire tradition: you get moun-
tain people to write or talk about how life used to be. Here Appalachian men and women, from out there
where North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee meet, tell about clearing new ground, hog killing, home fu-
nerals, canning, one-room schools and really hard work out-of-doors. The books seem to complement the
earlier McFarland imprint Southern Appalachia, 1885-1915 by Roy E. Thomas.
Zetta Barker Hamby, who died in 1997 as her book was going to press, wrote an illustrated memoir that
serves well as an ethnography of her mountain culture. Her editors have preserved the charm of her manuscript
and included her pen-and-ink illustrations of farmstead artifacts. There are a number of fine photographs including
a crucial 1925 newspaper photograph of her elementary school pupils provided by the Forsyth County Public Li-
brary. The changes that technology made during her lifetime unfold before us. She went from trading chickens for
Zetta Barker Hamby.
Memoirs of Grassy Creek:
Growing Up in the Mountains
on the Virginia-
North Carolina Line.
Contributions to Southern Appalachian
Studies, 1. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co.,
1997. 256 pp. $25.00. ISBN 0-7864-0416-7.
Leland R. Cooper and Mary Lee Cooper.
The Pond Mountain Chronicle:
Self-Portrait of a Southern
Appalachian Community.
Contributions to Southern Appalachian
Studies, 2. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co.,
1997. 240 pp. $25.00. ISBN 0-7864-0391-8.
cloth to flying in a jet airplane to Hawaii. Her father and other men used
the community telephone party line to pose recreational math problems
and discuss their solutions, much like todayTs Internet chat rooms.
The Coopers came to their Pond Mountain community after writing
Hungarians in Transition and completing careers in higher education. They
began collecting oral history interviews from their neighbors while restoring
a traditional mountain farmhouse. Like Zetta Barker Hamby, several of their
informants are now deceased. The Coopers used a very simple and non-
threatening set of questions to encourage their subjects. Some examples are:
oWhat is your earliest memory?� and oDo you produce some of your food?�
The informants had an opportunity to correct written copies of their histo-
ries. There are thirty-two interviews printed here. SubjectsT ages range from
35 to 94 years, and they talk about topics such as when they had to move
away to get factory work, their religious conservatism, the history of some of
the older buildings and families. You can also read of their frustration with
absentee sportsman tract holders and the New River land developers.
In The Pond Mountain Chronicle there are allusions to the establish-
ment, training and command structure of volunteer fire departments and
rescue squads, coexisting as they do with the historically dominant de-
nominations of the mountains. They would be an interesting subject for
another ora! history in this series.
Both of these books are good source material for Appalachian cultural
history. Both are well-indexed and well-made paperbound monographs.
" Philip P. Banks
Asheville-Buncombe Library System
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North Carolina Libraries
ighty-one-year-old Viola Bagg, the heroine of Empire Under Glass, finds
herself trapped underwater beneath the windshield of the small plane in
which she had been riding during a brief excursion from her retirement
home " where she has been living, for some recent weeks, under an
assumed identity. Instead of panicking and upsetting the structure that
contains her air supply, she delicately searches her purse, applies some
makeup, breathes lightly, and reviews the course of her long and unusual life.
We begin on a strange island in the Indian Ocean called Wallawalhalla, where ViolaTs
mother died when she was only an infant. Stranger still, Viola was born literally with two
left feet. Both phenomena help to define her and temper her outlook on life.
They also correlate with her personal failures " to recover that mother, to
reconstruct a lost recipe for Empire cake, to avoid disaster at Wallawalhalla,
to understand her husband and daughter, to find a comfortable indepen-
5 dence from the people in her life.
Empir e Under Glass. It could all be so dull but it never is, given author Julian AndersonTs
imagination and humor. Wallawalhalla itself is a marvelous creation " an
island vacated by natives, sparsely populated by assorted citizens of the
British Empire who endure oppressive heat, legendary owhite ants� (remark-
ably ravenous termites), and sulfurous fumes from the volcano at the far end
of the island. After a bewildering girlhood in Canada, Viola returns to
Wallawalhalla with her friend, Jenny, to do clerical work on an archaeologi-
cal dig. Their hosts are JennyTs exceptionally beautiful (and evil) uncle Roddy and his
pathetically incompetent wife. Another resident is the odd, wounded veteran Harry Bagg,
who marries Viola despite the gossip linking her to the murder that breaks just as the
volcano erupts and scatters the residents of Wallawalhalla to the four winds.
The second major setting is Conflux, North Carolina, home of ViolaTs daughter, a
bright but good-natured slob who marries a bee-keeping academic, and of the Sunset
Home, where Viola retreats after failing to fit in with MarjorieTs unlovable family. Most
interesting about Viola is the ways in which she errs in her relationships with her kin " she
sometimes says the wrong thing at the wrong time, and she sometimes fibs in her own
favor, as those with two left feet might be expected to do.
The fun at Sunset Home grows out of ViolaTs friendship with the elegant Evangeline
Ypsilanti, a sophisticated international who becomes ViolaTs weekly chess partner (and who
usually wins). When Evangeline comes to tea at MarjorieTs house she charms the whole
family, leaving Viola lamely competing for attention. Even ViolaTs bee sting is overshad-
owed by EvangelineTs stroke and dramatic transport to the care facility.
Viola Bagg is an endearing character because she is a good human being " frequently
fallible, unconsciously comic, consciously kind, and ultimately noble. As the novel reveals
more and more about her, the authorTs ohook� grows more and more effective: the reader
has to know what finally becomes of this remarkable old lady. Will the glass fall aside? Will
she run out of air? What finally happens to people like Viola? Read the book.
Julian Anderson was raised near Durham, North Carolina and earned an M.A. degree in
English in 1989 at Ohio State University. She has published in The Southern Review, The
Journal, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine. She currently lives in Columbus,
Ohio. Empire Under Glass won the AWP second-place prize for a work of first fiction in 1994.
Recommended for public and academic libraries.
Julian Anderson.
Boston: Faber and Faber, 1996.
299 pp. $23.95. ISBN: 0-571-19884-8.
" Rose Simon
Salem College
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eaceful, remote getaway for the city-weary, or ravaged, overdeveloped playground for the
rich? The fate of High Haven hangs in the balance in Marian CoeTs latest book. This is
her second novel; her first novel, Legacy, won two national awards in 1994. Coe, formerly
a staff writer for the St. Petersburg (FL) Times, brings her skills as a seasoned travel writer
to this story of textile tycoon A.Z. Kingston, a Sean Connery look-alike. After the myste-
rious disappearance of his wife, Eve, from the Ridgecrest Inn, A.Z. buys the mountain above
the inn to preserve her memory. Forty years after EveTs disappearance, A.Z. returns to the
mountain to recuperate from a stroke. Several newcomers arrive eager to call on him, but are
held off by A.Z.Ts cold and calculating daughter, Tory, who has designs of
her own for EveTs mountain. His recovery is.impeded while his nurse
Marian Coe. contends with the domineering daughter. Selena, the nurse, gets little
help from ToryTs noncommittal older brother, Zack, who is too preoccu-
/ he
EveTs Mountain: pied with his own hang-ups to pay much attention to ToryTs under-
A Novel of Passion and __ "anded schemes.
The novel is richly layered with interwoven subplots that merge at
Mystery in the Blue Ridge. the end. The scenes are well-crafted with detail and dialogue that render
place, character, and conversation with artful ease. Coe does depart from
Banner Elk, N.C.: South Lore Press, 1998 the action of the story in what amounts to a treatise on keeping develop-
362 pp. $14.95. ISBN 0-9633341-5-8 ment from spoiling the pristine beauty of the Blue Ridge and the lifestyle
of native dwellers. A later scene depicting the reactions of local people to
the invasion of television reporters suffices to develop her theme of
preservation.
As is so often true with the mystery novel, the twists and turns of the
plot happen at the expense of character development, which flows from charactersT attempts
to resolve inner dilemmas when the author is inclined to pursue them. As long as this limita-
tion can be overlooked for the sake of anticipating the resolution, readers will enjoy this book.
