S w e e t B r i a r C o l l e g e Library Gazette Vol. XLVI 2013 One of only ten nationwide Kane Receives Award S weet Briar College librarian Julie Kane and Learning and Digital Pedagogies Librarian. is one of 10 winners of the Carnegie Since 2007, she has served as head of technical Corporation of New York/New York services, charged with cataloging, acquisitions Times I Love My Librarian Award. The and serials. In July, she was promoted to full honor comes with a $5,000 check presented at professor. the ceremony hosted by the New York Times. In addition to her work at Sweet Briar, “It’s a little more special because it comes she is pursuing an M.A. in English from from the people we serve,” Kane explains. Lynchburg College. She earned her M.S in Indeed. Seven grateful people—including library and information science at Simmons Courtney Cunningham ’10, whom Kane and her bachelor’s at Mount Holyoke, both mentored as a student and who is now an women’s colleges—which helped draw her to academic librarian, five faculty members and Sweet Briar after nearly seven years as a serials the College’s grants officer, Kathleen Placidi— librarian at Stanford Law School. contributed to Kane’s nomination. It was Kane’s colleagues also recognized her for Placidi who coordinated the effort, along with volunteering as an advisor to first-year students associate dean for academic affairs, Jill Granger. from 2009 to 2011, for her service on numerous SBC librarian Julie Kane “I’ve been so impressed by how Julie has American Library Association committees and expanded the role of what an academic her own scholarship. Librarian is, by enthusiastically helping our “Julie Kane loves being a liberal arts college faculty incorporate digital resources into their librarian—and it shows,” Granger wrote in classrooms and research, and by working so summation of her nomination. hard to learn new techniques and skills in order Only 60 librarians nationwide have won to turn herself into a digital humanities resource the I Love My Librarian Award since it was for the college community” Placidi says. inaugurated in 2008. The American Library Integrating technology across the Association administers the program. curriculum—teaching students to be adaptable This year, more than 1,100 library patrons and at ease with change—is a cornerstone of submitted stories detailing how their librarian the College’s strategic plan. Kane served on the impacts their communities and lives. Nominees Digital Sophistication Planning Group and has work in public, school, college, community been a key mover in digital learning initiatives. college and university libraries. Writing in support of her nomination, Kane believes the award has as much do English department chair Marcia Robertson with the community she serves as anything cited Kane’s leadership on the fall 2013 she has done. “Every facet of my nomination implementation of and training on the that highlights what I’ve done or what I do Digication e-portfolio platform. The system for Sweet Briar, I can trace back to members of “has its fair share of crotchets and glitches” the staff, faculty and administration who have that make it frustrating to use, Robertson supported, encouraged and pushed me out of wrote. “Having Julie specifically there to my comfort zone to explore, travel and learn handle questions and soothe anxieties and solve new things,” she says. problems makes a qualitative difference in our “I’ve taken advantage of the incredible lives. Knowing that I can bring her into a class support here and pounced on every crumb of to help students soothes both me and them.” encouragement; I only hope that I can give Reflecting new responsibilities, Kane’s title back something of value that reflects a fraction recently changed to Director of Digital Teaching of what that does for me.” Book in a Box The Friends of the Mary Helen Cochran Library mourn the passing of Dr. Edward Lee Piepho, Friend and benefactor at the age of 71. Dr. It all started three days before scale, and over the summer and fall Piepho was the Sarah Shallenberger Christmas. We were in Manhattan they had been buying private collections Brown Professor of English at spending the holidays with my wife from all over the United States. The the time of his retirement in 2007 Susan’s sister, and I was as usual dashing immediate result was a kind of good- following 36 years of teaching at around the city in search of presents. I natured pandaemonium. With no time Sweet Briar. Named as Research had decided to go to a bookstore that to cost what they had, signs throughout Professor Emeritus, he was beloved I knew downtown but without much the store advised customers to bring to by students and enjoyed a worldwide hope of success. The sole survivor of a the desk any books they were interested reputation for his scholarship. His group of secondhand shops northeast in and the staff would give them a price. voluminous correspondence with of Washington Square, it had long since So be it. I dove into the chaos and to scholars throughout the world is just swollen to become a vast emporium my nephew’s delight came up with a very one way in which he lived the life of selling used books, review copies, and good set of the first edition of Evelyn a renaissance scholar in the modern the overstocks of New York’s publishers. Waugh’s famous “Sword of Honour” day. This article, “Book in a Box,” was I had in mind finding a mint-condition trilogy of novels on the Second World published in the 2006 edition of the copy of