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Volume 20 Fall 2014 BEYOND THE PAGES University of Georgia Libraries Visit the Libraries’ websites: www.libs.uga.edu UGA Libraries Contact Information Special Collections Library www.libs.uga.edu/scl Dr. P. Toby Graham University Librarian and Associate Provost [email protected] Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library (706) 542-0621 www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett Chantel Dunham Director of Development Richard B. Russell Library for [email protected] Political Research and Studies (706) 542-0628 www.libs.uga.edu/russell Leandra Nessel Development Officer Walter J. Brown Media Archive [email protected] and Peabody Awards Collection (706) 542-3879 www.libs.uga.edu/media Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library (706) 542-7123 Digital Library of Georgia Ruta Abolins www.dlg.galileo.usg.edu Director, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection The UGA Libraries Books of Honors offers you an opportunity [email protected] to make a two-fold gift. With your donation you honor or pay (706) 542-4757 tribute to a loved one, while at the same time enriching the holdings of the UGA Libraries. Through the years, with each Sheryl B. Vogt reading of the book, your gift of knowledge will be presented Director, Richard B. Russell Library once again. For more information or to plate a book, please for Political Research and Studies contact Leandra Nessel at (706) 542-3879. [email protected] (706) 542-0619 Sheila McAlister Director, Digital Library of Georgia [email protected] (706) 542-5418 Researchers | 706-542-7123 Events | 706-542-6331 Tours | 706-542-8079 Cover Photo: Knowledge Wins poster commissioned by the American Library Association. Artist Dan Smith. From the archives of the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Beyond The Pages is published twice annually by the University of Georgia Libraries. Editor: Leandra Nessel Writers: Carol Bishop, Steven Brown, Nicole Feldman, Jan Levinson Hebbard, Angelica Marini, Mary Miller, Leandra Nessel, Lee Shearer, Donnie Summerlin, Barbara Walsh Design: Jackie Baxter Roberts, UGA Press Articles may be reprinted with permission. The University of Georgia is an equal opportunity employer. BEYOND THE PAGES : Table of Contents Volume 20 Fall 2014 Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library Within The Pages 10 The Poppy Lady: Moina Belle Michael 4 Letter from Dr. Toby Graham and Her Tribute to Veterans 6 Gone with the Wind Exhibit & Family connection inspires children's book Event Celebrates 75th Anniversary about trailblazing UGA professor of the Premiere 12 WWI Propaganda Posters Show Fervor of the Time 8 Gates Foundation Grant Received Poster archive holds clues about attitudes towards war 8 Consular Corp Donates Papers Archives 9 Exhibit Celebrates Vince Dooley's 14 Pushball Diplomacy 50 years at UGA How a giant rubber sphere regulated conflict at FEATURES UGA, as Europe collapsed in a world war COLUMNS In the Stacks 16 Greetings from a Co-ed 28 Letter from Chantel Dunham, Family members donate materials belonging to Libraries' Director of Development one of UGA's first female graduates 31 Board of Visitors Walter J. Brown Media Archives 17 Peabody Materials Provide Surprising Insight Rarely seen ephemera cataloged 18 Art Rocks Athens Exhibit and community collaboration highlights Athens' early music and art scene Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies 20 The Party is in the Papers: The Georgia Political Parties Records Project History of the Georgia Democratic and Republican parties revealed as collection is processed 22 Food, Power, and Politics: The Story of School Lunch Exhibit and programming looks back at the history and politics behind the national school lunch program Digital Library of Georgia 24 The Savannah Newspapers Archive Savannah Newspapers, the latest addition to the digital database Literary Update 26 News from the University of Georgia Press 27 News from the Georgia Review Dr. Toby Graham University Librarian and Associate Provost within the pages reetings! You will notice a new face ies. Our Libraries have provided collections, university libraries of georgia on these opening pages. On public services and technical services at a scale GSeptember 1, I had the distinct befitting a great University. The work that we 4 honor of becoming the University of have done has mattered a great deal to UGA Georgia’s new University Librarian and and well beyond. Associate Provost. Though new to this Of course, we live and work in a changing graduate education, faculty recruitment and position, I have been at UGA for eleven years, world, and there is much to be done. The retention, and in our University’s statewide 2014 having served successively as the director of concept of the research library was remade and global impact. the Digital Library of Georgia and the during Bill Potter’s twenty-five years, and it The University of Georgia is ambitious, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, will be remade once again during the next and the Libraries have an essential role to Spring and as Deputy