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Spring 2013

Marginalia no. 33

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pril 18, 2013, may be one of as a portal or gateway to content held those dates that will long be elsewhere. Indeed this is also how the remembered—at least in librar- MWDL works. Not too long ago the Aies. That is the date on which the Digital DPLA began looking for content and of Public Library of America (DPLA) course the MWDL was a prime target launched. Never heard of it? It’s worth with its hundreds of collections com- ormer Utah State University President knowing about and represents a massive prising over 700,000 items from over potential to achieve a goal never before Stanford O. Cazier passed away on sixty partners in Utah, Nevada, Arizona, March 14, 2013. Cazier became USU’s attained, the collection of all knowledge Idaho and even Hawaii. F 12th president following the retirement of in one place. And in this instance that Glen L. Taggart in 1979 and continued as one place is everywhere, particularly The USU Libraries have been involved president until 1991 when he retired. Follow- your computer, tablet or smartphone. with MWDL from its inception. ing his retirement Cazier returned to the class- The first attempt to bring all knowledge Unusual in its organization, the MWDL room where he remained a full time professor together was at the Library of Alexan- is distributed among a number of larger until 1997. Since then, he continued to teach dria in the Ancient World, and that un- institutions that can serve as hubs for the classes as a professor emeritus. fortunately burned. Attempts were made smaller institutions. The Merrill-Cazier again after the invention of printing in A native of Nephi, Utah, Cazier earned an Library serves as one of these hubs, and undergraduate degree from the University of massive bibliographies and encyclope- our Digital Initiatives Department under Utah in 1952, where he also earned a mas- dias, but it soon became evident that the leadership of Cheryl Walters has ter’s degree in 1956. He earned his doctorate this was an impossible task, until now. been a major contributor to the design of history at the University of Wisconsin. He and infrastructure of MWDL. The taught one year at the Bronx Community Col- The stated goal of the DPLA is to be central MWDL server is at the Univer- lege before joining the faculty at USU. “an open, distributed network of com- sity of Utah. It serves as a portal and prehensive online resources that would “harvests” information about collections Following his retirement in 1991, the Cazier Science and Technology Library was named draw on the nation’s living heritage that then allows a user or researcher to from libraries, universities, archives, in his honor. That facility is now part of the view the digital collections at the hub. Merrill-Cazier Library here at USU. and museums in order to educate, Thus if I see an item in my search at the inform, and empower everyone in the MWDL website that comes from USU, current and future generations.” This I can click on that item and view it on grand vision was only articulated about the USU server as presented in the USU three years ago. At that time, I had the Digital Library. All this makes little dif- pleasure of attending the first plenary ference to most users, but it represents meeting for the DPLA at the National a distinct way of doing business. Most Archives in Washington, DC, but until other large digital library projects have recently we have not been directly in- centralized their content in one loca- volved. As you may know, USU is part tion, but MWDL is spread out among of the Mountain West Digital Library the various hubs. The hubs work with (MWDL), which is sponsored by the smaller libraries, museums, and other Utah Academic Library Consortium. organizations to help them digitize their The DPLA has no content, but acts Photo courtesy USU Public Relations and Marketing Continued page 2 Library of America ...continued from page 1

