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Spring 2009 Volume 3 • Issue 1 CONTENTS Happy Hollow Foundation • Happy Hollow Funds Index Arkansas .................. 1 Funds Index Arkansas Expansion • Leadership Report ...............2 • Hargis Papers Index Arkansas, an online index Processed ...........................3 of Arkansas publications, has received a $58,500 grant from the Happy • Researcher Hollow Foundation to index Arkansas Hicks Stone........................4 publications from 1986 through 2007. • Law Professor Supports Sponsored by the Special Collections Special Collections ............5 Department of the University of • Arkansauce: Foodways Arkansas Libraries, Index Arkansas is and Cookbooks ..................6 an index to Arkansas-related publica- tions from the 1930s through 1986. • Use of Archival Materials Through the generosity of the Happy Buffalo Flows in ..................7 Hollow Foundation, the project will • Images Celebrating now be able to process and index AR Natural Heritage .........8 back issues of publications through • Photos 2007, adding 21 years of coverage. Touring the World ............ 10 Index Arkansas evolved from an old-fashioned card file started in the • Pryor Center News: 1930s to an online index available Film Festival .....................11 through the Libraries’ web site. It • A Special Thanks contains almost 91,000 citations from to Supporters................... 12 Betty Lighton, founder of the Happy Hollow Foundation, Arkansas-related biographical and ca. 1930 • Arkansas Democrat historical books, Arkansas periodicals, Oral History Project ........ 12 county historical journals, as well as receiving more attention in the schools, it spurred Arkansans to begin devel- • Manuscripts Unit News .... 12 statewide and regional newspapers. Special Collections Department oping research tools that will facilitate • Research Services News .... 13 Head Tom W. Dillard said, “Arkansas the study of the state and its people. • Staff Profiles ...................... 14 is perhaps the most under-studied Many University of Arkansas • Ice Storm ........................... 15 state in the nation. Only in the last librarians were involved in the estab- ten years have Arkansans begun lishment and maintenance of the • Are you Arkansas- to give our heritage the attention index. The huge task of converting Literate? .............. back page it deserves.” In 1997 the Arkansas citations from an old-fashioned General Assembly adopted legisla- card file to an online computer- tion requiring that Arkansas history ized resource began in 2005 and was be taught systematically in both the completed in March 2008. Records elementary and secondary schools are easily searchable through the of the state. That legislation not internet by author, title, keyword, only resulted in Arkansas’s heritage continued on page 5 Leadership Report From the Desk of Tom W. Dillard Writing this column twice yearly time in the making. What is today an forces me to take time to contemplate online index got its start over fifty our progress, take stock of our needs, years ago when University of Arkansas and share our story with the people librarians began typing up index card of Arkansas. It is easy to get caught citations on newspaper and magazine up in the daily crush of things; one articles that dealt with the state. As needs a moment of reflection now the decades passed, tens of thou- and then to keep one’s bearings. sands of topics were indexed—this is The Special Collections important because it is through such Department collects and preserves indexes that scholars and students information on the state of Arkansas locate the information they need. and the region; we share those mate- Even if you don’t need to do research, rials with faculty and students at this I urge you to visit the website and Tom W. Dillard institution as well as the general public. play around with Index Arkansas. The One of our ongoing projects, Index URL is: http://arkindex.uark.edu/. Arkansas, recently got a shot in the arm I shall always have a warm spot primarily as a manuscripts processor, when the Happy Hollow Foundation in my heart for the Happy Hollow is one of those part-time student of Fayetteville committed to a two- Foundation, because it carries on employees who contributes far beyond year program to index Arkansas peri- the work of the late Betty Lighton of what we could reasonably expect. odicals from 1986 through 2007. Fayetteville. Betty supported Special Read about these two outstanding Index Arkansas has been a long Collections activities for years before employees in this issue, and say she died in 2007. The foundation was “hi” to them if you get a chance. named for her family’s idyllic farm, The Special Collections