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Published by llie Friends of live Library Academic Affairs Library I'hG University of North Carolina at C 'ha pel I lill Volume 9/ number 1 Spring 2000 Library Acquires Five-Millionth Volume In February, the Academic Affairs Library celebrated the generosity of a Winston-Salem family — generosity which has made the Library the first in the Southeast, and one of only twenty in North America, to reach the live-million volume milestone. The five-millionth volume, a rare 1895-printed first edition of William Duller Yeats's collected poems entitled Poems, is part of a 1, 2011-piece collection containing rare works and other materials relating to the celebrated late-nineteenth-, early-twentieth-century Irish poet. The John Wesley and Anna Hodgin Hanes Foundation ё I | О £ I l- c£ E — ig of Winston Salem provided the funds to purchase the extensive collection, continuing its unprecedented tradition of funding each of the Library's millionth volume acquisitions. The Yeats collection, touted by book dealers as one of the best such collections in existence, was unveiled at a public ceremony in Wilson Library on February 11. F. Borden Hanes |r., representing the I lanps family foundation, presented Interim Chancellor William McCoy with the ceremonial five millionth volume, I hc Yeats materials were showcased in the Rare Book Collection exhibit area through May and then added to the Rare Book Collection along with the other millionth volumes. The Library acquired the collection through a network of University faculty and alumni, UNC-C1 1 alumnus, former English department diair, and Yeats scholar George Harper spent thirty years amassing the collection, obtaining some of the rarest materials from his friend Michael Yeats, the poet's son Concerned with the collection's future safekeeping. Harper decided to place it with an academic institution. He contacted a friend in the English department and began the discussions that would lead to his donation ot part ol the collection, with the rest being purchased with Hanes family foundation funds. "This is a splendid collection that adds a great deal to the research value of our holdings," said Joe Hewitt, associate provost for University libraries. "And it's Something dial (amiimicit on tvge 21 i John jay Pittman Fund 7 l ’ rud'homme Family unci Oakland Plantation Papers ШШщ S Library News Briefs EES W Mary Morrow A Willi urn Hut ter Yc«i>