This Week's Stories: Math Prof Receives Packard Fellowship Picture: Flush of Victory Saving the “Mother of India” Staff Profile: Creating Beauty Through Art “After Hours” Seeking Good News for the Holidays Berkeley in the News Seeking Staff to be Chancellor’s Advisors Is There a Doctor in the House? Parrot Fossil from the Cretaceous Pushes Back Origin of Modern Land Birds Chlamydia Genome Sequenced for First Time, Says Campus Researcher Clay Workshop Links Children With Ancient Art of Pottery Paul Licht, Chair of Deans at College of Letters & Science Boalt Hall Hosts Two Conferences on Global Ocean Issues Cal Profiles: A New Central Source for Campus Information Identifying Someone at Risk for Suicide Changing the Consumption Culture Dear Editor: Public Health Graduate Students Speak Out 1999 Calendar for Sale Anthropology Librarian Endowed in Honor of Rowe Regular Features News Briefs Staff Enrichment		Anthropology Librarian Endowed in Honor of Rowe by Julia Sommer, Public Affairs posted November 18, 1998 Only two librarian positions are endowed at Berkeley: those of the University Librarian and the director of Bancroft Library. Now there's a third: the John H. Rowe Librarian in the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library, funded by an anonymous gift in honor of anthropology professor emeritus Rowe. The gift was announced Oct. 13 at a lecture and dinner in Rowe's honor. Rowe, a leading scholar of Inca culture and history, joined the anthropology faculty in 1948 and soon after established an independent anthropology library. Today the collection numbers more than 70,000 volumes. Suzanne Calpestri, recipient of the Rowe Chair, has been anthropology librarian since 1994. "It's so unusual for a librarian to be honored in this way," she says. Calpestri looks forward to using some of the endowment income for professional development. "There's a lot to keep up with -- new databases in social sciences, new technologies like geographic informational systems, digital library developments," she says. "I want to make sure we have a forward-looking library." Income from the endowment will also support exhibitions and lectures. Berkeley is one of only three universities in the U.S. with an anthropology library, says Calpestri. The other two are Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. All three also have anthropology museums. "The three components -- academic department, museum and library -- complement each other and make a whole," says Calpestri. Anthropology department chair Stanley Brandes says of the gift: "The benefactors have shown unusually fine judgment in selecting the anthropology librarian for support. We in anthropology think that Suzanne is the best librarian in the world." Calpestri received her Master of Library Science degree from Berkeley in 1970 and has been a member of the library staff since 1967, when she was a sophomore working part-time at Bancroft.

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