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FONDREN Volume 28, No. 1 • Fall 2018 Fondren’s Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Archives Featured in Museum Exhibition Since the archives of the Long Jr.’s ice sculpture, “Roma and palpable performative pieces.” Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Contemporanea,” installed and (CAMH press release). (CAMH) were donated to Fondren destroyed at CAMH in 1992. Another Library’s Woodson Research Center in example is artist Douglas Davis’s Woodson Research Center September 2017, archives staff have historic 1976 broadcast of the first staff supported this exhibition by been busy processing the collection live global satellite performance in preparing the over 900 audio and to ready it for research. The nearly Houston, reading seven thoughts visual assets for digitization by a 300 boxes of records relating to in an empty Astrodome to a live trusted lab, describing them at a exhibitions included hundreds of international satellite audience. basic level and providing the digital audio and visual recordings on their files to CAMH staff via shared original media. Formats included CAMH “continuously has online folders. Video was projected VHS and Beta videotapes, U-matic celebrated works beyond the on the museum walls, including videotape, 8mm film, audio cassettes, traditional scope of visual arts Bert Long’s ice sculpture work and reel to reel audio and more. Some —showcasing design, theater, the Art Guys’ daylong recorded of these recordings and related music, dance and literary traditions performance at a convenience store. print materials were featured at the alongside the plastic arts. Notably, Original photographs and print museum’s recent exhibition, “Stage a demonstrable focus on live arts, materials were lent to the museum Environment: You Didn’t Have to Be performance art and artwork with and exhibited alongside items from There” (Sept. 7, 2018–Oct. 21, 2018) performative elements is embedded private collections, such as those celebrating performance art at CAMH. in CAMH’s institutional DNA. ‘Stage of Betty Moody, creating a fantastic Environment: You Didn’t Have to multimedia glimpse into these Performance art at CAMH Be There’ revisits and reinvigorates experiences. took many shapes, from CAMH’s CAMH’s longstanding performance sponsoring a Merce Cunningham focus by showcasing documentation Amanda Focke dance performance at Houston’s and related ephemera from some Assistant Head, Woodson Research Center Music Hall in 1965 to Bert L. of the museum’s most poignant

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Reginald Moore Convict Leasing Research Collection Lends Context to Recent Discovery of Graves

During the spring 2018 groundbreaking for construction for the Fort Bend Independent School District, 95 bodies were discovered in an area near the Old Imperial Farm Cemetery, in Sugar Land, Texas. Forensics have since revealed that these bodies are those of African-American men (and one woman) of an age consistent with victims of the Texas prison system’s convict leasing system in Sugar Land, circa 1878–1910. Chains and other artifacts associated with this prison labor system were also discovered in the area. This discovery has led to increased research interest in the Reginald Moore Convict Leasing Research Collection, at Fondren Library’s Woodson Research Center.

Journalists, academics, students, local descendants of slaves and other community stakeholders have used the collection to better understand the background of convict leasing Reginald Moore Convict Leasing Exhibit in Fondren’s Central Corridor in Texas, and especially the efforts by Reginald Moore and others to Douglas Blackmon (author of the developments regarding these advocate for public recognition “Slavery by Another Name”), Rice prisoners’ graves has inspired others and memorialization of this cruel University’s Caleb McDaniel and to study these circumstances and system. In the early to mid–2010s, others. This task force is tackling apply the lessons to their own local Moore corresponded with city issues regarding possible DNA issues, such as the Slocum Massacre officials, archaeologists and historians analysis of the remains, as well as in East Texas. regarding the need for archaeological advising on appropriate interment, research on lands prior to residential memorializing and the possible A list of media coverage of these development, with concern that creation of a museum. In addition, 2018 events is available online at the digs were not deep enough on Labor Day, Sept. 3, 2018, Moore https://bit.ly/2AdRs1H. to discover any possible prisoner partnered with the city of Sugar graves. In April, construction for the Land to co-host a symposium Amanda Focke Fort Bend ISD James Reese Career formally bringing together many of Assistant Head, Woodson Research Center and Technical Center uncovered the community stakeholders, with the unmarked graves near Chatham a variety of plenary speakers and Avenue and University Boulevard, break-out discussion sessions. close to the existing Old Imperial Farm Cemetery. Moore’s research collection grows as it documents his ongoing A cemetery task force has advocacy. His work shows the been formed, including Moore impact a community activist can and representatives of the city have, in raising awareness of of Sugar Land, Fort Bend ISD, difficult issues, being ready to Sugar Land Heritage Foundation, effectively partner with stakeholders Texas State Historical Commission, and participating in interviews with Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, journalists. The media coverage of

