Liberty Hall Volunteers, a Company of Washington College Students and Others Who Formed in April1861 to Fight for the Confederacy I Folios

Liberty Hall Volunteers, a company of Washington College students and others who formed in April1861 to fight for the Confederacy I FOLios

TABLE OF CONTENTS Fall2012 THE UNIVERSITY News from the University Librarian 1 LIBRARY COMMITTEE Special Collections and Archives 2 The University Library Committee Educational Support 4 acts as an advisory board to the Recent Donors -1 i I . 8 librarians and the Provost on matters ..? 1 pertaining to the maintenance and Telford Science Library ) 5 development of the library and its Friends of the Library 6 collections. The issues the committee 't" ) } Calendar of Events - ( 10 usually considers concern public and f . I technical services and may include 11 Services other areas in which the University How You Can Help 12 Librarian seeks advice. The committee consists of nine university faculty members (appointed by the Provost), the University Librarian, and three student representatives (one each from sophomore, junior, and senior classes with multi-year appointments encouraged), appointed by the President upon nomination by the Student Body Executive Committee.

Faculty members for 2012-13 are:

Richard Bidlack, History William (Bill) Connelly, Politics Kenneth Lambert, Computer Science Richard Marks, Religion Dan Mazilu, Physics and Engineering Adam Schwartz, Business Administration Angela Smith, Philosophy Michael Smitka, Economics David Touve, Business Administration

Committee members also serve as liaisons to the rest of their respective colleges, sharing information from the once-a-term meetings and taking information from their college to the University Librarian and other committee members.

Friends of the :tibtary; 540.458.86412 friend$aftrrelibrar,y@wlu.~du Leyburn Libl!'ary: §4Cl.458.864ltl UNNERSITY LIBRARY 540 458 811tJ WASHlNGTON & LEE tJNIVERSHY 'Felford Science LibEary: • • LEXING"j; QN, VA 24450 . -. ' THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY • The Importance and Value COMMITTEE

~ ·• of Library Employees ' ' Terry Metz, University Librarian .... Committee's Update t By the time this issue of our newsletter reaches your hands, you may already be aware of several library employees who have ~;~ left W &L employment or are preparing to do so: Franr;oise Karin O'Callaghan retired from her position as Administrative Services Fregnac-Clave, Coordinator on August 24. chair of the Kwangsoo Han stepped down from his position as Systems Librarian on August University Library 31. He accepted a library position at the Community College of Baltimore County. Committee Laura Turner will close out her service as Head of Technical Services on September 30. She's accepted a library position as Head of Technical Services, Copley Changes at the University Library Library, University of San Diego. Vaughan Stanley will retire from his post as Special Collections kept us very busy during 2011-2012. Librarian effective January 1, 2013. In the fall, we welcomed our new University Librarian, Terry Metz, Desired Competencies for Library Personnel: coming to us from the Naval War Examples, but not a comprehensive list, of key functions in an academic library College (RI). Togethe1~ with Terry, John include: Tombarge (whose smooth, diligent and • Identifying the information needs of the library's user community forward-looking interim as University • Selecting from available options the most usable, accurate, and reliable Librarian should be recognized), Laura sources of that desired information, including both for-fee and more freely Turner and Karin O'Callaghan, we available information discussed budget constraints (this • Acquiring-through purchase, subscription, or other means-the direct was another flat year for the budget), physical ownership of some of these materials while arranging for alternative and the new factors which shape access to other materials academic libraries' evolution, such as • Organizing these materials in systematic ways new suppliers' policies, the explosion • Providing convenient access to library materials through furnishing locations of digital information availability, that both house physical materials and encourage library patrons to use them • Providing expert guidance to assist users in getting the most value from the and the move from physical to virtual library's services and collections, including providing context for how these resources. The $1.3 million Howard materials (and the work of the user) relate to the scholarly communication Hughes Medical Institute Grant that the process university received in May 2012 to boost • Ensuring responsible stewardship and preservation of those items and its biological science programs also will content that we expect to be of value to future users of the W&L University have an impact on the management Library of both the Telford Science Library Because we're a relatively small academic library, employees at W&L's university (mission and design) and Leyburn library are expected to become expert in at least two or three (and sometimes more) (storage capacity). of these areas and be familiar with and sensitive to all of them. If one or more of these This new environment demands a functions is performed poorly, the entire library operation may suffer and service to new strategy and difficult arbitrations, students and faculty would diminish. Of course, we aim to avoid diminished service all the more problematic at Washington during this period of staffing transition. You may be wondering how we identify candidates who are most likely to and Lee as the Library increasingly thrive in the W &L University Library. When we have opportunities to recruit new functions not just as a research center, colleagues, we seek in them competencies beyond those of being technically capable but as a physical space for teaching and of performing the work. Some of these competencies reflect W &L' s intimate size learning as well. We are pleased to see when compared with most academic institutions. Others reflect the nature of how that the Library staff are very aware technology is changing the look and feel of library services in general. They include: of the specific needs of the different • The ability to build and sustain effective work relationships constituent audiences they serve, and • The ability to employ sound professional judgment that they will continue to operate the • The ability to receive and offer feedback Library as the vital educational and • The ability cope with, adapt to, and thrive amid change to intellectual center it has become for the We send our departing library colleagues best wishes on the next portion of W &L community. their lives' journeys. They leave large shoes to fill. However, to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson's statementto members of the French diplomatic core when he was charged by the U.S. Congress to stepin.for the retiring Benjamin Franklin as the chief U.S. diplomat to the.Erench Nation, "No one can replace Karin, Kwangsoo, Laura, and Vaughan .... rut pt~erswill succeed them." FOLios SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

