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Oregon State University Libraries
Volume 4, Number 1
Spring, 1988
Lastly, the library has purchased a title
which would be of special interest to
librarians as well as mystery fans. It is
Murder in the Library by Charles Dutton. It
seems that it is the reference librarian in a
small public library who is found with the
cord around her neck. One is relieved that
it was not the acquisitions librarian.
OSU Strengthens Ties with
Malawi
PAULING COLLECTIONLinus Pauling recently toured the special collections room in Kerr Library. Photographed with Dr. Paulirig are
left to right: Sheryl Bennett, President Friends of the Library; Cliff Mead, Special Collections Librarian; Vern
Schoemaker, Professor Emeritus; Linus Pauling; Craig Wilson, Assistant Director of Library for Collection Development; John Evey, Director of OSU Development Office.
A Few Notable and Interesting
Books Added to the OSU
library
The OSU Library is always interested in
adding to its collection of books about
Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. The
Rawhide Railroad by George Estes is a
short account of building a railroad in the
Walla Walla region, where rawhide was
laid on wooden beams in place of iron or
steel rails. The end of the railroad was
proclaimed this way by an Indian:
"Railroad-him gonum hell. Damn wolves
digum outeatum all up." Pioneer History
of North Lincoln County is a small
pamphlet with many pictures of the early
pioneers, logging, Indian handicrafts,
oxen, and the business district of the early
Gleneden Beach in 1925just a dirt road.
Recollections of the Rickreall by Harriet
Nesmith McArthur is only 24 pages long
but tells the interesting story of the arrival
of the author's father in Oregon in 1843,
the family farm, and early experiences
growing up in Polk County. The last of the
Oregon titles is the Oregonian Souvenir,
1 850-1892. This book, rather large, is the
history, with many photographs, of the
beginning of the Oregonian. "On the
morning of December 4, 1850, the first
number was delivered throughout the
town. The subscription price was $7.00."
A man was hired "to go on horseback and
deliver the first number as far as Corvallis
(then Marysville) .....There are articles on
Portland with many photographs of the city
fathers and civic leaders, all men with
magnificent beards and handlebar mustaches; the navigation and railroad lines;
industries of the Northwest; biographies of
Portland's financiers, leading public men,
and finally, stories of Albany, Eugene,
Salem, Pendleton, and Corvallis.
From time to time the library buys books
printed by small presses; the books are
often printed with handset type and
handmade paper. One such recent purchase was from Typographeum of Francestown, New Hampshire. The owner, R. T.
Risk, has his own press, sets the type, and
prints the books on handmade paper. The
publication which we bought is The
Writing of Rebecca West by Diana Mosley
and is limited to one hundred and fifty
copies. The essay, for that is what it really
is, makes a rather scathing attack on Miss
West "who was to become one of those
writers of the twentieth century, part
romancer and part journalist, who, great or
small their talent, would mould the
Helen Horvath, who recently retired as
head of the Catalogue Department at OSU,
left for a Peace Corps assignment in
Malawi. She will be working in the Malawi
Ministry of Health to organize the medical
library resources.
The International Agriculture Interest
Group at Kerr Library has been seeking
ways to improve information links with
libraries in those nations where OSU has
development projects. Bonnie Avery,
Science Technology Librarian, is working
with Jane Kenney, librarian of the Ministry
of Agriculture in Lilongwe, Malawi, which
is funded by the World Bank. Kerr Library
has provided a serial union list for Oregon,
catalogue information and document
delivery; several on-line searches also have
been made for researchers in Malawi.
These support activities are given in
conjunction with the Malawi Agricultural
Research and Extension (MARE) project,
which is funded by USAID. OSU is the lead
university for this project.
Helen's assignment to Malawi was thus
particularly fortunate. She was able to
acquire considerable information about
the country and its libraries before leaving
on her tour of duty. She has promised to
keep the information exchange flowing.
opinion of the 'little man.'"
