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Retired AT&TExecutive EstablishesRecord-setting Endowment

The Library has received a $1.6 milliongift to establish the largest unrestrictedlibrary endowment fund in its history.

The donation, in the form of a trust,comes from retired AT&T vice chairmanCharles Marshall ('51) and his wife, MillicentBruner Marshall, of Naples, Florida, tocreate the new Charles and Millicent BrunerMarshall Library Endowment Fund.

In recognition of this gift, and in recogni-tion of the Marshalls' twenty years ofactive personal and financial support ofboth the Library and the University, theLibrary plans to dedicate the east foyerof the Library as the Charles and MillicentMarshall Library Gallery.

"Chuck and Millicent Marshall havecontributed to the University in so manyways," says the U of I Foundation's execu-tive director, Dr. B.A. Nugent. "They arejust terrific people who have supportedus not just financially, but in literallythousands of ways through their leader-ship and example. We could point to noone better than Chuck Marshall as a modelof a distinguished graduate whose values,character, and years of distinguished ser-vice have set such a leadership example."

The Marshalls have been among theUniversity's most visible supporters since1976 when, says Mr. Marshall, a friendsuggested he become more involved withhis alma mater.

"From the time I graduated in 1951 until1976, I wasn't really active," he admits."Then I realized it was time to give some-thing back, and I have."

Since then, the Marshalls have beengenerous supporters of the Universityand, since 1994, of the University Library

in particular. It was a resource Mr. Marshalland his father, both graduates of theCollege of Agriculture ('22), had usedfrequently.

"I studied at the Library, and my father(William E Marshall, '22) frequently usedthe Library when he was at the University,"explains Mr. Marshall.

"We both have a keen interest in books,"adds Mrs. Marshall, "so the Library seemedto be the proper place for this endowment."

Except for a few years of farming on thefamily farm after graduation and a stint inthe Air Force, Mr. Marshall spent his entirecareer working for AT&T, starting at IllinoisBell, which at the time was one of AT&T'stwenty-one wholly-owned subsidiaries.

"He almost didn't get that job," remem-bers Mrs. Marshall with a laugh. "He was241/2 years old, and they told him he wastoo old. Then, because he had been farming,

they asked why a farmer wanted to workfor a phone company, instead of Kroger's[the supermarket chain]. He told them,'This is where I want to work.' So, theygave him the test and offered him a jobin Peoria."

Although Mr. Marshall started out as theperson who made sure that Illinois Bell'spay phones had directories and workinglights, he quickly rose through the ranks."All of us at AT&T worked our way upfrom the bottom," says Mr. Marshall.

By 1959, he was being tapped by IllinoisBell's corporate parent, AT&T, to helpintroduce the Princess telephone, thetouchtone system, and the now defunctfarm interphone. In the 1970s, he wasasked to set up a school to teach AT&Texecutives the economic history of thetelephone industry.

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Millicent and Charles Marshall.

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Record-setting Endowment(cont'd)

After stints as vice president at IllinoisBell and Southwestern Bell, and as presi-dent and chief operating officer of IllinoisBell itself, he became, in 1981, the executivevice president in charge of planning forderegulation at AT&T.

"I had been in New York for only twomonths when deregulation came," remem-bers Mr. Marshall. "It was a traumatictime for the industry. We were in the midstof a major antitrust trial, and half-waythrough the trial, the judge said he wasinclined to believe that something had tochange. Our chairman, Charlie Brown, feltit would be better to make that changeourselves rather than have the court do it.

"So, when Charlie signed the consentdecree in Washington, I was given the taskof calling all the Bell presidents to tellthem the Bell system was no more. Theyhad all been in earlier in the week to hearfor the first time that the break-up waslikely, but the reality still came as a sobermessage to all of us."

For the Marshalls, as for many otherAT&T executives, the break-up really hithome because the phone company hadbeen part of their family history.

"My grandfather owned a little switch-board that he kept in the house," explainsMrs. Marshall. "He and my grandmotherran the phone company. When my fatherdied, then my mother started working forthe phone company, and she hired me,when I was 14, to work the switchboardon vacations and weekends. Actually,Mother fibbed-you had to be 16 to work,so she said I was 15 while I was trainingand about to turn 16, but I was really 14about to turn 15."

