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Volume 21 Spring 2015 BEYOND THE PAGES University of Georgia Libraries Visit the Libraries’ websites: www.libs.uga.edu UGA Libraries Contact Information Special Collections Library www.libs.uga.edu/scl Dr. P. Toby Graham University Librarian and Associate Provost [email protected] Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library (706) 542-0621 www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett Chantel Dunham Director of Development Richard B. Russell Library for [email protected] Political Research and Studies (706) 542-0628 www.libs.uga.edu/russell Leandra Nessel Development Officer Walter J. Brown Media Archive [email protected] and Peabody Awards Collection (706) 542-3879 www.libs.uga.edu/media Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library Chuck Barber Kat Stein Digital Library of Georgia Interim Co-Director Interim Co-Director www.dlg.galileo.usg.edu [email protected] [email protected] (706) 542-0669 (706) 542-5484 Ruta Abolins Director, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection [email protected] (706) 542-4757 Sheryl B. Vogt Director, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies [email protected] (706) 542-0619 Sheila McAlister Director, Digital Library of Georgia [email protected] (706) 542-5418 Researchers | (706) 542-7123 Events | (706) 542-6331 Tours | (706) 542-8079 Beyond The Pages is published twice annually by the University of Georgia Libraries, with support from the Dooley Endowment Editor: Leandra Nessel Writers: Steven Brown, KC Carter, Jean Cleveland, Margie Compton, Emily Corbin, Anne DeVine, Diana Hartle, Kat Stein, Alexander M. Stephens, Ian Thomas, Kyleigh Weaver Cover Photo: Design: Jackie Baxter Roberts, UGA Press A photo from the dedication of the Habitat for Humanity home built on the lawn of the Russell Special Collections Building. Articles may be reprinted with permission. The University of Georgia is an equal opportunity employer. BEYOND THE PAGES : Table of Contents Volume 21 Spring 2015 Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library Within The Pages 9 Georgia Writers Hall of Fame 2015 4 Letter from Dr. Toby Graham Four to be inducted in 2015 6 Calling All Collectors 10 A New Shakespeare 6 Why I Give—Dr. Stuart Katz Conference hosted by Special Collections examines Shakespearean appropriation 7 Special Collections Exhibit Schedule Archives 8 Presidential Scholars Collection Comes to the UGA Libraries 12 A View from Above Early lithograph depicts UGA 8 Special Collections Starts Book Club campus from a new perspective FEATURES In the Stacks COLUMNS Walter J. Brown Media Archives 26 Collection Openings 14 Come One, Come All to the Clay Family 28 Whisperin' Bill Anderson Traveling Cinema Show Collection Collection Announcement Unique collection provides a peek into 28 Remembering Tom Stanley the world of traveling cinemas 29 Libraries vs. Sanford Stadium 16 Nixon/Gannon Interviews See New Light New technology makes historic interviews 30 Letter from Chantel Dunham, more accessible Libraries Director of Development 31 Board of Visitors Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies 18 Athens Oral History Project Oral History project documents Athens's little-known history Digital Library of Georgia 20 UGA Libraries Outreach: Enjoy Enhanced Content via Clickable! Public Library Partnerships New partnerships with libraries across What is Clickable? Clickable Paper connects printed materials the state digitize community histories to online resources using image recognition software. When you see the Clickable app logo on pages 16 and 18, download Miller Learning Center the free app onto your smart phone, position your phone over the photograph, and enjoy the videos from the UGA 22 Miller Learning Center Goes 24/7 Libraries' special collections. Students respond enthusiastically to expanded hours This technology has been donated to the UGA Libraries for this issue by Communicorp, a subsidiary of Aflac. Science Library step one: Download 23 Life at the Science Library Clickable from the app store. Science librarians support scientific research at UGA step two: Snap a picture Literary Update of the image with the app. 24 News from the Georgia Review 25 News from the University of Georgia Press step three: Enjoy your rich media content. within the pages Dr. Toby Graham University Librarian and Associate Provost university libraries of georgia 4 n April 1, the University The wall raising was a memorable Today, Habitat, led by its CEO, Jonathan of Georgia and Habitat for moment in the life of our University, Reckford, is one of the world’s great phil- Humanity International one that had both real and symbolic value. anthropic enterprises, with 1,400 affiliates 2015 O formally opened the Habitat for Following the ceremony, the frame was and 70 national organizations. Habitat’s Humanity Archive at the Hargrett disassembled and moved to another loca- is a global story, but it