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Hollings Library will provide access, preserve rare collections New facility houses political, rare, digital collections Samantha Edwards
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Const r uct ion on The Ernest F. Hollings Special C o l l e c t i o n s L i b r a r y, adjacent to t he Thomas Cooper Library, wrapped up in June. The $18 million, 50,000 -square-foot facilit y will be dedicated Friday, July 23 at an event f e at u r i n g a nu mb e r of dignitaries including Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Hollings himself. T h e l i b r a r y, w h i c h is t he on ly nat iona l ly ra n ked research librar y in the state, houses three depa r t ment s on t h ree floors: The South Carolina Pol it ic a l C ol le c t ion s (SCPC), The Ir v in
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happens within the stacks — where we’re able to preser ve these things — but it also happens in our d ig it a l col lec t ions a rea because when you digitize something you preserve it, but you also provide access to it because we put it up on the Web so that people can see these images all over the world,” McNally said. “Access and preservation, for me those are the two keys to this building.” The SCPC was e s t abl i s he d i n 19 91 t o document government at the local, state and national levels in the post-World War II era. “One person asked me why did I want to dedicate my life to document ing t he careers of fat, bald, o ld m e n , a n d w e d o a lot more than that,” said Herb Hartsook, director of t he SCPC. “We have a g reat diversit y i n ou r collections.”
Featuring the papers of prom inent state leaders i nclud i ng 11 gover nors and 23 former and current members of Congress, the SCPC is South Carolina’s premier repository of this kind. “A lot of our collections are open collections that are receiving reg ular additions, and that’s one of the differences between our holdings and say the things at the South Caroliniana Library here on campus.” H a r t s o o k s a i d . “ We have some of the largest manuscript collections that are collected any where. Fritz Hollings’ papers is second in size only to the Strom Thurmond papers, so we collect really large collections.” T he SCPC hold i ng s also include photographs, ele c t ron ic re c ord s a nd audio/video recordings. The Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special
Collect ions includes a n array of materials spanning over the last 600 years. “Rare Books and Special Collect ions has been collect ing for 20 0 years,” said Patrick Scott, d i rec tor of R a re Book s and Special Collections. “It has great collections of international importance, and we think of ourselves as having a special mission of doing things with the collections— making them available to people.” T he c ol le c t ion’s holdings, which has g row n sevenfold i n t he last 25 years, total more t h a n 150 , 0 0 0 v o l u m e s a nd over 50 a rch iva l collections. According to the department’s brochure, t he broad variet y major collect ions includes t he work of Charles Darwin, Joh n M i lton, Rober t Burns, Giuseppe Garibaldi,
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USC student playwright’s work to debut with Shakespeare Company Magellan Scholar wrote play about Scottish folklore, traditions
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Department of Rare Books and Special Collections and Digital Collections. The main level of the building is the public access level where seminar rooms and meeting rooms are located, and where rotating exhibits will be displayed. Beneath t he ma i n f loor — t he staff area — materials are digitized. “The lowest level of the building is the stack level,” said Dean of Libraries Tom McNally, “and this is the area that, as a librarian, makes my heart pound fast because it’s cold, it’s dark, it’s dry with huge shelving units that move, and it will protect our collections for centuries to come.” Mc Na l ly emph a si z ed t wo t hemes beh i nd t he design of the library, the first of which is access to the collections. “The second issue is t he preser vat ion of the collections, and that
T he S o ut h C a r ol i n a Shakespeare Company will present “Mirrored Time,” an original play written and directed by fourt hyear USC theatre student Gabrielle Peterson, on July 23, 24, and 25 at 7:30 p.m. “Mirrored Time” is an or ig i n a l pl ay b a sed on Scottish folklore and oral t r ad it io n s . Pl a y w r i g ht Peterson has completed h e r b a c h e l o r ’s d e g r e e in Theat re w it h an emphasis on performing, direct ing, and advanced s y nt hesis of phy sica l t rain ing met hodolog ies
at t he Un iversit y of Sout h Ca rol i na. She is now beginning work towards a second degree in International Relations and will graduate in May 2011. Peterson was awarded the Magellan Scholarship to t ravel to Scot land to research Scottish folklore and oral traditions, write and produce an original p l a y. S h e h a d b e e n t o Scot la nd before, as a participant and performer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at age 18. Peterson said that during this visit she “fell in love with the country and the culture.” “When I heard about the opportunit y to apply for the Magellan Scholarship, I t hought it cou ld be a c h a nc e to c ombi ne my love for Scotland with my love of theatre and that’s how the project started,”
Peterson said. T he pl ay i s i n s pi re d by severa l of t he fol k tales Peterson read while conducting her research. It includes the actual folklore characters and archetypes. “Several pieces of t he show came f rom little things I noticed or experienced living in the countr y,” Peterson said. “It was also inspired by some of the artifacts and h istor ic a l do c u ment s I examined.” The plot follows a boy n a m e d C h a r l ie o n h i s “secret quest to appease the supernat ural characters found in Scottish folklore in order to save his family’s existence, his mother’s life, and gain a chance at a life with the one he loves.” “Mirrored Time” f o c u s e s o n C h a r l i e ’s
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Recent graduates Esteban Neveraz and Jeni Millerstar in student Gabrielle Peterson’s original play, “Mirrored Time.”
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Many areas in downtown Columbia have a reputation for high crime rates but t wo Universit y of Sout h Ca rol i na professors a re hoping to change that. Da rc y Fre e d m a n a nd Ronald Pit ner, assista nt
professors in the College of Social Work, have received a $ 650 ,0 0 0 , t h ree -ye a r g r a nt f rom t he K re sge Foundation. This grant will be used to conduct research i n sever a l com mu n it ie s i n dow ntow n Colu mbia to get resident s more involved in improving their neighborhoods. “As much as it is about c r i m e a n d s a f e t y, i t ’s also about creating more opportunities for people to interact with one another, to develop relationships, trust
and rapport,” Freedman said in a recent press release. Freed m a n a nd Pit ner a r e c ol l ab o r at i n g w it h facult y from the College of Mass Communications and Information St udies a nd t he d e p a r t me nt of criminology and criminal justice in the College of A r t s a nd Sc iences. T he research team will also work with the Columbia Housing Authority to conduct their study. “The idea is to get people i nt e r a c t i n g m o r e w it h
each ot her, for residents to take ownership of the c o m m u n it y a n d c r e at e hea lt hy spaces i n t he com mu n it y,” Freed m a n said. “We want to focus on community engagement,” Pitner said in a recent press release. More than 1,000 people live in the public-housing neighborhoods that border downtown Columbia, the t a rget com mu n it ie s for t his st udy. Compared to Columbia as a whole, the
area has much higher rates of v iolent a nd proper t y crimes. “ Re se a rc h h a s show n that residents that live in low-income, high-crime a rea s tend to w it hd r aw and not interact with each ot her a s of ten ,” P it ner sa id. “ T h is c a n lead to more neighborhood decay, greater perceptions of crime a nd , u lt i m ately, h igher rates of crime. We want to reverse that by having
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