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I Retired Regional Directorof Statewide ProgrammingCreates Library Endowment

The Library has received a generous estatebequest from a person who helped makelong-distance learning a reality for hundredsof Illinoisans during the 1970s and 1980s.

That person is Mary Ann Diller, retiredregional program director for the U of I'sOffice of Statewide Programming. Her estatebequest will create the Dr. Mary Ann DillerLibrary Endowment Fund for unrestrictedsupport of the Library's collections, services,and programs.

"When you think about how a little placelike Champaign-Urbana, in the middle of theprairie, can develop a library like this that'sone of the best and biggest in the country,why, I just wanted to have a part in helpingmaintain it, no matter how small a part thatmight be," says Dr. Diller of her gift.

That Dr. Diller would want to supporta library probably would not surprise thethousands of people whose lives she hastouched over her long career. After a briefstint as a high school teacher in Roxana,Illinois, and as director of women's sportsand activities in Belleville, Illinois, in the1940s, she earned her M.A. in Historyfrom the U of I.

She then moved to Danville, Illinois,where she became the Danville JuniorCollege's first full-time instructor. "Itaught American history, European history,sociology, political science, economics-I was the social science department!" shelaughs.

In 1963, however, when the Danvilleschool system was forced to cancel its adulteducation courses for lack of funds," theDanville schools asked the college to takeover the program, and I was sort of told thatI should direct the program," she remembers."I got really interested in it and switchedgears. Eventually, I even got my Ph.D. inadult education from Michigan State Uni-versity."

In addition to directing programs for tra-ditional adult education classes in Danville,Dr. Diller was instrumental in creating anadult education center geared primarily topublic aid recipients and Mexican migrantworkers from nearby canneries. The pro-gram eventually had 350 students studyingfor their GED certificates, many of whomwent on to find good jobs. The child devel-opment center created by and for the pro-gram went on to become the core of thecollege's child-development academic pro-gram.

Her work was so outstanding that in1959 and 1962 she was elected president ofthe Danville Education Association, and in1973-74 president of the Illinois Adult Edu-cation Association.

In 1975, the U of I managed to lure heraway from Danville to work for the Officeof the Associate Vice President for PublicService (later called the Office of StatewideProgramming)

"I was responsible for the section of Illi-nois from Pontiac to Mt. Carmel-what Icall the 'eastern seaboard of Illinois, along

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the Wabash,"' she continues. "I would goout and make contacts with teachers, socialworkers, librarians, business leaders, andothers to see what their needs were, andthen go to the various campuses to bringteachers to them. It's similar to what Dr.Stukel [the U of I's new president] says he'dlike to do."

What she found was that in some of theless-populated parts of the state, only twoor three people would need a particularcourse, far fewer than the required 10. "Theyneeded their graduate courses, but theycouldn't quit their jobs, and for some of them,a trip to a campus would mean a 150- or200-mile round trip."

That's when she started pushing to offergraduate courses via teleconferencing, atechnology the agricultural extension servicehad been using for years to offer courses tofarmers. With her pushing, along with helpfrom the Cooperative Extension Service,teleconferencing for graduate courses becamea reality in the late 1970s.

"This was a two-way communication viatelephone," she explains. "All the studentswould attend a first meeting on campus tomeet their professors, but then they couldparticipate from their county cooperativeextension office for the rest of the course.At the end, they would come back to takeexams or give presentations, and then theywould get their college credit. This made itpossible for many students to completetheir master's degrees without having togive up their jobs."

Dr. Diller retired in 1987. "It was such abusy occupation that I didn't have a lot oftime to get into trouble," she chuckles, "butit did involve an awful lot of driving!"

What made her decide to create an endow-ment fund for the University Library?"Departments may change and end, butthe University Library keeps going on," sheexplains. "It's one of the most crucial thingsfor a university to have, and I think we haveone of the best in the country. I'll bet not onein 100,000 people in the state knows what atreasure this library is."

