Sweet Briar College Library Gazette Vol. XLVIII 2016 John G. Jaffe and the Beginning of the Computer Age for Libraries Marjorie M. Freeman database. John had the foresight to realize n the early 1980s a new service became that it would take grant money to finance available to libraries nationwide: these purchases since money was tight, as OCLC (the Online Computer Library usual, and such an outlay by any of the area Center), and Sweet Briar College was libraries was unlikely. The most logical idea quickI to join in the venture. It provided was to band together Sweet Briar, Lynchburg cataloging information about books and other and Randolph-Macon Woman’s Colleges into materials and printed out catalog cards for a consortium and to seek funding for that the library’s massive card catalogs (loved and combined effort. The first grant application despised by many library users). Not only failed and one of the reasons was that we did OCLC provide catalog cards but it kept were not the first to take that direction. a computer based record of items cataloged We did not give up and filed a grant for a by its member libraries. And this made it federally funded program that would provide possible for libraries to see what other libraries a CD Rom version of the catalogs of the owned and expanded borrowing of materials three colleges. About the same time that we between libraries or interlibrary loans. John sent off the Federal grant application John Jaffe quickly saw the value not only of the suggested that we include a public and a existing services but what they were building special library in the consortium to give it John Jaffe for the future: the library’s own automated a different twist and apply once more for a catalog based on the information about SBC’s grant for a fully automated system. With that holdings that was stored on OCLC’s computer in mind I helped John and we wrote another tapes. grant application to cover a central computer, Working with other libraries in the area, terminals for all the libraries and software for John helped get a state grant to enter all library operations. Several months later information about items owned by the we were amazed to receive notification that libraries that had been acquired before the the federally funded CD Rom grant had been start of OCLC in order to have a complete awarded. And we were even more amazed computerized catalog. The state of Virginia when two days later we were informed that worked with a company known as The the Jesse Ball DuPont Foundation had also Computer Company (TCC) to compile this awarded us funding for a fully automated database. Unfortunately TCC did not have system and equipment. the expertise in communications, computer Actually the two grants worked well maintenance or programming to make this together. The first allowed us to view the the smoothest of projects. John and I both data we had previously entered and make spent many frustrating hours working with the corrections and to take time to choose company, compiling directions and manuals, software and hardware for the full system. The consulting on computer operations, setting CD Rom catalog was known as TRICOLOR up standards, etc. In the end we did manage for Tri College On Rom. Its function was to get the majority of the information about limited to being a replacement for the card the collections of Sweet Briar and Lynchburg catalog and performed no other library Colleges into machine readable format operations. And since updated CDs were only (MARC). made every two weeks it was never up to date. John G. Jaffe is on The next phase was to get our own But it gave us a taste of the future and full sabbatical and retiring computer and software that could run the automation. June 30, 2018. With the funds now available we had on library automation explaining the p.m. we starting loading their data. By to start planning for the future and the operation and standards used for a midnight we had them up and running operation of the new system. The area mixed type consortium. John was but none of their equipment could talk librarians then asked “Who will run the more involved with the equipment, to the central computer. So shortly after system?” They all looked at John and telecommunications and budgets. midnight we started rewiring all the me and said “You thought it up and And I worked with the software, plugs for the wires that were hardwired got the money so you get to run it.” trained the library staff members, to the Public Library’s terminals. The And so John and I became the System did problem solving, and designed problem was that the wires were just Administrators by default. reports. Because of our unique setup long enough to reach the back of The Jesse Ball DuPont Foundation and our participation in workshops, the the computer rack and we had to cut grant funded a fully integrated system software company, Dynix, soon asked off the existing ends and insert three that we named LION for Lynchburg us to participate in the development minuscule wires into the correct slots of Information Online Network. It of new features for the software. John new plugs. If it didn’t work you had to included Sweet Briar, Randolph-Macon and I became known as exacting cut off that plug and do it again. The Woman’s and Lynchburg Colleges, testers. On one occasion we and several computer room had a raised floor and Lynchburg Public Library and Jones other clients were invited to company the wires came up through the floor, Memorial Library. John was largely headquarters to try out some new so John and I were sitting on the floor responsible for the selection of the software. John and I were seated at with our feet through openings in the hardware and as usual thought about adjoining terminals and the company’s floor for hours making these new plugs. the future in selecting the equipment. development programmers were behind Then we would have to run around the Of course, this meant we knew very us. After a couple of minutes John and building to the actual terminals to see if little about the equipment or its I turned to each other and announced they worked. We finished at 7:30 a.m. operating system. Both John and that we had each found a bug. The and the Public Library opened on time I went to Hewlett-Packard system programmers seated behind us were and never missed a second of operation. administrator school and this is the only watching us to see which of them would Of course, John and I were expected time I have ever seen John confused. win the betting pool on how quickly we at work that day to troubleshoot any At this point in time we had not even would find a previously undiscovered problems with the new software despite seen the equipment, let alone used bug in the software. Being a test site the fact we had just worked 24 straight it. And all the other students were meant that we helped steer the direction hours. experienced H-P engineers and the of software as it was developed so that LION was just the beginning of the classes were geared to them. To say it really met our needs. It also meant we computer age for our libraries. Since that they were a difficult two weeks got the software first when it went to then we have added digital magazines would be an understatement. It was Beta testing level and with it came some and their indices, subject specialized John who supervised the setup of the headaches. But John and I both felt that databases, digital archives, and much equipment and the computer room and it was important to make contributions more. John has always made sure the worked with the engineers, telecom to the development of automation for Sweet Briar was in the forefront of installers, etc. Without his time and libraries. developments as they were released in skills we would have never gotten things As equipment evolved we switched to order to provide faculty and students working. newer, faster machines but not without with the widest variety of information. By early in the summer of 1990 a few problems. One time in particular It has been an exciting time for we had the equipment in place and was difficult because it meant rewiring librarians as we moved from the age of were ready to start on the software the connections for all the terminals in the typewritten catalog cards to the age installation. I wish I could say it was the public library. None of the libraries of the virtual library. We have really had smooth sailing but we discovered wanted to have their computers down to go way beyond what we were taught that this was the first time the library for any more than a few hours but the in our graduate library programs. How software company had ever used UNIX switch involved setting up the new John found the time to learn as much as based equipment, which is what we equipment, loading new software, he did about programming and software had. So not only were we learning but loading the database and adapting how applications, I do not know. But John so was the company we depended upon all the sites connected to the central understands the various aspects of for direction. It was about this time computer. John and I had setup the the power and failings of computers that John announced to me that he was new equipment and had loaded the when applied to libraries. Without his going on sabbatical and leaving town to software one day before the switch, foresight Sweet Briar would not have start working on his PhD. My reaction while all current work continued on the such and outstanding library program. was Panic! Somehow both LION and I old machine. The backup ran overnight. survived. Then at 7:30 in the morning we shut Since consortiums were a new idea off the academic half of the system we found others were interested in and loaded their data and managed to how we had designed and managed have them functioning by 4:30 p.m. the LION system. We presented We got a one hour break to eat. Then papers and wrote a chapter for a book when the public library closed at 5:30

