Volume 38 | Number 3 Article 9

1-1-2011 News from the Midwest Midwest Archives Conference

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This News from the Midwest is brought to you for free and open access by Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in MAC Newsletter by an authorized editor of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. News from the Midwest—Audrey McKanna Coleman, University of Kansas, and Troy Eller, Wayne State University, Assistant Editors Please submit “News from the Midwest” items for Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Ohio to Troy Eller at [email protected], and items for Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, South Dakota, and Wisconsin to Audrey McKanna Coleman at [email protected].

University of Illinois at ILLINOIS Urbana-Champaign The Sousa Archives and Center Illinois Wesleyan University for American Music wrapped up (IWU) its annual American Music Month The Tate Archives & Special Col- celebration in November 2010. This lections in The Ames Library at year’s programming commemorated IWU is the home of four collections the 100th anniversary of the Sousa related to Environmental Studies. Band’s World Tour 1910–1911, as These materials are available for well as the golden age of baseball in researchers from any part of IWU’s the United States (1900–1920), with community, both on and off campus, concerts, exhibits, and lectures. The in support of the University’s commit- events included a new exhibition ment to sustainability and the IWU from the Smithsonian Institution’s Environmental Studies Program. In National Museum of American His- October, a formal reception was held tory, “America’s Golden Age of Base- for representatives from The Ecology ball through Music,” featuring rare Action Center, the ParkLands Foun- baseball cards and published sheet dation, and the John Wesley Powell music documenting the early history Audubon Society. Author, biologist, of American baseball; a concert by activist, and IWU alumna Sandra the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Steingraber also was present as all four NU versus KU, December 12, 1957. Orchestra under the baton of Bob collections were officially opened for Thompson from The Baseball Music use. Descriptions of the collections Wilt Chamberlain and Nick Man- tis; Joe Ruklick (#11) can be seen Project; and a concert by the Univer- are available at http://www.iwu.edu/ behind Chamberlain. Northwestern sity of Illinois’ Harding and Hindsley library/services/enviro_studies.shtml. University Syllabus. Symphonic Bands entitled “Rounding As part of a presentation entitled the Bases, Circling the Globe: Sousa’s MAC members’ teams. The game from “Gems from IWU History,” given World Tour and Baseball,” featur- December 7, 1957, against the Univer- during the 2010 Homecoming Back ing music held within the Center’s sity of Kansas (KU), shows Ruklick to College program, a research guide, collections. opposing KU’s Wilt Chamberlain. http://libguides.iwu.edu/iwuhistory, The two men later became teammates devoted to sources people can consult on the Philadelphia Warriors team on their own from off campus, was INDIANA (Ruklick memorably assisted on the fi- created. Links for finding aids for nal points of Chamberlain’s legendary Indiana University (IU) IWU’s physical collections also are 100-point scoring effort in a 169-147 The IU Libraries received a two-year provided. victory over the New York Knicks). grant from the National Historical Northwestern University (NU) The Archives has built a Web page, Publications and Records Commis- To welcome college basketball season, http://tinyurl​.com/32xo7gp, which sion to complete detailed processing the NU Archives has digitized fourteen includes more info about Ruklick, of the Birch Bayh Senatorial Papers. home-game films from the 1956–1959 some choice photos, and a link to each Bayh compiled an unparalleled record seasons and has made the films avail- of the games, which are silent, black- of legislative activity during his able through YouTube. The films were and-white (converted from 16mm), 18 years of service as senator from donated by NU alumnus and All- and run between 25–40 minutes Indiana (1963–1980), ranging from American basketball star Joe Ruklick, each. The conversion was done by the spearheading successful congres- and all but two of the games feature Chicago Film Archives. sional passage of the 25th and 26th 12 MAC Newsletter • January 2011 News From The Midwest—Continued Audrey McKanna Coleman and Troy Eller, Assistant Editors amendments to the Constitution to the book is the Chancellor Wolfson the correction of abuses within the Collection at the IUSB Archives. military justice system. He was the prime mover in the development Mennonite Church USA of comprehensive federal disaster The Mennonite Church USA Ar- relief and in the protection of citizen chives in Goshen recently opened for rights in the development of the research the records of International Federal Intelligence Surveillance Voluntary Service, a private volunteer Act. He was throughout his career a organization founded in 1953 with strong advocate of civil rights for all, assistance from the U.S. Technical from disenfranchised groups to those Cooperation Agency, today known confined in institutions of all kinds. as USAID. Conceptualized by a com- For information on the papers, con- mittee that included Mennonites and tact Kate Cruikshank at cruiksha@ Brethren experienced in overseas relief indiana.edu. work, International Voluntary Ser- vices provided opportunities for edu- The UI University Libraries also is Indiana University–Purdue cated volunteers to serve in developing preserving and digitizing records from University Indianapolis (IUPUI) countries for nearly 50 years. The the beginning of the U.S. space pro- Kiwanis International, an orga- richest documentation in the records gram. In 1958, Explorer III became nization of members dedicated to are the project files, which include one of the first successful U.S. satellite changing the world one child and correspondence and reports from launches. It contained an experiment one community at a time, is the latest volunteer workers serving primarily built by UI Physics Professor James addition to the Philanthropy Archives in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Botswana, Van Allen and his students. The Uni- at IUPUI University Library. Starting Ecuador, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, versity Libraries is undertaking the with a simple motto in 1920 of “We and Zimbabwe. Other records include preservation and digitization of the Build” to their new motto, adopted executive council meeting minutes, original magnetic tapes documenting in 2005, of “Serving the Child of executive director files, publications, the first data transmitted from space the World,” the workings of this and photographs. http://mla.bethelks​ from Explorer III. http://www.lib​ organization document the develop- .edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/ .uiowa.edu/spec-coll/archives/ ment of fellowship and service from controlcard&id=272 its beginning in 1915. MICHIGAN Indiana University South Bend IOWA (IUSB) Wayne State University In November, IUSB’s Wolfson Press University of Iowa (UI) Thirty years ago, Poland captured the released a new book that chronicles A common part of student life at UI world’s attention when the workers of the university’s history as a campus used to be attending campus dances. the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk went in relation to its first chancellor, Dr. Dance partners were regulated by on strike and launched a national Lester Wolfson. A Campus Becom- the use of dance cards. Individuals rebellion. Solidarność, the free-trade ing: Lester M. Wolfson and Indiana would sign up on a woman’s card for union born during the strike, devel- University South Bend 1964–1987 an opportunity to accompany her oped into a social movement that es- was edited by Ken Smith, associate on the dance floor. Mary Ingram of tablished a democratic government in professor of English and director of Sheldon, Iowa, recently donated to Poland and eventually led to the end the Wolfson Press. The book contains the UI Archives over 70 dance cards of the Cold War in Eastern Europe. three sections: a campus history, an spanning from 1922 through 1934. The Walter P. Reuther Library’s latest essay on the chancellor, and a selec- Each dance card is characterized by exhibit, Solidarność: Poland’s Struggle tion of his correspondence, speeches, decorative cover art, some of which is for Freedom, 1980–1990, provides and scholarly papers. The bulk of hand-colored. They provide a welcome a historical account of Solidarność the material consulted and used for glimpse of the social customs of a vanished age. (Continued on page 14) MAC Newsletter • January 2011 13 News From The Midwest—Continued Audrey McKanna Coleman and Troy Eller, Assistant Editors

