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This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Newsletters at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in Cornerstone by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Volume 1, Number 3 Spring 2006 CornerStone The Newsletter of Morris Library • Southern Illinois University Carbondale Open House Heralds Opening of McLafferty Annex
he statistics have been previously (those who acquire and catalog items) Tnoted but bear repeating, for it was along with the U. S. Grant Association, a herculean task—the moving of over dedicated to the scholarly study and 2.5 million volumes onto thirty-three understanding of Ulysses S. Grant. miles of shelving. With an open house ceremony on January 26th, McLafferty The building is heated and cooled by Annex was officially made available to a state-of-the-art geothermal system, which is the largest in the region and “ribbon-snapping” provides savings ceremony among of approximately the compact, $21,000 per In This Issue movable shelving year over units. Located conventional • Message from the Dean along McLafferty systems. The Page 2 Road on the west building’s • e Library Is Seeking side of campus, compact, Page 3 this state-of- movable shelving • Vandalia Statehouse the-art, 60,000 is motorized and Page 4 square-foot facility nearly doubles • Tips from the commonly known Library Affairs Dean David Carlson the efficiency of addresses the crowd gathered on January space used, as Conservation Lab as McLafferty 26th for a “ribbon-snapping” ceremony in Page 5 Annex is the McLafferty Annex while Chancellor Walter compared with • Revised Web Site temporary home Wendler looks on. conventional Page 7 to most of Morris shelving. Kevin • Sculpture Naming Contest Library’s holdings during its $48 million Davie, the Geographic Information Page 8 renovation. Occasionally, but kindly, Systems Specialist, assisted in the • Loretta Koch Retires referred to as McAnnex by Library staff, coordination of the professional Page 9 the building’s actual name is Temporary movers—Hallett Movers of Summit, Illinois. Though anticipating and • Carus Gift to Morris Library Storage Facility until a more Page 11 appropriate name can be applied. allocating the work force proved daunting, Davie proved up to the task, www.lib.siu.edu Nearly thirty Library staff work at the stating, “If progress is made through long new building, which houses Interlibrary days and sleepless nights then we’re well Loan, Circulation, Shipping & Receiv- on our way to a new library.” ing, Government Documents, and Information Resources Management Cornerstone is published four times Message from the Dean a year. It is distributed free of charge to Friends of Morris Library, SIUC faculty and friends of the University. Reflecting and Advancing
Dean t is natural that when alumni speak of their memories of David Carlson campus, their recollections reflect the years spent in Carbondale. 618/453-2522/[email protected] I Even for alumni that return to campus, a weekend visit does not Associate Dean For replace years of memories in classes, time with close friends, and Support Services frequent visits to Morris Library (you did visit the Library, didn’t Susan Logue you?). Your memories of campus may be of a certain time and 618/453-2522/[email protected] place, but we all recognize that the University (and the Library) is Associate Dean For moving forward: changing, expanding, and improving. Information Services Susan Tulis Changes—good and bad—are fundamental components of institutional and personal life. 618/453-1459/[email protected] But we have a society that is all too prone, in my opinion, for disposable items, including our memories and history. This is unfortunate because it is from these building blocks that Special Collection Research our culture, values, and identity are built as a nation, as a society—and as a university. Center—Manuscript, Art & Photographic Donations Randy Bixby As the renovation of Morris Library moves forward, I have been very concerned with this 618/453-2516/[email protected] issue. The renovation project is comprehensive. When complete, there will be only two spaces in Morris that will be by and large unchanged: the expansive staircases and the Book and Monetary Donations Hall of Presidents and Chancellors. Every other space in the building will be completely & Bequests Kristine McGuire redefined. Given this transformation, we have undertaken two key projects over the last 618/453-1633/[email protected] year that we hope recognize and honor the role and place that Morris—the Morris Library we know—has played on campus.