2 r. John G. Jaffe taught me everything I need to know about librarianship. I arrived at Sweet Briar College in August of 1989, fresh and still quite green, from my first professional position as a reference librarian at buttoned down Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library Dto be welcomed by an affable man in pink Converse high tops who accused me of being too dressed up for summer at Sweet Briar. John loves librarianship. For him, it’s fun, and he encouraged his library faculty and staff to make their positions as enjoyable as possible. We were always encouraged to be creative and to try new things. It was OK if the new idea didn’t work, because we tried it, and that was what mattered. John knows everybody in Libraryland; we often attended the American Library Association conferences together and couldn’t walk to a meeting without being stopped several times. I quickly realized John Jaffe is a library celebrity, which by the way, is not an oxymoron. He always introduced me to everyone who stopped to greet him, explaining these are people you need to know, they can help you. I have John to thank for the many friends and mentors I have met in our profession over the years. Together we experienced the history of the Internet as it happened. I remember the day back in the early 1990s when he came into my office and said, as he said so many times, “do you want to see something cool?” Next thing I know, I’m looking at documents from the National Archives on my Mac, and telling him I’ll never get anything done again. He replied, you’ll get more done than you ever have before. Of course, he was right as usual. John constantly pushed me out of my comfort zone, giving me opportunities for continuing education and leadership within our ever-changing field. John is known to be one of the early adopters of new innovations in information technology by college librarians all over the U.S. John constantly pushed me John and I share a love of food, travel, music, and especially old books. His love of books nearly prompted us to call the producers of the reality show Hoarders. out of my comfort zone, He seemed to never refuse the chance to rifle through the collection of a retired giving me opportunities professor or alumna in search of treasures for the Library’s ever-growing collection. The Sweet Briar College Library has him to thank for many of the treasures in the for continuing education Fergus Reid Rare Book Collection because John can spot a rare book at 20 paces. and leadership within our Dr. John G. Jaffe has been more than my Library Director; he is a mentor, and a dear friend I will cherish always. I look forward to traveling to New Mexico to cook ever-changing field. and make fancy cocktails with him in his lovely retirement home in the near future.

