ACE Internship

Johnson C. Smith UniversityJames B. Duke Memorial Library

Monika Rhue Director of Library Services

By Deborah Kallina

My Background

• B.A. – Government & History• M.A. – Government & History• Teaching Certificates: Texas & Pennsylvania

• Legal Support Staff• Teaching• Active Volunteer

Biddle Hall - 1st Building on Campus(1st Location of the Library)

Overview of Johnson C. Smith University

• Founded in 1867

• Progressive Liberal Arts University

• HBC - Historically Black College• Consistently Ranked by U.S. News & World Report as

One of the Best Comprehensive Colleges in the South

Carnegie Building (2nd location of the Library)

James B. Duke Memorial Library

Overview of James B. Duke Library

• Constructed in 1967, Renovated in 1999

• State of the Art – 56,555 sq. ft. – seating for 430

• 322 data ports for free IBM think pads

• Information Commons for data/video production

• Bibliographic Instruction Classroom

Overview of James B. Duke Library,continued

• SMART Classrooms

• Six Individual Study Rooms

• Four Group Study Rooms

• Conference Rooms

• Inez Moore Parker Archives & Research Center

Benefits of Internship

• Gain Valuable Work Experience

• Develop Professional Relationships with Librarians and Staff – Network!

• Apply Classroom Knowledge to Further My Understanding of the Workings of a Library

• Opportunity to Contribute

Areas of Current Focus

• Collection Management

• Collection Digitization

• Instructional Technology

• Archival Services

Collection Management

• Millennium Library Management System: tracks orders and funds

• Consult Choice Review Site for reviews on academic titles

• Department orders 1,700 books

Collection Digitization

• Digital Smith provides online access to over 8,000 digital objects created by the library staff

• Objects include photographs, manuscripts, letters, notes, and audio from many of the collections housed in the Inez Moore Parker Archives

http://library.jcsu.edu/digitalsmith.html

Instructional Technology

• JILL – JCSU’s Information Literacy & Learning

• Tutorials

• Moodle Access – Learning Management System

• http://library.jcsu.edu/jill.htm

Archival Services

• Detail-Oriented & Interested in History

• JCSU Uses Atool – Free Encoded Archival System

• SAA – Society of American Archivists

• Finding Aid: Descriptive Inventory of Archived Items

• Potential Project – Develop Finding Aid

Thank You