Bookmark: The magazine of the UMass Amherst Libraries

29 Pages·2017·10.17 MB·English

by  Carol Connare

Issue 2
2018
The magazine of the UMass Amherst Libraries
1868

150 YEARS AFTER HIS
BIRTH, W. E. B. DU BOIS
IS STILL TRENDING

1968
LOOKING BACK: 50
YEARS AGO IN PHOTOS
2018
SECRETS OF LOVE
AND POETRY
REAL TRUTH ABOUT
FAKE NEWS
contents

2 FORE WORDS
4 A Space of their Own

8 Special Collections
10 UMass Amherst 1968
20 T-shirt Day in the Library

22 50th Anniversary of the Birth
of W. E. B. Du Bois
36 Alone, Together
40 Real Truth about Fake News
44 AFTER WORDS
46 The Secrets of Love and Poetry
When students returned in the fall, they found the lobby View a time-lapse video
of the W. E. B. Du Bois Library refurbished with new of the construction:
furniture, new paint, and two large screen video walls. bit.ly/lobbytimelapse
FORE WORDS
PAULINA BORREGO
STAFF

PROFILE
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO, W. E. B. Du Bois was born a free Black man in Great
Barrington, Massachusetts. From those beginnings, he changed the world. For the anniversary of his birth,
University of Massachusetts Press, in partnership with the Libraries, has released a new edition of Du
Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk (page 32). In 1909, a few years after the book was published, W. D. Hooper,
then Chair of the Department of Classics at University of Georgia, wrote to Du Bois that “many of us feel
most deeply the pathos of your own position.” Hooper told Du Bois that “my skirts, at least, are clean”—
that he has never wronged anyone of Du Bois’s race and has trained his children in respect, yet still he If you happen to her enjoyable
felt powerless, “I cannot break away,” wrote Hooper. He asked Du Bois to look “as leniently as you can on wander through experiences as
feelings which have been made part of us, and we must labor together in all ways to lighten the gloom.”
ON THE COVER the Brimfield a student library
Du Bois answered Hooper personally five weeks later, writing “you and I can never be satisfied with Artist Diana Weymar’s Antique Flea worker, Borrego
sitting down before a great human problem and saying nothing can be done. We must do something. thread translation of Markets, chances decided on the
That is the reason we are on Earth.” W. E. B. Du Bois’s are you will run into latter.
infographic “Slaves and
A highlight of anniversary efforts has been working with the people of Great Barrington, Freed Negroes” created UMass Amherst’s While studying
Massachusetts, an ambitious band of volunteers and organizations committed to lifting Du Bois to for the 1900 Paris Patent and Trademark Librarian Paulina Borrego’s house features for her master’s in
his proper place of prominence in town. Exposition. Resource Center items she found in flea markets and restored. library science at
See story on page 22 Librarian, Paulina
By the time Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, “GB,” as it is commonly known, was a gilded- Simmons College,
age summer getaway on the banks of the 150-mile-long Housatonic River where big-city bankers and Photo by Stephen Petegorsky Borrego. order a compound, and you would she was offered a
industrialists built summer mansions. It had typical New England roots, settled by colonists in the late
DEAN OF LIBRARIES “My house is like a mini- have to go to the chemical journals library position at UMass Amherst,
1600s after violent clashes ousted resident peoples. Its original inhabitants, the Mahican Indians, called
Simon Neame museum,” she laughed. Acting as and find out how to make it…I quit an event she calls “serendipitous.”
Great Barrington Mahaiwe, meaning “the place downstream.”
both curator and preservationist for six months to the day.” “Being a science librarian is great,”
The sesquicentennial of Du Bois’s birth has inspired Great Barrington to embrace Du Bois anew. In EDITORIAL DIRECTOR her collection of “tchotchkes,” she she smiled. “When I teach classes, I
addition to exhibits, performances, and colorful Du Bois banners lining Main Street, there are plans Carol Connare Borrego then followed her father
tries to uncover the history of each tell the students, ‘If you are the type
to illuminate his legacy in lasting ways throughout town, from naming streets to painting murals and into the field of science education. “I
treasure she restores and displays in of person who loves to do research
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
opening an interpretive center. Last fall, the Libraries helped town officials display the first-ever images taught high school chemistry for the
Leslie Schaler ’81 her home. but hates to write the paper, you
of Du Bois. The permanent exhibit “Let Freedom Ring: A Gallery of Du Bois Images” opened in the next 19 years,” she said. “I enjoyed
would make a great librarian.’”
Town Hall Gallery this year. DESIGN Borrego’s hobby probably owes that, but then I got tired of grading
The centerpieces of the exhibit are six enlargements of the original typewritten pages of Du Bois’s Robert S. Cox something to her upbringing. “My lab reports, so I took a few years As a patent and trademark
1930 address, “The Housatonic River,” delivered for the annual reunion meeting of Searles High School, Leslie Schaler ’81 father was a research scientist—a off to figure out what I would like specialist, Borrego helps people
from which Du Bois graduated 46 years earlier. professor of electrical and systems to do.” search through more than ten
CONTRIBUTORS
engineering—so I grew up in a million patents and bring together
The Housatonic, he wrote is the river of his boyhood, the one he swam across like “every real Great Whitney Battle-Baptiste
Barrington boy.” Du Bois decried that like many cities, Great Barrington has let its Housatonic become Carol Connare household in which things were data from three separate trademark
a sewer; he urged citizens to instead to be like Cambridge, with its parks along the Charles. Du Bois Robert S. Cox constantly being taken apart and categories in order to answer their
advised to go beyond mere beautification: “a river must be…the spiritual center, perhaps the very Kim Fill ’01 rebuilt,” she said. “I remember the questions or provide information for
Lauren Weiss
freeing of spirit which will come from our attempt…to restore its ancient beauty and make it the center summer when I was thirteen; my their projects. In addition to offering
Caroline White
of the town, of the valley, and perhaps who knows, of a new way of civilized life.” Taking care of the father built our first color TV set, this support at UMass Amherst,
Faye Wolfe
river is, to Du Bois, taking care of what connects us. tube by tube.” Borrego takes her knowledge on
Great Barrington has always been “the place downstream” from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, whose PHOTOGRAPHY the road, visiting senior centers,
Having grown up
Ben Barnhart
early grist and lumber mills gave way to a century of wool industry dominance, and all their associated garden clubs, and Chambers
Paulina Borrego surrounded by science, it is
effluents. The date of Du Bois’s address was around the time General Electric starting dumping PCBs into of Commerce, to discuss local
Joanna Chattman not surprising that Borrego
his beloved Housatonic. Like all change, cleaning the Housatonic has proved complicated and taken longer Carol Connare was drawn to the discipline inventors, plant patents, and
than many, including Du Bois, had hoped; the refusal to do nothing has made all the difference. Kim Fill ’01 facts to know when starting a
herself. As an undergraduate at
We salute the people of Great Barrington as they rediscover the rushing river of intellect that is Stephen Petegorsky business. “It’s challenging, and I
Wellesley College, she majored
Leslie Schaler ’81
their native son. Though complicated and a long time coming, the movement by the townspeople appreciate the challenge,” she said.
Josh Silver in chemistry and mathematics
of Great Barrington is what Du Bois would have us do—taking care of what connects us all.
John Solem and worked in the school’s science For Borrego, the best part
Lauren Weiss
library all four years. about working at the Science and

