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SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY • VOLUME VI, NUMBER I,
SPRING
2004
School of sport:
Sherrod shares wisdom
Library provides secret haven
By Norman Wick, president, Faculty Senate
ach afternoon as soon as the bell rang at La Vega High School
in Waco, Texas, Tony Pederson headed to the newspaper
stand to spend a dime for the evening Dallas Times Herald. “I
wanted to see what Blackie Sherrod had to say,” says Pederson,
Belo professor and chair of SMU’s Department of Journalism.
Pederson, a former sportswriter and newspaper editor, is
among the generations of writers and readers influenced by Sherrod’s insight and humor as a sportswriter, columnist, and reporter
during his 60-year career.
Everyone needs a secret place. Growing up, my secret place was
inside a wooded area at the south end of the village park about a
block from home. It was at the top of the hill and, though there
were some paths in the vicinity, there were none to my domain, no
easy way to find my fort unless I was willing to show
you. The seclusion was completed by the presence
of a natural lannon-stone pit. There I could let my
imagination soar while lying back and looking up
through the tall trees.
The library comes the closest to being my secret
place now. Like that unique playland, it is physically near my office
but offers a haven of quietude. Unlike vacation spots or special
circumstances, you have to be able to go to your special place
often and it has to have a familiar and welcoming atmosphere. You
don’t own it, but you feel as though it’s “your” library and you
belong there. When you find something really interesting, the
same sense of wonder befalls you that might a child making a discovery.
One of our playgrounds is the record library in the basement of
the Hamon Arts Library. I remember once finding an LP recording
of a late Josquin motet – probably the only such recording ever
made of that work – in the John Rosenfeld collection. My joy was
reinforced because I no longer would need to sight-read the open
five-part vocal score on a percussive piano in the classroom.
I also experienced delight in checking out an old translation
of Hegel’s Logic, which I needed for an investigation of musical
aesthetics in 19th-century romanticism. When the person at the
circulation desk opened the back cover of my tome, it became
clear that the book had never circulated. It was another chance
to play in an unspoiled area of beauty and intrigue.
I went back to the village park last summer during a trip home.
My wife walked with me along the path by the side of the hill, and
I beckoned her toward the once-special quarters. Together we
beheld that, once again, a youngster had made the find, for in that
stone pit rested the leftover playthings of another child, and the
frozen memories of some of the happiest moments of my youth.
I hope that you have a secret place of your own. In the meantime, I know I can count on your support in making SMU’s various
libraries available to all who would dream and discover.
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The Blackie Sherrod Collection at DeGolyer Library includes
photographs, books, notes, and the typewriter Sherrod carried to
press boxes throughout the country.
Future generations will continue to enjoy Sherrod’s legacy
through his papers recently donated to DeGolyer Library. Items
continue to arrive at DeGolyer as Sherrod sifts through correspondence, books, and notes accumulated from his years at four
Texas newspapers. The 83-year-old journalist described himself as
a “Depression kid that saves everything,” in a recent Dallas Morning News column about his retirement.
Sherrod started his career at the Temple Daily Telegram, then
later worked at Fort Worth Press, Dallas Times Herald, and
finally the Morning News. He is best known for his sportswriting,
but he also excelled as a reporter, playing a pivotal role in the
Herald’s coverage of the John F. Kennedy assassination and the
1969 moon landing.
He left a lasting impact on sportswriting, Pederson says.
“The concept of sports journalism was changing in the 1960s
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Antidote for anxiety
because of television. The NFL was becoming a major television
sport just as sports were becoming part of the national culture.
His writing transcended sports and changed what was put into
sports columns.”
The collection includes hundreds of reporter’s notebooks containing his notes from events such as the 1989 World Series, the 1994
Kentucky Derby, and the 1988 Tyson-Spinks fight in Atlantic City. Part
of Sherrod’s 2,000-book personal library now lines the
shelves of DeGolyer and includes sports biographies,
NFL record books, NASCAR
media guides, and sports
encyclopedias, many out
of print.
The collection also
includes correspondence
with readers and sometimes
contrary communications
with editors. Radio scripts,
photographs with fellow
sports journalists at a 1964
Dallas Cowboys game, and
the compact Hermes typewriter he carried to press boxes throughout the country help round out the collection.
