{"id":1608,"date":"2020-08-17T15:05:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T20:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2020-08-17T15:05:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T20:05:12","slug":"making-room-for-new-material-sparks-appreciation-for-books-and-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2020\/08\/17\/making-room-for-new-material-sparks-appreciation-for-books-and-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Making room for new material sparks appreciation for books and collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1609 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/08\/IMG_1342-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The library staff trimmed down their print collections this summer to make room for new material, however, out with the old and in with the new does not always apply where gifted books and collections are concerned.\u00a0 Director of Technical Services, <\/span><b>Shan (Pamplin \u201986) Martinez,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> shares, \u201cAs we were working in the 530\u2019s, the physics section, we came across books that were given to the library nearly 20 years ago by Dr. John Wheeler. He was a professor of physics at Princeton University and one of the last people to have studied with Albert Einstein.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Wheeler was recognized as Friend of the Year at the annual <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acu.edu\/library\/about-us\/about-acu-library\/give-to-the-library.html#!tabset_0=3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Friends of ACU Library<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> banquet in 1999, the same year that he entrusted his physics books to ACU Brown Library.\u00a0 Several of the books contain his hand written notes within the margins and each book includes a special name plate. Click<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2008-04-physicist-john-wheeler-einstein-collaborator.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to learn more about Dr. John Wheeler and his connection to Albert Einstein.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The library staff trimmed down their print collections this summer to make room for new material, however, out with the old and in with the new does not always apply where gifted books and collections are concerned.\u00a0 Director of Technical Services, Shan (Pamplin \u201986) Martinez, shares, \u201cAs we were working in the 530\u2019s, the physics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}