Volume 20 Fall 2015

A newsletter for faculty and the University community published by the University of Chicago Library with support from the Libra Library Society

PhD Student Interns Gain New Perspectives at the Library

By Rachel Ro senberg

hen the call went out for for careers in academia, nonprofits, government, and industry,” summer internship ideas for the said A-J Aronstein, Associate Director of Graduate Career University of Chicago’s Graduate Global Development and Employer Relations. “The kind of skills that Impact program, librarians on campus one develops in the Library—including digital skills, coding, recognized a dual opportunity. PhD students and archival research—are just as vital for jobs on the tenure W track as they are for jobs in other fields.” could develop new perspectives on scholarship by working with librarians on important projects, while the work they accomplished Digital South Asia Library Intern Rafadi Hakim could enhance the Library’s offerings for its many users. four interns—Rafadi Hakim, Ellen Ambrosone, Marco a PhD student in Anthropology, Rafadi Hakim, was hired Torres, and Eric Phillips—were hired for summer 2015. Through to help expand and enhance the presentation of data and texts their internships, they gained new insights into the local and in the Digital South Asia Library (DSAL, at dsal.uchicago. global impact of librarianship and scholarship. edu). His projects ranged from writing a grant application with “The primary objective of the internship program is to provide librarians to adding digital facsimiles to the DSAL website. graduate students with flexible training that can help them prepare hakim jumped at the chance to be involved in the digital

continued on page 4 Crescat scientia; vita excolatur Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched. THE2015-16 BOARD OF THE LIBRARY

Diane Sperling Lauderdale, Chair; Professor and Chair, Department of Public Health Sciences

Vineet Arora, Associate Professor and Assistant Dean for Scholarship and FROM T HE DIR ECTOR With the autumn quarter of my first year at Discovery, Department of Medicine Daisy Delogu, Professor of French the University well underway, I have developed Literature, Department of Romance The Library an understanding of the enduring relevance of Languages and Literatures Daniel Fabrycky, Assistant Professor, the University of Chicago Library’s mission. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics We begin with the University’s motto—Crescat scientia; vita excolatur—and embody it as a Hub: by providing comprehensive resources and services to support the research, teaching, John Goldsmith, Edward Carson and learning needs of the University community. Put another way: we serve as a hub that Waller Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Linguistics and connects people and ideas. Computer Science and the College over the years, we have developed six primary approaches to providing these comprehensive resources and services to the University that remain relevant today. We Sydney Hans, Samuel Deutsch Connecting Professor, School of Social Service work to understand our users; build collections and tools; promote access and discovery; Administration ensure preservation; collaborate with faculty, students, and University staff, as well as librarians and technologists from around the world; and develop expertise and an Faith Hillis, Assistant Professor, People innovative spirit in our Library staff. Department of History and the College Building collections remains a vital, ongoing part of our mission, and our special Richard Neer, William B. Ogden Library Director and University Librarian Brenda Johnson collections offer faculty and students opportunities to do original research and learn from Distinguished Service Professor of Art rare and unique primary sources. As we celebrate the 125th anniversary of the University History, Cinema and Media Studies, and of Chicago this year, new materials have been donated to the University Archives, and the College and Ideas for Online Learning, is supported by generous gifts from Preston Torbert and Diana Hunt many have visited to explore our shared history (see page 6). In addition, recently received Brian Prendergast, Professor, volumes from the Nineteenth-Century English Poetry Collection of Dr. Gerald N. Wachs, King (see page 5). Department of Psychology and the generously donated by Deborah Wachs Barnes, Sharon Wachs Hirsch, Judith Pieprz, The Library is supporting graduate students’ education and professional development College and Joel Wachs, AB’92, together with funding for a special exhibition, an accompanying in additional ways. This summer, we offered four unique internships that provided hands- Steven Rings, Associate Professor of on experience and mentors for PhD students interested in developing new perspectives catalogue, and additional essential Library support, comprise a campaign leadership gift Music, Department of Music that expands our distinctive collections and promotes their discovery (see page 8). on scholarship (see page 1). We also process our collections so that they can be easily discovered and accessed. The renovation of Regenstein’s A Level (see page 7) will soon create a new We are grateful to Bob and Carolyn Nelson for their support for the processing of the Saul environment that encourages interdisciplinary scholarly collaboration through the EX OFFICIO Bellow Papers, which began this summer and will facilitate research into the life and works provision of resources, technology, and spaces. The first phase of the renovation is underway this fall. Additional enhancements are being planned for a later time when of this Nobel Prize-winning author (see page 9). Robert J. Zimmer, President and even as these critical Library activities continue, new ones are being undertaken. funding becomes available. Trustee of the University Faculty and students in every field are taking advantage of technological advancements to and the launch of a new multi-institutional Chicago Collections portal (see page 7) Eric D. Isaacs, Provost of the University; pursue new lines of inquiry using new tools and techniques. Interdisciplinary work is more will help scholars, students, and members of the public to more easily research the history Professor, Department of Physics, the of Chicago in increasingly interconnected virtual spaces. important than ever. The output of research and scholarship looks different today than it James Franck Institute, and the College did in the past. Creativity, collaborative learning, and hands-on learning are increasingly By engaging in both traditional and new activities that connect researchers and prized by students and faculty alike. students with ideas, the Library continuously renews its commitment to supporting the Cole Camplese, Associate Vice President and Chief Information Officer how can the Library build better bridges between its resources and the University research, teaching, and learning needs of the University of Chicago in a rapidly changing community? How can we promote and ease the transition to new ways of learning? How scholarly environment. Ingrid Gould, Associate Provost for can the Library become a partner in the research process in the future? Faculty and Student Affairs This issue of Libra shares a few of the steps we are taking in moving toward this Brenda L. Johnson, Library Director and future. I am particularly pleased to announce the launch of the Library’s new residency University Librarian program, which is designed to bring some of the brightest new graduates of today’s Garrett Kiely, Director, University of library and information schools and other graduate programs to Chicago to help us launch Brenda L. Johnson Chicago Press or expand new programs. Our first new resident, Kaitlin Springmier, the Resident Librarian Library Director and University Librarian

