Friends of the UNCG Libraries

Charlotte Holder Clinger and Noel W. Clinger have established The Colonel Charlotte Holder Clinger ’65 Oral History Fund as a term endowment gift to enhance the work of the Betty H. Carter Women Veteran’s Historical Project in the University Libraries.  Charlotte Clinger was born in Asheboro, North Carolina.  She graduated from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1965 with a degree in history.  Her love of history motivated Charlotte to support the oral history project of the Women Veterans Historical Project.  She recognizes the importance of capturing first-hand accounts to document history. Charlotte joined the U. S. Air Force in 1967.  She attended Officer Training School and was then sent to Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado for intelligence training.  It was there that she met her future husband, Noel Clinger.  Charlotte was the first woman ever stationed with the 553rd Reconnaissance Wing.  She did intelligence br...

Did you know that most items from the Jackson Library Stacks, Current Literature, Audiobooks and Paperbacks collections can be borrowed using the Libraries’ 2 Self Check Express machines? Also, over the summer the entertainment DVD collection was reprocessed so that they, too, can be self checked. Why wait in line?  Use Self Check Express.  •    Self checks are located in the Jackson Library on the Check Out Desk and in the hallway between the Check Out Desk and the Tower elevators.  •    Your Friends membership card and a current borrowing account are required. •    After checkout, DVD cases can be unlocked after exiting the Library via the Library-EUC Connector or the College Ave. doors. •    FOL borrowers are limited to 10 checkouts on their account at any time, 2 of which can be entertainment DVDs. Please continue to return items to the Check Out Desk if you wish to borrow more immediately.  If not, ...

Diane Russeau-Pletcher is a person who likes to go down rabbit holes when she finds them.   Exploring some of those rabbit holes recently brought her to the University Libraries at UNCG  to do research in the papers of Ellen Winston, found in the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives.   Russeau-Pledger is the 2014-2015 Research Travel Grant Award recipient of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives. Diane is studying the history of the eugenics movement in North Carolina, especially after World War II, and sees Ellen Winston as a key stakeholder in the state’s program as head of the State Eugenics Board and Commissioner of Public Welfare in North Carolina prior to being named by President Kennedy in 1963 as the first U.S. Commissioner of Welfare in the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). Not only is the history of the eugenics movement still a current issue in North Carolina an...

(L-R) Anna Koester, Jack Koester, Dean of University Libraries Rosann Bazijrian, Will Koester, Pat Gruber, Ira Gruber, Caroline Koester Pat Sanderford Gruber (’51) and husband Ira live in Texas, so they don’t visit UNCG’s University Libraries every day.  As a student at Woman’s College who majored in English, however, Pat spent a lot of time in Jackson Library, and her love for the libraries at her alma mater remains.   She reminisced about the libraries during a recent visit, and enjoyed remembering that Jackson Library had just opened when she went to school here.  With her husband, daughter Anna and her husband Jack Koester, and grandchildren Will and Caroline, Mrs. Gruber also enjoyed seeing the dormitories where she had lived, and the transformation of what had been her library study carrel into the present-day Reference Services area.  Mrs. Gruber’s mother, Mildred Butler Sanderford, was a member of the class of 1927, and her sisters graduated in 1...

All of the following events are free and open to the public: Thursday, September 4: Poetry Reading by David Roderick from his new book, The Americans (co-sponsored with MFA Writing Program). 8 p.m. Faculty Center, UNCG Monday, September 8: Author and Storyteller Doug Elliott . 7 p.m. EUC Auditorium, UNCG Monday, September 15: Friends of the UNCG Libraries Book Discussion - The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited by Richard Florida, led by Keith Debbage of the Department of Geography & the Department of Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Hospitality and Tourism.  4 p.m. Hodges Reading Room, Jackson Library 2nd floor, UNCG.  Thursday, September 18: Reading by Lee Zacharias from her book, The Only Sounds We Make (co-sponsored with MFA Writing Program). 7 p.m. Faculty Center, UNCG Wednesday, October 8: Presentation by Dr. Joy Kasson about author and illustrator Lois Lenski . 4 p.m. Hodges Reading Room Jackson Library 2nd floor, UNCG Thursday, October...

Lynda Kellam UNCG librarians  Lynda Kellam and Jenny Dale, as well as LIS faculty member Jim Carmichael, have authored chapters in a new publication from the American Library Association entitled T he Librarian Stereotype: Deconstructing Presentations and Perceptions of Information Work , edited by Nicole Pagowsky and Miriam Rigby.    Lynda and Jenny co-authored their chapter, “ At the Corner of Personality and Competencies: Exploring Professional Personas for Librarians”   with UNCG alumna Lauren Pressley, now at Virginia Tech. Jenny Dale The Librarian Stereotype serves as a response to passionate discussions regarding the ways in which librarians are perceived. Through twelve chapters, covering topics such as racial and ethnic identity, professional personas, pop culture, and a variety of specific stereotypes of librarians, the book reignites an examination of librarian presentation within the field and in the public eye, employing theories and ...

Several members of the library faculty and staff have recently consulted with other libraries to aid them in using WMS, our library software system. OCLC’s WorldShare Management Services (WMS) manages the ordering, processing, and circulation of library materials, along with holds, book renewals, print reserves, and similar user services. Darinlee Needham provided training on the serials component to the DeWitt Wallace Library at Macalester College.Terry Brandsma, Mary Jane Conger, Marcie Burton, Christine Fischer and Beth Bernhardt consulted with Loyola University of Chicago on the different modules of WMS and how they work. Cathy Griffith and her colleagues in Access Services have also been assisting Guilford Technical Community College in adopting WMS.