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A Message from Lou and Beth Holtz Announce Paul Willis, Increase to Endowment Dean of Libraries On August 19, at a gala dinner in their honor, Coach Lou Holtz and his wife, Beth, announced that they were adding $25,000 to I am pleased to be the Lou and Beth Holtz Library Endowment for Undergraduate at the University Resources, which they established in 2001. The endowment’s pur- of South Carolina pose is to provide for the addition of library materials and resourc- and am grateful for es for USC’s undergraduate students and to encourage athletic and the warm welcome academic partnerships. which my wife, A special guest at the gala was author and editor George Barbara, and I have Plimpton, who had made a presentation at the fall semester’s received from the Freshman Year Reading Experience and had been the featured faculty and staff speaker at the Thomas Cooper Society’s fall luncheon earlier in the day. of the libraries and Coach Holtz has always believed in the importance of academics in the lives and from the University careers of his players. In support of this belief, he worked out an arrangement with community as a whole. Thomas Cooper Library beginning in 1999 to give members of the football team a place At USC, I have found strong and to study in the library and help with using computers for research projects. According to unique library holdings, an extremely Holtz, the players’ grades have risen at least partly as a result of this arrangement. competent staff, a University admin- Funds from the Holtz endowment will be used to purchase books, journals, and istration–including President Andrew audio-visual materials as well as to enhance collections and provide access to Web-based and Donna Sorensen–interested in, and resources utilized by undergraduate students. supportive of, libraries. In most organizations, and certainly in libraries, we build on those who preceded us. I knew George Terry and know Ken Toombs George Plimpton Speaks at Thomas and I came not to replace them but will follow in their footsteps. I want to build Cooper Society Luncheon on the momentum which is underway in Noted American author and Paris Review the libraries and continue to strengthen editor George Plimpton spoke to the our collections, both print and electronic, members of the Thomas Cooper Society as we strive to provide excellent service at a luncheon on August 19. Following to our many patrons. I was very pleased his remarks, Plimpton was presented with to learn that the 2001 Association of the Thomas Cooper Medal for Distinction Research Libraries ranking of the USC in the Arts and Sciences for a lifetime of libraries is 53rd among all research achievement in literature. The luncheon libraries in the United States. also gave society members an opportunity It has been said that information to meet the University’s new president, is the fuel which drives the modern Dr. Andrew Sorensen and the University research university and I believe that the Libraries’ new dean, Paul Willis. type of library and information services George Plimpton, left, presents rare Plimpton was introduced by USC’s provided to students, faculty, and staff Hemingway manuscript page to Dr. Matthew Jefferies Professor of English, Dr. can increase their competitiveness in a J. Bruccoli. Matthew J. Bruccoli, who characterized Plimpton as “the busiest literary figure in Dean continued on page 5 Plimpton continued on page 6 News Briefs Upcoming Exhibits The South Caroliniana Library held a book-signing event to honor Charles R. Mack professor in the USC Department of Art whose new book, Like a Sponge Thrown and Events into Water: Francis Lieber’s European Travel Journal of 1844–1845 : A Lively Tour October 10–December 15, Thomas Cooper through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, and Bohemia : With Library, Mezzanine Exhibit Area, Exhibit Observations on Politics, the Visual and Performing Arts, Economics, Religion, of “The Joseph Heller Papers” Penology, Technology, History, Literature, Social Customs, Travel, Geography,  Jurisprudence, Linguistics, Personalities, and Numerous Other Matters, has just been November 11, 5 p.m., School of Music published by USC Press.  