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I Library PresentsFirst-Ever Exhibit ofIts Scholarly Treasures

For the first time in its 128-year history,the Library has mounted an extensiveexhibit of some of its most beautiful, rare,and interesting items.

The exhibit, entitled "Scholarly Treasuresof the University Library," was the out-growth of an idea suggested by theLibrary's National Advisory Committeeand took place at the University's KrannertArt Museum from October 14 to December19, 1995. It included 146 items from theRare Book and Special CollectionsLibrary, University Archives, and LincolnRoom, and took up an entire gallery onthe museum's lower level as well as a roomat the entrance to the Kinkead Pavilion.

"The Library has been known for gener-ations as the repository of scholarlytreasures that can be found at few otherinstitutions in the world," says UniversityLibrarian Robert Wedgeworth. "Thesetreasures support the teaching and researchmission of the University ... and aretangible evidence of the scope and depthof the Library's scholarly collections. Therichness hinted at here is what bringsscholars and students from all over theworld to the Library of the University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign."

The earliest item in the exhibit was per-haps the most beautiful as well-the Ordo

ad Consecrandum et Coronandum Regem etReginam Franciae, an ornately illuminatedmanuscript from 1326. The Library's copyapparently was owned by a relative ofQueen Jeanne d'Evreux of France anddocuments the ritual of the royal corona-tion. Although not used at the king'scoronation in 1322, its extensive illustra-tions and richly historiated initials present

scenes of both the king's and queen'scoronation ceremonies. The Library'smanuscript is the first to show a queen'sceremony. It is the only illuminated coro-nation manuscript in the United States.

Another world-famous rarity on dis-play was the Library's fragment of theGutenberg Bible, containing Genesisand a portion of Exodus. The black andred lettering shows how well Gutenbergmanaged to create moveable type thatmimicked almost perfectly the usual styleof books-handwritten manuscript. TheLibrary's copy is apparently among thefirst copies to come from Gutenberg'spress, since there are varying numbersof lines to each page. Later, forty-two linesto the page became the printer's standard.

Other items reflecting the Library'sworld-renowned collections of rare booksincluded a Shakespeare first folio (1623),an unusual, hand-painted emblem book(circa 1660), a first edition of Paradise Lost(1677), the first Bible printed in the NewWorld (the "Eliot Indian Bible," 1663),and many others.

Personal papers and literary collectionswere represented with hand-writtencorrespondence and typescripts by H.G.Wells, Carl Sandburg, Ernest Hemingway,John Strohm, Avery Brundage, and others.The original typesecript of James Jones'From Here to Eternity occupied its owndisplay case to accommodate the entire1,382 heavily edited pages.

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Guests at the October 13 U of I Foundation Annual Meeting attended the opening of the Library's first-ever exhibition, "ScholarlyTreasures of the University Library." The exhibition was the idea of the Library's National Advisory Committee.

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The Electronic Frontier andthe History of Books Meetin One Library Unit

On the third floor of the main librarybuilding is a library unit few visitorsthink about-the Library and InformationScience Library, the librarians' library.

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as shelvers of booksand keepers of sepul-chrally quiet rooms.What could possiblybe interesting in acollection geared tofolks like that?

Well, how aboutthe interactionsbetween humansand computers, fora start? Or perhapsthe sociology of howpeople use informa-tion? How aboutcensorship and first-amendment rights,or maybe freedomof the press in othercountries?

Librarians, of course, are the folks whocreate all those wonderful catalogs, bibli-ographies, and reference tools to help youfind the books and information you need.And they're probably the staunchest defen-ders of information privacy in the country.So it should come as no surprise that theLibrary and Information Science Libraryhas one of the most eclectic and interdis-ciplinary collections in the University

Illustration from the frontispiece of the 1909 Annuaire de laBibliothbque Nationale de Plovdiv (Bulgarie), part of theLibrary and Information Science Library's collections.

our librarians use this library veryheavily for their own research, whichpretty much dovetails with research atthe Gradaute School of Library andInformation Science.

"So, at one extreme we have someonelike Bill Mischo [head of the GraingerEngineering Library Information Center],who has worked for years on creatingmechanical ways to make computerizedinformation easier for users to use. Andat the other end are people like DonKrummel [Graduate School of Libraryand Information Science faculty member],who is interested in the history of the book."

