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News Of The Library And The Library Associates, From Courier, Vol. Xxxiii, 1998-2001, Syracuse University Library Associates

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Post-Standard Award Citation, 1998, for David H. Starn

Post-Standard Award Citation, 1999, for Dorothea P. Nelson

Post-Standard Award Citation, 2000, for Katleen W. Rossman

Recent Acquisitions:

-Thomas Moore Papers

-Kat Ran Press (Michael Russem)

-Margaret Bourke-White Photographs

-The Werner Seligmann Papers

Library Associates Programs for 1998-99, 1999-00, and 2000-01

In Memoriam

News Ofthe Library And The Library Associates, From Courier, Vol. Xxxii, 1997, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Post-Standard Award Citation, 1997, for George R. Iocolano

Recent Acquisitions:

-The Lewis Carroll Collection

-Addition to the Joyce Carol Oates Papers

-African Americans in the Performing Arts: Ephemera Collected by Carl Van Vechten

-Thomas Bewick Illustrations

Library Associates Program for 1997-98

Courier, Volume Xxxii, 1997, Syracuse University Library Associates

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Ivan Mestrovic in Syracuse, 1947-1955 / David Tatham, p. 5 -- Declaration of Independence: Mary Colum as Autobiographer / Sanford Sternlicht, p. 25 -- A Charles Jackson Diptych / John W. Crowley, p. 35 -- Of Medusae and Men: On the Life and Observations of Alfred G. Mayor / Lester D. Stephens, p. 65 -- The Wonderful Wizards Behind the Oz Wizard / Susan Wolstenholme, p. 89 -- Dreams and Expectations: The Paris Diary of Albert Brisbane, American Fourierist / Abigail Brisbane, p. 105 -- The Punctator's World: A Discursion, Part X / Gwen G. Robinson, p. 123 -- News …

News Of The Library And Of Library Associates, From Courier, Vol. Xxxi, 1996, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Post-Standard Award Citation, 1996, for Mark E Weimer

Recent Acquisitions:

-Margaret Bourke-White Negatives of Olympic Athletes

-The Geography of Strabo

-Narrative ofthe Life of Frederick Douglass

-Materials from the Albert Schweitzer Center

-Albert Schweitzer: A Message for a New Millennium

Library Associates Program for 1996-97

From The Collections, From Courier, Vol. Xxviii, No. 2, Fall 1993, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

This exchange of letters between Hope Emily Allen and George Bernard Shaw of November 1924 is published here for the first time. The letters reveal Shaw's interest in the Oneida Community and the descendants' apprehensions about public exposure of their historical documents, forty-four years after the breakup of the Community.

The archives were guarded by George Wallingford Noyes, nephew ofJohn Humphrey Noyes and Community historian, until his death in 1941. Thereafter some descendants who were part of Oneida Community Ltd. destroyed most of the original manuscripts, a tragedy mitigated only by the fact that G. W. Noyes had placed, in …

Courier, Volume Xxviii, Number 2, Fall 1993, Syracuse University Library Associates

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Foreward / Robert Fogarty, p. 3 -- Preface / Mark F. Weimer, p. 7 -- John Humphrey Noyes and Millennialism / Michael Barkun, p. 11 -- Building Perfection: The Relationship between Physical and Social Structures of the Oneida Community / Janet White, p. 23 -- Women, Family, and Utopia: The Oneida Community Experience and Its Implications for the Present / Lawrence Foster, p. 45 -- "Mingling the Sexes": The Gendered Organization of Work in the Oneida Community / Marlyn Klee-Hartzell, p. 61 -- Breaching the "Wall of Partition Between the Male and the Female": John Humphrey Noyes and Free Love …

News Of The Library And The Library Associates, From Courier, Vol. Xxviii, No. 1, Spring 1993, Syracuse University Library Associates

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POST-STANDARD AWARD CITATION, 1993 For Gwen G. Robinson : Gwen Groves Robinson, distinguished scholar-editor of the Syracuse University Library Associates Courier, you have made significant contributions to Syracuse University and to the academic world at large.