Cornerstone In September 2004, the Library coordinated and held a campus community photo event. We invited everyone on campus to come to the front of Morris Library and stand as a Editor Gordon Pruett community to honor the role of Morris Library at SIUC. More than 1,000 faculty, staff, 618/453-1660/[email protected] and community members attended, and this bird’s eye picture of the event is available through my office. This photo will serve as an important marker of campus history, and we Designer will hang a copy of it in the lobby of the new Morris. Sharon Granderson 618/453-1011/[email protected] Second, the Library commissioned a limited set of commemorative bookends. Each is Preservation made of marble sections of the old circulation and information desktops at Morris, which Barbara Summers were then hand-hewn by University stonemason Richard McGriff. Professor emeritus 618/536-2171/[email protected] of metalsmithing and jewelry at SIUC, Richard Mawdsley, designed a bronze book adornment featuring the old and new facades of Morris Library. (The second issue of Photography had a brief article about the bookends, and information is also available at our Greg Wendt Cornerstone 618/453-3860/[email protected] web site.)
We have made the photo and the bookends available for purchase, but whether you order Online Gifts a photo or a bookend is not my message. We hope that the photo and the bookends http://www.lib.siu.edu/hp/libdev/ acknowledge the role that Morris Library has played on campus, both real and symbolic. These items are intended to show our esteem and, indeed, reverence for the role that For a complete listing of the library staff Morris played in your time here on campus and what the campus means to you. But like follow the About The Library link to the bookends, which have the image of the Morris Library you know on one side, and the the Staff Directory on our home page: image of the New Morris on the other, these items also look toward the future, to our http://www.lib.siu.edu/hp/ potential, and to our commitment to constant improvement in our collections and services.
David Carlson - - The Library Is Seeking . . . ith research library budgets $995 for World Consumer Lifestyles Library Affairs thanks donors Wstrained by the increasing costs Databook: Key Trends—the ideal who have purchased items of electronic journals and databases, source if you need to understand from the previous more traditional reference/replacement consumers and the major list— volumes are sometimes left behind. characteristics of their lifestyles. T L I S . . . looks Euromonitor researches a huge range B MG, C, IL for private funding for those items that of statistics, including eating and would not otherwise be purchased drinking habits, home ownership by the library. If you are interested trends, and crime patterns for seventy- appreciates your support. in underwriting one of these items, one countries. please contact Kristine McGuire at [email protected] or 618-453- $299 for Obsessions, a two-part series, 1633. $825 for the M E of each 50 minutes in length, produced by the Historical Statistics of the United the BBC. Are compulsive hair-pulling, States. More than 200 of the nation’s hand-washing, and even gambling leading economists, historians, political $130 for learned behaviors or inherited diseases? War Against Deadly Microbes scientists, sociologists, and other , a 54-minute Where do obsessions come from, and and Lethal Viruses scholars contributed to the M program that delves into humanity’s war how can they be managed so they do E of with lethal microorganisms and viruses. Historical Statistics. not dominate a person’s life? Using a new edition adds thirty years of data and Astoundingly detailed images illustrate number of actual case studies, this two- includes topics that received little or no how microbes attack the body and how part series attempts to understand the coverage in the previous, 1975 edition: our immune systems defend it. roots of obsessive-compulsive disorder, American Indians, slavery, poverty, race, or OCD, and looks at both standard and and ethnicity. When the Census Bureau experimental treatment options. decided in the early 1990s that it would not publish a new edition of Historical encourages donors to purchase Statistics, a team of renowned social $395 for needed titles within which scientists came together with Cambridge a four-volume a personalized bookplate University Press to create this new Children’s Literature, is placed. edition. ever multivolume set documents and interprets the books read by children For more information, in the English-speaking world, from $560 for twenty- please call 618-453-1633. French Film Classics, a renowned group of international one films on DVD, from the noteworthy contributors, including Morris Library’s C C. Selected by very own Chris Desai. $900 for Handbook of Information Daren Callahan, Morris Library’s liaison Security, to the Dept. of Cinema & Photography, these works represent the landmark definitive three-volume set offers cover- $565 for Encyclopedia of the Documen- films of the French cinema. According age of both established and cutting-edge tary Film, a three-volume set, edited by theories and developments on informa- to Callahan, “We need to play serious Ian Aitken. With over 800 articles from tion and computer security. Among in- catch-up to enlarge our DVD collection. scholars around the world, the Ency- dustries expected to become increasingly Criterion DVDs are known for the clopedia of the Documentary Film is a dependent upon the information and audio commentaries and the depth fully international reference work on the computer security and active in under- and originality of their supplemental history of the documentary film from standing the many issues surrounding features. the Lumiere brothers’ Workers Leaving this important and fast growing field by our cinema