Sherrod is one of the most talented contemporary writers in
America, says Russell Martin, director of DeGolyer Library. “The
subject matter, sports, is a natural for us,” he says. “The whole
country, but especially our part of it, is obsessed with sports.
Blackie provides us with an important perspective on this national
obsession.”
Sports historians may find a market for their material at SMU
Press. In 2005 SMU Press will launch its sports history series,
says Keith Gregory, director. Paul Rogers, professor, Dedman
School of Law, will edit the series, which will focus on baseball
and Texas sports.
Pederson also sees the collection fitting into his plans to establish an endowed chair in sports journalism. “We have a number of
students interested in sports journalism,” he says. The subject currently is taught as a broadcast class where students produce a
weekly cable television program, “Sports Stampede.”
Influencing young journalists is one of Sherrod’s favorite roles.
In a Dallas Morning News profile, Sherrod says he achieved more
satisfaction from editing other writers than writing.
Gary Cartwright was one of the young writers he shaped. In a
2003 Texas Monthly column about Sherrod’s retirement
Cartwright concluded, “He made us appreciate that sports writing,
done correctly, was a noble pursuit.”
ebecca Graff offers a diagnosis and cure for the challenges
of the first year of university life.
“Many new students have library anxiety,” says Graff, user
education librarian. “They think they should know how to use an
academic library and that they are interrupting when they ask a
librarian a question. All they need to know is that librarians are
there to help them and that there are no dumb questions.”
Graff eases students’ anxiety through her participation on
SMU’s Task Force for the First-Year Experience, formed in 2002 to
examine and improve new students’ transition to college life. She
helped develop a Web site, smu.edu/newatsmu, that includes
information about how students can use the library as an academic
resource, and teaches library research classes to first-year students.
In addition, Graff teaches the library section of the ORACLE
classes at the Altshuler Learning Enhancement Center. Designed to
improve reading and learning efficiency, ORACLE is directed
toward first-year through graduate students who want to acquire
advanced reading and learning techniques. The library assignment
requires students to explore Fondren Library Center, navigate the
Central University Libraries’ Web site and online catalog, and consult with at least one librarian.
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User Education Librarian Rebecca Graff teaches library research
classes to first-year writing students.
“Students need to learn that the library is a service as well as
a building,” she says.
Graff also works with faculty to design assignments that incorporate library research. She and Crista DeLuzio, assistant professor of history, recently presented a seminar sponsored by the
Center for Teaching Excellence to encourage faculty members to
create assignments requiring library research.
Graff joined the CUL staff in September 2003. She came to SMU
from Grinnell College in Iowa, where she was reader services
librarian and an assistant professor for library research.
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Collection gives insight into century of retail history
n 1917 James Cash Penney expected store
managers to treat customers as if they were
honored guests in their own homes. His genial philosophy is reflected in the JCPenney archives
recently donated to DeGolyer Library. The 102year history of the Plano-based company exemplifies Penney’s dedication to his customers.
The archives include the papers and photographs of store founder James Cash Penney; documents describing the origin, growth, and
operations of the JCPenney Company; advertising
and marketing materials; and files documenting
the history of more than 1,000 stores.
The collection provides important insight into
retail history and consumer culture in the United
States, says Russell Martin,
The collection provides important
director of DeGolyer Library.
insight to retail history \
“The photography collection
A century of photographs, advertisements, employee publications, and training
alone is a walk through the 20thmaterials are among the JCPenney archives recently donated to DeGolyer Library.
and consumer culture in the
century American landscape.”
United States, says Russell Martin,
James Cash Penney opened his first store in
“Mr. Penney was a very fascinating American,” Lindsey
director of DeGolyer Library.“The
the mining town of Kemmerer, Wyoming, in
says.“He exemplified frontier values as well as his Puritan backphotography collection alone
1902. He named his store the “Golden Rule” to
ground as a minister’s son. Although in one sense he might regret
reflect his business philosophy, a contrast to
is a walk through the 20th- century
the archives leaving the company, I think he would be delighted to
many 19th-century merchants. Fair pricing, cusAmerican landscape.”
share the company’s unique culture with a wider audience.”
tomer service, and quality merchandise were
the hallmarks of Golden Rule. By 1911, 22 Golden Rule stores operated mostly in small towns in Western states. In 1913 the J.C.