Auditorium, “Songs of World War I,” Program of WWI songs featuring Approximately 103 new computer workstations are being installed throughout the Professors Dorothy Payne and Donald Gray University Libraries system to provide students with the most up-to-date technology  available. New machines are being placed in Thomas Cooper Library’s main reference November 11, 6 p.m., Music Library, area, the TCL Science Library, the Math Library, the Music Library, and the Elliott Reception and exhibit of WWI sheet music White Springs Business Library.   November 11, Thomas Cooper Library, The University Libraries’ Caroline McKissick Dial Endowment has just published Main Level Lobby, Exhibit of “Sheet music Renovation and Restoration of the USC Horseshoe: A Memoir by Hal Brunton. from the Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Brunton was USC’s vice president for business affairs in the 1970s and 1980s Collection” when major renovations were made to all of the buildings on the Horseshoe and  to Longstreet Theatre. The book was edited by the director of publications for the November 11, Thomas Cooper Library, University Libraries Nancy Washington, and layout and design were done by Mary Graniteville Room, Exhibit of “Isaac Arnold Garvin, recently retired from University Publications.  Rosenberg and World War I Writers” from the Joseph Cohen Collection Dr. Ross Roy, distinguished professor emeritus of English and comparative literature  at USC, was recognized by the University of Edinburgh with an honorary doctor of lit- February 2003, Thomas Cooper Library, erature degree in July. Graniteville Room, Exhibit of “Robert Roy was chosen for this honor based on his reputation as a renowned authority Burns and Others” to welcome the on Scottish literature and a leading scholar on Scottish poet, Robert Burns. He is the Southeast Association of Eighteenth founder and editor of the scholarly journal, Studies in Scottish Literature, now in its Century Studies conference 32nd volume.   March, 2003, Thomas Cooper Library, ScienceDirect, one of the world’s largest providers of scientific, technical, and medical Mezzanine Exhibit Area, Exhibit for the (STM) literature, has been available at USC since September 2000. During the inter- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bicentenary vening years, USC researchers have consistently increased their use of the database both for citations and for downloading of full-text articles. From fall 2000 to spring 2002 ScienceDirect searches have increased from 2,764 per semester to 17,707 per semester. During that same time period, the number of requested pages has increased from 27,537 to 198,506 and requests for full-text articles have increased from 5,209 to 30,001. New Faces While the Libraries provide access to many scientific databases, it is clear that ScienceDirect, the world’s largest full-text journals database, is one of the most use- ful for USC students and faculty. At present the database covers more than 1,500 scientific, technical, and medical peer-reviewed journals and provides over 59 million abstracts and over two million full-text scientific journal articles.  In July, the TCL Government Documents and Microforms Department began to receive cataloging records for U.S. government documents from Marcive Inc., of San Antonio, Texas. The records come in two batches: temporary records and full bibliographic records. Along with the temporary records, the library receives labels and barcodes for all paper items. The barcodes and labels speed processing and make materials available for circulation more quickly. Kate Boyd, Reference Librarian Thomas Cooper Library