historical materials. For instance, USU standard Internet search engines cannot has helped the city of Mendon digitize always drill down into our collections its historical records and hosts them in to find individual items and so you may our digital library. Thus the Mendon never know they exist. But by going Research Week, April 8-12, fo- materials are freely available here at through the DPLA portal you can be cuses on research and subsequent book USU in our own digital library and assured that everything relevant to your publications from faculty and staff at through the MWDL portal. Now the search will turn up and from all around Utah State University and affiliates. Mendon Collection is available to the the country, not just one institution. This list comprises those books pub- nation through the DPLA portal. Forty- And then it’s up to you to wade through lished by faculty and staff members. six USU digital collections and many the results, but at least they will all be These books can be found in the Richard materials from Digital Commons (our potentially valid. Schockmel Lounge and are available institutional repository) are now part of for check out at the circulation desk. the DPLA. Visit DPLA at http://dp.la/, MWDL at http://mwdl.org/, and the USU Digital Craig Adams, Professor, Department Head, You might ask, given the distributed Library at http://digital.lib.usu.edu/ Department of Civil & Environmental Engineer- nature of the DPLA, why the current cdm/. ing,: Cresser, Malcolm S., Batty, Lesley C., Internet search engines that we all use Boxall, Alistair B. A., & Adams, Craig, 2012. every day won’t suffice to bring together We stand on the threshold of accom- Introduction to Environmental Science: Earth and Man. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. the digital items we are looking for. The plishing a task that has eluded us for answer is not as simple as you might millennia, the organization and provi- Susan Andersen, Lecturer and Associate Direc- think. Yes, a standard search will bring sion of access to all knowledge. Tech- tor of the USU Writing Center, English Department up some of the materials you can find nology has enabled this dream to come and Bonnie Moore, Lecturer, English Depart- in DPLA (or MWDL or USU), but you to fruition and USU is very much a part ment: Andersen, Susan & Moore, Bonnie. (Eds.), 2012. Voices: On Stage and in Print. Logan, UT: will need to wade through countless of realizing the dream. Utah State University English Department. hits and pages that are of questionable value. So by searching through DPLA Richard W. Clement Richard M. Anderson, USU Botanical Center (or MWDL or USU) you will know that Dean of Libraries Botanical Center's Nursery and Greenhouse Man- the results are all valuable. Further, the ager, Jerry L. Goodspeed, Horticulture Associ- ate Professor Utah State University Extension in Weber County, Utah and JayDee Gunnell, Hor- ticulture Associate Professor Utah State University Extension in Salt Lake County, Utah: Anderson, Richard M., Gunnell, JayDee, & Goodspeed, Jerry L., 2012. Wildflowers of the Mountain West. Lo- gan, UT: Utah State University Press.

Brian Belland, Assistant Professor Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences: Fee, Samuel & Belland, Brian. (Eds.) 2012.The Role of Criticism in Understanding Problem Solving: Honoring the Work of John C. Belland (Explorations in the Learning Sciences, Instructional Systems and Per- formance Technologies, Vol. 5). New York, NY: Springer.

Alan Blackstock, Associate Professor Depart- ment of English, Vernal Education Center: Black- stock, Alan R., 2012. The Rhetoric of Redemption: Chesterton, Ethical Criticism, and the Common Man (Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory, Vol. 23). New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Anne M. Butler, Professor Emerita Department of History: Butler, Anne M., 2012. Across God’s Frontiers: Catholic Sisters in the American West, 1850–1920. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.

