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Library COLUMNS January 2006 Vol Library COLUMNS January 2006 Vol. 4 No. 23 Pulitzer Prize winner Leonard Pitts to Speak at UNCG Friends of the Library Dinner March 20 Leonard Pitts, Jr. – columnist, The dinner will be held in Cone Ballroom in Elliott Univer‐ author, and Pulitzer Prize sity Center. Tickets are now on sale through the University winner – will headline the Box Office. The price is $35 for members and $45 for non‐ annual Friends of the Library members. Tickets for the presentation only are available dinner March 20. for $10. Parking is available in the Walker Avenue Parking Deck. Pitts, who won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2004, Special thanks to The News and Record , the presenting spon‐ started his career as a former sor for the event. writer for Casey Kasemʹs ra‐ dio program ʺAmerican Top UNCG Friends of the Library Dinner 40.ʺ The Miami Herald hired With Leonard Pitts, Jr. him in 1991 as a pop music critic, but by 1994 he was Monday, March 20, 2006 writing about race and cur‐ 6 p.m. Program begins at 8 p.m. rent affairs in his own column in the Cone Ballroom in Elliott University which was syndicated nationally. His 1999 book Becoming Center on the UNCG campus. Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood was a bestseller. Leonard Pitts was born and raised in Southern California. Tickets for the reception, dinner and pro- Since 1995, he has lived in Bowie, Maryland, a suburb of gram are $35 for members and $45 for non- Washington, D.C., with his wife and five children. members. Tickets for the presentation only are $10. After the September 11, 2001 attack on New York and Washington, DC, Pittʹs Herald column, headlined ʺWeʹll Go Tickets now on sale through the University Forward From This Moment,ʺ was widely circulated on the Box Office at 336-334-4849 or (with addi- Internet and frequently quoted in the press. In the column, tional service fees) online at Pitt bluntly expressed his anger, defiance, and resolve to an http://boxoffice.uncg.edu/ unnamed evil terrorist: ʺYou monster. You beast. You un‐ speakable bastard.ʺ “One of the most emotionally engaging columnists writing today,” Leonard Pitts “offers candid opinions on culture, race, families, relationships, and the politics of the human condition.” ‐ Tribune Media Services His column is syndicated nationwide. … a few words from the University Librarian students and faculty. Lots of exciting changes are taking place in the University Of course, our newly combined circulation and reserves Libraries these days. Anyone desk has been very busy. Consolidation of these services who enters Jackson Library again allows us to provide better service to our users. will notice the changes im‐ Physically, this new space has opened up our lobby area mediately. New shelving has and will make an attractive new entranceway to the been acquired for our current library once the EUC/Library Connector is opened. periodicals reading area. The Please give our new self‐service check out machine a sleek new shelving area is try! Much like you see in the supermarkets, book check‐ now open so that our users out can now be done on your own without needing to can retrieve current journals stop at the circulation desk. Try it one time, and you’ll without needing to request be hooked! them through the service desk. We believe that this eas‐ Jackson Library is continuing to look at ways of making ier access to current journals will meet our users’ needs our building more attractive and inviting to our stu‐ more efficiently. New and more attractive shelving and dents. This year, we offered extended hours during furniture has also been acquired for newspapers, cur‐ exam time to give students the opportunity of using our rent literature, our audio books and popular paper‐ collections in the building until 2:00 a.m. in a quiet set‐ backs. Display cases will be spread throughout the first ting or with groups of study partners. We served free floor giving us the opportunity to display some of our coffee during these hours and gave away new UNCG unique collections from the Hodges Special Collections Libraries mugs advertising our relatively new but quite and Archives. We hope to purchase comfortable new successful Instant Messaging reference service. Our seating and tables for the current periodicals room soon students have responded very favorably. in order to provide for a more inviting space for our Rosann Bazirjian Jackson Library Offers Package of Extended Services During Exams Extended Hours, Free Coffee/Tea and Give-away Mugs Promote New Instant Messaging Service Exams. Need a little extra time? Need FREE cof‐ remained open on extended hours as well. fee? With those words, the University Libraries The coffee and mugs were a big hit with students, introduced popular and eased the way new services for stu‐ through late nights of dents studying for ex‐ study. Undergraduate ams last semester. Music major John Hew‐ Beginning on Reading itt remarked, ʺThe cof‐ Day and continuing on fee and tea during the the nights before ex‐ exam period was a ams, the free coffee great idea. It definitely was available begin‐ made studying more ning at 7:30 p.m. while enjoyable and produc‐ it lasted, or until shortly before closing at 2 a.m. tive. Hopefully the library will provide this at the Students could also pick up free coffee mugs pro‐ end of every semester!