Pub Date : 2012-12-31DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V58I4.1237
B. D. Sun
I remember being drawn, almost beyond my control, into a room that smelled of thick ink and well-seasoned wood; a place where large type drawers held tiny metal letters, and a background whir and whistle left me to believe something special was taking place. Various book-related elements — paper, ink, bindings, cover boards, woodblocks, and cutting utensils — were strewn about the room, and eye-catching examples of printed fonts and picture images were propped up against the baseboards. I had stumbled into the McGuffy Arts of the Book Center in downtown Charlottesville, and the hub of activity left me wishing I could extend my day trip.
我记得，我几乎不由自主地被拉进了一个房间，里面弥漫着浓重的墨水味和熟透的木头味;在这个地方，巨大的铅字抽屉里放着细小的金属字母，背景里的嗡嗡声和口哨声让我相信正在发生什么特别的事情。各种书籍相关的元素——纸张、墨水、装订、封面、木版和切割工具——散落在房间里，引人注目的印刷字体和图片靠在踢脚板上。我偶然进入了夏洛茨维尔市中心的麦高菲图书艺术中心(McGuffy Arts of the Book Center)，这里的活动中心让我希望能延长我的一日游。
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Pub Date : 2012-12-31DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V58I4.1229
B. D. Sun
I f a picture paints a thousand words — as the adage suggests — then why am I using written language to compile my “Openers”? Why not simply paint a picture that sums up what I’d like to convey instead? Well … for starters, I can’t paint, or at least not very well, which is why I have tremendous admiration for those who can. When I pick up a book that contains eye-capturing images — whether a children’s picture book, a young adult comic strip, an illustrated dictionary, or a coffee table volume — my “reading” experience is transformed. The visual art fires up a portion of my brain that allows me to “marvel” in a completely different way.
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Pub Date : 2012-12-31DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V58I4.1233
Markye Barber
A 1960s book on Gothic art has been painstakingly cut and spliced with images from Disney’s and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland . Shockingly bright in his black-and-white environment, the March Hare peers out from behind pointed arches, while a pensive blue Caterpillar lounges among the crowds at Golgotha. Next to this, a beat-up hardback copy of Steven King’s The Stand has been transformed into a tome bound in stitched skin, scarred and bleeding, with a milky eye embedded in the cover. The next book is an old encyclopedia volume, whose pages have been folded and sprayed with adhesive to keep them open and stiff: across the fanned-out paper, the artist has stenciled a message: “PRINT IS DEAD.”
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Pub Date : 2012-12-31DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V58I4.1236
A. Pavis
A nyone who says that books are not art has never read Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro or Anna Karenina by Tolstoy. Nor have they read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green or The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. These novels evoke emotion in those who read them, not just from the plot, but from the perfect word choice and phrasing. Hundreds of authors have created literary masterpieces for us, and those titles are found in school curricula and public libraries, on bedside tables and underneath pillows. But sometimes books are more than gently woven words and carefully crafted paragraphs. Sometimes there are images to correspond with the words, giving the reader the ultimate experience: text and images sewn together so as to enhance the reader’s imagination (“I wonder how that would look in real life?”) and curiosity (“That’s how!”). Books are art, and just like when critiquing a da Vinci or Matisse painting, there is no incorrect interpretation or opinion. Therefore, allow me to give you my interpretation of young adult novels as art, in terms of illustrations outside as well as inside the cover.
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Pub Date : 2012-10-01DOI: 10.21061/valib.v58i3.1219
Connie Gilman
I have long been interested in leadership. In fact, my senior high school thesis was titled “Why Men and Women Seek and Accept the Responsibilities of Leadership.” That interest has been with me ever since and has grown over the years. “Yes,” you might say, “That’s obvious! You’re President of the Virginia Library Association, and you’ve been a member of the Virginia Library Leadership Academy since its inception.”
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Pub Date : 2012-10-01DOI: 10.21061/valib.v58i3.1222
J. Sanderson
E very year state library associations join together to support the legislative concerns of the American Library Association (ALA). Delegations such as the representative assembly from the Virginia Library Association (VLA) travel to the nation’s capital for a full day of workshops followed by a day of visits to Congressional offices. This year the two-day event took place on April 23–24.
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Pub Date : 2012-10-01DOI: 10.21061/valib.v58i3.1218
B. D. Sun
I recently found myself wondering what Virginia Libraries is really all about (once you make it past the marbled covers). Clearly the journal focuses on libraries, and its geographical center is the Commonwealth of Virginia. So it makes sense that the articles explore various aspects of libraries and librarianship as they relate to the public, special, school, research, and academic libraries within the boundaries of the Old Dominion. Sometimes referred to as “The Mother of Presidents,” our state lays claim to some of the country’s most important history — from the Jamestown settlement, to the Battle of Bull Run, to the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom — and this heritage is handsomely represented in our libraries.
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Pub Date : 2012-10-01DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V58I3.1224
Allison Scripa, Edward F. Lener, Cherly B. Gittens, Connie Stovall
L ibrarians are involved in many aspects of the McNair Scholars Summer Research Experience at Virginia Tech — a unique component of the federal program that allows low-income, first-generation college students and those from underrepresented ethnic groups to prepare for future doctoral study through involvement in research and other scholarly activities. McNair Scholars who are accepted into the summer research program attend seminars, network with colleagues during special-focus luncheons, participate in an annual research conference, prepare for the GRE, conduct research and prepare presentations, and receive significant library instruction and individualized research assistance from the university’s librarians.
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Pub Date : 2012-10-01DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V58I3.1223
B. Appleton, Megan Hodge, Matthew J. Jabaily
ALA’s Emerging Leader program was founded in 2007 by then-ALA President Leslie Burger as one of her presidential initiatives. Its goal is for participants to network, gain a greater understanding of how ALA works, and to learn about leadership both theoretically and practically, all of which results in participants being placed “on the fast track to ALA committee volunteerism as well as other professional library-related organizations” (ALA, 2011).
美国ALA的新兴领袖项目于2007年由当时的美国ALA主席莱斯利·伯格创立，作为她的主席倡议之一。
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Pub Date : 2012-08-01DOI: 10.21061/VALIB.V58I2.1212
Rebecca K. Miller, J. Paulo
When most people think of immersion programs, language immersion programs and summer- long trips to Europe or South America come to mind. However, when the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) does immersion, it speaks the language of information literacy and helps academic librarians become fluent. Now in its 13th year, the ACRL Immersion Program represents a respected learning opportunity for instruction librarians.
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