
Volume 30 2003-2004

Feature Articles

A Million Volumes Strong: The Library Celebrates a Major Milestone. By Daria D'Arienzo
The Friends Tribute to Will Bridegam, Librarian. By Samuel B. Ellenport
Sherre L. Harrington: Librarian of the College, 2004-
Remembering James Merrill at Amherst. By Daria D'Arienzo
"This Boke is Myne": Celebrating Books and Their Owners from William Caxton to Langston Hughes. A talk by Richard Kuhta
The State of the Library. By Willis Bridegam
Folger Shakespeare Library Fellows. A report by Nicholas Pedersen
Earthbound and Heavenbent: Elizabeth Porter Phelps and Life at Forty Acres (1747-1817). A talk by Elizabeth Pendergast Carlisle
The Earliest Printed Map of Amherst, 1833. By John Lancaster
The President and the Poet: John F. Kennedy at Amherst, October 26, 1963. By Daria D'Arienzo
Samuel Fowler Dickinson: A Clarification. By Alfred Habegger, Polly Longsworth, and the Editor
Hugo Saglio '31: A New Publication and a Remembrance
Morgan Library, 1905

News and Announcements

Michael Mazur '57: The Robert Frost Library Fellow, 2004
"In Equal Measure": The Frost-Lankes Connection. Announcing a Talk by Welford Taylor
The Amherst Center for Russian Culture. By Stanley Rabinowitz
Activities of the Student Advisory Committee. By Daria D'Arienzo and Ute Brandes
Care and Preserve 2004. By Daria D'Arienzo
The Frederick S. Lane '36 Student Book Collecting Competition for 2004
Gifts to the Library. By John Lancaster
Activities of the Friends. By Charles Husbands
Exhibitions 2003-2004
Members of the Council 2003-2004

The Newsletter of the Friends of Amherst College Library (ISSN 1523-8091) is published annually, in the summer, covering events of the preceding academic year. This is volume 30, for 2003-2004. Copyright © 2004 by The Friends of The Amherst College Library. The editor is John Lancaster. Address all queries and editorial correspondence to him at the Amherst College Library, Amherst, Mass. 01002-5000. Telephone 413-542-2299; fax 413-542-2692; e-mail: jlancaster. The Library's web site is accessible at www.amherst.edu/library/ (from which all departments may be reached).