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Volume 4, Number 3
Oregon State University Libraries
Winter, 1989
and economic development library service
to the business and professional communities of Benton and Linn counties.
According to Karyle Butcher, Assistant
Director for Research and Reference Services
Senator Cliff Trow
FOE. Board Meets Legislators
On the evening of December 1, the
Friends of the Library Board and guests
gathered atAnne Merryfield's home to meet
with legislators Cliff Trow and Tony Van
Vliet and to discuss informally the various
concerns of Oregon State University
Libraries. Mel George, Director of Libraries,
began the meeting prior to the arrival of the
legislators with a presentation of library
concerns to the Board. Among the matters
that Dr. George presented were:
Li The gradual erosion of the library's
materials budget due to the dramatic rise in
the cost of journals.
Li The need for a library addition to
Representative Tony Van Vliet
contributed more than $35,000 in 1987-88
to help alleviate some of the pressures.
When the legislators arrived, everyone
helped themselves to food provided by the
Board members and joined one another to
discuss the concerns of the library. Then,
near the end of a very pleasant evening and
after the legislators had left, the Board
ended the meeting with a short session. The
members agreed that the meeting had been
successful and discussed some follow-up
strategies involving not only legislators but
also the Chancellor's Office. Mel George
ended the wrap-up session by thanking the
Board members for their help which, he
noted quite correctly, is truly appreciated
by the entire library staff.
[Craig Wilson]
provide more space for users, materials, and
services.
Li The fact that the OSU Libraries, despite the status of OSU as a major research
institution, have never been able to qualify
for membership in the Association of
Research Libraries.
Li The fact that increased funding for the
libraries has wide faculty and student
support as evidenced, in part, by the results
of a 1985 survey by the Survey Research
Center.
Dr. George also noted that the 1,500
members of the Friends of the Library had
LSCA Grant
Library Services and Construction Act
grant funds were awarded recently to
Oregon State University's Kerr Library, the
Corvallis-Benton County Public Library,
and the Linn-Benton Community College
Library to create a new resource for
business and professional people.
The objective of this new state-funded
project is to provide business information
at Kerr Library, a librarian will be hired to
provide ongoing assistance and timely
information to small businesses and to
strengthen the local library collections and
database searching services.
The librarian will work at Kerr Library and
will establish an additional resource to the
various economic development agencies
and local small businesses in the area.
Sheryl Bennett, associate director of the
Corvallis-Benton County Economic Development partnership, said, "national and
state statistics continually confirm that small
business is the largest provider of job
opportunities.
"Many small companies reach a limit of
time, finances, and expertise and need to
seek assistance beyond company resources
and talents," Bennett added. "Our local
economic development partnership is one
active assistance source; the Chamber of
Commerce and Lin n-Benton Community
College are others. Now we add the OSU
Library, the Corvallis-Benton County Public
Library, and the LBCC Library."
Butcher said interviews for the position
are currently under way and added that the
Economic Development Librarian should
be ready to begin work soon.
A proposal has been accepted for a
second year of the grant, and it is hoped that
the position will also be funded.
[Karyle Butcher]
Celebrating the
Computerized System
Purchase of the Geac/Advance integrated
library system has been cause for a number
of celebrations in the library. The first of
these was a party in honor of the purchase.
Held on June 22, the party had a Hawaiian
theme to reflect the company's home base
in Honolulu. The staff association
decorated the staff room with Laurie Ebner's
graceful construction paper palm trees;
provided refreshments of pineapple,
Hawaiian punch, and coconut cookies; and
garlanded key staff in the automation
project with brightly colored leis. Many staff
coinciding with the third floor of the first
unit. "As a further expansion of library
space, it was planned that the area north
and west of the new structure would be
reserved for an undergraduate library
utilizing the arcade walkway to the new
building," Carlson said.
The first phase of the new building was
completed in 1963, and the second phase,
representing the addition of the fifth and
sixth floors of the present Kerr facility, was
completed in 1971. The third phase was
never completed. Thus, the building never
reached the capacities projected in 1961.
The present library was designed to house
Dr. Melvin George
From the Director
"GIVE ME A LIBRARY, AND I'LL BUILD A
UNIVERSITY ABOUT IT"
And he did!
