Faculty Excitement Over Gift from Poet Maxine Kumin

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NEWSLETTER OF THE DREW UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ISSUE NO. 35, SPRING 2014 DREW.EDU/LIBRARY

FACULTY EXCITEMENT OVER GIFT FROM POET MAXINE KUMIN

t the height of autumn color this A past October, Dean of Libraries Andrew Scrimgeour, drove to south central New Hampshire to meet Maxine Kumin, the renowned poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States. She had decided to give her poetry library and other volumes of literature to Drew. Knowing that the dean had an interest in seeing the libraries of writers and scholars, not in boxes, but on shelves while in actual use, she in- vited him to “the farm” to browse in the books and tour the mountain pastures that gave rise to many of her poems. After his visit, he drove through downtown Concord and passed the main Kumin’s farm in Warner, New Hampshire public library. As brilliant as the maple trees on the street was a huge banner blanketing the wall by the main entrance. From 1981 to 1982 she served as Poet Drew. This gift greatly strengthens our It proclaimed: “Concord Reads Maxine Laureate of the United States. holdings in poetry, and will provide vital Kumin.” Scrimgeour smiled and To write well is to apprentice oneself resources for students in the English thought, “And Drew University reads to the past, and Kumin’s library will make department, the creative writing program Maxine Kumin too!” that possible for generations of writers at continued on page 3 Kumin died on February 6. Her library will come to Drew in late April. Most of the books will become part of ACADEMIC COMMONS TO RESHAPE the circulating collection. She had pre- viously made sure that the Library had SERVICES IN THE LIBRARY copies of all of her published work. The Drew community is delighted hange is coming to the main floor Library’s Reference and Research Services. with Kumin’s generous and thoughtful C of the Library—a new look and a Help stations will be shared by several gift. Two faculty reflections follow. new service model. At the present services, much of the old heavy furniture time, students must go to offices and labs will give way to flexible furniture that Patrick Phillips, Associate Professor located in several buildings for basic students can configure according to their of English. I was very excited to learn academic services. By next fall that will needs and wireless connectivity will be that the writer Maxine Kumin has de- no longer be the case. Those services will improved. A coffee service is being consid- cided to give her personal library of poetry soon be close neighbors in the Library. ered for the lobby. Fresh paint and new to Drew. Kumin is a major figure in con- Plans are being created to bring the carpet will be grace notes. temporary poetry, and the author of 17 Writing Center, instructional services These enhancements to student books of poems, as well as many novels, from University Technology, INTO’s academic services are the result of the essay collections and children’s books. academic services (Drew’s new partner happy confluence of the Library and Among her many honors are the 1972 for international students) and perhaps Instructional Technology’s strategic plans, Pulitzer Prize and the American Academy others to the Library, where they will Drew2017 planning and INTO. of Arts and Letters Award for Excellence. collaborate with each other and the Visions

THE DEAN’S CORNER TIME TO HAND IN MY KEYS: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE DEAN

Why retire now? Your best day? The timing seems right. The new A day in early October 2001 when Finn Caspersen called president will need to build the to say that he was prepared to bid on a major cache of cabinet with people who can Willa Cather material that was coming to auction at commit to a good number of Sotheby’s in London. The rest of the story is a remarkable working years to help deliver the chapter in Drew’s literary fortunes. new and emerging goals of the university. It is also time for me Your worst day? to give priority to several writing November 3, 2008, when Professor Merrill Skaggs—Drew projects, especially the biography icon, friend of the Library, and remarkable colleague— of Robert Funk, the controversial passed away. biblical scholar who founded the A mistake you’d like to correct? Jesus Seminar and who taught at Not fighting hard enough to continue the University Space Drew early in his career. Committee, a place where the ever-sensitive campus space What would you like your successor to know? issues were resolved at the table—not under the table or Drew has been my dream job. I hope it’s theirs, too. The away from the table. new dean will inherit a talented Library staff and faculty. Any disappointments? What qualifications would you like to see in your • Deep cuts to the acquisition budget that have not been successor? able to be restored. The ability to discern between fads and substance in the • Not finding a way to provide space for students to study ever-changing world of scholarly communication. 24/7 in the Library throughout the academic year.

