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I Cooperative Grant HelpsPreserve Slavic Books

The Library has received a three-year,$82,000 award from the Council onInstitutional Cooperation (CIC) forpreservation of Russian and Ukrainianbooks in the Slavic and East EuropeanLibrary.

The award is part of a grant obtainedby the CIC, a consortium of Big Tenuniversities and the University ofChicago, from the National Endowmentfor the Humanities.

"This is a significant cooperative effortin preservation of library materials, whichthe National Endowment for theHumanities is now beginning to fund,"says Library Collections Director CarlDeal.

The CIC's decision to help preserve thisparticular collection reflects the nationalprominence of the Slavic and EastEuropean Library, which is the thirdlargest in North America and is the largestsuch collection west of Washington, D.C.

Microfilming will be done by theLibrary's own microfilm laboratory,which will provide both a noncirculatingpreservation negative and a circulatingpositive.

More than 2,300 volumes are scheduledto be preserved, all from the end of thenineteenth century through World WarII. Books will be limited to those dealingwith the humanities and social sciences.

According to Slavic AcquisitionsLibrarian Robert Burger, however, nearlya half-million of the Slavic and EastEuropean books in the Library needpreservation.

"Slavic and East European books tendto be printed on low-quality paper," saysMr. Burger, "so a higher percentage of

our books are more brittle than what'sfound in the general collection."

Among the books already designatedfor preservation are several Ukrainianworks published in displaced-persons(DP) camps in Germany during WorldWar II.

"They managed to get crude printingpresses and come out with mimeographson various subjects, which are of interestnot only for life in the camps, but also forthe political views, news of atrocities, andnews of the occupation they were under,"explains Mr. Burger. "Some of these areas yet uncataloged, so a side benefit ofthe project is that they will be cataloged."

Many books from the period between

Cover of the 1921-23 edition of A Course on RussianHistory, by V.0. Klluchevskil.

the world wars also are candidates formicrofilming. "Books from this period inboth Russian and Ukrainian are extremelyvaluable for research, what with Stalin'spurges and Ukrainian famines," he notes.

Among them are important works fromthe Ukrainian Academy of Sciences from1918 to 1929-a period that not onlypredates installation of the Communistgovernment in the Ukraine in 1919, butalso includes the years of Lenin's powerand the early years of Stalin's rule beforehe came to full control.

In addition, several extremely rareUkrainian books published in Pragueduring the 1920s will be preserved."Some of these are very difficult to findor even see in this country," says Mr.Burger.

Books currently housed in the RareBook and Special Collections Library,however, won't be microfilmed. "Oddlyenough, some of the early to mid-nineteenth-century books are in bettershape than the newer ones because theyare on rag-content paper," he explains.

Once microfilming is completed,catalog information on the preservedmaterials will be entered into OCLC, anational library database subscribed to bymore than 5,000 libraries worldwide. Thatmeans researchers both at the UI andaround the world will have access tomany works that could not previously becirculated because of their brittlecondition.

The choice of books for preservationwill be made by Mr. Burger, SlavicCatalog Librarian Dmytro Shtohryn, andSenior Slavic Bibliographer Larry Miller."Larry and Dmytro have been here thirtyyears and twenty-nine years respec-tively," notes Mr. Burger, "and theyknow this collection better than any otherliving person."

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I Second Holy Land Exhibitto Feature RecentRestoration, New Items

Several new acquisitions and animportant map restoration will be thefeatured new items in the second annualMaps of the Holy Land exhibit, scheduledfor December and January.

"Last year's exhibit ended with mapsfrom 1714," says Map and GeographyLibrarian David Cobb. "This year, wewant to bring things into the twentiethcentury, as well as feature some of ournew acquisitions."

The most important new item in theexhibit will be the recently restored Atlas,sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabricamundi et fabricati figura by GerhardMercator (1595). This will be the first timethe work has been on display, sincerestoration had not been completed intime for last year's exhibit.

Mercator, whose method of drawingproportional latitude and longitude linesis still used today, is also the originatorof the term "atlas" to describe a book ofmaps. This work is the first to use thename.