faculty because of the the Lumiere Factory (1895) to Michael are government agencies, the military, scene search capabilities, widescreen Moore’s Fahrenheit 911 (2004). All over education, libraries, health, medical, law editions, and extra features such as the world documentary films have pro- enforcement, accounting firms, justice, director commentaries.” Films of vided engaging, provocative, and skilled manufacturing, financial services, insur- Bresson, Clouzot, Godard, Malle, representations of life, and this Encyclo- ance, transportation, aerospace, energy, Renoir, Tati, and Truffaut are among pedia provides a resource that critically biotechnology, and utilities. those hand-picked for acquisition. analyzes that history in all aspects. - 3 - continued on page 6 . . . Vandalia Statehouse Accepts Loan of Lincoln Portrait t has been one of SIUC’s best-kept appropriate to share the portrait with undergoes its extensive renovation, the Isecrets, and most students and the people of Illinois in an historic and portrait may move to other historic, staff have never seen it, but it’s one of appropriate venue.” Linda Norbut- Lincoln-related Illinois sites. the gems of the Special Collections Suits, Curator for the Illinois Historic Research Center of Morris Library. A Preservation Agency, who had helped Mary Cole, site manager for the Vandalia striking portrait of President Statehouse, said she was Abraham Lincoln, painted by thrilled to have the Conant Alban Jasper Conant in 1865, portrait on display, “I think has been lent to the Vandalia it will help bring people Statehouse. A brief February to the building. They love 16th ceremony before a Lincoln, and anything to standing-room-only crowd on do with Lincoln, people are the second floor balcony area willing to get out and see.” of the Vandalia Statehouse The Vandalia Statehouse marked the loan of the portrait. is the oldest surviving An enthusiastic crowd of more Illinois capitol building. than fifty was present for the Vandalia became the second remarks of Illinois Historic Courtesy of Leader-Union, Vandalia capital of Illinois in 1820, Preservation Agency Director Library Affairs Dean David Carlson and Illinois Historic and this is where Lincoln Robert Coomer and Library Preservation Agency Director Robert Coomer unveil the 1865 began his storied political Affairs Dean David Carlson. Lincoln portrait in the Vandalia Statehouse, where Lincoln’s career, serving in the state The event marked the first political career started. legislature in the 1830s. partnership of the two groups. Calling the lending of the portrait a broker the portrait’s loan remarked, The portrait was acquired by Southern “win-win” situation Library Affairs “We are so pleased to be able to partner Illinois Normal University President Dean David Carlson said, “Rather than with the university. It really works to Robert Allyn in the early 1880s. crating it away in storage, we thought it everybody’s benefit.” As Morris Library Rescued from a fire that consumed the original Old Normal Building in 1883, Finding Lincoln Portrait Restorer the portrait was forgotten for years diminutive sticker attached to and thinking that it was an important before being rediscovered in a closet, A the back of the Lincoln portrait painting. He was right. unframed and damaged, in the 1950s. makes reference to Fritz and Hiram It was professionally restored in New Hoelzer, Box 13, New York City. With A veteran of World War II and a fine York City and has been housed in the the knowledge that the portrait had arts graduate of Harvard in the late exclusive American Heritage Room of been restored in New York, it followed Morris Library ever since. that these individuals or their agents father, Fritz Hoelzer, into the business Born in Chelsea, Vermont, in 1821, had participated in the restoration of of painting restoration. Though he Alban Jasper Conant lived in New York this portrait. An Internet estimates he has restored City, having moved there in 1844, and search yielded a Hiram more than 10,000 Troy, New York, where he remained Hoelzer Inc., a fine art paintings, Hoelzer until 1857. He then moved to St. Louis, appraiser and conservator takes special pride in Missouri, where he was co-founder of in Greenwich, CT, and a finding neglected or lost the Western Academy of Art and began phone call to the business, paintings, “I have found, his interest in archaeology. In 1879 he prompted the response, over the years close published Footprints of Vanished Races “Yea, I did that!” Now 82 years of age to a hundred paintings stuck away in in the Mississippi Valley. But during the and “unfortunately in good health” (his attics, barns, haylofts, and garages . . .” 1860s, he worked in Springfield, Illinois, assessment), Hoelzer remembers well Hoelzer continued, “I am thrilled that and Washington DC, where he painted receiving the damaged canvas that had the painting is now appreciated and been stored in the attic of Wheeler recognized.” - - continued on page 6 . . . Tips from the Conservation Lab by Barb Summers
I Have Mold on my • If a musty smell remains, place charcoal briquettes or bowls of Books!!! What Can I Do? baking soda in the area near but not Have you ever gone to an auction, on the books. bought a great box of old books, and What can I do to prevent mold? taken them home to find that some have mold on them? Or perhaps • Store books only in an area you have stored boxes of books in with the proper temperature and a basement or outdoor shed, where humidity. The proper environment they have gotten wet and moldy. In People who suffer from upper for prevention of mold growth is a either case you might have wondered respiratory problems, allergies, or asthma temperature of 68 degrees (varying if you could save the books and how should not handle or even be around ± 5 degrees) and humidity at 50% to get rid of the mold. moldy materials. (varying ± 5%).
