College & Research Libraries News vol. 79, no. 1 (January 2018)


January 2018 49 C&RL News

G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n sAnn-Christe Galloway

A c q u i s i t i o n s

The personal papers of basketball coach Dean 
Smith have been acquired by the University 
of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel Hill Librar-
ies. They will be part of the Southern His-
torical Collection at the Wilson Special Col-
lections Library. Smith was the head coach 
of the UNC Tar Heels from 1961 to 1997, 
retiring as the winningest coach in college 
basketball. He led the Tar Heels to national 
championships 
in 1982 and 
1993, to 13 
ACC Tourna-
ment titles, 11 
Final Fours, 
an NIT cham-
pionship, and 
directed the 
U.S. Olympic 
Team to a gold 
medal at the 
1976 Summer 
Games. Smith 
died at 2015 at 
the age of 83. 

TV personality Dick Cavett has donated 2,500 
programs of his decades-long talk-show series 
to the Library of Congress. The collection totals 
nearly 2,000 hours of programming—about 78 
days worth of viewing—and features more than 
5,000 guests. The list of guests, many whom 
rarely appeared on late night television, is a 
testament to Cavett’s appeal. Many of Cavett’s 
interviews with the famous and sometimes in-
famous were often filled with humor, startling 
revelations, and high drama, including on-air 
altercations. Collection highlights include: 

• a controversial confrontation between 
writers Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer about 

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Mailer’s misogynistic tendencies and Vidal 
comparing him to Charles Manson;

• the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald 
talks about her actions immediately after 
watching John F. Kennedy’s assassination 
on television;

• a humorous conversation with Louis 
Armstrong reflecting on being in Chicago in 
the days of Al Capone;  

• James Baldwin, in a 1968 interview, 
candidly talks about the negative perception 

of black activism 
and his view that 
integration is a 
euphemism for 
white superiority;

• I n  a 
1971 interview, 
John Lennon and 
Yoko Ono talk 
about their rela-
tionship and the 
Beatles; 

• Arthur 
Miller describes 
being blacklisted 
because of his 
protests against 

McCarthyism and the writing of the “The 
Crucible;”

• Lauren Bacall reveals her best-kept secret 
as a young star in Hollywood—her Jewish 
heritage; and

• the interview with Judy Collins, whose 
censored comments caused a firestorm.

A winner of three Emmy Awards, Cavett 
has been nominated for the award 11 times.  
During his 35 years as a talk-show host, he has 
appeared on five different networks. He was 
the host of the “Dick Cavett Show” on ABC 
from 1968 to 1975 and on public television 
from 1977 to 1982. Cavett also hosted a series 
of programs on HBO, and his interviews were 
the inspiration for the PBS documentaries “Dick 
Cavett’s Watergate” (2014) and “Dick Cavett’s 
Vietnam” (2015).  

A note of congratulations to University of North Carolina-Chapel 
Hill’s basketball coach Dean Smith, after winning career game 
number 877, from “fellow former Jayhawk” Senator Bob Dole.

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