Annual Meeting
Announcement
Another beautifully printed book is that
of the Collected Letters of Frank Norris,
made by the Book Club of California.
Norris, the author of The Pit, Octopus,
McTeague, and other novels of the early
twentieth century, was a student at the
University of California in the 1890s. The
letters are to fraternity brothers, university
classmates, publishers, agents, and other
authors, notably Dreiser. The edition is
limited to five hundred copies and was
obtained through the Acquisitions Librarian who is a member of the book club.
The Friends of the Library Annual
Meeting will be a luncheon on Saturday,
March 26, 1988, at the Hanson Country
Inn, Corvallis. We will be featuring an
incunabula of Gregorian chants. Our
guests will include Fathers Paschal and
Lawrence from the monestary at Mount
Angel, Oregon. They will speak about
some of the history of canton music and
perform for the Friends. If you are
interested in joining us, call the Kerr
Library office at (503) 754-341 1. Members
of the Friends will have priority for tickets.
Dr. Melvin George
FROM THE DIRECTOR
This column will direct your attention to
four areas in which activities important to
the libraries of Oregon State have occurred
during the past several months.
Library Budget
During the past eighteen months the
University has been engaged in a strategic
planning process. The importance of the
libraries for a strong research oriented
university has been recognized by the
planning commission and by the University Administration and strengthening of
the libraries is a high priority of the
strategic plan. In June, Vice President
Spanier and President Byrne announced
that the libraries would be one of the few
units on campus to receive sizeable budget
increases. The budgets of many colleges
were cut. The library received $425,000,
or an overall increase of 9.3%. The funds
will be used for a number of programs.
Library hours will be lengthened during the
academic year so that Kerr Library will
close at midnight seven days per week. The
new funds make permanent a continuing
budget for the Special Collections unit in
the library including a full time Special
Collections Librarian, a full time Civil
Service staff member, two part-time
graduate research assistants and several
student aides. New funds also provide a
continuing budget with which to buy
supplies and equipment for special collections and for library materials and collections important to Oregon State University.
In addition the expanded budget provides
for several new staff members and for
additional funds for library books and
periodicals.
Library Buildings
Kerr Library has surpassed its physical
capacity. The building was built with its
addition to house approximately 750,000
volumes and to seat 3,000 users at a given
time. The libraries currently own approximately 1.1 million volumes which take up
so much space that the library has reduced
seating capacity to 2,000 users. In addition,
200,000 volumes are stored at Adair in
facilities which are inadequate for their
long-term preservation. The University's
strategic plan identified the need for library
expansion and the Chancellor's office has
agreed. It is likely that a major addition to
Kerr Library will be a high priority for OSU
and for the State Board of Higher
Education in the next legislative biennium.
Accordingly, Vice President Span ier has
named a library building committee
comprised of twenty faculty members,
students, administrators and community
users to develop guidelines for the
expanded building. The Director of Libraries is chair of the committee whose first
meeting was in late September.
Meanwhile, planning for a new library
building at the Mark 0. Hatfield Marine
Science Center in Newport is far advanced.
Detailed architectural plans including
furniture layouts have been completed and
the Marine Science Center staff and I
worked on color schemes and furniture
specifications in mid-September. The new
building being planned for OSU by the
Environmental Protection Agency will be
approximately 20,000 square feet.
Ava Helen and Linus C. Pauling Collection
The good news about a continuing
budget for Special Collections is noted
above. In December, Cliff Mead, the
library's Special Collections Librarian,
worked with Dr. Paulingto ship about
125,000 items to the University. The library
has begun organizing the papers using a
new automated system developed at the
University Archives at Michigan State
University. A Special Collections room has
been remodelled on the fourth floor of Kerr
Library which provides work space for
users and a high security area for special
collections. We expect to open the area
formally with receptions and an open
house during the spring term. We have also
received a grant of $10,000 from the
Oregon Community Foundation to support
the Pauling Collection and are at work on
some other grant applications. A preliminary appraisal by a noted antiquarian book
dealer who specializes in scientific and
medical materials indicates that the portion
of Dr. Pauling's papers which are now at
OSU would probably sell for more than a
million dollars if sold to collectors.
