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I Challenge Grant FundsProvide Nearly $200,000for Library Programs

Interest income generated byendowment funds established aspart of the Library's $4 million NEHChallenge Grant program has proviimore than $73,000 for expenditures1992 and nearly $120,000 in 1993 forlibrary programs.

This amount represents five per-cent of the interest generated byChallenge Grant endowment fundsduring the past two years.

Among the subject areas bene-fittfrom the funds were Afro-Americananthropology, architecture, art, Asiarstudies, classics, documents, educaticEnglish literature, gay studies, LatinAmericana, music, reference, Spanisliterature, and women's studies.

Purchases ranged from importantvolume works, such as the TennysoiArchive and Deutsches WorterbuchJacob Grimm, to major microfilm anROM acquisitions, such as Records <Southern Plantations...Series H andto American Periodicals, 18th and 11centuries.

Challenge grant funds also were ito purchase and provide archival pring for rare Spanish civil war items,environmental monitoring equipmethe bookstacks, and for other preseiand access needs.

"These challenge grant funds giv<opportunity to buy expensive itemsare far beyond what our normal bu(would allow-items that neverthele

critical to our existence as a researchlibrary," says William Brockman, head ofthe English Library.

The "hechisero-caspi," or witch-tree, from thefacsimile edition ofthe 18th-centuryTrujillo del Peru,purchased withChallengeGrant funds in1993.

Adds Rosemary Stevenson, head of theAfro-Americana Bibliographic Unit, "One

of the biggest areas of need for mycollection has always been access to

ands for big microfiche collections,ich are absolutely essential as resourceshe fields our faculty and students areorking in. The challenge grant fundsare one of my major funding sources,

and without them we could not havepurchased some of our mostimportant sets."

Funding comes from more thanjust the endowment created with

the many individual donations plusNEH's $1 million matching amount.ing the Challenge Grant fundraisingod, several donors responded to thelenge by donating $10,000 or more tote individually named endowmentds, all of which are considered part ofLibrary's Challenge Grant program.mong the individually namedllenge Grant funds tapped over thet two years were the George F anda Brown Titus Library Endowmentd, Cordelia Reed Library Endowmentd, George and Sarah Patterson Pagelsrary Endowment Fund, and the Irmaice Olson Library Endowment Fund.Sthe coming years, these and the otherds established during the NEH cam-;n will be providing even more incomehe individual funds come of age.hallenge grant funds are allocated byns of an internal Library-wide grant-posal process. Of the 82 proposalsmitted over the past two years, totallingre than $264,000, only 56 were funded.

I Library Receives LargeFine Press Book Collectionand Endowment

The Library has received a large andbeautiful collection of fine press books, aswell as a $50,000 endowment to supportthe collection, from the estate of alumna(Mary) Jane Wilson ('46).

The collection focuses primarily on finepress printers from the San Francisco Bayarea, most notably Adrian Wilson. It alsoincludes other well-known fine-pressprinters, a long run of newsletters from theBook Club of California, printingephemera, and a book printed in 1892 by theKelmscott Press of William Morris, theoriginator of modern fine press printing.

"This is considered by experts to be one ofthe best collections around of the San Franciscoprinters," says Nancy Romero, head of theRare Book and Special Collections Library."Our own collection is fairly representativeand includes many of the very small presses,but we never had too much representationfrom this area. So, this is a very importantaddition for us."

Ms. Wilson was a librarian whose careerwas spent primarily at the Asia Foundationin San Francisco (1951-67), the Universityof Illinois Chicago Medical Center (1969-71),Roosevelt University (1971-74) and the Amer-ican Library Association (ALA) (1976-81).She wwrote several articles about fine pressprinting and was a longtime member of theBook Club of California and other biblio-phile clubs in the San Francisco area.

She also was a longtime devotee of opera,volunteering for the San Francisco OperaGuild, contributing to the Merola Fund foryoung opera singers, and traveling frequentlyto Europe for special opera performances.

"Jane Wilson had an infectious, positivepersonality," remembers University LibrarianRobert Wedgeworth, who hired Ms. Wilsonas the ALA's international relations officerwhile he was the organization's executivedirector. "She was always interested ininternational librarianship. It was she whohelped rebuild the ALA's internationalrelations program, which had its heyday inthe '50s and early 60's and then went intosubsequent decline. She accomplished a lotof exciting things."