After raising their four children, Mrs.Marshall became active in charitiesthroughout the Chicago area, becomingthe founding president of the Museumof Science and Industry's President'sCouncil, a charter member of the Women'sBoard of Northwestern University, chairof the Boys Club ball, and board memberof the USO. After moving to New Yorkin 1981, she joined her husband on hisextensive travels. "It's been fun beingan executive's wife," she says. "A lot ofwomen don't enjoy it, but I certainly did."

In New York, Mr. Marshall went on tobecome chairman and CEO of AmericanBell and AT&T Information Systems, andvice chairman at the corporate headquartersof AT&T. He retired in 1989, but continuesto serve on five corporate boards.

He is also a member of the Library's

National Advisory Committee, a memberof the U of I Presidents Council (the Uni-versity's highest donor group), an electedmember (as is Mrs. Marshall) of the U ofI Foundation since 1977, a former memberof the Foundation's board of directors,and president of the Foundation's boardof directors from 1987-89.

Both he and Mrs. Marshall are also activein the Naples (Florida) PhilharmonicSociety, where Mrs. Marshall sings in theorchestra's chorus and Mr. Marshall serveson the board of directors. "Once you gettrained to be busy, you can't quite stop,"he laughs.

In recognition of Mr. Marshall's effortson behalf of the University, he was awardedthe Presidents Award for Service to theUniversity of Illinois Foundation in 1989.

The University Library, however, remainsone of the Marshalls' main interests.

"The Library is an essential part of thisgreat university," says Mr. Marshall. "Weused to say that state funding will continueto make a state university good, which itshould, but it can't make it a great univer-sity. That's where private gifts come in. Weneed to encourage people to give some-thing back so that others can have the samebenefit we had when we were students."

Library's Exhibition CatalogWins Four Awards

The Library's 1995 exhibition catalog,Scholarly Treasures of the University Library,has won top awards at three major nationaldesign competitions and a top prize in aregional competition.

The catalog won first place for catalogs,

four-color process, in the internationalIn-Print 96 competition, co-sponsoredby the International Publishing Manage-ment Association and In-Plant Graphicsmagazine.

The catalog also won a first-place prizefor a museum catalog in the 1996 Univer-sity and College Designers Associationcompetition.

In the Gold Ink competition, sponsoredby the Publishing and Printing Executivesassociation and Printing Impressions maga-zine, the catalog garnered the BronzeAward for a four-color catalog, beatingout competition from corporations suchas Pillsbury and Trump Enterprises.

In the Champaign County CHAAMPS1995 competition, whose winners wereannounced in May 1996, the catalog wonnot only first place for a catalog, but alsothe Judge's Merit Award.

The design was conceived and executedby Amy Harten, formerly of Champaign,IL, now of Cincinnati, Ohio, who for thepast ten years designed all of the publica-tions for the Library Office of Develop-ment and Public Affairs.

Copies of this award-winning publica-tion are still available for $25 (includescost of shipping). It contains thirty-sixfull-color reproductions of some of theLibrary's most beautiful or importantitems, with explanatory text.

If you are interested in owning thislimited edition, award-winning publica-tion, please contact Judy Graner, annualfunds secretary, at the Library Office ofDevelopment and Public Affairs, 227Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana,IL 61801; or phone (217) 333-5683; or bye-mail at j-graner@uiuc.edu.

Roseate Spoonbill from John James Audubon's The Birds of America, one of the Library's treasures reproduced in full color inScholarly Treasures of the University Library.

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I Pioneers in ComputerizedDistance -based LearningEstablish New Endowment

Two pioneers in computerized distance-based learning, who helped twenty yearsago to link the Library's online catalog toa worldwide computer network, havecreated a new endowment in the Library.

It's the new Elaine S. and Richard AllenAvner Library Endowment Fund. Fiftypercent of the income from the new en-dowment will be dedicated to acquisitionsof Judaica material, with the rest to rotateyearly between the Reference, Map andGeography, and Newspaper libraries andthe Illinois Historical Survey for the pur-chase of machine-readable databases.