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Donation Provides UniqueGlimpse into Career ofTurn-of-the Century Journalist

A recent donation of materials from the1892 World's Columbian Exposition is pro-viding a unique look at the career of one ofthe founding journalists of the ChristianScience Monitor.

The journalist was John J. Flinn (1851-1929), one of the three men summoned toBoston by Christian Science founder MaryBaker Eddy to start the newspaper in 1903.At the time, Flinn was a well-knownChicago newspaperman, a career that iswell-documented, but few reference booksnote that Flinn also had an active publish-ing career in Chicago for nearly a decade.

A recent donation from Flinn's grand-son, John J. Roche, Sr., of Willmette, Illi-nois, has filled the gap. Among the itemsdonated by Mr. Roche are several copies ofFlinn's Official Guide to the World'sColumbian Exposition in the City of Chicago,including one certified as the "first off thepress" of Flinn's own publishing firm ofthe Standard Guide Co.; several copies ofthe guide with hotel advertising covers;guides to highlights of the fair; openingday certificates from the fair; an approvalcopy of Flinn's The Hand-Book of ChicagoBiography, along with a sample bindingportfolio; and a large-folio set of World'sColumbian Exposition lithographs.

"Flinn's guides were not the only guidespublished for the fair, but they were cer-tainly one of the more popular ones," saysIllinois Historical Survey Head John Hoff-mann. "The guidebooks with hotel adver-tising are particularly unusual, since theseblue pages with the hotel information wereusually loose until they were glued ontothe title page of the guides."

Says Mr. Roche, "My grandfather usedto take these guidebooks down onto thefairgrounds and sell them himself."

Flinn's Chicago career actually began in1876, when he became one of the first edi-torial writers for the then-new Daily News.He later became a managing editor of theChicago Mail and Chicago Times.

In the late 1880s, however, he turned hishand to publishing, founding the firm ofFlinn & Sheppard and the Standard GuideCo. Among the books he wrote and pub-lished were History of the Chicago Police(1887) which, according to Professor Hoff-mann, provides a pro-police view of theHaymarket Riot, and the Hand-Book ofChicago Biography (1893).

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John J. Flinn, ca. 1893.

explains Professor Hoffmann. "Then thesubjects could change the entries beforethe final printing and choose the kind ofbinding they wanted on their own copy.

"The promotional copy of the Hand-Bookof Chicago Biography in this donation isinteresting in that it contains a biographyof George Pullman, written before thegreat Pullman strike of 1893; when thehandbook was finally published, however,the entry was deleted. The entry Flinnwrote in this copy about Robert Allertonalso was changed before final printing,probably at Allerton's request."

By 1898, Flinn returned to the newspa-per world, becoming an editorial writer forthe Chicago Inter-Ocean from 1898 until hismove to Boston and the Christian ScienceMonitor in 1903. "They sent him a telegramoffering him $82.50 a week plus movingexpenses," says Mr. Roche. Flinn stayedwith the paper until 1919.

The nearly eighty items in this newcollection were donated by Mr. Roche inhonor and memory of members of his fam-ily who have attended the University ofIllinois: Adealide T. Roche Cox ('26),Daniel W. Roche, Jr. (attended, '32); Patri-cia Ann Roche Delaney ('41); Charles M.Roche (attended, '61); John J. Roche, Jr.(attended, '67); and Robert N. Roche(attended, '70).

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Library Friends ThanksThose Donating for Fifteenor More Years to AnnualFunds Programs

Library Friends wishes to thank the morethan 140 Friends who have donated contin-uously to Library Friends for the past fifteenyears. Many of you have supported theLibrary since Library Friends began in 1972.We sincerely thank all of you for your gen-erosity.

Walter Allen; Stephen and Cynthia Ander-ton; Julia Armistead; Walter and CharlotteArnstein; Allen and Elaine Avner; JamesBallowe; Lois Bamber; Bertha Jean Berger;Ruth Berkson; Robert Blissard; F LowellBowton; Timothy Brabets; Katherine BroseDennis and Kathleen Buetow; ChristineBurgess; Donald and Jean Burkholder; Mr.and Mrs. Clyde Cantrell; Albert and Mar-guerite Carozzi; Martin and Claudia Cassell;Harvey and Marianna Tax Choldin; LynnCline; Richard Cohn, Jr. and Kathleen Cohn;Everett and Catherine Dade; Edward andAnn Davidson; Douglas De Long.

