Duke University Libraries, Fall 2008, Volume 22, No. 1

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university Librarian Deborah Jakubs 4 Notes editor B. Ilene Nelson Members of the Library Advisory Board Laurene sperling (Chair) t’78; Jacob Maxwell Anderson t’02; 9 Knowledge Bytes H. ross Arnold iii t’67, L’76; Douglas G. Beckstett t’74; Charles kellogg Bobrinskoy t’81; Merilee Huser Bostock Politics W’62; sara H. Brandaleone W’65; Alan J. Brod P’04; Jerry P. Chappell W ’62; Faith P. Diamond t’84; Barbara L. Dugan P’02, ’05; randolph r. Few Jr. Bse’82; Gretchen schroder Fish W’68; John Hope Franklin; Geoffrey Freeman;r ita DiGiallonardo Holloway; Harold Honickman; richard H. 10 The Perkins Project Jones t’73, P’07, ’08; Bradley J. korman t’87; steven H. korman (steve) P’87; robert n. Laughlin, Jr. t’68; Matthew New Library Spaces in 2008; The Link; M. Mckenna; Douglas eric Mcneely t’84; Martha Hamilton Morris W’65; Harsha Murthy esQ t’81; katherine Lilly Moving to the Smith Warehouse; Where Do nicholas t’94; reynolds Price t’55; Donna sherry W’69, We Go from Here?; Top ten reasons why we P’05; Adam silver t’84, timothy D. Warmath t’84; victoria Bostock Waters t’85; Diana Williams-shanks t’80; tex Dukies love our library Williams; William W. Wilson P’02 Members of the Executive Committee of the Friends of the Duke University Libraries robert Bliwise G’88; Pauletta Bracy; Barbara Branson; Macey 18 Dining at Duke Colvin; rachel Davies W’72; Leslie Dillon W’62; elizabeth Ted Minah and the Duke University Dunn; sarah english W’68; Barbara Fish P’94; Dale Gaddis W’66; Pela Gereffi P’06; Geraldine Larson W’71, P’03, Dining Halls ’06, ’08; Heidi Madden; nancy tuttle May; Jared Mueller t’09; Leland Phelps P’98; Marian robboy; ruth ross; sally schauman; karin shapiro; Mary Dunn siedow; David stein; nc.

