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Volume 42, Issue 2, Summer 2010



 
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ALABAMA UPDATE

by Tim L. Pennycuff, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham Public Library, Southern History Department
The Image Permanence Institute (IPI) at the Rochester Institute of Technology is partnering with Birmingham Public Library for their recently announced project on sustainability practices for library special collections. The investigation intends to discover if controlled shutdowns of HVACs for special collections can realize energy savings without endangering the collections.
BPL joins Yale University, Cornell University, UCLA, and the New York Public Library as partners for the project, which is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through its National Leadership Grant Program.  IPI's team of experts, including director, James Reilly, and HVAC consultant, Peter Herzog, came to Birmingham in April to begin the investigation.  For more information on the project see the RIT University News (http://www.rit.edu/news/?v=47388).  For more information on IPI see: www.imagepermanenceinstitute.org.
Ben Petersen

Troy University Dothan Campus, Dothan
The Archives of Wiregrass History and Culture’s summer display features artifacts, monographs, and letters that illustrate the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) career of Georgian Wallace “Buddy” White.

White, a World War I veteran and Certified Public Accountant, was one of the many affected by the unemployment that characterized the Great Depression.  Like many others, White found a new career in the CCC, an organization established by President Franklin Roosevelt to provide job opportunities and to preserve the environment.  White’s collection of over 300 letters written during his time in the CCC (1938-1942) are a component of Record Group 057, the Holman Family Collection, held at Troy University Dothan Campus.

White’s correspondence is unique in that it concerns not only his  CCC work in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and north Florida camps, but also because it illuminates his various jobs: company officer, company commander, Sub-District Inspector-Instructor, and Mess Inspector.  Historical studies of the CCC focus largely on the experiences of “enrollees” and national leaders.   Middle management roles, like those White played, remain underdeveloped in this literature.

The display itself largely relied on White’s letters and photos from the collection at the Archives of Wiregrass History and Culture; other items were borrowed from faculty and staff members. Hayden McDaniel designed and installed the display with assistance from Tina Bernath.
Marty T. Ollif

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Lister Hill Library is taking advantage of the UAB initiative to move all university websites to Joomla, an open source content management system supported by UAB Web Communications.  As a result of this update to the library’s website, many URLs have been changed.  The UAB Archives has a newly designed site available at http://www.uab.edu/archives/.  This new site is now live.
The old link (http://www.uab.edu/historical/archives.html) will redirect to the new page for a short period but will eventually be removed.  Revise bookmarks accordingly.
Tim L. Pennycuff


University of South Alabama, Mobile
The University of South Alabama Archives is pleased to announce that re-housing of the Wilson C. Burton photograph collection has been finished with the support of grant funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Alabama State Historical Records Board.  The Burton collection contains more than 77,000 negatives dating from the early 1940s to the late 1990s. An in-house index to the collection has also been completed and the index will be available on the web in the very near future.
USA also just received a $46,000 bequest from the Mark J. Hanrahan Trust in memory of Robert E. Bell. Bell, a native of Alabama and a librarian by trade, died in 1999. Mr. Hanrahan subsequently deposited Bell’s papers at USA. Disposition of the funds has not yet been determined.
Carol Ellis

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