I     Our Growing Collections
 

Chang gift: One of the most exciting events of
the year occurred on October 21, when a new

reading room, dedicated to Peter H.L. and
Edith S. Chang and supported by funds from
them, opened in the Rare Book and
Manuscript Room. Designed by Byron Bell,
the architect of the existing Library, and
constructed in space that had been a dark and
nearly unusable storage area, the Peter H.L.
and Edith S. Chang Reading Room includes
tip-to-date audiovisual facilities, which will
enable us to project archival film and listen to
audio tapes. The room also has an adjoining
small exhibition area as well as a new well-lit
processing space. Even more exciting than the
new space, however, has been the contintting
donation of the papers of Marshal Chang, one
of the most important figures in Chinese
history in the twentieth century. The marshal,
following the assassination of his father.
Marshal Chang Tso-lin in 1927, became
governor of Manchuria, then commander of
the Northeastern Army. His public career
reached its zenith with the arrest of Chiang
Kai-shek in 1936, the famous "Sian Incident."
After freeing the generalissimo, Chang
himself was seized and spent over fifty years
in custody on the mainland and in Taiwan.
Marshal Chang's papers will reside at Columbia,
where they will be cataloged and processed.
They will be open for research in 2002.

Cornell gift: Patricia Plummer Cornell made a
gift to the Library of a bound volume of issues
 

of the New York newspaper, the Weekly Museum,
1795-1796. The gift was made in honor of her
father, Charles Arnold Plummer, who had
worked on the New York Times in
the 1940s.

Dallcd gift: Sahm Dallal (B.A., 1962; M.B.A.,
1963) donated to the Library a bound volume
of despatches from the Franco-Prussian war,
I870-I87I. The 191 Kriegs-Depeschen emanate
from Berlin and later from Versailles; they
bear the Prussian coat of arms. Those dated 27
February and 3 March 1871 are embellished
with the laurel wreath of victory.

Dalton gift: Jack Dalton, former dean of the
Columbia University School of Library
Service, whose papers were donated in 1970
and 1979, has sent additional papers docu¬
menting his entire career, which includes
service as a library consultant for the
Southeast States Cooperative Library Survey,
the Library Development Center, and H.W.
Wilson Compau)', as well as teaching at the
Columbia Library School and the University
of Virginia.

Daniel Kelly Trust gift: A gift of historical maps
was received from the Daniel J. Kelly Trust.
Among the ten maps were De L'Isle's Carte de
La Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi (London,
1730), Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Description
(Basle, 1590) by Sebastian Munster, and a ver\
good copy of John Speed's A Map of New
 

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