International librarianship was not heronly interest, however. While a younglibrarian in San Francisco in the '50s, shedeveloped a passion for fine press printingand became a good friend of well-knownfine press printer Adrian Wilson.

Wilson, who has produced many limitededitions for the Book Club of California, isa scholar of fine printing and is himselfconsidered to be one of the most importantof the California fine printers.

"I think it was through Adrian Wilsonthat she became interested in these books,"remarks Mary Sandner, one of Ms. Wilson's

"The Devout Tightwad and the Isfahan Columbian,"woodcut by James Lamar Weygand. From the new JaneWilson San Francisco Bay Area Fine Press Collection.

closest friends. "His wife Joyce had been mychildren's nursery school teacher, so I hadknown them for years and years. And shemay have met him also through theRoxburghe Club. It was he who taughther about books."

According to another longtime friend,Dorothy Whitnah, Ms. Wilson's decision todonate her book collection to the Library'sRare Book and Special Collections Librarywas made with great deliberation.

"She thought about the Bancroft Libraryat Berkeley, but she knew they already hadthe Book Club of California books and acollection of other local printers," explains Ms.Whitnah. "She wanted her books to go wherethey would be taken care of and used, andshe went to considerable effort to ascertainthat her collection would not result in muchduplication."

Ms. Wilson's choice of the U of I Libraryturned out to be perfect. Despite its goodcollection of fine press books, the Libraryhad to cancel its membership with the BookClub of California, which sponsors finepress books, because of budget cutbacks in1987.

Books from the club, particularly thoseproduced by Adrian Wilson's Press in TuscanyAlley, are amply represented in the newJane Wilson collection, as well as a long runof the club's newsletter.

However, according to retired U of Iprofessor of art and design Doyle Moore,himself a fine press printer, the collection

also includes examples from most of theimportant periods of fine printing since thelate 1800s. As such, it will provide a meansfor students of the art form to trace theinfluences printers had on each other.

Among the printers represented in thecollection, besides Adrian Wilson, are JohnHenry Nash, Ward Ritchie,Jane Grabhorn,Robert Grabhom and Andrew Hoyem, andSaul Marks.

The collection also includes severalexamples of "bibliophile curiosities," suchas little hand-printed give-away books likethe 1986 For the Friends of the Brick RowBookshop. There are also several boxes ofprinted ephemera and even some printer'splates.

"Most of these books are historical reprintswith little essays or stories in the front aboutthe historic precedents, so they are mostlyof bibliophile interest" explains ProfessorMoore. "So, the interest is not in actuallyreading the books, but in the book as anobject, as an example of the printer's art.It's something for other printers to enjoy,and for bibliophiles to thrill to them."

Eleven Friends Join HighestDonor Groups

Eleven Library Friends have joined theUniversity Librarian's Council since the fallof 1993. They are Arnold W. Thompson,William W. Lovett, Paul E. Gantzert, ArteJohnson, the estate of Marian T. Estep, theestate of Paul B. Dusenberry, Vicki L.Howie, Arnold Kiburz III, CharlesMarshall, Millicent Bruner Marshall, andthe estate of Mary Jane Wilson.

Four of them also have become LifeMembers: Vicki L. Howie, Arte Johnson,Charles Marshall, and Millicent BrunerMarshall.

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

from Jane Grabhom's typographic laboratory

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Title page of Jane Grabhorn's A Typographic Discourse forthe Distaff Side of Printing, a book by ladies, from the JaneWilson San Francisco Bay Area Fine Press Collection.

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I Mortenson DirectorVisits Albania

One of the most important legacies ofthe framers of the U.S. Constitution wastheir conviction that democracy cannotsurvive without an informed, literatecitizenry. Yet even today, the United Statesstruggles with the natural human urge tocensor.

That was the message the director of theLibrary's Mortenson Center for InternationalLibrary Programs, Marianna Tax Choldin,delivered to a seminar of seventy-fiveAlbanian librarians last December inTirana, Albania.

The seminar, sponsored by the U.S.-based Soros Foundation, also featured talksby Aleksandra Horvath, a professor oflibrarianship from Zagreb, on education oflibrarians, and a talk by Bohdana Stoklasovaand Martin Svoboda, librarians from theNational Library in Prague, about libraryautomation.

