Library Connections February 2007 • Volume 3, Number 1 MU Libraries • University of Missouri-Columbia Philanthropy Plants Seeds of Growth urrounded by the results Jo Ann Trogdon are significantly William Trogdon, who writes of their generosity, 18 increasing their giving to the MU under the name of William Least Sindividuals and three orga- Libraries, elevating them to the Heat-Moon, holds four degrees nizations were honored Oct. 27 level of Jefferson Club Ambassador. from MU. He is the author of Blue at the unveiling of the MU Highways, Prairyerth, Libraries Donor Wall in and River-Horse. the James B. Nutter Family William Stauffer, Information Commons at chair of the MU Ellis Library. Libraries’ For All Approximately 100 people We Call Mizzou attended the unveiling of campaign steering the donor wall, created by committee, and Thomas D. Osborn of Boston. Director Jim The wall honors the donors Cogswell expressed who contributed to the James their gratitude for the B. Nutter Family Information generosity that trans- Commons. forms the libraries Following the unveiling, The names of Barbara and Donald Hiatte, left, and Nell and into vibrant areas of Chancellor Brady Deaton Tom Lafferre, right, and other donors are inscribed on the scholarly engagement. announced that William and new James B . Nutter Information Commons Donor Wall .

Cups We Love to Admire Table of Contents The late John Schweitzer, BS BA ’52, and his Where Discovery Begins . . . 2 wife, Jo Ann, donated their collection You Can Adopt a Book . . . . 2 of Royal Doulton loving cups to the Delving into Fashion . . . . . 3 libraries . Loving cups originated Save the Date ...... 3 from an old English custom of passing a spiced Exhibit Extends beverage from person to Libraries’ Reach ...... 3 person to ensure good 16th Century Treasures . . . .4-5 crops and health . These Queen Greets commemorative cups Library Society ...... 6 feel right at home at Ellis Book Exhibit Library: Most have literary Catalogs Available ...... 6 themes, from Dickens to Harvard Hosts Cogswell The Three Musketeers . Conversation ...... 7 The cup illustrated features an apothecary and the quote Calendar of Events ...... 7 from Romeo and Juliet: “O true Upcoming Luncheon apothecary Thy drugs are quick ”. The ...... 7 new loving cups will be dedicated in a Archiving Family Memories . . 8 ceremony April 14 .

Library Connections •  Save This Date— MU Libraries — Where Discovery Begins Interlibrary Borrowing March 20, 2007 Upon announcing his legacy gift to the manuscript had been in Ellis Library a world-class library, and that the Department to the Rescue Connecting with the MU Libraries, Will Trogdon recalled since 1928, most recently in the University of Missouri at Columbia “Wired” Generation his fondness for the University’s Western Historical Manuscript has such a resource. It has that aime Minard, a graduate Information technology is libraries. His remarks follow: Collection annex. How wonderful distinction because of the work student in Textiles and exploding. The millennial that something so rare, so valuable, and contributions of those who Apparel Management, hen I came to the J generation expects a wide array was lying there for all to see, yet have gone before us. I believe had a problem. She needed University in 1957 as of information delivery systems, no one had. That surely is evidence it’s incumbent on us to continue to read 500 issues of Women’s a freshman, I had little from text messaging to video W that many more such works lie building on what others have done. Wear Daily for a research paper. idea how important the library phones. How do libraries, faculty undiscovered within the confines I also consider the cost of my The Interlibrary Borrowing would become in my life. The and support units address their of Ellis Library. It is still a place undergraduate education at MU Department of the Access building was then called simply the demands while serving traditional (as it was then) the greatest bargain Services Division helped University of Missouri Library, and users, too? I’ve ever known: my four years of Minard obtain the magazines. Elmer Ellis was president of only The 2007 Scholarly tuition in the 1950s cost less than The oversized bound the Columbia campus. Because a Jaime Minard, MU graduate student, Communications Conference seven hundred dollars. Today, I want volumes, many with brittle examined old volumes of Women’s Wear rule then did not allow freshmen will offer answers March 20 in to repay a small percentage of what paper, arrived from the Daily for her research on the St . Louis — except those admitted to Honors Columbia at a session titled “The I believe I owe my university, and Center for Research Libraries. fashion industry from the 1930s-1960s . courses — into the closed stacks, Millennial Dilemma: Convergence we’ve chosen to do that through a Interlibrary Borrowing staff they became for me an “inner and Divergence in Meeting the bequest to the library, the soul of the provided a room to house them and June DeWeese, head of Access sanctum,” a place to study and Needs of Higher Education.” university. helped Minard scan selected pages. Services, notes that primary source explore. For the first time, I saw how Keynote speakers will help Will and Jan Trogdon expressed their We have recently announced an Minard researched fashions from materials abound at Ellis, but if immense and complex was the world conference participants explore gratitude for the scholarly resources enlarged bequest and the eventual the 1930s through the 1960s for her specific resources are not available, of books. It was a realization that has ways to better meet the needs of available at Ellis Library during the donation of our books about project, which led to an article in Interlibrary Borrowing can help never left me. their own students and faculty. announcement of their significant gift exploration and travel in America; Focus, the newsletter of the Center obtain them. The library later provided to the MU Libraries Oct . 