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Friends of Fondren Library Vol. 47, No. 1 Fall 1996

Early Days of the Rice Library A Letter to the Friends Vice Provost and University Librarian Charles Henry and Friends of Fondren board Dear Friends of Fondren Library, members Ed Koehler, Texas Anderson, Elizabeth

A most active and interesting year is Kidd, and I interviewed a small number of underway for the Friends of Fondren Library. Our candidates, each of whom brought strong Distinguished Guest Lecture presented by professional skills and experience to the table.

Jonathan Miller, M.D. was enthusiastically received I am very pleased to announce to you that by the students, faculty, and friends of Rice Mary Bixby began her tenure as the Executive University. We are pleased to work together for Director of the Friends of Fondren Library on

the continuing success of this very valuable October 1, 1996. She brings to the position program and thank Elizabeth Kidd for chairing this competitive technical skills, strong fund-raising event. Diana and Bill Hobby were most gracious experience, is an accomplished communicator and and generous in hosting a lovely dinner in honor of leader, and has a true love of books and libraries. Dr. Miller and Patron friends of the library. Mary holds a bachelor of science degree in history On April 19, 1997, we will honor Anne and from East Tennessee State University and a master Charles W. Duncan at our annual Gala. We are of library science from Sam Houston State delighted and privileged to recognize the University. Please join us in welcoming Mary to significant efforts of this extraordinary couple to Rice at your earliest opportunity!

Rice University and to our community. Please do On November 2, 1996, we honored former mark your calendars, for this will be an evening to Friends of Fondren Board member Karen Hess remember and a true gala of celebration. Rogers at the annual Homecoming Brunch

In the previous issue of The Flyleaf, I informed cosponsored with the Rice Engineering Alumni. you of the retirement of the Executive Director of Your committed and active board enjoyed greeting the Friends, Betty Charles. During the summer we many of you as we acknowledged the generosity advertised the position locally and in key national and dedicated efforts of Karen Rogers to Rice. publications, and the response was overwhelming. With our new University Librarian, Charles We received 80 applications, the majority from the Henry, and our new Executive Director, Mary Houston area, but some came to us from other Bixby, we can anticipate a year of high energy and parts of the country. A sampling of the candidates good fun. included: four lawyers, three librarians, two Cordially, architects, eight MBA degree holders, three Ph.D.'s, a banker, and one author of a best seller. Sally K. Reynolds

FONDREN LIBRARY THE FRIENDS THE FLYLEAF

Founded under the charter The Friends of Fondren Founded October 1950 of the university dated May Library was founded in 1950 as and published by the 18, 1891, the library was an association of library Friends of Fondren Library, established in 1913. Its supporters interested in MS - 44-F, Rice University, present building was increasing and making better 6100 Main Street, dedicated November 4, 1949, known the resources of Fondren Houston, Texas 77005-1892, and rededicated in 1969 after Library at Rice University. The The Flyleaf is a record of a substantial addition, both Friends, through members' Fondren Library's and made possible by gifts of Ella contributions and sponsorship Friends activities, and of F. Fondren, her children, and of a program of memorials and the generosity of the the Fondren Foundation and honor gifts, secure gifts and library's supporters. The Trust as a tribute to Walter bequests, and provide funds for Flyleaf's publication William Fondren. The library the purchase of rare books, schedule corresponds to the celebrated its half-millionth manuscripts, and other academic calendar year. volume in 1965 and its one- materials that are needed to millionth volume on April 22, support teaching and research 1979. at the university.

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Contents

Library of the 21 st Century Page 4 Old Books, Old Friends Page 14

News and Notes Page 5 What Our Friends are Reading Page 16

A Visit with Jonathan Miller Page 6 Friends of Fondren Library Page 1

Early Days of the Rice Library Page 8 Gifts to Fondren Library Page 19

Annual Homecoming Brunch Page 10 News from Fondren Library Page 24

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Cover photograph courtesy of the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library.

Editorial Board: Texas Anderson, Walter S. Baker, Jr., and Mary Bixby Photographs: Shirley Wetzel, Jeff Fillow, Texas Anderson Layout: Robert George

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1996-97 OFFICERS

Sally K. Reynolds, President Peggy Barnett Mrs. William H. Merriman, Vice President, Membership Mrs. William P. Conner Kathryn V. Smyser, Vice President, Programs David S. Elder Texas Anderson Lucas T. Elliot

Walter S. Baker, Jr. Susanne M. Glasscock Vice Presidents, Publications Diana P. Hobby

Oscar D. Graham III Mrs. Thomas W. Houghton

Lew Eatherton Charles D. Maynard, Jr. Elizabeth W. Kidd Mary Catherine Miller Mrs. Edgar W. Monteith Steve Shaper Vice Presidents, Special Events Charles B. Wheeler Shirley L. Hamner, Secretary Wellington Yu

Edward H. Koehler, Jr., Treasurer Roxanne K. Shaw, Immediate Past President

EX-OFFICIO

Charles Henry, Ph.D., Vice Provost and David Minter, Ph.D., University Librarian Chair of the University David H. Auston, Ph.D., Provost Committee on the Library G. Anthony Gorry, Ph.D., Vice President for Mary Bixby, Information Technology Executive Director

^ The Flyleaf ^ Page 3 The Library of the 21 st Century

by Charles Henry

When asked to describe the library of the 21st century, pundits, librarians, educators, and library patrons alike will often conjure two related images: one of an imagined interior space filled with technology, the other an exterior image of a future library that is sleek, rounded, or otherwise distinct from the rectilinear forms that have characterized libraries—including Fondren—for much of this century. Too easily, planners tend to define the library of the future in terms of a prevailing technology that will arise to reform the current ways faculty and students do research and course related assignments, or picture an odd if captivating design that will inevitably enclose it. To best appreciate the complexity and value of a library in an academic society, however, it is revealing to approach the question, "What should a

