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Retrospective 2007

From the Dean’s Desk

I am proud to be a part of a dynamic, growing, and accom- plished team of librarians and staff. We have made real strides in educational and community outreach, and we have substan- tially increased our collaborative activities—both with other campus units and with other libraries. I was especially happy that we were able to increase significantly our special and digital collections, to provide more features and services on our Web site, and to renovate and equip the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History. We continue to enhance the cultural opportunities on campus with our series of events celebrating diversity. The Library Leadership Council was established and is composed of special donors interested in helping to support our progress. I was gratified that the Traveler, the student newspaper, once again voted Mullins Library as the “Best Place to Study” on campus. Our goal has been to make the Libraries one of our students’ favorite places to gather—to do their homework and research, write papers, access e-mail, find a book to read or a movie to watch, use their laptop, listen to music, and practice their speeches and presentations together. I am also proud of my faculty and staff. Without their expertise, talents, and hard work, these good things could not have happened. They were instrumental in helping me shape the Libraries’ goals and strategies for the future. They continued to hone their skills in library research and instruction—constantly adapting to changing techno- logical advances, and working with students and faculty to identify and use the numerous resources and services that we offer. Sketch of J. M. Clark residence, Fayetteville, Fay Jones Collection. Carolyn H. Allen, Dean of Libraries Grant Received for Civil Rights Project

Fifty years ago in Septem- ber, nine black students faced an angry, jeering mob as they events of 1957 are placed in integrated Little Rock Central their historical context. High School, an episode that Most of the documents evolved to include a power and images included in the struggle between the highest project are from the holdings Collections office of the state with the in Special Collections, such as highest office of the nation Advertisement, 1857. Broadside the Daisy Bates Papers, Gov- Collection B1-485. and the federalization of the ernor Orval Faubus Papers, Pine Bluﬀ policemen, photo by Arkansas National Guard. Federal Bureau of Investiga- Geleve Grice. To commemorate the tion Records, oral history interview transcripts, the WPA 50th anniversary of the 1957 Interview Project, the George Fisher Papers, the 1871 Civil integration crisis, the Librar- Rights Act, photographs from the ies obtained a grant from the Geleve Grice and Larry Obsitnik Arkansas Humanities Council collections, and writings by Arkansas and the Department of Arkan- attorney Sciopio A. Jones. sas Heritage to partially fund Digitized images will be stored a digitization project entitled electronically, providing access to Daisy Bates shakes hands with “Land of (Unequal) Opportu- the materials online. Plans for the Orville Faubus, 1959. Broadside Collection B4-660. nity: Documenting the Civil materials generated by the project Rights Struggle in Arkansas.” include reproducing a set of posters Staff in Special Collections are identifying and digitiz- containing lesson plans, a detailed ing one thousand original documents, illustrations, politi- bibliography, and a time line on Political cartoon, 1976. Arkansas civil rights history. cal cartoons, photographs, and audio recordings on the George Fisher Papers. Arkansas civil rights history. history of civil rights in Arkansas. While emphasizing the 1957 Little Rock Central High School integration crisis, the civil rights project also includes materials from earlier and later eras and a wide variety of polemicized Pro-integration rally in Pine Bluﬀ, 1961. UA community “funeral” march to protest the assassination of Dr. Martin groups, so that the Orville Faubus Papers MS F27. Luther King, Jr., 1968.

2 What’s New in Online Research

Campus-wide online access to the premier journal covering academe, the Chronicle of Higher Education, quickly became a hit this year. Faculty are delighted to have this resource at their ﬁngertips, with its in-depth reporting on Find It! issues and events covering every facet of college and university life.