"It is especially gratifying to have twolong-time Friends, Allen and Elaine, estab-lish a permanent source of funding throughtheir endowment," says the Library'sdirector of development and public affairs,Joan M. Hood, about the new endowment.'The combination of acquisitions and newtechnologies shows a true understandingof the direction in which research librariesare rapidly heading."

The Avners have been two of theLibrary's most devoted supporters formany years, donating not only financiallyto the Library (they are Life Members ofLibrary Friends and members of the Uni-versity Librarian's Council), but with Elainealso a past member of the Library FriendsBoard of Directors.

"We're really being very selfish, con-tributing to areas of our own interests,"chuckles Elaine Avner about the newendowment. "The U of I has excellentprograms in Jewish Studies and in history,and we want to support those collections."

"We are both also interested in thetechnological side," adds Allen Avner."We certainly benefitted from the machine-searchable databases at the Library, butwe'd notice databases that were not up-dated, or that the Library wouldn't havea database we knew was available. Itseemed like an area the Library was mov-ing into, and an area that was in need."

It's an area that is as familiar to theAvners as the backs of their hands. Bothworked for nearly thirty years at the U ofI's now-defunct Computer-based Educa-tion Research Laboratory (CERL), whichcreated the first computerized, distance-learning program PLATO. Allen, anemeritus principal research scientist, spenthis career evaluating the center's hardwareand software for teaching effectiveness.Elaine, a retired senior research scientist,

R. Allen and Elaine Avner.

helped to create some of the initial PLATOsystems and the lessons' documentationas well as to provide online advice andconsultation with users.

In fact, it was the Avners who collabo-rated with the Library back in the 1970sto connect the Library's first-ever onlinecatalog with PLATO.

"Our motive again was selfish," remem-bers Elaine. "We wanted to be able to findand order books for ourselves from thePLATO terminals in our offices. We realizedthat it would rapidly become a popularfeature for users of PLATO on campus andat other schools in Illinois, but we wereamazed to find that the online catalog wasalso being used at PLATO sites all overthe world!"

No wonder the Avners say their jobswere "a lot of fun"-so much so that theAvners have turned their once part-timeconsulting business, Avner Associates,into a full-time occupation.

It's also a background that has providedthe Avners with a keen sense of not onlythe benefits of machine-searchable data-bases, but also the work involved increating them.

"The sort of information that an under-graduate can now get in ten or fifteenminutes would have been an appropriatetopic for a master's thesis fifteen yearsago," says Allen Avner.

And Allen Avner was notorious as astickler for a proper bibliography. "TheLibrary's ERIC and government publica-tions collections gave me access to eventhe most obscure publications," he says."During the ten years I edited the Journalof Computer Based Instruction, the complete-ness of the University Library collectionsmade me the bane of authors who includedcitations of literature they had not readthemselves."

Although machine-searchable databases

are a relatively new phenomenon, theAvners have been in the computerizationbusiness long enough that not much elseon the scene today-not even World WideWeb-based instruction-is really new.PLATO, after all, was a networked educa-tional tool that got its start in the early 1960s.

"Every five years someone reinventsthe language used so that something that'sbeen around for awhile sounds like some-thing new," says Allen Avner. "People inthat area for years recognize it as somethingold with a new name. But a newcomerwho does a bibliographic search with thenew terms would assume the technologyis only five years old because no citationsto the old literature would be found.

A case in point? "E-mail," says ElaineAvner. "Back in the '70s I was doingonline consulting. I could communicateonline with people all over the world. Infact, we were the first to provide onlineconsulting. We called it 'p-notes'-personalnotes. I still catch myself calling it thatinstead of 'e-mail."'

The new endowment fund will enablethe four designated library units and theJudaica collection to keep up with thesechanges for as long as the Library exists- a welcome prospect, according to thelibrarians.