The man who called for a library and who
built a university around it was Benjamin
Ide Wheeler, president of the University of
California. He arrived in Berkeley from
Cornell University in 1899. By the time he
retired from the presidency in 1923, the
University of California had become the
largest institution of higher education in the
world, with an enrollment of more than
14,000 students. President Wheeler's
library was built soon after he arrived in
Berkeley as the result of a bequest.
STUDENTS LEAD THE CHARGE FOR A
NEW BUILDING
In February of last year, more than 250
Oregon State University students marched
from the library fountain plaza on Jefferson
Street to the front of the adminstration
building bearing placards with slogans very
reminiscent of President Wheeler's
proclamation. Several student leaders,
members of the University faculty and
administration, and President Byrne all
called from atop ateetery makeshift podium
for improvements in the library's budget
and for an expanded library building.
THE LIBRARY IS GROWING OUT OF ITS
AVAILABLE SPACE
Why do we need an expanded library
building at Oregon State? The need is best
illustrated by reviewing the history of the
present William Jasper Kerr Library building.
In 1961, an Oregon State System of Higher
Education building committee approved
preliminary plansforathree-staged building
for the OSU libraries. The plan called for a
total of 258,000 sq uare feet with seating
capacity for 3,500. The approved plan was
to include a first phase of four floors, a
second phase of two additional floors, and a
third phase consisting of an "L" addition to
the northeast. According to then Director of
Libraries William Carlson, the "L" wasto be
carried on steel uprights with the lower floor
750,000 volumes and to seat 2,600 users.
Today, the libraries of Oregon State
University house more than 1.2 million
volumes. To accommodate the growth of
collections, the seating capacity of Kerr
Library has been reduced to under 2,000,
and more than 200,000 volumes are stored
in a facility at the former Camp Adair, which
has no environmental control for humidity,
temperature, and vermin. Materials stored
at Adair are deteriorating more rapidly than
they would under better environmental
conditions, and they will have to be
fumigated before they can be reintegrated
with the remainder of the collection. The
library collection continues to grow each
year. Our only alternative is to replace user
space orto consign more valuable materials
to Adair,
GOVERNOR GOLDSCHMIDT PROMISES
SUPPORT
The need for a major expansion to Kerr
Library is now a top capital construction
priority of the State System of Higher
Education. Governor Goldschmidt has
included a small amount for planning in this
biennial budget. In a letter to President
Byrne, the Governor said, "funds for
preliminary planning of a new library are a
signal of my interest in an OSU project
similar in scope and shared financing to the
University of Oregon project I am
recommending to this legislature." The
"scope" to which the governor refers is a
project with a budget of approximately $26
million of which $9 million will have to be
raised privately.
This is good news indeed! A committee
representing the entire University community has already been hard at work on the
initial planning stages. It appears that the
expanded building will be approximately
twice the size of the present Kerr Library
building, or nearly 400,000 squarefeet. This
expansion will accommodate library
growth through 2012. The building
committee has recommended that the new
library incorporate facilities for nonbook
materials as well as traditional print
collections. This would mean that expanded
facilities would be built for the services and
collections supported by the Communication Media Center, which is currently
housed in Kidder Hall. No plans or decisions
have been made yet about the configu ration
or the exact location of the expansion.
THE NEXT STEP
A great deal needs to be done to make the
expanded library a reality. Throughout the
next year, the Library Building Committee
and I will complete a detailed "program
statement" for the expanded building. This
program statement will provide an architect
with the information needed to begin
preliminary layouts and exterior plans.
Within the coming biennium, we hope to
move the planning as far as possible and to
mount a campaign to fund "our" portion of
the building project. We will need a lot of
help and many "Friends" as we work
toward this major improvement in the
libraries of Oregon State U niversity.
[Mel George]
Computerized System (continued)
members wore Hawaiian attire to mark the
occasion. Director Mel George made it
clear to company representative Brian
Aveny that this party would be followed in
September byacrow-eating ceremony if the
company did not meet its development
deadlines. The Circettes began their career
as the premier library entertainers by
presenting several songs to the accompani-
mentofa ukulele.
On August 23, 1988, filing the last card in
the card catalog was the next cause for
celebration in the library. The cost benefit
study done to justify the system showed that
the library spent about $65,000 a year in
labor costs to file cards into the catalog. The
cards themselves cost another $18,500 a
year. In addition to beingexpensive, filing in
the catalog required catalog department
librarians and civil service employees to
spend about 10,000 hours a year in a
tedious but important human endeavor
which can be performed bya machine more
quickly and accurately. When it closed, the
catalog had over four million cards, which
laid end to end would stretch for 300 miles.
