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Richard S. Wormser Collection of Graphic Satire Harry A. Chesler Collection Loyd Haberly Collection Campus Archives Douglas Lloyd Kahn Memorial Collection	In addition to supporting the University's curriculum and providing opportunities for original research, the variety of materials available in the Florham-Madison Campus Library also provides support to holdings of the libraries in the greater Morris area in subject areas within our informally shared development program. This cooperative building of collections, together with the ease of loan and consultation, gives the public of the Morris-area libraries the resources, in aggregate, of a substantial university library, even though the holdings are dispersed among public, academic, and specialized libraries. Special strengths have developed at FDU over the years through the efforts of generous friends, federal support, and foundation encouragement. Several areas of strength are psychology; business and economics; 20th-century art and history; history of photography; 20th-century secular Judaica; the history of socialist and Spanish, French, German and Russian belles-lettres, literary history and criticism. The need at the FDU Florham-Madison Campus Library for a strong reference collection of national encyclopedias, atlases, and language dictionaries, stimulated development of a collection encompassing these reference works. Current holdings in these three categories are the most sophisticated in the Morris area. Several countries represented with national encyclopedias are Germany, Romania, Peru, Japan, Poland, Brazil, Canada, Lithuania, Latvia, Mexico, Australia, France, the former Soviet Union, the Ukraine, and Sweden. The national atlases of India, Finland, the former Czechoslovakia, China, Israel, the U.K., Japan and Canada are but a few of those available. Dictionaries for over 100 of the world's languages and dialects, including some 1025 volumes are held in this collection. Several collections of non-circulating materials in special subject areas are shelved in the technical services area.
Richard S. Wormser Collection of Graphic Satire
List of Collections	In 1982 Carola Wormser of Southbury, Conn., donated her late husband's extensive library of continental European works of social satire. The collection is particularly strong in 19th and 20th century European studies and compendia.
Harry A. Chesler Collection
List of Collections	The Chesler collection - with its nearly 4,000 original cartoon storyboards, individual cartoons, and drawings - was donated in 1973 along with a fund for the maintenance and extension of the collection. Included in the original works are the "greats" of the genre from Richard Outcault to Charles Shultz. Winsor McCay is well represented because of his association with Chesler. To date, approximately 4,000 titles with a strong emphasis on European graphic satire, have been added. This extensive secondary literature adds to the usefulness of the original material in addition to being an important resource in its own right for the student of cultural history.
Loyd Haberly Collection
List of Collections	The Loyd Haberly Collection - a gift of this former Fairleigh Dickinson University dean and professor of English, and his wife, Virginia, provides the library with a modest collection of printing history reference works. Haberly's collection on printing history and the private press movement has been enlarged with gifts and through purchases from gift funds and now numbers some 1,000 titles. Haberly also donated a collection of his own publications: books of poetry written, printed and bound by him. In addition, Haberly's Stansbury handpress, one of the few of its style to have survived, was donated. Leonard Seastone, a student of Haberly, founded the Tideline Press in the tradition of his teacher. At the completion of ten years' work, he presented the library with an extensive archive of printing for clients as well as his own excursions into private press printing.
Campus Archives
List of Collections	The Florham-Madison Campus Archives consists of publications, records, and photographic material relating to the history of the Twombly estate and the University's occupancy of it.
Douglas Lloyd Kahn Memorial Collection
List of Collections	When Nachum T. Gidal's inquiry Jews in Photography was published in 1987, it was not to validate a contention that such a phenomenon as Jewish photography¹ existed but rather to call attention to the role of sung and unsung figures in the history of photography who happened to be Jewish. Certainly anyone familiar in even a passing sense with the history of photography, and by extension cinema, is aware that the Jewish contribution has been both substantial and influential, particularly in the 20th century. The names of Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, John Heartfield, El Lissitzky, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Robert Capa, Roman Vishniac are, if not household words in America, recognized by even the informed nonspecialist. Other Europeans such as Dora Kallmus, Albert von Rothchild, John Warburg, Ephraim Lilien, Erich Salomon, Erwin Blumenfeld, Helmar Lerski, and Albert Kohn are but a few of the less widely known whose respective contributions were no less recognized by their contemporaries and are in many cases now experiencing a revival of general interest among historians of the visual mediums and photographic historians in specific. The Jewish contribution to world cinema history is much more widely known, if not in detail certainly in a general sense, due largely to some six decades of articles appearing in the popular and scholarly press, numerous biographies of directors, actors, producers and company owners. Doug Kahn's awareness of his own heritage and his identification with this tradition was a continuing stimulus to him and was reflected in his reading and his conversation. Naming a collection in these two related fields with an emphasis on the Jewish contribution seemed but a natural way to not only remember Doug but also to allow a continuity in the further development of the F-M campus library collection that has served the student, larger academic, and public interest in this region for nearly two decades. ¹Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook XXXII(London);pp.437-453.