Books That Made the Difference Project- Container List

Books That Made the Difference Project

1980-1986, 5.0 cu. ft., Ms85-003

Container List

Box 1, Administration and Promotion

Folder 1: Project proposal, April l980, with draft, to the Center for the Book
Folder 2: Sabines vitas and photographs, n.d.
Folder 3: State Librarians contacted by Eastman for project, 1980-1981
Folder 4: Sabines' travel schedules, 1980-1981
Folder 5: Public Relations survey, 1980
Folder 6: Press releases, 1981
Folder 7: Spokane Public Library, 1981
Folder 8: Dana Library Public Relations Award Contest material, 1982
Folder 9: Library Awareness Idea Search with BTMTD Kit, 1982
Folder 10: Poster Sessions, 1982
Folder 11: PM Magazine, 1982
Folder 12: Promotion ideas, 1980-1982
Folder 13: Promotional materials, n.d.
Folder 14: Council for Florida Libraries Book and Author Festival packet, n.d., and promotional tour material, 1982
Folder 15: Library Administrators and Managers Association, Public Relations section BMAD program, 1983
Folder 16: Shoe String Press material, 1982-1983
Folder 17: Sabine promotion, 1982-1984
Folder 18: Susan Neuman project, 1983-1984
Folder 19: Broward Co., FL BMAD program, 1983-1984
Folder 20: Houston presentation, 1984
Folder 21: "Conclusions", n.d.
Folder 22-23: Reader's Digest material, 1981, n.d.
Folder 24-26: Miscellaneous administrative material
Folder 27: Library of Congress Budget Record, 1981
Folder 28: Central Midwestern Regional Educational Laboratory, Inc., 1982-83

Center for the Book

Folder 29: Meeting and interim reports and proposals, 1980-1983
Folder 30: Kit and correspondence, 1981
Folder 31: Publicity

Clippings

Folders 32-33: 1980-81

Box 2

Folders 1-2: 1982-86, n.d.
Folder 3: Roanoke Times and World News article material, November, 1981

Correspondence

Folder 4: Eastman letters to State Librarians with responses, 1981
Folder 5: Requests for information and materials, 1980-1984
Folders 6-7: Letters of inquiry about the BMAD program to the Center for the Book, 1982
Folder 8: Walter Matthau letter to Sabines, November, 1980
Folders 9-10: General, 1980-1984 National Public Radio interview, 1981
Folder 11: List of states, respondents, and books, and quality control form
Folders 12-17: Letters, A-Z and unsigned

Manuscripts

Folder 18: Card file
Folders 19-22: Fragments of early manuscript's Drafts
Folder 23: 1980 (What Americans Say: the Books that Made the Difference)

Box 3

Folder 1: copy of above
Folder 2: April, 1981, "first draft I"
Folder 3: "Second manuscript", 4/08/81, Version III with updated pages
Folder 4: 1983

Box 4

Folder 1: n.d. with index
Folder 2: Book copy
Folder 3: Books That Made the Difference: What People Told Us. Hamden, Connecticut: The Shoe String Press Inc. 1983.

Book-of-the-Month Club

Folder 4: Miscellaneous material
Folder 5: Abridged edition of Books That Made the Difference: What People Told Us. 1985.

Audio-Visual Material

Folder 6: Photographs
Contact sheets and negatives:
1. Ft. Myers, Sanibel Island, Stone Mountain (Atlanta, GA)
2. Florida; New Jersey
3. Atlanta, Indian Reservation
4. Grand Canyon
5. Denver, San Francisco, Houston
6. San Francisco (John Frantz, Ernie Gaines, Ferlenghetti); Concord, CA
7. Phoenix
8. Idaho (mayor to wheat farmer)
9. New York, Philadelphia
10. Wellesley, MA
Folder 7: Films

