Issue 4 2019 The magazine of the UMass Amherst Libraries

COVER STORY Libraries Acquire Historic Collection of Whistleblower DANIEL ELLSBERG

Visibility for Know The Du Bois Falcons Mural PLUS Disability Public Domain Free to Fly (R)Evolution1 BOOKMARK 2019

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Conscience & Courage

aniel Ellsberg’s conscience and courage as the father of American FOLK MUSIC ON THE COVER whistleblowers still echoes across Daniel Ellsberg speaking at Dgenerations, and his insights and his JOIN LIBRARY DONORS AND FRIENDS FOR A a press conference following inspiration are invaluable for the moment PRE-CONCERT RECEPTION AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCE the Supreme Court decision of political crisis in which America finds to allow publication of the by artists Pentagon Papers, 1971. itself today. Photo by Jeff Albertson. At age 88, Daniel Ellsberg’s words ring strong Colorized by Rob Cox, JIM KWESKIN Special Collections and and true. It was a tremendous honor and University Archives. privilege to moderate a conversation with and Ellsberg at WGBH’s Yawkey Auditorium in DEAN OF LIBRARIES Boston. Watch the video. Simon Neame GEOFF MULDAUER With UMass Amherst acquiring the archive EDITORIAL DIRECTOR of Ellsberg’s papers—some 500 cardboard Saturday, March 14, 2020 Carol Connare boxes of journals, letters, legal documents, 6-9 p.m., Old Chapel intelligence analysis from Vietnam to CREATIVE DIRECTOR more recent insights into America’s nuclear Leslie Schaler ’81 program—the door is open for scholars, On October 23, alumnus Charles M. Sennott ’84 (left) conversed with whistleblower and Celebrating the journalists, and the public to explore the social change activist Daniel Ellsberg (right), whose papers are now installed in Special Folk New England Collection in DESIGN importance of his life and its resonance today. Collections and University Archives and are being digitized for worldwide access. Special Collections and University Archives Robert S. Cox Leslie Schaler ’81 Since he revealed the Pentagon Papers in democracy. There were Katherine Gun newspapers to keep the story going. 1971, Ellsberg’s contribution to American and Chelsea Manning during the Iraq For me, that was a major takeaway CONTRIBUTORS democracy is legendary. With great War, Edward Snowden during the height from the conversation with Ellsberg: Madeleine Charney moral courage, he brought to the public’s of NSA data gathering, and, now, the whistleblowing, as a safety valve for Carol Connare attention how the war in Vietnam was unidentified whistleblower who exposed Robert S. Cox democracy, requires a strong and strewn with “broken treaties, falsehoods, Trump’s potentially impeachable actions independent press to bring government Nicole DeFeudis ’19 stupid, stupid judgments,” as he put it, in withholding a security aid package to Kim Fill ’01 wrongdoing to the public’s attention. which cost thousands of American lives–– Ukraine until an investigation was opened Adam Holmes As Ellsberg recalled, he brought the Nathalie McCormick ’89 and would have cost untold thousands into Trump’s main political rival, former papers first to a select group of Aaron Rubinstein ’01 more had he not risked life in prison to Vice President Joe Biden. Charles M. Sennott ’84 reveal the document. The 7,000 pages progressive senators, but they sat on As Daniel Ellsberg explained, whistle- the information, instead waiting for Lauren Weiss of internal government documents blowers are just one “link in a chain” Caroline White Ellsberg to do it himself. he released to the press, known as the of actions that expose government Pentagon Papers, sparked a landmark wrongdoing. “There’s millions of people “And ultimately… I came to a point that court case with the Nixon administration, Chelsea Manning and Ed Snowden… PHOTOGRAPHY who marched against the war who and Nixon’s attempts to silence him were contributed in this context,” he said. came to express 30 years later, in almost Ben Barnhart central to the Watergate impeachment Joanna Chattman “But there were dozens to hundreds of the same words that came to me: ‘This Thom Kendall ’83 hearings which ultimately led to Nixon’s people who each took an action that was information should be out. No one else John Solem resignation in 1974. necessary without which it wouldn’t is going to do it. So, I’ll do it,’” Ellsberg “I’ve been saying for many years to others, have happened.” recalled. He went to the newspapers with the story and changed the course ‘Don’t do what I did—don’t wait till Newspapers like The New York Times, ILLUSTRATION the bombs are falling and another war of American history. Chloe Deeley ’18 The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, is started in Iran or elsewhere,’” Ellsberg whose editors had great courage to publish And our nation is better for it, and warned. “If you have documents that can the Pentagon Papers, are no small link in owes Daniel Ellsberg an enormous debt reveal this lying or wrongdoing, consider the chain. of gratitude. at whatever cost to yourself… consider BOOKMARK An example was long-time Boston Globe Charles M. Sennott ’84 is CEO and Editor-in-Chief is the magazine of the putting them out in a timely way that reporter Tom Oliphant, sitting just a few of The GroundTruth Project, based at WGBH in UMass Amherst Libraries. could make a difference, a war’s worth of Boston, which is dedicated to supporting the lives could be at stake.” rows from the stage, where Ellsberg and next generation of journalists through global I sat that night. Oliphant’s scoop on the fellowships and a new, local news initiative called Nearly a half century after Ellsberg’s secret government papers, Ellsberg said, Report for America. Sennott founded and directs courage changed the course of history, inspired him and his wife, Patricia Marx- The GroundTruth Project which seeks to restore journalism from the ground up by supporting the whistleblowers have more recently Ellsberg, to make copies of the papers, played an important role in American next generation of journalists in field reporting Registration info and details to come. which, in turn, made it possible for the from underserved corners of the world. For more events, visit: library.umass.edu/libraryevents 1 BOOKMARK 2019 2 BOOKMARK 2019 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC contents FALL 2019

FORE WORDS FEATURES AFTER WORDS Also in this issue 4 Around the Libraries 14 Libraries Aquire Historic Collection of Whistleblower 47 Sowing Change 22 A Cultural Heritage Research 6 Radical Gratitude Daniel Ellsberg Launching the Mass Aggie Seed Library Center 8 Recent “Alums” In Conversation 24 Invasion of the Habitat Snatchers 52 Paperbark Literary Magazine UMass Amherst researchers publish the 38 Artwork in Progress first global meta-analysis of the impact of Excerpt 10 Visability for Disability invasive species Quotable Du Bois Documenting Disability in America 44 54 Honoring Generosity 2019 Andrew W. Mellon Fellows share Library Legacies 28 Caws to Celebrate their favorite Du Bois words 12 Five things to know Falcon Season 2019 about the Public Domain 50 Year in Review 32 The Mindful Librarian How You Made a Difference For extra digital content, visit: By making time in our lives to pay bookmark.library.umass.edu. attention, on purpose, and without judgment we can change our brains for the better 10 47 6 52 12

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FROM THE ROAD StoriesKen Gloss ’73 and Joyce Kosofsky ’75 regaled Library friends with tales from their travels with Antiques Roadshow and other fun-filled adventures in their 40+ year stint as owners of the Brattle Book Shop. The couple, who met through UMass Amherst connections, described aspects of their business during a Library event at the UMass Club in Boston. From making house calls all over New England to decades-long relationships with quirky collectors, the stories flowed. Following the talk, Above: In October, Library student workers had the run of the Du Bois Library for two hours; staff volunteered to Joyce and Ken offered on-the-spot appraisals of close the building for the party, where students were treated like VIPs and encouraged to tour library spaces and services as well as play games, nosh on pizza, and catch the first glimpse of the Libraries’ falcon mascot (inset). items guests had brought with them. Ken and Joyce will come to Amherst in the spring, stay tuned!

What a difference new paint and furniture make to this open study space on Floor 9, which has become quite popular with students.

Top: Ken Gloss and Joyce Kosofsky speaking, Ken conducting free appraisals. Middle right: Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy visits the Du Bois Library’s Procrastination Station Café; Middle left: Dean of Libraries Simon Neame is now on Twitter. Follow THEN AND NOW him for Library news. Bottom: This year marks the 45th anniversary of the dedication of the “Tower” Library, later 1974 named the W. E. B. Du Bois Library.

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5 BOOKMARK 2019 4 BOOKMARK 2019 radical gratitude

Left: Brother David Steindl-Rast; Below L to R: A Network for Grateful Living’s executive director Kristi Nelson ’03 and panel members: Mirabai Bush; Lucas Johnson; The Rev. Dr. Gregory Ellison II; and Rachel Bagby.

Love, “come around here.

hose” words wove a melodic incantation The longstanding collaboration between the Libraries’ that reverberated throughout the Fine Arts Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) and Center as Rachel Bagby, award-winning A Network for Grateful Living continues to bear fruit. performance artist, author and poetic The organization founded by Brother David Steindl-Rast, innovator, gave the moving invocation to whose papers are in SCUA, co-sponsored this symposium open the Radical Aliveness and Belonging Symposium in highlighting SCUA’s many collections that document TSeptember. The symposium brought together some of the the intersections of spirituality and social change. At the foremost thinkers and activists who engage their spiritual close of the symposium, Kristi Nelson ’03, A Network life in the fight for social justice. The three-hour discussion for Grateful Living’s executive director, announced the included singing, meditation, poetry, and a keynote by 93- Brother David Steindl-Rast Spirituality and Social Change year old Brother David Steindl-Rast, revered spiritual leader Fellowship, which will annually fund a visiting scholar to in the interfaith dialog movement, who traveled from his conduct research in SCUA’s collections that document monastery in Austria to spend the week at UMass Amherst. engagement in spirituality and social change. Left column from top: Linda Hannum, Brother David Steindl-Rast, Kristi Nelson ’03; Lisbeth Bagnold and her sister with Brother David; Pear Urushima, Margaret Wakeley, Adetola Abiade; Lucas Johnson and The Rev. Dr. Gregory Ellison II; Right column from top: Rachel Bagby, J.D., Read more about Brother David Steindl-Rast. creator of Dekaaz Facilitation™ giving the invocation; reception guests; Marianne Larned and Brother David. 7 BOOKMARK 2019 6 BOOKMARK 2019 axwell: Why did you get into the field of J: There is an expression: “Home is where the Army takes Mcomputer science? you.” That has proven to be the case for me. As a child I lived ody: I was exposed to computers when I was in high in three states and overseas, and in eight different homes. school and loved being able to create programs to do Moving every three years (or less) has always seemed normal. thingsJ that were hard for humans to do. I also enjoyed playing My favorite location is Stuttgart, Germany. It is a great city some of the early computer games. where we made terrific friends. It is super easy to travel from there to any number of European and African countries, and M: What was your PhD thesis project? it isn’t terribly long to get back to the United States. J: I was interested in trying to merge the strengths of case- based reasoning and information retrieval to find relevant information inside sentences versus finding relevant documents. I was trying to find techniques to find specific Q&A pieces of information within documents. M: What skills that you developed through studying computer science carried over into your military career? Photo: UMMB Media J: Being able to think through tasks in a logical manner, to decompose a large problem into smaller ones, and leveraging strengths from across a variety of approaches were useful in my military career.

