CONTENTS

NEWS FOR SUPPORTERS OF THE

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES

THE PAGES of a book are held together by its binding. Sewn together, one after another,

each page adds to the book, creating a whole. represents the continuing relationship

between alumni and other supporters of the University of Iowa Libraries, its students, and faculty.

Illustration from Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Natural Powersof Wind and Water to Turn Mills and Other Machines Depending on aCircular Motion... by Mr. John Smeaton, London, 1794. From the Historyof Hydraulics collection in the Department of Special Collections.

Hydraulics is an ancient science. Traces of irrigation canals fromprehistoric times still exist in Egypt, and the Chinese are known to haveimplemented vast flood control projects nearly four thousand years ago.The UI has sponsored a hydraulics research center since the early 1900sand the History of Hydraulics Collection was formed to support academicinterest in this area. The collection includes items that date back to thesixteenth century and is considered one of the finest in existence on thissubject. It is important both in terms of the history of science and thehistory of the book as many of the volumes represent innovations inprinting and binding.

2 ANNOUNCEMENTSInterim University LibrarianDevelopment Director Search

3 ANNOUNCEMENTSWilliam H. Burger named Chair

of the Friends Advisory Board

3 GATHERINGS:Barry Moser Visits the UI

4 THE BOOK AS ART, CRAFT AND OBJECTRare Books and Special Collections

6 THE ART OF COLLABORATION$100,000 donation supports FitzGerald & Co.literary acquisition

8 LEADERS:Arthur BentonMary K. and Homer L. Calkin

10 THE SCIENCE INFORMATION LITERACY PROJECTThe Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust

supports 2-year project

11 CALENDARExhibitions and Events2000 Friends DinnerDance ExhibitSummer Botanicals

SPRING 2000

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A N N O U N C E M E N T S

As Bindings readersknow, Sheila D.Creth resigned asUniversity Librarianeffective December 31, 1999 to pursue acareer as an independent managementconsultant. Barbara I. Dewey, Director ofInformation and Research Services at theUniversity of Iowa Libraries, has beennamed Interim University Librarian. Deweyassumed leadership on January 1, 2000.

“I have every confidence that Barbarawill provide effective leadership while thesearch for a University Librarian is carriedout,” said UI Provost Jon Whitmore in amemo to Libraries staff.

Barbara I. DeweyNamed Interim

University Librarian

In her permanent assignment,Dewey holds one of four senioradministrative positions in theUI library system and is respon-

sible for user services in the Main Libraryincluding the Information, Research, andInstructional Services department and 10branch libraries. Dewey also oversees theScholarly Digital Resources Center thataddresses creation of digital resources fromlibrary collections and electronic publishinginitiatives.

Dewey has been employed at the UILibraries for over 12 years and is a memberof the UI Press Advisory Board and the UIFaculty-Staff Campaign Committee. Shehas published and presented on a widerange of research library issues including

Selden W. Smith, former Director ofDevelopment for the University ofIowa Libraries has accepted a

position at Penn State University asDirector of Development for the UniversityLibraries. Selden’s last day at the Universityof Iowa was January 31, 2000.

This is an opportunity for Smith to returnhome. A Penn State graduate himself,Smith’s father was a long-time facultymember at the University, and other family

human resources, strategic planning, digitallibraries, and library services. Most recentlyshe won a Best Paper Award for a presenta-tion given at the 1999 World Conferenceon EdMedia. Prior to her arrival at the UI,Dewey held professional positions atIndiana University, Northwestern Univer-sity Library and the Minnesota ValleyRegional Library System. She holds a BAin anthropology and sociology, an MA inlibrary science from the University ofMinnesota, and the Graduate Certificatein Public Management from IndianaUniversity.

A national search to name a permanentlibrarian is underway. An appointment maynot be made until June 2000.

members still live in the town of StateCollege. Moreover, this new position is anopportunity for Smith to advance his careerin library development work.