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Fondren Library Provides Inspiration for Library School Intern Creating library tutorials that reach as a docent at the Houston Museum Her hobbies include travel, the current pedagogical needs of Natural Science, where she loves creative writing and photography. of undergraduates has been a the atmosphere of learning, outreach She maintains a photography focus of Fondren Library intern and the many collaborations with collection on Instagram as krd.pixels Kelsey Dunckel in her work with local schools. with images of travel to Italy and information literacy librarian Joe Canada, as well as freelance work. Goetz in Fall 2018. Fondren’s collections have inspired Dunckel, who marveled The Fondren Library internship/ Dunckel will complete her at seeing a first edition of Charles practicum program is coordinated by master’s degree in library science Dicken’s “Bleak House.” Dara Flinn, Melinda Reagor Flannery, assistant from Kent State University in archivist/special collections librarian, university librarian for technical December 2018. She currently also shared, “There is something magical services. Details are available at works as a paraprofessional aid for about touching a piece of our shared http://library.rice.edu/~fondren/ Conroe Independent School District, history — a form of time travel which content/internships. where she assists in developing I find really moving. It’s a delight to information literacy guides for K–12 share the treasures of the archives Debra Kolah students, and works every day to find and special collections with students Head of User Experience appropriate accommodations for each like Kelsey, who have the same child. She works with children with reaction.” Dunckel elaborated, “There learning disabilities, including autism, is a sense of humility in handling hearing, and other special needs. something so profoundly influential, She has a passion for helping people something that has been around grow and understand information. longer than yourself and touched the Since 2015, she also has volunteered lives of thousands before you.”

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Shepherd School Recording Digitization Expands As part of an ongoing Funding for this of audio reels — comprising effort to preserve massive digitization approximately 340 Shepherd concerts historic Rice audio effort was provided and recitals, originally delivered to recordings, Fondren by the Rice Historical Fondren for in-library student use — Library is working Society, along with the were digitized by audio vendor BMS/ with renowned audio Friends of Fondren Chase (now known as VeVa Sound). and video preservation Library, which held a These digitized recordings were later vendor George “paddles-up” auction added to the Rice Digital Scholarship Blood LP to digitize event at their 2018 Gala Archive at https://scholarship.rice. hundreds of vintage honoring Molly and edu/handle/1911/71868. Shepherd School of Jim Crownover ’65 and Music performances. recognizing the Woodson Eventually, the Shepherd School Research Center’s 50th discontinued sending reel copies Approximately anniversary. Together, the of performances, instead delivering 400 newly identified organizations donated cassette tapes, and, later, burned open audio reels, dating between $37,000 to cover the costs associated compact discs. Both of these formats the late 1970s and the late 1980s, with the digitization of Shepherd were convenient for access, but have will be shipped to George Blood’s School audio content. proven to be unreliable in the long- Philadelphia facility, where their term; the Museum of Obsolete Media engineers will transfer them as While there is some agreement rates recordable CDs and tapes as high-quality digital copies. Once in the audio community that the age moderate returned, these digital copies will be of an open reel tape is not directly and high added to the Rice related to risk media Digital Scholarship its stability formats, Archive’s ever- as an audio respectively, growing, publicly medium, reel noting that accessible audio is highly many of collection of susceptible to them may Shepherd School damage from be reaching performances. fluctuating the end temperatures of their Founded and humidity, expected life spans. by its namesake as well as mold as Safe Sound and fungi. To preserve this content, Archive in 1992, Moreover, Fondren’s digital scholarship services, George Blood a change in access services and technical services LP reformats manufacturing departments and Woodson Research thousands of techniques Center collaborated in 2016 to a audiovisual during the late plan to digitize Shepherd cassette materials a month, 1970s resulted tapes and, later, CDs. As of October and has worked with clients such in some brands of tape that would 2018, more than 400 Shepherd as the Library of Congress American eventually stick to the machine or fall performances extracted from tapes Folklife Center, the New York Public apart when played, known as sticky and CDs have been made available Library and Columbia University. shed syndrome. Vendors like Blood through the Rice Digital Scholarship Most recently, Blood partnered are equipped to assess tapes for such Archive at https://scholarship.rice. with the Internet Archive and the audio emergencies and remedy them edu/handle/1911/77130. Archive of Contemporary Music to long enough for a digital copy to be digitize and make publicly available produced. Scott Carlson a collection of approximately 200,000 Metadata Coordinator early 20th-century shellac records, This digitization project is actually known as The Great 78 Project one of several projects to reformat (http://great78.archive.org/). and preserve audio of Shepherd performances. In 2005, hundreds

