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IN THIS ISSUE GU GIVES THANKS FOR A THANKSGIVING Electronic Information PROCLAMATION Resource Center Opens in Lauinger Library ...... 2 A Gentleman's Library ..... 3 N MAY 4, 1994, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY WAS PLEASED TO Oshow its gratitude to Dr. Marshall Coyne, H'90, for his gift to the Burma ...... 3 University in celebration of its two millionth volume, George Washington's Appreciation ...... 3 broadside proclaiming the first national day of Thanksgiving. New Times, New Look ...... 3 Springtime Associate Washington's Proclamation was Events ...... 4 printed in New York, probably by Patrick White ...... 4 Childs and Swain, in late September or early October 1789. Surviving Welcome, New Associates ...... 4 untrimmed copies, such as the one at Georgetown, indicate that it was The Bibliophile and the Spy ...... 5 printed on a typical newspaper-type stock, the sheets measuring A Note of Appreciation ...... 6 approximately 20x16 inches. So far as is known, only seven (or perhaps eight) copies of the proclamation FALL EVENTS survive. Besides the copy at Late September 1994 Georgetown, there are examples at the Portuguese art of the 20th Chapin Library of Williams College, century: exhibit and lecture. Harvard, the Pierpont Morgan Murray Room. Library, the University ofIndiana, October 25, 1994 and Yale. To get an idea of the scarcity Kim Phil by - A Symposium: of the Proclamation, we need only lectures & panel discussion remember that more than two dozen with the experts. copies of the first broadside printing of ICC Auditorium. the Declaration of Independence are December 8,1994 Susan K. Martin, University Librarian; still extant. Traditional holiday party. Marshall B. Coyne, University Board of Historic Riggs Library. Directors; and Mario Vargas Llosa, novelist The University's two million volumes are distributed among its various libraries, with the Joseph Mark Lauinger Library on the Main Campus holding approximately 1.5 million volumes; the Edward Bennett Williams Law Library containing about 300,000 volumes; and the John Vinton Dahlgren Medical Library containing roughly 200,000 volumes. In addition, the library of the Kennedy Institute of Bioethics and now the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health are part of the University's growing information resources. (continues on page 5) The Georgetown University Library Associates Newsletter ELECTRONIC INFORMATION RESOURCE CENTER is issut!d four times a year. It is distributed to all Library OPENS IN LAUINGER LIBRARY Associates, members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), members of the The Electronic Information Resource Center, housed in a new room on the second Georgetown University Board of floor of Lauinger Library, opened on June 6. The Center is designed to provide acce$S Directors, Board of Regents, Board of Governors, and to electronic information resources and to multimedia publications, and to permit the selected others. creation of multimedia materials.

Q: Why do we need this new center? Chair of the Library Advisory Council A: The need for student and faculty access to scholarly electronic information Bernard J . Picchi (F'71) continues to rise. The Lauinger and Blommer Science Libraries have markedly University Librarian increased the number of online catalog and Blommer Information Center Susan K. Martin workstations, which provide CD-ROM databases, during the last year. Yet there remains an unmet need for workstations at peak times. In addition, because ofthe Contributors demand for the limited number of workstations, the libraries have been unable to Marty Barringer make other new electronic resources available. Access to electronic information is Mark Jacobs necessary for academic excellence today. The new Electronic Information Resource Carol LeClair Center will allow the libraries to meet the need and demand for electronic information. Susan K. Martin Nicholas Scheetz Q: How many computers are available? The Center has 29 microcomputers, each with a printer and CD-ROM drive If you have any comments, A: suggestions, criticisms, or attached. Each workstation is on a Local Area Network which connects to a variety of compliments about this resources located both inside and outside the library. The