M: What was the most difficult part of your time at UMass Amherst? J: Returning to school after being in the Army for M: Why do you support the Libraries seven years was quite challenging. My math and (among other things) at UMass computer science skills had atrophied. There were times ? during that first semester back that I didn’t think I’d J: My parents encouraged reading for pleasure throughout make it to graduation. my childhood. I still enjoy reading fiction to give me a break from more serious work topics. I support the Libraries so that M: What was your favorite moment others may have access to the same excellent resources as I did. Jody Daniels MS ’93, PhD ’97 (Computer Science) 5,500 undergraduates receiving bachelor’s degrees; a of Commencement? What led you to take a position at the Libraries? J: and Maxwell Newman ’19 (Music) were both at music major and percussionist, he was a member of Seeing the audience’s “rock star” reaction to M: I have a few friends who have worked there. I spent a McGuirk Stadium in early May as UMass Amherst the Marching Band’s drumline for four years. After Chancellor Subbaswamy was incredible! It’s obvious that lot of time there during my college career, so when it came th celebrated its 149 Commencement Ceremonies. Jody Commencement, Daniels went back to being a major he cares for UMass, its students, its faculty, and its success. time to look for a summer job, it was one of the first places I What was yours was there for Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy to general, and Newman stayed on campus, joining ? looked. personally award her a third UMass degree, this one the Libraries’ Development and Communication M: My favorite part of the ceremony was playing the snare J: How do you see the Libraries changing over the honorary, in recognition of Daniels’ service to America. Department as a media production assistant while drum roll leading up to the tassel-turning. next decade to continue to support music? Daniels is the Commander of the U.S. Army Reserve’s pursuing a performance certificate through Continuing J: What’s your funniest band memory? M: I’m already impressed by the resources available to 88th Readiness Division based at both Fort McCoy, WI & Professional Education. We invited them to learn musicians at the Libraries! There’s almost an entire floor M: One day last fall, as we pulled into the parking lot at and Fort Snelling, MN, and the Senior Commander about each other’s experiences. dedicated to music collections that has books, scores, and Gillette Stadium on a show day, I realized I had forgotten to of Fort McCoy. Maxwell Newman was among the more. The Digital Media Lab is also a great resource for bring my black marching shoes. Luckily, I hadn’t forgotten musicians. There’s audio software, soundproof booths to my black socks. I pulled them over my sneakers and it was… record in, microphones to borrow, it’s great. I think the best passable. thing is just to add to these already-great resources! M: Where is home for you?

9 BOOKMARK 2019 8 BOOKMARK 2019 brain injury after a head-on collision with a drunk driver, she endured a grueling and demoralizing stay at a brain rehabilitation center and subsequently Visibility for Disability put her organizing skills to work in the disability rights movement. Portions of the papers of the late Massachusetts State Representative Silvio O. Conte, Documenting Disability in America who fought for the disabled, will also be part of the digitization project. In discussing the Libraries’ collections, Cox said that when he came to UMass Amherst to head Special By Nathalie McCormick ’89 Collections 15 years ago, the most notable collection was the W. E. B. Du Bois Papers. “There was a little bit of a lot…not a ton in any one area,” says Cox. As he and Kovacs considered how to grow the department, they realized that while Du Bois was an important andwritten letters, research notes, SCUA’s collections span the years between 1863 and 2016 figure in the history of civil rights and racial justice, testimonies before Congress, poetry, essays, and, while rooted mainly in New England, include the “he wasn’t just a civil rights guy, and wasn’t just a racial editorials, and photographs. An array of papers of nationally recognized activists such as the late justice guy,” as Cox puts it. “In fact, one of the most documents, filling boxes on shelves and Judi Chamberlin, a pioneer in the psychiatric survivors’ important contributions that Du Bois made was his carts that crowd the Department of Special movement, and Elmer Bartels, a key figure in creating early recognition that movements of social justice are often Above: Judi Chamberlin (center), President Bill Clinton Collections and University Archives (SCUA) on Floor 25 statutes regarding civil rights for persons with disabilities. very deeply intertwined.” (right), in the White House for the fourth anniversary of the Hof the W. E. B. Du Bois Library, awaits digitization. These There are records about facilities such as the Belchertown Americans with Disabilities Act. The photograph is addressed boxes hold evidence of the lives of State School and the In the years since, Special Collections to Chamberlin and signed by President Clinton. Left: Letter has added considerably to from Jane Welsh to Elmer C. Bartels, ca. 1970, sending people who lived with disabilities, Clarke School for the recommendations to help focus the workshop at the Governor’s many of whom also fought for the Deaf. Documents chosen its social justice and conference and a new and final housing bill entitled H-5700. rights of their fellow citizens living for digitization help civil rights collections, with some type of physical or mental illustrate “the struggle for and over the past several contemporary context and the historical context— disability. full civic participation years they began to be and be willing to be flexible and change if we’ve for persons with physical approached by people gone down a wrong path.” Kyle Boyd points “The very concept of disabilities is disabilities and the in the disability rights out, “Most of what we have, people wrote about inherently complicated. What counts struggle for rights for movement. “Many of them themselves, and so the terms they used for as abled or disabled is so bound to a persons with psychiatric saw themselves in the broad themselves are useful.” particular culture, a particular moment disabilities,” according to tradition of civil rights or in time,” says Rob Cox, Head of Cox observes, “The great thing about this the grant narrative. civil liberties movements— project, about these collections, is that Special Collections. “What we’re doing human rights movements,” here is dropping a little tiny sand grain Chamberlin (1944- they bring together all these different according to Cox. So, their strands. It’s an important history that has into an ocean of a very complicated 2010), voluntarily and focus turned toward disability culture. We hope it’ll get people involuntarily committed really not, until very recently, gotten told rights collections, which “fit in a way that is respectful to people who talking about some of the issues.” to psychiatric hospitals conceptually very well,” he said. during her life, was lived through these institutions and Together with Danielle Kovacs, Highlighting parts of 19 collections influenced by the civil these experiences.” Curator of Collections; Aaron by digitizing them and making rights movement and was Rubinstein, University and Digital them freely available online will help active in the disability Archivist; and Kyle Boyd, Project facilitate a deeper understanding of rights movement for 39 Coordinator, Cox is grappling the experience of disability, disability years. The Chamberlin with these complicated issues while history, and disability rights history in Papers—38 boxes—help overseeing a new grant project, this country. tell the story of her work Visibility for Disability: Documenting and how she encouraged Aaron Rubinstein explains that archivists describing the History of Disability in America other activists. In a letter historical items strive to do so accurately while being and the Growth of the Disability Mouth magazine: Voice of the Disabiltiy Nation to Anne Boldt, dated sensitive to the ways language has changed and continues Rights Movement. In February, the (vol. 11: March), 2001, Lucy Gwin Papers May 14, 1985, she wrote, to change. Many terms related to disability issues have Council on Library and Information “From what I hear, you are unhappy with the way things fallen out of favor or been superseded, such as the once- Resources (CLIR) awarded a two-year, $250,000 Digitizing have been going in the movement. I hope that you … and common “institutionalization,” which has been more or Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant, funding others who are dissatisfied will somehow become part of the less replaced by “involuntary hospitalization.” Rubinstein the digitization of approximately 55,000 items chosen from ongoing dialog. We need your input.” notes, “In my experience, the number one thing has been 19 of SCUA’s more than 30 collections related to disability. New York Yankees hosting the Interna- listening to people; there’s no dictionary or guidebook. tional Center for the Disabled, ca.1925. The digitized items will be added to Credo, SCUA’s online Other collections include the papers of Lucy Gwin We really have to understand how people think about digital repository: credo.library.umass.edu. (1943-2014), a civil rights activist. Left with a traumatic themselves, how they want to talk about themselves—the Digital Extras: Explore the digitized collections related to disabilities. 11 BOOKMARK 2019 10 BOOKMARK 2019 UNLOCKING THE PAST Five Things to Know A PUBLIC DOMAIN EXHIBIT about the JANUARY 28 through MAY 24, 2019 Science and Engineering Library Lederle Graduate Research Center Lowrise Floor 2, Room A273 Public Domain UMass Amherst On January 1, 2019, works published in the U.S. in 1923 came out of copyright By Lauren Weiss and are now free for public use and sharing. To celebrate, the UMass Amherst Libraries are curating an exhibit in the Science and Engineering Library featuring What is the ‘Public Domain’? “This particular set of material moving into the public some of these materials. This is the first 1 time since 1998 that the public domain “Public domain is essentially the intellectual repository of domain from the 1920s is an extremely rich area of American has grown substantially, unlocking movies, music, paintings, sculpture, everything that humanity has created that is not locked up creativity,” Quilter says. “I think it’s really wonderful that we’re books, poems, and scientific publications. now starting to open up these materials to enter back into the The exhibit features works by Willa under a legal regime that restricts copying and sharing,” Cather, Agatha Christie, Cecil B. DeMille, explains Laura Quilter, Copyright and Information Policy public discourse and be rediscovered by new generations.” Sigmund Freud, Robert Frost, Kahlil Gibran, Rudyard Kipling, Pablo Picasso, Librarian at the UMass Amherst Libraries. “When works To celebrate this momentous occasion, libraries across Virginia Woolf, and others. enter the public domain, they can be fully and freely used, the country have been increasing efforts to promote these reused, distributed, modified, and built on by anybody, materials both online and in person. The UMass Amherst without copyright restrictions.” Libraries are currently working with HathiTrust and the Internet Archive to digitize materials as they enter the public 2 What’s all the fuss about it? domain, in addition to highlighting them in a physical In 1998, the Copyright Term Extension Act extended U.S. display. For the latter, Quilter teamed up with librarian copyright protections for an additional 20 years; for example, Paulina Borrego, who curates the exhibits at the Science and under this law, new works are now in copyright for 70 years Engineering Library (SEL), to frame images of notable works after the life of the author instead of 50, and for works- from 1923 suggested by coworkers. The exhibit was so well made-for-hire, they are now in copyright for 95 years from received that after the end of the spring semester, Borrego publication instead of 75. “Even the most maximalist of and Quilter decided to take it on the road: if you visited the rights holders have acknowledged that this last extension went South Hadley Public Library this past summer, you may have too far,” Quilter says. “It has really benefited rights-holding noticed its walls adorned with neatly framed images of Charlie RECEPTION corporations and a relatively small number of profitable Chaplin and the Cowardly Lion as well as pages of sheet music FREE AND for “Yes! We Have No Bananas.” Thursday, January 31 OPEN TO estates, but as scholars have shown, it has done so at the THE PUBLIC expense of access to and enjoyment of the majority of works 9:30-11:30 a.m. that would have entered the public domain.” 5 Why a Traveling Exhibit? “I know from my work as a Northfield Public Library trustee What does ‘Entering the Public that public libraries are always looking for exhibits, and this 3 is kind of a low-cost way of doing outreach and educating Domain’ mean for a work? people on the public domain,” says Borrego, who has been To illustrate this point, Quilter points to a set of papers by overseeing SEL’s art installations since early 2009. Paul J. Heald. In “How Copyright Keeps Works Disappeared,” for instance, Heald analyzed books available from Amazon. The exhibit has already been to the South Hadley Public com and showed a stark drop-off of available editions of works Library in May and Borrego has made plans for the exhibit based on copyright status. Works published in 1922, and in to travel to the Leverett Public Library in early 2020, where it the public domain, had more available editions than works will remain through February before moving to the Northfield published immediately after, and still in copyright. Public Library in the spring. The exhibit is customizable, allowing each library to choose the images they would like to 4 What is Public Domain Day? display. Borrego provides them with editable signage, and she January 1, 2019, was the first time in 20 years that works were and Quilter can both be contacted by patrons who want to able to flow into the public domain in the United States again, learn more about public domain and copyright issues. beginning with works first published in 1923. Every January “I’m excited about it,” says Quilter. “The UMass Amherst 1st, works will enter the public domain as follows: works Libraries are also a public library, so I think it’s really nice to originally published in 1924 in 2020, 1925 in 2021, and further our relationship with our colleagues across the state so forth. and also help to strengthen public libraries’ abilities to serve their patrons.”

