NEWSLETTER OF THE DREW UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

ISSUE NO. 22, FALL 2007 HTTP://WWW.DREW.EDU/DEPTS/LIBRARY.ASPXVisions SCHOLARSHIP ON VIEW

reativity and scholarship are on Students are Cview in the fall Library exhibit, especially invited to Faculty Publications: 2005-2007. With browse the award- approximately seventy faculty members winning fiction and represented by publications of books, poetry from assis- journals, articles, essays, and multi- tant professors of media formats, titles range from English Tiphanie Professor Garyth Nair’s Craft of Singing Yanique and to Associate Dean Anne Yardley’s Patrick Phillips; Performing Piety: Musical Culture in tales of presidential Medieval English Nunneries; Associate duties from Faculty publications capture attention in the Library lobby. New cases Professor Andrea Talentino’s Military University were recently installed along the wall at the main entrance for a per- Intervention after the Cold War; Professor President Robert manent, rotating display of Faculty work. A retrospective display from Barry Burd’s Ruby on Rails for Dummies® Weisbuch; and art 2005-2007 is on view through the fall. and Professor Stephen Moore’s Empire historical analysis and Apocalypse. Professor Merrill from Associate Professor of Art History Professor of French Deborah Hess, Skaggs’s book, Axes: Willa Cather and Margaret Kunzt. Theological School Professor of Latin American and World William Faulkner and her co-edited Faculty have a strong presence in the Christianity Otto Maduro, and Professor Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather are also exhibit, and several faculty have written of English, Emerita, Janet Handler on view. in multiple languages, including continued on page 6

STUDENTS MAKE A DIFFERENCE Dean’s Corner 2 By Deborah Strong, Library Administrator for Human Resources Recent Gifts 3 he University Library is not only a Electronic Resource Tpopular place for students to study, Management 3 it’s also a popular place for them to R.S. Thomas Collection 4 work—and the Library depends on their Inside contributions as staff. The Library is the Remembering largest employer of students on campus, Arthur E. Jones 5 with over fifty students from all three SciFinder Scholar 2007 7 schools working part-time in every department during the academic year, Professional News 7 and twenty of those staying through the January and summer breaks. Last year, Film Makers the student staff put in a total of 17,425 First-year student, Gino Sanchez is among Consult Library 7 hours, the equivalent of almost 10 full- several students whose work speeds the pro- cessing of the 5,000 or more items that are Exhibits 8 time employees. expected to be borrowed or loaned through What do all these students do? the Interlibrary Loan department this year. continued on page 6 Visions2 FALL 2007 THE DEAN’S CORNER PLANNING FOR THE LIBRARY OF THE FUTURE: Q AND A

he last issue of the newsletter final determinations. But we are hopeful. We have a Tcarried an abridged copy of number of donors who want to have a role in making the

the Library’s developing vision Shelley Kusnetz vision document a reality. document, “The Intellectual Q. What needs to be added to the plan? Crossroads of the University: The A. The Library needs an endowment to support resource Expanding Role of the Drew development. Building our book, journal, and database University Library.” Here are collections is costly. Simply maintaining our current levels some questions that have been of collecting requires an annual increase in the budget just asked about the document. to keep pace with inflation. University funds to fully cover Q. What is the status of the those inflation increases have not been possible in the past document? What are the next few years. It would be prudent to build an endowment steps? that would ensure the future growth of the collections. A. We are making some changes to the document in response Q. What else? to suggestions that we have received. It will then A. The Library has many specialized collections and archives. be on the agenda of the Provost’s Council, University We need an aggressive program of digitization to make Faculty, student government groups, and the Academic these resources widely available. It is an irony of our tech- Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees. The AAC will nological times that it is no longer sufficient to house, likely discuss it at their February 2008 meeting. organize, and make accessible unique material. They must Q. Who was involved in creating the document? also be given larger, democratic life on the Internet. That A. The Library worked on this project for about eighteen will require an infusion of resources. The Dodge Poetry months and devoted two retreats to it. We visited new Archive Project will enable Drew to move into these digital and renovated libraries, attended conferences and work- waters in a major, innovative way. shops, and consulted with many librarians and technology Q. Are our peer schools investing in their library buildings? specialists. Various editions of the document were A. Many of the leading liberal arts colleges and universities reviewed by the Library faculty and staff, Library Dean’s have built new libraries, remodeled their buildings, or Council, University Library Committee, Computer added major additions in recent years. They include: Network Services, a number of regional and national Colgate University, Dickinson College, Franklin and library leaders, and Library donors. The document has Marshall College, Lafayette College, Middlebury College, gone through eight drafts. And still counting. Reed College, Skidmore College, Trinity College (Ct.), Q. How has the document been received? Vassar College, Wheaton College (Mass.), Whitman A. So far it has met with strong affirmations. Most readers College, Willamette University, and Williams College. have found it balanced. Some would like technology to Others are in the planning stages. have an even larger presence; others find it just right. Strategic planning for the Library is a dynamic process that Some urge a shorter document, while others would wel- will continue to be in flux. After all, “the ink should never be come a longer text complete with appendices. Our sense is dry on a vision document.” that because we have consulted widely, we have avoided the trap of being obsessed with the new and trendy to the An unabridged and updated copy of the document is avail- detriment of familiar services and the real needs of the stu- able on the Library’s Web site: http://depts.drew.edu/lib/vision/. dents and faculty we know well. Q. Will Library projects be in the University’s coming campaign? A. Those decisions have not been made. We have made our recommendations as requested by the president, but the cabinet, president, and trustees have not yet made those 3