The subjects addressed at the seminar arejust the latest signs that Albania, a countrythat had been closed to nearly all foreigncontact for nearly forty-five years, haddefinitely moved away from the ultra-orthodox Communism of its former ruler,Enver Hoxha.

Professor Choldin's talk covered not onlyissues of censorship, but also the Americanconcept of free access to information.

It's a subject she is well qualified to discusssince her area of expertise is censorship inRussia and the former Soviet Union. "Nooutsider can really understand what it islike to live under Communism, especiallythe really virulent Albanian variety," saysProfessor Choldin, "but I probably come asclose as a foreigner could from studyingcensorship for more than twenty years."

That's why she chose to begin her talkwith a discussion of the history of the FirstAmendment in the United States. "I read itthrough to them and explained that it is soimportant to our society that we almosttake this freedom for granted," sheremarks. "It's almost part of our folkloreand mythology-part of how we seeourselves.

"Yet this freedom is constantly undersiege, with one interest group pitted againstanother all the time. In other words, peoplein our country accept free speech in ageneral way, but most are willing tosacrifice it for what they think is right. It'sremarkable that we have been able tomaintain it over a period of time despitewhat seems to be a human instict to censor.The fact that even in our democracy weseem to have this problem sort of tookthem aback, I think."

In discussing the American commitmentto free access to information, ProfessorCholdin pointed out that nearly everythingan American library does is geared to this

concept, whether it's the ease of obtaining alibrary card or the arrangement of tablesand chairs within a room.

"This, of course, means that there is a lotlibrarians in Albania can do to improveaccess without costing them a lot," she notes."Maybe it's just a matter of more furnitureor a stronger light bulb, although thatbrought a laugh since they have almost nolight bulbs right now.

"I gave them the example of our ownUniversity Library, which many years agohad an elevated reference desk, which usersfound very intimidating. When the decisionwas made to lower that desk to normal floorlevel, there was a great change in attitude,not only with the users, but with our ownlibrarians. Why, just getting people to smileis worth a tremendous amount."

The reaction from librarians used to forty-five years of the most orthodox Communistregime in the world? "Many librarians areonly now beginning to think about how toimprove access, and here I was able to behelpful, I think, by suggesting a number ofways to open up the libraries and provideservice to users without new funds."

"But just like in our own country, it's acase of those who see the glass half-full orthe glass half-empty. There was one verysharp young man who puts up exhibits athis library as often as he can, brings in thelocal press to publicize them, and promoteshis library as much as he can despite theenormous constraints of money and space.Then there are the types with the typicalCommunist attitude of 'If you don't giveme any money, I can't do anything.'"

During her week in Albania, ProfessorCholdin also traveled around the country tovisit several Albanian libraries.

"All the libraries I visited showed theeffects of the country's history since 1945,"she reports. "The legacy of Communism isevident in the heavily ideological tilt to thecollections, and the extreme isolationimposed by Enver Hoxha, which resulted

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A librarian from the Berat Public Library in Albania surveysa mountain of publications deemed too idealogical to save.

in a peculiar collection profile, to say theleast! It is estimated that about 40% of allcollections are Soviet publications on allsubjects, there are very limited collectionsfrom Western countries, and Albanianpublications had to be so politicized thatmany are deemed worthless now.

"At some point (or maybe more thanonce) libraries were forbidden to acquireforeign materials. The director of theAgricultural University Library told methat they were not able to receive anyforeign publications in their main fieldsafter 1975. I had a similar conversationwith the director of the Library for PhysicalCulture and Sport. They would gladly offerus Albanian publications in exchange, butat the moment they haven't any paper."

Although Professor Choldin had nevervisited Albania before, she was not amongstrangers. Her guide for the week was 1992Mortenson Fellow Lindita Bubsi of theAlbanian National Library. The seminar'sorganizer, Valdete Sala, as well as speakersAleksandra Horvath and Bohdana Stoklasova,also had visited the Library for a week twoyears ago, under the auspices of the Morten-son Center, as Library of Congress-SorosFoundation fellows.

