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University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Other Library Materials (Newsletters, Reports, Library Development Review Etc.) 1-1-1997 The Library Development Review 1996-97 University of Tennessee Libraries Follow this and additional works at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_libdevel Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Lloyd, James and Simic, Laura (eds). The Library Development Review. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1996/1997. This Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Other Library Materials (Newsletters, Reports, Etc.) at TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Library Development Review by an authorized administrator of TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. l" 0\ ~ \ ~ \0 ~ 0\ ~ 0\ ~ I ~ ; I ~ ~ "> .... : ~ if]~ ~ ~ ~ z ~ ~ () ~ ~ ~ 0 ~ 0 . r:~ ~ ~ ~ ~o:l Z ~ ~ ::J , ~ ~ ; F "" F 1"\1. .\"11 \Il'TVm()r~ llU.W",t; vt 1111: l'IQ" T1:')<.W- l'J..tUI .)f.AJ"I~L"l.I;"I.'~ .\"1 The Battle of Pittsburgh Landing. See article on I). 14. (Harper's Weekly, 26 April, 1862, p. 264.) It's often said that the more things In the face of increasing University studied here before the Hodges Library change, the more they stay the same. But budget pressures, the Libraries' services was opened a decade ago). Thanks to our during these times of breathtaking and resources continue to be recognized online systems and to new delivery ser changes in libraries it's also true that the as central to the University's mission. vices, we're able to get the books in stor more things stay the same, the more they Campus administrators have continued age quickly into the hands of our change. to support the Libraries' new online sys students and faculty who need them. For more than a decade the Librar tem and to make precious funds available The Libraries' faculty and staff con ies' catalog has been available electroni to deter the cancellation of another large tinue to handle these changes, coming cally, first on campus and, more recently, group of serial subscriptions. Because se amidst budget and resource pressures, across the globe on the World Wide rials are the lifeblood of information for with professionalism and a continuing Web. Because both the hardware and students and faculty, this was very good orientation to high quality service. software we use are aging badly, we are news indeed. Despite the changes whirling around currently installing a new system that Thanks to support from the Univer them, they continue to get high marks will be available widely. It offers library sity and from our private donors, the Li from students, faculty and visitors. users much improved functionality and braries' collections continue to grow. We continue to be grateful to our capabilities only dreamed of the in the Although we are beginning to purchase donors for their generous support. Your past. Although the system for delivering some scholarly resources in electronic gifts play an increasingly important role our catalog will be greatly changed, the formats, the bulk of our buying is still for in our ability to provide critical academic database itself remains the same, offering physical objects-books. Adding some services to the University's students and information and access to the Libraries' 30,000--40,000 volumes a year takes faculty and the greater community. Our collections. I encourage you to try it out space, and the shelf space in all our facili needs, and our thanks, continue to grow. at www.lib.utk.edu. ties has become crowded. This summer we moved 115,000 volumes to a storage area in Hoskins Library (the Main or Paula T. Kaufman Graduate Library to those of you who Dean of Libraries On the Cover A portion of "A Full View of Deadrick's Hill," an 18 J0 watercolor by Rebecca Chester, which is the first known image ofJonesborough. The house in the center is obviously intended to be Sis ters Row, which is still standing. (Courtesy of the Tennessee State Museum.) THE LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT REVIEW 1996,97 Edited by James B. Lloyd Associate Editor Laura C. Simic TABLE OF CONTENTS 21 A Word from Mike Jaynes 3 Thursday Morning By James B. Lloyd 71 Teaching, Research and Service Embodied: Dr. Otis H. Stephens By Laura C. Simic 91 A LiHle Bit of Humanness: The Early Film Career of Director Clarence Brown By Teresa T. Basler I I I Library Campaign Sails Past Goal By Laura C. Simic I 21 Cataloging Tennessee's Newspapers By Don Williams 141 "The Blood-Red Blossom of War": The Experiences of a Minnesota Solider in the Civil War By William B. Eigelsbach 181 Lindsay Young