RECENT GIFTS The Library gratefully acknowledges the following gifts.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT General Board of Global Ministries, Cynthia A. Cavenaugh, CSGS ‘03 UMC P. B. Irwin General Commission on the Status Professor Emeritus Edward L. Long, and Role of Women, UMC Jr. Indiana United Methodism Special The Rev. John McEllhenney, T’59 Collections of Depauw University ormer Drew President Paul Karen Hintz FHardin returned to campus on October Thomas J. Piskula 2, to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Professor Emeritus Donald Jones BOOKS AND GIFTS IN KIND the United Methodist Archives and Dr. Charles E. Jones History Center, which opened in the Dr. Barbara Morris Caspersen, CSGS Dolores Myers new Archives building on the Drew ‘83, ’86, ‘90 campus in 1982. Dr. Ethel Diamond, CSGS ‘06 North Central College, Illinois Professor Andrew Elliott Dr. Michael G. Nickerson ELECTRONIC RESOURCE John Hinchcliff Dr. C. Evans Olmstead MANAGEMENT Professor Emeritus Donald Jones Professor Emeritus Kenneth Rowe By James Farrugia, Ph.D. North Jersey Civil War Round Table William Scales Systems and Electronic Resources Librarian John Tonkin The United Library, Garrett- Evangelical Theological Seminary IN HONOR OF... ver the past few years Drew Library United Methodist Church, Czech Ousers have had access to an ever- Dr. James Pain and Dr. Virginia Republic increasing number of electronic journals. Phelan, from Dr. Jennifer Rains United Methodist Church, Slovak Beginning with a few thousand, the num- Proper, CSGS ‘06, who made it District ber now exceeds 24,000. Recently, the possible for the Library to pur- Library acquired an Electronic Resource Universidade Metodista de São chase the three-volume Collected Management System (ERMS) to help Letters of C.S. Lewis. Paulo manage the acquisition, maintenance, and GIFTS IN KIND TO THE Bernard S. Via, Jr. accessibility of these journals and other METHODIST LIBRARY Mary Jo Walters electronic resources. When it is fully implemented, the ERMS will allow us to Arkansas District United Methodist World Methodist Council Museum, create and maintain flexible control over a Archives, Hendrix College North Carolina central repository of e-resource-related James Bishop Yvonne H. Yare data, like contact information, usage sta- tistics, and licensing information. This repository can then be exploited by Library staff and patrons. Consider licensing information. The Visions ERMS can send automated alerts to staff in advance of each license renewal date. Andrew D. Scrimgeour, Ph.D. Editor: Anna S. Magnell In addition, it can display pertinent license Dean of Libraries On-Line Edition: Jennifer Heise restrictions to patrons at point of use. All Drew University Library Designer: Jama L. Bowman the information in the ERMS is integrated Madison, NJ 07940 with the knowledge base that supports A complete online archive of past 973/408-3322 access to e-journals and staff access to issues of Visions can be viewed on [email protected] vendor information. With the Library’s the library website at at: commitment to acquiring and making http://www.drew.edu/depts/library/visions.aspx available a growing number of e-resources, the ERMS is a valuable tool that will help us serve patrons better. Visions4 FALL 2007 THE R.S. THOMAS COLLECTION