Terminals ofan online catalog began to supplement the card catalog this winter.
The party began with Debbie Hackleman,
the head of cataloging, attired in a
resplendent red robe and a golden crown,
processing from the catalog department to
thesecond floor public catalog. A kazoo
band of library employees followed her
playing the elegiac strains of the Volga
boatman. When she removed the final card
from the velvet pillow and placed it in its
alphabetical slotlibrary humor, the band
sounded taps. As the rod was replaced in
the drawer, the band broke into "When the
Saints Go Marching In." The Circettes
repeated favorite musical numbers from
their last engagement, but added a newly
composed song for this occasion"Tiptoe
to the Terminal." A poetic offering, "Filing
at the Cat," was read. Invited guests and
surprised patrons joined library staff for
punch and cookies right in the area of the
catalog.
Also on August 23, the library received a
letter from the ALII company stating that
ALII will become a part of Geac Computer
Corporation. Since ALIt was a small
company with limited financial backing,
this news was cause for celebration in the
library. Having the added financial weight
and technical expertise of the wellestablished Geac Computer Corporation
made the administration feel more secure.
In September, the company did fail to
meet its delivery deadline for the serials
component. Company representatives have
acknowledged their need to "eat crow,"
but the detai Is of that ceremony have not yet
been worked out. Other milestones have
occurred: the bibliographic database of
almost 400,000 items has been successfully
loaded, the Electronic mail system has been
made operational, and the training
committee has trained all library staff
members in use of the system. The library
opened the online catalog in a developmental mode on January31.
[Gloriana St. Clair]
high school library at Lemmon, South
Dakota. I also taught five classes in English
as well as directing the junior class play,
taking tickets at football games, and
chaperoning at school dances. The next
year I had the grade school library, too.
"In 1953, I became a full-time high school
librarian at Sheridan, Wyoming. I believe I
was the only male full-time high school
librarian in Wyoming at that time. I edited
the school library section of the state library
newsletter one year.
"In 1956, I graduated from the University
of Michigan Library School and moved to
Chadron State College, Chadron, Nebraska.
I had charge of technical services and my
colleague had public services. We had
alternate evenings to have charge of the
library as well as alternative weekends. The
library closed at nine thirty on weeknights
and noon on Saturdays.
"In 1962,1 came to OSU asa senior
cataloger and was in the catalog department
for seven years before moving to
acquisitions.
"For the last twenty years or so, I have
been using the desk and chair of William
Jasper Kerr, former President of OSU and
Chancellor. I understand that the Secretary
of State, Betty Roberts, is to have these
moved to the Capitol in 1989.
"And the millionth volume was added to
the library just a few years ago."
Since 1984, Stanley has written a weekly
book review for the staff newsletter, The
Kerrier. The following is his farewell
message:
Stanley Swanson and his wife Dora Swanson
Retirement
Long-time librarian and friend, Stanley
Swanson, retired at the end of December.
Staff and friends honored him with a party
during which he was presented with a quilt
pieced together with squares decorated
individually by staff members. He wrote the
following sketch of his career shortly before
his retirement:
"It is certainly twenty-six and a half years
ago I came to Corvallis and Oregon State
University Library, but it seems as through it
was but yesterday! The library was but a
hole in the ground at that time.
"William Carlson was the director of
libraries then. On his 65th birthday all the
librarians lined up in back of him as he
carried to the new library the fiftythousandth volume added to the library.
"I became a librarian in 1950 when I was
asked to assume the responsibility for the
"Well folks, this is the end of the book
reviews! It was in December 1984 that Bob
Baker asked me if I would like to write a
book review for The Kerrier. I did, on
December l9th.The next week I wrote one,
too, for I was afraid if I did not he would not
ask again. I just kept on writing one each
week almost without fail. The first review
was in Kerrier No. 36; last week's Kerrier
was No. 244, so I have done nearly 200. I
did have some wonderful help from others
who volunteered to write one ortwowhen I
asked. I will not name any of them for I am
afraid I would leave out someone, but their
reviews were excellent and most
appreciated. One person told me several
times that the reviews were the only part
worth reading in The Kerrier. I know some
of you borrowed the books I read, for you
told me so; and also, I saw your names on
the cards! A reader in Tennessee said,
"Stanley, you sure read some weird
books!" One reader commented that these
were not really reviews for they were not
very scholarly. They were just notices of
books I liked. I do not think I reviewed any
books negatively. There were enough good
books to talk about without mentioning any
I did not like. Many of the books were
novels, but for a while a few years ago I did
try to do a novel and then a nonfiction title. I
have enjoyed writing these reviews or
notices very much but some Mondays and
Tuesdays I was hard pressed to think of a
book to do. Writing some two hundred
reviews meant that I probably read three or
four books a week, or eight hundred! This is
probably on the low side. This is the end of
my time with OSU library. I have been here
for twenty-six years and am looking forward
to my retirement party on the 29th of
December. I would hope that someone will
continue to review books so that some
readers can find something in The Kerrier
worth reading. So good bye, Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year, and may
you all continue readingfor yearsto come."