A useful new linking service, Find it!, allows stu- Collections dents and faculty to locate full-text articles quickly Black Women Writers, a re- from within dozens of library databases—without cent acquisition and a work the extra step of checking holdings in the online in progress, bolstered the Af- rican-American Studies and catalog. e Find it! service uses records for more literature programs. When than 25,000 electronic journals, e-books, and online complete, it will offer more conference proceedings held by the Libraries to oﬀer than 100,000 pages of poetry, online full-text when a user locates a citation in a prose, and essays by authors research database. If the item is not owned by the Li- from more than 20 countries. braries, Find it! will allow users to send the citation The database currently con- information directly to the interlibrary loan service. tains 6,000 pages of authors Faculty immediately reported saving time with such as Harriet Jacobs and Nikki Giovanni. the Find it! links, and the hope is that “I love the ﬂying pigs! In partnership with other members of the Greater West- such quick access to Huge time saver, even for ern Library Alliance (GWLA) and the Center for Research the available full text veteran researchers. Who- Libraries (CRL), the Libraries are contributing to the new articles will expand ever implemented this TRAIL project. TRAIL–the Technical Report Archive should receive a medal!” and Image Libraryis the number, depth, a collaborative project and quality of re- (Faculty member, Walton to digitize, archive, and search resources used College of Business) provide unrestricted ac- by students. cess to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975. Numerous reports “What you have available for are already accessible, and a doctoral student in Mena, the project is ongoing. Arkansas, is simply amazing!” National Bureau of Standards Electronic (UA Graduate Student) Automatic Computer (SEAC), 1950.

2 3 Gift Collections

Forty-three manuscript collections were donated this year. Among them were the papers of long-time UA history of 275 books dealing with the silversmith industry and the professor Thomas C. Kennedy and the papers of James J. emigration of Huguenots to the United States that was do- Johnston, a Searcy County historian and genealogist. nated by Richard W. Davies, executive director of the Ar- The Vernie Bartlett Papers include materials from Bar- kansas Department of Parks & Tourism. tlett’s school activities in Newton County, his years in the Armed Services as a decorated World Collections War II veteran, and most significant- International Collections ly his correspondence, hand-written sermons, and photographs stem- World Wide Political Science Abstracts, an online ming from forty years as a rural Pres- index to scholarly literature on all aspects of inter- byterian minister in Arkansas. This national politics and government, was a welcome collection documents the life of one addition for political science students and faculty. Arkansan who rose out of poverty Samuel Kupper of Spring, Texas, enhanced the and illiteracy to guide, encourage, international collections with a gift of over 770 and help thousands of people in the volumes and materials related to Chinese history, changing landscape of rural Arkan- Vernie Bartlett. politics, and current aﬀairs. is collection will sas in the last century. signiﬁcantly support the University’s Asian Studies Charles Sharum, born in Fort Smith, was captured by the program. German Army after his plane was shot down during a mis- Digital collections made possible through mem- sion over Berlin in May, 1944. He was held as a Prisoner of bership in the Center War in various German camps until his liberation by Rus- of Research Libraries sian troops in May, 1945. He kept (CRL) complemented a journal during his captivity and managed to hide it from prison of- Mr. Kupper’s gift col- ficials. The journal contains poems, lection of books on notes, and drawings of Sharum and China by providing his fellow prisoners. Sharum died online access to Chi- in Springdale in 1992. His widow nese political pam- Marcella Sharum, when donating phlets published in the 1940s and 1950s. Other the journal, was pleased to know international materials accessible through CRL that her husband’s legacy would be this year were slavery and manumission records preserved in the University Libraries’ from Timbuktu, Brazilian government documents, Charles Sharum. Special Collections. pamphlets and periodicals from the 1848 French In addition to the manuscript collections, a total of 1,900 Revolution, Mediterranean maps, and extensive books were donated to the Arkansas and Rare Book col- collections of south Asian and African materials. lections. Among the many other gift books is a collection

4 Use of Collections & Services Manuscript Collections: a Mine for Researchers While conducting research for his dissertation as a doc- Web Site Kudos toral candidate at the University of Arkansas, Robert Patrick Bender came across a collection of letters whose quantity The Libraries continue to receive compliments about the and quality he believed warranted Web site from students and faculty both on and off campus. publication as a full-length edited In addition, the South Arkansas Community College Library manuscript. After successfully de- asked to use the Libraries’ electronic resources module as a fending his dissertation, Bender model for their own database pages. returned to Special Collections to work more extensively with the William Remmel Papers, a selection A Little Online Help of which he published as Like Grass Before the Scythe: e Life and Death In recent years, students have signiﬁcantly increased of Sgt. William Remmel, 121st New their use of online resources. The most recent addition to York Infantry. online services has been a series of Flash video tutorials. Edited by Bender and published by the University of Students with busy lives off campus, including study- Alabama Press, the book contains the text of original let- abroad students, seem especially appreciative of these new ters describing the wartime experiences of Remmel, a young tools to help them learn how to use resources available Union soldier serving in the Army of the Potomac’s 6th through the library Web site. Corps during the crucial middle years of the American Civ- il War. e letters are dated from August 1862 to October of 1864. Wounded and captured by Confederate forces at the battle of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864, Remmel was sent to Andersonville Prison where he presumably died.