What is mold? How can I remove mold? • Do not shelve books on an outside wall, and do not store them in a Mold is a type of fungus that will • Properly protect yourself with basement or attic. grow on any surface. It may have a disposable rubber or plastic gloves and a fuzzy or powdery appearance and respirator with a HEPA (high-efficiency • Regularly check your collection for can be almost any color. Mold spores particulate-absorbing) filter. Wear possible mold outbreaks. are always present in the air and protective clothing that can be washed. on objects. They grow whenever • Provide good ventilation. Air the temperature and humidity are • The best method to remove dry or movement helps keep humidity suitable for germination and do inactivated mold is with a vacuum down. not need light, preferring darkness. cleaner—one with a HEPA filter. The Books are an ideal source of nutrition vacuum should be no more than 1 to • Indoor plants should be kept to a for mold because they are made up of 1.5 horsepower, like a small hand-held minimum in areas where books are organic materials like cellulose, starch vacuum. It is best to use the long crevice stored. adhesive, and sizing, and sometimes tool, not the brush attachment. • When possible, use HEPA filters in they are bound in leather. • Work outdoors or in an open area, like your heating and cooling systems. There are wet molds (active) and a garage, and gently vacuum the powdery • If you find mold, determine the dry molds (inactive). Dry molds are mold. cause and correct it. Isolate the powdery and can usually be cleaned • A cloth dampened with isopropyl infected materials so the mold won’t off the surface of a book, although alcohol can be used to wipe off any spread, and clean the area and the there may be permanent staining. remaining amounts of mold, but the materials. The following information pertains color of the item may be changed only to removing dry molds. and gilding may come off. It is best Molds can cause serious health to dispose of the cloth after you have 8 problems, including headaches, finished wiping down the books and any Next time: Drying Wet Books and nausea, and eye and skin irritation. surfaces that were affected by the mold. Dealing with Active Mold
- - The Changing Face of Morris Library
arch 2006 saw dramatic changes Lincoln Portrait . . . continued from Mto the landscape and front page 4 face of Morris Library. Gone are the small pond, large sandstone rocks, and portraits of leading citizens, including surrounding trees that once greeted Edwin Stanton and Abraham Lincoln. visitors to Morris. Too, the reflecting In 1860 a prominent St. Louis pool and the glass windows of the north businessman, William McPherson, side of the building have been removed. commissioned Alban Conant to paint A construction fence surrounds the the Republican presidential nominee, building, allowing entry only through Morris Library in mid-March 2006 Abraham Lincoln. From these early the building’s south entrance. A covered sittings, Conant uniquely painted walkway along the building’s south side Lincoln smiling, impressed by his is being built as additional protection Peoria, Illinois, Library Affairs Dean subject’s animated nature while telling for the removal of the building’s bricks. David Carlson expressed confidence in stories. is portrait, closely resembling Progress is being made. the responsiveness and professionalism of the contractors. Carlson said, “I’ve a contemporary photograph, was At a recent meeting of Library been reassured at every step of the realized in 1865. employees and representatives of the process as to the safety and concerns of principal contractor, River City of students, employees, and workers.”