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27708-0193 usA. eibert/Courtesy s Musicophilia Copyright © 2008 Duke university Libraries. Photography lena by Mark M. Zupan except where otherwise noted. e Designed by Pam Chastain Design, Durham, nC. Printed by Wilson Litho, inc. 31 Duke University Libraries Donor List Printed on recycled paper July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008 visit our online edition: library.duke.edu/magazine/ Notes Exhibits The exhibit at Perkins is one of the elements in the campus-wide Perkins Gallery celebration of the Bloomsbury Group. Learn more about “Vision and October/December Design: A Year of Bloomsbury” at http://news.duke.edu/2008/09/ Seven Elections That Changed U.S. History bloomsbury.html. Long before the “hanging chads” of the 2000 election, presidential contests offered March/May drama, intrigue, and narrow victories. The Sarah P. Duke Gardens—Hanes’ Dream, Sarah’s Gift, Our Treasure seven elections featured in this exhibit were Mellon Funds Design of Next-Generation Planned to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the dedication of selected for the pivotal role they played Library System the Gardens’ terraces, the exhibit will explore topics such as the in shaping U.S. history and our electoral geological importance of the stone used to create the terraces, the A $475,700 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the Duke process. All materials displayed are from work to save endangered plants, the significance of the Metasequoia University Libraries will lead to the design of a next-generation, open-source the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special trees, and the more recent work on the gardens for peace. library system that is flexible, customizable and nimble enough to meet the Collections Library. changing and complex needs of 21st-century libraries and library users. The goal Special Collections Gallery of the Open Library Environment (OLE) Project is to develop a design document August/December for library automation technology that fits modern library workflows, is built on Olive Pierce—Forty Years of Photographs (1963-2003) Service Oriented Architecture, and offers an alternative to commercial Integrated Olive Pierce’s photographs reflect a spirit of community. This Library System products. retrospective of black and white gelatin silver prints documents life in An exhibit inspired Leaders of the OLE Project, representing libraries in the U.S., Canada, Cambridge, Massachusetts, as well as in Maine fishing communities. by the popularity of and Australia, will involve the library community in the design process through A lifelong political activist, Pierce’s photographs of Iraqis under the AMC television workshops, meetings, webcasts and online discussions. Through those activities, U.S. economic sanctions in 1999 and Maine citizens demonstrating series Mad Men, which they will develop a plan for a library technology system that breaks away from in 2003 for and against involvement in Iraq make the connection an emphasis on print-based workflows, reflects the changing nature of library between the local and global communities. centers on the lives of materials and new approaches to scholarly work, meshes well with other executives at a fictional enterprise systems, and can be modified easily to suit the needs of different January/March advertising agency in institutions. The project website at http://oleproject.org gives detailed information The New Road: I-26 and the Footprints of Progress the early 1960s. about the project and includes FAQs, recommended reading, and a comment A long-term resident of Madison County, North Carolina, Rob section. Amberg has been photographing the region since 1973. The pictures “The information environment is changing rapidly, but the technology of in this exhibit document the social, cultural, and environmental library management systems has not kept pace,” said Lynne O’Brien, principal impact of the construction of an interstate highway in his rural mountain community. investigator on the project and director of Academic Technology and Instructional Roger Fry, “The London Garden” from Services for the Duke University Libraries. “This project is a wonderful Fry’s Twelve Original Woodcuts opportunity to design a system that supports library innovation and better meets Special Collections Biddle Rare Book Room Cases October/January the needs of today’s researchers.” December/March Not Just Mad Men: Real Advertising Careers in the 1960s O’Brien is joined on the OLE Project team by colleagues from Duke as “How full of life those days seemed”: New An exhibit inspired by the popularity of the AMC television series well individuals from the University of Kansas, Lehigh University, the University Approaches to Art, Literature, Sexuality, and of Pennsylvania, the National Library of Australia, Library and Archives Canada, Society in Bloomsbury Mad Men, which centers on the lives of executives at a fictional Vanderbilt University, the Orbis Cascade Alliance, Rutgers University, the The members of the Bloomsbury group advertising agency in the early 1960s. The series has generated University of Florida, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, the University explored alternative ways of living and much discussion among viewers, as well as among present-day of Maryland and Whittier College. advanced fresh ideas in the arts and social advertising industry professionals and media outlets. Drawing Because the OLE Project is a collaborative, community-based venture, sciences. Their shared spirit of collaboration, from materials in the collections of the Special Collections Library’s there will be many opportunities for individuals from other libraries to participate community, and inquiry spurred the creation Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History, in the project through regional and virtual meetings, discussion of plans and of works as diverse as Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. the exhibit highlights the real-life careers of 1960s advertising documents, comments via the project website and listserv and discussions at Dalloway, J.M. Keynes’s General Theory professionals who held positions in four of the types of agency professional meetings. of Employment, Interest, and Money, and occupations depicted on the television series: copywriters; creative The DukeU niversity Libraries recently launched its own directors; art directors; and account executives. In addition to its development of a design document, the OLE Project is Roger Fry’s study of Cezanne. This exhibit channel on YouTube, the leading online video community. intended to create a community of interest that could be tapped to build the features books and manuscripts from The channel is part of a greater Duke-YouTube partnership, planned system in a follow-on project. the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Generally, the Special Collections and Perkins galleries are open announced May 2008. Visit the Libraries’ YouTube channel Collections Library documenting the Monday-Saturday, 9am-9pm, and 10am-9pm on Sunday. Visit at youtube.com/dukeunivlibraries. activities of the group’s members, including http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/ for more information or call Woolf, Keynes, Fry, Vanessa Bell, Lytton 919.684.3009 to confirm hours. See www.library.duke.edu for more library news. Strachey, and Duncan Grant, and of the Hogarth Press, created and operated by Catch a glimpse of the Libraries’ exhibits online at Woolf with her husband Leonard. http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/. 4 Duke University Libraries Fall 2008 5 Notes Exhibits The exhibit at Perkins is one of the elements in the campus-wide Perkins Gallery celebration of the Bloomsbury Group. Learn more about “Vision and October/December Design: A Year of Bloomsbury” at http://news.duke.edu/2008/09/ Seven Elections That Changed U.S. History bloomsbury.html. Long before the “hanging chads” of the 2000 election, presidential contests offered March/May drama, intrigue, and narrow victories. The Sarah P. Duke Gardens—Hanes’ Dream, Sarah’s Gift, Our Treasure seven elections featured in this exhibit were Mellon Funds Design of Next-Generation Planned to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the dedication of selected for the pivotal role they played Library System the Gardens’ terraces, the exhibit will explore topics such as the in shaping U.S. history and our electoral geological importance of the stone used to create the terraces, the A $475,700 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the Duke process. All materials displayed are from work to save endangered plants, the significance of the Metasequoia University Libraries will lead to the design of a next-generation, open-source the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special trees, and the more recent work on the gardens for peace. library system that is flexible, customizable and nimble enough to meet the Collections Library. changing and complex needs of 21st-century libraries and library users. The goal Special Collections Gallery of the Open Library Environment (OLE) Project is to develop a design document August/December for library automation technology that fits modern library workflows, is built on Olive Pierce—Forty Years of Photographs (1963-2003) Service Oriented Architecture, and offers an alternative to commercial Integrated Olive Pierce’s photographs reflect a spirit of community. This Library System products. retrospective of black and white gelatin silver prints documents life in An exhibit inspired Leaders of the OLE Project, representing libraries in the U.S., Canada, Cambridge, Massachusetts, as well as in Maine fishing communities. by the popularity of and Australia, will involve the library community in the design process through A lifelong political activist, Pierce’s photographs of Iraqis under the AMC television workshops, meetings, webcasts and online discussions. Through those activities, U.S. economic sanctions in 1999 and Maine citizens demonstrating series Mad Men, which they will develop a plan for a library technology system that breaks away from in 2003 for and against involvement in Iraq make the connection an emphasis on print-based workflows, reflects the changing nature of library between the local and global communities. centers on the lives of materials and new approaches to scholarly work, meshes well with other executives at a fictional enterprise systems, and can be modified easily to suit the needs of different January/March advertising agency in institutions. The project website at http://oleproject.org gives detailed information The New Road: I-26 and the Footprints of Progress the early 1960s. about the project and includes FAQs, recommended reading, and a comment A long-term resident of Madison County, North Carolina, Rob section. Amberg has been photographing the region since 1973. The pictures “The information environment is changing rapidly, but the technology of in this exhibit document the social, cultural, and environmental library management systems has not kept pace,” said Lynne O’Brien, principal impact of the construction of an interstate highway in his rural mountain community. investigator on the project and director of Academic Technology and Instructional Roger Fry, “The London Garden” from Services for the Duke University Libraries. “This project is a wonderful Fry’s Twelve Original Woodcuts opportunity to design a system that supports library innovation and better meets Special Collections Biddle Rare Book Room Cases October/January the needs of today’s researchers.” December/March Not Just Mad Men: Real Advertising Careers in the 1960s O’Brien is joined on the OLE Project team by colleagues from Duke as “How full of life those days seemed”: New An exhibit inspired by the popularity of the AMC television series well individuals from the University of Kansas, Lehigh University, the University Approaches to Art, Literature, Sexuality, and of Pennsylvania, the National Library of Australia, Library and Archives Canada, Society in Bloomsbury Mad Men, which centers on the lives of executives at a fictional Vanderbilt University, the Orbis Cascade Alliance, Rutgers University, the The members of the Bloomsbury group advertising agency in the early 1960s. The series has generated University of Florida, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, the University explored alternative ways of living and much discussion among viewers, as well as among present-day of Maryland and Whittier College. advanced fresh ideas in the arts and social advertising industry professionals and media outlets. Drawing Because the OLE Project is a collaborative, community-based venture, sciences. Their shared spirit of collaboration, from materials in the collections of the Special Collections Library’s there will be many opportunities for individuals from other libraries to participate community, and inquiry spurred the creation Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History, in the project through regional and virtual meetings, discussion of plans and of works as diverse as Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. the exhibit highlights the real-life careers of 1960s advertising documents, comments via the project website and listserv and discussions at Dalloway, J.M. Keynes’s General Theory professionals who held positions in four of the types of agency professional meetings. of Employment, Interest, and Money, and occupations depicted on the television series: copywriters; creative The DukeU niversity Libraries recently launched its own directors; art directors; and account executives. In addition to its development of a design document, the OLE Project is Roger Fry’s study of Cezanne. This exhibit channel on YouTube, the leading online video community. intended to create a community of interest that could be tapped to build the features books and manuscripts from The channel is part of a greater Duke-YouTube partnership, planned system in a follow-on project. the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Generally, the Special Collections and Perkins galleries are open announced May 2008. Visit the Libraries’ YouTube channel Collections Library documenting the Monday-Saturday, 9am-9pm, and 10am-9pm on Sunday. Visit at youtube.com/dukeunivlibraries. activities of the group’s members, including http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/ for more information or call Woolf, Keynes, Fry, Vanessa Bell, Lytton 919.684.3009 to confirm hours. See www.library.duke.edu for more library news. Strachey, and Duncan Grant, and of the Hogarth Press, created and operated by Catch a glimpse of the Libraries’ exhibits online at Woolf with her husband Leonard. http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/. 4 Duke University Libraries Fall 2008 5 Notes Duke Libraries Co-Sponsor of Events Human Rights Book Award The Art of Political Murder, an exhaustively October 24 researched story of assassination, impunity and Opening reception for Olive Pierce—Forty Years justice in Guatemala, has won the first annual of Photographs (1963-2003), with remarks by WOLA-Duke Book Award for Human Rights in Latin photographer Olive Pierce. Friday, 24 October, America. Francisco Goldman’s book, published by 5:30-7:30pm, Perkins Library, Biddle Rare Book Grove Press, recounts the 1998 killing of Bishop Room Juan Gerardi, four days after he and a group of lawyers presented a devastating report on human October 25 rights abuses committed by the Guatemalan The Libraries Present Duke Moms and Dads! military against civilians. Goldman received the The Libraries’ annual Parents’ and Family Weekend award at a 17 September gala in Washington, D.C. program featuring a Duke first-year parent who that was attended by some 250 WOLA supporters, is also a writer or journalist. This year’s guest is including human Bob Bendetson, whose talk is titled, “Puppets rights advocates, Can Be Jerks and Other Things I Learned Writing Olive Pierce: Girl in window, Vinalhaven, Maine, 1964 scholars, Latin Sitcoms.” For more than 20 years, Bob Bendetson special reference to the instruments as tools. Pringle American has written and produced some of America’s most has spent the last thirty years helping to recreate the diplomats, and popular television programs, for which he has sounds of music from past times by building stringed representatives earned seven Emmy nominations, four Golden Guy Need Tie? Wear this elegant neckwear and proclaim your loyalty instruments based on historical models from the 12th from Duke. Globe nominations, a Writer’s Guild nomination, to the Duke University Libraries. The four-in-hand ties (available in to the 18th centuries. Friday, 14 November, 4:00pm, Goldman will and two People’s Choice Awards. His credits yellow and watermelon) and the bowties (in ultramarine) are decorated Perkins Library, Biddle Rare Rook Room speak at Duke on with an image of the Reading Blue Devil weathervane that sits atop the include Home Improvement, The Simpsons, and 18 November. Libraries’ von der Heyden Pavilion. The ties are available from the Duke Newhart. Saturday, 25 October, 11:00am, Perkins November 18 WOLA University Stores or online at http://www.dukestores.duke.edu/. Library, Biddle Rare Book Room Francisco Goldman, author of The Art of Political Murder (the Washington and winner of the first WOLA-Duke Book Award (see related November 12 Office on Latin news note) The Weaver Lecture America) and The Art of Political Murder, an exhaustively researched Oliver Sacks, M.D. will present the 2008 Weaver Duke University story of assassination, impunity and justice in Lecture, which the Libraries host biennially in created the Guatemala, recounts the 1998 killing of Bishop memory of William Weaver T’72, a former member prize to honor the best Juan Gerardi. Tuesday, 18 November, 7:00-8:00pm, of the Library Advisory Board. This year the current, non-fiction book published in English on followed by a reception and book signing. Perkins Weaver Lecture is co-sponsored by the Duke human rights, democracy and social justice in Library, Biddle Rare Book Room Institute for Brain Sciences. contemporary Latin America. In addition to the Sacks, professor of clinical neurology and December 12 Libraries, the Duke Human Rights Center is also a clinical psychiatry at Columbia University and Rare Music in the Rare Book Room co-sponsor of the award. the author of Musicophilia: Tales of Music Sound the Bright Flutes!—Seasonal The book award is the second cooperative and the Brain, will speak on the subject of Music for Early Woodwinds, featuring Trio venture between WOLA and Duke University. Under “Music, Healing and the Brain.” In addition to Rossignol (Patricia Petersen, Karen Cook, an agreement signed in January 2008, WOLA Musicophilia, Sacks is also author of nine other and Douglas Young) has donated its historical archives, dating to the books, including Awakenings and The Man Members of the Trio will discuss the organization’s founding in 1974, to the Archive for Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Wednesday, recorder from its earliest appearance Human Rights at the Duke University Libraries. 12 November, 6:00pm, Page Auditorium. No on the musical scene through the The materials in the archives document WOLA’s contemporary period. Come hear a ticket or registration required influential role in keeping human rights and justice Duke Wins a Bronze in “Best College bit about the instrument’s history and central in U.S. policy toward Latin America. In November 14 Library” Rankings repertory and listen to some delightful presenting the book award at the gala, University Rare Music in the Rare Book Room seasonal music for the recorder! Pieces for other Librarian Deborah Jakubs said, “We are honored This summer the Princeton Review released a report that ranks Reproduction—Some Thoughts on early winds, such as cornett, shawm, and curtal, will that WOLA selected Duke to be the repository for Duke # 3 in the category of “Best College Library” based on an extensive Recreating the Music of Bygone Ages, also be included. Co-sponsored by the Libraries and the organization’s archives and entrusted us with student survey. Duke also achieved high rankings in several other featuring luthier John Pringle the Duke University Musical Instrument Collections. their history. This book award is another element categories, but #3 for the Libraries is the highest. In case you’re curious Pringle will discuss the knotty question of Friday, 12 December, 4:00pm, Perkins Library, Biddle of our partnership, and we look forward to further to know which libraries rank #1 and #2: Harvard and Princeton….. “authenticity” in the performance of what Rare Book Room collaboration with WOLA.” has come to be called Early Music, with 6 Duke University Libraries Fall 2008 7 Notes Duke Libraries Co-Sponsor of Events Human Rights Book Award The Art of Political Murder, an exhaustively October 24 researched story of assassination, impunity and Opening reception for Olive Pierce—Forty Years justice in Guatemala, has won the first annual of Photographs (1963-2003), with remarks by WOLA-Duke Book Award for Human Rights in Latin photographer Olive Pierce. Friday, 24 October, America. Francisco Goldman’s book, published by 5:30-7:30pm, Perkins Library, Biddle Rare Book Grove Press, recounts the 1998 killing of Bishop Room Juan Gerardi, four days after he and a group of lawyers presented a devastating report on human October 25 rights abuses committed by the Guatemalan The Libraries Present Duke Moms and Dads! military against civilians. Goldman received the The Libraries’ annual Parents’ and Family Weekend award at a 17 September gala in Washington, D.C. program featuring a Duke first-year parent who that was attended by some 250 WOLA supporters, is also a writer or journalist. This year’s guest is including human Bob Bendetson, whose talk is titled, “Puppets rights advocates, Can Be Jerks and Other Things I Learned Writing Olive Pierce: Girl in window, Vinalhaven, Maine, 1964 scholars, Latin Sitcoms.” For more than 20 years, Bob Bendetson special reference to the instruments as tools. Pringle American has written and produced some of America’s most has spent the last thirty years helping to recreate the diplomats, and popular television programs, for which he has sounds of music from past times by building stringed representatives earned seven Emmy nominations, four Golden Guy Need Tie? Wear this elegant neckwear and proclaim your loyalty instruments based on historical models from the 12th from Duke. Globe nominations, a Writer’s Guild nomination, to the Duke University Libraries. The four-in-hand ties (available in to the 18th centuries. Friday, 14 November, 4:00pm, Goldman will and two People’s Choice Awards. His credits yellow and watermelon) and the bowties (in ultramarine) are decorated Perkins Library, Biddle Rare Rook Room speak at Duke on with an image of the Reading Blue Devil weathervane that sits atop the include Home Improvement, The Simpsons, and 18 November. Libraries’ von der Heyden Pavilion. The ties are available from the Duke Newhart. Saturday, 25 October, 11:00am, Perkins November 18 WOLA University Stores or online at http://www.dukestores.duke.edu/. Library, Biddle Rare Book Room Francisco Goldman, author of The Art of Political Murder (the Washington and winner of the first WOLA-Duke Book Award (see related November 12 Office on Latin news note) The Weaver Lecture America) and The Art of Political Murder, an exhaustively researched Oliver Sacks, M.D. will present the 2008 Weaver Duke University story of assassination, impunity and justice in Lecture, which the Libraries host biennially in created the Guatemala, recounts the 1998 killing of Bishop memory of William Weaver T’72, a former member prize to honor the best Juan Gerardi. Tuesday, 18 November, 7:00-8:00pm, of the Library Advisory Board. This year the current, non-fiction book published in English on followed by a reception and book signing. Perkins Weaver Lecture is co-sponsored by the Duke human rights, democracy and social justice in Library, Biddle Rare Book Room Institute for Brain Sciences. contemporary Latin America. In addition to the Sacks, professor of clinical neurology and December 12 Libraries, the Duke Human Rights Center is also a clinical psychiatry at Columbia University and Rare Music in the Rare Book Room co-sponsor of the award. the author of Musicophilia: Tales of Music Sound the Bright Flutes!