Rich Wretman, Assistant Vice PresidentConstituent Development Programs at theUI Foundation, will serve as the UILibraries’ representative until a replacementhas been recruited. The search is wellunderway. In the meanwhile, Wretman canbe contacted regarding Libraries develop-

ment issues by calling the UI Foundation at319/335-3305 or by mail, The University ofIowa Foundation, PO Box 4550, Iowa City,IA 52244-4550.

Many of the Libraries’ supporters andFriends have met Selden Smith and join usin expressing appreciation to him for hiswork at the UI and wishing him the best inhis new endeavor.

Selden Smith Discovers That You Can Go Home Again

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William H. (Bill) Burger, SeniorVice President and SeniorTrust Officer at the Mercan-

tile Bank in Iowa City has been namedChair of the University of Iowa LibrariesFriends Advisory Board. Burger, who hasserved on the Board since 1996, served asVice Chair in 1999 before becoming Chairat the start of the new year. He succeedsJane McCune who continues to serve as amember of the Board.

A leader in the banking community,Burger has worked for Mercantile Bank,(previously First National Bank) of Iowa

City since October 1990. Prior to this, hewas Senior Vice President and Trust Officerof the National Bank of Waterloo from1963 - 1990. He is a member of the IowaState and Johnson County Bar Associationsand is an alumnus of the University of IowaLaw School, (JD, 1963).

Burger has a long-standing commitmentto Iowa libraries. He has been a member ofthe Iowa Library Association for 20 yearsand is the former President of the Iowa CityPublic Library Friends Foundation. He hasalso been active in both the Iowa City andWaterloo Chambers of Commerce.

The Friends of the UI Libraries and theUI Center for the Book co-hosted a series ofprograms centering around the Universityof Iowa’s acquisition of the PennyroyalCaxton Bible and a visit by artist/fine presspublisher Barry Moser who illustrated andpublished this edition of the Bible. Moserpresented lectures on subsequent eveningsto capacity crowds. The first lecture con-cerned his newly published edition of theKing James Bible. Prairie Lights Books ofIowa City sold trade copies of the Bible and

donated 20% of their sales to the Libraries.A copy of the fine press version of the Biblefrom the Libraries’ collection was on view.In his second lecture, Moser explored therelationship of artist and patron and thebusiness of fine press publishing. The purchaseof Libraries’ copy of the Bible was madepossible by a generous donation from Betsyand Curtis Stucki of Olympia, Washington,in memory of Frank Emmanuel Stucki.The Stuckis visited Iowa City to hearMoser’s lectures and to meet the artist.

Barbara I. Dewey, Interim UniversityLibrarian, noted, “We are extremelyfortunate to have someone with BillBurger’s experience with libraries in thisposition. Bill has a background in librarydevelopment that will prove essential in ourefforts to secure additional private support.We all look forward to working with Bill inhis new role.”

Bill Burger is married to Celia R. Burger,principal of Irving B. Weber ElementarySchool, Iowa City. They have four adultchildren and five grandchildren.

William H. BurgerNamed Chair of the

Friends Advisory Board

Bill Burger (left) with author T.C. Boyleat a 1998 Friends reception held at theMercantile Bank, Iowa City.

Friends of theUI Libraries and Barry Moser

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Pictured left to Right: Betsy Stucki, BarryMoser and Curt Stucki.

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Just under 200,000 of the nearly 4million books held by the UILibraries– 5%– have been judged rareand are sequestered in SpecialCollections. While appropriated

funds in modest amounts are used year-by-year to acquire more titles, a large propor-tion of the current holdings has come to theLibraries as collections and by gift. Somegift collections have been accompanied byendowment funds that have allowedcareful, continued growth over many years.

One of the earliest of these collectionswas bequeathed in 1907 by Mrs. MarthaWright Ranney in memory of her husband,Dr. Mark Ranney, at one time a member ofthe University College of Medicine. These3,700 volumes of limited editions in finebindings, illustrated books, art books, andDr. Ranney’s personal library of 19thCentury books (English and Americanliterature and books on religion, psychology,natural science, travel, history, etc.) havenow been used by students and faculty fornearly a century.