That may sound like an odd combina-tion-books on the history of the booknestling against volumes on softwarecreation and new technologies-but that'sthe world of libraries today.

It's a far cry from what librarianship,and the Library and Information ScienceLibrary itself, used to be all about.

Back in 1893, when Katharine Sharpmoved her library school and fledglingcollection of library literature fromChicago's Armour Institute to the U of I,there was no such thing as library researchliterature. Instead, librarians solicitedbulletins, reports, annuals, and the like

from libraries around theworld.

Rounding out early collection effortswere the purchase in 1905 of the biblio-graphic library of one of the greatest namesin German education and librarianship,Karl Dziatzko (1842-1903), the beginningsof a children's book collection (whichincluded "undesirable" books for compar-ative study), and lantern slides for courseson furnishing libraries.

The resulting collection was housed in*minar" room that also contained stan-.reference and bibliographic worksdesks equipped with the tools of thee, such as pencils and a box for catalog

cards, for each student.Today, the individual desks are

gone, there are at least five majorpresses cranking out research inlibrary and information science,

d computerization has revolution-the cataloging and informationeval process beyond all recognition.ow, instead of finding just practical-to's and bibliographic works on the's shelves, patrons can find books onprocessing and software developmenthere and abroad, books for biblio-es, preservation how-to manuals, andks on typography, library architecture,book trade, freedom of the press, andens of journals dealing with librariestechnology.short, here is everything one needsork in a field whose very nature is innidst of one of the greatest revolu-s in history.t's a very interesting time to be a.rian," says Professor Stenstrom, whobeen in the business thirty-eight years.ien you've been around as long as Ie, you can remember a time whenirians and users saw a library as ae to find bits and pieces of informa-from a librarian at a desk with a bankooks behind it. Now we're mount-a lot of that very same informationhe computer. So before anothereration, probably less than ten years,kind of simple reference work willasse.Sut as information becomes increas-y electronic, it will become morecult to find certain things you neednow because the Internet is verypy. Someone needs to be able to createucture for this information and finds to retrieve it. So, there will still bee for someone, whether we call it arian or something else."nd there will still be a role for a libraryoted not only to the history of books,also the latest on the electronic

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I Director of Major GermanLibrary Delivers SixthMortenson Lecture

The advent of the so-called "informa-tion age" may be changing libraries frombook-centered to electronic-informationinstitutions, but libraries must retaintheir role as repositories of the writtencultural heritage.

That was the message delivered by Hans-Peter Geh, director of the WiirttenbergischeLandesbibliothek in Stuttgart, Germany,at the Sixth Distinguished MortensonLecture, which took place on September28. The lecture was entitled "Preservingthe Written Intellectual and CulturalHeritage: An Obsolete Task of Libraries?"

"The more the future becomes modernfor us, new and strange, the more of thepast will we have to take along-like acherished teddy bear-with us into thefuture, searching out and caring for anever-increasing number of antiquities,"Dr. Geh told the more than 150 peopleattending the lecture. "This is indeed thebook's big opportunity."

The reason, he said, is that books forma cultural memory that "preserves thefame and disgrace of mankind, a placewhere man can systematically search forthe material which he needs and whichinterests him."

According to Dr. Geh, however, the newinformation technologies cannot fulfillthis function. Because electronicallystored texts can be changed at will, theycannot preserve and store knowledge,which is necessary to the preservation ofculture. For these reasons, he said, culture

cannot be transmitted through the ageswithout libraries.

"One's intellectual liberty would berestricted if libraries were limited to thelatest up-to-date information availableand were unable to preserve the knowl-edge of earlier and present generations,"Dr. Geh said. "... There is no alternativeto the book as the central medium of ahistorically organic text."

However, Dr. Geh predicted thatknowledge in certain highly specializedscientific and technical fields will moveaway from print media, which he viewedas a positive step.

"Electronic books are not bastards,but legitimate members of the bookfamily," he noted, "especially as withina few years the distinctions betweenthe publishing of traditional books andelectronic publishing will become moreand more hazy. The backing materialshould, after all, not be the decisiveelement, in the final analysis."

Mortenson lecturer Dr. Hans-Peter Geh.

