Oberlin College Library Perspectives

Number 11, February, 1995

Recent Gifts

Leonard Baskin, proprietor of the Gehenna Press, and his wife Lisa Baskin have donated two valuable examples of fine book illustration and printing from his press: The Drawings of Jacob de Gheyn II and an edition of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. Both are sumptuously illustrated by Leonard Baskin himself. His daughter, Lucretia Baskin, is currently enrolled as an Oberlin student.

In June 1992, Leo Guzik, of Pompano Beach, Florida, donated nearly 5,000 volumes of his personal library to Oberlin College. The collection consisted of books and journals in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish on Judaism and related topics, such as archaeology, anthropology, history, literature, and music. Mr. Guzik died this fall, and his daughter, Tamara Guzik Bliss, donated an additional 854 volumes from her father's library to Oberlin. This gift adds further depth to the Library's Judaica collection.

Robert Rotberg (Class of '55), a member of the Board of Trustees and a leading scholar of African history and politics, donated a major portion of his research collection on contemporary African affairs. The gift consists of approximately 4,000 items, including hundreds of newspaper clippings from African, European, and United States newspapers; government publications from many African countries; runs of scholarly journals; microfilms of primary research materials; publications by African banks and other research reports; offprints of journal articles; and some monographs. Most of the materials are in English and were published from approximately 1960 to the early 1980s. The collection will be housed in file cabinets in the Main Library's Reserve Room and will support teaching activities in African-American Studies and the Department of Politics.

The Conservatory Library has received a complete set of the printed scores of Leonard Bernstein. Included are the scores of Bernstein's three symphonies--Jeremiah, The Age of Anxiety, and Kaddish--as well as his Mass, On the Town, Fancy Free, and Trouble in Tahiti. When presently unprinted scores, including West Side Story and Candide, are printed, they will be added to this gift. The gift was made jointly by the Bernstein Estate with Boosey & Hawkes and Jalni Publications to "leading music school libraries around the world...to honor Leonard Bernstein's belief in education and scholarly pursuit and to enable future generations of young musicians access to the Maestro's legacy."

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