Library » Friends of the Library http://www.drew.edu/library Just another Drew University Sites site Fri, 24 May 2013 14:50:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Visions, Library Newsletter Spring 2013 http://www.drew.edu/library/2013/05/visions-library-newsletter-spring-2013 http://www.drew.edu/library/2013/05/visions-library-newsletter-spring-2013#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 18:51:00 +0000 Jennifer A. Heise http://www.drew.edu/library/?p=6918 Contents: The Glen Sergeon Collection of African American Literature Comes to Drew; Friends Gala Revisits an American Classic; What was the Best Book You Read in the Past Year?; Advice for Constant Readers; Science Librarian Cathy Ryan Retires; Library Gifts; Upcoming Library Events; Library Exhibits.

]]> http://www.drew.edu/library/2013/05/visions-library-newsletter-spring-2013/feed 0 From the Gateway: Willa Cather Letters No Longer off Limits http://www.drew.edu/library/2013/05/from-the-gateway-willa-cather-letters-no-longer-off-limits http://www.drew.edu/library/2013/05/from-the-gateway-willa-cather-letters-no-longer-off-limits#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 19:42:33 +0000 Jennifer A. Heise http://www.drew.edu/library/?p=6911 Willa Cather Letters No Longer Off Limits, Thanks to New Anthology ]]> http://www.drew.edu/library/2013/05/from-the-gateway-willa-cather-letters-no-longer-off-limits/feed 0 A Peek at the Library Gala, 2013 http://www.drew.edu/library/2013/02/press-gala13 http://www.drew.edu/library/2013/02/press-gala13#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:23:50 +0000 Jennifer A. Heise http://www.drew.edu/library/?p=6499 Read about the events of the Library Gala, January 19, 2013.

]]> http://www.drew.edu/library/2013/02/press-gala13/feed 0 Conversations on Collecting, Rebecca Barry, Feb. 20 http://www.drew.edu/library/2013/02/conversations-feb20 http://www.drew.edu/library/2013/02/conversations-feb20#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:14:34 +0000 Jennifer A. Heise http://www.drew.edu/library/?p=6458 Conversations on Collecting

The Perspective of an Editor

A conversation with
Rebecca Barry

Wednesday, February 20
4:00 p.m.

Pilling Room
on the second floor of the Library

The editor of Fine Books and Collections shares her experiences of working with collectors and delving into special collections across the country.
Please join Dean of Libraries Andrew Scrimgeour and the Friends of the Library for this seventh talk in the Library’s afternoon series, Conversations on Collecting.

Light Refreshments. All are Welcome. For more information, call 973.408.3471.

DREW UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
]]> http://www.drew.edu/library/2013/02/conversations-feb20/feed 0 Kornitzer Book Awards Presented at Library Gala http://www.drew.edu/library/2013/02/kornitzer2013 http://www.drew.edu/library/2013/02/kornitzer2013#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:19:26 +0000 Jennifer A. Heise http://www.drew.edu/library/?p=6445 The Young Derrida and FreNational Identity in Great Britain and British North America, 1815-1851:

Congratulations to Professor Edward Baring and Dr. Linda Connors, C ‘64, winners of the Bela Kornitzer awards for outstanding non-fiction books.  Non-fiction books published in 2011 and 2012 were eligible for the competition.  Two prizes were awarded—one to a member of the Drew Faculty and one to a Drew graduate.

The awards were announced at the January 19, 2013 biennial Library Gala by Noémi K. Neidorff, who paid tribute to her uncle and to her parents who established the award in his name, and presented by Vivian Bull, President and Andrew Scrimgeour, Dean of Libraries.

