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Bancroftiana #114 N EWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY BANCROFTIANA N UMBER 114 • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY • SPRING 1999 Bancroft Launches Bioscience Program with Stellar Symposium March 12–13 — by David Farrell & Sally Hughes cientists at UC Berkeley, UC San of its Program in the Biological Sciences decades of 1,200 publicly held U.S. Francisco, and Stanford have been and Biotechnology March 12-13. The biotechnology companies. Hundreds keyS players in two of the most signifi- two-day event will include an exhibition are located in northern California and cant events in the life sciences in the in the Heller Gallery, presentation of oral financed by local venture capital, mak- 20th century: the emerging field of mo- histories, a University Extension course on ing the Bay Area the global leader of the lecular biology and the flourishing bio- the history and significance of DNA, industry. Examples include Chiron and technology industry it has spawned. and presentations by distinguished scien- Genentech, both represented on the The Bancroft Library has ambitious tists and scholars. The keynote address new program’s advisory board. plans to document this important de- will be given by James D. Watson who, Because most of the key “New Biol- velopment for posterity. ogy” scientists and other players are still “With establishment of our Program active, archival documentation and oral in the Biological Sciences and Biotech- histories can be relatively comprehen- nology, we expect to become the coun- sive, if they are acquired quickly. This is try’s primary archive for research into a a special opportunity, therefore, for Ber- notable scientific revolution,” says keley to establish itself as a global center Bancroft director Charles Faulhaber. for research into the history of biomole- The program will collect archives, in- cular science and biotechnology. cluding personal and corporate papers, Bancroft is well situated to seize this correspondence, research reports, pho- opportunity because of its existing col- tographs, oral histories, and other pri- lections and professional expertise. The mary resources and make them available library’s History of Science and Tech- for research. Scholars are intensely in- nology Program, established in 1972, terested in biotechnology because of its includes more than 200 archival collec- far-reaching impact on health, agricul- tions focusing on the history and ture, business, and society at large. achievements of Berkeley scientists and Cal molecular biologist Daniel E. academic programs, as well as industry Koshland, Jr., Lasker Award-winner and Carolyn Djanogly. Photo by in the Bay Area and California. They former editor of Science magazine who Nobel laureate James D. Watson will be the keynote document such prominent Berkeley speaker March 13. chairs the new program’s advisory com- bioscientists as Karl F. Meyer, Wendell mittee, speaks in terms familiar to with Francis Crick and Maurice Stanley, Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., Marian Bancrofters: “Genetic engineering will Wilkins, won the Nobel prize in 1962 E. Koshland, and Melvin Calvin. produce a second Gold Rush for the for discovering the structure of DNA, Oral histories have been conducted Bay Area. I’m pleased to be a part of described in his best-selling book, The with prominent bioscientists, including this important initiative to document Double Helix. Paul Berg, Herbert Boyer, Stanley history while the key participants at In 1973 Herbert Boyer (UCSF) and Cohen, Arthur Kornberg, and William Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF are still Stanley Cohen (Stanford) developed the Rutter. Additional oral histories address around to tell their stories.” technique for cloning DNA, which has health and industrial issues closely Bancroft plans a formal inauguration led to the founding in a little over two Continued on page 3 N EWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY From the Director Just what is it that you do, exactly? supervising archivist for three years, at a her a quick run-down on the patrons in cost of $50,000 per year, to help us clear the Reading Room and the sorts of up our backlog of unprocessed manu- materials they are seeking. ost people are too polite to ask, script collections. 