one of Evelyn Waugh’s novels, War. But the curious, unexpected thing Library Gazette and gives just a taste a British novelist my nephew collects, that turned up was a book in a box. of the wonderful voice of a profound, and thought that I wasn’t going to have All serious collectors pause over these gifted, and beloved scholar. much luck. The shop had a small rare things. It means that someone cared books department I had known since enough about the volume to protect my graduate school days. But recently it with a purpose-built container. Most the owners had expanded it and the often the reasons are personal: to protect future by no means looked bright. I a family Bible, say, or preserve the book had been there the preceding June and of a family member or friend. But there the sight was forlorn: row after row of are other reasons too. A professor at empty or half-filled shelves and very few my undergraduate college had a box customers. So it came as a shock to open made for a tattered copy he had found the door at Christmastime to piles of of the very rare first edition of Herman books and crammed shelves. What had Melville’s Moby Dick. So, like I said, happened?! When I fell on a large batch everyone takes seriously a book in a box. of first editions of Henry James’ novels I This box had clearly done its job. It knew what I was looking at. The owners had been through a fire, and the backing of the store always did things on a large was charred and water-stained. But what was inside had escaped unscathed. This was a worn, lovingly preserved copy of the first major English edition of the collected poems of John Keats. I took it to the front desk, pointed out to the man there what it was, and advised him to put it aside for safe keeping. He wondered if I was interested in buying it, and I asked if he was kidding. No, he was serious. The manager was away for the holidays, but when he returned he would price it and give me a call. What happened next isn’t altogether clear. I had been buying books from the rare books department for over thirty years. That, plus the fact that I bought several other books that day (including an expensive first edition of the Walker Evans’ photographs) I suspect led the manager to let me have the Keats volume at a more than reasonable price. Merry Christmas indeed! Along with Wordsworth John Keats is my favorite among the English Romantic poets, so I was delighted and 2 Book in a Box amazed to have a copy of this book. the result, published in 1848 as The Life transience first struck here is returned to As I looked through it, however, I and Literary Remains of John Keats, in the last poem in the edition. Modern also came to appreciate more concretely increasing by over a third the number of editions commonly print Keats’ poems the winding, sometimes tenuous ways his published poems. Nor were Milnes’ in roughly chronological order. This by which authors’ texts come down discoveries minor. Without his labors 1841 edition in contrast closes with to us. Keats died in 1821, but this, we would not, for example, have “La a poem that he wrote in his prime of the first important English edition of Belle Dame Sans Merci” and “Bright life, 1817, but a lyric that nonetheless his collected poems, was published in Star,” major lyrics absent from the 1841 foreshadows a major concern in his 1841. Why the delay? The quick answer edition. verse. The first two stanzas of “In Drear- is that he wasn’t very popular. Along Many of Keats’ major works are in this Nighted December” note that trees lose with Shelley and Blake his poetry didn’t 1841 edition: “To Autumn,” the five their leaves to bud again, streams freeze attract wide attention during the first great odes, a version of his unfinished in winter to thaw again in spring. The half of the nineteenth century. The Hyperion. Forty-five lyrics and longer third stanza draws the contrast: period before Victoria’s accession in poems in all. It’s exciting to see “On Ah! would ’twere so with many 1837 belonged to Wordsworth and First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” A gentle girl and boy! Coleridge but also, in terms of book and “Ode to a Nightingale,” these great But were there ever any sales, to such now forgotten writers as lyric poems being brought together at Writhed not at passed joy? Samuel Rogers and Thomas Campbell. last in an English edition. Moreover To know the change and feel it, Beyond popularity Keats’ poetry was the book’s format shows that Keats was When there is none to heal it, also tied up in a complicated problem finally beginning to gain the respect Nor numbed sense to steal it, involving its copyright. The English denied him during his lifetime. William Was never said in rhyme. rights belonged to a publisher, John Smith, the publisher, had gone against Taylor, whose firm had gone bankrupt Taylor’s misgivings about potential sales I had never seen an edition of Keats’ in 1829 but who throughout the 1830s by issuing a cheap paperback edition in poems that began and ended this way. refused proposals to print Keats’ poems 1840. My copy comes from a deluxe Together with the opening inscription because, as he told one publisher, “I fear edition, a “royal octavo,” that Smith “In Drear-Nighted December” frames that even 250 [copies] would not sell.” published the following year and is a Keats within the Chatterton Myth. The Taylor’s continuing refusal led to an good example of early Victorian book eighteenth-century author of several odd situation. Because copyright law at