I Quotables"Any library boasting eight million

volumes has to be impressive and a delightto researchers. When I did a book on earlyPluviculture (rain-making), the richness of19th century scientific and meteorologicalliterature among our library holdings bothdelighted and astounded me. When Iresearched the Salvation Army and itsAmerican farm colonies, I found our first-rate collection of farm journals in theAgriculture Library vital to what I wasdoing, and were beautifully complementedby our splendid stacks collections ofliterature on religion, early social welfaremovements and general colonizationattempts.

"More recently, when researching the golddredging industry in Alaska, I discoveredthat about ninety percent of the early, oftenrare Alaskan printed materials were righthere in our own library. During the courseof this project, when I sought a volume toexplain oil-burning engines in the pre-WorldWar I era, I found not one, but a whole shelfon the topic.

"For my purposes over the last 32 years,for half a dozen major research projectsfocusing on the late 19th and early 20thcenturies, this library has been nothing lessthan remarkable. It is indeed exceptional,especially for American history, as bothfaculty and graduate students here sooncome to realize."

-Clark C. SpenceProfessor Emeritus of HistoryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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I Library is Home to a NewMultimedia ComputerLaboratory

The Library is home to a new computingfacility designed to provide undergradu-ates with the ultimate in electronic access.

It's the new multimedia computerlaboratory, located next to the microcom-puter laboratory in the UndergraduateLibrary. Here students can do everythingfrom computerized class assignments toword processing to sending their complet-ed papers electronically to their professorsall from one computer station.

Inaugurated in September 1993, thelaboratory contains twenty IBM ValuePoint 486/33 MHZ machines with 12RAM, five IBM PS/2 Multimedia machineswith video adapter boards, CD-ROMs andlaser disc players, and a color LCDprojection screen for classroom instruction.

Funding for the laboratory came from theuniversity's Computing and CommunicationsServices Office (CCSO), which was lookingfor a high-profile site on campus for thiskind of facility."Most libraries provide onlyprint versions of books, magazines, andjournals," says the Undergraduate Library'smedia librarian Yaping Liu. "So, for a libraryto have multimedia is a challenge to ourentire profession!"

As the name implies, the multimedialaboratory is designed for more than justword processing. Here, students can usesoftware that combines text with graphicsand sound. For instance, a chemistry lessonon multimedia software might have the usualmultiple-choice questions, but it might alsoinclude video-like graphics and sound toshow what happens when a particularchemical is combined with another.

Students can even bring in their owncompact discs, plug in the lab's high-fidelityearphones, and listen to music, a conve-nience to music students who don't relishthe long walk from the central campus tothe Music Building.

The main purpose for the laboratory,however, is to provide faculty with theopportunity to create multimedia classinstruction packages. "There has beenoverwhelming interest from the faculty,including faculty from the social sciencesand humanities, in our multimediaworkshops," says Professor Liu."Fortunately, we have one of the bestscience and engineering departments in thecountry, so many of the professors alreadyare integrating this kind of courseware intotheir curriculum."

In fact, he says, the lab's morning hours,allotted solely to classroom use, are just aboutfull, and usage throughout the day is nearly75 percent.

And one of the first users has been theUndergraduate Library itself. "We like touse the laboratory for our online catalog

workshops," he says. "Before the multime-dia lab, we would have to send an entireclass of students to one of our publicterminals while we showed them what todo. Now we send them to the multimedialab, project the information on a screen,and let them do things themselves at theirown terminal. It works much better."

But Professor Liu has higher aspirationsthan that for Library-related multimediaofferings.

"Say you want to find a movie with aparticular actor in it, but you won't be sureof the actor's name until you see his face. Wecould have a database that would show notjust text, but also the actors' faces. We havethe technology to do this, so this is not far-fetched."

Unfortunately, some of Professor Liu'sbest ideas have run into problems becausebook-based notions of copyright have notkept up with the computer revolution.

"I tried to create a multimedia reference-service database, but I had to stop becauseof copyright problems," he laments. "Theproblem comes with full-text delivery, whereyou would see the full text on the screen.There is no clear-cut law covering suchthings as yet."

Still, Professor Liu says such multimediaapplications are the wave of the future, andsomething no library can afford to ignore.

Russian Folk OrchestraProvides Lively LibraryFriends Program

More than 250 Library Friends attendedan unusual Library Friends event April 8 -a concert by the U of I's nationally acclaimedRussian Folk Orchestra.

