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THE LIIUKAKT. U.• -IHLVOLUME 11 NUMBER 4 WINTER 1989-1990 ISSN 0192-55 39

FEB 1 2 1990

I Major New Gift PutsChallenge Grant atHalf- Way Mark

A major new gift from longtime LibraryFriends George and Sarah (Sallie)Patterson Pagels has moved the Libraryto the half-way mark in meeting its $3million goal for the National Endowmentfor the Humanities Challenge Grant.

The gift forms the George and SarahPatterson Pagels Endowment Fund foracquisitions, preservation, and improvedaccess for the humanities.

"This gift marks the beginning of animportant momentum in obtaining thenecessary gifts to meet the challenge,"says the Library's director fordevelopment and public affairs, Joan M.Hood. "This contribution is truly aleadership gift."

Adds University Chancellor Morton W.Weir, "As important Library benefactors,members of Library Friends, and as partof the University Librarian's Council,they have set a magnificent example ofsupport and leadership."

The Pagelses have been generouscontributors to the Library since 1983,when they decided to donate to theLibrary's endowment fund during theUniversity's Campaign for Illinoisfundraising effort. Since then, thePagelses have contributed each year tohelp the Library.

The reason, according to Mrs. Pagels,is simple: "My husband and I reallyenjoyed the University when we werestudents there, and we can't think ofanything better to support, really. TheLibrary affects the whole University."

Mr. Pagels is president of the GeorgePagels Co., a millwork and customwoodworking company founded by hisgrandfather. He earned a B.S. in civilengineering at the UI in 1934. An excellentstudent, he was elected to the Bronze

Tablet, Phi Kappa Phi, the nationalhonorary fraternity, and Tau Beta Phi, theengineering fraternity. He also was amember of the Delta Upsilon fraternityand was on the production staff for twocampus theatrical productions.

Mrs. Pagels earned her B.A. in 1935with a major in French and a minor inEnglish. "I enjoyed my courses and hadvery fine teachers," she says, "and lots ofreading in the library." During her senioryear, she served as associate manager ofStar Course (then known officially as theUniversity Concert and EntertainmentBoard) and was president of her sorority,Alpha Delta Pi.

The Pagels' enthusiasm for theUniversity didn't stop after graduation,however -all three of their childrenattended the UI, and now a gra nddaugh-ter is continuing the tradition. "She'sworking for Star Course too," adds Mrs.Pagels.

Making a financial contribution to theuniversity that gave them so much justseemed to follow naturally. They chosethe Library because they consider it asuperior learning resource for the wholeuniversity, for the faculty, and for thestudents.

Adds Mrs. Pagels, "If you don't havethe Library, you don't have theUniversity."

The money raised through theChallenge Grant will be used to create anendowment whose income will be splitapproximately into thirds to supporthumanities acquisitions, preservation ofhumanities-related books andmanuscripts, and bibliographic control ofthe Library's extensive manuscript andrare book collections.

Forty-eight percent of the Library'sseven million volumes, and most man-uscript and archival collections, are inhumanities areas as defined by the NEH.

Sallie and George Pagels.

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A letter from H.G. Wells to Amber Reeves Blanco-White, part of the collection recently acquired by the Library.

I Private Life of H.G. WellsDocumented in NewAcquisition

As aficionados of H.G. Wells know, thewell-known author led a rather unconven-tional private life.

Although his sons George Wells andAnthony West both wrote about hisprivate life based on their own knowl-edge, scholars have had limited directaccess to this kind of information from theauthor himself.

Now, the Library has acquiredadditional documentation of his privatelife with the purchase from Anna JaneBlanco-White Kennard of 219 letterswritten by Mr. Wells to Mrs. Kennard's

mother, Amber Reeves Blanco-White,one of Mr. Wells' paramours, and to AnnaJane herself, his daughter by Mrs.Blanco-White.

Also included in the purchase areseventy-nine leaves of five fragments ofunpublished drafts of manuscripts. Thecollection dates from 1906 to 1939.

Funds for the purchase came from theE. Kenneth Gray Endowment Fund.

According to Gene Rinkel, curator ofspecial collections, the letters are animportant addition to the Library'sextensive collection of H.G. Wellscorrespondence and publications.