Library is Seeking . . . continued from page 3
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Vintage Image Corner Taylor Pensoneau he year was 1949, and this institution New Berlin Twas celebrating its 75th anniversary. Only a few years previous, university status JOHN POWER had been achieved, an advancement beyond Jacksonville teachers college rank. Here President Delyte Morris cuts a birthday cake in observance. One of the ways in which the CARL REXROAD university celebrated Southern at 75 was Carbondale by commissioning historian Eli G. Lentz, former Dean of Men, to write Seventy-five Years in Retrospect: From Normal School THYRA RUSSELL to Teachers College to University. A chart Carbondale of Curricular Evolution that accompanied that volume indicated there were essentially DIANE SHEFFER ten majors or courses of study in 1874, one of which was mental science, ethics, and Carbondale pedagogics. By 1894 there were fifteen, by 1944 there were twenty-two, and by JUDY TRAVELSTEAD 1949 three colleges offered thirty majors Cobden supplemented by a burgeoning graduate school. *New Member - - Enter Naming Contest to Win Designer Candelabra
ith the completion of the The Illinois Capital Development Rotors and two arms will connect the Wextensive renovation to Morris Board’s Arts-in-Architecture program two pieces. Library, a unique sculpture will adorn provides the funding, allocating one- the north entrance. A wind-powered, half of one percent of any construction The wind alone will fuel the sculpture’s kinetic sculpture by Chicago artist Evan budget for state facilities to buy art for movement, creating forward and reverse Lewis will greet patrons. A contest to buildings by Illinois artists. action and changing velocity, dependent name this piece is being conducted by on wind speed and direction. Library Affairs. This contest is open to anyone, who is not an SIUC Library Affairs employee or Friends of Morris “It’s a dream come true Library board member. Entrants for any artist to do a big must submit their suggestions via 1) involved piece like this for email: [email protected] or 2) post: Gordon Pruett, Morris Library—Mail a public place, particularly Code 6632, SIUC, 605 Agriculture at a university and Dr., Carbondale, IL 62901-4310 by November 15, 2006. Initial judging will particularly at a library.” be performed by the Friends of Morris Library board members, but the winning Evan Lewis is a graduate of the School submission will ultimately be chosen by of the Art Institute of Chicago and has the artist, Evan Lewis. The winner will been creating sculpture since 1978. With receive a candelabra designed by Evan the assistance of his wife, Sandra, their Lewis. company has produced sculpture and decorative arts for the home for a world- “The thing that makes it wide clientele. Lewis’ interest in creating interesting is that because wind-powered art has led him to work the power source is wind, This is a model of the sculpture that will primarily in metal, principally aluminum become part of Morris Library’s north and steel. His sculptures take inspiration it’s natural and always entrance. The sculpture needs a name. Have you a moniker in your lexicon that from curvilinear, organic forms and changing.” will serve it well? man-made structural shapes like bridges and radio towers. Lewis is especially The wind-driven piece by Chicago “I’m very grateful to get the opportunity interested in the constantly-changing sculptor Evan Lewis will be installed to do it,” Lewis said. “It’s a dream aspect of kinetic sculpture, powered by in the vestibule of the library’s north come true for any artist to do a big an unpredictable source, the wind, which entrance. The interior mobile will be involved piece like this for a public creates a dynamic and unique experience powered by a rotating exterior arm, place, particularly at a university and for viewers. which derives its power from the force particularly at a library.” Lewis also creates decorative art— of the wind. The exterior of the three- furniture, lighting (sconces, chandeliers, and-a-half story north entrance will be The external, rotating piece will be etc.), and accessories. His furniture glass, allowing the sculpture to be clearly twenty-four feet in diameter when creations have been shown at several visible from the outside, particularly extended, and will weigh about 300 prestigious design shows in the United when illuminated at night. pounds. The inside piece is thirty-six feet high and will move in a cylinder States and England, where they have “The thing that makes it interesting is that has a diameter of sixteen feet. These been well-received by interior designers that because the power source is wind, sculptural elements will be elevated and consumers alike. His web site is it’s natural and always changing,” said about twelve feet off the ground, and www.evanlewisinc.com. Lewis, who specializes in kinetic, wind- they’ll weigh approximately 500 pounds. powered sculptures and who operates