 

Faculty Award

Dr. Edward Baring, Assistant Professor of
Modern European Intellectual and Cultural History
The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945-1968
(Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Alumni/ae Award
Dr. Linda Connors, Senior Librarian for Collections Emerita
Co-author, Mary Lu MacDonald
National Identity in Great Britain and British North America, 1815-1851:
The Role of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
(Ashgate, 2011)

 

The Kornitzer Prize Endowment was established twenty years ago by the late Alicia Kornitzer Karpati and her husband George Karpati to honor Bela Kornitzer, Mrs. Karpati’s brother, for his achievements as a journalist and author in Hungary and the United States.  The Drew University Library houses among its special collections the Bela Kornitzer Collection.  The award includes a $2,000 prize.

]]> http://www.drew.edu/library/2013/02/kornitzer2013/feed 0 Renovation of the United Methodist Archives and History Center at Drew University http://www.drew.edu/library/2012/12/renovation-announcement http://www.drew.edu/library/2012/12/renovation-announcement#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:55:14 +0000 Jennifer A. Heise http://www.drew.edu/library/?p=6341 The United Methodist Archives and History Center at Drew University will undergo a major renovation during 2012-13. This work is made possible thanks to a generous gift from the university’s long-time benefactor Norman Tomlinson, who has previously given the Drew University Library significant collections of Byron, Whitman and Churchill. A new, ideal climate-controlled environment will be installed on the second floor, including a non-water fire-suppressant system. Security measures will be tightened, and movable compact shelving will replace the traditional shelving, thereby doubling storage capacity.

Work is scheduled to run from December 2012 through August 2013. Collections housed on the second floor will be moved to temporary storage areas. These collections include all Methodist books, periodicals, pamphlets and serials, as well as the Byron Society of America collection and the Society for Biblical Literature archive. They will be unavailable for the duration of the renovation project. All Methodist manuscript collections, microforms, Drew University Library’s special collections and Drew University Archives will continue to be available.

For further information or to check the availability of collections, please contact Chris Anderson at cjanders@drew.edu.

]]> http://www.drew.edu/library/2012/12/renovation-announcement/feed 0 Library Gala 2013 http://www.drew.edu/library/2012/11/library-gala-2013 http://www.drew.edu/library/2012/11/library-gala-2013#comments Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:43:11 +0000 Jennifer A. Heise http://www.drew.edu/library/?p=6291 Friends of Drew Library Gala
Saturday, January 19, 2013

Historian David S. Reynolds, Featured Author

Library Gala 2013

The Friends of the Library will host their tenth biennial Benefit Dinner on January 19, 2013, with Honorary Dinner Chairs, Robert and Vivian Bull. The evening begins at Kirby Theatre with a program featuring award-winning historian and literary critic David S. Reynolds, who will speak on “Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America”—the title of his most recent book (2011).

Reynolds, a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City of New York, is the author or editor of 15 books including Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson (2008), Walt Whitman (2005), and John Brown: Abolitionist (2005), and is the editor of what is considered the definitive reproduction of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (2011). He is the winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Christian Gauss Award, the Ambassador Book Award, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Reynolds is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review.

Following the 6 p.m. program, guests will gather in Mead Hall for the Gala reception and dinner, including presentation of the Béla Kornitzer book prizes. The Gala benefits the Friends of the Library Book Endowment Fund.

Click here for a .pdf of the full invitation.

RSVP by January 4. For more information, please call the Library at 973.408.3471

]]> http://www.drew.edu/library/2012/11/library-gala-2013/feed 0 Collins Gift to Refurbish Wilson Reading Room http://www.drew.edu/library/2012/10/collins-gift-to-refurbish-wilson-reading-room http://www.drew.edu/library/2012/10/collins-gift-to-refurbish-wilson-reading-room#comments Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:51:36 +0000 Jennifer A. Heise http://www.drew.edu/library/?p=6270 A long-time friend of Drew University, Maribeth Collins of Portland, Oregon, has donated $100,000 for the renovation of the Wilson Reading Room. The room is named for her father, Clarence True Wilson, a well-known Methodist minister and prohibitionist whose papers are among Drew’s holdings. The room will be refurbished with new furniture and a new lighting system and a 1,200 square foot single-story addition to the room on the south façade will be added in the future. Fund raising for the expansion is continuing. The generosity of Mrs. Collins will be a catalyst for gifts from additional donors.