—Lisa Johnston, Former Associate Director of Sweet Briar Libraries

3 2016 Nicole Basbanes ’04 Book Collecting Contest The Art of a Story First Place Winner: Mary McDevitt

or as long as I can remember, I have always loved how art brings together a story. The most common form of showing artF in a story is through words but my favorite way of seeing a story progress is through pictures. The pictures can appear in the form of a picture book or a comic book. Sometimes the art of a story can make or break the message the author is trying to send to the reader. For example, detailed and heavy pictures for a children’s book is not always the best route. Bold colors and outlines can make the most interesting illustration, but minimal colors will not make the reader feel the most mournful of feelings for a scene that shows loss. I love to see how the art matches the mood of the story. This is why most of my library consists of books with pictures in them. This love of art styles started early with children’s books. Most of my childhood books have been lost throughout the years, so I have replaced them with my most memorable childhood stories. Books like Harold and the Purple Crayon show how imagination can set you free. That is a theme that is not normally seen by my other mangas and dark comics. My other children’s books are by Dr. Seuss and show the most memorable, bold color palette for an illustration. Everyone knows of the style of Dr. Seuss books and are therefore a great contrast to show against any manga or comic. As a major of studio art, I also use the books as a way to keep up with other artists. There are books like comic books and mangas, the Japanese form of a comic book, which help accomplish that goal. If you stay with one artist through a series they make, you can see how they begin to form their own art style. You can see how the artist changes their characters once they have drawn their characters many times. As another artist, I see their struggle and their work behind each frame. I see them progress and I hope to do the same. The series

4 that I have collected and kept are the anatomy. Whether I need help with series with the artists that I have looked a hand or a leg, the artist, Hiroaki up to the most. There are very popular Samura, has mastered the look of the mangas like Rurouni Kenshin, Fullmetal human body for my artist references. Alchemist, Naruto, and Bleach that have Mangas are not the only things I own been around for so long, that you can with frame-by-frame pictures. I have see how the artist progresses throughout collected a couple of comics throughout their story. This progression can the years. They may operate by showing As an artist, I soak these encompass getting better at drawing a their story in the same way as a manga, character, or a change in how they draw but they have a different way of showing examples in and try to use everything, depending on the artist. their art. I have them for more examples them in my own work. As Especially with my collection, you of different art styles. These comics can see how the artists change to be show off color schemes that mangas do Sweet Briar art Professor different from one another. They do not strive for. Mangas are typically black Laura Pharis has said, not change because they want to be and white, while comics are whatever like one another, or because they get color the artist deems best for their “Artists in school need to better at copying someone else’s work. story. V for Vendetta and Watchmen be awash in images.” It They change because they have been have bold and gritty outlines with dark illustrating so much and it is how they colors to match their dark themes. helps artists to be more have developed. If you took my books Both of those stories have dark themes aware of what we can and opened them up, you can see the of powerful people overstepping their side-by-side differences because I have bounds. Bone is another comic, but goes do with our work and books from the beginning and the end about things differently. The colors of it lets us know what of their stories. Bone are realistic and can reflect this Even for the mangas where I do not lighthearted story’s good-versus-evil the art community is have the entire series, I have purchased theme. doing around us. I have one or two volumes in order to have a As an artist, I soak these examples in reference or a goal to look back to. For and try to use them in my own work. collected these books for the example, I do not have all of the Death As Sweet Briar art Professor Laura same reasons. Note series, but I do have the first book. Pharis has said, “Artists in school need I love how the artist makes the hair look to be awash in images.” It helps artists realistic and the eyes of the protagonist to be more aware of what we can do so innocent, yet the protagonist is with our work and it lets us know what murdering people throughout the the art community is doing around us. story. It makes such a great contrast; it I have collected these books for the makes the reader see how arrogant the same reasons. I not only can see how protagonist is. Soul Eater is a compelling illustrators are making their characters, story with an artist that rebelled against but I can see how they make their how he was told to draw a person. The backgrounds. It helps me set standards people he drew did not have noses. It for myself, and helps me challenge looks like the nose of a skull without myself to work as hard as they do. the cartilage. The artist of Trigun shows I have a nice collection of artists and how you can be simplistic in order to stories, but in my mind, it is incomplete. make your point known. It is a story Takehiko Inoue is an illustrator that has about why a man feels the need to fight, written and drawn the story Vagabond. even though he will not take a life. You This series is widely considered one do not need to show every detail in an of the best artistically drawn stories. I image to have a philosophical nature would add those books to my collection like Trigun. Blade of the Immortal is along with a couple of Illustration the opposite of Trigun and shows the collections by him. Berserk is a series by most detailed and graphic images to the author and artist Kentaro Miura. bring its message home. This is a brutal The tough style of drawing would be a story where the author makes the reader great and new addition to my collection. question if the protagonist is doing the Blade of the Immortal is a series that I right thing. The artist exaggerates the have mentioned that I would love to graphic content that helps the reader expand upon. This is a series that rivals question which side of the story really Vagabond with its amazing realistic is the “right” and “wrong” side. I have characters. While I have a couple of a couple of these books to refer back books from the series, I would like Watchmen to whenever I have a question about to add a collection of illustrations by