Other new items in the exhibit willinclude a 1519 edition of the Veridica TerreSancte by Graf Burchardus von Barby.This rare volume, purchased with fundsfrom Library Friends, is the best editionof a thirteenth-century account of a tripto the Holy Land. It includes aninteresting, illustrated map of the entireMediterranean area.

Another new acquisition is a large(25" x 47") map of the Holy Land, circa1700, by G. Koller. The map waspurchased in 1988 through the GrayEndowment.

Other items new to the exhibit willinclude examples of nineteenth- andearly twentieth-century scientificmapping and a recent satellite map of thearea.

Approximately seventeen items fromlast year's exhibit also will be on display,including the first printed map and theBreydenbach Peregrinatio in TerramSanctum.

An opening reception, with introduc-tory remarks by Mr. Cobb, will be heldDecember 1 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.in the Rare Book and Special CollectionsLibrary. Updated exhibit catalogs will beavailable.

Overdue Book ReturnsAfter Several Decades

Better late than never-that's whatWilliam Browder, chairman of the IllinoisBoard of Higher Education, decidedwhen he returned a rather overdue booklast summer to the UI Library.

The book, an 1878 edition ofThucydides, bears the stamp of the"Illinois Industrial University" -the UI'soriginal name. Since the UI hasn't usedthat name since 1885, Mr. Browderfigured the book might have been missingfrom the Library for a good many years.

"Neither my wife nor I really knowwhere the book came from or when, oreven whether it had been bought," saysMr. Browder, who came into possessionof the book after his recent marriage, "butwe thought it probably should bereturned. I'm a finder, not a keeper."

Luckily for Mr. Browder, no fine hasbeen assessed. "That would have beenquite a contribution," he chuckles.

The book now is back in place in thebookstacks.

Koller's Judaea oder das Heilige Land, circa 1700.

Looking for a StimulatingJob? Kim Wurl Wants You!

Got a little bit of free time on yourhands? Looking for something interestingto stimulate your intellect?

Then Kim Wurl might just be lookingfor you. Since 1986, she's been chair ofthe Library Friends volunteer committee.Her job-to track down the rightvolunteer for a project, to find the rightproject for a volunteer.

"Working on recruiting is hard," saysthe 30-year-old Monticello native. "I useall the resources in town, includingnewspaper, radio, and television, andeverywhere I go, I talk about LibraryFriends. "

Mrs. Wurl is no stranger to volunteer-ing. While living in Columbus, Ohio,from 1981 to 1986, she used her an-thropological and archaeologicalbackground as a volunteer at that city'sCenter of Science and Industry, ahands-on museum.

But she and her husband Daniel, anattorney, found their hearts were reallyin Urbana-Champaign. Returning totown for football weekends, the Wurlsoften would visit the UI Library. "I pickedup a Library Friends brochure," sheremembers, "and I said that when wemove back to town, I want to do this."After five years in Ohio, they finally madethe move.

Luckily for Library Friends, the lawfirm Mr. Wurl joined was Webber andTheis, the firm of Library Friends Boardmember Carl Webber. "About a weekafter we moved back, Carl Webber askedif I would like to join the board, so I saidyes."

Since then, Mrs. Wurl has headed theBoard's volunteer committee. During hertenure, the number of volunteers hasincreased from sixty to ninety.

"There are so many different things todo-shelf reading, preservation of rarebooks, special events, special projects likethose in the Music Library or catalogingthe H.G. Wells collection," she says.

"Most people seem to like to work withthe old materials, to help with preserva-tion or cataloging, because you can reallylook at the material. It's a job where youalways learn something, and you alwaysget back more than you give."

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Archives Receives Micro-films of "Priceless" AfricanCollection

The UI Archives has become therepository for the only microfilm copy(outside of Mauritania) of one of the mostunique and important African manuscriptcollections in the world.

The collection is the Haroun ouldCheikh Sidiyya library, located inBoutilimit, Mauritania. This personallibrary, representing the efforts of fourgenerations of bibliophiles, contains morethan 100,000 folios of Arabic works datingas far back as the early nineteenth century.