Picchi Multimedia Room, newsletter, please write to the located in the Center, debuted with four workstations capable of creating and viewing editor: Marty Barringer, original as well as published multimedia productions. Multimedia allows the user to Georgetown University Library, 3700 0 Street, N.W., combine text, graphics, animation, full motion video, voice, and music in Washington, D.C. 20057. computer-controlled applications. What distinguishes current multimedia from earlier Fax: 202/687-750l. film or videotaped manifestations is the interactivity possible using a computer. ;., Multimedia has the potential of becoming an exciting, effective new method for teaching and learning. Designer Laurie L. England Q: What electronic resources can students and faculty use? The Center provides students and faculty with a variety of computer applications Paper A: Beckett Concept, and connectivity to local and worldwide electronic information networks. The Center Glacier Mist, permits access to: 70 lb. text • George, our online catalog. George includes the holdings of Lauinger, the Science urecycled paper Library and the National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature • the online catalogs of Georgetown University's Williams Law Library and Printer Dahlgren Library at the Medical Center Charbray Printing • the online catalogs of the Library of Congress, Washington area university libraries, and other libraries around the world • the Blommer Information Center, providing access to a variety of resources on CD-ROM • electronic texts with accompanying textual analysis software for the works of Shakespeare, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Hegel, among others • electronic journals • electronic resources located around the world and accessible via the Internet • published multimedia resources. ,.,

2 1LIBRARY ASSOCIATES/August 1994 A GENTLEMAN'S LIBRARY ApPRECIATION The Library Associates It's not perhaps what the FBI had in mind when it was actively seeking to review Newsletter will miss library use records, but it's nonetheless true that a collector's library reveals much the editorial skills and about its creator's aims and hopes and values, and the happy juxtaposition of taste attention of Carol LeClair, and scholarly curiosity often makes for a whole greater than the sum of its parts. who retired from the When an academic library finds itself in unexpected possession of such a collection, the library on June 30th after results are almost always gratifying: the recent gift of his collection by Library Advisory Council member Maurice Adelman proves to be very much a case in point. 25 years of service to the University. Besides the Among the 1,000 or more printed items in the collection are a sizable number sure touch with which she relating to the history of Catholicism in Great Britain, ranging from "recusant" handled the production of publications of the seventeenth century to more recent biographical studies and this newsletter, Carol histories of institutions such as Stonyhurst. In this case, the backbone ofthe Adelman always displayed an library matches and strengthens an area of obvious interest to Georgetown. But it's in inexhaustible patience in the fleshing out ofthe collection that serendipity soliciting, prodding, and prevails, as in the case of Ronald Knox, where our THE nagging contributions already strong holdings are enriched and brought from the rest of us, as nearly to completeness by items in the Adelman Jefuits Loyalty, well as a gentle but firm gift, including such treasures as a dedication copy of Manifefled in Three fever:!.l conviction that we ought Knox's Memories of the Future (1923) with the TREATISES caustic inscription by the dedicatee "This belongs to to write in readable Lately written by them againrt the Laura Lovat, whoever steals it goes to Hell." Then English. Carol, we will truly OATH of ALLEGEANCE: again, Willa Cather's is not a name one often miss you! thought of in connection with Georgetown: it may be WITH so now, however, with former library holdings much APR E F ACE, enlarged by a handsome run of first editions in the SHEWING NEW TIMES, Adelman gift, including Cather's first book, April The Pernicioll1 Confequence of their Principles M to Civil Governmellt. NEW LOOK Twilights (1903), and further books and an