On March 1, Harbans Chona, documents
librarian since October1966, will also be
retiring. Mr. Chona came to Oregon State
following a four-year assignment at the
University of Saskatchewan where, among
other things, he experienced several winters
during which the temperature regularly fell
to 30 degrees below zero. Prior to his work
in Canada, he worked for one year at the
Brooklyn Public Library. The biggest
changes he has seen in the library have been
recent onesthe combining of the
reference desks and the introduction of an
on-line catalog. After retirement, Mr. Chona
plans to stay in Corvallis and, possibly,
pursue some real estate interests.
[Craig Wilson]
Docent Tours at the Library
Friends of the Library docent trainees are
concluding a year of preparation for the
service that FOL will offer to members and
those who wish to become Friends.
Whether the series of tours will be known
by the subtitle "Treasures and Tools of the
Library" or "The Library Does Not Live by
Books Alone" or simply "Docent Tours at
the Library" is not yet certain. But what is
certain is that eight docent trainees have
completed a sequence of seminars and are
now conducting practice tours. By the time
this newsletter is published, tours will be
available by appointment. The library office
will take requests for tours covering these
subjects: map room, computer searching of
library sources, Linus Pauling Collection,
and sources of local history. More subjects
will be added in the near future.
Another series of monthly seminars is
under way, and new trainees are welcome
to enter this program. To become a docent,
a member of FOL should call the library
office (754-3411) and request information
and an application. Docent trainees attend
monthly seminars and are expected to be
available for conducting at least three tours
per year after their training period.
New Library Building at the
Marine Science Center
Oregon State University
Guide to Influential Books
When I heard the roar of the bulldozer
early on December 6, 1988, I went running
outside to see the groundbreaking for the
new Hatfield Marine Science Center
Library. It's really exciting to see all the
planning beginning to take shape in a space
that had been our parking lot. Dr. George;
Dr. Lavern Weber, the director of the
HMSC; and I had been working with Carl
Sandine of the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency and architect Jim Lewis,
of Moreland Unruh of Eugene since 1985 to
design and build a library facility for the use
of all the researchers and students at the
HMSC, and at last the big day had arrived.
The library, which will be 20,000 square
feet, is actually a small portion of the new
EPA construction at Newport. There will be
a new 43,000-square-foot laboratory/office
complex for the marine environmental
research built on the east side of the HMSC
complex. The laboratory space will be used
for studying pollution and the marine
environment, in addition to an improved
Harvard University, in commemoration
of its 350th anniversary, published The
Harvard Guide to Influential Books. The
editors asked more than one hundred
prominentfaculty 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 have asked the same of the faculty at
Oregon State University (albeit on a slightly
smaller scale). Herewith is the fourth
installment of the results, with the
remainder of the participants' responses
due in future 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 in your life. If so, we would certainly
enjoy hearing from you.
[Clifford Mead]
seawater system.
The HMSC Library has been a part of the
OSU Libraries since the beginning of the
MU Reservations
center in 1965, and has grown with the
facility from a small collection in two rooms
of the original research building into its
present location. Although the library was
moved to the educational building in
September 1976, it expanded rapidly and
has now overflowed. If construction
schedules are correct, we will move into the
new building in the spring of 1991. The EPA
will own the library building but Oregon
State University will furnish the building and
manage the library operations. I will soon
be involved in a campaign to raise these
funds because no state money has been
appropriated for the furnishings.