2 | LIBRA Fall 2015 Fall 2015 LIBRA | 3 Library Launches New Residency Program Kaitlin Springmier joins UChicago as Resident Librarian for Online Learning

he University of Chicago Library Growing launched a new residency program this fall that will expand staff the Residency expertise in new and rapidly developing areas of librarianship. The program is designed to bring Program

top recent graduates of library and information The Library has developed a science programs and relevant graduate programs set of possible residencies that Rafadi Hakim examines an image that will be added to the Digital South Asia Library. to Chicago for two-year residencies focused on could allow it to offer additional Tparticular areas of expertise. services in a wide variety of “This new residency program provides up-and-coming areas, as funding becomes Student interns a t the Librar y continued from page 1 graduates used in studying Mexico. librarians and information specialists with an exciting available. Among the proposed “A lot of what we do as scholars is to opportunity to share new skill sets while collaborating positions are a Bioinformatics Resident Librarian who would humanities. “Sometimes as a student, ambrosone (pictured, page 1), a PhD look at bibliographies and see patterns with experienced colleagues to advance the development of Kaitlin Springmier in them,” Torres said. One unexpected Resident Librarian for support students and faculty I feel I’m spending so much time fine candidate in South Asian Languages and twenty-first century library services,” said Brenda Johnson, Online Learning who collect and analyze tuning small parts of my own paper for Civilizations, welcomed the opportunity trend he observed was that recent Library Director and University Librarian. complex biological data such just a few people,” he said. But, when to participate in the first phase of a political science bibliographies cite trade the first resident in this new program, Kaitlin Springmier, joined the Library as genetic codes. A Data working on the DSAL, he explained, “It’s multi-year project to preserve and make publications outside the social sciences, in in September as Resident Librarian for Online Learning. She came to Chicago Services Resident Librarian not just about this exclusive circle. It’s these drawings accessible. She began fields such as medicine. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she completed a Master of Library would help students and faculty massively helpful to people in different the compilation of an inventory of the Science and worked as an Instruction Assistant at the UW-Madison Memorial Library. to use statistical databases, ACASA Intern Eric Phillips geographic information countries.” His work this summer required drawings, so that researchers can more She has experience creating interactive e-learning tutorials and using new instructional thinking about how to best serve students, readily understand what is available. history PhD student Eric Phillips systems, data visualization, and designs, including embedded librarianship in online courses. other tools for field research, scholars, and others with varying degrees “Having a working knowledge of first met June Farris, the Library’s “We’re delighted that Kaitlin has joined the Library,” said E-Learning Librarian of fluency in South Asian languages and archiving and processing the collection Bibliographer for Slavic, East European such as software for processing Julie Piacentine. “She is familiar with key research on developing online learning and interviews and ethnographic varying amounts of Internet bandwidth. makes me a more well-rounded scholar,” & Eurasian Studies, when consulting the has experience designing modules that achieve specific learning outcomes.” field notes. A Digital Archivist hakim also appreciates the new Ambrosone said. “I’m thinking about how Library’s Archives of Czechs & Slovaks springmier will work with reference librarians and subject specialists to develop, Resident Librarian in the perspectives on scholarship that he I can incorporate this experience into my Abroad (ACASA) for a seminar paper implement, and assess multi-media e-learning tools, resources, and services that Special Collections Research gained from working with James Nye, teaching to show students how the work on the transformation of Pressburg into support research, teaching, and learning at the University. High priority projects Center would work with the Bibliographer for Southern Asia, and scholars do is often built on work done by Bratislava. He is preparing to write his University Archivist and Laura Ring, Cataloger and Assistant library professionals.” dissertation on the economic history of include development of a mini-course on tracking citations and creating bibliographies, the Archives staff to plan South Asia Librarian. “It’s nice to get some interwar Czechoslovakia and Austria. as well as more specialized tutorials designed to meet the needs of students working in and implement a strategy mentoring from people in addition to the Citation Analysis Intern Marco Torres farris mentioned to Phillips some specific disciplines. for systematic transfers of faculty in your own department,” he said. history PhD candidate Marco Torres time ago that ACASA needed to be “This residency will help us increase the amount of self-service help that’s available electronic records to the Library Digital Repository. joined the Library this summer to analyze reorganized. New materials were waiting whenever students need it,” Piacentine explained. A Clinical Law Programs Special Collections Intern citations used in recent UChicago Latin to be integrated into the original schema this first residency was made possible by generous gifts from Library Visiting Ellen Ambrosone Committee members Preston Torbert and Diana Hunt King, who saw the value of Resident Librarian would help American studies dissertations. “One of devised by early collector Zdenek Hruban. to provide law students with During his internship, Phillips immersed educating students in how to navigate complex and rapidly evolving online research over the last several years in the goals of the project is to help us make legal research skills training himself in this project. environments. particular, Special Collections has received decisions about what resources should that supports their work in “For the last two summers, I’ve been an enormous influx of architectural be purchased in the future based on experiential clinical programs going to the archives in Prague and trying in areas such as environmental drawings. “They’re hanging on racks; the type of materials PhD students are Visit youtube.com/user/uchicagolibrary to see the latest online tutorials offered by the Library. to navigate them. It’s been a challenging law, international human rights, they’re in drawers; they’re in archival using,” explained Ellen Bryan, Reference experience,” Phillips said in August. corporate law, civil rights, boxes,” said Kathleen Feeney, Head of Librarian and Head of the Dissertation “Now I’m on the other side, learning how employment discrimination, and Archives Processing and Digital Access. Office. archives are organized.” juvenile justice. “We know we have them from the entire torres plans to do dissertation hakim, Torres and Phillips’s The residency program is history of the University, from landscape research on the labor movement in the internships were sponsored by the expected to change over time drawings to electrical plans, but when late 1930s and its role in Mexican politics. as funding for new positions is Division of the Social Sciences Emerging we hired Ellen, we didn’t have a strong He particularly valued the opportunity obtained and the needs of the Leaders Initiative. Ambrosone’s internship inventory.” to discover the kinds of sources recent Library evolve. was sponsored by UChicago GRAD.