The Stonewall Jackson Cemetery Project Emily Crawford '14, Special Collections Summer Assistant

As a student working in the University Library Special Collections I have had the opportunity to work on a project with Carol Karsch, Emily Crawford '14 Data and Statistical Specialist, that has given me greater insight into the local history of Lexington, Virginia, and the surrounding area. The current project pertained to the Stonewall Carol Karsch Jackson Cemetery. I resized, sorted, and labeled several thousand tombstone photos to prepare them for a new website that provides an online record of those interred at the Photo of tombstones in Stonewall Jackson Cemetery. cemetery. Each entry has photos, dates, names of relatives, and the location in the cemetery. Ms. Karsch designed names, marital status, accomplishments, "erected in memory of' a loving mother, an easily readable and searchable and at times a loving epitaph. a brave soldier, a small child. One format that includes links to W &L In addition to using inscriptions tombstone even explicitly told the cause Special Collections and the Rockbridge on gravesites, the Ancient Greeks often of death of a small child-the child had Historical Society, among others. The wrote poetry telling the life stories of drowned in a terrible accident at the age Stonewall Jackson Cemetery website the deceased since they believed that the of four. Another inscription told of the located at library.wlu.edu/SJCemetery/ dead could speak beyond their graves. "long and fruitful life" another person SJCroster.php is a useful asset to relatives Centuries later the poet Edgar Lee had led. and historians alike, especially those for Masters created a literary masterpiece As I went through the digital whom travel would be difficult. that is elegant, clever, and insightful: photos, I realized that there were stories A cemetery provides a treasure Spoon River Anthology. Masters, inspired that had been forgotten or untold, voices trove of information about the by the Greeks, wrote "poetry from the that had been silenced. Because the inhabitants, their families, and the grave"-poems written in deceased stories were forgotten this meant too area in which they lived. As a Classics characters' voices of his fictional town, that people now deceased may have major, I have studied numerous burial Spoon River, that told of their triumphs been forgotten. In the oldest sections practices of the Greeks, Etruscans, and losses, joys and sorrows, pleasures of Stonewall Jackson Cemetery lie and the Romans that provided many and pains. Although the poems in graves that are worn down, overgrown insights into the lives of the people in Masters' work have fictional content with plants, and sinking into the the ancient world. All of these ancient the stories reflect the reality of human ground with the inscriptions barely civilizations had a habit of making an existence. visible. Tom Kastner, a local resident inscription of some sort on a gravesite, Unlike the poems of Masters, who started the project to document a practice that is still done at modern the voices that speak to us from the the gravesites, told me how much he gravesites. In modern times, often a inscriptions on gravesites in Stonewall wanted those departed from this life person can find upon a gravestone or Jackson Cemetery are real and for a few to be remembered. "After all", he said, tomb the name, age, birth date, and brief moments an observer is aware of "the purpose of a tombstone or other death date in addition to relatives' the type of life the deceased person had grave marker is to make a monument so led. I saw many tombstones that were that people will not forget them."