—Seasonal The book award is the second cooperative and the Brain, will speak on the subject of Music for Early Woodwinds, featuring Trio venture between WOLA and Duke University. Under “Music, Healing and the Brain.” In addition to Rossignol (Patricia Petersen, Karen Cook, an agreement signed in January 2008, WOLA Musicophilia, Sacks is also author of nine other and Douglas Young) has donated its historical archives, dating to the books, including Awakenings and The Man Members of the Trio will discuss the organization’s founding in 1974, to the Archive for Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Wednesday, recorder from its earliest appearance Human Rights at the Duke University Libraries. 12 November, 6:00pm, Page Auditorium. No on the musical scene through the The materials in the archives document WOLA’s contemporary period. Come hear a ticket or registration required influential role in keeping human rights and justice Duke Wins a Bronze in “Best College bit about the instrument’s history and central in U.S. policy toward Latin America. In November 14 Library” Rankings repertory and listen to some delightful presenting the book award at the gala, University Rare Music in the Rare Book Room seasonal music for the recorder! Pieces for other Librarian Deborah Jakubs said, “We are honored This summer the Princeton Review released a report that ranks Reproduction—Some Thoughts on early winds, such as cornett, shawm, and curtal, will that WOLA selected Duke to be the repository for Duke # 3 in the category of “Best College Library” based on an extensive Recreating the Music of Bygone Ages, also be included. Co-sponsored by the Libraries and the organization’s archives and entrusted us with student survey. Duke also achieved high rankings in several other featuring luthier John Pringle the Duke University Musical Instrument Collections. their history. This book award is another element categories, but #3 for the Libraries is the highest. In case you’re curious Pringle will discuss the knotty question of Friday, 12 December, 4:00pm, Perkins Library, Biddle of our partnership, and we look forward to further to know which libraries rank #1 and #2: Harvard and Princeton….. “authenticity” in the performance of what Rare Book Room collaboration with WOLA.” has come to be called Early Music, with 6 Duke University Libraries Fall 2008 7 Notes The librarians Knowledge Bytes building our Going to the Source: enhance my ability to build useful Other stops Politics Librarians Travel to Build and effective collections… on Zhou’s itinerary international included the National Internet Sites Selected for the Readers of Duke University Libraries Collections During Korean and area studies Science Library, Studies librarian Miree collections still When you can get anything from apricots Peking University 24-Nation Pew Global Attitudes Drilling into the site produces the results of recent polls, plus the Ku’s trip to South Korea, need to make to zithers delivered to your front door (often with Library, and the Survey questions asked of participants, the polling methodology and sample she met with officials of periodic trips the option of overnight shipping) by shopping library at the Chinese http://pewglobal.org/reports/pdf/260.pdf size. The site also offers visitors a directory, contents page, and online, it may be difficult to believe that librarians the National Institute of abroad to buy Academy of Social The Pew Global Attitudes Project, conducted by the Pew Research search tool, as well as a number of subscription services that are sometimes have to leave their computers, their Korean History and the Sciences (CASS). materials and Center, “is a series of worldwide public opinion surveys that available for an annual fee. desks, home and country to buy books and other Korea Foundation, as At CASS she also build relationships encompasses a broad array of subjects ranging from people’s materials for the Libraries’ collections. well as publishers and received offers of in their country assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state Open Secrets Yes, it is true that most of what the vendors. One publisher future reference (or countries) of of the world and important issues of the day. More than 175,000 http://www.opensecrets.org Libraries’ acquire, including foreign-language Miree Ku specializing in literature assistance for Duke interviews in 54 countries have been conducted as part of the Open Secrets is a free “nonpartisan guide materials, comes to Duke through approval plans and history offered interest. students and faculty. project’s work.” to money’s influence on U.S. elections and and orders placed with domestic and overseas Ku his entire catalogue Zhou said, “The library public policy,” whose motto is “Count cash vendors. However, the librarians building our at about half the retail price. Her visit to the is rich in statistics on the social conditions in This report from June 2008 examines perceptions of the United States and make change.” This is a deep site that international and area studies collections still National Institute of Korean History was also China, which our faculty is very interested in.” abroad. According to its findings, favorable views of the United States provides a great deal of information about need to make periodic trips abroad to buy fruitful. After meetings with researchers and the She also had a cordial conversation with CASS’s have increased modestly since 2007 in 10 of 21 countries where contributions to politicians at the federal, materials and build relationships in their country Institute’s director, Ku received their promise of director of international cooperation. “[I learned] comparative data are available, although many people also feel state, and local level. (or countries) of interest. This year, Christof Galli, a gift of copies of all their current publications, if that CASS is eager to establish more cooperation that the recent economic slump is in no small part due to the United Miree Ku, and Luo Zhou have all been on the road. the Duke Libraries would pay the shipping costs. with scholars at Duke, and I brought the message States. The survey also found a widespread belief that United States’ From the homepage, visitors can quickly In late January, Galli, librarian for Middle Ku expects to receive books from the Institute back to the director of Duke’s Asian and Pacific foreign policy “will change for the better” after the inauguration of a navigate to details of the financial East and Islamic this year and next year. She said, “…I am so Studies Institute.” new American president next year. contributions to presidential candidates, Studies, traveled excited…”and then added, “It was so helpful to In addition to spending time at the four including those who dropped out of the to Egypt to attend me to have established good relationships with libraries, Zhou met with Beijing vendors of books The 150-page report is available in its entirety. In addition to the topics race before the conventions. Also on the the International them through my previous trips to Korea and and databases, as well as film director Wu noted above, it covers perceptions of Iran, China, and Asian powers; homepage are links to congressional and Cairo Book Fair attending the annual meetings of the Council on Wenguang, one of China’s preeminent producers environmental issues; and governments’ respect for the rights of their local races and contributions by industry, where he purchased East Asian Libraries.” of independent documentary films. Zhou said, people. Finally, visitors can learn about the survey methods used in PACs, lobbyists, and advocacy groups. approximately 1,200 Chinese Studies “Getting independent films (or underground films) the creation of this report and view the results in tabular form. titles directly from librarian Luo Zhou from China is not easy.” Wu talked to her about Did you know that the average net worth of senators is twice that vendors from various visited four libraries in the history and current state of independent PollingReport.com of members of the House of Representatives? A link to personal Arabic-speaking June when she was in Christof Galli documentary filmmaking in China and suggested financial information allows visitors to search for politicians or countries. He also China. At the National http://www.pollingreport.com/ titles for the Duke Libraries’ collection. the companies in which they have financial interests. Links to visited other countries Library of China she Luo Zhou, Miree Ku, and Christof Galli, “Industries” provides a summary of political giving dating back to in the region (Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and met with the director of back in their offices at Duke, are still doing follow- 1990, including breakdowns by type of contribution and political party; Morocco) and met with prospective vendors. the Legislative Service up from their travel earlier this year—receiving a list of organizations (usually U.S. companies) that have given the Galli said: Department and the and managing the processing of materials most from that industry; and a list of candidates that have received librarians in charge of Luo Zhou acquired, ordering items they identified for the most from the industry. The book buying trip did not the Law Documents purchase, and nurturing their relationships with just allow me to acquire materials Section and the the librarians, booksellers, and others they met There are many fascinating lines of information to explore on this site. ‘in the field,’ but provided me with Chinese Studies Documents Section. Zhou came with while they were abroad. This fall two of their One of the most innovative is the “Money Web,” a social networking an invaluable opportunity to engage away from the meeting confident that the staff Everyone likes polls, even when they don’t agree with the results. colleagues will be making their own book-buying tool found under the Politicians & Elections tab/ Presidential that anew with Middle Eastern culture will assist her in getting legal and government PollingReport.com describes itself as “an independent, nonpartisan trips. Heidi Madden, Western European Studies graphically shows connections between candidates and contributors. in a very direct and unmediated information for Duke’s faculty and researchers. resource on trends in American public opinion.” It certainly provides librarian, will attend the Frankfurt Book Fair, Click on a bubble and see how the money flows. Use caution, way after an absence of several While at the NLC, she also met with the librarian an effective means online for keeping tabs on recent polls. The and Holly Ackerman, librarian for Latin America however; as of this writing, the “Money Web” page had not been years. Experiencing daily life on in the Gift & Exchange Department to discuss homepage features random samples of selected polls and summary and Iberia, is headed to Guadalajara, Mexico. updated since April. the ground firsthand has helped the Window of China program. The program, results of other recently conducted polls. In addition, the homepage me immensely in gaining insights Ackerman and Madden anticipate that their trips, in effect from 2006 to 2010, distributes books to highlights broad subject categories: “Elections,” “State of the Union,” Thanks to the Internet Scout Project (Copyright Internet Scout into the current complex and like those of Galli, Zhou and Ku, will result in richer foreign colleges and universities. In other years “National Security,” “In the News,” and “Issues,” each broken down Project, 1994-2008. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/) for identifying these complicated political, societal, collections for the Duke University Libraries and the Duke Libraries received materials through the into narrower topics. sites. If you would like to recommend a Web site for inclusion in a and cultural issues affecting the better support for the work of students, faculty, program, each time with a value of $800. This year, future issue of Duke University Libraries, contact Joline Ezzell at region. These insights will in turn and other researchers. as a result of Zhou’s visit, Duke was selected to [email protected]. receive materials with a total value of $13,000. 8 Duke University Libraries Fall 2008 9 Notes The librarians Knowledge Bytes building our Going to the Source: enhance my ability to build useful Other stops Politics Librarians Travel to Build and effective collections… on Zhou’s itinerary international included the National Internet Sites Selected for the Readers of Duke University Libraries Collections During Korean and area studies Science Library, Studies librarian Miree collections still When you can get anything from apricots Peking University 24-Nation Pew Global Attitudes Drilling into the site produces the results of recent polls, plus the Ku’s trip to South Korea, need to make to zithers delivered to your front door (often with Library, and the Survey questions asked of participants, the polling methodology and sample she met with officials of periodic trips the option of overnight shipping) by shopping library at the Chinese http://pewglobal.org/reports/pdf/260.pdf size. The site also offers visitors a directory, contents page, and online, it may be difficult to believe that librarians the National Institute of abroad to buy Academy of Social The Pew Global Attitudes Project, conducted by the Pew Research search tool, as well as a number of subscription services that are sometimes have to leave their computers, their Korean History and the Sciences (CASS). materials and Center, “is a series of worldwide public opinion surveys that available for an annual fee. desks, home and country to buy books and other Korea Foundation, as At CASS she also build relationships encompasses a broad array of subjects ranging from people’s materials for the Libraries’ collections. well as publishers and received offers of in their country assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state Open Secrets Yes, it is true that most of what the vendors. One publisher future reference (or countries) of of the world and important issues of the day. More than 175,000 http://www.opensecrets.org Libraries’ acquire, including foreign-language Miree Ku specializing in literature assistance for Duke interviews in 54 countries have been conducted as part of the Open Secrets is a free “nonpartisan guide materials, comes to Duke through approval plans and history offered interest. students and faculty. project’s work.” to money’s influence on U.S. elections and and orders placed with domestic and overseas Ku his entire catalogue Zhou said, “The library public policy,” whose motto is “Count cash vendors. However, the librarians building our at about half the retail price. Her visit to the is rich in statistics on the social conditions in This report from June 2008 examines perceptions of the United States and make change.” This is a deep site that international and area studies collections still National Institute of Korean History was also China, which our faculty is very interested in.” abroad. According to its findings, favorable views of the United States provides a great deal of information about need to make periodic trips abroad to buy fruitful. After meetings with researchers and the She also had a cordial conversation with CASS’s have increased modestly since 2007 in 10 of 21 countries where contributions to politicians at the federal, materials and build relationships in their country Institute’s director, Ku received their promise of director of international cooperation. “[I learned] comparative data are available, although many people also feel state, and local level. (or countries) of interest. This year, Christof Galli, a gift of copies of all their current publications, if that CASS is eager to establish more cooperation that the recent economic slump is in no small part due to the United Miree Ku, and Luo Zhou have all been on the road. the Duke Libraries would pay the shipping costs. with scholars at Duke, and I brought the message States. The survey also found a widespread belief that United States’ From the homepage, visitors can quickly In late January, Galli, librarian for Middle Ku expects to receive books from the Institute back to the director of Duke’s Asian and Pacific foreign policy “will change for the better” after the inauguration of a navigate to details of the financial East and Islamic this year and next year. She said, “…I am so Studies Institute.” new American president next year. contributions to presidential candidates, Studies, traveled excited…”and then added, “It was so helpful to In addition to spending time at the four including those who dropped out of the to Egypt to attend me to have established good relationships with libraries, Zhou met with Beijing vendors of books The 150-page report is available in its entirety. In addition to the topics race before the conventions. Also on the the International them through my previous trips to Korea and and databases, as well as film director Wu noted above, it covers perceptions of Iran, China, and Asian powers; homepage are links to congressional and Cairo Book Fair attending the annual meetings of the Council on Wenguang, one of China’s preeminent producers environmental issues; and governments’ respect for the rights of their local races and contributions by industry, where he purchased East Asian Libraries.” of independent documentary films. Zhou said, people. Finally, visitors can learn about the survey methods used in PACs, lobbyists, and advocacy groups. approximately 1,200 Chinese Studies “Getting independent films (or underground films) the creation of this report and view the results in tabular form. titles directly from librarian Luo Zhou from China is not easy.” Wu talked to her about Did you know that the average net worth of senators is twice that vendors from various visited four libraries in the history and current state of independent PollingReport.com of members of the House of Representatives? A link to personal Arabic-speaking June when she was in Christof Galli documentary filmmaking in China and suggested financial information allows visitors to search for politicians or countries. He also China. At the National http://www.pollingreport.com/ titles for the Duke Libraries’ collection. the companies in which they have financial interests. Links to visited other countries Library of China she Luo Zhou, Miree Ku, and Christof Galli, “Industries” provides a summary of political giving dating back to in the region (Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and met with the director of back in their offices at Duke, are still doing follow- 1990, including breakdowns by type of contribution and political party; Morocco) and met with prospective vendors. the Legislative Service up from their travel earlier this year—receiving a list of organizations (usually U.S. companies) that have given the Galli said: Department and the and managing the processing of materials most from that industry; and a list of candidates that have received librarians in charge of Luo Zhou acquired, ordering items they identified for the most from the industry. The book buying trip did not the Law Documents purchase, and nurturing their relationships with just allow me to acquire materials Section and the the librarians, booksellers, and others they met There are many fascinating lines of information to explore on this site. ‘in the field,’ but provided me with Chinese Studies Documents Section. Zhou came with while they were abroad. This fall two of their One of the most innovative is the “Money Web,” a social networking an invaluable opportunity to engage away from the meeting confident that the staff Everyone likes polls, even when they don’t agree with the results. colleagues will be making their own book-buying tool found under the Politicians & Elections tab/ Presidential that anew with Middle Eastern culture will assist her in getting legal and government PollingReport.com describes itself as “an independent, nonpartisan trips. Heidi Madden, Western European Studies graphically shows connections between candidates and contributors. in a very direct and unmediated information for Duke’s faculty and researchers. resource on trends in American public opinion.” It certainly provides librarian, will attend the Frankfurt Book Fair, Click on a bubble and see how the money flows. Use caution, way after an absence of several While at the NLC, she also met with the librarian an effective means online for keeping tabs on recent polls. The and Holly Ackerman, librarian for Latin America however; as of this writing, the “Money Web” page had not been years. Experiencing daily life on in the Gift & Exchange Department to discuss homepage features random samples of selected polls and summary and Iberia, is headed to Guadalajara, Mexico. updated since April. the ground firsthand has helped the Window of China program. The program, results of other recently conducted polls. In addition, the homepage me immensely in gaining insights Ackerman and Madden anticipate that their trips, in effect from 2006 to 2010, distributes books to highlights broad subject categories: “Elections,” “State of the Union,” Thanks to the Internet Scout Project (Copyright Internet Scout into the current complex and like those of Galli, Zhou and Ku, will result in richer foreign colleges and universities. In other years “National Security,” “In the News,” and “Issues,” each broken down Project, 1994-2008. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/) for identifying these complicated political, societal, collections for the Duke University Libraries and the Duke Libraries received materials through the into narrower topics. sites. If you would like to recommend a Web site for inclusion in a and cultural issues affecting the better support for the work of students, faculty, program, each time with a value of $800. This year, future issue of Duke University Libraries, contact Joline Ezzell at region. These insights will in turn and other researchers. as a result of Zhou’s visit, Duke was selected to [email protected]. receive materials with a total value of $13,000. 8 Duke University Libraries Fall 2008 9 The Perkins Project New Library Spaces in 2008

