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THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY FRIENDS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

David F. Bishop Is Appointed University Librarian at Ui

David F. Bishop, the Director ofLibraries at the University of Georgiafor the past eight years, will becomethe next University Librarian at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His nomination by UIUCChancellor Thomas E. Everhart and an 11-member search committee, representingthe campus faculty and student body, wasapproved June 11 by the University Boardof Trustees.

The UIUC Library is the largest publicuniversity library in the nation, and thethird largest academic library, surpassedin size only by Harvard and Yale.

Mr. Bishop will succeed MichaelGorman, who had served as ActingUniversity Librarian since the deathOctober 24, 1986, of Hugh C. Atkinson,who had served ten years as head ofthe University Library.

Mr. Bishop, 49, was selected fromamong 63 candidates after a six-monthnationwide search. He had served since1979 as Director of Libraries at theUniversity of Georgia, which is situatedin Athens. Prior to that he was headcataloger, 1973-75, and, from 1975 to1979, assistant director of TechnicalServices at the University of Chicago.

From 1963 to 1973 Mr. Bishop was atthe University of Maryland Library,College Park, where he advancedthrough a number of positions,including assistant head, CatalogDepartment; head, Serials Department;coordinator of Technical Services, and,from 1970 to 1973, head of Systems andProgramming.

A native of New York City, Mr.Bishop earned a bachelor's degree inmusic and did graduate work in musicliterature at the University ofRochester's Eastman School of Music.He earned a master's degree in libraryscience from Catholic University,Washington, D.C., and subsequentlystudied mathematics and computerscience at the University of Maryland.

At the University of Georgia Mr.Bishop directed a staff of approximately300 in providing library service to astudent body of 24,000 and a faculty ofmore than 2,000.

DAVID F. BISHOP. . . new University Librarian

'Continue the Excellence'"As the University Librarian, I amcommitted to continuing the excellencethat has been a tradition at theUniversity of Illinois Library.

"With the combined effort of theUniversity community, alumni andfriends, I am confident that we will besuccessful in achieving that goal."

-- David F. Bishop

Mr. Bishop and his wife, Nancy, havea daughter, Karen, who graduated thisyear from Brown University, and willtravel and study in France next year,and a son, Michael, a sophomore in theCollege of Business Administration atthe University of Georgia.

Canadian Gift f e toModern LanguagsA gift by the Canadian government tothe Modern Languages and LinguisticsLibrary, a department of the UIUCLibrary, will enhance the FrenchCanadian collection and give ProfessorEmile Talbot's graduate class inCanadian literature more material withwhich to work.

Edward W. Hornby, public affairsofficer with the Canadian consulate inChicago, delivered four cartons inApril, approximately one hundredbooks. Accepting for the Library wasthe Modern Languages Librarian, Sarade Mundo Lo. Included in theshipment were volumes ofFrench-language fiction, criticism,history and biography.

Professor Talbot, of the UI FrenchDepartment, had compiled a list ofbooks he needed for the course, andthe Canadian consulate, through itsbook donation program, purchased thebooks for the Library.

The Canadian program is designed toencourage Americans to learn moreabout their northern neighbor.

Esther Thudium is a Library Friend who per-forms valuable volunteer service, cleaning and

oiling old volumes in the Library Rare Book

and Special Collections stacks.

vol. 9, no. 2"'y Summer 1987

'/, ISSN 0192-5539

Damage to the valued Audubon folio is evident here, as the image of the bird's head is faintlyreproduced on back of the preceding print. Library Friends announce in this issue a major projectto restore the four volumes. Damage is caused by the use of binding material which contains acid.

Three Library Friends volunteer workers were honored April 30 at the annual Champaign CountyUnited Way Volunteer Recognition Breakfast. They are, from left, Mary Kay Peer, Kim Wurl andMade Taylor. Mrs. Wurl, a member of the Library Friends Executive Committee, is co-chairpersonof the Volunteer Committee.

Calendar ....Exhibits

August"Happy Hundredth." University

Archives, 19 Library."Woodcuts: Illustrations from the

Literary Works." Asian Library, 325Library.

"So Far From God, So Close to the Uni-ted States: Mexico from Pre-ColumbianTimes to the Present." Main Corridor,University Library.

"Selected Notable Acquisitions." RareBook and Special Collections Library, 346Library.

"Computer Music." Music Library,Music Building.

"Native American Newspapers."

