Several landmark events highlight this last fiscal year. Our acquisition of the Archeophone, made possible by the gift of long-time UNC-Chapel Hill supporter Ben Jones, has received the greatest attention. Newspapers, television news, and campus publications have reported about the audio restoration work performed with this modern version of an Edison wax cylinder player. The recordings preserved are described later in this report.

This spring we awarded the first Southern Studies Travel Stipends. We received 28 proposals and were able to grant four $500 stipends using the Cay, Johnson, Sitterson, and Williamson endowments. Relevance to the Library's collections combined with the merits of the topic were the primary selection criteria. The winners came from Boston University, the University of Florida, the University of Southern California, and the University of Sheffield, U.K. Their projects were:

• The Southern Folk Cultural Revival Project and the Shaping of Southern Culture
• The Last Southern Gentleman: A Biography of Shelby Foote
• Hillbilly Los Angeles: Country Music, Migration, and the Urban Frontier, 1937-1969
• African American Culture as a Political Weapon within the Civil Rights Movement between 1954 and 1970

Based on the success of this year's program, we will be offering it again in 2002 and hope to award six stipends.

We also successfully completed two federal grant-funded projects. Our two-year project, "Improving Access to North Carolina's African American Documentary Heritage," received funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) and ended on June 30th. We were able to process eleven collections, six of which came from North Carolina Central University's African American Resources Collection. We also participated in the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded "Southern Homefront" project. Directed by Tim Pyatt and advised by Prof. William Barney, this project placed primary texts about life at home in the South during the Civil War on the Library's Documenting the American South website. Letters and diaries from the Lenoir Family and the John Kimberly papers, among others, are part of the project.

A total of 2,620 registrants made use of the Manuscripts Department holdings on-site this year. We received 8,861 inquires via fax, telephone, email, and surface mail and delivered 46,871 photocopies and 390 photographic prints to these remote researchers. Researchers used 13,471 items on-site in 2000-2001. In addition, staff spoke to 27 classes (472 students) about the Department's collections. A number of publications resulted from research in the Manuscripts Department, including:

• Billingsley, William. Communists on Campus: Race, Politics, and the Public University in Sixties North Carolina. University of Georgia Press, 1999.
• Devlin, Albert T. and Nancy M. Tischler, ed. The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Vol. 1, 1920-1945. New Directions, 2000.
• Holt, Michael. The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War. Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Malone, Bill. Don't Get Above Your Raising: Country Music and the Southern Working Class. University of Illinois Press, 2001.
• Minchin, Timothy. The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980. UNC Press, 1999.
• Patterson, Beverly. Sounds of the Dove: Singing in Appalachian Baptist Churches. New edition, 2001.
• Pease, Jane and William. A Family of Women: The Petigrus in Peace and War. UNC Press, 1999.
• Titon, Jeff Todd. Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes. University of Kentucky Press, 2001.
• Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s-1890s. UNC Press, 2001.
• Yow, Valerie. Bernice Kelly Harris: A Good Life Was Writing. LSU Press, 1999.

• Bernhardt, Jack. "Performance, Faith, and Bluegrass Gospel Music in the Evangelical South: An Anthropological Journey with Jerry and Tammy Sullivan," Country Music Annual (2000).
• Chafe, William. "The Gods Bring Threads to Webs Begun," Journal of American History (vol. 86).
• Faust, Drew Gilpin. "The Civil War Soldier and the Art of Dying," Journal of Southern History (Feb. 2001).
• Jones, Matt. "Passion and Strife," Independent Weekly (6-13 September 6-13, 2000).
• Neal, Jocelyn. "Songwriter's Signature, Artist's Imprint: The Metric Structure of a Country Song," Country Music Annual (2000).
• O'Gorman, Farrell. "Walker Percy, the Catholic Church, and Southern Race Relations," Mississippi Quarterly (vol. 53).
• Phillips, Sarah. "Antebellum Agricultural Reform, Republican Ideology, and Sectional Tension," Agricultural History (vol. 74).
• Pyatt, Timothy. "Cooperative Collecting of Manuscripts in the 'Old South,'" Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship (14:1, 1999).
• Vesugi, Sayoko. "Gender, Race, and the Cold War: Mary Price and the Progressive Party in North Carolina, 1945-1948," North Carolina Historical Review (July 2000).
• Waldrep, Christopher. "War of Words: The Controversy over the Definition of Lynching, 1899-1940," Journal of Southern History (vol. 66).

• Bastin, Bruce. "Texas Jim Lewis & His Lone Star Cowboys." Country Routes RFDCD 26, to be released August 2001, Interstate Music.
• Brady-Wilson, Dale. "Songcatcher," Songcatcher Films, released June 2001.
• Brown, Paul. "John Hartford Obituary," National Public Radio, aired on All Things Considered, June, 5, 2001.
• Kellin, Erin. "Sweet is the Day: a Sacred Harp Family Portrait." Alabama Folklife Association, 2001.