2 Marginalia Todd Crowl, Professor Ecology Center, Water- Gregory Madden, Professor Department of D. Ray Reutzel, Distinguished Professor and Di- shed Sciences: Brokaw, Nicholas & Crowl, Todd, Psychology: Madden, Gregory J., 2012. APA rector of Early Childhood Center School of Teach- et al. (Eds.). 2012. A Caribbean Forest Tapestry: Handbook of Behavior Analysis (APA Handbooks er Education and Leadership: Reutzel, D. Ray & The Multidimensional Nature of Disturbance and in Psychology), (2 vols.). Washington, DC: Amer- Cooter, Robert B. Jr., 2012. Teaching Children to Response (Long-Term Ecological Research Net- ican Psychological Association. Read: The Teacher Makes the Difference, (6th ed.). work). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Boston, MA: Pearson. John McLaughlin, Associate Professor English Melanie M. Domenech Rodriguez, Associ- Department: McLaughlin, John E., 2012. Shoshoni Eric Schulz, Senior Lecturer and Co-Director ate Professor, Department of Psychology: Bernal, Grammar. Munich, Germany: Lincom Academic of Strategic Marketing & Brand Management De- Guillermo & Domenech Rodriguez, Melanie M. Publishers. partment of Management: Schulz, Eric, 2012. The (Eds.). 2012. Cultural Adaptations: Tools for Ev- Smart Marketer’s Toolbox: The Latest Marketing idence-Based Practice with Diverse Populations. Robert S. McPherson, Professor Department of Innovations and How to Use Them to Grow Your Washington, DC: American Psychological Asso- History, Utah State University Eastern–San Juan: Business. CreateSpace Independent Publishing ciation. McPherson, Robert S., 2012. Dinéji Na`nitin: Na- Platform. vajo Traditional Teachings and History. Boulder, Ryan DuPont, Professor, Research Associate CO: University Press of Colorado. Randy T. Simmons, Charles G. Koch Professor at the Utah Water Research Laboratory, Head of of Political Economy Department of Economics & the Division of Environmental Engineering De- Robert S. McPherson, Professor Department Finance: Gardner, B. Delworth & Simmons, Randy partment of Civil & Environmental Engineering: of History, Utah State University Eastern–San T. (Eds.), 2012. Aquanomics: Water Markets and Theodore, Louis & DuPont, R. Ryan, 2012. En- Juan: McPherson, Robert S., Dandy, Jim & Burak, the Environment. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Pub- vironmental Health and Hazard Risk Assessment: Sarah E., 2012. Navajo Tradition, Mormon Life: lishers. Principles and Calculations. Boca Raton, FL: CRC The Autobiography and Teachings of Jim Dandy. Press. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press. Randy T. Simmons, Charles G. Koch Profes- sor of Political EconomyDepartment of Econom- Christian Geiser, Assistant Professor Depart- David Merrill, Professor Department of Instruc- ics & Finance: Yonk, Ryan M., Simmons, Randy ment of Psychology: Geiser, Christian, 2012. Data tional Technology & Learning Sciences: Merrill, T., & Steed, Brian C., 2012. Green vs. Green: The Analysis with Mplus (Methodology in the Social M. David, 2012. First Principles of Instruction: Political, Legal, and Administrative Pitfalls Fac- Sciences). New York, NY: Guilford Press. Identifying and Designing Effective, Efficient, and ing Green Energy Production (Routledge Research Engaging Instruction. Hoboken, NJ: Pfeiffer (John in Environmental Policy and Politics). New York, Kai He, Assistant Professor Department of Politi- Wiley & Sons). NY: Routledge. cal Science; Huiyun Feng, Assistant Professor Department of Political Science: He, Kai & Feng, Thomas A. Monaco, Resource Ecologist For- Michael Sowder, Associate Professor English Huiyun, 2012. Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy age & Range Research Lab, U.S. Agricultural Re- Department: Sowder, Michael, 2012. House Under Analysis in the Asia Pacific: Rational Leaders and search Service Adjunct Wildland Resources De- the Moon. Kirksville, MO: Truman State Univer- Risky Behavior. New York, NY: Routledge. partment: Monaco, Thomas A., & Sheley, Roger sity Press. A. (Eds.), 2012. Invasive Plant Ecology and Man- agement: Linking Processes to Practice (CABI Scott L. Hunsaker, Associate Professor, Edu- Blake P. Tullis, Associate Professor Department Invasives Series). Oxfordshire, UK: CABI (Centre cational Foundations and Gifted Education School of Civil & Environmental Engineering: Tullis, for Agricultural Bioscience International). of Teacher Education and Leadership: Hunsaker, Blake P., 2012. Hydraulic Loss Coefficients for Scott L. (Ed.), 2012. Identification: The Theory and Culverts. Washington, DC: Transportation Re- Practice of Identifying Students for Gifted and Tal- Michael Nicholls, Professor Emeritus Depart- search Board. ented Education Services. Mansfield Center, CT: ment of History: Nicholls, Michael L., 2012. Whis- Creative Learning Press. pers of Rebellion: Narrating Gabriel’s Conspiracy Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, Assistant Director for (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series). Charlottes- Utah Climate Center, Assistant Professor Depart- ville, VA: University of Virginia Press. Christa Jones, Assistant Professor Department ment of Plants, Soils, & Climate; Robert Gil- of Languages, Philosophy, & Communication Stud- lies, Director/State Climatologist of Utah Climate ies: Jones, Christa, 2012. Cave Culture in Maghre- Yolanda Flores Niemann, Professor Depart- Center, Professor, Department of Plants, Soils, bi Literature: Imagining Self and Nation (After the ment of Psychology: Gutierrez y Muhs, Gabriella, & Climate: Wang, Shih-Yu & Gillies, Robert R. Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Niemann, Yolanda Flores, Gonzalez, Carmen G., (Eds.), 2012. Modern Climatology. New York, NY: France). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. & Harris, Angela P. (Eds.), 2012. Presumed In- INTECH. Open Access title available at: competent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia. Logan, UT: Utah State http://www.intechopen.com/books/modernclimatology Joyce Kinkead, Professor Department of Eng- University Press. lish: Kinkead, Joyce & Blockus, Linda, 2012. Undergraduate Research Offices and Programs: Models and Practices. Washington, DC: Council Kevin Olson, Assistant Professor Music Depart- on Undergraduate Research. ment: Olson, Kevin & Nesbitt, Kenn, 2012. Simply Silly Songbook: Songs about Music. Fort Lauder- dale, FL: FJH Music Company. Harrison Kleiner, Lecturer of Philosophy Department of Languages, Philosophy, & Com- Richard C. Peralta, Professor Civil & Environ- munication Studies and Charles Huenemann, Marginalia mental Engineering Department: Peralta, Richard Professor of Philosophy Department of Lan- Published by C., with Kalwij, Ineke M., 2012. Groundwater Op- guages, Philosophy, & Communication Studies: timization Handbook: Flow, Contaminant Trans- Friends of Merrill-Cazier Library Kleiner, Harrison & Huenemann, Charles, 2012. Vicki Read, Editor port, and Conjunctive Management. Boca Raton, Great Ideas: Fragments of Western Civilization. Trina Shelton, Editor FL: CRC Press. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company. Kathy Schockmel Art Director D. Ray Reutzel, Distinguished Professor and Copyright 2013 Harrison Kleiner, Lecturer of Philosophy Director of Early Childhood Center School of Department of Languages, Philosophy, & Com- Teacher Education and Leadership: Reutzel, D. munication Studies: Kleiner, Harrison, 2012. Ray & Cooter, Robert B. Jr., 2012. The Essentials The Perennial Conversation: An Introduction to of Teaching Children to Read: The Teacher Makes Philosophy. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publish- the Difference, (3rd ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson. ing Company.