Newspaper Library, 1 Library.

September"Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitu-

tion." Archives."Computer Music" (continued). Music

Library."Motion Picture Illustrations from

'Citizen Kane'." Rare Book and SpecialCollections Library.

Special Event

Library Friends Volunteer Orienta-tion-Thursday, Sept. 10, at 10 a.m., in theRare Book and Special CollectionsLibrary. Speaker: John J. Bowman, VicePresident and Assistant Publisher of theChampaign-Urbana News-Gazette.

Abbeville AudubonPrints a Tour de ForceIn Modern PrintingThe beautiful bird prints created byJohn James Audubon, published in the1830s, have been reprinted in theiroriginal double elephant folio size (261/2 x 39 1/2 inches). Like the original,the facsimile consists of 435 plates oflife-size engravings of over 1100 birds.Only once before has a full-sizedfacsimile edition been attempted and it,too, now commands many times itsoriginal price. So expensive was theundertaking of the Abbevilleproduction that it is difficult to imaginethat it will ever be attempted again.

The edition was commissioned by theNational Audubon Society. A set of theoriginal folios was taken to Japan,where it was photographed, the filmhand-corrected to assure color accuracyand each print subsequently printed onspecially milled acid-free paper in asmany as 18 colors. Produced in alimited edition of 350 copies, thisbreathtakingly beautiful publicationrepresents a tour de force in modernprinting history.

The production of the Abbevillefacsimile is a staggering feat ofphotography, papermaking, printingand binding. Each set contains sevenadditional leatherbound books ofcollateral material, including Audubon'soriginal commentaries and an updatedinterpretation by noted ornithologistRoger Tory Peterson. The entirefacsimile edition was printed one sheetat a time and collated by hand. U.S.Ambassador Mike Mansfield presented,on Abbeville's behalf, a facsimileedition to Japan's royal family-thus ina sense recreating Commodore Perry'shistoric gift of an original doubleelephant folio to the S-hogun in 1854.

A person does not have to be abirdwatcher to appreciate the prints asworks of art and to help understand theubiquity, freedom and relaxation withwhich birds share our environment.Robert Abrams, co-founder of theAbbeville Press, said after workingclosely with the publication: "To beable to start to be aware of thesecreatures in the wild at a distance is atrue ecological awakening."

CorrectionIn the last issue of Friendscript, the lastname of a telethon donor was omitted.The caller pictured on the back pagehad interviewed Ms. CarolynMcMonigle of Claremont, California,who made a pledge to support theUIUC Library's continued development.

The staff of the Library Office ofDevelopment and Public Affairs regretsthe omission.

We Need Your HelpYou can ensure the UI Library'scontinued excellence by:

* telling others about the LibraryFriends and encouraging them tojoin

* sending us lists of potential membersand contributors

* helping the Library solicit grantsfrom foundations

* obtaining your company's ororganization's participation in amatching gift program

* passing the information aboutLibrary Friends membership on inyour newsletter or publications.

When the UIUC Library Friends held a reception in Chicago at theJohn T. Monckton Gallery, manyChicago area Illini attended. From left are John Winburn, Acting University Librarian MichaelGorman, John Derkach and Jack Monckton.

Video Encyclopedia Adds New Research Dimension

Students and faculty members areoffered many avenues for research inthe University of Illinois Library atUrbana-Champaign, and the newestapproach to learning is The VideoEncyclopedia of the 20th Century. TheVideo Encyclopedia is made available toresearchers in The Media Center of theUndergraduate Library.

The Media Center, directed byCharles Forrest, serves as the principalaudiovisual resource for the campuslibrary system, with a collection ofmore than 1,200 videorecordings andthousands of slides, filmstrips andaudiorecordings on a wide range ofsubjects.

The Video Encyclopedia was acquiredwith funds provided by Library Friends,the annual funds program of theLibrary Office of Development andPublic Affairs.

It consists of 75 hours of primarysource material presented just as it wasrecorded by film and television cameraswithout additional narration. Organizedinto more than 2,000 separate units, theEncyclopedia comes with a printedindex and four volumes of backgroundmaterial on the people and eventsdepicted.

From the early films of ThomasEdison, through the San Franciscoearthquake, two world wars and theCivil Rights movement to theinauguration of President Reagan, theVideo Encyclopedia is an excitingresource for instruction in manydisciplines. Culled from the film andvideotape archive of CELCommunications, Inc., the Encyclopedia

provides an eyewitness account ofcontemporary history.