2 Music Library Updates Collections and Services

If you go to the Music Library and ask the cedures and will be made available to schol- librarian, Jennifer Ottervik, “What’s new?” ars and enthusiasts via the Music Library’s you should first look for a chair, because that Website. The Website presents recordings, is a question that will take awhile to answer. photos, scores, and curated presentations During the past school year, Ottervik enhanced by visual material from the USC and her staff have become involved in Film Library’s Fox Movietone News Collec- several innovative projects to augment and tion. Movietone News film clips taken utilize the Music Library’s collections and between 1919 and 1936 cover such topics to offer updated services to the School of as “Gullah Musicians,” “Piedmont and Low- Music students and faculty. These projects Country Blues Artists,” “Southern Gospel Library staff members include, front include: founding the Center for Southern Choirs,” “African-American Brass Bands,” row, left to right, Isabel Otero, Jennifer African-American Music (CSAM), setting “Southern Work Song Traditions,“ ”Dance Ottervik, and Brandi Neal; back row, left up a method to facilitate students’ access to Bands and Orchestras,” and “Early Jazz to right, Tracy Hall, Robert Torre, Pin music listening materials called Network Artists.” Zhou, and Junichiro Harada. Digital Music (NetDM), and establishing a Eventually the Website will be expanded digital sheet music archive and index. to provide an online directory of resources to the Music Library for their listening in other Southern libraries, museums, and assignments. The music is stored on the Center for Southern African- repositories. Music Library’s server, so it is available to American Music CSAM was officially launched with a all students all the time. Unique in the South, the School of Music’s one-day symposium and benefit concert on Advantages to the library of this sys- Center for Southern African-American October 25. The symposium featured invit- tem include fewer staff hours issuing and Music has a three-pronged mission involved scholars and the concert included the reshelving CD’s, tapes, and records, as well ing creating a music archive, curriculum performing ensembles the Hallelujah Singers, as the saving of wear and tear on library initiatives, and an educational outreach pro- the BJ Scott Choir of Husbah Baptist Church, equipment and media. gram. Working with Ottervik in setting up and Kenny and the Tigers, a shout band. the center was Assistant Professor of Music Hosting the event was South Carolina artist, Digital Sheet Music Project Dr. Julie Hubbert. The present co-director Jonathan Green, who granted the reproduc- In the spring of 2002 a Music Library is Assistant Professor of Music Dr. Willie tion of one of his paintings for use on the supporter, Mary Elizabeth Newton, was Strong. symposium’s poster and program booklet. looking for a way to enhance the library’s The Music Library is the designated Future plans call for USC to be the hub offerings and, at the same time, to honor its keeper of the Center’s archive which is for a statewide directory of sheet music and head librarian, Jennifer Ottervik. Ottervik the basis of the curriculum and outreach other items related to African-American music mentioned her dream of establishing a digi- programs. According to the Music Library in the South. Contributors to the directory tal sheet music database, and Newton real- Website, the library will “collect, preserve would include colleges such as Claflin, Bene- ized she had found her project. The project and curate the music of African-Americans dict, and the College of Charleston as well involves entering information about all in the South (with a special emphasis on the as churches throughout the state. The Music of the library’s 10,000 pieces of classical, music of South Carolina); preserve the his- Library staff would collect the needed data, popular, and sacred sheet music (defined as tory and heritage of this music first through do the scanning, act as consultants, and a cover and up to nine pages of music) into the acquisition and preservation of com- help with preservation of the original mate- a Web-accessible database. The database mercial and non-commercial recordings, rials. The owners could opt to deposit their record for each item may be searched by books, music, and other appropriate mate- holdings with the Music Library for reasons keyword, title, composer, arranger, lyricist, rial; capture this music as it exists today of climate control, security, and access. first line of text, publisher, date published, through contemporary field recordings and subject, and donor. After purchasing a audio/videotaping; and be a repository for Network Digital Music scanner and appropriate software, Ottervik any and all materials relating to African- Jennifer Ottervik praises Tony trained about seven graduate students to American music in the South.” Included McLawhorn, director of Educational begin adding the records. So far about 500 in the archive are books, hymnals, scores, Software Development in the College of items have been cataloged. vertical files, sheet music, documents, pho- Science and Mathematics, for making his The only other institutions with similar tographs, memorabilia, field recordings, and NetDM system available to music students projects are Duke, Brown, and Johns Hopkins oral histories related to all types of African- in several courses offered by the School of Universities and the Library of Congress. American music such as spirituals, gospel Music. For a small cost, students are pro- Ottervik comments, “This project will music, Gullah music, blues, ragtime, jazz, vided with a CD which gives them access allow many pieces of music to be discov- and protest songs. to recordings of assigned music selections. ered, studied, and performed by students All of the materials in the archive will Students can access the CD from any PC or and scholars who otherwise would never be preserved through current archiving pro- Mac computer rather than having to come have known the music even existed.”

