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I Library Friends Receives$1 Million Bequest forChallenge Grant

Library Friends has received a gift ofmore than $1 million to help meet the $3 mil-lion goal of the National Endowment forthe Humanities challenge grant.

The gift, from the estate of George F.and Edna Brown Titus of Falls Church,VA, forms the new George F. and EdnaBrown Titus Endowment.

"The Titus gift means so much to all ofus," says University Librarian DavidBishop. "It will provide substantialsupport for our humanities collections, ithas given the NEH challenge grant amajor boost, and it has demonstratedagain the commitment of our Friends forthe Library and for the University ofIllinois."

Mrs. Titus, a charter member of LibraryFriends, was best known by librariansworldwide as the editor of the massivethird edition of the Union List of Serials,published in 1965. This is still consideredthe standard reference tool for locatingperiodicals published before 1950.

Although the work is now regularlyupdated to reflect new publications since1950, the third edition itself has neverbeen superseded.

In editing the work, Mrs. Titus and herstaff investigated approximately onemillion entries for inclusion. Eventually,the list was winnowed down to the final226,987 entries, of which 70,538 werecross-references-all without the aid ofcomputers.

After editorial work was completed, thecopy was shipped to London in ninetrunks, as part of Mrs. Titus's personalbaggage, in order to take advantage of anew "abstracting" method of photocopy-ing available only in Great Britain. Oncethere, Mrs. Titus oversaw proofreadingand production of the work.

"This is the source for locating backfilesof journals," says Martha Landis, theLibrary's senior reference librarian. "It isthe only work that gives a completedescription of all the changes in journaltitles, all the ins and outs of name changesof the various European academies thatpublished journals, and gives specifics asto what volumes and issues a libraryactually has. It's just invaluable."

Mrs. Titus received a B.S. degree fromPurdue University in 1926. She thenearned both a B.S. (1928) and M.S. (1930)in library science from the UI and was acataloguer at the UI Library from 1926 to1930 and from 1931 to 1942.

From 1942 until she was appointededitor of the Union List of Serials in 1959,she was the head of the serials section ofthe Library of Congress's descriptivecataloging division.

While at the UI, Mrs. Titus alreadyshowed the outstanding qualities thatserved her so well in later years. As onecolleague wrote about her in 1942, "Shehas the will power, the drive, and the

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intelligence to accomplish what she setsout to do . . . She has a fine imaginationand unusual resourcefulness."

Mr. Titus, who died in 1987, was oneof the "bright young men" brought intogovernment by President FranklinRoosevelt. In his first government post,from 1934 to 1935, he was accountant-in-charge at the New York office of theAgricultural Adjustment Administrationwhen the government was conducting aninvestigation of the live poultry industryin New York. Based on his personal auditof one suspect company, the governmentwas able to obtain a conviction. He alsoheld several important auditing postsduring World War II related to Navalrearmament and procurement.

After the war, Mr. Titus was civilianhead of the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyardfiscal department and auditor-analyst forthe government banking entity for theMarshall Plan. By the time he retired in1963, he was one of the top internalauditor-analysts of the Treasury Depart-ment.

According to his nephew, GeorgeBetts, however, Mr. Titus's greatestaccomplishment was his marriage toEdna Brown in 1962.

"There comes a time when that kind ofaffiliation and sense of being is moreimportant than anything else," says Mr.Betts, a retired professor of politicalscience at Kent State University. "Theytook their time before they got married,but they were incredibly supportive ofeach other, and very happy and content."

Although Mr. Titus had no connectionsto the UI (he earned degrees from theUniversity of Oklahoma, ColumbiaUniversity, and Yale University), Mr.Betts says the gift from both George andEdna Titus is not entirely surprising.

"She always had an interest in the UILibrary-it was always very close to her,"remembers Mr. Betts. "And my uncle, inmany ways, was a student all his life.

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Unique Harp MusicCollection Finds Homeat Music LibraryNoted art historian Roslyn Rensch hasspent a lifetime playing the harp andstudying the harp as depicted in art.

Now, she has donated the bulk of herpersonal collection of music, journals,recordings, notes, and books to the MusicLibrary to form the Roslyn Rensch HarpCollection of music and resources on theharp and harpists.