"We already had 2,000 of Wells' letters,mainly dealing with publishers or socialgroups wanting support from him, andabout 60,000 letters to him, but many are

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either very formal exchanges, businesscorrespondence, or social notes, such asinvitations to dinners. None dealt withhis personal life," explains Mr. Rinkel."So, these new letters are a majoraddition."

In fact, Wells biographers have longspeculated about the existence of suchpersonal correspondence, especially inlight of the fact that after the death of Mr.Wells in 1946, his secretary returnedmuch of the correspondence he hadreceived to the individuals involved anddestroyed the rest.

Yale University does have copies ofletters written by Mr. Wells to RebeccaWest, the well-known author and anotherWells paramour, which became the basisfor Gordon N. Ray's book about the pair.Other letters revealing the personal sideof Mr. Wells, however, seemed simplynot to exist. "That's why, when Mrs.Kennard offered these letters to us, Iimmediately recognized that these wereletters we had been waiting to see for along time," says Mr. Rinkel.

The letters to Amber Reeves Blanco-White may be of particular interest toWells scholars since many of thecharacters in Mr. Wells' numerousnovels, such as the character AnnVeronica, are based on personalacquaintances of his.

"The novel Ann Veronica, even at thetime it was published, was considered tobe autobiographical," explains Mr.Rinkel. "In fact, Amber Reeves isapparently Ann Veronica, so these letterswill have a bearing on research into hisnovels."

Of additional value is the light theseletters shed on the Fabian Society, asocialist political group that included Mr.Wells and George Bernard Shaw andwhich joined with trade unions in 1910 toform the Labor Party.

It was during this time that Mr. Wellsbecame romantically involved withAmber Reeves, daughter of NewZealand's high commissioner to GreatBritain and a Fabian Society member.

"This was a period of time when, atleast theoretically, free love was aphilosophically supportable position, inthe Fabian Society's view," says Mr.Rinkel. "Still, some principals in theFabian Society were shocked by thescandal involving Amber Reeves."

According to David C. Smith in hisbook H.G. Wells: Desperately Mortal, afterAmber Reeves learned she was going tohave a child, she accepted an old marriageproposal from Rivers Blanco-White, alawyer who belonged to the FabianSociety, thus ending her affair with Mr.Wells. Mr. Wells, however, provided rentfor her cottage, and his wife Jane (AmyCatherine Robbins Wells) provided the

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baby's layette. Details about the relation-ship became known publicly only afterMr. Wells' death in 1946.

Explains Mr. Rinkel, "Wells tried tomaintain friendly relationships with all ofthe women with whom he had a liaison,even though he didn't continue in anintimate relationship. Through it all, heremained married to Jane, who has oftenbeen cast in the role of the long-sufferingwife. In fact, she was aware of theseaffairs and was socially involved in manyof the relationships."

Although Mr. Wells kept up an amiablecorrespondence over the years withAmber, Anna Jane did not know that Mr.Wells was her father until she received aletter from him in March 1931, when shewas nineteen. The letter is part of the newacquisition.

"For 19 years I have been doing my bestto ignore your existence because ofvarious humiliating and baffling thingsthat occurred when you were born," hewrote to Anna Jane. "Now I have met youI love you very much. I do not know howyou may have felt or guessed in the pastyear, but the fact is you are my daughter,half your genes are mine, and you arebone of my bone and flesh of my flesh."

This and the other Wells letters are nowavailable for research to scholars in theRare Book and Special Collections Library.

Volunteer Helps PreserveOld Books

To most visitors, the Rare Book andSpecial Collections Library is thecomfortable, carpeted reading room onthe Library's third floor where there'salways something interesting andbeautiful in the display cases.

But behind a locked door in a specialstacks area is a different world, a worldof solvent cans, spray bottles, fungicides,and saddle soap.

This is the world of volunteer LoisBamber. Nearly every week since 1981,she has sat at a small table amidsthundreds of shelves of rare books to giveselected ones the individual care andattention they need to preserve theirleather or vellum bindings.

"My husband, Lyle, had been doingvolunteer work since he retired as thebiology librarian in 1971," remembersMrs. Bamber. "He was frankly bored asa retiree, so he did some volunteer workin the Rare Book Room. He told me therewere quite a few people doing thisbook-cleaning job, and that's how I gotstarted."

