Rajmohan Gandhi, Research Professor and Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, to Speak at Table of the Library Society Dinner, April 12, 2013. Contents he MU Libraries are pleased to organization with a primary objective to announce that Rajmohan Gandhi build trust across the world’s divides of Twill be this year’s speaker at the culture, nationality, belief and background. annual Library Society Dinner Since becoming involved with Initiatives April 12, 2013. Gandhi is a research for Change, Gandhi has been engaged professor at the Center for South Asian and in international efforts for trust-building, Middle Eastern Studies at the University reconciliation and democracy, and in battles of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He also against corruption and inequalities. His is the grandson of Indian political and efforts have included speaking, performing ILL Endowment spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi. public interventions and organizing 2 Gandhi was born in India in 1935 and dialogues. He served as the president of the attended St. Stephen’s College in New organization from 2009 through 2010. Meet Mary Ryan Delhi. In 1956 he began working with Gandhi is known not only for his 3 Initiatives of Change, a nongovernmental humanitarian and peacemaking initiatives but also for his writing. He has written Lanford Wilson extensively on the Indian independence 4 movement, great Indian leaders, Indo- Pakistan relations, human rights and Fall Event Photos conflict resolution. 6 (continued on Page 7) Rajmohan Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Theatre Conference Gandhi, will speak at the Library Society 7 Dinner April 12. He is a research professor at the University of Illinois and author of several books, including Mohandas: A True Story of a Man, His People and an Empire. Photo by Rajmohan Gandhi.

Carnegie Biographer to Speak at Friends of the Library Luncheon teven Watts, a history professor at MU and has published work in Sat the University of Missouri the American Quarterly, Journal of specializing in the cultural and American History, Journal of the Early intellectual history of the United Republic and American Studies. He States, will speak at the Friends also is the author of biographies of the Libraries Luncheon April covering the lives of Walt Disney, 20 at noon in the Reynolds Henry Ford and Hugh Hefner. Alumni Center. Watts has won His biography of Dale Carnegie is two prestigious teaching awards scheduled for publication in 2013.

