Genny Carter, Tennessee State Library and Archive

during this economic crisis by partnering with our Department of Labor & Workforce Development to provide training for librarians to assist Tennesseans with online unemployment paperwork and by giving LSTA-funded Direct Services Grants to establish job centers in public libraries.
 
What is your library looking forward to in 2011? One highlight will be our ongoing Civil War Sesquicentennial project, in which we send a team of archivists and conservators out to digitally copy and assist in the preservation of Civil War era artifacts privately held by Tennesseans, culminating in the creation of a virtual exhibit representing the rich Civil War heritage of Tennessee families.

John Stachacz, Wilkes University (PA)

John C. Stachacz, Dean of Library Services, Farley Library, Wilkes University

 What is your library's proudest accomplishment in 2010? 

Two accomplishments. Renovating an entire floor of  Farley Library for the Alden Learning Commons which incorporates the Library, the Writing Center and The Teaching Commons (Center for Teaching and Learning). And, through a grant and soliciting gifts, adding the current Web of Science and the corresponding archive.

What is your library looking forward to in 2011?

Phase 2 renovation of main floor of the library and adding SAGE electronic journals collections. 

Ginger Cain, Emory University

Ginger Cain, Interim Director of Communications, Emory University
 

 What is your library looking forward to in 2011? Even as we make long-range plans for a new Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library building, our burgeoning collections of archives, manuscripts, and rare books will benefit from a reallocation of existing library space and from creative design work in order to gain much needed square footage for stacks, services and staff.

What is your library's proudest accomplishment in 2010? 

Our Born-Digital Archives staff devised a way to emulate Sir Salman Rushdie¹s writing environment and create an exact duplicate of his computer files for researchers to explore, resulting in the most complete full-immersion experience of a digital archive at any university so far and one that has generated media attention from The New York Times to the Huffington Post.

Dr. D. Russell Bailey, Providence College (RI)

Dr. D. Russell Bailey, Library Director, Phillips Memorial Library, Providence College (RI)

What is your library's proudest accomplishment in 2010? The Providence College Library+Commons expanded its services to include: The TecHub - IT/Library collaborative research, technology, study area in the Lower Commons; QR coded guideposts for research collections; 2 additional Faculty librarians: Mark Caprio - Digital Publishing & Scholarship and Julie DeCesare - Digital Research & Education Head; and TEI marked-up special collections (e.g., John Greenleaf Whittier).

What is your library looking forward to in 2011? Our own robust Linux server running Drupal to build our new Web-presence with patron input at its center.

Cynthia Levine, Winston-Salem State University (NC)

Cynthia Levine, Technical Services Coordinator, C. G. O'Kelly Library/Winston Salem State University (NC)

What is your library's proudest accomplishment in 2010?

Friends of the Library's 25th Anniversary Event.

What is your library looking forward to in 2011? Receiving shelf ready titles and hosting our O'K Scholars program for faculty/librarian collaboration that incorporates library resources into student assignments.

Jo Ann Rhodes, Columbia International University (SC)

Jo Ann Rhodes, Library Director, G. Allen Fleece Library, Columbia International University (SC)

What is your library's proudest accomplishment in 2010?

Surviving a library fire in May 2010 and setting up a temporary library operation for academic year 2010-2011.

What is your library looking forward to in 2011? Moving back into a renovated library in summer of 2011 and getting our damaged collection back onto the shelves, cleaned and ready for use, along with all new furnishings!