University of Arkansas, Fayetteville ScholarWorks@UARK Arkansian Libraries Fall 2011 The Arkansian, Fall 2011 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries. Special Collections Department Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uark.edu/arkansian Citation University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries. Special Collections Department. (2011). The Arkansian, Fall 2011. Arkansian., 2 (5) Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/arkansian/5 This Periodical is brought to you for free and open access by the Libraries at ScholarWorks@UARK. It has been accepted for inclusion in Arkansian by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UARK. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Fall 2011 Volume 5 • Issue 2 Dedication CONTENTS Tom Dillard to Retire in January • Dedication This issue of The Arkansian is dedicated to Tom Dillard, head of Special Collections to Tom Dillard ................... 1 for the past seven years. Tom is retiring at the end of January 2012, and he will • Hammerschmidt Papers be greatly missed. He works tirelessly to recruit collections, raise funds for special Opened .............................. 1 projects, implement digitization and other projects, and promote the University of Arkansas Libraries and the Special Collections Department—all with the goal of • Leadership Report ...............2 making Arkansas history more accessible to the citizens of the Natural State and • Hays Digital Collection to researchers around the world. Please read the interview with Tom on page 8. Opened ..............................3 • Arkansas and Captivity During World War II ..........4 • Thanks to our Donors .........5 John Paul Hammerschmidt • Photo Gallery: Hats and Hairdos ...........................6-7 Papers Opened • Interview with Tom Dillard ..8 By Erin Robertson • Postcards Exhibit ................9 • Tim Nutt Receives Award .. 10 [Editor’s note: Erin Robertson, a senior journalism major and new editorial assistant • New Acquisition Focuses in Special Collections, reports on the event on Immigrants.................. 10 celebrating the opening of the papers of • Fisher Digital Collection ....11 Congressman John Paul Hammerschmidt. • Meet Joshua Youngblood .. 12 A ceremony and reception took place on September 14, 2011 in the Helen Robson Congressman Hammerschmidt with constituent mail, • Staff Profiles ...................... 14 Walton reading room of Mullins Library ca. 1974, photo from the John Paul Hammerschmidt • Current Exhibits Offer to honor the Arkansas statesman and mark Papers, MC 1230 Archival Gems .................. 15 the opening of his papers to the public.] the John Paul Hammerschmidt Papers, • Donate Your Materials....... 15 The podium was jostled by foot- made officially available to the public at • Are You Arkansas- steps on the platform as John Paul a reception on Wednesday, September Literate? .............. back page Hammerschmidt traded places with 14, 2011 in the Walton Reading Room Special Collections Department Head at Mullins Library. More than six years Tom W. Dillard. A handshake passed after the first boxes were unloaded at the between them as Hammerschmidt, a University of Arkansas campus, Special man still regally tall for his 89 years, Collections added Hammerschmidt’s stepped up to the microphone. manuscript collection to the growing “I’m a little bit at a loss for words,” list of prestigious papers held by the he said. “It’s overwhelming.” department. The occasion celebrated He was referring to the release of continued on page 12 Leadership Report Brooks Hays Digital From the Desk of Tom Dillard Collection Opened This issue of The Arkansian is actually someday be head of Special bringing bittersweet thoughts to Collections. I cannot think of a better Arkansan Served in Congress and in Five my mind. I will be retiring at the place for me to end my career—here in end of January 2012, and so, this Special Collections where it all started. Presidential Administrations is my last opportunity to visit with One of my accomplishments of the folks around the state who which I am proud is the creation of this have taken an interest in our work. magazine, The Arkansian. Our goal for By Diane F. Worrell On page 8 in this issue is an inter- this publication was to give Arkansans view that the editor conducted a peek into the largest academic research Tom W. Dillard The Special Collections with me, and I used that occasion facility in the state; to share our enthu- Department launched a new digital to briefly remember my career. siasm for documenting our state; and in this issue on the completion of collection documenting the life and When I was a graduate stu- to acquire more collections as well as a digital project on the career of work of Brooks Hays, coinciding with dent at the University of Arkansas in financial support. The success ofThe the late Congressman Brooks Hays the 113th anniversary of his birth on 1973-74, I practically lived in Mullins Arkansian is due in large part to its from central