(Continued from page 15) plant genetics, veterinary medicine, entomology, animal husbandry, food science, and more. This project is financed in part with funds provided by the State of Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the Minnesota Historical Society.

MISSOURI Western Historical Manuscript Collection–Columbia (WHMCC) The papers of Walter Bargen, the first poet laureate of the State of Missouri, are available for research at WHMCC. Bargen completed his two-year ap- Exhibit team members (from left) Katie Dowgiewicz, Elizabeth Clemens, Dan Golod- pointment as poet laureate in January ner, and Kristen Chinery pose with Lech Wałęsa (second from right) at the opening of 2010. Bargen is the author of more Solidarność. than 10 critically-acclaimed works of poetry and prose, including Days Like from the events leading up to the first This Are Necessary (2009), Remedies for strike in 1980 through the 1989 elec- MINNESOTA Vertigo (2006), and The Feast (2003). tion in Poland. The exhibit features He has won several awards, including powerful photographs taken during University of Minnesota the William Rockhill Nelson Award resistance activities and evocative Last year, the University Archives for poetry (2005) and Chester H. Jones graphics produced by the movement’s received state Legacy funding to Foundation poetry prize (1997). Part underground press. In addition to organize and catalog 1,750 cubic of Bargen’s childhood was spent in the Reuther’s own collections, the feet of university archival materials his mother’s homeland of Germany, exhibit showcases material from documenting the history of agriculture following World War II. His family several institutions and individuals. in Minnesota. When completed this eventually settled in Belton, Missouri, The exhibit is open to the public June, on-line, searchable finding aids and he graduated from the University and will be on display until July 1. will help an international community of Missouri–Columbia with a degree Visit the Reuther’s Facebook page of researchers to locate and access the in philosophy in 1970. Twenty years for images from the exhibit opening, collections. These collections are an later he earned a master’s degree in which featured guest of honor Lech invaluable source for scientific inquiry English education from MU. He is a Wałęsa, the Solidarność leader and and are equally significant for those senior account coordinator at the MU former Polish president. http://www​ interested in the social, cultural, politi- College of Education’s Assessment .facebook.com/reutherlib cal, and economic history of the state Resource Center and he maintains and its national and international role a busy schedule of appearances and Additional information about the in agriculture. The agricultural col- readings. His Web site is http://www​ exhibit is available on the Reuther’s lections date from 1871 to the present .walterbargen.com/. new blog. In addition to announcing and document the development of major events, Reuther archivists use Minnesota’s agricultural extension the blog to introduce researchers and experiment stations, and the NEBRASKA to collections related to popular university’s campuses, colleges, and research topics as well as to unique departments where generations of Nebraska State Historical and hidden collections. http://www​ Minnesotans were educated in plant Society .reuther​.wayne.edu/node/6885 pathology, home economics, beekeep- The Nebraska State Historical Society ing, forestry, agronomy, horticulture, has published a history of aviation in 14 MAC Newsletter • January 2011 News From The Midwest—Continued Audrey McKanna Coleman and Troy Eller, Assistant Editors

