Library Gazette

Lauren Corbett first responded to a request for help from Trinity Center’s Director, Ann Dixon-Coppage. Prior to moving to the current location, Trinity Center’s books had been loosely organized, but after the move, workers were having trouble locating titles they knew were in the collection. Lauren realized that LibraryThing would help the workers at the center utilize its extensive book collection better since it is searchable and tags could be used to identify three different rooms containing the books.

Lauren embarked on project alone initially, but once she mentioned it to co-workers over lunch, Carolyn McCallum and Patty Strickland both immediately volunteered to help. Project stats to date: 28 hours and 596 titles. We estimate we may be about halfway through entering the collection into LibraryThing. As a result of recent internal publicity about this community service project, we have a new volunteer: Ellen Makaravage.

In our last Speak Out gathering Lynn mentioned that she would like to bring back the “Did You Know” feature in the Library Gazette. Did you know…

I’m an NC native and habitually proselytize about barbeque (pork, of course). Because both of my parents hail from Eastern NC and I grew up here in W-S, I have divided loyalties between Eastern and Lexington styles. I own two books about NC barbeque, both of which are in our collection (Holy Smoke and North Carolina Barbeque).

After 14 years in other southern cities, I’m back in W-S and this is my third time working at ZSR: 1st, around 1984, while taking summer classes in French (and I worked with Catherine France); 2nd, around 1993/94, starting as an intern while in library school at UNC-G, and continuing as a temporary employee until I finally landed my first full-time library position. I worked for Wanda, Leslie, Linda E., and others who are still here. They all taught me useful stuff about tech services and launched my long and successful career.

My first experience with computers involved a TRS-80 from Radio Shack with programs saved to a cassette tape.

I have the cutest little nephew…