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Print copies of Dr. Geh's lecture willbe available in late spring 1996 fromthe Mortenson Center for InternationalLibrary Programs, 246J Library, 1408W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL 61801.

The Library isLooking for ...

$999.95 to purchase InternationalEncyclopedia of Business & Managementfor the Commerce Library. This six-volumework contains more than 500 entries cover-ing key aspects of business and manage-ment worldwide, making it an essentialreference tool.

$400 to purchase a color televisionwith built-in VCR for the Rare Bookand Special Collections Library. The unitowns videos on the Book of Kells, the Bookof Durrow, as well as many others, buthas no equipment for viewing them.

Funds to purchase Science Navigatoron CD-ROM for the University HighSchool Library. This electronic version ofthe McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia ofScience & Technology and McGraw-HillDictionary of Scientific and Technical Termswill enable students to conduct full-textsearches of these sources. Cost for thenetworked version is $295.

Funds to purchase the EnvironmentEncyclopedia and Directory (1st ed.) forthe Agriculture Library. This new workoffers information on current and historicalglobal issues that are central to the missionof the newly named College of Agricultural,Consumer, and Environmental Sciences.Cost is $350.

$480 to purchase a computer-desk book-shelf with doors for the Slavic and EastEuropean Library. The unit's world-famous Slavic Reference Service arealiterally has no room to keep ready-referencebooks near the work area. By having thesebooks located on shelves above their com-puters, the reference staff can significant-ly improve the speed of their service.

Funds to purchase Young People's Con-certs for the Music Library. This 25-video-tape set contains the concerts presentedby Leonard Bernstein on CBS televisionfrom 1958 through 1973. Cost is $350.

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.

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Above, illustration from the story "Wee, Wee Mannie and the Big, Big Coo," from the book My Bookhouse-In the Nursery, editedby Olive Beaupr6 Miller (1925). Below, illustration from The Junior Instructor(1916). Both are among the more than 450 books forthe new collection of historic children's books donated to the Library by the Arlington Heights Memorial Public Library.

Library ReceivesDonation of 450 HistoricChildren's Books

The Arlington Heights (Illinois)Memorial Public Library has donated itscollection of more than 450 historic chil-dren's books to the Library's Educationand Social Science Library.

The books include readers, schooltexts, series books, and works of fiction.Of the more than 300 books checked sofar by the University Library, only 50are duplicates of books already in theUniversity Library's collection of morethan 100,000 children's books.

"This collection has a lot of breadthand is much more comprehensive than Iexpected," says Nancy O'Brien, head ofthe Education and Social Science Library."It covers a good portion of children'sliterature of that time period, and it isespecially interesting for its sampling ofseries books, which libraries typicallydidn't want to collect because those booksweren't considered 'literature.'"

Among the books are seven datingfrom 1790 to 1833, including the wood-board-bound 1790 A GrammaticalInstitute of the English Language and 1827Hale's History of the United States. Othervaluable additions include a turn-of-the-century edition of The Baby's Opera, bynoted English illustrator Walter Crane, afirst edition of The Wizard of Oz, and an1866 edition of Evangeline.

From the child reader's point of view,of course, titles such as Billy Whiskers(1902), Our Young Aeroplane Scouts in theWar Zone (1918), or Honey Bunch: HerFirst Days on the Farm (1923), were justas important and just as enjoyable.

"This is enjoyable stuff!" enthusesProfessor O'Brien. "Just looking at someof the early Bobbsey Twins or Five LittlePeppers is fun." In fact, the collectionincludes the 1907 The Bobbsey Twins inthe Country and six other entries prior to1920, and the 1905 Ben Pepper from theFive Little Peppers series. Other seriesfound in the new collection includeTom Swift (1911-1929) and The Brownies(1905-1929).

According to Professor O'Brien, theArlington Heights Memorial Librarydecided to donate the books to theUniversity Library after seeing publicitytwo years ago aboutthe Library's

acquisi-tion of theCenter forResearchLibrary'scollection o

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books. The KITE, 'tUniversityLibrary's collection of more than 100,000children's books is now the largest inthe country outside the Library ofCongress.