By Brandon Fralix Ph.D. Candidate

eat out of the Nobel Prize in litera- Numbering nearly 400 Bture by Seamus Heaney, Welsh poet items, it includes first R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) does not editions of all of the often receive the attention his poetry poet’s work, many of deserves. However, his poetry’s focus which are signed, on nature, Wales, and the Welsh people recordings of Thomas creates a fascinating Celtic echo to reading his poems, and Heaney’s Irish-centered poetry. transcripts of most of his speeches and interviews. Now, thanks to the generosity of Besides Thomas’s own collector John McEllhenney (T, ’59), work, there are many the Drew University Library has a fine critical reviews of his poetry. collection of Thomas’s poetry. McEllhenney’s collecting began visits to Wales to visit with Thomas. with another poet, Robert Frost, in the In addition to the focus on Thomas, 60s, but he quickly realized that the the collection strengthens the Library’s J. McEllhenney competition was stiff for his works and holdings by offering several introduc- the prices were escalating. He chanced tions and histories on Wales and Welsh to read a review of a Thomas volume in literature. The assortment consists of the Saturday Review, was intrigued, and numerous anthologies of Anglo-Welsh bought the volume. That began a life- literature, many editions of the New long adventure in amassing a compre- Poets series from the 1960s and 70s, and hensive collection that included three much contemporary Welsh poetry and criticism. “his... mirth This collection gives Drew students Rarer than the sun that cracks the cheeks and scholars a marvelous opportunity to of the gaunt sky perhaps once in a week.” examine a much neglected poet. – R. S. Thomas, “A Peasant” R. S. Thomas, Wales, May 1993 F RIENDS OF THE LIBRARY

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REMEMBERING ARTHUR E. JONES

r. Arthur Edwin Jones, Jr., in Theology. “So began University Archives DDirector of the Library from 1956- some six memorable 1986, and Professor of English, Emeritus, years of working with passed away on March 23, 2007, in Art and the Drew Davidson, North Carolina at age 89. Dr. Library family. Art was Jones’s personal qualities are remem- an engaging scholar bered here by close colleagues, along who wore his learning with hallmarks of a career that gracefully…. In so • Infused the Library with pro- many ways he set fessionalism, recruiting specialty examples of profession- librarians and professional staff. alism….The quality of • Expanded the collections with his work meant that we ingness to say, ‘No.’ But Art’s enduring careful stewardship of funds. would do our very best.” contribution was to create a vibrant uni- • Initiated automation by join- Evelyn Meyer, Library Reference versity library able to serve all the ing the Online Computer Library Department Assistant Professor, Emerita, schools of the University. He trans- Center (OCLC) in 1977. recalls the “insightful scholarship, formed a staff with a few rather tradi- tional librarians into one infused with • Advocated for Library expan- inspired teaching, and effective advocacy fresh knowledge from library schools sion funded through a University for academic librarians,” of Arthur E. and an excitement for new endeavors. capital campaign. Jones, as well as his personal warmth to Drew owes a great debt to Art for his a staff who knew him as “AEJ,” and • Oversaw construction of the transformative vision and dedication. devotion to his wife, Rae, whose efforts Learning Center and Archives Many of us owe him much more than John Cunningham acknowledges in The buildings, which opened in that.” 1982. University in the Forest were “instrumen- “I owe my whole career to Arthur tal in organizing the Drew University • Established the National Jones,” writes Kenneth E. Rowe, Archives.” “Art’s leadership—especially Methodist Archives residency Methodist Librarian, Emeritus, who “first his understanding of the primary objec- at Drew. got to know Art in 1959, when he tives of reference and research—guided “I have a proposition that may be of became a reader for my undergraduate me through twenty-seven years at interest to you…” began the 1966 honors thesis. When I returned to Drew Drew.” memo from Art Jones that would lure in 1965 as a graduate student, Art took Ph.D. student Laurence McIntosh Linda E. Connors reflects on “a me on. He and his library staff proceeded from Australia back to Drew for the wonderful, life-changing relationship to make me a librarian.” Filling what newly created post of Assistant Librarian with a teacher, mentor, and friend. Like began as a temporary vacancy for many others, I did not Methodist Librarian, Rowe recalls Jones’s set out to be a librarian, role as mentor. “Art pointed me to but was recruited to the Rutgers’ Library School—his alma mater—, profession by Art Jones.” argued for advanced standing, helped University Archives “When I think of Art’s secure an ATLA scholarship, and took contributions to the me to my first professional meeting.” Drew Library,” the Head “In the late 1970s, when I proposed of Acquisitions recalls, that the University offer hospitality to “… it is tempting to the United Methodist Church’s newly focus on his consum- formed, but poorly housed Commission mate skill in building on Archives and History, he encouraged the collections, …his me in every way.” insistence on acquiring “Arthur Jones helped me develop only the best available talents I never knew I possessed. He was resources, and his will- exceptional.” Visions6 FALL 2007 STUDENTS MAKE A DIFFERENCE continued from page 1

