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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

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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

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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.

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.

West African Archaeology And The Atlantic Slave Trade, Christopher R. Decorse

Anthropology - All Scholarship

Recent archaeological research in the New World has focused on slave dwellings and post-emacipation communities, providing a great deal of insight into slave life and the emergence of African-American culture. In contrast, the material record in West Africa has supplied little new information on the slave trade. Numerous European forts and barracoons serve as pervasive reminders of its existence. However, excavation of these sites is only likely to attest to the meagre possessions of the slaves and their treatment prior to the middle passage, offering little insight into their cultural and ethnic origins. European forts were collection points; the slaves …

Brockport, New York: A Narrative Of That Place (And The Place Of This Narrative), Jonathan Mark Smith

Dissertations - ALL

This historical geography of Brockport, New York covers the period between the initial settlement of the region in 1806 and the onset of industrial decline in 1882. As a study in landscape and community change it links shifting trade networks, ecological foundations, social institutions and life-worlds in a historical narrative. Alterations in social structure, spatial division and definition, and landscape form and meaning are emphasized. The community is shown to have moved from a state of moral community and economic individualism to a state of moral individualism and economic community. Some specific topics discussed are frontier migrations, pioneering, development, mercantilism, …

Describing The Flora Of The United States: Botanies At Libraries In Syracuse, Dudley J. Raynal

The Courier

The first written descriptions of the flora of North America were those of sixteenth-century Europeans who marvelled at the botanical treasures brought to them by explorers of the New World. The earliest account of American natural history was that of the English botanical explorer Thomas Hariot who wrote his Briefe and True Re, port of the New Found Land of Virginia in 1590 after returning from an expedition arranged by Sir Walter Raleigh. Hariot carried to En, gland tubers, fruits, and seeds of plants previously unknown in Europe. Perhaps thirty different plant species had been introduced into Europe from the …

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 …

The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Six), Gwen G. Robinson

The Courier

This, the sixth part of a historical survey of the career of punctuation, attempts to describe a few vibrant decades when the mutual influence of punctuation and language brought to light many new ideas. After the publication of Ephraim Chambers' encyclopaedia and Samuel Johnson's dictionary, a prevailing passion for 'truth' put to rout the age-old, commonplace linguistic theories. A tremendous energy came to be applied towards resolving not only the exalted mysteries of the universe and the human mind, but also more homely problems-how to set up a power-driven loom, or breed a Hampshire pig, or even, how properly to …

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.

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

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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.

Family Discourse And Everyday Practice: Gender And Class At The Dinner Table, Marjorie L. Devault

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

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Front Matter

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

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French Beadmaking: An Historic Perspective Emphasizing The 19th And 20th Centuries, Marie-José Opper, Howard Opper

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

Beadmaking in France began in pre-Roman times. It reached its zenith in the 19th and 20th centuries when beads of sundry materials and styles were produced in both artisanal workshops and large factories to decorate a multitude of items and to serve as components of fashion jewelry. This article discusses the different beadmakers and their varied products.

Captions And Color Plates (V.3, 1991)

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

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L'Impiraressa: The Venetian Bead Stringer, Irene Ninni

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

In 1893, Irene Ninni published a succinct account of a large but little-known group of Venetian women called impiraressa or bead stringers whose task it was to thread the glass beads produced on Murano and form them into hanks for the world market. The original Italian text is provided, along with an English translation. Two late 19th-century paintings by John Singer Sargent provide a rare glimpse of the bead stringers at work.

The Mohawk Glass Trade Bead Chronology: Ca. 1560-1785, Donald A. Rumrill

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

Early glass beads acquired by the Mohawk Indians of New York state were a mixture of whatever was made available to them by European traders. By the second quarter of the 17th century, the beads reflected a dominance of particular types and/or colors as villages were relocated. This phenomenon appears to have ritualistic connotations and suggests that the bead-selection process was a part of the ceremonialism practiced in the daily, seasonal and annual life modes of the Mohawk. Ten distinct periods have been identified based on an examination of approximately 10,000 glass beads recovered from 33 Mohawk village sites. Other …

Table Of Contents (V.3, 1991)

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

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The Importance Of Factors That Are Not Document Attributes In The Organization Of Personal Documents., Barbara H. Kwasnik

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

The authors describe the difficulties of translating classifications from a source language and culture to another language and culture. To demonstrate these problems, kinship terms and concepts from native speakers of fourteen languages were collected and analyzed to find differences between their terms and structures and those used in English. Using the representations of kinship terms in the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) and the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) as examples, the authors identified the source of possible lack of mapping between the domain of kinship in the fourteen languages studied and the LCC and DDC. Finally, some preliminary suggestions …

The Beads From Oudespost I, A Dutch East India Company Outpost, Cape, South Africa, Karlis Karklins, Carmel Schrire

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

The site of a provisioning station operated by the Dutch East India Company near the Cape of Good Hope during the late 17th and early 18th centuries produced a variety of European beads of several materials. A "typical" Dutch bead assemblage of the period, it is significant because it comes from one of very few independently dated bead-producing sites in southern Africa and, as such, will be instrumental in the formulation of a chronology for the beads found in this part of Africa.

Book Reviews And End Matter

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

Carey: Beads and Beadwork of West and Central Africa reviewed by Marie-José Opper and Howard Opper

Bennyhoff and Hughes: Shell Bead and Ornament Exchange Networks Between California and the Western Great Basin reviewed by Leslie L. Hartzell

Fogelman: Glass Trade Beads in the Northeast, and Including Aboriginal Bead Industries reviewed by James W. Bradley

Picard and Picard: Beads from the West African Trade Series — Volumes V and VI reviewed by Peter Francis, Jr.

Jargstorf: Glass in Jewelry: Hidden Artistry in Glass reviewed by Margret Carey

Basic Paper Treatments For Printed Book Materials, Peter D. Verheyen

Librarian Publications

In October of 1989, at the Guild of Book Workers' Standards of Excellence Seminar, Betsy Palmer Eldridge gave a presentation on "Basic Paper Treatments for Printed Book Materials." This 2 1/2 hour presentation was a very ambitious undertaking, but she did a magnificent job.

Since these presentations and the synopses that later appeared in the GBW Newsletter, there has been some discussion. The presentations and these articles are not to be construed as a "how to" of basic paper conservation but rather as an introduction for those with interest but little experience. For the more experienced, they present the methods …

Beads: Journal Of The Society Of Bead Researchers - Volume 3 (Complete)

BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers

No abstract provided.

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.

100% Rag Vol.1 Issue 1, David Nieves, Karen Mehan, Mark J. Cutone, Michelle Paone, Rosa T. Sheng, Robert Wildermuth, William Hogg, Danielle Van Dalen, Matthew Broderick, Rebecca E. Doyle, Rania Sedhom, Alex Fernandez, Sheri Coffin

School of Architecture - All Scholarship

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An Analysis By Means Of Naturalistic Approaches Of Two Complex Behaviors. In Gilbert, Nigel (Ed.) Proceedings Of The Workshop On Complex Systems, Ethnomethodology And Interaction Analysis., Barbara H. Kwasnik

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

This paper describes two studies I which naturalistic approaches were used to investigate complex human behaviors. The first study is a description of the way in which people organize their documents in their own offices; the second study aims for a functional description of the behavior known as “browsing”. Both studies use thinking-out-loud protocols, observation, and interviews in the setting in which behaviors take place. The rationale for the choice of techniques is presented along with a discussion of advantages and difficulties.

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 …