Department staff mounted two major exhibits during this year. To coincide with the campus Jazz Festival, Steve Weiss created the exhibit "Black and Blue: Jazz and Race Records from the Southern Folklife Collection." Showcased were 78 rpm recordings made especially for African American consumers during the period of 1921-1942. "The Life and Times of Floyd McKissick, Sr." followed this exhibit. Created by project archivist Teresa Church to celebrate the opening of the McKissick papers to researchers, this exhibit explored the career of the noted attorney, business, and civil rights champion. McKissick served as the national director of CORE, advisor to the NAACP, and was the founder of Soul City. John White assisted with both exhibits.

The Southern Historical Collection and Southern Folklife Collection received 315 new accessions representing 505,459 items (892 linear feet). University Archives received 40 records transfers representing 233,168 items (194 linear feet). The Department received a grand total of 738,627 items (1,086 linear feet) during fiscal year 2000-2001. Selected major acquisitions include:

• Addition to the ante-bellum papers of Alphonso Calhoun Avery and members of the Tillet family, gift of Sara T. Thomas (Vienna, Va.);
• Festival recordings of the Eno River Association;
• Papers of former state senator George Miller, Jr., gift of Mr. Miller (Durham, N.C.);
• Master recordings and related materials of the Johnson Family Singers; gift of Reverend Kenneth Johnson (Lake Junaluska, N.C.);
• Over 1,700 78 rpm and 45 rpm recordings of traditional Southern music from the Black Mountain Center.

• Papers of award-winning author Gail Godwin;
• Records of the UNC-Chapel Hill student publication, Lillabulero, which was published by Russell Banks and William Matthews;
• Letters and writings by Carl Sandburg, collected by Don Shoemaker, executor of Sandburg's estate, bargain sale.

• Records of the John C. Campbell Folk School (Brasstown, N.C.).

• Major addition to the Records of the Board of Trustees (UNC-Chapel Hill, post-1972);
• Major addition to the Records of the Legal Affairs Division (UNC System) concerning the HEW/Consent Decree negotiations and litigation;
• Major addition to the Records of the Vice President for Academic Affairs (UNC System).

In FY1999-2000, we started coding all accessions to the Southern Historical Collection and the Southern Folklife Collection by broad subject genres in an effort to assess present collecting levels in areas of strength and emphasis. We intend to track this data for the next several years in order to help us make informed decisions when establishing collecting and processing priorities. A breakdown by collecting genre of new accessions for 2000-2001 follows (does not include University Archives). Data for the previous year is also included.

COLLECTION ACCESS

During FY00-01, we processed 151 collections and/or additions to existing collections representing 1,125 linear feet (649,757 items) for the Southern Historical Collection and the Southern Folklife Collection. University Archives processed 28 records groups and/or additions to existing groups. Also during the past year EAD (Encoded Archival Description) was implemented successfully for University Archives finding aids. All new finding aids will be created using EAD. Work to migrate EAD finding aids from SGML to XML began this year as part of our ongoing cooperation with Duke, NCSU, and the State Archives.

Cataloging of audio recordings in the Southern Folklife Collection also continues. School of Information and Library Science graduate students working as research assistants or interns have done most of this work to date. They created 2,435 USMARC records during this fiscal year with 5,166 records done since the project started last year.

Notable collections procesed include:

• Josephine Clement Papers (#4444): The collection includes correspondence relating to Josephine Clement's work with a variety of business and civic organizations in Durham, N.C., and Durham County, N.C., including the Durham City Board of Education; the Durham County Board of Commissioners; the North Carolina Democratic Party, especially on James Hunt's 1980 and 1984 gubernatorial campaigns; and the White Rock Baptist Church. Processed as part of our NHPRC grant. http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/c/Clement,Josephine.html
• William A. Clement Papers (#4024): The collection contains personal and professional papers of Durham civil leader Clement, including correspondence, clippings, speeches, reports, pictures, and other items documenting his family life, career, and business and civic activities, as well as his participation in church and fraternal organizations. Processed as part of our NHPRC grant. (http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/c/Clement,William_A.html)
• Kathrine R. Everett and R. O. Everett (#4725): Papers of Kathrine R. Everett (1893-1992) and R. O. Everett (1879-1971), husband and wife lawyers who shared a practice in Durham, N.C. Kathrine R. Everett, served on the Durham City Council, 1951-1971, received her J.D. from the University of North Carolina Law School in 1920, and was the first woman to win a case before the N.C. Supreme Court. (http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/e/Everett,Kathrine_R.and_R.O.html)
• Lillabulero (#5042): Records of the literary magazine founded and principally edited by Russell Banks and William Matthews in 1964 while both were students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/l/Lillabulero.html)
• Floyd B. McKissick Papers (#4930): Included are items pertaining to his law practice in Durham, N.C.; his service, beginning in 1966, as national director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); his work as advisor to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); and his interests in politics and education. Many items relate to Soul City, N.C., a town owned and operated by African Americans near Warrenton, N.C. Processed as part of our NHPRC grant. (http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/m/McKissick,Floyd_B.html)
• Prudhomme Family (#613): Financial, legal materials, and personal papers, 1758-1995, that document various agricultural, general store operations, and family life at Ile Breville/Oakland plantation in Natchitoches, La. (http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/p/Prudhomme_Family.html)