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Code Accompanying Research Articles Now Freely Available in IEEE Xplore Earlier this year, IEEE (Institute of Julia, MATLAB and Stata. Other, Electrical and Electronics Engineers) nonproprietary software packages can partnered with Code Ocean, a cloud- also be installed via Code Ocean. based computational reproducibility platform, to start linking research articles The service is provided to IEEE with their associated executable code authors free of charge. While users in IEEE Xplore and enabling readers to will need to be IEEE members or browse, run and experiment with it. have subscriptions through their local libraries, such as Fondren, to read Any article published in an IEEE the text of an article, Code Ocean’s Xplore journal or conference proceeding embedded widgets are accessible by between 2013 and 2018 can now be anyone, regardless of IEEE membership linked with its accompanying code. or subscription status. After authors submit code for their published papers, IEEE displays it within To try out this new feature, log into a Code Ocean widget embedded on Fondren’s website at library.rice.edu, the article page, without the need for click the Databases tab on the front installing any supplemental software. page and search for IEEE Xplore. Once in Xplore, users can filter their article A number of well-known searches for accompanying code under programming languages are supported the “Supplemental Items” facet. by Code Ocean out of the box, including C/C++, Python, R, Fortran, Scott Carlson Metadata Coordinator New Library Catalog and Discovery System Arrives August 2019 Fondren Library is in the early stages Web-scale discovery systems of implementing a new library system, like Primo have become increasingly including a library discovery platform, common in academic libraries. Fondren Primo, which will replace our 23-year- Library staff have been investigating and old library catalog. Using enhanced evaluating these products for several indexing terms, Primo will allow for years and recommended Primo in greater discoverability of resources spring 2018. In addition to the discovery through a single interface available on platform, the library will also implement the library’s website. With Primo, users a new back-end system, Alma, which will be able to discover resources that will permit increased interoperability have been purchased by the library, among universitywide systems and more relevant free resources identified by efficient management of print and digital library staff and resources that may be collections. Library staff are currently requested through interlibrary loan. engaged in user testing for Primo, Users will retain the ability to search gathering feedback to best tailor the for known items in the library by using new system to the needs of our users. Primo’s “Browse” feature and will also be able to limit searches with field Look for more information about Primo filters, including material type, language — debuting Aug. 1, 2019 — in the or new books. Additionally, researchers coming months. will still be able to individually search and access their favorite databases and David M. Bynog journals. Assistant Head of Acquisitions Co-Chair, Alma/Primo Implementation Team

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Faculty Direct Expands Delivery of Materials to Faculty and Senior Administrators

In spring 2018, Fondren’s access services department and its user experience office partnered to consider rebranding and revamping the Fondren Express service, which was an in-house Angela Brown and Hector Flores delivery system of Fondren materials to campus departments. “The department of religion is very Items from Fondren’s collection Over the summer, a cross-section of enthusiastic about participating in will in most cases be delivered on Rice faculty was surveyed on current the Faculty Direct pilot. Many of the same day as they are processed, satisfaction with interlibrary loan and us already have book orders in the while interlibrary loan items will the ILLiad system which supports queue.” be delivered postdelivery and it. The result of these studies, with processing. LSC items are excluded input from humanities librarian The new service will deliver due to their often fragile nature. Anna Shparberg, culminated in a Fondren and interlibrary loan Items may be returned in person pilot project in which the religion materials to the religion department or via campus mail (MS–240). The department will test a new service. in collaboration with campus delivery service will be free. services. Fondren or interlibrary In October, Debra Kolah, head loan materials will continue to be Fondren plans to include additional of user experience and I met with requested through the Rice ILLiad departments in Faculty Direct in religion department faculty to explain system. Requests will continue to spring 2019. and promote the new service, be processed as in the past, but Faculty Direct. Kolah explained that now materials will be packed and Sue Garrison the service is being designed to barcoded for tracking and delivery Manager of Access Services and make the lives of faculty and senior purposes. Items will then be administrators easier. April DeConick, Debra Kolah delivered to the religion department Head of User Experience chair of the department, shared, via campus delivery services.

The event was well-attended by October Rice faculty and students, as well as Publishing non-Rice academics. Sharp then met with almost 20 people individually Workshop at on Oct. 8 and 9 to discuss specific publication projects. Fondren Library Would you like to see more of these On Oct. 8, 2019, Michael Sharp, publishing workshops? If so, please editor for Cambridge University Press, let us know by emailing jekress@rice. visited Fondren Library to hold a edu. workshop in the Kyle Morrow Room on how to get published. Sharp Julia Kress Senior Electronic Resources Assistant Michael Sharp focused on the process of getting a first book or journal article published.