Public libraries will want to offer this selection for summer reading. If a real vacation is still far
around the bend, this book could be the next best thing.
"Helen Kluttz
Student in LIS program at UNC-Greensboro
eing fifteen is hard, just ask anyone. Being fifteen in a dying cotton mill town without a
future is even harder, just ask Tollie Ramsey. In Constance PierceTs award-winning first
novel, Hope Mills, we live the summer of 1959 through Tollie and those around her. More
than just a coming-of-age story, Hope Mills is about becoming and overcoming.
PierceTs fictional town of Hope Mills, like the real town, is on a lake, near a military
base, on the Cape Fear River, not too distant a drive from both Chapel Hill and Raleigh.
The summer is hot, dry, and dusty, with imagery so vivid the reader will want a cool drink
nearby. The town is dying by inches as Easy-Care fabric muscles cotton aside. The mill rats
(children of the mill workers), occupy the lowest layer in the White social strata, and the
closing of the mill means their already bleak future just got worse. Tollie is bright and eager and
dreams of going to college, while still painfully aware of her surroundings. In addition to her
own problems, she deals daily with her motherTs suicidal depression and
her stepfatherTs quiet desperation. Tollie and her capricious best friend
Lilly drift apart, but are drawn back together over the course of the
Constance Pierce. summer and the trials each face alone and together. Tollie and her
Ho pe Mills. mother Janice are torn apart by JaniceTs disease, but manage to find their
way back to one another as well. Through her struggles, Tollie is on her
Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1997. way to becoming something more than her circumstances.
311 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-916366-82-0. Pierce is able to handle tough issues like racial tension, teen preg-
80 " Summer 1998
nancy, and depression (both economic and social) with grace and
dignity. She uses the third person narrator to keep Tollie, Lilly, and
Janice at armTs length until the final chapter, told in TollieTs voice. Once allowed inside, the
reader shares TollieTs palpable sense of hope and optimism. Although this is a first novel, it is
not the first published work by this author. Pierce, who holds a masterTs degree in English from
East Carolina University, has a collection of short fiction (When Things Get Back to Normal,
1986) and an epic poem (Phillippe at His Bath, 1983), both of which demonstrate the authorTs
gift for strong characters and vivid description. This novel would be an asset to any fiction
collection and is especially appropriate for public libraries.
" Lisa D. Smith
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
North Carolina Libraries
orth CarolinaTs coastal defenses from Cape Lookout to Currituck Banks fell one by one to
invading United States forces between the autumn of 1861 and the spring of 1862. From
then until the close of the Civil War, the stateTs mainland lying along and to the east of the
estuaries of the White Oak, Neuse, Pamlico, Roanoke, and Chowan rivers, as well as the
Outer Banks, was effectively occupied by federal forces and cut off from regular communica-
tion with the rest of the state. As a result, many families were split between the occupied
and the unoccupied zone of eastern North Carolina. At the same time, the federally occupied zone
provided a safe haven for the thousands of slaves who slipped from their ownersT plantations and
into the area behind federal lines. The geographical setting for this study of those troubled times is
primarily the Outer Banks from Cape Lookout to Currituck Banks,
though the author includes some data from the mainland ports in
the northern sector of the outer coastal plain. Similarly, he expands
Fred M. Mallison. his time frame by providing three chapters in which he discusses
gi antebellum and postbellum conditions on the Banks. Otherwise the
The Civil War on the Outer Banks. heart of this aaee which was presumably an outgrowth of the
authorTs masterTs thesis at East Carolina University, is a chronological
account of Civil War military operations and some effects of federal
occupation of the stateTs sounds and barrier islands.
It is a delicate business to attempt an historical study of what
amounts to no more than a sliver taken from a much larger area
undergoing a common experience. The extent to which events
within a selected area can be elaborated and the extent to which related events outside the selected
area can be lightly reported without causing othe tail to wag the dog� is a problem constantly con-
fronting the author. Mr. Mallison deals valiantly with this problem while drawing from a large body
of sources rich in official reports, newspaper reports, anecdotes, contemporary testimony, and
retrospective regimental histories. He is generally successful in striking the necessary balance, but he
is less successful in separating the essential from the nonessential in his sources. There are a few
occasions when it seems difficult for the author to avoid telling us some things with but little rela-
tionship to the text just because, apparently, the information was available to him. On the other
hand, the text sometimes builds to a point that is never made, or is made on a subsequent page, or is
allusively made in succeeding chapters. We are told, for example, that charges were pressed against
Colonel Draper of the 2nd North Carolina Colored Volunteers for onine counts of violations of
military law� during federal operations in northern Currituck County, but not the outcome. Admiral
GoldsboroughTs effort to close Hatteras and Ocracoke Inlets by blocking them with stone-filled hulks
is recounted in chapter four, but the effect is not revealed (though allusions in chapter eight and in
the epilogue hint at lack of success).
One wishes rather more had been reported concerning the black settlement on Roanoke Island,
at least to the extent of incorporating testimony from the Brief History of the Slave Life of Rev. L. R.
Ferebee (1882). One also wishes the author had been able to illustrate his text with the contemporary
drawings of the cousins Edwin Graves Champney and James Wells Champney, made while they were
stationed with federal forces on the Outer Banks.
Some parts of MallisonTs text flow smoothly and read easily, while other parts are turgid and
make for tough going. A good editor would have been of inestimable service. This study will probably
be more useful as a reference resource in academic and special libraries than as oa good read� for the
casual reader.
Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc.,
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n 1885, twenty years after general emancipation, black newspaper editor, politician,
educator, and businessman George Allen Mebane proposed writing a 300-page book
called oThe Prominent Colored Men of North Carolina.� The book was to include
biographical sketches of 200 of the stateTs leading black businessmen and politicians and
would document what Mebane termed othe progress of the race� from 1860 to 1885. To
gather information for his volume, Mebane circulated a detailed questionnaire to those
would-be subjects of the biographical sketches. He included questions such as whether their
parents had been freedmen or slaves before the war, the extent of their schooling, their
occupations, and the amount of property they owned.
Mebane never completed his study of prominent black North Carolinians, but this
invaluable primary document, as well as tax records, business directories, credit ratings, and
census reports, served as grist for the mill of historian Robert Kenzer in preparing his fine
study, Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina, 1865-1915. Dr. Kenzer
is Associate Professor of History at the University of Richmond
and is the author of Kinship and Neighborhood in a Southern
Community: Orange County, North Carolina, 1849-1881 (Knoxville:
University of Tennessee Press, 1987).
nie Dr. Kenzer confirms that African Americans who were
Enter, prising Southerners: already free before the Civil War enjoyed greater economic
° ° success than their newly freed counterparts. He asserts, however,
Black Economic Success in that his research does not support lingering theories that othe
North Carolina, 1865-1915. heritage of slavery� had an adverse effect on the economic
¢ performance of blacks. Rather, he posits that the lack of capital
Robert C. Kenzer.
Carter G. Woodson Institute and poorly developed markets were the likely economic barriers.
Series in Black Studies. Dr. Kenzer also studied the comparative economic status of blacks
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. and mulattoes during this period, finding that, with very few
208 pp. $30.00 cloth. ISBN 0-8139-1733-6. exceptions, in every North Carolina county the economic status
of mulattoes was owell above� that of blacks. Although mulattoes
generally were wealthier than blacks, blacks were omore than
twice as likely ... to form two-member partnerships.� The author
suggests that one reason it was more necessary for blacks to take on partners may have been
that they generally possessed less capital than their mulatto counterparts.
Without setting out specifically to do so, Enterprising Southerners also serves as a rich
catalog of names that are an integral part of the economic, social, and political history of
North Carolina. Extensive chapter notes, selected bibliography, tables, charts, nine photo-
graphs, and an index provide further direction for interested readers.