12:15 p.m. I meet Harrison Fraker, Dean but I’m sure it’s in the back of their Next I talk to a specialist in distance of the College of Environmental Design, mindsM when they first meet me. And I’m education in Waco, Texas, who has called over lunch at the Women’s Faculty Club, also sure that their idea of what the to inquire about our experiences in setting to discuss establishing a course on director of a special collections library up the joint Berkeley-Columbia medieval typography, funding for a curatorship of does is much like mine was before I studies seminar using the Bancroft- CED’s enormous collection of architec- actually came to Bancroft: surrounded by Columbia Digital Scriptorium project (see tural drawings and blueprints by Bay Area medieval manuscripts and rare books, the Spring 1998 Bancroftiana). architects, and the reintegration as a single negotiating with book dealers and private 9:20 a.m. I call Stanley Cohen, professor collection of the landscape architecture collectors, spending quiet hours helping of genetics at Stanford and co-discoverer, library donated to the campus by Beatrix to catalog Bancroft’s treasures. with UCSF professor Herbert Boyer, of Farrand in 1959 and misguidedly dis- For someone who had just spent five recombinant DNA technology, to invite persed in the main stacks, Bancroft, and years as chair of the Department of him to participate in a symposium on various branch libraries. Spanish and Portuguese, worrying about “Biotechnology at 25: History, Science, whether we could replace senior faculty 1:25 p.m. I begin to draft a letter to Jean and Society” (see page 1). He accepts, who had taken early retirement or if the Ashton, director of the Rare Book and persuaded, I think, by the fact that James Temporary Academic Staff Budget could Manuscript Library at Columbia, con- Watson, Nobel laureate for the discovery be stretched to squeeze out another cerning the Digital Scriptorium Project. of DNA, will give the keynote address. section of beginning Spanish, Bancroft’s 1:45 p.m. I take a visitor from Uruguay Olympian doors looked very appealing. 9:45 a.m. Louise Braunschweiger, director on a short tour of Bancroft. It didn’t take me long to learn that the of the Library Development Office, reality is very different. Like any manager, comes to discuss strategies for approach- 2:30 p.m. Willa Baum, head of the I spend most of my time in meetings, ing a potential donor who has expressed Regional Oral History Office, comes writing letters, on the telephone, and, interest in setting up an endowment fund down to discuss the possibility of organiz- now, answering e-mail. for Bancroft. ing a 45th anniversary celebration for Nevertheless, the endless variety of ROHO. We also discuss a possible oral 10 a.m. I begin my two-hour shift on the subjects with which I deal does lend a history series on grassroots environmen- Reference Desk, bringing with me invita- special flavor to my days in Bancroft. talism and fundraising for the transcrip- tions to a Friends function to address. To give some idea of that flavor, I’d like tion of interviews with long-time Italian- Between queries from patrons I start to to take you through a fairly typical day — American residents of San Francisco’s work my way through the 68 e-mail Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1998, about a month North Beach. after fall classes started. messages that have accumulated since yesterday. 3:15 p.m. I take a call from Jean Ashton 8:30 a.m. I meet with Wendy Hanson, Among my queries at the desk: the about setting up a Digital Scriptorium director of the annual campaign in the superintendent of the Sutro Tunnel in meeting in New York. I want to combine Library Development Office, to choose 1860, the corruption trial of Eugene it with a November trip to Madrid, where artwork for our holiday greeting and note Schmitz (mayor of San Francisco in I will present the project to the Consor- cards. 1906), areas of San Francisco devastated tium of European Research Libraries. by the 1906 earthquake and fire, permis- 8:50 a.m. I begin to return telephone 4:00 p.m. Tony Bliss, curator of rare sion to publish photographs of Berkeley’s messages that came in the previous books and literary manuscripts, shows me Haviland Hall and physicist Edward afternoon while I was teaching my a copy of the Histoire de Jean de Calais, Teller, and the correspondence of former undergraduate seminar on the Literature offered to us as an unusually fine 18th-c. Bancroft director George Hammond. of Love in Medieval Spain. French chapbook. He will return it to the The first call goes to a major donor Noon: I hand over the Reference Desk to dealer, since it is almost certainly a who has agreed to fund the position of a Teri Rinne, head of public services, giving modern facsimile (a polite word for fake). P AGE 2 / SPRING 1999 N EWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY 4:25 p.m. Mary Morganti, head of Bioscience Symposium Symposium co-sponsors include the manuscript processing, stops by to discuss Continued from page 1 Bay Area Bioscience Center, College of procedures for hiring the supervising Chemistry, College of Letters and Science archivist funded by the donor with whom related to biotechnology, including a – Division of Biological Sciences, College I had spoken that morning. lengthy series on the AIDS epidemic. of Natural Resources, Cooley Godward All of this material will be available for LLP, Marco Hellman Fund, School of 4:45 p.m.
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