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Fondren Fellows Program Secures $2 Million Gift from Maltsberger Trust Through the Fondren Fellows pro- cancellations gathered by a fellow. In a legacy here. Dr. Maltsberger was gram, the library serves not only as 2016 a graduate student in anthropol- born and raised in Cotulla, Texas. the source of research materials, but ogy Marcel LaFlamme co-published Following two years at Rice Univer- as the subject of student research. an article on his fellows project with sity, he completed his undergraduate Inspired by the Rice’s Quality En- his mentor. Several fellows credit the education in 1955 at Princeton Uni- hancement Program on “Experiential program with expanding their career versity and then earned his medical Inquiry and Research in the Curricu- possibilities. degree from Harvard Medical School. lum,” the Fondren Fellows program After interning and residencies in enables Rice undergraduate and Now, thanks to a $2 million Pennsylvania and at Massachusetts graduate students to develop projects gift from the John T. Maltsberger III General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, focused on enhancing library col- 2013 Trust, the library will expand he became a specialist in the field of lections, services or spaces. Fellows the Fondren Fellows program. Fac- psychiatry. In addition to his medi- are selected through a competitive ulty, staff and community partners cal practice at MGH and at McLean process and are paid $15 an hour for will be able to propose projects. For Hospital in Belmont, Dr. Maltsberger their work with a staff mentor. The instance, a fellow could work on a was a clinical professor of psychia- fellows steering committee is com- digital history project in collaboration try at Harvard Medical School and posed of Melinda Reagor Flannery, with a Rice historian or assist a small was a visiting professor in the same Amanda Focke and Lisa Spiro. A gift community archive in describing and field at Mayo Medical School in from Trish Brice, as well as funding making accessible its collections. In Rochester, Minnesota. He also con- from Fondren Library, has supported addition, the Fellows Program will sulted for a number of years with the Fondren Fellows program during offer modest project-related funding. the mental health department at the its first three years. The expanded program will allow Massachusetts Institute of Technol- for teams of fellows, mentored by a ogy in Cambridge. In addition to this Since its founding in 2016, graduate student, to undertake more generous gift to Fondren Library, Dr. the Fellows program has benefited ambitious projects. Being a Fondren Maltsberger had previously funded the library, the university and stu- Fellow can now offer workshop an endowed professorship, the Alan dents. For example, Fellows’ projects teaching experience on topics such Dugald McKillop Professorship in have helped Fondren develop its data as data analysis. English. services and provided rich online ac- cess to archival collections. Through According to University If you would like to ex- an online exhibit, “The Life and Librarian Sara Lowman, “The library plore making a legacy gift to benefit Legacy of Jesse H. Jones,” the Wood- is very grateful to Dr. Maltsberger for Fondren Library, please contact Mary son Research Center highlights its making it possible for us to expand Lowery, executive director, Friends of collections about the important Hous- this important program. We are very Fondren Library, at mary.lowery@rice. ton business leader. “Mapping Civil much looking forward to expanding edu or (713) 348-5157. War Narratives” uses an interactive its scope and the benefits that the map to track correspondence and research projects will provide in the Lisa Spiro the places mentioned in it. In 2017, future.” Executive Director, Digital Scholarship conducting a faculty-centered infor- Services mation needs and resources assess- Rice University is honored ment helped save the library $50,758, and grateful that John T. “Terry” based on faculty input on journal Maltsberger, M.D., chose to establish

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Keck Retires From Helming Fondren’s Research Services

In July 2018, Kerry Keck retired from her position as assistant university librarian for research services. She had a long, distinguished career at Rice, starting in 1985 as a government information and special resources librarian. Over the years, Keck worked in collection development and reference, taught patent and trademark classes, and used her budgetary skills and expertise to manage the library’s materials budget.

Among Keck’s innovative contributions was the Western Regional Storage Trust Collections Council led more equitable distribution of funds for books and to important improvements in the management of shared serials based on curriculum development and collection print repositories. Keck was also active on the CLOCKSS assessments, rather than on the basis of historical Board, working to preserve scholarly publications precedent. She led the library’s collection development in a dark archive. For many years, she was also an council, working across the Rice community to identify active participant in the American Library Association, gaps in the collection and then to collect materials of particularly in efforts by government publications interest to fill the gaps. During her tenure, the library’s round tables to preserve and provide access to digital collections moved from a primarily print-based focus to versions of government published materials. In 2003, one more digitally based. She was a leader in working to in recognition of her many contributions, Keck was the make the collection more accessible and responsive to second recipient of the library’s Shapiro Staff Innovation changes in research and curricular interests. Award.

Keck was also responsible for overseeing the To her colleagues and co-workers, Keck was a planning and construction of the Library Service Center. thoughtful leader who always had time to give sage In this role, she worked closely with the faculty to advice, organize fun ways to support students — such as identify materials that could be stored offsite with low the library’s pet therapy sessions, bring an interesting dish impact on their research and teaching. The Library to library potlucks, share stories about gardening or give Service Center serves as a model for other universities’ advice about how to train a new cat. We will miss her storage facilities, primarily due to Keck’s leadership. and wish her the best in her retirement.