• Broadside Collection (#20289): Agnes (Sis) Cunningham, musician and magazine publisher of New York, N.Y., founded Broadside, a magazine devoted to topical songs, with her husband, Gordon Friesen, in the early 1960s. The collection contains materials from the Broadside offices. Sound recordings include open reel tapes and audio cassettes, many of which were used to transcribe topical folk songs for publication in Broadside. Performers include Jeff Ampolsk, Eric Andersen, Bob Dylan, Janis Ian, Matt McGinn, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Cordell Reagon, Bernice Reagon, Anne Romaine, Peggy Seeger, Pete Seeger, Patrick Sky, El Teatro Campesino, and Ron Turner. (http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/b/Broadside.html)
• Johnson Family Singers Collection (#20323): Kenneth M. Johnson (1928-) of Randolph County, N.C., along with his father Jesse ("Pa"), mother Lydia ("Ma"), sister Betty, and twin brothers Bob and Jim, formed the gospel and popular music singing group the Johnson Family Singers. The collection includes radio scripts, sound recordings, and video recordings documenting the musical careers of the Johnson Family Singers and Betty Johnson. (http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/j/Johnson_Family_Singers.html)

• Records of the Vice President for Planning (UNC System): Records are chiefly those of John L. Sanders, who was Vice President for Planning from 1973 to 1978. They deal with the University's desegregation plan, state aid to private colleges, and planning for state-supported education in the fields of law, nursing, and veterinary medicine. Of particular interest are files related to the accreditation of North Carolina Central University's School of Law and to the decision to build a veterinary school at North Carolina State University rather than at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. (http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/uars/ead/40013.html)
• Records of the Executive Vice Chancellor: Records consist of correspondence and reports reflective of the cross-campus issues addressed by Elson S. Floyd as Executive Vice Chancellor, 1995-1998. Of particular interest are files related to financial and budgetary matters, information technology, land use planning, student affairs, and race and personnel issues involving the University's housekeepers and groundskeepers. (http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/uars/ead/40027.html)

PRESERVATION

We completed preservation microfilming for 3 collections (33 reels total) this year. The collections filmed were:

• Records of the Dialectic Society (30 reels)
• Theodore Legand Burnett Scrapbook (1 reel)
• Rufus Barringer Papers (2 reels

Thanks to support from the Randleigh Foundation, we were able to hire a part-time research assistant to work on Department materials under the direction of the Library's conservator, Jan Paris. The assistant performed item-level conservation work on 473 items from the Department's manuscript collections at greatest risk, including materials from the papers of Samuel Andrew Angew, Jeremy Gilmer, Calvin Jones, Floyd McKissick, Sr., the Prudhomme Family, and the Southern Folklife Collection.

Our audio engineer Jeff Carroll accomplished a substantial amount of archival media preservation work in the Rivers studio. This year the Department created 640 audio preservation masters from over 800 source recordings making it our most productive year since our NEH audio preservation concluded in 1996. Using the Archeophone we transferred two collections of historic wax cylinders, the Guy Johnson Sea Island recordings and the Julia Wolfe interviews from the North Carolina Collection. The Johnson interviews represent the earliest known recordings of speaking and singing in the Gullah dialect while the Wolfe interviews were conducted with author Thomas Wolfe's mother shortly after his death. Both provide important new documentation for researchers. Other collections of audio media preserved include recordings from the Eno River Association, the Johnson Family Singers, Mike Seeger, and Dan Paterson. Funds from the Library's Lynch Endowment also supported the creation of preservation transfers of eighty "at risk" archival videotapes in various formats.

This year we welcomed a new Head of Public Services to the Department for the first time since the 1970s. Laura Brown took over that position on May 1st replacing the retired Richard Shrader. We also lost more institutional memory with the retirement of University Archivist, Mike Martin, in July. Between the two of them, they had served the Library for almost sixty years! A national search is underway for a new University Archivist. In the interim Susan Ballinger is serving as acting University Archivist. After a two-year appointment, Teresa Church successfully completed our NHPRC-funded project to process important African American related archival collections from both UNC and NCCU. Ms. Church is presently continuing her studies as a Ph.D. candidate in Information and Library Science. Last October we added Nancy Kaiser, a recent SILS graduate, to the staff as special projects archivist. In this capacity she has processed the Prudhomme family papers, is overseeing the preservation microfilming of the Paul Green papers, and is processing the Gail Godwin papers. She will be creating an exhibit on Godwin's career to coincide with the North Carolina Literary Festival in the spring.