Preserving leather bindings, avolunteer project initiated in the late '70sby then Assistant Rare Book Librarian

Lois Bamber

Mary Ceibert and now headed by CuratorGene Rinkel, is a labor-intensive,three-day job.

First, the book's pages must be dustedand wrapped in wax paper to protectthem from moisture. Then, the coversand bindings must be gently saddle-soaped to remove centuries of dirt andgrime. "I don't try to get every last bitoff," says Mrs. Bamber, "because someof these bindings are rather fragile. So, Istop before I've rubbed off the rottedleather."

The books also receive a treatment ofpotassium lactate, a chemical thatprevents red rot and acts as a fungicide.

Then the book is ready to dry for a day.On day two, books receive an oiling

with Lexol, another preservative, andagain are allowed to dry. On day three,the wax paper is removed, tags withcatalog numbers are reinserted, and thebooks are ready for reshelving.

Although the process for leather booksis time-consuming, it takes even longer toclean vellum-bound books, even thoughvellum books don't receive the potassiumlactate or Lexol treatments.

"Each vellum book can take ahalf-hour to do, especially on the firstday," explains Mrs. Bamber. "Maybe it'sbecause they are pretty old, and their lightcolor makes you more conscious of thedirt. Also, vellum tends to spread, andwe must tie the books with three separateties to keep them from buckling."

Working with books fits in with Mrs.Bamber's background as a librarian,although book preservation is not whatshe had in mind when she earned herB.S. (1936) and M.S. (1941) in libraryscience at the UI. After marrying the UI'sbiology librarian, Lyle Bamber, aftergraduation, she took up gardening andweaving, and worked occasionally at herprofession when the Library was in need.

Then, in 1981, she began her long-run-ning volunteer job with the Rare Book andSpecial Collections Library. "We hadquite a group back then," she laughs,"and it was quite a friendly session,although I always just sat back and

listened. Now, space is so cramped thatthere's only room for one or two peopleto work at a time. We really need a newSpecial Collections Building to take careof the space problems here."

Over the years, Mrs. Bamber and othervolunteers, who have included KathleenCairns, Helen Roberts, Esther Thudium,and many others, have oiled more than10,000 books-work that could not havebeen accomplished without the dedica-tion of volunteers.

In fact, when volunteers donate theirtime and talents, such as the 2,500 hoursof time volunteers donated to the MusicLibrary last year, the effect can be thesame as having an additional full-timeemployee on staff.

No matter what your interests, talents,or time constraints, there's a job for youat the Library, whether it's oiling books,compiling computerized databases, orhelping organize and run Library Friendsreceptions. To find out how you can help,contact Sharon Kitzmiller, the Library'sannual funds development officer, at(217) 333-5683.

Library Friend Helen Elliot Davies stopped by the RareBook and Special Collections Library October 3 to "visit"with a special book-a 1663 edition of the Old and NewTestaments translated into the Algonquin language by hergreat-geat-ge-gat-grreat-great-great grandfather, Rev. JohnElliott (1604-1690). The book is the first complete Bibleprinted in the New World and the first in an IndianLanguage. It was the Library's five-millionth volume,acquired in 1975.

More than 80 Library Friends who are Presidents Councilmembers attended a special reception October 5 In theRare Book and Special Collections Library, Including (fromleft) Robert W. Rogers, Elizabeth Rogers, Stanley Balbach,Sarah Balbach, and Catharine Kappaul.

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Endowed Book FundsAre Lasting Tributes

Looking for a lasting way to honor aclose friend or relative? The Library mayhave the solution-a permanent, namedendowed book fund.

For a minimum donation of $10,000,you can establish a named book fund inany subject area you wish. Speciallydesigned book plates, with the fund'sname, are placed in every volumepurchased through the fund.

How important are these funds to theLibrary? "I couldn't exist without ours,"says Mathematics Librarian NancyAnderson.

The Mathematics Library is luckier thanmost-it boasts two funds, both inmemory of UI mathematics professors.One, the Robert D. Carmichael MemorialCollection, was established in hismemory by a grateful alumnus. Theother, the Stewart Scott Cairns MemorialCollection, was established in hismemory by his wife, Kathleen.