binding. A small tag attached to the back pseudo-medieveal poems, Thomas that time did not apply outside Britain cover announces that it was “bound by Chatterton committed suicide at the age Keats’ poetry together with the poems Remnant & Edmonds,” reminding us of eighteen. His life and poetry fascinated of Coleridge and Shelley was published of earlier days when buyers purchased Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Shelley, at Paris in 1830 and quickly appeared books in loose softcovers and, if they and Keats himself dedicated his first in a frequently reprinted edition in the were considered important, had them major poem, Endymion, to Chatterton’s United States. Thus Americans and custom bound at extra cost. In this memory. In his end Keats in a sense found continental Europeans had access to his respect Smith’s 1841 edition looks his beginning, the format of this first collected poetry a decade before Taylor forward to editions published after mid- major posthumous edition shaping him finally relented and made it available century, when, having been discovered in terms of the great Romantic symbol of through another publisher to readers in by the Pre-Raphaelite poets and painters, unfulfilled poetic genius. England. Keats’ poems were often printed with I think students should know this 1841 We might assume that the poems engravings done in the high Victorian edition. There are only two copies available printed in this edition are pretty much style. in Virginia libraries: in Charlottesville and at those that we have in twentieth-century More immediately striking is the William and Mary. So I’m happy that there editions. But we would be wrong. accompanying material and the ordering is now a third, in Sweet Briar’s Mary Helen Following the 1830 French edition the of poems in this edition. Opposite Cochran Library. copy I bought printed for the most the title page is an engraving of a part only what had been published in chalk drawing of Keats made by an Dr. Piepho donated the Keats’s book he book form before Keats died. Much of acquaintance, William Hilton. Hilton is found in New York to the library’s rare his verse lay scattered after his death in best known for a oil painting of Keats book collection periodical and annual publications as now in the British National Portrait well as in letters to his family and friends. Gallery. His drawing is less well known Only four relatively minor poems from and a more modest affair but shows this corpus found their way into the Keats before illness began to strike him 1841 edition. It remained for Keats’ down. The inscription below it describes first real biographer, Monckton Milnes, the young poet as having “died at Rome to sort through much of this material, in 1821 aged 25,” and the theme of life’s 3 The Blue Ridge Haze O n October 25, 2013 Assistant Professor of Environmental Science Dr. Tom O’Halloran gave a lecture entitled “The Science and Beauty of the Blue Ridge Haze” to the Friends of the Library. In his lecture, Dr. O’Halloran explained that the iconic haze, so familiar in the mountains surrounding SBC, is formed of very tiny particles suspended in the air, called aerosols, which scatter blue light because of their tiny size. The particles form when gasses emitted by the trees react in the atmosphere to condense and form the tiny aerosols. Some of the gasses emitted by the trees are familiar as the compounds that give pine trees their characteristic smell. The most globally-abundant species emitted by plants, isoprene, is emitted very strongly by oak trees, which dominate the forests around Sweet Briar. For this reason, SBC is ideally located for research into the formation of the haze. Scientists are studying these naturally-emitted compounds and how they interact with air pollution to form the hazes common to the southeastern United States in summer. Scientists hypothesize that these hazes could be affecting regional climate by blocking sunlight and cooling the surface. The aerosols may also affect precipitation in the region. Dr. O’Halloran’s previous research as a doctoral student at the University of Virginia has shown that the formation of new aerosols in the region is common due to the ideal blend of natural tree emissions and air pollution in the region. O’Halloran recently received a $100,000 grant from the Jeffress Trust Awards Program in Interdisciplinary Research to continue his work on aerosol formation in the region. Along with funds that the Department of Environmental Science received from the Cargill Foundation, O’Halloran plans to establish a state-of-the-art air quality research station on campus at Sweet Briar. The research station will provide many research opportunities for undergraduate research. For example, funds from the Jeffress Trust will support a summer undergraduate researcher in summer 2014 to assist O’Halloran in initial deployment of the instrumentation. He expects that the site will attract regional and national scientific collaborators who are interested in similar research. Top: Professor Thomas O’Halloran climbs the air quality research station tower to check instruments. Left: The Friends of the Library lean about the effect of aerosols during Professor Thomas O’Halloran lecture. 4 Professor Thomas O’Halloran checks the sensors in the new Sweet Briar College air quality research station. 