autograph letter in the most recent gift from the Commencing with this Biddle library. And much the same can be said of LONDON, issue, the Library Julia Ward Howe, and Sarah Helen Whitman, and Printed by E. FI,jh", for R. ROlf/ow, Bookreller to His moflS.ered MAJES'TY, 167\!. Associates Newsletter Agnes Repplier, in all of whose cases the Adelman will be appearing four runs of first editions have brought our holdings Early English anti-Catholic times a year, in August, much nearer to completeness. One final instance tract, 1678, in the Adelman gift November, February and involves an artist in whom we've been interested for some time, the wood engraver Clare Leighton; how pleasing to find a long series of her May. We hope that this own books, of books by others illustrated by her, and even two original engravings! change will give you not The list could be extended, but the point is clear. This is a collection that's found its only more timely news of proper home. ~ what's happening in the library, but also enable you to plan on attending BURMA upcoming events. The new look of this newsletter A choice group of several dozen books about Burma was recently donated by Dr. reflects the skills of Marco B. Civera, G'71, of Silver Spring, Maryland. Besides works relating to Burmese Laurie L. England, history and language, there are a number of volumes by British travellers to Burma, Associates member and including a copy in original wrappers of George W. Strettell's The Ficus Elastica in graphic designer. Burma Proper: or, a narrative of my journey in search of it (Rangoon: the Government Press, 1876). Also present is the second volume of The British Burma Gazetteer (Rangoon: the Government Press, 1879), illustrated with contemporary sepia photographs. Dr. Civera is well acquainted with the region, having written his doctoral dissertation on "The distinctive phonology of Lhasa Central Tibetan: results of a field trip to study the Himalayas as an ethno-linguistic area." ~ 3 1LIBRARY ASSOCIATES/August 1994 WELCOME, SPRINGTIME ASSOCIATE EVENTS NEW ASSOCIATES Jessica Abreu Edmund F. Ackerson March 1, 1994 Garret G. Ackerson, III "N apoleon on St. Helena: exile and death--or was it Joseph Alexandre Anthony T. Ambrogio murder?" Attracted by this provocative lead, Associates Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Anisko came to the March 1st program eager to get an answer Pedro Arboleda from the Honorable Andrew H. Steigman, Assistant Dean Joseph A. Artabane Cecilia L. Auth at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Bill Bajczyk There is a reasonable theory that poisonous fumes may Robert & Leslie Ball have emanated from the wallpaper. Be that as it may, the Bruce Bartlett Donald E. Barton speaker held the audience with a vivid picture of life on John Bean isolated St. Helena, and the courtly ritual clung to by the John Blackman exiled emperor. n, Bill & Melanie Bone Simon Bourgin Timothy Boyce Juan M. Bracete Andrew Steigman Maya Brahmam Alan Brown April 7, 1994 Charles T. Brown Richard G. Brown A "Magical Undersea World" was truly what Associates Robert A. Brown, Jr. David H. Burton and friends were captivated by on this early spring Jorge L. Camuiias evening. Ruth Petzold, member of a loyal "Georgetown Pascal Cardonnel family," is an underwater photographer of the highest Barbara Carr rank. "Incredible!" was on the lips of many of the Richard Carroll Edward A. Casey audience as Ruth gave a slide tour of the colorful flora Elizabeth Chimento and fauna deep under the surface of the sea. Most of the Sue Cimbricz slides were taken in the South Pacific, and some in the Marco B. Civera William F. Clare, III Red Sea. It was even more amazing to learn that when Dalya Cohen the photographer dives lower than a certain distance, all Rafael A. Colon the life appears to the human eye as blue or green; Neil C. Craig, Jr. Jean G. Crocker however, the developed film shows brilliant reds, yellows, Maryellen Cronk Ruth Petzold and many shades of color. It was a magical evening. n, Lisa Crye Margaret Curwen Melanie Custer Michael A. Czarnomski George T. Czuczka Anne M. Daniel PATRICK WHITE John F. Davis Christine S. Decker Victor L. Deupi Patrick Victor Martindale White's name is hardly a household word in America Julia C. Devlin today, despite the success in this country of novels such