Arkansas. Digital proj- August 9, 2011. Hays (1898–1981) was a Library and Special Collections in managing editor, Diane Worrell, who ects give us an opportunity to share political, civic, and religious leader from particular. Like most history gradu- is not only a consummate professional our collections with people around Pope County who was the Democratic ate students at that time, I expected but also a great colleague to work with. the world. We are indebted to the Congressman from Arkansas’s Fifth to pursue a career in academia. Read about her in the staff profiles. hard work of Annie Dowling, Janet District from 1942 to 1959. Little did I imagine that I might Be sure to read about Joshua Parsch, and Joan Watkins in devel- The digital collection, titled Youngblood, our new research and out- oping these digital resources. “Principles and Politics: Documenting reach services librarian, who comes to In this issue we continue the the Career of Congressman Brooks us from the Florida Memory Project. tradition of including a quiz on Hays,” includes 150 items, includ- One of the first projects Joshua Arkansas. As the primary devel- ing articles, campaign materials, worked on was in collaboration with our Brooks Hays with President John F. Kennedy, 1961, from Politics is My Parish: An Autobiography, oper of the quiz, I work hard to cartoons and drawings, correspon- The Special Collections Department of the architectural archivist Catherine Wallack by Brooks Hays, p. 201 get just the right mix of ques- dence, diaries, photographs, poems, University of Arkansas Libraries collects, in constructing an exhibit for the new tions—not too esoteric, but not prayers, speeches and tributes from preserves, organizes and provides access to concourse at the Northwest Arkansas research materials documenting the state of too simple either. I welcome his life and career. The collection was Little Rock Central High School in his personal friends included many Regional Airport. Each day hundreds Arkansas and its role in the regional, national, reader comments on the quiz. recently named “Digital Library of the 1957. In retribution, the Faubus politi- political giants of the twentieth cen- of people view the exhibit, and we have and international communities. Arkansian is Perhaps my favorite part of Week” by American Libraries Direct, the cal machine organized opposition to tury. On the occasion of Hays’s 80th received high commendations for it. an old name by which our early ancestors this magazine is the “centerfold” American Library Association’s elec- Hays in his 1958 campaign for re-elec- birthday, he received a letter from called themselves, as well as the name of an The John Paul Hammerschmidt spread. We use these pages to high- tronic journal. It is available online tion to Congress. Little Rock physi- close associate and historian Arthur antebellum newspaper in Fayetteville. The Ar- Papers have been opened for research light images from our historic pho- through the Libraries’ Web site, along cian Dale Alford, the Faubus candidate, Schlesinger, Jr., who offered this praise kansian is published twice a year. use. The Papers, which cover a con- tographs. In this issue, we are hav- with other digital collections, at: defeated Hays as a write-in candidate. of his friend: “Few Americans have gressional career of 26 years, com- Inquiries should be directed to: ing a little fun by taking a look at http://scipio.uark.edu/ Hays graciously retired from Congress done so much to further the cause of Diane F. Worrell, editor prise the largest collection in Special “Hats and Hairdos” from the past. Brooks Hays attended the and devoted his considerable energies to tolerance, understanding and fellowship University of Arkansas Libraries Collections—1,200 boxes amount- As I bid you goodbye, I University of Arkansas from 1915 a variety of causes,” Dillard concluded. among diverse races and creeds; and no 365 N. McIlroy Avenue ing to over 1,500 linear feet. Fayetteville, AR. 72701-4002 urge you to continue your inter- to 1919, where he met his wife, After leaving Congress, Hays one in our time has done it with such The Hammerschmidt Papers Telephone 479/575-5577 est in UA Libraries and the Special Marion Prather Hays, in Old Main served as president of the Southern delicious wit and sagacious humor.” remind me of the major contribu- Fax 479/575-3472 Collections Department. I know during his freshman year. He Baptist Convention, began a writing The materials in this digital col- tions made by Timothy G. Nutt, assis- E-mail [email protected] my successor will be excited to was elected to the U.S. House of career, and was appointed to the board lection represent only a fraction of the tant head of Special Collections and The Arkansian is available online at: discover that Special Collections Representatives in 1942 and served of the Tennessee Valley Authority by Brooks Hays manuscript materials held http://libinfo.uark.edu/specialcollections/ the manuscripts and rare books librar- has an interested clientele and eight consecutive terms.