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The Compass Special Collections the University of Texas at Arlington Library R SE Vol The Compass Special Collections The University of Texas at Arlington Library R SE Vol. XXIII • No. 1 • Spring 2009 COLLE C TING OUR HISTORY : 35 YEARS OF SPE C IAL COLLE C TIONS By Evelyn Barker alk into almost any high school, W college, or public library in the United States and you will find the same thing: Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling; Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte; Time magazine. There will be best-selling and award-winning books on one shelf, and the classics on another. You will find a book that is now a major motion picture (although the book was better), and the self-help book that will get your life back on track (again). When you move to a new town, you need not fear that the library does not own the works of Stephen King from Bag of Bones to The Tommyknockers. These are all good things. That we can produce books so cheaply and so copi- ously, and then allow the public to borrow those books freely, is absolutely marvelous and a hallmark of a great society. But some lucky libraries have a little something extra: a section for the rare, valuable, historical, and irreplaceable. Libraries often call this section Special Maverick, the horse, with Sam Maverick, the human counterpart, 1971. Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collections—a dead giveaway that this Collection. part of the library is, well . special. Virginia Garrett of Fort Worth. The Dallas did Mr. Garrett begin to fully succumb to Special Collections are completely unique. Morning News hailed the Garrett’s gift as the “disease” of collecting, as he called it. Unlike the high school, college or public one of the most “thorough concentrations During his travels in the U.S. and abroad, library, no two Special Collections are of Texas history to 1850.” he visited many bookstores and began exactly alike. Even if two or more Special In a 2003 biographical article, Gerald amassing items related to Texas history Collections focus on a common subject Saxon wrote that Mr. Garrett, while at- and the United States’ war with Mexico of (for example, Texas history), no library will tending The University of Texas at Austin 1846-1848. Among the exceptional pieces have the same sets of handwritten letters in the 1930s, attended a U.S. history he collected are courtship letters from Sam and diaries, a duplicate accumulation of class taught by the great historian Walter Houston to Anna Raguet, broadsides such photographs, or interchangeable holdings Prescott Webb and became fascinated with as the Texas Declaration of Independence of first-edition books signed by the author. Webb’s idea of history as an adventure that (March 2, 1836), and a book of Spanish The Beginning of UT Arlington’s impacted people over time. Webb also in- explorations published in 1601. Special Collections troduced Mr. Garrett to Texas’s importance But, as Saxon wrote, Mr. Garrett was Thirty-five years ago, on March 3, 1974, to the West and the U.S. as a whole. interested in more than just collecting; he the Library opened its Special Collections These lectures stayed with Mr. Garrett. wanted others to use and appreciate the with great fanfare. The impetus for this During the 1940s and early 1950s, he items he had gathered. With that goal in opening was an incredible donation of concentrated on supporting the war effort, mind, Mr. Garrett, then a member of the over 10,000 books, documents, manu- building his career as an attorney, and UT System Board of Regents (1969-1975), scripts, and other items by Jenkins and starting a family. Not until the late 1950s donated the collection to The University Continued on page 2 of Southwest Archivists joint session at tions’ reprographics policies and forms. UPDATE the Texas Historical Association annual The ability to reproduce images digitally meeting, Voices from the Frontier: Letters has led to unpredictable and increasing FROM THE from Texas Manuscript Collections, and requests for, and previously unforeseen was one of the three presenters. She spoke uses of, our materials, which turned our COORDINATOR about our John Jay Good Letters and I, as policies and processes on their heads and current SSA President, chaired the session. often raise intellectual property issues. By Ann E. Hodges As 2008-09 Vice-President of SSA, Brenda We undertook a complete re-examination was responsible for arranging SSA’s May and comparison to practices in similar annual conference program. At the SSA institutions. We hope these improvements nother busy semester has brought a conference, she chaired the session Serving and the creation of a flow-chart for staff Alot of activity to Special Collections. Genealogists: Issues of Outreach, Education, to consult when filling orders will result Class instruction sessions and research Digitization, Privacy, and Confidential- in better service to our patrons and less visits by UT Arlington students seem