The Ohio State University FRIENDS of the LIBRARIES SPRING QUARTER 2003
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The Ohio State University FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARIES SPRING QUARTER 2003 Volume 6 No. 1 Dear Friends Libraries Hire Local Architecture Firm These opening years of the 21st cen- to Begin Main Library Renovation tury, welcomed with enthusiasm and hope for their promise, have found us in a world more contentious, more try- ing, even more threatening than we expected qt the turn of the millenni- um. An odd opening for a Friends letter? Yes. To what purpose? To remind you that the Friends exist in support of one of the country’s most impressive e collections of libraries and that those libraries provide access to an extraordinary range of human achievement in literature, in science, in the social and political conventions that have shaped and sometimes shak- en our world. They offer to us the means by which we can try to place ourselves in the many contexts of the physical and cultural lines that proj- William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library ect cons into the past and beyond con- ception into the future. Truisms? Yes. December 2002, Acock Architects Conlon, Architect and Project Captain. Why mention them? Because as indi- Associates, Columbus, Ohio, were A committee representing the Libraries, viduals and as society we need to take selected by a University committee as Undergraduate Student Government, full and continuing advantage of the Associate Architect (“architect of the Council of Graduate Students, this incredible resource, be it for record”) for the renovation of the University Development, the Office pleasure, for learning and growth, for William Oxley Thompson Memorial of the Chief Information Officer, the that research that may help us to Library. College of Humanities, Physical understand our past and prepare for Facilities, and alumni advised our Acock Architects Associates brings FPD on this selection. what is to come, or simply to find a great experience and passion to the needed atmosphere in aid of the library renovation and restoration proj- Since the beginning of the year, archi- moment’s demands, whether positive ect. Ohio State graduate George Acock tects from the firm have been making or troublesome. was the principal in charge of the ren- several visits to the Thompson Library Cicero, one of the keenest and most ovation of the University’s Prior Health photographing unique architectural articulate minds from our past, was Sciences Library in the mid-1990s. He details from the original building and called upon to defend his teacher, the also has been the architect of record measuring each room as it now stands poet Archias, from a charge that he for the renovation of Capital University to compare it with the recommended falsely claimed Roman citizenship. Law Library. In addition, the firm has programming from the feasibility study. completed very large projects for the Most documentary evidence was The University will select a firm of Limited Companies and many other gone, so the astute lawyer presented national architectural design reputation projects in this region. The firm has a to his jury a defense of the value of in early March. Construction manage- stellar reputation among clients and the study of literature to society. Citing ment and engineering firms will be other firms. great military and political figures of selected by mid-March, as well. The Rome’s past, such as Scipio Africanus The selection process was led by the architectural team led by Acock Archi- and Cato, he noted that they were all University’s Office of Facilities Planning tect Associates will begin the design & Development (FPD), headed by Jill phase of the work in Spring 2003! DEAR FRIENDS continued on page 2 Morelli, University Architect, and Scott FRIENDS OF THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES OSU Authors Present Please join Friends of the OSU work and discuss the thought process Libraries for our last installment of the that goes into her creations. OSU Author Present, the Friends’ uni- versity authors series. We are serving For tickets, please call the Friends of up an evening of insight, information, the OSU Libraries Office (292-3387). and thought-provoking discussion with Friends member $40. Guest $50—or internationally renowned artist and join Friends and receive the mem- Ohio native, Ann Hamilton. Professor bership price. Dinner is included. Hamilton will show images of her Board of Directors Charles Babcock, President Fred D. Pfening, III, Vice President Kathy Baird Don Barcza Libraries Assistant Director to Become Leslie Blankenship David Bloomfield University of Kentucky Dean of Libraries Sally Blue Mildred Chavous Carol Pitts Diedrichs, the University OhioLINK, the statewide academic Charles C. Cole, Jr. Libraries’ Assistant Director for library consortium, and in the Carol Diedrichs Technical Services and Collections American Library Association, which Amy Edwards and Friends of the OSU Libraries has honored her with the Esther J. Peter D. Franklin Board of Directors member, will Piercy Award in the 1991 and the Susan Hatten become the new Dean