3 USC Acquires Joseph Cohen Collection of World War I Literature

A major collection of works by The Collector: Professor Joseph the World War I poet-painter Isaac Cohen Rosenberg (1890–1918) has been Professor Joseph Cohen’s World War acquired by the Thomas Cooper I literature collection was started in Library. The collection includes 1952 when he was a graduate student Rosenberg’s first and rarest book, in the English Department of the Night and Day (1912) as well as University of Texas. Cohen, under- material on other Great War poets. taking research for a dissertation on The new collection came by gift-pur- Wilfred Owen, began to identify and chase from Rosenberg’s biographer, contact surviving family, friends, and Prof. Joseph Cohen. In announcing acquaintances of the poet; to locate the acquisition, Paul Willis, dean and acquire the poet’s work including of libraries, said, “Combined with all his appearances before his death in the Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War 1918 and all posthumous editions and Collection, this new material posi- appearances; and to collect all related tions the TCL collection among the published literary criticism, scholar- leading American research resources ship, memoirs, and ephemera. While for the study and teaching of the lit- his primary focus was on Owen, erature, history, and culture of World Cohen began simultaneously to collect War I.” material on Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Told of the new collection, Sassoon, Robert Graves, Rupert the literary critic Harold Bloom, Brooke, and other Great War figures. Sterling Professor of Humanities at Joining the English faculty at Tulane Yale University and Berg Professor University, Cohen continued to build of English at New York University, his Great War collection. His research called Rosenberg “comparable to in the field culminated in his book Wilfred Owen in terms of genius and Journey To The Trenches: The Life of imaginative endowments.” Owen is Private Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918), inscribed by Isaac Rosenberg 1890–1918 (London also strongly represented in the Cohen Rosenberg to poet-dramatist Gordon Bottomley (from and New York, 1975). Collection. Rosenberg’s best poems, the Joseph Cohen Collection/Joseph M. Bruccoli Bloom said, “are among the perma- Collection, University of South Carolina.) World War I Collections at USC nent contributions to the poetry of the At Thomas Cooper Library, the Cohen English language. Any archive or discovery Only two other libraries in the world (Yale Collection joins and enhances the Joseph of Rosenberg’s work is an important contri- and Oxford) have all three of Rosenberg’s M. Bruccoli Great War Collection. Dean bution to literary scholarship.” publications. Paul Willis described the new collection as Isaac Rosenberg, recognized as the first Other highlights of the Cohen “a notable example of the library’s policy significant Jewish poet in English literature, Collection include a letter from the trenches of building to strength, complementing was, with Rupert Brooke and Owen, one in July 1917, where Rosenberg reports, “I the Bruccoli Collection.” The Joseph M. of the three major poets killed in the Great managed to jot down some ideas for poems Bruccoli Collection was begun in 1997 by War, and the only one who served in the now & then.…They are actual transcripts of Arlyn and Matthew J. Bruccoli. It is an in- ranks. He died on the Somme in 1918. the battlefield”; Rosenberg’s charcoal draw- progress research archive for the literary, ing “Hark, Hark, the Lark” (1912), together historical, and cultural aspects of World Items in the Collection with a self-portrait, and other sketches; War I. Its fields of specialization are the Before his death, Rosenberg published three autograph letters from Robert Graves, literature of the American Expeditionary poetry pamphlets. Produced by a small print Ezra Pound, Osbert Sitwell, and others; Force, British novels and poetry of the shop in London, they are among the great extensive research files preserving Cohen’s war, the air war, and trench warfare. The rarities in 20th-century English poetry. The contacts in the 1950s with those who had collection includes sheet music, posters, Cohen Collection’s copy of Night and Day known Rosenberg and Owen before and original art, manuscripts, correspondence, has an additional manuscript poem by the during the Great War; over 300 volumes photo albums, scrapbooks, and glass author. Copies of Rosenberg’s other two by or about the Great War poets (notably slides. Among recent additions donated pamphlets are in Thomas Cooper Library’s Owen, Graves, and Siegfried Sassoon); and by Professor and Mrs. Bruccoli are a large Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection. contemporary anthologies and periodicals. group of French Great War posters.

4 “The Joseph Heller Papers” Exhibition Opens at Thomas Cooper Library

Thomas Cooper Library’s current The Joseph Heller archive, acquired exhibition features the life and writing of by USC in 1997 with Heller’s active American novelist Joseph Heller (1923– involvement and support, is the largest 1999). The exhibition is chiefly drawn from single collection anywhere supporting USC’s Joseph Heller Archive which houses research on Heller’s work. Since then, over 150,000 pages, drafts, typescripts, and Valerie Heller has donated a substantial items of correspondence documenting Heller’s group of the foreign editions of her late achievement over a period of 30 years. husband’s books. To mark the opening of the exhibition, success of Catch-22 (1962) as book, film, Regularly ranked among the top 10 the Thomas Cooper Society sponsored a talk and play, to the succession of major nov- American novelists of the 20th century, by American author, Christopher Buckley, els that followed—Something Happened Heller did air-crew training in South on October 10 which constituted the (1974), Good As Gold (1979), God Knows Carolina during World War II, and he Thomas Cooper Library event in this year’s (1984), Picture This (1988), and Closing returned here most recently in 1996, to USC Literary Festival. The exhibition, the Time (1994). receive USC’s Thomas Cooper Medal for first since the archive came to USC, will Alongside the manuscripts for several Distinction in the Arts and Sciences. continue until the end of December. novels are the distinctive file cards on which Prof. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Prof. The exhibition charts Heller’s career, Heller recorded ideas and tried out one-liners Park Bucker, of USC-Sumter, have from his New York childhood and war ser- for his novels. Also on display is Heller’s recently co-authored Joseph Heller: A vice in North Africa and Italy, through his scrapbook of reviews and publicity for Descriptive Bibliography (University of early writing and screenplays and the great Catch-22 as well as posters for the film. Pittsburgh Press/Oak Knoll, 2002).

