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Franz Leopold Ranke, The Ranke Library At Syracuse And The Open Future Of Scientific History, Siegfried Baur

The Courier

"The recent purchase of the great historical library of Dr. Leopold von Ranke by an American suggests some reflections. There is no doubt that this library, which numbers many thousands of books, pamphlets, manuscripts and documents of all times and all languages, is the finest historical collection in the world.... But this great and invaluable collection, which should have gone to one of the large cities like New York, Boston, Philadelphia or Chicago, or to one of the university towns like Cambridge, New Haven, Ithaca or Ann Arbor, is going to Syracuse, which is neither a large city nor a …

Manuscripts Processing At Syracuse: An Insider's View, Kathleen Manwaring

The Courier

After explaining the specialness of special collections, Manwaring compares the processing of books and serials, with their preselected, pre-organized content, to the processing of manuscripts, which "reflect the chaos inherent in real life." The latter requires "total immersion" in order to "discover and reflect the underlying structure of the individual's life experience" while making his or her papers accessible to scholars.

Peaks Of Joy, Valleys Of Despair: The History Of The Syracuse University Library From 1871 To 1907, David H. Stam

The Courier

Drawing on a variety of sources, Starn presents engaging samples of life in the early days of the Syracuse University Library.

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

The Courier

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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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.

The Conservation Of Books: Prescription For Collectors, Susan Rainey

The Courier

My month in Chicago changed all this considerably by increasing my knowledge of book and non-book materials. There we discussed the nature of these materials, criteria for excellence both singly and in combination with each other, and approaches to restoration and prevention of further deterioration. Book conservation is a relatively recent development in the larger field of conservation, but the problem of deterioration is as old as the earliest papyrus. As it applies to materials of our own time, it is related to the three major physical elements of the book: its paper, its cover and its structure.

Courier Volume V, Number 1, Whole Number 24, Winter 1965, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

The philosophy of book collecting in a University Library by J. Terry Bender -- Norman H. Strouse and the Passionate Pirate -- Byron the poet -- A Byron letter -- J. Frank Dobie: Way out in the fore -- How much is this worth -- William Morris Demurs -- Sydney Carlyle Cockerell -- A Robert Frost rarity -- Camp Ford, C.S.A. -- Lesser Witnesses by John F. Reed -- A vanished world -- Opening a new book -- Sallie and Charles Kohen: Donors de luxe --

Courier, Number 25, 1965, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

The search for Rudyard Kipling by Morton N. Cohen -- M. de Voltaire and Mr. Warren E. Dey -- The Mayfield Library -- Guilty or not guilty -- Authenticating my portrait by Modigliani -- To Stephencraneites - Burrs -- Ravenous curse -- Michel Licht -- Smith -- The Image of Robert Frost -- On a Hasidic Theme -- Adam and Eve wore breeches by T. D. MacGregor -- The authorship of Barrack Room Ballads by Lord Dunsany

Courier Volume Iv, Number 1, Whole Number 21, March 1964, Syracuse University Library Associates

The Courier

Article about Konrad Bercovici, author of Roumanian tales and novels. His daughter gave his books, papers, manuscripys, published and unpublished and extensive corrospondence to Syracuse University. Also given to the Library was "one of the most beautiful Book of Hours ever seen in this part of the world".

Other recent additions of Special Collections material are described.