"This is really a one-of-a-kind collec-tion," says Music Librarian WilliamMcClellan, "because gathered in oneplace are Dr. Rensch's notes and booksas well as material that would have beenscattered all over the country. Having allthese resources in one library collectionwill be a great convenience for research-ers."

Included in the new collection are morethan 900 items, including severalhundred editions of nineteenth- andtwentieth-century harp music, harpmakers' brochures, harp journals from asfar away as New Zealand, a signed andannotated copy of Robert BruceArmstrong's two-volume MusicalInstruments (1904), 110 books, and 150sound recordings of folk, classical, andpopular music performed by such artistsas Lily Laskine, Henriette Renie, CarlosSalzedo, and others.

Also included are the research files andcompilations of photographs and picturesof harps used by Dr. Rensch to write threemajor books on the history of the harpand harpists.

Harp decorated with roses, thistles, and lilies, symbolicalof England, Scotland, and France.

In addition, Dr. Rensch has donated aCarrara marble statue of a figure playingan ancient Egyptian harp and a nineteenthcentury Egan royal portable harp made inDublin.

Of particular interest to performers andresearchers alike may be a collection ofharp arrangements of favorite songs andoperatic arias, method books, and etudesonce belonging to Emma Weast Bichl, aChicago-area harpist in the latenineteenth and early twentieth centuries."This collection is valuable as an exampleof what harpists had access to around1900," says Dr. Rensch.

Dr. Rensch's interest in harps camenaturally, since she is the daughter ofChicago harpist Maria Damm Rensch.She played harp professionally in theChicago area for several years and earneda bachelor's and master's degree in musicfrom Northwestern University.

Then, one summer, she attended acourse given by Curt Sachs, renownedlecturer on the history of musicalinstruments, at Northwestern University.

"That was the turning point for me,"recalls Dr. Rensch. "I got so intrigued thatI decided to go back to to school for adoctorate in musicology."

She started doctoral work in musicologyat Indiana University, but found thatmusicology alone could not help herpursuit of information on artisticrepresentations of the harp.

"The earliest extant examples of theharp in art come from the fifteenthcentury," explains Dr. Rensch. "Prior tothat, we only have very vague informationas to what the harp looked like. Manyrepresentations are symbolic, but someare realistic. I needed an art historybackground to explain what I was lookingat."

So, after teaching harp at Illinois from1955 to 1958, she entered Illinois' arthistory program, earning an M.S. in arthistory in 1959. In 1964, she received herPh.D. in art history from the Universityof Wisconsin.

From 1965 to 1988, she was professorof humanities and art history at IndianaState University in Terre Haute, as wellas that university's harp teacher.

She has returned several times to theUniversity of Illinois to do research fortwo of her books.

"Having lived in the midwest whilewriting my own harp books and articles,I know 'first hand' how one must travelto libraries and museums on the east andwest coasts, as well as in Europe, to doany serious research on this subject," saysDr. Rensch. "In establishing mycollection at the University of Illinois, Ihope to make at least some informationon harps and harpists more accessible toembryo scholars and researchers in thisarea."

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I Library is New Home toFrom Here to EternityManuscript

"It is not clear to me how anyoneseriously concerned with fiction couldpraise this novel as extravagantly as it hasbeen praised. The prose alone shouldmake it impossible to take it veryseriously," wrote Nation book reviewerErnest Jones about From Here to Eternityin 1951.

". a slovenly, ferociousbook . . . from a man who has somethingto say and wants very desperately to sayit," added John Lardiner of The NewYorker.

Despite what critics had to say, FromHere to Eternity is now considered one ofthe greatest war novels ever written, yetit has never been available in its original,uncensored form.

Now, however, scholars can see whatauthor James Jones really wrote. Usingmoney from the E. Kenneth GrayEndowment Fund, the UI Library hasbecome the owner of Mr. Jones's originalmanuscript, complete with the manyhandwritten changes made at the requestof his publisher's censors.

In addition, UI English ProfessorGeorge Hendrick has donated a signedpresentation edition of the book and acopy of Mr. James's second novel, SomeCame Running, both from the library ofMr. Jones. They were given to ProfessorHendrick by Mr. Jones's widow, GloriaMosolino Jones.