Over 2,000 researchers used materials in Special Collections this year. Man- uscript sources were cited in thirteen books, ﬁfty-six journals and periodicals, and sixteen ﬁlm, television, and radio broadcasts.

4 5 Clinton Interviews

e Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History was authorized by the William J. Clinton Foundation to conduct a series of in-depth interviews to document the life of former President Bill Clin- ton. e Center announced the release of the first set of twenty- Otto Rayburn’s Encyclopedia eight interviews in the President Podcasts Bill Clinton History Project at a Collections press conference in Little Rock on January 30. Speakers at the press conference were Tom W. Dillard, head of Special CollecCollec- tions, Skip Rutherford, dean of the Clinton School of Public Otto Ernest Rayburn (1891-1960) was an Service, and interviewee Patty Ozarks writer, school teacher, and promoter for Criner. Andrew Dowdle, UA thirty years. He published magazines and books assistant professor of political From the University Libraries’ celebrating the region. e bulk of the Rayburn science, is the Clinton History Photo Collection. Papers collection (MS R19) housed in the Special Project Coordinator. Collections archives is e Ozark Folk Encyclopedia, The Project is outlined in five phases: the Hope / Hot 229 folders containing Rayburn’s working files of Springs years; the Georgetown / Oxford / Yale years; the clippings, notes, letters, photographs, etc., all ar- post-college years when Clinton was teaching at the Uni- versity of Arkansas School of Law and serving as Arkansas ranged in alphabetical order. Attorney General, 1973-1978; the gubernatorial years, Ethel Simpson, retired archivist with the Special 1979-1981, 1983-1992; and the post-presidential years. Collections Department, worked on the Rayburn The Pryor Center conducted seventeen interviews from collection for many years. Beginning in October, Hope and twenty-three from Hot Springs during the first 2005, Simpson selected a subject under each letter phase covering the former president’s early years. Over the in turn through the alphabet and read Rayburn’s course of the project, the Encyclopedia entry for it for Ozarks at Large, an “I thought he was kind of Pryor Center plans to original program broadcast by KUAF radio, the nutty then, but then when he conduct three hundred University of Arkansas affiliate of National Public ran for attorney general and interviews altogether. Radio. With the permission of KUAF, web devel- governor and president and More Clinton Proj- opment staff created audio files of Simpson’s read- all those—I felt like he really ect interviews and tran- ings and posted them on the Libraries’ Web site. had the people’s best interest scriptions will be posted at heart, and always have felt as they become available that way.” on the Libraries’ Web (Liz Clinton-Little) site.

6 A New Vision for the Pryor Center

Katrosh previously worked as Special Collections general manager and director of Kris Katrosh joined the David and Barbara Pryor Center long-form programming for the for Arkansas Oral and Visual History in January as its direc- Dempsey Film Group in Little tor. Katrosh has been expanding the focus of the Center’s Rock, serving the Group’s cli- program to include high-deﬁnition digital audio and video ents in the capacity of producer, formats. Equipment upgrades from funds provided by a gift director, and editor of commis- from Tyson Foods, Inc., include camera, lighting, audio and sioned visual products. editing equipment, software, and expansion of the server e Center’s inaugural advi- system. sory board met for the ﬁrst time e Pryor Center plans to partner with public broadcast- in April. e Board meeting was ing as well as community cable access channels to reach an followed by a public reception audience far beyond the academic community. Outreach hosted by Senator David Pryor, Kris Katrosh projects, such as providing equipment and training to his wife Barbara, and the Librar- school and community groups to enable them to conduct ies. their own oral histories, are also in the works.