Library Connections • 1 A Letter from the Director Meet the Librarian: Mary Ryan, Head of Reference ow that 2012 has come to a close, I can report that • Our Faculty Lecture Series has continued with Can you tell us a little about your been my good fortune to interact Nthe past year was both eventful and successful. presentations in the Ellis Library colonnade. This background and experience and with students more directly in my Thankfully, the year was not as eventful as 2011, when fall, we hosted lectures by Professor Devoney Looser, what led you to MU Libraries? earlier years and to supervise reference the disastrous fire in Ellis Library occupied our entire fall speaking on contemporaries of Jane Austen, and retiree After graduating from St. Louis librarians who carry out that work semester, so I am especially happy to share some of the Emma Jean McKinin, on humorists of the 19th century. University with a bachelor’s in today. Even though our libraries have successes of 2012 and a few upcoming events in 2013. • In November, we co-sponsored the Mizzou history, I worked in the U.S. subject specialists, all of the reference • On April 13, 2012, the annual Library Society Dinner Advantage symposium Cultural Bricolage: government for two different librarians are comfortable dealing with was held in the Grand Reading Room of Ellis Library. Artist Books of Cuba’s Ediciones Vigía. This agencies but the experience left me a variety of questions and concerns. We The event featured a fascinating talk by Nicholas multidisciplinary conference explored various topics yearning for a career that had more are simultaneously subject specialists Basbanes, author of eight books about books and the surrounding the work of a unique artists’ collective academic appeal. After four years in and generalists. Our work provides a people who collect them, write them, sell them and in Matanzas, Cuba, that produces limited edition civil service, I went to the University constant intellectual challenge. care for them. We now look forward to this year’s handmade books by Cuban and international of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign How has the role of the reference dinner on April 12, featuring Rajmohan Gandhi, authors and artisans. to work on a master’s degree in department changed since you grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and noted speaker on • This spring we will co-sponsor with the MU political science and history. I had first started working in reference? conflict resolution and human rights. [See calendar of the good fortune to meet other Department of Theatre, Angels in Performance: The most remarkable change is the role Photo by Marie Concannon events on Page 6] Documenting LGBTQ Lives in Theatre & graduate students, including students technology has played in transforming working on beginning and advanced Mary Ryan is head of the Ellis Library Performance, April 24-27. This conference also will the field of library and information reference department. • In May, U.S. Rep. Blaine Leutkemeyer, UM President degrees in library and information feature a celebration of the recent bequest to the science. In 1972 when I came to MU, Tim Wolfe, and U.S. Superintendent of Documents science from a variety of disciplines Mary Alice Baish were among the dignitaries on hand university of papers from the estate of Lanford Wilson, there was no Internet, no Google After serving 43 years at the MU and backgrounds. Although this Libraries, you have plans to retire to celebrate 150 years of the MU Libraries as a public Missouri’s own Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, who capability; reference resources were was a new field to me, I already primarily indexes, books, newspapers this year. What are your plans after depository of U.S. federal documents. Of the more died in March 2011. This notable collection of letters, had an interest not only in liberal and government documents searchable you retire? than 1,200 such libraries in the country, MU Libraries photographs, recordings and other unique artifacts is arts but also presidential libraries. I via hard copies or microfiche. We had has the distinction of being the 15th oldest. currently being catalogued by our University Archives completed my master’s and returned I would like to volunteer to help for use by students and scholars. print and even handwritten catalog low literacy adults develop better • During the fall semester, the MU Libraries hosted four a year later to the University of cards to search manually as we helped I hope to see many of you at these and other upcoming Illinois to pursue a master’s degree in reading skills whether it is English colloquia in the digital humanities. The combination patrons find needed books and journals. as a second language or others of computing technology and humanities scholarship events. As always, I offer everyone a standing invitation to library and information science. Electronic searching of databases, visit Ellis or any of our branch libraries to experience first- Upon graduation, I answered a who for a variety of reasons have has resulted in new methods of research and teaching, Internet resources, online searchable reading difficulties. Literacy deficits reflection on new media, and new modes of scholarly hand the many wonderful things happening here. Thank posting for a reference librarian at the catalogs with new discovery tools MU Libraries for an opening in the are likely to limit these individuals’ communication and collaboration. Each month, the you for your continued support of the MU Libraries. and e-books have brought rapid undergraduate library (which no longer functionality in their lives. I also series hosted presentations and meetings of MU Jim Cogswell change to our field and to the work exists). I started in February 1972 and would like to do some additional faculty, staff and students interested in these areas. Director of Libraries of the reference department. Online knew I had found the ideal career that traveling. I have been to Ireland three information and instruction content times and would enjoy going back! matched my interests and aptitude. provided by the reference staff has What are some of the unique expanded rapidly. We also have seen What has been your favorite Unique Endowment Supports the aspects of your job? the