"This is arguably the most extensiveand the richest integral Arabic library ofits type in West Africa, and possibly insub-Saharan Africa," says UI HistoryProfessor Charles Stewart, who under-took the massive microfilming project. "Itwill be priceless for learning about whatthe world was like at the end of the 1800son the fringes of the Muslim andArabic-speaking world."

Among the most significant holdings ofthis extensive private collection aretreatises from all four schools of Islamiclaw at the end of the nineteenth century,a large collection of books and letters byTimbuctu scholars Sidi al-Mukhtaral-Kunti and Sidi Muhammid b. Sidial-Mukhtar, a Koranic commentary by theNigerian scholar 'Abdullahi b. Futi (d.1829), and an Arabic grammar by theMauritanian scholar al-Mukhtar ouldBuna.

Despite the historical value and sheermagnitude of the library, westernscholars had managed to ignore it andothers like it for centuries, according toProfessor Stewart.

"Until the 1960s, most English authorsclaimed there was no written history ofthese nomadic Muslim societies exceptwhat Europeans had written," heexplains, "and the French basically feltthat anything outside of French culturehad no past worthy of the name."

The one exception was a 1909 articlewritten by a French orientalist who hadseen the collection and had provided a listof its contents.

In the late '60s, Stewart decided tofollow up on this 1909 article whileworking on his Ph.D. dissertation. Hewent to Boutilimit "on a hunch," hopingto get information on Shaikh Sidiyyaal-Kabir (1775-1868), the famous scholarwho had begun the collection. "I figuredthat if I found the books, then the familythere might know something about theirgreat-great grandfather," he says.

What he found was that the great-greatgrandson, Haroun ould Cheikh SidiyyaBaba, had been working for twenty years

A page from a manuscript on jurisprudence, from theHaroun ould Cheikh Sidiyya library.

on the very same topic-the family'spatriarch.

Despite various breakups of the libraryafter the deaths of Haroun's ancestors,Professor Stewart also found that Harounhad managed to reassemble most of theoriginal collection. In addition, Harounhad added thousands of letters andliterary works pertaining to the history ofMauritania. The two soon became friends.

Professor Stewart returned to Boutilimitin 1978 to collaborate with Haroun onanother book, only to find that Harounhad died two weeks earlier.

"It was at that point that I spoke aboutthe library to Haroun's son, Baba ouldHaroun," he continues. "I said, 'What-ever happens, don't let anyone break upthis library, and if you want to preservethe library on film, or to catalog it, or youneed any help, just get in touch.' I didn'thear anything for years after that."

In Fall 1985, however, the familycontacted Professor Stewart after a freakflood damaged the family home. Lessthan a year later, he was back inBoutilimit, where he determined thatapproximately 80 percent of the itemslisted in 1909 were still in the collection.

By 1987, he was microfilming the mostimportant portions of the collection,thanks to funding from the NationalEndowment for the Humanities.

The microfilming was done withoutbenefit of electricity, since Boutilimit hasnone. The work had to be done in anoutside archway of the family house,where lighting was good but environemn-tal conditions were less than ideal.

"This is an environment where asandstorm is likely to come up at anymoment," explains Professor Stewart."In fact, we lost most of February (1988)because of sandstorms."

That's one reason why the usual100-foot rolls of microfilm and a fancymicrofilming machine were not used- "Ifsomething went wrong, we'd lose all thatwork," he says.

Instead, filming was done with aregular 35mm camera and 1,700 rolls of36-exposure Technical Pan film, a veryfine-grained film used primarily in thebiosciences. The camera was mounted ona specially made book box equipped withglass to keep manuscripts from blowingon windy days.

"This was a really amateurish-lookingoperation," chuckles Professor Stewart.Still, the results were excellent-onlyabout six percent of the rolls were under-or overexposed.

As important as the microfilming,however, has been creation of a bilingual,computerized finding aid for the massivecollection-one of the first to use Arabicas well as English for the entries. "TheUniversity Archives was crucial inadvising us on the format," notesProfessor Stewart, "so that the finding aidwould be machine-readable and mostadaptable to other projects."