The orchestra, some forty membersstrong, regaled the audience with standards

like the "Peter the Great March" and"Saturday" as well as more modern works,including one written by the orchestra'sconductor, Victor Gorodinsky.

Much of the music used by the orchestracomes from the Music Library's Russianfolk music collections, including the morethan 13,000-item Walter KasuraCollection.

For most concert attendees, it wasprobably the first time, other than seeingthe film Dr. Zhivago, that they had heard(let alone seen) such an assemblage ofbalalaikas and domras, as well as othertraditional Russian instruments.

The orchestra, considered the largest ofits kind outside Russia, was founded in 1974by music professor John Garvey, who wascaptivated by the sounds of Russian folkmusic while touring Russia with his U of IJazz Band.

Over the years, the group has had thehelp of internationally known artists,including Walter Kasura, the long-timemusic director of the New York Balalaikaand Domra Society, Leonard Davis, whosebalalaika playing was featured in Dr. Zhivago,and Emanuil (Misha) Sheynkman.

Since Professor Garvey's retirement in1991, the orchestra has been conducted bythe Library's assistant Slavic librarian,Victor Gorodinsky. Before emigrating to theUnited States in 1982, Professor Gorodinskywas graduated from Moscow's GnessinInstitute, a leading conservatory specializ-ing in the study of folk music, and playedcontrabass balalaika with both the Osipovand All-Union Radio and Television FolkInstruments orchestras. He became assistantconductor of the U of I Russian FolkOrchestra in 1984.

After the concert, Friends attended areception and exhibit at the Music Library,featuring items from the unit's Russian folkmusic collections.

Victor Gorodinsky conducts the U of I Russian Folk Orchestra, at the Library Friends spring event on April 8.

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History LibraryProvides Everythinga Historian Needs

Here's a quiz to test your familiarity withthe University Library. Where in the Librarycan you find information on subjects asdiverse as the French Revolution, animalrights, military reforms of the late Ottomanempire, business ethics, Abraham Lincoln,and ancient Israel?

With such a seemingly unrelated list, youmight just plan to spend a few hourssearching through the bookstacks. On theother hand, you could make a stop at theone library unit that covers them all-theHistory and Philosophy Library.

"This unit covers at least 150 fields ofstudy in history, philosophy, and religion,"explains unit head Martha Friedman aboutthe unusual mix of subjects found in herlibrary, "and that's a conservative estimate!"

It's a daunting task, to say the least, tokeep up with such a broad mandate, butnearly 12,000 undergraduates enrolled inhistory, philosophy, and religion courses (notto the mention dozens of professors andgraduate students in many fields) dependon this unit for their studies.

"This is really a reference and biblio-graphic center," says Professor Friedman ofher cramped domain. "I want a student,whether undergraduate or graduate, to beable to come here and learn somethingabout virtually any topic in any field ofhistory or philosophy or religion.

"So, we have approximately 600 periodicaltitles here, a reference section, some basicgovernment documents, magazine indexes,bibliographies, and about 22,000 volumesall crammed into this little space. That's inaddition to about two million more volumesin the bookstacks."

It's not easy riding herd over this kind ofcollection, especially at a time when the verynotion of what constitutes "history" is beingquestioned.

"There's a great deal of disagreement onwhat constitutes history," says ProfessorFriedman. "I contend that if the treatmentof a subject is historical, if the author useshistorical methodology-even if it's notwritten by a historian-then it's history.And anything a historian needs I considerhistory-novels, poetry, whatever."

That's led to what some might considereclectic collecting. But as one scholar, Pro-fessor Emeritus of History Clark Spence,put it, "Our history collections are almostimpossible to describe...[but] I would beginby using such words as 'superb,' 'astonish-ing,' and 'remarkably rich.'"

"We do have one of the best collections ofAmerican history in the world," agreesProfessor Friedman. "It would be hard tothink of a topic in American history thatcouldn't be written using our collectionsalone. We have one of the best collectionson Irish history-some say better than anyin Ireland. Our Italian history collection isprobably the best in the western hemisphere.The Slavic and Latin American historycollections are just superb.

14 ICaricature of Irish novelist "George Birmingham" (pen name of Rev. James Owen Hannay), from V.L. O'Conner's A Book ofCaricatures (ca. 1918). A theater version of Hannay's novel Major John Regan (note chess figure, far left) caused a riot whenproduced in Hannay's parish of Westport (note jester, far right). From the History Library's James Collins Collection.