4 5 2013 Nicole BasBanes ’04 Book collectiNg coNtest The Book Is Better CamiLLe Reding ’15 T he Hobbit, Wolverine, The Count I am excited because I know the book which is on my reading list before I go of Monte Cristo, Frankenstein, is usually a lot better. When I first saw see the movie, and by older movies I have I am Legend, and The Invisible League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, I already seen and want to read because of Man: what do they have in only recognized a few of characters them, which was the case with Alice in common? All are wonderfully written from books. Immediately I went to the Wonderland and Through the Looking- pieces of literature, and all were made library to get King Solomon’s Mines and Glass. There are also the cases where I into blockbuster hits. While many are Allan Quatermain to find out more search for a movie after reading a book satisfied by watching the amazing special about Allan Quartermain. The Invisible because I loved it so much. After having effects or becoming wrapped up in a Man, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and watched a movie with an invisible man character’s physical appearance, I am Mr. Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, in it, I read the book. After reading the not. How would I have imagined a Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, book, I went to the library to rent out character, a place, or an event? I try my and Tom Sawyer were read shortly after. the old The Invisible Man movie from best not to allow producers to paint my Every book, whether I read it before 1933. It is a never ending cycle: books own mental pictures. or after seeing the movie, enriches the lead to movies, movies lead to books, For years I have delayed seeing a movie. It also allows me to critique the then books lead to more books! Two movie in order to read the book first, movie in a way many others cannot. of my favorite authors, H. G. Wells and no matter how long the book is. When Did they tweak the main character’s J. R. R. Tolkien, were both discovered my friends tried to whisk me away to see personality? Does that really happen in by wanting to read books because of a The Hunger Games in theater, I refused the book, and why on earth would they movie. to go until I finished reading the first forget to put that in the movie?!?! One of my major obsessions is the book. If I discover after I have seen a My book collection is fed both by new various X-Men movies and branch off movie that it was based upon a book, movies that come out like Les Miserables, movies from it. I first saw X-Men on 6 television with my mom, and I fell in and variations of the original comics, made into movies. In my opinion, these love. I went to a few book stores and acquiring the older series in sequence pieces of literature have stood the test then realized just how broad X-Men has proven near impossible. It is a lot of time and have true value. This means comics are. I collected quite a few harder than getting a single book, which books such as The Hunger Games and comics from various strands of X-Men is mainly what I have done in the past. Twilight, and the rest of the series, are and Wolverine comic books: X-Men, Libraries do not carry many, if any, not included in the books I would be Uncanny X-Men, Astonishing X-Men, comics, so catching them at a books sale focused on collecting. A book I would Ultimate X-Men and The Wolverine. there is unlikely. Libraries have been my love to add to my collection is one I Unfortunately, I have not been able best friend in obtaining older books, such checked out from my library before I to collect a large portion of comics in as The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The was a teenager. It was a compilation sequence, but that has not dampened my Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Book stores have of H. Rider Haggard’s writings that enthusiasm. I have everything from the comics, but not in continuing sequence. included She, King Solomon’s Mines, and movies to graphic novels to comic books When I saw the Nicole Basbanes Student Allan Quatermain. An additional series to novels. I have X-Men t-shirts, and my Book Collecting Contest, I thought that I have read, but have not collected, room is filled with posters and action this might be my chance to really start are C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia. figures from either X-Men or Wolverine. expanding in the comic book field. I There are so many books I have gotten Because of the boundlessness of how am now focusing on the harder task of from the library when I was younger, movies refer to literature and how works collecting a decent sized comic book but do not have in my possession. Of of writing have series, collecting my series, which will be an accomplishment Mice and Men, The Wonderful Wizard favorites is a challenging feat. I have for me, as well as an increasingly valuable of Oz, and The Secret Garden are books always had a strong desire to obtain possession as time goes on. I truly should have in my collection, but the X-Men and Wolverine comic books. My focus is on older literature as do not yet own. My collection is just Given the incredible number of comics opposed to recent novels that have been waiting to be expanded! BiBliography is with the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse, who are Edmond Dantes has his life fall apart with the plot having tea. The three are trapped in a never-ending of three men. He is accused of being a Bonapartist [Bendis, Brian M. (w), David Finch (p), Art tea-time, so Alice leaves them and goes into a forest sympathizer, and on his wedding day he is arrested Thibert (i).] “Block