Box 5, Audiotapes, slides

Cassette tapes

Box 6, Tapes 1-28

Box 7, Tapes 29-55

Box 8, Tapes 56-75

Index to BTMTD Project Cassette Tapes

Tape 1

Side A: St. Petersburg man; Emma Simpson, 81 year-old lady; 100-year-old lady; Manchild and the Promised Land; Helen Bradley; Island of the Blue Dolphins
Side B: Edgar Bergen; Mr. Degruy; Master's student, encyclopedias; Cora Groff; Dan Runge; Sarah Cook; Harry Wharton, postal clerk; Joan Hopkins; Ringling Art Librarian; David Williams (blind); Frank Cucksey

Tape 2

Side A: Aldrane Schuchmann; Bill Stonex; Kercher; Dauthtroy; Ann Marie Costa; Dan Bernstein; Bruce Sparks; Mark Goumas
Side B: Morris; Blue; Steffan Mallory and Tonya; Lois Rice; Ken Stevenson

Tape 3

Side A: Librarian from Georgia; Anne Russell; Mary Rheay; Colleen; Thomas Moore; Jack Kraus; Mary Warren; Alma Greene; Sybil Bain; Roxanna Austin
Side B: Ella Yates, Hawaii; Army rules and regulations; John Harte; Christopher Kane; Dr. Ellwood Boddie; France Fritzen; Judy Albright; Casper Jordan

Tape 4

Side A: Willis Johnson; Vincent Davis, Native Son; V.P. Rush Honda, comic books; about George Bernard Shaw (Shaw Society)
Side B: About George Bernard Shaw (con't); Bonnie Miller; Weller; About Carol Burnett; Sue Stacy

Tape 5

Side A: Ft. Sumter (then speeds up, cannot be understood on this recorder)
Side B: "Family business"

Tape 6

Side A: Gordon Canterbury; South African, Cry the Beloved Country; Mark Grubham; Arthur Brown; Mr. Linstrom; Nancy White; Joy Culp, Spokane, WA
Side B: Leon Skip Roland; Utah Phillips; Barbara Scott; more on Joy Culp; info on Joy Culp's driver Kathy; Ron Dubberly

Tape 7

Side A: Mr. Stuntz, guide and ticket seller at Tom Edison's house, Dan Youman; Josephine Mannella; (static...); Elizabeth Bryan; James Letizia
Side B: James Letizia (cont.); Linda Letizia; Anne Dennis, Jonathan Livingston Seagull ; Dr. Marvin Odro; Bruce Hugh, Peter Marshall; (static...); Teacher in Canada; Mrs. Payne

Tape 8

Side A: Joan and Malcolm Miller, High Ice
Side B: Malcolm Miller (cont'd); Mary Poppins; Textbook; Cope Gall Jr., Grapes of Wrath; Mr. Nelson; Gary Morris; Boy Scout Handbook; Irv Brown, Cry the Beloved Country

Tape 9

Side A: Mrs. Pond, Seattle, WA; Wainwright; Virgina Burnside; Ken Ragland; Don Zoller; Ben Moon Railroad, sailor; Fisherman from Norway
Side B: blank

Tape 10

Side A: blank
Side B: Roy Beck; W. R. Henderson; Minton Moore; Mr. Meek; Luther Baker; David Perkins; Sterling and Elizabeth Hinman; Mr Beach; Mr. Dabney

Tape 11

Side A: Mark Couchman, The Monkey Wrench Gang; Beth Stolzy; Jane Diaz; Rev. Ramsey; Jane Diaz (again); stewardess; Ed Byers; Seibel; Mary Anne Toliver: Mrs. DeReemer; Pauley
Side B: Pauley (cont'd); Ellen Crowley; Shirley Wittler; Halliburton Books; Boorstin's History Books; Little Anna of Lapland; G. Henney's Books; Lawrence Webber, (children should be read to); real estate consultant; Edgar Rice Burrough's books