New Staff Members
During the past several months a number
of library staff members have retired or left
Oregon State. We have been fortunate to
have excellent candidate pools from which
to select their successors. Dr. Gloriana St.
Clair from Texas A&M became the
Assistant Director of Libraries for Technical,
Automation, and Administrative Services
on November 1. Mr. Craig Wilson became
the Assistant Director of Libraries for
Collection Development on October 1. Mr.
Wilson came from Sam Houston University
in Huntsville, Texas. Dr. John Calholun
became Acquisitions Librarian on September 1. Dr. Calhoun came to us by way of
Knox College in Illinois and the University
of California at Davis. Deborah Fetch is new
to the Catalog Department. Ms. Fetch
recently graduated from the Library School
at the University of Illinois. They will be
introduced more completely in an upcoming Messenger.
Feelings From a
Foreigner...
To exchange one's position for six
months in a foreign country is quite an
exciting experience. That is what happened between LindaJ. Rober, from the
OSU Kerr Library, and me, Jean-Marie Paul,
from the "Bibliothèque Nationale et
U niversitaire," Strasbou rg, France.
The first weeks were a discovery of both
American life and the library and university fields (a "second floor" here is a
'ler étage" in France, and so on...). The
campus already seemed greener and the
temperature was warmer than in France,
when I came here in April. That was also
the opportunity to discover both in the
library and the University some strong areas
we do not have in Strasbourg, like
Agriculture, Forestry, Home Economics,
Oceanography, Veterinary Science...
Everywhere, there is always a will to build
a more competitive university. This was
confirmed in reading the strategic planning
of the University for the future, or the
"Collection Analysis Project" made by the
Library.
To be at the reference desk in the
library was quite a challenge, because of
both a different language and partly
different items to know. During the first
days, I sometimes had to ask the patrons to
write their questions; some were quite
specialized (I remember for instance: "I
want books about methods of scoring
antlers, preferably by the Boone & Crockett
method"). All that told in three seconds...;
fortunately we had four books about it.
This work at the OSU Kerr Library has
been quite fruitful, particularly in two
areas:
- the methods of management: the Library
is well organized, and there is a permanent
trend to improve it.
- the Reference Desk: of course, we use
many books, serials, and databases in
English language in France, but not in the
same quantities (that is also because French
university libraries have less money for the
purchases). I knew some English books just
from the title, and now I shall have the
opportunity to publish an annotated
bibliography in France for my colleagues.
A special and grateful thanks to the
Friends of the Library for having helped me
to go into San Francisco to attend the annual "American Library Association Conference." To meet so many people is really
something; 12,000 librarians and 5,000
exhibitors (nearly 1,000 booths). That was
a busy week to derive maximum benefit
from the conferences and exhibits, and talk
to some colleagues from the whole country
(and even more), but shall never forget it.
Our meetings with the "Association des
Bibliothécaires Français" are not on the
same scale... I also had the opportunity to
visit the university libraries of Stanford and
Berkeley. A paper was sent to "Livres
Hebdo" (the French equivalent of "Publisher's Weekly") so that a larger number of
librarians, booksellers and publishers
could benefit from what I have seen.
Now it is time to leave the beautiful
Oregon that my wife and I enjoyed so
much to visit during the weekends. We
also want to thank the people from the
Friends of the Library, and more generally
from the library and the University, for
their kind and warm welcoming.
am writing a report for the French
Ministry of Higher Education so that the
experience of OSU in general and the Kerr
Library in particular may help the French
library staffs in their daily work and also in
their methods of management, relations
with the university, strategic planning...
Au revoir et merci!
