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Y ~S Sf! C IAT ES GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ___. -•.•~ .I'7"l.~."" Y ~s Sf! C IATE S w 5 L E T T E R AUGUST 1994-NEWSLETTER 35 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.
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