Messenger
Oregon State University Libraries
Volume 4, Number 4
Summer, 1989
of $27 million, of which $9 million must
Left to right, OSU President John Byrne, Friends of the Library President Mary O'Brien, OSSHE Chancellor Thomas
Bartlett, and Director of Libraries Melvin George
Chancellor Thomas Bartlett
Attends Annual Meeting
On Saturday, April 15, the Friends of
the Library met on the Oregon State
University campus. The occasion was the
annual luncheon and general meeting,
which attracted more than 50 participants.
Alter an enjoyable luncheon, President
Mary O'Brien opened the business meeting
with greetings of welcome to all. She
introduced special guests Chancellor
Thomas Bartlett and Molly Bartlett;
President John Byrne and Shirley Byrne;
Director of Libraries Melvin George; Anne
Merryfield, Executive Secretary of the
Friends; Steve Shaw; and State Senator
Clifford Trow and JoAnne Trow, Vice
President of Student Affairs.
Members of the board were then
recognized, and the president summarized
the six areas of the library in which the
Friends will help this year:
The library automation system,
OASIS, is being implemented. The board
has committed FOL funds for the next five
years to pay off the loan the library is using
for this project. The system is already
operational, and the first screen of the
online catalog reads: "Welcome to OASIS,
supported by the Friends of the Library."
Over the past two years the FOL has
contributed substantially to the Pauling
Collection and will continue to do so as
the treasury permits.
L Last year a $5,000 contribution was
given to Library Faculty Research, and
additions will continue to be made.
G The Docent Program has completed
two years of training and is ready to offer
tours of the library facilities. A flier in the
last Messenger listed topics that are
included in these tours: computer-assisted
literature searches; McDonald collection;
sources of local history; map room;
writings of early naturalists; art in the
library; and the Linus and Ava Helen
Pauling collection. Advertising was sent to
local organizations and a good article
appeared in the Corvallis Gazette-Times.
The docents propose to promote the
Friends of the Library during their toLirs and
thus, it is hoped, membership will grow.
Mary O'Brien indicated that new docents
are always needed. Anyone interested in
the program should contact Henrietta
Chambers at 752-3646.
G A major building expansion is
planned for the library, and Denny Hedges
represents the Friends on the OSU Building
Committee. The project will have a budget
be raised privately. The FOL expects to be
involved as an advocate for this expansion,
and to this end a reception was held in
Corvallis last December for state legislators
Clifford Trow and Tony Van Vliet. A
similar reception is planned for Salem.
LI Finally, fund raising "education" is
becoming more important to the board. A
member of the Corvall is-Benton County
Library Foundation spoke to the board
recently about seeking members and
acquiring funds. Members of the board
have attended seminars sponsored by the
OSU Development Office and a Friends of
Libraries' Day sponsored by the Oregon Library Association.
Other business included the announcement that a new library is being built by
the EPA at the Hatfield Marine Science
Center at Newport. OSU will provide
furnishings in the building and manage the
library operations. Since no state ninnies
are available for this project, a special
interest group has been formed to raise the
funds. John Chapman and Ted Whit at
HMSC will receive all communications.
The Director of Libraries then added his
words of welcome and thanks to all the
Friends. Mel George expressed special
thanks for the help in the programs that
Mary O'Brien had outlined. These would
not have been possible without the time
and finances given by the Friends. Dr.
George praised board members for the
hours of planning they had contributed.
The meeting with legislators was a new
venture this year, and Senator Trow and
Representative Van Vliet were impressed
by the number of people who are concerned about the libraries and by the
knowledge these people shared with the
two legislators.
The director referred to the new online
system. It is already in use, and approximately 450,000 records are now in the
system available for searching. Dr. George
invited all to visit the library to try it out.
He assured the group that the system could
not be damaged and will not "bite back"
(surely he intended no pun?) but people
might feel a little clumsy at first!
With reference to legislative activities,
Dr. George said there were two items in
the Governor's budget of special concern.