The Video Encyclopedia of the 20thCentury was purchased on 38laser-optical videodiscs, a playback-onlyvideo medium noted for its durabilityand program access features. Unlikemotion picture film and videotape,which wear out with repeated use andare notoriously susceptible tocatastrophic damage, the spinningvideodisc during playback is in contactwith nothing but a hair-thin beam ofextremely low-energy laser light. Likethe tone-arm of a record player, thisbeam of light can be readily moved toany point on the disc, providing quickaccess to its contents.

Unlike movies or videocassettes,where the retrieval of an embeddedsequence involves moving many feet offilm or tape from one reel to another,the videodisc can "fast-forward" to anypoint on the disc in a few seconds.

The Video Encyclopedia represents asignificant addition to the Library'scollections-an addition which wouldnot have been possible without thegenerosity of the Library Friends.

The Benefits of MembershipAs a Friend of the University of IllinoisLibrary, you receive:* Special circulation and stack privileges for

Library materialsa Friendscript, the quarterly newslettera Non Solus, the annual bulletin* Invitations to exhibits, lectures and

receptions* A 30% discount on University of Illinois

Press publicationsThe Friends welcome everyone interested inthe continued excellence of the Universityof Illinois Library. There are now over 2,200members of Library Friends.

YES, I/We wish to becomemembers of the U of I LIBRARY

FRIENDS

O University Librarian's Council at UIUC:$5000 0 Sponsor: $100

o Life: $3000 0 Subscriber: $500 Benefactor: $1000 0 Contributor: $25o Patron: $500 0 Student: $10

Please make your check payable toUniversity of Illinois Foundation/LibraryFriends, 224 Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St.,Urbana, Illinois 61801. All contributions aretax-deductible.

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friendscriptAppears quarterly in April, July, Oct.and Jan. Editor: David Kramer. Office ofPublication: Library Friends, 227 Library,Univ. of Illinois, 1408 W. Gregory,Urbana, IL 61801. (POSTMASTER: SendForm 3579 to this address.) Second-classpostage paid at Urbana, IL.

Lifelong 'Friend of Libraries': Jim SinclairJames B. Sinclair, professor of plantpathology at the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign, has been a "friendof libraries" for most of his life, butsince 1972 he has focused most of hislibrary support on the UIUC Librarysystem. A charter member of LibraryFriends, having made his first gift in1972, he has since made regular andspecial donations of cash and of booksand research papers. As a result ofthose donations, he became a memberof the UI Presidents Council.

Professor Sinclair is an internationallyknown and respected expert in thefield of plant diseases and their control,particularly in the area of soybeans. Hehas traveled to more than forty nationsaround the world to assist in planningand participating in internationalsoybean conferences and workshops.Research, testing, teaching, andoutreach have occupied hisprofessional career.

A man of many interests, ProfessorSinclair has used his wide travel andexperience to improve the collectionsof the UIUC Library.

His interest in biology began whenhe was a student at Hyde Park HighSchool, Chicago. His botany teacher,recognizing his interest in plants,provided him with outside readingmaterials to help him understand plantecology. After army service, he enrolledat Lawrence University, Appleton,Wisconsin, where in 1951 he receivedhis degree in botany. During his senioryear he was introduced to the scienceof plant pathology, earning a Ph.D. inthat field at the University ofWisconsinin Madison. For another 15 months hedid post-doctoral research and, inMarch 1956, he went to Louisiana StateUniversity, Baton Rouge, as an assistantprofessor in plant pathology.Workingup through the ranks, he became a fullprofessor. For two years he served as ahalf-time administrative assistant to thechancellor.

In 1968 Professor Sinclair came to theUniversity of Illinois as a professor ofplant pathology charged withadministering the 211(d) grant of theAgency for International Development(AID). His responsibility was tostrengthen the role of the UI College ofAgriculture in international agriculture.

Professor Sinclair has a number ofmajor research credits in the field ofsoybean diseases and their control,which have earned for him worldwiderecognition. In 1984 he was therecipient of the Paul A. FunkRecognition Program Award.

Professor Sinclair's interest in booksbegan at the age of 7 or 8 when anaunt gave him a three-volume boxedset of Mark Twain books, which he nowrecognizes was the stimulus to a

Professor James B. Sinclair

lifetime interest in books and reading.At each graduation in which he

participated-elementary, high school,college-he bought a gift book andpresented it to the school library. Ineach case it was a volume notpreviously owned by the library, and itwas Professor Sinclair's small legacy tothe school.