Buster” Ultimate X-Men. Vol. 7 where she finds a mushroom that makes her shrink and taken to Chateau d’if, a prison where none (2004). Marvel Comics. so she can enter the Queen’s garden. The Queen is return. With the help of an Italian priest, Abbe Faria, Three of Marvel’s biggest stars, Wolverine, giving orders to take off the heads of many croquet he escapes and finds Faria’s buried treasure on Monte Spiderman, and Daredevil, team up momentarily players, and the King of Hearts is angry at the Crist. Dantes takes this money and uses it to reward to fight one of Wolverine’s enemies from his past. Cheshire cat. Alice then visits the Mock Turtle, who those who helped him and punish those who harmed Wolverine finds shelter with the young Spiderman, tells her a story. She returns to the trial of the Knave him. He is knowledgeable and persuasive, using this who is alarmed at his presence. Violence always of Hearts, who was accused of stealing the Queen’s to fool and obliterate his enemies. His entire existence follows Wolverine, so he is forced to leave quickly. tarts. Alice disagrees with the guilty verdict, and the is bent on extracting revenge on those he thinks This is where he meets Daredevil, who is also met Queen gets angry and orders her to be beheaded. did him wrong. The last deed, however, was to give with the sophisticated military pursuers. Together, However, Alice grows and knocks over the army of Maximilian, his old shipowner’s son, his dream of the three superheroes fight back against the armed playing cards. Alice then awakes to find herself asleep living happily with his love, Valentine. Dantes finally forces. Lastly, Wolverine is confronted by a woman on her sister’s lap, back at the riverbank where she first overcomes his past and allows himself to fall in love who seems to know him, but he can’t remember her. saw the White Rabbit. with a woman named Haydee. He finds out they are previous Weapon X members, who would rather kill themselves than be captured. [DeFalco, Tom (w), Joe Bennett (p), Joe Pimentel [Goodwin, Archie (w), John Byrne (p, i), Klaus The X-Men step in, taking Wolverine away from New (i).] “Lesser Beasts.” Wolverine. #110 (February Janson (i).] “Heroes & Villains.” Wolverine. #19 (Mid York. SHIELD later comes in and tells Wolverine that 1997). Marvel Comics. December 1989). Marvel Comics. this was just a small group of people in a larger anti- Somewhere in Canada, a bear has been possessed [Goodwin, Archie (w), John Byrne (p), Klaus mutant conspiracy. by a spirit. Wolverine and Shaman teamed up to Janson (p,i).] “Miracles.” Wolverine. #20 (January search for two criminals in the forest. Wolverine asks Cerasini, Marc. Wolverine: Weapon X. New York: Shaman why the authorities cannot handle it, to which 1990). Marvel Comics. Marvel Enterprises, 2004. the Shaman replies that a “great beast of antiquity” Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon’s Mines. New Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland and Through has awaked. Meanwhile, a family is told they cannot York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 2004. the Looking-Glass. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, camp in the forest by the Mounties. In response to [Hama, Larry (w), Anthony Winn (p), Dan Green 1963. the complaints from his wife that he was a wimp, (i).] Wolverine. #109 (January 1997). Marvel Comics. In this tale full of lovely imagination, Alice falls the husband goes off-road into the wilderness. The down a rabbit hole while chasing the White Rabbit family winds up being confronted by the robbers who [Hama, Larry (w), Marc Silvestri (p), Dan Green with a pocket watch. She then grows to an abnormally demand their money and Jeep. Wolverine finds them (i).] “Papa was a Rolling Stone!” Wolverine. #42 (Late large size by eating a cake marked “EAT ME.” She and threatens the robbers, but the possessed bear July 1991). Marvel Comics. starts to cry, shrinks, and gets swept up in her tears, comes up behind him, causing the family and robbers Kipling, Rudyard. The First Jungle Book. New which have turned into a sea. She encounters a variety to flee. The Shaman attends to an injured person, York: Scholastic Book Services, 1967. of animals, but winds up being told to fetch the while Wolverine battles the bear. In order to not let belongings of the White Rabbit. While at his house, his animal side overtake him, Wolverine retracts his [Lobdell, Scott (w), Roger Cruz (p), Tim she drinks a bottle of liquid and grows too big for claws and fights only with his fists. He knocks the bear Townsend (i).] “Legion Quest: Part 1 of Four.” the house. Eating a cake to turn back to normal down, and Shaman is able to capture the spirit and The Uncanny X-Men. #320 (January 1995), Marvel size, she wanders alone in a forest where she meets a put it into an urn. The bear then returns to normal. Comics. caterpillar smoking a water pipe. He tells her to eat a Wolverine then goes back to the scene of the family [Lobdell, Scott (w), Romita Jr. (p), Green and mushroom, which she does, and her neck grows really and robbers, who have crashed into a tree. After a Panosian (i).] “Province.” The Uncanny X-Men. #302 long before returning to normal. She then travels to small confrontation, the authorities take the robbers (July 1993). Marvel Comics. the Duchess’ house, where she meets a cook and a into custody. grinning Cheshire cat. Alice leaves and travels to the Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo. [Lobdell, Scott (w), Jan Duuresma (p), Chris March Hare’s house, with the Cheshire cat telling her New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 2004. Eliopoulos (i).] “The Measure of the Man.” The everyone, including herself, is mad. The March Hare In this classic story of wrongdoings and revenge, Uncanny X-Men. #305 (October 1993). Marvel Comics. 