Enterprising Southerners contributes a valuable chapter to the economic history of North
CarolinaTs black population. It is a carefully-researched, scholarly work, and as such would be
most suitable to academic or larger public libraries.
" Bryna Coonin
D. H. Hill Library, North Carolina State University
North Carolina ChildrenTs Book Award
The North Carolina Association of School Librarians and the ChildrenTs Services Section of the North Carolina Library
Association are pleased to announce that the book Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink, written by Diane DeGroat, has
won the seventh annual NC ChildrenTs Book Award, Picture Book Award, and the book, Shiloh Season, by Phyllis Naylor,
has won the fourth annual Junior Book Award.
The Picture Book Award honors a picture book, suitable for grades K-3, and is selected by the children themselves. Over
122,000 children throughout the state of North Carolina voted during the month of March for their favorite book from
a list of previously nominated titles. Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink received more than 22,600 of the votes cast.
Many of North CarolinaTs public school systems participated, as well as public libraries and private schools.
This award, sponsored by the ChildrenTs Services and School LibrariansT sections of the North Carolina Library Associa-
tion, is intended to broaden studentsT awareness of current literature, to promote reading aloud with students in the
early grades as a means of introducing reading as a pleasure, and to give recognition and honor of childrenTs favorite
books and authors. :
The purpose of the Junior Book Award is to encourage students in grades 4 through 6 to become better acquainted with
noteworthy writers of contemporary books, to broaden their awareness of literature as a means of personal satisfaction
and lifelong pursuit, and to give recognition and honor to their favorite books and authors. Shiloh Season received
almost 4,300 of the 17,000 votes cast.
These awards will be presented during the NCASL Conference in the fall of 1998 in Winston-Salem, NC. For further
information, please call Jackie Pierson at 336-945-5163 (Vienna Elem., Winston-Salem/Forsyth Cty. Schools) or Frances
Lampley at 910-662-2250, Southeast Regional Public Library).
82 " Summer 1998 North Carolina Libraries
OTHER PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST ...
Elizabeth Daniels Squire recounts absentminded amateur sleuth Peaches DannTs fifth adven-
ture in Is There a Dead Man in the House? (1998; Berkley Publishing Group, Penguin
Putnam, Inc., 200 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016; 244 pp.; paper, $5.99; ISNB 0-425-
16142-0.) PeachesT unpredictable Pop elopes with Azalea Marlowe, an exotic widow from
Tennessee. When Azalea falls from a possibly booby-trapped ladder in the historic house she
is restoring, Peaches and her imperturbable husband, Ted, find themselves racing to unravel
100-year-old family secrets before they cause more present heartache. As usual, Peaches and
Ted are a treat, with their solid good sense, good manners, and good marriage to sustain
them through mayhem unimagined by most middle-aged people.
After nearly twenty years of helping fourth graders with North Carolina history assignments,
Beverly Tetterton, Local History Librarian at New Hanover County Public Library, compiled
the North Carolina County Fact Book, Volume I, with the assistance of husband Glenn
Tetterton, a veteran of high school history classrooms. (1998; BroadfootTs of Wendell, 6624
Robertson Pond Rd, Wendell, NC 27591; vi, 153 pp.; cloth, $25.00; ISBN 1-56837-359-7.) The
first volume covers Alamance through Jackson counties, with Johnston through Yancey soon
to follow in Volume II. Each county is covered in two to three pages, with listings for
location, origin, latitude and longitude, total area and land area, physical features, river
basins, climate, population, form of government, county seat, early inhabitants, other
towns/cities, highways, agricultural products, industrial products, minerals, parks, landmarks
and historic sites, cultural institutions, festivals and annual events, higher education,
newspapers, notable people, odds and ends, read more about it, and chambers of commerce.
Entries are illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. A glossary and bibliogra-
phy are included. A must for school and public library reference shelves.
Victoria Logue, Frank Logue, and Nicole Blouin have compiled an attractive, compact Guide
to the Blue Ridge Parkway (1997; Menasha Ridge Press, 700 South 28th St., Suite 206,
Birmingham, AL 35233; 146 pp.; paper, $12.95; ISBN 0-89732-141-3.) Although the book is
arranged by parkway milepost numbers, the emphasis is on the flora, fauna, folklore, and
history of the territory. Outstanding color photographs will whet the travelerTs appetite, and
the Blue Ridge Parkway Bloom Calendar included as an appendix will be appreciated by
wildflower enthusiasts and allergy sufferers alike. Libraries collecting hiking guides will also
want to be aware of The New Appalachian Trail, by Edward B. Garvey (1997; Menasha
Ridge Press, 700 South 28th St., Suite 206, Birmingham, AL 35233; x, 306 pp.; paper, $14.95;
ISBN 0-89732-209-6), and A Season on the Appalachian Trail, by Lynn Setzer (1997;
Menasha Ridge Press, 700 South 28th St., Suite 206, Birmingham, AL 35233; xviii, 190 pp.;
paper, $14.95; ISBN 0-89732-234-7).
John Dixon Davis has edited and published A Civil War Diary by Sergeant Henry S. Lee, Co.
B 10 Regt., Arty & Engrs, a native of Craven County. The diary was passed from LeeTs descen-
dants to the father of the publisher, and has never been published before. The period covered
by the diary is from January 1863 through May 1864, while Sergeant Lee was in camp near
Kinston. Davis has added notes, correspondence, epilogue, bibliography, and maps, and
includes two facsimile pages from the diary. (1997; Craggy Mountain Press, P.O. Box 55,
Black Mountain, NC 28711; xv, 124 pp.; paper, $18.00 plus tax and postage; ISBN 0-9661946-
0-8.)
Frances H. Casstevens is the author of The Civil War and Yadkin County, North Carolina
(1997; McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640; 298 pp.; cloth,
$45.00 plus postage; ISBN 0-7864-0288-1.) She has included contemporary photographs and
letters, home guard activity, a roster of militia officers, the names of Yadkin men at
Appomattox, and 1,200 Confederate Army and Navy service records with parents, vital dates,
and place of burial for most. Includes photographs, bibliography, and index.
The Institute of Government announces two publications: the second edition of Eminent
Domain Procedure for North Carolina Local Governments by Ben F. Loeb, Jr. (1984, 1998;
Institute of Government, CB#3330 Knapp Building, The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3330; v, 120 pp.; paper, $12.00 plus tax; ISBN 1-56011-
311-1), and the 1997 Supplement to Arrest, Search, and Investigation in North Carolina,
second edition, by Robert L. Farb (1998; Institute of Government, CB#3330 Knapp Building,
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3330; ix, 130 pp.;
paper, $12.00 plus tax; ISBN 1-56011-312-X).
North Carolina Libraries Summer 1998 " 83
compiled by Plummer Alston Jones, Jr.
*Lagniappe (lan-yapT, lan� yapT) n. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. [Louisiana French]
Collection Development on the Web?
Yes, Try EvaluTech!
by Angela Leeper
hether it is clowns or Congress, slugs or endan-
gered species, pizza or sex education, educators
now can find resources on these topics as well
as numerous others through EvaluTech, a keyword-search-
able database that features reviews of prekindergarten
through grade 12 educational and professional print,
nonprint, and technology resources. These reviews come
directly from InfoTech: The Advisory List, a bi-monthly
publication that is sent to all North Carolina public
schools. A joint effort by the Southern Regional Education
Board (SREB) and the North Carolina Department of
Public Instruction (NCDPI), EvaluTech is located on the
Web at http://www. EvaluTech.sreb.org.
