Anne E. Gometz

Head, Reference Services, Gaston County Public Library, (formerly part of Gaston Lincoln Regional Library), 1555 E. Garrison Blvd., Gastonia, NC. 704-868-2164. January 1999- 20 June 2017 (Retired).

• Responsible for Reference at the main library, serials for the county system, the Local History and Genealogy collection, and Interlibrary Loan.
• Supervised full-time and part-time employees;
• Wrote staff manuals and procedures;
• Produced public information materials including web pages;
• Did bibliographic instruction and staff training presentations;
• Did public programming.
• Selected reference tools, adult non-fiction, serials, and databases.
• Provided reference service at Information Desk and via telephone and email.

Assistant Department Head and Librarian, Documents/Maps/Micromaterials Dept., University Libraries, Florida State University, Tallahasee, FL, 32306. June 1981 to January 1999.

Administrative:

Assistant Department Head

• Hired, trained, supervised full and part-time employees;
• Wrote manuals and training materials;
• Served on library and university committees;
• Supervised Department's collection control/stack maintenance for paper materials.

Unit Head, United Nations/State Unit

• Oversaw all functions for UN depository including processing and cataloging;
• Oversaw State (all states except Florida) collection.
• Before Department reorganization (1996), was also responsible for documents from Florida, Great Britain, Canada, and international organizations.

Reference/Bibliographic Instruction:

• Provided reference service at Information Desk and via telephone and email;
• Wrote Library Research Guides for web pages;
• Taught workshops on Netscape, Internet resources, OPAC and other databases;
• Did bibliographic instruction on all aspects of the Libraries or focused on special topics as requested by faculty;
• Served as the University Libraries' liaison with the History Dept;
• Served on a multi-university cooperative resource development team on British history.

Joint appointment as Shared Librarian at Colquitt-Thomas Regional Library, Moultrie, Ga. and Southwest Georgia Regional Library, Bainbridge, Ga. Worked alternate two week periods at each library. November 1974--June 1981.

Colquitt-Thomas: [Now Moultrie-Colquitt Library]

In charge of Reference Dept.
• Selected reference books and major portion of adult non-fiction purchases;
• Weeded adult and children's collections and sorted gifts;
• Responsible for Georgia Collection and worked with patrons interested in genealogy and local history;
• Taught workshops, spoke to civic groups and other organizations, and led library instructional tours.

Southwest Georgia:

In charge of Genealogy and Local History Department.
• Set up department, wrote criteria for collection, selected and cataloged all materials (books, periodicals, microfilm, maps, archival materials);
• Worked with patrons in person and by mail and with classes in local schools;
• Did series of videotapes on beginning genealogy for use on local cable TV;
• Did general reference work and cataloging as needed.

M. A. (History), Florida State University, 1991.

Thesis: The Commercial Careers of Some Native Florida Plants.

M.L.S., Florida State University, 1973.

B. A., University of Connecticut, 1970.

Major: History. Minor: Sociology.

North Carolina ECHO Digitization Institute.

Georgia Archives Institute, cosponsored by Georgia Dept. of

Archives and History and Emory University. One month full-time.

ARL Office of Management Studies, Library Management Skills

Institute.

Family History Research in the United States Seminar, University of

Connecticut.

Computer training courses/workshops on various topics.

"A Creek Indian Bibliography: Print and Internet Sources." Ongoing.

Online at https://www.rhus.com/Creeks.html.

From Nehemiah to Cora: The Letts Ancestors of Cora Averoy Letts Pingree (1917-2017).

2021, 76 copies printed and distributed.

"The Twofold Problem of a Hebrew Burial."

North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, v. 47, no. 2, Apr-May-Jun 2021.

"Documenting a Death: John F. Leeper, Died 1914."

Footprints in Time, March 2021.

"Dying on the County Dollar, Gaston County 1880-1913."

North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, v. 46, no. 3, Jul-Aug-Sep 2020.