To create the finding aid, UI computerscience graduate student Kazumi Hatasacombined Arabrite word processing andArabDOS with dBaseII applications. Theresult is a program so efficient that it tookMamadou N'iang, a UI graduate studentfrom Mauritania, only five minutes tocomplete each entry in both Arabic andEnglish.

"The entire collection was entered andcataloged within five months of finishingthe microfilming, and that's mind-boggl-ing," exults Professor Stewart. "This partof the work usually takes two to threeyears!"

He's already received inquiries on thesoftware from the University of Bergen(Norway), Northwestern University, andresearchers in Istanbul. Adds ProfessorStewart, "This software will be asimportant to the world of librarians andarchivists as the collection itself."

A page from a manuscript on jurisprudence, from theHaroun ould Cheikh Sidiyya library.

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From the UniversityLibrarian

People who, over the past five or sixyears, have relied primarily on theUniversity of Illinois libraries for theirresearch needs probably are not aware ofhow different the interlibrary borrowingpatterns at the UI Library are from thoseat other major research libraries, nor howmuch these patterns at the UI havechanged over the past few years.

Patrons have always known that thepurpose of interlibrary loan is to make onelibrary's holdings available to otherlibraries. What they may not have known,however, is that interlibrary loan alsohelps a library stretch its own acquisitiondollars by eliminating the need topurchase duplicate copies of popularworks or, for small libraries, very esotericones.

To place our interlibrary borrowing incontext, let me share some figures withyou. During the past year, the UI Libraryborrowed more than 157,000 items fromother libraries. Boston University, theresearch library that borrowed the secondlargest number of items, borrowedapproximately 40,000 items, nearly120,000 fewer. The median library amongthe 116 largest academic libraries in NorthAmerica borrowed approximately 7,000items. Therefore, we borrowed 150,000items more than the median of the largestresearch libraries in North America.

This very unusual borrowing patternhas not existed for long. If one looks atthe figures from ten years ago, one findsthat the UI Library was borrowing lessthen than the median at that time, orapproximately 4,600 items.

What caused the UI Library to movefrom borrowing 4,600 items in 1978 tomore than 157,000 10 years later? Theanswer is the Library Computer System,or LCS. LCS makes it possible for usersof the UI Library to locate books at any of28 other libraries in Illinois that participatein the LCS system and have those itemsautomatically retrieved and delivered.This system is so simple for users that itmakes those other 28 collections almost apart of the UI collections. It also is thecase that users at those other 28 librarieshave equally easy access to the UIcollections.

These borrowing patterns have anumber of implications for libraries in thestate of Illinois. Collection developmentpractices are changing in Illinois becausesmaller libraries can rely on the UI Libraryfor little-used and unusual materials. Thestudents and faculty at the UI rely on thesmaller libraries in the state for multiplecopies of items that are, in many cases,owned by the UI Library but are out incirculation.

This is a situation in which everyonewins. The smaller libraries do not have tobuy esoteric and little-used materialsbecause they can borrow them from theUI Library. We, at the UI, do not have tobuy multiple copies of many popularitems because they can be easilyborrowed from other libraries, if needed.As a result, the UI LIbrary is able to collectin much greater depth and avoid thepurchase of duplicate copies, in mostcases. This has made our collectionsstronger and has allowed us to do a betterjob of supporting the research needs ofour users.

Most people who are accustomed to

using this library do not realize howunusual this interlibrary borrowingpattern is. It has enriched the resourcesavailable to our users, has increased theamount of material available in the state,and has made library service an exception-ally good value for the citizens of Illinois.We have the vision of Hugh Atkinson tothank for this unique capability.

David F. Bishop

I New Fund ReachesEndowment Level

A special fund created six months agoto purchase books for the Slavic and EastEuropean Library has reached theendowment level.

The Ralph T. Fisher Library Fund wasestablished last winter to honor ProfessorFisher upon his retirement as thelongtime director of the Russian and EastEuropean Center. Since then, the fundhas received more than $10,000,qualifying the fund for endowmentstatus.