ʺ Interim Associate Director moting the Library’s new instant messaging ser‐ Kathy Crowe agrees, and says that the coffee and vice. While the Library had for many years ex‐ tea will definitely continue. For at least another tended hours during exams, the 2 a.m. closing rep‐ semester, the extended hours during exams will resented even a further extension, and it is the first continue also. Continuance beyond the spring will time that free coffee has been offered, courtesy of depend on the number of people who visit the li‐ the UNCG Friends of the Library. The SuperLab braries during the extended hours. 2 EUC/Jackson Library Connector Set to Open Dedication is January 30 at Noon The much‐awaited connector between the Elliott University Center and Jackson Library is near completion and will be dedicated by Chancellor Patricia Sullivan at a ceremony on January 30, 2006. The project provides an enclosed connection linking two of the most fre‐ quently‐visited buildings on campus. It will provide much‐improved access to Jackson Library, and a second major point of entry into the building. First floor services have been renovated and reconfigured Architect’s Drawing of Connector (courtesy of BJAC, Brown Jurkowski Architectural Collaborative) to take best advantage of the new entrance. Loving Lady Chatterley Exhibit Opens February 14 UNCG Professor is Collector of D.H. Lawrence Materials The English modernist writer D. H. Lawrence pub‐ movie versions, lished Lady Chatterley’s Lover, his last full‐scale not to mention a novel, in 1928. This story of the illicit love affair wide array of between Lady Constance Chatterley and her hus‐ parodies and se‐ band’s gamekeeper became one of the most notable quels. Lady Chat‐ and notorious books of the 20th century. Lawrence, terley’s Lover, Law‐ fed up with the censorship and bowdlerization he rence’s best‐ had suffered throughout his career, shattered liter‐ known work, has ary taboos in Lady Chatterley. The book is the first long since taken mainstream English novel to include explicit de‐ on iconic status. scriptions of sexual intercourse, and in the bargain From February 14 the gamekeeper uses Anglo‐Saxon four‐letter through April 28 words. Few people realize that in Lady Chatterley, the Hodges Read‐ Lawrence, beleaguered and close to death himself, ing Room will fea‐ places his faith not only in the revitalizing power ture a special ex‐ of sexuality but also in the redemptive force of love hibit titled and tenderness. The novel also offers a trenchant “Loving Lady criticism of modern industrial society. Chatterley: Selections from the D. H. Lawrence Because of Lady Chatterley’s sexual content and Collection of Keith Cushman.” Keith Cushman is a naughty words, Lawrence had the book privately professor in the Department of English. This color‐ printed in Florence. This prevented him from be‐ ful, diverse exhibit will include 1) first editions; 2) ing able to obtain copyright. As a result he had to early unexpurgated editions published in Europe contend with many pirated editions before his and Japan; 3) separate printings of Lawrence’s es‐ early death in 1930. The unexpurgated text of Lady says about the novel; 4) first editions of the first Chatterley’s Lover could not be sold legally in either and second manuscript versions of the novel; 5) the United States or England until landmark legal 1940s and 50s pulp paperbacks of the expurgated decisions–in 1959 in America, in 1960 in Britain– text; 6) translations; 7) parodies, sequels, and declared that the book was not obscene. dramatizations; 8) books about the novel; 9) mov‐ ies; 10) movie posters and other movie memora‐ Lady Chatterley seems tame enough by contempo‐ bilia; 11) ephemera and miscellaneous items. rary standards, but after all these decades the book’s scent of pornography (or at least erotica) Jackson Library is proud to be able to mount this still prevails. The novel has generated numerous unique, eye‐opening exhibit. 3 Cushmans Donate Collection of Books to University Libraries Collection of Folklore, Fairy Tales, and Mythology Received Librarian and educator Jerry Cushman has been a book collector for most of his 91 years. Born Sam‐ uel Sivithlopky in Chicago shortly before the out‐ break of World War I, he was adopted as a toddler and his name was changed to Samuel Jerome Cushman.
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