Students using one of the 8 study rooms that are available on Perkins floors 2-4. The new spaces also include a total of 131 individual closed carrels that can be reserved by faculty, graduate students, and (beginning in 2009) undergraduates who are writing honors theses.

The informal groupings of comfortable, upholstered chairs have been Perkins floors 2-4, each encompassing 30,800 sq.ft., have a popular in the new combined total of 82,404 linear feet of shelving. Libraries’ spaces that have already opened. The early indications are that the trend will hold The Perkins Project— on Perkins floors 2-4 where there New Library Spaces in 2008 Ilene Nelson are 286 seats, including those at study tables. The Duke community has been enjoying the fruits of the Perkins Project since the 2005 dedication of the new Bostock Library and von der Heyden Pavilion. In 2006 a transformed first floor of Perkins opened, followed a year later by Perkins lower floor 2 and the Deryl Hart administrative suite.N ow, in 2008, we have re-opened Perkins’ floors 2-4, and a state-of-the-art teaching and learning center fills what was the Perkins basement. Perkins lower floor 1 is also the new home of the Libraries’ Preservation and Shipping and Receiving departments. Also in 2008, the Libraries’ technical services operations moved from Perkins to the Smith Warehouse. Below are brief introductions to the new library spaces and a description of the upcoming work that will complete the Perkins Project.

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10 Duke University Libraries Fall 2008 11 The Perkins Project The Link

The Link— to Innovation in the Classroom The Link The Link immediately dazzles everyone who walks into the new 24,000 features six sq.ft. teaching and learning center on lower floor 1 of Perkins Library. Floor classrooms, The biggest draws of the to ceiling windows, brightly colored accent walls, and sleek contemporary new classrooms are less the four seminar furnishing are the backdrop for the flexible teaching spaces, technology services, technology (what I will be using rooms and and learning tools that the Link offers students and faculty.I nnovation is in the would be just fine in many other eleven group air. Ed Gomes, associate dean for arts and sciences information technology said, Duke classrooms) and more the study rooms, “We think this will be a place where faculty can experiment and learn how to characteristics of the new teaching plus kiosk-style integrate new technologies into teaching. It’s also a place where the University spaces: computing, will learn how to introduce new technologies into classrooms and create models 1) the wall-sized whiteboards, informal space, to use elsewhere on campus.” which I fill with conceptual and a walk-up The Link features six classrooms, four seminar rooms and eleven maps and schematics; group study rooms, as well as kiosk-style computing and informal space for information 2) the proximity to librarians, who collaboration or individual work. This fall forty-six courses, offered by more and technology can help with research projects; than twenty departments, are meeting in Link classrooms. Instructor Janet service desk. and Maceda is using the Link’s built-in video capture tools to teach international 3) the break-out rooms that graduate students how to give better academic presentations in English. facilitate small group During the first week of classes,N icholas School of the Environment professor discussions. Prasad Kasibhatla used the Link’s videoconference feature to teach his Duke course from Abu Dhabi. He is still planning exactly how he’ll take advantage In addition to offering a dynamic of the Link capabilities once he’s back on campus. Scott Huettel will project environment for teaching and study, the Link functional magnetic resonance imaging files in his neurobiology course. serves as the primary distribution point on Christina Askounis, who is teaching is teaching an advanced composition campus for digital video kits, Web cameras, course in the Link said, “…I love my classroom in the Link! The transformation tablet PCs, iPods with microphones, and of the entire space down there is astonishing…” She continued: other equipment available through the Duke Digital Initiative. The Link is also the new I’m teaching “Writing Humor” in 059, and so far we have home of the University’s walk-up information used the wireless connection and the big screen at the front of the and technology service desk, which was room for a Powerpoint presentation of theories of humor which located in the student center. The service desk, included a lot of visuals (cartoons, etc.) and hyperlinks to short coordinated by the Office ofI nformation clips of comic material (Monty Python, “I Love Lucy,” etc.) as Technology and Arts & Sciences staff, will examples to illustrate various devices and/or theories…Students be open seven days a week, with reference have also used the set-up to access material on their own laptops librarians and subject specialists nearby and to show to the class as part of assignments. I hope to explore more ready to help students and faculty; consultants of the room’s potential uses as the semester goes on, including that from the Libraries’ Center for Instructional amazing white board surface that covers the entire back wall! Technology are available to assist faculty/ While the technological resources of the Link are being put to good use instructors. by the faculty whose courses meet there, history professor Ed Balleisen sees To learn more about the Link, visit additional advantages to teaching in the Link: http://link.duke.edu/.

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12 Duke University Libraries Fall 2008 13 The Perkins Project Moving to the Smith Warehouse