More than half work in the Circulation Periodicals, Department assisting patrons in check- Preservation, and ing out materials, shelving items in the University stacks, and staffing the 8:30 a.m.-to- Archives depart- midnight, full-service open hours, as ments, where they well as the midnight-to-2:00 a.m. process book extended study hours. Students in the orders, update Reference Department and Methodist databases, create Library are also on the “front line,” inventories and find- Checking in… checking out, First-Year student employees, above right, helping users to select and access the ing lists, and make Wakia Wright, and Yaro Goncharova, stepped in to their new resources they need for research. custom-fit boxes by Circulation duties at the discharge station without a hitch as the fall Behind the scenes, students are a little hand to preserve semester got underway. Classmate Arvy Hill, left, is ready for the next patron at the checkout counter. less visible to the public, but no less fragile volumes. important, working in Acquisitions, What do students like about work- dition at Drew going back decades. Most Administration, Interlibrary Loan, ing in the Library? “The environment,” students enjoy their jobs enough to stay says first-year student Gino Sanchez, with the Library throughout their years who works in the small but busy at Drew regardless of their career goals. Interlibrary Loan office. “The opportuni- Four current graduate students have ty to learn more about the community moved on to Library staff positions and how to use the Library’s resources. while they complete dissertations—Matt This is nothing like my high school Beland, Kumar Bhattacharya, Jeevan library,” says Arvy Hill, another first-year Gurung, and Cheryl Oestreicher. Five student working in the Circulation other members of the staff got hooked Department. Andy Rogers, a Master’s on library work as Drew students and student in the Theological School who have made their careers here—Linda works on the Reference desk, enjoys Connors, Bruce Lancaster, Ginny “helping students with their research Finding resources, Andy Rogers, Theological Palmieri, Beth Patterson, and Elise papers; helping them narrow their topics School student, has ready answers for stu- Zappas. Still others who started as Drew dents in need of information. Whether they and find proper sources. This gives me a student employees have earned library are looking for research material, or the coin sense that I am substantively contribut- degrees and gone on as library directors machine, Andy’s perspective as a student and ing to Drew’s academic community.” and professionals to places as near as his training from Reference librarians equips him to deal with the many questions that Relying on student employees, and Lancaster County, Pa., Washington, come his way. mentoring their careers has been a tra- D.C., and Ohio, and as far as Australia.

SCHOLARSHIP ON VIEW Ernest Rubinstein, and the Times Literary Johnson-DeBaufre serves as a co-editor Supplement, where Professor Jonathan of the Journal of Feminist Studies in continued from page 1 Rose comments on current political Religion, and Professor Maduro shared Burstein, in French, Hispanic, and biographies. editorial work on a special issue of Social Hebrew languages, respectively. Journals are central to academic Compass. Professor of Theology and Ethics, scholarship, and many faculty members While the current exhibit will stay Emeritus, Thomas Oden continues work serve on editorial boards of international up through the fall, a permanent, rotat- as general editor for the monumental publications. Several faculty play key ing display will continue to flank the series of Ancient Christian Commentary editorial roles, including Professor of Library entrance, thanks to the initiative on Scripture, including translations into Philosophy Thomas Magnell, editor-in- of Dean of Libraries Andrew Scrimgeour chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, and Provost Pamela Gunter-Smith, multiple languages. co-editor of a joint Chinese-American whose mission for the campus includes Among the contributions to the journal, Axiology and Ethics, and on the recognition for faculty scholarship. New popular press are articles in Ms. Magazine board of Frontiers of Philosophy in China. cases were installed over the summer, by Assistant Professor of New Associate Professor of English Cassandra just in time for the current display and Testament, Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre; Laity is co-editor of the quarterly ready to feature new, forthcoming publi- Commonweal, by Theological Librarian Modernism/Modernity; Assistant Professor cations from the faculty. 7