"The Avners have been such goodsupporters for a long time," says the headof the Illinois Historical Survey, JohnHoffmann. "It's not just their annual gifts,but also books they've bought for theirown research that they've donated to usover the years. And now this endowmentfund will help us immensely, once ourcomputer equipment is upgraded."

Adds Jane Wiles, head of the NewspaperLibrary, "Our patrons are literally cryingout for more machine-searchable databases,which are very expensive for us. News ofthis endowment is just wonderful!"

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I Eleven Rare WorksAdded to German BaroqueLiterature Collection

Eleven rare German works purchasedwith private funds by the Library at arecent book auction in Berlin have signifi-cantly increased the stature of the Library'salready prestigious collection of GermanBaroque literature.

The books all come from the privatelibrary of University of Michigan Profes-sor Gerhard Diinnhaupt, the world'sforemost authority on German Baroqueliterature and the compiler of the definitivebibliography on the subject.

"Professor Diinnhaupt's collection ofbooks is so rich that no single library couldpossibly have afforded to buy the entirecollection, but we managed to get thegems," says U of I German professor MaraWade about the purchases. "And whatwe bid for all build on the strengths ofthe Library's rare-book collections."

Professor Wade should know-Pro-fessor Diinnhaupt was her dissertationadvisor, and it was from his tremendousprivate collection that he taught his stu-dents. "This is the collection I learnedfrom," she says, "so I know personallythat these are all really good books."

One of the most exciting purchases wasa 1663 edition of Paul Fleming's Poemata,edited by Fleming's literary executor, AdamOlearius. "Fleming was the premiere poetof the first half of the seventeenth century,"explains Professor Wade, "but he diedvery young and very suddenly. Hisworks were not published during his

Part of the frontispiece to Birken's Ulysses(1669), considered a monument of German literature.

fortunate we could get an edition seenthrough the press by his literary executor."

Another exciting purchase was a com-plete set of Monatsgesprache (1663-1669),a three-volume work of conversationalliterature in eight parts by Johann Rist andErasmus Francisci. Rist is well-known forhis dramas, poetry, prose, and Lutheranhymns, many of which are still sung today.

"A complete set of Rist has not comeon the market at one time in the past fifty-to seventy-five years," says Professor Wade,"so this is quite a purchase. We alreadyhave several works by Rist, who is veryimportant because he's a north GermanBaroque writer, which is underrepresentedat most libraries."

Other purchases included Birken'sUlysses (1669), considered a monumentof German literature; the collectedworks in six books of Andreas Gryphius(1663), an important set because it isthe only complete edition of his worksthat he saw through the press during

his lifetime; Georg•1 ,1 T T •r

pp Harsdortter'slichte... (1703),nblem bookjoins therary's world-nous collectionemblem books;

ustration and title pageWeise's Staats-

eographie von Asia,frica, America...1706), one of the booksecently purchased fromthe collection ofGerhard Diinnhaupt.This was a widelyused textbook and oneof the first Germantextbooks to describeAmerica.

Daniel Casper von Lohenstein's Lob-schrift (1661), a book in praise of aSilesian prince that adds to the Library'sexcellent collection of court literature; thecomplete Poematum (1637) and CatonisDisticha (1662) of Martin Opitz, who isconsidered the father of modem Germanbelles lettres; Christian Weise's Nachricht(1701) and Geographie (1706), which isone of the first German textbooks tomention America; and Philipp vonZesen's Helicons (1641), which is anoriginal edition of his poetry.

The eleven works were chosen by theLibrary for bidding from among the hun-dreds of lots available at auction based oninput from Professor Wade and biblio-graphic research by the head of the Library'sModer Language and Lingustics Library,Thomas Kilton. Expertise on how to bidcame from the Library's curator of rarebooks, Fred Nash.

"Fred was extremely well-informed onthe strategies of how to bid at an auction,which, combined with his broad biblio-graphic knowledge, enabled us to actuallybid successfully on everything we wanted,says Professor Wade."

But it was Professor Kilton's quick actionthat enabled the Library to even contem-plate bidding in the first place. The Library,as it turns out, received only two weeks'notice about the auction, and that was atthe very end of the fiscal year, when nostate funds were left for purchases.