"A Medical Journal as a Genealogical Source."

GSP [Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania] Newsletter, November 2018.

Online at p. 5-9.

"Reading the Local News."

Footprints in Time, September 2018.

Column, "A Librarian's Bookmarks." Footprints in Time, journal of the Gaston Lincoln Genealogical Society, March 2014--June 2017.

Columns: Is That Family Tree a Fraud? Doesn't Everyone Have a Middle Name? What's an ILL? What's a Gazetteer? Did They Come from Ireland?

Don't You Love a Bibliography? What Is the "Gaston & Lincoln Biography Index"? What's a Digital Book? Have You Seen Our New Database?

Why Do Genealogists Love Scholars? Is There an Inventor in the Family? What Is Collective Biography? What Is a Mug Book? Did Your Ancestors Speak German?

"Gaston and Lincoln Counties in Tennessee Newspapers."

Footprints in Time, March 2017.

"The Sad Fate of Otto Levi."

Footprints in Time, March 2015.

"Gaston & Lincoln Gleanings from South Carolina Newspapers, 1845-1875."

Footprints in Time, December 2014.

"Lessons from the Governor's Daddy."

Footprints in Time, December 2013.

"Gleanings from the Acts and Resolutions Adopted by the General Assembly of Florida at the Fourteenth Session...December 18, 1865."

Florida Genealogist, v. 30, no. 2, April/June 2007.

"Vegetable Hair: The Spanish Moss Industry in Florida."

Florida Historical Quarterly, v. 66, no. 3 (January 1988)", p. 265 - 279.

"Abstracts of the Southern Spy" [as Anne Foshee],

Southern Genealogist's Exchange Quarterly, March and June 1977.

"Elijah Fooshee Pension Application" [as Anne Foshee].

Southern Genealogist's Exchange Quarterly, v. 20, Fall 1979,

Indexes to History of Decatur County [Ga.] and History of Colquitt County [Ga.]

Used in Reprint Company editions.

"Genealogy Tips and Tricks."

8 March 2025, Kings Mountain Historical Museum.

"Ancestors in the News."

12 October 2019, Our Community, Our Heritage Festival, Lincoln County Public Library.

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Betelgeuse: Astronomical Names."

20 July 2019, Gaston County Public Library.

"Placing Your Ancestor."

10 November 2018, Gaston County Public Library.

"Skeleton Dig: Unearthing Your Family History."

July-November 2013, Gaston County Public Library, 9 branches.

"Early Botanists"

January 1997 for various organizations.

"James Burgess: A Life in Creek Country."

Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting, May 1994.

"Palmetto Industries."

Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting, May 1991.

"Beginning Genealogy."

Six week course for Center for Participant Education, Florida State University. Taught three times.

At Gaston County Public Library:

• NC Live Web Advisory Committee.

At Florida State University:

• Florida Library Research Cooperative Team for British History;
• University Libraries Home Page Committee;
• Working Group on Library Research Instruction.
• Florida State University Faculty Senate;
• Florida State University Parking Services Advisory Committee; also Subcommittee on Bicycle and Pedestrian Concerns;
• Chair, University Libraries Services Evaluation Committee;
• Chair, Task Force on International and State Government Documents;
• Chair, Task Force on International, British, Canadian and Foreign Government Documents;
• Task Force on Library Renovation;
• Services Committee -- SACS accreditation;
• Faculty Advisory Committee;
• Task Force on Assessing Training Needs;
• Subcommittee for a Long Term Vision Statement of the Document Delivery Planning Task Force;
• Promotion Committee;
• Merit Review Committee;
• Various faculty search committees.

Other:

• Society of Florida Archivists, Secretary-Treasurer, 1983;
• Society of Georgia Archivists, on program committee which organized joint SGA/GLA workshop on archival techniques for librarians, 1980/81;
• Georgia Library Association, Secretary of Reference Division, 1980/81.

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