5 BIBLIOGRAPHY in this book. Just because you think you know attack. The protagonist, Light, picks up the Arakawa, Hiromu. Full Metal Alchemist: Volume 12. someone’s reasoning, does not mean you do. notebook and wants to use it to become the San Fransico, CA: Viz, 2005. Print. But there are also two artistic reasons I bought god over the world. He wants to kill all of the Arakawa, Hiromu. Fullmetal Alchemist: Volume 1). this book. One is a reference to movement. criminals so the world will be rid of “trash.” San Francisco, CA: Viz Media, 2008. Print. Their fight is intense, and non-stop. The lines I got this book for artistic references. Whenever In the first book of this series, you are introduced Kishimoto draws help show the brothers moving I need to make hair or cloth for a person, to Edward and Alphonse Elric. They are around in their fight. It is also a reference to see I can only hope it looks as good as Obata’s alchemists that have lost their bodies by trying how an artist has progressed. It is a book in the illustrations. He is a master at making realistic to bring their dead mother back from the dead. middle of a series, and I have the first couple of hair and clothing. It is a contrast to some of the They try to stop a person from making their same books. other books in my collection. Other artists just mistake in this first book. They make her question Kishimoto, Masashi, and Jo. Duffy. Naruto: Volume put a couple of lines down to show hair and a the god she follows, yet protect her from the evils 1: The Tests of the Ninja. Shonen Jump Graphic minimal amount of folding cloth. Obata’s style is of alchemy. Novel ed. San Francisco: Viz, 1999. Print. something to look up to. While I do not think you should confront Bottom of Form Prentice, William E. Principles of Athletic Training: A someone about their religion, I do think the Kishimoto, Masashi. Naruto 21. 5. Aufl. ed. Competency-based Approach. Fifteenth ed. Print. Elric brothers had their hearts in the right place. Hamburg: Carlsen, 2010. Print. Samura, Hiroaki, and Kumar Sivasubramanian. Blade They did notwant someone else walking around Kubo, Tite. Strawberry and the Soul Reapers. San of the Immortal: Dreamsong. Milwaukie, OR: without an arm or leg because they did not Francisco, CA: Viz, 2001. Print. Dark Horse Manga, 2014. Print. know better. While the protection for a stranger Kubo, Atsushi. Soul Eater: Volume 25. Yen, 2015. This book is at the beginning of the story. This is something to strive for, I added this book to Print. book makes the reader question whether or not my collection for artistic reasons. The detail that In this last installment, the three main the protagonist is the good guy. The author Hiromu puts into some of the illustrations are protagonists fight the villain in a big showdown. makes the reader think about whose side to take: very well thought out. They aren’t thought out Maka, Black Star, and Death the Kid fight against the protagonists or the antagonists? in the sense of frame-by-frame, but in the sense of the Kissun so madness does not spread across the Even though it is at the beginning of the story, function. Hiromu puts a lot of attention into the world. In the end, they prevail, but not without Samura shows his talent and skill of drawing the armor of Alphonse and Edwards automail that learning about their friends and themselves. human figure. The fight that happens is detailed most people would simplify. Of course it is important to learn about trusting and well thought out. Each movement has a Arakawa, Hirumo. Full Metal Alchemist: Volume 27. teammates and friends, but that is not the main reason and each line shows the movement of the San Francisco, CA: Viz Media, 2010. Print. reason I bought the book. It is the last book in characters. This is a story you can see frame by This is the last book of the series. In this book, the series, and I love seeing how the characters frame and get what is happening almost like an the main protagonists and villains fight to see have changed throughout the story. The artist animation. who wins control of the world. Edward and and author, Kubo, made the characters look more Six by Seuss. New York: Random House, 1991. Print. Alphonse Elric, the two biggest protagonists, grown up. When you compare the protagonists Smith, Jeff. Bone. 1 Volume ed. Columbus, Ohio: learn that family and friends are more important from the first book to the twenty-fifth, it seems Cartoon, 2004. Print. than just strength. They learn while you cannot like they shed their baby fat. Kubo makes them Struzan, Drew, and Dylan Struzan. Drew Struzan: gain something without giving up something seem like they shed their childhood selfishness, Oeuvre. London: Titan, 2011. Print. in return, you obtain a heart of fullmetal in the and they were ready to fight the Kissun to restore This book does not have a story, but it is full process. balance to the world. of pictures. This book is a collection of Drew While the art of this story pulls together the Kubo, Tite. Bleach Volume 26: The Mascaron Drive. Struzan’s work throughout his life. It has his series, the story of Fullmetal Alchemist is the San Francisco, CA: Viz Media, 2001. Print. paintings whether or not they were from a reason I bought this series. The art can help you The main protagonists are introduced to some popular movie or not. This collection even feel the danger of Greed and the playfulness of new villains. With the start of the second arc, the includes paintings he did for albums before he Major Armstrong, but the meaning of the story protagonists need to protect a city from the evil was in the movie industry. overall really hit home with this book. You can Arrancar. They learn of how powerful the new I did not acquire this book for references. In my take the themes of hard work and love for your villains are and what they need to do to better opinion, Drew Struzan is too good to try and family and apply them anywhere in life. When you protect the city. copy. He is a natural artist that has made iconic put effort behind your personal and work life, it I bought this book just to see how the artist images for the past two generations, yet no one builds your character you do not realize until the progressed through out his series. Already the knows who he is. He has made the movie posters project is over. characters looked drastically different from when for Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Final Fantasy XIII: The Complete Official Guide. they were first drawn, but it is nice to have a book Back to the Future, and The Goonies. I have this in London: Piggyback, 2010. Print. that is a fourth of the way though the series. my collection so I can show my friends how they Gao, Tony. Final Fantasy XIII-2: The Complete Kubo, Tite, and Lance Caselman. Bleach Volume 12: have seen these images, but they do not know Official Guide. Collector’s ed. London: Flower on the Precipice. Shonen Jump Graphic who he is. Piggyback, 2012. Print. Novel ed. San Francisco: Viz, 2004. Print. Takahashi, Rumiko. Inu-Yahsa, v. 1. 