Valdosta State University Research Articles

Did COVID-19 Change Patron Format Preferences?: A Multi-year Study of Patron Format Preferences at Two Universities

This article will compare results from two surveys sent to the university libraries at Valdosta State University and Florida State University. The initial survey in 2016, asked patrons to describe their format preferences when looking for library materials and indicate if their format preferences changed when looking for pleasure reading or academic research. When the COVID-19 pandemic forced people out of physical libraries and onto online libraries visited from home, two of the authors wondered how this would change a patron’s preference regarding electronic formats, leading to a second survey in 2022. The conclusion gives insight on how this information should impact collection development policies in the future.

Heart and mind of hypnotherapy: Inviting connection, inventing changeFlemons, D. (2022). W.W. Norton. ISBN‐10:039371439X, 266 pp., $35.

Journal of Marital and Family TherapyVolume 49, Issue 2 p. 519-520 BOOK REVIEW Heart and mind of hypnotherapy: Inviting connection, inventing change Flemons, D. (2022). W.W. Norton. ISBN-10:039371439X, 266 pp., $35. Martha Laughlin PhD, LMFT, Corresponding Author Martha Laughlin PhD, LMFT [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0003-0039-863X Family Therapy Program, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, USA Correspondence Martha Laughlin, PhD, LMFT, Family Therapy Program, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA, USA. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author Martha Laughlin PhD, LMFT, Corresponding Author Martha Laughlin PhD, LMFT [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0003-0039-863X Family Therapy Program, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, USA Correspondence Martha Laughlin, PhD, LMFT, Family Therapy Program, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA, USA. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author First published: 21 September 2022 https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12612Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. Volume49, Issue2April 2023Pages 519-520 RelatedInformation

Valdosta State University's Odum Library & Women's & Gender Studies Program Receive Grant for Women's Suffrage Book Discussion Project

Valdosta State University's Odum Library & Women's & Gender Studies Program Receive Grant for Women's Suffrage Book Discussion Project

Using suma counting software to assess usage throughout an academic library renovation

Data from assessment of library building use can aid in making important decisions, such as where a renovation would be most impactful, in addition to the actual impact of those types of renovations. This article examines space usage data collected at Valdosta State University’s Odum Library from 2017 to 2021. Renovations in two key areas occurred during that time. Patron counts were conducted using the Suma Space Usage software that was initially developed at North Carolina State University. Initial examination of this data shows a marked increase in use in areas where renovation occurred and a modest increase in overall library usage, after the renovation ended. Full and expected collection of data was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst by Thomas Hallock

Reviewed by: A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst by Thomas Hallock Robert S. Levine (bio) A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst thomas hallock University of Alabama Press, 2021 206 pp. When I was asked to review Hallock's Road Course in Early American Literature, I leaped at the opportunity. After all, I had been basically trapped at home for over a year and thought it would be fun to read about the days when we could go from place to place and pay homage to authors. In other words, I thought Road Course would offer the vicarious fun of travel to Emily Dickinson's Amherst, with additional visits to such places as Philadelphia (for Franklin), Concord (for Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne), and Mexico (for the Aztecs). Hallock does describe some car trips, but, as the book's subtitle suggests, it more complexly engages interconnections between travel and teaching, and it conceives of travel in the broadest sense as through time, personal experience, physical place, and the reading of literature. The book elaborates on the challenges of teaching early American literature in a survey class at a time when administrators' commitment to STEM has rendered our work tertiary, and he situates his work as a scholar and teacher in relation to the challenges (and joys) of having a career in literary studies. In that sense, Hallock's conception of travel involves following his professional arc from getting the PhD in English at NYU, falling in love with and marrying a fellow NYU PhD in English, trying to develop a career in tandem with his wife, getting that elusive first job at Valdosta State University, adopting a son, moving to Florida and taking on adjunct jobs, and eventually landing a tenure-track position. These life events are presented as part of Hallock's "road course," and I have to say that I enjoyed reading about Hallock's interactions with [End Page 589] his wife (Julie Buckner Armstrong, known for her work on the literature of civil rights) almost as much as I enjoyed reading about how travel informs his teaching of early American literature. All of which is to say: the eleven essay-like chapters of the book, which follow Hallock over an approximately twenty-year period, are both entertaining and illuminating about teaching and life. I came away from the book wishing that, way back when, I'd had someone "real" like Hallock as a teacher. One of the book's best chapters, "Oro de Oaxaca" (named after a highalcohol Mexican mezcal), is representative of Hallock's writerly method. The year is 2012, and Hallock is participating in a six-week National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) seminar on literary and historical connections between Mesoamerica and the southwestern United States. The chapter begins in Mexico City with Hallock and other NEH participants viewing from their hotel balcony a political rally in the central square—Tenochtitlán—where Cortés met Moctezuma II in 1519. "Past is present in Tenochtitlán" (107), Hallock writes, as he takes in the political tensions between the two leading parties in Mexico and reflects on past conflicts. Over the next several weeks, as he visits key sites in Mexico with his fellow seminarians, he starts to feel untethered from his familiar ways of knowing historical chronology, viewing the geographical area of Mesoamerica as it might more readily be understood by Mexicans. In symbolic recognition of his revised perspective, he plots with a graduate student to smuggle back into the United States a bottle of mezcal from Oaxaca. (He would have preferred smuggling hallucinogens, but they're not so easily available.) As he crosses the border, Hallock contemplates the 1846–48 war with the United States from the new perspective derived from his experience in the seminar, which leads to a meditation on the defining character of borders and a consideration of Mexico's massive loss of land through the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This leads Hallock to raise questions about Whitman's imperialistic embrace of the war with Mexico, and to view northern Arizona and Santa Fe...