Further contributions will help theendowment grow to the point thatinterest from the fund will make asignificant difference in the Slavic andEast European Library's ability topurchase books. Contributions may besent to the UIF/Ralph T. Fisher LibraryFund, UI Foundation, 224 Illini Union,1401 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801.

Library PublicationsWin Awards

Two Library publications have wonawards for excellence in design andcontent.

The Association for College andResearch Libraries (ACRL) has awardedits Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J.Leab American Book Prices CurrentExhibition Catalogue Award to a catalogfrom a 1986-87 exhibit in the Library'sRare Book and Special CollectionsLibrary, entitled Three Fine-Press Printers:Harry Duncan, Kim Merker, Doyle Moore.

According to Sally Leach, chair of theACRL's Rare Books and Manuscriptssection, "the entire committee wasattracted to the imaginative, gracefullywritten, sparsely elegant presentation ofthe works and guiding principles of thethree printers."

The Library's brochure Unlocking theExperience of the Past to the Builders of theFuture has won the 1988 Best of Showaward in the user orientation categoryfrom the public relations section of theLibrary Administration and ManagementAssociation. The award was presented atthe Summer 1988 American LibraryAssociation meeting in New Orleans.

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Design from the cover of the journal Swahili Language and Society.

I Africa on the Prairie? It'son the Third Floor of theLibrary

How far is it from the sands of theKalihari to the prairie of central Illinois?

For travelers, the answer is nearly 8,000miles, but for scholars it's only as far asa trip to the third floor of the UI Library.

There, tucked away in a small officenear the Rare Book and Special CollectionsLibrary, is the nerve center of one of thebest collections on sub-Saharan Africa inthe country-the Africana Reading Room.

Although visitors won't see manybooks when they peek in the door (mostof the collection is housed in the mainbook stacks), the Reading Room providesaccess to the Library's approximately45,000 books, 2,200 journals, 45,000maps, and 4,000 microforms dealing withthe continent.

Keeping track of this tremendouscollection is the Reading Room's mostimportant resource-Yvette Scheven. Asthe African studies bibliographer sincethe collection's founding in 1969, sheknows the whereabouts of virtually everywork dealing with Africa in the Library'sholdings. She is, in fact, the author of themost comprehensive listing to date of allavailable African studies bibliographies.

"We want to be able to answer people'squestions when they come in," says Mrs.Scheven, "so we try to have the basicreference tools to satisfy everyone'scuriosity."

That's no mean feat, considering thatAfrica contains fifty-four countries ofconsiderably different languages,cultures, and backgrounds. Compound-ing the problem is a distribution problemthat most librarians would find daunting.

"Because of something as simple as apaper shortage, or someone not gettingan annual report done on time, if you'renot right on the spot when some of thesegovernment reports come out, you don'tget them," Mrs. Scheven says.

Still, the collection contains nearlycomplete information on every sub-Saha-ran country, including statistical reports,census reports, and development plans."Development plans, in particular, areessential to studying the current status ofAfrican countries," she says.

Patrons also have access to the nationalbibliographies of thirteen nations, manyof the most important current Africanjournals, the Library of Congress'saccessions list for Eastern Africa, a guideto dissertations on Africa, and even manyAfrican telephone directories.

The collection also is rich in historicalinformation that, on the surface, mightnot appear to have much to do withAfrica, such as eighteenth- andnineteenth-century geographic journalscontaining first-hand accounts ofwesterners seeing sub-Saharan Africa forthe first time.

Why sub-Saharan Africa? "From thebeginning, parts of North Africa havebeen known because of the RomanEmpire and, later, because of Islam,which related them to the Middle Easterncountries through a common languageand religion," explains Mrs. Scheven."So, Egypt, Ethiopia, and other parts ofthe north were well known to westerners.

"But beyond the Sahara, as far as theWest was concerned, it was very difficultto penetrate the continent-there was noSuez Canal then -and the languages andcultures were entirely different. Gradu-ally, there grew a split between the twoareas to westerners studying the regions."

Taking the mystery out of that largeportion of Africa has been Mrs. Scheven'slife work. "I'm always trying to dispel the'Tarzan' view of Africa," she chuckles.