27 . They are: we believe these 3,000 books to be for Research Libraries. sources for my writing. Even more • Betsy Barefoot, co-director for importantly, in a roundabout way, for discovery. That William Clark one of the premiere collections of its manuscript led Jan to introduce type in the world. We hope what we the Policy Center on the First it brought my wife, Jan, and me Year of College and associate together. Several years ago, before herself and her project to me. She are doing now will encourage others sees Clark now not just as the to think about the Library in their professor of educational I met her, she discovered a virtually leadership, Brevard College, unknown manuscript by William subject of the book she is writing, to long-range estate planning as well as be published next year we hope, but an institution deserving immediate North Carolina; Clark about his trip down the • Chris Dede, Timothy E. Ohio and Mississippi rivers a few also as a matchmaker. We toast gifts. him regularly. We hope the MU Libraries will Wirth professor of learning years before he joined Meriwether technologies at the Harvard Lewis on their great voyage and Jan and I believe that at the go to people’s minds and hearts, as it heart of every great university is has to ours. Graduate School of Education; trek to the Northwest coast. The • Carie Windham, author of Getting Past Google: Book Conservation Gets Boost Perspectives on Information Literacy from the Millennial U Libraries house many A $200,000, three-year grant from and other expenses for the initial Mind and Father Google and rare and unique books. the Kemper Foundation comple- phase of a comprehensive new plan Mother IM: Confessions of a MBecause of their age, these ments a new Adopt-A-Book program to provide for the preservation and Net Gen Learner; and materials require special care. The unveiled by the Friends of the MU restoration of endangered artifacts. • A panel of Missouri experts. William T. Kemper Foundation of Libraries. The program will allow You can join the effort to ensure Kansas City, Mo., and the Friends donors to sponsor a specific book continued access to rare books Registration forms and of the MU Libraries will combine or books. Their donations will be by future generations of scholars. additional information will be efforts to preserve these rare matched with Kemper grant funds. Contact Sheila Voss at vosss@ The Queen Elizabeth I exhibit attracted hundreds of viewers during its display available in February 2007 at at Ellis Library last fall . Community programs and presentations covering the resources. The grant will also fund staffing missouri.edu or 573-882-9168. mulibraries.missouri.edu art, music, theater and other features of Elizabethan culture accompanied the Questions and comments exhibit . Director Jim Cogswell said the exhibit was one of the libraries’ most be sent to June DeWeese at  • University of Missouri-Columbia successful outreach efforts in recent years . Library Connections •  [email protected] New and Rare Acquisitions HONOR with BOOKS elebrate a special occasion. • Favorite professor By Alla Barabtarlo, senior librarian, issued by Sebastian (1554) and his The name Gryphius is a CHonor a friend, family • Memorial tributes Rare Books and Special Collections illegitimate son, Antonius, in 1574. Latinized form of Greif, or griffin, member or favorite professor. The Gryphius family of printers sometimes spelled “gryphon,” the • Graduations The libraries have recently was very colorful and industrious. mythical animal with the head and Acknowledge an accomplishment. acquired some rare and wonderful According to the Bibliographie wings of an eagle and the body of a • Birthdays 16th century Lyonnaise, Sebastian Greif was lion. One of the most characteristic An MU Libraries Honor with • Anniversaries books by born in Würtemberg, in features of this printer’s house is Books donation is the perfect Ovid, adding 1493 and came to Lyon after some their printer’s device and a motto: way to provide a lasting tribute to • Retirements to the already time spent in with his father, Virtute duce, comite fortuna — Bartholomeus Merula, published remarkable Michel, also a printer. A number of “guided by valor, accompanied by in Lyon by Johannes de Platea special people in your life. holdings by this bibliographies suggest that by 1528 good fortune” — a quotation from in 1512. first century the Gryphiuses’ printer house was Cicero’s letter to Lucius Munatius Jean de La Place, known as For as little as $100, you Latin poet. already