3 Marginalia 2012 Leonard J. Arrington Writing Awards he Leonard J. Arrington Writing Awards are given each year in conjunction with the Annual Leonard J. Arrington Mormon His- Ttory Lecture. The contest is open to all college students in Utah and surrounding areas. Entrants are required to attend the lecture; write a 2,500 word essay related to the lecture including a one page synopsis of the lecture and bibliography; and use a minimum of two outside research sources. The essay topic must relate to the lecture topic but may be expository, persuasive, or reflective, but not fiction. The essays are judged by a panel of five judges including both on campus and off campus experts. The 2012 essays were based on the lecture given last fall by Terryl L. Givens.

Liz Kline Staff Assistant, Special Collections & Archives

First place: $1,000 Benjamin Harman

en is an undergraduate at Utah State Univer- Bsity. He is an honors student and is cur- rently pursuing a double major in philosophy and religious studies with a minor in political science. His main research interests are in philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind and history of Chris- tianity. He also serves as an associate editor for the Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies.

Third place: $250 Second place: $500 Chad L. Nielsen Peter Wosnik had grew up in the Ogden, Utah area. CHe is studying biological engineering at ete is a recent graduate of Utah State Uni- Utah State University while working as an Pversity where he received B.A. degrees in intern on the side. His main hobbies include history and religious studies. During his time as music, playing the organ and piano, singing, an undergraduate, he served as the president of and ringing English hand bells with the the Religious Studies Club and as co-president of Westminster Bell Choir in downtown Logan; the Mormon Studies Club. He also served as a spending time with his wife and family and copyeditor for the Intermountain West Journal of reading and writing about LDS history and Religious Studies and as an Undergraduate Teach- theology. His passion for Mormon history ing Fellow for Philip Barlow (Arrington Chair of came into bloom while serving as a full-time Mormon History and Culture). Pete’s academic missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of interests include: Mormon Studies, Christian Latter-day Saints in Illinois and Iowa, near history, and philosophy of religion. His senior many important events of the LDS church's capstone explored the influence of religious cha- past. Currently, he is working on writing a risma and the Book of Mormon on early Mormon biography about Zerah Pulsipher--an early conversion in Kirtland, Ohio. In his free time Pete leader in the LDS Church--and hopes to enjoys reading, playing music and traveling. continue to write about history for the rest of his life.

4 Marginalia Take earth for your own May Swenson‘s large room and the floor of earth 100th Birthday Celebration carpeted with sunlight and hung round with ake time in the next few months to visit the Merrill-Cazier Library to view the cur- silver wind rent exhibit in the main atrium of the library. The exhibit, May Swenson‘s 100th MBirthday Celebration, will be on display from April until the middle of June. This for your dancing place exhibit celebrates May’s life as a poet and as a native Loganite. May was born and raised in ~ May Swenson Logan, graduated from Utah State University and started her writing career while a student at Logan High School. While the bulk of her adult life was spent in New York she never forgot her roots in the West. Much of her poetry is based on her life in the desert west and her love for nature. In her illustrious life as a poet May garnered many writing awards and fellowships, a Guggenheim and Rockefeller to name just two. This exhibit displays a sampling of her poetry along with family pictures, broadsides, and other ephemera. May was the author of eleven poetry books.

