Boone Tree
Library Association

The Spring Boone Tree meeting is Tuesday March 18th at the Sullivan County Public Library in Blountville. Our speaker will be Sheila Hunt and her topic will be "Genealogy in the Library." Sheila is a wealth of knowledge and you won't want to miss this event.

Also on the agenda for that evening is officially recognizing our Elise Draper Barrette Award Winner, Clara Hasbrouck.

Additionally, we will make one more attempt to vote the position of "Webmaster" officially into our By-Laws. The other bit of business that we have been trying to vote on, whether or not to increase the number of meetings that the Association offers to members each year, remains in limbo.

Here is a picture of the Elise Draper Barrette tree that the association got planted at ETSU to honor her.

Click HERE to see the picture in more detail.

Here is a picture of the Elise Draper Barrette tree marker that is in front of the tree.

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I'm sure you have noticed. The Boone Tree website has been updated. I've given it a new look and feel. It's been a couple of years since I redesigned it and it needed it. If you have any problems with it or see any errors just let me know. Email me at cddemas@northeaststate.edu Enjoy!

Here is the nomination form for the annual Elise Barrette award. This award is given each year by Boone Tree to a longstanding member who has made significant, sustained contributions to libraries in northeast Tennessee. It is awarded in the fall with a nice plaque. All nominations will be reviewed by the Boone Tree officers and one will be chosen. You can download the nomination in a Microsoft Word document and email it to our president Chrissie Peters at capeters@northeaststate.edu

Download the form - Nomination Form.doc

Two highly qualified library champions for our region were nominated from the Boone Tree Membership, and the decision was not an easy one. It is difficult to choose one recipient when both people nominated are such incredible winners!

However, your Boone Tree Executive Board met on Monday of this week to make that decision, based on the nominations that we received via email.

I am pleased to announce that the recipient of our inaugural Elise Draper Barrette Award is Clara Hasbrouck.

One nominator said this of Clara: “I think that Clara Hasbrouck has done a great deal for BTLA over the years, especially in researching or gathering up the history of this organization… I believe all the numerous accomplishments and contributions to the library community speak for themselves and this individual is very deserving of this new prestigious award.”

Another nominator added, “Having had the privilege of working with her for many years, I would say that her most compelling attribute is her driving initiative to demand more and better funding and working conditions for libraries and librarians. No one that I can think of is more deserving of this award.”

Many thanks and much appreciation to those who took time to nominate their colleagues for this award. We will officially present the Award at our Spring Meeting – to be held on March 18 – at Sullivan County Public Library in Blountville. Watch for more details, coming soon!

Clara, sincerest congratulations to you!

From: Chrissie Anderson Peters, BTLA President 2006-2008

On Oct. 30, 2007 I made an adjustment to the BTLA-L Listserv.

I have changed the settings on the BTLA listserv to function more like most listservs. Before the change, when someone would reply to a message from the list it would go back to the list and everyone would see it.

I’ve fixed that! Now when you reply to a message sent to the list it goes only to the sender. If you are using Outlook you can use the “Reply to All” button to reply to both the sender and the entire list.