Tape 12

Side A: Tarzan, Zane Grey Books; Henry Shearouse; Lee Ambrose, The Fountain Pen ; college course called "Age of Johnson"; Glenn Holliday; Ellen Kessler, PASSAGES
Side B: Dottie Lamm, Working It Out; Father Woodridge

Tape 13

Side A: Bill Barrett, author of Lilies of the Field and The Left Hand of God; Howlet; John Gardner's Excellence; John Murdock; Owner of a gold mine, Jesse Peterson
Side B: Das Kapital, Mary Kennelli; Jahn McCardy; John Frantz; Jade Snow Wong; black writer

Tape 14

Side A: Autobiographies; Poet, The Literary San Francisco Coney Island of the Mind; Positive Thinking, guide in Barringer Vineyards; Betty Theriot, Book of Mormon; Books on child rearing, Peresia Jackson; Rrobert Yamada
Side B: Mary Kraetzer; Asst. Librarian; Gunther Barth

Tape 15

Side A: Ed McMillan; (Nobel)
Side B: Mendlesohn; woman who works on The Examiner; Elwood Nestler

Tape 16

Side A: Greg Rayner; Louie Welch; Librarian; Mike Benedict; Penrod
Side B: Librarian; Boy Scout Handbook; Chester Rozell; Willia Carey Graves; D.D. Lewis

Tape 17

Side A: The Late Great Planet Earth; Stanley Marcus; Doorman; Patricia Sabine
Side B: blank

Tape 18

Side A: Sylvia Batenhorst
Side B: Sylvia Batenhorst; Green River Bar, Alice Wenner

Tape 19

Side A: Gerhard Zuther; Alex Lazzarrino; Lonnie Tilley, books by Roy Rogers; Frank Hulac
Side B: Joe Kimbrough; Fr. Alan Moss; Carol Chrislock; Gail See; Harold Kittleson

Tape 20

Side A: Zygmont Choroszy, concentration camp survivor
Side B: Zygmont Choroszy

Tape 21

Side A: Steve Nisbet; Louise Pratt Calcott; Roland Robbins
Side B: Roland Robbins

Tape 22

Side A: Roland Robbins (talking about Thoreau)
Side B: Robbins (cont'd); Edna Heidbreder; Jane Gorden at Alcott House

Tape 23

Side A: Bert Perkins; Edgar Allen, Sherlock Holmes; Leonard Quintavalla, U.S.S. Constitution; Durgur Park Waitress; David McCord; General Gavin
Side B: George Gloss; Fenn; Sam Bass Warner; Tonroy

Tape 24

Side A: Tonroy, Vanity Fair; Florence Ladd; Writer in residence at Emerson College; Millions of Cats
Side B: Woman from Peron's Argentina (Manti); Newman's idea of the University, The Second Spring; Jane Manthorne, The Little Matchgirl, The Man Without a Country; Danny Thiel; Anthony Buscetti

Tape 25

Side A: Unidentified man; Clara Garcia; Alberto Barreto
Side B: Alberto Barreto (cont'd); Maria Sanchez; Mayor Willian Musso; Steven Aschoff; Jim Moomaw; Bob Van Dyne

Tape 26

Side A: Bob Van Dyne; Bea MacDdonald; Fred Crossland; Marie Davis; Mary Flournoy
Side B: Mary Flournoy; Hagemayer; Bill Andrews; Debbie Andrews; Wes Pippert

Tape 27

Side A: Ed Newman; Nina Keenan; Tom Keenan
Side B: Tom Keenan (cont'd); James Fox (cop); Family business

Tape 28

Side A: William G. Milliken (Governor of Michigan); Bob Cromie; Bill Veeck; Kerri Byrnes
Side B: Clare Booth Luce; Paul Tibbets

Tape 29

Side A: Paul Tibbets; Dr. Mayberry Mayo; Paul Tibbets; War and Rememberance ; Pat Bartlett
Side B: About Richard Burton; Bobbie Estrada; Jeanne Hart