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Captions? Tyger, tyger burning bright, to Amherst, shipment by shipment. Another large and undergraduate at Harvard, he produced a brilliant thesis days. That summer, Ellsberg was attached to the In the forests of the night: important slice of American history will soon be in economics on “Theories of Rational Choice under Pentagon to assist in a strategic analysis to contribute to What immortal hand or eye, available for research. Uncertainty,” which fed decades of further research— escalating the war, beginning his assignment ominously Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? But in the blank spaces between the busywork of his own and others—on the questions of ambiguity on the day of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Less than a counting boxes and arranging shipments, the odd and decision-making. A prestigious year as a Woodrow year later, he traveled to Vietnam as a high-level Wilson Fellow at Cambridge would ordinarily have led official of the State Department to work under Maj. Gen. —William Blake symmetries between Du Bois and Ellsberg, each of whom proudly bore the label “the most dangerous man to the next logical step toward an academic coronation, a Edward Lansdale, tasked with reviewing “pacification” in America,” seem only to be growing. The two were, doctorate at Harvard, but with his educational deferment efforts in the provinces. This was no desk job, nor would no doubt, a perfect symmetry of peril to the comfort of running out and conscription looming, Ellsberg applied he be a mere observer. For much of 1966, Ellsberg the powerful and a particular peril to those who would to become an officer in the Marine Corps. By the time he traveled the country, machine gun in hand, often aniel Ellsberg went on trial for his part threaten freedom of speech and press. The symmetries resumed doctoral research (on game theory), he had engaging in forward combat operations with U.S. forces. in copying and distributing the Pentagon go on. Both Du Bois and Ellsberg are profound scholars, acquired a personal understanding of the military from By the time he returned to RAND, his experiences Papers in January 1973, just days after chief decked out in Harvard degrees; both are fluent writers the perspective of a platoon leader that would in the years had led him to conclude that the war was simply not, bibliographer Siegfried Feller first visited and incisive, synthetic thinkers on peace, democracy, and to come leaven his scholarship. as many had argued, a civil war in which the U.S. had DBrooklyn to survey a cache of papers from W. E. B. social justice. Sharp analytical skills give each an unusual As he wrapped up his dissertation, Ellsberg accepted intervened, but a war of foreign aggression—American Du Bois, intended for the UMass Amherst Libraries. breadth and depth in any subject they confront, and their a position with the RAND Corporation, placing him aggression. Having been an official of both the Defense Facing decades of prison time, Ellsberg waged a resilient dangerous sides have ensured that both would become in the cold heart of where Cold Warriors honed their and State Departments for years and having had high- defense over the next four months, as shipments of targets of governmental reprisal. Facing that deluge, both thoughts. An analytical mind and keen insight into level, authorized access, he had a unique perspective on Du Bois papers poured into Amherst from New York, remained true to their innate moral sense, aware of the decision-making fit neatly into the demands of the backdrop of official dishonesty, of secrets and lies and California, and as far away as Cairo. As the legend of personal cost that might ensue, and willing to accept the understanding the problems of command and control pro-war manipulations on the part of the military and Daniel Ellsberg took root in the courtroom, the legend consequences with joy and resolution. in nuclear war. At RAND, Ellsberg found himself political establishment, and he began to find common of W. E. B. Du Bois was being consolidated in a place of drawn into assignments such as the formal review of the cause with the antiwar movement. public scholarship. Although, so unlike one another in so many ways, Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, which he conducted as a The germ of what would become the Pentagon Papers Du Bois and Ellsberg together create an archival This slender thread connecting the Pentagon Papers, consultant to the Pentagon. What he witnessed from the was planted at a War Resisters League conference at bulwark for the study of some of the major moral privileged perch of top-level clearance was unsettling: Haverford College in 1969, when Ellsberg encountered Du Bois, and the Libraries’ Department of Special and ethical issues of the twentieth century. Collections and University Archives (SCUA) may be little he saw a shocking and persistent gap between what the a draft resister, Randy Kehler (whose papers are more than a curiosity, but as a curiosity, it has grabbed best intelligence indicated and what the political also ensconced in SCUA). Kehler’s deliberate, direct our archival attention. As the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment said and did. confrontation of the system and his unstinting, willing start of Ellsberg’s famous photocopying spree looms, Ellsberg’s career Vietnam emerged as a particular focal point for Ellsberg acceptance of the consequences were moving, and by we have the privilege of announcing that his papers are In his singular career, Ellsberg traced an arc from Cold in 1964, establishing a powerful symmetrical concern October, Ellsberg lit upon the idea of copying the secret, following in the path of Du Bois and wending their way Warrior to antiwar and antinuclear activist. Initially, he with the nuclear threat that had been consuming his and deeply revealing, seemed primed for the soft chair of the academy. As an

15 BOOKMARK 2019 14 BOOKMARK 2019 Far right: Ellsberg’s State Dept. identification card; on patrol in Vietnam, 1966 Far May Day protests 1971. Above: tear gas; top: Ellsberg with Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, and affinity group.

reports on the war that he was reviewing for RAND. He None spoke up. Only when the strategy of drawing knew well that if discovered, his actions could result in congressional support failed did Ellsberg leak copies All of this returns us to those first months of 1973, The papers decades behind bars. For several weeks, Ellsberg and his to the media—nineteen newspapers in all. To make a when Ellsberg was on trial and Du Bois was entering If the holdings in the Libraries’ Special Collections have colleague Anthony Russo surreptitiously photocopied a long (and frequently cinematized) story short, The New the archive. Having survived the full force of the not already been called the Songs of Experience, they trove of 47 volumes and thousands of individual pages York Times struck first, publishing excerpts from the governmental onslaught, Ellsberg, like Du Bois before ought to be. SCUA’s focus on the history and experience of sensitive documents that clearly revealed the extent to papers beginning on June 13, 1971, leading to the first him, persisted. With the charges against him dismissed of social change in America has led us to document a which four presidents over two decades had concealed four injunctions in American history constituting prior on the grounds of governmental misconduct, he returned broad community of organizations and individuals and misrepresented the war and its dim prospects in the restraint against publication, and ultimately to prevailing to the front lines of opposition to tackle nuclear enmeshed in the cause of improving the world, each hopes, in part, of gaining electoral advantage and out of in the Supreme Court over by the end of the month, weapons, war, and governmental secrecy. He speaks, using their particular understanding of justice, fear for being seen as the man who lost the war. voiding those injunctions. To make another long (and writes, and educates in the cause almost continuously, democracy, and civil society to create real change. Initially, Ellsberg sent copies of the Pentagon Papers to frequently cinematized) story short, Ellsberg set off a and he has taken part in protests and civil disobedience at chain of events that played a catalytic role in the Although the Ellsberg Papers are still in transit, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and sympathetic sites such as the Pentagon, the Department of many details may change, we know already that the members of Congress in the hope of creating a political Watergate scandals and the undoing of President Energy, the Rocky Flats Nuclear Production Facility, Richard Nixon. collection is massive and exceptionally rich. If you will momentum against the war from within the system. and the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories. bear with a shift to a metaphor, archivists, like

17 BOOKMARK 2019 16 BOOKMARK 2019 Above: Ellsberg leading a column on the Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice, Oct. 1976; Right: Daniel and Patricia Ellsberg after dismissal of charges against him, May 11, 1973. Ellsberg speaking at a press conference after the Supreme Court allowed publication of the Pentagon Papers, Cambridge, photo by Jeff Albertson July 1, 1971 (Jeff Albertson Collection).

paleontologists, are excavators, and thoroughly used kept reams of notes on legal pads that reveal the evolution (2006) and Sweden’s Olof Palme Prize (2019) for “his to digging up materials that, at the end of the day, we of his raw thoughts on subjects of interest, and drafts profound humanism and exceptional moral courage,” know to be incomplete. We may hope to unearth more of speeches and articles add further flesh to the bones and he has been “rehabilitated” in the minds of some than just an incisor or claw, but it is a rare day that we of those ideas. There are, of course, voluminous legal of his onetime critics who cite him as an example of find the full skeleton of a fossil tyger. files assembled during his defense in 1973. For a person a whistleblower who did things right. But the work indelibly linked to purloining archival materials (at least Dan Ellsberg is that tyger. His home office is like remains. As the names of Edward Snowden, Chelsea in the mind of the government), there is something an archival tar pit, lined with an extensive library of Manning, Occupy, and Black Lives Matter suggest, satisfying in seeing how much he is contributing back heavily annotated books and filled with box upon box and as even a casual glimpse at the state of American to the archive. of archival materials that can be reassembled into a fully politics demonstrates beyond doubt, the fundamental fleshed-out record of a long and varied career. He kept With remarkably generous support from the Chancellor, issues that these two most dangerous men confronted student papers from his Harvard years, and letters and an anonymous donor, and the Libraries, SCUA will have never been more dangerous. The radical ethical photographs from his time in the Marines, in Vietnam, make the Ellsberg Papers public as soon as they arrive, commitments that Ellsberg and Du Bois represent and and since. His research files from his analysis of the opening the way for years of research to come. In a the fundamental issues they engage, remain as vital in Cuban Missile Crisis are gold to anyone interested in nation still hesitant to embrace the vision of W. E. B. 2019 as they were fifty or a hundred years ago—and how decisions were made in those heated days, and his Du Bois, and still reluctant to follow the logic and as discomfiting to those in power. voluminous files from his years in the antinuclear heart of Daniel Ellsberg, we can see that both are as movement are primary testimony to a powerful dangerous now as ever. Ellsberg has garnered public grassroots resistance. A habitual notetaker, Ellsberg praise with honors such as the Right Livelihood Award View a glimpse of the archive.

19 BOOKMARK 2019 18 BOOKMARK 2019 This page: Daniel Ellsberg Collection items; Center: L to R: Dolores Root, David Levering Lewis, Patricia Ellsberg, Daniel Ellsberg; Bottom: Daniel Ellsberg with his papers in Special Collections and University Archives.

L to R: Janaki Natarajan, Daniel Ellsberg, Gar Alperovitz, Patricia Ellsberg in Gordon Hall at the at the screening of the documentary The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. A panel discussion followed the screening. It was the first time Ellsberg and Alperovitz appeared publicly to discuss their Penatgon Papers experiences.