of Libraries at Leadership in Acquisitions Award in Connie Higgins the University of Kentucky, effective 1999. She is an active writer, editor, Kay Jones July 1, 2003. speaker, and consultant. Stacia Jones Virginia McCormick Carol has worked in the University Since 1991, she has been the Editor- Marcia Preston Libraries for the last sixteen years, in-Chief of Library Collections, Ronald L. Ravneberg beginning as the Head of Acquisitions Acquisitions, and Technical Services. Louis Stevenson in 1987, becoming the Assistant In 2001, Carol was selected for the Paul Watkins Director for Technical Services in highly competitive UCLA Senior University Libraries 1997, and adding Collections respon- Fellows program, and last year she was Joseph J. Branin, Director sibilities to her broad range of duties promoted to the rank of Professor in Gay Jackson, Campaign Director in 2000. Carol has been a leader in the University Libraries. Shannon E. Tippie, Development Off. Johan Niekamp, Book Sale Asst. This newsletter is published by DEAR FRIENDS continued from page 1 Friends of the OSU Libraries, a program of Library Development. students of what we would call letters and science, though they were persons 112 Main Library expecting practical results of any pursuit. In his argument he made a most elo- 1858 Neil Avenue Mall quent and personal assessment of what our university libraries place at our con- Columbus, Ohio 43210-1286 stant disposal and how we may profit from it. His focus was on literature and Phone: (614) 292-3387 learning—the implications are much broader. Fax: (614) 292-7859 e-mail: [email protected] “..other studies are not of every time, every age, or every place. But the pur- suit of literature and learning gives point to youth and delight to old age; it Special thanks to embellishes good times and furnishes refuge and comfort in adversity; it brings Charles Babcock, entertainment at home and no hindrance abroad; it is a companion by night Wes Boomgaarden, or in strange lands; and it joins us on holiday in the countryside.” Lucy S. Caswell, Charles Cole, The great orator was the owner of several carefully assembled libraries. He knew Nena Couch, from personal experience the value of their contents to the human spirit and con- Maureen Donovan, dition. He invites us to the contemplation of those contents in what he calls the Connie Higgins, most human(e) and mind-freeing of all pursuits. It will serve us as well in our Ron Ravneberg, present times. Marilyn Scott, and Diane Williams Charles L. Babcock who helped in President, Board of Directors preparing this issue. Friends of the OSU Libraries 2 SPRING QUARTER 2003 Happy Birthday, Atom! Astro Boy Image © 1963 NBC Films, An exhibit and seminar/lecture series on manga, © renewed 1991, robots, and beyond Mushi Productions/ Tezuka Productions. April 7th (4:00 – 6:00 p.m. at Wexner Theater) Kick-Off/: © Right Stuf International, Inc. “Birthday” of Astro Boy Guest speaker, Rick Schostek, Honda of America Manufacturing Viewings of the viideos “The Birth of Astro Boy” and Asimo Happy Birthday, Atom! Celebrating Introduction and discussion of Asimo and technology Tezuka’s Astro Boy, an exhibition on Local seminars (bi-weekly, three Mondays from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.) manga and robots, is scheduled in the Seminar #1, April 14th — Approaches to Manga Reading Room Gallery of The Ohio State Mineharu Nakayama (DEALL, IJS, OSU) “Overview on Manga: Tezuka, University Cartoon Research Library Mighty Atom, and Technology” from February 10 through May 31,2003. Maureen Donovan (Libraries, OSU) “Access to Manga: Limitations of Among cartoon characters created by Categories, Genres, and Chronologies” Japanese cartoonist Osamu Tezuka Charles Quinn (DEALL, OSU) “Manga and Language Learning” (1928 –1989), the child robot, Tetsuwan Chikako Cox (Counseling and Consultation Service, OSU) “Manga and Atomu (“Mighty Atom”) who is known Psychology” (Cox knew Tezuka personally.) as Astro Boy in English, was his earliest Seminar #2, April 28th — Manga and Science and greatest success. In the original sci- Hajime Miyazaki/Masao Ogaki (Economics, OSU) “Manga and Japanese ence fiction graphic novel that began Attitudes towards a Robot Society” publication in 1951, the robot charac- James Bartholomew (History, OSU) “Science, Society, and Manga” ter was brought to life on April 7th, B. Chandrasekaran (Computer & Information Science/Lab for Artificial 2003. The exhibit will celebrate that Intelligence Research, OSU) “Current Status of Research in AI: Why don’t fictional “birthday” at the moment we have Humanoid Robots as in Cartoons?” when history catches up with events in Osamu Fujimura (Speech and Hearing, OSU) Current Status of Research in the story. Speech Perception and Production The exhibit will feature items that high- Seminar # 3, May 12th — The Influence of Japanese Manga light the research resources of the Cartoon Research Library’s growing col- (4 speakers @ 20 minutes) lection of printed manga (Japanese car- Richard Torrance (DEALL, OSU) “Outlaw Manga for Children” toons), especially with regard to the Judy Andrews/Shen Kuiyi (History of Art/EASC, OSU; Art, OU) “Cartoons theme of manga and robots.