One is the $3.3 million for program
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Dr. Mervin George
From the Director
For the second time in two biennia, the
University administration has committed
itself to major improvements in the library
budget. In July 1987, the administration
added $425,000 to the library base budget.
Now, Vice President Spanier has informed
us of the University's intention to increase
the base budget in this biennia by
$350,000. These base budget adjustments
of $775,000 constitute a substantial
University effort to make OSU's support of
its library comparable to that of other
libraries serving American research
Universities.
An increment of $775,000 is a lot of
money. Readers might well ask how the
library has used the funds and how it will
use new funds in the future. We believe
we have used and will continue to use the
money productively in the service of
library users as follows:
library Materials
Inflationary pressures for library
materials have been rising faster than for
other things. The OSU libraries have seen
several years of 1 5 percent inflation for
journal subscriptions. Since our journal
budget makes up more than 70 percent of
the total materials budget, high inflation
places our whole collection development
program in jeopardy. The library needs
more than $1 5,000 for each 1 percent of
inflation in the journal budget. Thus, a 15
percent inflation rate claims more than
$225,000, We have not been able to keep
pace. Our remedies have been to reduce
the book portion of the budget, to cut
journal subscriptions, and to add new
funds as we could.
Extending Library Hours
Kerr Library may well be the most
heavily used building on campus. We
receive more than a million visits each
year. Library users frequently ask us for
longer hours. Two years ago we expanded
library hours during academic terms from
86 to 1 08 hours per week. We now are
open seven days a week until midnight
during the academic year. There are
frequent periods in which all available
seats are occupied. In addition, our reserve
book room and the new computer lab are
open 24 hours a day with service staff to
check out reserve materials and provide
help in using the computers. In the future
we hope to provide evening hours
between academic sessions for the many
people who wish to use the library during
intersession periods.
Special Collections
In 1987 the library established the
Special Collections unit as a permanent
part of the library program with the papers
of Nobel laureate Linus Pauling and his
late wife, Ava Helen. Since then, we have
added other collections of interest to
researchers in the history of science and
engineering. The unit now has a full-time
librarian curator and support staff who are
cataloging and organizing the collections
using state-of-the-art software.
Library Automation
In February 1989 the library introduced
OASIS, the new, automated online catalog.
The purchase price for the system was
more than $300,000, which the library is
paying over several fiscal years. Already,
the system is available to most users on the
campus local area network. Thus, many
faculty members can search the library
catalog from their offices. In addition, the
library purchased hardware to permit the
introduction of automated reference
services, such as CD-ROM. Users performed more than 20,000 searches on 20
databases last year.
Staff
In every comparison, the size of the
OSU library staff ranks at the bottom.
Among the comparator institutions which
the University uses, OSU's 50 classified
staff compared with an average of over
100, and OSU's 34 library faculty members compared with an average of 47.
Thus, some new funds provided additional
help in several hard-pressed areas of the
library.
Reshelving
The library's stack maintenance staff
reshelves over 1 million items per year.
Since we introduced aLitomated reference
services, in-house use of library materials
has increased by 13 percent, and all of
these materials must be reshelved.
Sometimes the staff has trouble keeping up
with this use. Thus, we will be adding to
our reshelving staff in the next fiscal year.
Minimum Wage
When Oregon lawmakers made
Oregon's the highest minimum wage in the
country, they increased expenses for the
library dramatically. The 42 percent
increase in Oregon's minimum wage will
cost the library $1 30,440 per year when it
is fully implemented in January 1991. Un-
fortunately, the legislature neglected to
provide any additional funds for state agencies like the OSU library which are
dependent upon workers at the current
minimum wage.
Fund Raising
As this is being written, it appears that
the legislature will fund planning for an
expanded library building at OSU in
anticipation of actual construction in the
1991 -93 biennium. Estimates are that our
addition will cost $27 million and the
agreement between the legislature and the
governor is that we will raise $9 million
privately. This makes it essential that the
library and the University mount a major
development program that goes well
beyond the $40,000 which the Friends of
the Library raise each year. The library will
be hiring a full-time development officer to
accomplish this.