Notes Professor Wade,"While othersmight not have done anything in thiscircumstance, Tom immediately put in ahuge amount of time, right down to find-ing the source of funding. He realizedwhat an important opportunity this auctionwas for us."

Funds for the purchase came from theNEH Challenge Grant Endowment Fund,created with individual private donationsto the Library during the Challenge Grantproject. Notes the Library's director ofdevelopment and public affairs, Joan M.

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Hood, "Without private funds, we couldn'thave acted so quickly. I can't think ofanother project that shows so clearly theimportance of private funds to the Library."

I Technological Challenges tothe Book and to Knowledgethe Subject of SeventhMortenson Lecture

The book as we know it is slowlydisappearing, leaving humanity with thechoice of shaping its replacement intoeither a heaven or a hell.

That was the message of Talat Halman,professor of Middle East studies at NewYork University, who delivered the seventhannual C. Walter and Gerda B. MortensonDistinguished Lecture on October 17, 1996.

". .[O]n the eve of the third millenium,we are in the process of destroying libraries,exterminating books for another creativeand scientific venture, and we are figura-tively shouting, 'All truth is in the holycomputer-no books are necessary any-more,'" Professor Halman told the audienceof nearly 150. ".. .[But] there can be noculture without books in some form orother, regardless of what the transforma-tion of books will be. In the future, booksand libraries will probably undergomassive change and take new shape."

Professor Halman painted a picture ofconstant assaults on the written worddating back to the times of Julius Caesar,who inadvertently burned part of theThalamic Library in Alexandria in 48 B.C.Censorship, even of his own books thispast summer by the new government ofTurkey, is the most common assault onthe written word.

"But now in the world we are havinga different kind of development," he said."Technology is beginning to threaten theexistence of books as we know them, aswe touch them, as we love them, as greatobjects.. .[but] I am too steeped in theglorious history of books and libraries toleave them in the graves of the third ofAlvin Toffler's waves."

The library, he predicted, would turninto a "cybrary," an institution that wouldbe an "all-embracing library, a total library"combining cybernetics, the internet, andcomparable inventions. For those in thehard sciences, ".. .the advantages of thistype of superefficiency are glorious, luxuri-ous. By lifting a finger, anyone will haveaccess to the entire corpus of humanknowledge as embodied by all archives,databanks, and libraries."

The danger, he noted, was that an in-dividual's acquisition of knowledge mightseem unnecessary since there would beinstant and constant access to a limitlessamount of information.

"In the next century, everything willbe available to any of us, and without theneed to read or study," he said. "It is aprivilege we shall begin to share with god.Thanks to the accessibility of total knowl-edge, we shall be liberated from knowledgeitself to pursue noncerebral pleasures inthe enormous expanses of our leisure."

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Talat Halman.

The final result, he said, could well bethe end of physical entities such asmuseums or universities (they could allbe accessed online) and a new isolationof humans from each other as everyonefinds everything they need via computer."We, still as human beings, have the powerto create of this cyberspace a paradise orhell," he stated. "That is the great ethicalchoice before us."

To make that choice a paradise, Profes-sor Halman predicted that technologicaladvances would produce the ability to"simulate any book, be it from an ancient

Egyptian papyrus roll or the latest release... " by means of special printers, collators,and binders. "We'll be able to create ourown books, our own works, and they willbe palpable like the books we cherishnowadays," he said.

He also predicted that the new technolo-gies would equalize and democratizelearning, overcome mass illiteracy, freesocieties from political oppression andeconomic exploitation, promote activeparticipation in governmental processes,and foster international tolerance.

A printed version of Professor Halman'sspeech will be available from the Morten-son Center in mid-1997.

I The Library isLooking for. ..$575 to purchase Dictionnaire du Darwin-isme et de l'Evolution for the BiologyLibrary. This new, three-volume work,hailed as an "admirable achievement ofscholarship," is the only critical, historicalencyclopedia of its kind, making it anessential reference work for a majorresearch library.

