This has been an extraordinary year at the Tufts Libraries. We are about to add the millionth volume to the Tufts libraries' collections, and funding opportunities have been identified at each of the libraries to update and renovate space, add books and periodicals, and better serve our students. I hope you will be able to join me and other Friends to celebrate the significant milestone of adding the 1 Millionth Book to the collections of Tufts libraries on Thursday April 6, 2000. We are delighted that Lois Gibbs, the nationally known environmental leader, will be the speaker at this Friends event. A book on the environment was selected as the millionth title since each Tufts library collects in this area to support teaching and research. Tufts 1 Millionth Book is Lois Gibbs' Love Canal: the Story Continues…, published by New Society Publications in 1998. When the Love Canal disaster occurred, Lois Gibbs formed the Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste, one of the earliest grassroots environmental organizations to gather information on the dangers of hazardous waste. In 1988, the Clearinghouse chose Tufts University Archives as the repository for its records as a testament to Tufts' demonstrated leadership in environmental affairs and citizen participation. A book review of Lois' book appears in this issue. I am very happy to report that the Friends of Tufts Libraries is growing: this year we raised $133,376 for the libraries, which is $34,490 more than last year, and our membership increased to 437, which is an increase of 14. It is so encouraging to have so many alums interested in the libraries and actively contributing to their improvement. Thanks to your generosity, current and future Tufts students and faculty will benefit from improved library collections and services. Again, I'm looking forward to seeing you at the 1 Millionth Book celebration on April 6th, and thank you for contributing to the Tufts libraries.
	JoAnn Wellner, J63, Chair Friends of Tufts Libraries

John Holmes Collection Opening
With the dying winds of hurricane Floyd swirling around the hill, Friends and members of the Tufts community gathered on September 17, 1999 in Medford to celebrate the opening of the John Holmes Collection by the University Archives and Tisch Library. An afternoon of events provided an opportunity for alumni, students, faculty, staff, family, and friends to remember John Holmes (A29, H62), "Tufts' Poet." The opening celebration featured a panel discussion in Goddard Chapel of Holmes' life and work, including reminiscences from a former student. After a reception for speakers, family and guests, a poetry walk brought visitors to sites around the campus associated with Holmes and his time at Tufts, where selected poems were read aloud. A slide show of photographs from the opening celebration is available from the Holmes web site at http://www.library.tufts.edu/archives/holmes/opening/tulips.html.	Holmes poetry walk. Photo credit: J.D. Sloan
John Holmes was a poet and professor of English at Tufts for nearly thirty years. Upon his death in 1962, his papers, including the manuscripts of 1,000 poems, were donated to the University Archives. With the generous support of Winslow H. Duke (A1953), the University Archives was able to devote a full year's work to processing and creating a web site for the collection. The site, entitled "The Poet's Work" is available at http://www.library.tufts.edu/archives/holmes/tulips.html. It features full-text searching of all of the poems as well as online exhibits of items of particular interest in the collection. Audio recordings of Holmes reading his own work demonstrate the innovative ways the Archives is utilizing technology to bring its collections to the public.