The Libraries Go Urban Chic: Moving to the Smith Warehouse This has been an especially fortuitous The opening of the Bostock Library and the von Art History & Visual Studies; the Office ofU ndergraduate move for the units that make up the Staff participated der Heyden Pavilion in October 2005 transformed the Scholars and Fellows; and the Office ofU niversity Special department, which were formerly scattered in decisions in several workrooms and a series of small University Libraries and Duke’s West Campus. The new Events and University Ceremonies. When the building is fully about everything isolated offices on the second floor of the gateway between Bostock and the Perkins Library joined occupied in 2009, more than 500 University staff will work at from the the social sciences and humanities departments on the Smith. 1928 Perkins Library building. The open configuration of quad and the science and engineering buildings on Science The University has been applying sustainable design and design of the Smith Warehouse bays has their individual and Research drives, unifying the campus and fostering construction principles to the renewal of the Smith Warehouse: allowed for the configuration of a workspace connections among members of the Duke community who some of the construction materials were recycled from other that is optimal for the specialized cataloging workspaces to had been separated by campus topography. campus buildings; high-efficiency insulation was added to the and processing of manuscript, archival and the selection of With students from the sciences, engineering, roof; and captured storm water became a source for irrigation rare book materials. It has also allowed the floor coverings, humanities and social sciences filling the Bostock reading and make-up water for a nearby University steam plant. The full integration of staff from new programs amount and kind rooms and the Pavilion’s light-filled space almost as soon as building’s sustainability has earned the LEED (Leadership in in jazz archives, electronic records, and the of shelving, and the buildings opened, Libraries and campus administrators Energy and Environmental Design) certification. archives of the Full Frame Documentary lighting and air decided to review the plan in place at the time to renovate The Libraries developed its space atS mith in the Film Festival. quality standards. space on lower floor 1 of Perkins for the use of the Libraries’ same spirit and went a step further by giving staff an The special collections space atS mith technical services operations (acquisitions, catloging unprecedented role in planning the areas they would occupy. is set up with modern workstations for the and metadata services, electronic rsources and serials Five staff working groups gathered information and made staff arrayed along one wall and several management, gifts processing, and commercial binding). recommendations concerning every aspect of the refitting hundred linear feet of shelving along the After thoughtful consideration, everyone agreed that of Smith, as well as the transfer of staff and materials to the opposite wall. Between these two areas the benefits to the entireU niversity of having a teaching new facility, and the re-design of workflows and patterns of are a large number of movable tables that and learning center on lower floor 1 outweighed the communication with the rest of the library system to insure provide the essential “flat space” necessary disadvantages of removing the technical services operations maximum effectiveness after the move. for the sorting and processing large and from Perkins. Staff participated in decisions about everything from small archival collections. Added to this are And so began a chain of events that culminated in the the configuration of their individual workspaces and how a separate inspection room for the receipt August opening of the Link (see story on p. 13) on lower they would be furnished to the selection of floor coverings, of new collections, an industrial freezer for floor 1 of Perkins, and the move, also in August, of ninety- amount and kind of storage shelving, number of printers and fragile and volatile film and video materials, three library staff members in eight departments to theS mith photocopiers, and lighting, air quality standards, and building and an array of work areas for student Warehouse. security. The groups also looked at the needs ofS mith staff assistants and interns. TheS mith Warehouse, which sits high above for on-site technical and human resources support and made The layout and amenities at theS mith Campus Drive between Duke’s east and west campuses, recommendations that were adopted. Warehouse may well give Duke’s Special is a 200,000 sq.ft. former Liggett tobacco warehouse. The decision to move the Perkins technical services Collections Technical Services Department Built 115 years ago, Smith is gradually being reclaimed operations to Smith also prompted a review of the Libraries’ one of the more modern and efficient work for use by a variety of University departments. In addition workflows for processing materials for archives and special environments in the country. In addition, to the Libraries’ technical services functions, Smith now collections. Based on the findings of the review, the Libraries the immediate proximity of the Libraries’ houses Duke’s Facilities Management Department; the took the innovative step of moving the Technical Services other technical services staff is stimulating administrative offices of Duke Performances; the Department Department for the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special collaboration and consulting on the many of Information Science + Information Studies; the Arts, Collections Library and University Archives to the Smith cataloging, metadata, and acquisitions issues Culture, and Technology studios of the Department of Art, Warehouse as well. the two operations have in common.

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14 Duke University Libraries Fall 2008 15 The Perkins Project Where Do We Go from Here?

Top ten reasons why we Dukies love our library Lucy McKinstry 10. Quiet. Finally, no more fire alarms or construction noise. Where Do We Go from Here? 9. Space. From study carrels to high-tech The Perkins Project Enters Its Final Phase Robert Byrd classrooms, there are so many different and versatile places to work. With about two-thirds of the Duke University Libraries’ Perkins complex unique materials; relocating the research centers’ The work on the stacks is essential 8. Atmosphere. With great views and cozy newly constructed or transformed by total renovations, the focus of the Perkins curatorial staff to the Deryl HartS uite where for the well-being of the Libraries’ special rooms, the library is a happy place to study. Project turns now to the 1928 West Campus library building and its 1948 they will be easily accessible to users and available collections, but visitors to Perkins will 7. Rest. We love sleeping in the comfortable chairs. for consultation; and providing instruction addition. This portion of the Perkins complex is at the very heart of the campus never see the extensive changes. Visitors 6. Motivation. Seeing other people around you designed by the Horace Trumbauer architectural firm and is emblematic of spaces for faculty teaching courses that use will, however, be able to appreciate the pursuing excellence creates a strong incentive. the character of the West Quad and Duke University. The cornerstone for the special collections. attention the Biddle Rare Book Room and University is visible on the façade of the 1928 library building. The program also addresses the imperative the Gothic Reading Room receive. The 5. Group study rooms. Essential. Similarly, the 1928/1948 library building is central to the teaching of a secure stack area where special collections charm and character of these cherished 4. People. The resourceful librarians go out of and research mission of Duke University, since it houses the Rare Book, can be shelved in an appropriately controlled Duke spaces will be be preserved, but their way to be helpful and encouraging. Manuscript, and Special Collections Library (RBMSCL). According to a environment. Currently, the 1928/1948 building their finishes, furnishings, lighting, 3. Parties. What other library hosts an annual statement of principles adopted in 2003 by the Association of Research has multi-tiered stack-supported floors typical and technology infrastructure will be Libraries (ARL), the development, preservation, support, stewardship and of its era. By today’s standards, these stack enhanced. cocktail party? dissemination of special collections such as these are “both a characteristic of systems have serious deficiencies related to code, The final phase of the Perkins 2. Balance. The library is a space the true research library” and “an obligation assumed by all members of the security, and temperature and humidity control. Project will also include an office suite and respected for both academics and Association of Research Libraries.” Special collections, the statement asserts, In addition, the existing shelving systems meeting rooms for the Duke University socializing; the von der Heyden “represent not only the heart of an ARL library’s mission, but are one of the are inflexible. Because they were originally Libraries administrative staff. This is a Pavilion is a great example of this, primary identifiers of a research library.” designed to hold books, they do not support change from earlier plans that located The treasures ofR BMSCL’s distinctive general collections are augmented the larger dimensions and varied formats of the Libraries’ administrative offices in the where you can see your friends, chat by the holdings of the University Archives and several research centers: special collections and archival materials. In nearby Old Law building. And, last but with your professors, and finish your the Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture; the John Hope the upcoming renovation, the entire stack core not least, the entrance to Perkins will be homework. will be removed—from lower floor 1 to the Franklin Collection of African and African American Documentation; the re-designed with new doors, windows, and 1. Community. The Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History; the Archive of roof—and replaced with a new floor structure lighting to make the 1968 and 1928/1948 collaborative energy and Documentary Arts; and the Archive for Human Rights. RBMSCL’s collections on independent footings that will support high- buildings a more unified and welcoming are heavily used by graduate students, faculty, and visiting researchers. However, density compact shelving. presence on the historic West Quad. spirit of Duke is more undergraduate students are the largest user group, a fact that The completion of the visible here in the library may distinguish Duke from other research libraries. Faculty in transformation of the 1928/1948 building than anywhere else on numerous disciplines—art and art history, cultural anthropology, will also complete the Perkins Project. It is campus. economics, history, literature, music, political science, public anticipated that design for the final phase policy, sociology, etc.—bring their students to the RBMSCL to will begin in October 2008, construction use special collections for course assignments. approval will be sought in May 2009, and The interests and needs of these different groups of users occupancy will occur by August 2011. At are addressed in the architectural program for the re-design that point the Perkins Library master plan, Lucy McKinstry T’10 of the 1928/ 1948 building. The program objectives include as approved by the Board of Trustees in presented her ten reasons increasing the seating capacity of the Special Collections 2001, will be fully implemented. following remarks by Reading Room; providing consultation rooms to accommodate President Richard Brodhead collaborative projects and staff assistance for users; creating and University Librarian exhibition galleries for display of the collections’ rare and Deborah Jakubs at the 28 August opening of Perkins floors 2–4.

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16 Duke University Libraries SpringFall 2008 17 his comment from a suggestion box in the men’s dining hall T on West Campus captures student sentiment about the state of campus cuisine when Theodore W. “Ted” Minah arrived in January 1946 as the newly appointed manager of the Duke University Afkfkd dining rooms. The student discontent was in reaction to an outdated compulsory meal ticket system, wartime food rationing, and a decline in the quality of the dining services that was due to poor food preparation and an untrained staff. The Blue and White Room, 1968 ^q Arhb Minah faced logistical challenges as well, such as feeding the Ted Minah and the influx of returning veterans, who increased the number of students on campus to 5,000. Long lines in the dining halls and insufficient seating During his twenty-eight only added to the student discontent. Under these circumstances, Duke University Dining Halls years at Duke, Ted it would have been understandable if Ted Minah had turned down Mary Samouelian Duke’s offer. But as the materials in the Theodore W. “Ted” Minah Minah transformed Records and Papers in the University Archives reveal, Minah was no the dining halls into an We know things are tough all over, but can’t we ordinary man. During his twenty-eight years at Duke, he transformed the dining halls into an award-winning, highly rated operation that award-winning, highly served millions of meals to generations of Duke students. have any silverware? Restaurants seem to have Early in Minah’s tenure he resolved to make the dining halls rated operation that more than just a place to grab a quick meal. His objectives and steaks or good cuts of meat now. How about the operational philosophy for the dining halls were to provide a social served millions of meals atmosphere where students could mingle and have a healthy meal. to generations of Duke Union? Must we eat chicken, chicken, chicken, More importantly, Minah believed that good dining was part of the students’ overall education. Dining halls including the Great Hall students. and the Oak Room were designed, and in some cases, renovated, chicken, chicken (poorly prepared too)? Will to encourage students from different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds to engage with each other and with faculty and guests. we ever have pitchers of cream on the table at The Men’s Graduate Center (nowT rent Hall) was a shining example of this model. Constructed in 1953, the new dining hall featured breakfast like last year? Why continually run out a cafeteria, private dining rooms where those students with “allied interests” could eat together, and a coffee lounge where graduate students, faculty, and friends could gather informally. In 1961, the of food? Graduate Center was opened to freshman and sophomore nursing students, with the hope that dining there would contribute to their “social education.” Ted Minah with William “Big Bill” Jones in 1961 Duke dining hall suggestion box, 1945 Minah also believed that “adventurous and stimulating eating habits” contributed to a student’s education. His office is said to have been filled with cookbooks and magazines, and the assorted recipes preserved in his records and papers suggest that he frequently experimented to meet changing student tastes. While some of

18 Duke University Libraries Fall 2008 19 his comment from a suggestion box in the men’s dining hall T on West Campus captures student sentiment about the state of campus cuisine when Theodore W. “Ted” Minah arrived in January 1946 as the newly appointed manager of the Duke University Afkfkd dining rooms. The student discontent was in reaction to an outdated compulsory meal ticket system, wartime food rationing, and a decline in the quality of the dining services that was due to poor food preparation and an untrained staff. The Blue and White Room, 1968 ^q Arhb Minah faced logistical challenges as well, such as feeding the Ted Minah and the influx of returning veterans, who increased the number of students on campus to 5,000. Long lines in the dining halls and insufficient seating During his twenty-eight only added to the student discontent. Under these circumstances, Duke University Dining Halls years at Duke, Ted it would have been understandable if Ted Minah had turned down Mary Samouelian Duke’s offer. But as the materials in the Theodore W. “Ted” Minah Minah transformed Records and Papers in the University Archives reveal, Minah was no the dining halls into an We know things are tough all over, but can’t we ordinary man. During his twenty-eight years at Duke, he transformed the dining halls into an award-winning, highly rated operation that award-winning, highly served millions of meals to generations of Duke students. have any silverware? Restaurants seem to have Early in Minah’s tenure he resolved to make the dining halls rated operation that more than just a place to grab a quick meal. His objectives and steaks or good cuts of meat now. How about the operational philosophy for the dining halls were to provide a social served millions of meals atmosphere where students could mingle and have a healthy meal. to generations of Duke Union? Must we eat chicken, chicken, chicken, More importantly, Minah believed that good dining was part of the students’ overall education. Dining halls including the Great Hall students. and the Oak Room were designed, and in some cases, renovated, chicken, chicken (poorly prepared too)? Will to encourage students from different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds to engage with each other and with faculty and guests. we ever have pitchers of cream on the table at The Men’s Graduate Center (nowT rent Hall) was a shining example of this model. Constructed in 1953, the new dining hall featured breakfast like last year? Why continually run out a cafeteria, private dining rooms where those students with “allied interests” could eat together, and a coffee lounge where graduate students, faculty, and friends could gather informally. In 1961, the of food? Graduate Center was opened to freshman and sophomore nursing students, with the hope that dining there would contribute to their “social education.” Ted Minah with William “Big Bill” Jones in 1961 Duke dining hall suggestion box, 1945 Minah also believed that “adventurous and stimulating eating habits” contributed to a student’s education. His office is said to have been filled with cookbooks and magazines, and the assorted recipes preserved in his records and papers suggest that he frequently experimented to meet changing student tastes. While some of