What Library developments have If you could invite four librarians to given you the most satisfaction? dinner, whom would you choose? Do we have all day? They would certainly Andrew Scrimgeour They could be from any era but not include: to retire June 30 include colleagues from your own • Proposing the Thomas H. Kean Reading staff, past or present. Room and seeing it come into being. after 14 years as Decherd Turner (former director of the • Creating an ideal sealed micro- Harry Ransom Humanities Research environment on the second floor of Dean of Libraries Center at the University of Texas, Austin), the Methodist Center for valuable and James Fraser (former University Librar- fragile material. ian, Fairleigh Dickinson University, • Attracting new special collections and archives that have Madison, N.J.), Barbara Fister (crime-fiction author and become invaluable resources for undergraduates and librarian at Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, Minn.), scholars alike. and Henry Scrimgeour (book collector and a founder of the • Seeing our librarians providing leadership for VALE’s public library in Geneva at the time of John Calvin). VALID Project, which will create a new library system for Will you stay engaged with Drew and the Library? the academic libraries of New Jersey. Yes, as much as the university deems appropriate. Main- • Seeing an Academic Commons begin to take shape in taining close contact with our donors until the new dean the Library. is acclimated is essential. And, as a volunteer, I would like • Expanding the roster of Library donors. to process material in several of the special collections, • Launching the Conversations on Collecting series. especially the archives of the Society of Biblical Literature What will you miss the most? and the Westar Institute. The Forest in all seasons, the Rose Window, the Mulligan Will you continue to live in New Jersey? Murals, and the key that grants me 24/7 access to Drew’s Unfortunately not. New Jersey taxes will force us to leave incredible collections. our beloved state in the next few years. North Carolina is You brag about your librarians and staff. Who was a likely retirement address. your best appointment? Final thoughts? Isn’t that akin to asking who among my children I love I’d like to postpone those for as long as possible. They will the most? be the focus of my talk, “I Was a Butler in the House of Books,” on March 20. SPRING 2014 3

MAXINE KUMIN continued from page 1 lished a memoir, several novels, a collec- and the graduate school’s MFA in Poetry tion of short stories, over 20 children’s and Translation. As a student of poetry books and five volumes of essays. Her myself, and a great admirer of Maxine many awards include the Ruth Lilly Kumin’s lifetime of work, I am delighted Poetry Prize, an American Academy and at the thought of our students reading the Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the same poems, and holding in their hands Harvard Arts Medal and the Robert the same volumes, as one of the giants of Frost Medal. 20th century American poetry. A keen observer of daily life, celebrant and defender of the natural world and the Sean Nevin, Director of the MFA animal kingdom, Kumin lived and wrote Program in Poetry and Poetry in on a 200-acre New Hampshire farm she Translation. The gift to Drew University shared with her husband. Breeder of of Maxine Kumin’s personal library will several generations of horses, she writes mark another milestone in our MFA’s in a typical poem, of riding through “wavy relationship with a major and beloved stands” of birch and pine, American poet. Maxine Kumin occupies my horse thinking his thoughts, happy a central place in the development of in the October dapple, and I thinking American women’s poetry in the mine-and-his, which is my prerogative. In 2010, The Drew University MFA post–World War II period, and is at the In a poem aptly called “Nurture,” Program in Poetry and Poetry in Transla- same time a poet strongly rooted in the she writes, tion celebrated Kumin’s life and art with New England of Dickinson and Frost. Bring me your fallen fledglings, your a two-day symposium, interview and Author of numerous books of poetry bummer lamb, poetry reading. Many of our core MFA from the Pulitzer Prize–winning Up Coun- lead the abused, the starvelings, into my faculty are personal friends who have try in 1972 to Where I Live: New & Selected barn, worked with Kumin and written about Poems 1990–2010, Kumin has also pub- advise the hunted deer to leap into my corn. her work for many years. We will be grateful to have this legacy at Drew University.