These, then, are the major areas in
which we are spending our budget
increases. We feel that we have significantly improved the service we offer our
patrons through these efforts.
[Mel George]
FOL (Continued from page 1)
improvement in libraries. He objected to
the words "program improvement." In most
other phases of life, inflation is manageable.
In libraries, inflation is in double digits, as
journal prices are rising at the rate of 15
percent per year. Journal subscriptions cost
OSU $1.8 million annually. The Governor's
plan to give a 4 percent inflationary
increase means OSU has lost 12 percent of
the $1.8 million.That is more than $200,000
worth of purchasing power each year.
Thus it is essential that the $3.3 million is
made part of the final budget for the eight
institutions for the next biennium.
The Governor's budget also has a small
amount of planning money for the major
library addition at OSU. When Kerr Library
was last expanded into the fifth and sixth
floors there were almost 3,500 seats in the
building. Today there are 1,500 seats and
every year 82 seats are replaced by the
new volumes that are added to the library
collection. The planning money in the
state budget is essential to enable OSU to
begin construction in 1992.
The Faculty Senate has passed a
resolution to support this effort. The
Student Senate is also planning support.
The Friends who write will all help the
legislators to make their case when the bill
is considered. Legislators have indicated
that it is helpful to have communication
from individual voters so they can say "1
have received letters" not just from the
library director and his staff but from
faculty across campus and others.
Dr. George then told the Friends about
Freya Hermann. As president of the board
in 1987-88, she came to Dr. George with
Friends of the Library Board Members, left to right,
Yvonne Lee, Charlotte Thompson, Anne Merryfield
"
the suggestion for a docent program. She
outlined a strict and well organized twoyear training process for guides in Kerr
Library. He said to himself: "It will never
work." But Freya proved him wrong. For
this and all her work for the Friends, the
Director's Award was given to Freya
Hermann. (She and her husband have just
retired from OSU and could not attend the
Annual Meeting.)
Dr. George thanked all who have
completed the elaborate Docent Program.
He suggested that any Friends who need
good programs for their organizations
chould contact the Library Docents at OSU
or one or more of their fascinating tours.
The director recently received a call
from a student assistant working at the circulation desk. Someone had come to the
library claiming to be a high-level administrator wanting to check out materials, but
had no proof of identity, no library card,
not even a faculty ID card. He was refused.
To prevent this from happening again, Mel
George presented gold library cards to Dr.
and Mrs. Byrne "so that they will always
know they are welcome in Kerr Library!"
There was much laughter and applause.
Dr. George noted that the FOL financial
report was included in the luncheon programs. The Friends have raised, on behalf
of the libraries, approximately $32,000.
This is 10-12 percent more than at the
same time last year. By July 1, the income
was expected to be about $40,000. Of this,
at least $25,000 has been dedicated by the
board to the library automation system.
President O'Brien then gave the report
of the nominating committee. Five nominations had been accepted for the vacancies
on the board: Ivan Burkert, Betty Cameron,
Pamela Emery, Freda Vars, and Caroline
Wilkins. With no other nominations from
Friends at the meeting, there was a motion
and second to accept the nominations, and
't passed without opposition.
Mary O'Brien thanked the Friends for
their support and interest. She expressed
her pleasure at being a member of the
board. Though she had no ties at OSU, she
felt it was important to help Kerr Library
not only for the students and faculty but for
the economic development of the community. Hewlett-Packard and CH2M-HilI have
long been borrowers at the library. Now, in
cooperation with the Corvallis-Benton
County Library and the Linn-Benton
Community College Library, the University
is reaching out to small businesses. These
libraries and the Albany Public Library
have been invited by Dr. George to share
the Geac/Advanced automated catalog
system. This proposal is unusual in academic libraries, and Mary said she felt
privileged to be supporting this work. She
encouraged the Friends to work on the
board or on its committees or to donate
time to the libraries. Volunteers are needed
to barcode the library materials to facilitate
circulation.They should contact Karyle
Butcher, assistant director for research and
reference services, for this important work.