A Homecoming in readying 500 boxes of materials, “one thing I realized is that it covers my life history, and that my life is coextensive with the Daniel Ellsberg’s nuclear era. Thinking that, I’m surprised I'm still here.” two-hour keynote Ellsberg’s address on the threat of nuclear omnicide, as outlined address for the in his book The Doomsday Machine (Bloomsbury Publishing, Libraries’ 21st 2017), was a moving capstone to a weeklong series of events annual Fall heralding the arrival of his expansive personal and professional Reception in archive to Special Collections & University Archives in October. October packed In his introduction, Chancellor Subbaswamy explained how the Campus Center the papers came to UMass, beginning with a rumor on the Auditorium. economics grapevine as to their existence to engaging an An enthusiastic anonymous donor to help UMass with the purchase. “Given Daniel Ellsberg at the Libraries’ Fall Reception audience of more this university’s longstanding commitment to social justice and than 700 students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends gave the accessibility, and our fundamental mission as a stronghold for father of whistleblowing two standing ovations bookending his freedom of expression, it is our deep privilege to receive the personalized history lesson on nuclear invention and armament, papers of Dan Ellsberg,” said Subbaswamy. “As guardians of this and the tactics of modern wars. “My wife, Patricia, and I exceptional collection, the university is committed to making and were very impressed when vice chancellor Bob Feldman the work of Dan Ellsberg’s life broadly accessible, ensuring flew across the country almost immediately after hearing the it remains in the public sphere, informing our discourse for possibility of getting my archive here,” said Ellsberg. He said decades to come.” that to have his legacy at UMass Amherst “feels wonderful,” and Listen to Echoes from the Archives 21 BOOKMARK 2019 20 BOOKMARK 2019 SCUA is widely known for distinguished collections of W. E. B. Du Bois, Daniel Ellsberg, Kenneth R. Feinberg THESpecial Collections VISION and University Archives (SCUA) ’67, Brother David Steindl-Rast, Theodore Allen, and the New England Yearly Meeting of Friends, and there are hundreds of other collections for important activists, organizers, analysts, thinkers, writers, and Cultural Heritage doers. In addition to the personal and professional papers of individuals, the collections include the Research Center records of a wide range of organizations and groups, including the International Center for the Disabled, Floor 26: Multi-use space for seminars, colloquia, CHRC partners and programs the Liberation News Service, and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. Floor 25: Reading Rooms, Teaching Space, Archivists Floor 24: Secure Storage Of special note, SCUA has become a center for visual documentation of social change, both in still Floor 23: Archivists, Audio Lab, Digital Production Suite photography and, increasingly, film and video. Notable collections include Jeff Albertson, Diana Mara Henry, Floor 22: W. E. B. Du Bois Center Janet Knott, Peter Simon, and Rowland Scherman.

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“You see an extremely rapid decline in native The summer before her first year as an organismic and UMass Amherst researchers publish the first global communities,” Bradley says. “That cascades up, it affects evolutionary biology student, Laginhas searched studies for meta-analysis of the impact of invasive species the animals and the native insects, and the birds and the raw data and sometimes emailed authors to request it. bees and stuff like that too.” “It was one of the very first things that I did here at By Nicole DiFeudis ’19 Go Big (Data) Or Go Home UMass,” she says. “It was a good chunk of my time during the summertime.” Even after classes began, Laginhas That patch of Japanese knotweed growing in your backyard may seem harmless, yet invasive plants Bradley met me on a sunny July afternoon in a conference chipped away at the studies, striving to reach a monthly are far more threatening to global health than you think. Associate Professor Bethany Bradley and a room on the Floor 16 of the W. E. B. Du Bois Library to goal. “Each paper is species-specific or context-specific, team of researchers discovered just how bad by using large sets of data from around the globe. explain her research. After admiring the aerial view of Old and you’re trying to strip that all away and see if there’s a Chapel and the Holyoke Range in the distance (which general pattern,” she explains. Once the data was extracted, never gets old), Bradley recalled the start of the project. the team loaded it into a single database, populating ore than four years ago, Bethany Bradley, the course of their research, Bradley and a team of 12 around 50,000 rows of information. UMass Amherst associate professor of researchers combed through 201 publications—94 on Groundbreaking research like Bradley’s does not occur environmental conservation, set out invasive plants and 107 on invasive animals—to construct overnight, or in a silo. “It was more, I guess, tortoise-paced, Why conduct research this way? The result is something to test the following hypothesis: If you the world’s first meta-analysis on the impact that invasive a slow and steady type of thing,” she says. Essentially, like a super-study, Bradley says. When you have more than introduce an invasive species at a higher species have on native ones. a meta-analysis is performed by combining data from 50,000 data samples, “that’s way more powerful than any multiple studies—in Bradley’s case, hundreds, or “plowing one study by itself. And it gives us more confidence that M The results confirmed through bazillions of the researchers’ papers,” as she puts it— Bradley’s results confirmed the anticipated hypothesis to learn something from “There’s a movement toward that more invasive the pooled data. researchers’ anticipated hypothesis plants and animals what we call open data,” Jerome that more invasive plants and mean fewer natives, yet Every morning while the explains, meaning data that the associate professor was animals mean fewer natives, yet the results indicated public can access free of cost... that these declines on sabbatical in South the results indicated that these occur at a much higher Africa and Israel, she and “The emphasis is on reproducibility. her team sifted through declines occur at a much higher rate than expected. The If that data are available, you can magnitude of the results a couple of studies a day, rate than expected. shocked Bradley and collecting information prove or disprove an argument.” her team. on “all the species we could find.” Introducing an invasive plant species generally leads to a 25 percent decline in In total, the team trophic level than a native species—say, a fish that eats reviewed 1,258 empirical native plant diversity in that community, the team found. the pattern we’re seeing is more representative of invasion another fish—there will bea nonlinear relationship between studies that spanned the globe. Brittany Laginhas ’22, now If it’s an invasive animal, there is a 50 percent decline in ecology as a whole.” them. In other words, the more abundant an invasive a fourth-year PhD student, helped with the data collection. species, the more drastic a decline in native diversity. In native animal diversity.

25 BOOKMARK 2019 24 BOOKMARK 2019 INVASIVE SPECIES 101 Bradley’s is the first meta-analysis of this kind in the The Libraries have reconfigured ScholarWorks so that world—and not a bad first project for a graduate student, researchers at UMass Amherst may self-submit data sets. Laginhas says; she had never read about or worked on Under the updated system, UMass researchers can submit What should you do with that Massachusetts. The pet trade is In addition, climate change affects a meta-analysis, but she ended up “collaborating with datasets from anywhere in the world. “We want to see knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum) also how pythons made it to the growing seasons, causing some many amazing, prominent researchers in the field.” what else is out there,” Jerome says about broadening the in your garden? How does the Everglades, Beaury and Bradley species to sprout up sooner and fields of study featured in ScholarWorks. She envisions knowledge gained from “Disentang- say—but that’s another story. stick around longer than they d d d d d d d scholars uploading data from every field; in addition to ling the Abundance—Impact normally do. And in some cases, environmental science, early adopters at UMass Amherst Climate change also affects the “Disentangling the Abundance—Impact Relationship for have included political science and classics—the quest for Relationship for Invasive Species” spread of native species. For one climate change can make managing Invasive Species” was published in May and is available benefit native plants and animals? invasive species more difficult. knowledge is endless, and access to data should support thing, it can cause species to shift on ScholarWorks (scholarworks.umass.edu), the campus’s that quest. “For animals, it really emphasizes their ranges, Bradley explains: “It Some techniques for battling institutional repository maintained by the Libraries. invasive species, such as herbicides, Also within ScholarWorks is a centralized repository for “The thing that I dislike hearing most is when a faculty the point that early detection and gets too hot in some areas, and member says, ‘Oh, no one would be interested in my rapid response are super important some areas that were formerly too become less effective with high UMass Amherst’s data, created in 2017 by Erin Jerome, amounts of carbon dioxide in Open Access Institutional Repository Librarian, and Thea data.’ Because you don’t know!” says Atwood, who has if you’re talking about an animal, cold become just right” for some worked in the Libraries for more than five years, originally the atmosphere. Atwood, Data Services Librarian. Click here to see the whether vertebrate or invertebrate,” of those species. data. as a science librarian. It’s impossible to predict who will says PhD candidate Eve Beaury ’24, But there is hope for preventing connect with data or how it can be used, she stresses. And Ecologists are eager to know what Bradley was one of the first UMass Amherst researchers an organismic and evolutionary will show up in our communities the spread of invasive species, Bradley’s meta-analysis is a prime example. biology student who currently Bradley asserts. “Conserving and to approach Jerome about depositing data, not long after this season.“We’ve been doing a lot Jerome joined the Libraries works with Bradley. of research on identifying—at least restoring native biodiversity is in May 2016. Now about What many people don’t realize, for plants—what those species are a good way to keep non-native 100 data sets have been “Open access to data or public species out,” she says, adding that Beaury says, is that a lot of invasive that are likely to emerge,” uploaded, most focusing on access to data can help make plants are introduced into our own Bradley says. vigilance and early management environmental conservation. gardens. Plant native, she advises. are key. Of the 201 papers that science more approachable... Multiflora roses may be beautiful, Bradley’s team reviewed, only having our own repository but they they are considered one had data posted in a public archive. If more data dedicated to data helps the invasive in thirteen states, including had been publicly available, whole world see what researchers Massachusetts. They can form dense it might have saved the team thickets that invade pastures and about a year of work. here are doing. It helps showcase crowd out native species. “There’s a movement toward the story of UMass Amherst.” Imported plants also bring the threat what we call open data,” of invasive pathogens, or “tiny, leaf- Jerome explains, meaning data munching bugs,” hitchhiking a ride, that the public can access free of cost, without any barriers “Open access to data or public access to data can help as Bradley puts it. such as affiliation with an institution. “The emphasis is on make science more approachable,” Atwood says. “It can reproducibility. If that data are available, you can prove or help improve trust around science.” In what Atwood calls “We are responsible for most of the disprove an argument.” [species] getting put other places,” her ideal world, all data generated on campus would be captured in ScholarWorks. “I think that having our own Beaury notes. “I think sharing data is good citizen behavior for researchers,” Bradley says. “Progress happens much faster.” repository dedicated to data helps the whole world see For example, red-eared slider turtles, If a researcher’s data are available for public use, others can what researchers here are doing. It helps showcase the story which are native to the southeastern analyze it from a different perspective, or build upon it. of UMass Amherst.” Unites States, have posed a threat in Researchers, academics, and curious minds from all over As for the meta-analysis, Bradley hopes readers will other parts of the country ever since the world can view datasets uploaded to ScholarWorks. come to understand just how aggressive and damaging the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” In fact, 114 institutions—mostly academic—have viewed invasive species are in native communities. “We knew comics made them popular pets. Bradley’s meta-analysis, Jerome points out, noting, “a lot that they were bad, but we never had an estimate of how bad before,” she says, proud that her institution is at the If you own a pet turtle, do not release of Bethany’s data is in the top 10 most downloaded.” forefront of this discovery. it into a local pond, Beaury stresses. On the ScholarWorks website, Jerome shows a map of Those ninja turtles brought up north downloads of all the data sets within the repository, since In the meantime, researchers like Bradley will continue to compete for survival with native 2017. While most downloads come from the northeastern produce work that librarians like Atwood and Jerome can share with the world—one groundbreaking step at a time. turtles, such as the bog or eastern United States, map pins light up showing downloads in the Middle East, Europe, South America, Africa, and even Read the article here. box turtles, which are endangered in one in Iceland.

