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Georgia Library QuarterlyVolume 53Issue 1 Winter 2016 Article 141-1-2016News - University of West GeorgiaE. Lorene FlandersUniversity of West Georgia, lflander@westga.eduFollow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/glqPart of the Library and Information Science CommonsThis News is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in GeorgiaLibrary Quarterly by an authorized editor of DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University. For more information, please contactdigitalcommons@kennesaw.edu.Recommended CitationFlanders, E. Lorene (2016) "News - University of West Georgia," Georgia Library Quarterly: Vol. 53 : Iss. 1 , Article 14.Available at: https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/glq/vol53/iss1/14  University of West Georgia  Carol F. Goodson Retires from the University of West Georgia’s Ingram Library  Carol F. Goodson, Ingram Library’s Head of Access Services, has retired from the University of West Georgia (UWG) and been named Professor Emerita in honor of her twenty-four years of service to the university. Prior to her appointment at UWG in 1991, she served with the Georgia Division of Public Library Services, as Assistant Director of the Clayton County (Georgia) Library System, with Mercer University, Aquinas College, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and with both the Board of Education and the Public Library in St. Louis, Missouri. She earned degrees at SUNY Buffalo and the University of West Georgia. In 2005, she was awarded the David Bottoms Distinguished Alumna Award by the UWG Department of English. She held numerous offices in AAUP, Phi Kappa Phi, and Omicron Delta Kappa, and she served on University System committees charged with implementing GALILEO and Voyager. She was active in the American Library Association and served in a variety of leadership capacities in the Library & Information Technology Association, the Association of College & Research Libraries, and the Library & Administrative Management Association. She was also a member of the Southeastern Library Association and served on the Board of the Georgia Library Association (GLA).   In 1997, Neal-Schuman published Professor’s Goodson’s book The Complete Guide to Performance Standards for Library Personnel, and in 2001 her book Providing Library Services for Distance Education Students, (also published by Neal-Schuman), was adopted as a textbook in graduate library science programs in the United States, Canada, and Japan. In 2007, GLA’s Academic Library Division awarded Professor Goodson the Blackwell Award for Best Academic Paper for “Developing a Regional Literature Collection.” In addition, she served as Book Review Editor for the Journal of Access Services from 2005 onward, and she has been on the International Editorial Board of Open Education: The Journal for Open and Distance Education since 2003.  Ingram Library’s Penelope Melson Society Hosts Terry Kay, Class of 1957  Georgia author Terry Kay, a 1957 graduate of West Georgia College, where he was voted Dean of Libraries Lorene Flanders (center) and her husband Paul Campbell (left) with Terry Kay (right). 1Flanders: News - University of West GeorgiaPublished by DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University, 2016“Most Likely to Succeed,” spoke at the annual meeting of Ingram Library’s Penelope Melson Society on February 8, 2015. His talk, “The Day Dumbowski Came to Town,” focused on his life as a student at West Georgia, including his interactions with president Irvine Sullivan Ingram, and his observations on race relations in Georgia. The program for the event reprinted the foreword from Kay’s 1997 novel The Runaway, which focuses on post-World War II Georgia. Kay notes, “Desegregation began after World War II when soldiers and war workers—men and women—returned home…. Part of that change was an intuitive understanding that freedom was not a select experience for a select few, and it was that door crack of tolerance (a serious discomfort for many, I suspect) that first prepared white Southerners for the shock of the civil rights movement. From that time, desegregation was inevitable, as inescapable, as any prophecy God might have whispered to wise men about upheavals on the horizon.” The program was a finale to the 2014 exhibit “Over Here and Over There. Georgia and Georgians in World War II” developed by the Bandy Heritage Center for Northwest Georgia, Dalton State College, and the Northeast Georgia History Center at Brenau University, which Ingram Library and the Melson Society hosted in 2014. The exhibit was supported by the Carroll EMC Foundation, the Georgia Humanities Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and through appropriations from the Georgia General Assembly. Dean of Libraries, Lorene Flanders, hosted a brunch honoring Terry Kay and his wife Tommie Duncan Kay, also a member of the West Georgia College Class of 1957.   Bill Roll: Contributions to Psychology Exhibit   Ingram Library’s Annie Bell Weaver Special Collections, in partnership with the University of West Georgia Psychology Department, presented a fall 2015 exhibit highlighting the career of former UWG faculty member, Dr. William G. “Bill” Roll. Titled “Bill Roll: Contributions to Psychology,” the exhibit in the Thomas B. Murphy Reading Room focused on Dr. Roll’s experiments with extra sensory perception and investigations into poltergeists. Dr. Edwin May delivered the annual Bill Roll Lecture in association with the UWG Psychology Department on November 5.  When Criminal Justice Meets Social Justice Panel   Ingram Library’s friends’ organization, the Penelope Melson Society, sponsored a panel discussion on October 21, 2015 entitled “When Criminal Justice Meets Social Justice.” In the wake of Ferguson and numerous other incidents that have received widespread media coverage, the panelists discussed problems inherent in the criminal justice system in the ongoing struggle to balance crime control and community relations. Dr. David Jenks, Chair of the University of West Georgia’s Department of Criminology, served as moderator. Panelists included Laura Bennett (UWG Police officer); Jason Swindle (Criminal Defense Attorney/Public Defender); UWG alum Ray Moore (Federal Agent with the Secret Service); Nathaniel Smith (formerly a Municipal Court Judge, Court Appointed Guardian Ad Litem, and Special Prosecutor for the Juvenile Court of Coweta County); and Deborah Crawford (UWG student who was one of the organizers of UWG’s 2014 “kNow Justice, kNow Peace” event). The event was co-sponsored by UWG’s Department of Criminology and UWG’s Center for Diversity and Inclusion, (Deirdre Rouse, Director). Dr. John Fuller, Professor Emeritus of Criminology at UWG, served as a consultant in planning the event.  2Georgia Library Quarterly, Vol. 53, Iss. 1 [2016], Art. 14https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/glq/vol53/iss1/14