2nd ed. San Johnson, Crockett. Harold and the Purple Crayon. Moore, Alan, and David Lloyd. V for Vendetta. New Francisco: Viz Comics, 2003. Print. New York: Harper & Row, 1955. Print. York: Vertigo/DC Comics, 2005. Print. Urushibara, Yuki, and William Flanagan. Mushishi Harold is a four year old boy that gets bored in V for Vendetta is a story about revenge and [E]: Volume 1. New York: Del Rey/Ballantine, his room one night, so he takes his purple crayon liberation. V, the main protagonist, attacks and 2007. Print. and makes his own world. He starts off drawing a kills his persecutors while showing the public moon and a path and ends up drawing his house their evils. V wants the public to stand up against with his bed so he can go to sleep. their evil crimes and take back their nation. This story does not add any artistic references The art of this story pulls together the darkness of or plot line to the collection I have. It only adds the world. The solid colors with dark black lines imagination. It asks you, if you could make your reiterate the vengeful themes throughout the own world, what would you make? It challenges story. Just because they are solid lines, does not the reader to be creative. mean the frames aren’t detailed. Sometimes what Katsura, Asuka, and Camellia Nieh. Blood +. you take away from a drawing is just as important Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Manga, 2008. Print. as what you put in. V for Vendetta is a perfect Kishimoto, Masashi. Naruto: Volume. 43 : The example of this rule. Man with the Truth. Place of Publication Not Moore, Alan, and Dave Gibbons. Watchmen. New Identified: Viz Media. Print. York: DC Comics, 2005. Print. Sasuke, one main protagonist, confronts his Nightow, Yasuhiro, and Justin Burns. Trigun: Deep biggest enemy and rival, Itachi. Itachi is his Space Planet Future Gun Action!! New York: big brother and murdered their family before Barnes & Noble, 2004. Print. Sasuke’s eyes. But we learn through the course Ohba, Tsugumi, and Takeshi Obata. Death Note: of this book that Itachi did it to stop a world war Volume 1. Shonen Jump Advanced Graphic Novel from happening, and spared his brother’s life ed. San Francisco: Viz Media, 2007. Print. because he had nothing to do with it. But Sasuke In this first book, a Death God named Ryuk, learned this right after killing his brother. drops a notebook. In this book, anyone’s name There is a lesson to be learned about assuming written in it will die in forty seconds of a heart Trigun Blade of the Immortal 6 Death Note V for Vendetta Bone Rurouni Kenshin Hiroaki Samura. overlook whenever I look at other get that competitive edge in my field. There is a new series with an art style artists. I have an athletic textbook that Getting another learning book for the where you can take each frame and shows me the muscular system for me to software Adobe Illustrator would help animate them to make a moving scene. draw, but sometimes you need a book me keep the competitive edge that my They are realistic and detailed enough to where the purpose is to teach you how Photoshop portfolio has given me. make a movie scene. Yusuke Murata has to draw, not how to tape an ankle. There My collection of books reflects my a unique way of drawing that is more are many books that teach you how to love of art. I have most of my books, than just realistic. I would like to add draw human anatomy, but I also think it not just because I like the story, but the his series, called One-Punch-Man, to would help to extend my collection into drawings help pull the story together my collection. As I mentioned before, I portraiture. Learning how to draw the in a way that can be hard to express in love to have the beginning and end to body is great, but if the face I draw does words. A powerful punch in One-Punch- a series to see how an artist progresses. not look proportional, then my practice Man, the innocence of Light in Death Bleach and Naruto are series I have of the body will be for naught. Note, the strength of Naruto in Naruto mentioned before that I would like to After I graduate Sweet Briar are all achieved by the art style. The add more to. I have these as examples of College, I would like to go to graduate almost-cliché saying, a picture is worth how an artist changes throughout their school to make it the world of video a thousand words, is very true and series, but I do not have the end of their games. To go on this route, I need to each frame comes together to make an series. The books I have are from the learn how to make art and to form a impressive story. I use these images for beginning and the middle of their series. portfolio through digital art. While inspiration and learn how to progress in I would like to change that with a book it is important to know how to draw my own art. As large as my collection is, or two that have come out towards the things by hand, you need to do things it is still incomplete. I would like to add end of the series. digitally in order to have a competitive more artists, and have more examples It is nice to look at these artists, chance in this field. Unfortunately, the of the artists I do own. It would be a but only looking does not help me person who only knows how to paint great addition to have things that teach improve my art, it just gives me ideas. will get overlooked by the person who how to draw instead of just examples of That means I need to practice more in knows the software, even if the person drawings. While I do love what I own, I order to make these ideas come to life. who paints is the better artist than the do have goals to develop my collection If I could develop my personal library one that knows the digital art. That is even further. further I would buy more instructional why getting a book like Photoshop for books. These instructional drawing Dummies is a type of book that will help books would teach me what my eyes me learn the software. I will be able to