Photos: Japanese beetle, multiflora rose, red-eared slider turtle. 27 BOOKMARK 2019 26 BOOKMARK 2019 falcon in a UMass Marching Band uniform—the group took him on a memorable elevator ride back up to the watched as French and Paulson carefully removed the nest box, where he inevitably bragged to his sister about chicks from the nest and fitted the legs of each with his (mis)adventures. Caws to Celebrate special black and green auxiliary June 13 dawned dark and cloudy, with gray markers, as well as the silver Falcon Season 2019 skies stretching far past the mountains visible federal ones. The male chick from the top of the Du Bois Library. It was was banded as BU 69, and the By Lauren Weiss hardly a good day for any outdoor activities, female chick as BV 77. but the chicks were determined; amidst Several days later, the chicks intermittent summer showers, they spread he first real spring morning after an extended decided to debut their new their rain-flecked wings and sailed across the Western Massachusetts winter, May 6, saw MassWildlife accessories by rooftop. Both nestlings-turned-fledglings a small group of equipment-laden workers venturing outside of the nest proved competent fliers—although BU trek up to the roof of the Du Bois Library. box for the first time and 69 tried once again to outdo his sister, TSunlight reflected off hard hats and power tools, blocked beginning flapping exercises and the entire falcon family looked on occasionally by the swift shadows of swooping falcon in preparation for fledging. with amusement as the hapless Superman parents overhead, their dissatisfied caws reverberating off However, while showbirding impersonator, caught in an updraft, flapped the high concrete walls. Although they paused every now for his sister, BU 69 lost his frantically as the gust of wind kept him and then to admire the pair, the workers—collectively footing on the wooden perch briefly hovering a few feet above the roof. known as the Falcon Team [see sidebar]—had a camera to and flapped down to the A few more days of practice saw both install, and the sooner they accomplished their task, the ground. The Team found him juveniles’ flying skills improve further. They began leaving sooner the falcons could return to theirs: caring for two outside Old Chapel the following morning, completely the rooftop for extended flights and lessons from their newly hatched chicks. fine but looking a little sheepish that he had not fledged but fludged. To ensure his safety and that his parents parents, returning occasionally for a quick “hello” to their The camera, a brand new model made possible by the could continue to reach him in a safe location, Falcon camera audience, until they finally took off to find their generosity of Library donors, would offer clearer images Team members Richard Nathhorst ’79, Chris Messier ’12, own territories in early fall. and improved streaming capabilities: all the better to and Lauren Weiss scooped him up in a cardboard box and capture the white fluffy chicks wobbling around the nest box on too-large feet and flopping down next to each Top: BU 69 before rescue; Bottom: fledgling other for frequent naps in what might be best described testing wings. Facing page from top: web camera; as a “falcon huddle puddle.” “falcon huddle puddle;” pen pals on Twitter. The Du Bois Falcon family’s activities were closely monitored by the Team as well as by thousands of falcon aficionados worldwide: more than 10,000 viewers tuned in to the Falcon Cam’s livestream, and hundreds more interacted with photos and video clips posted to the Libraries’ social media. The falcons have had their own Twitter account since 2013, and with the recent deployment of falcon camera setups at the University of California, Berkeley, the Du Bois Falcon Team reached out to coordinate a coast-to-coast Twitter pen pal program. Pictures, jokes, and lots of celebratory emojis were Tweeted (or cawed?) back and forth across the platform, with the hope that more falcon cam accounts would join in the fun next season. By the end of May, the chicks began shedding their white fluff for brown juvenile feathers, and a date for banding had to be set. Banding allows the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife—and serious birdwatchers—to identify individual birds at a distance and document data about the species. On June 4, the Falcon Team again made their way to the roof, accompanied by Tom French and David Paulson ’10 from MassWildlife. Proudly displaying their Banding Day buttons—a clever illustration of a

29 BOOKMARK 2019 28 BOOKMARK 2019 falcons while attending graduate school. “The walk between Richard Nathhorst ’79, Research video editing. She also introduced Holdsworth Hall and Morrill allowed for impromptu birding Facilities Manager, Research and Glip, an online communications opportunities,” he recalls. David has been involved with Engagement, UMass Amherst platform, to the team. These are tools MassWildlife’s monitoring and banding effort since 2011. His Facilitator & liaison with MassWildlife Falcon that she used at the Cornell Lab. favorite part is “the ability to study and aid in the recovery of (Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and such an incredible species. Further, the opportunity to engage Wildlife), Richard has a degree in biology and “My favorite part about the program with the public and raise awareness of and support for rare a lifelong interest in birds and the environment Team is watching the successful fledging species conservation.” and was a farm kid. He has been involved with of a young bird, whose species in the the program since 1985 and started the falcon program with area has previously been dramatically Lauren Weiss, Marketing and Outreach Assistant, MassWildlife and the Libraries. “My favorite part,” he says, impacted and on the decline for many years due to DDT UMass Amherst Libraries “is seeing people become fascinated with falcon behavior and and is now recovering, thanks to the reduction in use of Social media manager, lead falcon publicist, @DuBoisFalcons the web of life.” pesticides and amazing work by MassWildlife and U.S. Fish co-Tweeter, and camera co-operator, Lauren became interested and Wildlife,” she says. “I also love teaching people about in falcons when she started working for the Libraries and Hollie Sutherland G’23, Department of the birds and how awesome they are. If someone has learned joined the Falcon Team in 2017. Environmental Conservation, and Graduate something new from a Tweet I have posted then I feel like I “It’s one of the best parts of my job! The other team members Assistant, Student Parent Programs have done my job.” Hollie is co-Tweeter on @DuBoisFalcons and science have been incredibly welcoming,” she says. “Allan made me a camera communications advisor. Allan Krantz, Windows System co-operator, so between the two of us, we’re able to capture a lot Administrator, UMass Amherst Libraries of great falcon moments. Hollie is a great co-Tweeter, and she and Lead camera operator since the web camera went up in Richard have been teaching me more about falcons so I can post and 2012, Allan became interested in falcons “when there was publicize them properly.” talk about putting a camera on the roof to watch the birds, it Lauren loves being able to engage with the falcon fan community seemed like an interesting thing to make happen—and then, on the Libraries’ social media pages, whether it’s through posting just watching and learning about the birds became really updates, images, and video from the camera, or fun Photoshopped interesting.” Allan was in charge of speccing falcon pictures. This year, she initiated a ‘Twitter pen pal’ system out the camera, arranging for its purchase, with the falcon team at the University of California, Berkeley; “It was and configuring all the “technical stuff to so much fun communicating with them throughout the season and make it run.” He also runs the camera daily celebrating each other’s nests as the chicks hatched and fledged. I’d during the season: zooming, focusing, love to involve more falcon cameras in that conversation next year.” following the birds, and taking pictures and video with it. Allan’s L to R: Hollie Sutherland G’23, Richard Nathhorst ’79 favorite part is “seeing the little babies hatching and growing up; “I have been interested in ornithology since I was around they change so fast. One of the fun four years old and have been a birder ever since,” says parts is also seeing people’s comments Top: Tom French, David Paulson. Hollie. “I have studied birds through my undergraduate on social media—how much they enjoy Center: Lauren Weiss. and graduate studies and have a passion for all raptors, it and how they’re learning about the especially peregrine falcons. Now I am teaching my two- birds, and when you see other people year-old daughter all about birds; she even has her first pair appreciate the work you do, even if they don’t of binoculars!” She adds, “When I first visited campus, I know who you are, it’s kind of cool.” noticed the peregrines flying around the Library, and when I started in my department, I was told about the camera David Paulson ’10, Senior Endangered Species and instantly wanted to get involved, so I contacted Carol Biologist, Natural Heritage and Endangered Connare from the Libraries and everything went from there.” Species Program, Massachusetts Division of Before coming to UMass Amherst, Hollie worked at the Fisheries and Wildlife MassWildlife contact for the Du Bois Falcons, David does Happy Retirement Cornell Lab of Ornithology as the communications specialist to Tom French of monitoring and banding of the chicks. “I have always had for the Bird Cams project, “which is one of the best jobs I Get your MassWildlife! have ever had, so I was very excited to learn about the camera a deep interest in the outdoors and conservation, especially official falcon (Right) here and how I might get involved.” the biodiversity of New England,” he says. “The peregrine falcon is a charismatic species; its agility and tenacity make plush toy She has been volunteering on the camera every year since it fascinating to watch. Their recovery is also an incredible at the UMass Store! Other members of the Falcon Team include Aaron spring 2016, when she first recommended the streaming conservation success story.” or online. Addison; Luke Doubleday, Chris Messier ’12, and move to YouTube to enable playback capabilities and easier They’re flying off the Josh Silver of Library Technology Services. David first became interested when he observed the UMass shelves!