Penney Company was incorporated with 36 stores.
During the 1920s the company grew from 197 stores to more
onversations about literature, art, politics, style, and history
than 1,400, mostly located on the main streets of small towns. The
filled the air at Tables of Content April 3 at Meadows
collection includes a photograph of each store from Auborn, CaliMuseum. Guests chose their hosts who led dinner discussions at
fornia to Bitteford, Maine. “These photographs offer a rare picture
the sold-out event, which raises funds for the Friends of the SMU
of small town America and are of national significance,” Martin
Libraries’ annual grant program.
says. Most of the stores moved with many Americans to the subDinner hosts included Fred Bronstein, president of the Dallas
urbs and malls in the 1950s and ‘60s.
Symphony Association, novelist Joe Coomer, art dealers Kevin and
Until his death in 1971, Penney was a major force in the comCheryl Vogel, and broadcast journalist Quin Matthews. Perkins
pany. The collection includes his correspondence, family photoSchool of Theology Dean William B. Lawrence, Meadows Museum
graphs, recordings of interviews, and slides from family vacations.
Director Edmund Pillsbury, and Law Professor Ellen Pryor were
He spent much of his time visiting stores and stepping behind the
among those representing the SMU community.
counter to help sales associates. His travels and philosophy are
Honorary chairs of the fifth Tables of Content were John (’56,
well-documented in complete sets of employee publications,
’58) and Jackie (’62,’82) McElhaney. Jackie is a member of the
dating back to 1917.
library executive committee and former president of the Friends.
The JCPenney archives were established in the early 1970s,
She and John also support the Dedman School of Law, SMU swimsays Gordon Lindsey, associate information manager for JC
ming, and the Mustang Club. Janis Knott chaired the Tables of
Penney. When the company moved its headquarters to Plano,
Content Committee. The annual event raises funds distributed in
Texas, in 1992, it built a museum to tell the company’s history
grants from the Friends to the SMU libraries each year.
and store the archives.
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“tricky and tenacious.” Center technicians
used hot air guns to remove the rubber
cement, then reattached the items with
wheat starch paste. The process took 275
hours of intricate labor.
Interest in the preservation and conservation of original materials is increasing, Wender says. The U.S. Bicentennial in
1976 generated a wave of interest in preservation that has been fueled by television
programs such as “Antiques Roadshow” and
the availability of original items through
auction sites such as eBay, she says.
Institutions like SMU shoulder a
responsibility as caretakers for items such
as the Garson scrapbooks, Wender says.
“The biggest threat to cultural property is
not humidity, silverfish, or mildew. The biggest enemy of cultural
property is man.”
Mame scrapbook
‘just sensational’
he richness of the Greer Garson Collection at Hamon Arts Library can be
seen in the first Greer Garson scrapbook
to be restored. The scrapbook that chronicles her 1958 Broadway appearance in
“Auntie Mame” was disassembled, repaired,
and rebound into two scrapbooks last fall.
The 140 scrapbook pages include more
than 700 items such as congratulatory
telegrams, newspaper reviews, programs,
photographs, and Garson’s handwritten
rehearsal schedule.
The “Auntie Mame” scrapbook was
selected for restoration because of its
deteriorating condition and the variety of items it includes, says
Sam Ratcliffe, head of the Bywaters Special Collections of Hamon
Arts Library. “Items were falling off the brittle pages,” he says.
For researchers to use the book, Ratcliffe or curator Ellen Buie
Niewyk sat with the researcher and carefully turned each page.
The Fogelson Foundation funded the book’s restoration by
the Northeast Document Conservation Center of Andover, Massachusetts. It is one of more than 100 scrapbooks documenting the
career and family life of the legendary actress.
Restoring the Garson scrapbook was a challenge, says Deborah
Wender, director of book conservation at the Northeast Document
Conservation Center. Most of the items were attached to their
pages with rubber cement, an adhesive Wender describes as
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ew online resources at Central University Libraries have
streamlined researching for faculty and students.
SerialsSolutions is an online organizational tool that greatly simplifies electronic journal access. Before SerialsSolutions, researchers
often had to know which databases to use to find a full-text electronic article. SerialsSolutions locates every full-text electronic journal to which CUL subscribes and organizes the titles alphabetically on
the CUL Web site.