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like to tell people I am preparing to the written word. They resonate in teacher gave me Sheepfarmer’s Daughter for the book-apocalypse. So that my life as if they were real, and not (The Deed of Paksenarrion). I remember when books become extinct, my simply a work of the imagination, which my teacher saying that I would like it library will be the sole survivor. I consider an art. because of the female hero. The book ThoughI studies show that e-readers I fell in love with reading at a young was yellow and its cover had creases that are decreasing, and that turning pages age, but never started collecting books threatened to tear it into many pieces. will live, I cannot bear to live in the until middle school. By 6th grade, I was It still sits on my shelf today, 10 years world of Fahrenheit 451. Not that it reading authors like Ernest Hemingway older, a cover more worn, with orange would ever get to that point. The new, and Lois Lowery, thanks to my sister’s pages. used, and tattered find their way to my high school reading list. My teachers By my count, I have over 200 books, shelves without discrimination of what fueled my love for reading by gifting which range from fiction, to children’s they contain. Simply put, I am addicted me with books as well. In 6th grade, my books, to traveling, and writing and

Bibliography American Library, 1979. Print. Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak (Platinum Edition). Frank, Anne. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. New York: Penguin Group, 2006. Print. New York: Bantam, 1993. Print. Baca, Jimmy Santiago. Healing Earthquakes: A Love Galloway, Gregory. As Simple as Snow. New York: Story in Poems. New York: Grove, 2001. Print. Berkley, 2006. Print. Bantock, Nick. Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary This young adult novel focuses on the story of a Correspondence. San Francisco: Chronicle, 1991. teen who falls in love with the new girl in town. Print. She is an oddity to the town in the way she Griffin and Sabine are two artists who do not thinks and dresses. She is obsessed with codes, appear to be on the same worldly plane. As you and hidden messages, which she passes to her read through their mail, each postcard and letter boyfriend. When she disappears, in a rather odd has a work of art that reflects their characters. fashion, he tries to cope with her loss, only to The mystery of their relationship presents discover that things are not as they seem and that elements of science fiction, but they are subtle she may or may not be alive. and allow the reader to believe that the fantastical I have trouble categorizing this book as a mystery is possible in everyday life. and romance. It goes through the motions I discovered the trilogy on accident, when I read of being a teenager with an added charm of the last book, The Golden Mean. Not only is the mystery. Galloway also interacts with his readers art on the postcards pleasing, but you are reading by allowing you to play the game that the main their mail and pulling letters out of envelopes characters played: finding a solution through and entering their lives on a personal level. It is a clues inside of images. different way of reading, and a different kind of Goto, Hiromi. The Kappa Child. Calgary: Red Deer, book. 2001. Print. Bantock, Nick. Sabine’s Notebook: In Which the Hopkins, Ellen. Crank. New York: Simon Pulse, Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine 2004. Print. Continues. San Francisco: Chronicle, 1992. Print. Hopkins, Ellen. Burned. New York: Margaret K. Bantock, Nick. The Golden Mean: In Which the McElderry, 2006. Print. Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Hosseini, Khaled. A Thousand Splendid Suns. New Concludes. San Francisco: Chronicle, 1993. Print. York: Riverhead, 2007. Print. Brimhall, Traci. Rookery. Carbondale: Southern King, Stephen. Bag of Bones. New York: Pocket, Illinois UP, 2010. Print. 1999. Print. Brontë, Emily, Daphne Merkin, and Tatiana M. King, Stephen. Everything’s Eventual: 14 Dark Tales. Holway. Wuthering Heights. New York: Barnes & New York: Scribner, 2002. Print. Noble Classics, 2005. Print. King, Stephen. The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Dessen, Sarah. Dreamland: A Novel. New York: Edition. Signet, 1991. Print. Viking, 2000. Print. Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal Dreams: A Novel. New Dickinson, Emily. The Selected Poems of Emily York: Harper Perennial, 1990. Print. Dickinson. New York: Modern Library, 2004. Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees. Harper Collins, Print. 2009. Print. This is a small collection of her most famous Kingsolver, Barbara. The Lacuna: A Novel. New York: poems. The introduction also goes into detail Harper Perennial, 2010. Print. about how the poems were structured and how The Lacuna follows the life of a man who goes they changed after her death. from living in Mexico, with Frida Kahlo and This was the first poetry anthology I read and Diego Rivera, to the United States after World I instantly fell in love. I have read this book War II. He involves himself in some historical more times than I can count and I am always milestones while looking at them from a safe marveled at how Emily Dickinson saw the world. distance. When he grows up, he becomes a She may have been introverted, but that made writer, and finds it difficult to accept his self- her appreciate the little things in life, and accept worth. His position as an American, who death as a natural thing. identifies as Mexican also gives insight to the Follett, Ken. Eye of the Needle. New York: New struggles of multinationalism. Kingsolver has a knack of making characters