IMAGES AND SPEECHES EXPAND ON THE WEB

he Department of Special Collec- T tions and University Archives is involved with three ongoing digiti- zation projects. The American Method- ism Project with Internet Archive (IA) includes 629 items from the Drew Methodist Library. As of December 2013, over 90,400 items have been down- loaded from the IA website. The Methodist Image Project with Flickr.com currently has 3,549 scanned images of the Methodist Library collection with over 5,400 user views. Most recently the Department initiated the Kean Speech Project, which includes several thousand speeches made by Governor Thomas Kean during his term as the Governor of New Jersey. These speeches are hosted by the Drew University Library. Visions

RARE AND SPECIAL: FOUR DECADES IN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

by Lucy Marks, Special Collections Cataloger

he summer of 1972, after my jun- ca. 1491) instead shows signs of heavy T ior year in college, I worked as a use—torn sewing, split boards, burns, page at the New York Public Li- marginal notes—indicative of how brary for $2.05 an hour. I had mentioned greatly its successive owners relied on to a professor my interest in library work, this popular pastoral guide. May a leper and he wrote down the name of some- take communion? Should a woman who one to call. This turned out to be Lola L. sinned with her curate make confession Szladits, formidable curator of the Berg to him? Could baptism be performed in Collection of English and American Liter- meat broth if water were not available? ature at NYPL, and the subject of a New Guido’s indispensable handbook appar- Yorker magazine profile. Lola became my ently outsold Thomas Aquinas’s Summa mentor and friend. That glorious summer theologica. Drew’s copy, one of only two I took inventory of the Berg’s literary recorded copies of this printing, bears the manuscripts, handling many thousands signature of 19th century Shakespeare of pages and marveling that this could be scholar and notorious forger, John Payne considered “work.” Before I returned to Collier. college Lola, typically, decreed, “After The study of basic medicine formed Manipulus curatorum. Paris, ca. 1491 you graduate, you’ll get a master’s in part of the training of 18th century English and then you’ll go to Columbia Anglican clergy. In Primitive Physick, or Drew’s Willa Cather collection Library School” (where Terry Belanger, An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most encompasses many materials pertaining another mentor, had begun training rare Diseases (London, Thomas Trye, 1747), to Cather’s circle of acquaintances. The book librarians). I replied, “OK.” John Wesley drew from his readings in largest group of these is the Brewster Fast forward several decades and four medical literature to dispense practical Collection, roughly 1,700 letters, two library positions on two continents. I came advice for maintaining health and treat- dozen books and two memoirs by or to Drew in 1989 as assistant Methodist ing disease. His hundreds of “cheap, safe associated with expatriate American cataloger, later expanded to special collec- and easy” prescriptions, for ailments painters Earl and Achsah Brewster and tions cataloger. Drew’s special collections ranging from Ague and Baldness to their daughter, Harwood, who were encompass such an extraordinary range Warts, Worms and Wounds, include daily friends of Cather through her longtime of periods and forms, that from week to attention to bodily cleanliness, moderate companion, Edith Lewis. Processing the week I might handle anything from the diet and regular exercise; the consump- Brewster materials turned out to be a 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle to letters of Willa tion or application of nettle juice, treacle transformative experience. I felt an Cather; from the earliest and soot; and particularly, cold baths, immediate fascination and sympathetic Book of Common though never going in head first. bond with this bohemian couple, whose Prayer to literature Wesley’s holistic approach to pastoral history and my own overlap, oddly, in of the Harlem Ren- work meant ministering to body and Oberlin, New Haven and Italy. People aissance. Thousands soul alike: “The love of God … gravitated to the Brewsters—to their of these materials becomes the most powerful of all the intellectual sophistication and childlike have crossed my means of health and long life.” Primi- ingenuousness, their sincerity and joie de desk during nearly tive Physick vivre, and above all, their refusal to com- 25 years at Drew. went through promise their values and sense of self, The following two 23 editions in even at great personal cost. I was merely books and two collec- Wesley’s life- the latest of many to do so, rather as if I tions are among my time, more had opened up a story book and fallen favorites: than his hymns into the plot. My efforts to learn as much Although many or sermons, and as I could about this couple led me to of the library’s two- stayed in print new and treasured friendships: with their dozen incunabula continuously granddaughter, Fran Holt; Cather scholar (books printed for almost David Porter, with whom I collaborated before 1501) are richly illuminated 100 years on a book about Cather and the Brew- and fresh as the day they were after his death. sters; and Carmelina Fiorentino, a librar- printed, Guido de Monte Rochen’s ian on Capri, whom I finally met after Handbook for Curates (Manipulus seven years of correspondence, and who curatorum, Paris, Antoine Caillaut, Zuck Collection of Botanical Books herself was sufficiently intrigued to write SPRING 2014 5