Sept. 1,1987
Jean-Marie Paul
Unisa's Sanlam library
The University of South Africa, known as
Unisa, is situated on a hill overlookingthe
south side of Pretoria, the administrative
capital of the Republic. It was started in
1873 as the University of the Cape of Good
Hope, a purely examining body for other
institutions around the country. In 1946
Unisa, (pronounced U-nee-sa), was formed
as a "distance" teaching university. All
students work by correspondence. Equal
education and employment opportunities
are afforded to qualified persons regardless
of race, color, religion, gender, national
origin, age, handicap, ancestry, place of
birth, marital status, political affiliation or
domicile.
In 1955 there were 5,586 students, 71%
white, 18% black, 8% Asian and 3%
colored (mixed race). By 1986 the figures
were 84,040 students, 59°/s white, 25°/o
black,
0/,, Asian and 5% colored.
Students are from all parts of the world,
90I from RSA, 9% from the rest of Africa,
.55°/o from Europe, .25% from the Americas,
.1% Asia and .1% Australasia. The enrollment is 79% for the bachelor's degree,
l2% for postgraduate degrees and 90/s
who study non-degree programs. Nearly
one-third of the university student population of the Republic of South Africa study at
Unisa, which was developed primarily for
rural students who were unable to attend
residential universities. Now, approximately
half of the enrollment is from the Transvaal
urban areas. Some students are blacks with
education grants; most students are fulltime employees, many of whom are
teachers; some are homemakers.
The Unisa campus consists of one large
building which houses nearly 3,000 faculty
and professional staff. One wing of this
building is the Sanlam Library, which came
into being only in 1946 and now contains
approximately 1.5 million books, serials,
etc. The Library serves six faculties, Arts,
Economics & Management, Science, Education, Law, and Theology, with 56
departments and 14 research divisions.
Sanlam is the largest library in RSA, with
five main divisions of organization, acquisitions, classification & cataloging, lending,
research (subject reference, largely for MS
and PhD studies and for faculty), and
general study.
The division of general study carries
some books for assignment in quantity.
There may be as many as 500 copies of
some texts. (The main text for each course
is, however, a required purchase for the
student.)
Funding is 75% governmental and the
monies are allocated on the basis of
university components of faculty, staff and
students. The university, however, dictates
the budgeting of the funds. The remaining
25% comes from student fees and gifts
from industry and private individuals. The
annual budget for the Library is Ri million
ie: approximately $500,000 at today's
exchange rate. This includes the aforementioned multiple copies of texts for undergraduate studies and individual book titles;
study guides, tutorial letters, audio tapes,
etc.; packaging and mailing to students.
The Library has study space for 300
students. It is always fully occupied, largely
by black undergraduate students (90%).
There are three regional offices of the
university in Cape Town, Durban and
Pietersburg with six branch libraries in
these cities and East London, Wind hoek
and Soweto to enhance services to
students. Of the branch libraries, for
example, Durban has 850 square meters of
space, keeps a small reference collection,
and provides services and study space for
regional students. Additional branch libraries are in the planning stage.
An extensive computer system allows
daily calls between the regional libraries
and the San lam Library so that requested
materials can be sent out from Pretoria
with the least possible delay. These
requests can be made at any time of the
day and are computer stored at San lam
until staff are available to call up and fill the
orders. Requests can also be made by
telephone during working hours. Approximately 5 million items are mailed from the
dispatch section annually. These include
color slides and audio cassettes, books and
serials, and photocopies of materials.
Computer cataloging is in the developmental stage at this time.
Examinations are written at more than
350 centers in the republic and around the
world. The examination papers, study
guides, and other publications are printed
by the Department of Production at the
Sanlam Library. Staff to maintain the
Library includes 23 professionals in undergraduate fields, 26 subject librarians in
research fields and 12 in the branch
libraries.
