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Erhard Gallos, graduate student at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, working on obtaining books for the replicated library of Ellen White.

Growing EGW Library in the Reading Room

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Erhard Gallos, a Ph.D. graduate assistant, has helped the Center for over a year with the acquisition of books identical or similar to those in Ellen White’s personal and office library.

The Center is grateful to Terry Robertson, Seminary Librarian, and the Seminary Library Committee for providing annual funding to acquire these rare books.

Ellen White’s original library contained approximately 900 volumes. The Center has been adding between 50 and 100 volumes a year to its holdings. You can view the library in six newly installed glass-doored bookcases in the Center’s Reading Room.

We thank our friends for providing the funding for the bookcases that enhance the patron research experience. The walls of the Reading Room have also been repainted a more attractive matching color and the decor has been updated. The Ellen White library project began in 2004 with the help of then seminary student assistant Doug Kincaid.

Photograph Database

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The Center holds an extensive collection of over 30,000 photographs and images. The images are generally Adventist related and include a broad spectrum of categories such as people, groups, churches, institutions, mission sites, and meetings.

Over the last decade the Center has been scanning these images. Currently over 7,000 are available online (www.andrews.edu/library/car/photosearch.htm). Images are scanned at high resolution and a lower resolution image is placed on the database for patron use. Recently these images have been integrated with the James White Library catalog. Our new special projects manager, Katy Wolfer, together with help from Steve Sowder, have provided a new look for the database with larger retrievable images. Care has been taken to make the interface useful and minimize the steps needed for electronic retrieval.

The process of photo digitization is accelerating. During the summer Vernon Ng is working full time scanning and cataloging images. This valuable resource is now serving thousands of people around the world.

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Pitcairn Donation

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During April 2007, Verdabelle A. Spaulding donated models of the H.M.S. Bounty and the Pitcairn longboat along with other significant artifacts and correspondence. Mrs. Spaulding met and interacted with Floyd and Violet McCoy. Floyd, now deceased, was a descendant of one of the original mutineers. He is the person who made the models that we house in the Center. Among the artifacts donated is a small copper fragment from the H.M.S. Bounty and a woven basket from Pitcairn Island.