of teaching children through music cords. Through a systematic program and published “Threshold to Music.” of compliance with neglected records Richards’s goals in music education disposal schedules, environmental led to the development of the seminal improvements and monitoring, and program, “Education through Mu- conservation treatment, Montgomery sic,” and the creation of the Richards County Records Center and Archives Institute of Music Education and staff members have demonstrated Research. She was inducted into the that even monumental problems Music Educators Hall of Fame in can be mitigated if approached with 2008. For more information about determination and creativity. The Richards and “Education through results of their efforts include reduced The Lincoln Playboy, shown here Music,” visit http://go.unl.edu/6t5 or storage costs, improved access, and in 1931, was designed in Lincoln, Nebraska, with the goal of being a http://go.unl.edu/3ek. the confidence that the early records marketable small plane. of Montgomery County will survive. http://www.mcohio.org/services/ Nebraska. Wings Over Nebraska was OHIO recordarchives/about.html researched and written by society volunteer Vince Goeres and showcases Ohio Historical Records more than two hundred photographs Advisory Board (OHRAB) WISCONSIN and documents from the society’s col- The winners of the 2010 Ohio lections. The book includes chapters Historical Records Advisory Board’s University of Wisconsin– on Nebraska’s early pilots (who were Achievement Awards are Cleveland Milwaukee (UWM) often farm boys with a daredevil State University’s Michael Schwartz Researchers interested in the his- streak); Nebraska’s only World War Library Special Collections Depart- tory of Milwaukee’s 1960s African I flying ace, Orville Ralston; the ment and Montgomery County Re- American civil rights movement nationally known Lincoln Aviation cords Center and Archives. Cleveland have access to a new on-line resource and Flying School where Charles State’s Special Collections Depart- featuring selected materials from Lindbergh learned to fly; air shows and ment has led the Cleveland Memory the papers of local leaders, activists, stunt flying; Nebraska’s World War II Project since its beginning in 2002. and community organizations. The air bases; and many other stories of Project partners have made more than March on Milwaukee Civil Rights Nebraska’s role in the development 42,000 images and other historic History Project is available at http:// of aviation. For more information, items available on-line. Practicum www.marchonmilwaukee.uwm.edu. see http://www​.nebraskahistory.org/ and internship opportunities provide The digital collection, which was a col- wings. real-world experience to students, laborative effort of the UWM Libraries while bringing fresh from the class- and the UWM History Department, University of Nebraska— room perspectives to practitioners. contains more than 2,200 documents, Lincoln (UNL) Cleveland Memory is a model of 22 photographs, 19 oral histories, Archives and Special Collections at multi-institutional collaboration and 20 news film clips, amounting to the University Libraries has received melding local collection knowledge, almost two hours of footage. Many of the collection of publications, per- shared infrastructure, and profes- these heavily-used materials are owned sonal correspondence, photographs, sional development opportunities. by the Wisconsin Historical Society, and videotapes of Mary Helen Bush http://www.clevelandmemory.org/ and frequently travel throughout the Richards, Music Educator Hall of state’s Area Research Center (ARC) In 2006, the Montgomery County Re- Fame member, and UNL alumna. network. March on Milwaukee also cords Center and Archives faced every Richards graduated with distinction includes contextual information to archivist’s nightmare. Active mold, from the University of Nebraska with enhance understanding of the primary cracked spines on bound volumes, a bachelor’s degree in music in educa- sources, and in the near future, cur- and inadequate storage threatened the tion in May 1944. While teaching in ricular and teaching resources will be existence of the county’s historic re- California, she recognized the value developed for the site.

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