"Some people even think Africa is acountry, rather than a continent withmany countries and peoples. So, I don'tjust answer questions for patrons, I alsotry to educate them. Most people areastonished, for instance, when they learnthat Zaire is as big as the United Statesfrom the east coast to the MississippiRiver."

Most questions, however, are trickierthan that. Take, for instance, a requestfrom the UI Foundation for informationon tuberculosis in Rwanda, one of thecontinent's smallest countries.

"There's not much data on thissubject," Mrs. Scheven says, "but I finallyfound the answer in some statisticalabstracts we have on microfiche. Therewas information on respiratory diseases,and I deduced that most of that would betuberculosis, so I was able to provide aset of long-range statistics.

"It turned out that the Urbana RotaryClub wanted to write an article for theInternational Rotary Club about a localdoctor who was going to Rwanda to workin a hospital."

Sometimes the questions come fromAfrican students themselves. "ManyAfrican students learn a lot about theirown countries when they come herebecuse they can often find things in ourlibrary that they can't find at home," sheexplains.

"The problem is a combination ofinflation over the last ten years and apaper shortage. Universities there justcan't afford to buy the books they need."

So, Mrs. Scheven tries to help librariesin Africa by sending them duplicatebooks; in return, the African librariesoften send her works she otherwise couldnot obtain.

But even this arrangement is not easy."Uganda used to have such a wonderfullibrary, but after the Amin era, I read thatthe library was in terrible shape," sheremembers. "I did send some books outthrough our embassy in Kenya, but thiswas a time when it was dangerous to eventry to drive a truck through Uganda andI couldn't be sure the books would makeit. I found out a few years later, though,that our embassy did get the booksthrough, and they're being used by theUganda Teachers' Association."

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Music from the Kasura Collection.

I Music Collection a Boon toLocal Performers

When the family of Walter Kasura, thelate conductor and domra virtuoso,donated his collection of Russian folkmusic to the UI Library in 1987, the familyhoped the music would not sit unused ona shelf.

Thanks to the UI's Russian Orchestra,the family has gotten its wish. Within thisgold mine of nearly 13,000 titles of folk,gypsy, and popular music, the RussianOrchestra has found enough music toprovide fresh repertoire for years to come.

Mr. Kasura, an insurance executive byday, also conducted a well-known,twenty-piece Russian folk orchestra formany years in New York. To keep hisgroup supplied with music, he managedto amass one of the most extensivecollections of Russian folk-orchestramusic in the country.

Included in the collection are some 250pre-Revolutionary items, Russian andgypsy folksongs, instrumental solos,orchestral and small-ensemble arrange-ments, research and reference notes onperformance practice, and even thelibretto and twelve songs for a 1975musical, entitled Wall Street, Russian Style.

The collection has been a real boon tothe UI's Russian Orchestra. "Folk musicis usually issued in very small numbersand in sets of ten or sixteen volumes,"explains orchestra manager Bruce Wood."We'd get two or three volumes and missthe rest because it pretty much dependedon who was in Moscow to buy them onthe spot. And we had run out of thingsfor our vocalists.

"With the Kasura collection, though,there are more than 2,000 turn-of-the-cen-tury gypsy and art songs. We have to

arrange them for the orchestra, but atleast the material is there."

Because Mr. Kasura's group did somuch nightclub work, the collectioncontains many arrangements onewouldn't normally expect for combina-tions of balalaikas, domras, bayans, andaccordians.

"We have a fantasy he did for thebicentennial that includes Yankee Doodlefor balalaika and domra, for example, andthings like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeerand Jingle Bells," says Mr. Wood.

Mr. Kasura's association with the UIbegan in 1979, when he and colleagueLeonard Davis, the virtuoso balalaikaperformer, gave master classes here andappeared in concert with the RussianOrchestra. Mr. Kasura returned again in1981 as a member of the SummerResearch Laboratory, sponsored by theUI's Russian and East European Center.