The acquisitions coincide with thepublication of Professor Hendrick's latestbook, To Reach Eternity: The Letters of JamesJones, published this year by RandomHouse.

"It's one of these curious things,"muses Professor Hendrick. "I knew thatJones was born not far from here(Robinson, IL), and since I regularlytalked about his novels in my course onthe novel, I decided to get in touch withhis widow to see if anyone was workingon his letters."

After meeting Mrs. Jones and obtainingher permission to do the work, he beganfollowing a paper trail that led him to

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libraries at Yale, Princeton, the Universityof Texas, and Sangamon State University.

The letters revealed not only manyaspects about Mr. Jones's life thatprevious biographers had not known, butalso clues to the whereabouts of the FromHere to Eternity manuscript.

"When Jones came back from the warin the South Pacific," explains ProfessorHendrick, "he was wounded and interrible psychological condition. Hisparents had died, and his aunt took himto see Lowney Handy, a woman of 'goodworks' who took in pregnant women andex-prisoners and the like.

"She was also an aspiring writerherself, who never managed to getanything published, but she was

interested in working with young peoplewho wanted to be writers. She becamehis mentor."

The relationship was intense. Mrs.Handy's method involved havingaspiring writers type out the works ofother authors and having them readprescribed works of fiction. Under thisstrict regimen, Mr. Jones flourished.

After the publication of From Here toEternity, as his letters indicate, he gaveher the original manuscript, with thestipulation that it be returned to himwhen she died.

After several years, however, he beganto chafe under the austere regimenprescribed by Mrs. Handy. During a tripto his publisher in New York in 1956, hemet and later married Gloria Mosolino.The marriage led to a complete break withMrs. Handy.

When Mrs. Handy died several yearslater, her will made no mention of herpromise to return the manuscript, and themanuscript languished in a family bankvault until the Library purchased it in1989.

Why the longtime lack of interest in awriter whose work won such acclaim?

"James Jones has been out of favor,"explains Professor Hendrick. "He wasaccused of not being a stylist, of havinga ponderous style, of having a blue-collarmentality, for trying to write popular

some way. If she would only consent to be nice to the old duffer, itmight mean the majority even if the squad lost, this year or next. Hedidnt want her to sleep with him or anything like that. Just be niceto him.

Walking out the truck entrance he returned the salutes of severalprivates coming from the PX without seeing them, and crossed thestreet to the house.

CHAPTER 6

KAREN HOLMES was absorbed in the brushing of her long blondehair when she heard the back door slam and the heavy tread ofHolmes across the kitchen floor.

She had been brushing it now almost an hour, rapt in the purelysensual pleasure of it that required no thought, free for once in thisthat did not make her think of freedom, alive to these long goldenhairs that singly and in masses curved themselves about the stiff longbristles of the brush, until it had, as she desired, entranced her, awayfrom all of it. Away where nothing else existed but this mirror inwhich she saw the rhythm of this moving arm that was herself.

That was why she loved to brush her hair so. She loved to cook,too; for the same reason. She was an excellent cook, when she feltlike it. She also read voraciously. She could even enjoy the poor books,when she had to. She was not, accurately, of the stuff from which anArmy wife is made.

The slamming door broke the rapture, and she found that she wasstaring into the eyes of her own deathmask, pale and wan with allthe blood sucked out by a modern vampire called Embalmer, leavingonly the gashed bloody wound that was her lipsticked mouth. It wasurging her to hurry up and find the thing.

Leave me, Mask, she said at it.If, replied the Mask, you shrink from evil when its cloak is flung

upon your shoulders, the more closely will it wrap its suffocatingfolds around you.

She laid aside the brush and covered with her hands the face thathaunted her most of all with its futility of emptiness, hearing thefootsteps of Military Doom coming swift across the dining room.

Holmes barged into the room, his hat still on his head."Oh," he said, guiltily. "Hello. I didnt know you were home. I

just came in to change my uniform."

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books. After he wrote The Thin Red Line(the second book of his war trilogy),almost every novel he wrote was bitterlyattacked by the majority of critics,although most of them continued to sellvery well. Recently, though, critics haveresponded more favorably to the novelsthey once denigrated."

