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 "The cover illustration is a tinted lithograph from the three-volume Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan (Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1856), the official report of Commodore Perry's expedition, held in the Special Collections and Archives Division of the U.S. Naval Academy's Nimitz Library. The Special Collections and Archives Division was established for the purpose of bringing together and preserving the rare books, manuscripts, photographs and other historically significant materials in the Naval Academy Library's collections and the official records of the U.S. Naval Academy. The division's Web site can be found at www.usna.edu/Library/Spec_col.htm." College & Research Libraries News, February 2006, p. 4. |
An illustration supplied by the Nimitz Library has appeared on the cover of the February 2006 College & Research Libraries News, published monthly by the Association of College & Research Libraries.
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| Nimitz Library on the cover of CHOICE, July/August 1998 [ A magazine of book reviews for college and university libraries, Choice is published 11 times a year by the Association of College & Research Libraries.] |
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 Sheila McCurdy and Faith McCurdy present Vice Admiral John R. Ryan, Superintendent of the Naval Academy, with letters from George Washington and John Paul Jones, during a ceremony at the Nimitz Library on April 24, 2002. |
The U.S. Naval Academy's Nimitz Library has received a generous gift of two 18th-century letters relating to John Paul Jones from Faith McCurdy. One letter is from George Washington to John Paul Jones, dated July 22, 1787, during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The other letter is from John Paul Jones to the editor of the Gazette de Leyde, written "On board the Bonhomme Richard's prize the late British Ship of War Serapis Texel November 11th, 1779." McCurdy gave the letters in memory of her late husband James Arrison McCurdy, naval architect and designer of the sail training vessel known as the Navy 44. Her daughter, Sheila McCurdy, is a member of the Fales committee, which advises the Naval Academy about its sailing program. The letters were presented during a ceremony in the Nimitz Library's Special Collections and Archives Division on April 24, attended by faculty, staff, administrators, and other friends of the Academy. (College & Research Libraries News, July/August 2002) |
A unique copy of Samuel Eliot Morison's History of United States Naval Operations in World War II (Boston: Little, Brown and Company) has been donated to the Nimitz Library at the United States Naval Academy. The author inscribed each specially bound volume to his wife, Priscilla, and letters from leading World War II figures were bound into most of the volumes. Maxine Good Pineau donated the volumes to the library in memory of her late husband, Captain Roger Pineau, who served as Morison's assistant during the preparation of the volumes. A noted naval historian in his own right, and an expert on the Japanese and their language, Pineau edited Commodore Matthew Perry's personal journal of the 1852-54 Japan Expedition. He wrote, translated, or edited several publications concerning the Pacific campaign and personalities of World War II. (College & Research Libraries News, June 2000)
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 Vice Admiral John R. Ryan, Superintendent, United States Naval Academy, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Nimitz Library. |
A ceremony on September 23, 1998 commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Academy's Nimitz Library featured several speakers, including Vice Admiral John R. Ryan, Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy, and Brig. General Vernon R. Tate (USAF, Ret.) whose father served as Librarian from 1956-66. Tate presented a plaque honoring the contributions of the library staff since the Academy's founding in 1845. The three-day celebration also featured a presentation on electronic journals by Peter Boyce, American Astronomical Society, and a faculty discussion of the roles of libraries in their teaching and research. A history of libraries at the Academy and the schedule of events may be found at http://www.usna.edu/LibExhibits/Anniv_25th/anniv1.htm. (College & Research Libraries News, December 1998) |
| A 3,400-volume collection of books about submarine warfare was recently donated to the Nimitz Library, U.S. Naval Academy, by the family of the late Thomas O. Paine, administrator of NASA at the time of the first moon landings. In April the books were presented at a ceremony held at the Academy. The ceremony recognized and memorialized the contributions of the Navy's submarine service, and dedicated and celebrated the gift both of the Paine collection and of a glass sculpture honoring the two American nuclear submarines lost at sea--USS Thresher (1963) and USS Scorpion (1968). Donations from 12 Academy graduating classes funded the memorial and the cataloging of the Paine Collection, the latter enabling the library to accept the gift. (College & Research Libraries News, September 1997) | 
This glass sculpture given to the U.S. Naval Academy honors two nuclear submarines lost at sea. |
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