The library is considered the heart of the
HMSC complex, because all the staff and
students need information. With that
objective in mind, we talked about our
ideas and space requirements, and Jim
Lewis designed a facility which combines
the best of high technology (like a fiber optic
local area network and electronically
complete carrels for computers) with the
comforts of easy furniture and a relaxed
atmosphere to allow our people to come in
to browse, talk, and share ideas about
research. The library building will have a
seminar room that will be available at any
time, and small group study areas to allow
students and researchers to explore ideas
cooperatively. Other anxiously anticipated
features are study and reading areas where
one can retire to a quiet spot away from the
hustle of the main reference/circulation
area. Robinson Construction of Tigard has
already installed the lasers used to
determine the elevations on the site, and the
workers are coping with the rain and hail.
Watch this space for HMSC Library construction updates.
[Marilyn Gum]
Shirley Brennan
Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged.
New York: Random House, 1957.
Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merriil, 1968.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.
De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex.
New York: Knopf, 1952.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow. Gift From the
Sea.
Fromm, Erich. TheSaneSociety.
New York: Rinehart, 1955.
The psychoanalyst deepened my alarm
concerningthe values embodied in modern
society and their consequences for people
growing up in these societies.
Schumacher, E.F. Small Is Beautiful: A
Study of Economics as if People Mattered.
New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
This economist put the baleful
conclusions I was reaching about the
modern world in a more hopeful light and
inspired me by pointing in positive
directions.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers
Karamazov.
New York: Macmillan Co., 1912.
This peerless novel drove home to me the
limits of rational understanding and the
necessity of spiritual depth to full
humanness, while simultaneously leaving
me in awe of the creative and integrative
capacities of a true artist.
Brian Dodd
Associate Professor
Department of Nuclear Engineering
The Bible
Crabb, Lawrence J. Effective Biblical
Counseling.
Grand Rapids: Zondervan Pub. House,
1977.
General lifestyle, ways of relating.
Lamarsh, John R. Introduction to Nuclear
Engineering.
Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing
Co., 1975.
Standard teaching text.
New York: Pantheon Press, 1955.
Browne, Harry. How I Found Freedom in
an Unfree World.
New York: Macmillan Co., 1973.
Other books that influenced me were by
feminist writers such as Betty Friedan,
Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer, and
Elizabeth Janeway.
Richard L Clinton
Professor
Department of Political Science
Potter, David M. People of Plenty:
Economic Abundance and American
Character.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954.
Written by a U.S. historian, this book
made me realize how uniquely fortunate
our nation has been and how decisively the
abundance of our resources has shaped our
national character.
Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry
Adams: An Autobiography.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1918.
This medievalist, the grandson and great
grandson of presidents, initiated my
questioning about the direction our
national culture and political system were
takingin particular, their failure to respect
and promote quality over quantity.
Hugh Franklin
Engineering Librarian
The Bible
The most influential book for me is the
Bible. It establishes most of my views of my
world, how Ifit into it, and what my conduct
and attributes should be, even though I am
not a Bible student by any stretch of the
imagination.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and
Punishment.
New York: T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1886.
The struggle of the young man toward
final realization that he was, indeed,
personally responsible for murdering his
landlady was very powerfully told.
Carson, Rachael. Edge of the Sea.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1955.
Carson, Rachael. Silent Spring.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1962.
I find Rachael Carson's deep reverence
for all living things very obvious in Edge of
the Sea and Silent Spring.
Next, I am very impressed by the
storytelling ability of Taylor CaIdwell in
several of her novels. She grapples most
thoughtfully with good, evil, power, and
corruption.
Durant, Will. The Story of Civilization, 11
volumes.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1935-1975.
Finally, I was impressed with the ability of
v'ill Durant in his Story of Civilization series
to make history come alive by looking at it
from many different aspects.
Kinsey Green
Dean
Greenblatt, Stephan Jay. Renaissance
Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare.
Chicago: U niversity of Chicago Press, 1980.
Lucid yet densely textured, this articulate
and compelling definition ofan emerging
sense of self in the Renaissance suggests
how individual identity may be deliberately
cultivated and nurtured in any period as
something requiring work. The book is
College of Home Economics
useful both to the Renaissance historian and
to the historian of ideas.
Franki, Viktor. Man's Search for Meaning:
An Introduction to Logotherapy.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970.
Thomas, Keith V. Religion and the Decline
of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden.
Boston: Houghton Muffin Co., 1910.
London: Weidenfeld, 1971.