The beginning sparks of EvaluTech occurred in fall
1996, when SREB began investigating ways to have
software evaluated. With NCDPI'Ts thirty-plus yearsT
experience in evaluating educational resources, it was a
logical choice when SREB chose to explore NCDPITs
services. State representatives from SREB toured NCDPITs
Evaluation Center in May 1997, and expressed a desire to
have electronic access to all of NCDPITs reviews, not just
software. Bill Thomas, Director of Instructional Technol-
ogy for SREB, recognized that the value of NCDPITs
educational reviews stems from othe process behind the
evaluation, from the quality of criteria implemented to the
thorough training that evaluators receive.�
The staff at NCDPI also realized the value of a Web site
with a searchable database. With the ever-gaining presence
of the Internet, a Web site brings unprecedented exposure
to NCDPITs evaluation services. More importantly, a
searchable database alleviates the need to rely on the
staffTs collective memory, which, depending on who is in
the office, the time of day, and the amount of caffeine
recently consumed, can vary significantly. Media special-
ists, teachers, and even parents now can access EvaluTech
and formulate their own searches to questions such as,
oWhat are some recommended algebra software pro-
grams?,� without having to call NCDPI each time.
The EvaluTech Web site was launched officially in
February 1998. The site contains two yearsT worth of
evaluations at all times as well as evaluation criteria,
professional resources for selection and collection develop-
ment, and frequently asked questions. The mainstay of
84 " Summer 1998
EvaluTech, however, is its searchable database. From the
homepage, it can be accessed through the link, oSearch
Reviews of Instructional Materials.� Search fields include:
authorTs last name, title, publisher or producer, series,
copyright date, grade, subject area, lexile level range, data
format, keywords, and InfoTech issue date. These fields
may be searched separately or combined (e.g., social
studies as a subject area and print as a data format). To
enter a search, click the oSubmit� button at the top or
bottom of the screen. A click on the oReset� button clears
all of the search fields to begin a new search.
When searching by authorTs last name, title, publisher
or producer, or series, only a portion of the name or title is
required. A search on oadler� in the author field, for
example, produces resources by authors David Adler and
A.E. Sadler. Note that the last name Sadler contains the
letter combination oadler.� Similarly, a search on owar� in
the title field delivers titles such as Young People from
Bosnia Talk About War and Persian Gulf War Almanac as
well as Andy Warhol and Global Warming.
The copyright date, grade, subject area, data format,
and InfoTech issue date fields all have drop-down boxes for
easy access. Although most evaluations come from re-
sources with recent copyright dates (the current and
previous year), some resources such as second language
materials do not meet these parameters. All copyright
dates or a specific year may be searched. Grade level is
broken down into three categories: PreK-5, 6-12, and
Professional. Either an individual category or all grade
levels can be searched. Likewise, all subjects or individual
curriculum areas (e.g., science, workforce development,
arts education) are searchable. A search by data format
may be limited by the following formats: AV, Print,
Software MAC, Software MAC/WIN, Software WIN, Web
Site, or Other (e.g., kits). To obtain everything that will
run on a MAC or PC, users should search on Software
MAC/WIN.
Another way to search for reviews is by lexile level,
which is a reading level. Most North Carolina educators
are familiar with lexile levels, but for users not acquainted
with them, a help screen from the search page briefly
explains how lexile levels correlate to grade levels. A
search on a lexile level range of 900 through 1000, for
North Carolina Libraries
example, would result in resources that are approximately
at a sixth grade level. This manner of searching is espe-
cially useful when finding materials for students who read
above or below their grade level (e.g., a first grader or
eighth grader who reads at a third grade level). Since lexile
levels do not necessarily reflect content or age-appropriate-
ness, educators should read reviews carefully when
matching lexile and grade levels. In addition to lexile level
descriptions, the help screen gives strategies or clarifica-
tions for each search field such as explanations of subject
identified in the author location. Encyclopedias, dictionar-
ies, or other print resources that are compiled by multiple
writers and editors use oPRINT� as the author. Clicking on
a specific title takes the user directly to the evaluation of
that resource.
Each review begins with a section in bold that con-
tains bibliographic and purchasing information (See
example). This bolded section also includes the grade
levels and subject area for which the resource is best
suited. The evaluation itself comes after this information.
areas (e.g., circle of
childhood is described as
early childhood).
The driving force of
EvaluTechTs searchable
database is its keyword
field, comprised of over
1,000 keywords from LC
terminology, curriculum
terms (e.g., problem
solving, cumulative tales,
community helpers), and
everyday language (e.g.,
slime, coming of age, first
day of school). Either a
word or phrase can be
entered into the keyword
field, and the Boolean
operators AND or OR may
be applied. If assistance is
InfoTech Review
Incredible Comparisons
Ash, Russell. Incredible Comparisons. Illustrated by Dominic
Zwemmer and Dorian Spencer Davies, art eds. 63 p. $19.95.
DK, 1996. (ISBN 0-7894-1009-5) [3-10, MATH]
This fascinating, and indeed, incredible book uses drawings,
some fold-out, to help readers gain a realistic perspective of the
size, speed, and capabilities of living and non-living matter. For
example, students can visualize and understand the relativity of
size from something as large as the universe to microscopic
organisms, while scale drawings of well-known animals lined
end to end show the true size of the Diplodocus. Readers of all
ages will find it hard to close this well-organized and attractive
oversized book of interesting facts, comparisions, and illustra-
tions. Index. (An Eisenhower Review) [SCI] LL 1130
Keywords: comparisons, math skills
Subject Areas: Mathematics, Science
It may conclude with
additional abbreviations
of subject area tie-ins or
the lexile level, abbrevi-
ated as oLL.� As previ-
ously mentioned, users
can find assistance with
subject areas on the
help screen. Towards
the end of the review,
users also may find the
designation, oAn
Eisenhower Review,�
meaning that the review
was completed by
specially trained math
and science teachers
through NCDPITs
Eisenhower Fellows for
Resource Review
needed in choosing a
keyword, a list of keywords
is available through a link on the help screen. Like the
author and title fields, a keyword letter combination may
find records that contain keywords with the same combi-
nation of letters. A search on the keyword owomen,� for
example, also will find reviews with the keywords
owomenTs issues,� owomenTs rights,� and owomenTs
suffrage.� The following words or topics also can be
searched: names of people as keywords (by last name, first
name) such as Edison, Thomas or Morrison, Toni; award-
winning books such as Newberry Honor Books, BBYA (Best
Books for Young Adults), or Coretta Scott King Awards;
award-winning illustrators (by last name, first name) such
as Ransome, James or McCully, Emily Arnold; words with
multiple spellings, such as rainforests or rain forests; as
well as the terms multicultural, early readers, and autobi-
ographies (biography is a subject area).
Once a search has been submitted, a oSearch Results�
screen appears. This screen recaps the search criteria the
user applied, the total number of reviews found, and a
multi-celled box that lists the author, title, series (if
applicable), publisher or producer, copyright date, lexile
level (if applicable), format, and InfoTech issue date for
each review. For nonprint materials such as software
programs that do not have an author, oNONPRINT� is
program. The entire
evaluation is followed
by a list of related keywords and subject areas. Media
specialists and teachers, who then perform searches on
these keywords and subject areas, will find similar titles to
fill gaps in media center collections or to develop special-
ized units.
Although anyone can utilize EvaluTech, North Caro-
lina media specialists hold a clear advantage over educa-
tors in other SREB states. They already have a history with
InfoTech, the basis of EvaluTech, and understand the
terminology in the evaluations, whether it is references to
the Standard Course of Study or lexile levels. EvaluTech
allows NCDPI to expand its services to North Carolina
schools, and according to Frances Bradburn, Section Chief
of NCDPITs Evaluation Services, oEvaluTech provides media
specialists with more opportunities to match students and
resources.� Before teachers come asking for more resources
to use during Black History month or Web sites featuring
online projects, media specialists and public librarians will
find it worthwhile to take time during the summer lull to
explore EvaluTech, North CarolinaTs powerful new collec-
tion development tool.
" Angela Leeper is EvaluTech/SL] Editor at
Education Resources Evaluation Services of the
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
Credit Where Credit Is Due...