Keck was active professionally, serving on several Sara Lowman national boards and committees. Her contributions on the Vice-Provost and University Librarian

Hart brought a distinguished résumé to Fondren. She Kelley Center Head Departs co-founded and co-chaired the GeoHumanities Special Interest Group of the Alliance of Digital Humanities For Kathy Hart (formerly Weimer), maps have long been Organizations (ADHO). She also served as co-editor of a passion, one that energized her work as the head of the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries and past chair the Kelley Center for Government Information, Data of the American Library Association’s Map and Geospatial and Geospatial Services. Her successful application for Information Round Table (MAGIRT). In recognition of the position of supervisor of her “outstanding achievement and major contributions the reference team and reading to map and geospatial librarianship and to the Round room in the geography and map Table,” she received the MAGIRT Honors Award 2016. division of the Library of Congress At Fondren, she played an important role in committees was a natural next step for her. such as the survey data implementation group and the Hart left Rice in September of communications task force, as well as managing the 2018 after working at Fondren Kelley Center. since January 2015. She was sent off with a farewell party thrown in Lisa Spiro late August by Kelley Center staff. Executive Director, Digital Scholarship Services

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Numbers Are Her Thing: Fondren New Electronic Welcomes New Data and Resources Assistant Government Information Librarian

Turning numbers into pictures is Miaomiao Rimmer’s spe- Julia Kress joined the Fondren Library staff in June 2018. cialty. Rimmer started at Fondren Library at the beginning Her role as senior electronic resources assistant involves of the summer as its data and government information a broad range of support activities that add and maintain librarian. She comes to Rice from the University of Okla- the electronic resources needed by Fondren library users, homa, where she worked in The Consortium for Student among them trials, payment and troubleshooting. Retention Data Exchange. Some may think that statistical analysis is boring, but Rimmer can make good statistics ex- Kress says, “I love how I can fix things and make citing when she presents them visually in a chart or graph. them work. I really like helping people and my work in electronic resources satisfies that urge for me. I also Rimmer grew up in Dalian, China, which is the like to learn as much as I can about technology. I find it second-largest city in the Liaoning Province, lying at the fascinating.” southern end of Liaodong Peninsula across the Yellow Sea from Korea. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Before coming to Fondren, Kress worked at the the Dalian University of Foreign Languages. She moved to University of Houston in the Architecture and Art Library. the United States 10 years ago to attend the University of She also worked for many years as a lawyer, practicing Oklahoma to pursue two degrees, a Master of Arts in soci- environmental law, business litigation and corporate work. ology and a master’s degree in regional and city planning. She holds a master’s in fine arts in creative writing This fall, as part of Fondren Library’s Data and Donuts from Antioch University, Los Angeles, and enjoys writing, Workshop Series, Rimmer has been teaching the basics of travel and photography. Italy, especially ancient Rome, is writing Python scripts in Python for Beginners and how a particular passion. About Fondren, Kress says, “I love to analyze highly complex data with simple instructions the congeniality and how welcome I feel. I also happen to in Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics. Rimmer wants love owls.” to provide students with hands-on training, organizing, documenting, analyzing and visualizing data. She says, “I Melinda Reagor Flannery am so excited to be at Rice and to share my knowledge Assistant University Librarian for Technical Services about software that makes people’s lives easier.”

She misses her mother and father, but is expecting her Staff Award father to visit Houston in December. Rimmer‘s 5-year-old son just started kindergarten in HISD. He loves running Amanda Focke was the 2018 recipient of the Southwest around the Houston Zoo, visiting the Children’s Museum Archivists Association (SSA) Distinguished Service and going to Chinatown. Perhaps Rimmer can count the Award. Focke has served SSA as co-chair of the local number of times they visit her son’s favorite places, then arrangements committee, as a member of the executive turn the results into a visual chart to show what a new board and as president in 2012–2013, as well as serving Houston resident loves best about our city. with distinction in other professional groups and projects. She is a certified archivist and has earned Julia Kress digital archives specialist status. Senior Electronic Resources Assistant

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Wheatfield Plays to Rice Crowd Again After last year’s stellar homecoming concert hosted by the Woodson Research Center’s Houston Folk Music Archive and the Friends of Fondren Library, this year the party came into the library. On Nov. 2, the Americana band Wheatfield entertained a crowd filled with Friends of Fondren Library patrons, alumni, faculty, staff and students.

When it came to planning this year’s homecoming concert, Wheatfield was the obvious choice. They were the first donors to the archive and were a staple of the Texas university music scene in the 1970s. Forming in 1973, Connie Mims, Craig Calvert and Ezra Idlet started out as a folk country rock trio. Later adding Bob Russell on stand-up bass and Damian Hevia, they began touring extensively in Texas and beyond. In 1976, they appeared on the first season of “Austin City Limits” and scored the first rock ballet, titled “Caliban,” for the Houston Ballet. With the new bassist, Keith Grimwood, the band continued to do well in the region. By 1979, the band decided to break up, but would occasionally reunite for special shows. In 2005, the band reformed with Mims, Calvert, Idlet and Grimwood.