8 reading guides. My favorite book is The read them all. Collecting books is a Collecting books is a Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. I have passion and an addiction that will never a large selection of young adult books be satisfied because my book radar is passion and an addiction and a growing classics collection that always on. From flea markets, to garage that will never be satisfied is far from complete. For most, the sales, to antique stores, and Goodwill, perception of nonfiction is that they are I am always on the lookout for a book because my book radar dull and boring, but those that read a with potential. I collect books at a faster is always on. From flea lot know this not to be true. I only have rate than I can read, but I promise I a few nonfictions, the latest to join my will get to them. I have run out of shelf markets, to garage sales, collection is God But Not God by Reza space in my room, but that is of little to antique stores, and Aslan. This is a genre I wish to expand importance to me. Books continue to on in my collection. Other genres that pile under my nightstand, and in boxes Goodwill, I am always on have caught my attention as of late, until I can create a master library with the lookout for a book with are comics and graphic novels, which I shelves that defy gravity, as much as my intend to pursue further. I only see my engineering ability will let me. There potential. collection growing, because I would are some people that jokingly say I love to fill the gaps of certain genres have a problem, but because of my like nonfiction, classic reads, poetry, and deep respect for books and knowledge, children’s books. I simply say, “you can never have too I must admit though, I have not many books.”