"As for British history, the collection is sobroad and deep it astonishes people. This isone of the most important libraries in thecountry for many fields of history."

The philosophy collection also isoutstanding, containing the collectedworks of all the major philosophers (and,according to Professor Friedman, some noone has ever heard of) as well as a verygood periodical collection.

But philosophy, perhaps even morethan history, has undergone a revolutionin what scholars are addressing, somethingthat is reflected in Professor Friedman'scollections.

"There has been a lot of attention focusedin the last ten years on what is called appliedethics, particularly medical ethics, businessethics, and the treatment of animals, all ofwhich are expressed in the society in whichwe live and work " she explains. "These arefascinating fields, and publications aboutthem are increasing by leaps and bounds."

The History and Philosophy Library alsois the home of the Library's Lincoln Room,a separate collection created in 1951 by Harlanand Henrietta C. Horner. Since 1965, anendowment bequeathed to the Library bythe Homers has continued to provide fundsfor this important collection.

"This is a good working collection of worksabout and by Lincoln and the issues hedealt with," says Professor Friedman. "Ishould note that this is not a Civil Warcollection except for Lincoln's direct role inthe war, and it is not a manuscript collec-tion. However, it is one of the best printcollections of Lincoln material in thecountry. In fact, the State Library in Spring-field often sends people here because wehave things in print that they don't have."

Over the years, Professor Friedman hasworked to make access to the Lincolnmaterials as easy as possible for users,including using a special classificationsystem for the collection ("The Deweysystem is not very good for large collectionson one person," she notes) and a recentlycompleted computerized database of some5,000 scholarly articles about Lincoln goingback to 1888. She and a colleague inSpringfield will shortly begin searching forfunds to create a new CD-ROM-basedbibliography of Lincolniana.

Her particular delight, however, remainsin seeing students-not just faculty-learnabout history from resources she hashelped gather and acquire.

"Not long ago, we used some NEHChallenge Grant funds to purchase somemicrofilmed government documents fromBrazil," she says. "Just recently I received aletter from one of our professors whowrites that his students are now usingthese materials. I like to hear that-it bringsyour work to a full circle, to see faculty useit and the students learning to read andinterpret history from that kind of docu-mentation."

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"0.G. Olympic Games] are a sport event & not a business confined to sportsmen & not for those who want to make money.Don't intend to allow 0.G. to advertise skis boots [sicl. If we tread on toes of those who are trying [to] make sport a business it'stheir fault." Note written by Avery Brundage as he prepared his unpublished autobiography. From the University Archives' AveryBrundage Collection.

I Archives CollectionShows Figure SkatingControversies Not New(The following article, by Julie Wurth, appearedin the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette onFebruary 9, 1994. Reprinted with permission.)

Two top figure skaters make headlines,caught in a controversy involving Olympiccompetition.

The year isn't 1994 but 1952. Canadianskater Barbara Ann Scott and French skaterJacqueline du Bief are debating whetherjudging in their sport is based on merit or"back-room deals."

Not exactly the same circumstances asthe Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan fiasco.

But it shows that pressure on figure-skatingchampions is nothing new, says U of IArchivist Maynard Brichford.

Brichford included the newspaper accountin an exhibit on the Winter Olympics ondisplay at the U of I Library.

The U of I Archives houses the completecollection of papers from the late AveryBrundage, a U of I alumnus and formerpresident of both the U.S. Olympic Comitteeand the International Olympic Committee.

Brichford hopes the exhibit will teachpeople about the history of the WinterOlympics, including its problems.

"We wanted to do something on theWinter Olympics, and also emphasize thatBrundage had his problems with the Win-ter Olympics," Brichford said. "The problemsare still around."

Brundage, who stepped down from theIOC in 1972, championed the amateur

athlete and "was adamantly opposed to thecommercialization, professionalization, andthe politicizatin of the Olympics," Brichfordsaid.

By the end of his term, Brundage waseven calling for discontinuing the WinterGames because they were highly commer-cialized.

It was during his term as IOC president-from 1952 to 1972-that television came todominate the Olympic Games, bringingwith it a demand for publicity and endorse-ments, Brichford said.

