What’s New at the GSU Zach S. Henderson Library

In the present economic climate, which has seen library budgets decrease, and South Carolina’s PASCAL (their counterpart to Georgia’s GALILEO) lose 90% of its funding, one thing remains steady:  the rising prices of periodical subscriptions and electronic resource licenses.  For the rundown, including tables with periodical costs by discipline, please visit this link to Library Journal’s annual Periodicals Price Survey.

Georgia Southern University alumna Linda Rhodes Groover has donated three books authored by her brother, Don Rhodes, to Georgia Southern’s Zach S. Henderson Library: Entertainment in Augusta and the CSRA (Arcadia Publishing, 2004), Ty Cobb: Safe at Home (Globe Pequot Press, 2008), and Say It Loud! My Memories of James Brown, Soul Brother No. 1 (Globe Pequot Press, 2008).

Mr. Rhodes has written the entertainment column “Ramblin’ Rhodes” for the past 38 years, making it the longest running weekly syndicated country music column in the United States.

Dr. Bede Mitchell, Dean of the Library, said “we are very pleased to receive these gifts, and the books will certainly find a wide readership among GSU students, faculty and staff.”

Mrs. Groover (B.A. 1997, M.Ed. 2005) is presently employed with the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension in the Southeast District Office located on the Georgia Southern campus. Having previously worked in Georgia Southern’s School of Technology (1997-2002) and the Georgia Tech Regional Engineering Program in both the Statesboro and Savannah offices, Mrs. Groover believes she is the only person on the Statesboro campus who has worked for all three institutions. She also has the distinction of persuading the Rand McNally map company to correctly site Georgia Southern University’s location on their maps after two years of correspondence. Beginning with the 1998 editions, GSU no longer appeared as being between U.S. 80 and GA 24, but was instead indicated between U.S. 301 and GA 67.

As we prepare for the 2008 Day for Southern, please remember the Zach S. Henderson Library in your tax-deductible giving plans.  More giving opportunities for Henderson Library are explained here.  Please consider donating funds for new library resources, so that we can continue to meet the scholarly needs of Georgia Southern University.

The Friends of Henderson Library would like to thank our supporters for their generous gifts in 2007. We invite you to join the Friends.