The Stanford University Libraries mark the acquisition of the William Saroyan Collection with "The Spirit of Saroyan," a series of free films, readings and discussions on the Stanford campus from May 6 through 10 that examine and celebrate the writer's life and literary career.
Exhibition
"William Saroyan: The Times of His Lives"
The exhibition traces Saroyan's life and career through books,
photographs, correspondence, original manuscripts and other
materials from the William Saroyan Collection.
Where: Green Library on the Stanford Campus
When: May 9 through August 10, 1997
Directions and recorded information: (415) 723-0931
Film Screenings
"The Human Comedy" and "The Time of Your Life"
Free screenings of films based on Saroyan's writings (shown in video format), preceded by a lecture by Stanford film historians.
Where: Stanford Humanities Center Annex, corner of Campus Drive East and Alvarado Road on the Stanford Campus
When: "The Human Comedy" - Tuesday, May 6, 3:30 pm
"The Time of Your Life" - Thursday, May 8, 3:30 pm
"The Human Comedy" (MGM, 1943, starring Mickey Rooney, with Van Johnson and Donna Reed) is set in the imaginary town of Ithaca in California's Central Valley, modeled after the Fresno of Saroyan's youth. The film tracks the young Homer Macauley, a telegraph messenger boy played by Mickey Rooney, through his loss of innocence as he delivers news from the war front to families. Originally drafted as a screenplay by Saroyan, The Human Comedy became his first novel, and he was awarded an Oscar for Best Original Story for the film.
"The Time of Your Life" (Cagney Productions, 1948, starring James Cagney, 109 min.) recreates on film Saroyan's 1939 play, which earned him a New York Drama Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize. The story takes place inside Nick's, a San Francisco bar modeled after the saloon run for many years by Izzy Gomez on Pacific Avenue near the Embarcadero. Cagney is Joe, a fixture at the bar who encourages everyone in their dreams. The cast also includes William Bendix as Nick, Jeanne Cagney as Kitty Duval, and a memorable performance by James Barton as tale-spinning cowboy Kit Carson.
Reading
Associates of the Stanford University Libraries will give a public reading of stories by William Saroyan
Where: On the steps of the campus book store in White
Plaza on the Stanford Campus
When: Friday, May 9, 1:30 to 4:30 pm
Panel
"William Saroyan and Contemporary Scholarship"
Saroyan scholars will assemble for a discussion of academic
aspects of the William Saroyan archive.
Free
Where: Annenberg Auditorium, Cummings Art Building, adjacent
to Green Library on the Stanford Campus
When: Saturday, May 10, 10 am to 12 noon
Participants include:
In an afternoon program, the William Saroyan Collection will be formally passed to the Stanford University Libraries by the William Saroyan Foundation, and plans for the collection will be announced. A keynote address will be given by Aram Kevorkian, a writer and attorney who became Saroyan's friend and lawyer after the two met in Paris in 1961, and who is currently preparing a book on Saroyan's Paris years.
Free
Where: Annenberg Auditorium, Cummings Art Building, adjacent to
Green Library on the Stanford Campus
When: Saturday, May 10, 1:45 pm
Other speakers include:
-- Submitted by Sarah Williamson
As the current Academic year comes closer and closer to a close, so does the term of the present members of the board of the Stanford Libraries Staff Association.
The search for candidates to fill the vice-presidency, treasurer and members at large is in full swing. If any of you are interested or would like to recommend a candidate, please contact Marleen Madou at mrmadoud@leland.
The ballot should go out by May 8, with election results to be announced before June 1, 1997.
Thanks to all of you for your cooperation and support.
-- Submitted by Marleen Madou-De Cokere, SLSA Search Committee
We are delighted to announce the arrival of Joanna Dyla, the latest addition to cataloging staff. A former Slavic Catalog Librarian at the University of California, Berkeley, Joanna joined us on May 1st. She will have a key dual assignment which is reflected in her title, Slavic Cataloger and NACO Coordinator. Her appointment fills behind Tatiana Barr, former Slavic serials cataloger, and in part behind Willy Cromwell who served as the manager of our NACO program until January of this year when she left Stanford to join the staff of RLG.
Joanna's primary duties will include cataloging Slavic serials and other non-book formats, and carrying out responsibilities as a NACO Coordinator and Liaison with the Library of Congress. As a certified NACO trainer, she'll continue to provide NACO training to other U.S. libraries as part of her appointment. Having served as NCCP/BIBCO cataloger at Berkeley, she'll also bring invaluable experience to our own fledgling BIBCO program.
We are genuinely pleased that Joanna is here. Please join us in welcoming her to our midst. You'll find her on the 4th floor of Meyer or in the Galvez Modular.
-- Submitted by Mia Rode and Vitus Tang, Cataloging
Damn, sam i want to share my life but i need to live alone : poetry
/ by Irene I. Blea. -- Denver, Colo. : Baculite Pub. Co.,
c1987.
ACX9485 / PS3552 .L399 D3 1987 / Green Library - Stacks.
Damned whores and God's police : the colonization of women in
Australia / [by] Anne Summers. -- Ringwood, Vic. : Penguin
Books, 1975.
AGU7083 / HQ1822 .S95 1975 / Green Library - Stacks.
Don Quixotte Corporation : a loud speaking melodrama / Alain
Savouret. Points / Christer Lindwall. Round the corners of
purgatory / Daniel V. Oppenheim [sound recording]. -- Mainz :
Wergo, p1989.
ABT1287 / MCD 3267 / Music Library - Recordings.
Get a horse! The story of the automobile in America / M. M.
Musselman. -- [1st ed.] -- Philadelphia, Lippincott [1950]
ADK8261 / TL23 .M98 / Green Library - Stacks.
Get away from me with those Christmas gifts, and other reactions /
Sylvia Wright. -- [1st ed.] -- New York, McGraw-Hill [1957]
AKC5716 / 817.4 .W95GG / Stanford Auxiliary Library - Stacks.
-- Submitted by Brian Kunde, Serials and Electronic Resources
Please send future submissions to SUL News Notes to Charity Nielson at cnielson@sulmail.stanford.edu.
-- Charity Nielson