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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

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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.

A Descriptive Study Of The Functional Components Of Browsing., Barbara H. Kwasnik

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

The paper describes a descriptive study of the functional components of browsing, which is viewed as the strategic and adaptive technique that people use to search, scan, navigate through, skim, sample, and explore information systems. Data on browsing is collected from thirty participants -- ten each in three browsing formats: print, command-driven computer version, and hypertext window-environment version. Data collection is by means of several techniques: the collection of thinking-out-loud, task-concurrent protocols; open-question interviews during the task; observation; and video and sound recording. The aim of analysis is to describe functions of browsing such as: orientation, place-marking, transition, comparison, identification, …

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 Exploration By Means Of Repertory Grids Of Semantic Differences Among Names For Office Documents., Barbara H. Kwasnik, Corinne Jorgensen,

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

We used repertory grids to investigate the differences in names assigned to a selected list of 11 frequently mentioned office documents. The assumption is that naming reflects a classificatory decision and is based on a complex set of perceived aspects (which we call constructs) of the documents being named. We describe repertory grids as used in this application and summarize the resulting analysis.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

Extraction Of Knowledge About The Cognitive Process Of Browsing From Discourse And Thinking-Aloud Protocols. Also Published As Part Of: Kwasnik, B. Et Al Automatic Extraction From Dictionary Text: Project Development., Barbara H. Kwasnik, Elizabeth D. Liddy, Myaeng H. Sung

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

How A Personal Document's Intended Use Or Purpose Affects Its Classification In An Office., Barbara H. Kwasnik

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

This paper reports on the findings of a larger case study that attempts to describe how people organize documents in their own offices. In that study, several dimensions along which people make classificatory decisions were identified. Of these, the use of to which a document is put emerged as a strong determiner of that document’s classification. The method of analysis is reviewed, and examples of the different kinds of uses are presented, demonstrating that it is possible to describe a wide variety of specific instances using a closed set of descriptors. The suggestion is made that, in designing systems for …

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 …

Using Structural Represantation Of Anomalous States Of Knowledge For Choosing Document Retrieval Strartegies., Barbara H. Kwasnik, Belkin N. J.

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Alvaro-Agustin De Liano And His Books In Leopold Von Ranke's Library, Gail P. Hueting

The Courier

This article tells the story of Liagno (or Liano), an author active in Europe during the early nineteenth century. The author discovered the little-known author while research annotations in the von Ranke collection within the Syracuse University Special Collections. He traveled to many cities and wrote in many languages, became a monk, priest, and then converted to Calvanism. Appropriately, he became responsible for cataloging materials in the area of theology, history, and literature in multiple languages.

A Guide To The Secretariat Circulars: Kenya National Archives Microfilm, Robert G. Gregory, Richard E. Lewis

Books

The Secretariat Circulars are made up of five reels of microfilm that comprise Section 7, the last section of the Guide to the Kenya National Archives. Microfilm number: 2807.

Remarks On The Occasion Of The Exhibition, Syracuse University

The Courier

This article is adapted from two addresses given at a Syracuse University Library Associate's exhibition for recent book acquisitions in 1981, delivered by Chancellor Melvin A. Eggers and Vice Chancellor John James Prucha, respectively.

The Post-Standard Award, Syracuse University

The Courier

This article is adapted from the presentation of the Post-Standard award to Chester Soling, conferred by Chancellor Emeritus Willaim P. Tolley in the Fall of 1981.