Making a New-Fashioned Resource Sharing Pie under Emergency Conditions: A Georgia Recipe

Like many libraries worldwide, the interlibrary loan departments at three institutions in the state of Georgia (Georgia Southern University, Kennesaw State University, and Valdosta State University) experienced an upheaval of traditional workflows and expectations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Unlike many libraries, though, these three libraries were instructed by their administrations to remain open to patrons throughout the pandemic. In order to continue to meet the needs of their patrons and ILL partners worldwide, these departments leaned on the support of their colleagues and the larger resource sharing community. Staff health and safety risks caused by COVID-19 required new considerations for staff scheduling, building access, service levels, and copyright.

Georgia Library Spotlight - Valdosta State University, Odum Library, Board Game Collection & Gaming Program

Georgia Library Spotlight - Valdosta State University, Odum Library, Board Game Collection & Gaming Program

From Zines of Peer Reviewed Journals: Cataloging Contemporary Pagan Resources

ABSTRACT Thinking of Pagan and Wiccan serials as grey literature does not come to mind at first. This is due to the evolution of the grey literature concept from when it first appeared. During the Third International Conference on Grey Literature in 1997, the concept underwent its first major definition change to include the production and distributed aspect of the literature. Three years later, the definition was further expanded to those issued from entities whose primary function is something other than publishing. 1 These changes allowed the folding of any non-commercial publication. Many early Pagan and Wiccan publications were created in a home office and then Xeroxed before being mailed, or they used a local jobber to print them. Subscriptions were available for those issued in the latter half of twentieth century. Acquisition of a small number of current occult publications is still via subscription; however, many have changed to a first come first served scenario. For example, issue seven (February 2020) of Fiddler’s Green Peculiar Parish Magazine was launched as a Kickstarter. Many others are announced on Facebook or email mailing lists with links to the official site to grab your copy while they last. Some are only available to members associated with the group and a smaller segment of these are limited to those studying the faith. How these publications originate and may be distributed places them solidly in the grey literature arena. In 2016, Valdosta State University acquired a large Pagan Archive made up of published and unpublished material. Cataloging of these resources has been a challenge. Authors may use pseudonyms and issues of periodicals may lack both enumeration and chronology. Knowledge of contemporary Neopaganism seems almost a necessity to adequately describe these resources. Research on associated people and groups is certainly needed. But there are other issues as well: name authorities and subject headings. A significant percentage of producers of Neopagan periodicals lack authority records. Prominent authors have name headings, but the groups they are associated with do not. Covens or stand-alone groups also lack name authorities. Occasionally, when an authority does exist for an entity, the creator of the authority record misinterpreted the verbiage on the publication, creating relationship errors to other organizations. On a positive side, Resource Description and Access (RDA) brings possibilities of linking names to the groups they are associated with. One of the most frustrating cataloging tasks is in the adding of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms (LCGFT). From the beginning, no Wiccan sect had been established in LCSH, even with cataloged resources in OCLC specifically on these sects. Many of the common subjects lacked appropriate subject headings. Past practice for non-SACO (Subject Authority Cooperative) libraries was just to add the broadest subject of Occultism, Paganism, or Wicca when a more specific subject heading would be beneficial to patrons. Libraries and archives in the last decade have experienced an influx of contemporary Pagan and Wiccan collections coming to them as religious leaders have begun building collections to preserve their legacy. This article will provide helpful insight on how to describe serial resources and clarify what publications show, as well as introduce some of the new MARC fields. The discussion of RDA and new MARC fields used to catalog Neopagan resources can also be applied to all serials regardless of subject.