4 | LIBRA Fall 2015 Fall 2015 LIBRA | 5 Recreating the Regenstein A Level for Collaboration

By Jim Vaughan Associate University Librarian for User Services

ork has begun to transform the Regenstein A Level Reading Room into an inviting and W attractive collaborative learning center where students, faculty, academic technologists, and librarians can interact. Responding to increased user demand for such spaces, librarians have worked with Woodhouse Tinucci Architects All images are from to create a new design that will A Single Portal to Chicago History transform the floor into a vibrant the Special Collections UChicago Library Partners with 21 Institutions Exploring 125 Years of History in the Archives Research Center, The laboratory of interactive learning. University of Chicago Plans for the reconceived to Create a Tool for Exploring the History By Daniel Meyer, Director, Special Collections Research Center, and University Archivist Library. A Level feature a new 72-foot glass and Culture of Chicago

Opposite page, clockwise wall that will provide a view of By Elisabeth Long elebration of the her interdisciplinary work in religion, 1950s; the field notes and data collected from upper left: the Jean Block Garden and bring Associate University Librarian for Digital Services University’s 125th political philosophy, and ethics. And the by Sol Tax and other faculty members of daylight deep inside the room. A Block group paints, broad open area at the center of Anniversary is drawing papers of Julian H. Lewis, the University’s the University’s influential Department of 600 block of South he University of Chicago Library is increased campus attention first African American professor, and his Anthropology; and the papers of Ernest Bowen. Mildred Mead, the floor will allow groups to gather a major partner in the creation of a new to the University Archives wife Eva Overton Lewis, document an W. Burgess, Louis Wirth, Everett Hughes, photographer. April around movable whiteboards, and online portal, Explore Chicago Collections, that this year. The mission of the influential career in medical research and and other leaders in Chicago sociology. 30, 1952. University of a 36-person digital classroom for documents the rich history and culture of the Chicago Photographic active learning will be available for Robert Chicago region. Launching in late October, the free Archives is to preserve and make the lives of a leading Chicago family. the Library’s annual Archive, apf2-09636. library workshops and spontaneous available materials documenting Recent classroom teaching drawing Platzman Memorial Fellowships bring portal helps researchers, students, and the general Janet Rowley in her use by students. The central zone T public to locate and access more than 100,000 maps, the history of the University and on the Archives includes Mark Bradley’s visiting scholars from the national and laboratory. 1980s. will be lined with a variety of photos, letters, and other materials from across the city. the work of its faculty, students, seminar on International History. Tara international scholarly community. This University of Chicago collaborative spaces, including a This portal is the cornerstone initiative of a city-wide Photographic Archive, trustees, and friends. Archives collections Zahra brought her History Colloquium on year, one Platzman Fellow from the high work bar, conference tables, consortium, Chicago Collections, that includes universities, C apf7-01134. Copyright and lounge chairs, as well as café span many formats, from official reports Migration and Displacement in Twentieth- University of Cambridge is examining 2015, The Chicago museums, and organizations as diverse as the Alliance tables along the large glass wall. to publications, photographs, media, Century Europe. Daniel Webb drew on the papers of Charles Merriam, Harold Maroon. All rights Française and the Chicago Zoological Society. Video monitors will be available, and and physical artifacts. Faculty papers the Archives for his class on America in Gosnell, and others for a study of attitudes reserved. Reprinted with Charles Blair, Director of the University of Chicago Permission. an easy-to-operate “one button” Library’s Digital Library Development Center, has played in the Archives include letters, diaries, World Civilization, while Susan Burns toward American public opinion. video production studio will enable Bon Voyage. From the a key role in the development of this new search tool. As field notes, manuscripts, and teaching brought her class on Doing History. Using the papers of Ernest Burgess and students to create video essays and papers of Julian and Eva Co-chair of the Chicago Collections Portal Committee he materials. In all, the Archives collections Kathleen Conzen led classes on Chicago Robert Havinghurst, a graduate student Overton Lewis. rehearse presentations. On the east has contributed technical expertise in the underlying portal have grown to 60,000 linear feet, or and Chicago’s South Side, and Katherine from Indiana University is researching side of the floor, a technology zone software as well as experience developing effective digital more than 73 million individual items, Taylor’s courses examined the University’s a dissertation on the Guatemalan This column, top to will include studio space for creating asset management and discovery tools that meet the bottom: and digital files comprise more than modern campus architecture. Indigenismo movement. A scholar from web tutorials, producing webinars, needs of a wide variety of users. The Library will also be and delivering online instruction. 20 terabytes of records in the Library’s support for research is also central the University of Oxford is examining Sol Tax, Professor of contributing content for the portal, including finding aids Work on the A Level is occurring Digital Repository. to the Archives mission. Within the past the papers of Louis Brownlow, Leonard Anthropology at the describing our Chicago-related archival and manuscript University of Chicago. in three phases, as funding collections, as well as several thousand digitized Important new collections year, projects of University researchers White, and other faculty for a study n.d. University of Chicago becomes available. The first phase photographs, beginning with 33 photographs of pioneering continue to enhance the Archives. Recent have drawn on the records of the Robert of American political science. And a Photographic Archive, is the façade replacement with apf1-08219. Chicago civil rights activist Ida B. Wells and more than acquisitions include the papers of Janet M. Hutchins administration, the graduate student from the University of the installation of the glass wall, 1,000 of Chicago neighborhoods and urban renewal by Rowley, the University’s renowned Committee on Social Thought, and the Minnesota is using the papers of faculty Julian H. Lewis, the first scheduled to be completed by photographer Mildred Mead. African American to geneticist and cancer researcher and University’s Chaucer Research Project member A.K. Ramanujan to examine Berglund Construction Company In addition to bringing resources from member teach at the University of in November. The second phase, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. of the 1930s. Visiting researchers have literary debates in nineteenth-century Chicago. 1917. organizations together into a single search interface, the beginning in 2016, will focus on the consortium has been developing a wide range of outreach Gary Becker’s papers bring manuscripts, examined the papers of Mircea Eliade; South India. center open area and collaborative notes, and teaching materials of the the papers of University administrators for more information about the This page, far right: programs and services including an exhibition, lectures, spaces on three sides. The third and and a Cooperative Reference Network that will provide Ida B. Wells-Barnett with 1992 Nobel laureate in economics. and faculty involved in the world University of Chicago Archives, visit www. final phase, focusing on the active answers to questions from researchers and the general The papers of Jean Elshtain document government movement of the 1940s and lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/collections/archive. her children, 1909, 13.7 learning classroom and the east side x 9.5 cm. Ida B. Wells public about Chicago history and member collections. of the central zone, is likely to be Papers, Box 10, Folder 1. completed in fiscal year 2017. Access the portal at explore.chicagocollections.org. Visit the online University of Chicago Photographic Archive at photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu

6 | LIBRA Fall 2015 Fall 2015 LIBRA | 7 Enabling Discovery of the Saul Bellow Papers A Gift from Bob and Carolyn Nelson Poetic oetry, usually 2015 marks the Associations considered a solitary art, is often produced within centennial of the birth social circles and communities, shaped by friendships, rivalries, of the late Saul Bellow. Inspire an and collaborations. The same The 1976 Nobel laureate in literature, Bellow can be said of book collecting, taught as a member of the Committee on Social an activity at once completely Thought at the University of Chicago from 1962 individualistic and yet pursued to 1993, immortalizing Hyde Park and the city within a network of other Exhibition of Chicago in his novels and making a lasting collectors, booksellers, and librarians. P impression on generations of students. Now, The fall exhibition in the Special thanks to a generous gift from alumni Bob Carolyn and Bob N elson Collections Research Center, Poetic Nelson and Carolyn Nelson, 2015 is also the year Associations: The Nineteenth-Century and a Gift when the processing of the University of Chicago’s Saul Bellow Papers begins. English Poetry Collection of Dr. Gerald The Saul Bellow Papers include 145 linear feet of material dating from roughly 1940 to N. Wachs, showcases selections from the nearly 900 items assembled through the 2003. The collection is currently divided into 71 parts, reflecting a series of gifts, deposits, extraordinary collaboration between Dr. Wachs (1937-2013) and bookseller Stephen and acquisitions that began in 1963. Almost half of the Papers—a total of more than 222,000 Weissman. It also celebrates an exceptionally generous gift from the Wachs family to the from the pages—are manuscripts, letters, and other materials written by Saul Bellow himself. University of Chicago Library. Because of the generosity of the Nelsons, the Bellow Papers can now be fully reviewed, over 40 years of careful collecting, Dr. Wachs and Mr. Weissman obtained rare systematically rearranged into one unified collection, and described in a comprehensive publications, both famous and obscure, including many with inscriptions or interesting manner for the first time. The collection will be organized into a single sequence of nine provenance that provide a roadmap to the poetic associations that spanned several literary Wachs Family archival series: biographical, correspondence, writings by Saul Bellow, writings by others, eras from the Romantic age to the beginning of the twentieth century and produced some honors and awards, photographs, memorabilia, oversize, and restricted private letters. After of the most well-known and well-loved poetry in English of all time. arrangement and description are completed, a guide to the collection with a comprehensive examples from this rich collection include Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads inventory of all materials will be added to the online Special Collections Finding Aid Database, (1798); the only known copy of Alfred Comyn Lyall’s first edition ofVerses Written in India where it can be searched in the context of related collections and discovered worldwide (1880); Felicia Dorothea Hemans’ England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism (1808); through all web search engines. The fully organized Saul Bellow Papers will be available Alfred Tennyson’s The Ode on the Opening of the Exhibition (1862), the first poem written for consultation by faculty, students, and visiting researchers and scholars in the Special in his capacity as poet laureate, woven on a silk ribbon for the opening of the International Collections Research Center Reading Room. Exhibition held at the Crystal Palace; and The Battle of Marathon; A Poem (1820), Elizabeth “The Nelsons’ gift will be invaluable to scholars on campus and around the world, who Barrett Browning’s first book, privately printed in an edition of 50 copies. will be able to discover comprehensive descriptions of the archives online,” said Brenda The University of Chicago is most fortunate to have received, as a gift, hundreds of Johnson, Library Director and University Librarian. titles from