Carol Truett, co-author of the article, and the editors of North Carolina Libraries wish to offer apologies to
Dr. Cheryl Knight, Associate Professor at Appalachian State University, for inadvertently leaving her name
off of the article oTechnology Use in North Carolina Public Schools: The School Library Media Specialist
Plays a Major Role� which appeared in the Spring 1997 issue of the journal. Dr. Knight not only co-
authored the article, but she also spent many, many hours doing the original research and data analysis
that preceeded the writing of the results, for which she must be given equal credit.
North Carolina Libraries
Summer 1998 " 89
NortTH CAROLINA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Minutes of the Executive Board
April 17, 1998, Guilford Technical Community College
Attending: Beverley Gass, Ross Holt, Liz Jackson, Rhoda Channing, Martha Davis, Karen Gavigan, Augie Beasley,
Karen Perry, Gerald Holmes, Carolyn Price, Barbara Best-Nichols, Gwen Jackson, Frances Bradburn, Kem Ellis,
Tracy Babiasz, Liz Hamilton, Jackie Beach, Diane Kester, Gene Lanier, Steve Sumerford, Wanda Brown, Dave
Fergusson, Peggy Quinn, Rich Anderson (for Carol Freeman), Marilyn Miller, Susan Adams, Ann Miller,
Elizabeth Laney, Ginny Gilbert, Al Jones, Maureen Costello, Vanessa Work Ramseur, Lou Bryant, Eleanor Cook,
Catherine Wilkerson.
President Gass called the meeting to order
at 10:00 a.m. The October minutes were ap-
proved with a correction of September 21,
as the date for the first day of the 1999 con-
ference
PresidentTs Report
A schedule of meetings has been sent to
guests inviting them to come to NCLA
board meetings. Liz Hamilton, Director of
East Albemarle Regional Library, has agreed
to chair a new committee, the NCLA Ad-
ministrative Office and Personnel Advisory
Committee.
Kathy Thompson has regretfully resigned
as chair of the Special Projects Committee.
Several communication items from ALA
were brought for board review. Two surveys
have been completed from the ALA Chapter
Relations Committee, on membership prac-
tices within NCLA, and our needs and priori-
ties for the Chapter Relations Committee.
The NCLA vision and objectives drafted
at the January retreat were reviewed. These
draft statements appeared in the Spring
1998 issue in the PresidentTs Column.
TreasurerTs Report
Diane Kester presented a 1997 end-of-year
report of total revenues and expenses. Con-
ference monies were recorded in this ac-
counting. A first quarter report was also pre-
sented, showing the projected budget, and
revenue and expenses to date. Reports are
posted on the Web. Investment income is
shown separately from each round tableTs
operating expenses. Profit made during the
conference by any section was returned to
the NCLA parent organization. Expenses
were also paid by the parent organization,
rather than sections, for conference activi-
ties. All pre-conference session profits made
by sections are returned to the sponsoring
section. Further, revenues collected from
section or round table workshops through-
out the year are returned to sections. Each
section received an individual report on
their financial status. NCLA has purchased
membership for an Internet Service Pro-
vider for Maureen Costello to have Web ac-
8&6 " Summer 1998
cess in addition to e-mail access. The Mar-
keting/Publication committee has responsi-
bility for Web postings.
Administrative Assistant Report/
Membership
Membership totals and unrenewed mem-
bership totals were reported. Unrenewed
membership totals reflect members from
the NCLA database from 1990. People who
joined at conference have purchased mem-
bership through 1998. Seven different kinds
of application forms are being used for re-
newals for 1998. The correct forms for each
type of membership should be on the Web.
An attempt will be made to consolidate the
forms into one of each.
The State Library is renovating the build-
ing and the NCLA office will be moved to an-
other State Library building at a later date.
Section/Round Table Reports
ChildrenTs Services Section
The ChildrenTs Services Section had its first
meeting on January 26, 1998, at the Eva
Perry Regional Library in Apex. Conference
activities and fund raising, and the state of
the CSS and NCLA budgets were discussed.
It was agreed that more complete and
timely budget information is needed. A de-
cision was made to put the section newslet-
ter on hold until NCLA makes a determina-
tion regarding an Association newsletter.
Preliminary planning for the CSS ooff-year�
retreat/conference was done. The retreat is
scheduled to be held on October 26-27,
1998, at the Brown Summit Conference
center north of Greensboro.
College and University Section
There was no report.
Community & Junior College Section
CJCS held its first meeting on March 4,
1998 at the Sheraton Research Triangle Park
during the Learning Resources Association
Conference. Discussion centered around
pros and cons of having CJCS become a
subset of the College and University sec-
tion, how to increase membership, and pro-
gramming for the biennium. Tara Guthrie
from Carteret Community College has been
appointed to the directorTs position vacated
by Carol Freeman after her appointment to
the NCLA Publications Committee. The sec-
tion is still seeking a representative to North
Carolina Libraries.
CJCS Board has been invited to attend a
future meeting of the College and Univer-
sity Section to discuss possibilities of merg-
ing the two sections. CJCS plans to co-spon-
sor, with the Paraprofessional Round table,
a group of regional workshops on using the
Internet. The workshops will hopefully be
held in late summer, and will focus on com-
munity college paraprofessionals but will be
open to all who wish to attend.
Documents Section
The Documents Section has been planning
the spring workshop. Nancy Kohlenbrander
of Western Carolina University has gathered
a group of speakers to present oThe Old North
State: State, County, and Local Information in
North Carolina� at the McKimmon Center
May 15, 1998. The Docket, the newsletter of
the section, is now available online at the
Documents Section Web site: http://
sunsite.unc.edu/reference/docs/ncladocs/
pub.html. Click on Spring 1998 issue.
Library Administration & Management
Section
The LAMS Board met on April 16, 1998, ina
conference call. LAMS has plans to pursue a
joint program with RTSS on September 23
and 24 at the Friday Center on issues re-
lated to assessment of library processes, and
to partner with the New Members Round
Table, matching newcomers with LAMS
members in the same type of library. Two
regional workshops on mentoring, one in
the eastern part of the state and one in the
western part, are being planned. The section
will support the Leadership Institute if
asked to do so. Plans were made to publish
the newsletter after August 1, electronically
and in paper, including the survey.
Chair Rhoda Channing has agreed to con-
tact the directors of the 3 largest academic li-
braries in the state to ask them to encourage
North Carolina Libraries
their staffs to join NCLA and LAMS.
North Carolina Association of School
Librarians
The NCASL Executive Board met on March 9,
1998, at the AdamTs Mark Hotel in Charlotte.
Karen Gavigan and Melinda Ratchford re-
ported on ALA Midwinter held in New Or-
leans. The Information Power materials were
discussed. This information is to be formally
presented on June 26, 1998, in Washington,
DC to AASL state contacts. A letter was re-
ceived from State Superintendent Mike Ward
in response to a letter requesting a meeting
regarding concerns of media coordinators.
He did not respond to a meeting at this time.
NCASL's conference has been changed from
Raleigh to Winston-Salem and will be held
from September 16-18, 1998. Requests to
present were mailed the last of March. David
Loertscher and Phyllis Reynolds Naylor will
be among those presenting. The NCLA Board
has stated that for every 350 members in a
division that division can have another rep-
resentative on the board. NCASL now has in
excess of 550 members. A motion was made
and passed for the first position to be filled
by the past chair and, in the event that we
receive a second position, the chair-elect will
fill that position.
The next meeting will be on June 3,
1998, in Winston-Salem where conference
facilities will be reviewed.
NC Public Library Trustee Association
There was no report.
Public Library Section
The Public Library Section met on April 15 at
the Glenwood Library in Greensboro and
agreed to the following goals for 1998-99.
Goal 1: To enhance the Public Library Sec-
tion Web site so that it will contain valuable
and current information. Strategies: Hold a
workshop at the next PLS executive commit-
tee meeting. Encourage all PLS committees to
use the Web site to communicate with their
own members and other NCLA members.
Promote our Web site to all public library
staff through flyers and email. Goal 2: To
raise level of competency of public library
staff, with a particular focus on developing
trends/problems. Strategies: Seek out cospon-
sors among other sections, round tables and
committees.
