Passing of Professor Richard Marshall







 Monday, August 19,
Professor Richard Marshall passed away.

 

Professor Marshall was admired and loved for his straight shooting philosophy that inspired students to try harder and encouraged them to scramble up the academic ladder.  He loved to mix his work with real life stories to keep students engaged.

Many days as he passed by our Circulation Desk, he would stop to relate a new story about teaching. Hardly a visit went by that a student would stop, look right at Richard with great admiration and shake hands. The student would tell him a story about how much he/she enjoyed one of Richard’s life lessons.
 

The book Who Moved My Cheese was one of his class favorites. He made sure we always had an ample supply of books for students.  The library hosted his classes in our Gallery with books and real pieces of cheese for snacks. This was definitely a big hit with the students.

 

Read Together Palm Beach County Program featuring

To Kill a Mockingbird

LLRC-Gallery

In 2006, Richard also included in his lessons for students the Read Together Palm Beach County Program featuring To Kill a Mockingbird. Students gathered in our Gallery to discuss key themes.

The tables were decorated with shoes from all walks of life to illustrate when Atticus tells the children several times that they need to walk in someone else’s shoes before judging.

Constitution Week!



Richard always enjoyed 'Unscrambling the Preamble' with students!

Richard, Jerry as Ben Franklin, and Nora

 

 

It was always a pleasure to see Richard for the scheduled Instructional Lab with one of our Reference Librarians for each of his Strategies classes that included a tour of each department. He worked closely with our library staff to promote learning and skill building for his students especially in the area of research. Richard was always the first one to say YES to a library event!

All of us here at the library will miss Richard very much; his professionalism, his passion for teaching, his big sincere smile and especially his hearty laugh.
Goodbye Professor Marshall.  We miss you!

Part IV-From the Chair’s View! SEFLIN Regional Technology Conference

 

Article below submitted by Doug Cornwell
Chair of the SEFLIN Regional Technology Conference 2013

Image Credit: Courtesy of The SEFLIN Conference Planning Committee  

 

Chairman Doug Cornwell-Librarian at Palm Beach State
Keynote Speaker Jamie LaRue
SEFLIN's Executive Director Jeannette Smithee

From the chair’s view, working with the SEFLIN Conference Planning Committee this year was a real joy!  With attendance last year nearing the top, we figured we had a potential problem. The facilities at Florida International University are a great venue, but we could exceed the limitations and turn people away.  We don’t want to do that.  However, after looking at other venues which would bring us to the next level, the costs jumped tremendously. 

 

We thought about Palm Beach County.  Then we looked at the huge number of non-SEFLIN members in Miami who attended, but would not likely make the trip to Palm Beach County.  Would there be an equal or better number of non-members in Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie, or Indian River Counties who would pick up the slack?  An informal survey of library directors told us this would not be a possibility.  So, we remained with the Kovens Center at FIU. 

We were overjoyed at the response which capped off at 302 by the end of the registration period. The committee people were all great people to work with and made the chairperson’s job extremely easy!  It was great!  And very rewarding and fulfilling to hear the wonderful remarks! 

 I thought we should spend time celebrating our success!  We had never done that before, in all the years I served on the committee.  So we made arrangements to celebrate at a Duffy’s near the convention center.  We had a small group, but it was nice – to CELEBRATE a job well done!

 Doug

Image Credit: Courtesy The SEFLIN Conference Planning Committee