SCIFINDER SCHOLAR 2007 FILM MAKERS ne of the requirements of the American Chemical Society certified courses of Ostudy for a degree in Chemistry at Drew is access to Chemical Abstracts, known CONSULT LIBRARY for 100 years as the “Key to the World’s Chemical Literature.” SciFinder Scholar 2007 offers access for academic purposes to all of Chemical Abstracts—from 1907 f you read the fine print in the Imovie credits, you may see that to the present—including patents and CAS Registry numbers, as well as information two movie production crews visited on reactions, properties, and structures to students, faculty, and staff on the Drew the Drew Library, where they con- Campus. sulted with Methodist Librarian Chris Anderson to acquire set materials for their upcoming films. “The Great Debaters,” directed by Denzel PROFESSIONAL NEWS Washington, and garnered loans from the Methodist Library and the Christopher Anderson, Methodist Dorothy Meaney, Periodicals and General Commission on Archives and Librarian, published a review of The Documents Associate, gave a presenta- History. The film tells the story of Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in tion on the Library’s use of Serials Wiley College Professor Melvin B. America, edited by Michael McClymond, Solutions’ MARC records service at a Tolson, who inspired students from for the International Bulletin of Missionary Serials Solutions Northeast Workshop, the historically black Texas college to Research 31:4, October 2007: pp. 214- held at Rutgers October 24. reach the national debating competi- 215. tions in the 1930s. In addition, a film Andrew Scrimgeour, Dean of about Charles Wesley, produced by James Farrugia, Systems and Libraries, was reelected Vice Chair of T.N. Mohan and Angela Burchett, is Electronic Resources Librarian, was the Executive Committee of VALE, the awarded a Ph.D. in Spatial Information consortium of the academic libraries of using letters and images from the Science and Engineering, in May. The New Jersey. Methodist Library collection. title of his dissertation is, “Semantic Interoperability of Geospatial Ontologies: A Model-Theoretic Analysis.” COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT AND LIBRARY COLLABORATE New from publishers this fall are two books from Library faculty. This fall students in CSCI 100, In Religion and the Muse: The Vexed Systems Programming and Tools Relation between Religion and Western taught by Professor Shannon Literature (State University of New York Bradshaw, have a real-world client: Press, 2007), Theological Librarian the Library. They are seeking to Ernest Rubinstein “explores the alter- create tools to help library users nately complementary and conflictual ways that religion search the online Library catalog and literature have appealed to the Western spiritual sensibility,” more effectively. writes reviewer Robert Inchausti. “The book constructs a turbulent line of mutual critique, with joint origins in Plato and Dante.” In Just Call Me Bob: The Wit and Wisdom of Robert W. Funk (Polebridge Press, 2007), Andrew Scrimgeour, Dean of Libraries (ed.), has “created an engaging and affective compilation of quotations from the work of Bob Funk, one of the 20th century’s most influential religionists,” accord- Methodist ing to Phyllis Tickle of Publishers Weekly (ret). Funk (1926-2005), taught at Drew in Library Hours the early part of his career, from 1959-1966. Bishop Richard Holloway described him Monday–Friday as “not just a great scholar and thinker: he was a great American, great in his courage 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. and great in the way he challenged moral and intellectual corruption. In this book his words still go on speaking to us, and they are more needed now than ever.” Visions8 FALL 2007 LIBRARY EXHIBITS

MAIN LIBRARY METHODIST LIBRARY Faculty Publications: 2005-2007 Musical contributions made by three generations of the Wesley family are the

September-December, 2007 A. Scrimgeour focus of the fall exhibit, Sacred Harmony: This exhibit continues the Library the Musical Wesley Family, through tradition of celebrating the scholarly November 15. The display includes rare, accomplishments of Drew faculty, with 18th century manuscripts from Drew a display of recent books, journals, University, Southern Methodist articles, Web-based publications, exhibit University, and Duke University collec- catalogues, performance programs, tions. The handsome, full-color catalog, and recordings. written by exhibit curator Dr. Carlton R. They Still Draw Pictures: Children’s Young, Professor Emeritus of Church Art in Wartime from the Spanish Music, Emory University, and editor of The United Methodist Hymnal, can be Civil War to Iraq obtained through the Methodist Library March-May, 2008 at Drew, by calling 973-408-3590. An exhibit of drawings dating from the Spanish Civil War and later conflicts A celebration of music history marked the tercentenary of the birth of Charles including World War II, the Holocaust, Wesley. Southeast Asia, the Middle East, the Balkans, Chiapas, and Iraq. Archival photographs by Robert Capa will also be on display.

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