New Music Library Planned as Part of New Music Building Michael Rogan, Music Librarian Planning has begun for a new music building on the Tufts campus, at the corner of Professors Row and Packard Avenue(a prominent location indicative of the prominence of music in the life of Tufts University). This facility is very much needed! Currently, the Music Department is teaching and rehearsing in spaces in the basement of the Aidekman Arts Center which were not intended nor designed for music. Faculty offices are crammed into a small house at 20 Professors Row. And the Music Library, also in Aidekman basement, has expanded over the years to the physical limits of its space(the collections are crowding out the patrons!). Over 12,000 scores, 10,000 books, 4,000 LPs, and 5,000 CDs fill all our shelves and leave room for only 16 listening stations where a student, or sometimes two, can work with music reserve or other library materials. Yet the department enrolls nearly 2,000 students each year! These students come to the Music Library to use course reserves, look for scores for their ensembles or studio coaching, find books on all musical topics, or check out recordings to learn repertory, performance styles, or just seek something new and different. The collections are developed to support the curriculum of the Music Department, whose programs include: Classical, Opera, Jazz, Blues, Pop, Rock, and World Music, especially Africa and Asia(so there is something of interest to everyone!). The Music Librarian, Michael Rogan, has been meeting with Music Department faculty, chaired by David Locke, liaisons from the Tufts Construction Office, and two architectural firms, Babcock Design Group, Inc. (Fred Babcock principal architect) of Salt Lake City, Utah, and David Perry Architects of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to work on the design of the new music building. (Fred Babcock was the designer of the handsome Tufts Hillel Center.) The building will house classrooms and rehearsal spaces designed for music study, offices and departmental reception space, and a small concert hall acoustically perfected for music recitals. The plans presently call for the Music Library to be housed on the top floor of the new building, where it will be able to double its space. There are important naming opportunities associated with the patron service spaces in the new library, including the Client Services Desk ($250,000), a Reading Area ($200,000), a Seminar Room ($100,000), a Group Listening Room ($100,000), and three office/workrooms for staff ($25,000 each). Larger naming opportunities exist for the important collections (Scores, Books, Recordings), as well as for the Music Library itself. Smaller naming opportunities include media workstations, listening stations, and study carrels and tables. A complete list of naming opportunities is available from the Development Office; please contact Jeffrey Winey at 617-627-5468. The music building project was kicked off with a substantial anonymous donation of four million dollars. The Development Office is working hard to match this gift. Currently the plans call for a two-phase construction project beginning in late 2000, with the Music Library to be completed in the second phase. Our goal is to raise funds swiftly enough to allow phase two to follow immediately upon completion of phase one, without any hiatus. This would best serve the programs of the Music Department and the Tufts musical community. Library collections take on added value as they are used and appreciated by their patrons. The students, faculty, and staff of Tufts University comprise a vibrant musical community. We are proud to offer them music collections of depth and diversity, and look forward to the opportunity to provide access to those collections in a Music Library facility befitting Tufts excellence. Performance Hall and Music Building Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts David Perry Architects/Babcock Design Group Cambridge, Massachusetts / Salt Lake City, Utah