6 7 [Lobdell, Scott (w), Joe Madureira (p), Dan he got very ill when a new assistant at Squire Gordon’s Please join us Green and Tim Townsend (i).] “Once More with does not put a blanket on Black Beauty after he runs Feeling.” The Astonishing X-Men. #1 (March 1995). a great deal. He and another female horse named in welcoming Marvel Comics. Ginger are sold to the Earl of W’s household. Here, [Loeb, Jeph (w), Ian Churchill (a), Bud Larosa, they are cared for by Reuben, who sometimes drinks Nicholas A. Basbanes too much alcohol. Reuben got fired and then hired Barta, & Carani (i).] “Legion Quest: An Hour of back. One night, after drinking, he road Black Beauty Last Things.” Cable. #20 (February 1995). Marvel as our while his horseshoe was loose. Black Beauty trips and Comics. Reuben is thrown off him and dies. After this, Black Gerhard Masur Lecturuer Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. New Beauty is sold and is used as a rented horse. Some York: The Macmillan Company, 1964. people ride well while others do not. Mr. Barry, a man on who rented Black Beauty multiple times, buys him and Matheson, Richard. I am Legend. New York: Tom tries to treat him well. Unfortunately, he hires two bad Friday evening, Doherty Associates, LLC, 2007. groomers and decides to sell Black Beauty at a fair. Robert Neville is the sole survivor of a plague that He is bought by another kind owner who uses him to March 21, 2014. has turned humanity into vampires. He struggles to pull a cab. While waiting for two cab riders, the owner maintain his food supply while not being killed by the contracts bronchitis and is unable to return to cab vampires. His wife and daughter have been lost to the disease, and his neighbor teases him every day. His work. Black Beauty is sold to a baker and is used as a Nicholas A. Basbanes is an award- work horse. While working there, he nearly goes blind. solitary life leads him to depression and alcoholism winning investigative journalist. Foreman overloads Black Beauty and uses a bearing while he tries to discover the cause of the disease. He rein. Later, Mr. Skinner, a cab horse owner, is an awful His latest book is ON PAPER: The discovers that garlic, mirrors, and crosses cause hysteria because of psychological conditioning. As he discovers owner and causes Black Beauty to collapse. Instead of Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year selling him to a knacker, he sells him at a horse fair. A more about the disease, he is able to kill them more History is now in its second printing. farmer named Thoroughgood buys him, even though effectively. This causes the vampires to fear him. He he is a weak horse. He is then sent to three ladies’ A reception and dinner will precede finally meets a woman named Ruth, who claims to be uninfected. While Robert is not convinced, he lets house, where he lives out his days. Mr. Basbanes’ lecture. The Friends of her stay. She winds up being infected and leaves him Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. New York: Barnes & the Library Business Meeting will be a note telling him that he killed her husband. She also Noble, Inc., 2003. a 4 PM tells him to leave his house because people will try Captain Walton finds Victor Frankenstein chasing to capture him. He refuses to leave and battles them a giant man through a snow storm. After Frankenstein when they come. He winds up badly wounded, is calms down, he tells the story of how he got to where knocked unconscious, and captured. When he awakes, he is. His childhood was pleasant and full of scientific Lanyon dies, leaving Mr. Utterson documents only Ruth tells him she is a leader in a new society and that interest. When he gets older, he goes to college to to be opened should Dr. Jekyll die or disappear. Dr. they are going to kill him. She gives Robert pills to study philosophy and chemistry. While he is at college, Jekyll now secludes himself, and one evening his butler make death easier, and he accepts his fate. His only he discovers how to bring a body made of human parts visits Mr. Utterson at home. He is afraid something request is to not let the new society become heartless. back to life. After doing so, he is appalled by his own is wrong, so when he and Mr. Utterson go back to When Ruth leaves, Robert looks out the prison creation and becomes ill. His friend, Henry, helps him Dr. Jekyll’s estate, they break into his lab. Mr. Hyde window to see the infected people waiting for him to get well. Later, Victor’s brother is murdered. While is lying dead on the floor, and Dr. Jekyll is nowhere be executed. He realizes that he is a legend of the old Victor thinks it was the monster that killed him, he to be found. Mr. Utterson finds documents for him humanity, and this new type of people will now rule. is afraid to say anything because people may think and reads both Dr. Jekyll’s and Dr. Lanyon’s papers. [Millar, Mark & Chuck Austen (w), Kaare Andrews he is crazy. His refusal to say anything results in his Through the papers, he finds out Dr. Jekyll used a & Kia Asamiya (p), Danny Miki (i).] “Hellfire & family’s servant, Justine, to be executed. To get away potion to turn into Mr. Hyde, living in the pleasures Brimstone” Ultimate