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Syracuse University SURFACE The Courant-The Bulletin of The Special Collection Research Center Fall 2007 Number 7 Fall 2007 Special Collections Research Center Follow this and additional works at: https://surface.syr.edu/specialcoll_courant Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation Special Collections Research Center, "Number 7 Fall 2007" (2007). The Courant-The Bulletin of The Special Collection Research Center. 8. https://surface.syr.edu/specialcoll_courant/8 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by SURFACE. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Courant-The Bulletin of The Special Collection Research Center by an authorized administrator of SURFACE. For more information, please contact [email protected]. pecial Collectio n of the S ns Researc lleti h Cen A Bu ter number seven Fall 2007 THE COUraNT Sponsored by the Syracuse University Library Associates issn 1554-2688 Exhibition on the Black Arts Movement Will Be Installed for the Spring Semester of 2008 We are planning an exhibition of manuscript and printed re- sources on the Black Arts Movement for the spring semester of 2008. Featuring the work of playwright and poet Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) and painter Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000), portions of both of whose manuscript collections are among our holdings, the exhibition will also include the work of dra- matists (Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Larry Neal, and Marvin X), illustrators (E. Simms Campbell, Emory Douglas, Elton Fax, and Oliver Harrington), novelists (Alice Childress, Cyrus Colter, Melvin Dixon, Ronald Fair, Arthur Flowers, Calvin C. Hernton, Chester B. Himes, Gayl Jones, Kristin Hunter Lattany, Clarence Major, Ishmael Reed, Melvin Van Peebles, Alice Walker, Margaret Walker, and John A. Williams), and poets (Alvin Aubert, Gwendolyn Brooks, Wanda Coleman, Sam Cornish, Nikki Giovanni, Lance Jeffers, Ted Joans, June Jordan, Sonia Sanchez, Joyce Carol Thomas, Lorenzo Thomas, and Al Young). Also on display will be a number of Black Arts Movement periodicals, including Black Theatre, Hoo-Doo, the Journal of Black Poetry (later Kitabu Cha Jua), Quilt, Soulbook, and Y’Bird. The exhibit will suggest the relationship between the The second edition of The Present Is a Dangerous simultaneous establishment of a number of small presses Place to Live (Chicago: Third World Press, 1993) by devoted to authors of the African diaspora and the emer- Keorapetse Kgositsile with a cover design by Craig gence of the Black Arts Movement. Our emphasis will be on Taylor. The author is a South African poet who lived Broadside Press, Third World Press, and an assortment of in exile in the United States from 1952 until 1975. titles from British publisher Paul Breman’s Heritage Series. Founded in Detroit in 1965 by librarian and poet Dudley Features Randall, Broadside Press is intended “to foster within our Director’s Note and Staff Focus . .page 2 community a passion for African American literature.” The Exhibitions...........................page 3 press published broadsides, poetry, monographs, a critic’s se- Research Notes........................page 3 ries, and the journal Black Position. Poet and publisher Haki Recent Acquisitions . page 7 R. Madhubuti (formerly Don L. Lee) founded the Chicago- Our Collections in Print................page 10 based Third World Press, which in 2007 celebrated its forti- Adopt-a-Book Program . page 11 eth anniversary as an independent small press. Director’s Note fiction, and students will be challenged to curate our summer 2008 exhibition. The goal of the course will be for students to What’s in a name? That which we call a rose conduct a collaborative “experiment” in the laboratory that is By any other name would smell as sweet. the Special Collections Research Center. Romeo and Juliet (2.2.43–44) Let us return to Juliet Capulet. What is in a name? Certainly, names suffer the vagaries of taste. My own father Ah, young Juliet. Soon after uttering these words, she would began life with the modest moniker of Bruce Nelson. When find herself forever martyred to the causes of semantics and— he was thirteen, his mother changed his name to Ian MacLeod lest I forget—love. I would like to begin this column by asking Graham Quimby. He spent the next sixty years leading a life you all to pause for a moment and consider what is actually more in keeping with that more exotic name. The lesson here in a name. If we take the 1887 acquisition of the Leopold von is simple. A name is more than a label; it is a challenge. The Ranke collection as a birth date, a rare book and manuscript most difficult part may be living up to it. library has existed at Syracuse University for one hundred —Sean Quimby and twenty years. During that time, we have been known by several names, including the von Ranke Library (1889), Staff Focus the Lena R. Arents Rare Book Room (1957), the George The position of the Dana Foundation