I Quotables"I came to the U of I in the middle of

the '50s, as an athlete, of course, in footballand track. I had a lot of fun there. Andfor me, many, many years later, it feelspretty good to discuss the Library, whichwas very important to me, because itwas at the Library that I really enjoyedthe University of Illinois as opposed tobeing on the football field.

"So, if you say to me you love theUniversity of Illinois, then show me. Andthe best way to show me is to put some-thing there for a young person. And Ithink the greatest way to put somethingthere for a young person is to put itthrough the Library, because you get tomore young students by going throughthe University Library. They are there-they are eager-and all we have to do islay open more books to them. You're help-ing the University and you're helping theworld, and most of all, you've got to feelgood about yourself."

-Bobby MitchellClass of 1958Assistant General Manager,Washington Redskins

I From the UniversityLibrarian

UIUC Chancellor Michael Aiken hasrecently initiated a program, entitled "Par-tnership Illinois," to revitalize the programsand services of the University that servethe state, the nation, and the world. Thefirst stage of its development has been toconduct an inventory of activities thatserve off-campus constituencies. A sum-mary of these activities by the UniversityLibrary may be of interest to the readersof Friendscript.

During 1995 the University Library cir-culated more than 2 million items to itsusers. We answered almost 500,000 refer-ence questions, and there were more than50 million logins to our online catalog.About 60 percent of those logins seek in-formation about the contents of journals.

It may be that the most important out-reach service the University Library pro-vides is access to our online catalog.Frequently, users identify items in our on-line catalog and then use that descriptionto borrow the item from other libraries,including their own campus's library.Frequently, these are journal articles theyhave been able to identify using the index-ing and abstracting services mounted on

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our online catalog, which analyze a broadrange of scholarly and technical journals.

The Library's outreach extends through-out Illinois's extensive statewide librarynetwork. The 40 member institutions ofthe statewide Illinois Library ComputerSystem Organization (ILCSO) are theheaviest users, but libraries outside Illinoisalso frequently identify items that theyneed. Other heavy users are those institu-tions using ILLINET Online, which is thestatewide network serving all of theapproximately 2,300 Illinois libraries ofvarious sizes and types, libraries at the BigTen universities comprising the Center forInstitutional Cooperation, and a numberof libraries outside the United States whoare reliable interlibrary loan partners.

The University Library also deliverssignificant services to off-campus usersthrough special projects. The IllinoisResearcher Information Service (IRIS)came to the Library in 1994 and has sincebeen reorganized and upgraded to provideonline access to information on researchgrant sources. Although it is primarilyintended for the UIUC community, thereare over 120 subscriber institutions that

make ttis resource available to their cam-puses. In addition, it is licensed to otherdatabase providers who provide a portionof its services to their subscribers. In 1996a World Wide Web version of the servicewill be available by subscription.

The office of the American Bibliographyof Slavic and East European Studies(ABSEES) came to the University Libraryin 1991. An electronic version, which isaccessible through the Internet, is nowavailable, giving access to more than26,000 records from 1990. It will be offeredon a subscription basis to off-campus usersbeginning in 1996.

The Kolb-Proust Archive for Researchis, perhaps, a model of digital researchfiles that will be developed in the future.Based on the research notes of the lateProfessor Phillip Kolb, this archive supple-ments the 21-volume set of analyzedcorrespondence that Professor Kolb pub-lished with Plon (Paris) before his deathin 1992. It brings together in a digital fileinformation about the persons with whomProust corresponded, including photos,bibliographies, and other related material.It is being developed in cooperation withthe French department as a resource forteaching and research.

The C. Walter and Gerda B. MortensonCenter for International Library Programs,established in 1990, is the largest interna-tional exchange program on the Urbanacampus. Since 1993 it has hosted more

than 143 foreign librarians from 43 coun-tries. Participants come to the Universityfor stays ranging from 3 months to a year,engaging in a series of programs intendedto orient them to the workings of a moderU.S. academic library. They work withLibrary faculty, attend courses at theUniversity, and they visit other librariesin the U.S. In its short history the Morten-son Center has quickly gained an interna-tional reputation for excellence. It isfrequently called upon by the U.S. StateDepartment to provide orientationprograms to visiting foreign librarianssponsored by that agency.