Readers’ Guide Retrospective is a database containing a compre-
hensive index of the most popular general-interest periodicals
published in the United States from 1890 through 1982. Searchable by key terms, it replaces numerous shelves filled with the old
green volumes.
ABI/INFORM, a popular business index, has been added to the elec-
tronic database. It includes three sections – dateline, global, and
trade and industry. Dateline focuses on local and regional business
news coverage.Global includes 1,800 worldwide business periodicals
and full text of The Wall Street Journal. Industry news, marketing
trends, and competitive information are included in 750 trade and
industry periodicals.
Red Books Online is the electronic version of The Advertising Red
John and Pat Rowe, Natalie Ornish, and Jo and B.B. Barr were honored by
President R. Gerald Turner and others for their recent contributions to
DeGolyer Library at a dinner January 15.
Books, an advertising resource that provides thorough research on
agencies and advertisers. Red Books Online also includes profiles of
nearly 13,500 U.S.and international advertising agencies.
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Archival tips for family treasures
IN THE NEWS
ach family possesses its own treasured documents – a family
Bible, letters, or old photographs. The Northeast Document
Conservation Center offers these tips to care for and preserve
family heirlooms.
• Storage Attics and basements are the worst storage areas
because of their heat and humidity. Store family collection∫s on
the upper shelf of a closet in the house.
• Newspaper Newsprint will disintegrate. Photocopy important
clippings onto archival quality paper. Don’t store newspaper
clippings in books – the clipping will stain the book’s pages.
• Musty books To remove musty odors in books, create an
enclosed chamber with two plastic garbage cans. Place an
odor-absorbing material such as baking soda, charcoal briquettes, or kitty litter in the bottom of the larger can. Place the
book in the smaller can without a lid, which is then placed in
the larger can. Place the lid on the larger can and leave the
chamber for some time until the odor is reduced.
Paper containing zeolite molecular traps also is effective in
removing odors. Place a sheet of the paper between the back
board and endpaper and every 100 pages throughout the
volume. Close the book and set it aside until the odor is reduced.
• Photographs that last Take a roll of black and white film at
important events. Video, color slide, and most color prints
have a limited life expectancy. When storing photos in albums,
use mounting corners, not self-sealing plastic. Choose an
album with neutral, good-quality paper and polyester,
polypropylene or polyethylene pages – not vinyl or PVC.
Laser
documents For a lasting document use archival-quality
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paper and a toner with a stable pigment such as carbon black.
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ibrary collections were featured in publications last fall ranging from The New
York Times to The Weatherford Democrat.
DeGolyer Library materials related to the
40th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination were reviewed by reporters from Japan,
France, international wire services, and the
Times, resulting in numerous articles.
Reporters reviewed hundreds of letters to
Dallas Mayor Earle Cabell in the DeGolyer collection that
reflected the world’s shock, anger, and sympathy for
Dallas as the site of the assassination.
DeGolyer’s historic cookbook collection doubled to more
than 300 cookbooks after readers of cookbook articles in
the Associated Press, Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The
Dallas Morning News contributed cookbooks from throughout the country.
The Morning News and the Associated Press reported about
the digitization of the Tyler, Texas, Black Film collection in
Hamon Arts Library and covered the first screening of the
films at a Tyler high school. A Texas state grant funded the
digitization and distribution of the films to schools and
libraries; however, more than 100 additional DVD sets have
been sold at $250 each.
Interest continues for First Lady Laura Bush’s “most romantic gift.” President George W. Bush established the Laura
Bush Promenade in her honor outside the Fondren Library
Center in 1999. It recently was featured in Reader’s Digest
and on “Dateline NBC.”
Leaves and Literature travels
to land of Longfellow
he Friends of the SMU Libraries’ annual Leaves and Literature fall tour will travel to Nova Scotia October 4-10. The literature, poetry, and history inspired by Nova Scotia’s rugged
terrain will be among the highlights of the trip.
In Halifax travelers will visit Dalhousie University’s special collections library, which includes works by Rudyard Kipling, W.I.