The next meeting will be held June 17 in
Fayetteville.
Reference & Adult Services Section
The RASS Executive Committee met on Fri-
day, February 20, at the UNC-Greensboro
campus. Plans were discussed for the fall pro-
gram on the impact of the NC-LIVE project
on reference and public services. The pro-
gram has been planned for Friday, November
20, 1998, at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill.
The next meeting of the section will be
May 1 at Durham County Public Library.
Stephen Dew, who is moving to Iowa, re-
signed as chair of RASS. Carolyn Price from
the Forsyth County Public Library will now
chair this section.
Resources & Technical Services Section
The RTSS board had its first meeting in Feb-
North Carolina Libraries
ruary at UNC-G. The next meeting will be
held on April 23, also at UNC-G. The major
topic of business is planning a fall workshop
tentatively scheduled for Thursday, Septem-
ber 24, at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill,
on analysis and improvement of technical
services processes. Board member Page Life
participated in the UNC-CH School of Infor-
mation and Library Science Career Fair with
Peggy Quinn, membership chair. Brochures
for RTSS and NCLA were made available for
attendees.
New Members Round Table
The NMRT board met on Tuesday, February
10 to discuss goals for the biennium. Sondra
Oakley, Director for Programming, has had
to resign. The position will be held by Jennie
Hunt for the rest of the biennium. Plans are
in the works for the 2nd annual NMRTTs Big
Adventure to take place this summer. NMRT
is looking into co-sponsoring workshops
with other NCLA sections and round tables.
NC Library Paraprofessional Association
The Executive Board of the Paraprofessional
Round table met at the Eva Perry Regional
Library in Apex on March 24, 1998. The Pro-
gram Committee met with the board to dis-
cuss programming aims for the year. No pro-
gram Chair has been named at this time.
Each district will be in charge of arranging
the programs held in their own district.
Martha Davis, Chair of the Community Col-
lege Section, is to be contacted regarding a
co-sponsorship of a workshop this summer
on training Internet Trainers. The program
will be held in each district. The board dis-
cussed the imminant resignation of Linda
Morton, District 2 Director. The Chair was
asked to try to find a replacement. Proposed
By-law changes were discussed. Brief discus-
sion was held regarding the finances of the
Round Table.
Round Table for Ethnic Minority Concerns
The Executive Board of REMCo met on
March 28, 1998. An archival committee was
formed. Clarence Toomer of Pembroke will
serve as chair. Since REMCo was formed to
serve as a voice for minorities within the As-
sociation, emphasis will be placed on identi-
fying and seeking out minorities. Identified
groups are Native Americans, Asians, Hispan-
ics, Polynesians, etc. Both professional and
non professionals will be earmarked. A sur-
vey done last year to determine program-
ming ideas was reviewed. Discussions cen-
tered on the type of program/fund raising
event that would provide the greatest value
to participants.
Round Table on Special Collections
There was no report.
Round Table on the Status of Women
The RTSWL Board met on February 20 and
April 3, 1998, to discuss the workshop
planned for May 1 at the Forsyth County
Public Library. Dr. Richard Rubin will present
oMotivation, Satisfaction and Commitment
in the Library Workshop.� MS MANAGE-
MENT is a valuable tool for communicating
with Round Table members publishing inter-
views with women leaders, bibliographies,
and features related to the status of women
in librarianship.
Technology and Trends Round Table
TNTTs executive board met on Friday, April 3,
1998 for a get-acquainted and orientation
meeting. Carol Freeman, Chair of Publica-
tion & Marketing committee, was invited to
this meeting. Eleanor Cook, TNT Chair, at-
tended the Publications & Marketing
committeeTs first meeting on April 7th.
Ideas were brainstormed for a fall series
of workshops. Ideas were reviewed for work-
shops collected by RTSS, shared by Ginny
Gilbert. A 2-day series with general themes of
catching up and keeping ahead was chosen.
One day will focus on upcoming trends and
issues, and the second day will be for work-
shops for people to ofill in the gaps� of their
technology knowledge. The plan is to pro-
vide a series for the eastern and western parts
of the state. Ideas were discussed with Carol
Freeman about NCLA-L, the care and main-
tenance of the home page (since NCLA
Webmaster Michael Roche is on the TNT ex-
ecutive board), and ways the two groups can
collaborate. It was decided that Michael
Roche should be an ex-officio member of the
Marketing & Publications committee. The
master calendar is on the Web site for sched-
uling purposes of all round tables and sec-
tions. A master calendar is available with
Maureen. People planning activities should
submit dates to her..
Committee Reports
Administrative Office/Personnel Advisory
Liz Hamilton is looking for committee mem-
bers. This committee has already been
charged with 4 -5 activities. They will be
planning the office move, looking at person-
nel and procedures, updating manuals, clari-
fying database questions, and making the
NCLA office more electronically connected.
Archives
A portion of the Archives Committee met in
late March to review the work which needed
to be done, to review the status of the
records, and to review the retention policies.
The committee plans to meet in late April to
begin processing the materials and getting
them ready to go into the State Archives. The
committee asks that all members of the
NCLA Executive Board review the materials
in their possession and review the Records
and Retention and Disposition Schedule.
Any files that should be in Archives should
be sent to the NCLA Archives Committee at
the following address: Carrie Nichols, Carlyle
Campbell Library, Meredith College, 3800
Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27607
Conference
Both the 1999 and 2001 NCLA Biennial Con-
ference will be held at the Benton Conven-
tion Center in Winston-Salem. The dates for
the conference are September 21-24, 1999.
Subcommittee chairs have been appointed,
and accepted, for the 1999 Conference Com-
mittee. The Conference Committee is on the
NCLA listserv so people know who to con-
tact about a particular topic. The Full Com-
mittee will meet at Catawba College on May
Summer 1998 " 87
1S to decide on the theme for the conference,
to get to know one another, and to discuss the
process of planning the conference. The Full
Conference Committee will begin monthly
meetings in the late summer, with an orienta-
tion meeting at the Benton Convention Center.
The convention centers of Charlotte, Greens-
boro, High Point, Raleigh, and Winston-Salem
have been contacted as possible sites for 2003
and 2005 biennial conferences. Planning com-
mittee sheets were passed to Board members
with a request to indicate the name, address,
telephone number(s), and e-mail address of the
person in each section or round table who will
be responsible for the program(s) of those
groups at the 1999 Biennial Conference and to
return names to Al Jones.
Constitution, Codes & Handbook
There was no report.
Development
The Development Committee met on Friday,
March 6, at the Asheboro Public Library. The
initial goal of the committee is to raise an en-
dowment that would generate enough inter-
est to fund at least one issue of North Caro-
lina Libraries per year. This amount would be
in the range of $100,000 to $125,000. The
committee expanded the concept of the en-
dowment, viewing it as a vehicle for major
corporate contributions to NCLA as well as a
vehicle for individual contribution with the
opportunity to give in memory or in honor
of a person or group. The primary goal is to
endow the one issue per year of NCL. Sec-
ondary goals are to be able to fund other
NCLA projects, such as Leadership Institute,
scholarships, special projects and the like.
There will be four areas of effort:
e An endowment campaign that possibly tar-
gets major North Carolina corporations, li-
brary vendors, NCLA members, Friends orga-
nization, trustees, and local library associa-
tions.
eHandling gifts to the endowment. Gifts will
have to be deposited into a fund in the
NCLA account until they can be transferred
to the endowment account. The committee
is investigating means of investing the
money. Note was made that the Executive
Board at some point will need to adopt a
policy governing the endowment and use of
the proceeds.
Receipt and acknowledgement of gifts in-
cluding acknowledgement of gifts given in
honor or memory of a person sent to the
family of the personal being memorialized or
individual/group being honored, an
acknowledgement in NCL, and
acknowledgement by the NCLA president or
Development Committee Chair.
eEndowment brochure, which describes the
endowment, the association and how to con-
tribute. The content was agreed upon by the
committee and Sharon Johnston at PLCMC
designed and produced the drafts for consid-
eration by the Executive Board. The develop-
ment brochure draft was presented. A sugges-
tion was made to consider adding the vision
statement we are currently refining to the
brochure.
