[Genealib] Findling local history books in your state

[Barbara Hill]

If your library receives newsletters or other periodicals from 
historical societies, museums, and genealogical groups all over 
Georgia, it would be an ideal job to assign to library volunteers, 
asking them to read each issue that comes in, looking for 
announcements of new publications.  If volunteers could come in on a 
regular schedule, they could read each issue that is checked in 
before it is shelved.  Or, each volunteer can be assigned a list of 
titles to read once a month after they have been shelved.  Either 
way, there are extra eyes watching out for the items you want, and 
regular library staffers never have time to do this..  The volunteers 
could photocopy the ordering instructions, or fill them out on a 
form, and leave them in a basket for your review.  Your local 
historical societies might be a good place to recruit volunteers who 
would enjoy enriching your library collections, and it would be easy 
and require minimal training.  In fact, I'm going to suggest this as 
a volunteer opportunity at my own library.

Barbara Hill
Library Committee
California Genealogical Society & Library
Oakland, CA



At 08:38 AM 5/30/2007, you wrote:
>Hi!
>  We have a problem in Georgia finding out about local history and 
> genealogy materials that have been published.  Another genealogy 
> librarian and I are trying to figure out how to create a 
> clearinghouse of these publications about Georgia that can be 
> easily used by librarians and by researchers looking for materials.
>We in Georgia are blessed to have the R.J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation 
>that underwrites the cost of publication of Georgia records up to 
>1850, and the Ga. Genealogical Society publishes  book reviews of 
>materials sent to them  for review. We order from mailer sent to us, 
>and the other standard ways.  It is very time consuming to look in 
>various places,
>but when I check the catalogs of other libraries, I often discover 
>that they have something that I have never seen any materials about. 
>Things fall through the cracks.  We want to figure out a way to 
>reduce that and find a quicker easier way to locate materials.
>Have any of you figured out a way to resolve this issue in your 
>state or even your library?
>
>Any ideas will be welcomed.
>
>Thanks,
>Laura
>
>--
>
>Laura W. Carter
>Heritage Room Librarian
>Athens-Clarke County Library
>2025 Baxter Street
>Athens, Georgia 30606
>
>Voice - 706 613-3650 Ext. 350
>FAX -   706 613-3660
>
>lcarter at arlsmail.org
>
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