Other collections include The Brewer-Leigh Hunt Collection, a comprehensivegathering of books and manuscripts by andabout English writer Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) founded on the collection acquiredfrom the estate of Cedar Rapids publisherLuther Brewer in 1934. The collection isnearly complete in first and subsequenteditions of books by Hunt and includespresentation copies, periodicals, associationcopies edited by Hunt as well as hiscontributions to journals and the writings ofHunt’s friends. A 1997 bequest of $50,000from Hunt’s great-great-grandson, DesmondLeigh-Hunt, permits continued growth.

The John Springer Collection onTypography is comprised of nearly 2,000volumes of type specimens, importantworks in printing history, and volumesillustrating the art and process of printingthrough the centuries. Springer, an IowaCity printer, presented the collection to theLibraries in 1936.

The James Wills Bollinger Collection ofLincolniana exceeds 5,000 books andpamphlets about Abraham Lincoln. JudgeBollinger bequeathed the collection in1951. Newly published and antiquarianmaterials are added, and there is muchmaterial about James Wilkes Booth.

The Thomas Ollive Mabbott-PoeCollection is a scholar’s library of booksrelating to the life and times of Edgar AllanPoe assembled by Professor Thomas

The Book as Art, Craft and Object

Rare Books and Special CollectionsSidney F. Huttner, Head, Special Collections

“I cannot live without books.”

–Thomas Jeffersonto John Adams,June 10, 1815

Book platefrom theThomas OlliveMabbott-PoeCollection.

Illustration byRandolph Caldecottfrom DaddyDarwins’s Dovecote:A Country Tale byJuliana HoratiaEwing, 1886. Fromthe Bernice E. LearyCollection.

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Mabbott. New additions to the collectionare made possible through the Mabbott-PoeFund. These include such importantvolumes the first Australian edition ofPoetical Works (1868) and publications ofPoe’s works by fine presses.

The Chef Louis Szathmáry II Collectionof Culinary Arts stands currently at 8,600volumes, many from earlier centuries,relating to the art and science of cookingand eating, with particular emphasis onnational, regional and ethnic cuisine,beverages, and gastronomy. The corecollection includes 15,000 ephemeral itemsand was the gift of Chef Szathmáry duringthe 1980s. This collection is not endowed,and support is particularly welcome.

The Charlotte M. Smith Collection ofMiniature Books is comprised of 3,300books under 3" tall and spanning the 17thcentury to the present. Collected orpublished by Charlotte M. Smith ofNewton, Iowa, the range of subjects isbroad and many of the books address as wellas illustrate the arts of the book.

The Bernice E. Leary Children’s Booksrange in date from the late 18th to the mid20th Century and constitute a goodworking collection of examples of Englishand American children’s literature withadditional examples of children’s literaturefrom other countries. Of special interest arethe numerous books containing woodcutillustrations, many hand colored; earlyexamples of books with moveable parts;books illustrated by notable illustrators suchas John Bewick, Kate Greenaway andRandolph Caldecott; and a collection ofmodern books which have won theNewberry and Caldecott awards forexcellence.

While the range as well as the size of thecollections is remarkable, these holdings arefar from comprehensive. And curiouslyenough, at a time when technology seemsto define the future, there has never beenmore interest in the book. The book—asartifact and art form—has become animportant topic of academic studies whichtransverse disciplines as various as history,

Illustrations by John Tenniel from a presentation copy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland byLewis Carroll. This copy is signed by Tenniel and contains his original pencil drawing (left)bound into the book as a mirror image to the engraved illustration of “The Fish FootmanPresenting the Queen.” From the James M. and Christine K. Wallace Collection.

Pressman: a Fresh Note 1870’s period styletypographic design by E.G.G. From Fashionsin American Typography, Edmund G. Gress,Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York,1931. From the John Springer Collection onTypography.

art, sociology, literature, anthropology,economics and business. Loosely called the“history of the book,” this new field focuseson the book not only as a container for textbut as the subject of study itself. Whilemuch of this attention centers on thetraditional codex form, electronic books,multimedia publishing and hypertexts arealso studied.