Funds to purchase the five-volume TheEarthquakes of Stable Continental Regions:Assessment of Large Earthquake Potentialfor the Geology Library. The occurrenceof a large earthquake in the central UnitedStates is rare but is now termed a possibil-ity within the next 15 years. This set willserve as a reference volume for geologists,seismologists, and others as a compre-hensive database for distinct areas of thecentral United States and similar areas.Cost is $500.

$350 to purchase Ultrasound Pathologyof the Cell and Matrix (4th ed., 1996) forthe Veterinary Medicine Library. This isthe new edition of the authoritative atlasof cellular pathology (the unit owns the1988 edition). The new edition includesmany new ultrastructural changes andlesions not found in the previous edition.

Funds to purchase The Trial ofAdolfEichmann for the History Library. Theofficial record of the trial has now beenpublished containing an English translationof the full proceedings in both courts, anannotated list of court exhibits, and micro-fiche copies of the 1,543 documents sub-mitted during the trial. Cost is $483.

$1,000 to purchase Early Icelandic Manu-

scripts in Facsimile (vols. 4, 7, 19) for theModem Languages and Linguistics Library.The unit owns only four of 20 volumes ofthis impressive series, which is an impor-tant source for the history of Europeanmedieval literature.

Funds to purchase complete runs onmicrofilm of southern African-Americannewspapers from the Reconstructionperiod, 1865-1890, for the NewspaperLibrary. The unit's collection of historicalAfrican-American newspapers containsvery few titles covering this tumultuousperiod. Cost is $500.

To donate any of the items mentionedabove, please contact Sharon Kitzmiller,associate director of development, at 227Library, 1408 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL61801, or telephone (217) 333-5683.

New Endowment SupportsUnique Music Collection

When U of I director of bands JamesKeene exhorted the alumni attending the1990 centennial celebration of the U of IBand to become involved again with theuniversity, Lloyd Farrar ('55, '56) decidedto act.

As the son of an entomologist at theIllinois Natural History Survey, locatedat the U of I, and later as an undergraduatetrombone major in the School of Music,he had grown up with the university bandthat had literally started the nationwidecollege band movement.

Now, Mr. Farrar and his wife, DorisVogt Farrar, have created an unusualendowment - the Vogt/Farrar Fund -within the Library to support his othermajor gift to the Library-the donation,over the next several years, of his personalcollection of more than 800 historic bandinstruments, known as the Patuxent MartialMusick Collection. The instruments willbe accompanied by his research paperscontaining full historic annotations as tothe instruments' makers, owners, andany unusual patents.

The purpose of the new Vogt/FarrarFund is to provide a fellowship or scholar-ship grant to graduate or advancedundergraduates studying the physicalcharacter and historical origins of musicalinstruments, with recipients helping withcuratorial oversight of the Library's specialcollections of musical instruments andband research archives.

The fund is named in memory of Mrs.Doris Farrar's ('56) father, Lawrence Vogt,who was a lawyer in Belleville, Illinois,for over fifty years; and Mr. Farrar's father,Milton Dyer Farrar, who worked at theIlllinois Natural History Survey from 1926-1942. Milton Farrar later became the deanof the College of Agriculture at ClemsonUniversity.

The instrument collection will becomepart of the Library's Sousa Archives forBand Research.

The instruments range from tin flutesused by school children during the mid-twentieth century to a set of rare baritonetrombones, which were popular from thelate 1800s until the 1920s.

"The materials I am donating will com-plement and augment significantly theresources already in the University's col-lections," says Mr. Farrar, a retired professorof musicology at Montgomery College."It's my personal hope that the Illinoiscollection, augmented by my gift, willgrow as a center for research in this field

and provide a treasure-trove of primarymaterials, particularly for students at theU of I."

Mr. Farrar's collection focuses primarilyon instruments made by nineteenth-centurycraftsmen in the Baltimore, Philadelphia,and New York areas. The collection alsocontains several examples of instrumentswith unusual patented features, such asunique clarinet key systems or valveoperations for brass instruments.

A third focus, which many might recog-nize from their childhood, is instrumentsinvented in the 1940s and 1950s strictlyfor teaching school children, such as thesaxette (a recorder-like instrument, butdouble the size of a recorder) and thetonette (a plastic instrument made possibleby the invention of Bake-a-lite).