More of May’s poetry can be viewed in the May Swenson Lounge located on the fourth floor of the library. Primary re- search materials are located downstairs in Special Collections, “The May Swenson Papers” collection MSS 282 and the “May Swenson Book Collection” no. 32. Broadsides and personal possessions of May are housed and may be viewed in Ray B. West 204H.

Vicki Read Head of Patron Services May Swenson Photos: Merrill-Cazier Library Special Collections & Archives

5 Marginalia Founders Day 2013: The 125th Anniversary of Utah State University

tah State University, founded in 1888, commemorated the 150th anniversary of UPresident Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Morrill Act of 1862 that established the land-grant system of public colleges and universities. Merrill-Cazier Librarians’ Presentations:

Duncan, J. and Wesolek, K. (November 9, 2012). Electronic Collection Puberty: Analyzing Awkward Changes in eBook Collection Strategies. Charleston Con- ference, Charleston, South Carolina.

Pumphrey, C. (October 5, 2012): Jack London at Utah State University. Jack London Society, 11th Biennial Sympo- sium. Logan, Utah.

Spicer-Escalante, M. L., Ortiz, Ed. and Williams, R. (February 21, 2013). Turnverein dancers. U.S.U. 1919-1920 Latino/Latina Voices in Cache Valley: The Merrill-Cazier Library celebrated Utah State University’s Founder’s Day with an Insights and Opportunities. Kiger Hour. exhibit and lecture. The exhibit in the atrium gallery displayed ten influential graduates Logan, Utah. from the university’s past. Bob Parson, University Archivist, addressed the standing room only audience. He spoke of the many changes at the university but also how the Williams, R. (October 25, 2012). Move goals to educate remain the same. Bob also spoke of the library’s acquisition of the over Bear Lake Monster, There’s a New Hatch room which would house the first library archive and be the beginning of the cur- Star in Town: Bigfoot in the Fife Folk- rent Special Collections and Archives. lore Archives. 2012 American Folklore Vicki Read Society Meeting, New Orleans, Louisi- Head of Patron Services ana. Publications:

“Once Walters, J. S. The Distribution of Cited U.S. Congressional Committee Docu- you are an ments in the Academic Journal Litera- ture : An Historical Survey. American Aggie, Libraries Association. Government Doc- uments Round Table, Occasional Paper. you are http://wikis.ala.org/godort/images/7/74/ Walters-occasionalpaper8.pdf family.” Bob Parson University Archivist

6 Marginalia COVER STORY

he colorful pattern for our Margina- lia banner comes from the book Puck Tin Pasture by Elizabeth Mackinstry, published in 1925 by Doubleday. The book is bound with period designed art-deco paper The Arrington Fall Lecture covered boards, and features charming verses and lovely line drawings of fairies, gypsies, September 19, 2013 and other characters – all by the author. The entire book, now in the public domain, can be viewed online (or downloaded for free) here:

http://archive.org/details/puckinpasture00mack he speaker for the 19th Annual Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lec- ture will be Gregory A. Prince from Potomac, Maryland. The lecture will This access is made take place in the Logan Tabernacle on Thursday, September 19, 2013, and is possible via the LYRA- T SIS Mass Digitization free and open to the public. Collaborative which Gregory A. Prince is an American pathology researcher, businessman, author, and provides libraries the historian of the Latter Day Saint movement. Prince is the author of over 150 sci- opportunity to digitize entific publications in the field of infectious diseases. He has also published several and share their collec- articles on religious history and theology, as well as three books in the same field: tions. LYRASIS along Having Authority: The Origins and Development of Priesthood During the Ministry with the Mountain West of Joseph Smith (1993); Power from On High: The Development of Mormon Priest- Digital Library will hood (1995); and David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism (2005), be hubs for the Digital co-authored with William Robert Wright. The latter book was the recipient of four Public Library of Amer- prestigious awards. ica (DPLA), “leading the first concrete steps toward the realization of a large-scale digital public library that will make the cultural and Liz Kline scientific record available to all.” Staff Assistant, Special Collections & Archives More information about DPLA on the cover!

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With Help from our Friends: o build our collections, to raise visibility, to increase Tour offerings for students, the campus, and the community, an academic library needs Friends. In fact, Friends have never been more important than they are now: a time when the world is exploding with information and access is continually expanding while budgets & resources are of- ten shrinking. Friends of Merrill- Cazier Library sponsor lectures, host receptions, and make special purchases possible. Our Friends help ensure the library’s continu- ing role as a cultural institution and the intellectual heart of Utah State University. Big Blue in the Library B.A.R.N. (Borrower’s Automated Retrieval Network)