21st century library be?" from a more philosophical Charles Henry, Vice-Provost and University Librarian perspective. If Fondren Library is to succeed as the Thus a library like Fondren has enormous central academic support for Rice, it is important to cultural significance and tremendous responsibility declare which of its attributes are considered for the community it serves. essential to conserve, and how those attributes Contemplating the future library in a less might be enhanced in the coming decades: generalized way—always understanding that the enhanced through printed and electronic resources, coming century is far less crystalline than our through staff appointments, through new metaphoric objects of viewing it would imply—two technologies, and through new and thoughtful related themes arise for consideration. The first is spatial arrangements. the nature of learning, the second is the Put another way, one can ask, "Why have organization of knowledge. How does learning libraries remained a central cultural institution for happen? What are the optimal physical settings and over four thousand years?" Part of the answer lies in available resources for a student to learn, or a faculty member to perform research? How does the ...a library like Fondren has organization of books and journals, and more enormous cultural significance recently the structure of databases, influence what and tremendous responsibility for and how we learn? Why do the schemes of cataloging and subject designations change so the community it serves... frequently? Why, in other words, do our concepts of a fundamental generality: a library facilitates the the various properties of knowledge continually confrontation of living memory with the shift? A library is at the center of these issues. accumulated knowledge of the past; it allows for What is often missed when responding to personal transformation and new perspectives that these questions is the determining effect of the can profoundly alter an individual's sense of self prevailing culture. Two examples from the fairly and the world; it facilitates collaboration, for a recent past help to explain how the ideas we hold library is an institution founded upon the true about learning and knowledge organization are realization of the empowerment of historical nuanced by "local" histories and are not eternal continuity and the social nature of knowledge verities. acquisition. In this respect a good library is an Slightly more than one hundred years ago, organic, as opposed to a static, construct, that Princeton University was as distinguished as it is embodies and advances our collective heritage. today, a pre-eminent institution of higher learning

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in the United States. Remarkably, its library was the section on religion was divided rather neatly open to students for only one hour per week. This into "Judeo-Christian" on the one hand, and "Other". was in response to the prevailing understanding of One can also discern a bias toward Western culture how students were supposed to learn: they were and certain ethnic prejudices. The newer Library of not to be given free reign to the library collections, Congress classification system is more inclusive, but were instructed mostly by rote in fairly small and strives for neutrality in its subject labeling. It, increments—one might say "doses"—of texts and however, also changes over time, with the rise of written exercises. A library such as today's Fondren, interdisciplinarity, new areas of study, and new with open stacks, expert librarians, and online discoveries of the physical universe. access to the digital world beyond the hedges, All this is to say that Melville Dewey, 19th would have been unthinkable. The general century students, and most of the libraries extant in environment at that time can be characterized as the United States today were and are very much highly controlled, heavily reliant on memory, and shaped and influenced by their time. In order to none too hospitable for creative reflection or best prepare for what may be a most extraordinary individual ascendancy. chapter in the evolution of Fondren, the Rice The organization of knowledge has similar community—its faculty, students, librarians, and tracings. Melville Dewey was a Victorian. His Friends— needs to look intently at the past and the concept of the modern library was heavily present to discover the cultural, social, and influenced by the industrial revolution: a variety of historical influences that both enable and constrain departments, with staff performing often small, Fondren and those who use it, decide what highly specialized tasks. His organization of attributes to preserve into the next century and knowledge, known as the Dewey Decimal System, which to discard, and then begin to design a library was also influenced by prevailing cultural practice. that will embody and encourage these essential In the earlier publication of his categorical scheme, characteristics for generations to come.

students of the • FRIENDS ON THE WEB The Friends' century music performed by Shepherd School of Music. The event is membership brochure can now be found on the scheduled for 3:00 p.m. in the Lillian H. Duncan World Wide Web. Look for it at http:// Recital Hall, Alice Pratt Brown Hall. www.rice.edulFondrenlAboutlFoflfof.html . Additional information will be added soon! BOOK SALE The Friends of Fondren Library will host a sale on Saturday, March 15, • RlCE AUTHORS On Wednesday, January 29, book and Sunday, March 16, 1997, in the Grand Hall, 1997, at 7:30 p.m. the Friends of Fondren Rice Memorial Center. Members' preview will Library will sponsor a program honoring those be Friday, March 14. Books may be dropped off members of the Rice alumni, faculty, staff, and at Detering Book Gallery, 2311 Bissonnet, at Star members of the Friends who have authored Motor Cars, 7000 Katy Freeway, or at the books published in 1996, edited journals Friends' office during business hours. published in 1996, composed major musical works, or mounted one person art shows in Friends of Fondren Gala Fondren 1996. Information can be sent to the Friends of Saturday Night XVII on Saturday, April 19, Fondren Library, Rice University, MS 44-F, 6100 1997 will honor Anne and Charles W. Duncan. Main Street, Houston, TX 77005-1892; or you Cocktails, dinner, silent and live auctions will may fax the information to 713-285-5258. benefit the Friends of Fondren Endowment Fund. The event will be held in the new • SCHUBERTIAD On Sunday, February 16, the computational engineering building named the Friends of Fondren Library and the Shepherd Anne and Charles Duncan Hall. Society will present an afternoon of nineteenth

The Flyleaf ^^ Page 5 A Visit with Jonathan

Jjliller

by Elizabeth W. Kidd

As the stream of passen- gers from United 1073

continued past me, I registered that Jonathan Miller must not have flown first class. Growing

concerned, I floated a tentative "Dr. Miller?"

toward a gentleman I thought very like Dr. Miller, but bald.

After all, in the twenty-eight years since I'd attended his lectures at Rice, Jonathan Miller might well have grown bald. But not to worry; a tonsorially well-endowed Dr. Miller finally emerged, smiling, energetic, and, as one might expect, very much in

charge. Before I could register recognition, never mind

motion to him that I was his official greeter, he was approaching, hand extended, to greet me. We carried on rapidly down the corridor to collect his luggage, his questions and comments prodding me to respond quickly or be left as he moved to the next thought. He was concerned about the current mood of the USA.