Enter by November 15th! Evan Lewis, Inc., with his wife, Sandra. - - Filling Loretta Koch Shoes Will Be Difficult he had always entertained thoughts in the form of manuscripts from SIU Atwood Society. A lighter moment Sof going into publishing, but Press also came her way. But competitive occurred when a professor directed practicality prevailed, and she chose pricing forced her to reconsider her students to books “under the clock” in a career in librarianship. And Morris position in business, and in March Morris, not realizing the clock had been Library and the Carbondale Public 1985 she joined Morris Library as the removed. Library have been the beneficiaries of Assistant Humanities Librarian to Loretta Koch’s career path, which came Alan Cohn. A unique practice that he In her career she’s been witness to the to an end March 31st with advance of computers, CDs, her retirement. electronic databases, and the digitalization of all things great A native of Anna, and small. She said, “When Illinois, Koch attended you are part of change, it’s the University of Illinois hard to see the change.” She in Urbana-Champaign, sees such advancements as the graduating with high natural progression of things, honors in 1973 with a rather than the replacement BA in English. Conflicted of failed formats. Future plans with the future prospects include books, but e-books of an English degree, she are questionable. She looks to spied some brochures in retirement as the opportunity the English Library that not to have a list of “things to queries, “Have you thought do.” of library school?” She answered that question Library Affairs Dean David Carlson said it best in stating, by completing her MLS After twenty-one years of service to Morris Library, Loretta Koch the very next year in retired on March 31st. She will seek out new challenges and, of course, “But all this stuff of dates, new shoes to fill. Urbana-Champaign. “I appointments, rank, degrees, and dates does not capture always wanted to go into publishing. required of all his librarians was for Loretta’s importance and contributions But that was one of those high-prestige, them to review the table of contents of to the Library . . . . Loretta has lived in all incoming periodicals. “It sounded like that shadow [of Alan Cohn], but she an odd thing to do, but it’s really helpful “When you are part of made that position her own and, indeed, in reference,” Koch added. change, it’s hard to see has transformed it through her engaging the change.” In the early 1990s she became acting head of humanities before being [Loretta] made that position low-pay jobs,” she continued. Too, she promoted to associate professor in 1995. pointed out, librarianship offered greater And in 2001 she accepted the challenge her own and, indeed, has geographic flexibility. of Collection Development Librarian, a transformed it through her new position of importance in which she engaging personality and Her first position was with the has established a significant and integral Carbondale Public Library, where program. It is from that position that she her own unique and critical she worked as the Adult Services has retired. combinations to the Library Librarian, acquiring material, principally books. Her time there was also spent Memorable moments in her career and the University.” in interlibrary loan, reference work, include an evening at Morris when and programming until leaving in opera singer Jeanine Wagner performed personality and her own unique and 1981. She then established her own at the opening of the music studio, the critical combinations to the Library and word-processing and editing business, teaching of research methods in theater the University.” accepting primarily theses and and bioethics, and the compiling of an dissertations. More interesting work annotated checklist for the Margaret - - Walter Rodgers’ Memories of Morris
is memories of campus are Hso vivid, and his stories so enthralling, you would have thought that Walter Rodgers had just recently left Carbondale. Yet, he holds two degrees in history from SIUC, graduating in 1962 and 1964, having attended SIUC “You could just wander through those open stacks, and you discovered how broad the world of knowledge was.” on a swimming scholarship. Recently- studying, but you didn’t Most recently, Walter Rodgers was senior retired, the want to go back to the international correspondent for CNN venerable dormitory. You could based in London. Named to this position international just wander through in September 2000, he previously served journalist those open stacks, and as the CNN bureau chief in Jerusalem for Walter Rodgers you discovered how five and a half years. Prior to that, he was returned to broad the world of the ABC News bureau chief in Moscow campus in the knowledge was.” for five years. Rodgers has nearly forty fall of 2005 as years experience as a broadcast journalist, a lecturer and “One of the greatest and he has written extensively for the