7 Poster Series Popular with Collections & Educational Outreach Arkansas Teachers Another step in the University’s and Libraries’ goal of supporting Arkansas’s teachers and students was reached this year through a successful outreach programthe pro- duction of an educational poster series. The first series, five posters on “Amazing African Ameri- can Leaders of Arkansas,” was released in February during Black History Month. The second series, five posters on “Amazing Women Leaders of Arkansas,” was released in March during Women’s History Month. The posters were made available free of charge to teachers and administrators throughout the state. Requests for the posters were overwhelming, and more than 1,300 poster sets were distributed to schools. Each poster contains a photograph and biographical sketch of the subject; the back side of each poster contains a detailed lesson plan for teachers, as well as a time line and other educational features created by the Special Collec- tions Department’s curriculum developer, Anita Mysore. The subjects of the African American history posters are: Charlotte Stephens, who became Arkansas’s first black teacher in Little Rock in 1868; Joseph C. Corbin, the founder of what is today the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff; Scott Bond, a St. Francis County businessman and planter who was known as “Arkansas’s black Rockefeller”; Daisy Bates, the NAACP leader who oversaw the integration of Central High School in Little Rock in 1957; and Silas Hunt, the young World War II veteran who integrated the University of Arkansas Law School in 1948. The subjects of the women’s history posters are: Senator Hattie Caraway, the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate; Louise Thaden, the record-setting early aviator; Florence Price, the premier African American female composer and music teacher; Charlie May Simon, a writer of note and the namesake for the Charlie May Simon Children’s Book Award; and Hazel Walker, a phenomenal basketball player who was the women’s free-throw champion of the world on multiple occasions.

8 Education Allies: Honors College & Graduate School Making Connections

Council of UA Research Collaboration with the Hon- ors College resulted in techno- Libraries Established logical upgrades in all group study rooms in Mullins Library. The first meeting of the newly established Council of UA is included the installation of Research Libraries (CUARL) was held in June. e Council new projectors, interactive au- consists of the deans and directors of the six four-year UA dio-visual computer podiums, institutions in the state. e Council met again in Octo- and flat screen televisions to Students use new equipment in ber to craft a mission statement and goals and to create five interface with laptop comput- a group-study room. working committees made up of representatives from each ers, allowing students and other UA system research library. Each committee was given a campus groups to practice multi-media presentations. specific charge in order to make the Council’s goals a reality. Made possible by collaboration e goals are: to develop shared Research Commons with the Graduate School, the suc- collection development resources, e University Libraries and Com- cessful Graduate Assistant Intern- to provide public access to unique puting Services jointly rolled out the ship Program, now in its fifth year, collections and archives, to provide new and hugely popular Research Com- brings graduate students from a a Web portal dedicated to education mons / General Access Computing Lab, wide range of subject areaseduca- and reference resources, to develop offering nearly a hundred computer sta- tion, agriculture, biology, chemistry, collaborative disaster planning re- tions and a wide array of educational geosciences, physics, anthropology, lating to virtual and physical col- software. e Commons provides a business, and engineeringto work lections, and to implement shared on library-related projects and to staff development programs. comprehensive learning space that is serve at the Reference Desk. In re- unique on campus, offering students turn, graduate interns gain valuable assistance from reference librarians and experience in conducting research, Computing Services personnel. providing peer-to-peer consulta- Two collaborative workstations in the tions, and learning “up close” how Commons are designated for multi-me- research libraries function. dia applications or group projects and include assistive software for students Four Honors College interns as- with disabilities. Some of the worksta- sisted staff in Special Collections, tions have larger monitors and space for working on various manuscript two to four students to sit and work on projects, including the John Paul joint research projects. Hammerschmidt Papers, the Fay CUARL Jones Papers, and others.

9 Fundraising & Public Relations

e Libraries received over $1.3 million in gift funds and endowments this fiscal year, and gifts-in-kind were valued at more than $90,500. e total amount of gifts included e Libraries adopted the Paperback Book Exchange as funds from the Tyson Family Foundation earmarked for the a customer-friendly method of distributing donated paper- Pryor Center, as well as funds from the omas Goldsby back books that are duplicate copies family to purchase equipment for processing and digitizing or that cannot be accepted into the Fundraising manuscripts. collections for other reasons. e UA administration granted the Libraries e Libraries undertook two initiatives this year in the permission to distribute surplus books area of fundraising. e first involved a library appeal co- in this manner. ordinated by the Annual Fund, the third in a series. With a tagline of “Turning Pages, Opening Minds,” the appeal gar- nered $53,235 from 732 households, 26 percent of which were first-time donors to the Libraries. e second initiative was the establishment of the Li- brary Leadership Council, a group of donors dedicated to the advancement and support of the Libraries. e Coun- cil opened with fifteen charter members. Members of the Council pledged at least $1,000 a year to the Libraries. Membership guaranteed invitations to special events hosted by the Libraries and planned “members only” programs throughout the year.