What did I think? From his recent travels here, observations at airports and such, he judged there to be a disturbing "aerosol of Jonathan Miller testosterone" pervading the The Flyleaf M Page 6 A Visit with Jonathan Miller cont'd. country, all these angry men. And what, he went on as the reader not limited by having seen a film, great we progressed to the car, were my thoughts on violence works of fiction are always different from, and more in films? We discovered that we had in common film- expanded, than the film. Thus, by encouraging such enthusiast sons whose favorite film is Reservoir Dogs, films we threaten the true "afterlife" of great works of which neither of us had seen, but intended to, someday. fiction. Our reluctance related to the reputed violence of the These things and much more preoccupy Jonathan film. His son had argued that plays with much violence, Miller. He is deeply concerned about the militance of such as The Duchess of Malfi, were not judged organized religion: at the Houston Museum of Natural unworthy because of their violence, and films should Science a docent told him that she limited her not be. From this Dr. Miller determined that our sons explanation of evolution to avoid offending anyone. must like the film for its visual elegance and style. He sees philistinism everywhere from the primitive

And so it was with Jonathan Miller for the next Santa Fe opera-goers to the New York Times critics. two days. He was always provocative, but thoughtful, He dislikes pretention of all sorts: Twombly's always irreverent, but respectful, always witty, but "writings" on his paintings, again the New York serious. Times critics, the New York Times itself. If you missed his lectures, I'm sorry, for they Dr. Miller also cares about what he sees as a were far too substantive and full of references collective loss of innocence—and about the to describe adequately here. In the lecture poor and the young who are powerless Sunday night on "The Afterlife of and ignored. He is not sanguine about Plays" he argued that irreverence the future. Listening to him one towards our greatest playwrights hears an echo of Yeat's lines from is necessary to ensure their works ...[Dr. Miller] is all the "The Second Coming": have an afterlife. The director titles by which we The best lack all conviction, while has as a guide the words of the the worst know him: characters only, and must Are full of passionate intensity. "write" the nuances of gesture neuropsychologist, But listening to Dr. Miller, and inflection that create a actor, director, author, one also feels hopeful. He often performance and provide the speaks of what he enjoys as artist, and also, play a new "life." well—Houston Grand Opera, There was much, much more grandfather... films like "The Thin Blue Line" about music and painting, about and "Hoop Dreams," the paintings listeners and observers as part of the of Cy Twombly (the writings process that creates an afterlife for a work notwithstanding), the lighting in the of art. But in the main the lecture was an building that holds the Twombly, the Soames argument by Jonathan Miller, the director, that the museum in London, cottages in Scotland, his coming director becomes "co-creator" of the play, and he production of "a Midsummer Night's Dream", his made a very good case. sculpture. He is all the titles by which we know him: His second lecture was somewhat in neuropsychologist, actor, director, author, artist, and contradiction to his first. While Dr. Miller suggests also, grandfather, who, on a demanding lecture tour, that we must show irreverence toward great plays to felt compelled to stop by the Gap to shop for his young help keep them alive, he also insists we must show granddaughter. great reverence for works of fiction. That is to say, we Jonathan Miller encourages irreverence, so a should not make great novels into movies. Such movies touch irreverently, I disagree with him about the New are dangerous to fiction because they "habituate York Times, my morning sustenance, and about Santa audiences to the idea that the film is a full accounting Fe, where the weekend following his visit Albert and of the author's thoughts." I purchased a lot —near a golf course, no less. And,

Those of you who, as I, love films of Jane Austen's while I agree with his concerns, I'm more sanguine novels must trust me on this: He made a strong than he about the world's prospects. Possibly that's argument, using scientific studies (remember he's because I'm still experiencing the general exhilaration also a neuropsychologist) that the "mind's eye" used of having heard two really fine lectures by Jonathan in reading sees things differently. In the mind's eye of Miller. ^ The Flyleaf ^ Page 7 ofthe Rice Library Another "temporary" arrangement was the location of the first library on the second floor of by Karen Hess Rogers the administration building—for thirty-five years. Jn a letter to the in 1917, the There were different opinions about this library. acting librarian of the new Rice Institute writes, Sarah Lane, Circulation Librarian for many years, "If convenient will you please lend us the following volumes. ..They are needed by one of our professors who is doing research along the lines indicated." Borrowing books from the Library of Congress was necessary because there were not many on the shelves of the young Rice library in 1917. In 1913, the Preliminary Announcements set forth the policy of "providing only such books as are necessary to supplement the courses of instruction and to support the independent investigations of the staff and advanced students." It went on to suggest that, for works of general interest, members of the institute had access to the public library. Long-time English professor George Williams Early Rice Libraiy in Lovett Hall notes in a 1966 article in The Flyleaf that, "as with loved the long gallery with its beautiful marble almost anything else at Rice in the early years, the fireplace, magnificent light and cross-ventilation, first library's books were ordered personally by French doors to the balconies and exquisite seven- President Lovett," although later an informal three- foot bookcases. George Williams, on the other member faculty committee took over that job. This hand, describes it as "dark, medieval, accidental" committee also had the task of supervising the and "dim, shadowy, heavy and overpowering." He "librarian" at the early Rice library. Alice Dean remembers everything as dark brown and insists began as a student assistant in 1914 after entering that even the chandeliers gave off "a strange Rice in the fall of 1913. She continued as librarian yellowish brown religious light." Miss Lane's while she earned her master's degree in math and lovely bookcases which divided her room into ten then taught Math 100. Ann Tuck Williams '43 charming alcoves, Mr. Williams describes as jutting remembers that Rice had to let Dean be librarian so "out from the walls like precipes into a dark sea." she would teach math. Over the summer of 1916, The library was run with great economy; in she studied library science at Columbia and at that the year 1916-17 the operating budget was $1,200 time decided to use the Library of Congress with student assistants earning $.20 per hour. Book classification system. This seemed cumbersome at dealers were instructed to ship books in the "most the time for so few books, but she felt that one day economical way." A package once arrived Rice would have many more volumes and would addressed to: not have to change the system again. Eventually The Rice Institute Miss Dean was appointed Acting Librarian, a Sent by Cheapest Method position she held for thirty years. Houston, Texas

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Early Days of the Rice Library cont'd.