Ruth Field; Don and Sue Fischer; FlorenceFisher; Ralph and Ruth Fisher; Carl Forsberg;Robert and Renee Friedman; Robert Fuller;Henry and Eleanore Galant; Mr. and Mrs.Frank Gladney; Dorothy Glasby; James andLinda Gobberdiel; Jay Gore; Samuel Gove;Laurel Grotzinger

Winthrop and Sarah Gustafson; AlleanHale; Robert Hallowell; Allen and RuthHayman; Morris Hecker, Jr.; Ernst Helmreich;David Henry; Allan and Ruby Holaday;William and Annie Laurie Horsfall; Johnand Barbara Houseworth; George HowardIII and Sylvia Howard.

William Impens; Esther Ittner; John Jack-anicz; Alice Johnson; Arte and Gisela Johnson;Yasuto Kaihara; John and Phyllis Kalivoda;Catharine Kappauf; Robert and FlorenceKidder; John Kitch, Jr., and Betsy Kitch;Richard and Laurene Klensch; RuthKleymeyer; Martin Kopchak; Frank andLois Krandell; Ruth Labitzke; Wayne andLoretta LaFave; Martha Landis; Virginia Lee;Raymond and Jane Leuthold; Stanley andJoan Levy; John and Susan Lindsey; Davidand Dorothy Linowes; Robert Magill; MarionMayer; Marion McCaulley; Ralph andMelba McCoy; Dolores McCord Monaco;Robert and Stella Mosborg; Marilyn Myers;Winifred Norton; Robert and Mary O'Con-nor; Margaret Oldfather; E. Eugene andBetty Jo Oliver; Keith and Adrienne Pacheco;George and Sarah Patterson Pagels; Kennethand Shirley Perry; Harold and MargaretPoindexter; Eugene Prange.

Robert and Jane Rader; SelmaRichardson; Paul Riegel; Jay Riemer;

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Arthur Rippey, Jr.; Buren and Mary JaneRobbins; Arthur Robinson; Ronald Roselli;Mr. and Mrs. Warren Royer; Carolyn Rudorf;Carl and Rosalie Scheve; Donald Schneider;Dennis and Margaret Schuett; John Schu-maker; Paul and Gene Shaffer; James Sinclair;Linda Smith; Mary Alice Smith; Jack Stillingerand Nina Baym; Marjorie Moretz Stinespring;Philip Stoddard; Steven Stroh; CynthiaSwanson.

William and Gay Takakoshi; MelvinTecotzky; Raymond Telling; Florence Thomp-son; John and Jean Thompson; MargaretThompson; Arthur and Ruth Tiedemann;Atwell Turquette; Martin and Nelle Wagner;Harriet Wallace; Morton and Celia Weir;Michael West; D. Jerry and Karen White;Dorothy Willskey; Candace Wilmot; FrancesWoodrum; Jerrold and Carol Zar; Martinand Sophie Zeigler; Jerrold and Jackie Ziff.

City Planning andLandscape ArchitectureLibrary is 'Pretty Incredible'

When professors in urban and regionalplanning, landscape architecture, and archi-tecture decided a few years ago to immersetheir students in some real-life communityredevelopment projects in East St. Louis,Illinois, they had some pretty hefty infor-mation needs.

They needed information on land use,environmental planning, waste management,low-cost community housing and commu-nity services, demographics, historic preser-vation, and landscape design, to name a few.

Luckily for them, they were able to findall this, and much more, in one convenientlocation-the Library's City Planning andLandscape Architecture Library (CPLA).

Crammed into space it has occupied since1924, the CPLA library provides one of themost interdisciplinary collections on cam-pus. It serves not only the departments ofUrban and Regional Planning and Land-scape Architecture, but also a large numberof patrons in geography, civil engineering,political science, sociology, natural history,and architecture.