author. treasures that you Associated Press, the Washington Post, discover as a student and the Christian Science Monitor. He holds in in Morris Library is high esteem his the OED—the Oxford education at Do you have a memory Courtesy of CNN English Dictionary. Southern, and Wow, will that blow of Morris? the teachers A veteran correspondent of international your mind! Now I own Did you have a particularly that provided it. journalism, Walter Rodgers has recently my own OED.” scholarly, romantic, bookish, retired and resides near Washington D.C. Among those He’s an avid reader, a salmon fisherman, and a poignant, intellectual, he holds in collector of books and antiques. “This is not your average breakthrough, amorous, tender, high regard are state university. It is a or visionary experience within the Edith Krappe, William E. Simeone, E. hallowed halls of Morris Library? If Earle Stibitz, Beatrice Stegeman, Harry “This is not your average you’d like to share your experience Ammon, Gunther Rothenberg, Betty state university. It is a within the pages of Cornerstone, Fladeland, George Cherry, and Georgia please contact Gordon Pruett Wynn. “I really loved my liberal arts very special place.” at [email protected], or 618- degree at SIUC, and you marry that with 453-1660, or via post at Morris my graduate years there, and I know it very special place. [A history professor] Library, Mail Code 6632, Southern stands up well against all my current Ivy said the best of the students at are as Illinois University Carbondale, 605 League friends’ schooling.” good as any students in the country, and Agriculture Drive, Carbondale, IL I really believe that when I look back at 62901-4310. “Morris Library was an intellectual the education I got.” smorgasbord; you had open stacks! When you got tired of reading or - 10 - Carus Family Tradition of Giving Continues at SIUC
ince the 1960s Morris Library processing. But there will be ancillary The family’s patriarch, Dr. Paul Carus, Shas benefited from the generosity funding for elements related to Open assumed the editorship of Open Court of the Carus family and Open Court Court and other American philosophy Publishing in 1887 and continued at Publishing, originally of LaSalle, collections in Special Collections, such the helm of this publishing enterprise Illinois, in the receipt of manuscripts, as publications, exhibits, and visiting until his death in 1919. One of the first books, and funds. Initially, Director researchers. academic presses in the country without of SIU Libraries, Ralph McCoy a university affiliation, Open Court was instrumental in nurturing an Publishing maintains the legacy of Paul accommodating relationship of receiving Carus in continuing to publish scholarly materials for the Library. In recent years, and trade non-fiction, with an emphasis David Koch, the just-retired Director on philosophy, Eastern thought, of Special Collections continued that Jungian analysis, lifestyle, music, science, tradition. and religion. Currently, Open Court publishes approximately fifteen titles per The Open Court Collection is one of year and has more than 400 books in the gems of the Special Collections print. Research Center and one of the largest, at over 800 cubic feet. According to Edward Carus, personal representative Left: Hired as a tutor to the Hegeler and trustee of the Alwin C. Carus Estate children, Paul Carus married Mary and Trust, Morris Library will benefit Hegeler in 1888. His interest in philosophy and religion spawned a prolific for the next twenty years from income writing career, as he authored more than from a mineral trust. The first annual one thousand articles and seventy books. payment will be approximately $18,000, Photos courtesy of the Hegeler Carus Foundation and future amounts will vary, dependent on the price of crude oil, income from leases, the possible development of new wells, etc. The income to Morris Library could well exceed $350,000 over the twenty-year life of the trust.
The second part of Alwin Carus’ bequest to Morris Library will be a one-time payment of about $70,000, contingent upon the sale of property in Canada. Alwin C. Carus (left), the youngest child of Paul and Mary Hegeler Carus, lived in the family’s stately mansion (above) These funds will principally in LaSalle, Illinois, passing away just before his 103rd be used to process, birthday in 2004. Though he had attended the University conserve, and maintain the of Chicago, helped in the operation of ranches in North Dakota, and traveled the globe as an avid astronomer, he Open Court Archives, as essentially resided at the Hegeler Carus Mansion, 1307 well as the papers of Paul Seventh St., in La Salle, Illinois, his entire life. Carus and Alwin C. Carus. Much of the Open Court material held by Special Collections requires - 11 - Library Affairs Morris Library, Mail Code 6632 Southern Illinois University Carbondale 605 Agriculture Drive Carbondale, IL 62901-4310
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