Private funds continue to supportexpansion of the collection in key areas ofstrength. Very often it is these funds whichprovide the means to secure the bookswhich give the collections the margin ofexcellence on which students and facultyrely. If you would like more informationabout supporting rare book collections atthe UI Libraries, contact Sid Huttner, Headof Special Collections at 319/335-5921 orsid-huttner@uiowa.edu.

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Collaboration can take manyforms. Sometimes writers,artists and craftsmen cometogether to invent new works

of art. Occasionally this is facilitatedthrough the forward vision of donors andfoundations. Extraordinary collections areformed in much the same way, and this isexactly how the University of IowaLibraries recently came to acquire a nearlycomplete collection of works by VincentFitzGerald & Company.

In summer 1999, the California-basedAngora Ridge Foundation donated$100,000 towards the Libraries’ purchase ofa retrospective collection of works byFitzGerald, whose company producescontemporary illustrated fine press books.The Foundation is interested in artistic andliterary collaborations and made thedonation in recognition of the prominenceof the UI Center for the Book and thesignificance of the UI Libraries’ fine presscollections.

FitzGerald & Company specializes inprojects that partner artists, writers, andscholars with book designers, printers andbookbinders, and in so doing attracts someof the country’s finest talent. Participantshave included playwright David Mamet,artists Susan Weil and Neil Welliver,photographer Judith Turner and Village

Voice film critic Michael Feingold. Textspublished by FitzGerald include both

classical and new works by authors notpreviously published and/or available inEnglish language versions.

FitzGerald trained as a painter andworked as a private art dealer and book-seller through the 1970s. These influences,and a broad range of friends and associatesfrom the cultural arts community in NewYork, soon lead FitzGerald to publishmonographs and to begin a study of thehistory and design of livres d’artiste, a genreof illustrated books originated in Franceearly in the 20th century which broughtwriters, editors, artists, typographers,printers, and binders into close collabora-tion to create a singular work of art.

The first publication of VincentFitzGerald & Company was The Story of

Parrot and the Merchant (1981), a parable by13th century Persian poet JalaluddinMohammad Rumi. Zahra Partovi, whoFitzGerald met while both were employedat Scribners a decade earlier, translated thework. In keeping with the spirit of livres

d’artiste, FitzGerald wanted to produce anillustrated volume, but because the artworkwould have to have to become part of thefinished work, careful selection of an artistwas important. He choose the abstractionistpainter Don Kunz to illustrate the booksensing that Kunz’s calligraphic drawingwould compliment Rumi’s stream-of-consciousness writings.

As FitzGerald developed publishing skillsand as financing for more ambitiousprojects became available, innovation in

The Art of

The Angora Ridge Foundation and the FitzGerald & Co. Fine Press

Illustration by Ed Koren from The Frog Prince,A Play by David Mamet, Vincent FitzGerald &Company, New York, 1984.

From scene one, the Prince is talking to

his servingman as they walk through the

woods gathering flowers. “I want to tell

you something, Bill: what we need, what

we need in life (and art is part of life)...

What you need in art, and what you need

in a bouquet, in short, is what you need

in life.”

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design and format increased. Epiphanies

(1987) was an edition of dream-inspirednotes collected by James Joyce between theages of 18 and 21, from which his laterbooks grew. This volume is unique inseveral ways. The writings are separatedinto four distinct sections, Death, Dreams,Games (primarily word games or puns) andPlanes. FitzGerald paired two artists, SusanWeil and Marjorie Van Dyke, to illustratethe work, and the artists designed the shapeand size of the book based on Joyce’soriginal manuscript pages.

Other innovative works include The Reed

(1989), another volume of the Rumi’spoems. This book was designed andillustrated by Susan Weil as an accordion-folded sheet printed on both sides. TheManhattan Third Year Reader (1984) is alinocut book by painter Mark Beard aboutan artist’s life in Manhattan that is format-ted in the style of a grade-school primer.David Mamet, Pulitzer Prize winning authorof Glengarry Glen Ross and The Postman

Always Rings Twice, collaborated with NewYorker artist Ed Koren to create The Frog

Prince (1984), a play adapted from a trilogyof children’s plays by Mamet. Also includedin the collection is the first Englishtranslation of Henrik Ibsen’s poems,translated by Michael Feingold andillustrated by Neil Welliver.