e Paperback Book Exchange, a program designed to promote pleasure reading through the recycling of paperback books, has been a big hit. Available books can be browsed by anyone in the West Entry vestibule of Mullins Library. All books in the program are registered with BookCross- ing.com, a Web site dedicated to the free circulation of books throughout I love the book the world. Bookplates and book- exchange in the marks were designed to notify readers west vestibule!! of participation in the program, in- Keep it up . . . cluding the “Expand Your Horizons” (UA Student ) bookplate depicted at the right.

10 A Face-lift for the Chemistry & Biochemistry Library A major improvement this year was the remodeling/reno- vation of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Library. More computers, seating, and public services are now available to faculty and students in the Chemistry and Biochemis- Egyptians and Russians Visit try building. Because the building is on the Na- e University Libraries were privileged to host tional Register of His- two international groups of librarians that were toric Places, renovations touring facilities and examining issues of contem- involved the restoration porary librarianship throughout the United States. of the look and feel of the In September, seven librarians from Egypt, hosted original WPA-era build- Events ing, including wood trim under the auspices of the Department of State’s and terrazzo ﬂooring, International Visitor Leadership Program, visited which add to the beauty Chemistry and Biochemistry Library the University of Arkansas Libraries, the Fayette- of the facility. Open House. ville Public Library, and the University of Arkansas Press. The second group, made up of five library ad- Runcinated . . . What?? ministrators from Rus- sia, visited the archives Members of Pi Mu Epsilon (undergraduate math club) in Special Collections assembled a model of a four-dimensional polyhedron, the at the University of Ar- runcinated dodecaplex, in Mullins Library in October. kansas Libraries and the Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Luca Capogna, professors of Fayetteville Public Li- mathematical sciences, organized the volunteers, who in- brary in October. The cluded art and architecture students, passers-by, and math enthusiasts. Russians were delegates e Club used Zometools in the Open World Pro- loaned by the Zome Com- gram and were hosted in pany to construct the model. Arkansas by the Arkan- e runcinated dodecaplex is sas River Valley Regional a three-dimensional shadow Library System and the of a four-dimensional poly- Members of the Russian delega- hedron. After completion, National Peace Founda- tion tour Special Collections. tion. the model was suspended with ﬁshing line in the east spiral staircase of Mullins Li- brary.

11 Historic Preservation in Arkansas Conference

e Libraries and the Celebrating Our Diversity School of Architecture co- sponsored a conference in March on historic preser- Partnering with the UA Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. vation entitled “e Ar- Planning Committee, the Libraries hosted three University chitecture and Landscapes lectures in the Walton Reading Room in January. Speakers of Arkansas: A Heritage included: Joyce Elliot, who served as the representative from of Distinction.” Richard District 33 in Little Rock in the Arkansas House of Repre- Longstreth, director of the sentatives; Joe Seabrooks, UA assistant vice chancellor for