the Wachs Collection thanks to the tremendous generosity of the Wachs Family— The increased accessibility of the Saul Bellow Papers, and the scholarship such access Deborah Wachs Barnes, Sharon Wachs Hirsch, Judith Pieprz, and Joel Wachs, AB’92. This will enable, are important to the Nelsons. “Bellow is acknowledged as one of the preeminent splendid gift will create new areas of depth in the Library’s collection, such as Anglo-Indian novelists of his (and our) time,” Bob wrote. “Processing his papers will advance understanding Dr. Gerald Wachs with his children poetry, and adds many works with features of great interest to researchers. and appreciation of his work.” Joel Wachs’s generosity has extended beyond the donation of his late father’s books. The Nelsons feel an enthusiasm for the Papers that harkens back to their days as As a member of the Visiting Committee to the Library and a University of Chicago alumnus, students at UChicago, when they saw Bellow strolling around Hyde Park and enjoyed he made a magnanimous overall commitment of $1 million, including the gift of books, to reading their favorite Bellow novel, Herzog. Graduates of the Humanities Division, Bob, support the Library. This leadership gift to the University of Chicago Campaign: Inquiry AM’64, and Carolyn, AM’64, PhD’67, are avid collectors of literature who have assembled and Impact includes a generous pledge in support of the Library’s Annual Fund, and more than 6,000 books including approximately 300 first editions. Carolyn is a longstanding supplements Library endowments that Joel previously established. His gift also supports member of the Visiting Committee to the Library, serving since 2005, and Bob served on the publication of a catalogue of the Wachs Collection, and the work of English graduate the Visiting Committee to the Division of the Social Sciences from 2005 to 2013. Carolyn, student Eric Powell as a co-curator of the exhibition. Saul Bellow, signing whose degrees are in English, is a distinguished bibliographer who worked at Yale University Joel’s gift was inspired by his desire to honor his father’s memory and to champion the copies of his book Library updating the foundational Short-Title Catalogue of Books . . . 1641-1700, and launched University of Chicago and its Library. “The libraries were central to my experience at the Humboldt’s Gift in the a groundbreaking companion catalogue, British Newspapers and Periodicals 1641-1700. University, and supporting them has been a way of making sure that these resources are university bookstore. The Nelsons’ support thus extends Carolyn’s lifelong commitment to enabling the study of available for generations to come,” he explained. September 1975. literature in English. “The poetry collection was one of my father’s proudest achievements, as he knew that Photographer John Vail. even unprocessed, scholars have begun finding gems in the collection. Benjamin Taylor the rare volumes contained much for scholars,” Joel said. “In the years before he passed University of Chicago makes special note of letters from Bellow’s father and John F. Kennedy in our Library’s Bellow away, he worked with Library leadership and staff on ways that he could make his collection Photographic Archive, Papers in his 2010 volume of Bellow’s selected correspondence. Zachary Leader, author of available for academic research. I have worked hard to help fulfill my father’s hopes.” apf1-00516, Special Collections Research the 2015 biography The Life of Saul Bellow, relied heavily on our collection for his work. Their Center, The University of initial discoveries speak to the tremendous potential of the Papers as the collection becomes Top right: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882). The Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: With Illustrations from His Own Pictures and Designs. E dited more widely known. with an introduction and notes by W. M. Rossetti. London: E llis and Elvey, 1904. Special Collections Research Center, The University of C hicago Chicago Library. Library. Gift of Deborah Wachs Barnes, Sharon Wachs H irsch, Judith Pieprz, and Joel Wachs, A B’92.