The 1920s saw Rice's early librarians encountered such an increase in challenges not commonly seen today. One the number of summer Alice Dean, upon returning from books that the vacation, discovered that all of the periodicals shelves had to be stacked on a table by the window had been extended to the blown out by the 1915 hurricane. During the ceiling, and then the Depression students were employed by the number of National Youth Administration to work in the bookcases library. Emily Ladner '37 remembers pulling themselves were bookworms from books shipped from India doubled. They were using a long scalpel and tweezers. She also so close together recalls that the government would pay for that portly Dr. salaries ($.25 an hour) and tools, but not Axson could not supplies; so electric erasers were purchased to Sarah Lane, Head Circulation of ^end over to see the erase old catalogue cards which were then bottom shelf. George Williams remembers the retyped with the current information. Miss Dean room as having a "sad, cluttered look." had a strict rule against student workers talking It became necessary to find other spaces for to each other—even in the middle of the library use. Engineering periodicals were relegated summer in the basement of the Administration to the engineering labs. The chemistry and Building.

architecture libraries were in the Chemistry By the beginning of World War II the Building; biology and physics, in the Physics library had nowhere to expand. The war years Building. The boys' study on the first floor of the slowed growth and by 1949, with a generous gift Administration Building and the girls' club room of one million dollars from the Fondren Family, eventually became part of the library, too. George the Rice Institute was able to build a brand-new Williams regarded the next step as downward library with a first floor larger than a football literally—to the basement. If he did not care for the field. But that is another story... first location, he really disliked

this annex: It was a dismal sight with scarred furniture, flaky plaster and "flooding, not uncommon." Sarah Lane once encountered a water moccasin swimming at the foot of the steps. The library opened at 8:00 in the morning and students were promptly chased out at 5:00 in the afternoon. In an experiment in the 1920s a graduate student (male, of course, since women had to be off campus by dark) petitioned to open the library from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. Few students took advantage of the opportunity, some books disappeared, and some boys even wandered into places they should not have been—like the president's office. The experiment was Study in Lovett Hall deemed unsuccessful. Boys' ^^ The Flyleaf ^ Page 9 Arthur and Karen H. Rogers. Bettv Charles Tom and Pain Smith Bill and Cindv Davis, Al Jensen 'IT'

1996Friends of Homecoming

K. Terry Koonce, William White, David Archer, Sally K. Reynolds, and Karen H. Rogers

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Charles Wheeler and Tom Eubank David It: and Robert Flatt Arthur Rogers and Texas Anderson

Fondren Annual Brunch

Mary Catherine Miller, chair of the Homecoming Brunch visits with Karen H. Rogers and Sally K. Reynolds

?^ The Flyleaf ^ Page 1 Hosted jointly by the Friends of Fondren and the Engineering alumni, brunch in the Fondren Library is always a favorite Homecoming event. About two hundred Rice alumni, friends and family met on

November 2, 1996 in the lovely Kyle Morrow Room to socialize and to acknowledge the many contributions of this year's Homecoming Brunch honorees, Mary Catherine Miller and Pegg}' Barnett Karen Rogers '68, K. Terry Koonce '60 and William White '86. President Sally Reynolds, presented the Friends of Fondren Library Award to Karen Rogers, who has continued a family tradition of service to the Rice community. Her parents, Jacob '31 and Leota '33 Hess, her aunt, Catherine Hess '38 and uncle, Wilber Hess '35 are Rice alumni. When Karen arrived on campus she was primed for a lifetime of dedication to the University. A member of the Elizabeth Baldwin Literary Society, she served as Mary Bixby, Walter S. Baker. Jr., and Sally Reynolds business manager in 1965-66, secretary in 1966-67 and president in 1967-68. "Always one of the first to step up to the plate when Rice has a need," as Linda Brachrach of the Development Office recently observed,

Karen is as enthusiastic as the chairman of

an organization as she is making sandwiches and cookies for other volunteers. Last year Karen founded and became the first president of the Rice Historical Society; she was president of the Society of Rice University Women in 1993-94, co- Karen H. Rogers and K. Tern- Koonce chaired the 1993 Homecoming Events, served as second vice president of the Association of Rice Alumni in 1988-89, and was class chair of the Annual Fund in 1980-

81. Karen's husband, Arthur Rogers III '67

is also an active alumni volunteer and was class chair for the 1990-91 Annual Fund drive. Rose Sundin of the Alumni Office remarked that Karen "is a very early-riser, accomplishing much before most of us get out of bed." Anyone who has worked with

Michael Carroll, Elizabeth and Albert Kidd, and Karen on one of her many projects, Carolyn Carroll including video-taping interviews with ^£ The Flyleaf^ Page 12 some noted Rice alumni, will readily attest to her energy, intellect and boundless enthusiasm, as well as her modest and unassuming demeanor. The Rice Engineering Alumni president, David Archer '72, presented the Outstanding Engineering Alumnus Award to K. Terry Koonce for his service to industry, community and the University. John Cabaniss, John Margrave, and Beth' Cabaniss Terry joined the Exxon organization in 1963 after receiving a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Rice. In 1985, he was named president and chief executive officer of ESSO Resources Canada Limited and in 1988 he became senior vice president of EXXON Company USA. He and his wife, Beverly Montgomery '60, moved back to Houston when he was tapped for president and CEO of EXXON Ventures, Inc., headquartered jointly in Houston and Moscow, Russia. Terry served as a member of the William White and David Archer Advisory Council of the George R. Brown School of Engineering. He has served on the Board of Regents of Pepperdine University and on the Board of Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. He is a member of the American Petroleum Institute and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Christian Studies in Austin, as well as numerous other civic and business organizations. The final presentation was awarded by Archer to William White '86 as Outstanding Young Engineering Alumnus. Bill received Robert and Nancy Flatt, Albert Kidd a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering and is president of BP Microsystems, Inc., a company he founded in his senior year at Rice. This young company now has sales and support personnel in 25 countries. Until 1992, Bill designed all of BP's hardware and continues to act as chief designer and architect of new systems. He and his wife, Susan Schrakamp '86 live in the Rice area. This year's award winners typify the dynamic achievements of Rice alumni in their community, and they set an exemplary Lew Eatherton, Dorothy Knox Houghton, and course for others to follow. Somxi Renner ^£ The Flyleaf^ Page 13 Old Books, Old Friends: Agonies ofa Presentation Librarian by Rita M. Marsales

rare and unexpected wind Frequency of use was easily A fall — extra binding funds to ascertained. Old date-slips are not Rita Marsales be spent — enabled me to removed when a new one is undertake a special project this needed, so they become layered Secondly, I had to determine if spring. I have been including a like geological strata, sometimes a book was physically sound dozen or so old monographs six deep. Three date-slips or more enough for rebinding. Rebinding which needed rebinding in each indicate a well-read book, can do a lot for a book but it is not semimonthly bindery shipment. perhaps. Other factors must be a cure-all. Pages are trimmed and encased in a bright, clean, sturdy Now I would have an opportunity considered also. Was the book to send a thousand volumes or consecutively charged to the same new cover. Little tears can be pencil erased (not more — if I could select and carrel? Was it on reserve? Was it mended, marks prepare those volumes in a six checked out a lot ten years ago ink and highlighting), and week period (in addition to my and not all recently? I didn't have missing pages may be replaced other duties). I asked our to open all the books to check the with photocopies. However, a collection development librarians date-slips. The well-used books frightening number of books to tell me if they had any are easily spotted, and of course cannot be rebound because the recommendations, but they were well-known titles is too already busy trying to spend funds are usually fragile. on new books before the end of the heavily used. It A book fiscal year. A few friends stands to reason printed in 1840 volunteered to help but I realized that books which will probably be that the task would be largely up have been in better to me. consistently condition than