Of course the most important function ofany collection is that faculty, students andresearchers use it. David Schoonover,Curator of Rare Books at the UI Libraries,notes that many of the works will be used asteaching tools in a variety of UI courses. Inparticular, he will feature the collection as amajor element in a new course, “FinePresses and Literary Publishing,” this spring.The UI Center for the Book, the EnglishDepartment, Art and Art History, andInternational Studies are just a few of theacademic areas that will use this collection

as a resource.For a complete list of the recently

acquired books and additional informationabout the FitzGerald collection, contact theSpecial Collections Department at (319)335-5923, or explore the Department’swebpages, particularly the link to “RecentGifts and Acquisitions” at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/new2.htm.If you would like more information aboutsupporting rare book collections at the UILibraries, contact Sid Huttner, Head ofSpecial Collections at 319/335-5921.

The Reed, by Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi,translated by Zahra Partovi with etchings bySusan Weil, Vincent FitzGerald & Company,New York, 1989.

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“The librarian’s mission should be not...

a mere handling of the book as an object,

but rather a know-how of the book as

a vital function.”

Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955),

Spanish philosopher and essayist

Dr. Arthur L. Benton is ProfessorEmeritus in the Department ofNeurology at the University of

Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC).In 1992, in recognition of a career thathas spanned over 60 years, he was honoredwith the Gold Medal Award presented bythe American Psychological Foundationfor Life Achievement in theApplication of Psychology .An accomplished clinician andteacher known for his pioneer-ing work in neuropsychology,Dr. Benton has continued tomake an impact at the UI, bothin the department of neurologywhere he works with graduatestudents and colleagues andthrough his giving as a donor.

Dr. Benton has a specialconnection to the UI Libraries.His late wife, Rita Benton,served as the first head of theUI Music Library from 1957-1980. She was an internation-ally renowned scholar and after her deathin 1980, the Rita Benton Music Library wasnamed in her honor. Over the years, Dr.Benton has contributed generously to themusic library, ensuring that it remains oneof the best facilities for musicologicalresearch in the region. Recently, he has

broadened his support to the UI Libraries.In a typically innovative fashion, he hasestablished two endowments to encourageand reward scholarship and excellence inlibrarianship. These are the Arthur BentonExcellence in Reference Services Profes-sional Development Award and the Ada M.Stoflet Lectureship.

The Arthur Benton Excellence inReference Services Professional Develop-ment Award will be given biennially to aprofessional staff member at the UILibraries who demonstrates outstandingcommitment in providing reference servicesto the university community. The $1,000

award may be used tosupport professionaldevelopment activitiesrelated to the advancementof reference services. Thefirst recipient of the awardis J. David Martin, Head ofthe Marvin A. PomerantzBusiness Library.

Dave Martin was chosenby a group of librarians andfaculty after being nomi-nated by two facultymembers and a professionalstaff member from theHenry Tippie College ofBusiness. He is an expert in

business reference as well as in electronicdatabases. Martin holds a Masters of LibraryScience from Kansas State University, aMBA from the University of Iowa and aBachelor of Science from Emporia StateUniversity.

Sara Ryne, DEO Management andOrganization at the Henry Tippie Collegeof Business said, “Dave is absolutelyexcellent at informing faculty and studentsof new information resources.” and shenotes, “He taught a business informationcourse in Argentina and Venezuelaspreading his knowledge internationally.”

The Ada M. Stoflet Lectureship isdesigned to bring outstanding lecturers inlibrarianship to the UI Campus every otheryear. The endowment was created to honorthe memory of Ada M. Stoflet, an excep-tionally dedicated member of the UILibraries staff for over three decades. Thefirst lecturers to be invited through thisfund were Brian Hawkins, President ofEDUCAUSE and Betsy Wilson, AssociateDirector for Public Services at the Univer-sity of Washington. Hawkins and Wilsonwere the plenary speakers at a recentconference hosted by the UI Libraries.

