November 2009 Volume 32, Issue 4 A Strong New Archives at UT-Austin By Cindy Slater • The H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sport Drs. Jan and Terry Todd take great pleasure in announcing the establish- ment of a new and permanent home for their extensive collection of materials on Inside: physical culture and sport: The H.J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports. The Stark Center occupies over 27,000 square feet of prime Texas real estate – in the University of Texas at Austin’s Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Page 5 Stadium. Although the exhibit and museum galleries will not be open until the From the President spring of 2010, the library and archive facilities are complete and the staff is ready to assist researchers with requests. Page 6-7 For many years, the Todds SSA Committee News have housed their collection of Page 8-9 books, journals, manuscripts, and artifacts in a series of various-sized Santa Fe 2010 rooms located in the charming, but Page 10 inadequate, Anna Hiss Gym. Upon SSA Scholarships learning of the University’s plan to expand the stadium, Jan and Terry Page 11 began an intensive effort to lobby for SSA at SAA some of the space. Part of that effort included raising the necessary funds Page 14-32 to cover construction and operation Repository News of the new facility. With $5.5M from the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Page 33 Stark Foundation, $2M from the Joe Leadership Log Weider Foundation, and funds from a number of other supporters, the Page 34 plans became a reality this year. On SSA Calendar June 11, the staff and the collection Archivists’ Daybook moved into the new offices. Because the holdings are so Illustration and manuscripts from David P. diversified, The Stark Center will Willoughby Collection. consist of three primary collections: the library, the archives, and the artifacts. The library contains approximately 30,000 volumes illustrating the history, development, and current status of physical culture activities and sport. Topics covered include weight training, powerlifting, bodybuilding, weightlifting, conditioning for athletes, hydrotherapy, naturopathy, vegetarianism, and other forms of alternative medicine and self-improvement. Thanks to sport historians Ron Smith and Mary Lou LeCompte, and sociologist John Loy, the Stark Center also has an excellent collection of secondary literature in the fields of sport history, sport philosophy, sport art, and sport sociology. In ad- dition, through the generous donations of professional golfer, Ben Crenshaw, and golf enthusiasts Edmund Hoffman and Scott Sayers, The Center features over 2000 volumes about golf as well as a substantial number of golf-specific materials. Southwestern Archivist The archive collection consists of the papers, files, manuscripts, photo- graphs, scrapbooks and ephemera from some of the key individuals in the physi- cal culture community. Of particular importance to researchers are the collections Story continues on page 12 Page 2 Southwestern Archivist The Southwestern The Society of Southwest Archivists Archivist is free with The Society of Southwest Archivists is a professional organization established to stimu- membership in the Society of Southwest late and make available research in archival administration and records management; promote Archivists. sound principles and standards for preserving and administering records; foster opportunities for the education and training of archivists, records managers, and custodians of private pa- Membership is $10 per pers; strengthen relations with others in allied disciplines; and cooperate with organizations year for individuals. and institutions having mutual interests in the preservation and use of our recorded knowledge. Sustaining memberships and institutional We invite you to join or extend your membership. 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Amanda Focke, CA Mat Darby, CA Michelle Mears, CA Joel Minor Scholarships Pati Threatt Diane Worrell Betty Shankle SSA Web site: http://southwestarchivists.org The SSA Web page is maintained by Pati Threatt at McNeese State University. Copyright © 2009 SSA Leadership Blog: http://ssaleaders.blogspot.com/ Society of Southwest The SSA Leadership Blog is a source for official news from the executive board and committee Archivists members. November 2009 Page 3 Page 4 Southwestern Archivist From the Editors: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Deadlines for submissions are: 2010 will mark the beginning of the thirty-third year of publishing SSA¹s newsletter. South- January 10th western Archivist (originally titled SSA Newsletter and then briefl y SSA News!) has traditionally had April 10th a two-fold mission, fi rst as the primary vehicle for SSA Board members and offi cers to communicate July 10th with the general membership, and second as an outlet for members to share news about repositories and October 10th archivists in the region. A lot has changed since the late 1970s, and while many of us still enjoy receiving our print We accept adver- newsletters in the mail, they are no longer the most effi cient way to get timely information to large tising; contact the groups. SSA’s Board is committed to using the Web site, the leadership blog, and the wiki spaces as editors to request means of communication with membership, so in the January 2010 issue you will see shorter articles current rates. from offi cers and more reminders to check the website for additional information. This change means that future issues of the newsletter will be able to devote a larger percentage of space to repository news and feature articles. While this slight shift in editorial policy marks a change in Southwestern Archivist, what will not change is the value that this newsletter, through submissions from members such as you, contributes to the archival community of the southwest. Employment post- ings from individual and institutional Southwestern Archivist is the quarterly newsletter of the SSA. The editors give priority to sub- members are missions of news items about repositories in the SSA region and about the professional accomplishments published gratis. of SSA members. Out-of-region submissions will be published as space is available. Short feature ar- ticles on topics and issues relating to current trends in archival enterprise are also welcome. 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Arizona submissions South Texas submissions Joyce Martin Nikki Lynn Thomas [email protected] [email protected] p: (480) 965-0298 p: (210) 458.2384 Southwestern Arkansas submissions North Texas submissions Archivist Diane Worrell Ellen Niewyk is printed by Mail [email protected] [email protected] Services of Houston, p: (479) 575-5330 p: (214) 768-1859 in Houston, Texas. Louisiana submissions Leadership Log submissions Carol Bartels Kate Blalack [email protected] [email protected] p: (504) 523-4662 p: (405) 744-6311 Southwestern New Mexico submissions Out-of-region submissions Archivist is made Peggy McBride Shelly Croteau possible partly through the support [email protected] [email protected] of the Alkek Library, p: (505) 272-8873 p: (573) 751.4303 Texas State Univer- Oklahoma submissions Editors sity-San Marcos. Misty D. Smith Katie Salzmann [email protected] [email protected] Kris Toma [email protected] p: (405) 744-2837 November 2009 Page 5 From the President By Brenda S. McClurkin, CA • SSA President 2009-2010 Fall has always been my water bottles, a project to raise funds for the National Disas- favorite time of year. There is a ter Recovery Fund for Archives. Robert Schaadt was the top sense of renewal as the new school salesman – few escaped his indefatigable sales pitch. Even year gets underway, relief in the Elvis (Hmmm… Elvis is turning out to be a recurring SSA promise of cooler temperatures, theme in 2009!) showed up to help the cause.