Engineering Library is its openness.
ILLUSTRATION Although she enjoyed her
Chloe Deeley ’17 undergraduate employment, “The resources—and by that,
Carol Connare
she initially went in a different I mean the people, the materials,
Director of Development & Communication PRINTER Borrego decided that, like her
direction—and her first post-college and the expertise—are available to
Tiger Press antiques, her career path needed a
UMass Amherst Libraries
eyer job proved less than satisfying. refurbishment. Ultimately, that came anyone who walks in the door,” she
m Printed once a year, “After graduating, I worked as an affirmed. “People are always willing
n down to two choices: graduate
Sta BOOKMARK organic synthesis chemist, and I to help.”
Carol Connare presents a photo of the Du Bois family asia is the magazine of the hated it,” she said. “Someone would school for operations research —L.W.
and an image of his birth certificate to Great Barrington. nast UMass Amherst Libraries. or librarianship. Remembering 3 BOOKMARK 2018
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A Space of Their Own
The Graduate Commons features two glass-walled group study rooms.
A new dedicated study space for furniture to accommodate individual and group study.
There are two all-glass group meeting rooms and remote
GRADUATE STUDENTS opened in
printing services. The commons occupies half of Floor 5
the Du Bois Library in December of the Library. There is swipe card access for graduate
students during all hours the Library is open.

Dean of Libraries Simon Neame presided at the The impetus for the Graduate Commons came from
ribbon-cutting accompanied by Chancellor Kumble surveys and focus groups conducted as part of the
R. Subbaswamy, Provost John McCarthy, and Dean of Libraries’ ongoing assessment and data-informed
Graduate School Barbara Krauthamer. “In my mind, the improvement efforts.