Tape 30

Side A: Woman in Indian Community; Bundy; Paul Beach; Pat Walker; Stacy; Fellow Graduate from University of Wisconsin
Side B: Marcus Cohn; Minnie Pearl; Ann Eastman

Tape 31

Side A: John Gardner
Side B: Electronic reader for the Blind

Tape 32

Side A: Blank but for a small clip from a broadcast, Daniel Boorstin
Side B: blank

Tape 33

Side A: Ruth Boorstin
Side B: Susan Stamberg

Tape 34

Side A: Dan Fader, English Professor from Baltimore
Side B: Dan Fader (cont'd); Prof. John Forsythe; Mechanical Engineer; Phil Samson

Tape 35

Side A: Charlotte Huck
Side B: Charlotte Huck (cont'd); Les and Dorothy Moeller, Teh Limits to Growth ; Ralph Reeder; Earl Butz; Man at Nrao (astronomer)

Tape 36

Side A: Pastor's Wife, Sue Stacy; Forever Amber; A Farewell to Arms; Dick Stoufer; The New Science Politics; Norman Cousins; Virginia Mathews
Side B: Virginia Mathews; Bookmobile; Bruce Oliver; Norman Cousins

Tape 37

Side A: Professor Stan Idzerda; Julie James; Elnora Betsy Ross (Ray of Hope); Tom McCall
Side B: Tom McCall (cont'd); Jim Green; Jane Anderson Gunn; Pat Walker (bar owner)

Tape 38

Librarian (cont'd); Russ Wiggins; Lady Bible; John Hancock, Nuremburg Testimonies; Joe Howland (The Tru Believer); Manager (Education Our Daughter)

Tape 39

Side A: Sue Stacy; Edwin Busick; Kathy Coster
Side B: Kathy Coster (cont'd); Sue Stacy

Tape 40

Side A: Interview (no name given); Nancy Larrick on reading; Irish Tom Campbell
Side B: Sabines (misc.)

Tape 41

Side A: Person in State Department of Commerce Hawaii; Mr. Amburgey, Asst. Commissioner of Education in Colorado; Utah Bookmobiles; John Zangmeister; Book Service to Alaskans
Side B: Book Service to Alaskans (cont'd), Woman from Syria, Great Expectations

Tape 42

Side A: Bess Sheller
Side B: Silvia Barsuyan; Henry Dubinsky; Becky Pippert, Camping and Woodcraft ; Head of Recreation, Richard A. Tapply; Man writing his memoirs; Eugene Power

Tape 43

Side A: Cat's Cradle; Voltaire's Candide Willard Thompson; Sue Stacy
Side B: Firefighter, Clough; Augusta Baker; Dr. Kein; Melton; Sue Stacy; Marie Davis

Tape 44

Side A: Pat Walker; Dorothy Moeller
Side B: Art Smith, Shakespeare; Postman, Our Plundered Planet; Dan Lacy; Why people don't read (Nault); Susan Stamberg

Tape 45

Side A: The Scottish Chiefs, The White Companyu, The Belgian Twings); Henry Taylor; Book about Clarence Darrow; Aristotle's Poetics; Sol Gordon; Candle maker; The Deaf
Side B: Jane Howard; Doris Saunders; Betty Elliott; Minister's Daughter

Tape 46

Side A: Director of Energy Research Lab; Man in Washington who served on committee in State Department
Side B: The Americanization of Edward BuckK; Nevada State Librarian; Book service to "Cathouses"; The Adveturers (Shirley); Crime and Punishment ; Alaska mail delivery; Elizabeth Yon; Sue Stacey; Marie Davis; chatter

Tape 47

Side A: Woody Hayes; Ed Koopminers; Helen E. Lee; Reverend Mullins; Ed Koopminers; Bruce Dixon
Side B: Bruce Dixon; Zygmont Choroszy; Tim Melton; Hazel Dicken-Garcia; Tex Potter