	Library News... Jeff Gardner has been appointed director of the Edwin Ginn Library, effective 29 November. He comes to Ginn from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) in Prague, the Czech Republic, where he managed their information program. His experience includes several years at the M.I.T. Libraries, and seventeen years in various positions at the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in Washington, D.C. From 1991-1997 Gardner specialized in applying new technologies to the provision of information services for journalists, analysts and researchers in multiple locations for RFE/RL. Gardner has a BA from Tufts University in English and an MS in Library and Information Science from Simmons College. Gardner will oversee Ginn's participation in the Fletcher School's new global learning program (GMAP) and will be developing digital library projects.
		Jeff Gardner, new Director of the Ginn Library. Photo credit: Nora Moser
	Thanks to a gift from Richard D. and Polly B. Hill, the Fletcher School's Ginn Library now has a new International Business Reference Center. A formal ribbon-cutting was attended by Mr. Hill, who is a Fletcher overseer, Fletcher overseers, staff, faculty and students. Dean Galvin spoke and Fletcher student Troy Wray, F00 thanked the Hill family in a brief, touching and amusing speech. The gift of $100,000 is structured in an unusual way. Seventy thousand dollars of it has been put into a gift annuity that provides a lifetime income for the Hills; after that it will come to Fletcher as an endowed library fund. Thirty thousand was spent during the summer to build the study area, with new counters, rugs and chairs and four new computers. The gift will also be used for electronic reference materials, including the Bloomberg business database.
		Richard Hill opens the Ginn Library's new International Business Reference Center as his son Rick and Dean Galvin look on. Photo credit: Richard Howard
	Current exhibits in Tisch Library include 2 displays. One display contains Tufts 1 Millionth Book: Lois Gibbs' Love Canal, the story continues, as well as environmental collection highlights including items from the Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste, the organization Lois founded. The other display is entitled 5,000 Years of Recorded History containing artifacts from Tisch Library special collections. President DiBiaggio read to classes from local schools which visited the Tisch Library on November 17, 1999 to celebrate National Children's Book Week. This year's theme, "Plant a Seed-Read" highlighted the importance of reading in the development of young minds. This is the fourth year that Tisch Library has participated in the national celebration.
		President DiBiaggio reads to local school children. Photo credit: Ed Malitsky
	The third annual Berger Family Technology Transfer Award was recently given to a team of Child Development faculty and Tisch librarians to create a WebGuide for the Child & Family News website. The Berger family has been generous donors to Tufts University. The Webster Veterinary Medical Library reports that this December marks the eighth year that John and Barbara Rudisill have donated fine examples from their Currier and Ives print collection to the library. Begun in 1992 in honor of their daughters, Tricia V92, Vanessa and Lisbeth, the collection of 26 prints is a wonderful addition to the Coffman Reading Room, located on the second floor of the library. The unifying theme of the collection is animals- bucolic farms scenes, children with their beloved pets, horse fairs, playful puppies and kittens. The prints create a warm atmosphere in which our future veterinarians can study and learn. The compelling story of a black Lab named Bailey fighting for its life in the intensive care unit at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine was retold November 17 at a celebratory signing of the book Animal ER at the Webster Veterinary Medical Library on Tufts' Grafton campus. Author Vicki Croke, renowned animal writer and Boston Globe columnist, read from and signed copies of her fast-paced account of the four months she spent shadowing emergency veterinarians at Tufts' Henry and Lois Foster Hospital for Small Animals. Joining Croke was Bailey's owner, Kim Deary, who not only read from the book, but showed photographs of Bailey, marking his progression back to health. The book can be found in major bookstores and on amazon.com.

Lois Gibbs' Love Canal: the Story Continues... A Book Review by Regina Fisher Raboin, Reference Librarian, Tisch Library, Tufts University Three-Mile Island, Exxon Valdez, Chernobyl, and Love Canal, environmental catastrophes that will echo through the next millennium and beyond. The story of Love Canal focuses on a community that became a war-zone of chemicals, illness, apathy, and eventually achievement and restitution. Lois Gibbs' revised book Love Canal: the Story Continues... relates and describes in honest and simple words the difficulties of communicating awareness of the immense health and environmental problems surrounding a chemical disposal site in the middle of a school and residential community. In her own voice Ms. Gibbs tells the story of how she awoke to the realization that she and her family (and others in the community) were slowly being poisoned by a chemical disposal site that had been knowingly sold to the city of Niagara and then developed into an educational and residential community. Having been a housewife in this working-class neighborhood with very little public speaking experience, Ms. Gibbs led 500 Love Canal families in successfully lobbying to evacuate and relocate all of the affected Love Canal families and to continue the health and environmental studies. Throughout this book, Ms. Gibbs is very honest about the struggles to maintain a viable grassroots organization and continue to engage the government and industry. Responding to other communities from across the United States for help in combating hazardous waste disposal and exposure, Lois Gibbs founded another grassroots organization, the Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes (CCHW), later the Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ, http://www.essential.org/cchw/), that assists other grassroots groups with organizational, educational, and technical information. The Tufts University Archives (http://www.library.tufts.edu/archives/) is the depository for all CCHW material. Love Canal: the Story Continues... is not a story to be dismissed or taken lightly. As a society that values wealth, we must learn that the price of prosperity often leads to the destruction of our health and environment.

Friends Webpage Redesigned The Friends webpage has been redesigned to match the new Friends brochure, which was recently sent out for membership renewal and to solicit new members. The Friends website is located at http://www.library.tufts.edu/friends/welcome.html

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