Powerful Learning, Powerful Partnership:

Educating the University Community in a

Dynamic Information Environment, was heldNovember 11-12, 1999, and attractedparticipants from 80 universities, 20colleges and 4 community colleges in 29states, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the UnitedKingdom and Canada. Hawkins is aninternationally known scholar of highereducation and has written in the area ofinformation resources, libraries, academicplanning and the use of technology inhigher education. Wilson has published andpresented widely on teaching, learning, andtechnology, educational collaborations, andassessment and evaluation. Towards the endof the conference, one librarian noted that

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Powerful Learning, Powerful Partnerships was“one of the best conferences in my sevenyears of professional librarianship.”

The first Arthur Benton Excellence inReference Services Award was made at aceremony on February 10, 2000 in the MainLibrary. Dave Martin was presented with acommemorative plaque and a reception washeld after brief remarks. A reception for theAda M. Stoflet Lectureship speakers washeld during the conference in November.

Barbara I. Dewey, Interim UniversityLibrarian at the University of Iowa Librariesnotes that “Dr. Benton’s forward thinkingin creating endowments that supportexcellence in librarianship is a mark of atruly resourceful problem solver. Whilemany donors understand the need tomaintain collections or update equipment,human resources are also an important partof what makes a library outstanding. Theseendowments provide staff with recognitionand opportunities for professional develop-ment so that they can meet the needs ofstudents and faculty in a rapidly changingeducational environment.”

Surprising relationships can resultfrom meetings in the most unex-pected ways. That is what happened

to Mary K. Calkin when she moved fromTennessee in 1966 to accept a position atthe Department of State in Washington,DC. Because of the high cost of living inDC, she chose to live in Arlington, Virginiaand commute by bus. The bus stop wassituated between her apartment buildingand that of a distinguished gentleman whotipped his hat to her every morning as theyrode the same bus. Coincidentally, HomerL. Calkin, a native Iowan and historian,also worked at the Department of State.A year after the death of his first wife in1969, he invited Mary to Washington’sCosmos Club for dinner, and this hand-in-glove event led them to the altar in June1971.

The University of Iowa had beenHomer’s first love for many years. As astudent, he raised the flag on Old Capitoland worked in the hospital kitchen tosupport himself. He earned a BA, an MAand a Ph.D. at UI and was involved inmany activities there. Although Homersupported other programs, his greatestinterest was the UI Libraries. So in October1971, he took his bride to meet his friendsat the University, and this visit to Iowa Citychanged the direction of her life. She wouldlater say, “there I met a truly dedicated staffwho quickly seduced me with their accep-tance, kindness and friendship, inspiring meto support Homer’s endeavors. BobMcCown in Special Collections and hisstaff were especially helpful, introducing meto a world of rare books the likes of which Ihad not seen. It was an enlightening

experience.” Not surprisingly, this also ledto a strong and lasting relationship with theUniversity.

Each visit to Iowa City became moreinteresting and seemed to “lock in Mary’sneed to become a part of the UI family.” In1976 she followed Homer’s lead and becamea member of the President’s Club. Mary hashonored Homer through gifts from time totime. Following his death in 1995, sheconfirmed her support to the Universityand to the UI Libraries by donating hispersonal papers, dating back more thansixty-five years, to Special Collectionsalong with funds to purchase significantCivil War materials. Since both Homer andMary had worked in international affairs,she funded a project for Chinese, Africanand South Asian subject areas in hismemory.

“I support the UI Libraries because of thededication of my late husband and ourshared interest in research. Our relationshipwith the University enriched our lives inways I would not have predicted. We agreedthat the needs of the Libraries are enormousand to retain its greatness, the UI Librariesmust receive our collections and our fundsto support the technology that makesknowledge and information more acces-sible. Our commitment to the Libraries inthe form of an annual contribution and anendowment will help to assure that thepresent and future generations of studentsand faculty will have access to a top-notchresearch library in all areas of study.”

J. David Martin, Head, Marvin A. PomerantzBusiness Library and the first recipient of theArthur Benton Excellence in ReferenceServices Professional Development Award.