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Courier, Volume Xxviii, Number 1, Spring 1993, Syracuse University Library Associates

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An Interview with Barney Rosset, Former Chairman and President of Grove Press / Mary Beth Hinton, p. 3 -- "Say! Dis is Grate Stuff": The Yellow Kid and the Birth of the American Comics / Richard D. Olson, p. 19 -- National Service: A Forty-Three-Year Crusade / Donald J. Eberly, p. 35 -- Hey, Why Don't We Start an External High School Diploma Program? / Patricia King and Mary Beth Hinton, p. 55 -- Portrait of a City: Syracuse, the Old Home Town / John A. Williams, p. 65 -- News of the Syracuse University Library and the Library Associates, …

Courier, Volume Xxvii, Number 2, Fall 1992, Syracuse University Library Associates

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A Dominican Gradual ofSaints, circa 1500 / George Catalano, p. 3 -- Stephen Crane at Claverack College: A New Reading / Thomas A. Gullason, p. 33 -- Fenimore Cooper's Libel Suits / Constantine Evans, p. 47 -- The Kipling Collection at Syracuse / Thomas Pinney, p. 75 -- Fore-edge Paintings at Syracuse University / Jeff Weber, p. 89 -- News of the Syracuse University Library and the Library Associates, p. 115.

The Kipling Collection At Syracuse, Thomas Pinney

The Courier

The following is an edited transcript of the talk given by Professor Pinney to the Syracuse University Library Associates on 25 September 1992. Professor Pinney is the editor of The Letters of Rudyard Kipling.

Though Kipling is known to have visited New York State, it is unlikely that he ever saw the streets of Syracuse. However, he is notably present in the city now through the large, important, and growing collection of his letters and printed works assembled here in the George Arents Research Library for Special Collections. There are other important Kipling collections in the United States. Kipling's great …

News Of The Library And The Library Associates, From Courier, Vol. Xxvi, No. 2, Fall 1992, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

71125: Fifty Years of Silence and B 11226: Fifty Years of Silence, Artists' Books on the Holocaust. Purchased with funds from the Jerome and Arlene Gerber Endowment Fund.

The Library recently acquired two limited-edition artists' books in which Holocaust survivors Eva and Eugene Kellner recall their experiences in Nazi concentration camps. The books were designed and printed by their daughter Tatana, who is artistic director ofthe Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York.

Courier, Volume Xxvii, Number 1, Spring 1992, Syracuse University Library Associates

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Modernism from Right to Left: Wallace Stevens, the Thirties, and Radicalism / Alan Filreis, p. 3 -- Adam Badeau's "The Story ofthe Merrimac and the Monitor" / Robert J. Schneller, Jr., p. 25 -- A Marcel Breuer House Proj ect of 1938-1939 / Isabelle Hyman, p. 55 -- Traveler to Arcadia: Margaret Bourke-White in Italy, 1943-1944 / Randall I. Bond, p. 85 -- The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Seven) / Gwen G. Robinson, p. 111 -- News of the Syracuse University Library and the Library Associates, p. 159.

The E. S. Bird Library Reconfiguration Project, Carol Parke

The Courier

This article details the rennovation that occurred on the E. S. Bird Library at Syracuse University in 1991. The then two-decade-old library was changed to better facilitate access and reflect emerging trends in libraries that looked to better integrate academic disciplines. The article includes a brief history of the library, the planning and implementation of the reconfiguration project, and a floor plan of the 1991 library.

Omnibus: Precursor Of Modern Television, Mary Beth Hinton

The Courier

"Omnibus" was, to use an expression current during the Golden Age of Television, a "window on the world", through which art, drama, music, dance, history, literature, science and technology, as well as athletics and comedy were brought into American homes by the gentlemanly and articulate host, Alistair Cooke. Between 1952 and 1961, "Omnibus", in seeking new ways to inform and to uplift, expanded the repertoire of television and stimulated the American public's appetite for 'cultural' programming.

In the early 1960s, Syracuse University unexpectedly acquired kinescope recordings of the "Omnibus" television series' first two seasons: 1952-53 and 1953-54. After the Ford …

Laubach In India: 1935 To 1970, S. Y. Shah

The Courier

Dr. Frank C. Laubach, missionary and adult educator, dedicated his life to the cause of literacy for development and world peace. During his travels to 103 countries, he worked toward helping some 60 to 100 million people become literate. In addition, he founded or helped found four literacy organizations, including Laubach Literacy International; wrote forty books on adult education, Christian religion, world politics, and culture; and co-authored literacy primers in more than 300 languages. He was awarded four honorary doctorates—one of them from Syracuse University.