All of them are attracted to a collectionthat is recognized as the most comprehen-sive of its kind in the state and one of thebest in the nation.

"A lot of people think we are just aboutgardens and gardening, but we go waybeyond that," says the acting head of theunit, Priscilla Yu. "We also cover communitydevelopment and neighborhoods, ruraland urban development, site design, land-scape construction, housing, environmentalplanning and law, land-use policy, ecology,third-world planning issues, futuristics-the list goes on and on."

One of the reasons for its strength is thatthe collection began with the very foundingof the university.

By 1903, the collection was large enough tohave its own "seminar room." By 1916, therewas already an unusually strong collectionof early landscape books, an exhaustive col-lection of newer ones, and an excellent arrayof periodicals, lantern slides, and pamphlets.

After Charles M. Robinson joined the fac-ulty in 1913 to teach civic design (the firstprofessor of city planning in the country),the Library began to acquire an impressivecollection of early materials related to thenew field of city planning as well. By thetime the "seminar" collection moved to itscurrent quarters in Mumford Hall in 1924,it had amassed some 4,000 volumes anddozens of cases of slides, photographs, andpamphlets.

Today, the CPLA Library's amount ofspace in Mumford Hall remains unchanged,but its collection has grown to over 120,000volumes, only 20,000 of which can be keptin the Mumford Hall location (the rest are inthe bookstacks). But that hasn't dampenedits patrons' enthusiasm for the collection inthe least.

"I've been on several accreditation visitsto other departments of urban and regionalplanning, and it's not too difficultto discern that we havea pretty incrediblelibrary," says

lecting city planningmaterials since about1900, whereas most other places onlystarted in the 1960s. And we have done amuch better job of collecting comprehensiveplans, professional reports, and unconven-tional materials over the years."

How important is that to faculty and stu-dents? "When we decided to undertake ourprojects in East St. Louis, I found the Libraryhad a 1919 plan for East St. Louis done byHarlan Bartholomew," says Professor Hopkins."And when I teach my course on planninghistory, I can tell students to find historicaldocuments and know they'll be able findthem here."

The fact that the City Planning and Land-

scape Architecture Library is not part of alarger architecture library also has added toits collection strengths.

"What that means is that our library canessentially be in competition with otherlibraries to create the best research environ-ment and collection possible," says the headof the Department of Landscape Architecture,Vincent Bellefiore, "and we really get thebenefits of that."

That's meant a collection that covers notjust the American urban and landscape ex-perience, but also the experience in Europe,Africa, Asia, and Australia.

And it's not just U of I faculty andstudents who reap the rewards of such atremendous scope.

"We were facing the issue of placing a newhigh school way out in the outskirts of Tal-lahassee, and we needed to find out if therewere other instances in which placement ofa large school, like a high school, could beshown to be followed by development,"comments librarian Ann Bruce at the Talla-hassee-based biological research stationTall Timbers.

"... You have a library with a nationalreputation in the area of planning, so I

called just on the off chancethat you had someone who

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Proposed city plan from Garden Cities of To-Morrow(1857),by A.J. Downey, from The City Planning and LandscapeArchitecture Collection.

library was very helpful and recommendedsome bibliographies in the area of planningthat I was not aware of."

Unfortunately, the City Planning and Land-scape Architecture Library has been hit par-ticularly hard by budget cuts over the pastdecade, making it difficult to maintain as com-prehensive a collection as its patrons need. Itsbudget for both books and serials has beenseriously cut, and only this year did the unitmanage to acquire its first CD-ROM drive.

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"This is a real problem," says ProfessorHopkins, "because a lot of academic booksdon't stay in print very long, and a lot ofreports and professional documents areonly available for a short time. I know, forinstance, that that 1919 planning documentfrom East St. Louis wasn't available in 1920."