fellow in the Special Arents Research Library (1969), the Department of Special Collections Research Center is determined by a competitive Collections (1991), and now the Special Collections Research application process open to currently enrolled graduate stu- Center. What does it mean to call oneself a research center? dents at Syracuse University, and we are pleased to introduce A “center” is quite simply a physical space. My goal for the our present fellow, Lauren Sodano. Lauren has already ob- Special Collections Research Center is for us to be a humani- tained her master’s degree in museum studies and this aca- ties laboratory. That is, the place on campus where students demic year will complete her master’s degree in art history. and faculty come to “experiment” with the most basic ele- Given these impressive credentials, we are most enthusiastic ment of humanities research: original materials. Laboratories about her assistance with the processing of manuscript collec- require tools such as petri dishes, Bunsen burners, and par- tions and other departmental projects. In particular, Lauren ticle accelerators. With construction set to begin on the is continuing work on the musical scores in the papers of Antje Bultmann Lemke Seminar Room, we will bring our Miklós Rózsa, the Academy Award–winning composer. own tools—document cameras and interactive “smart panel” We are also delighted to welcome Elizabeth Bittner as overlays for LCD monitors—to bear on our collections. a conservation intern for this academic year. Elizabeth is a A research center must do more than invite use; it must conservation graduate student specializing in books and actively recruit users. In this spirit, I am pleased to announce paper from the Kilgarlin Center for the Preservation of the the Alexander N. Charters Adult Education Research Grants- Cultural Record, a division of the School of Information at in-Aid Program. Thanks to the generosity of the program’s the University of Texas at Austin. The Kilgarlin Center is namesake, and Syracuse University Library Associate, Alex the only program of its kind in the United States training Charters, this endowed fund enables us to offer as much as future library conservators. In addition to treating items for four thousand dollars to scholars of adult education each year. the collections of the University of Texas, she has completed For this inaugural year, we have assembled an expert panel of assessments for the Texas General Land Office, the archives librarians and faculty to evaluate applications. We will an- of the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and the nounce recipients in early January. In the future, we hope to Milwaukee Public Museum. While at Syracuse, she will be offer similar grants in design, architecture, radicalism, print- conserving our Dewey classification holdings in the natu- ing, the media, and even cartooning. ral sciences. This range of materials holds many gems, but As a research center, we must also be ambassadors to our has not yet received any systematic attention. For Elizabeth, colleagues, both here at Syracuse and beyond. We must be this will be an opportunity to learn about conservation plan- willing to leave the comfortable, wood-paneled confines of ning and to gain experience treating a large number of rare our daily work environs and engage with scholars on their items in need of extensive treatment. David Stokoe and Peter terms. I am looking forward to teaching an undergraduate Verheyen will serve as her mentors. course with the Renée Crown University Honors Program We are also pleased to be able to report that Nicolette this spring. The course—American Fear—is intended to in- Schneider, our reference and access services librarian, was vite students to think about the historical bases of our current married recently. She should now be addressed as Nicolette political climate, which is dominated by fear. Our reading will A. Dobrowolski in your correspondence or other communi- be wide ranging, from Puritan sermons to Cold War science cations with her. the courant, no. 7, fall 2007 2 special collections research center E. S. Bird Library Exhibitions The Syracuse Connection to the All exhibitions in the sixth-floor gallery of E. S. Bird Armenian Independence Movement Library are open between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm, Monday 26 November 2007–16 January 2008 through Friday, with the exception of holidays. For more de- A two-part exhibition on this topic is available in the li- tails, please consult our Web site at http://scrc.syr.edu/. brary’s Special Collections Research Center and in the Panasci Lounge of the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center. Amidst the Books: Artifacts from the Collections The exhibit concerns the Armenian independence move- 1 May 2007–31 May 2008 ment (1915–20), in which Syracuse University and many lo- In the interest of having a semipermanent installation in cal citizens were involved.
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