also is a Georgia Library. In the days leading up to the tion, where it was completed and became story. It is appropriate that the Univer- Spring event, the Athens Habitat chapter the very real new home to an Athens sity of Georgia serve as the home to the constructed the frame of a Habitat woman and her teenage daughter, Clarence Jordan papers, Millard and Linda home on the lawn of the Russell who were in need of decent and Fuller papers, Fuller Center for Housing Special Collections Building. affordable housing. records, and, now the archives of Habitat Our program culminated with a cer- The structure also serves as a useful for Humanity International. emonial raising of the home’s final wall. metaphor for the building of Habitat for The Habitat house has symbolic value Among those who helped to raise the wall Humanity, itself, a history that we now for the UGA Libraries as well. As con- were UGA President Jere W. Morehead can document fully at the University of struction began on the library lawn with Georgia. Millard and Linda Fuller found- the Russell Building as a prominent and Provost Pamela Whitten, HHI CEO ed Habitat in 1976 in Americus, Georgia. backdrop, I was reminded of another Jonathan Reckford, Habitat cofounder The Fullers discovered the seed of their day on the same site five years ago when Linda Fuller Degelmann, State Represen- idea for Habitat for Humanity at the the University broke ground for our new tative and Athens Habitat Director Spen- Koinonia Farm Christian community in library. Like our Habitat house, the library cer Frye, UGA student Kirstie Hostetter, Sumter County, Georgia, inspired in part building was the product of philanthropy. and the future homeowners. by Koinonia’s founder Clarence Jordan. UGA supporters gave their labor and their within the pages financial resources to achieve a shared vi- best possible access to recorded knowledge ing the ways in which we contribute to sion for an edifice dedicated to the preser- in its manifold forms. We strive to provide the creation and sharing of knowledge in vation and sharing of knowledge, one that learning environments that contribute to order to enrich the lives of Georgians and would benefit our university and state for the success of students at the University those well beyond our borders. generations to come of Georgia, such as the Carnegie Library Thank you for your support. I invite The story that Millard and Linda Fuller learning center currently under renova- you to join us in helping to build an excit- began nearly four decades ago contin- tion at the UGA Health Sciences Campus. ing future for our University of Georgia ues. Habitat and its affiliates have built We are partnering with UGA faculty and through the work of its Libraries. or renovated hundreds of thousands of others to provide new opportunities for homes worldwide to help provide decent distinctive educational experiences for and affordable housing like the home in our students using technology and our which our new friends now reside. distinguished special collections. Through Likewise, the work of the UGA Libraries the UGA Press, the Georgia Review, and the continues. We work daily to provide the Digital Library of Georgia, we are expand- university libraries of georgia Left: UGA student Kirstie Hostetter shares the importance of the Habitat collection as an educational resource. Right: Linda Fuller Degelmann, one of the founders of Habitat, drives one of the final nails. 5 Spring 2015 within the pages CALLINGCALLING ALLALL COLLECTORSCOLLECTORS Governor Ernest Vandiver and his wife, Betty, visit Stone Mountain. n August 2015, the Russell investigating the professionalization of the state’s the exhibition, please contact Jan Hebbard Library will open a new feature tourism industry in the twentieth century. at (706) 542-5788 or [email protected]. I exhibition about the politics of We are still looking for artifacts, photo- Sites of interest: Okefenokee Swamp, tourism in the state of Georgia. graphs, and other ephemera that can help Tallulah Gorge and Falls, Jekyll Island, university libraries of georgia The exhibit will focus on six destinations in to tell this story. If you have items relating Stone Mountain, Helen, and the hunting the state, exploring issues of race, gender, to the following sites and would be willing plantations in southwest Georgia’s Red and class; it will also include sections to consider a potential loan for purposes of Hills region. 6 2015 Spring ot long ago, I reached a stage cial benefit. But in this era of astonishing of the world. And as some of the books in in my life where it was time disparity of wealth and access, I want to be my collection are unusual and in some cases N for me to think about what to certain that my book collection will be avail- fragile, they will also receive the sort of care do with my most favored possessions able to the widest audience possible and at from Special Collections that will guarantee when I am no longer here.