established. Plancus. Johannes de Platea was a professor can honor the person of The Complete The first part of the 16th Even rarer is another work of of civil and Roman law, and your choice. Every $100 Works of Ovid century was a time when the Ovid’s recently purchased by MU printing was perhaps his hobby. He increment funds the acquisition of one new book in Four Volumes, printers of Lyon were vigorously Libraries, Ars Amatoria et Remedio wrote several books and selected by an MU Libraries’ printed by Sebastian and Antonius developing and intellectual life was Amoris, with the commentary of also printed a few, mainly for subject specialist. Names of Gryphius at Lyon, France, 1554- flourishing. They benefited Jean Robion and Jean de Clauso 1574, is a rare set, registered only from being away from the honoree and the donor in Lyon. will appear on a bookplate by Yale University. the rigorous censorship Ars Amatoria is a poem in three inside the Our set was compiled by the of the theologians of the parts, in elegiac meter; it gives book’s front owner of the books — as was University of Paris. advice on conquering women (Book cover and in Yale’s — from different print runs By 1536, Sebastian I) and retaining their love (Book II); the computer Gryphius founded L’Atelier the third book, added later in order display of the du Griffon and became an to compensate women for the first Libraries’ independent printer. His two, teaches them how to seduce online hospitable house attracted men. Ovid describes the meeting catalog. We brilliant people — scholars, places, fashionable Roman haunts will endeavor to fulfill any preference linguists and classicists and different occasions when the regarding subject matter — who were frequently adventuress would plot her intrigue. for books purchased. All printers as well, and could Ovid died in exile in 17 AD at help each other with the gifts are tax-deductible, and a barbaric settlement, Tomis (now notification of gifts can be intricacies of Latin, Greek a Romanian Black Sea resort), sent to the honoree or the and Hebrew. They included and some think that Ars Amatoria honoree’s family. the famous writer François was one of the reasons for his Rabelais, Étienne Dolet, a punishment. poet and scholar who was Help strengthen the later accused of atheism by collections of the MU The Gryphius family used a griffin on Libraries. Make a gift to the the theological faculty of their printer’s device, or logo, above, Honor with Books program. the Sorbonne and burned and on the title page of the Complete at the stake, and many Works of Ovid in Four Volumes, top For more information, other quick-witted but left . The leather bound volume of Ars call Gena Scott at 573-882-6371, unconventional friends. Amatoria and Remedio Amoris and Your participation in our Honor its title page, left, show the degree of e-mail [email protected] or with Books program enables the write to Honor with Books, ornamentation in this rare 16th century MU Libraries to meet the ever- 104 Ellis Library, Columbia, book recently acquired by the libraries . MO 65201-5149 increasing demands placed on  • University of Missouri-Columbia Library Connections •  Missouri’s largest public research University.

MU Libraries Host Alumni Event in Boston Illuminating the Art of the Book Have a Spring Fling at Annual he MU Libraries hosted BA ’02, assistant manager of nyone who doubted that exhibit, “Art of the Book, 1000 a gathering at Harvard operations for Harvard Athletics, books are an artform – 1650: Manuscripts and Early Donor Appreciation TUniversity on Nov. 8 Boston; Amy Mills Tunnicliffe, A became convinced at the Printing.” Ceremony and for 15 alumni and friends. Jim BJ ’86, author of Peace, Love and recent exhibit “The Art of the The opening reception for Luncheon Cogswell, director of MU Libraries, Barbeque and director of The Proper Book: 1650 – present: Illustration this joint exhibit was held Sept. gave a presentation about the Manner, Hingham, Mass.; and Bryan and Design.” 15 in Ellis Library. Jim Cogswell, The 12th Annual MU enduring value of books and Crane, ME ’99, senior engineer for The collaboration between director of MU Libraries, Joan Libraries Donor Appreciation libraries. U.S. Genomics, Somerville, Mass. MU Libraries and the Museum of Stack, associate curator at the Ceremony will be held April The event was held at the Murr Other alumni in attendance included MU alumni Elizabeth Murry, Scott Beyerl and Amy Mills Tunnicliffe Art and Archeology explored the Museum of Art and Archeology, 14 in the Friends Colonnade Lounge on the Harvard campus in graduates from 1942 to 2002. attended the MU Libraries reception aesthetic aspect and evolution of and Alex W. Barker, director of the in Ellis Library. The annual Boston. Three area alumni hosted Plans are under way to host similar at Harvard University on Nov . 