The reading public was shocked by Mr.Jones's unvarnished view of life in thepeacetime Army just before Pearl Harbor,with its gutter language and illicit sexualconduct. They would have been stunned,however, had they been able to read whatthe author originally wrote.

"You think I put those things inarbitrarily, just for simple shock value.But it isn't that," wrote Mr. Jones to hiseditor in 1951. "You see, you were anofficer. Officers are inclined to be a littlemore polite about such things . . . I dontcare if anybody thinks I'm a dirty writer.Maybe I am. After all, I've only myAmerican background and training topattern after."

Scribner's thought otherwise, insistingon extensive cuts and revisions. In fact,neither Scribner's nor any other publisherhas ever produced an unexpurgatededition of the book. "I think they wouldfind that the original is even better thanthe version that was published," saysProfessor Hendrick.

Sports, Health, andWellness the Focus ofApplied Life Studies Library

What do Little Leaguers, gerontologyspecialists, and Olympics fans have incommon?

They all can find information abouttheir interests at the UI's Applied LifeStudies Library.

As the unit responsible for collectingmaterials to support the curricula of thedepartments of Kinesiology (formerlyPhysical Education), Health and SafetyStudies, Leisure Studies, the Division ofRehabilitation Education Services, theInstitute for Research on HumanDevelopment, and Dance, the AppliedLife Studies Library has everything fromrule books for virtually every sport toinformation on independent living for thedisabled.

The unit is one of only two libraries inthe country devoted exclusively to theseareas.

"It may not seemglance, but all thesements in the CollegeApplied Life Studiesare interrelated inthat they all dealwith some as-pect of healthand wellness,"explains librar-ian PatriciaMcCandless."So, our col-lection is de-veloping athrust on ma-terials dealingwith lifespans, well-ness, and fitness frobirth to old age."

Given its start as the libraryof what used to be known as theCollege of Physical Education, it's notsurprising that the unit's strongestholdings deal with sports and games.Here, players of any sport from LittleLeague baseball to professional footballcan find not only all the rules, but eventhe size of the playing field and regula-tions regarding equipment.

More interested in games? The libraryhas a unique index listing the rules forhundreds of games, from simplebean-bag races to obscure ones likerailroad euchre and Red River ValleyQuadrille.

According to Ms. McCandless,however, "physical education" haschanged a lot since the unit was foundedin 1949, and the collection reflects thatchange.

"When we started, the emphasis wasmore on teaching skills and coaching aspart of a school curriculum," sheexplains. "Now, there are two facets-asocial-science one that deals withteaching, sports psychology, andsociology, and a basic-science one thatdeals with motor control, motor develop-ment, and sports medicine."

This link between sports and medicinespills over into the unit's holdings on suchtopics as therapeutic recreation for theelderly, and adapted recreation andindependent living for the disabled.

Since most sports participation oftentakes place at a park, the unit also holdsa wealth of information on park andrecreation planning.

"We get all sorts of inquiries in thisfield," says Ms. McCandless. "We haveinformation to help people interested inturning strip mines into recreation areas,turning abandoned railroad beds intohiking and biking trails, and userbehavior in park and recreation areas. Weeven have camp directories and national

mation."ng with the emphasishealth and wellness,the unit also holds

material for theDepartment of

Health andSafety Stud-ies, focusingprimarily onepidemiol-ogy, plan-

ning, educa-tion, finance,

and admini-stration of healthprograms and

facilities.

Design for the gold medal from the 1936 winter Olympicsfrom Olympia 1936, part of the Avery Brundage Collection.

Last spring, the unit also undertook asurvey of the Library's holdings ongerontology in order to fill in any gaps."Many units in the Library collect in thisarea, which is a great interest for many ofour college's departments," explains Ms.McCandless, "so we were pleased to beable to acquire these materials."

The Applied Life Studies Librarydoesn't just have cut-and-dried researchmaterials, however. It is also home to partof the Library's unique Avery Brundagecollection on the Olympics.

Mr. Brundage, an Olympic athlete, alsowas president of the U.S. OlympicAssociation from 1929 to 1933 and

president of the International OlympicCommittee from 1952 to 1972.