migration of books, journals and thing about working for the MU Libraries? MU Libraries Borrowing and Lending The reference department provides manuscripts scanned and stored in the important public interface and databases for access in this explosion My favorite part of my career has hanks to the support of for its return. Although books husband Edward H. Hunvald Jr., library assistance that students need as of information and knowledge. In been working with the university TKatherine Hunvald, PhD ’91, and journal articles are the most professor emeritus of law at MU, she they pursue their education. Knowing addition to providing face-to-face, students and knowing I am making the MU Libraries have the only frequently requested items, some decided it was her time to complete how our department impacts their mail and telephone reference as we a difference in their education in endowment in the country devoted libraries will lend audio recordings, her studies. educational lives through individual did in the early days, we now also such a positive way. It also has been to Interlibrary Loan (ILL). ILL is a video recordings, maps, sheet music While doing research for her reference assistance, library instruction, provide email, chat and text reference gratifying to work with faculty who service whereby a user of one library and microforms. In many cases, dissertation on early medieval collection management and web services. Mobile devices are changing depend upon library resources and can borrow books or receive copies nominal fees accompany interlibrary metalwork, she found that the MU development provides a sense of how we provide our services. The who work with the reference staff to of documents that are owned by loan services. Libraries art history collection was personal satisfaction to me. We also MU Libraries is also part of a state help shape the collections. I have a another library. The user makes a Hunvald, who graduated with excellent and comparable to the work with faculty and the general and countrywide system of resources passion for education and that gets to request with the local library, which, degrees in art history from Vassar collections of Vassar and Harvard. public providing assistance in countless networked for Interlibrary Loans many play out every day. I sometimes stop acting as an intermediary, identifies in 1952 and Radcliffe in 1953, had But she also found there were quite ways. The underlying constant is that of which are delivered electronically. and think about how grateful I am owners of the desired item, places always wanted to finish her research a few materials she needed that you get to work with a diversity of All these technological advances have to have worked on the University of the request, receives the item, makes and complete a doctoral program. interesting people and you deal with changed how students, faculty and Missouri campus and to have made it available to the user and arranges After raising a family with her (continued on Page 7) a wide array of library issues. It has librarians work with one another. many friendships over the years. 2 • University of Missouri Library Connections • 3 arly in 2011, the MU Libraries received the an advertising agency. It was in Chicago that Wilson papers and manuscripts of Lanford Wilson, realized the short stories he had been writing actually one of the premier American playwrights worked better in play form. Wilson also attended a class of the last half of the 20th century, as a bequest. in playwriting at the University of Chicago. Because of Considered one of the founders of the Off-Off a lack of live theatre opportunities in Chicago, Wilson BroadwayE movement, Wilson earned the 1980 Pulitzer relocated to New York City in 1962. Prize for the play Talley’s Folly, the second in his trilogy It was in New York that Wilson encountered of works dealing with familial relationships in small- playwriting success at a small Off-Off Broadway coffee town Missouri. Wilson is known for exploring the house/theater, Caffe Cino, where his play So Long themes of alienation, loneliness and cultural illusion at the Fair, was produced in 1963. Many of his early in his works, and he has been compared to influential plays were produced at Caffe Cino and at La Mama playwrights such as Tennessee Williams and William Experimental Theater Club. He would later have his Inge. Though not a graduate of the University of most famous plays premiere at the Circle Repertory Missouri, Wilson was a speaker and participant in the Company in New York City, an Off Broadway theatre Missouri Playwright’s Workshop program of the MU company that Wilson co-founded and for which he was Department of Theatre in 2006. resident playwright. The collection of more than 45 boxes is currently Among the works Wilson wrote for the Circle being prepared for public use by the staff of the Repertory Company were The Hot L Baltimore (which Special Collections, Archives & Rare Books division. won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for The collection includes extensive correspondence and the Best American Play in 1973), The Mound Builders, numerous play and short story manuscripts. Some of Serenading Louie, Fifth of July and Talley’s Folley. He also the materials in his manuscripts have neither been was the winner of several Tony Awards for other plays. published nor produced, making the scholarly research Actors who portrayed Wilson’s characters on Broadway value of this collection truly remarkable. include Judd Hirsch, Christopher Reeve, Swoosie Kurtz Lanford Wilson was born in 1937 in Lebanon, Mo. and Jeff Daniels. After the divorce and remarriage of his mother, Wilson The Special Collections, Archives & Rare Books moved to Ozark, where he graduated from Ozark Division anticipates the Lanford Wilson papers will be High School. Wilson began his collegiate studies at available for research sometime in 2013. Southwest Missouri State College (now Missouri State University). In 1956, Wilson moved to San Diego to live with his biological father, a situation that would provide material for his autobiographical play, Lemon Sky. While in San Diego, Wilson worked in an airplane manufacturing plant and enrolled in art and art history classes at San Diego State University. In 1957, Wilson moved to Chicago and worked as a graphic artist for