University Librarian. twenty-five. play. If you look at the universities that UGA There is certainly no place where I had Our University’s historic motto is engraved points to as its aspirational institutions, each rather lead library services and no institution in granite on the front of the Ilah Dunlap is characterized by strong, innovative research where our collective efforts may have a greater Little Memorial Library: “Et docere et rerum libraries that have helped them to get to impact than at the University of Georgia. exquirere causas.” We translate this into where they are, ones that continue to redefine This is an exciting time for our University as English (and amend it somewhat) to read “To themselves over time. That is what the UGA a whole, a new chapter in its history. Likewise, teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature Libraries must be for Georgia. the UGA Libraries begin a new chapter. of things.” This statement is the foundation Over the past twelve months, I have had Through the work of so many of you and of what we do at the University of Georgia the privilege of leading a strategic planning through twenty-five years of visionary, persis- and at the UGA Libraries. That does not process for our Libraries. Our plan expresses tent leadership by my predecessor, William change. What does change is how and the vision in which we will “advance the Univer- Gray Potter, our Libraries have accomplished level at which the University of Georgia sity’s mission by providing the best possible great things: the GALILEO statewide virtual does them. access to recorded knowledge. We will actively library, the Digital Library of Georgia, the Our University intends to make transfor- contribute to the success of students and fac- Miller Learning Center, and the Richard B. mational progress in its research enterprise, ulty through teaching and research services Russell Building Special Collections Librar- graduate and professional programs, under- provided in physical and virtual environ- improvements in access have had the effect and the Athenaeum@UGA scholarly com- within the pages ments that enhance learning and intellectual of creating even greater expectations among mons, along with our efforts to grapple with creativity. As the Libraries conduct this our users. Going forward we will redesign the challenge that “big data” presents to the work, we will emphasize assessment-driven our workflows and realign our efforts to Libraries and to the University, at large. decision making, collaboration, diversity and manage a collection that is increasingly Finally, we highlight the people of our inclusion, the thoughtful use of technol- digital, while also respecting among our organization in a theme we call “the empow- ogy, and innovation in scholarly and literary holdings the local and the unique. ered staff.” Recruiting, retaining, and devel- publishing. The Libraries will respond We are committed to the concept of the oping a talented, diverse, and knowledgeable creatively to changes in the higher education “teaching library,” sustaining a vibrant Libraries’ faculty and staff is essential in landscape and exemplify the University’s and innovative instructional program that every aspect of what we do. strategic priority to serve the citizens of contributes measurably to student success. At the 1953 dedication of the Ilah Dunlap Georgia and beyond.” We will weave the Library into the fabric of Little Memorial Library, poet Claude David- Our plan emphasizes six essential online learning and help to reduce the cost son penned a poem to commemorate that areas of focus: of higher education for Georgia students historic occasion. The first two lines read, A goal around the “evolving collection” through by advancing more affordable and Upon the wind a voice across the library recognizes the complex and rapidly chang- open educational resources. We will provide steps comes saying ing information environment in which we student-centered libraries in which learners university libraries of georgia work. We are engaging in a comprehensive are not only knowledge consumers but also “Here is knowledge.” study of our collections spending (more knowledge creators. than seventy-five percent of which is for The theme of “library as place” empha- Here is knowledge. Much has changed electronic content) to provide the most sizes that library facilities remain critical since 1953, but never has this statement precise alignment possible between our in higher education, even as researchers are been more true than today. The UGA expenditures and the needs of the Univer- increasingly accessing resources electroni- Libraries are where knowledge lives, and sity. We also recognize that it is our special cally. We continue to re-invent our Libraries we continue to provide the physical and collections that distinguish us from every as 21st-century learning environments that virtual spaces where knowledge not only is other institution in the world, and we will cultivate student success and support dis- consumed but where it is created and shared continue the strategic growth and use of covery, study and contemplation, collabora- with the world.