Although Laubach worked in many other countries, it is said that his heart was always …

Courier, Volume Xxvi, Number 2, Fall 1991, Syracuse University Library Associates

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Foreward / Alexander Charters, p. 3 -- Preface / Mary Beth Hinton, p. 5 -- Laubach in India: 1935 to 1970 / S. Y. Shah, p. 9 -- The Portfolio Club: A Refuge of Friendship and Learning / Constance Carroll, p. 25 -- Omnibus: Precursor of Modern Television / Mary Beth Hinton, p. 41 -- The Adult and Continuing Education Collections at Syracuse University / Terrance Keenan, p. 53 -- The E. S. Bird Library Reconfiguration Project / Carol Parke, p. 79 -- News of the Syracuse University Library and the Library Associates, p. 95.

News Of The Library And The Library Associates, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Briefly noted below is an eclectic selection of acquisitions that represents some of the George Arents Research Library's existing strengths. Some of these additions to the Library's rare book and manuscript collections were acquired in 1991 as gifts to the Syracuse University Library, and others were purchased by the Syracuse University Library Associates.

Courier, Volume Xxvi, Number 1, Spring 1991, Syracuse University Library Associates

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Describing the Flora of the United States: Botanies at Libraries in Syracuse / Dudley J. Raynal, p. 3 -- Gabriel Naude and the Ideal Library / Antje Bultmann Lemke, p. 27 -- Philip Evergood and Ideologism in the 1930s / Kendall Taylor, p. 45 -- Artists' Papers in the George Arents Research Library: Sources for the Study of Twentieth-Century American Art / Mark F. Weimer and Donna Capelle Cook, p. 65 -- The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Six) / Gwen G. Robinson, p. 83 -- News of the Syracuse University Library and the Library Associates, p. 141.

Artists' Papers In The George Arents Research Library: Sources For The Study Of Twentieth-Century American Art, Mark F. Weimer, Donna Capelle Cook

The Courier

For nearly thirty years the George Arents Research Library for Special Collections at Syracuse University has actively acquired primary materials to support research and study in the field of art history including, as outlined in an internal collection development statement of 1961, "the papers of architects, artists, sculptors, industrial designers, cartoonists, photographers, art critics, educators, and the records of professional associations and galleries". Beginning with the gift of the papers of sculptors James Earle Fraser, Laura Gardin Fraser, and Anna Hyatt Huntington in the 1960s, and continuing to the recent acquisition of collections relating to Diego Rivera and Philip Evergood, …

News Of The Library And The Library Associates, From Courier, Vol. Xxvi, No. 1, Spring 1991, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

The following represent selected additions to the Library's special collections made during the academic year 1990-91.

Belluschi, Pietro

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Waugh, Evelyn.

Gabriel Naude And The Ideal Library, Antje Bultmann Lemke

The Courier

This paper is an edited version of a talk given by the author for the Syracuse University Library Associates on February 18, 1988. It was originally titled: "Gabriel Naude, Seventeenth-Century Scholar Librarian of Mazarin". Among Naude's works discussed here, the George Arents Research Library has copies of the 1903 reprint of the 1661 English translation of "Advis pour dresser une bibliotheque," the 1744 Cologne edition of "Considerations politiques sur les coups d'estat," and "Naudaeana et Patiniana," 2nd ed. (Amsterdam: Vander Platts, 1703).

The life of Gabriel Naude falls within one of the liveliest centuries in the history of Europe. Against …

Courier, Volume Xxv, Number 2, Fall 1990, Syracuse University Library Associates

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Huntington Mansion in New York: Economics of Architecture and Decoration in the 1890s / Isabelle Hyman, p. 3 -- Memories of Maruerite Yourcenar / Mary H. Marshall, p. 31 -- Margurite Yourcenar, Alchemist / Rhoda Lerman, p. 51 -- Legacy for Stephen Crane: the Princeton Writings of the Reverend Jonathan Townley Crane / Thomas A. Gullason, p. 55 -- Punctator's World: a Discursion (Part Five) / Gwen G. Robinson p. 81 -- News of the Syracuse University Library and the Library Associates, p. 123.