After his death in 1975, his personalpapers and books were given to theUniversity Archives, which then movedhis books to the Applied Life StudiesLibrary. "Scholars tell us that Mr.Brundage had more information than theInternational Olympic Committee inSwitzerland had, in terms of the wholepackage," says Ms. McCandless. "TheArchives, for instance, has a complete runof programs from the first modemOlympics to the most recent."

Among the books in the Applied LifeStudies Library are official reports fromhost cities, promotional materials forevery Olympics, and many beautifulbooks presented to Mr. Brundage thatmay or may not have any relationship tothe Olympics, such as a facsimile of amedieval sky atlas.

Two outstanding items in the unit'sBrundage collection are Olympia 1936, atwo-volume work with photographsindividually pasted in that provides ahistory of the Olympic movement andbiographies of top athletes and teamsparticipating in the 1936 Olympics; andSchinheit im Olympischen Kampf, acompilation of action photographs fromthe 1936 Olympics by noted Germanfilmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, whoautographed this copy.

No wonder Ms. McCandless and herstaff think nothing of fielding referencequestions ranging from Olympics togerontology. The range, she says, keepsher on her toes.

"We even got one request through apublic library about some golf clubs a maninherited," she remembers with a laugh."It seems the clubs had a name on themthat was not instantly recognizable, andthe owner thought they might havebelonged to a famous golfer.

"So, we went through all the golfdirectories for players with that name,and we dug into all the historicalinformation we had. We finally discov-ered the name was a division ofSpaulding, the sports manufacturer."

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"I remember late in my high schoolcareer, he would send me four or fivebooks a month to read-Tolstoy,Dostoevski, things I wouldn't have readotherwise. That was the real beginning ofmy university career.

"So, he was in many ways extraordi-nary, and it sort of explains why he andhis wife would want to leave their estateto you. It was their way of forming anongoing, permanent treasure of a sort."

I Second Mortenson FellowVisits Library

The Library hosted its second Morten-son Fellow last June with the month-longvisit of Brazilian librarian Claudia Balby.

Ms. Balby, a librarian at the Universityof Sao Paulo's School of Arts andCommunications, spent the monthlearning about computer applications forvarious library functions and collectingcopies of documents to take back to herhome institution.

"I had not really heard of the Universityof Illinois before I came, and I was reallysurprised by the size of your collection,"said Ms. Balby during her visit.

While here, Ms. Balby principallyconducted research on the state of expertsystems applications, or "intelligentmachines," for library services and ondeveloping systems for computerizedretrieval of fiction that go beyond theusual author-title points of access. "Ifound references to things in yourengineering library that I never wouldhave found in Brazil," she said.

In addition, she visited the university'sMicro Resources Center, where she wasable to make copies of public-domainsoftware for developing expert systemsapplications. "These alone are worth thewhole trip because they are completelyunavailable in Brazil," she added.

The Library's ability to supportextensive research especially impressedMs. Balby. "I feel so pampered here," shesaid. "You've certainly gotten to a pointwe haven't been able to reach yet, withan integrated structure to supportresearch and a budget commitment tomatch.

"And I was surprised at the size of youruniversity, compared with the size of thecity and your geographical location. Brazilis huge, but it's still a coastal civilization-everything civilized is near the coasts. So,I was surprised to find an institution ofsuch importance in the interior of yourcountry. That's not very common inBrazil."

Ms. Balby's full report of her visitappears in the 1989 Library FriendsAnnual Report.

Claudia Balby

/1Russian war bond advertisements, ca. 1915.From The Blackwell Encyclopedia ofthe Russian Revolution, donated byDr. William W. Loveti, Jr. through the Libraryis Looking For. . . column.

Asian Library to ReceiveBooks through NewExchange Program

The Asian Library will be one of thebeneficiaries of a new, five-year exchangeprogram between the University ofIllinois and Tamkang University inTaiwan.

The program, under the auspices hereof the political science department, callsnot only for faculty and student ex-changes, but also for building librarycollections at both universities.

For the Asian Library, that means$4,000 per year to purchase books on anysubject, provided the books are publishedin Taiwan. At Tamkang University, asimilar amount will be used to purchasebooks on American studies.

According to both William Wong, headof the Asian Library, and George Yu,chair of the political science departmentand coordinator of the new program, theagreement came about through theinterest of UI alumnus Clement Chang(M.S. '52, Ed.D '81). Dr. Chang ischairman of Tamkang University's boardof trustees and a major political figure inTaiwan.