as Voss (1957) and Riders in Mona E. Dingle Susan Douglass the Chariot (1961) and his attainment ofthe Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. In Drake & Cynthia Dubin fact, it was Ben Huebsch at Viking Press who took the plunge and accepted for Peter Esmonde publication White's first novel, The Happy Valley (1939). In his native Australia, Janet Farley Richard H. Forbes however, his reputation as the greatest writer the continent has produced is secure. A Tatiana Gau fourth-generation Australian, Patrick White made of his novels, short stories, and Josh Goldman plays the means by which he explored and came to understand his own alienation Susan Sachs Goldman from the ethos of his contemporaries. Thanks to the generosity of Library Advisory Robert Goldwin Holland Goss Council member Henry Nowik, Georgetown can now boast of a virtually complete Michael A. Graham collection of White's published work, including his rare book of college verse The Christina Gramuglia Ploughman and Other Poems (1935), published in an edition of only 300 copies when Stephen Grand Penelope Green White was just 23. n, Peter Gribbin Harry William Hanbury Kenneth A. Hanson Norman L. Hanson 4 1LIBRARY ASSOCIATES/August 1994 Patrice E. Hargis THE BIBLIOPHILE AND THE Spy Patrick J. Hart William R. Heitzmann In 1962 New York attorney James Donovan personally escorted convicted Russian Elizabeth Helvey Audrey Herz spy Rudolf Abel to the exchange that gave Abel his freedom in return for that ofU-2 Elizabeth K. Herz pilot Gary Powers and a second American. Donovan had served as Abel's defense Scott W. Hibbard attorney at his trial for espionage, and over a period of years the two developed a Anwar Hossain relationship such that Abel was moved, after returning to Russia, to send his Joseph R. Howard, Jr. W. Bronson Howell American lawyer, whom he knew to be an avid book collector, an appropriate gift. In Linda Hudson-O'Neill fact, he chose two seventeenth-century legal texts, each an imposing vellum-bound Michie Hunt folio: Johannes Brunnemann's Commentarius in duodecim libros codicis Justinianei ... Arthur F. Hyder Rita Jankovich editio post claudicantem & mendosam Gallicanam quinta (Leipzig, 1688) and David Cathy O. Jarcho Mevius' Jurisdictionis summi tribunali regii, quod est Vismariae ... editio secunda Michael J. Jeary (Frankfurt & Stralsund, 1675). Through the generosity of Donovan's daughter, her Paul & M. Terry Jeffs Christine Johnston husband, Dr. Edward Amorosi, and their family, the two volumes are now part of Anne Marie Kelly Georgetown's collection and were the first items displayed in the new exhibit case on Frank J. Kelly the renovated third floor. ;., PaulF.Kelly Kuniko Kojima Paul F.Konort Jerome Krase GU GIVES THANKS (continued from page 1) Jane Casey Kuczynski John Kurkjian Joining Marshall Coyne in Present at the ceremony were Cliffe E. Laborde, III observing the two millionth volume was President Leo J. O'Donovan, S.J., who Deborah Lamb-Mechanick Mario Vargas Llosa, acclaimed Peruvian spoke briefly and introduced both Judith H. Lanius Marshall Coyne and Mario Vargas Llosa; Steven Lauria writer and scholar. Dr. Vargas Llosa Martha Lawler spent the spring 1994 semester at William Curtin, chairman of the Karen Levenback Georgetown's School of Languages and Georgetown University Board of Steve Lilienthal Linguistics as its first Distinguished Directors; Dr. Judith Areen, Executive Jennifer Little Elizabeth Lobo Visiting Scholar. For a large crowd of Vice President of the Law Center; Dr. John & Elizabeth Lombard Library Associates, students, faculty and John Griffith, Executive Vice President Guy O. Long library staff, Dr. Vargas Llosa reflected ofthe Medical Center; Dr. Patrick Elizabeth Nassikas Lowery Moira A. Lozada on his memories of libraries that he has Heelan, S.J., Executive Vice President of Timothy J. Lucey known and worked in, and read from his the Main Campus; Helen Bagdoyan, John L. & Angela Maddux published works, in a presentation that representing Naomi Broering, director of John J. Madigan, III the Medical Library; Robert Oakley, Theodore Marache he entitled "The Paradise of Books." The Maryam Mashayekhi audience enjoyed hearing about his director of the Williams Law Library; Helen C. Mattas comparison of the Peruvian national Susan Martin, University Librarian; and