X-Men. Vol. 4 (2003). Marvel from the stress, Victor goes to the Swiss Alps, where of the world and of crime. Dr. Jekyll also wrote that Comics. he finds the monster. The monster confesses that he as time passed, Mr. Hyde became harder to control. killed Victor’s brother. He then tells Victor how he In this Ultimate X-Men comic, the remaining has been rejected by society and has become severely Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit. New York: Ballantime Brotherhood is led by Magneto’s children, Scarlet saddened by his experiences. He requests Victor make Books, 1977. Witch and Quicksilver. They destroy nuclear arsenals in India and Pakistan in order to get on good terms him a female companion, which he agrees. Upon Tolkien, J. R. R. The Fellowship of the Ring. New with the United States government. The traditional nearing completion of the monster’s companion, York: Ballantine Books, 1983. Victor destroys her in fear he has been tricked by fighting between Wolverine and Cyclops takes places the monster. The monster becomes very angry and Tolkien, J. R. R. The Two Towers. New York: while Shadowcat is recruited. They go to Savage Island promises to be with him on his wedding night. When Ballantine Books, 1966. where Shadowcat saves Wolverine and Cyclops from a computer. Jean, who goes to the Hellfire club with he marries Elizabeth, the monster comes that night Tolkien, J. R. R. The Return of the King. New Storm and Professor X, is taken captive. The Hellfire and kills her. The loss of life is too much for Victor’s York: Ballantine Books, 1978. father, who dies as well. Now totally alone, Victor club awakens the Phoenix in Jean, who proceeds to becomes as bent on revenge as the monster. It is hard Tolkien, J. R. R. The Silmarillion. New York: kill the entire club. Lastly, the Brotherhood is able to to tell the difference between the two anymore. Upon Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. free Magneto. finishing his story, Victor dies in Captain Walton’s The Silmarillion is the history of Middle Earth. [Millar, Mark (w), John Romita Jr. (p), Klaus ship. The monster comes on board the ship, finds The first part of the book describes how Middle- Janson (i).] Wolverine: Enemy of the State. (2005). Victor dead, and says he has nothing left to live for. earth came to exist from the spirit world. The second Marvel Comics. The monster then goes off to die. part describes the Valar and Maiar, which are more supernatural powers. Next, the book goes over the [Nicieza, Fabian (w), Andy Kubert (p), Matt Ryan Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr. history before and during the First Age, which consists (i).] “Legion Quest: Part 2 of Four.” X-Men. #40 Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Other Stories. New York: Fine largely of the wards of the Silmarils. Continuing into (January 1995). Marvel Comics. Creative Media, Inc., 2003. the Second Age, the Downfall of Numenor is detailed. [Nicieza, Fabian (w), Andy Kubert (p), Ron Mr. Utterson, Dr. Jekyll’s lawyer, tells Mr. Enfield Lastly, the rings of power are made, and the Third Garney (p), Matt Ryan (i).] “Legion Quest: Part 4 of a story of a man who knocked down a small girl, got Age starts. These events led up to how The Lord of the Four.” X-Men. #41 (February 1995). Marvel Comics. yelled at, and in order to make it up to the girl, got Rings trilogy is set. a check from Dr. Jekyll’s bank account. Dr. Jekyll has Nordhoff, Charles, and James Norman made it clear that if he should die or disappear, his Travers, P. L. Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins Hall. Mutiny on the Bounty. Boston: Little, Brown, estate will go to Mr. Hyde. Mr. Utterson is wary of the Comes Back. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, and, 1960. agreement, so he tracks down Mr. Hyde and is taken Inc., 1963. Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty. Racine, Wisconsin: aback by how evil Mr. Hyde is. Dr. Jekyll later tells Wells, H. G. The Time Machine and The Invisible Western Publishing Company, Inc., 1955. Mr. Utterson not to worry about his personal affairs. Man. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 2003. Nearly a year later, a politician is beaten to death, Told from the point of view of a horse, Black and Mr. Hyde is accused of the murder. However, Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. New Beauty is a dramatic story of Black Beauty. He starts when the community goes to look for him, he has York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 2003. out as a colt on an English farm with his mother, pulls disappeared. Dr. Jekyll is in high spirits, being the life cabs in London, and retires in the country. The first of the party. Two months later, Dr. Jekyll and one part of his life is good, with caring owners. One time of his friends, Dr. Lanyon, become seriously ill. Dr. 8 Cupcake Feast Edible Book Fest was replaced this year with a Cupcake Feast for the community in celebration of their consideration during the disruption caused by library renovations. Cupcakes with designs celebrating books were baked and donated by the library staff. The event drew students and faculty in for an afternoon celebrating the old library space and anticipating the new. 8 9 samples from the friends of the liBrary acquisitions spring 2013 Christians. cambridge University Press, 2012. anthropology & archaeology isBN 978-1107026384 $99.00 this will be these volumes although important to my own helpful to Prof. Walker’s class on the