On both sides of his family it wascustomary to leave a small library ofbooks to the next generation. However,while he was in the Army he heard thathis grandparents planned to sell off aquantity of books, and he asked themnot to sell, but instead to give them tohim. They agreed, and the collectionbecame the core of his personal library.

His great grandmother had kept in atrunk the school books of her youth,some very rare and valuable today,which passed through the generationsto him. Professor Sinclair has donatedthese books to the appropriate UIUCLibrary department. Another gift to theLibrary represented one grandfather'sspecial interest : books on the occultand black magic, which went to theEducation Library collection, and otherexotica, given to the Rare Book andSpecial Collections Library.

In his travels to foreign nations,Professor Sinclair always watched forbooks on agriculture in foreignlanguages. He collected them, andwould later donate them to the librarydepartment which specialized in theappropriate language.

Another special item, a book writtenby Abraham Lincoln's son, Tad, wasgiven to the Lincoln Room in theHistory and Philosophy Library.

Professor Sinclair has also for manyyears collected current books andjournals in plant pathology and on thegeneral topic of agriculture, and thenlooked for a need. He periodically shipsthem overseas to such countries asEgypt, Thailand, Nepal, India, Zambia

Library is Looking ....FOR three microfiche readers for theCommerce Library, at $248 each,because the present two readers aredefective and inadequate. All corporateannual and other report materials areon microfiche and are extensively usedby students who, in the absence ofgood working readers, must borrowthem and take the films to anotherlibrary where there are good readers. Anumber of other types of reports,doctoral dissertations and a wideassortment of heavily-used materialsmust be handled in the same way. Giftsof microfiche readers by threeindividuals or businesses would helpmany students in the CommerceLibrary.

FOR contributors to the printing of acatalog to accompany the Maps of theHoly Lands Exhibition to be mounted inthe Rare Book and Special CollectionsLibrary in December 1987. Itemsfeatured will include not only mapsfrom the Library's seven millionthvolume (Breydenbach's Journey to theHoly Land, 1486), but also the first mapever printed (1472) and other treasuresfrom the Library's extensive collectionof maps of the Holy Lands from ancienttimes to the present day. The catalogwill be designed in such a way that itmay be used for exhibits this Decemberand in December 1988. Contributorswill be acknowledged by name and thecatalog will be mailed to Library Friendsmembers throughout the United Statesand Canada. Contributions of $1,000each are being sought to makepublication of the catalog possible.

If you can help with the purchase ofany item cited, please contact theLibrary Friends Coordinator, Lucie W.Clark, at 227 Library, 1408 W. GregoryDrive, Urbana, IL 61801, or telephone217/333-5683.

and Pakistan. In those countries heknows agriculture specialists who willgive the materials the greatestcirculation.

Professor Sinclair is working withUniversity Archivist Maynard Brichfordto identify archival materials on formerstudents and on all the present and pastprofessors of plant pathology at theUniversity.

Professor Sinclair, who has given sogenerously to the UIUC Library sincehis first 1972 Library Friendsmembership, has completed the first oftwo two-year terms on the LibraryFriends Executive Committee. He is amember of the special AudubonPreservation Committee, charged withmajor preservation of the Library'svaluable double-elephant Audubonportfolio.

Library Friends Seek Funds to Restore Audubon's The Birds of AmericaOne of the most valuable possessionsof the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign, John JamesAudubon's The Birds of America, isbadly in need of restoration. Publishedbetween 1827 and 1838, each completeset consists of 435 hand-coloredengravings depicting the birds inlife-size. The Library's four-volume setis housed in the Rare Book and SpecialCollections Library, where only oneprint at a time is on display in aglass-enclosed case.

Although the paper on which theplates are printed is stable, acid fromthe adhesive in the linen backing iscausing the plates to bleed into oneanother. Unless immediate steps aretaken to halt this process and to restorethe damaged plates, the entireUniversity of Illinois folio is in dangerof suffering irreversible damage.

The restoration process will take fouryears, at a rate of one volume per year.Following restoration the plates will notbe rebound; instead each plate will beencased in a mylar sleeve andpreserved, as were the originals,unbound.