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McClellan. Yet Lee very nearly lost Battle of Antietam September, 1862 the battle and perhaps the whole war. Vaughan Stanley, Special Collections Librarian Antietam was a tactical stalemate but, since Lee's army withdrew from the Following Robert No. 191 detailing the Confederate plan field first, it was grasped as a victory E. Lee's victory at of attack. These orders fell into enemy by President Abraham Lincoln who felt the battle of Second hands on September 13 when Union strengthened to issue his preliminary Manassas at the end of soldiers at Frederick, Maryland found a Emancipation Proclamation. August in 1862 he was copy wrapped around three cigars lying As the year 1862 progressed, determined to invade Northern territory on the ground. These were turned over Lee would gain a signal victory at for the first time. The ensuing battle of to Union General George McClellan. Fredericksburg, but on October 20, 1862, Antietam (Sharpsburg) would be the McClellan, who opposed Lee earlier in he suffered his greatest loss when his dominant story of the end of summer 1862 during the Seven Days Campaign beloved daughter, Annie Carter Lee, and early fall150 years ago during the near Richmond, was an adversary well died in Warren County, North Carolina, Civil War. known to Lee. But McClellan, as was his of typhoid fever at the age of 23. Lee's Yet Lee's plan did not go well from nature, acted slowly in response to the close aide, Walter Herron Taylor, relates the start. The Army of Northern Virginia prize information, and by the time the in his memoirs how he found General was greeted with a cool reception in battle took place on September 17, Lee's Lee weeping in his tent when he had Maryland. Lee's hope in his invasion misplaced orders were already out of received the news by mail of Annie's was to lower Northern morale and date. death. Lee lost precious time away diplomatic standing. Hopefully an The Battle of Antietam on from his family in the war and to lose a invasion with victories would increase September 17 was the bloodiest child on top of that was painful in the the peace Democrats' polling victories single day of the Civil War. Historian extreme. Annie was buried in North in the 1862 elections and also increase Emory Thomas, one of Lee's principal Carolina where her remains rested until the likelihood of European nations' biographers, says Lee should never they were moved to Lee Chapel under recognition of the Confederacy. But have offered battle at Sharpsburg, but the leadership of Capt. Robert Peniston things went wrong. There was the Lee had his reasons as given above and in 1994, and she was reunited with the infamous fiasco of Lee's Special Orders he also felt he could defeat the cautious rest of her family.

Update on Paxton Diaries Acquisition: Paxton's Civil War Experience Slated for Theatrical Adaptation

Seth Goodhart _ - ·- ...... -. Special Collections Assistant i. - .- ~,.~ 41!! In the summer of 2011 Ley burn Library's volunteer Randall C. Higgins completed feelings for and portrayal of "home" Special Collections was the recipient transcriptions of the roughly 430 pages as themes within both narratives. of a gift of six original Civil War era of diary entries. Working copies of the The resulting essay will appear in an diaries written by Alexander S. Paxton, transcriptions as well as the originals are online essay collection "Seeking Home: a Rockbridge County native and now available to researchers in Special Tradition and Modernity in Appalachia" Washington College alum, who served Collections. Digital access to the dairies, for www.h-net.org/, a web based in the college's campus-born military at least at some level, is forthcoming international scholarly consortium company the Liberty Hall Volunteers. through the new Special Collections promoting the arts, humanities, and The unit became Company I of the 41h website libguides.wlu.edu/specialcollections. social sciences. Virginia Infantry Regiment and fought Further, during the last academic Lastly, Prof. Jew will begin as part of General "Stonewall" Jackson's year, the Paxton dairies caught the developing a script from Paxton's brigade during the Civil War. Paxton attention of W &L Theatre professor Civil War narrative for some form of served during all four years of the war Kimberly Jew. Her interest has now theatrical adaptation. Whether Paxton's and each year is detailed to some extent evolved into her own two part project. Civil War story makes the big stage or is within the dairies. In late summer 2012 Prof. Jew will be offered as a radio play, there's no doubt As of August 1'1 2012, Special exploring Paxton's diaries as well as either option will provide a fascinating Collections Assistant Seth Goodhart, his published memoir, Memory Days platform for the story of a Washington W&L student Lauren Howry '14, and (c.1908), with a focus on Paxton's College student during the Civil War.