Last year, it was the Cairns fund thatenabled the Mathematics Library topurchase Mathematics Review on CD-ROMand the Carmichael endowment thatenabled it to purchase many importantmonographs.

Says Ms. Anderson, "These are noti1 1 t l: I 1 11 : 1

speca ma enas we re purc as ng, uthe basics-the guts of mathematicsmaterials. So, these funds are absolutelyessential to me. I wouldn't be able tosupport the needs of the MathematicsDepartment without the Carmichael andCairns funds."

The Evelyn E. Pflaum Endowment, inmemory of her daughter Barbara LynnPflaum (M.S. in biology, '68), gives thesame kind of essential support to theBiology Library.

The fund, established in 1985, isearmarked solely for works dealing withnatural history. "So many of the bookswe need to purchase nowadays deal withmolecular biology," says BiologyLibrarian Elisabeth Davis. "This fund isnice to have because it gives me a goodreason to look for things in naturalhistory, which I ordinarily wouldn't beable to afford."

The English Library's William YoungEndowment also provides funds forworks that otherwise couldn't bepurchased, according to English LibrarianWilliam Brockman. "We're using thisfund to purchase works of contemporaryliterature, poetry, and fiction-things wenormally couldn't buy with our standardbudget," he says.

To learn more about establishing anamed endowed book fund, contact JoanHood at the Office of Development andPublic Affairs, (217) 333-5682.

Each endowed book fund has a bookplate speciallydesigned for it, often reflecting the interests of the honoree.

Friends "Phonathons"Exceed Goal

Two "phonathons" conducted byLibrary Friends in 1989 have succeeded inraising more than $100,000 in pledges forthe Library's National Endowment for theHumanities Challenge Grant.

This overwhelming support came inresponse to letters and phone calls in thespring to UIUC alumni throughout thecountry with graduate degrees and in thefall to previous Library donors in ninemetropolitan areas and four states.

"This response is extremely gratifying,"says Development Officer CarolynGunter, "not only because the responseenabled us to exceed our goal, butbecause more than 1,400 of these pledgescome from new donors."

For both campaigns, alumni andprevious donors received a letter fromLibrary Friend Arte Johnson, a memberof the Library's National ResourceDevelopment Committee, asking for theirhelp in raising the $3 million needed forthe Challenge Grant.

During the spring, Library Friendsreceived $84,082 in pledges, whichincludes $16,878 in matching funds fromthe donors' employers. During the fallcampaign, Library Friends received anadditional $33,810 in pledges, whichincludes $3,582 in corporate matchinggifts.

Commerce Library PutsWorld of Businessat Your Fingertips

Libraryof the

University of Illinoisat Urbana-Champaign

Acquired throughThe Evelyn E. Pflaum Endowment

In Memory of Her DaughterBarbara Lynn Pflaum

Can technology be the bane of alibrarian's existence?

For the Commerce DepartmentalLibrary's M. "Bali" Balachandran, theanswer may be yes and no.

He presides over the most comprehen-sive international business collection inthe state, and one of the best in the nation.Over the past few years, he has madeaccess to much of the collection as easyas pushing a few buttons on a CD-ROM(compact disc) workstation.

No longer do students or researchershave to plow through volumes andvolumes of periodical indexes to find justwhat they need-with CDI CorporateDatatext, Wilson Business PeriodicalsIndex, ABI/INFORM, and Public AffairsInformation Service all on CD-ROM,finding that perfect citation is a snap. Sowhat's the problem?

"It used to be I'd show students thepaper indexes and they'd use maybe oneof them, get some silly citation, and bedone with it," says Mr. Balachandran,with a laugh. "But now we've madeaccess so easy, they're using more andmore of our periodicals, and theperiodicals are taking such a beating thatthey won't last much longer. I'm reallyproud of these CD-ROM indexes, but Itell you, this is really scaring me!"

Maybe that's because collecting to fulfillthe needs of one of the University's mostrenowned colleges is an expensiveproposition, and funds have been insomewhat short supply recently.

