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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.

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 …

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 …

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 2, Fall 1991, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

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.

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, …

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 …

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.

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

The Courier

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.