Morris, and Oscar Wilde as well as a Canadian small press collection. On Cape Breton, described by Condé Nast Traveler as the
world’s most scenic island, the group will tour the Louisbourg
National Historic Site, featuring restored 18th-century buildings
and the largest collection of Louis XV furniture outside of France.
The tour then winds through the Annapolis Valley, the land
immortalized in “Evangeline,” Longfellow’s epic poem about the
expulsion of the Acadians, Nova Scotia’s first settlers.
Other stops include the home of Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton, author of The Clockmaker and father of phrases of North
American literary humor such as “quick as a wink.” For more information, contact Judy Searles, jsearles@smu.edu or 214-768-3225.
Deadline for registration is June 15, 2004.
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For more information about conservation products, visit University Products at www.universityproducts.com or Light Impressions
at www.lightimpressionsdirect.com.
We card after 10 p.m.
n order to respond to campus security needs Fondren Library
Center is regularly enforcing its policy of restricting usage
after 10 p.m. to SMU ID holders. Security personnel check ID
cards of those already at the library at 10 p.m. Anyone without
an ID is asked to leave.
Access to the building after 10 p.m. is provided through a card
reader.
The Fondren Library Center continues to be open to the public
from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Saturday, and 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday. Visit smu.edu/libraries for
the hours of other libraries as well as holiday and exam schedules.
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From Chinese underground
to information age
JoAnn Lan grew up loving books in Shanghai, China. Her father
oversaw the city’s cultural affairs, which included the municipal
library, and her mother worried that their apartment would
collapse from the weight of books. Lan, now director of academic
computing at SMU, read Chinese classics and Western literature
with few distractions before television and air-conditioning were
introduced in China.
When Lan was in seventh grade her world changed. Mao
Zedong launched China’s Cultural Revolution in 1966, closed
China’s schools, and banned most of its books. Lan had to move
to a rural part of China where a few precious volumes were circulated among an underground circle. The only way to keep a book
was to copy it by hand.
China’s schools remained closed during the years Lan would
have attended secondary school. When the universities
reopened she attended
JoAnn Lan, director of Academic Computing
they didn’t have to separate research and analysis from their outcome, e.g., the paper,” she says. “We needed to change the environment to adjust to a new group of students who have grown up
with technology.”
Libraries at SMU are in the forefront of educational technology
usage, Lan says. “It’s very important for libraries to stay up to date.
New technology creates a great opportunity for libraries to rethink
their roles and how they connect with their patrons.”
Welcome new Friends
Inner Mongolia Teacher’s University and earned a B.A. in English. She moved to
the United States to earn an M.A. and an Ed.D.
in instructional technology from Northern Illinois University.
Today her office in Fondren Library is filled
with books and software as she leads efforts to
integrate technology and academics at SMU. Her
department oversees computer and software training for faculty
and staff and provides faculty support in instructional technology.
“We provide the bridge between the technology infrastructure
and the user,” she says.
Last spring Fondren Library formed a partnership with Academic Computing to create the Information Commons, an area
where computer labs, classrooms, and study areas are clustered
together to provide students with access to reference and technology resources. “The students needed an environment where
Carlos I. Acosta
Jory and Kate Lange
John W. Bateman
Eleanor Maclay
John Berberian
Dr. and Mrs. Russell L. Martin, Jr.
Truman and Marguerite Cook
Michael J. Marz
Lee Cullum
Nicholas Nuspl
Helen Buchanan Davis
Kris Reed
William and Judy Enszer
Tara B. Ross
Donna Gann
Ken and Joanna Shields
Ezra Greenspan
Harold W. Stanley and Carolyn S.
Edward T. Hamilton
Cunningham
Herbert and Myra Hammond
Padinare Unikrishna
Hertha H. Hughes
Kathy Vandermotter
Ann C. Karl
Carla R.Voelkner
Elaine Kiehnle
Ed and Susan Wisneski
Rina Kirchgessner
New members of Friends of the SMU Libraries who have joined as
of February 15, 2004.
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Business is bullish for industry research
conomists use stock market figures, employment rates,
housing starts, and even lipstick sales to predict the ups and
downs of the economy. But after 30 years of directing Central
University Libraries’ IIS, an information service for businesses,
Dev Bickston has developed his own economic barometer.