Clearly, the University Library is a majorcontributor to the services that comprisePartnership Illinois. With the additionalsupport that will be forthcoming from"Campaign Illinois," we expect to expandthe development of specialized servicesfor the campus as well as for other inter-ested students and scholars.

-Robert Wedgeworth

Unusual PurchaseProvides Rare Glimpse of19th-Century North Carolina

The Library has purchased an unusualcollection of seventy-two postcards andfour letters that are shedding light on whateducation was like for white and blackchildren in North Carolina during the 1890s.

The items come from U of I employee

One of the 72 postcards recently acquired by the Library'sAfro-Americana Bibliographic Unit.

Randy Wilkey, a stamp collector who foundthe items in a box of miscellanea he hadpurchased several years ago from anotherstamp collector in North Carolina.

The postcards functioned as attendencesheets to be sent to the county educationcommissioner, listing how many studentswere in attendence, the race of the stu-dents, and information about the facilitiesor community happenings.

"These postcards are just wonderfulbecause of all the hidden details they pro-vide," enthuses Valinda Littlefield, a Ph.D.candidate in history at the U of I who isstudying the history of black female schoolteachers in the South during that period.

"For instance, one card from a blackteacher has the comment 'Closed schooldown, went to revival.' That tells you theamount of freedom these schools had. Onthe negative side, maybe they could dowhat they wanted because no one reallycared, but on the positive side, it showsthe importance of religion to blacks."

Other important details include thenumber of students per teacher, requestsfor supplies, and comments on the schoolfacilities themselves.

"One black woman writes that she'sdoing the best she can for her drab school,"notes Ms. Littlefield. "To say they weredrab is an understatement. In the 1890s inNorth Carolina, statistics from one countyshow that white schools were at least inframe buildings, but the black ones weremostly in log cabins. So, we're talking aboutlog benches, cracks in the ceiling, no win-dows. After all, the South was poor, therewere two educational systems, and the

money was not going to the black system."The four letters, all written to the same

county education commission, also shedlight on the social status of women.

"In one letter, the woman writing theletter thanks the commission for her posi-tion and states that her father will be com-ing to see them on her behalf," explains Ms.Littlefield. "That in itself tells me this is awhite woman writing. At that time, blackwomen normally would go themselvesto address a committee because it wouldhave been considered 'uppity' of a blackman to do so. So, black women had acertain measure of independence.

"For white women, however, it was ex-pected that her father, a brother, or someother male relative would do the talking.This was a sort of control mechanism to

keep her in her place-you would not beseen as a proper Southern lady if you askedfor something on your own. So, it's won-derful little things like this that these

postcards and letters provide."

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I he French coronation manuscript, Ordo ad Consecrandum et Coronandum Regem et Reginam Franciae (1326), sits open onits wraparound case. This was one of the many Library treasures displayed at the recent museum exhibition.

Treasures Exhibition(cont'd from page 1)

SFrom the University Archives also camedisplays on Joseph Tykociner (inventorof sound on film), two-time Nobel Prizewinner John Bardeen, John Philip Sousa,the Third Armored Division, W. McNeilLowry, student life and culture since1867, and much more.

According to Krannert Art MuseumDirector Maarten van de Guchte, theexhibit drew a large number of visitorsduring its two-month run.

"This exhibit has been a real eye-openerfor many, many people," enthuses Professorvan de Guchte. "For students in particu-lar, who have a sort of fear of entering arare book room, the opportunity to see aShakespeare first folio, for instance, madea big difference."

Based on the extraordinary amount ofinterest shown by visitors to the exhibit,he says, "The museum definitely hopes tocontinue this partnership in organizingexhibits of Library materials."

The Library has produced an exhibitcatalog, written by Rare Book and SpecialCollections Library head Nancy Romeroand U of I English Professor GeorgeHendrick, describing the highlights ofthe exhibit. Professor Hendrick is alsoSpecial Curator for Special Collections.The text describes in detail some of theLibrary's most important specialcollections.

The catalog's thirty-six large, full-colorreproductions are as true to the originalsas possible, providing a tremendous feelfor the originals because of their size and

clarity of detail. Among the reproductionsare the French coronation manuscript,the Gutenberg Bible, rare 1936 Olympicphotographs by Leni Riefenstahl, andstriking art from the Spanish Civil War.