To preserve the major Audubon workfor future generations, Library Friends,the annual funds program of theLibrary Office of Development andPublic Affairs, has launched a project toraise the funds needed to protect thisvaluable treasure.

Library Friends is seeking 100contributors to the preservation projectat a donation of $650 each.

On Sunday, November 1, 1987,Library Friends will host a specialAudubon Folio Preservation event atthe Champaign Country Club. At theevent the one hundred contributors

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will have the opportunity to participatein a drawing for four prints from the1987 Limited Edition Abbeville facsimilereproduction of the original Audubonfolio. Commissioned by the NationalAudubon Society from an original folioin the Society's collection, theAbbeville edition was printed in Japanby a 13-color process. The 435Abbeville prints are double-elephant insize, just as are the originals. Followingthe drawing, the 35 most popular printswill be sold at auction.

Names of contributors to theAudubon Restoration Project will berecorded in a book to be permanentlydisplayed in the Rare Book and SpecialCollections Library next to the restoredfolio.

John James Audubon (1785-1851) wasborn on Aux Cayes in theWest Indies to

a French naval officer and a creole ofSanto Domingo, and he adopted NorthAmerica as his home.

An accomplished artist andornithologist, he undertook what wouldbecome a 25-year project to accuratelyrecord in water colors all NorthAmerican birds for future generations.Some of those he painted were laterexterminated or failed to adapt toadvancing civilization.

Audubon traveled through theFlorida Keys, floated down theMississippi River, went to Labrador andto the Independent Republic of Texas,and painted the birds he found in theirnatural habitat. He literally took wildbirds out of the glass case. Previousbird paintings made them look morelike mummies than live birds, and theyoften were stuffed and perched ontwigs not found in their natural habitat.Audubon put them in natural settings,so that we today may see them as theywere at the time Audubon saw andpainted them.

Between trips into the Americaninterior, Audubon wrote the text.Whenthe collection went into production inLondon, it required many furtherseparations from his family as JohnAudubon sailed between the UnitedStates and Europe. To cover his costs,Audubon sold approximately twohundred subscriptions at $1,000 each inAmerica and in England and Scotland.

His wife, Lucy Bakewell Audubon,believed in John's genius and, duringthe lean years, she taught school andscrimped to make ends meet until theproject was finally completed.

All the birds were engraved life-sized,and the wild turkey is the largest. It andthe trumpeter swan, snowy egret, blueheron, Canada goose and the Americanflamingo are among the most populartoday.

According to the Illinois AlumniNews of July 1949, the folio owned bythe UIUC Library was acquired becauseof the "prompt action of DirectorRobert B. Downs of the Library, DeanRexford Newcomb, and W.H.Butterfield, Executive Director of theAchievement Fund." Several days afterthe purchase, an offer was made atdouble the amount of the purchaseprice.

For further information on theLibrary Friends Audubon RestorationProject, please complete the adjacentform and return it to Library Friends.

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Please return to:Office of Development and Public Affairs227 Library1408 W. Gregory DriveUrbana, IL 61801217/333-5682

Liorary triends txecutive Committee held its spring meeting at the Rantoul Public Library, where they visited the James A. Korkowski AerospaceMemorial, in memory of committee member Donald Korkowski's son. Present were, from left: (front) Committee President Carl Webber, CarolynGreen, Mr. Korkowski, Robert Wallace, Bertha Berger, Joan M. Hood, Mary Liay, Carolyn Gunter, Kim Wurl and Lucie Clark; (rear) James Sinclair,Robert Carr, Vice President Morris Leighton and James Gallivan.

News of Student FriendsCora Holland, a junior in the College ofCommerce and BusinessAdministration, has succeeded MarcWheat as chairperson of the StudentLibrary Friends for the 1987-88 year. Mr.Wheat held the position for one yearuntil his graduation in May.

Ms. Holland will represent theStudent Library Friends on the LibraryFriends Executive Committee.

At its first meeting of this year theExecutive Committee approvedchanging the student organization'sname from "Undergraduate" to"Student" in recognition of the factthat graduate students are alsomembers.

In addition, the Committee favoredextending the student rate ($10 peryear) for two years following receipt ofa terminal degree, whetherundergraduate, graduate or

professional, from the University ofIllinois. In the past the student rate wasoffered for one year after a memberearned the undergraduate degree.

Student Library Friends funds thisyear were used to purchase a videodiscplayback station-player, television andcart-to be used in the Media Center,which is located in the UndergraduateLibrary.

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