Tape 48

Side A: Jimmy Carter's Pastor, The Book of Acts; Bruce Edwards; Mortimer Adler; R. T. Kingman; Sue Stacy
Side B: Sue Stacy (cont'd); Nancy Lopez Melton; Bill Branch

Tape 49

Side A: Catherine Gillie on reading
Side B: Crawford Lincoln Sturbridge; Gerald Utley; Catherine Gillie; Milton Caniff; Betty Elliot

Tape 50

Side A: George Wilson (Director of Interlochen); Reading Researcher
Side B: Poet, (Red Fox); Former President of Union and Lumber Inspec- tor; Zygmont Choroszy, underground newspaper in Poland

Tape 51

Side A: Englishman, Reading Without Nonsense; Washburn, Huckleberry Finn; Bessie Moore, Dictionary; Nichols; Paul Ouelette-Silver
Side B: Jeff MacNelly; Timothy Johnson; W. Lyle Eberhardt; Ed Newman; Babbitt; History book (no contact with non-whites); Speaking about Ghandi and Nehru; William Asp; Raymond Kuhn

Tape 52

Side A: Former bookmobile driver; Sue Stacy
Side B: Sue Stacy

Tape 53

Side A: Simon Michael Bessie, Harper & Row; Nathan Leblang, architect
Side B: Zygmont Choroszy; Robert B. Downs

Tape 54

Side A: M/chf. Ray Kuhn; Mac Bundy; Leon Somat; Rabbi Friehof; Don Lee Keith
Side B: Piano player; Ruby Bridges; Jeff McNelly; Connie Kay; Tony Randall; Andy Rooney

Tape 55

Side A: Andy Rooney; Barbara Bannon; Herb Simon; Zygmont Choroszy
Side B: Irv Kupcinet; Studs Terkel; Bob Cromie; Barbara Moro

Tape 56:

Cleveland, Ohio Library Interviews

Side A: Lady from Publishing Co.; Rita Furst; Clay Herrick; McClennan; Tom Barensfeld with Board of Education, Andre Cristo; Virginia Matthews, Nancy Oakley
Side B: blank

Tape 57

Side A: Cohn
Side B: Man who has passages in a book marked

Tape 58:

Backup for Reel Tape of BTMTD Interview excerpts

Tape 59

Side A: Helen Hoke Watts
Side B: Helen Hoke Watts

Tape 60:

WRNG in Atlanta - Ray Mooney interview show, August 2, 1980

Tape 61:

"4/6/81 BTMTD"

Tape 62

Side A: Jonard
Side B: Linda Letizia

Tape 63

Side A: Linda Letizia (cont'd)
Side B: Ragland

Tape 64

Side A: Ross
Side B: Fleharty (in Alaska)

Tape 65

Side A: Hart
Side B: Branch

Tape 66

Side A: Blue Collar Journal
Side B: Ann Garcia

Tape 67

Side A: 60 Minutes Self-Examination
Side B: 60 Minutes (cont'd); Coster

Tape 68

Side A: Ross; Hart
Side B: Dottie Lamm

Tape 69:

Radio Call-in Show with Jim Eason

Tape 70:

1/27/81 Gordon Sabine Interview - aired as Public Affairs Pro- gram on WVWR in Roanoke, VA on 2/18/81

Tape 71:

same as Tape 70

Tape 72:

Gordon Sabine speech about BTMTD (for Center for the Book?), April, 1981

Tape 73:

"All Things Considered" interview - National Public Radio, 2/6/81. Gordon Sabine interviewed by Susan Stamberg.

Tape 74:

"All Things Considered", National Public Radio, March, 1981. Susan Stamberg reads letters in answer to request for listeners to write in about significant books.

Tape 75:

"Virginia Bookshelf" - Gordon and Patricia Sabine interviewed by Seth Williamson, 1981?

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