Mary O'Brien then introduced Dr.
Thomas Bartlett, the new Chancellor of the
Oregon State System of Higher Education.
The speaker was born and raised in Salem
and won Rotary scholarships to Willamette
University and Stanford, where he studied
political science. As a Rhodes Scholar he
went on to earn a master's degree at
Oxford University in England and finished
his academic studies by obtaining a Ph.D.
in political science at Stanford University.
In the early 1 960s Tom Bartlett served as
an adviser to the U.S. permanent mission at
the United Nations in New York. As
president of the American University, he
spent six years in Egypt followed by
academic presidencies in New York state
and in Washington, D.C. He then became
chancellor of the University of Alabama.
Our new Chancellor is no stranger to
Oregon. He and wife Molly have vacationed in the state regularly for many years
and own a farm in Linn County. He has
traveled widely, particulary to Japan. He
has a strong belief in excellence in
education and in the importance of
Oregon's place on the Pacific rim.
Dr. Bartlett saluted three groups at the
luncheon. The Friends of the Library, the
director and his staff, and the library itself.
Dr. Bartlett acknowledged the enormous
part that volunteerism, typified by the
efforts of the Friends, plays in the work of
Kerr Library. It is critical in society, on the
University campus, and in the campus
libraries, that volunteers with personal
responsibility and personal resources, help
to make the enterprise work. The Friends
deserved the first salute. They are an old
tradition in Oregon, a spirit so important
and exemplified by volunteers.
Dr. Bartlett gave a special tribute to Mel
George and his colleagues, who have
worked hard to raise the aspirations of the
whole University for Kerr Library. He
welcomed the special concern that the
director has for international connections
for OSU generally, and for Kerr Library in
particular.
In saluting the library, the Chancellor
said it was the center of the whole
University enterprise. A university's classic
roles are the preservation of knowledge, the
discovery of knowledge, and the dissemination of knowledge. The library is the
central element for each of these processes.
Thus it is appropriate to acknowledge one
more year of accomplishments from the
volunteers and professionals and the
library itself.
Kerr Library needs Friends particularly
in two areas, for collection increase and for
building expansion. Some 87,000 technical books were published last year in North
America. Ideally, Kerr Library would have
acquired 60 percent but the actual number
is closer to 20 percent or 15,000 volumes.
The library building was last expanded in
1971. This was the time of Kent State and
the Pentagon Papers. To some that may
seem like yesterday, but it is a long time
since the problem of space in Kerr Library
was attacked. The library, designed for
750,000 volumes, is now accommodating
1.2 million. "Mother Hubbard must have a
bigger shoe," said Dr.Bartlett. The goal is
to double the size. There is a tiny amount
of $1 80,000 in the Governor's budget (if it
passes) for the planning stage. This is not
enough; additional funds will have to be
found to reach the $800,000 needed for
planning.
The title of Dr. Bartlett's presentation,
given in the program, was "Where in the
world are we going?" The Chancellor said
that today the challenge is to make
universities international in intellectual and
academic processes. This makes particularly good sense in the context of the
library, which has always been universal
and international. The OSU campus and
Dr. Byrne have taken leadership roles in
moving the State System into an international climate and international activities.
This must be recognized when considering
the capacity needed for the future.
A review of the United States for the
past 50 years shows at the end of World
War II there was a big problem of balance
of payments. The nation had 40 percent of
the world's productive capacity, the single
overwhelming military force, and seemed
inescapably thrust into leadership to determine the fate of the world. This country
tried to create a world where all would be
secure, with strong economies and strong
governments in a world community. Now,
having largely succeeded, we are not ready
to deal with the consequences of these
successful policies. We did not prepare
ourselves to work with a very different
world where other countries have strong
economies, active and strong governments,
and political and military leadership.