I arbitrarily decided to begin heavily used will one printed in work in literature since I know continue to be 1940. After the that material is heavily used. I used in the middle of the started with the PR's — English future, so they nineteenth literature — and PS's — American are "worthy" of century, the literature. I progressed rebinding. I tried cotton and linen systematically through the stacks, to choose only used in making scanning the volumes on the books which had paper was shelves. It became quite an over ten replaced by emotional experience. So many circulations. groundwood books in need of help and I could Many had , making only take a few. With sagging twenty or thirty, paper production Lisa McLean cataloging staff r r r spines, worn covers, and well- some over fifty cheaper, but the thumbed pages, the old books circulations. Think of that.. .fifty quality significantly declined. seemed to call out: "Pick me! Pick pairs of hands cradled this spine, Lignin, an acidic organic me!" But I had to be hard-hearted fifty pairs of eyes scanned these substance found in wood pulp, and try to determine which were pages, fifty minds were touched together with the sizing used to the most worthy. This decision by the thoughts of the author. But enable the paper to hold ink, was not directly based upon the now the book cover is filthy, causes the paper to become acidic quality of the literature — that damaged, and unappealing. I over time and literally self- would indeed be an overwhelming have the power of making it destruct. In an historic study task! There were two main factors suitable for another two dozen commissioned by the Council on

I had to consider: frequency of use circulations at least, at a cost of Library Resources in the late and physical condition. 1950s, William Barrow, ^ less than six dollars. The Flyleaf ^ Page 14 conservator at the Virginia to be saved. Now here is an older library has a policy of generally Historical Society, predicted that book with gold-leaf edged pages keeping only one copy of any ninety percent of the books and fine tooled leather cover but edition. Books may not be stolen printed in the mid-twentieth the hinges are broken and it can or mutilated or abused, but just century would be unusable by the only be repaired by a conservator sitting quietly on the shelves they year 2000 due to their physical at great expense. The paper shows are slowing dying. Books are deterioration. It is only in the last some foxing but it is still strong. made of organic matter and thus thirty years or so that librarians Should I rebind it, loosing the decay. The "great" books and the have realized that all the books gold-leave edges and leather "popular" books will be "of a certain age" in all the cover? No, for republished in libraries of all the world are now I'll just put newer editions simultaneously crumbling, and it in an acid-free and thus will began trying to do something box. Here is a continue to be about it. Some publishers have book from the available. The been persuaded to use "acid-free" 1980's which has real danger is paper. Some old books are being only circulated for the more republished. Many are being about eight times obscure but microfilmed. There are projects but it has nonetheless being mounted for digital suffered water valuable scanning, even though the digital damage and the works which format is itself of indeterminate cover is badly Helen Gibbs. cataloging staff are not being stability. There is a newly warped and mildewed. Rebinding reproduced in any format. They developed process for treating is really needed in this instance. may not be great literature, but books which have acidic paper, Oh, here is a novel I remember they are part of our cultural provided the paper has not yet my mother reading. A copy of history, reflecting the era in which become brittle. The acid in the this scholarly work was on my they were written. When they are paper is neutralized, slowing the grandfather's bookshelf. This is gone, they will be really gone, and deterioration and significantly the poet I loved so when I was in mankind's storehouse of

college. I remember the summer I knowledge will be diminished.

spent reading all of the works of I must get on with my work. "It is only in the last thirty years this author. I can't do anything for It is painful for me to examine or so that librarians have realized these old friends — they are too some of these poor books. I am far gone. Look on your own happy that they have been used that all the books "of a certain bookshelves. There is an old but sad that they have not much age" ... are simultaneously textbook you haven't opened in life left. Perhaps it will be easier

crumbling, and began trying to years. The paper is yellowing and for me when I move on to other

brittle, the spine is warped, the areas of our collection. I may not do something about it." pages loosening. It wasn't like personally be as moved by a

A that the last time you used it! damaged book of mathematics as prolonging the life of the paper. In Well, have you ever run into an by a damaged book of verse, but "," quantities old school chum and wondered there are important old books in of books can be treated at one how he could have aged so much? every field. Preservationists are time at a reasonable cost. On our shelves, I encountered by nature nurturing-treasuring I mustn't dream of such many books which had never old things. In the midst of the things now. I just have to rebind a been "popular" but had information explosion we still few hundred books in as objective nonetheless aged beyond aid. appreciate books as physical and systematic manner as It's strange how people think objects. I must use this little extra possible. I have to select the that once a library acquires a book money I have to save as many heartiest — those which could that it is a permanent part of the books as possible. So little money most benefit by rebinding. Never collection. The on-line catalog is available to save the old things. mind that this book is a classic says that it is "on the shelf" so we What will the future be like when with illustrations by a well known can rest assured that our library they are gone? engraver — the paper is too brittle can offer access to this work. Our The Flyleaf^ Page 15 7n discussing this edition of the Flyleaf it occurred up their intellectual faculties while honing their to us that the Friends might be interested in parenting skills. Since most of them were on a knowing what their fellow members are reading. In limited budget, their choices needed to be available the process of developing that list of books we also in paperback, but beyond that there were no learned about a few, of what we assume are many, of limitations. the book discussion groups our members have As the school days lengthened for their organized. Book clubs, like most of the associations children, these friends began to linger over brown Americans are keen to make, serve a variety of bag lunches and over the years this evolved into functions, social and intellectual of course, but often slightly more substantial reading and more elaborate political and economic as well. Thus it is in a luncheons prepared by the hostess of the month. The democracy. book selections are eclectic, balancing fiction with Susie Glasscock and her coterie of young non-fiction, best-sellers with classics. The reviewing mothers began their book club in 1970, meeting one and discussion remain informal and sometimes get morning each month while their toddlers were in set aside altogether as a personal crisis grips one of pre-school. Like many young college-educated their members and requires their concern and women of that time they were determined to keep support. What Our Friends Are by Texas Anderson

