The Black Belt Press of Montgomery is establishing itself as a significant publisher of Alabamiana. Publisher Randall Williams opens the Black Belt Records with galley proofs of Gray's Bus Ride , an original manuscript entitled President Clinton and the Working Man , and two drafts of Faith by Auburn's own R.T. Smith. With the coming of the new academic year, the Archives will create the second in a series of displays that feature schools and departments of the University. These will rotate approximately every six months. The current display documents the history of the RBD Library while the next one will focus on the College of Agriculture.
All displays use documents, photographs, and artifacts from the appropriate archives collections.
Brenda Prather oversees this work. The AU Archives is home of the second largest collection of the papers of World War I flyer and ace Eddie Rickenbacker. Only the Library of Congress's collection is larger. To celebrate and publicize the availability of this vast array of materials, the Archives has mounted an extensive display on the World Wide Web. The administrative information and finding aid for this series within the larger Lane collection has been mounted on the web since early 1997.