While priority is given to building the
basic library collection for tuition and
research, a number of valuable and unique
book and archival collections have been
acquired by purchase and donation. These
are housed in one section of the library for
special preservation and are available by
catalogs and other search methods.
They may be consulted in a special reading
room and photocopies may be supplied for
some materials, upon request.
Some of these special collections include
the Unisa archives relating to activities of
the university and the professional and
personal papers of its faculty and staff.
They reflect the development of the
university, the professions, and higher
education. Materials dating from 1850 give
the history of the Board of Examiners and
the civil service examinations in the Cape
of Good Hope. Minutes, reports, prospectuses, examination papers, etc. have been
gathered from later years together with
faculty and staff publications, newspaper
and other press notices, etc. All theses and
dissertations from Unisa students are kept
in a separate collection.
The U nited Party Archives contain
documents on all aspects of South African
history, politics, and society over several
decades.
The Unisa Documentation Center for
African Studies was established in 1975. It
contains historical and contemporary
documents concerning the black communities in South Africa. The collection
contains documents of political parties,
welfare associations, church bodies, youth
organizations, chambers of commerce,
ethnic associations, etc. These promote and
facilitate research in the fields of black
culture and history.
The Hesse Collection of German Africana
was given by the late Dr. A. 0. Hesse,
lecturer in German at Unisa. There are
original manscripts, publications and archival materials, (diaries, travel stories,
missionary literature, war literature, scientific works, etc.) which reflect the German
contribution to South African culture over
many decades.
Unisa is continually growing. When fully
developed the campus will provide facilities for 140,000 students. The program
includes three more buildings which
should be complete by the year 2012. At
this time a new library is under construc-
tion; it will eventually accommodate four
million items.
Wilson, David. Rutherford: Simple Genius.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1983.
As a biological scientist, there have been
days when I have felt overwhelmed by the --S.
exponential growth of scientific knowledge
during the past 40 years and repelled at
some of the current trends. The biographical book on Rutherford has taken me back
to a much simpler era of the generations
that preceded mine. I found it both
exciting and stimulating to be transposed
in thought back to the era of such giants of
physics and mathematics as Rutherford,
Niels Bohr, Einstein, and others. In
Rutherford's era, string and bailing wire
still had a place in the laboratory and
grantsmanship had not been born.
Walter Loveland
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Platt, John Rader. The Excitement of
Science.
DIRECTOR'S MEETINGThe Friends of the Oregon State University Libraries Board of Directors were photographed
recently at one of their monthly meetings.
Oregon State University
Guide to Influential Books
Recently published, in commemoration
of that university's 350th anniversary,
is The Harvard Guide to Influential
Books. The editors asked more than one
hundred prominent faculty members and
administrators at the university to name,
and if so inclined, briefly to reflect upon
the four or five books that had been
most influential in their lives and careers.
We wished to repeat this experiment at
Oregon State University (albeit on a
slightly smaller scale). Herewith you see
the partial results of the survey, with the
remainder of the participants' responses
due to be published in succeeding issues
of the Messenger.
We hope you enjoy discovering that
which has influenced the OSU scholarly
community. Perhaps it will cause you
to reflect upon those books which have
had an impact upon you. If so, we would
certainly enjoy hearing from you.
Charles M. Leach
Professor
Lansing, Alfred. Endurance: Shackleton's
Incredible Voyage.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959.
This account of Shackleton's voyage to
Antarctica at the turn of the century, a
voyage in which his ship was crushed in an
ice pack, is without parallel as an example
of courage, discipline, endurance and
leadership under conditions that appeared
to be hopeless at the time. Shackleton's
epic has bolstered my own spirits on a
number of occasions when I have been
subjected to physical discomfort and
potential danger.
McGinnis, Joe. The Selling of a President.
New York: Trident Press, 1969.
McGinnis' book has had a major
influence on my views of contemporary
U.S. politics. The book describes the
dawning of an age during the Nixon era
when public relation firms began to warp
our whole system of political values. In my
opinion, it portrays a malignant growth in
our society in which anything goes in
politics as long as it makes a political
candidate a saleable product. Unfortunately the cancer has metastasized since
the book was written.