Dean continued from page 1 world which has itself become increasingly competitive. Much of the information which scholars use in 2002 is in a digital format so that, in some instances, information from About Dean Willis the USC Columbia libraries can be shared not only with the other USC campuses, but also with citizens throughout the state of South Carolina. It seems to me that expanding Paul A. Willis began work as the access to information resources–be it to a physician, K–12 teacher, professional, busi- new dean of libraries in July. He was ness person, those involved in distance learning, or the public at large–has the potential to previously director of libraries at the influence economic development in the state as well as to enhance the general quality of University of Kentucky and, prior to life. Working in cooperation with other college, university, school, and public libraries as that, law librarian there. well as the South Carolina State Library, the University Libraries are pursuing the goal of Dean Willis holds Bachelor of a state-wide virtual library. Arts and Doctor of Jurisprudence My vision for the research library of the 21st-century is to provide students, faculty, degrees from the University of and staff with all relevant information products when needed, with coverage that is both Kentucky and a Master of Library current and comprehensive. We must provide a single entry point to this information from Science degree from the University computers in the libraries, offices, labs, homes, and residence halls where our patrons of Maryland. He had been at do their research. The USC libraries must continue to position themselves to manage the Kentucky both as a professor of law digital information environment in which they now work and must prepare themselves to and a librarian since 1966. deal with other significant changes close at hand which impact scholarly communications. During his career, Dean Willis The libraries at USC must collect and preserve the intellectual and cultural heritage has been active in a number of law of South Carolina by building on the great strengths in the South Caroliniana Library and library organizations, published and expand access to these collections by digitizing key primary source materials. By the articles and book chapters, and served same token, the distinguished special and rare collections in Thomas Cooper Library must as a consultant. His latest published be maintained and strengthened. work is a chapter entitled “Building I have two major University library initiatives underway this year. These include a a Major Gifts Program” in a mono- review of the libraries’ organizational structure and working toward a rare books addition graph which has just been published to and renovation of Thomas Cooper Library. Private funding will be required for the rare by the Association of Research books addition. Libraries. I look forward to meeting you, the USC faculty and staff, in the coming months. I am anxious to hear your concerns about library services and I welcome and appreciate your support.

5 Giving New Life to Old Books In Memoriam In March of 2002, Holly Herro University Libraries’ faculty and staff from the USC Conservation members were saddened to learn of the Facility, organized the Thomas passing on September 30 of Darrick Cooper Library Book Repair Hart, preservation archivist and assistant Unit. The goal of the unit is to conservator at the Arthur E. Holman, Jr. repair damaged books from the Conservation Laboratory. library’s general collections Darrick earned two degrees from so they can again be available USC, a BA in history (1995) and an to users. MA/MLS in public history, archives track The participants, who (2000). He participated in a ﬁeld school in are library faculty, staff, and England in 1998 as part of his work in the student volunteers, learn how public history program and, in 1996-99 he to assess various types of worked on a committee to create a muse- book damage. They also learn um for the Columbia Fire Department. many book repair techniques, Ready to get busy with their mission of saving old books are, The oral history interviews which he seated, left to right, Sallie Ruff, Laurel Baker, Allison Thiem, such as rebacking and recas- conducted with African-American ﬁremen Ashley Wight, and Tonia Simpson. Standing, left to right, are ing. When possible, all of the Jeff Berg, Jody Mack, Holly Herro, Joe Henderson, Clara who integrated the department became the original components of the Farnstrom, and Lawryn Henderson. basis for his MA thesis. damaged books are retained Other staff memebers who work on the project include: Pat All of Darrick’s colleagues at the and used during the repair Harwell, Mae Jones, Ben Peterson, Nathan Scott, Sharon libraries will miss him and extend to his process. Verba and Greg Wilsbacker. family their sincere condolences.