I Eleven Join Ranks ofHighest Donors

Eleven Library Friends have joined theranks of the Friends' highest donors. Becom-ing members of the University Librarian'sCouncil are Kenneth S. Brunsman, John R.Gregg, Jr., Fred E Guyton, Jr., Robert M. Jones,Richard L. Lunde, Michael D. Schrage,Robert E. Simpson, Wilfred O. Taff, VirginiaZucks Uhlenhop, Cynthia L. White, andJohn C. White.

Also becoming Life Members are WilfredO. Taff, Virginia Zucks Uhlenhop, CynthiaL. White, and John C. White.

Friends become members of the Univer-sity Librarian's Council by donating $5,000or more within a five-year period. Friendsbecome Life Members by donating at least$3,000 within a twelve-month period.

I The Library is Looking For...Funds to purchase Carta circular y pastoral,que el...Seiior D. Fr. Joseph Antonio de S.Alberto, arzbisiopo de la Plata ... for theLatin American Library Services Unit. Thisis the original 1788 edition published by thepress of Nifios Expositos in Buenos Aires.Cost is $875.

$1,000 to purchase a five-disk CD-ROMdrive for the Labor and Industrial RelationsLibrary. This unit has CDs of OSHA regula-tions and labor statistics, and will be receivinga major labor looseleaf service on CD-ROMsoon, all of which it has no room to load onits two single CD-ROM drives.

$385 to purchase World Guide to Librariesfor the Library and Information ScienceLibrary. The new edition of this essentialreference work was just published inOctober 1995.

Funds to purchase Fenaroli's Handbookof Flavor Ingredients (3rd ed.) for the HomeEconomics Library. The unit's 1975 editionof this important, two-volume reference workis woefully out of date, making acquisitionof the 1994 edition essential. Cost is $395.

$175 to purchase the new edition of theTimes Atlas of the World for the PhysicsLibrary. The unit's copy, which is 20 yearsold, is heavily used. Also the unit needs$199.95 to purchase the 1995 edition ofVan Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia.

$995 to purchase a visual display file forthe Mathematics Library. Patrons heavilyuse this unit's lists of journal title abbrevia-tions listed in the way people, not computers,remember them. Because of heavy use, thecurrent display file needs replacement.

To donate any of the items mentionedabove, please contact Sharon Kitzmiller,associate director of development, at 227Library, 1408 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL61801, or telephone (217)333-5683.

From the UniversityLibrarianThe University Library has been very luckyover the years that it has not sufferedextensive losses or damage to its collec-tions. This is primarily due to the fact thatthe majority of our collections are in closedstacks, to which only faculty, graduatestudents, and others by special permissionhave access. It is also due to the fact thatthere is such a strong culture of support forthe Library on our campus, which resultsin a lot of voluntary compliance withLibrary rules and regulations.

Having said that, we must acknowledgethat we now live in a time when we cannotcontinue to rely completely on voluntarycompliance and closed stacks. As our collec-tions have grown, more and more materialshave become available in open stacks in thevarious departmental libraries simply becausethere is no room in the main stacks to receivematerials routinely from the departmentallibraries.

Since 1992-93, the Library began toemploy a small security staff on eveningsand weekends, primarily to give greaterassurance to persons using the Library dur-ing those hours. We also began installing anumber of electronic security systems indepartmental libraries to protect materials.

However, the main library building posesspecial kinds of problems in that there arefive unattended entrances and exits. Ofspecial concern is the north-south corridorbetween Gregory Drive and Armory Street,which is a major access route between thecentral campus and the south campus.

Therefore, after considerable study, theUniversity Library has concluded that it willneed to bar-code its entire collection in orderto utilize electronic security systems moreextensively, and that it must place securitygates on the north-south corridor throughthe main library building. This will not impedetraffic on those corridors, but it will protectmaterials.

The Library also plans to install an elec-tronic security gate at the east entrance tothe Library, supplemental security at theentrance to the Undergraduate Library,which can also be used to enter and exit themain library building, and security in thebasement area. Additional plans call forclosing the north-south corridor doors after6 p.m. and on weekends. By directing alltraffic through the east entrance duringevenings and weekends, Library patronswill be traveling through well-lighted andheavily trafficked areas. The Library plansto begin implementing these measureswithin the next year.