more ity, at which Lea Worcester spoke; Claire perplexity for staff. The other project numerous than usual, keeping everyone Galloway presented in a session on labor we finished was the complete rewrite of hopping. Adding to the whirlwind is ongo- archives. Carolyn Kadri continues as Chair our Archives and Manuscripts Processing ing work on the Tejano Voices project, of ALA’s Maps and Geography Round- Manual, which Brenda McClurkin and I partially funded by our grant from the table, and experienced a whirlwind of her produced in its 5th edition just in time for TexTreasures initiative of the Texas State own preparing for MAGERT business at its use by the spring archives graduate class Library and Archives Commission. Leslie the January mid-winter meeting. She’ll taught by Gerald Saxon. Developments af- Wagner joined us in early February to take stay busy with her responsibilities until fecting the description of archives over the over analysis and description of the oral her term of office ends at the June annual last few years have had a major impact on history interviews selected for this phase of meeting. our practices and made the rewrite of the the project. Her work is being supervised We are happy to have finished a couple manual essential. One of our next projects by Carolyn Kadri, Special Collections of major efforts. Lea Worcester, Cathy will be to make it available online, but that Cataloger. Spitzenberger, Brenda McClurkin and I will require expertise we will have to find A number of presentations by the received Applause Awards for our inten- outside Special Collections. The challenges Special Collections staff are on tap or sive review and revision of Special Collec- certainly never stop coming! have already occurred this spring. Lea Worcester and Evelyn Barker (Information Literacy staff member and valued volun- Collecting our History Continued from page 1 teer in Special Collections) gave presenta- tions at the Texas Library Association and of Texas at Arlington Library. After this mascot, replacing the lackluster Blue Rid- the Louisiana Library Association annual outstanding beginning, Special Collections ers. Once the mascot was determined, it meetings. They hope also to present at the began growing along the lines laid out by was natural for other motifs of the Confed- Arkansas Library Assocation and the Texas the Garretts and now encompasses the his- eracy to appear around that theme. Band Council for Social Studies conference. tory of Texas, Mexico, and the Southwest, uniforms sported a large Confederate flag. (They say they’re aiming for all 50 states!) as well as that of UT Arlington. “Dixie” became the fight song. Student Brenda McClurkin organized the Society About the Exhibit Congress flew the Confederate flag outside Truly, the UT Arlington Library’s of the student center. The Compass Rose is published semiannually by Special Collections has transformed from None of this was a problem for the Special Collections, The University of Texas at a jewel in 1974 to a treasure trove in 2008. all-white student body of ASC; however, in Arlington Library, Box 19497, Arlington, Texas 1962, ASC integrated. That same year, the 76019-0497. ISSN 1065-9218 The spring 2009 exhibit, “Collecting our History: 35 Years of Special Collec- campus newspaper, The Shorthorn, edito- Special Collections and other staff members tions,” celebrated the evolution of Special rialized that the Confederate Rebel theme who helped produce this issue are: was no longer appropriate. Ann Hodges (editor), Evelyn Barker, Maggie Collections by focusing on five areas of Dwyer, Claire Galloway, Ben Huseman, Brenda strength: the histories of UT Arlington, the This was the beginning of what would McClurkin, Erin O’Malley and Lea Worcester. Fort Worth area, Texas, labor unions, and be a long battle, pitting tradition and The urposp e of The Compass Rose is to raise cartography. While these five areas are not school pride against a modern sense of awareness of Special Collections’ resources. The Special Collections’ only strengths, they justice and sensitivity. University archives newsletter also reports significant new programs, tell the story of the most divisive issue in initiatives and acquisitions of Special Collections. represent the diversity and depth of the campus history. Special Collections’ hours are 9 am to 7 pm on whole collection. Monday and 9 am to 5 pm Tuesday - Saturday. Rebels and Mavericks Casa Mañana: House of Tomorrow For special hours during summer, intersession and In 1951, as Jim Crow began to slink Historian T.R. Fahrenbach wrote, “The holidays, see http://library.uta.edu/about/loca- great difference between Texas and every tions.jsp#spco slowly away from the United States, Ar- lington State College (now UT Arlington) other American state in the twentieth A compass rose is a circle graduated to century was that Texas had a history.” In degrees in quarter points and printed embraced the romanticism of the Deep on a chart or map for reference.
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