News Of The Library And The Library Associates, Syracuse University Library Associates

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RECENT ACQUISITIONS As 1990 comes to a close, the George Arents Research Library can report a particularly exciting year in the development of its collections. As the following list of recent acquisitions shows, both the generosity of our donors and the Library's commitment to the development of its research collections continue to be strong.

News Of The Library And The Library Associates, Syracuse University Library Associates

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From March 1944 through July 1945 Helen and Sydney Stringer found themselves on separate continents: he, a medical officer in Africa, Italy, France and Germany and she, the mother of four, living in Skaneateles, New York. They wrote almost daily-articulate, courageous, touching, often humorous letters-exchanging accounts of life in the war zone and on the home front. The letters were recently made into the book Prisms: As We Were, March 23, 1944-July 12, 1945 and privately printed by Helen Stringer (Manlius, New York: 1989). Both the book and the original letters have been donated by Helen Stringer to the George …

Courier, Volume Xxv, Number 1, Spring 1990, Syracuse University Library Associates

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Intentional Omissions from the Published Civil War Diaries of Admiral John A. Dalgren / Robert J. Schneller, Jr., p. 3 -- Stephen Crane's Father and the Holiness Movement / Christopher Benfey, p. 27 -- "I Want to Do This Job": More Margaret Bourke-White Letters to Erskine Caldwell / William L. Howard, p. 37 -- The New School of Wood Engraving / Edward A. Gokey, p. 53 -- The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Four) / Gwen G. Robinson, p. 85 -- News of the Syracuse University Library and the Library Associates, p. 127.

Dorothy Thompson: Withstanding The Storm, Michael J. Kirkhorn

The Courier

The "unremitting terror" of totalitarianism was Dorothy Thompson's nightmare. She witnessed the atrocities of Nazism, and later, after the Second World War, the cruelty of Soviet communism. The violent will to power that she described for her millions of readers was for her the nemesis of all hope and goodness. It could not be appeased, it could not be satisfied; it had to be resisted. Her profound recognition of that single necessity, and her frustration with the complacency with which this great threat was met at home drew her, one of the great political journalists of the century, into misjudments …

Benjamin Spock And The Spock Papers At Syracuse University, Robert S. Pickett

The Courier

This article gives a portrait of the controversial pediatrician and popular author Benjamin Spock, much of it gleaned from his personal papers located at Syracuse University's Special Collections. Among some of the insights into his life worth noting are his wife Jane's contributions to his personal attitudes and even his books.

Jan Maria Novotny And His Collection Of Books On Economics, Michael Markowski

The Courier

This article describes the life and books of economist Jan Novotny, whose extensive collection is now housed in the Syracuse University Libraries. Novotny believed that a comprehensive, liberal arts education was an essential prerequisite for anyone who wished to study or professionally practice finance and business. The well-roundedness obtained from the humanities, he argued, would lead those in business and finance to make moral and ehtically sound decisions. His collection covers the last five hundred years, consisting of nearly 6,000 books in many different languages. Novotny managed to flee Czechoslavakia with all of these books, which now provide a wealth …

The Imperishable Perishable Press, Terrance Keenan

The Courier

When art and meaning come together so effectively, when craft and purpose meld so well, something precious emerges. Of the many one-of-a-kind things in the world, few have a memorable identity. In the work of Walter Hamady the art of bookmaking explores new terrain. The finished product is not a candidate for the museum or the gallery. It holds something for the eye and the mind both, something that was created by human hands to be held by human hands. Often beautiful, always different and provocative, the books of the Perishable Press are durable reminders of the creative spirit at …

Freak Show Images From The Ron Becker Collection, Robert Bogdan

The Courier

This article details the rise of freak shows from 1840 to 1940 in America, drawing from the extensive collection found in the Ron Becker Collection in the Syracuse University Special Collections. The exhibits played upon the superstitions and prejudices of popular American culture, and every exhibit was a fraud of some sort. The photographs of these "human curiosities" fascinated Ron Becker, who amassed a collection of the photos, mostly from the photographers Charles Eisenmann and Frank Wendt.