Romance of the BookMary K. andHomer L. Calkin

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As availability to a broadrange of information sourcescontinues to grow, especiallythrough the Web, informa-

tion literacy has become an essential issuein education. Information literacy impliesthat an individual can find and evaluateinformation resources. This is particularlycritical when using the Internet. There is somuch available– both good and bad– andmany students don’t know how to tell thedifference.

The UI Libraries system has incorporatedinformation literacy into its 5-year strategicplan as a principal goal. The Libraries’approach is to work with faculty andteaching assistants to help them incorpo-rate lessons on information literacy intoexisting course work. This has proved amore effective strategy than holdingseparate sessions as the students canimmediately use what they learn to improvetheir academic performance.

Libraries staff have already begun to workwith faculty in the Liberal Arts andHumanities through programs such asTWIST (Teaching With Innovative Styleand Technology) and nTITLE. TWIST is amodel-training program for librarians andfaculty on networked information resources.nTITLE is a collaborative effort among theCenter for Teaching, Information Technol-ogy Services (ITS), and the UniversityLibraries that provides faculty withresources and intensive training to integratenew instructional and delivery technologies

into their teaching. With these efforts wellunderway, the Libraries is now focusing onengineering and the sciences.

This is possible in part through a$269,512 grant awarded to the UI Librariesby The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust todevelop a new program to enhancestudents’ science and technology researchskills. The Science Information Literacy

Initiative is designed to help undergradu-ates majoring in the sciences developcomprehensive knowledge and skills inlocating and analyzing scientific informa-tion. The two-year grant will support thesalaries of two full-time staff and twograduate assistants. This staff and sciencelibrarians will work with faculty to custom-ize information curriculum componentsthat meet UI faculty members’ teachingobjectives.

This is not the first time the CarverCharitable Trust has rewarded innovativeideas at The University of Iowa Libraries.Since 1991, the Trust has granted a total of$1,626,990 to support new initiatives andanother $700,000 towards renovation of theBiological Sciences Library.

The Carver Trust funded the develop-ment of the Information Arcade located inthe Main Library. The Arcade, whichopened in 1992, was the first electronicinformation and multimedia learning

The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust supports 2-year project

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facilities associated with an academiclibrary, and it was honored in 1994 with theALA/Meckler Library of the Future Award.Based on this success, the Trust helped funda comparable facility at the Hardin Libraryfor the Health Sciences. The InformationCommons began operations on August 26,1996. The Trust was also responsible forfunding the first three years of TWIST.

With an emphasis on meeting theeducational needs of students in Iowa, and apioneering spirit that embraces innovation,the directors of the Roy J. Carver Chari-table Trust have made a tremendous impactat the University of Iowa at a time wheneducation and the role of the universitylibrary has been in a state of rapid change.The programs and teaching facilities theTrust has supported have helped place theUI at the forefront of teaching informationliteracy and technology.

For more information about The ScienceInformation Literacy Initiative, contactCarol Hughes, Interim Director of Informa-tion & Research Services, 319/335-5871 orcarol-hughes@uiowa.edu.

From Experimental EnquiryConcerning the Natural Powersof Wind and Water to TurnMills and Other MachinesDepending on a CircularMotion... by Mr. JohnSmeaton, London, 1794. Fromthe History of Hydraulicscollection in the Departmentof Special Collections.

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Special EventsTHE AMERICAS’ TABLE:A STORY OF FOOD AND CULTUREThe influence of Africa in the Americasas told through America's culinarytraditions.

Featured SpeakerVertamae Grosvenor,author, actress, andculinary anthropologist

IntroductionsDoris Witt, Assistant

Professor, UI Department of English

April 14, 2000, 6:00 PM - 9:30 PMIowa Memorial Union: Richey Ballroom$35 per plate

RSVP by FRIDAY, April 7, 2000

Afternoon Program5:00 Tracing Americas’ Culinary

Influences through the LibrariesCollections

Presented by David Schoonover, curatorof rare books, in the Special CollectionsDepartment, 3rd Floor, Main Library.This program is free and open toindividuals not attending the dinner.

