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William G. Roe '64 has provided a generous gift that will be divided equally between two areas critical to the LibraryÕs mission. Half of his gift will be dedicated to the LibraryÕs preservation endowment fund. Income from this new endowed fund will be used to deacidify books printed on acidic paper and to preserve brittle books either by photocopying and rebinding them or by converting them to microfilm. The library began new preservation initiatives in these areas over a year ago after receiving a major grant from the Charles M. Culpeper Foundation. Income from the preservation endowment will be used following the completion of the three-year Culpeper grant.
The other half of RoeÕs gift will be used to fund a two-year project to convert bibliographic records for scores in the Conservatory Library to machine-readable form. About twenty-five percent of the scores classified in the Dewey Decimal Classification system are not yet accessible through OBIS. Bibliographic information for these scores is currently available only in the Conservatory LibraryÕs Dewey card catalog. As a result, users of the Conservatory Library must often search multiple locations before they locate a particular score.
Once all scores cataloging information has been converted to machine-readable form, students and faculty members will have full access to all these materials simply by searching the OBIS catalog. (See the announcement on page 3 of the new librarian whose work is funded by this gift).
William Roe has been a member of the Library Visiting Committee since its inception and he has also served as Chair of the Library Capital Campaign Steering Committee. He is a Life Member of the Friends of the Library.
Table of Contents Library Perspectives, no. 13
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