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology
Beveridge, William l.B. The Art of
There have been many books that have
influenced me over the years; the following
are a few that come to mind.
Scientific Investigation.
New York: Norton, 1950.
Sinclair, Upton. The jungle.
New York: The Jungle Pub. Co., 1906.
This book has had a profound influence
on my political thought. It presents some of
the nasty sides of capitalism during the
early part of this century, nasty sides that
unfortunately are not completely extinct.
Those who equate capitalism with democracy and the good society should read
Sinclair's book.
Beveridge, William l.B. Seeds of Discovery:
A Sequel to the Art of Scientific Investigation.
New York: Norton, 1980.
Beveridge has captured for me the
essence and excitement of research in
these two readable volumes. The 1950
book in particular, has had a considerable
influence on my philosophical view and
approach to research. I have recommended both books to numerous graduate
students.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
In this relatively unknown volume, Platt
writes, with unique insight, about the
intellectual characters of science. His
essays on the art of creative thinking and
the motivation of creation seem as fresh to
me today as when I first read them twenty
years ago. I constantly find myself dipping
back into this volume for inspiration and
insight.
Gardner, John W. Excellence: Can We Be
Equal and Excellent Too?
New York: Harper, 1961.
When there are so many pressures to do
lessor expect less, Gardner's excoriation of
the cheap, the shoddy and the vulgar is so
encouraging.
Sandburg, Carl. The Complete Poems of
Carl Sandburg.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1970.
I find reading Sandburg reminds me of
where I came from and the America I love.
Fred Lundin
Staff Chair
Morrow County Extension Agent, Heppner,
Oregon.
Knight, Eric M. Lassie Come Home.
Bertelsmann Lesering, 1900.
This was the first book I remember
reading. More than any other it developed
in me a love of reading that continues
today.
Durant, Will. The Story of Civilization.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1935-1975.
11 vol.
This work is not only fun and easy to
read, it demonstrates how huge tasks can
be tackled and conquered by breaking
them down into manageable sizes.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent. Collected Sonnets.
New York: Harper and Bros., 1941.
Gann, Ernest. Blaze of Noon.
This novel of early mail pilots motivated
me to learn to fly. In the end, it was the
cause of my Viet Nam experience.
Rombauer, Irma S. joy of Cooking.
St. Louis: A.C. Clayton Printing Co., 1931.
No book is used more, marked in more,
or has been replaced as often as this. It not
only made me into a tolerable cook, it
made me like it.
Douglas F. Markie
Associate Professor
Department of Fisheries & Wildlife
Michael Oriard
Associate Professor
Department of English
Childhood: The first books to make a deep
impression on me:
Burton, Virginia I.ee. The Little House.
Boston: Houghton & Mifflin, 1942.
The Child's World.
Grade school: the book that most inflamed
my imagination:
Wyss, Johann David. Swiss Family
Robinson.
New York: Hurst, 1800.
A good introduction to the fine art of
writ/ng and the more difficult discipline of
th/nking.
Popper, Karl Raimund. Conjectures and
Refutat/ons.
New York: Basic Books, 1962.
Lucid discussions of the nature of truth
and of the type of society in which the
search for truth is likely to thrive.
Darwin, Charles. Autobiography.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.
Darwin, Charles, Descent of Man, and
Select/on in Re/at/on to Sex.
New York: Appleton & Co., 1871.
In retrospect, the most interesting thing
about this list is that I read all of these
books during my first two years in graduate
school, 1969-1970. The idealism of those
years was an important influence on me.
High school: The novels that first made me
love their characters and the authors
behind them:
Darwin, Charles. The Origin of Species, by
Means of Natura/ Se/ection.
Franny and Zooey
Carson, Rachael. Si/ent Spring.