18 Duke University Libraries Fall 2008 19 Minah’s culinary offerings were popular with all Duke students the chowman left a legacy of feeding Duke students for nearly eleven (including the famous Duke Toll House cookies and hermit years. cookies, which some alumni still reminisce about!), others like As important as students were to the success of the dining halls, the congealed apple and cottage cheese salad were reserved for the they were just one side of the equation; the dining hall employees more “daring” appetite. Minah’s success in providing food that were the other half. When Minah arrived at Duke, more than 90% was healthful, nutritious, and palatable earned him the Silver Plate of the food services employees were African American, and, as Award as Outstanding Food Services Operator in the Colleges and he said, “there was no one in the vicinity that had had restaurant Universities Division in 1968. experience…” Demonstrating a commitment to equal opportunity Employing students in the dining halls was another Minah that was rare for the time, Minah set out to “provide an atmosphere Main Kitchen, 1946 innovation. In a 1974 interview he claimed to be the first university in which all those employees who are in our employ will have the dining director in the country to develop a program for student opportunity and desire to improve their skills and by their increased employees. The idea for the program probably derived from his productivity attain higher goals of status and remuneration.” Minah Students dining at the Graduate Center, 1952 own experience: Minah learned the food business from the bottom backed up his words with action. up—starting on the dish machine, washing pots, and then working In 1947, he initiated an on-the-job training program, taking his way up to the status of journeyman cook while still in college. advantage of the U.S. government’s offer to fund education for In the program Minah established at Duke, interested students were returning veterans of World War II under the G.I. Bill. In the ArhbAfkfkdQofsf^ recruited, trained, and given opportunities to become dishwashers program’s first year, six veterans were enrolled in training for sæææ4EDæ-INAHæANDæHISæDININGæHALLæSTAFFæCATEREDæ and cooks, cashiers and waiters, with the promise of gaining valuable institutional or restaurant management, with fourteen others learning inauguration dinners for Dr. Arthur Hollis Edens work experience while still having ample time for an academic and to be professional cooks and bakers. Over the course of several years, (October 21, 1949), Dr. Douglas M. Knight social schedule. Minah expanded on-the-job training, enabling cooks and supervisors (December 10, 1963), and Terry Sanford (October Incentives spurred the workers to move up into better and to attend schools including the Culinary Arts School and the Cornell 18, 1970). Julian Deryl Hart (1960-1963) is missing higher paying positions. Countless letters from students seeking Hotel School. He also instituted promotion policies and worked to from the list because as president pro tem (he employment in the dining halls speak to the program’s success. One, ensure that pay and benefits were competitive. By 1967, nearly half was appointed to the position following the Gross- Graduate Center Kitchen, 1952 Edens controversy) he did not have as formal an dating from 1966 reads, “my sister … spoke to you concerning my of the supervisors and clerical staff (including cashiers) were African inauguration dinner. working in the dining hall next fall, and I was glad to hear that a American, and for many years there was less than a 5% turnover rate place is available … I appreciate your giving me the opportunity to in Minah’s department. sæ Institutions Magazine presented its Honors Award work at Duke and am looking forward to it.” Minah’s commitment to his employees is well-documented. His (the highest honor in the food service industry) to Minah’s rapport with students never faltered, even in difficult records and papers are replete with thank-you letters from employees two Duke dining facilities: the Graduate Center situations. During his career he weathered three boycotts—grapes, grateful for Minah’s interest in their well-being; service bulletins and (1953) and Gilbert-Addoms Dining Hall (1960). lettuce, and meat—and the 1968 dining hall strike for “decent living newspaper advertisements promoting dining hall employees who were sæææ4HEæ/AKæ2OOMæCLOSEDæINææTOæMAKEæWAYæFORæTHEæ wages.” While the episodes were marked by controversy and strongly available for summer jobs in North Carolina and out-of-state resorts Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture. The held views, Minah always tried to reach common ground with (an arrangement that enabled them to combine vacation with extra Blue & White Room has become the DukeCard Minah expanded on-the- students, not only to meet their demands, but to keep the dining income); and letters of recommendations, including Minah’s letter Office. halls open. During the dining hall strike, he recalled that “there were praising William “Big Bill” Jones. Minah had known Jones since 1937 job training, enabling sæææ4HEæGARGOYLESæINæTHEæ#AMBRIDGEæ)NNæWATCHæOVERæ some 250 students who volunteered to work—they simply didn’t and, when he came to Duke in 1946, Minah thought Jones would cooks and supervisors the coats of arms of the colleges of Cambridge want this crowd (union supporters) to take over the university.” be ideal as the banquet manager for the dining halls. The two worked University. Recognizing that students were a vital part of the dining halls’ together at Duke for nearly thirty years, and in 1970 Minah wrote of to attend schools success, Minah was always open to their suggestions and ideas. The Jones: “chowman” was one such initiative. Students proposed the service including the Culinary I shall always consider it a great privilege to have to counter the night-time bootlegging of food in dorms that had been associated with him for the past 33 years since we Arts School and the culminated in unsanitary conditions in rooms, food poisoning, began working together in the Brown University Dining and complaints about students knocking on door at all hours of Cornell Hotel School. Halls back in 1937. He has taught me a great deal not the night trying to sell food. Introduced in 1950 and run by the only about the operation of a dining hall service but how M.S.G.A. (Men’s Student Government Association) Catering better to understand my fellow man. Service, the student chowman vendors peddled sandwiches, milk, ice cream and other snack foods from 10:30 to midnight to hungry Managing employees and the operations of the dining halls West Campus students. Student vendors earned a commission—up were only part of what Minah did every day. His duties also included to 20% of the sales, which was about $500 per student per semester. buying, warehousing, preparing, and serving food; service and Eventually replaced by “robot rooms” (vending machines) in 1961, selling; housekeeping; office management and accounting; and

20 Duke University Libraries Fall 2008 21 Minah’s culinary offerings were popular with all Duke students the chowman left a legacy of feeding Duke students for nearly eleven (including the famous Duke Toll House cookies and hermit years. cookies, which some alumni still reminisce about!), others like As important as students were to the success of the dining halls, the congealed apple and cottage cheese salad were reserved for the they were just one side of the equation; the dining hall employees more “daring” appetite. Minah’s success in providing food that were the other half. When Minah arrived at Duke, more than 90% was healthful, nutritious, and palatable earned him the Silver Plate of the food services employees were African American, and, as Award as Outstanding Food Services Operator in the Colleges and he said, “there was no one in the vicinity that had had restaurant Universities Division in 1968. experience…” Demonstrating a commitment to equal opportunity Employing students in the dining halls was another Minah that was rare for the time, Minah set out to “provide an atmosphere Main Kitchen, 1946 innovation. In a 1974 interview he claimed to be the first university in which all those employees who are in our employ will have the dining director in the country to develop a program for student opportunity and desire to improve their skills and by their increased employees. The idea for the program probably derived from his productivity attain higher goals of status and remuneration.” Minah Students dining at the Graduate Center, 1952 own experience: Minah learned the food business from the bottom backed up his words with action. up—starting on the dish machine, washing pots, and then working In 1947, he initiated an on-the-job training program, taking his way up to the status of journeyman cook while still in college. advantage of the U.S. government’s offer to fund education for In the program Minah established at Duke, interested students were returning veterans of World War II under the G.I. Bill. In the ArhbAfkfkdQofsf^ recruited, trained, and given opportunities to become dishwashers program’s first year, six veterans were enrolled in training for sæææ4EDæ-INAHæANDæHISæDININGæHALLæSTAFFæCATEREDæ and cooks, cashiers and waiters, with the promise of gaining valuable institutional or restaurant management, with fourteen others learning inauguration dinners for Dr. Arthur Hollis Edens work experience while still having ample time for an academic and to be professional cooks and bakers. Over the course of several years, (October 21, 1949), Dr. Douglas M. Knight social schedule. Minah expanded on-the-job training, enabling cooks and supervisors (December 10, 1963), and Terry Sanford (October Incentives spurred the workers to move up into better and to attend schools including the Culinary Arts School and the Cornell 18, 1970). Julian Deryl Hart (1960-1963) is missing higher paying positions. Countless letters from students seeking Hotel School. He also instituted promotion policies and worked to from the list because as president pro tem (he employment in the dining halls speak to the program’s success. One, ensure that pay and benefits were competitive. By 1967, nearly half was appointed to the position following the Gross- Graduate Center Kitchen, 1952 Edens controversy) he did not have as formal an dating from 1966 reads, “my sister … spoke to you concerning my of the supervisors and clerical staff (including cashiers) were African inauguration dinner. working in the dining hall next fall, and I was glad to hear that a American, and for many years there was less than a 5% turnover rate place is available … I appreciate your giving me the opportunity to in Minah’s department. sæ Institutions Magazine presented its Honors Award work at Duke and am looking forward to it.” Minah’s commitment to his employees is well-documented. His (the highest honor in the food service industry) to Minah’s rapport with students never faltered, even in difficult records and papers are replete with thank-you letters from employees two Duke dining facilities: the Graduate Center situations. During his career he weathered three boycotts—grapes, grateful for Minah’s interest in their well-being; service bulletins and (1953) and Gilbert-Addoms Dining Hall (1960). lettuce, and meat—and the 1968 dining hall strike for “decent living newspaper advertisements promoting dining hall employees who were sæææ4HEæ/AKæ2OOMæCLOSEDæINææTOæMAKEæWAYæFORæTHEæ wages.” While the episodes were marked by controversy and strongly available for summer jobs in North Carolina and out-of-state resorts Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture. The held views, Minah always tried to reach common ground with (an arrangement that enabled them to combine vacation with extra Blue & White Room has become the DukeCard Minah expanded on-the- students, not only to meet their demands, but to keep the dining income); and letters of recommendations, including Minah’s letter Office. halls open. During the dining hall strike, he recalled that “there were praising William “Big Bill” Jones. Minah had known Jones since 1937 job training, enabling sæææ4HEæGARGOYLESæINæTHEæ#AMBRIDGEæ)NNæWATCHæOVERæ some 250 students who volunteered to work—they simply didn’t and, when he came to Duke in 1946, Minah thought Jones would cooks and supervisors the coats of arms of the colleges of Cambridge want this crowd (union supporters) to take over the university.” be ideal as the banquet manager for the dining halls. The two worked University. Recognizing that students were a vital part of the dining halls’ together at Duke for nearly thirty years, and in 1970 Minah wrote of to attend schools success, Minah was always open to their suggestions and ideas. The Jones: “chowman” was one such initiative. Students proposed the service including the Culinary I shall always consider it a great privilege to have to counter the night-time bootlegging of food in dorms that had been associated with him for the past 33 years since we Arts School and the culminated in unsanitary conditions in rooms, food poisoning, began working together in the Brown University Dining and complaints about students knocking on door at all hours of Cornell Hotel School. Halls back in 1937. He has taught me a great deal not the night trying to sell food. Introduced in 1950 and run by the only about the operation of a dining hall service but how M.S.G.A. (Men’s Student Government Association) Catering better to understand my fellow man. Service, the student chowman vendors peddled sandwiches, milk, ice cream and other snack foods from 10:30 to midnight to hungry Managing employees and the operations of the dining halls West Campus students. Student vendors earned a commission—up were only part of what Minah did every day. His duties also included to 20% of the sales, which was about $500 per student per semester. buying, warehousing, preparing, and serving food; service and Eventually replaced by “robot rooms” (vending machines) in 1961, selling; housekeeping; office management and accounting; and

