News You Can Use Fixes from the E. Lingle Craig Preservation Laboratory ou get caught in a rainstorm with your the less it will deform, so interleaving can be favorite book under your arm. Its cover an important first step. Use paper towels or Ybecomes drenched, its pages soggy. newsprint. What do you do? Freeze-drying can be used to dry books with At the Craig Lab, a wet book is never just a wet almost no deformation. When books are frozen book. Its pages can be wet just at the edges, at 30º F, the frozen water sublimates out of the soaked entirely, stained or spilled on. We may book, changing directly from ice to water vapor. use different treatments for plain or glossy This process takes time, but works wonders. paper, leather or vellum, or various dyes and At the Craig Lab, we have a specially designed glues. But all the books get dried out, and there vacuum freezer for this purpose, but you’ll see All wet? Make room next to your are a few basic treatments that anyone can use. results using your home freezer. ice cream and frozen corn. Air drying allows moisture to evaporate out of Glossy, or clay-coat, paper is the biggest the book, and can sometimes be helped by a problem in drying. The clay that gives these Ruth Lilly University Dean of University Libraries gentle fan. For edge-wet books this method is pages their sheen takes in water, effectively and Associate Vice President for Digital Library becoming mud, and “bricks” as it dries. Development: Suzanne E. Thorin simple and effective, but very damp items will Executive Director of Development and External deform, wrinkling and expanding as they dry. Glossy pages should be interleaved or Relations: Susan Yoon freezer-dried quickly. Writer/Editor: Eric Bartheld Interleaving involves placing absorbent sheets Contributing Writer: Anne Lucke Next issue: How to use cat litter to rid your books of Development Assistants: Jennifer Young Rigsby; between the pages of the book to draw out Allison Corn excess moisture. The less moisture in a book, musty odors. Art Direction: Shelle Design Inc. 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The mission of the IUB Libraries is to support and strengthen teaching, learning, and research by provid- ing the collections, services, and environ- ments that lead to intellectual discovery. www.libraries.iub.edu 1 ELLS LIBRARY for June Chris Meyer It’s official. And it’s time to celebrate! he Trustees of Indiana University in April approved naming the T Main Library on IU’s Bloomington “We are indebted to Herman Wells campus for Herman B Wells, the univer- for his vision and tireless efforts that sity’s visionary chancellor who died five transformed Indiana University into years ago. a world-class research university.” University officials reserved the naming —Adam W. Herbert, IU President Join the opportunity shortly after Wells’ death in Celebration 2000. With characteristic modesty, Wells the university through its post-World War II had refused to allow any buildings to be expansion and is credited with establishing The Trustees of named for him in his lifetime or until five IU as one of the nation’s leading public Indiana University years after his death. universities. Collections at the IU Bloom- President Adam Herbert ington Libraries grew by more than “We are indebted to Herman Wells for 640 percent during his tenure as president. Chancellor Kenneth R. his vision and tireless efforts that trans- Gros Louis formed Indiana University into a Wells’ vision included the recognition that world-class research university,” said IU a university is defined, at least in part, by Ruth Lilly University Dean President Adam W. Herbert. “In recognition its libraries. At the dedication ceremony for Suzanne Thorin of President Wells’ distinguished institu- the Main Library in 1970, Wells said, cordially invite you to the tional leadership, it is particularly fitting “There is no distinguished university naming ceremony for the that the university’s central repository of without a great library.” Herman B Wells Library knowledge — our main library — be June 17, 2005 at named after him.” The university is seeking $28.4 million from the state legislature for Phase I 4:00 p.m. “Naming the library for Herman Wells is funding to create a library that honors the South lawn a splendid opportunity to honor all that he legacy of Chancellor Wells and meets the of the Library did for IU students and faculty,” says needs of Indiana students and faculty. Plans e Suzanne Thorin, Ruth Lilly University call for transforming the south entrance Dean of University Libraries. “Chancellor to include additional services, adding an Wells valued the importance of libraries as auditorium classroom, and upgrading the a shared resource used by the entire infrastructure. Indiana University community. This equality of purpose is consistent with Indiana University has already contributed everything that he wanted for IU.” more than $11.8 million from campus and private support to prepare for the Herman B Wells was president of the renovation and has piloted concepts to university from 1938 to 1962 and univer- demonstrate how a master architectural sity chancellor from 1962 to 2000. He led plan can be implemented successfully. 2 WylieMorton Bradley F Makes the Giftamily of a Lifetime About a year before he died last The correspondence—intimate hand- written accounts of life in Bloomington September, Morton Bradley Jr., eyes in the second half of the nineteenth twinkling, revealed to Jo Burgess century—is a historian’s dream. Bradley left his estate to Indiana University, and that he had a box of family letters Burgess obtained several hundred of the she might find interesting. letters after his death in September 2004. She expects to receive the rest after the s director of the Wylie House estate is settled. Museum, Burgess is always on the lookout for research that “It looks like everybody in the Wylie A family saved letters,” Burgess says after will help her restore and interpret the home where the Wylie family lived a first glimpse of the cache, which was for nearly 80 years. And as the saved generation after generation and great-grandson of Theophilus ended up with Bradley. The letters are to Wylie, the IU professor and and from Theophilus and Rebecca, his librarian who bought the wife. To and from Lou, their daughter. house in 1859, Bradley To and from Maggie, whose husband felt an intensely became first governor of the Dakota strong connection Territory. “It’s a huge, rich collection,” to his Indiana Burgess says. family and ancestral home. Burgess, who has been the museum’s director for five years, has read Wylie “In my head I’m diaries, can effortlessly recite Wylie picturing a shoe box full,” birthdates and family trees, and works Burgess recalls. “I didn’t expect each day in the very house in which the seven crates!” Burgess says the Wylies lived. Still, she says, the correspon- wooden crates—each about the size of a dence revealed a new kind of history. “I file drawer—are “absolutely stuffed” with didn’t have a handle on the second Wylie thousands of handwritten letters, all family to live in the house, not really,” thoughtfully tied up in she says. “They used to be kind of neat little bundles. shadowy for me.” 3 1983 Globe Staff File Photo/Joe Runci Considered the dean of American art restorers in the 1940s and 1950s, Bradley created geometric sculptures like the ones pictured here hanging in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.