Achebe, Chinua Anthills of the Savannah Kincaid, Jamaica The Autobiography of My Allende, Isabel The House of the Spirits Mother Alvarez, Julia In the Time of Butterflies Lee, Chang-rae Native Speaker

Ambrose, Stephen Undaunted Courage "...a tale Mahfouz, Naguib The Palace Walk

of mythic proportions, a Malouf, David Remembering Babylon "...a poignant human drama, and dazzling fable of human an essential piece of our hopes and imperfections." history..." Michael Beschloss New York Times Andric', Ivo Bridge on the Drina Marquez, G. Garcia Love in the Time of Cholera

Bury, J.B. The Idea of Progress McCarthy, Cormac The Crossing Cahill, Thomas How the Irish Saved Morgan, Mario' Mutant Messages Down Civilization "...hill of bold Under insights into the Irish Morrison, Toni Beloved: a Novel character..." Kirkus Reviews. Nooteboom, Cees The Following Story Graceful and instructive..." Oe, Kenzaburo A Personal Matter "...very Los Angeles Times close to the perfect Chinard, Gilbert Honest John Adams contemporary novel." New Fuentes, Carlos A New Time for Mexico York Times "...a deep Gaukroger, Stephen Descartes, an Intellectual perception of the Biography contradictions within the Goodwin, D. Kearnes No Ordinary Time human heart." Christian Greene, Graham The Honorary Consul Science Monitor Guterson, David Snow Falling on Cedars Oz, Amos Fima Halberstam, David The Fifties Proulx, E. Annie The Shipping News Hawking, Stephen A Brief History of Time Rushdie, Salman Imaginary Homelands "A Hazzard, Shirley The Transit of Venus wonderful Heaney, Seamus Selected Poems collection.. .passionate, Hoving, Thomas Making the Mummies resonating, and often Dance brilliant... shows its author's Ishiguro, Kazuo Artist of the Floating World intellect and moral Ketchum, Richard M. The Winter Soldiers fearlessness." Cleveland Plain Dealer

=^£ The Flyleaf ^ Page 16 Each May they get together for dinner and plan even make notes and come prepared as though they

the next year's reading program and once or twice a will be tested after dessert. Others read the first

year they invite husbands and significant others for chapter and the last, letting the discussion fill in the a social evening without books. gaps they missed. Some merely skim through A Friend associated with the Baylor College of gleaning the gist, little interested in style and Medicine Book Club reported that their group has aesthetics but eager to discuss aspects of particular always included men and women, faculty and wives interest. The member who recommends the book at first, and as times changed for women in usually leads the discussion and makes a concerted medicine, faculty and husbands as well. Starting as a effort to include everyone in the discussion. Tact dinner group with faculty spouses sharing host becomes a requisite when the discussion leader must responsibilities, the group now places greater focus balance the opinions of the chairman of his on the books, limiting refreshments to dessert and department with the soft-spoken and often coffee. insightful comments of a spouse or a new member Francis Catlin, one of the original members, has of the faculty! detected certain reading patterns among the Although most of the selections are current members. Many read the book cover to cover, some novels, the year's list may include biographies and other non-fiction and occasionally a book of poetry. The group meets five times a year from Reading September to June. Three years ago a new member of the Friends organized a book club that meets one Rybakov, Anatoli Children of the Arbat afternoon a month over tea and cookies. That Schiff, Stacey Saint Exupery: a Biography may sound a bit light-weight but the discussion Shasa, D. & C. Lazere Out of Their Minds is anything but frivolous. Opinions are strong Shelden, Michael Graham Greene: the Man and discussion, lively. Book selections are Within offered, debated and chosen in an informal Shields, Carol The Stone Diaries process and may be altered if some new Sidhwa, Bapsi Cracking India publication seems of interest. There is no formal Sobel, Dava Longitude "A simple tale, leader, although a member may be assigned or brilliantly told." Washington may volunteer for an especially lengthy Post Book World. 'As much a selection. Someone usually brings a published

tale of intrigue as it is of review, and newspaper articles are shared when science." Philadelphia Inquirer one of the authors wins a prestigious award or Softie, Elma Sarajevo Days, Sarajevo incurs the wrath of a religious zealot or a Nights political group. Sontag, Susan The Volcano Lover: a Some book clubs are more formally Romance organized than the three we have mentioned; Thomas, Lewis The Fragile Species some focus strictly on the classics or on books of Valledao, Alfredo G.A.The Twenty-First Century science. One book club, by design or lack of it, Will Be American discusses the works of a geographically diverse Weiner, Jonathan The Beak of the Finch group of contemporary novelists including: Ishiguro Will, George F. Restoration Chinua Achebe (Africa), Kazuo Wilson, A.N. Tolstoy (Japan), Isabel Allende (Chile), Carol Shields Wilson, Robert, (ed.) Character Above All "Ten (Canada), and Ivo Andric (Serbia). superb and expert writers We hope you will encounter some of your by address this issue in terms of favorites in the book list and be tempted the past ten presidents," some titles that are unfamiliar to you. Most of including Pulitzer Prize these books are available at Fondren Library. winners Dorris Kearns Let us hear from you; tell us what you are Goodwin (on FDR) and reading, and let us share the stories of your own David McCullough (on HST). book discussion group with the Friends. Wolf, Christine Patterns of Childhood

^f The Flyleaf ^ Page 17 Friends of Fondren Library

June 1, 1996 - September 30, 1996 Dr. Anne Ku Tamasine Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Yongku Kwon Stephen Engblom We welcome thefollowing new members. Nancy and John LaBounty Gayle G. Grubbs Dr. Richard L. Lande Irene Haas PATRONS Daniel M. Laufer Dr. D. Scott Harding

Dr. and Mrs. F. R. Lummis, Jr. Laurie Lavine Diane and Tim Jenkins Susan and Donald Loveday Douglas Kamen SPONSORS Sarah Manire Aya Katz