fall of the research, are also general reference texts that i Roman empire. believe would augment the library’s holdings in Mackay, christopher. The Breakdown of the history, Asian studies, and world archaeology. i Roman Republic: From Oligarchy to Empire. am certain that the volumes could be used by cambridge University Press, 2012. students as well as by faculty. isBN 978-1107657021 $36.99 this has Fairbank, John k. and Denis twitchett (eds.) The received great reviews and will be an excellent Cambridge History of China, Vol. 1: The Ch’in and Han and readable history of the last century of the Empires, 221 BC-AD 220. cambridge University Roman Republic. this is a very complex time in Press, 1986. isBN: 978-0521243278 $260.00 Roman history and the author has been praised the library already owns several volumes from for making this accessible to a general audience. this series but the purchase of Volume 1 would greatly augment our collection. While these Brunt, Peter. Studies in Stoicism. cambridge volumes are expensive, i believe this would be University Press, 2013. isBN 978-0199695850 a nice complement to the other volume on $199.00 this will be really helpful to anyone Ancient china that the library currently owns. interested in the intersection of philosophy and culture in greece and Rome. Brunt intriguely B i o l o g y argues that the stoics had a practical outlook kantartzi, stella k. (ed.) Microsatellites: Methods and application for their philosophy right from and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology). the start and that the Romans appreciated and Humana Press, 2013. isBN: 978-1627033886 valued that (but didn’t actually change stoicism Playwright and author Tearrance A. $119.00 this volume will be used in research by as much as is traditionally imagined). Chisholm entertained the Friends of students using microsatellites in ferns with Janet Blondell, Ruby. Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, the Library at their Spring Meeting. and in walking sticks with linda. Devastation. oxford University Press, 2013. isBN Chisholm has spent the last three years Atkins, John F., Raymond F. gesteland, and 978-0199731602 $29.95 this is a fascinating researching Sweet Briar’s cultural and thomas R. cech (eds.). RNA Worlds: From Life’s new book on the always-fascinating character of historical past. A Washington, DC Origins to Diversity in Gene Regulation. cold Helen and the way she is depicted throughout native, Chisholm used the library’s spring Harbor laboratory Press, 2010. isBN: greek literature and culture. 978-0879699468 $149.31 this book will be archives extensively to write the new Acosta-Huges, Bejamin and susan A. stephens. good for cell & Molecular Biology as well as play, In Sweet Remembrances. There Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan evolution. was a brief reading of the play by fellow Poets. cambridge University Press, 2012. isBN Weinberg, Robert A. The Biology of Cancer. members of Endstation. The play, 978-1107008571 $99.00 this is an important garland science, 2013. 2nd edition. isBN: 978- commissioned by Endstation Theater new monograph about the highly influential 815342205 $150.00 We own the first edition Company, Sweet Briar College and greek poet callimachus and it will help both from 2006, but this field has been changing so the Virginia Center for the Creative Prof. Walker and casey in their classes and rapidly that we should add the second edition research projects. Arts, will be produced as a part of the to the collection. students in cell & Molecular college’s Freshmen Orientation Week Biology spend most of their time on cancer, as carney, elizabeth. Arsinoe of Egypt and Macedon: 2014 and is open to the public. well as research students working with cancer a Royal Life. oxford University Press, 2013. isBN: 978-0195365511 $27.95 this is the cell lines. first modern biography of one of the most classics important women of the Hellenistic age. kurt Jason konig, katerina oikonomopoulou, and A. Raaflaub and Hans van Wees (eds.). Blackwell greg Woolf (eds.). Ancient Libraries. cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece. Wiley-Blackwell, University Press, 2013. isBN 978-1107012561 2012. isBN: 978-1118451380 $49.95 this $120.00 this will be invaluable to my ongoing 788 page book will be invaluable to students research into ancient libraries and their status and faculty interested in the world of archaic as emblems of royal power and prestige. greece, the culture that produced the Iliad and Harris-Mccoy, Daniel e. Artemidorus’ Odyssey! i have been waiting for this to come oneirocritica: Text, Translation, and Commentary. into paperback for quite a while now! oxford University Press, 2012. isBN 978- Holmes, Brooke. The Symptom and the 0199593477 $250.00 this book influenced Subject: the Emergence of the Physical Body in sigmund Freud’s famous Interpretation of Dreams Ancient Greece. Princeton University Press, and it is one of the major ancient collections of 2010. isBN: 978-0691138992 $52.50 dream interpretations. this is the first scholarly this is a fascinating and well reviewed commentary on the text in quite a while and monograph all about ancient medicine and this should be of great interest to students and what it can tell us about ideas of the body and faculty in classics and Religion. the construction of gender in ancient greece. eshleman, kendra. The Social World of Intellectuals Hunter, Richard. Plato and the Traditions of in the Roman Empire: Sophists, Philosophers, and 10