Catalogs may be purchased for $25 (in-cludes handling and postage) from theLibrary Office of Development and PublicAffairs, 1408 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL61801, or call (217) 333-5682.

Libraru and Follett Corn-- rStart Digital Imaging Project

The University Library and FollettCorporation have joined forces to exper-iment in the creation of two educationaldigital imaging projects using materialsfrom the Library's collections.

The first project is the creation of a proto-type CD-ROM catalog of images and des-criptive information from the Library'sMotley Collection of theater and costumedesign. The second is the creation of a CD-ROM-based teaching tool using historicalmaps of Illinois drawn from the Library'sMap and Geography Library.

"This collaboration with Follett is impor-tant to the Library in that it is helping usdevelop experience in the creation and useof digitized files of information of manydifferent types," says University LibrarianRobert Wedgeworth.

"A lot of research and development isneeded before we can realize what isloosely called the digital library. These pro-jects with Follett will help us look at theproblems and opportunities associated

with converting certain types of informa-tion into digitized form."

Adds Follett Corporation's director ofstrategic planning, Jeff Blumenthal, "Aswe look ahead to the future of education,we see a great move to electronic forms ofcommunication. Our research indicatesthat research libraries in higher educationhave certain intellectual properties thatmay have a commercial value outside thestraightforward teaching mission of theuniversity."

"... This experience will give us anidea of what's involved with workingwith an educational institution, with therights involved, and with what it is liketo actually photograph material andconvert it into digital form."

To that end, librarians will be joinedin the project by various experts fromFollett Corporation, including an on-sitecoordinator, software developers, curricu-lum and textbook design specialists, andmarket researchers.

According to the Library's projectdirector, Beth Sandore, the Motley projectwill be designed to provide not only theimages of the various costumes and theirdescriptions, but also related informationconcerning each production, includingthe date of the production, the actor, andrelevant historical information about theproduction or costume itself. It will begeared to professors and students of theaterand costume design, as well as libraries,at the college and university level.

Working on the project will be bothlibrarians and members of the U of I'sEnglish and theater departments.

The Illinois map project, however, willbe designed as a curriculum tool for high-school audiences.

'The idea is to look at Illinois as perceivedas far back as we could reach, right up tothe present," says Professor Sandore. "Wewant to take a chronological view of a sliceof Illinois history-not just the geographicalboundaries that we're used to, but alsomaps of wetlands, rivers, political bound-aries, and railroad and highway develop-ment. We then will put in links betweenthe maps, different kinds of text, andpossibly photographs so that, for instance,you could hypothetically take a small Illi-nois town during the Mississippi Riverflood of 1993 and trace it back over a periodof 150 years to the point in time whenpeople decided to settle on the flood plain."

Joining librarians on this project willbe members of the U of I's Departmentof Geography and University HighSchool, and members of the IllinoisNatural History Survey.

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Work on the project should be com-pleted in 1996, and the prototypes willbe available for use on the U of I campus.The university also has given FollettCorporation the right to use the imagesfor purposes of test-marketing.

"We will know within six months ofhaving these projects completed as towhether there is a market demand," saysChristopher Traut, Follett Corporation'sdirector for corporate development. "Thereis a lot of hype about education usingCD-ROMs and online sources. What wewant to know is, in reality, how will theyreally be used in the curriculum?"

Follett Corporation has already receivedsome interest in the Motley project fromseveral universities with theater designand drama departments, adds Mr. Traut.For the map project, the company plansto approach some of the Illinois customersof its subsidiary companies dealing withthe K-12 library market.

"If there's a big demand," says Mr.Blumenthal, "then we would look intoputting together a commercial ventureto produce and sell such products, andpay a royalty to the University of Illinois."

Library Friends will be sponsoringa lecture/demonstration on April 23(which is Shakespeare's birthday) aboutthe Library's Design by Motley Collectionand the Motley portion of the Follett

Alexandra Jack as "Mustardseed" for a 1954 RoyalShakespeare Theatre production of A Midsummer Night'sDream, one of the images digitized for the FollettCorporation project.

Corporation digitization project. U of IEnglish Professor Michael Mullin, authorof Design by Motley, will describe andinterpret the work of the three womenwho were "Motley," and how the Librarycame to acquire their designs. ProfessorSandore will describe the digitizationproject. Featured will be the originalMotley designs themselves.