Mr. and Mrs. Don Akerman, Jr. Ines and Adolfo R. Martinez Mr. and Mrs. Ian Leong Robert Bilderback Angela Moench Michael L. Levine

Dr. J. A. Giralt-Mestre Paul Niermann Belinda Lopez Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hosley Claudia and Richard Olson Ronald R. Marshall James A. Kearley Mrs. Katherine Pannell Meredith E. McCree Gerald Lott Gerald W. Parker Evelyne Orndoff Cathy and Howard Moreland JoAnne Pate Jason Lee Phillips Diane Sacks Nancy Porter and Richard Plumb Scott Phillips Mr. and Mrs. P. W. White Dr. Sunder Ramachandran Girish V. Putcha Marilyn and Fritz Rambow Bore Gowda Raju

CONTRIBUTORS Gopesh Rana Jesse Dalvin Richardson, Jr. Dr. Robert M. Battle Mrs. Danielle M. Ranneft Peter L. Rockrise Cheryl L. Bolen A. R. M. Salimullah, Ph.D. Lura and Deric Rosenblatt John L. Boone Eva L. Sanchez-Murrillo Troy M. Rowley Carl W. Bradow Wallace Sanders Amy Schumacher Scott Alan Brasher Kenny Schwartzberg Amy Scurria Lisa and David Brown Michael A. Seckman Sharon Segner

Carl H. Brunsting Mr. and Mrs. Barnet B. Skelton, Jr. John Urness James Bryan Cheryl Smith and Steven Spidell Weizhong Wang Robert Bruce Burnside Mr. and Mrs. Haoshi Song Judith Yaldatel Robert W. Burrow Paula M. Stechschulte Dr. Jeanne A. Zeh Mr. and Mrs. Paul Calvin Cecilia Steinocher Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Cornish Darryl W. Stephens In addition, the following have up- Susan Coupran-Motamedi Melanie Trudeau graded their membership in the Dr. Cynthia D. Edmiston Belinda Turk Friends: Nancy D. Faires LaVina and Timothy Twohill Dr. Kenneth C. Abdulah Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fraccastoro Rachel Van Wart Mrs. Ruth Bellows Christa Gaug Kathleen A. Volpi Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bernhard Mrs. Dolores R. Goble Corine Vriesendorp Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Dunn Sefik Tunc Gokaslan Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wessels Marilyn and David Heliums Mary Ann Henry Jenny Z. Zhang Mr. and Mrs. Grant S. Masson Gregg Hill Freddy Zion Mr. and Mrs. P. James Murphy Syed Taha Hussain Mrs. Kirk Rote Karen Hyatt RECENT ALUMNI Mr. and Mrs. Steve Shaper Margaret Immel Tracy Jo Barnwell Mrs. Eugene Winograd

Rebecca J. Jacobs-Pollez and Alain Eric Kristopher Bjork Richard M. Yuill, Ph.D. Pollez Richard Bowers Lloyd Johnson Carlos A. Bruderer The Friends of Fondren Library is June Ferrill Jones David Wei Chia most grateful to these new Friends Susan Booth Keeton Rebecca Coberly for their interest and to the Friends Mr. and Mrs. William M. Kilgore Kim and Chris Cooley of longer standing for their support Dr. Nora A. Klein Michael A. Dowling and for renewing their commitments.

The Flyleaf -^^ Page 18 Gifts to Fondren Library

June 1, 1996 - September 30, 1996 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Draper Martha Gray Benedict on the occasion of their 40th Chris and Bob Birchak GIFTS IN KIND wedding anniversary, Arlene and Alan Gerger Mr. and Mrs. John E. Joiner

Francis J. Biggi Stephen Baker Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kisling, III James K. Hopkins Helen Burns on the occasion of their 50th William A. Camfield wedding anniversary, Myra E. Blossom Melissa L. Carsey Mrs. Robert Simonds Dorothy Z. Bowman

Robert J. Faust W. Lawson Taite Nancy Wade Taylor and R. J. Lingle Muriel Reese Bracewell on the occasion of their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Woodruff ENDOWED GIFTS Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Freeman H. Fletcher Brown The Benjamin M. Bloomfield John W. McKee Nancy and William Akers Book Fund on the occasion of his birthday, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Ames Robert A. McKee Eileen B. Biering Owen Wister Literary Society Jane and David Carothers Alumnae Endowed Library Fund Mr. and Mrs. Sam Shariro Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Dix Nancy Flatt (Treasurer) on the occasion of their 60th Edythe and Street Fulton

wedding anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Glauser, Jr. Shapiro Library Staff Innovation Mr. and Mrs. Max Herzstein Annette and Hugh Gragg Award Fund Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Hudspeth Carole and Gilbert Shivers Mrs. Carl Illig Society of Rice University Women on the occasion of their 25th Members of Will Rice College wedding anniversary, Caroline and David Minter MONEY GIFTS Florence and Bob Lait Mr. and Mrs. James C. Morehead Dr. and Mrs. Hal Snyder Maria R. Wells Mr. and Mrs. William Akers Gifts in MEMORY OF/ Mrs. Barbara Willis Margaret B. Clegg given by: Mrs. James L. Whitcomb Howard W. Collins Helen S. Worden Claire M. Dwyer Mary Bentley Arnold David Langrock Col. and Mrs. Raymond C. Bishop Vernon Riddick Burrows Russell G. Sakaguchi Helen S. Worden Ralph S. O'Connor Dorothy J. Siegel Josephine M. Shanks Mr. and Mrs. Denny R. Stephens William L. Asper David Zuber Mr. and Mrs. Neal B. Heaps Dr. Thomas Cain Mr. and Mrs. Hugh E. McGee Gifts in HONOR OF/ Khleber Van Zandt Attwell, Sr. given by: Mr. and Mrs. James P. Jackson Claudia Sparks Cannon Ralph S. O'Connor Florence A. Miller Betty Charles Goss Townes Stephen Fox Mrs. Edgar Townes, Jr. Mary Jane Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. Les Center Leonidas T. Barrow Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Darling, Jr. Nancy and William Akers on the occasion of their 50th Mary Margaret Dudley Cashman wedding anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Meador Mrs. Robert Simonds Donald Barthelme Stephen Fox ^ The Flyleaf ^ Page 19 Gifts cont'd.

