Holiday Gift

Our readers may remember that our Winter 2002 issue mentioned that the Library was looking for a first edition copy of Stanley Middleton's Holiday, to complete its collection to date of the winners of the Booker Prize.

At a recent event in New Jersey, hosted by Georgetown parents Tom (C'64) and Meg Healey, Artemis Kirk talked about the ongoing need for libraries to preserve culture and continue to collect work in print even as we move toward digital libraries. She used as an example author Stanley Middleton, discussed by recent Library Associates speaker Jason Cowley in an online article at www.amazon.co.uk as "the forgotten man of post-war British literary culture." Cowley mentioned in his article that Georgetown's Library had long sought the elusive Holiday, to no avail. At the end of her talk, Tom Healey retrieved his own first edition copy of Holiday from his library and presented it to her to complete Georgetown's collection. Details of the original gift from the Healey Family Foundation to establish the Library's Booker Prize Collection Fund can be found in the Fall 1998 issue of this newsletter.