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America” and the Paris Review as “the Libraries Offer New Online Databases best journal in the English language.” During his remarks, Plimpton reminisced ABSEES Online: ABSEES Online maps. USC receives daily updates. about his long and varied literary career is the online version of The American Econlit: EconLit is the American and about other awards he has received Bibliography of Slavic and East European Economic Association’s electronic bibliog- recently including induction into the Studies. ABSEES covers North American raphy of economics literature throughout American Academy of Arts and Letters (U.S. and Canadian) scholarship on East- the world. It contains abstracts, indexing, and the French Legion d’Honneur as Central Europe, Russia, and the former and links to full-text articles in economics a Chevalier. Following his remarks, Soviet Union. It contains bibliographic journals. It abstracts books and indexes, Plimpton presented Bruccoli a framed, records for journal articles, books, book articles in books, working papers series, hand-written manuscript page from Ernest chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and dissertations and provides the full- Hemingway’s short story, “The Battler.” online resources, and selected govern- text of JEL book reviews. USC receives The page had been given to Plimpton ment publications. USC receives updates monthly updates with coverage from 1969 by Hemingway in the 1950s in connec- monthly and has coverage from 1990 to to the present. tion with an article for the Paris Review. the present. The article was instrumental in revising Bibliography of the History of Art/ WorldCat: WorldCat is the world’s fore- public perception of Hemingway from a Bibliographie d’Histoire de l’Art (BHA): most bibliographic database, with over 46 writer who liked to role-play as a tough BHA is the world’s most extensive million bibliographic records represent- guy into a sympathetic figure who was a abstracting and indexing service for current ing 400 languages. It covers information committed artist. The manuscript page had literature on the history of art in Europe from before 1,000 B.C. to the present, and hung in Plimpton’s office for the many and the New World. It surveys the visual includes holdings information from librar- intervening years and Plimpton presented arts from late antiquity to the present, ies in 45 countries. A typical record in it to Bruccoli in appreciation for his sup- offering researchers access to more than WorldCat contains a physical description port of the Paris Review and his literary 4,000 periodicals published in 45 languages, of an item and information about its intel- accomplishments, including publishing as well as art-related books, exhibition and lectual content. Some records also include the Dictionary of Literary Biography. dealers’ catalogs, conference proceedings, tables of contents, cover art, book summa- Bruccoli stated that he was very surprised dissertations, and bibliographies. USC has ries, and notes about authors. Publications and pleased to receive the unique gift and coverage from 1973 to the present. covered include books, visual materials, that, after enjoying it awhile, he would computer files, Internet resources, serial present the framed page to the Thomas publications, sound recordings, archival Cooper Library Department of Rare material, articles, musical scores, and Books and Special Collections.

6 USC Dedicates Arthur E. Holman, Jr. News from Conservation Laboratory South Caroliniana The USC Libraries’ conservation labora- Library tory was dedicated on September 18 to the SCL’s collection of the papers of education memory of Arthur E. Holman Jr. The facil- reformer M. Hayes Mizell will be arranged ity, which opened in 1999, will be called and described through a grant of $99,000 the Arthur E. Holman, Jr. Conservation from the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. Laboratory. Honoring Mr. Holman in this During his career, Mizell played an way was made possible by a donation important role in furthering the debate over from John E. Swearingen who was Mr. improving the American education system. Holman’s USC classmate and lifelong In 1987, he became director of the Clark friend. Foundation’s Program for Disadvantaged Present at the dedication ceremony Youth, now known as the Program for were Mrs. Arthur E. Holman Jr. of Student Achievement. Anderson, and her children, A. Elliott Shown at the dedication of the Arthur E. Work on the project began in April 2002 Holman III, and Emily Holman Sands Holman, Jr. Conservation Laboratory are, and should be completed by 2005. Supervis- (Mrs. George), as well as Mrs. Andrew left to right, A. Elliott Holman III, Mrs. ory staff for the project are principal inves- Sorensen, wife of the University’s new Arthur E. Holman Jr., and Emily Holman tigator, Henry Fulmer, of the manuscripts president, and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Lipscomb. Sands. department, and Herb Hartsook of Modern Mr. Lipscomb was a classmate at USC with Political Collections. The project archivist is both Swearingen and Holman Jr. Those to preserving precious literary and histori- Craig M. Keeney, a graduate student in pub- attending the dedication were welcomed by cal materials. In conclusion he said, “ On lic history/library and information science. Paul Willis, dean of the University Libraries. behalf of my mother, my sister, and our  Willis expressed his gratitude for Swear- ‘extended’ Carolina family, I thank John This past December, the Modern Political ingen’s generosity in support of the conser- Swearingen and his powerful example Collections division of the South Caroliniana vation facility, regretting that Swearingen of loyalty, friendship and generosity to Library received a major federal grant of could not be present for the event. He my father and to the University of South $848,130 to promote its activities. The bulk recalled that the late George Terry, former Carolina.” of the funds have been deposited in a state dean of University Libraries, had toured the The Arthur E. Holman, Jr. endowed account and will generate income Library Annex and Conservation Laboratory Conservation Laboratory contains 2,300 to support the arrangement and description with Swearingen shortly after it opened. square feet of work space. It houses state- of collections and, beginning in 2005, a A. Elliott Holman III, spoke about his of-the-art conservation equipment includ- biannual symposium on contemporary gov- recollections of the friendship between his ing custom-made moveable work tables, ernment, politics, and society. These sym- father and Swearingen and of their mutual fume hoods, an industrial-strength dust posia will feature noted scholars, leaders in love for the University. He also mentioned collection system, a leaf caster, a surgical- government, and others and will highlight his father’s love of history, especially South grade microscope, and a large collection of the division’s holdings and the research to Carolina history, and expressed his cer- ﬁnishing tools for ﬁne bindings. Preservation which those collections lend themselves. tainty that his father would have been very Librarian and Conservator Holly Herro is Issues currently being considered for the pleased to be associated with the work of a in charge of the laboratory’s operations. inaugural symposium include the federal conservation laboratory and its dedication budget, rise of the Republican Party in the South, and rethinking of the welfare system.