Lloyd Farrar, in period costume, with a serpent, an 18th-century wind instrument.

"These instruments may not be beautifulor historic, but they do document an eraof American educational philosophy at acertain time in American musical history,"notes Mr. Farrar. "Studying them is reallyto study American educational practiceand American educational aesthetics."

These musical artifacts support theresearch portion of the collection-six filedrawers of original research done by Mr.Farrar on the biographies and productionof approximately 600 wind-instrumentmakers, and piano and organ buildersprimarily in the United States.

This was the material Mr. Farrar used

as the major American contributor to TheLangwill Index (1993), the definitive sourceof information on musical instrumentmakers and inventors, and as the contribu-tor of several new articles to the upcomingrevision of the Grove Dictionary of Music.

So far, Mr. Farrar has sent five instru-ments and accompanying documentationto the Library. During the spring, he plansto transfer a large group of trumpets, cor-nets, and alto horns. By 1999, the entirecollection will be at the U of I. "My wifewill be glad to see the instruments go," helaughs. "They do take up a lot of space,and they do need a lot of dusting!"

Mr. Farrar also has donated to the MusicLibrary more than 600 books and miniaturescores.

Says Sousa archivist Phyllis Danner ofthe new collection, "This is one of the mostcomplete collections of musical instrumentsin the country, and none of the others hasthe depth and breadth of documentationthat these instruments have. We now havethe groundwork for further research on thehistory of musical instruments from atrailblazer in the field."

From the UniversityLibrarian

Currently, most of the major acquisitionsin our Rare Book and Special CollectionLibrary are acquired via gifts from theprivate collections of donors or from privatefunds. Recent notable gifts to the Libraryinclude the donation of private papersfrom William Maxwell, award-winningnovelist and former fiction editor of theNew Yorker.

Occasionally, major auctions of booksand manuscripts by internationallyprominent auction houses like Christie'sor Sotheby's remind us of some of themore exciting activities of building librarycollections. Identifying items that areproposed for auction that would enhanceour collections, determining if we canafford to make a bid based on estimatedprices from the catalog, and the tensionof waiting for the outcome of the auction,are all a vital part of the auction process.

Late in 1996, we had the experience ofbidding in two major international auctionsof books and manuscripts. Both were heldin London and, like most bidders, we hadto employ an agent to represent ourinterests at the auction.

In the first auction there were severallots of letters by and to Marcel Proust.Although Proust's correspondence withthis person is already represented in our

collection, it was determined that certainof these letters would be an importantenhancement to our already unrivaledProust collection. Regrettably, we wereunsuccessful in obtaining any of the lotswe wanted. According to our agent, twotelephone bidders outbid all others forthe letters.

In the second auction, we identifiedtwo H.G. Wells letters that would beimportant additions to our unique Wellscollection, which draws more scholars andstudents to our campus than any othercollection in the Rare Book and SpecialCollections Library. One letter had areference to a trip to the moon, which wethought would be especiallly notable todisplay in conjunction with the plannedcelebration of the twentieth anniversary ofthe film 2001: A Space Oddysey, scheduledfor this spring's Cyberfest.

This time we bid somewhat moreaggressively and were successful in obtain-ing both items at lower-than-expectedprices.

Using private gift and endowmentfunds intended for auctions, rather thanstate funds, is an infrequent activity, butit does represent one aspect of the level ofactivity associated with building researchcollections, now being spearheaded by ournew head of the Rare Book and SpecialCollections Library, Barbara Jones.

-Robert Wedgeworth

I Challenge Grant FundsAugment HumanitiesCollections

What does a library unit do when pro-fessors need a set of books that costs $8,000,which is approximately 20% of yourentire annual book budget?

You turn to the endowment fundsestablished between 1988 and 1992 aspart of the Library's $4 million NEHChallenge Grant program.

Every year, a panel of librarians siftsthrough hundreds of thousands of dollarsworth of requests from virtually everyhumanities-related library unit beforechoosing the lucky recipients.