an article about Achsah Brewster. The Zuck Col- lection of Botanical Books, gift of alumna Lois Jack- son, is the last major collection to cross my desk during my time at Drew. Thanks to Lois’ enthusiasm and vast knowledge, I have devel- oped a pleasant acquaintance with the 18th-century pioneers of Euro- pean and American botanical illustra- John Wesley, Primitive Physick. London, 1747, and Letters of Earl and Achsah Brewster tion, and with herbs, orchids, field guides and fruit trees. is still excitement in the tactile, tangible and emotionally. As I leave Drew, I am Not only that, but as a cataloger who link with the past that comes with han- particularly grateful to Dean Andrew came of professional age typing cards and dling a book first opened centuries ago, Scrimgeour, to fellow members of the then alphabetizing and filing them into still a sense of communion with the special collections department and to all the card catalog, I am pleased at the for- writer whose emotions are reflected in my library colleagues for their wisdom, tuitous happenstance of closing my ca- the penmanship and punctuation on the support and camaraderie throughout reer with a collection that takes me to the letter in my hand. I know well that it has these happy years of discovery. “Z” drawer. been both a gift and my great good for- Forty-two years after my first sum- tune to have found a vocation that has mer at the New York Public Library, there engaged me so fully, both intellectually

A MASTERPIECE COMES TO DREW

ne could walk the whole history ministry, he retained a love for the Bible. day to day ‘problems and passions of the Oof printing on the spines of great Moser’s four-year labor of love has human heart,’ as Faulkner put it. My Bibles. From Gutenberg to culminated in his magnum opus, the characters are not pious-looking. They Baskerville to the peerless Doves Press Pennyroyal Caxton Bible, the first Bible smell of fish and sweat, not sanctity and Bible of 1903 and Bruce Roger’s splendid fully illustrated by one indi- saintliness. They wear the Oxford Lectern Bible of 1935, Bibles have vidual since Gustave Doré's livery of human imperfec- been the crowning masterpieces of the La Sainte Bible of 1865. tion, not the perfection world’s great typographers, printers and Illustrations grace every of holiness. They are real illustrators. book of this Bible except for people.” Despite this rich tradition, the 20th some of the very short let- Barry Moser is the century has not witnessed a major Bible ters attributed to the apostle Irwin and Pauline Alper in which both the New and Old Testa- Paul. They interpret the Glass Professor of Art & ments were illustrated by a single artist. text in new, often startling Printer to the College at As we neared the end of the millennium, ways, ever mining the nar- Smith College. Drew one of the world’s greatest living illustra- rative long buried in cen- University is the owner tors and bookmen focused his efforts on turies of over-familiarity. of the two-volume Penny- the book that has made the greatest im- Moser said in a public royal Caxton Bible thanks pact on Western civilization. lecture, “If there is a theme to the generosity of As a young man, Barry Moser to my illustrations for the Kovner Philanthropy of became a licensed Methodist preacher. Bible it is . . . the human New York City. While he did not continue in pastoral condition. The ordinary, Visions

