NEWSLETTER Issue 159 December 2020 2020 CBHL Annual Literature Award Winners Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries’ Annual Literature Awards Committee announced win- ners of the literature awards on October 16, 2020. Thirty-eight titles were considered this year, and our 2020 winners represent the best new books in botany and horticulture. Annual Literature Award For a work that makes a significant contribution to the literature of botany or horticulture Field Guide to the Grasses of Oregon and Washington by Cindy Talbott Roché, Richard E. Brainerd, Barbara OregonL. Wilson, State Nick University Otting and Press, Robert 2019. C. Korfhage 488 p. ISBN | 9780870719592 Award of Excellence in Botanical Art and Illustration Rankafu: Orchid Print Album by Stephen Kirby, Toshikazu Doi and Toru Otsuka Kew Publishing, 2018. 296 p. ISBN | 9781842466681 (continued on page 3) From the President Brandy Kuhl Library Director, Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum Dear CBHL, First, many thanks to the Annual Literature Award Committee for hosting an interesting and engaging vir- tual award ceremony! The list of 2020 winners is now available at: http://www.cbhl.net/award-winners. The Board held a productive mid-year meeting on October 27. We were excited to hear an update on the 2021 virtual annual meeting from Robin Everly and Barbara Ferry from the Smithsonian Library and Archives. Planning is going very well, and I think it’s going to be an excellent meeting. Please save the date! May 5-7, 2021. Allaina Wallace gave an update on the 2022 annual meeting to be hosted by the Denver Botanic Gardens’ Helen Fowler Library. We are hoping to be able to meet in person but are also planning for the possibility of a virtual or hybrid meeting. And I just realized that I neglected to welcome Allaina to the CBHL board in the last president’s column. My apologies. Please join me in welcoming Allaina Wallace as 2nd Vice President! Many thanks to former CBHL president David Sleasman for leading the charge in creating an annual bud- get.The Board is happy to present a balanced budget for 2021, which will be finalized by the end of the 2020. And last but not least, please renew your CBHL membership by February 28, 2021! The CBHL Board and Membership Committee are grateful for your support and friendship as we move forward together. We appreciate your suggestions and inspiration and hope that CBHL is a positive and community-building Takeresource care during everyone, this happy difficult holidays, time. Brandy In This Issue CBHL Annual Literature Awards ..................................................................1 From the President by Brandy Kuhl....................................................................2 CBHL Members’ West News edited by Beth Brand..................................................5 CBHL Members’ East News edited by Shelly Kilroy..................................................6 Preservation: Understanding Bookbindings by Kathy Crosby and Charlotte Tancin. 10 Miss Willmott’s Ghost by Judith M. Taylor........................................................19 Book Reviews edited by Gillian Hayward.............................................................23 (continued from page 1) Award of Excellence in Gardening and Gardens Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest, 3rd. ed. by Arthur R. Kruckeberg and Linda Chalker-Scott University of Washington Press, 2019. 432 p. ISBN | 9780295744155 Award of Excellence in History The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan’s Cherry Blossoms by Naoko Abe Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. 416 p. ISBN | 9780525435389 Read a review of The Sakura Obsession in the June 2019 issue of the CBHL Newsletter! Award of Excellence in Children and Young Adult Literature What Linnaeus Saw: A Scientist’s Quest to Name Every Living Thing by Karen Magnuson Beil Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. 256 p. ISBN | 9781324004684 Read a review of What Linnaeus Saw in the September 2020 issue of the CBHL Newsletter! December 2020 3 Award of Excellence in Children and Young Adult Literature The Night Flower:The Blooming of the Saguaro Cactus by Lara Hawthorne Big Picture Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press, 2019. 