David McClanahan library, described as a public library John Breslin, S.J., University Chaplain. Cornelius J . McDonough Marie McMahon where the citizenry came to enjoy Marcia Merry reading, but also socializing, with the University libraries - indeed, Diane C. Minogue Bibliotheque N ationale in Paris, as an libraries of all kinds - take the Michael F. Murphy opportunity to celebrate the attainment John D. Noonan extreme opposite, with an aloof and Reem Nuseibeh scholarly air as well as a shortage of of "round numbers" in their collections. Terrence M. O'Donovan seats. Dr. Vargas Llosa commented on Followers of Georgetown activities may John M. Panetta think that it hasn't been very long since Francisco J. Paret, Jr. the architectural problem besetting the Carolyn M. Patterson new Bibliotheque de France and the the celebration of the one millionth Charlotte Pearlman British Library facility at St. Pancras. volume; the mid-1980s celebration of one James K. Peoples million volumes was for the Lauinger Ruth Petzold Dr. Coyne entertained the audience Kathleen Walsh Pollack Library alone, rather than the entire Michael Q. Powell with a history of the naming and dating University. Lauinger Library anticipates Dorothy J. Quest of Thanksgiving Day, written by his that it will celebrate its two millionth John G. Quigley grandson. While George Washington volume around the year 2012. Save the Jacqueline L. Quillen Joseph J. Ragonese proclaimed the first Thanksgiving Day, time for that celebration! ;., T. Donald Rapello in the year of Georgetown's founding, the Arthur S. Recchi day was not fixed on the fourth Thursday George K. Reese, Jr. of November until the 19th century. Michael J. Regan Frank Reynolds (continues on page 6) 5 1LIBRARY ASSOCIATES/August 1994 (continues from page 5) Dana Ricci A NOTE OF APPRECIATION David Richardson Elizabeth C. Ridout Cydney Roach We want to thank all the friends of the library who have given books, manuscripts, Carol Anne Rosen and other library materials during late 1993 and the first five months of 1994. Gary Rosen Donald M. Ross Included are: Rose Sage • American Political Science Association • Jesse A. Mann Willard Saunders Books on political science Collection of works on philosophy ShawnK. Sax David Scannell • George M. Anderson, S.J. • John S. Monagan James T. Sell Copies of church archives and Historical papers Arline Sheehan a confederate soldier's diary Kevin J.W. Sheehan • Cole Blasier • Mrs. Ira Pearlman Diane E. Sherwood A large collection of books on varied topics Jayne Shontell Books on Latin America Maria L. Shrady • Anthony Cave Brown • Dorothy J. Quest Wendy Simpson Additional papers Library and papers of artist John W. Sither Charles Quest Nicholas N. Smith • Mrs. Arthur F. Burns Books on economics Daisuke Soejima • George Ree Theodore Stazeski • Chronicle of Higher Education Books on art Robert W. Stone A large collection of books on Lawrence M. Stratton, Jr. varied topics • Selma Roosevelt Alan Sullivan Books on government and politics Sharon Gough Sullivan • Jeanne H. De Novo William A. Sullivan Addition to the John A. De Novo papers • Russell Shaw H.R.H. Prince Bin • Joseph T. Durkin, S.J. Additional papers Mohammed Talal Books on varied topics John E. Tashjean • Eric McAllister Smith Michael Taylor • Robert M. Edmund Original editorial cartoons Dorothy Thomas Videocassettes on biography and Gary Thomas John F. Kennedy speeches • Elizabeth Solterer Robert A. Thomas Library and papers of Joseph Solterer Andrew P. Truhan • Laurie England Michael Turnbull Fine paper and printed ephemera • Mitchell F. Stanley Donald Twombly • Sydney J. Freedberg Collection of books on history James E. Tyrrell Books on art Barbara Upton • David I. Steinberg John Walsh • Elizabeth K. Herz Books and microfilm Anna Watkins Papers ofAmbassador Martin F. Herz Lisa Weil • Mrs. Walter J. Stoessel, Jr. • Karl Heumann Additional papers ofAmbassador Stoessel Scott E. Wendelin Books of C. S. Forester Rhoda Weyr • Washington Numismatic Society Jack E. Wiedemer, Jr. • Deh-I Hsiung Steven Wojcik Books in Chinese Several volumes of the Society's journal George W. Wright • William Lehfeldt • Volkmar Wentzel Beverly M. Wukich Additional papers of Wan-Ju K. Yen Books on varied topics Mike Zarpas Mrs. Robert Low Bacon

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