Our education must become different
from past decades. The United States has a
federal budget deficit, a balance of
payments deficit, and a deficit of knowledge about the rest of the world. At OSU
there must be a systematic effort, by
faculty, administrators, and students, to
increase our understanding of other
countries and of their problems and how to
deal with them. For Oregon, we must
change our curricula to emphasize other
countries, and our libraries must also
reflect this change. Kerr Library must
become a window on the world, where
students learn not only about themselves
and western tradition but about farther
west as well. This is an opportunity and a
tremendous challenge to the centers of
learning, especially with present-day
resource constrictions.
In higher education the aim must be
"better, not bigger." Academia must work
on a smaller scale but at a more consistent
and even higher level of quality. The
Japanese teach us, by example, that their
progress came through simple ideas,
cooperation among themselves, and
investing in their people and their capacities. Oregon must decide whether to be
"hewers of wood and drawers of water" or
to be part of the high value economy of the
future. This decision will affect almost
everything we do, especially education.
When gathered to celebrate one of the
most precious parts of the University, the
library, we must put that library in the
broadest frame of the whole world
challenge. When he heard that Oregon's
lumber is going overseas instead of to
finished products, Dr. Bartlett wondered
about Oregon's industry and its people.
Answers to these questions will depend on
the right choices in education, he said, and
the investment in resources such as Kerr
Library. The FOL will make a critical
difference to what happens in Kerr Library,
and in turn, to our University, which is one
of the determining factors in the future of
our state. This connection to the future
must not be lost. It sets the responsibility
rightfully on us.
As he finished, Dr. Bartlett asked if there
were questions or comments. One question
was raised: "If the University is to become
better and not necessarily bigger would
this require re-examination of the internal
structure of the University departments?"
Dr. Byrne made the instant reply, "The
short answer is yes."
Dr. Bartlett replied that in consideration
of leadership one of the problems is being
ahead but not too far ahead. The question
frames the issue: how far ahead should we
look? Another question arises: what sort of
higher education is Oregon prepared to
support? The answer must be rational and
objective. This may very well involve
significant internal reorganization of the
University. University research, at OSU, is
organized by institutes, centers of learning,
and groups that bring together people
across disciplinary lines. These processes
may change the shape of the university
system but how far remains to be seen.
President Mary O'Brien thanked the
Chancellor and said she hoped to see the
audience again next year.
[Anne Merryfield[
years, as I recall), and as his library was
Oregon State University
Guide to Influential Books
Harvard University, in commemoration
of its 350th anniversary, published 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 have asked the same of the faculty
at Oregon State University (albeit on a
slightly smaller scale). Herewith is the fifth
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 that have had an
impact in your life. If so, we would
certainly enjoy hearing from you.
Allen F. Agnew
Professor
Department of Geology
Willis, Bailey. A Yanqui In Patagonia.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press,
1947.
This book, by geologist Bailey Willis,
whom my wife Frances and I had met
while at Stanford University in 1947 where
he was an emeritus professor, was inscribed
to us by the "Yanqui." He had conducted
an expedition in 1911-1915, extensively
surveying the Argentine Andes to promote
development and colonization. Son of a
journalist and poet, Dr. Willis's writings
showed that such talents may be inherited.
In the spring of 1948, Dr. Willis had
discussed with us the challenges and
opportunities of my forthcoming position
as assistant professor of geology at the
University of Alabama beginning that
autumn. It was to be my first full-time
teaching position. He shared with us a
hectographed copy of a book manuscript
that he was writinghis last book, it turned
outwhich dealt with his surveys of iron
ores in the southern Appalachians in 18801882. His writing of the people and their
culture was just as delightful as that of his
Patagonian travelsand more attractive to
us young newlyweds who were headed
there for our exciting career with our
(hoped-for) fresh Ph.D. degree, in two
months.
Two years later, Bailey Willis's new
book, Friendly China, showed even more
the excitement of geological exploration in
a foreign land in 1903-1904a land
where several of my uncles and aunts had
served as Presbyterian missionaries during
that first decade of the 20th century. But,
sad to relate, his manuscript on the
southern Appalachians was never pub-
lishedfor he died shortly thereafter (at 93
moved, that priceless piece of nostalgia by
an observant and talented geologist at work
in the southern U.S. was apparently lost.