Still, he's been able to come up with thenearly $10,000 each of these CD-ROMproducts costs by combining Libraryfunds with grants from the College ofCommerce and even with grants from thestudents' annual University-widecomputer fees.

These workstations, however,represent only a fraction of the enormouswealth of information found through thedouble doors just to the left of theLibrary's main entrance.

In fact, the Commerce Library is abusinessman's dream come true. Need toknow how a Fortune 500 company hasfared since it first began doing business?The Commerce Library has all theirannual reports on microfilm, some datingas far back as the 1880s.

How about the latest 10-K reports for apublicly held company, or maybeMoody's latest rating of a small,over-the-counter company? The Com-merce Library has that, too.

But what Mr. Balachandran is mostproud of is the international breadth ofhis collection.

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"We have information on just aboutany country in the world, includinginformation on economics and finance,gross national product, unemployment,population, and income. Some of thesesources are almost as complete as the U.S.Census," he says of the quarterly CountryReports, published by the EconomistIntelligence Unit of London's Economistnewspaper. "Barely ten libraries in thecountry have this, and our run goes backtwenty years."

Supplementing these are importantsources like the International Tax andBusiness Service ("For any country, it willtell you more than you want to knowabout a country's taxes," he says) andPrice Waterhouse's Information Guides forDoing Business Abroad. All of these, headds, are invaluable for any companythinking of doing business abroad.

The Commerce Library also supportsthe research needs of faculty and studentsin finance and economics with anextensive collection of federal and statetax and tax-law information, investmentservices like Value Line, information onthe business and financial side of thecommodities markets, and a collection oneconometrics.

"We have quite a good journalcollection that not many libraries have,"explains Mr. Balachandran, "and that'simportant nowadays. Business isdifferent now than it was ten years back.Originally, it was only people in thesciences who were interested more injournals than in books because by thetime a book would come out, theinformation would be outdated.

"Now, we are getting more like thesciences-75 percent of our usage now is

Waiting lines are common for the Commerce Library'sCD-ROM terminals.

periodicals. Unfortunately, these are veryexpensive, with the minimum-pricesusually around $150 each."

Augmenting traditional periodicals is astrong microfilm collection of workingpapers from virtually every major collegeand research institute in the world.

"These are research papers that aredisseminated before actual publication inorder to save time," he explains. "Moreand more, however, these workingpapers are the only things available in afield because it takes so long to have thempublished in any other form. This is asignificant collection for researchers."

The high cost of periodicals andworking papers is not the only needputting pressure on Mr. Balachandran'slimited resources, however. "Thecollege's international programs aregrowing like crazy because that's wherethe country is going," says Mr. Balachan-dran. "I'm not sure I will be able to meettheir demands in a few years unless I stopbuying in other areas."

Already, there is a call for informationon the international financial markets, aneed he cannot meet.

"What we really need to do is buyeverything that's published by organiza-tions like the Institute of European Financeand the European Information Agency,but we don't have the money for it," helaments.

"And then there's the problem ofgetting up-to-the-minute information onforeign stock markets, like the Japanesestock market. What happens in Japan lastnight is important today. I can't evenbegin to give you an estimate of howmuch it would cost to have the Nikkeistock index on-line, but it would be apretty penny, that's for sure."

Acquisition costs, in fact, are a touchysubject for Mr. Balachandran. Hedesperately needs $10,000 for a secondCD Datatext workstation, $19,000 toobtain a more comprehensive ABI indexon CD, and much more. "It's gotten tothe point where people say, 'Don't talk toBali-it costs money!'" he laughs.

But humor gives way to seriousnesswhen it comes to the fiscal realities he'sfaced over the last few years.

"With the budgets I've had recently,I've only been able to meet the day-to-dayneeds of the faculty and students. Ihaven't been able to really build thecollection, and that's not very satisfying.I can't buy with an eye for needs ten totwenty years from now because we can'tstarve today. But I'm an optimist.Another cycle of better budgets willcome-you have to believe that."

And until then? "I keep buying a lotteryticket every day!"

EWS, Esq., WESTERN MOUND T., MACOUPIN CO.,ILL,.

"Farm Residence of John Dews, Esq., Western Mound Tp., Macoupin County, Ill." From the facsimile edition of the 1875 Atlas of Macoupin County and the State of Illinois. The work was donatedin 1988 to the Illinois Historical Survey by Elaine and Allen Avner through our Library Is Looking For . .. column.

