A rather plain-looking light rocker, backed and seated with woven cane, is now located in the Special Collections reading room. When it was first donated, by Dr. Robert M. Benson, Jr., it was in seriously damaged condition, the seat broken and some parts only a bundle of sticks. But carpenter Leroy Whitley of Physical Plant, with some help from Terry Hart and Michael Waters, restored it to intactness. It is still not for sitting, though.

The chair’s provenance makes it interesting. Bulloch County native R.J.H. DeLoach (1873-1964), after stints as principal of Statesboro High (1903-1905) and a botanist at the University of Georgia, had by 1917 become the Director of Agricultural Research at Armour and Company in Chicago. During this time he was a member of an exclusive club of a handful of intellectuals and businessmen known as the Vagabond Club. The group went on upscale camping trips across the North American Continent. His camping buddies included Harvey Firestone, John Burroughs, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. It was Ford who gave him this chair, ca. 1930. Ford occasionally visited DeLoach at his home on Savannah Avenue. Neighbors said they always knew when the generous Ford had been to town, because a new Ford car stood in the DeLoach driveway afterwards. Professor DeLoach began teaching Economics in 1932 at South Georgia Teachers College. He ended his career here in 1943. The chair was among items bought at an estate sale by Robert Benson, Sr. after Professor DeLoach’s death.

The Vagabond Club:  Professor DeLoach sitting at bottom of waterwheel, & above (l-r), Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, Jr., John Burroughs, Henry Ford, & Harvey Firestone, Sr.

This article was contributed by Marvin Goss, Head of Special Collections.  Photographs of the chair are by Steve Hooley, Technical Support Specialist.

The New USG Copyright Policy, and Using Copyrighted Works: What Is and Isn’t Considered Fair Use

Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Room 1300, Henderson Library (bottom floor)

SUMMARY

The correct application of Fair Use in the college and university setting is often confusing and difficult to determine. In order to avoid having to pay statutory damages or worse, it is critical that everyone who is using copyrighted works for educational purposes knows exactly what they can and can’t use.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

• Fair Use Decisions: Tips for Making Correct Determinations
  • Instructions for applying the fair use factors
  • How Fair Use affects handouts and other course materials
  • The T.E.A.C.H. Act, and other exemptions: What you need to know
• Effect of Fair Use on Internet, Digital & Other Content
  • Use and creation of digital materials: Keys to compliance
  • Using copyrighted works in course management software
  • Fair Use & Creating web pages for your courses
• Fair Use Liability Issues for Colleges & Universities
  • Personal and institutional liability issues you need to know
  • The latest legal and policy development affecting Fair Use
  • What copyright compliance means to your institution
• Explanation of new University System of Georgia Copyright Policy and the responsibilities the policy places on faculty

SPEAKERS

Kevin Smith is the Scholarly Communications Officer at Duke University. He holds a Masters of Library Science from Kent State University and a law degree from Capital University. He is admitted to the bar in Ohio and North Carolina. Kevin serves on Duke University’s Intellectual Property Board, the American Library Association’s Committee on Legislation Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and on the faculty of the Association of Research Libraries’ Institute on Scholarly Communications.

Lee Davis is Associate Vice President for Legal Affairs, Georgia Southern University.

Bede Mitchell is Dean of the Zach S. Henderson Library, Georgia Southern University

So what is EagleSpace, you ask?  Some of you are already familiar with the idea of institutional repositories, which are free online archives (see some frequently asked questions about IR’s here).  EagleSpace, which uses the DSpace software, is Georgia Southern’s new repository.  Now, in our soft launch, you can access EagleSpace at http://eaglespace.georgiasouthern.edu (the main URL will stay the same, although the links to the individual collections & items might change soon with a new server).  Try searching for “waddie welcome” and then browsing the collection by title to see the images.  (There are more images being added, so keep an eye on it!)  EagleSpace is Georgia Southern’s component of a statewide project, the GALILEO Knowledge Repository, or GKR, which is in its early stages.  (Sneak a peek here!)  The repository can be used to archive, and make freely accessible, our electronic theses and dissertations, faculty publications, multimedia files, etc., in order to provide seamless access to the digital intellectual product of the University System of Georgia.

Stay tuned for future developments, including discussion forums here on the Georgia Southern campus.

Come join us to celebrate Henderson Library’s newest acquisition!

The Waddie Welcome Archive is a photographic archive of hand-painted African American signs from Savannah, Georgia. The archive will be housed in Special Collections at Georgia Southern and online with the new EagleSpace database.

Authors and photographers Tom Kohler and Susan Earl will be present to talk about their photographs and their book Waddie Welcome and the Beloved Community. An exhibit accompanies the talk. Refreshments served.

Thursday, April 30, 4 PM

Library Exhibition Room, 1st floor

(through the main entrance and up the stairs past the main desk,

returning to the first floor from inside the security gates)

Contact: Robert Batchelor, batchelo@georgiasouthern.edu

http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/libref/bigger2009.html

Attendance to the conference is free, but advance registration is required. Please register here.
http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/libref/2009registration.php

BIGGER IS BACK!! It’s BIGGER, BETTER and FREE!!

Jocelyn Poole
Head of Information Services
Associate Professor
Zach S. Henderson Library
Georgia Southern University
P.O. Box 8074
Statesboro, GA  30460
912-478-7818
jpoole@georgiasouthern.edu

Wednesday, April 15, 10:00 a.m.

This session will be held in Room 1300, on the first floor of Henderson Library.

We look forward to meeting with you and discussing trends in scholarly communication, library service statistics by subject area (including circulation, interlibrary loan, and collection data), library funding, and disciplinary preferences for journals vs. monographs. We will also clarify any questions you might have about the current subscription review.

Please bring your questions, comments, and suggestions, and join us in our decision making.