Explains Professor Yu, "He wasinterested in trying to do something forhis old school, so we worked out aprogram on our side to help Chinesestudents, and on their side to help buildAmerican studies."

The agreement was signed in March byChancellor Morton W. Weir during a visitto Taiwan.

Some Bequests are EligibleGifts for NEH ChallengeGrant

If you are considering a gift to help theLibrary with the NEH Challenge Grant,you should know that many differentcontributions meet the federal matchingrequirements. They include gifts of cash,pledges to be paid in cash within the grantperiod (July 31, 1991), nonfederal grants,gifts of marketable securities, deferred orplanned gifts, such as a gift annuity,pooled income trust, and/or a charitableremainder unitrust.

The remainder value of an estatebequest may also be eligible for federalmatching for the Challenge Grant. Thevalue is based on the life expectancy ofthe donor, in accordance with standardIRS principles for evaluation. In this case,specific language regarding the ChallengeGrant is needed if your will is drafted orrevised during the grant period, as wellas a statement of irrevocable bequestsigned by the donor. For Illinoisresidents, according to our legal counsel,such a statement is enforceable accordingto Illinois law. Residents outside Illinoisshould consult their attorneys aboutenforceability of such statements in otherstates.

For more information on bequesteligibility, please contact Joan Hood,director of development and publicaffairs, at 227 Library, 1408 W. GregoryDr., Urbana, IL 61801 (217-333-5682).

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Francis G. Obenchain's map of the Battle of Lynchburg.The "x" shows where he found Captain Douthat.

Civil War Letters ShedNew Light on VirginiaRegiment

It may have taken 125 years, but theCivil War record of Virginia's BotetourtArtillery has finally been cleared up,thanks to a new collection donated to theIllinois Historical Survey.

The collection is the Francis G.Obenchain Papers, donated last April byRobin Symons, a descendant of Mr.Obenchain, and her husband, Ralph (B.S.'55). Included among the papers are manyletters sent by and to Mr. Obenchainabout the Botetourt Artillery's actions,battlefield maps, blueprints, manuscriptdrafts, and genealogical information.

"This collection will certainly be usefulfor anybody doing Civil War history,"says Ken Noe, a doctoral student in CivilWar history, who processed the collec-tion. "The Obenchain papers pretty muchcontradict much of what has been writtenup to now about the unit."

The Botetourt Artillery had thedistinction of being the only Virginia unitto fight in the Vicksburg campaign of1863. Mr. Obenchain, though only 20years old, served as the unit's temporarycommander at the time. Most of the unitwas captured during the campaign, butlater the soldiers were paroled andreturned to fight in Virginia in 1864.

"Mr. Obenchain was very embarrassed,even ashamed, of the condition of his unitafter Vicksburg," says Mr. Noe.

"One of the first things they wereassigned to do was to protect a major railline in Virginia-the major supply line forfood from the South to Lee's army. Thiswas also one of the first things Grant

Douthat had returned to behind thetraverse. One of the two officers came upand said, 'That man ought to becourt-martialed for cowardice.' "

Captain Douthat, based on his ownaccounts, went on to become a local hero.

The Obenchain papers, however, areimportant for other issues as well,according to Mr. Noe. "Mr. Obenchainhad a great memory and knew in greatdetail where this battery or that batterywas during the battles at Vicksburg," hesays. "Many of the markers at thenational park are where they are becauseMr. Obenchain said so."

In addition, the papers give interestinginsights into the veterans' movements atthe end of the nineteenth century.

"There was a sort of revival movement,very much like what happened in thiscentury after the Vietnam War," explainsMr. Noe. "The public immediately lostinterest in the Civil War, and it was a goodten to twenty years before anybodywanted to talk about it again. Then, in the1880s and 1890s, there was a period whenveterans were having reunions, trying toset the record straight, and getting parksset up. These papers give a lot of insightinto that."

The Obenchain papers join the IllinoisHistorical Survey's extensive collection ofCivil War letters, diaries, and othermemorabilia.

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wanted to destroy after he took over in1864."