31 BOOKMARK 2019 30 BOOKMARK 2019 magine a library research far away again. The winding path creative problem-solving, and The Mindful Librarian instruction session is about takes some patience to navigate, and enhance students’ ability to hold to begin at the W. E. B. Du staying the course is imperative. contradiction, which is fundamental Bois Library. Undergraduate This contemplative practice brings to integrating their learning into students in the architecture a fresh perspective to the start of action in the world. Evidence-based program bustle in from our session. Other contemplative practices, such as those offered other classes, exams, time with practices I deploy in my instruction through Berkeley’s Greater Good Ifriends. The room is awash in sessions (as well as in one-on-one in Action) demonstrate that by technological and social interactions: consultations) are mind mapping, practicing mindfulness—making conversations are at a fever pitch; free writing, and pauses in which time in our lives to pay attention, on backpacks thump to the floor; texts students can check in with purpose and without judgment—we fly from phones; laptops flip open. themselves: Can you stay open to can actually change our brains in Most of these students have never swerves in your research and still ways that reduce stress and shift our been in the Calipari classroom, stay on track? Can you embrace the tendency toward worry, stress, fear, one of the Library’s state-of-the- messiness of digging and sorting anger, depression, and anxiety to art classrooms with 32 computer through information? What feelings flexibility, calmness, self-regulation, workstations, and they’ve never met are bubbling up—frustration, informed decision-making, and me, the librarian who supports their excitement, anxiety? From a peacefulness. Equally important is department. This scenario isn’t very somatic perspective, where are these the positive effect these practices conducive to launching my only feelings showing up in your body— can have on day-to-day interactions session with them; I’ll have about tightening of the chest, stomach among members of a community. an hour in which to impart a raft flutters, surges of energy on top of When UMass Amherst faculty and of information, including time for the head? librarians harness these pedagogical hands-on learning. And so, when approaches, they and their students there’s a lot of learning to fit into contribute to the creation of a more a short session, my pedagogical College students compassionate world, dovetailing approach is to “grow the container.” in the U.S. today with the campus’s Diversity Matters In other words, I help the students efforts, Building a Community of increase their own capacity for face considerable Dignity and Respect. learning. stressors due to College students in the U.S. today Instead of diving right into database academic demands, face considerable stressors due to searches, citation management, and academic demands, rising tuition registering for interlibrary loan, I rising tuition costs, costs, and navigating a fast-paced first invite the students to place their and navigating a world of technological and social feet flat on the floor. In front of pressures. According to the Fall each student is a piece of paper on fast-paced world of 2018 National College Health which a labyrinth is printed. Next, technological and Assessment (from the American I invite them to trace the labyrinth College Health Association), with their finger or the end of a pen. social pressures. more than 60 percent of college Heads lower, eyes focus, and hands students said they experienced shift through the seven circuits of In their foundational text, “overwhelming anxiety.” More this archetypal pattern. The mood Contemplative Practices in Higher than 40 percent said they felt shifts in the room; a calmness arises. Education: Powerful Methods to so depressed they had difficulty When the students have completed Transform Teaching and Learning, functioning. their virtual journeys, I compare Daniel P. Barbezat and Mirabai Considering the enormity of these the experience of walking or tracing Bush note that as students “find challenges, UMass Amherst is a labyrinth to the research process. more of themselves in their courses,” stepping up its efforts to address Although it is not a straight line, they will make meaningful and student well-being. In June, you know you will eventually reach lasting connections to their learning. Elizabeth “Betsy” Cracco arrived on your destination—you will complete The practices described in the book campus as the first-ever Executive By making time in our lives to pay attention, on purpose, and your project. At some stages, you (such as journaling, nature walks, Director for Well-Being, Access, without judgment we can change our brains for the better feel close to completion, and then paired exercises) cultivate attention, and Prevention in the office of something switches, and you feel foster compassion, stimulate Student Affairs and Campus By Madeleine Charney 33 BOOKMARK 2019 32 BOOKMARK 2019 Pause a Moment Exercise staff, and student practitioners of mindfulness from across disciplines and departments—invited unbiased and Do you find your time is often ruled by compassionate awareness. Participants were encouraged your cell phone? Take a short break and to apply these skills in their living-learning-working try this eye-opening exercise. environments, again reinforcing the Dignity and Respect campaign on campus. • Think about your cell phone. Just think Many of those participants expressed a desire for a about it—don’t even take it out. Notice permanent meditation space on campus. Plans are now what’s happening in your mind and underway for such a space in the soon-to-be-completed body. Worcester Commons, while nascent plans are unfolding for meditation space in the Learning Commons of the • Take out your phone and just hold it. Du Bois Library. • Open up or unlock your phone. Look Meditation spaces, mindfulness programs, and resources at your email, but don’t actually read are becoming increasingly common in campus libraries, anything yet. which often function as a “third space” in a community. Neither workplace nor home, this in-between space • Open and read a message, and in a library offers fertile ground for self-discovery, possibly respond to it. collaboration, and lifelong learning. In Merrimack College’s library, students use exercise bicycles fitted for • Shut down your cell phone and put it laptop use, check out houseplants for their dorm rooms, away. and borrow kits for birdwatching, yoga, gardening, and sound healing. The library at Humboldt State University Life. In this new position, Cracco will lead and provide illness with their peers,” writes Crociati in her thesis. At each of those steps, notice your offers “Brain Booths,” which house biofeedback machines, strategic direction for programs and services supporting “However, they were eager to educate fellow students breath, posture, emotional reaction, and therapy lights, virtual reality goggles, and sound the psychological and physical well-being of students, through writing for Mind Magazine.” Crociati learned the quality of your attention. What is the machines—all intended to wash away mental fatigue and as well as demonstrate the impacts of these programs on that many of the contributors struggled with their self- pattern that you see? What does it tell you make room for deeper learning. campus student success goals. Cracco explains, “We often image in the world of social media. She notes, “We are about your relationship to your cell phone? orient toward managing crises in these arenas, as well we constantly seeing the very best of everyone’s day, rather My personal mindfulness journey emerged in 2016 when Does that suggest any ways that you might should. However, to create lasting and substantive change, than the reality that not everyone has perfect lives. Social my anxiety around climate change rose to a debilitating want to use it a bit differently? We all we will move upstream and look at the genesis of these media often shields the realities we face every day, which crescendo. After suffering for too long, I dusted off have strong reactions and maybe even a concerns.” Cracco’s work with the Center for Counseling can be very detrimental to some college students who may my little-used meditation cushion and began a regular somewhat unconscious relationship to our and Psychological Health, the Center for Health still be on track to explore their true selves.” practice of silent sitting. The result: my stomach has cell phone. stopped churning constantly, I’m a more even-keeled Promotion, Disability Services, and Campus Recreation Graduate students face similar pressures. A PhD parent, I’m able to focus on the present moment more mirrors the University’s strategic plan, recognizing that candidate who wishes to remain anonymous sent me From David Levy’s Mindful Tech: consistently, and many other benefits. Most importantly, students’ goals and expectations are holistic in nature and an email expressing gratitude for the pop-up open tricycle.org/trikedaily/mindful-tech/ meditating allows me to face the disturbing realities of include wellness and a sense of belonging. She refers to meditation space offered this summer in Bartlett Hall. climate change (and other issues) with a greater capacity this holistic strategy as “hopeful and exciting work before “To have a space to practice during school hours is a to regulate my nervous system and behavior. Operating us as a campus—to look beyond self-care models toward great source of respite and has helped me immensely from a more stable place, I’m better equipped to engage in analysis of the ways in which structures and systems with my productivity,” wrote the student. “Prior to the change-making activities, and that feels empowering—a of the campus and broader culture do or do not foster knowledge about the space, I tried to practice mindfulness feedback loop! Discovering many studies about the Integrating mindfulness into my teaching, I have found connection, authenticity, and well-being.” exercises in the bathroom or on staircases where there prevalence of mental health challenges related to climate camaraderie and inspiration in various forms and The need for a shift in strategy is illustrated by the story would be no interruption from people. It was awkward, change has helped me feel less alone with my worries. settings. I regularly attend meetings of the Contemplative of Honors College alumna Lauren Crociati ’18. When uncomfortable, and definitely unhelpful. The room in This led me to participate in various groups that use deep Pedagogy Working Group, which is administered by the she first arrived on campus, she had had little exposure Bartlett, to me, is an oasis of tranquility on campus.” listening and dialogue, another form of mindfulness, to Center for Teaching and Learning. As instructors and to mental health matters. As her relationships deepened, The transformation of the classroom into this “oasis process emotions around climate change and build social graduate students across a wide range of disciplines, we several of her close friends shared with her their struggles of tranquility” was brought about using the cushions resilience, including Good Grief Network, Safe Circle, take turns leading contemplative practices, share and with mental health. Combining her concern and curiosity originally procured through a Campus Climate and Council on the Uncertain Human Future. In the cocreate resources, discuss specific readings, and compile with her love of journalism, she created Mind Magazine Improvement grant. The grant supported Mindfulness words of Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone, coauthors of best practices in Contemplative Pedagogy course design as her senior thesis project. Fellow undergraduate students for All, an eight-week series offered at the Du Bois Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going and teaching. This past year we discussed The Slow contributed their personal stories about mental health, Library in Fall 2018. Each session featured activities Crazy, “The most radical thing any of us can do at this Professor by Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber and learned including perspectives on campus culture, levels of such as body scan, silent sitting, breath work, gratitude time is to be fully present to what is happening in the from visiting scholars including Michelle Chatman service available, and whether they availed themselves practice, contemplative listening, walking meditation, world.” It’s not easy. (University of the District of Columbia), who gave a of such support. “I found that many students didn’t feel compassion meditation, and visualization. The welcoming talk on “Blackness and Mindfulness: The Intersection of comfortable directly sharing their experiences of mental atmosphere and accessible setting—hosted by faculty,

35 BOOKMARK 2019 34 BOOKMARK 2019 Glossary of mindfulness terms Culture, Justice, and Healing,” and Sara Lazar and Gunes Longing for a labyrinth of my own, I applied for a grant Sevinc (Harvard Medical School), who spoke about from the Association of Mental Health Librarians and meditation and its effect on the brain. became the proud owner of a 16’ x 16’ canvas labyrinth Contemplation Along with other members of the Contemplative purchased for $1,400 from The Labyrinth Company. Thoughtful observation; full or Pedagogy Working Group, I have attended the national Packed in a rolling suitcase, my labyrinth is easy to tote deep consideration; reflection; conference of the Association of Contemplative Mind to various library settings so I can treat my colleagues to a purpose or intention. in Higher Education as well as their intensive summer sanctuary in time and space at conferences, at workshops teaching institute at Smith College. Based in Florence, I lead, and even in their own workplaces. It’s fun to Massachusetts, the Association is a multidisciplinary scope out just the right spot in the conference center Photo: Delpixart academic group committed to the transformation of and post the location on Twitter. As librarians bustle Free writing higher education through the recovery and development among sessions, meals, and meetings, I direct them to Technique in which the student writes of the contemplative dimensions of teaching, learning, the labyrinth. Many look at me quizzically; this is not and knowing. your typical invitation at a conference. Afterward, many continuously for a set period of time report how their labyrinth walk boosted their conference without regard to spelling, grammar, Librarians have created specific forums such as the experience, easing some down from a presentation Contemplative Pedagogy Interest Group under the or topic; produces raw, often unusable they just delivered, and calming others before they Association of College and Research Libraries and a present. I discreetly observe the walkers, many of whom material, but helps jump-start ideas Facebook Group, Mindfulness for Librarians, with pause in the center, lifting arms up high, taking a few and overcome apathy or self-doubt. more than 1,200 members and virtual sharing sessions deep breaths—truly using the moment to re-center throughout the year. The American Library Association themselves—before retracing their steps out. offers online mindfulness courses, webinars, and conference programs. September 12, 2019, was the first We humans are complex beings navigating complex annual Library Meditation Day personal, professional, and societal Mind map (#LISMeditationDay), with planned landscapes. While mindfulness A nonlinear, intuitive diagram that and spontaneous meditation cannot completely resolve an issue, represents tasks, words, concepts, activities happening in libraries its tools offer precious and too- across the country. Locally, staff rare opportunities for self-care, or items arranged around a central meaning-making, and connection concept or subject. from the Five College libraries gather periodically to deepen our teaching to oneself, others, and the wider and practice mindfulness activities. world. In these rapidly changing and turbulent times, mindfulness My professional involvement with offers support to stay the course— Mindfulness mindfulness was sparked by UMass to lean on one another and reach Paying attention in a particular way: Amherst nursing professor Donna out or look inward when the path on purpose, in the present moment, Zucker. In 2014, she projected a forward feels murky, wearisome, labyrinth in a space on the ninth floor of the and nonjudgmentally. or daunting. It is with great joy and purposefulness that Du Bois Library as part of a study on stress reduction I share mindfulness opportunities with my students and and blood pressure. Intrigued, I volunteered as a subject. colleagues, within libraries and across disciplines. Wishing (The Sparq Labyrinth was created by librarian Matthew you all well on your own journeys. Cook, University of Oklahoma.) I began reading about Pedagogy labyrinths and seeking them out to walk in my area, A method and practice learning that they date back to the Neolithic age and that more than 5,000 labyrinths exist in 80 countries, of teaching, especially as according to the website the World-Wide Labyrinth Research Services Librarian an academic subject or Locator. Dr. Zucker introduced me to Cathy Rigali, a Madeleine Charney is a library theoretical concept. nurse at the county jail, who lent me her foldout canvas liaison for several departments labyrinth for a mindfulness retreat for Five College and programs and specializes in sustainability across the library staff. It was exciting to try something different and curriculum. witness the various effects on participants. Some of their Somatic comments tell the story: “The pause in the middle was She holds an MLS from the Relating to the body, very powerful. I’ve done walking meditation before, but University of Rhode Island especially as distinct not in a labyrinth; I never realized how fast I usually walk. and a master’s degree from the Conway School of I’ve never walked so slowly, and without shoes; At one from the mind. Landscape Design. point I felt panic [chuckles], like I was lost. And then I realized I’m on the same path; It was like doing yoga.”