Poland, Polonia, and America: Building the Dr. Paul F. Eve Monument in Augusta Georgia (1930–1931)

Research Article| April 01 2020 Poland, Polonia, and America: Building the Dr. Paul F. Eve Monument in Augusta Georgia (1930–1931) John P. Dunn; John P. Dunn John Dunn is a professor of history at Valdosta State University. His major fields of interest are military affairs in Poland, Egypt, and China during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Email: jdunn@valdosta.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Michał Mydłowski Michał Mydłowski Michał Mydłowski, born 1989, is a doctoral student at the Department of History of Warsaw University. His major fields of interests are the American Civil War, military history, and American history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Email: m.mydlowski@student.uw.edu.pl Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Polish American Studies (2020) 77 (1): 56–70. https://doi.org/10.5406/poliamerstud.77.1.0056 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John P. Dunn, Michał Mydłowski; Poland, Polonia, and America: Building the Dr. Paul F. Eve Monument in Augusta Georgia (1930–1931). Polish American Studies 1 January 2020; 77 (1): 56–70. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/poliamerstud.77.1.0056 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressPolish American Studies Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2020 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2020 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Georgia Library Spotlight - Valdosta State University, Odum Library

Georgia Library Spotlight - Valdosta State University, Odum Library

Louis Lomax’s Relationship with Malcolm X and Its Role in the Evolution of the Nation of Islam’s Popularity and Lomax’s Philosophy

Previous articleNext article No AccessLouis Lomax’s Relationship with Malcolm X and Its Role in the Evolution of the Nation of Islam’s Popularity and Lomax’s PhilosophyThomas AielloThomas AielloThomas Aiello is associate professor of history and African American studies at Valdosta State University. Search for more articles by this author Thomas Aiello is associate professor of history and African American studies at Valdosta State University.PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of African American History Volume 104, Number 4Fall 2019 A journal of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/705118 Views: 289Total views on this site © 2019 by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

School Council Member Perceptions and Actual Practice of School Councils in Rural Schools

In a time of growing interest in accountability, sharing school governance with parents, teachers, the community, and business leaders has become a norm. School councils or advisory groups have become a requirement for schools in many states. This research examined school council members’ perceptions of issues addressed by the councils and council effectiveness in rural Georgia. Additionally, this research examined the relationship between council members’ perceptions of school council effectiveness among council member constituent groups and the difference between council members’ perceptions of issues addressed and actual issues addressed. The research identified factors school council members believed to be important for school council effectiveness. The data were gathered through a survey of school council members in the forty-one county Valdosta State University service area. Actual issues addressed were obtained through a content analysis of school council minutes. Implications for educational practice in rural schools included a process of involving of a variety of constituents in policy making at the school level in an attempt to improve student academic performance and principals hold the key to council effectiveness.

Additions to the Flora of Georgia Vouchered at the University of Georgia (GA) and Valdosta State University (VSC) Herbaria

ABSTRACT Twenty-seven species, new to the flora of Georgia, are reported here and validated by cited voucher specimens at the University of Georgia (GA) and Valdosta State University (VSC) herbaria, the two largest herbaria in the state. Reassessment and comparison of these collections data have been greatly facilitated by specimen digitization efforts, especially those fostered among herbaria by the GA–VSC Herbaria Collaborative and by the Southeast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections (SERNEC). Four species (Chelone lyonii, Prunus hortulana, Sporobolus arcuatus, and Symphyotrichum simmondsii) are likely native to Georgia and represent range extensions from nearby states. Chelone lyonii and Sporobolus arcuatus are rare and state-ranked critically imperiled (S1) by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. The 23 exotic species are more or less naturalized or have potential to naturalize in the state. These nonnatives are escapes from cultivation (15 species) or weedy plants (eight species) t...