11 . book production Museum of Art Donor Appreciation Ceremony the event: Mark Bresnahan, events in other cities in the U.S. over four centuries. and Archeology, celebrates those whose gifts have The exhibit pointed out created collection endowments Queen Elizabeth Reigns Over Dinner featured etchings, highlights of for the MU Libraries. lithographs, original the display, and ueen Elizabeth I and her Queen Elizabeth exhibit on display at Stauffer, chairman of the libraries’ Every year, donors are invited illustration and thanked the court greeted guests at the Ellis Library. campaign steering committee, to place bookplates into books books illustrated donors, staff annual Library Society John Y. Cole, founder and thanked guests for their commitment that have been purchased Q with original and volunteers with their endowment funds. dinner Oct. 28 at the Reynolds director of the Center for the Book to the high standards of academic engravings. It drew for making the Alumni Center in Columbia. Actors at the Library of Congress, gave achievement exemplified by the Chancellor Emeritus Richard materials from the exhibit possible. from Columbia Entertainment the keynote address on “Promoting libraries. Director Jim Cogswell Wallace and Jim Cogswell, Museum of Art The exhibit director of MU Libraries, will Company dressed in Elizabethan Reading in the Electronic Age.” recognized new and current Library and Archeology, UM President Emeritus Mel ran from Sept. costume interacted with the 80 Cole drew from his experience at Society members and described recognize the donors and present the State Historical George admires the Art of the Book 16 – Dec. 24, society members in attendance. the Library of Congress to describe accomplishments made possible by II exhibit on display at the Museum them with their books. Society of Missouri, 2006. If you Queen Elizabeth I would have felt national efforts to nurture the culture their support. of Art & Archeology . Doug Crews, president of and the Special would like to at home during the event, with menu of reading and books the Friends of the Libraries, Collections, Archives and Rare purchase the accompanying catalogs items from that era such as Yorkshire through decades Director Jim Cogswell will preside over the 17th presented keynote speaker Books division of the MU Libraries. for these two exhibits, please contact pudding. Renaissance music and of technological Annual Friends of the John Y . Cole, left, with a The exhibit followed up Sheila Voss at [email protected] or elegant decorations reflected the changes. Libraries Luncheon, to be held Library Society tie for his chronologically with the 2005 573-882-9168. immediately following the Donor Elizabethan theme, all timed to Chancellor Brady presentation on promoting Appreciation Ceremony at the coincide with the highly successful Deaton and Bill reading in an electronic age . Reynolds Alumni Center. Ron Powers, Pulitzer Prize- Library Calendar of Events winning journalist and author of Society Mark Twain: A Life and Flags of Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to March 10 – April 20 members Emancipation Exhibit Our Fathers will be the featured posed for Reception and Tour — Forever Free: Abraham speaker and will hold a book a formal Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation signing immediately after the portrait luncheon. Oct . 28 . – April 30 Miniature Book Society Traveling Exhibit Winners of the Robert J. Stuckey essay contest and MU Libraries Faculty Lecture Series their teachers will receive their March 20 Scholarly Communications Conference awards at the luncheon. The essay contest is open to all Queen Elizabeth and her two ladies-in-waiting greeted April 14 Friends of the Libraries Annual Luncheon Missouri high school students Larry and Marilyn McMullen, left, and Ron and Judy and is administered and funded Wood, right, at the Library Society Dinner . April 14 MU Libraries Donor Appreciation Ceremony by the Friends of the Libraries organization.  • University of Missouri-Columbia Library Connections •  MU Libraries Development Staff Jim Cogswell Director of Libraries MU Libraries Development Office cogswellja@missouri .edu (573) 882-4701 University of Missouri-Columbia 104 Ellis Library Gena Scott Columbia, MO 65201-5149 Director of Development scottgl@missouri .edu (573) 882-6371 Sheila Voss Library Development Coordinator vosss@missouri .edu (573) 882-9168 Library Connections is a bi-annual publication of the MU Libraries. If you’d like to support the MU Libraries go to mulibraries.missouri.edu/give or at scottgl@missouri edu.

The Future Foretold By Steve Weinberg As I write this, I am sitting at a desk in the University of Missouri–Columbia archive center, on the seventh floor of Lewis Hall. Even though I have submitted a draft of the Journalism School centennial history book, I am looking through files that eluded me earlier because of time crunches. In one of the boxes, I find Ledes, an internal J-School newsletter circulated to staff and faculty. The date is April 28, 1980. At the time, I served as the J-School faculty member in Washington, D.C. Ledes announces the birth of our daughter, Sonia. The item says, “The prospective member of the BJ class of Sonia, daughter of Steve Weinberg, BJ ’70, and Scherrie Goettsch, BS HES ’87, fulfilled the Ledes prediction . She is 2002 is the first child of Steve and Scherrie.” now a writer living in Memphis, Tenn . Weinberg is writing Some of you already know the punch line. Sonia a history of the Missouri School of Journalism, to be pub- grew up, attended the J-School, and received her BJ lished for its centennial in 2008 . degree, class of 2002.

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