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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DIVISION NEWSLETTER
VOLUME 3, ISSUE 1
SPRING 2009
INSIDE
THIS
ISSUE:
EXHIBIT CELEBRATES
THE LIFE AND CAREER OF
D. D. GARRETT . 2
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
DEPARTMENT RESEARCH
TRAVEL AWARDS PROGRAM 2
SEEDS OF CHANGE
SPOTLIGHTS POST-WAR
EASTERN N.C . 3
10,000th ENTRY ADDED
TO NORTH CAROLINA
PERIODICALS INDEX . 3
NCC STAFF MEMBER
PRODUCES NEW BOOK . 4
NEW WEB-BASED TUTORIALS
INTRODUCED . 4
RECENT ACQUISITIONS . 5
FEATURED IMAGE . 6
SCHLOBIN COLLECTION
ASSISTS LEADING
DICTIONARY . 6
DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
ANNOUNCES ALL-NEW
PORTAL . 7
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
DEPARTMENT HOURS
MONDAY-FRIDAY
8:00am - 5:00pm
SATURDAY-SUNDAY
1:00pm - 5:00pm
NORTH CAROLINA
COLLECTION HOURS
MONDAY-THURSDAY
8:00am -10:00pm
FRIDAY 8:00am - 6:00pm
SATURDAY 10:00am -6:00pm
SUNDAY 1:00pm- 10:00pm
For dosing dates,
please consult the
departments ' websites.
Contact information is available
on back page.
MAJOR EXHIBIT TRACES CAREER OF A. R. AMMONS
A major exhibit on display in the Special Collections
Department through June 30, 2009, traces the career
of North Carolina-born poet A. R. "Archie"
Ammons. Drawn from the A. R. Ammons Papers,
which were donated in 2007 by M. Reid and Susan
W. Overcash of Raleigh, the exhibit contains
manuscript and typescript poems, Ammons's
notebooks, an account of the poet’s meeting with
William Carlos Williams in 1960, photographs,
published works, and original watercolors painted by
Ammons between 1977 and 1980. Among these is a
haunting self-portrait.
Ammons (1926-2001) grew up near Whiteville,
North Carolina, and attended W ake Forest College
and the University of California, Berkeley. He taught
poetry tor many years in the Department of English
at Cornell University. His poems, many of which
reflect his rural roots in southeastern North Carolina,
earned Ammons international acclaim. These
appeared in such books as Collected Poems, 1951-
1971; Garbage; Sphere: The Form of a Morion; and
A Coast of Trees: Poems. He won many prestigious
awards, including the National Book Award, the
Frost Medal
given by the
Poetry Society of
America, the
National Book
Clitics Circle
Award, and the
Tanning Prize.
Curated by
Professor
Jonathan Dembo,
the exhibit is
Ammons’s self-portrait currently on display in
the Special Collections Department.
accompanied by a
full-color catalog,
A. K. Ammons 's
Poetry and Art: A
Documentary
Exhibit. Copies of the catalog may be requested by calling
Ms. Nanette Hardison at (252) 328-0404. The exhibit
may be viewed during regular hours: Monday-Friday, 8
a.m.-5 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday, 1-5 p.m.
-Maury York
A Message from the Assistant Director
Pirate's Treasure has a new focus! Joyner Library's Special Collections Department began this newsletter in 2006 to
publicize the department’s holdings, services, and initiatives. The next year, a task force appointed by Dean Larry
Boyer led staff throughout Joyner Library in re-visioning the organization. Following one of the recommendations
of the task force, Dean Boyer brought together Digital Collections, the Special Collections Department, and the
Verona Joyner Langford North Carolina Collection under the direction of the Assistant Director for Special Col¬
lections. As a result of this change, Pirate's Treasure will report news of all three of these closely aligned depart¬
ments, which make up the library's Special Collections Division.
I hope you will enjoy this issue, which was edited by Library Fellow David Hisle. David spent four fruitful months
of his 2008-2009 fellowship in the Special Collections Department. The articles he solicited demonstrate the Spe¬
cial Collections Division's solid progress in acquiring important collections and in making them available to poten¬
tial users worldwide. 1 hrough such outreach efforts as digitization, exhibits, and programs to encourage students
and other researchers to use the division's rich collections, our dedicated staff work hard to promote a better under¬
standing of the past. Please visit soon — online or in our beautiful reading rooms — and begin your own search for
treasure.
— Maury York