Collins was a lead donor in the funding of the Methodist Center thirty years ago. In collaboration with Drs. Robert and Vivian Bull and Dr. Ken Rowe, she has donated a number of unique collections to Drew, including Civil War papers that were pivotal to History Professor Wyatt Evans’ volume, The Legend of John Wilkes
Booth: Myth, Memory, and a Mummy (University of Kansas, 2004).

]]> http://www.drew.edu/library/2012/10/collins-gift-to-refurbish-wilson-reading-room/feed 0 $1M Gift to Create Space for Special Collections http://www.drew.edu/library/2012/10/1m-gift-to-create-space-for-special-collections http://www.drew.edu/library/2012/10/1m-gift-to-create-space-for-special-collections#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:39:36 +0000 Jennifer A. Heise http://www.drew.edu/library/?p=6262 The Drew Library is known for its special collections, unique materials that expand undergraduate— as well as faculty, graduate student, and visiting scholar—opportunities for research. Noteworthy among the holdings are Willa Cather manuscripts, the Methodist Archives, the Governor Thomas H. Kean Archive, the Byron Society Library, the Bela Kornitzer Collection, the R.S. Thomas Collection, the Robert Frost Collection, and the Tomlinson Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, and Winston Churchill Collections.

At the present time, these collections are scattered throughout the three Library buildings and not always readily available for use. But not for long. Thanks to a $1 million gift from Norman Tomlinson of Miami, Florida, most of these collections will soon be brought together in one location in the Methodist Center.

The second floor of the building will be renovated so that an ideal, climate-controlled environment will be provided for these unique materials—an environment that will rival that of the fabled underground vaults. A new, non-water fire-suppressant system will also be installed and security measures tightened.Movable, compact shelving will replace the traditional shelving, thereby doubling the storage capacity. Several deferred maintenance projects will also be addressed.

The collections currently residing on the second floor will be moved to temporary storage areas in other parts of the building starting in October 2012 and will not be accessible until May 2013. However, the other collections in the building, including the microforms and many manuscript collections, will continue to be available. In May, the collections in the other buildings will be moved to their new home.

Mr. Tomlinson has taken a keen interest in the care of Drew’s special collections and has urged Drew to do all it can to make them easily accessible, especially to undergraduates. During the Library’s strategic planning in 2007, and again last year, he helped shape plans that extended these values. Tomlinson has not only donated priceless collections to Drew but has actively encouraged others to do the same and played a strategic role in convincing the Byron Society of America that Drew was the ideal location for its library.

As further funds become available, the second phase of the project will unfold. It calls for renovating the Wilson Reading Room and doubling the cramped space with a glass-walled addition. The expanded reading room will become a beautiful and inspiring space worthy of the collections and conducive to scholarly exploration.

]]> http://www.drew.edu/library/2012/10/1m-gift-to-create-space-for-special-collections/feed 0 Fall 2012 Visions, The Library Newsletter http://www.drew.edu/library/2012/10/fall-2012-visions-the-library-newsletter http://www.drew.edu/library/2012/10/fall-2012-visions-the-library-newsletter#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:18:28 +0000 Jennifer A. Heise http://www.drew.edu/library/?p=6249 Articles Include:

  • $1M Gift to Create a Place for Special Collections
  • Collins Gift to Refurbish Wilson Reading Room
  • Kean Reading Room Exceeds Expectations
  • Dean’s Corner:  Kicking the Beehive
  • Interview with Vivian Bull
  • Weatherbee Bookplate
  • DiscoverI SUMMON at Drew Library
  • How I Came under the Spell of Rare Books
  • The Students Have Spoken
  • The Demise of the Uncuttered
  • Kornitizer Prize Competition
  • More and Better Electronic Resources
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