As guests came in, they saw an exhibit created from the Houston Folk Music Archive, featuring the band’s history and the ways in which the band interacted with the Rice community. When the show got started, Sara Lowman, vice-provost and university librarian welcomed everyone to the event. Andrew Klein of Rice’s Program for Writing and Communication spoke about the impact of Wheatfield on Rice and the broader Houston community and its place within the 1970s music scene. The band played and the library, usually a quiet place of study, became a hub of entertainment.

All the while, audience members enjoyed red beans and rice, macaroni and cheese and cornbread served by This Is It Soul Food. The food highlighted the link between Wheatfield and the historic music venue Liberty Hall, famous for its red beans and rice. Friends of Fondren Library event co-chairs Shelley Gottschalk and Gretchen Stephens distributed branded pint glasses to all guests to commemorate the event, a night demonstrating how music can bring a community together through its shared history.

Norie Guthrie Archivist/Special Collections Librarian

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Fondren Fostering “Roots” at Rice with Storybox events On Sept. 26, Fondren Library hosted specific discipline, and it’s where shocked that in such a short amount its first Storybox event. The event everyone comes together.” of time we all managed to open up, brought graduate students from and I got to learn so much about various departments together to share Spiro, along with Debra Kolah, strangers.” stories as well as enjoy refreshments. head of user experience; Sandra Parsons, assistant teaching professor, Fondren has continued to host Storybox is a part of Historypin’s Department of Psychological these events throughout the 2018 fall “One Story Closer” campaign, Sciences; Amanda Thomas, user semester, focusing on first-year and designed to foster community experience/public services librarian; first-generation students and helping understanding, connectivity and and myself, Fondren’s practicum them forge new connections and empathy. These goals are achieved intern, collaborated to organize and roots at Rice. by participants’ sharing personal conduct these events. life stories with each other. The “I love the Storybox concept Storybox experience is a series of The current theme is Roots: because I think it’s crucial for events guided by diverse materials a pride of place or feeling of our students to take time to forge in Historypin’s toolkit such as topic connectedness to a person, place or meaningful connections with one prompts and hourglasses. The events thing. Participants can discuss family, another,” said Parsons. “When have found success in the United origins, migration and community. students have time to sit with one Kingdom, Colombia and the United The goal is to engage people within another and reflect on their lives States. a community to grow “one story and share their experiences, we closer” through their discussion. increase the chances that they will When Lisa Spiro, executive find similarities across cultures and director of digital scholarship “The theme of roots really disciplines, and that is powerful and services, learned about Storybox, she resonates with me because I grew up potentially world-changing.” believed Fondren Library would be living in six different countries so I a suitable sponsor for such an event. never felt like I had any roots,” Sana Kelsey Dunckel “There is a desire for the library to Mateen, a graduate student in the Student, Kent State School of Information be seen as a point of connection for environmental engineering program, Fondren Library intern Fall 2018 the entire campus,” Spiro said. “It’s said. “But I also wanted to come a place that isn’t assigned to any out and make some friends. I am

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A New Home for Leisure Reading The leisure reading collction at Fondren Library has a Numerous library staff in multiple departments new location, a new look and new content and users are have collaborated to develop and maintain this new responding. approach to the collection, following an initiative led by Sandi Edwards, interim assistant university librarian for Expanded, newly installed shelving now gives both research services, and myself, in my capacity as selector the leisure reading and the Friends of Fondren fiction for English literature. In addition to librarians, students collections a chance to showcase the library’s light, and other Rice users are contributing their ideas using the entertaining and newly-published books and audiobooks. leisure book suggestion form at https://libguides.rice.edu/ With a prominent first-floor location facing the windows leisure/suggestions. of the South Reading Room and eye-catching faced-out book covers, these genre novels, graphic novels, fiction Checkouts for leisure reading have jumped more than and nonfiction books and audiobooks are getting lots of tenfold since we started making these changes, and we attention from our hard-working users. expect those numbers to keep climbing in the collections’ new home. Please come browse the leisure reading and Not only the location but also the collection itself Friends of Fondren fiction collections the next time you has gotten an upgrade. Now, most books reviewed by visit the library, and remember that you can preview the New York Times Book Review, automatically ordered current holdings or link to the suggestion form at our by the library and formerly grouped with general new leisure reading research guide: https://libguides.rice.edu/ books, make their Fondren debut in the leisure reading leisure. collection. Thanks to this shift, many new books of interest and significance are getting more exposure Joe Goetz and adding both quality and variety to the collection. Information Literacy Librarian In addition, we have switched from a convenient but limited-selection rental program for leisure books and audiobooks, to a more labor-intensive but flexible process using our regular purchasing sources. This last change in particular has allowed us to add books representing diverse interests and tastes and to be more responsive to our broad user population. 12 library.rice.edu COLLECTIONS