8 | LIBRA Fall 2015 Fall 2015 LIBRA | 9 Diana Hunt King and Patrick Spain Visiting Two valued Visiting Committee leaders Committee to the Library

Patrick Spain thank you Chair We wish to thank our donors who have pledged or made gifts or grants of $250 or more between July 1, 2014, his summer Diana Hunt King decided to resign as Chair of the Visiting Committee Diane Adams and June 30, 2015, to the University of Chicago Library. Through their generosity, these individuals and organizations to the Library after 12 years of leadership, beginning in 2003. The Library expressed its gratitude E. M. (Pete) Bakwin have supported the Annual Fund, the Library Society, Library endowments, and special projects. to King, who has been an important and active member of the Visiting Committee since 1996. Roger Baskes “Over the years, Diana has offered valuable guidance to Library leadership, played a key role John C. Blew Catherine Braendel in relationship building and fundraising, and has lent unwavering support to the Library’s $1 million and more $2,500–$4,999 Ruth O’Brien, AB’83, AM’91, and $250–$499 T. Kimball Brooker Wachs Family: Deborah Wachs Diane Adams Stuart A. Rice William J. Alspaugh, AB’64, AM’90 endeavors,” said Brenda Johnson, Library Director and University Librarian. “As a life member Philip M. Burno Barnes, Sharon Wachs Hirsch, Joan and John Blew The Rhoades Foundation Wallace R. Baker of the Visiting Committee, Diana also has become well known—and so very well liked—by the Marianna Tax Choldin Margaret E. Foorman Judith Pieprz, and Joel Wachs, Margaret and James Foorman with the cooperation of Curtis Bochanyin Library’s family of bibliographers and staff. Everyone at the Library extends their deepest gratitude AB’92 Diane K. Gottlieb Julius Lewis, AB’50, AM’54 Phyllis B. Booth, AM’66 Jerome V. Frazel Joseph Weintraub, AM’67, PhD’73 Mary L. Gray, AM’78, and Paul T. Ruxin Patricia Carroll and Tto Diana.” Muriel Fulton* (planned gift) Richard Gray Deborah H. Selch, AM’88, and J. Thomas Senko patrick J. Spain, BA’74, accepted an appointment to be the new Chair of the Visiting Committee in Mary Louise Gorno Mirja & Ted Haffner Family Fund Jason Bakwin Selch, AB’82, MBA’88 Lydia G. Cochrane, AM’61 Diane K. Gottlieb $500,000–$999,999 Danette Gentile Kauffman, AM’69 Julia and Vernon T. Squires Rose B. Dyrud July. He first joined the Visiting Committee in 2014 and has been an active supporter and friend to the Mary L. Gray William Mixon, SB’62, SM’65 Dayna K. Langfan, AB’83, and James H. Stone Ann Dudley Goldblatt, LLM’78, and Library for more than two decades. Anne M. Kern (planned gift) Lawrence A. Heller, AB’84, Carol and Bernard Strauss Stanford Goldblatt, LAB’54 spain has worked in the technology industry since 1979 and is a serial entrepreneur. He co-founded, John C. Kern MBA’88 Barbara L. Thompson and Margot and Robert Haselkorn Diana Hunt King $250,000–$499,999 National Library of Medicine, Robert W. Thompson, AB’52, SB’54 Janet and Robert Helman and served as long-time chairman and CEO of Hoover’s, Inc., transforming the company from a small book Michael Klowden National Endowment for the national Institutes of Health, Trust Estate of Frances Bonnem Gertrud Herlach, AM’73, and publisher in 1992 to a profitable, publicly traded online business information services company in 2002. Dayna K. Langfan Humanities Department of Health and Wagner, PhB’35 Fritz Herlach Hoover’s was sold to Dun & Bradstreet in 2003. Spain was the founder, chairman, and CEO of HighBeam Susan M. Levy Human Services Diana Churchill White, PhD’78, JD’81, $100,000–$249,999 Edward Charles Hirschland, MBA’78 Julius Lewis Mary Schloerb and and Peter White Scott Michael Hofer, AB’09 Research, an online research service for small businesses, which he sold to Cengage Learning in December Julie and Roger Baskes Carolyn Nelson Robert G. Schloerb, JD’51 Adele Hoskin, AM’71 Carolyn Nelson, AM’64, PhD’67, 2008. He co-founded and serves as executive chairman of Newser, a news filtering and summarization Jennifer N. Pritzker Susan Schlough, PhD’79, and $500–$999 The Kern Foundation and Robert Nelson, AM’64 Paul T. Ruxin Anonymous service with an audience of over six million readers each month. And three years ago, Spain co-founded and Andrew Abbott, AM’75, PhD’82 (Anne and John Kern) Robert G. Schloerb Greta Myrrl