The Americas' Table: Dinner Program6:00 Reception (drinks and appetizers)7:00 Dinner: Buffet style8:00 Featured Program

Featured speaker Vertamae Grosvenordescribes herself as a "poet, actress, writer andculinary anthropologist." She is the host ofAmericas' Family Kitchen, which airs on manyPublic Television stations nationally, and acommentator for All Things Considered onNational Public Radio. She is the author ofseveral cookbooks— her most recent isVertamae Cooks Again: A Taste of Home— andhas written for The New York Times, The

Village Voice, The Washington Post, Life, Ms.,

Redbook, Ebony, and Viva.Grosvenor grew up in the lowlands of

South Carolina near Beaufort, where some of

C A L E N D A R

the people who live along the coast still speakGullah, a combination of West Africanlanguages and English. Grosvenor served as aconsultant for the Gullah language and had afeature role in Julie Dash’s AmericanPlayhouse movie, Daughters of the Dust. Morerecently, she served as both culinary consult-ant and actress in Beloved, the film adaptationof the book by Toni Morrison starring OprahWinfrey and Danny Glover.

Grosvenor will be introduced by DorisWitt, assistant professor in the UI Depart-ment of English and author of Black Hunger:

Food and the Politics of US Identity, a study ofAfrican-American food lore and how foodcreates connections in the African-Americanand other communities. As part of herresearch for the book, Witt studiedGrosvenor's writings.

Both Grosvenor's and Witt's books will beavailable at the event.

MENU:PASSED HORS D’ OUVRES:

Shrimp and Butternut Squash Tarts,Vegetable Empañadas

BUFFET DINNER: Guests may samplefrom all three stations as follows:Caribbean: Deviled Crab Bouchees,Pepperpot Soup, Heart of Palm and BeetSalad, Jerk Chicken, Old-time RicePudding with Golden RaisinsSouthern/Creole: Sweet Potato Biscuits,Shrimp and Sausage Gumbo with Rice,Boiled Peanuts, Bread Pudding withBourbon SauceAfrican American: Coleslaw, Black-eyedPea Salad, Fried Catfish and Hush Puppies,Peach Cobbler

CASH BAR:

Wine, Beer, Mixed Drinks, Szaceracsand Mint Juleps

ExhibitionsCELEBRATING DANCE!DOCUMENTING DANCE!February through May, 2000North Exhibition HallMain Library

Celebrating Dance! examines the ways inwhich the “ephemeral art” has beendocumented from the days of cave paintingsto the era of digital recording. Theexhibition explores the world of dance inits myriad forms: dance as ritual, as heritage,as performance art, and as recreation.Special emphasis is given to the diversity ofdance at the University of Iowa.

ROMANCING THE ROSE: FLOWERSIN AMERICAN CULTUREJune through September, 2000North Exhibition HallMain Library

From the formal garden and thedecorations of fine china and silver flatwareto the floral design on a common tissuebox, flower imagery has always permeatedAmerican culture. This exhibitionexamines the symbolic and aesthetic roleof flowers in American life from both ahistorical and contemporary perspective.

Illustration by RichardShiro from VertamaeCooks in America’sFamily Kitchen, byVertamae Grosvenor,KQED books, SanFrancisco, 1996.

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Narcissi fromAmerican GardenFlowers by GladysLynwall Prat,illustrated byRudolf Freund,Random House,New York, 1943

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Illustration by Neil Welliver, excerpt from Poemsby Henrik Ibsen, translated by Michael Feingold,Vincent FitzGerald & Company, New York, NY,1987. Read more about the Vincent FitzGeraldPress, and how the UI Libraries came to own anearly complete collection of these remarkable finepress books on pages 6-7.

U N I V E R S I T Y L I B R A R I E SD E V E LO P M E N T C O M M I T T E EBarbara Dewey, Interim University Librarian

Edward Shreeves, Director,Collections and Information Resources

Sid Huttner, Head,Department of Special Collections

Lawrence Woods, Director, Health Sciencesand Information Technology

E D I TO RMarguerite Perret, CoordinatorFriends and Public Relations,University of Iowa LibrariesVoice Mail: (319) 335-5960E-mail: marguerite-perret@uiowa.edu

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See, my sweet, what I have here- A white-winged flower for my dear-

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