20 Duke University Libraries Fall 2008 21 renovations, repairs, installations and alterations. In performing his responsibilities, Minah’s goal was to “initiate and engage in continuing experimentation, research and self-development which will raise the standards of [the] profession.” As with his other operational ArhbAfkfkdÏCfopqpÐ philosophies, Minah’s actions matched his words. During his tenure at Duke, he not only introduced new dining hall concepts (for some of During his tenure, Ted Minah introduced many innovations. A few of the more notable include: Minah’s innovations, see the sidebar), but also established a reputation for successful high-profile catering events, including Duke presidential The “scramble” cafeteria Ted Minah introduced the inaugurations, receptions for dignitaries such as Vice President Hubert concept of free-flow service counters in the Blue & White Room in 1962. This system didn’t require students Humphrey, and banquets, including a 1,000-person affair in the Cafeteria A, 1947 Cameron Indoor Stadium honoring Dr. Wilburt C. Davison, the first to line up, but instead gave them the freedom to go directly to the counter that served the food they wanted. dean of Duke Medical School. This change made it possible to serve large numbers of Ted Minah was a prolific writer, publishing dozens of articles The MSGA “chowman,” 1951 students in a short time. While the “scramble” concept in College and University Business and Institutions Magazine, and he was wildly popular with students, it befuddled their frequently provided counsel and the benefit of his experience to the visiting parents. industry. Minah served as president of the College and University The Cambridge Inn Created to return some of the Food Service Directors (1964), vice president of the North Carolina business lost to the “robot room” and to meet the needs Restaurant Association (1950), and president of the Kiwanis Club of student requests for a room large enough for groups of Durham. With each position he had the opportunity to promote to gather formally or informally, the “C.I.” became healthy eating, employee training, new methods of cooking, and the the first university/college self-service snack bar in importance of the food services industry. TheN ational Association the country. Open 7:30 to midnight, it boasted “raid-it- of College & University Food Services recognized Minah’s significant yourself” refrigerators, snack bar and pizza kitchen. contributions to the profession by renaming its highest award the Students who could not eat during regularly planned Theodore W. Minah DistinguishedS ervice Award in 1973; Minah had dinners or those who craved late-night snacking welcomed the new snack bar. received the award when it was established in 1967. Today, the award Blue & White Room, 1962 is still bestowed on those who have made an outstanding and enduring Food waste refrigeration Minah was the first Durham contribution to the food service industry and to the association. food handler to adopt the practice of putting garbage in By his retirement in 1974, Minah had transformed dining cold storage until it could be hauled away. Thousands of services at Duke University from a small, disjointed department to an noses rejoiced. award-winning operation of twelve dining halls serving approximately The Oak Room Opened in 1946, the Oak Room became 15,000 meals per day. Throughout the nation,T ed Minah was known the first dining hall within a dining hall system to rely on as the “dean” of college and university food service directors. He died student waiters and waitresses. It offered table service in 1991 at the age of 82. in an intimate restaurant-style dining setting (coat and Minah’s records and papers, which were received by the ties required for men) where faculty, student and guests University Archives soon after his retirement, show a complex could meet on common ground. man who was kindhearted, creative, and wholly committed to his Food credit system Ted Minah discontinued meal tickets profession, students, employees and the University. For those who and instituted a cash cafeteria service for the men on Ob^aJlob^_lrq worked with or knew Ted, and for those being introduced to him for West Campus and a cafeteria board system for the Afkfkd^qArhb Woman’s College on East. The parents received the the first time, he will be remembered for the indelible mark he made The Inventory of the Theodore W. “Ted” Minah Records and bills (instead of relying on the students to have enough on the foodservice industry and Duke University. Papers (http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/rbmscl/ cash readily available). Over time the food credit system uaminah/inv/) and photograph exhibit “Dining at Duke” at became a million dollar business, with losses of less All quotes are from materials in the Theodore W. “Ted” Minah http://www.flickr.com/photos/dukeyearlook/. Records and Papers in the University Archives. than $250 annually. News Service Biographical Files, circa 1930s-2004. University Archives, Duke University. Mary Samouelian was the 2007-2008 Isabel Craven Drill Intern in University Archives. In 2008 at the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists, Theodore W. “Ted” Minah Records and Papers, 1941-1975. she received the Theodore Calvin Pease Award, which recognizes superior University Archives, Duke University. writing achievements by students of archival administration. Samouelian received the award for her paper, “Embracing Web 2.0: Archives and the Newest Generation of Web Applications,” an investigation of the extent to which Web 2.0 features have been integrated into archival digitization projects. 22 Duke University Libraries Fall 2008 23 renovations, repairs, installations and alterations. In performing his responsibilities, Minah’s goal was to “initiate and engage in continuing experimentation, research and self-development which will raise the standards of [the] profession.” As with his other operational ArhbAfkfkdÏCfopqpÐ philosophies, Minah’s actions matched his words. During his tenure at Duke, he not only introduced new dining hall concepts (for some of During his tenure, Ted Minah introduced many innovations. A few of the more notable include: Minah’s innovations, see the sidebar), but also established a reputation for successful high-profile catering events, including Duke presidential The “scramble” cafeteria Ted Minah introduced the inaugurations, receptions for dignitaries such as Vice President Hubert concept of free-flow service counters in the Blue & White Room in 1962. This system didn’t require students Humphrey, and banquets, including a 1,000-person affair in the Cafeteria A, 1947 Cameron Indoor Stadium honoring Dr. Wilburt C. Davison, the first to line up, but instead gave them the freedom to go directly to the counter that served the food they wanted. dean of Duke Medical School. This change made it possible to serve large numbers of Ted Minah was a prolific writer, publishing dozens of articles The MSGA “chowman,” 1951 students in a short time. While the “scramble” concept in College and University Business and Institutions Magazine, and he was wildly popular with students, it befuddled their frequently provided counsel and the benefit of his experience to the visiting parents. industry. Minah served as president of the College and University The Cambridge Inn Created to return some of the Food Service Directors (1964), vice president of the North Carolina business lost to the “robot room” and to meet the needs Restaurant Association (1950), and president of the Kiwanis Club of student requests for a room large enough for groups of Durham. With each position he had the opportunity to promote to gather formally or informally, the “C.I.” became healthy eating, employee training, new methods of cooking, and the the first university/college self-service snack bar in importance of the food services industry. TheN ational Association the country. Open 7:30 to midnight, it boasted “raid-it- of College & University Food Services recognized Minah’s significant yourself” refrigerators, snack bar and pizza kitchen. contributions to the profession by renaming its highest award the Students who could not eat during regularly planned Theodore W. Minah DistinguishedS ervice Award in 1973; Minah had dinners or those who craved late-night snacking welcomed the new snack bar. received the award when it was established in 1967. Today, the award Blue & White Room, 1962 is still bestowed on those who have made an outstanding and enduring Food waste refrigeration Minah was the first Durham contribution to the food service industry and to the association. food handler to adopt the practice of putting garbage in By his retirement in 1974, Minah had transformed dining cold storage until it could be hauled away. Thousands of services at Duke University from a small, disjointed department to an noses rejoiced. award-winning operation of twelve dining halls serving approximately The Oak Room Opened in 1946, the Oak Room became 15,000 meals per day. Throughout the nation,T ed Minah was known the first dining hall within a dining hall system to rely on as the “dean” of college and university food service directors. He died student waiters and waitresses. It offered table service in 1991 at the age of 82. in an intimate restaurant-style dining setting (coat and Minah’s records and papers, which were received by the ties required for men) where faculty, student and guests University Archives soon after his retirement, show a complex could meet on common ground. man who was kindhearted, creative, and wholly committed to his Food credit system Ted Minah discontinued meal tickets profession, students, employees and the University. For those who and instituted a cash cafeteria service for the men on Ob^aJlob^_lrq worked with or knew Ted, and for those being introduced to him for West Campus and a cafeteria board system for the Afkfkd^qArhb Woman’s College on East. The parents received the the first time, he will be remembered for the indelible mark he made The Inventory of the Theodore W. “Ted” Minah Records and bills (instead of relying on the students to have enough on the foodservice industry and Duke University. Papers (http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/rbmscl/ cash readily available). Over time the food credit system uaminah/inv/) and photograph exhibit “Dining at Duke” at became a million dollar business, with losses of less All quotes are from materials in the Theodore W. “Ted” Minah http://www.flickr.com/photos/dukeyearlook/. Records and Papers in the University Archives. than $250 annually. News Service Biographical Files, circa 1930s-2004. University Archives, Duke University. Mary Samouelian was the 2007-2008 Isabel Craven Drill Intern in University Archives. In 2008 at the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists, Theodore W. “Ted” Minah Records and Papers, 1941-1975. she received the Theodore Calvin Pease Award, which recognizes superior University Archives, Duke University. writing achievements by students of archival administration. Samouelian received the award for her paper, “Embracing Web 2.0: Archives and the Newest Generation of Web Applications,” an investigation of the extent to which Web 2.0 features have been integrated into archival digitization projects. 22 Duke University Libraries Fall 2008 23 Images of the Russian Civil War in Siberia from the Robert L. Eichelberger Collection at Duke University Libraries Eric Zitser

obert L. Eichelberger (1886-1961), a 1909 West RPoint graduate, served with distinction in the U.S. Army, rising to the rank of lieutenant general before his retirement in 1948; he later received a fourth star. Throughout his career, during many extended assignments away from home, Eichelberger wrote letters every day—and sometimes as