Performance and Energy Balance during a 439 Mile Endurance Run

Running for extreme distances or time has become increasingly popular, however, energy balance and its effect on performance is of great concern. PURPOSE: This case study examined the physical performance and energy balance in a 51 year old firefighter completing an 11-day, 439 mile solo run across Texas. METHODS: All food and drink consumed during the 11 day run were recorded to assess energy intake during the run. Energy expenditure and exercise data were recorded via a heart rate/GPS monitor during each run. Nude body weight was recorded each morning. RESULTS: Daily, the subject completed 39.98±2.61 miles (range 33.26-42.98 mi) in 11.2±1.2 hrs (range 9.74-12.97 hrs) at a 16.8±1.3 min/mi pace (range 15.17-18.45 min/mi). Subject consumed 4398±811 kcals per day (range 3280-5617 kcals/day) and expended 3804±271 kcals per run (range 3280-5617 kcals/run). Over the 11 days, the subject lost 2.6 kg of body weight. Total energy expenditure (5397 ± 271 kcal) was greater than energy intake (4398 ± 812 kcal; p=0.005). Over the 11 days, there was a trend towards a slower mile pace (r=0.832, p=0.001). Heart rate was also lower across the 11 days (range: 95 - 137 bpm; p=0.045). There was no change in core body temperature throughout each run (p=0.125 Time x Day interaction) or across the 11 days (p=0.078). On average, capillary lactate levels increased from 2.3 ± 1.3 mmol/L to 6.5 ± 2.3 mmol/L pre to post run (p=0.005). CONCLUSION: Energy balance is important for sustaining the high training and performance levels required for ultra-endurance events. However, the athlete was not able to consume enough calories to remain in energy balance. Nutritional needs assessments during training and competition should be an integral part of the preparation for participation in an ultra-endurance event. Supported by Valdosta State University Faculty Research Seed Grant

Georgia Library Spotlight - Odum Library's New Media Center, Valdosta State University

Georgia Library Spotlight - Odum Library's New Media Center, Valdosta State University

Digitizing Audiovisual and Nonprint Materials: The Innovative Librarian’s Guide. By Scott Piepenburg. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2015. Pp. vii+94. $50.00 (paper). ISBN 978-1-4408-3780-7.

<i>Digitizing Audiovisual and Nonprint Materials: The Innovative Librarian’s Guide</i>. By Scott Piepenburg. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2015. Pp. vii+94. $50.00 (paper). ISBN 978-1-4408-3780-7.

Editor's Note

With volume 32, issues 1–2 (2016) of the Edith Wharton Review, we are now proud to announce that we are part of the Pennsylvania State University Press journals collection. The Press boasts a substantial collection of single-author journals, including the Edgar Allan Poe Review, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, and the Mark Twain Annual; the Edith Wharton Review is Penn State UP's first single-author journal devoted to a woman writer. We are proud to be in such company, and we like to think that Wharton would be, too. Hearty thanks to the staff at the Press for their hard work and expertise; as readers will see, this volume sports a new cover and internal design that they have created. Readers will soon see transitions on the masthead: this volume marks our last issue with Emily Orlando (Fairfield University) as Book Review Editor; from volume 33 onward, Myrto Drizou (Valdosta State University) has graciously agreed to step into that capacity. As Editor of the journal, I am deeply grateful to Associate Editors Sharon Kim (Judson University) and Paul Ohler (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada) for their help as the journal undergoes this transition.The summer of 2016 marked the Edith Wharton in Washington Conference (2–4 June 2016), codirected by Melanie Dawson (College of William & Mary) and Jennifer Haytock (State University of New York at Brockport). Held in the stunning Larz Anderson House in Dupont Circle, the conference placed Wharton in the context of her time, yet turned our attention toward new directions in Wharton scholarship. Conference abstracts, included in the journal for the first time, will allow readers to see some of the new directions work on Wharton is taking. A few highlights from the conference: keynote speaker Laura Rattray (University of Glasgow) called attention to the underappreciated genres in which Wharton worked; we were encouraged to resee Wharton not only as novelist, literary critic, and travel writer, but as poet, dramatist, and satirist. Wharton's protean versatility was matched by that of our special guest speaker, the prodigious playwright, screenwriter, translator, and director Christopher Hampton. Hampton's fascinating description of the process by which he adapted The Custom of the Country conveyed his sensitivity to the language, characterization, and imagery of Wharton's work. Hampton's talk offered a pivotal example of how adaptations function as interpretations—that is, how they illuminate the texts on which they are based. Simultaneously, it recalled how Wharton, a writer who was ambivalent (to say the least) about the possibilities of film, anticipated filmic techniques in her work.This volume of the journal illuminates some exciting developments in Wharton scholarship. Our cluster of articles on “Wharton and Sex,” based on papers at the Edith Wharton Society panel at MLA 2015, emphasizes how Wharton's fiction cultivated an unexpected frankness on questions of sexuality. General Editor Carol Singley (Rutgers University–Camden) describes the launch of The Complete Works of Edith Wharton, another important moment in Wharton studies. And in one of the many discoveries the archives have yet to afford, Anna Girling illuminates Wharton's relations with British publisher John Murray, showing that her conflicted relations with her publishers began early in her career.We also pay tribute to two Wharton scholars whom, sadly, we lost in 2015. Irene Goldman-Price offers a remembrance of her mentor, Millicent Bell, author of some of the earliest important scholarship on Wharton. And Suzanne Ferris gives a tribute to the critic and biographer Shari Benstock, author of the biography No Gifts from Chance (1994) and the germinal Women of the Left Bank (1986). We remain in the debt of these dedicated scholars, who helped pave the way for the work this volume of EWR contains.