"Walter wanted the collection to beused by as many people as possible," saysMr. Wood, "which is why we got thecollection, rather than his ensemble.There was also a concern about how itwould be maintained and cataloged. If ithad stayed with his orchestra, then ifsomebody moved, the music might endup in boxes in somebody's basement."

To make the collection more accessibleto users, Mr. Wood and co-workers aredeveloping a computer program that willallow cataloging of the music bycomposer, lyricist, orchestration, key, etc.

Currently, the collection is grouped bymajor categories only. Funding will beneeded to complete the cataloging, aswell as to restore some of the more fragileitems in the collection.

Meanwhile, the public already hasenjoyed music from the collection. Aconcert in October for the midwestchapter of the Music Library Associationfeatured small-ensemble pieces from thecollection; approximately half the musicin the Russian Orchestra's annualChristmas concert also will be from thecollection (see Calendar for details).

Adds Mr. Wood, "Having thiscollection at the UI has been a real shotin the arm for us."

Volunteering Is a great way to meet people, as HelenHillard (left) and Michelle Hillard (center), of Ivesdale, andRobbie Hayes (right) of Champaign discovered at theVolunteer Orientation reception on September 15, 1988.

Library Evokes FondMemories

For some of you, our requests for donationsto the Library have unleashed a flood of fondmemories. Here's one from Ul alumna SusanHerrick Bosworth.

I'm delighted to make a contribution tothe U of I Library. To me the library wasthe U of I. I spent more time in it than atany other university locale. Growing upas the daughter of a U of I Englishprofessor (Marvin Herrick), I gotacquainted with the building very early(starting with the rest rooms) andeventually felt comfortable everywhere init.

My last two years of college were at theU of I. The main reading room in thelibrary was my daily study hall, as wellas where I made wedding plans with JohnBosworth (also a U of I graduate and anannouncer on WILL for several years).

After graduation in 1954, I had my firstfull-time job, as a research assistant in thethen-brand-new H.G. Wells Collection ina little room at the back of the EnglishLibrary. And I'll never forget myexcitement while accepting a job in NewYork in a phone booth on the ground floorof the library.

When my husband and I returned tothe U of I after his army duty, I againworked full time in the library, typingbook manuscripts for the noted Miltonscholar, Harris Fletcher. Fletcher's garretoffice was in a dim world high up underthe roof eaves-no windows, no airconditioning. But the big room was-awonderful, rowdy stockpile of books, andFletcher ranged the library halls betweenoffice and Rare Book Room.

My father, Marvin Herrick (who spentmany hours every day in the Rare BookRoom), once told me it was impossible forhim to accept more lucrative offers fromother universities for one reason-theU of I Library. "There's nothing like it,"he said. "I can't leave it. It's got the bestdamn 16th-century stuff in the nation.Only the London and Paris librarieshouse anything comparable. In someways, the U of I Library is superior evento those."

His sabbatical trips to Europe werespent tracking down unpublishedsixteenth-century Italian plays, which heprocured (among other bits) for the U ofI Library, and he was among manyscholars who helped make it the unique,magnificent institution that it is.

No building on campus was moreimpressive to me, but at the same time itwas approachable, lively, and comforta-ble. It was one of my real homes. I prayit will go on being so to thousands, forcenturies.

-Susan Herrick Bosworth '54

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I Quotables"Like many U of I graduates, I never

really appreciated the quality of theeducation I received while I was inChampaign-Urbana. Now that I lookback, of course, I can appreciate all of theadvantages I had there. I guess college,in a way, is like your parents-you don'trealize the full value until later.

"One of the University's mostoutstanding features is the Library. Ispent many hours in the physicaleducation library reading for my classes.But I also spent a lot of my free timeresearching everything I could find on myfavorite subject -football.

"And I wasn't disappointed, either.The Library was a gold mine of informa-tion-I found books and articles onfootball history, training, strategy,statistics, rules-just about everytingthere is on the sport. Having all of thatinformation really made a big differencein my life and prepared me well for acareer in professional athletics.

"When I returned to campus in the Fallof '86 to witness the retirement of myjersey, the value of our University reallyhit home. I'm truly proud to be associatedwith such a great institution. The U of Iis a great university. I know many thingscontribute to its quality: faculty, coaches,students, and excellent resources like theLibrary."

