ADMINISTRATIVE NOTES Newsletter of the Federal Depository Library Program --------------------------------------------------------------------- May 15, 2000 GP 3.16/3-2:21/08 (Vol. 21, no. 08) --------------------------------------------------------------------- READERS EXCHANGE OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ACQUIRES FEDERAL PUBLICATION AS TWO-MILLIONTH VOLUME [John B. Phillips, Head of the Documents Department at the Edmon Low Library, Oklahoma State University, sent the following announcement.] The Oklahoma State University (OSU) Library proudly celebrated the acquisition of its two-millionth volume, September 30, 1999 on the Edmon Low Library's South Lawn. The milestone two-millionth volume, Henry R. Schoolcraft's classic Indian Tribes of the United States (1851-1857), was selected by the Friends of the OSU Library's Executive Board. Pulitzer Prize-winner Scott Momaday made the keynote address and acclaimed actor Wes Studi made a special presentation and spoke at a VIP luncheon. The OSU Library Documents Department, a regional depository, is pleased that a Federal publication was chosen to commemorate this special event. Indian Tribes of the United States was the first officially sanctioned government publication on Native Americans. Schoolcraft (1793-1864), an American explorer and ethnologist and an agent in the Lake Superior region, ambitiously attempted to record all aspects of Native American culture. Brevet Brigadier General Seth Eastman (1808-1875), who illustrated the six-volume set, is regarded as the foremost pictorial historian of the American Indian in the nineteenth century. According to noted art historian Patricia Cordon Johnston, "Eastman was a career army officer and a talented artist with a keen eye for cultural detail." He is one of the few artists whose subjects were Native Americans who also lived among them on a daily basis. His some four hundred drawings and paintings have been called the most valuable in the country, not even excepting those of George Catlin.