Bever, AB’85, AM’86 is Chairman and CEO of First Stop Health, a company dedicated to utilizing telemedicine and advocacy to $50,000–$99,999 Louise K. Smith, MLA’10 Janice M. Kozovich, AM’76 Louise K. Smith James and Edith Spain Foundation Catherine Braendel, LAB’81 Trust Estate of Leon Mathis Bernard L. Krawczyk revolutionize the patient healthcare experience in America. Albert Somit Virginia Stigler and Chicago Section American Chemical Despres, PhB’27, JD’29 Diane Sperling Lauderdale, AM’78, in addition to the Visiting Committee to the Library, Spain serves on the boards of Owler, Occasion, Vernon T. Squires Stephen M. Stigler, LAB’59 Society AM’81, and Vance Lauderdale III, Trust Estate of Robert W. Evans, Virginia Stigler Michael Thompson James H. Christian, AB’09 MD’79 Community Health, and Opportunity International. He has an active interest in digitizing older printed PhB’50, AM’55 James H. Stone Kathleen and Howard Zar Helen L. Wilbur, AB’70 Frank E.B. Conaway, AM’76 Jack Anthony Licate, AM’67, information to make it available to a wider online audience. He has supported efforts at Beloit College to Michael Thompson Science Library Fund Dorothy Crabb and PhD’75 digitize the and at the University of Chicago to digitize the . Spain has a Preston M. Torbert $1,000–$2,499 David Crabb, JD’63 Lucy K. Marks and Scott Sprinzen, Nuremberg Chronicle Chicagoan Joel P. Wachs $10,000–$49,999 Anonymous Harriet Dichter and John Schapiro AB’76, AM’80 Bachelor of Arts degree in Ancient Roman History from the University of Chicago and a law degree from Anonymous Jane Fair Bestor, PhD’92 Hazel S. Fackler Linda Carol McLarnan, AM’82 Boston University. *deceased Philip M. Burno, AM’64 Mary Beth Beal Lois K. Fern, AB’54, AM’62, and James Paul Michalko, AM’74, Linda J. Corder and Albert Somit, Mary N. and David R. Brown Alan M. Fern, AB’50, AM’54, PhD’60 MBA’74 AB’41, PhD’47 Alice T. Christ, AM’79, PhD’92, and Thomas D. Frazel, AB’90 Lucina Lea Moses, AM’72 The John Crerar Foundation David M. Olster, AM’79, PhD’86 Barbro C. Jung and Janis Notz and John Notz, Jr. Ann E. Feldman, PhD’82, and The Donnelley Foundation norman O. Jung, AM’59 Caryle Perlman, AB’63, and Mark Feldman Mary Tsien Dunkel, AB’65, MAT’67, Jeanne Kent and Eben L. Kent, AM’77 Robert Perlman, LAB’54, AB’57, Estate of Ayako Hamamoto and Alexander Dunkel Mary Sue Kranstover and Mark Davis SB’58, MD’61, PhD’63 The Helen M. Harrison Foundation Teri J. Edelstein and Neil Harris Monica McQuaid and Praxair Foundation, Inc. Diana Hunt King and Neil King Susan Tax Freeman, LAB’54, AB’58 Charles P. McQuaid, MBA’76 Anne N. Rorimer The Korea Foundation The Joseph B. Glossberg Margaret M. Mitchell, AM’82, PhD’89, Ann M. Rothschild, LAB’32, AM’58 Carol Lerner, AB’50, AM’54, and Foundation and Richard A. Rosengarten, Alice D. Schreyer Ralph Lerner, AB’47, AM’49, Celia Hilliard and AM’88, PhD’94 Mindy Alyce Schwartz and PhD’53 David Hilliard, JD’62 Colly Nichols David A. Ehrmann Linnea Sodergren, AM’72 Randy Lowe Holgate and Linda Parshall and Alison Marie Scott, AM’82 (planned gift) John H. Peterson, AM’81, AM’93 Peter W. Parshall, AM’67, PhD’74 Lorna P. Straus, LAB’49, SM’60, Roberta Jacobson, AB’61, and Melanie Payne, AM’63 PhD’62 $5,000–$9,999 Beryl Eli Jacobson Elizabeth M. Postell, AB’56, AM’58 Mara Tapp, AM’77, and Anonymous Martha E. Jameson, AM’81 Avima Ruder Michael Silverstein William M. Card Charitable Trust Charles A. Kelly Helen Schmierer Jacqueline M. Vossler Muriel Fulton* L. Randall Koenig, SM’59, PhD’62 Nancy F. Seyfried Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner and Hanna H. Gray Julius Lewis, AB’50, AM’54 Brenda Shapiro Paul A. Wagner, AB’38 The Kern Foundation (John C. Kern) Elisabeth Long Patricia Steele and Judith M. Wright, AM’71, and Patricia Klowden, AB’67, and Eileen Mackevich Kurt Steele, AM’02 Mark A. Johnson Michael Klowden, AB’67 Gail Pinc McClain Sem Christian Sutter, AM’73, PhD’82, Susan M. Levy, AM’73, and Paula and Herbert R. Molner AM’85, and John Q. Easton, PhD’81 *deceased Donald Levy Mary L. Murphy, AM’77, PhD’85, and David W. Tsai, PhD’79 Carol and Don Randel William Michael Murphy, AM’70, Deborah Vaughan, AM’73, and Trust Estate of John F. Steiner PhD’81 James Vaughan Nancy H. Wilder and Jocelyn Spitz Nebenzahl and Kathleen and Willem Weijer Jerome V. Frazel, AB’83 Kenneth Nebenzahl David E. Zuccaro

