Issue 5 2020 The magazine of the UMass Amherst Libraries WBCN: The Soundtrack LIBRARIAN of a City ALL-STARS FIVE VOICES The Americans with Disabilities Act @ 30 THE PAPER CHASE How the archive of W. E. B. Du Bois came to UMass Amherst 40 years ago PLUS PLUS A Gallery of Grads Unpublished Du Bois A Cliffhanger 1of BOOKMARK a Season 2020 About the Cover Our Statement on Textbooks @morganne514 Even though classes went online in March, while teaching full-time in Lawrence Public many graduating seniors took photos on Schools. I have been living at my family home campus—often with the Du Bois Library in in Westford, Mass., while taking my graduate the background—and posted them on social school classes online. ON THE COVER media. (see Gallery, page 26.) The cost of textbooks and other course materials are a barrier for students Morganne Gallagher ’20 I was sad not to finish out the senior year that at every university. To avoid fees, some students don’t purchase textbooks, by Abigail Lee ’20 The cover photo of Morganne Gallagher ’20 I had been hoping for, but all of the professors (see right) was taken by her fellow graduate, Abigail were great about making classes accessible instead, they use a copy on reserve at the Libraries. Lee ’20. Morganne shared a little about her from everywhere. I am still holding out hope experience and what she’s been up to since the for a graduation ceremony down the line, DEAN OF LIBRARIES A significant portion of books on print reserve are required textbooks, which students are photo was taken. but everything that UMass provided in the Simon Neame meantime, like the virtual graduation, really “I graduated with a double major in Special unable to use without coming into the library building—impossible since March. Complicating helped in making myself and the rest of the Education and Psychology. I am now attending this work are textbook publishers, who do not make electronic formats EDITORIAL DIRECTOR graduating class feel celebrated.” Carol Connare Merrimack College for a yearlong fellowship readily available to libraries for purchase as they have built their to get my Master’s in Elementary Education, Congratulations graduates! business models around selling e-textbooks directly to students. CREATIVE DIRECTOR Leslie Schaler ’81 This is not a library problem. Textbook costs impact everyone in higher education: students, faculty, advocates in support and DESIGN Carol Connare Bookmark BookMark Online! success roles, institutional research output, and grant funding. Elizabeth Pols ’78 Leslie Schaler ’81 Reading BookMark online links you to collections, websites, references, The Libraries attempt to make copies of selected textbooks and and other resources throughout the text. In the fall 2020 digital issue, course materials available to assist those students who are unable CONTRIBUTORS we also connect you to these extras: Carol Connare to purchase their own. The following publishers will not allow Kim Fill ’01 libraries to purchase e-textbook versions of their publications: Eric Goldscheider G’93 Pearson, Cengage, Elsevier, McGraw Hill, Thieme, and most Adam Holmes The 40th The Daniel publishers of ‘common reads,’ popular fiction, and popular nonfiction. Michael Mercurio Anniversary Ellsberg Phillip Luke Sinitiere of the W. E. B. Collection Aaron Rubinstein ’01 The Libraries work with faculty and instructors to utilize textbook Allen St. Pierre ’89 Du Bois Papers “Blame it on A half-hour alternatives, such as: Lauren Weiss the CIA” video celebrates Daniel Ellsberg shares Caroline White the enduring select documents from his vast archive at UMass. • Adopting Open Educational Resources—freely available relevance of Du Bois’s legacy today, featuring In this two-and-a-half-minute clip, Ellsberg finds educational materials openly licensed to allow for re-use scholars, students, campus leaders, and two- copies of photographs taken by Richard Nixon’s PHOTOGRAPHY time Pulitzer Prize winning Du Bois biographer, infamous “plumbers,” Howard Hunt and G. and modification; Ben Barnhart David Levering Lewis. Gordon Liddy, as they plot their illegal break-in Carol Connare Ellsberg’s psychoanalyst’s office. • Creating digital course materials by scanning book chapters Doug Menuez and excerpts subject to fair use and licensing regulations; Leslie Schaler The Forbidden Professor Free Digital Media Workshops Josh Silver A three-hour oral history with late cannabis The Digital Media Lab’s Adam Quiros launched John Solem path-breaker Lester a series of online workshops designed to help • Linking to Libraries’ e-books, journal articles, and streaming media Grinspoon. In July students, staff, 2012, Grinspoon faculty, and you • Purchasing new academic e-books ILLUSTRATION sat down to discuss with audio and Chloe Deeley ’18 his background, video projects family, education, from home while the beginnings the Library is PRINTER of his advocacy, his work with the National closed, using