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Vaughan Stanley retires after 20 years Interview by Yolanda Merrill, August 2012

When did you come to W&L and from where? I started my position as Special on Special Collections Collections Librarian on January 4, and on Robert E. Lee, 1993. I came from Stratford Hall in as well as prepared Westmoreland County, which is Robert many exhibits E. Lee's birth place. I was the director of highlighting our a small research library associated with collection. Through Stratford Hall. I have lived in Virginia the financial support all but five years of my life. of the Friends of What attracted you to this position? the Library, Robert I started out as a college librarian and Martha Orton in 1982 and loved it. After my time at restored close to 40 Stratford Hall I wanted to return to books in Special Collections. I have overseen various digitization projects, starting an academic setting. W &L has always .with providing online access to the letters of Liberty Hall volunteer Ted Barclay. My had a special place in my heart. I am favorite committee has been the Friends of the Library, with which I have been an from Staunton, VA, and always knew invited guest to the Board meetings from the beginning. I wrote regular pieces for the about Washington and Lee. My uncle Friends' newsletter, FOLios, including several interviews. graduated from W&L in 1949. He had Tell me about your family. a wonderful personal library that he I have three children. Thomas is 22 and goes to Dabney Lancaster Community shared with me. That got me interested College. Will is 16 and a junior at Parry McCluer High School. And Matty is 13 in books. and starting high school this year. I have been married to Tad for 25 years. She is a What achievements made you especially registered nurse at the W &L Health Center, working the night shift. proud during your time here? What are your hobbies? Before I arrived, there had been a Reading. I read about 60 books a year in my free time. I love American history lot of turnover in this job. University and detectives and mysteries. In the 1960s I was an avid coin and stamp collector, but Librarian Barbara Brown needed now I am just letting the value accrue. I also love baseball, both in person and in the someone with stability in the job, and media, especially the New York Yankees. I am a great fan of Woody Allen's films, and that has always been my goal. I have have a huge collection of movies of all kinds at home. Another hobby is going out to given the library 20 years, and provided eat with the family, that's when I have the best time with my children. Special Collections the consistency it You have a fascination with Elvis Presley, why? needed. Another thing I am proud of is It started in 1988, 11 years after he died. That's when I started collecting his the Guide to the Manuscript Collection of music and films and Elvis memorabilia. I have hundreds of pieces at home. I was the James Graham Leyburn Library, which a contemporary of Elvis while he was taking over American culture. Every year I wrote in 1995. I enjoyed teaching the since the1990s, around January 8, I organize an Elvis birthday luncheon with my History 190 course, which I have done colleagues. For my 50th birthday, my colleague Carol Blair made an Elvis sculpture, for the past 18 years. History professor and professor Bob deMaria gave me a plaster Elvis bust. Both artworks have adorned Holt Merchant was my colleague my office for years now. in this course. I have always loved What are you planning to do in your retirement years? working with students. In the 1990s I am still working that out. I want to help Tad with chores and with the children. I created the first website for Special I want to increase my reading. I want to contribute more time to our church. Perhaps Collections, using the cryptical html I will find a part time job or volunteer for social agencies. I may want to learn more language,