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Contributors Photographers Jennifer Hart Jason Smith Eileen Ielmini John Zich Melanie Levy Elisabeth Long Daniel Meyer Design Yasmin Omer Boyle Design Associates Joseph Scott Catherine Uecker James Vaughan exhibitions Poetic Associations: The Nineteenth-Century English Poetry Collection of Dr. Gerald N. Wachs Special Collections Research Center Exhibition Gallery September 21 – December 31, 2015

n the period between the French Revolution and the start of World War I, often called “the long nineteenth century,” English poetry enjoyed enormous popularity and respect. The A Bold Experiment: Romantics and the Victorians, The Origins of the Sciences as we know them today, were Icelebrities and, often, close friends, at the University of Chicago part of a literary community that The John Crerar Library, Atrium influenced their professional and personal lives. Dr. Gerald N. Wachs September 21, 2015 – March 31, 2016

(1937-2013), working closely with his n celebration friend, bookseller Stephen Weissman of the 125th of Ximenes Rare Books, collected their anniversary of works, using as their guidebook the I the University of Cambridge Bibliography of English Chicago’s founding, Literature (CBEL), the standard primary Crerar Library bibliography of English literature. They looks back at the establishment of sought the finest copies, whenever the natural sciences at the University. possible ones that were presented by The early University built programs in the author to other writers, friends, the physical and biological sciences or family members. The resulting from the ground up. They recruited collection of nearly 900 titles, on eminent scientists and designed deposit from the Estate of Gerald innovative laboratories and facilities Wachs at the University of Chicago for their groundbreaking work. These Library, illuminates the life and works of achievements in discovery and teaching these enduring poets. have had a lasting impact on the sciences.