37 BOOKMARK 2019 36 BOOKMARK 2019 For Wiberg, the concept was easy; she walked into the the murals has apparently not been maintained; how can stairwell, and “it was a small, enclosed cement area,” she we reliably recreate information about all the ones that recalls. “The idea was there right away. I’m in a cave; I’ve have been removed? entered a cave.” Wiberg had learned that cave artists left This year, as we mark the 45th anniversary of the their handprints as signatures, so she did, too, in her dedication of the Tower Library (it opened in 1973, was Rhino Hunt (1988), which evokes a prehistoric cave dedicated in 1974, and named for W. E. B. Du Bois in painting of people and animals. 1994), we’ve set out to compile as much information After UMass, Wiberg lived for a few years in the Pioneer on the murals as possible. Longtime UMass Amherst Valley before returning to the coast; some health issues photographer Ben Barnhart worked his way up and down led her to discover and practice polarity therapy and, the stairwells in July to capture all existing artwork and ultimately, to choose her artistic journey. Wiberg has provide the most complete visual record to date of what continued to paint murals. “There’s something about your exists. We’ve reached out to every muralist for whom we By Carol Connare canvas being a wall. It’s a little nerve-wracking because can find contact information and asked them to provide you are very committed, it’s up there, it’s on the wall,” she missing information via a questionnaire. We’ve begun says, “but it’s fun to have that open space, it’s not as small collecting videos of muralists who are willing to share of a boundary.” Some of Wiberg’s recent works include memories on camera. We created an online catalog, where oes a Louvre security guard ever tire of the Seven Days of Creation—bold paper collages for her retrospective artist statements and images can be found Leonardo da Vinci? Do maintenance workers church, Swedenborg Chapel in Cambridge, Mass.,—and online, and with our Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Center in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts grow numb intricate spirit masks of clay and found objects that fit in colleagues, we’ll continue to build out the catalog—and to Mary Cassatt? I have often wondered this the palm of your hand. the stories—of the Du Bois Library murals. Das I have trudged up or skipped down the stairwells of the Du Bois Library for more than a dozen years, passing Robert Levine ’89, who painted Singer (1988), a Steven Reconnecting with the muralists has been the most a work of art every sixteen steps, give or take, each work Tyler-inspired portrait, remembers being someone’s concept and expression. Whether it is my third part of a group of artists painting in the or 300th pass by a particular mural—there are currently 51 library at the same time. “For a number existing murals, all rendered by students’ hearts and hands of weeks, we each worked diligently in since 1986—I am always caught for at least a moment. our own curved corner of the stairwell. While the Du Bois murals may not all be Leonardos It was great to walk by and see my or Cassatts, the colors and designs intrigue, adding at friends translating their images onto turns wonder or introspection to an otherwise routine this unorthodox canvas,” he recalls. “I journey between floors. I often think about how each don’t think any of us had ever tackled mural belongs to someone, someone with a story. The anything like this, but we all figured it murals program originated as part of the student-fueled out.” Levine now has his own design library spruce-up scheme of the mid-1980s, called Mass and illustration company, specializing Transformation, and the majority of the murals in those in a type of illustration called bird’s- early years were created by art students invited to submit eye perspective, used in five murals ideas. Mural painting activity fell off in the mid-1990s and in his hometown of Ashland, Mass., had a resurgence about a decade ago. called Bird’s Eye Ashland. The mural was removed due to water damage but I caught up with one of the earliest muralists over the Levine has agreed to return to repaint it. summer to learn her story. Brenda Wiberg ’89 comes from a long line of Rockport, Massachusetts, painters; if In January 1992, a brochure called you’ve been to this artists’ colony on Cape Ann, you’re “Student Art in the University Library” likely familiar with the buoy-covered red fisherman’s shack was issued, probably the first complete on the wharf known as “Motif #1.” Wiberg’s grandfather public guide to the murals. Over the years, some murals interesting part of this project. We have been humbled to had a studio on the adjoining Bearskin Neck and would have been removed for renovation or repairs: more than learn what inspired them, what they recall of making their paint portraits for tourists at street level; upstairs, after once, leaking pipes caused enough damage that they had murals, and how art remains part of their lives. hours, he was less bridled, creating abstracts or “controlled to be painted over. The Du Bois mural program is far from accidents.” His daughter, Wiberg’s mother, Betty, also static: new ones are painted annually in recent years, and Inspiration ranges from academic studies to nature at became a portrait painter, often rendering the children of #MuralMondays are a social media hit. Stairwell murals hand: Jean (née Lafond ’86) Crossman’s Imaginary her father’s former subjects, now grown with families of have appeared in Library publications (Ancient Character, Tropical Garden (1986) was inspired by the Durfee and their own. from 1987, by Shan Shan Sheng ’87) and on holiday Smith College greenhouses, which she sketched avidly as greeting cards (University Fugue, from 1991, by Shannon a student. Still at UMass, she currently works as program Brenda displayed the Wiberg talent for painting but had Watson ’91). Still, a complete and up-to-date listing of all coordinator in the Department of Architecture. “Our not intended to join the family business; she set out for students go through the same Foundations Program I did,” UMass Amherst to find her calling—and soon realized says Crossman. Deb Tompkins Smith ’88 remembers she it was art, after all. Her undergraduate years flew by one Facing page, Top: University Fugue, Shannon Watson (1991); Middle: Ancient Character, Shan Shan Sheng wanted to do something abstract. Looking at her work, art class after another, and as she neared graduation, she (1987); Bottom: Rhino Hunt, Brenda Wiberg (1988); Blue Tropism (1986), with fresh eyes, she admits, “I may answered the invitation to submit a library mural idea. This page: Singer, Robert Levine (1988). 39 BOOKMARK 2019 38 BOOKMARK 2019 have been influenced by Pac-man-esque shapes. To this day, blues are still my favorite color scheme.” Nowadays, Smith is a user experience architect, designing the front end of digital experiences. or all of the muralists, the process was an adventure. Dana Evernden ’12, spent three eight-hour sessions in 2010 working on a Ftribute mural to George Parks, the late beloved UMass Amherst bandleader, finishing it just in time to move out of Amherst for the summer. “A word of advice: do it during a break when there won’t be tons of people walking up and down the stairs,” said Evernden. Thea Kearney ’86, working on Untitled (1988), remembers gathering the materials for her mural and hauling cans of paint and a small stepladder from her apartment in Northampton. “It was so long ago, I honestly don’t know how I managed,” she said. “I must have taken the bus or had a friend drop me off at the campus.” (Nowadays, the supplies are bought and provided by the Libraries.) For many, it proved a learning experience. “I had to learn the process for transferring a small 11x17 image to a large wall. I also had to learn color matching in order to purchase latex paint colors that matched the gouache that I had used for the illustration,” says Charlene Maguire ’92, who painted Untitled (1990). Her career has taken her into other artistic materials and media, including creating and illustrating an oracle card deck, The Language of Heart Alchemy, and publishing two coloring books. “I was unable to spray paint indoors for this piece, so I had to re-create many of the techniques I previously relied upon with a paint brush,” Toby Armstrong ’16 remembers. His Untitled (2016) “was one of the first acrylic paintings I ever completed, and quite a huge one at that, so much of the time spent painting was trial and error as I experimented with the new medium. The whole process took close to 24 hours, though much of that time was painting over failed experiments. The whole experience was like a boot camp in acrylics, and it jump-started my interest in the medium. Now they’re all I paint with.” We are thankful to the Du Bois Library muralists who have generously enhanced the Library stairwells, and the lives of those who travel them, with their art. As part of our outreach to learn their stories, we also asked muralists if they wanted to share any advice with future artists. Charlene Maguire’s words of wisdom resonate both for muralists and for those who encounter the murals on their journey: “Have fun, and let the process teach you things about yourself.” Are you, or do you know, a Du Bois Library muralist? If so, please contact Carol Connare: ([email protected], 413-545-0995).

From top: Blue Tropism, Deb Tompkins Smith (1988); George Parks, Dana Evernden (2010); Untitled, Toby Armstrong (2016); Untitled, Thea Kearney (1988).

41 BOOKMARK 2019 40 BOOKMARK 2019 Left side from top: Untitled, Scott Thomas ’93; Untitled, Anthony Beugless ’87; Where Did the Ducks Go?, Rafael Weil ’90; Untitled, Karen Gaudet ’90. Right side from top: Untitled, Nayana Thimmiah ’19; Untitled, Tyran Grillo ’07, G’10; Rooftops Somewhere, Maura McHugh ’87; Untitled, Sue Carlin ’89. Imaginary Tropical Garden by Jean (née Lafond ’86) Crossman (1986). Jean, who works on campus came by recently to touch up her mural.

43 BOOKMARK 2019 42 BOOKMARK 2019 W. E. B. Du Bois Center 2019 Best of Amherst Award Education Center category

Du Bois Center Director Whitney Battle-Baptiste and author David Levering Lewis (center); artist Kathleen Quotable Du Bois Anderson (fifth from right; and Du Bois Fellows. 2019 Andrew W. Mellon Fellows share their favorite Du Bois words

“Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. They approach me in a half- “You are not and yet you are: your thoughts, hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or your deeds, above all your dreams still live.” compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an —W. E. B. Du Bois, Autobiography (1968) excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do

Chosen by Freeden Blume Oeur, associate professor of sociology and education, not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am Tufts University; 2019 Du Bois Post-Doctoral Fellow interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may require. To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.” —W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

Chosen by Jay Cephas, assistant professor of architecture and urbanism, “We say easily, for instance, ‘The ignorant Northeastern University; 2019 Du Bois Post-Doctoral Fellow ought not to vote.’ We would say, ‘No civilized state should have citizens too ignorant to participate in government,’ and this statement is but a step to the “The slave went free; stood a brief fact: that no state is civilized which has moment in the sun; then moved

citizens too ignorant to help rule it.” back again toward slavery.”

—W. E. B. Du Bois, “Of The Ruling of Men,” Ch. VI in —W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil (1920) (1935) Chosen by Alexandria Russell, postdoctoral fellow in history, Chosen by Adam Dahl, assistant professor of political science, Rutgers University; 2019 Du Bois Post-Doctoral Fellow UMass Amherst; 2019 Du Bois Post-Doctoral Fellow

45 BOOKMARK 2019 44 BOOKMARK 2019 Read more Fellows’ favorite Du Bois quotes online. SOWING CHANGE

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Friday, February 21, 2020 Old Chapel, UMass Amherst

the Black middle class–specifically men, as well as issues of campus sexual assault, race, and masculinity. Her AssistantSaida Professor Grundy of Sociology current work examines graduates of Morehouse College, and African American Studies the nation’s only historically Black college for men and Boston University asks how, in light of an ongoing national reality and discourse about young Black men in crisis, the men Saida Grundy is a feminist sociologist of race & of Morehouse experience gender and manhood at an ethnicity studies. She began her appointment as Assistant institution that attempts to groom them as solutions to Professor of Sociology & African American Studies at this crisis. Her current book manuscript tentatively titled Boston University in 2015 with an additional courtesy Manhood Within the Margins: The paradoxes of making appointment in Women’s & Gender Studies. Her research masculinity at the historically Black college for men is to date has focused upon gender and sexuality within forthcoming with University of California Press.