Therefore, we remember him only by
his A Yanqui in Patagonia and Friendly
China, together with his account of his
earlier travels described in Living Africa
(which was out-of-print in 1947 and thus I
was never able to have my own copy of it).
The loss of the manuscript of his fourth
book has been grievous to Frances and
meand to othersexcept that we now
have a successor in John McPhee through
his recent and equally readable and enjoyable books about geology and geologists
(Basin and Range, In Suspect Terrane, etc.).
Fans, John Thomson. Seeing the Far West.
Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott
Co., 1920.
My mother's older brother, Uncle John,
was one of several Presbyterian ministers
and missionaries of both sexes, in that
family of a dozen children. He served for
10 years or so in China in the early part of
this century. Uncle John was the Rev. John
Thomson Fans, who for many years was
the editor of publications for the Presbyterian Church. He became a member of the
International Lesson Committee and of the
World's Sunday School Committee, and
thus attended conventions in Tokyo and
Glasgow. He supplemented those trips
with journeys to all of the continents and
across all of the oceans, until World War I
made them impossible; during the War he
confined his travels to the less accessible
parts of Canada.
Of these travels were the 65 books he
wrote and published, as well as the
hundreds of talks he made about the
people he had seen and lived with in his
travelsand about their lives as seen
through his Presbyterian-minister eyes. His
thick Scottish burr made his talks difficult
for me, a young boy just entering the teens,
to understandbut the word pictures that
Uncle John painted gripped us so that we
stayed until the end of each talk.
Uncle John was headquartered in a big
city; he was not only a minister but also
called "Doctor" (of Divinity, and of Letters,
I learned many years laternot a medical
doctor like my father); and he was a ruddyfaced chap with white hair and rotund
body; in fact, he reminded me of Humpty
Dumpty. I looked up to him; author of 65
books, wow!
I was able to read parts of only two of
them, Winning the Oregon Country, and
Seeing the Far West, but they told me, a
15-year-old central Illinois flatland boy,
that the West would call nie eventually.
And call it did, first to Washington State
University where I taught for four years
(1969-1973) and, because we liked so much
what we saw in Washington and Oregon
and at their four state universities, we
decided to retire to Corvallis with a courtesy
professorship atOSU in 1981.
The Bible.
My parents provided a strong foundation of
Christian upbringing, and we six children
were used to having The Bible read to us
when we weren't old enough to understand it but old enough to have to memorize verses in it. My mother was a minister's (Presbyterian) daughter, and my father
a minister's (Baptist, pronounced Bab-tist)
-
son.
My maternal grandfather (the Rev.
William Wallace Fans) had felt that higher
education was so important that he
founded an academy in a small city (Anna,
1,200 pop.) in southern Illinois. My
paternal grandfather (Dr. Francis Marion
Agnew) was a medical doctor in rural
southern Illinois (one mile up the hill from
the town of Makanda, 25 pop.), and they
lived some 30 miles apart. The Bible was
THE book in their homes, as in ours.
My participation in church activities
continued throughout my career, 28 years
as a single person and 40 years as husband
to Frances, who was raised a Methodist by
devout parents in southeastern Illinois (100
miles south of where I was raised, in east-
central Illinoisand 250 miles north of the
two grandparents' homesteads).
After I did begin to understand, in my
later teens, what I was reading in The
Bibleat least some of itI began to
'
acquire a sense of history and wonderment
about the differences and challenges of the
peoples who lived 2,000-4,000 years ago,
in one of civilization's cradles. (In the
1 920s and 1 930s, we thought that the
Fertile Crescent was the ONLY cradle.)
I find that The Bible's literary character
has stayed with me, enabling me to recall
verses memorized half a century ago (King
James Version, despite the more readable
and understandable translations that I use
todaysuch as the Good News Bible). It
also gave me other bits of knowledge
about those people 2,000-4,000 years ago,
which I now am trying to recall via books
that deal with animals, birds, and plants of
The Bible.
Today, I remember with pleasure the
aforementioned three sources of books
(five or six individual books), which have
meant so much to me throughout my 68
years. There are others, of course, but those
mentioned above are the ones that rose to
the surface when I dropped my line in.