Businesses hire IIS to conduct research on products, markets,
patents, and industries. About six months before national economists announce a positive change, Bickston notices that companies increase their inquiries about new technology and new
products. Before the economy slows, businesses cut
“My job is like a
their research to the basics.
scavenger hunt every day
Bickston’s current workload may be an indicator of better times to come – business for his staff
– I may be exploring
of four is better than it’s been in five years, he says.
for oil, designing a
The IIS staff uses SMU library resources and
hospital, or finding an
electronic databases as well as those from other
libraries and information centers to conduct its
expert witness,”
research. Corporations such as Texas Instruments,
Bickston says. “Every
Frito-Lay, and architecture firm Healy, Snyder,
day is different.”
Bender and Associates pay an annual membership
fee for electronic literature searches or manual searches among
library resources. Law firms often engage IIS, most recently for support on cases involving intellectual property law, Bickston says.
Since its founding in 1966, IIS has produced nearly 5,000
research reports for businesses. Bickston works with about 60 corporate librarians to supplement their resources and provides
information to the growing number of companies that have closed
their corporate libraries to save costs.
Laurie Crim, law librarian at Texas Instruments, often orders
technical articles related to the semiconductor industry for TI
attorneys and engineers. A TI librarian for 20 years, Crim says the
firm had many corporate libraries at one time; however, now she
manages the corporation’s only library.
Other clients include small business owners and entrepreneurs. IIS provided market research to support business development in a small Texas town. The resulting carpet mill in Hillsboro
was the first carpet mill to open in Texas.
When the Geological Survey of Egypt contracted with two SMU
geologists to investigate a new energy source, IIS provided critical
information. Egyptian officials proposed building a canal from the
Mediterranean Sea to the Qattara Depression. They believed the
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energy produced by water traveling downhill through the canal and
falling 440 feet to the depression could support Cairo and surrounding areas. After reviewing the information provided by IIS,
the geology, mineralogy, hydrology, and meteorology of the area,
geologists determined the saltwater would have damaged many of
the freshwater oases in the Western Desert.
“My job is like a scavenger hunt every day – I may be exploring for oil, designing a hospital, or finding an expert witness,” Bickston says. “Every day is different.”
For more information about IIS contact Dev Bickston at 214-7682276, or visit smu.edu/iis.
LITERARY TREASURES
FACULTY MEMBERS WILL BE HONORED
FOR THEIR 2003 PUBLISHED AND ARTISTIC WORKS AT
Faculty Recognition Day
APRIL 27, 3:30 P.M.
FONDREN LIBRARY CENTER
R EMARKS
D EAN
The Stanley Marcus Reading Room at DeGolyer Library was dedicated
December 9. Dean and Director of Central University Libraries Gillian
McCombs (left) honored Linda Marcus (right) for her contribution of
Stanley Marcus’ 10,000-book library to DeGolyer.
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SUBMIT WORK FOR LIBRARY DISPLAY BY APRIL 16 TO FONDREN LIBRARY
CENTER OR BY MAIL TO FRIENDS OF SMU LIBRARIES, 300 LIBRARY EAST.
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An n o t a t i o n s
is published twice a year by
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Libraries, which retains the
right to determine editorial
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presentation. The opinions
expressed in Annotations
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official University policy.
Letters and comments are
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Friends of SMU Libraries
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Government Information Resources
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Instructional Technology
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Systems Office
Exhibits
• Through April 23 Stanley Marcus Mineral Collection: A View
from Geology, Fondren Library
• Through May 15 Philip Van Keuren: The Early Collages
1971-74, Hawn Gallery at Hamon Arts Library
• April 16-May 17 New Light on Walt
Whitman’s 1855 Leaves of Grass,
DeGolyer Library
• April 27 - May 25 Faculty Recognition
Exhibit, Fondren Library
Events
• April 16-17 CMIT Spring Documentary
Walt Whitman
Film Festival featuring election and
campaign films, McCord Auditorium
April
16 Symposium “Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass:
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New Light on an American Masterpiece,” DeGolyer Library
• May 3 Friends of the SMU Libraries Dinner Meeting,
reservations required
• May 7 First Friday Films “Little Women,” and “Revolt of
Mother,” 100 D Fondren
For event and exhibit details contact Judy Searles at jsearles@
smu.edu or 214-768-3225.
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