All of these steps are intended as preven-tive measures, as we have experienced nomajor incidences of either major thefts orharm to Library users. It is the responsibilityof the University Library to assure its usersthat materials will be available when theyare not charged out to individuals, and toprovide an environment where users canfeel safe to move freely among the variouscollections in the Library. The Universityexpects and deserves no less.

-Robert Wedgeworth

The 1995-96 Library Friends Board held its first meeting September 6, 1995. They are (front, from left): Robert Wedgeworth,Robert Blissard, Michael Murphy, Richard Burkhardt, Jr., Bruce Michelson. (Rear, from left): Larry Neal, Vicki Trimble, MaryLou Meader, Judith Liebman, Stanley Levy, Mary Kay Peer, John Nordheden, Sharon Kitzmiller, Loren Nevling, May Berenbaum,Donald Burkholder, Craig Hays. Not pictured: Janet Bial, Richard Cogdal, Ralph Fisher, Joan M. Hood, E. Phillips Knox, Jeff Unger.

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Illustration of Inuit natives from the 1824 Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlanticto the Pacific... Under the Orders of Captain William Edward Parry, one of the items available for auction.

I Donors Respond to"Library is Looking For..."

When librarians need to purchase a neededitem that is beyond their budget, they knowthey can rely on Friendscript's "The Libraryis Looking For..." column to search for adonor.

Over the past year, you, our readers, havecome through once again. A request fromthe Labor and Industrial Relations Libraryin the Spring 1994 issue for DOS 6.0 to makethe unit's public CD-ROM terminal moreefficient resulted in a donation from District#7 of the International Union of Electriciansin memory of their past president, David J.Fitzmaurice. The unit also received a responseto its request for a legal-size filing cabinet tohouse its collection of collective bargainingagreements; Vernon Lewis donated the cabi-nets, also in memory of David J. Fitzmaurice.

The spring issue also contained a requestfrom the Biology Library for the Encyclope-dia of Virology. Lois Riffle Bamber donatedthe work in memory of her husband, Lyle.

In the Summer 1994 issue, the MusicLibrary requested a donation to purchaseJohann Strauss, the Younger: Complete Orches-tra Music. Carl L. Rollinson fulfilled therequest. Robert Joyce answered the Rare Bookand Special Collections Library's request forfunds to purchase a computer desk wideenough to accommodate the unit's oftenoversized rare books. Martha Catlett donatedfunds for the Agriculture Library's desiredEncyclopedia of Agricultural Science, andJames Comer donated funds for the EnglishLibrary's request, The Complete Works of JaneAusten, The Riverside Chaucer, and The PoeticalWorks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in electronicformat.

The summer issue's request from the Com-merce Library for Ward's Business Directoryof U.S. Private and Public Companies resultedin two donation offers. Betty Ann Knight wasthe first to offer, and so provided funds forthe directory. Hugh Frey graciously agreedto help with purchase of an alternate title, athree-year subscription to Mutual FundsOnDisc.

The University Archives's request in theFall 1994 Friendscript for a CD/cassette playerfor use with its growing collections in theseformats resulted in the donation of a CD/cas-sette player from Jeffrey Fender. Also, RobertM. Joyce donated funds for the ChemistryLibrary's request of Organic-Chemical Drugsand their Synonyms, 7th revised edition.

Also from the Fall issue, John R. Gregg, Jr.,responded to two requests with donationsin memory of David Kinley, president ofthe university from 1920 to 1930. The firstwas Chung-kuo cheng fu chi lou ming lu (Direc-tory of Chinese Government Organizations) forthe Asian Library; the second was a com-pact disc storage cabinet for the Map antcGeography Library's new 3,600 CD set ofthe entire orthophotoquad series for theUnited States.

The Winter 1994-95 issue featured arequest from the Reference Library for Chron-ologies of World History; Atwell Turquettedonated funds for this item in memory ofhis wife, Maxine Turquette. And the Refer-ence Library's request for the Third Editionof Contemporary Photographers found a donorin Dr. William W. Lovett, Jr., and Arline K.Lovett.