that are emotionally or physically “broken” that Harper, 2007. Print. talks a lot about culture. As a Latina, it really draws me to them. She makes me want to interact McCann, Colum. Let the Great World Spin: A Novel. makes me think about my culture and life as a first with these characters. Meeting Frida Kahlo is New York: Random House, 2009. Print. generation Mexican-American. a dream of mine, and she took a great leap of Millay, Edna St. Vincent, and Norma Millay. Collected Sidhwa, Bapsi. Cracking India: A Novel. Minneapolis, faith by making her a living breathing character, Poems. New York: HarperCollins, 1956. Print. MN: Milkweed Editions, 2006. Print. which I greatly appreciated. Kingsolver did a lot Moon, Elizabeth. Sheepfarmers Daughter (The Deed of Stead, Rebecca. When You Reach Me. New York: of research for this book, as she does with all her Paksenarrion). New York: Baen, 1988. Print. Yearling, 2010. Print. other books. Morpurgo, Michael. Private Peaceful. New York: Tan, Amy. The Hundred Secret Senses. New York: Kingsolver, Barbara. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel. Scholastic, 2004. Print. Vintage Contemporaries, 1998. Print. New York: HarperPerennial, 1999. Print. Morrison, Toni. Paradise. New York: Plume, 1999. Villaseñor, Victor. Rain of Gold. New York: Delta Klass, David. California Blue. New York: Scholastic, Print. Trade Paperbacks, 1992. Print. 1994. Print. Oates, Joyce Carol. Freaky Green Eyes. New York: Victor Villaseñor created a story based on the Kogawa, Joy. Obasan. New York U.a.: Penguin, 1988. HarperTeen, 2005. Print. lives of his parents. It is accompanied by two Print. Orwell, George. 1984: A Novel. New York, NY: other books. Though some parts are fictitious, the L’Engle, Madeleine. The Wrinkle in Time Quintet. Signet Classic, 1989. Print. magic that surround his parent’s lives makes you New York: Square Fish, 2007. Print. Rankine, Claudia. Citizen: An American Lyric. want to wish it were true. It talks of the hardships This is the entire box set of her five novels starting Graywolf, 2014. Print. of being an immigrant, the passion of family, with A Wrinkle in Time. Each book follows Meg Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western and doing anything you can to find love. with a and her family through different eras of time and Front. New York: Ballantine, 1984. Print. combination of faith, and ties to ancestral roots, space, while beautifully centralizing it around the Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. New York: Norton, the characters find happiness in the United States life and home of the Murry family. 1992. Print. after the hardships of the Mexican revolution and What I love the most about this book, is that it Rice, Anne. The Queen of the Damned. New York: The Great Depression. detaches itself from the initial set of characters Knopf, 1988. Print. Like Griffin and Sabine, I fell in love with the way and moves on to others as the books progress. To Robbins, Tom. Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas. New Villaseñor incorporates magical realism into his many readers, this is a loss and gives us heartache, York: Bantam, 1995. Print. book. It has strong characters and it also makes but it does not diminish the quality of the story. On the eve of a crash in the stock market, Gwen me proud to be a Latina because it gives voice to It is one of those adult books disguised as a makes many plans to “survive” without her job the ethereal, and indigenous life of our ancestors. children’s story. Whoever said children’s books she feels she will inevitably lose. With a man who It is a beautiful, and realistic romance about more were not meaningful were sorely mistaken. believes in aliens, a missing psychic and a monkey, than just two people. Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on the craziness of this main character leaves you Vonnegut, Kurt. Breakfast of Champions, Or, Goodbye Writing and Life. Anchor, 1995. Print. laughing at her own selfishness and naivety. Blue Monday! New York: Dell Pub., 1991. Print. Lowry, Lois. Gathering Blue. New York: Bantam, It’s important to have a variety of books, even Walter, Jess. Beautiful Ruins: A Novel. New York: 2005. Print. nonsensical ones like this one. It was hard to put Harper, 2012. Print. Lowry, Lois. The Giver. Laurel-Leaf, 2002. Print. down, not because it contained a deep subtext, Zevin, Gabrielle. Elsewhere. New York: Square Fish, Maguire, Gregory. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. but because the events that unfurled were crazy 2007. Print. New York, NY: Regan, 2000. Print. and the main character was completely “off her A 15-year-old girl dies and is taken to Elsewhere, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister is a tribute to the rocker.” I appreciate well developed, often crazy a place where the dead make a new life and await Cinderella story with a twist. It is written in the characters because they represent a whole other their return to the human world. Instead of perspective of the ugly stepsister. In this story, view of the human mind. aging forward, they age backwards until they are Cinderella is not a hero nor very nice. Maguire Shamsie, Kamila. Burnt Shadows. New York: Picador, newborns, and are sent down the river from which is a master at twisting what we perceive as good 2009. Print. they first came. Liz copes with the idea of never and evil, and you find yourself rooting for his Centering around the life of Hiroko Tanaka, growing up, regrets, and lost opportunities, but questionable, and dark characters. Burnt Shadows passes through four historical ultimately finds love and learns how to live just in It is always entertaining to put a twist on notable milestones to beautifully convey the troubles and time to return to a new life on Earth. fairytales, and Gregory Maguire does it again and concerns with nationalism, home, war, and how to Like A Wrinkle in Time and When You Reach Me, again with other books like Wicked. These stories cope with tragedy. it is a more serious children’s book. They have alter your perception of fairytales and provide This book pulls at the heartstrings more than I beautiful messages, with imagination that a reader a manifestation of the “what if” things were would have wanted it to. It has a strong female of any age can love. I am a huge advocate for different. lead who transcends and breaks barriers as a these books and they hold a special place in my Maguire, Gregory. Wicked: The Life and times of the woman. Shamsie writes about subjects most like collection. Wicked Witch of the West: A Novel. New York, NY: to keep in the dark. It is eloquently written and

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10 Every semester the Mary Helen Cochran Library at Sweet Briar College hosts a Therapy Dog Day prior to Final Exams. We have a great mix of pups, some purebreds and some mutts. The library provides doggy treats and water for all the participants.

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10 11 The Friends of the Mary Helen Cochran Library 2015-2016

Board Members Katie Vaughan Myers ’06, Chair John Ashbrook, Treasure Joe Malloy, Secretary Courtney Cunningham ’10 Roscoe (Skipper) Fitts Adelaide Hapala Friends Elizabeth Johnston Lipscomb ’59 of the Sarah Murdock Moore ’59 Mary Helen Ex-Officio Members Cochran Phillip C. Stone, President Pam DeWeese, Dean Library Nancyellen Keane, Vice President for Administration and General Counsel Sweet Briar College Sarah Lewis, Director of Advancement Services Sweet Briar, VA 24595 Past Friends of the Library Chairs www.cochran.sbc.edu Elizabeth Johnston Lipscomb ’59 [email protected] Stephen Mirabella* Ann Morrison Reams ’42* Jane Nelson ’66 Nancy Pesek Rasenberger ’51 Laura Radford Goley ’52 Jean Love Albert ’46 Margaret (Peggy) Jones Wyllie ’45* Caroline Casey Brandt ’49

Library Gazette Editor Joe Malloy

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