In an unpublished autobioeraohv. BrundageIn . .a r .. . . . .... .b o -- - , . . .. o

called the creation of the Winter Games "adeplorable mistake which has done muchto tarnish the Olympic image."

The first Winter Games-in 1924 atChamonix, France-were a "nice, cozy,friendly festival of snow and ice sports heldin a small mountain winter resort village,"Brundage wrote.

"By 1972, when the XI Olympic WinterGames were staged in Sapporo, there werefive times as many competitors and therewere more publicity personnel, journalists,TV, and radio men than competitors."

The Games had evolved into an enormousbusiness to furnish housing and equipmentfor the participants, he complained. Withendorsements and advertisements, athleteshad become "human billboards."

Commercialization of the Olympics datesback to figure skater Sonja Henie, who turnedher Olympic gold medals from 1928, 1932,and 1936 into real gold, Hollywood-style.She launched a 16-year movie career and"cashed in big time," Brichford said.

"There is more commercialization and

there is much more media attention today,"he added.

Brundage's successors have opened theOlympics to professional athletes and havebeen aggressive in marketing the Gamesthrough television.

Some athletes compete for endorsementsas much as medals. Television networksand corporate sponsors pay millions for therights to broadcast and market the Games.

The Harding-Kerrigan controversy hasbeen "a boon for CBS," which is broadcast-ing the Winter Olympics, said Brichford.

Professional athletes openly compete inbasketball, hockey, skating and other sports.With endorsements, scholarships orgovernment subsidies, it's virtuallyimpossible to determine who is a trueamateur, Brichford said.

Brundage fought against nationalisticaspects of the Games, too, saying theiroriginal intent was to downplay nationalrivalries and focus on individual athletes.He even wanted to cut out the flagceremonies and national anthems.

Despite problems through the years, there'sbeen nothing on the scale of the Harding-Kerrigan controversy, Brichford said.

"There's been a lot of disputes about whogets on the team. I can't recall any Americanbeing injured through the plotting of a fellowmember of the team," Brichford said. "Thisis a new wrinkle."

Brundage graduated from the U of I in1909 with a degree in civil engineering andbecame a Chicago engineer and businessman.He was the American decathalon championfrom 1916 to 1919.

"He's the only American who's ever beenpresident of the Olympic committee,"Brichford said."

Library Rates Highly withUndergraduates

Undergraduates at the U of I have goodthings to say about the Library, accordingto results of last year's exit survey ofgraduating seniors.

In a questionnaire asking outgoing 1993seniors to rate their satisfaction about morethan fifty areas of campus life and facilities,nearly three-quarters of respondents ratedthe Library highly. Another 21 percent ratedthe Library as good.

In open-ended questions, the Libraryranked third, behind excellence of facultyand facilities/resources, as an aspect ofcampus that was most helpful to thestudents' education.

"The library resources were most helpfulin my pursuit of an education at UIUC,"wrote one respondent from the College ofLiberal Arts and Sciences. "The smallerlibraries, i.e., history and geography,provided a good atmosphere where I couldstudy and do my homework undisturbed.

There were plenty of materials to aid mein my rsearch for term papers."

Noted another respondent, "The Libraryresources [are] better than any other library,including the Library of Congress!"

Some students, however, complained aboutlost books, short hours in the departmentallibraries, and poor and uncomfortablefacilities.

"We are very pleased with the overallrating of the Library, but at the same timewe continue to study the services we provideto undergraduates, graduate students, andfaculty," says University Librarian RobertWedgeworth. "Users will be encouraged totalk with us this spring as part of a studywe are conducting about user policies, reservepolicies, hours, and access for users withdisabilities."

Some changes in the Library's servicesare already being planned or are underway.In March, the Engineering Library movedto its new quarters in the Grainger Engineer-ing Information Center, a move that shouldrelieve some pressure on the main Libraryhbildlinc and the I Undercrradrnatf

Library, according to Mr. WedgewAnd planning is underway to

reorganize the location of departmlibraries within the main library bu"We plan to concentrate the units ssimilar disciplines are near each otsays Mr. Wedgeworth. "This shoulmore space for users."

Work on the reorganization is scto start this summer and will takethree years to complete.

From the UniversityLibrarian

I was recently at a meeting inWashington in which Librarianof Congress James Billingtonannounced that the first Libraryof Congress files placed on theInternet were already attracting6,000 computer log-ins daily frompatrons.