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Willard Airport's new Windsor Fountain

Airport Fountain Dedicatedto Second UniversityLibrarian

Phineas Windsor (1871-1965), one ofthe UI's early library directors, isunquestionably one of the most importantfigures in the Library's history.

It was during his long tenure, from 1909to 1940, that the main Library buildingwas constructed and the Library grewfrom 150,000 volumes to more than one

million with the purchase of many of the

Library's most important collections.Now, Mr. Windsor has been honored

with the dedication in his memory of a

lighted fountain at the UI's newlyrenovated Willard Airport.

Funds to install the fountain were the

gift of Library Friends Marian Thompson

('50), Mr. Windsor's granddaughter, andher husband, Arnold ('50).

Mr. Thompson is president ofThompson Consultants International, the

airport planning firm hired by the UI for

the airport renovation project."We had talked a long time within the

family about some kind of recognition for

Phineas Windsor at the University, such

as a painting," explains Mr. Thompson."Then, while I was working on the airport

as a planning consultant, I saw that there

would be some sort of formal landscapingplan, and that lent itself to some kind of

symbol. It's not a big deal, just a modestmemorial to a unique man."

According to Pat Stenstrom, the Libraryand Information Science Librarian who is

writing a book about Mr. Windsor,unforgettable might be a more suitable

description for Mr. Windsor.

"It's just obvious that people whoassociated with Phineas Windsor held

him in the highest regard," says Ms.Stenstrom. "It's amazing that one person

could have had so much charisma, if

that's the word, to influence people the

way he did."When he became University Librarian

in 1909, the Library was housed in rathercramped quarters in what is now Altgeld

Hall. Under his predecessor, Katherine

Sharp, the collection had grown only

modestly, hampered mainly by a lack of

financial support from the University.Nevertheless, in 1915, Mr. Windsor

spearheaded a plan hatched by the Senate

Library Committee to not only increase

the collection to one-million volumes in

ten years, but also to construct a new

library building.But not just any building-this was one

that could be added to almost indefinitelyto meet the needs of a continually

growing collection.By 1926, part of his plan was realized

with the dedication of the new Main

Library. The design indeed did accommo-

date future growth and influencedplanning of university library buildings

for years to come.And although it took a bit longer than

ten years to achieve the one-million mark

in holdings, achieve it he finally did. "He

did extremely well in terms of securingfunding for materials, even during the

Depression years," says Ms. Stenstrom.

"In fact, that is one of the reasons the

Library outdistanced most in the Big

Ten."But more than that, Mr. Windsor

possessed an extraordinary ability to

influence the powers that be. Playing

poker every Friday night with theUniversity president certainly didn't hurt(he served under five presidents), butaccording to Ms. Stenstrom, the fact that

he got along famously with all of them is

unusual."Phineas Windsor just built a residue

of good will that has been very hard to

lose," continues Ms. Stenstrom. "Thework he did in public relations between

the Library and the rest of the community

was so great that every librarian since has,

in a sense, ridden on his coattails. His

legacy to the Library is that the faculty

has always felt very positive towards the

Library."The Thompsons, however, have other

reasons as well for honoring Mr.Windsor. Mrs. Thompson lived at Mr.Windsor's house while she was a student

at the UI, trading housekeeping for her

widowed grandfather in return for room

and board."That's how I met him, when I'd come

over to get ready for a date," remembersMr. Thompson. "He loved to smoke a big,

black Havana cigar after dinner, and we'd

talk about things a young person and an

old person would find interesting. He

was a genuinely interesting person, fun

to talk to, and someone you never forgot."

That's why, when Mr. Thompson

realized the UI's renovated airport would

have formal landscaping, he decided to

investigate placement of a fountain in a

needed water retention pool."When I saw that the pool would

become a real feature, instead of just a

civil engineering requirement, I com-

mented to my wife that I had seen some

airport fountains in settings like this that

were quite effective," explains Mr.Thompson.