Events graduate program in his- Student Aﬀairs, and Sybil Jordan Hampton, former director toric preservation at George Left to right, Cyrus and Martha of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. Washington University, was Sutherland with Carl Miller, Jr. of Little Rock. the keynote speaker at the Together with the Center for Arkansas and Regional conference. Other speakers were Charles Witsell, award- Studies (CARS), the Libraries hosted a lecture in February winning Little Rock architect, Harriet Jansma, former edi- by Susan Marren, UA associate professor of English, entitled tor of Magnolia, the journal of the Southern Garden His- “Taking Care: e Photography of Ralph Armstrong.” e tory Society, and Ethel Goodstein-Murphree, UA professor lecture was complemented by an exhibit in Mullins Library of architecture. Several representatives from the Libraries of Armstrong’s photographs entitled “Something for the Re- also presented at the conference, including Tom W. Dillard, cord.” Armstrong’s works were primarily portraits of black head of Special Collections, Tim Nutt, manuscripts and citizens taken in the Little Rock area from 1951 to 1988, rare books librarian, and Ellen but also included photographs of Compton, architectural collec- scores of houses, churches, and tions archivist. schools—many of them just be- e conference culminated in fore their demolition. a banquet and tribute to Cyrus Sutherland, professor emeritus In September, the Libraries of architecture at the U of A. organized a joint program with Sutherland joined the School of the Fayetteville Public Library Architecture faculty in 1968 and in honor of Hispanic Heritage was instrumental in saving and Month called Lectura Para Niños, preserving more than forty his- or reading to children. Students torically significant buildings in were recruited from the Univer- Arkansas, including the Fayette- Julieta Alloatti, an international student at the U of A, reads sity to read children’s books in ville landmarks the Headquarters books in Spanish to a group of preschoolers at the Fayetteville Spanish to pre-school aged chil- House, the Walker Stone House, Public Library in a series of events organized by the University dren at the FPL’s story hour two the Old Post Office, and Old Libraries in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. days a week. Main.

12 Borchard Exhibit Opening

e late Ruth Borchard of London amassed a remarkable private art collection of more than one hundred self-por-

Murray Marks, Forensic traits, featuring a virtual who’s who of British artists of the Cultural Events mid-twentieth century. Borchard collected works that cap- Anthropologist tured the artist’s introspection beyond the canvas, providing an insightful view into the artistic genre of self-identity. Murray K. Marks, associate professor of anthropology Borchard never paid more than twenty-one guineas for any and of pathology at the University of Tennessee, associate single picture, making the collection all that more astound- director of the Forensic Anthropology Center, and curator of ing. the Forensic Anthropology Facility in Knoxville, presented a Dean Allen, Associate Dean Juana Young, and UA Vice lecture titled “All at Remains: Forensic Anthropology and Provost for Academic Aﬀairs Nancy Ellen Talburt were in- the Medicolegal Investigation of Death” in October in the strumental in securing an exhibit of the Borchard collection Helen Robson Walton Reading Room in Mullins Library. for the Walton Arts Center, which became the ﬁrst stop for Marks gave a fascinat- the exhibit on its inaugural United States tour. Titled “Face ing overview of the field to Face,” the exhibit was displayed at the Walton Arts Cen- of forensic anthropology, ter from August 21 to November 25. provided some details e opening of the exhibit included a reception for Kath- about his own work in erine Hallgarten of London, whose mother, Ruth Borchard, the field, and told some collected the works, and for Katherine’s daughter, Ruth anecdotes based on his Hallgarten, on October 5 at the Walton Arts Center. own experiences and Also participating at the reception was Mary Ann Green- case files. His lecture was wood of Greenwood & Associates who partially funded the accompanied by a slide exhibit. Murray Marks greeted by Provost Bob presentation. Also speak- Smith in the Walton Reading Room. ing at the event were Dean Carolyn Allen and Marks’s former mentor, Jerome C. Rose of the Department of Anthropology. More than 120 people attended the event, which was standing-room only. To provide additional interest for the attendees, Library staff mounted an exhibit in the Walton Reading Room dis- play cases of vintage medical equipment, tools, and potions on loan from the Arkansas Country Doctor’s Museum in Lincoln and the Arkansas Archeological Survey’s Muse- um, and skeletal remains loaned by Jerome C. Rose and graduate assistant Elayne Pope, both of the Anthropology Katherine and Ruth Hallgarten stand beside a portrait of Ruth Borchard that was included Department. in the exhibit “Face to Face.”

