Syracuse University Library's Antje Bultmann Lemke Seminar Room in the Special
Collections Research Center (SCRC) is now open for classroom instruction. The state-
of-the-art classroom makes it possible for faculty to bring new technologies, like a
Wolfvision document camera and a 60-inch high-definition LCD screen, to bear upon
the oldest of technologies: the written word.
Faculty members interested in leading a session without the assistance of a librarian
will be asked to attend a brief orientation focusing on the technology in the classroom
and the care and handling of rare books and manuscripts.
With more than 100,000 printed works and 2,000 manuscript and archival
collections, SCRC is home to some of SU's most valued treasures, including
cuneiform tablets and illuminated manuscripts; early printed editions of Gutenberg,
Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton; and the library of 19th-century German historian
Leopold Von Ranke. Twentieth-century collections are particularly strong; they
include the personal papers and manuscripts of such luminaries as artist Grace
Hartigan, inspirational preacher Norman Vincent Peale, SU alumna and author
Joyce Carol Oates, photojournalist Margaret Bourke White and industrial designer
Walter Dorwin Teague, as well as architectural drawings by Marcel Breuer and the
records of organizations such as avant garde publisher Grove Press.
The librarians of the SCRC also offer both general and subject-specific instruction
sessions. Recent librarian-led sessions have centered on themes such as writing
communities, the beautiful mind and the worlds of Oz. The center's Dana
Foundation teaching fellow is also available to lead and assist with instruction
sessions.
Faculty can reserve the room by contacting Nicolette Dobrowolski, public services
librarian in the SCRC, at 443-9762, or nischnei@syr.edu. A live demonstration of the
Antje Lemke Seminar Room's technologies will be held Tuesday, Oct. 28, at 10 a.m.;
those interested in attending should R.S.V.P. to Dobrowolski.
The Lemke Room was built to honor the career of longtime member of the Syracuse
community and Professor Emerita Antje Bultmann Lemke, with funds raised by the
Syracuse University Library Associates. The daughter of an important German
theologian, Rudolf Bultmann, Lemke was part of the underground resistance in Nazi
Germany. In 1949, she came to the United States, becoming a fine arts librarian at
SU Library in 1952, then a faculty member in the School of Information Studies until
her retirement in 1986.
For more information, visit http://scrc.syr.edu.