Endowment Supports Humanities Acquisitions By Linda Phillips I 91 Celebrating Evelyn ScoH By James B. Lloyd 20 I Diverse Lectures and Achievements Mark Friends' Year By Joe Rader 21 Private Dollars, Public Treasures 21 Investing in the Future 21 Library Endowments 22 Those Honored 22 Those Memorialized 22 The William G. McAdoo Society 22 Library Friends am a supporter of the University Libraries I because of air conditioning. Really. In my hometown in the 1950s, there were few places blessed with the summertime oasis of air condi tioning. The public library was one of them, and it was just a few minutes shuffle from my home. While I can't say that I remember the very first time I visited the H.B. Stamps Memorial Library in Rogersville, I do remember the sen sation of escaping the molasses-thick August atmosphere into the magical coolness of the library. Once inside, my first discovery was not the wonderland of children's books, it was magazines-the ones with cartoons. (My sense of humor was getting a workout even if my brain wasn't.) Eventually, though, I did stumble across the books and began to read them, first in the cool ness while sitting at the pale wooden tables. Later, when I realized that Mike Jaynes is manager the librarian would actually allow me to take of Knoxville's Davis books home, I rarely made the trip in either Kidd Booksellers and a direction without an armful of stories. My love 1971 UTK graduate in of reading had begun. marketing. He is a member of the Library Today, I make my living by selling books, Friends Executive and again, in the summertime I'm in a cool Committee, past building surrounded by stories. As libraries Library Friends Chair have a warm (cool?) place in my heart, I am a man, and library donor. regular contributor to the University of T en nessee, Knoxville Libraries, but I did not be come a volunteer until I was asked. While libraries have had a tangible impact upon my life, their vital role in our society is more subtle. Medical breakthroughs, major sci entific discoveries and critical academic re search rarely occur in places without first-rate libraries. To ensure that our educational insti tutions and their libraries thrive, your help is essential. If you were waiting to be asked, your wait is over. ~-J~n~ 2 THE REVIEW 1996,97 THURSDAY MORNING already know which one because you will BY JAMES B. LLOYD have seen the cover and will know that, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIAN according to form, the lead article usually has something to do with said cover. That Most days in the Special Collections is, the year we' sold the duplicate Curtis Library, while pleasant, are not the stuff Indian set, we used an Indian on the good journalism is made of. You go to cover, the year we purchased the James meetings, you read catalogs, you talk on Agee Collection, we used the stained the phone, etc. And you do this day in glass window from the L&N Station, etc. and day out until suddenly all hell breaks This year, as we have used a painting of loose, life shifts into fast forward, and you Jonesborough, you may surmise, rightly, begin to scramble. that we were able to acquire the Fink and And that's what happened one quiet Dulaney collections through the good Thursday morning last fall. I was at my graces of donors such as yourselves. desk doing whatever it was that I was In due course when I looked at both doing when the phone rang. It was one collections, the Johnson items, while in of the heirs of Andrew Johnson who had teresting, turned out to be mostly artifacts decided to sell a major collection of and furniture, with some Johnson family Johnson related items, and would the documents and a number of Johnson sig University be interested? I said, of course, natures. Since of that range we collect since we have the Andrew Johnson Papers only documents, and since the documen Project, we have to be very interested. As tary material was Johnson family, not I was talking, one of the staff burst into Johnson himself, we decided to leave that my office with a phone message saying collection to the State Museum and the "please call Maynard Hill immediately. National Park Service, both of whom He has a very important manuscript col James Robertson from Henderson, Archibald, were interested in various parts of it. lection to tell you about." Now Maynard The Conquest of the Old Southwest. (New The Fink and Dulaney collections, is an experienced dealer from Kingsport, York: The Century Co., 1920, facing p. 188.) however, were a different matter. In early and not an excitable person, so when he December I was provided with Maynard says "call immediately; I have something Hill's appraisal and inventory.