Launching the Mass Aggie Seed Library by Lauren Weiss

Above L to R: Authors and local historians Bernard and Donna Drew; he UMass Amherst Libraries are well known Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Center; for offering a variety of resources for patrons to Camesha Scruggs PhD ’24, (history) and homesite tour guide; Adam Holmes, Program Manager for the Du Bois Center. access—and now, thanks to the work of biology Tmajor Gabriella Bosco ’20, these resources include the A Significant Semicentennial first-ever Mass Aggie Seed Library. Gabriella Bosco ’20 (above) created the hand-drawn logo for the Seed Library. About 150 people gathered to stand “here on sacred ground,” The inspiration for the project came from one of Bosco’s declared Whitney Battle-Baptiste, director of the W. E. B. friends. “His community college in Florida had a tiny seed Of course, Bosco realized that in order to make this Du Bois Center, who led a ceremony on October 18 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the library,” she says. “The concept was so cool, and I thought, happen, she would need some willing campus partners. Du Bois Boyhood homesite, in Great Barrington, MA. “This why don’t I start one here?” She first reached out to members of the Garden Share is the anchor by which this great man went from here to Project, a sustainable gardening initiative started by UMass Harvard and out to the world.” The homesite on Route 23 At its core, a seed library is a community-focused effort to make gardening more accessible. People can “check out” Amherst undergraduates in 2001, who directed her to is a national landmark owned and maintained by UMass Top: Randy Weinstein, co-chair of Madeleine Charney, the research services librarian who Amherst and has nature paths and interpretative signage. In Great Barrington Du Bois Legacy donated seeds for free, just like books, plant them in their serves as liaison to the School of Earth and Sustainability 1969, social change luminaries like Julian Bond and Ossie Committee; Whitney Battle-Baptiste; own gardens, and, hopefully, from the plants that grow, Davis presided over the tenuous event that was unsuccessfully Gwendolyn VanSant, co-chair of as well as Sustainable Food and Farming. Charney then Legacy Committee; town of Great collect new seeds to bring back to the library for others fought off by the town. A crowd of 800 gathered peacefully to connected her with Paulina Borrego, of the Science and Barrington selectman Ed Abrahams. to use. To Bosco, having such a setup at UMass Amherst dedicate the park despite FBI and law enforcement presence. Middle: Camesha Scruggs PhD ’24; seemed a natural extension of the campus’s expanding Engineering Library (SEL), who immediately jumped Now, 50 years later, town selectman participated in the Right: Tommie Hutto-Blake, member on board. commemoration and a permanent town Du Bois Legacy of the Berkshire Branch of the NAACP. sustainability efforts. committee has been incorporated by the town. 47 BOOKMARK 2019 46 BOOKMARK 2019 “For me, I was really interested in this project because of our roots,” Borrego says, referring to the Sustainability Fund Update land-grant beginnings of UMass Amherst, originally known as the Massachusetts Agricultural College, UMass Amherst Again Ranked Among Top 50 or “Mass Aggie” for short. As she recently changed her liaison duties to service the agricultural sciences, Green Colleges by Princeton Review Borrego was convinced that working with Bosco on the seed library was an excellent way to learn more about her new departments as well as highlight For the fifth consecutive year, UMass Amherst has which purchases 23 percent of all food and beverages the rich agricultural history of the university and been named to the Princeton Review’s list of Top 50 from third-party verified (organic or humane) or surrounding Pioneer Valley. Green Colleges; ranked no. 30 this year out of the community based/local sources; the largest campus 413 schools profiled. The review cited the role of solar project in New England and more than 15,000 Together, Bosco and Borrego developed plans UMass in the launch of an automated electric assist photovoltaic panels. The Princeton Review also cited for a seed library to open in the Science and Engineering Library toward the end of the spring L to R: Paulina Borrego; Kim Sikorski ’21; Kevin Ouimette ’22 bike share program called ValleyBike; more than the university’s AASHE STARS gold rating; its formal 2019 semester. Bosco spent several months one million square feet of LEED-certified building sustainability committee; and the free campus shuttle. contacting various agricultural companies and local stores space; the nation’s No. 1 ranked dining service, to procure donations of more than 500 seed packets “We brought him on because we thought that the and, with Borrego, applied for a grant from the campus Permaculture Initiative would be really interested in such a project that would tie in with sustainability on campus,” Sustainability, Innovation, and Engagement Fund (SIEF) Thanks to donors, the Libraries: to cover the costs of purchasing additional items: seed- Bosco explains. “The whole idea of not having to buy seeds saving tools that could also be checked out, as well as every year because you save your own seed ties in with that perfectly. Dan has been helping us narrow down our goals books, promotional materials, and furnishings for the RAISED: More than $8,000 last year. To date: the Sustainability Fund and synergize with other parts of campus.” designated space in SEL. have raised more than $362,000. “Gabriella is a real powerhouse,” Borrego says. “I think According to Bensonoff, the project is a perfect fit for of myself as a doer, but she really gave me a run for my UMass Amherst. “Historically, UMass is an agricultural AWARDED: Four Undergraduate Sustainability Research Awards money!” institution, and I think that there’s been a huge resurgence totaling $3,300 in scholarships. At the celebration, award recipients of interest in regenerative and sustainable agriculture in gave presentations after featured speaker Abrah Dresdale, author the last 10 or 15 years. A lot of students come here because of Regenerative Design for Change Makers: A Social Permaculture they are interested in learning about sustainability, land Guidebook, provided an exploration of the transformative social care, and food systems, so I think we need to offer them as aspects of permaculture design principles. many opportunities to do so as possible.”

For his part, Bensonoff has also agreed to collect seeds SPONSORED: Roy Scranton’s reading, “We’re Doomed. Now What?” from the campus’s five gardens part of the Philip Glass weekend of events co-sponsored with Fine Arts at the end of the season to Center, Humanities and Fine Arts, and School of Earth and Sustainability. donate back to the Seed Library. Aside from preserving specific plants valuable to the SCREENED: Fire and Flood: Queer Resilience in the Era of Climate gardens and promoting open- Change documentary screening followed by facilitated discussion pollinated, organic, heirloom with Crystal Nieves of the Stonewall Center at UMass Amherst. varieties, returning seed helps to replenish, sustain, and expand HOSTED: A Cool Climate (low carbon) Meal at the Hampshire Daniel Bensonoff With funding from the SIEF grant, Borrego put her the collection—something that Dining Commons in October, with local experts like Eric Toensmeier, interior design skills to work, transforming an unused area he, Borrego, and especially Bosco are very eager to see. author of The Carbon Farming Solution, and lecturer at Yale, into a gardener’s oasis. Framed flower illustrations line the “I’d like to see the Seed Library grow—literally,” Bosco Seva Tower, co-founder and farmer at Nutwood Farm, an grass-green walls above a computer workstation, shelving laughs. “I’d like to offer more varieties, and we’re hoping agroforestry project, and Jonathon Carr, owner of Carr’s for the seed-saving tools, and a repurposed atlas case to host some workshops next school year on seed saving Ciderhouse, one of the few organic orchards in the area. containing containing gardening books, small flowerpots and other aspects of gardening. I’d also love to foster with Bosco and Borrego’s upcycled business cards, and a a community of people getting together and building UNDERWROTE: Paperbark Literary Magazine, including paper checkout binder. The Seed Library itself is housed their own networks—even people who have never grown graduate student staff salaries (see excerpt page 52). in a refurbished wooden card catalog, with each drawer anything before. I think this is a perfect opportunity for holding different varieties of edible and decorative plants, them to pick out some seeds that are easy for beginners. from fennel to tomatoes and everything in between. We’ll have some materials that they can use for planting In addition to Borrego, Bosco collaborated with Daniel or for seed saving, and then just maybe they’ll find a Bensonoff, Sustainability Coordinator of Campus Gardens new passion.” with the UMass Permaculture Initiative.

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he library as a physical and 7,033 Tvirtual space for discovery is on the front line of education. Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram 4,261 2,555,510 Today, teaching and learning are Followers 3D Items multimodal, using combinations an increase of an increase of Downloads of speech, text, video, images, 15% 327% illustration, and other media, 234 in the classroom and online, to countries engage learners. The Libraries must an increase of respond in equally revolutionary 12% ways, and this impact report gives (FY 18 saw an increase a glimpse of the kinds of things we of 39% from FY17) do to support students and faculty, 1,471,444 thanks to your generosity. Visitors an increase of 805 Hours of Virtual Reality Simon Neame 35% service provided Dean of UMass Amherst Libraries All numbers are from Fiscal Year 2019 Year All numbers are from Fiscal Hu ’08 L to R: Edwood Brice ’19, Yuntian November 14, 2018 an increase of 10,039 visitors 127% Busiest day $150,000 $1.8M+ Raised Library Expenditures fy19 UMass Amherst Leads $150,000 Grant 12% with State Universities and Who Gave to the Libraries Operations Community Colleges to Build Capacity Around Open 42% Educational Resources Collections 46% Personnel 4% Thank you FACULTY to

TOTAL $21,071,226 1,283 collections expenditures fy19 14% 54% Friends of the PARENTS UNDERGRAD Libraries who donated 13% 5% $241,845 Books Other ALUMNI Libraries Awarded National Leadership Project Grant The Libraries, along with the University of by the numbers We couldn’t have Texas at Arlington (UTA) and the University 82% 14% of Nevada-Reno, were awarded a $241,845 10% GRADUATE done it without Subscriptions National Leadership Project Grant from the FRIENDS Print and Electronic Institute of Museum and Library Services to fund ALUMNI the development of an immersion program to train faculty and instructors on how to integrate YOU the use of makerspaces, dedicated spaces with technological resources and equipment for project-based collaboration, into their courses. $8,905,662 51 BOOKMARK 2019 50 BOOKMARK 2019 Below is an excerpt from Issue 2 of Paperbark Literary Magazine, a Libraries’ co-sponsored publication, thanks to donors of the Sustainability Fund. Paperbark contains poetry, short stories, art, and essays, with themes related to sustainability.

FutureWATERS | AGUASfuturas Interview with

CAROLINA ARAGÓN

ast year, visitors to Professor Aragón’s grow- "My goal is to bring the East Boston ing reputation as a climate Greenway were able artist in Boston began after accessible under- to visually experi- her first installation in 2016, standing to this ence the projected flood levels titled “High Tide.” Since then, difficult subject in a Lexpected to occur within the she has continued to explore neighborhood as a result of this challenging and abstract way that is engaging climate change. A temporary subject through sculptures and playful rather art exhibit crafted out of a that evoke moments of beauty woven assortment of colorful and wonder. “The installation than threatening." spheres, wire, and lights set is a way to help me better to activate as people walked understand and process a by brought the reality of the future landscape affected by Friends of the East Boston future into the present in a climate change,” says the artist Greenway, the Boston Society glittering representation of the in a statement shared by the of Landscape Architecture, floodwaters’ surface. Designed Boston Society of Landscape and University of Massachu- by Carolina Aragón, Assis- Architecture. “My goal is to setts Amherst students. The tant Professor of Landscape bring accessible understanding Paperbark team interviewed Architecture at the University to this difficult subject in a Professor Aragón to learn of Massachusetts Amherst, the way that is engaging and play- more about climate art and art installation, titled “Future- ful rather than threatening.” why public art installations are WATERS | AGUASfuturas,” a valuable tool for communi- went live on the East Boston FutureWATERS | cating the impacts of climate Greenway in November and AGUASfuturas was made change. December of 2018. possible with support from the

A view of the art installation, FutureWATERS | AGUASfuturas, in the East Boston Greenway at dusk. Credit: Matt Conti, 2018.

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Join the Libraries for an evening of food, fun, and music celebrating the Valley Light Opera’s 45 VLO’s archives are housed in Special Sing along, Collections and University Archives. costumes welcome! A LibraryLeap Donor Year Appreciation Event The Mass Aggie Seed Library is housed in the Science & Engineering Library Selections from Lederle GRC Lowrise PIRATES OF PENZANCE UMass Amherst performed by The Seed Library is open to all. VALLEY LIGHT OPERA More info: [email protected] In partnership with Humanities and Fine Arts, Valley Light Opera, and the UMass Amherst Libraries.

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