Treasures from the Film Library The Newsfilm Archive Preservation Endowment, begun in 1999, has provided funds to preserve a number of unique, exciting, and sometimes vital motion picture film clips. “Caddies of the Shady Rest, the first and only all African- American Country Club, 1925” shows a frame from one of the most recently preserved reels of Movietone News film. For more information, visit the Newsfilm Library Web site at www.sc.edu.newsfilm.

7 Library Receives New James Gift Supports Ellroy Materials Assistantship American novelist, James Ellroy, has (2001); file copies of his magazine contri- General and Mrs. T. Eston Marchant donated a major group of research mate- butions; over 300 different editions, reprint- Jr. have recently donated a gift of property rials for his literary archives at Thomas ings and translations of his books; and a to the USC Educational Foundation, the Cooper Library. Ellroy, author of 15 books large collection of framed posters, photo- proceeds from the sale of which will ben- including The Black Dahlia (1987), L.A. graphs and other visual materials. efit the William Davis Melton University Confidential (1990), and the memoir My “Ellroy’s writing has a worldwide fol- Archives Graduate Assistantship at the Dark Places (1996), selected USC as home lowing,” says Tom McNally, University South Caroliniana Library. for his literary papers in 1999. Librarian for Public Services, who went The Marchants have long been avid Since then, Ellroy has added a second to Kansas City to arrange transportation supporters of the University. Gen. Marchant group of papers, and Dr. Richard Layman, for the latest gift. “The books and visual is a Carolina alumnus (BS 1942, JD 1947). a USC alumnus and former president of materials in this latest gift complement the He chaired the Board of Trustees from the Thomas Cooper Society, has donated manuscripts by showing the huge public 1970–1978. After service in the United the autograph manuscripts for L.A. response to his work.” States Marine Corps during World War II, Confidential and Ellroy’s novel, White Jazz Since the original gift, Thomas Cooper Marchant continued to serve his country (1992). “Of the writers of this generation,” Library’s Rare Books & Special Collections in the South Carolina National Guard, ulti- Layman believes, “Ellroy is among those staff have worked with several television mately as its Adjutant General from 1978 most likely to be read by the next.” and other media projects on Ellroy and his to 1995. This summer, as Ellroy prepared work. The James Ellroy Archive is part Caroline Bristow Marchant is the to move back from Kansas to his native of USC’s continuing initiative to build granddaughter of Dr. William Davis Melton California, he made a third major donation: research collections documenting modern who was president of the University from the manuscript and multiple typescripts American literature, publishing, and the 1922 to 1926. She and her brothers, Walter for his latest novel The Cool Six Thousand profession of authorship. James Bristow Jr., and William Melton Bristow, established the endowment earlier this year.

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Editor: Nancy H. Washington

Contributors: Linda Allman Patrick Scott Carol Benﬁeld Benjamin Singleton Jan Cambre Allen Stokes Henry Fulmer Bill Sudduth Herb Hartsook Virginia Weathers Holly Herro Paul Willis Jennifer Ottervik

After a one-year hiatus, Reﬂections is resuming publication in print format. No issue was published in fall 2001, and the spring 2002 issue was published only online. Back issues may be found on the Libraries’ Web site at http://www. sc.edu/library/publications/pub.html.