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Georgia Library QuarterlyVolume 54Issue 2 Spring 2017 Article 154-1-2017News - University of West GeorgiaE. Lorene FlandersUniversity of West Georgia, lflander@westga.eduFollow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/glqPart of the Higher Education Commons, and the Library and Information Science CommonsThis News is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in GeorgiaLibrary Quarterly by an authorized editor of DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University. For more information, please contactdigitalcommons@kennesaw.edu.Recommended CitationFlanders, E. Lorene (2017) "News - University of West Georgia," Georgia Library Quarterly: Vol. 54 : Iss. 2 , Article 15.Available at: https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/glq/vol54/iss2/15  University of West Georgia  Professor and Dean of Libraries E. Lorene Flanders retired from the University of West Georgia (UWG) in March 2017. She began her career in libraries in 1976 as a student assistant in the Willet Memorial Library at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, and as a summer bookmobile assistant with the Oconee Regional Library System in Dublin, Georgia in 1977, later serving as young adult librarian for the system. Cobb County Public Library Director Mary Louise Rheay hired Flanders as children’s librarian in 1980 after she completed library school at the University of South Carolina. In 1989 she joined Georgia College & State University (GC&SU) as instruction librarian. During her career with GC&SU, she served as associate director of instruction & reference services and associate university librarian.   Appointed at the University of West Georgia (UWG) in 2005, Flanders established Ingram Library’s Penelope Melson Society in 2008 and served on the Board of Friends of Georgia Libraries, representing the University System of Georgia’s (USG) Regents Academic Committee on Libraries. She also served on the USG Chancellor’s committee to oversee the transfer of the Georgia Department of Archives and History to the University System. Under her direction, Ingram Library’s service, instruction, and collections—augmented with active outreach through exhibits, programs, and performances—made the library the academic heart of the campus and its cultural crossroads.  Flanders oversaw the 2011 renovation of the UWG library and the installation of a replica of the State Capitol Office of the late Georgia House Speaker Thomas Bailey Murphy (1924-2007) and supporting exhibits. The Murphy Office was dedicated in 2012, with former governors Hon. Roy Barnes and the Hon. Sonny Perdue, Rep. Calvin Smyre, Judge Michael Murphy, and Speaker Murphy’s former Chief of Staff Steve Anthony as featured speakers, with Speaker David Ralston and every living former speaker of the Georgia House in attendance. Ingram Library and Houser Walker Architects won a 2013 Georgia AIA award for design excellence for the Ingram Library Renovation and Speaker Murphy Office Project. Under Flanders’ direction, the Annie Bell Weaver Special Collections expanded and the UWG Dean of Libraries Lorene Flanders speaking at an event celebrating her career in Georgia libraries, 1976-2017 Eva Rose Schultz Warner and Jordan Campbell performing in UWG’s Ingram Library at Dean Flanders’s retirement celebration March 30, 2017. 1Flanders: News - University of West GeorgiaPublished by DigitalCommons@Kennesaw State University, 2017Center for Public History moved to Ingram Library. Notable collection acquisitions included the papers of Ingo Swann, a noted parapsychology practitioner, and Congressman Lynn Westmoreland. The Westmoreland Collection was the fifth congressional collection added to UWG’s Georgia’s Political Heritage Program collections, which began with the acquisition of the papers of US House Speaker Newt Gingrich under the direction of Dr. Mel Steely. Flanders chaired the Georgia Library Association (GLA) Awards Committee and the Academic Library Division of the association, and represented GLA on the Governing Council of the American Library Association (ALA) 2012–2015. She served on ALA’s first Emerging Leaders Committee and as bibliographer for the Georgia Historical Society, co-authoring the annual bibliography of Georgia history published in the Georgia Historical Quarterly. She is past secretary of the Southeastern Library Association (SELA) and past chair of SELA’s Southern Books Competition Committee.  The University of West Georgia honored Lorene Flanders with a reception and farewell concert on March 30, 2017. UWG President Dr. Kyle Marrero, President Emeritus Dr. Beheruz Sethna, Provost Dr. Micheal Crafton, Dr. John Ferling, president of the Melson Society, Judge Michael Murphy, and Associate Dean of Libraries and incoming Interim Dean Chris Huff spoke at the event. Performers included musicians David Pippin, the bands Sweet and Salty and Eva Rose and the Bottom Line, and singer and guitarist Jordan Campbell, daughter of Lorene Flanders and her husband Paul Campbell. The event was livestreamed to their son, US Navy Corpsman Hart Campbell, who is serving in Kuwait with the Third Battalion Seventh Marines.  Lorene Flanders has been appointed executive director of USA Libraries at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. Dean of Libraries Lorene Flanders receives a gavel and sounding board from the family of the late Georgia House Speaker Thomas Bailey Murphy, 1924-2007. Speaker Murphy’s State Capitol office was replicated in the University of West Georgia’s Ingram Library and dedicated in 2012. Exhibit on the career of Dean of Libraries Lorene Flanders.  2Georgia Library Quarterly, Vol. 54, Iss. 2 [2017], Art. 15https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/glq/vol54/iss2/15

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