ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


27 0 / C&RL N ews ■ A p ril 2000

RBMS attends antiquarian book fair

Rare Book and Manuscript Section (RBMS) and scholarship in the history o f the book.
members in Southern California staffed a ABAA’s gift o f space at its fairs is part of 
booth at the 33rd California International an ongoing partnership between RBMS and 
Antiquarian Book Fair, Feb ABAA. The two groups 
ruary 11-13. Over the space are committed to explor
o f three days, collectors and ing other joint ventures 
librarians came to the Los with the goal o f height
Angeles Airport Marriott ening public awareness 
Hotel to admire, and often and disseminating infor
to purchase, the rare books, mation about the anti
manuscripts, maps, prints, quarian book world and 
and other valuable and un book collecting. RBMS 
usual materials displayed plans to sponsor more 
by 182 members o f the An booths at ABAA’s na

Ready to greet visitors to the 33rd 
tiquarian Booksellers Asso tional book fairs, and California International Antiquarian 
ciation o f America (ABAA). Book Fair are (I to r) M ichael booth organizers will be 

Thanks to the generos Thompson, ABAA; Hugh Tolford, recruiting members to 
bookfair organizer; Bill Brown, ACRL ity of ABAA and its South represent the section in 
Board; and Eric Holzenberg, chair, 

ern California chapter, these venues.RBMS.
RBMS members were given RBMS received an 
the opportunity to meet many of the bib ACRL Initiative Fund Award to support ex
liophiles who were in attendance and to penses relating to the booth.— Laura 
introduce them to RBMS, ACRL, and the Stalker, H u n tin g to n  Library, e-m a il: 
world of special collections librarianship lstalker@huntington.org

vided $26.6 million to construct and equip a 
new library housing science collections, spe
cial collections and archives, and the 
university’s Center for Excellence in Teach
ing and Learning. The campaign sought $3.5 
million in private support to fully update and 
coordinate the new building with the Uni
versity at Albany’s other two libraries.

Expand your know ledge base with 
ACRL preconferences
Keep up with the rapid changes in academic 
librarianship by attending an ACRL precon
ference at the ALA Annual Conference in 
Chicago on July 7. Choose from workshops 
on licensing, advocacy, instruction, technol
ogy, and rare books. Details may be found at 
http://www.ala.org/acrl/confhp.html.

Navy Department Library celebrates 
200th birthday
The Navy Department Library took the occa
sion o f its 200th anniversary in March 2000 
to review its history. Established just three 
weeks before the Library o f Congress, the 
library traces its roots to a March 31, 1800,

letter from President John Adams to Secretary 
of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert directing him 
to establish a library that would contain “…  
the best writing…  on the theory and practice 
of naval architecture, navigation, gunnery … ” 

From unique signal books, including Tho
mas Truxtun’s personal copy o f Instructions, 
Signals and Explanations …  (1797), to scrap
books, like the 1936 “FDR Trip Aboard the 
USS Indianapolis, the library’s holdings pro
vide an eclectic array o f historical material 
documenting the country’s naval heritage. 
Located in the Washington Navy Yard in Wash
ington, D.C., the library is open to the public 
(http://navylibrary.nhc.navy.mil). ■

A news item in the ficatinolariCJanuary issue gave 
the figure o f 116 institutions participat
ing in JSTOR. This figure included only 
those institutions outside o f the U.S. As 
of March 2, total institutions participat
ing in JSTOR are 543 U.S. and 125 inter
national (overseas) for a total o f 668. 
The editors regret the error.

mailto:lstalker@huntington.org
http://www.ala.org/acrl/confhp
http://navylibrary.nhc.navy.mil