Graduate Commons is an excellent example of space
The Graduate Commons was funded by Library donors,
as service, one of the many services that the Libraries
the Graduate School, and the Provost’s Office. The design
provide to this diverse and ever-changing campus,” says
was sponsored in full by KI New England. The UMass
Neame. “It is a place dedicated to building community
Physical Plant will sponsor three years of a portable
among students pursuing advanced degrees—a space for
charging system. Plans call for expanding to the full floor
them to work, to relax, and to connect with colleagues
as funding becomes available.
inside and outside of their disciplines.”

The Graduate Commons features a mix of desks, tables, View a video of the construction:
and seating with movable whiteboards and accent bit.ly/gradcommons
“Having an adequate study space is an
intrinsic part of the graduate school
experience. For many semesters, UMass
graduate students have advocated for the
need of a flexible space to support our
long and varied working hours, as well
as space to accommodate different types
of work and scholarship. Between taking
classes, maintaining assistantships, and
conducting research, graduate students
spend many hours a week on campus,
doing what is necessary to succeed in
our chosen fields…and often we are
searching for a place, just for us. ”

From left, Ribbon-cutting with Terry Warner, Director of Administrative Services; Leslie Button, Associate
—Ashley Carpenter, Graduate Student Senate
Dean of Libraries; John McCarthy, Provost; Simon Neame, Dean of Libraries; Ashley Carpenter, PhD
PhD candidate, College of Education
Ashley Carpenter ’20 candidate, College of Education and Graduate Student Senate; Barbara Krauthamer, Dean of the
Graduate School; Chancellor Kumble R. Subbaswamy; and Professor Ray Mann, Architecture.
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A Little Help from Our FRIENDS Grassroots Data Management
MICROSOFT NEW ENGLAND recently awarded
software to the Libraries valued at $745,824. This sixth such A
s the role of the library in today’s society or solution
grant—in sum, more than $6M total since 2006—enables
is constantly being redefined, librarians relevant to our
the Library to offer up-to-the-minute Microsoft products
are tasked with meeting these new user practice, and
on computers available to the public and to students.
needs with minimal training. an afternoon
Users can access the university’s vast store of print and
digital resources in an integrated information environment, roundtable
With regard to academic libraries and a move
a place where there is free access to technology and discussion
towards digital scholarship, for example, there has
where librarians still personally answer questions and on practical
been an increased demand for librarians to become
guide research. The generous gift allows the Library to
aspects of
familiar with research data services to help with the
embed technology in the most visited space on campus—
research
the Learning Commons—where resources, people, and acquisition, management, and storage of scholarly
data services.
ideas come together from across the community and the information.
Evaluations
university. Thank you, Microsoft!
“It’s a particular subset,” says Thea Atwood, Data
from these
Services Librarian at the UMass Amherst Libraries.
Thanks to a $7,500 preservation grant from the events were
“Data management and data services are newer
MASSACHUSETTS STATE HISTORICAL coded in NVivo
RECORDS ADVISORY BOARD, selections from facets of librarianship; there are few specializations and we report on the common themes” (Atwood
more than a dozen archival collections related to the available in library education, and little guidance
2017). NVivo is software that supports qualitative
major wars of the 20th century have been digitized and exists on how to develop a data services
and mixed methods research.
will soon be freely accessible on the Internet. Highlighting program that fits the unique needs of
World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars through each organization. We have to rely Looking at the data from these
the perspectives of individuals who took part in them, evaluations, Atwood and her
on one another for guidance and
the collections include those of UMass alumni and faculty colleagues identified five key themes
community development.”
(such as Maida Riggs [right], Joseph Langland, Conrad behind the success of the RDM
Totman, John Maki, and others), university records That is exactly what Roundtables: learning new skills
(William Machmer, Hugh Potter Baker), and others who Atwood and a few of her
or techniques; sharing examples
served in or witnessed war (including female marine Mary colleagues have done. In her
and materials; networking
Lauman, USAID worker David Entin, and photojournalist recent publication, “Grassroots
with other professionals; the
Barr Ashcraft). Special Collections and University Professional Data Management
informality of the format; and the
Archives’ award for “Digitizing the War Experience” is
via the New England Research
shared empathy among fellow data
being matched in kind by the Libraries and will produce
Data Management Roundtables,”
management workers.
over 4,000 digitized letters, photographs, reports,
she describes her collaboration
ephemera, and more. Since its development in March 2015,
with Carolyn Mills, University of
the RDM Roundtables have grown in
Connecticut, and Tom Hohenstein, Boston
ANNIE SOLLINGER, Digital Image Metadata Librarian, won popularity; Atwood and colleagues host at least
