NOTES FROM RAMSEY LIBRARY; 2010-8

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS HONORED

On December 8th Special Collections was awarded the Western North Carolina Historical Association (WNCHA) trophy for Outstanding Achievement. The award, given annually since 1954 recognizes individuals, organizations, museums, and societies for contributions to the historical record of western North Carolina for outstanding work in documenting and providing scholarly contributions to the public record, to publications about the area, for services to history, and for providing unique research materials.

NOTES FROM RAMSEY congratulates Helen Wykle, Curator of Special Collections, Sallie Klipp, Special Collections Assistant, and the legions of student workers, interns, and volunteers who have contributed so much to Special Collections, Ramsey Library, and our community over the years with particular nodes to those able to attend the award event: student, Melissa Hutcheson, intern, Susan Jones, volunteers, Toey Fortenbery, Tim Hawkins, Bob Cunningham, and Sharon Fahrer, were able to attend the ceremony. In addition to those in attendance recognition should be given to key outstanding volunteers, particularly Margaret Mitchell for her work on the E.M Ball Photograph Collection, Brian Stanley for web site design, and Sharon Fahrer of History@Hand who continues to be one of our strongest supporters and gatherers of collections and materials.
Group Study Rooms Upgraded!!

Recently, Ramsey Library was pleased to let students know that in response to student requests and mindful of an increasing need for “smart” group study space, the library has equipped five of its group study rooms with 36″ plasma monitors to be used with laptop computers. Students may bring their own laptops or check one out from the library. In the 2009-2010 school year, students checked out keys to group study rooms 4,212 times. We hope this new addition will make them even more useful to students as they collaborate on papers and projects.

Ramsey Library wants to express its gratitude to the lab/smart classroom team of ITS’ User Services. Many thanks to Mark Nielson, Alex Mitchell, and John Furst for their supportive collaboration and their quick, professional work in getting these screens up and running.
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