Rose J. Chapman Richard Hannah Frederick Milam Johnston Library Staff Association Mr. and Mrs. John E. Joiner June Bourgeois Norma and Fred Gibbs Bobby L. Choate Joseph Leonard Hargrove Kaye Gulen

Mr. and Mrs. Lebbeus C. Kemp, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Dunn Mr. and Mrs. William E. Newman Elleanor Graham Tyng John Haskins Hartwell Elizabeth Jones Terri Cole-Smith Mrs. A. W. Crawford Dr. and Mrs. David Minter Mr. and Mrs. Edgar W. Monteith Janet Smith Hawkins Lee W. Jones Zylla Swartz Cundiff Bernice D. Stephenson Mr. and Mrs. John E. Joiner

Mr. and Mrs. George S. Adams, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Hudspeth Herbert F. Higginbotham Dr. Roy Jones

Wanda and Louis D. Spaw, Jr. Carol E. Lazell, D.D.S. Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Dix Stephen Fox Lucille B. Daniels Ruby Lorraine Brown Elsa H. Daniels Hockensmith Kathleen Carr Kilian Ralph S. O'Connor Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Dunn Harold Decker Stephen Fox

Ralph S. O'Connor Eleanor E. Holland Mr. and Mrs. David S. Howard, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Dyer Mrs. James H. Kerr

Helen I. Dixon Mr. and Mrs. S. I. Morris

Ralph S. O'Connor Claude E. Hooton Milton B. McGinty Professor John E. Kilpatrick Emerence T. Ehlers Dr. and Mrs. Robert Curl Josephine M. Shanks May Smith House Marilyn M. Weatherford Essie Kirkpatrick Harry Edward Emmerton Dr. and Mrs. Ray H. Skaggs

Mr. and Mrs. James W. Woodruff Janice Thibodeaux Howze V Edith and George Hartung James W. Kisling, III Louise Sell Field Mary Martha Clements H. Russell Pitman Thomas Ruel Hudspeth, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Cortner

Annette and Hugh Gragg Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Jones, Jr. Margaret M. Glaser Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Hudspeth Pat and Frank Fisher Evelyn and Walter Murphy Mary Catherine Martin Knowles James T. Wagoner Dr. and Mrs. Robert K. Blair Jack W. Glauser Helen S. Worden Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Dyer Mary Alice Krahl

Patti J. Jenkins Dawn C. Crawford

Louis A. J. Gordon (Catherine Foster Davis

Mrs. Edgar Townes, Jr. Joe L. Lagow David F. Johnson Dr. Frank M. Fisher Mary M. Hahn Gray Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Dyer Elsa H. Daniels Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McGee Allen Landowne Mr. and Mrs. Richard McGee Mr. and Mrs. William Broyles Alice L. Hagens Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Dyer Rev. Robert L. Johnson Clifford Lefton Lawrence Mr. and Mrs. John Joiner James H. Lewis

^ The Flyleaf ^ Page 20 Gifts cont'd.

Gladys Leacock-Sublett Lawrence J. O'Connor, Jr. Virginia T. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. John Joiner Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Ferguson J. Edwin Smith Mrs. Ray W. Hoagland Earl L. Lester, Sr. Virginia Sprague

Mrs. James H. Kerr, Jr. Henry Oliver Mary E. Fosselman

Mrs. Edgar Townes, Jr. Jefferson S. Lewis Mr. and Mrs. David Wintermann John M. Steel

Virginia and Joseph Brouillard Mr. and Mrs. David S. Howard, Jr.

Brouillard Communications Pauline J. Porter Frankie Jo Elliott Mr. and Mrs. C. SS. Harrington Ruth Van Steenbergh

James H. Foster Barbara and Warren Foster J. Edwin Smith Henry S. Grew Frances Hall Linda M. Quaidy Josephine Mitchell Stoffer John Kirk Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Dix Dr. Edmond K. Doak Irene Randerson Mrs. Herbert Stevenson

Harold Whited Adelaide Makens Reilly, Jr.

Jack Whited Mr. and Mrs. Gus A. Schill, Jr. Torleif Tellefsen Aida and Bill Roberts Jimmy Listenbee Pawel Rickwicki Mrs. Evelyn H. Weymouth Mrs. Joyce H. Carlen Don Treadway Evelyn H. Weymouth Martin Mathis Preston F. Roberts

Mr. and Mrs. James W. Woodruff Elsa H. Daniels Mace Tungate, Jr. Annie Laurie Tungate Diane S. McFall Virginia Douglas Rotan

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Charles W. Moody, Jr. Charles Schorre Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Dunn Stephen Fox Allen G. Weymouth Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Dyer Joan and Homer Borgstedte Robert E. Schweitzer Susan and Raymond Brochstein Madelin Jacobe Nadeau Mr. and Mrs. James W. Woodruff Mrs. Lynn B. Evans Carrie Scott Mr. and Mrs. John E. Joiner Marie Scott Harriet Shaer Ann and Bert Link Audry B. Fisher McCord Development, Inc. Bruno Naegele Dean H. Fisher Ruby Ann Riley Edward F. Heyne Robert Stavely Nellie Alma Sink

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• TSANG DONATION RECEPTION Mrs. Helen Wu Yun Tsang donated over 1,500 Chinese books to the library. A reception was held on November 13 to honor Mrs. Tsang.

• SMITHSONIAN LECTURES The Smithsonian Voices of Discovery, a series of free public lectures and workshops will be presented throughout Houston, January 6-17, in celebration of the Smithsonian Institution's 150 th anniversary. Fondren Library has been chosen as a venue for three of the lectures which will take place in the Kyle Morrow Room on the third floor. Wednesday, January 8, 1997, 11 a.m. Edith Mayo From Parlor to Politics: Women and Reform in America 1890-1925 Wednesday, January 15, 1997, 4 p.m. Steven Newsome The African American Church and Community History Thursday, January 16, 1997, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Spencer Crew, Olivia Cadaval, Steven Newsome Minorities and Identity in American Culture

• NEW PBS COLLECTION Fondren Library has acquired the research materials compiled for the PBS series With God on Our Side: the Rise of the Religious Right in America. The collection includes books, literature produced by the religious groups, and an extensive collection of taped interviews and broad- cast materials. The library is grateful to Dr. William Martin and Lumiere Productions, New York, for their assistance.

Exhibits in the library : December: Showcases the creative talents of the library staff January: Rice University Authors

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