Dr. Billington is right to be prouof this accomplishment. It provideinteresting perspective on the dailthat our own Library receives frorpatrons with computer access. AtUIUC Library, we receive an avera150,000 log-ins every day-more tmillion every week-from patron!the globe. That's in addition to thethan 10,000 users per day who actenter our doors. These statistics clishow that our library is the most aused university library not just incountry, but in the world.

That's an accomplishment of w.T ._ - -.. . .L -._1--_ _--1 .. . .... J 1n .. . _T _-.

I am particularly proud. By policy

this is a library dedicated to service to any

and all researchers, regardless of whether

they are from the university community ornot. By policy, this library is also commit-ted to utilizing the most advanced tech-nologies possible in order to furtherenhance access to our collections and tofurther enhance our local users' access tocollections elsewhere.

This is not to say that the Library doesnot value its traditional roots in collection-building-these are aspects of librarianshipthat must and will remain strong andpreeminent. However, this is also a librarythat lives in the present. The recentemphasis on access and service to patronsshows what can happen in a library thesize of ours when the frontiers of librarian-ship are pushed to the limit with the use ofnew information technologies. Ourcollections, from rare books to the newestacquisitions, are not here just to storeaway-they are here for scholars to use.

-Robert Wedgeworth

The "quinde," from the facsimile edition of Trujillo delPeru, purchased with Challenge Grant funds in 1993.

I The Library is Looking For...$475 to purchase the latest edition of TheInformation Industry Directory for theLibrary and Information Science Library.This excellent directory lists anythingrelated to online information, databases,consultants, vendors, and the people whowork in the industry.

Funds to purchase Records of the Immigra-tion and Naturalization Service, Series A,Part 2: Mexican Immigration, 1906-1930for the Latin American Library ServicesUnit. This 17-reel microfilm set is especiallyvaluable for research in economics, labor,and the development of the Southwest.Cost is approximately $1,000.

$149 to purchase Digging for Slaves: TheExcavation of American Slave Sites, a videofrom Films for the Humanities and Sciences,for the Afro-Americana Bibliographic Unit.

Funds to purchase an upgrade to DOS 5.0fnr thp nublic nnline catalo in th e Labor

istrial Relations Library. Thewould significantly enhance theof the unit's CD-ROM database.i0.r the Labor and IndustrialLibrary, $250 to purchase a legal-cabinet to house the unit's ever-collection of collective bargainingts.

purchase two Conner 250 mega-mal parallel port tape backupsoftware for the Slavic and Eastopean Studies Library. These areeeded to provide secure andreliable backup for the new andlarger databases the unit iscreating for reference andacquisitions operations. Cost is$299 each, or $598 for both.

)0 to purchase Encyclopedia oflogy for the Biology Library. Thisue three-volume work is thegle reference source of current1 knowledge and is an essentialnformation.

any of the items mentioned above,tact Sharon Kitzmiller, the Library'snds development officer, at 227108 Gregory Drive, Urbana, ILelephone (217)333-5683.

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tcrint was Louis Sullivan'sTransportation Building, not the Peristyle.

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I CalendarEXHIBITS

May

"Commencement, 1894, 1919, 1944, 1969."University Archives

"Abraham Lincoln at the University ofIllinois." Rare Book and Special CollectionsLibrary

"Proust-Kolb Exhibit." Modem Languagesand Linguistics Library

June"D-Day, 1944." University Archives

"How Does Your Garden Grow?" RareBook and Special Collections Library

July

"Notable Acquisitions." Rare Book andSpecial Collections Library

"Avery Brundage and Douglas MacArthurin Nippon." University Archives

Library Friends BoardE. Phillips Knox, President, Elaine S.

Avner, Janet Bial, Richard B. Cogdal, PeterE Colwell, Ralph T. Fisher, Bernice H.Freeman, Susan Griffing, George Hendrick,Judith Liebman, Lorin I. Nevling, John A.Nordheden, Mary Kay Peer, Elizabeth P.Rogers, Elizabeth A. Sandage, Marvin G.Weinbaum; Ex-Officio, Robert Wedgeworth,Joan M. Hood, Sharon K. Kitzmiller, JeffUnger, Todd Barlow, Past President.

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