Happy Hollow, near Fayetteville. Department is seeking to document One of the joys of my work is the the great North Arkansas ice storm opportunity to visit with a wide range of 2009. As a veteran of two ice storms that struck Little Rock in the The Special Collections Department of the of folks who use our collections and University of Arkansas Libraries collects, expertise. First, there are the faculty year 2000, I thought I was prepared preserves, organizes and provides access to and students of the university, but we to deal with losing electricity. Boy, research materials documenting the state of also have a large number of researchers was I wrong! My wife and I endured Arkansas and its role in the regional, national, from off campus. For the past several ten days without power this year, and international communities. Arkansian is months, I have had the pleasure of and it reminded me that we are all an old name by which our early ancestors getting to know Hicks Stone of New subject to the limitations of nature. called themselves, as well as the name of an York. Hicks is doing research for a Let us hear from you if you want to antebellum newspaper in Fayetteville. The Ar- share your ice storm experiences and kansian is published twice a year. biography he plans to write about his late father, prominent architect storm photographs. We document Inquiries should be directed to: Edward Durell Stone. We are pleased recent history as well as distant past. Diane F. Worrell, editor to introduce you to Hicks Stone. Thank you for your interest in the University of Arkansas Libraries Trey Marley is featured in this work we do here in Special Collections. 365 N. McIlroy Avenue If I can ever tell you more about our Fayetteville, AR. 72701-4002 issue’s “Staff Profiles.” Trey, associate telephone 479/575-5577 producer with the Special Collections’ plans for the future and how you can fax 479/575-3472 Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and be involved, give me a call. e-mail [email protected] Visual History, helped film portions of The Arkansian is available online at: the film,The Buffalo Flows, a documen- Tom W. Dillard http://libinfo.uark.edu/specialcollections/ tary by Larry Foley, professor of jour- news/arkansian/ nalism at the University of Arkansas. Head of Special Collections Information about the Special Collections Depart- Trey contributed an article to this University ofArkansas Libraries ment is available online at: 365 N. McIlroy Avenue http://libinfo.uark.edu/specialcollections/ issue on the use of Special Collections’ materials in that film. Also featured in Fayetteville, AR 72701 Diane F. Worrell, editor our “Staff Profiles” is Krista Jones, a Phone: (479) 575-5577 or Joy Caffrey, designer graduate student working on her M.A. Email: [email protected] in American history. Krista, who works 2 Hargis Papers Processed and Opened for Research The Billy James Hargis Papers provide researchers with headquarters. By the early 1960s he produced programs a fresh look at the origins of the American conservative that regularly ran on 250 television and 500 radio stations, movement in general and the Religious Right in particular. and in 1971 he founded the American Christian College in Billy James Hargis established his ministry, the Christian Tulsa. During his career he authored more than 100 books, Crusade Against Communism, as well as countless articles for the in 1950. He waged his crusade Christian Crusade Weekly newspaper. through writings, public appear- An ultraconservative minister, ances, and television and radio Hargis’s career was plagued with programs. Undergirding his controversy. In addition to his fight against Communism were anti-Communist views, he was a countless meticulously compiled supporter of racial segregation and files on pertinent subjects. reputedly held anti-Semitic and Over the course of a career anti-Catholic views. In the early lasting more than fifty years, he 1960s the Internal Revenue Service accumulated materials that fill determined that his work was polit- more than 180 boxes. These ical in nature and stripped his orga- materials document both the nization of its tax exempt status. mid-twentieth century climate Comments Hargis made in 1964 in which the modern conserva- caused an opposing journalist to tive movement formed as well demand equal time; denied this, the as Hargis’s role in defining journalist filed suit, leading to the Communism as a threat to U.S. Supreme Court case Red Lion America and Christianity, a Broadcasting Co. v. FCC (1969) which tenet central to the conserva- affirmed the Fairness Doctrine. tive Christian movement that In 1968 Hargis launched an attack emerged as the Religious Right on sex education programs, only in the 1970s and 1980s.