Boone Tree News & Events

Sullivan County Friends Present

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:37:11 GMT

The Sullivan County Friends of the library present - Joe Tennis. Joe Tennis, an award-winning reporter for the Bristol Herald Courier, released his fourth book Sullivan County, Tennessee, in September. Published with Arcadia Publishing, it provides a glimpse into the lost state of Franklin, and a lost piece of Southwest Virginia. Chapters will feature the stories behind South Holston Dam, Boone Lake, Kingsport, Bristol Motor Speedway and Bristol, Virginia-Tennessee, the birthplace of country music.

He will be at the Sullivan County Library in Blountville on Friday, October 10, 2008 from 4-7pm.

Download a flyer for the event

Boone Tree Elections 2008

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:22:39 GMT

The Boone Tree Fall Meeting was held at Northeast State’s Basler Library, last night. The meeting was fantastic and Theresa McMahan gave a great talk on her experience of doing a practicum for her Library Science degree at UT.

Elections were held last night. Our newly elected officers are as follows:

President: Theresa McMahan, Sullivan County Public Library
Vice-President: Amy Lippo, Sullivan County Public Library
Secretary: Amy Hopkins, Northeast State Community College
Treasurer: Virginia Salmon, Northeast State Community College

Thank you to all who ran for office.

It was also mentioned last night that the Archives of Appalachia at ETSU have found our records and have put a finding aid up online at http://www.etsu.edu/cass/Archives/Collections/afindaid/a669.html They have the records for Boone Tree from 1965 - 2002.

Fall Meeting 2008

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:16:47 GMT

The Boone Tree Fall Meeting will take place on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, beginning at 6:30 p.m., and will be held at Northeast State’s Basler Library. Please note that this is a changed date, due to schedules/conflicts of some of the Officers.

If you cannot attend the meeting, but are currently a member in good standing (that means that your dues are paid-up), you will be permitted to vote by proxy or by email. All votes returned by email should be sent to me at capeters@NortheastState.edu – I will send a reply to let you know that your votes have been received.

We still need several candidates to fill our slate for the upcoming election. We still need one candidate for VP; two candidates for Secretary; and one candidate for Treasurer. If you would like to become active in Boone Tree, here is your chance! There are only 3-4 meetings per year of our organization, and being active is a great way to get to know other people involved in library work in our region.

Please contact me ASAP if you are interested in running for one of these offices. I will announce our candidates once we complete the slate or by Tuesday, September 9, whichever should happen first.

Thanks in advance and we look forward to seeing you at the meeting!

Chrissie Anderson Peters, BTLA President

Spring Meeting 2008

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:25:53 GMT

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.

Elise Barrette Tree at ETSU

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:02:09 GMT

Elise Barrette Tree at ETSU

February 28, 2008

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.

Click HERE to see the picture in more detail.

Boone Tree Website Updated

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:04:16 GMT

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!

Annual Elise Barrette Award Given

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:15:31 GMT

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 Barrett 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

ListServ Reply-To Functionality Fixed

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:38:07 GMT

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.

Annual Elise Barrett Award

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:50:34 GMT

Here is the nomination form for the annual Elise Barrett 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