"The architect felt that in a prairie

setting, one vertical spray would be an

appropriate thing - sort of an accent, like

an exclamation point- and that appealed

to us very much. So, I talked to the

University to see how they felt about it,

and they were quite delighted with the

idea."The fountain is easily seen both from

the new Willard Airport terminal and

from the access road leading to the airport.

Phineas Windsor (right) and Robert B. Downs (LibraryDean from 1942 to 1971), early 1950s.

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I Quotables"I was in grade school the first time I

was taken into the Library, by a familyfriend. I remember that we discovered thefirst issue of Life magazine, which seemedto me of incalculable antiquity. For manymonths in the mid-60s, I returned to thearchives for a University Centennialproject, paging through a century of backissues of the Daily Illini to compile "AnIllini Century," a centennial memory ofundergraduate life. It was an excitingtime; I had the feeling that I might findmost anything in those pages, and I did-from Lorado Taft's farewell to Urbana toRed Grange selling his car in the classifiedads.

"As an undergraduate, I found thevast, high, light-filled reading room to bea sort of temple of learning-most ofwhich I despaired of ever mastering-andin graduate school, after taking courseson the use of the library for research, Iwas even more awed by how much ofhuman knowledge is contained in thatbuilding. Illinois is a great university, andthe Library is its heart."

-Roger Ebert, class of 1964, Pulitzer-Prize-winning film critic for the ChicagoSun-Times and co-host of Sneak Previews.

The Library is LookingFor...$1,000 to purchase Manuscript 121 of theMonastery Library Einsiedeln for theMusic Library. This is the oldest completedocument of Gregorian Chant andincludes 600 color pages. It will enableresearchers to study previously restrictedsources.

Donation to purchase Shoulder toShoulder, the PBS series on the women'ssuffrage movement in England, for theWomen's Studies/Women in International

Development Reading Room. The seriesis especially important for undergraduatestudy of this subject. The entire seriescosts $900, or $175 for each segment.Partial donations are welcome.

$230 to purchase Drosophila: A Labora-tory Handbook and Manual for theBiology Library. This two-volume work,published in 1989 by the prestigious ColdSpring Harbor Laboratory, is thedefinitive work about this experimentalorganism, which is one of the mostexciting fields of research in modernbiology.

I Mauritanian DignitariesVisit University Archives

In 1987, History Professor CharlesStewart spent a year in Mauritaniamicrofilming the priceless private libraryof the late Haroun ould Cheikh Sidiyyaand deposited the microfilms in theUniversity Archives.

On October 3, Mohammed CheikhSidiyya, eldest son of Haroun and themayor of the country's capital, Nouak-chott, visited the Archives as part of aState Department-sponsored visit to theUnited States. Accompanying him wasMauritania's cultural attache, Mme.Turkiya Daddah, and State Departmentinterpreter Charles White.

During the visit, Professor Stewartexplained the history of his project andthe procedures he used for filming andcataloging the collection. UniversityArchivist Maynard Brichford alsoprovided a tour of the Archives, which

has an extensive collection of materialsrelated to agriculture and internationaldevelopment in Africa.

The Archives visit was followed by aluncheon hosted by University ChancellorMorton W. Weir and a visit withChampaign's Mayor Dannel McCollum todiscuss the common problems of citymanagement.

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From left are Charles Stewart, Mine. Turklya Daddah, interpreter Charles White, and Chelkh Mohammed Sidlyya during theirvisit to the University Archives.

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"A Celebration of Blacks in the Perform-ing Arts." Main Corridor

"Poetry Broadsides." Rare Book andSpecial Collections Library.

"Extended University." UniversityArchives

"Natural Disasters of 1989." NewspaperLibrary

March

"Poetry Broadsides." Rare Book andSpecial Collections Library

"Library Technology." UniversityArchives

"Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of the1850s." Main Corridor

"Natural Disasters of 1989." NewspaperLibrary

April

"A Celebration of National HispanicWeek." Main Corridor

"Poetry Broadsides." Rare Book andSpecial Collections Library

"Natural Disasters of 1989." NewspaperLibrary

Special Event

April 5, 4:30-5:15 p.m., Room 112Gregory Hall. Program honoring theacquisition of the manuscript of From Hereto Eternity. Reception follows from5:30-6:30 p.m., Rare Book and SpecialCollections Library.

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