Emphasizing that a vital library is the product of the intense interest and vigorous advocacy of the faculty it serves, Dean Meredith Butler and her colleagues present Library Advocate Awards to six faculty members at the Libraries� Two Millionth Volume Gala. Each faculty member is recognized for having contributed good ideas, time, and talent to the University Libraries over many years. Award recipients are listed below.

Professor James R. Acker is recognized for his vigorous advocacy for building strong research collections and his excellent support of the faculty and staff of the Dewey Library. His work with the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives to build a death penalty archive of unique primary and secondary materials, in support of the school�s Capital Punishment Research Project, has been of critical importance. His interest in educating students in the tools and methodology of legal research for criminal justice is reflected in his 1998 book which he co-authored with Dewey librarian, Richard Irving, Basic Legal Research for Criminal Justice and the Social Sciences.

Professor Lindsay Childs, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, has, for the past twenty years, served on library collections advisory committees to assist the Libraries to define collecting areas, build collections in new areas of research, evaluate collection strengths and balance collection growth and budgetary resources. He continues to engage in discussion about issues in the scholarly communication process and the impact of inflationary pricing on access to scholarly journals. He is honored for his consistently fair and persistent support of the University Libraries over the past twenty years of active involvement.

Stephen DeLong, Professor and Director of Project Renaissance, has assumed many leadership roles in the University during his years at Albany, not the least of which was his leadership of Academic Computing and Information Systems from 1994 to 1997 as Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs. During these years, the University�s network infrastructure was completed and computing resources were decentralized. Professor DeLong is recognized for his advocacy on behalf of the University Libraries and of the importance of investments in the computing infrastructure of the University.

In her roles as Professor of Public Administration and Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Sue Faerman has been a staunch and engaged ally of the University Libraries. She is acknowledged for her assistance with a study of collaborative collection development and resource sharing among the four SUNY University Center libraries and her vigorous advocacy about the importance of information literacy. She has worked tirelessly for the inclusion of information literacy skills as an essential element of the General Education curriculum and understands and appreciates the contributions that librarians make to the education of students.

Professor Timothy P. Lance, Department Chair of Albany�s Mathematics & Statistics Department, is honored for his vital role in conceptualizing and planning the development of the New Library and helping to shape the University�s networked environment. He was also an active participant in the Senate Council on Libraries, Information Systems, and Computing, where he provided guidance and direction for many years.

Professor Lillian S. Williams of the Women�s Studies Department is recognized as an active user of research libraries and archives for her own research and has emphasized the necessity and importance of using primary research materials to her students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She has been a strong proponent of developing information literacy skills. She has assisted the University Libraries to build strong research collections and has facilitated the preservation and sharing of unique primary research materials with library colleagues in historically black colleges.

When her husband was stricken with polio in 1921, Mrs. Roosevelt became active in the women�s division of the New York State Democratic Committee in order to keep his interest in politics alive. In becoming his spokesperson, she discovered her own interest in improving the political and social conditions of the underprivileged. In this, her first book, Mrs. Roosevelt sought to rouse women to political and social action. It embodies the activist spirit which Mrs. Roosevelt brought to the role of First Lady and is significant in the evolution of the role of women in politics. This first edition, in the original dust jacket, is an exciting complement to the research collections in the University Libraries� Archives of Public Affairs and Policy which document New York State public policy issues in the twentieth century.

Six other titles have been added to the University Libraries as part of the Year of the Two Millionth Volume. Another book by Eleanor Roosevelt, "It Seems To Me", is a 1954 compilation of questions and answers originally published in women�s magazines for which Mrs. Roosevelt wrote a monthly column. The material covers twenty-four subjects such as education, women, religion, foreign policy, children, and little-known information about the Roosevelts. Coming from one of the most remarkable women of that period in our history, readers looked to it for guidance, reassurance, and inspiration in their lives. It should be noted that the "Complete Presidential Press Conferences of Franklin D. Roosevelt" was the title selected as the University Libraries� One Millionth Volume, therefore increasing the suitability of Mrs. Roosevelt�s works during this Year of the Two Millionth Volume.

"Travels into North America; Containing Its Natural History, and a Circumstantial Account of Its Plantations and Agriculture in General, With the Civil, Ecclesiastical and Commercial State of the Country, the Manners of the Inhabit ants, and Several Curious and Important Remarks on Various Subjects", by Peter Kalm, is one of the most important and reliable 18th century accounts of American natural history, social organization and political climate. Kalm was a student of Carl Linnaeus, the Father of Taxonomy, whose system for naming, ranking and classifying organisms is still in use today. Originally published in Swedish in 1753-61, this 1770-71 English first edition describes Peter Kalm�s travels throughout the northeastern American colonies as he studied American plants and gathered seeds and plants for Dr. Linnaeus� important work. This three volume set will complement the programs in biology, history, anthropology.

"Wade & Croome�s Panorama of the Hudson River from New York to Albany"

Anatole Claudin�s "Histoire de l�Imprimerie en France au Xve et au XVIe Siecle", is an original four-volume edition which was published on the occasion of the Exposition Universelle Internationale in 1900. The work aimed to trace the beginning and development of the art of printing in France during the 15th and 16th centuries. The principal ateliers are discussed, in chronological order, with numerous examples of their publications. The volumes are beautifully printed, with specially designed type and the finest paper, and contain numerous wood and metal cuts, illuminations and reproductions of title pages with colored, decorative initial letters. Claudin died before completing the fourth volume of what was considered by his successor, Paul Lacombe, to be the "most beautiful monument to have been erected to the glory of French typography."

The 1930 Chicago Lakeside Press edition of Herman Melville�s "Moby Dick", limited to 1000 copies, has a dual significance for the Albany area and New York State. Melville, born in New York City in 1819, frequently visited his mother�s family in Albany during vacations, and, after his father moved the family to Albany in 1830, Melville first attended and then taught at local schools. In 1840 he began a series of travels which became the basis of many of his writings. This three-volume folio edition was designed and illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Kent combined his love of painting with years of travel experiences in Maine, Newfoundland, Alaska and Greenland. The 280 images for "Moby Dick" which he created from first-hand knowledge of the sea are considered to be a masterpiece and a landmark of 20th century book illustration. From 1927 until his death in 1971, Kent lived on a 200-acre farm in Ausable Forks, NY and continued to be a prolific artist and a major figure in the cultural history of the Adirondacks.

Internationally acclaimed kinetic sculptor, George W. Rickey, a resident of East Chatham, NY, relies on gravity, equilibrium, and momentum, but never a motor, to move his exquisitely engineered stainless steel forms. As the author of "Constructivism: Origins and Evolution" (1967), he followed the development of Constructivism from its Russian origins in 1913, its spread throughout Europe, and through its later manifestations in the United States, providing an understanding of this important twentieth-century art movement. This first edition of Rickey�s work contains over 350 illustrations, biographies of established artists and outstanding contemporaries from that period, an exhaustive bibliography on constructivism, and a chronology detailing the movement. Mr. Rickey�s sculpture is displayed in public places, museums, and private collections throughout the world.

The University Libraries wish to acknowledge the following donors for their generous support of our Two Millionth Volume Gala:

Blackwell's Book Services
YPB Library Services, A Baker & Taylor Company
The Friends of the Libraries
The Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
The Office of the Vice President for University Advancement