Library Book AuctionCatalogs Now Available

It's only two months until the Library'supcoming book auction on March 30,and catalogs are now available for $6 (ifsent fourth-class) or $8 (if sent first-class)from the Library Office of Developmentand Public Affairs, 227 Library, 1408 W.Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL, 61801.

The catalog provides annotations foreach of the 375 lots of approximately600 books available for auction. Theseinclude works in virtually every fieldof interest, including many first editions.The fields of literature, travel/explora-tion, and Americana are particularlywell-represented.

Bids will be accepted both by mail andin person. For those attending in person,all lots will be available for viewing themorning of the auction; the auction itselfwill take place in the afternoon in IlliniUnion rooms A, B, and C.

Successful bidders will be notified eitherby mail or in person. Those paying fortheir items in person may take them homeimmediately; those paying by mail willreceive their books after payment of an in-voice, which will include shipping charges.

The cost for each catalog is $6, whichcovers the cost of printing and postage.

Anyone interested in travel and explo-ration, literature, Illinois and Americanhistory, theater, art, religion, and manyother subjects will find something ofinterest in the auction.

The list of first editions by famousauthors alone is noteworthy-WashingtonIrving's Oliver Goldsmith (1849); GeorgeBernard Shaw's The Intelligent Woman'sGuide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928);Charles Dickens' Bleak House (1853), LittleDorrit (1857), The Life of Martin Chuzzlewit(1844) and The Life and Adventures ofNicholas Nickleby (1839), both with illustra-tions by Phiz; Harriet Beecher Stowe'sUncle Tom's Cabin (1852) and A Key toUncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the originalfacts and documents ... (1853); several firsteditions of works by Louisa May Alcott;and many others.

Emblem from Lot #82, The Heart of Man... (1822), one ofthe approximately 600 books available for auction March 30.

Although not a first edition, the auctionalso contains a beautiful 1732 edition ofSamuel Butler's Hudibras with illustrationsby William Hogarth.

For those with a yen for travel, thereare many works from the nineteenth cen-tury, from Karl Baedeker's handbooks forvarious European countries to the diariesof explorers. For instance, there are severalworks dealing with early exploration ofthe Arctic, including the beautifully illus-trated Journal of a Second Voyage for theDiscovery of a North-west Passage from theAtlantic to the Pacific... by Captian WilliamEdward Parry (1821-22).

Historians may find other entries justas interesting, such as Carlo GiuseppeGuglielmo Botta's 1809 History of the Warof the Independence of the United States ofAmerica in an 1839 English translation,and much more. For Civil War buffs inparticular, there are gems such as HintonRowan Helper's The Impending Crisis ofthe South: How to Meet It (1857) and theLife and Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J.Jackson by Jackson's staff member RobertLewis Dabney (1866).

Many of the books in the auction wereobviously well-loved and well-read-inother words, the bindings may be wornor ripped, and the pages may be dog-eared-but many others are in finecondition. Defects in any item are notedin each catalog entry.

We hope you'll join us for this first-ever auction on March 30!

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February

"Milestones in Illini Publishing."University Archives

"The African World." Main Corridorand Mueller Exhibit Case

"Henry Purcell." Rare Book and SpecialCollections Library

"1895-1995: 100 Years of CinemaMasterpieces on Video." UndergraduateLibrary Media Center

March

"American Library Association Abroad:International Librarianship."University Archives

"Henry Purcell." Rare Book and SpecialCollections Library

"The Women's Club Movement and it'sContribution to Public Libraries." MainCorridor

April

"American Library Association Abroad:International Librarianship."University Archives

"Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the LibraryResearch and Publications Committee."Main Corridor and Mueller Exhibit Case

"Asian Library." Main Corridor

SPECIAL EVENT

April 23, 1996, 5-7 p.m. Reception andlecture/demonstration by U of I profes-sors Michael Mullin and Beth Sandoreon "Design by Motley: The Formation,Growth, and Digitization of the MotleySet and Costume Design Collection, 1976-1996." West Gallery, Grainger EngineeringLibrary Information Center, 1301 W.Springfield Ave., Urbana.

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