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The ongoing rotating art exhibits in Mullins Library, many of them featuring Arkansas artists, continue to offer faculty: Archie Blackowl,

Cultural Events the campus community an opportunity Lee Joshua, Mars Big- for aesthetic and cultural enrichment. goose, Sharron Ahtone The summer opened with “Beauty and Harjo, and Kevin W. the Brush,” a showcase of artworks cre- Smith, currently a faculty ated in the fifth annual Garvan Wood- member at Bacone and “Peaceful, Garvin Gar- land Gardens plein air painting event. curator of the exhibit. dens” by Barry omas. The Gardens are located outside of Hot Springs and are owned and managed by the University of “Dream Shield” by W. Richard West. Arkansas. The 2006 invitational event drew eighteen pro- Trained as a photographer in Chicago, fessional artists from six states. the late Little Rock photographer Ralph Armstrong worked as a mail carrier in An exhibit later in the summer downtown Little Rock for thirty-seven featured portrait artist Monta Black years while also maintaining his pho- Philpot of Mena. In “A Ouachita tography studio. An exhibit in January Portrait,” Philpot illustrates the story and February featuring a selection of his of her home community by featuring photographs accompanied a lecture and “Mr. & Mrs. G. G. subjects who represent the spirit and a reception honoring his work. Anderson” by Ralph character of the region. Armstrong. Photographs of Arkansas vernacular architecture from a Tim LaTourette, shop supervisor “Delta Louise Meador” by collection by Rice University professor Geoff Winningham and instructor at the School of Archi- Monta Black Philpot. were the featured exhibit in March and April. The images tecture, provided a bit of wimsy with his “Eight Etchings, were taken from a survey commissioned by First Federal Four Cabinets.” The cabinets were three-dimensional, actu- Savings and Loan of Little Rock in 1980 and 1981. The al working pieces placed on pedestals for viewers to admire large format prints were displayed in conjunction with their smooth mechanisms by opening the cabinet doors. Arkansas Heritage Month.

In celebration of American Indian Heritage Month, an Paintings by Megan Chapman in exhibit in November honored the legacy of the Art Depart- an exhibit entitled “The Path that ment of Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma. “Raising Light Takes” delighted viewers with the Standard for Indian Art” provided an overview of the a variety of colors and shapes. Chap- evolution of the Bacone style. Featured were three direc- man, a Fayetteville native, received tors of Bacone’s Art DepartmentAcee Blue Eagle, W. her B.F.A. in painting from the Uni- Richard “Dick” West Sr., and Ruthe Blalock Jonesas well versity of Oregon. as pieces from some of its world-renowned students and “Splendid Depths” by Megan Chapman

14 Work, & Some Fun, at Petit Jean A library retreat was National Library Week held at the Rockefeller A library version of the Conference Center in Pe- “Fab Four” proved to be a big tit Jean, Arkansas, in late hit when it was depicted on a May. In attendance were poster during National Library heads of departments, faculty, members of the Week in April. Based on the Our People national theme, “Come To- Library Program Steering Retreat participants listen to speakers gether @ Your Libraries,” the Committee, and selected on the second day. poster featured Dean Allen, staff. Phil Jones, head of Reference, The goals of the retreat were to give library personnel Ellen Compton, architectural the chance to review progress, identify current trends in li- manuscripts processor, and braries, identify the current teaching and research needs of Anne Marie Candido, assis- students and faculty, and to look for ways to “re-create” the tant to the dean, in a vintage Libraries as necessary within the next three to five years. A Beatles pose. revised mission statement was crafted, as well as new strate- Library faculty and staff gic goals and objectives. celebrated National Library The work of the coming fiscal year is to determine how Workers Day with an Ice Cream Social hosted by Dean Allen the goals and objectives can best be carried out and to assign and Juana Young, associate dean. e American Library As- personnel to the various tasks needed to make the goals a re- sociation Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA) created ality. Responses of those who attended the retreat were very National Library Workers Day in 2003. It is meant to “recog- positive; everyone seemed to appreciate the opportunity to nize the hard work, dedication, and expertise of library support put forth their ideas and to get to know their colleagues bet- staff and librarians.” ter, and to have a little fun. A special attempt was also made is year’s event included the first annual Library Em- to involve those who did not attend the retreat. ployee Awards: Rookie of the Year Award for Kimberly Rolf, On the evening of the first day, faculty and staff enjoyed Extra Mile Award for Gwyneth Jelinek, Keystone Award an evening of relaxation and karaoke. for Angela Hand, Outstanding Ser- vice Award for Sarah Makowski, and Team Project Award to the Staff Concerns Com- mittee, who were An- gela Hand, David Lacy, Members of the Staff Concerns Committee Erin Wilson, Gregg receive their awards from Dean Allen. Doty, and April White. View from Petit Jean Mountain, Arkansas.

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