RETIREMENTS Library, the American Academy in Rome, which include the Maser collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Mor- prayer books, a small collection of LUCY MARKS gan Library. Over the years, Drew benefit- incunabula, several collections of Willa ted from her broad experience, careful Cather material, the Byron Society After 25 years as research and meticulous organizational collection and the Zuck collection of Drew’s special collec- skills as her responsibilities grew from fine botanical illustrations donated by tions cataloger, Lucy Methodist cataloging projects (hymn- Lois E. Jackson. Marks will retire in books, backlogs and pamphlets) to the Lucy’s approach to a new collection is June. She arrived in cataloging of exciting collections owned to steep herself in its historical and biblio- 1989 with rare book and acquired by the library. graphic context, so her knowledge of any cataloging experience The breadth of her experience mirrors collection becomes intimately authorita- from Yale’s Beinecke the variety of our special collections, tive. She attends to the reputation and in- tricacies of various editions, deciphers and records handwritten notes and signatures, NEW STAFF MARY ALICE CICERALE joined and follows clues in variant paginations the library faculty in December as our and bindings to produce cataloging prod- new lead metadata MARGERY ASHMUN joined the ucts of great utility and beauty for the librarian and Library faculty as reference librarian benefit of scholars and bibliographers. Methodist cataloger. for science on As she cataloged the various Cather Mary Alice comes to September 30. She collections, she became intensely inter- us most recently brings a wealth of ested in Achsah and Earl Brewster, artists from the Ginsburg experience from who were in Willa Cather’s circle and Library at Temple the petroleum and whose letters Drew now owns. As a bibli- University, and pre- petrochemical in- ographer and cataloger, her knowledge of viously held positions at the Arizona dustries, as well as collections is second only to scholars in State Library and at Rutgers. She from teaching sci- the field. With the Brewsters, however, brings expertise in cataloging all vari- ence in secondary schools. She gradu- she entered that world of scholarship by eties of materials and has both refer- ated from Miami University (Ohio) as joining Cather scholar David Porter to ence and systems administration a chemistry major, and holds an MLIS write Seeking Life Whole: Willa Cather and experience as well. Mary Alice will from Rutgers University, as well as the Brewsters, which drew on their letters. manage the metadata unit’s day-to- an MBA from University of North As Drew’s program of special collec- day work, provide cataloging for all Carolina–Chapel Hill. Since starting tions has grown, Lucy Marks has been at Methodist materials and play a key at Drew, Margery has been concen- the center of its developing strength by role in providing access to our grow- trating on outreach to the Sciences creating the bibliographic framework that ing collection of digital archives. departments and to RISE. allows users access to our treasures.

SAN SOLU joined the library staff as CASSIE BRAND has been ERNEST the weekend circulation supervisor in appointed Methodist library and RUBINSTEIN March 2013. He worked in circulation archives associate. Ernest Rubinstein, at another academic Cassie is a Drew our theological library on a part- PhD candidate in librarian, is retiring at time basis before history and culture the end of June after coming to Drew. with an emphasis in nine years at Drew. San holds an MPhil book history. In He came to us with a degree in art and 2011, she graduated PhD in religion, and a architectural history from the University broad background in from Rutgers of Indiana with an MLS degree. She reference, indexing and collection devel- University. In addition to his has worked at the Lilly Library in opment. He had considerable experience supervisory responsibilities in the Indiana and the Folger Shakespeare teaching as well, which he continued to library, he is an adjunct professor at Library in Washington, D.C. Cassie do on an adjunct basis at NYU Continuing Raritan Valley Community College. directed the recent renovation of the Education and the New School, in addi- He has taught there since 2009 and, second floor of the Methodist Library tion to his regular teaching of research in September, 2013, won the Out- in the United Methodist Archives and courses at Drew. Ernie has been especially standing Adjunct Faculty Award in History Center. In addition to her effective representing the concerns of the visual and performing arts for provid- responsibilities as supervisor of the Theological School to the Library, and ing his students with the highest Wilson Reading Room, she is currently vice versa, occupying a liminal space be- quality of instruction. processing the Jacob Landau and tween the two. Byron Society of America collections. Ernie is perhaps best known for open doors—both literally (his office is always SPRING 2014 7