Collections Highlight Collections frequently as four times a day—to his wife, Emma, a native of Asheville, NC. Addressing her “Dear Miss Em,” Eichelberger filled the letters with details of his experiences (without divulging military secrets) Golden Horn Bay and anecdotes about colleagues, including Douglas MacArthur, referring to them in a code only Miss first attempt to use its armed forces Council debated, formulated, and Em would understand. And along for peacekeeping purposes. tried to implement a coherent Allied with the letters he sent photographs. From an office onS vetlanka policy for Siberia and eastern Russia After Eichelberger died, Emma St., in Vladivostok, Eichelberger between 1918 and 1920. Eichelberger donated her husband’s oversaw an intelligence network Materials in the Eichelberger personal papers, comprising nearly that extended over 5,000 miles Papers pertaining to his participation 30,000 items, to Duke’s Rare Book, into the Ural Mountains. In his in the AEF’s incursion into Siberia Manuscript, and Special Collections official capacity as America’s chief are grouped into two series: military Library. While the bulk of the intelligence officer inS iberia, he papers and pictures. The Military collection dates from the World War interviewed (frequently over a bottle Papers Series includes typed letters, II era, a series of unique and almost of vodka) hundreds of Russians handwritten notes, intelligence unknown photographic images of the from all walks of life, including summaries, memoranda and reports, Russian Civil War in eastern Siberia “everything from a Baron to a and leaflets, as well as maps. An recall one of the general’s earliest prostitute.”1 The intelligence he oversize “top secret” map is one of assignments. gathered, his analysis of it, and a series made on tracing paper to Eichelberger was posted to the reports he wrote allowed his record the changing locations of Siberia in 1918, where he served commanding officer, Lieutenant- military bases and troop strength of for two years as assistant chief of General William S. Graves, to set American forces in Siberia along the staff, Operations Division, and chief an American course in the face railroad linking Vladivostok and the intelligence officer with the American of “competing signals” from both Nikolsk-Ussuri and Suchan mines. Expeditionary Forces (AEF). The Washington and the Inter-Allied The U.S. government AEF went to Russia by order of Military Council, a ten-nation considered the mines and the railroad President Woodrow Wilson on a coalition of American, British, necessary for the “economic relief” Robert L. Eichelberger mission that constituted America’s French, and Japanese officers. The of the Russian people. These same 24 Duke University Libraries Fall 2008 25 Read More about Eichelberger’s Siberian photos provide unique visual documentation Robert Eichelberger and of both American involvement in the U.S. in Siberia the Russian Civil War and daily life during war-time in an ethnically About Eichelberger: and religiously diverse region on the border of three major 20th-century Dear Miss Em: General Eichelberger’s War in the Pacific, 1942-1945. Ed. by Jay Luvaas. Westport, CT: Greenwood powers: Russia, Japan, and China. Press, 1972. And now these images are available on the Web at http://library.duke.edu/ John F. Shortal. Forged by Fire: General Robert L. digitalcollections/esr to anyone with Eichelberger and the Pacific War. Columbia, SC: University access to an Internet browser. The of South Carolina Press, 1987. Eichelberger photographs and other Paul Chwialkowski. In Caesar’s Shadow: The Life of General related photographs have been digitized Robert Eichelberger. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. to form a collection titled “Americans in the Land of Lenin: Documentary Fiction Photographs of Early Soviet Russia.” Ric Hardman. Fifteen Flags. Boston: Little, Brown, c1968. “Americans in the Land of Lenin” Nikolai Nikitin. Northern Aurora. Translated by B. Isaacs and was modeled, at least in part, on the R. Prokofieva. (Soviet Union?: s.n., 1950s). University of Michigan’s “Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections,” which Arif Saparov. The Game is Up. Arlington, VA: Joint consists of materials related to the Publications Research Service, 1972. American intervention in northern Evgeny Zamyatin. The Islanders. Vsevolod Ivanov. Armored- Russia at the end of World War I. Train 14-69. Ann Arbor, MI: Trilogy Publishers, c1978. The Duke project encompasses roughly 1,400 images, many with Personal Narratives captions and other annotations, and William S. Graves. America’s Siberian Adventure, 1918–1920. is one of the largest collections of New York: J. Cape & H. Smith, [c1931]. Top: Svetlanka St. in Vladivostok; Bottom: Members of the Inter-Allied Council photographs of the Russian Civil War John Ward. With the “Die-Hards” in Siberia. New York: in the United States. The launch of installations were also deemed critical by Emma Eichelberger, into two Doran, c1920; [2007?] reprint, n.p.: Kessinger Publishing. “Americans in the Land of Lenin” to the success of the U.S. military’s photo albums. The albums contain Electronic edition at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10972. marks the completion of the first step political mission, namely, supporting officialE A F photos (primarily in the digitization of Duke University’s Ned Elvin Wick. Service in Siberia. Rapid City, SD: Fenwynn “any efforts at self-government or of foreign troops parading down Press, c1975. extensive collection of 20th-century self-defense in which the Russians Svetlanka) as well as scenic views of Russian visual culture. themselves might be willing to accept Siberia’s architectural and natural Additional Resources assistance.” The question, of course, landscapes, among them Golden Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections. Ann Arbor, MI: was which one of the various warring Horn Bay. Bentley Historical Library, s.d., . constituted the true representatives of in character from the official pictures Gibson Bell Smith, “Guarding the Railroad, Taming the the Russian nation. and panoramic landscapes preserved 1All the quotes from Eichelberger’s correspondence Cossacks: The U.S. Army in Russia, 1918–1920,” Prologue The PictureS eries, comprising in the albums. These are much less are taken from Paul Chwialkowski’s 1991 Duke Magazine 34, no. 4 (2002), http://www.archives.gov/ over a thousand photographs, romanticized images of everyday life University doctoral dissertation, “A ‘Near Great’ publications/prologue/2002/winter/us-army-in-russia-1.html. complements the written record of in eastern Siberia: an enormous hog General: The Life and Career ofR obert L. John M House, “Wolfhounds and Polar Bears in Siberia: Eichelberger’s tour of duty in eastern outside a Chinese tailor’s shop; three Eichelberger” (Ph.D., Duke University, 1991). America’s Military Intervention, 1918-1920” (Ft. Belvoir Siberia and is equally important. peasant children; a young Russian Chwialkowski’s thesis has been published under Defense Technical Information Center, 1986) http://handle. Some of the photographs are loose soldier almost drowning in his big the title In Caesar’s Shadow: The Life of General Erik Zitser is the librarian for Slavic and Robert Eichelberger [ Contributions in military dtic.mil/100.2/ADA177753. and some have been pasted, probably fur hat and heavy military overcoat. East European Studies. studies, no. 141] (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993).

26 Duke University Libraries Fall 2008 27 Read More about Eichelberger’s Siberian photos provide unique visual documentation Robert Eichelberger and of both American involvement in the U.S. in Siberia the Russian Civil War and daily life during war-time in an ethnically About Eichelberger: and religiously diverse region on the border of three major 20th-century Dear Miss Em: General Eichelberger’s War in the Pacific, 1942-1945. Ed. by Jay Luvaas. Westport, CT: Greenwood powers: Russia, Japan, and China. Press, 1972. And now these images are available on the Web at http://library.duke.edu/ John F. Shortal. Forged by Fire: General Robert L. digitalcollections/esr to anyone with Eichelberger and the Pacific War. Columbia, SC: University access to an Internet browser. The of South Carolina Press, 1987. Eichelberger photographs and other Paul Chwialkowski. In Caesar’s Shadow: The Life of General related photographs have been digitized Robert Eichelberger. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. to form a collection titled “Americans in the Land of Lenin: Documentary Fiction Photographs of Early Soviet Russia.” Ric Hardman. Fifteen Flags. Boston: Little, Brown, c1968. “Americans in the Land of Lenin” Nikolai Nikitin. Northern Aurora. Translated by B. Isaacs and was modeled, at least in part, on the R. Prokofieva. (Soviet Union?: s.n., 1950s). University of Michigan’s “Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections,” which Arif Saparov. The Game is Up. Arlington, VA: Joint consists of materials related to the Publications Research Service, 1972. American intervention in northern Evgeny Zamyatin. The Islanders. Vsevolod Ivanov. Armored- Russia at the end of World War I. Train 14-69. Ann Arbor, MI: Trilogy Publishers, c1978. The Duke project encompasses roughly 1,400 images, many with Personal Narratives captions and other annotations, and William S. Graves. America’s Siberian Adventure, 1918–1920. is one of the largest collections of New York: J. Cape & H. Smith, [c1931]. Top: Svetlanka St. in Vladivostok; Bottom: Members of the Inter-Allied Council photographs of the Russian Civil War John Ward. With the “Die-Hards” in Siberia. New York: in the United States. The launch of installations were also deemed critical by Emma Eichelberger, into two Doran, c1920; [2007?] reprint, n.p.: Kessinger Publishing. “Americans in the Land of Lenin” to the success of the U.S. military’s photo albums. The albums contain Electronic edition at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10972. marks the completion of the first step political mission, namely, supporting officialE A F photos (primarily in the digitization of Duke University’s Ned Elvin Wick. Service in Siberia. Rapid City, SD: Fenwynn “any efforts at self-government or of foreign troops parading down Press, c1975. extensive collection of 20th-century self-defense in which the Russians Svetlanka) as well as scenic views of Russian visual culture. themselves might be willing to accept Siberia’s architectural and natural Additional Resources assistance.” The question, of course, landscapes, among them Golden Polar Bear Expedition Digital Collections. Ann Arbor, MI: was which one of the various warring Horn Bay. Bentley Historical Library, s.d., . constituted the true representatives of in character from the official pictures Gibson Bell Smith, “Guarding the Railroad, Taming the the Russian nation. and panoramic landscapes preserved 1All the quotes from Eichelberger’s correspondence Cossacks: The U.S. Army in Russia, 1918–1920,” Prologue The PictureS eries, comprising in the albums. These are much less are taken from Paul Chwialkowski’s 1991 Duke Magazine 34, no. 4 (2002), http://www.archives.gov/ over a thousand photographs, romanticized images of everyday life University doctoral dissertation, “A ‘Near Great’ publications/prologue/2002/winter/us-army-in-russia-1.html. complements the written record of in eastern Siberia: an enormous hog General: The Life and Career ofR obert L. John M House, “Wolfhounds and Polar Bears in Siberia: Eichelberger’s tour of duty in eastern outside a Chinese tailor’s shop; three Eichelberger” (Ph.D., Duke University, 1991). America’s Military Intervention, 1918-1920” (Ft. Belvoir Siberia and is equally important. peasant children; a young Russian Chwialkowski’s thesis has been published under Defense Technical Information Center, 1986) http://handle. Some of the photographs are loose soldier almost drowning in his big the title In Caesar’s Shadow: The Life of General Erik Zitser is the librarian for Slavic and Robert Eichelberger [ Contributions in military dtic.mil/100.2/ADA177753. and some have been pasted, probably fur hat and heavy military overcoat. East European Studies. studies, no. 141] (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993).

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34 Duke University Libraries Fall 2008 35 Libraries Host 2008 Weaver Lecture on November 12

Oliver Sacks, M.D. will present the 2008 Weaver Lecture, which the Libraries host biennially in memory of William Weaver T’72, a former member of the Library Advisory Board. This year the Weaver Lecture is co-sponsored by the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.

Sacks, professor of clinical neurology and clinical psychiatry at Columbia University and the author of Musicophilia: Tales nc. I of Music and the Brain, will speak on the subject of “Music, Healing and the Brain.” In addition to Musicophilia, Sacks is also author of nine other books, including Awakenings and The Man oyce Carlton, Carlton, oyce R Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.

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