The Art of Mapmaking at Woodson Beginning in 1987 and continuing through 2017, Dick provinces and countries. “Atlas de Toutes les Partes ’52 and Mary Ellen Wilson ’54 have donated a portion Connues du Globe Terrestre” from the late 1700s provides of their extensive collection of rare and valuable maps information on commerce for all French interests. An to the Woodson Research Center. This collection now 1814 work of several cartographers, “A New and Elegant forms the Wilson Collection of Historical Cartography and Imperial Sheet Atlas” offers hand-colored sites of war. Geography. The complexity of mapmaking in the 19th century is The art of mapmaking has developed from etchings shown in “A New General Atlas of Modern Geography.” on stone to multicolored maps showing precise details. Astronomical facts and relative heights of mountains and Italy dominated the cartography industry during the 15th rivers are followed by hemisphere maps, soil types in and 16th centuries when nautical charts were drawn by Britain and steam packet routes in the Mediterranean Sea. sailors exploring new trade routes. Italian cartographers were supplanted by the Dutch and Belgians who Previously added to the collection were issues of produced maps in several languages and editions. During Map Collectors Circle, the Map Collector and Mercator’s this time, binding of various maps together into one World, with publication dates ranging from 1977 to the volume became popular. The French became the premier early 2000s. Articles on various aspects of historical cartographers in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, cartography, issues dedicated to certain parts of the while the British dominated the map making industry in world, early mapping of European-occupied countries, the late 1700s. city plans, marine surveys, and a bibliography of printed charts and sailing directions are some of the subjects that The collection of atlases donated by the Wilsons make these serial publications valuable for research. highlights the French and British dominance during the period of the early 1700s through the early- to mid-1800s. Lee Pecht The earliest atlas is one produced in England by Herman Director, Woodson Research Center Moll in 1701. An early complete first edition, it joins Note: This article appeared in slightly different form in the spring/ maps of each country with detailed histories to enrich summer 2018 issue of The Cornerstone: Newsletter of the Rice understanding of the countries and their maps. “Atlas Historical Society. Universel” produced in 1757 in Paris has minute detailing of the countryside and hand-colored lines delineating

NEWS from FONDREN • Fall 2018 13 FRIENDS OF FONDREN Friends Meet to Hear Rosenthal Reflect on Life at Rice

The Friends of Fondren Library Gary Rosenthal, served on Rice’s Rosenthal noted that Rice has annual meeting and dinner offers President’s Advisory Board. been the incubator of love and work members and friends an opportunity for many more couples. She made to reflect on the organization’s history Rosenthal was appointed a U.S. the case that Rice is a wonderful and discuss upcoming events and District Court Judge for the Southern place for couples to work because activities. The 2018 annual meeting, District of Texas, Houston Division, in universities nourish the mind and chaired by Liz Crowell ’76 and 1992 and became chief judge in 2016. the intellect of those who spend Bobby Muraro ’00, was held Sept. She joined the Rice University Board their days there. Rice offers more 17 at Cohen House, Rice University’s of Trustees in 2008 and now is a Rice flexibility and autonomy than other faculty club. University Trustee Emeritus. workplaces, enhancing this overlap between the personal and the Chief Judge Lee H. Rosenthal, the After dinner, Rosenthal professional. evening’s featured speaker, has deep entertained the audience with stories connections to Fondren Library. Her of her parents’ love affair with each Fondren Library symbolizes mother, Ferne Hyman, was assistant other and with Rice where, for 35 this best. Serving as the heartbeat university librarian at Fondren years, their personal and professional of the campus, it provides a space Library until her retirement in 1999. lives intertwined. Ferne and Harold for people to take ideas apart and Her father, Harold M. Hyman, is the Hyman came to and from campus put them back together in ways that William P. Hobby Professor Emeritus together each day, her to the library, satisfy their lives and their careers, of History at Rice. Her husband, him to his office, and they met for carrying those ideas across the lunch at Cohen House. Ferne loved professional and personal divide. The working in the library, and she was importance of libraries goes beyond truly interested in people who came the physical bricks and mortar; to Fondren and the research that the people who make up Fondren brought them there. Harold’s research Library help connect people to the often brought him to Fondren Library, information and ideas that transform too, and made it a place where scholarship, lives and love at Rice. their university roles overlapped. Rosenthal’s parents taught her that We invite you to visit soon to see one of the signatures of a fulfilling what sparks your curiosity and professional life is that the personal reignites your love of libraries. and professional become seamless as topics of interest overlap and connect Mary Lowery the two. Her parents found that Executive Director, Friends of Fondren Library L to R: FOFL President Bess Wareing, overlap at Rice. Chief Judge Lee H. Rosenthal, Liz Crowell