This magnificently illustrated (verbally,
that is) book documents the gradual
separation of magic and science in the
period 1500-1700 and should be required
reading for any Renaissance historian.
The Bible
Will, Geoffrey. Statecraft as Soulcraft.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983.
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England.
Elissa Hare
Charlotte T. Harter
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor and Director
Center for Economic Education
Department of English
Eliman, Mary. Thinking About Women.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1968.
An outrageous, literate, witty, and
thought-provoking analysis of women's
place in literature and society. Her range of
reference makes the book appealing both to
the generalist and the specialist, and her
style of analysis retains interest, even since
,.the development of more specific feminist
oetics.
Gilbert, Sandra, and Susan Gubar. The
Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer
and the Nineteenth-Century Literary
Imagination.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
A comprehensive and perceptive analysis
of writing problems peculiar to literary
women in England since Austen. The book
attempts to define a feminist poetics by
suggesting what were the many and major
conflicts of interest for Austen, the Brontes,
and George Eliot (along with Emily
Dickinson in the United States). Gilbert and
Gubar outline the ways in which feminine
pens both insinuated and concealed their
subversive aims, along with the anxieties
that led to such a dual strategy. The book
speaks not only tofeminist literary historians
but also to any writer, male or female, who
discovers his or her minority status as an
obstacle to finding his or her voice.
Frye, Northrop. A Natural Perspective: The
Development of Shakespearean Comedy
and Romance.
New York: Columbia University Press,
1965.
Frye's analysis of Shakespeare is painted
in his habitually broad strokes and is thus
,.- valuable both as an overview of the
ubject (generic definition) and as a point
of departure for those who would paint in
the details.
Heilbroner, Robert. The Making of
Economic Society.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1962.
I would nominate The Making of
Economic Society. It helped influence me to
become an economist. This book can be
described as scholarly (from an economist's
point of view) but highly interesting and
readable (from an educator's point of view).
As you may know, few works by economists
rate highly on both of these criteria. I feel a
person with little or no acquaintance with
economics can actually enjoy reading it.
Bruce D. Hultgren
Assistant Professor
College of Veterinary Medicine
Maugham, W. Somerset. Of Human
Bondage.
New York: Garden City Publishing Co.,
Inc., 1939.
Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty.
New York: Hurst & Co., 1800.
Both are books I read during childhood;
both are books I have read many times
since; both continue to encourage me to
strive through good times and bad.
George H. Keller
Vice President for Research, Graduate
Studies, and International Programs
The Bible
Buscaglia, Leo. Living, Loving and Learning.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
1982.
Jonathan King
Associate Professor
College of Business
Frankl, Viktor. Man's Search for Meaning:
An Introduction to Logotherapy.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970.
Camus, Albert. The Plague.
New York: A.A. Knopf, 1948.
Pirsig, Robert. Zen and the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into
Values.
New York: Morrow, 1974.
Bateson, Gregory. Mind and Nature: A
Necessary Unity.
New York: Dutton, 1979.
Orwell, George. 1984.
New York: Harcourt, Brace&Co., 1949.
James E. Lannan
Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith.
New York: Harcourt, Brace&Co., 1925.
Anyone who has aspired to be a scientist
has laughed and cried with Arrowsmith as
he came to terms with how science should
be and how it really is.
Stent, G.S. The Molecular Biology of
Bacterial Viruses.
San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1963.
Stent, G.S. Phage and the Origins of
Molecular Biology.
Cold Springs Harbor Symposium.
As a student of environmental science I
was at once challenged by and frustrated
with contemporary approaches to understanding ecological processes. These books
showed me the power of rigorous science
and gave me hope.
Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific
Revolutions.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.
I had figured out all of the components
but never got around to piecing them
together. Kuhn did this for me, and I will
never again assume that I am mistaken
simply because my views diverge from
those of my colleagues.
Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the Rye.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1951.
A little introspection doesn't hurt
anybody. I arrive at different conclusions
than did Holden Caufield, but he continues
to be an esteemed mentor.
The Biblical Book of Job.
Every educator should review this book
from time to time. Indeed, are we not all
metaphorically "heaped with dung" from
time to time?
I have relegated many to honorable
mention, including such notable titles as
The Compleat Angler, Candy, The Big Sky,
Snows of Kilimanjaro, Tough Trip Through
Paradise, and many more. These have
enriched my life greatly and have indirectly
influenced my life.
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