open) and figuratively, as he warmly RECENT GIFTS welcomed everyone who crossed his path, The Library gratefully acknowledges the following gifts. a latter-day embodiment of Chaucer’s Clerk: Sownynge in moral vertu was his speche And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche. FINANCIAL SUPPORT Mr. Peter W. Riola Unfailingly wise, generous and gentle in Dr. Lucille F. Becker Dr. Andrew D. Scrimgeour his responses, he has become a central feature Dr. Lois E. Beekey Bishop John S. and Christine Spong in the lives of many theological and PhD stu- Mr. William S. Brockman Ms. Emma Lee Yu dents, and is deeply beloved of his colleagues Ms. Katherine G. Brown Mrs. Jeanne T. Zenker in the Library and the Theological School. Mr. Kenneth Cole During his tenure at Drew, Ernie pub- Ms. Rosemarie Collingwood-Cole GIFTS IN KIND lished his second book, Religion and the Muse: Mrs. Maribeth W. Collins Fairleigh Dickinson University Press The Vexed Relation between Religion and Western Dr. Linda E. Connors Kovner Philanthropy Literature, as well as multiple articles and Dr. Paul Drucker Ms. Maxine Kumin papers. A third book, Philosophical Spirituality, Ms. Elizabeth A. Greenfield Dr. Leedom Lefferts will be published this year by Fairleigh Dickin- Ms. Lois E. Jackson Rev. John McEllhenney son University Press. An early review states, Ms. Amanda B. Johnson Society of Biblical Literature “Throughout the book there is a good deal of Barent Stewart Johnson Estate Dr. Donald Weatherbee evidence that the reader is engaged with a Mr. and Mrs. Paige L’Hommedieu Westar Institute mature and deeply contemplative intellect.” Ms. Marilyn Linden Following retirement, he is planning to Ms. Lorelei C. McConnell GIFTS IN KIND TO THE continue work on his next book, exploring Mrs. Norma B. Nudelman METHODIST LIBRARY Jewish/Christian relations. Dr. Christopher J. Anderson Dr. G. Kurt Piehler Dr. Peder Borgen Richard Cox Barbara Fedeler Dr. Paul Folta Visions Dr. Charles E. Jones Editor: Deborah B. Strong Myron M. Kim Online Edition: Jennifer Heise Lebanon Valley College Library Andrew D. Scrimgeour, PhD Designer: Lynne DeLade Dean of Libraries Dr. Kenneth E. Rowe Drew University Library A complete online archive of past Mark Shenise Visions Madison, N.J. 07940 issues of can be viewed Dr. Mitsuo Shimizu 973.408.3322 on the library website at: [email protected] drew.edu/library/visions Dr. Charles Yrigoyen, Jr.

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UPCOMING LIBRARY EVENTS LIBRARY EXHIBITS Conversations November 12, 2013– on Collecting March 31, 2014 Hosted by the Friends of the Library, The Forest Dwellers of 4–5 p.m., Pilling Room, Rose Library Madison: Student Life at Drew, 1867–2013 February 19, 2014 This exhibit documents the student “Selecting Books, Collecting Books, experience at Drew University from its and Storing Fictional Characters” 19th-century Methodist Ernest Rubinstein origins to its richly diverse 21st-century Ernie Rubinstein, who has been Theo- present. The exhibit logical Librarian at Drew University includes original since August 2005, offers a collection archival documents, of interrelated reflections on selecting realia, photographs books for a university library, collecting and film footage books for a personal library, and men- Collecting Byron from the Drew spe- tally archiving fictional characters from A Conference in cial collections and favorite novels and stories who Celebration of the university archives accompany us through life. Byron Society Collection collections. The April 11–13, 2014 materials highlight March 20, 2014 the classes, clubs, “I Was a Butler in the House of Books” music and sports Andrew D. Scrimgeour Featuring the that constitute student life at Dean Scrimgeour’s farewell talk to the NINTH LESLIE A. MARCHAND MEMORIAL LECTURE Drew over the past 145 Drew community will poke into libraries Alice Levine, Hofstra University years. The exhibit is on display at the he has served, sample books that have “Selecting Byron” Library and the Methodist Center. delighted and haunted him, sketch people he will never forget, muse on PANELS Curated by Matthew Beland, university the magic of writing and spin a few • Collecting and Recollecting archivist and Christopher Anderson, (tall) tales. • Graphic Satire: Ephemera and head of special collections and archives Literary History and Methodist librarian • Collecting In/Places • Collecting as Text Reception • Editing and Writing Byron April 9–May 29, 2014 March 20, 2014, 5–6 p.m., Kean • Digital Byron Collecting Byron: An Exhibition Reading Room, Rose Library • Motivations and Challenges in The exhibit celebrates the gift to Drew of Collecting A retirement reception for Dean of the Byron Society Collection, founded by Libraries Andrew Scrimgeour will MUSICAL PERFORMANCE Marsha M. Manns and Leslie A. Marc- immediately follow his Conversations “Byron and the hand, on display in the Library lobby on Collecting talk. Romantic Composer” and the Methodist Center. Included are Robert Butts, Conductor books, engravings, statues, images New Jersey Baroque Ensemble of Byron and selections from the Byron with performers Society of America archive. Curated by Lucy Marks, special Registration and complete collections cataloger, and Cassie Brand, conference program: drew.edu/library/byron Methodist associate, with the assistance of graduate students Brian Shetler and Susannah Buck