32 p. ISBN | 9781536206166 See past years’ CBHL Annual Literature Award winners online at http://www.cbhl.net/award-winners CBHL Conference Collaboration Grant Program During the 2010 mid-winter CBHL Board Meeting, the Board established a grant program to en- courage CBHL members’ participation in other like-minded organizations’ conferences. Currently, there is already a wonderful reciprocal relationship with the European Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Group (EBHL). To expand collaboration, this “CBHL Conference Collaboration Grant” will pay up to $500 towards conference fees (not including accommodations, travel expenses, or meals) for a CBHL member to go to the conferences of GardenComm (formerly Garden Writers Association), American Public Gar- dens Association, Special Libraries Association, Internet Librarian, or similar organizations. The grantee would receive the funds before the meeting (up to $500) with the agreement the participant would present a report to CBHL (either through the CBHL Newsletter or as a presentation at the Annual Meeting). The report should include useful aspects of the conference that will help other CBHL members. The report is intended as continuing education for the CBHL members. The grantee is also intended to serve as a CBHL ambassador to the conference and is required to register as the CBHL representative. To receive the grant, the prospective grantee needs to submit a letter addressed to the CBHL Sec- retary including: • Name of conference • Date of conference • Amount of grant request • URL of the conference website • • The date when you will submit your report about the conference to either the CBHL Newsletter or asReason a talk for at thechoosing CBHL theAnnual conference, Meeting including the benefit to CBHL Please give the Board one month prior to the conference registration deadline to make a decision about the grant. Funding will be awarded based on the amount of funds made available by the Board Submission address and/or email: CBHL Secretary, Esther Jackson, (contact email available throughduring that LibGuides particular) fiscal year. December 2020 4 CBHL Members’ West News Compiled by Beth Brand Head Librarian, Schilling Library Desert Botanical Garden Two New Publications from BRIT Press Barney Lipscomb Leonhardt Chair of Texas Botany Botanical Research Institute of Texas Drosera of the New Jersey Pinelands, U.S.A. By Alvin Liu and Daniel DiPietro Drosera of the New Jersey Pinelands, U.S.A. is a full-color, natural history monograph that offers an in-depth, consolidated anal- ysis of the carnivorous plant genus Drosera that inhabits nutri- ent-poor bogs and wetlands of the New Jersey Pinelands. The Pinelands host some of the densest concentrations of carnivorous plants in the United States and, as such, are enormously import- Drosera that are common to, and in some cases only known from, the NJ Pinelands. ant to the study of native carnivorous plants. This work is the first to discuss unique morphs and habits of 6.14” x 9.21” | 170 pages | color photos throughout | paperback | ISBN 978-1889878-56-0 | 11 Sep 2020 | Bot. Misc. No. 53 | $35.00 | https://shop.brit.org/Drosera-of-the-New-Jersey-Pinelands Guide to the Vascular Flora of Buxton Woods, Dare County, North Carolina, U.S.A. By Amanda L. Faucette, Alexander Krings, and David L. Lindbo Area (R1 C1)1 located on Hatteras Island, Dare County, North Car- olina.Buxton The Woods site spans Coastal about Reserve a third is a of Significant the largest Natural remaining Heritage tract of Maritime Evergreen Forest (Mid-Atlantic subtype) and contains the only occurrence of the Maritime Shrub Swamp (Dogwood subtype) community in the world. The illustrated guide treats 476 species in 98 families, providing keys to all vouchered or reported species and genera, with 30 color plates and nearly 400 line drawings. Habitat, are also incorporated, as well as relevant voucher information. nativity status, flowering and fruiting phenology, and abundance 7” x 10” | 236 pages | 30 color plates | 400 line illustrations | paper- back | ISBN 978-1-889878-60-7 | 26 Oct 2020 | Bot. Misc. No. 54 | $35.00 | https://shop.brit.org/Buxton-Woods 1 Editor’s Note: The North Carolina Natural Heritage Program assesses the conservation priority of natural areas by assigning Representation Ratings and Collective Value Ratings, measures of how each natural area supports populations of rare species and rare or high-quality natural communities. See https://www.ncnhp.org/documents/files/procedures-rating-significant-natural-areas/open for the methodology. December 2020 5 CBHL Members’ East News Compiled by Shelly Kilroy Librarian, Peter M. Wege Library Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park Glass Flowers Book Now Available… And an Announcement Judith A. Warnement Director Botany Libraries, Harvard University Herbaria The highly anticipated new Glass Flowers book is here! In collaboration with Jennifer Brown, Collec- tion Manager for the Glass Flowers, Scott E. Fulton, Conservator for the Glass Flowers, and Donald H. and Curator of the Farlow Library and Herbarium ofPfister, Cryptogamic Asa Gray Botany, Professor Photographer of Systematic Natalja Botany Kent captures the stunning beauty of