This year, nineteen units received a totalof 110,000 from five private endowmentfunds to purchase items that are essentialbut beyond financial reach.

"Our criteria focused on those materialsthat were most appropriate to the curricu-lar needs of the University," says BarbaraJones, chair of the committee and head ofthe Rare Book and Special Collections

Library. "We also paid particular attentionto requests for reference items becauseby fortifying reference materials, you geta good start on research even if you can'tbuy everything."

The Asian Library's request for the$8,000 Ch'uan Shih ts'ang Shu (Treasury ofChinese Classics) more than fit the criteria.The work is a compilation of approximately1,000 of the most significant classical worksfrom the pre-Qin dynasty period to theend of the Qing dynasty.

"This is a limited-edition work compiledby many researchers and scholars in thePeople's Republic of China, and it's neededby professors in many areas of Chinesehistory, not just one," says Asian Libraryhead Karen Wei. "I certainly couldn'tafford it without these funds."

The NEH Challenge Grant EndowmentFund, created from the many small, privatedonations received during the challenge-grant period, will provide the funds forher request.

Two other essential reference titles tobe purchased from the same endowmentfund are the microfiche of the alphabeticalcard catalog of the Russian NationalLibrary and, in a cooperative purchaseagreement, the 500-reel microfilm set offinding aids to the Archives of the SovietCommunist Party and Soviet State.

"The microfiche of the card catalog istremendously important-a wonderful,wonderful thing," enthuses Helen Sullivan,manager of the Slavic and East EuropeanLibrary's world-famous Slavic ReferenceService. "This will allow scholars to checkin advance as to whether the RussianNational Library, which is in St. Petersburg,has what they need, so it really allows themto prepare in advance. Since we annuallyhost the Summer Research Institute, whichusually draws about 300 scholars, thiswill be a big help to the entire country."

The microfilm of finding aids was pur-chased as part of a cooperative arrange-ment with the Consortium for InstitutionalCooperation (CIC), a consortium of BigTen schools plus the University ofChicago, because no one school couldafford the total price of $44,847. Underthe arrangement, the microfilms will bestored at the U of I Library and willcirculate only to other CIC institutions.

"The Communist Party archivesthemselves were never available to

Presidential pardon from Richard Nixon granted toSpanish Civil War veteran John Gates, a former U.S.Communist Party member. From the John Gatespapers, purchased for the Rare Book and SpecialCollections Library with funds from the George andSarah Patterson Pagels Library Endowment Fund.

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anyone, anywhere, until just recently,"says Robert Burger, head of the Slavicand East European Library. "The 4,900reels of actual archives microfilms are heldby the Hoover Institution and Library ofCongress. Once our 500 reels of findingaides are cataloged, it will make the actualarchives microfilms much more accessibleto researchers."

Other items to be purchased with pri-vate funds generated during the NEHChallenge Grant period include IllerupAdal (archaeological excavations in Den-mark), and microfilm of the Jewish Chronicle(1841-1910), both with funds from theGeorge E and Edna Brown Titus LibraryEndowment Fund; microfilm of GreatBritain Cabinet Papers, with funds from theCordelia Reed Library Endowment Fund;rare Spanish Civil War materials, pur-chased with funds from the George andSarah Patterson Pagels Library EndowmentFund; and several other important items.

Says Jewish Studies bibliographer KarenSchmidt, "Ours is such an interdisciplinaryarea that there is a lot to do with almostno resources. The private endowmentfunds are absolutely indispensible for usto buy primary-source research materialfor our faculty and students."

The NEH Challenge Grant Programfunds include an endowment fund createdwith federal matching funds, used forpreservation projects and to improve accessto the collections; an endowment fundcreated with individual gifts of under$10,000, and several individually namedendowment funds created during theprogram by donors contributing $10,000or more. These latter are used foracquisitions.

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"Astounding Days: From H.G. Wells' Visionto Hal's Birthday." Rare Book and SpecialCollections Library

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"Student-Community Interracial Committee,1945-55." University Archives

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"Notable Latin-American Women."Newspaper Library

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