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3 Annotations.1 A nnotations C ENTRAL U NIVERSITY L IBRARIES AT S OUTHERN M ETHODIST U NIVERSITY • V OLUME IV, NUMBER II, FALL 2002 INSIDE An antidote for inquiring minds Librarian uses first-person By Mark Nerio, chair, Library Executive Board and member accounts to tell 2 of SMU Board of Trustees Fort Burgwin history New format for historic films A diploma is not the only thing I received from SMU. I fear I also family reunion of sorts took place last summer in the library was given a curse. A at Fort Burgwin, home to SMU-in-Taos. Descendants of one 3 This curse seems to manifest itself regularly. Its symptoms of the fort’s first doctors attended Fort Burgwin’s 150th anniversary Technology update result in constant inquiry, curiosity, exploration, open house and lent family heirlooms to the library for display. ~ and the general seeking of answers. New title for A large photograph of Army Assistant Surgeon H.R. Wirtz and McCombs Mostly, I find myself immersed in books – lots of a prayer book inscribed to his daughter were displayed, along ~ books – as a result of this curse. And not just any Zero-K a runaway with other historical exhibits created by Fort Burgwin librarian success books. They tend to be nonfiction, and move from Linda Sellers. theme to theme over the years. 4 For example, I went through one year in which I read Russian Friends programs history, the next year U.S. borderlands, followed by Mexican his- ~ tory, then Chicano studies, Vietnam, and the U.S. presidency. I now New Friends president have two huge hardback books sitting on my nightstand, each with ~ a bookmark 25 to 40 pages in. After I started John Adams, it was pre- Welcome new Friends empted with Caro’s third Lyndon Johnson biography. Yet just yes- terday, I bought Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo (it’s quasi nonfiction). 5 The curse ends not with mere reading. Interesting facts with Friends grants superscripts cause me to hunt in the back of the book for the ~ corresponding footnote. I need two bookmarks for reading – Library staff awards one to mark my place in the text and another to mark my place ~ Tea for ten in the footnotes. This curse, I recall, began to take hold while I was studying in Descendants of one of the first doctors at Fort Burgwin surround 6 the Fondren stacks. Rather than leave my carrel for a break and his photograph in the Fort Burgwin library at SMU-in-Taos. DeGolyer resources risk losing my spot, I would wander through the shelves, leafing valuable to Alabama scholar through the volumes with the most intriguing titles. Many a good Wirtz’ great-great granddaughter, Luisa Mylet, who lives near ~ study hour was lost to these wanderings. Fort Burgwin, recently had learned of her ancestor’s connection to Staff saves trees To my great satisfaction, I learned, as a member of the Library the fort. Her cousins remembered the photograph of the musta- Executive Board, I was not alone with this affliction. Others too chioed doctor and found it for the display. share this curse, some with afflictions greater than mine. For on Literary7 festival Wirtz was one of the early doctors at the fort, established in ~ the board sit readers, researchers, collectors, authors, and of 1852 to protect the wagon road from Santa Fe to Taos and settlers Library scholarships course, librarians. from raiding Jicarilla Apache and Ute Indians. Now the site of SMU- Yet, in retrospect, this curse actually has served me quite well. in-Taos, much of Fort Burgwin has been rebuilt. Facilities include It seems that having exposure to and knowledge of myriad impor- Calendar8 and Events classrooms, a library, offices, and residences for faculty and stu- tant topics, people, countries, cultures, struggles, and triumphs dents. Each summer SMU-in-Taos offers classes in the humanities, has equipped me to survive, even thrive, in times of difficulty, sciences, and the arts. whether they be personal, professional, or otherwise. Sellers researched and prepared historical exhibits for the While I know of no cure for the curse, there is a three-step living history open house June 22-23, which attracted 400 visitors. treatment prescription. continued on page 2 Go to the library. Read. Repeat. 1 A nnotations Grant makes historic films will include an introduction and commentary by a Meadows School of the Arts film professor. available to digital generation “African American high school students today have no idea unique film collection housed in the chilled walk-in vault these films existed,” Silcox says. “They grew up on reruns of ‘The A below Owen Fine Arts Center soon will become widely avail- Cosby Show.’ But their grandparents would have gone to segre- able to students, researchers, and museums. The Hamon Arts gated theaters to see these films.” Library recently received a grant to convert the Tyler, Texas, Black Making the films available in DVD format continues the films’ preservation that began 27 years ago, Worland says. “I think that Bill Jones would be pleased.” First-person accounts continued from page 1 While volunteers provided a visual demonstration of fort life, vis- itors could study the letters, journal entries, books, and official reports written by fort residents. “The actual words of the people who were there 150 years ago Tinsley Silcox, director of the Hamon Arts Library, examines a 35-mm film from the Tyler, Texas, Black Film Collection. The library recently received a grant to bring the history of the fort to life,” Sellers says. convert the films to DVD format. The exhibit included the thoughts of Lydia Spencer Lane, wife of Lt.William Bartlett Lane, as she described her October 1856 jour- The films preserve what Film Film collection in the G. William Jones Film and ney from Santa Fe to Fort Burgwin in her book, I Married a Soldier or Old Days in the Old Army (University of New Mexico Press, Professor Rick Worland calls “a Video Collection to DVD format. “This represents a major step in making this col- 1893, 1996). forgotten chapter in film lection available to a wider audience,” says Tinsley “Our station was to be Cantonment Burgwin, four days’ march history.” They provide historians Silcox, director of Hamon Arts Library. from Santa Fe, over a frightful road, if it could be called a road . with a unique aspect of early The films preserve what Film Professor Rick Wor- In some places the wagons had to be let down with ropes, and nothing was thought of a drop of two or three feet from one rock African American life without the land calls “a forgotten chapter in film history.” In the 1930s and ’40s, independent filmmakers produced to another.” Hollywood interpretation of films for as many as 1,200 segregated theaters. The 5,200 volumes at the SMU-in-Taos library include a grow- all-black-cast films such as Although the film companies were white-owned, ing collection of materials relating to the history of Fort Burgwin, “Hallelujah!” or “Cabin in the Sky.” most of the films featured African American screen- Sellers says. Last summer she photocopied and compiled 300 writers, directors, and actors and actresses. They pages of Fort Burgwin military records from the Arrott Collection provide historians with a unique aspect of early African American at Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico, to add to the life without the Hollywood interpretation of all-black-cast films. library’s resources. The SMU-in-Taos library also contains numer- As the civil rights movement began in the 1950s, production of ous other resources about the military and the West. the African American-cast films ceased, Worland says. In the 1960s “I have tried to collect all published books and articles that the films were deliberately forgotten and denounced as “Jim Crow” relate to the fort,” she says. “Every summer students in classes cinema. In the early 1980s, however, the owner of a warehouse in ranging from Spanish to history select aspects of Tyler, Texas, asked Bill Jones, the late cinema professor at Meadows fort history as paper topics.” School of the Arts and founder of its video archives, to look at a When the open house ended, Sell- stack of film canisters he discovered in a corner of the warehouse. ers returned the Wirtz family heirlooms Those films now constitute the Tyler, Texas, Black Film Collection. to Luisa Mylet. With gratitude, Mylet The original nitrate films were converted to safety film in 1985. presented Sellers with a clay story- A professional projectionist must be hired to show the films now teller doll. To Pueblo Indians, the stored as heavy reels of 35-mm film, Silcox says. The films have been storyteller doll represents the shown to scholars, students, and groups interested in film history. passing of information from one gen- The Hamon Arts Library will use a $65,200 TIFB grant to create eration to the next – a fitting trib- 1,000 DVD sets of the films that will be distributed at no charge to ute to a librarian. school districts, museums, and community organizations. Each film 2 A nnotations Library upgrades NEW TITLE FOR MCCOMBS technology services Gillian M. McCombs has a echnology improvements at Central University Libraries will new title – dean and direc- tor of Central University enhance research capabilities for students, faculty, and staff, T Libraries. says Mary Queyrouze, systems librarian. Library users with laptop “My decision to confer the computers now can go online without having to be near a physi- title of dean is based in part cal connection.
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