University, to create Research Data Management
a 2017 DIGITAL LIBRARY FEDERATION &
three each year and upload content reports to
KRESS CROSS-POLLINATOR AWARD. (RDM) Roundtables: peer-led professional
the eScience Community Blog for those unable to
A member of the Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Center, development sessions for people in the field.
attend.
Sollinger works closely with the Department of the History
According to the publication, “The RDM
of Art and Architecture to provide quality digital images, “We hope that if we share how we created
Roundtables planning committee developed a low-
metadata, and research support. The award provided a
these processes and procedures, as well as the
cost professional development day divided into
travel fellowship for Sollinger to attend to the annual Digital
value of these initiatives, others can reproduce
Library Federation Forum, a meeting place, marketplace, two parts: a morning session that detailed an idea
them in their own areas,” Atwood says.
and congress for digital library practitioners from member
institutions and the broader community.
—L.W.
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the circus while growing up in Marlboro, Mass., Red seized an
opportunity after graduating from Massachusetts Agricultural College
in 1924 to hit the road as a white-face clown and would-be aerialist with a
small-time troupe. Even after his 1932 marriage brought the wandering to an
end and he settled into to a sedentary job in the Alumni Office at his alma mater,
Red never forgot his first love. Until his retirement in 1972, he stayed as close to
the big top as he could, acting as a talent agent for the Tri-County Fair and writing
and lecturing on his experiences.
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and digitize labor history collections and make them
more accessible to scholars. Even as our friend has
passed, his contributions persist.
On June 1, 1968, UMass held its 98th commencement in Alumni Stadi-
UMass Amherst 1968 um. Nearly 2,320 undergraduate, graduate, and Stockbridge students
received degrees: the largest class to date in UMass history.
The principal speaker was John W. Gardner (right), chair of the Urban
The issues and events that marked the year Coalition and former Secretary
1968—the civil rights movement and legislation,
of Health, Education, and
protests, assassinations, the war in Vietnam—
Welfare under
were seen, heard, felt, and confronted at
President Lyndon
UMass Amherst. Just the year before, the
Johnson.
Collegian had become a daily newspaper and
offered Associated Press wire service news
stories in addition to its own reporting,
allowing fuller coverage of and access to
news on campus and beyond.
Students were deeply engaged in the
world beyond their own campus. The
Distinguished Visitors Program brought
guests to UMass including Dick Gregory,
William F. Buckley, John Kenneth
Galbraith, former South Vietnamese
ambassador Tran Van Dinh, Elie Wiesel, and
Linus Pauling and hosted a program on urban
affairs, “The American City: 1968 and
Tomorrow.” Established and emerging musical
acts played to eager crowds at Winter Carnival
and Homecoming. Students participated in
protests and demonstrations on campus and off, as
rules were loosening to allow them freedom to make
decisions about their daily academic and social lives.
And, of course, the construction
transforming campus continued apace.
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photos, so this is just a glimpse of what was happening fifty years ago during a year
when so much changed, or was shaken up, or was set on a new,
transformative course.
Changing landscape
During the 19(cid:25)(cid:19)s, the transformation of the campus landscape was constant. In the fall of 19(cid:25)(cid:27), five new
buildings were completed and opened for use (four of them part of Southwest Residential Area, plus
Thompson Hall), and three major buildings were under construction: Herter Hall, the Campus Center,
and the Lederle Graduate Research Center (which would not open until 1970).
Student power
With students newly arrived for the fall semester,
the Committee for Student Awareness held a Day
of Awareness on September 26 to bring the UMass
community together to discuss issues of concern to
the campus, the nation, and the world, and to make
an appeal to students to take action themselves.
Events began with marches from dorms to the
Student Union and continued with a series of
speeches on a number of topics—race relations,
housing and services in minority communities, the
Performance
war in Vietnam, human rights in Africa—given by
both students and faculty, to an audience of about
1968 saw an array of nationally popular acts—musical
300.
and comedic—come to campus, including some verging
on stardom.
The lineup for Winter Carnival in late February,
with the theme “Our Favorite Things,” included the
Buckinghams, the Byrds, the Righteous Brothers, Glen
Campbell, and Johnny Carson, along with the old-timey,
banjo-packed band Your Father’s Mustache.
With spring came the Association, the
Yardbirds, and the Cowsills. (Little) Anthony
and the Imperials came for Fall Greek Week.
Homecoming brought Janis Joplin, Hugh
Masekela, and the Rascals.
Over several days in February,
Ending the year with S.E.N.D.O.F.F. protestors filled the Student
were Sam and Dave, and Martha and Union for a five(cid:16)hour sit(cid:16)in and
the Vandellas. lined the ramp to Whitmore in
a demonstration against Dow
Chemical and the
Vietnam War.