Accounts of the Botetourt Artillery'sbrave participation in the ensuing Battleof Lynchburg, in which the Unionsoldiers were driven off, have alwaysbeen based on information provided bythe unit's commander, Captain HenryDouthat. Mr. Obenchain's letters give astrikingly different picture.

"[I] have written some members if theyknew where Henry Douthat was duringthe engagement, but none knew," wroteMr. Obenchain to his brother many yearslater. "My map will show you just wherehe was.

"It was after the engagement had beenon several hours when two officers of thedismounted cavalry came up to me andasked, 'Who is that red-haired, red-whis-kered coward crouched behind thetraverse?' Some of the men told him whoit was. How long he had been there andwhen he came I never knew.

"In a little while, I walked through theopening and saw him. The firing on bothsides had ceased for awhile and he cameout and through the opening but nevercame near the guns. A puff of smoke wasseen to arrive from one of our enemies'guns and when the shell reached us

Donation to purchase ContemporaryLiterary Criticism, volumes 1-15, for theUndergraduate Library. This is a vital andimportant reference source, frequentlyused by undergraduates for term papersand coursework, but there has never beensufficient funds to purchase the firstfifteen volumes. Each costs $95, $1,425 forall. Partial donations are welcome.

$120 to purchase Studies on ClassicalChinese Furniture (English edition) forthe Asian Library. This is the companionto Classical Chinese Furniture, already heldby the Asian Library. Also, the unit islooking for $200 to purchase Nihon nosuibokuga (Japanese Ink Painting).

$200 for a badly needed computer workstation for the Rare Book and SpecialCollections Library.

If you would like to donate any of theitems mentioned above, please contactLibrary Friends development officerSharon Kitzmiller at 227 Library, 1408 W.Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL, 61801, ortelephone (217) 333-5683.

Library ExhibitCatalog Wins Awards

Dandy & Fine, the Library's catalog forlast spring's Accent/Ascent exhibit, haswon two major awards for superiordesign.

The American Center for Design hasdesignated the catalog as one of the 100best from among more than 1,700 entriesand is including it in its twelfth annual"100 Show" exhibition.

The exhibition was on display inChicago's Prudential Building inSeptember and will travel to Boston thiswinter.

The American Center for Design is aprofessional association for the designfield whose members include advertisingagencies, publishers, and others involvedin visual communications. According tothe center, only those pieces that"surprised us and showed a new vision"were selected for inclusion in this year'sexhibition.

The catalog also has won an Award ofExcellence from the University andCollege Designers Association. It wasincluded in the association's nineteenthannual exhibition of award-winning workin September in Cincinnati.

The catalog was designed by JulieSzamocki of the UI's Office of Publica-tions.

I Quotables"I've always felt books and reading are

important to young people. My mothertaught me when I was very young toalways watch the news and read thepaper, not just the sports section, but thefront of the paper. If you know somethingabout the past and about what's going onin the world now, you'll know what'sworthwhile and what to avoid.

"I guess that's why I decided to majorin history. Before I graduated in 1983, Ihad written a lot of reports and papers.It seems like I was always busy in thosedays-classes, studying, practice, awaygames, and all-so I wanted to get thingsdone as efficiently as possible. Fortu-nately, I got a good start on how to doresearch for my papers from the termpaper counselors at the UndergraduateLibrary.

"By the time I was a junior I was usingthe History Library a lot, too. The HistoryLibrary is an incredible roomful ofbooks . . . and all there just for theasking. I don't think I'll ever forget thefeeling of knowing I could walk in andput my hands on just about anything Ineeded for a paper or report.

"The education I received at Illinois hashelped me make choices in my profes-sional career. I'm grateful for thateducation, and I'm proud of the excellentLibrary that is an important part of aneducation at Illinois."

-Eddie Johnson, class of 1983Member, Phoenix Suns, and counselor toyouth groups to encourage youngsters to avoiddrugs and to read

I From the UniversityLibrarian

Recent weeks have brought good newsfor both the University and the Library.For the Library, there has not only beenthe proportional budget increase onewould expect, but also considerably more.

We have received an eleven percentincrease in state funds for the materialsbudget. This means that for the first timein recent years, we will not only be ableto keep up with inflation, but we will alsobe able to increase our depth of collecting.