Since the March meeting, an investiga-
88 " Summer 1998
tion has been made of NCLATs tax exempt
status. The association is exempt under sec-
tion 101(6) of the IRS code of 1939, and re-
ceived the status in 1950. Dick Pahle investi-
gated and determined that this status is al-
most the same as the current 501(c)3 desig-
nation. The association is listed in the IRS
Publication 78, Cumulative List of Organiza-
tions, which lists organizations to which
contributions are tax deductible.
The committee will meet again in May or
June to plan the endowment campaign and
begin making contact with potential major
contributors. The committee will work with
the Finance Committee and treasurer to es-
tablish a fund. The Finance Committee may
have a possible liaison to this committee.
Updates will be posted on the listserv.
Finance
A written report, oFinancial Procedures for
Operating Funds,� was submitted in an effort
to provide clarification for the procedures to
be followed for the handling of operational
funds. When the committee meets, it will re-
view these procedures in order to identify
any changes which may help improve the
financial paperwork flow. Topics included
were Income, Expenses, Reporting, Reconcili-
ation, and IRS Procedures. A suggestion was
made that perhaps this committee should
deal with the investments being considered
instead of creating a new committee for that
purpose.
Governmental Issues
The committee is looking for people who can
attend Legislative Day in Washington on
May 4 and 5S. They will be meeting in Bobby
EtheridgeTs office. It was recommended that
each district be represented. Objectives are to
reinforce the need for the E-rate and other
important issues for libraries. NCLA can only
afford to pay registration for those attending.
A training session on Monday would be
helpful to know how to lobby once in Wash-
ington. North Carolina Legislative Day is
May 27 in Raleigh. An important lobby is for
NC LIVE, with specific emphasis on more
funding for community colleges. Last yearTs
event was fruitful for funding.
Intellectual Freedom
IFC members met online to discuss functions
of the committee, listservs of interest, publi-
cations of interest, and Web sites of interest.
The IFC membership list with phone and
email addresses has been forwarded to the
NCLA listserv. The committee investigated
the offer by Jim Broadwell with SIPS (Systems
Information Processing Services) in North
Carolina of a filter option to users of their
services. Those interested are being directed
to the Internet Filter Assessment Project
(www. bluehighways.com/tifap/) for informa-
tion. People are also being encouraged to
contact members of Congress concerning
pending digital copyright legislation, the
McCain bill (Internet School Filtering Act)
tying e-rates funding to filters, WIPO Copy-
right Treaties Implementation Act, and The
Collection of Information Antipiracy Act. E-
mail addresses make it easy to comment di-
rectly to our representatives on pending leg-
islation. It was reported that 42 bills in Con-
gress deal with the Internet. The IFC will
alert us through the listserv. It was noted
_ that Ann SymonsT theme for her presidential
year is Intellectual Freedom. Peter Keber,
Chair of Trustees section, and former head of
trustee for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Li-
brary System has joined this committee.
Leadership Institute
The proposed 1998 Leadership Institute is a
full day longer than the 1996 Institute, based
on recommendations of Institute attendees.
Discussion was held about how to pay for
the extra day. Additional corporate sponsors
are being sought. An attempt is being made
to keep the cost low so people can partici-
pate, and to make attendance widely avail-
able. Applications were sent to public and
academic directors, and school system media
supervisors. An application will be added to
the Web site so people can nominate them-
selves, with the approval of their supervisor.
The expectation is that the professionalTs par-
ent institution would pay the tuition. A post-
card will be sent to NCLA members. Letters
will be sent to library directors. A motion
was made, and carried approving the
$525.00 tuition.
Literacy
There was no report.
Membership
The Membership Committee met Friday, Feb-
ruary 20, 1998, at Wake Technical Commu-
nity College. The following proposals to in-
crease the membership of NCLA were re-
ferred to the Executive Board for further dis-
cussion:
eUpdate the NCLA brochure.
eInvestigate the feasibility of dividing the
state into regions to market membership ac-
tively. Committee members will be assigned
a region and local library partners will be so-
licited.
Purchase a table-top display to use for re-
cruiting.
¢Change dues structure to $10/year for all
years in school for library school students.
eMail membership renewal notices during
the last quarter of the year.
Peggy Quinn attended the Career Day at
UNC-Chapel Hill on February 18 to promote
NCLA through conversation and distribute
brochures. Committee members are contact-
ing NC Library Schools to inquire about Ca-
reer Days and to establish a liaison with the
faculty and students. Brochures from round
tables and sections were requested for use in
displays for future recruiting.
Nominating
There was no report.
Publications & Marketing
The Publications & Marketing Committee
met April 7 at Forsyth Technical Community
College. Discussion was held regarding the
draft vision and objectives for NCLA with
particular regard for the three objectives
which most concern this committee:
eAn extension and development of the
North Carolina Libraries
NCLA Web site, including threaded discus-
sions (similar to chat rooms) on library and
technical topics of interest.
eEstablishment of an electronic newsletter,
with concern about the efficiency of send-
ing print to those who need it without
sending print to those who donTt.
eMarketing the organization. A possible
idea was to locate a communications or ad
class that might be willing to put a spot to-
gether for the NC News Network.
The committee will meet again on Friday,
June 12.
Scholarships
There was no report.
Special Projects
This committee has no chair.
Other Reports
NC Libraries
The Spring issue should be mailed before
the end of April. Editorial board representa-
tives Sharon Noles (Paraprofessional Asso-
ciation) and Brigitte Blanton (REMCO) were
noted. Representatives are still needed for
the Public Library Section, the Community/
Junior College Section, and the Trustees Sec-
tion. Some upcoming issues need guest edi-
tors. Please contact Frances Bradburn.
oBetween Us� is a new column, to be
edited by Kevin Cherry, in which anyone is
welcome to bring a point of view. It is an opin-
ion piece replacing oPoint/Counterpoint,� and
debuts in the Summer 1998 issue.
Using both the Web site and listserv, the
editorial board representatives will be plan-
ning to communicate between meetings.
ALA Councilor
A report was made on Council sessions at
ALA Midwinter. Council I reports included
those dealing with Endowment Trustees,
Fund for AmericaTs Libraries and the Execu-
tive Director's search, nominating, and ex-
ecution of previous Council actions. There
was concern over attendance at ALA mem-
bership meetings and the action taken by
Council in San Francisco in an attempt to
free up time at conference for membership
meetings.
At Council II, the International Rela-
tions committee requested that Council
support increased funding for the Interna-
tional Relations Office. The request was re-
ferred to the Budget Committee. The Bill
Gates family was proposed, and approved,
for membership in honor or their develop-
ment of the grant program for libraries.
Treasurer Bruce Daniels presented a de-
tailed report of ALATs finances. ALA rev-
enues must increase if the Association is to
continue to pursue the objectives of Goal
2000 which will increase the AssociationTs
expenditures over projected revenues by $1
million within the next few years. The key
action areas were identified and approved
by Council as Diversity, Education and Con-
tinuous Learning, Equity of Access, Intellectual
Freedom, and 21st Century Literacy.
In Council III, the Committee on Legis-
lation reported on and asked for support on
several non-controversial resolutions for
Council. Resolutions attempting to improve
the ALA Membership meeting schedule at
conference were debated and revised for ap-
proval.
The posting of actions by Council to the
Council listserv was approved. It was noted
that some of the credit for fast and produc-
tive council session could be attributed to
the use of the listserv for debate over the
issues. Also discussed was the resolution
process and the need for it to be followed
by Council members, directing appropriate
consultation to the Committee on Resolu-
tions and other committees which handle
association procedures prior to taking issues
to the entire Council.
SELA Councilor
There was no report.
Old Business
There was no old business.