Books That Shaped My World

When Rice University established the As the 25th anniversary of the Baker Baker Institute for Public Policy in Institute approached, co-chairs Jeff Ross 1993, Ambassador Edward Djerejian and Stephen Wallace, invited Djerejian to was selected as its founding director. offer the Friends of Fondren Library’s fall Djerejian’s foreign service career Books That Shaped My World lecture. At spanned eight U.S. administrations, the Oct. 24 lecture, Djerejian identified from John F. Kennedy to William J. two books and one author that shaped Clinton. Prior to his nomination as U.S. his life and career: “The Federalist ambassador to Israel, he was assistant Papers” by Alexander Hamilton, James secretary of state for Near Eastern Madison and John Jay; “A Peace to affairs in both the George H.W. Bush End All Peace: The Emergence of the and Bill Clinton administrations, and he Contemporary Middle East” by David was previously U.S. ambassador to the Fromkin; and philosopher Albert Camus. Syrian Arab Republic. He is the author of “Danger and Opportunity: An American Djerejian first read “The Federalist Ambassador’s Journey Through the Papers” in political theory classes at Middle East.” Georgetown University. He found this core document for the U.S. Constitution Ambassador Edward Djerejian

14 library.rice.edu FRIENDS OF FONDREN Meet the Author: Honor

When Rice alumni hear the phrase the defense of reputation is a social honor culture in America. In several “Honor Bound,” many flash back to imperative taking precedence over experiments, when men raised in a pledge, carefully inked or hastily most other priorities. In dignity honor cultures perceived a threat to scrawled across the cover of a blue cultures, each person is considered their reputation following an insult, examination book indicating they to have an unassailable store of biological and cognitive changes performed honorably on the task fundamental worth that does not demonstrated that these men reacted using only their own work. However, need to be earned and cannot be more strongly than did men from the phrase can carry many other lost. Honor cultures are prevalent dignity cultures in the same situation. meanings. in the Middle East, Latin America Outside the lab, this honor-culture and many Mediterranean countries. response can be seen in attitudes At the fall Meet the Author He also traced the path of southern about justified aggression, risk- lecture co-sponsored by the Rice taking and child rearing, in rates Alumni Association and Friends of of argument-based homicides and Fondren Library, Ryan P. Brown ’93 school shootings, and even in laws discussed his book, “Honor Bound: related to guns and the death penalty. How a Cultural Ideal Has Shaped Rates of rape, domestic homicides the American Psyche.” Brown is and dating violence were all higher managing director for measurement in honor cultures than in dignity at Rice University’s Doerr Institute cultures, and the effect was greater for New Leaders. The Oct. 9 lecture in small towns (where reputational was co-chaired by Nancy Shelby concerns are magnified). and Deborah Williams and was held in Fondren Library’s Kyle Morrow He concluded his lecture Room. by reminding the audience that human beings are products of their In his research, Brown studies environments who learn what it takes the social psychology concepts L to R: Nancy Shelby, Ryan P. Brown and to be seen as a person of value. Only of honor and dignity cultures and Deborah Williams by taking a careful and honest look how societies bestow worth on at those lessons do individuals have individuals. He notes that everyone Scots who populated the western and the option to select which parts of has culture, and that cultures shape southern areas of the United States their cultural programming to pass us in very specific ways. In honor and carried the honor culture of their along to their children. cultures, one’s value is earned by homeland to the settled regions. living up to gender-specific standards Mary Lowery for conduct, and is strongly related Brown discussed laboratory Executive Director, Friends of Fondren to one’s reputation. In such cultures, experiments that have explored Library

to be one of the most successful efforts to 1922, colonial powers divided up settlements. He suggested that Camus of humans to get political governance the Middle East according to their described today’s political situation in right. This book motivated him interests, creating countries that exist his book “The Century of Fear.” When throughout his career representing the today in ways that broke up cultural sharing his plan to write a novel after United States overseas, and he felt so ethnicity and societal roots, including retirement about the life of a diplomat strongly about its worth that as chairman Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. in the Middle East, he quoted Camus, of a public diplomacy task force in The significant, lasting impact of these “Fiction is the lie through which we tell 2003 he recommended copies of “The changes continues today in disputes the truth.” Federalist Papers” be placed in every over boundaries, territories, religion and American embassy and consulate as a resources. Djerejian’s remarks helped audience reference book. Djerejian was also greatly influenced members gain a greater understanding of by French philosopher Albert Camus, his roles in the U.S. Foreign Service and Fromkin’s book, “A Peace to End All author of “The Stranger” and “The Myth of the important policy work done at the Peace” is required reading in Djerejian’s of Sisyphus.” Camus is sometimes called Baker Institute. The Friends of Fondren course about the Middle East. The book the philosopher of the absurd from his Library congratulates the Baker Institute was written in 1989, and its treatment of perspective that while life is absurd, one on its silver anniversary. the emergence of the Middle East has must make the most of it. Djerejian joked not been surpassed. Fromkin describes that the myth of a man endlessly rolling Mary Lowery how the Ottoman empire broke apart a rock up a mountain could describe his Executive Director, Friends of Fondren after World War I and that, from 1916 roles in negotiating Arab–Israeli peace Library

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