freely Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, Tiger Press available software. and the long professional, legal, and personal struggle to end prohibition. Thank you to our colleagues at Grand Valley State University BOOKMARK Libraries and the University of Guelph Libraries. We have is the magazine of the View this issue online, including extra digital content, at: adapted their statements with permission. UMass Amherst Libraries. bookmarkmagazine.library.umass.edu 1 BOOKMARK 2020 2 BOOKMARK 2020 contents FALL 2020 FORE WORDS FEATURES AFTER WORDS Also in this issue 6 “Your Remarkable Showing 14 Librarian All-Stars 48 In Memory of Rob Cox 4 Re: Opening for Health” Our newest librarians shape the A Short Tribute to a Tall Man Letter from the Dean of the Libraries What university archives tell us about the future of working, learning, and exploring flu epidemic a century ago 50 The Forbidden Professor 26 A Gallery of Grads Remembering a Pioneer Graduates can’t resist using the 8 Cliffhanger of a Season 22 The Soundtrack of a City Du Bois Library as their backdrop Wildlife Experts observe falcons’ Finding, collecting, and sharing natural competition for territory the story of Boston’s legendary 40 Connected by Gratitude WBCN radio station The impact of philanthropy on our 9 “All Good Things Are Wild, successes this year. and Free” 28 Five Voices The Americans with Disabilities Every spring, City Nature Challenge invites 47 Fundraiser Joins the Libraries anyone with a phone to become a naturalist Act @ 30 34 Paper Chase 10 Found in Translation How the archive of W. E. B. Du Bois In April, fountains in the Campus Pond A family memoir spanning three generations View this issue Online, including extra and two upper stories of the Du Bois uses crowdsourcing to translate original came to UMass Amherst digital content, at: 40 years ago. bookmarkmagazine.library.umass.edu Library shone blue in gratitude to front- materials line workers battling the coronavirus. 38 Unpublished Du Bois 12 Jeremy Smith, Daniel Ellsberg A Proposed Platform for Archivist the 1950 Progressive Party 3 BOOKMARK 2020 2 BOOKMARK 2020 Libraries, an Essential Service Fine Arts Center Named for Former Chancellor Bromery In April, the UMass Board of Trustees Re: Opening voted unanimously to name the Fine Arts Center for the late Randolph W. he day I sat down to write this note, Governor Baker announced that libraries across the “Bill” Bromery, who served as chancellor TCommonwealth may expand to 50 percent capacity as long as coronavirus infection rates from 1971-79. His appointment made remain low. This is welcome news, after months of complex challenges for all of us, for the him the second African American ever Libraries, for the university, and for the entire globe. Though we know that things may need to to lead a predominantly white campus. change back quickly, at least right now we’re hopeful. Bromery was instrumental in diversifying the campus in terms of both gender and For months we have been planning and preparing to safely welcome patrons back into the Libraries. Explicit in our race. Under his leadership, the ratio of undergraduate men to women improved mission is the call to foster a diverse, inclusive, and user-centered environment for teaching, learning, and research—both to 50-50, efforts were intensified to recruit virtual and in-person. Our pledge is that all individuals who enter the Libraries in their physical or digital manifestation and support minority students, and the will be treated with respect. number of faculty of color increased. His efforts brought to the campus the archives In line with our mission, some of our most important work as an organization this past year has been affirming that Black of both W. E. B. Du Bois and Horace Mann Lives Matter. Staff created a Library Guide featuring resources on race and identity, including new books, articles, films, Bond. These acquisitions cemented the Bromery (right) planting a tree outside Randolph Arts Center near campus pond, ca. 1976, the Fine Special Collections and University Archives. and other materials to support both personal and academic research and inquiry. We marked the 40th anniversary of Libraries’ reputation as a top repository the W. E. B. Du Bois Papers coming to UMass by documenting on film scholars’ thinking on the relevance of Du Bois’s for African American thought and served During Bromery’s tenure as chancellor, he oversaw construction of the Fine Arts Center. A dedicated saxophonist and lifelong student of jazz, work today. In this issue, we for the first time publish “Platform for the Progressive Party,” a piece of writing by Du Bois as the foundation for the establishment of what is now the W. E. B. Du Bois Center. Bromery listed meeting the pianist Eubie Blake at UMass Amherst as that shows how Americans 70 years ago were fighting for freedom. We are looking closely at our own practices within the one of his most treasured moments as chancellor.