Cannery Row
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961.
College: The novel that defined my
worldview, made me laugh out loud, and
seemed the epitome of human achievement (read annually as my own rite of
spring):
Answers the perennial questions: What is
nature really like? How were humans really
formed? Without question, the most
important writings in the history of human
thought since the intellectual giants of
ancient Greece. Thanks, Anaximander and
Democritus!
Hennig, Willi. Phy/ogenetic Systematics.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1966.
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961.
Steinbeck, John. Log from the Sea of
Cortez.
In my profession: The novels that have
taught me the most about American
culture:
Malcolm X. Autobiography of Ma/corn X.
New York: Grove Press, 1965.
New York: Viking, 1951.
4asakazu Matsumoto
Associate Professor
Co//ege of Veterinary Medicine
Speer, Albert. Inside the Third Reich:
Memoirs.
New York: Macmillian, 1970.
Hesse, Hermann. Beneath the Wheel.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1968.
Nakane, Chie. Japanese Society.
Berkeley: U niversity of California Press,
1970.
Herriot, James. All Creatures Great and
Small.
New York: Bantam Books, 1972.
A well written and purely enjoyable
book. I was doubtful about some of his
practice aspects as a veterinarian. Yet, I
thoroughly agree with him in that warm
human association with clients is the best
part of veterinary and probably medical
profession.
Jane Meiners
Assistant Professor
Department of Family Resource
Management
Liebow, Elliot. Tally's Corner: A Study of
Negro Streetcorner Men.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1967.
This book is the handbook on debunking
social/cultural myths about low-income
black urban dwellers in this country. More
importantly, it is written with compassion
and a lively interest in how people live and
who they are.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Virginian
The novels that, reading after reading,
continue to stun me with their combination of great storytelling and great art: a
large handful of Faulkner's novels (The
Sound of Fury; Light in August; Absalom,
Absalom!; The Hamlet.)
Arthur Poole
Extens/on Agent
Horticultural Crop Management
Coos County
In my present way of thinking, there is
one book which has been most influential
in my life. I'm sure there are many others
that are important, but this one really
stands out at present:
Kwitny, Jonathan. End/ess Enemies: The
Making of an Unfriendly World.
New York: Congdon&Weed, Inc., 1984.
Jonathan Kwitney, a noted Wall Street
Journal correspondent and former Peace
Corps volunteer, reveals a creative, nonideological way for U.S. foreign policy to
win friends abroad with peaceful trade and
non-/ntervention.
Paul A. Roberts
Professor
Department of Zoo/ogy
Russell, Bertrand. A History of Western
Philosophy.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1945.
New York: Hurst&Co., 1800.
Wilson, Edward 0. Sociobiology: the New
Synthesis.
Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press, 1975.
A continuation of the Darwinian tradition. Explores the genic basis of human and
animal behavior.
Robin Rose
Project Leader
Department of Forest Science
Creswick, Paul. Rob/n Hood.
New York: Scribner, 1957.
This was my first book in ethics. It is an
exciting tale that teaches about loyalty,
justice and honor. The thesis of Robin
Hood is universal. Good triumphs for all of
the right reasons over evil.
Zen and the Art of Archery.
It is the story of a Harvard man who goes
to Japan to learn Zen archery. A Zen
master can hit the bullseye with his eyes
closed. He learns that hitting the target is
not the point. It is the doing that matters,
the style, and the dignity and honor of
doing it. This is good reading for a student
who thinks grades are the point of a college
education. Love what you do and the
arrow will hit the center of the target each
timewhen you reach that point . . . well,
read it and find out.
The Bible.
I can not think ofa book more
comforting. It isn't an easy book to
understand, but once you do it is hard to
put down. It seems that everyone is out for
themselves these days. Get money! Get
fame! Gimmee. For centuries those "ideals"
have never worked . . . but we persist. It's
a good book to have with you in the
middle of a mortar attack, too.
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