New Business
ACRL is considering having its 2003 confer-
ence in Charlotte and has asked for NCLA
support. A motion was made to extend our
warm welcome and support. Discussion was
held regarding sending the new brochures
to members who have not renewed mem-
bership and former members who have al-
lowed their memberships to lapse. This pro-
posal was sent to the membership commit-
tee and Peggy will talk with Beverley about
how to proceed. It was noted that new
members have joined at workshops.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:00.
Respectfully submitted,
Liz Jackson
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NortH Caroiina Liprary ASSOCIATION 1997-1999 ExecuTIvE BOARD
PRESIDENT
Beverley Gass
M.W. Bell Library
Guilford Technical College
P.O. Box 309
Jamestown NC 27282-0309
Telephone: 336/334-4822
x2434
Fax: 336/841-4350
GASSB@GTCC.CC.NC.US
VICE PRESIDENT/
PRESIDENT ELECT
Plummer Alston ~AlT Jones, Jr.
Catawba College
2300 W. Innes Street
Salisbury, NC 28144
Telephone: 704/637-4449
Fax: 704/637-4204
PAJONES@CATAWBA.EDU.
SECRETARY
Elizabeth J. Jackson
West Lake Elementary School
207 Glen Bonnie Lane
Apex, NC 27511
Telephone: 919/380-8232
Fax: 919/662-2313
LIZ@WLE.APEX.K12.NC.US
TREASURER
Diane D. Kester
East Carolina University
10S Longview Drive
Goldsboro, NC 27534-8871
Telephone: 919/328-6621
Fax: 919/328-4638
KESTERD@EMAIL.ECU.EDU
DIRECTORS
Vanessa Work Ramseur
Hickory Grove
7209 E. W.T. Harris Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28227
Telephone: 704/563-9418
Fax: 704/568-2686
VWR@PLCMC.LIB.NC.US
Ross Holt
Raldolph Public Library
201 Worth Street
Asheboro, NC 27203
Telephone: 336/318-6806
Fax: 336/3186823
RHOLT@NCSL.DCR.STATE.NC.US
ALA COUNCILOR
Jacqueline B. Beach
Craven-Pamlico-Carteret
Regional Library
400 Johnson
New Bern, NC 28560
Telephone: 919/823-1141
Fax: 919/638-7817
JBEACH@NCSL.DCR.STATE.NC.US
SELA REPRESENTATIVE
Nancy Clark Fogarty
Jackson Library
UNC-Greensboro
Greensboro, NC 27412
Telephone: 336/334-5419
Fax: 336/334-5097
FOGARTYN@IRIS.UNCG.EDU
EDITOR, North Carolina Libraries
Frances Bryant Bradburn
Evaluation Services
NC Dept. of Public Instruction
301 N. Wilmington Street
Raleigh, NC 27601-2825
Telephone: 919/715-1528
Fax: 919/715-4762
FBRADBUR@DPLSTATE.NC.US
PAST-PRESIDENT
David Fergusson
Forsyth County Public Library
660 W. Fifth Street
Winston-Salem NC 27101
Telephone: 336/727-2556
Fax: 336/727-2549
D_FERGUSSON@FORSYTH.LIB.NC.US
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Maureen Costello
North Carolina Library Association
c/o State Library of North Carolina
Rm. 27 109 E. Jones St.
Raleigh, NC 27601-1023
Telephone: 919/839-6252
Fax: 919/839-6252
MCOSTELLO@NCSLDCRSTATENC.US
SECTION CHAIRS
CHILDRENTS SERVICES SECTION
Susan Adams
Southeast Regional Library
908 7th Avenue
Garner, NC 27529
Telephone: 919/662-6635
Fax: 919/662-2270
SADAMS@CO.WAKE.NC.US
COLLEGE anp UNIVERSITY SECTION
Clarence Toomer
Mary Livermore Library
UNC-Pembroke
Pembroke, NC 28372
Telephone: 910/521-6212
Fax: 910/521-6547
TOOMER@NAT.UNCP.EDU
COMMUNITY anp JUNIOR
COLLEGE LIBRARIES SECTION
Martha E. Davis
M. W. Bell Library
Guilford Tech. Comm. College
P. O. Box 309
Jamestown, NC 27282-0309
Telephone: 336/334-4822
Fax: 336/841-4350
DAVISM@GTCC.CC.NC.US
DOCUMENTS SECTION
Ann Miller
Perkins Library
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0177
Telephone: 919/660-5855
Fax: 919/660-2855
AEM@MAIL.LIB.DUKE.EDU
LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION anp
MANAGEMENT SECTION
Rhoda Channing
Z. Smith Reynolds Library
BOxi/ 777-3 4
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7777
Telephone: 336/759-5090
Fax: 336/759-9831
CHANNING@WFU.EDU
NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION
OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS
Malinda Ratchford
Gaston County Schools
366 W. Garrison Blvd.
Gastonia, NC 28052
Telephone: 704/866-6251
Fax: 704/866-6194
MELEIS@AOL.COM
NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC
LIBRARY TRUSTEES ASSOCIATION
Peter Keber
Public Library of Charlotte/
Mecklenburg County
310 North Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
Telephone: 704/386-5086
Fax: 704/386-6444
PK@PLCMC.LIB.NC.US
PUBLIC LIBRARY SECTION
Steve Sumerford
Glenwood Branch Library
1901 W. Florida Street
Greensboro, NC 27403
Telephone: 336/297-5002
Fax: 336/297-5005
GLENWOOD@NR.INFI.NET
REFERENCE anp ADULT SERVICES
Carolyn Price
Forsyth County Public Library
660 W. Fifth Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Telephone: 336/727-8456
Fax: 336/727-2549
C_PRICE@FORSYTH.LIB.NC.US
RESOURCES anp TECHNICAL
SERVICES SECTION
Ginny Gilbert
Perkins Library
Duke University
230C Box 90191
Durham, NC 27708
Telephone: 919/660-5815
Fax: 919/684-2855
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ROUND TABLE CHAIRS
NEW MEMBERS ROUND TABLE
Tracy Babiasz
Durham County Library
300 N. Roxboro Street
PO Box 3809
Durham, NC 27702-3809
Telephone: 919/560-0191
Fax: 919/560-0137
TBABIASZ@NCSL.DCR.STATE.NC.US
NORTH CAROLINA LIBRARY
PARAPROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
Lou Bryant
Eva Perry Regional Library
2100 ShepherdTs Vineyard
Apex, NC 28502
Telephone: 919/387-2100
Fax: 919/387-4320
MLBRYANT@CO.WAKE.NC.US
ROUND TABLE FOR ETHNIC
MINORITY CONCERNS
Barbara Best-Nichols
Reichold Chemicals, Inc.
6124 Yellowstone Drive
Durham, NC 27713-9708
Telephone: 919/990-8054
Fax: 919/990-7859
BARBARA.BEST-NICHOLS
@REICHHOLD.COM
ROUND TABLE ON SPECIAL
COLLECTIONS
Maury York
Joyner Library
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858
Telephone: 252/328-6601
YORKM@MAIL.ECU.EDU
ROUND TABLE ON THE STATUS
OF WOMEN IN LIBRARIANSHIP
Marilyn Miller
4103 Friendly Avenue
Greensboro, NC 27410
Telephone: 336/299-8659
Fax: 336/334-5060
M_MILLER@HAMLET.UNCG.EDU
TECHNOLOGY AND TRENDS
ROUND TABLE
Eleanor I. Cook
Belk Library
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28606
Telephone: 828/262-2786
Fax: 828/262-2773
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Editor
FRANCES BRYANT BRADBURN
Evaluation Services
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Salem College
Winston-Salem, NC 27108
(336) 917-5421
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Associate Editor
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Division of State Library
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Raleigh, NC 27601-2807
(919) 733-2570
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Book Review Editor
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New Hanover Co. Public Library
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Wilmington, NC 28401
(910) 772-7858
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Lagniappe Editor
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Catawba College
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Salisbury, NC 28144
(704) 637-4449
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