Effects of Training for a 439 Mile Endurance Run on Performance and Energy Balance

Running for extreme distances or time has become increasingly popular, however, little is known about the training process needed to successfully complete an ultra-endurance event. PURPOSE: This case study examined 28 weeks of training on physical performance, training volume, and energy balance in a 51 year old firefighter preparing for an 11-day, 439 mile solo run across Texas. METHODS: A maximal treadmill exercise test and body fat assessment via plethysmography was conducted at baseline and 28 weeks later. Nutritional intake was recorded biweekly via food diary. Exercise training data were recorded via a heart rate/GPS monitor for all workouts. Resting heart rate and morning body weight was self-reported weekly. Training consisted of running, tire dragging, and stair repeats in the fire station. RESULTS: VO2max improved by 5.19% (52.0 vs 54.2 ml/kg/min; 4.17 vs 4.38 L/min (4.94%)), while percent body fat increased 2.54% (23.6 vs 24.2%) following 28 weeks of training. Subject consumed 13731±2578 kcals per week (~1962 kcals/day) and expended 2658±1518 kcals per week (~380 kcals/day) from exercise. At the end of training, the subject had lost 2.17 kg from baseline weight, however weight fluctuated throughout the 28 weeks (77.63-82.54 kg). There was no correlation between weekly weight change from baseline and calories consumed (r=0.264, p=0.384) or weekly exercise caloric expenditure (r=0.385, p=0.748). CONCLUSION: Twenty-eight weeks of training resulted in improved maximal aerobic capacity in this 51 year old ultra-endurance athlete. Energy balance is important for sustaining the high training levels required for ultra-endurance events. However, the athlete was not able to consume enough calories to remain in energy balance. Nutritional needs assessments during training and competition should be an integral part of the preparation for participation in an ultra-endurance event. Supported by Valdosta State University Faculty Research Seed Grant

Review of Big Data on Student Information for Finding the Uncertainty in Higher Education Enrollment

The student enrollment for higher study kept on decreasing continuously especially for the past five years. This is affecting the higher education institution drastically – threatening the very existence and sustenance leave alone their sustained growth. Why is this capricious global trend? What is the mitigating solution for the revival? The answers to these questions are being attempted to in this paper by making use of Big Data concept. The four phases of big data namely data generation, data acquisition, data storage and data analytics on various parameters of the student data set from Valdosta state university (VSU) are being adopted for the analysis. The main causes for the epidemic are academic stress, demography, co-student behavior and uncertainty about the future. This paper also address the open issues of big data that promotes the cross function of science and technology that triggers the thinking revolution.

IMPROVING STUDENT INTEREST IN ENGINEERING THROUGH QUALITY ENHANCEMENT PROJECTS: MECHANICAL TESTING OF BIOMATERIALS

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