Opposite page: Early in 2011, the MU Libraries received the papers and manuscripts of Lanford Wilson, one of the premier American playwrights of the last half of the 20th century, as a bequest. Image courtesy of MU Libraries Special Collections.

Right: The collection that Wilson left to the MU Libraries includes a first draft ofTalley’s Folley, his 1979 one-act play that takes place on a Missouri farm. Image courtesy of MU Libraries Special Collections.

The life of 1937 1963 1969 1980 2001 2011 2013 Lanford Wilson is born Wilson’s play So Long Wilson co-founds the Circle Wilson is awarded the Wilson is elected into the Wilson dies in Wayne, Wilson’s manuscripts will Lanford Wilson in Lebanon, Mo. at the Fair is first Repertory Company, a highly Pulitzer Prize for his play Theatre Hall of Fame. N.J. of complications be available for research at a glance produced at Caffe Cino regarded collective of actors, Talley’s Folly. from pneumonia. at the MU Libraries. in New York City. playwrights and directors.

4 • University of Missouri Calendar of Events Fall Events at Libraries Co-sponsor Conference with Endowment (continued from Page 2) April 12 Theatre Department Ellis Library weren’t in the MU Libraries. MU Library Society dinner n concert with the scheduled MU The conference will feature Libraries’ ILL department was able Keynote speaker Rajmohan Gandhi I Department of Theatre production an onstage interview with to request materials from libraries 6–9:30 p.m. of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America Kushner, as well as workshops and throughout the world. But Hunvald Ellis Library Grand Reading Room (First Part: “The Millenium conference presentations on the finally put in an ILL request for an Approaches”), the MU Libraries nature of documenting LGBTQ article from a Swiss archaeology April 20 are sponsoring an interdisciplinary lives in theatre and performance. journal that could not be filled mini-conference titled “Angels in Presentations will include papers Friends of the Libraries because the cost of borrowing the Performance: Documenting LGBTQ on theatre and performance history, item was too expensive. This led annual meeting Kaden Clerkley, right, 9 years old Lives in Theatre & Performance” ethnography, theory, interactive from Temecula, Calif. decorates Hunvald to create an endowment 8:30–10:30 a.m. April 24–27. The conference will theatre and creative presentations a mini pumpkin at the annual for ILL so that researchers would Reynolds Alumni Center feature guest artist Tony Kushner, as keeping within the conference MU Libraries Open House on be able to access the materials they well as two major scholars in the field theme of documenting LGBTQ MU Libraries donor Homecoming Saturday. Kaden’s need regardless of the expense. brother, Keenan, is a junior of LGBTQ theatre and performance lives in theatre and performance. appreciation ceremony “We are very grateful to Ms. accounting major at MU who history: Robert Schanke, professor The conference events will be held Hunvald for her generous gift 10:30 a.m.–noon served on the 2012 Homecoming emeritus of theatre at Central in the Rhynsburger Theatre and the to the MU Libraries. Our users Ellis Library Colonnade Steering Committee. Photo by College, Iowa, and editor of Theatre Corner Playhouse. Shannon Cary. rely on Interlibrary Loan as an Friends of the Libraries in the Americas book series, Southern The conference also will include Illinois University Press; and Kim an announcement and a celebration extension of the collection. Because annual luncheon of the ever-increasing publication Noon–2:30 p.m. Marra, Schanke’s collaborator on of the bequest of papers from the several books and professor of theater estate of Lanford Wilson, Missouri’s of materials and the impossibility of Reynolds Alumni Center and performance history at the own Pulitzer Prize-winning one library owning everything, the University of Iowa. playwright, to the MU Libraries. importance of Interlibrary Loan has April 24-27 intensified,” June DeWeese, head Anastacia and “Angels in Performance: Victoria Gibbs, left, of MU Libraries access services Documenting LGBTQ Lives show their Mizzou western society not to demonize department, says. In addition, spirit by donning Gandhi Islam. At a 2007 conference at changes in technology have created in Theatre & Performance” (continued from Page 1) MU Campus sparkly headbands Emory University, he listed three faster and more efficient ILL and working diligently Gandhi also has written several things he believes Mahatma Gandhi operations over the years. Instead of on Mizzou-themed books about his grandfather would be saying now. photocopying articles and sending pumpkins. Photo by including Mohandas: A True Story “He would say, ‘Let people In Memoriam Shannon Cary. them by mail, libraries scan articles of a Man, His People and an Empire, first of all throw a searchlight Martha Mares Lebo died June 25, and provide electronic copies by which was published in 2007. In on the deeds of their own side.’ 2012, in San Antonio. She is email. Increased use of databases, this work, he paints a portrait Secondly, ‘Do not let us fall into survived by her brother, Kenneth such as WorldCat and Google, of what Mahatma Gandhi was the temptation of believing that R. Mares of St. Louis. After Laura Ling, far means that users are turning to right, a journalist like in his daily life and personal one faith community out of all is Interlibrary Loan more often. graduating from high school in for Current TV who relationships. Rajmohan Gandhi uniquely fallen, uniquely infected, Hunvald’s gift is vital in helping the University City, she attended was detained in received the prestigious Biennial uniquely dangerous to the rest. Can MU Libraries provide high-quality William Woods College. She North Korea in 2009, Award from the Indian History peace building be reconciled with ILL service to its patrons. continued her education and speaks to admirers Congress in 2007 for the book. the notion of one flawed religion, Hunvald says she was happy graduated from MU in 1961, during a reception for Ling at Ellis Gandhi met his grandfather race or community?’ Finally to give back to the libraries that where she was a member Library. Photo by only a few times during his life, Gandhi, Hinduism’s exponent, had been so helpful in getting of Chi Omega sorority. After Sharon Gaughan. saying that much of his knowledge would say to people of all religions, her the documents she needed to graduation, she began a long and of Mahatma Gandhi in a personal ‘Is the hate, fear or greed around complete her research. She was rewarding career in education. context came from his own father. you going down or going up?’ That especially grateful to the staff After receiving her master’s in Through these personal connections would be his test for a peacemaker,” members, including DeWeese education in 1986, she worked as and his in-depth research, Rajmohan Rajmohan Gandhi said. and Delores Fisher, head of the an elementary school librarian Gandhi is considered by many Gandhi’s latest work is A Tale of ILL-borrowing unit, for being so until retiring in 1999. For many to be the final authority on his Two Revolts: India’s Mutiny & the friendly and helpful. “Without the years, Lebo was a supporter of grandfather’s life. Many have asked American Civil War. In this book he MU Libraries’ ILL service and their the MU Libraries, as a member of “what would Mahatma Gandhi be examines the similarities between dedicated staff, I would not have the Friends of the Libraries and saying now in this post 9/11 world?” two simultaneous wars occurring on been able to complete my research.” the Library Society. Rajmohan Gandhi has urged opposite sides of the globe.

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