- Dick Butkus, former member of the ChicagoBears, member of the Football Hall of Fame,and former Illini linebackerClass of 1965

I The Library is Lookingjor . . .Microfiche reader with dual lenses for theGeology Library. The unit's onlymicrofilm reader gave out last semester.Unfortunately, U.S. Geological Surveyresearch results are distributed to librariesonly in microfiche format. Researchersnow must walk across campus with thefilms to read them. Cost is $343.

$150 to purchase Food Industry Manualand $150 to purchase ArchitecturalGraphic Standards for the HomeEconomics Library.

$280 to purchase two volumes of Pitturain Italia dealing with the Quattrocento,for the Architecture and Art Library. Theunit also is looking for donations topurchase the updated 1987 edition ofCaravaggio, by Maurizio Marini ($110).

CD-ROM Workstation isNew Gift

The Library and Information ScienceLibrary has received a new CD-ROMworkstation, thanks to the generosity ofthe Alpha Chapter of Beta Phi Mu andfunds from the Ernest J. Reece endow-ment.

The workstation has enabled the libraryto purchase one of the most importantlibrary science bibliographies LibraryLiterature, in CD-ROM format.

"This technology is much moreuser-friendly than the old paper format,"says Library and Information ScienceLibrarian Pat Stenstrom, "so this willgreatly enhance the ability of the peoplewho use the index."

Previously, Library Literature wasavailable in a format similar to the Reader'sGuide to Periodicals; to search for material,users often would have to peruse severalvolumes of the index.

The CD-ROM index, however, is aone-stop source for information from 1984to the present because all information iscumulative-no more flipping betweendifferent volumes. Each quarterly updatealso will be cumulative.

"The CD-ROM version has the abilityto do title searching and key-wordsearching, which you can't do with thepaper version," adds Ms. Stenstrom,"and it's possible to find some subjectmatter that is difficult to find in the oldformat."

The Ernest J. Reece endowment wasestablished in 1965 by Mr. Reece inrecognition of the courtesies and benefitsextended to him by the UI Library andthe Graduate School of Library andInformation Science.

Beta Phi Mu is a national library honorssociety founded in 1948 at the UI. Overthe years, the Alpha Chapter of Beta PhiMu has donated nearly $2,000 to theLibrary and Information Science Libraryto help purchase badly needed items,according to Ms. Stenstrom.

The board of the Library Friends held Its first meeting of the academic year on September 14,1988. They are: (seated, from

left) Bertha Berger, Board President Morris Leighton, John Foreman, David Bishop, Nancy Jeckel, Jack Stillinger, Kathryn

Hansen, Mary Kay Peer. (Standing, from left) Robert Wallace, Joan Hood, Carolyn Gunter, Sharon Kitzmiller, James Sinclair.

Not pictured are Shirley Crouse, James Gallivan, Michael Hoeflich, Cora Holland, Mary Liay, Linda Mills, John Ruedi, Kim

Wurl, Jim Edgar, Judith Rowan, and Carl Webber.

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"Robert E. Lee." Main Corridor

"U of I Religious Foundations." Univer-sity Archives

"18th-Century Musical Scholarship:Books from Special Collections. ExhibitIII: Works on Theory and Composition."Music Library

December

"Deaf Heritage." Main Corridor

"Images of Terra Sancta: Maps of the HolyLand." Rare Book and Special CollectionsLibrary

"Photojournalism." University Archives

"18th-Century Musical Scholarship:Books from Special Collections. ExhibitIII: Works on Theory and Composition."Music Library

January"Afro-America's Black History Month."Main Corridor

"Images of Terra Sancta: Maps of the HolyLand." Rare Book and Special CollectionsLibrary

"Seventy-five Years of the College ofLiberal Arts and Sciences." UniversityArchives

SPECIAL EVENTS

December 1, 3:30-5:30 p.m., Rare Bookand Special Collections Library. Receptioncelebrating the opening of the Maps ofthe Holy Land exhibit.

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