We have also received significant helpin increasing the salaries of our supportstaff, student assistants, and graduateassistants. It is particularly pleasing to meto see some relief for these dedicated andworthy employees.

Librarians' salaries have also improved.The salary pool that was provided by theUniversity for librarians was well abovethe campus average, and as a result, wewere able to assist many of our mostdeserving people, particularly the juniorlibrarians, who both need and deservehigher salaries.

Finally, we have received more than$250,000 in additional operating money.This money will allow us to restore manyof the services we had curtailed and willmean that we can begin addressing someof the long-term problems that the Libraryhas had in recent years.

There are many people to whom we areindebted for the support we havereceived. The University administration,particularly Vice Chancellor for Academic

Affairs Robert Berdahl, should bethanked for consistently making theLibrary a high priority. The faculty andstudents on this campus have made itclear that a quality library is a high priorityfor them and is something that is crucialto the success of their work.

Finally, there are the Library Friends,whose support has made it clear that theimportance of this Library goes wellbeyond the campus and is of concern toa much larger group.

The significant increase in funding forthe Library is very much appreciated, butit also presents a challenge. The challengeis for those of us in the Library to makewise use of the funds we have received.We must also be sure they are expendedin a way that will provide the greatestbenefit and will strengthen the Library forpresent and future generations.

-David F. Bishop, University Librarian

Caricature of Igor Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso, by JeanCocteau, from Stravinsky and The Dance, in the AppliedLife Studies Library.

The 1989-90 Library Friends board held its first meeting on September 21, 1989. They are, from left, (front): Bertha JeanBerger, Mary Kay Peer, Robert Wallace, Eulene Eilbracht, Morris Leighton, and Harry Drickamer. (Second row): Nancy Jeckel,

John Foreman, Kathryn Hansen, John Ruedi, Kim Wurl, Steve Morgan, Jack Stillinger, Joy Thornton, Sharon Kitzmiller, and

Joan Hood. (Back row): David Bishop, Carolyn Gunter. Not pictured are: Tom Berns, Shirley Crouse, Michael Hoellich, Linda

Mills, Jim Edgar, Judith Rowan, and Carl Webber.

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I CalendarNovember"Cartographic Miscellanea." MainCorridor

"Commemorating the 39th to the 44thStates." University Archives

"Beating Michigan." East BasementHallway, University Archives

"H.G. Wells as Cartoonist." Rare Bookand Special Collections Library

December"Thomas J. Burrill, 'Acting' Regent."University Archives

"The French Revolution-A Bicenten-nial." Main Corridor

"Early Images of Terra Sancta." RareBook and Special Collections Library

January

"The Papers of Howard Shuman,Researcher for the U.S. Senate."University Archives

Special Event

"Costumes by Motley," Lincoln Centerfor the Performing Arts, New York City,mid-November through mid-January

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I Library Friends BoardMorris Leighton, President, Robert R.Wallace, Vice-President, Bertha Jean Berger,Tom Berns, Shirley Crouse, Harry G.Drickamer, Eulene Eilbracht, John Foreman,Kathryn G. Hansen, Michael Hoeflich,

I I We Need Your HelpYou can ensure the UI Library's continuedexcellence by:

* Telling others about the Library Friends andencouraging them to join

* Sending us lists of potential members andcontributors

* Helping the Library solicit grants fromfoundations

* Obtaining your company's or organization'sparticipation in a matching gift program

* Passing the information about LibraryFriends membership on in your newsletteror publications.

I The Benefits of MembershipAs a Friend of the University of Illinois Library,you receive:

* Circulation and stack privileges for Librarymaterials

* Friendscript, the quarterly newsletter

* Annual Report

* Invitations to exhibits, lectures andreceptions

* A 30% discount on University of Illinois Presspublications.

The Friends welcome everyone interested inthe continued excellence of the University ofIllinois Library. There are now nearly 3,000members of Library Friends.

Nancy Jeckel, Linda Mills, Steve Morgan,Mary Kay Peer, John C. Ruedi, Jack C.Stillinger, Joy C. Thornton, Kim Wurl;Ex-Officio, David F. Bishop, Jim Edgar,Carolyn C. Gunter, Joan M. Hood, SharonK. Kitzmiller, Judith K. Rowan, Carl Webber,Past President.

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