Jean Brunk
Instructor
Department of English
The Bible (King James Version).
Shakespeare. Sonnets.
These are so fundamental they influ-
ence me even when I'm not aware I am
being influenced.
Yeats, W. B. Poems.
I can forgive myselfand life and others
many things after I have been reading
the poems, early and late poems, of Yeats.
Powys, John Cowper. A Glastonbury
Romance.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1932.
I knew the story here as I read the book
the first time, deja vu; I have a satisfaction
in knowing a copy of this book is on our
bookshelf.
Welty, Eudora. The Golden Apples.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1949.
A daily joy. Every day I think about
something from one or another of her
stories, often something different, something that has not occurred to me before.
Chekhov, Anton Paviovich. Collection of
Telephone Book (especially the
Yellow Pages).
Etc. (Freud & Allied Blather).
2. Then there are those which shaped
the thinking of the scholars who trained
me. I decline to speculate about these, but
you have them in the general collection.
Ditto the texts I read as a student.
3. Next is an interesting category. Two
major examples of books which inspired
me and led me into a lifelong specialization because they were so imperfect.
Seaver, Fred J. The North America
Writings.
New York: Hebrew Publishing Co., 1911.
Chekhov and I are glad to be human.
Eudora Welty likes his works too.
Cup-Fungi.
Kenton L Chambers
Gaumann, Ernest A. Comparative
Morphology of Fungi.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. Inc.,
Professor
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology
The following books have been most
influential to me in my professional
development:
Stebbins, G. Ledyard, Jr. Variation and
Evolution in Plants.
New York: Columbia University Press,
1950.
Clausen, Jens, David D. Keck, and William
M. Hiesey. Experimental Studies on the
Nature of Species.
Washington: Carnegie Institution of
Washington, 1958.
Darwin, Charles. Voyage of the Beagle.
New York: Harper, 1959.
Harper, John 1. Population Biology of
Plants.
London, New York: Academic Press, 1977.
Hitchcock, C. L, A. Cronquist, M.
Ownbey, and W. Thompson. Vascular
Plants of the Pacific Northwest.
Seattle: University of Washington Press,
1955.
William C. Denison
Associate Professor
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology
1. Probably those books which have
influenced my life most have been those
that did so indirectly.
The Bible.
(I'm not any species of Christian.)
Rombauer, Irma S. Joy of Cooking.
St. Louis: AC. Clayton Printing Co.,
1931.
Spock, Benjamin. The Common
Sense Book of Baby and Child Care.
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce,
1946.
I was raised Watson but raised my own
by Spock.
New York: The Author, 1942.
So sloppy, that as an undergrad I knew I
could improve it.
1928.
It was the standard text for a generation,
but the treatment of fungal evolution
was so poor, I said to myself: "It can't
have been like that." And I have spent
many hours (and years) since proving it.
4. Perhaps most influential to my professional development have been the few
really good texts I have used in teaching.
The good ones I kept and used until I really
knew them.
Srb, Adrian M. General Genetics.
San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1952.
Benson, Lyman David. Plant
Taxonomy: Methods and Principles.
New York: J. Wiley, 1962.
Alexopoulos, Constantine John.
Introductory Mycology.
New York: Wiley, 1952.
5. Finally, a category hard to define, but
I think what you were looking for.
Gandhi, Mohandus K. Gandhi's
Autobiography, The Story of My
Experiences with Truth.
Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1948.
Coffin, Robert Peter Tristan. Poetry.
Neill, Alexander Sutherlin.
A Dominie's Log.
London: H. Jenkins, 1915.
Dan McGrath
Extension Agent
Curry County Extension
Tzu, Lao. Tao Te Ching.
New York: Modern Library, 1948.
Peters, Thomas J., and Robert H. Waterman, Jr. In Search of Excellence.
New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
Howe, ReweIl 1. The Miracle of Dialogue.
Greenwich, Conn.: Seahury Press, 1963.
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