Our thanks go to all these generousFriends. Donations like these help theLibrary maintain its position as one of thenation's preeminent research institutions.

The Great LibraryAuction is Coming!

Attention all bibliophiles-mark your cal-endars for March 30, 1996. That's the datefor the Library's first-ever book auction.

Available for bidding will be 375 lots ofapproximately 600 books in virtually everyfield of interest, particularly literature, travel/exploration, and Americana.

The books, according to the Library'sVincent Golden, all have been donated tothe Library over the years but never addedto the collection because the Library alreadyhad enough copies, even of first editions.

"Some of these books are special printings,some are first editions, and some are justdarned interesting," says Mr. Golden, theLibrary's custodian of donated books whocame up with the idea.

"My favorite oddball is Ten Nights in aBarroom and What I Saw There, by TimothyShay Arthur. It's an 1864 edition of an incred-ibly popular temperance book that containslurid, sensational tales that were toleratedby the clergy because there are morally uplift-ing scenes, too. The only book that ever out-sold it at the time was Uncle Tom's Cabin-afirst edition of which, by the way, will alsobe in the sale."

Although most books in the auction arefrom the nineteenth century, the items datefrom 1732 (Samuel Butler's Hudibras, withengravings by William Hogarth) to 1967 (abeautiful partial facsimile of a twelfth-cen-tury illuminated manuscript). Prices willrange from $10 to $1,000. "There's somethingaffordable for everybody," says Mr. Golden,"and I deliberately selected some books thatwould interest the general public, not justbook dealers."

The auction catalog will be available theend of January 1996, by request only.

Library Friends will receive a letter inearly January reminding them of the auction,but you don't have to wait until then to tell usof your interest.

If you would like to be among the first topurchase a catalog, write, call, or e-mail theLibrary Office of Development and PublicAffairs now to reserve your copy. Our addressis 227 Library, 1408 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana,IL, 61801; or call (217) 333-5683.

Inuit native from the 1824 Journal of a Second Voyage forthe Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic tothe Pacific... Under the Orders of Captain William EdwardParry.

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I CalendarEXHIBITS

November

"Scholarly Treasures of the UniversityLibrary." Krannert Art Museum

"John Philip Sousa." Rare Book and SpecialCollections Library

"History of the State Water Survey." MuellerExhibit Case, East Foyer

"Latin America in the World Economy."Main Corridor

"Change of Focus: The Development of Cinema from 1895 to the Present." Main Corridol

"Military Land Grants, Famous Names, andPartisan Politics, 1780s to 1840s: The RichardClough Anderson Collection." IllinoisHistorical Survey

"Centennial of the Political Science Depart-ment." University Archives

December

"Scholarly Treasures of the UniversityLibrary." Krannert Art Museum

"John Philip Sousa." Rare Book and SpecialCollections Library

"Military Land Grants, Famous Names, andPartisan Politics, 1780s to 1840s: The RichardClough Anderson Collection." IllinoisHistorical Survey

"Centennial of the Political ScienceDepartment." University Archives

"Change of Focus: The Development of Cin-ema from 1895 to the Present." Main Corridor

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"Military Land Grants, Famous Names,and Partisan Politics, 1780s to 1840s: TheRichard Clough Anderson Collection."Illinois Historical Survey

"Milestones in Illini Student Publishing."University Archives

I Library Friends BoardJudith Liebman, President, May Berenbaum, JanetBial, Robert Blissard, Richard Burkhardt, Jr., DonaldBurkholder, Richard Cogdal, Ralph Fisher, CraigHays, Stanley Levy, Mary Lou Meader, BruceMichelson, Michael Murphy, Lorin Nevling, JohnNordheden, Mary Kay Peer. Ex-officio: Joan Hood,Sharon Kitzmiller, Vicki Trimble, Jeff Unger, RobertWedgeworth, E. Phillips Knox, Past President

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