FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The University Libraries will dedicate the Goldsby Family Arkansas History Laboratory in Special Collections in a ceremony at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, in Mullins Library. Thomas and Sandra Goldsby of West Memphis made a $250,000 naming gift for the room that will be used by archival staff to process manuscript collections.

A portion of the gift is earmarked for the purchase of preservation equipment such as an automatic welding machine, which encloses fragile documents in a mylar envelope, a phase box-making machine, which generates form-fitting protective boxes from acid-free boards for fragile books, and a large format scanner and printer to create working copies of oversized documents such as maps and architectural drawings. Thomas Goldsby Jr. is chairman of the board and CEO of Mid-South Mortgage Co. and a member of the University Libraries Campaign for the Twenty-First Century subcommittee. Sandra and Thomas Goldsby Jr. have been major supporters of conservation and wildlife management programs and higher education throughout the region. Light refreshments will be served. Read more about the gift at http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/3540.htm.

WHEN: Saturday, October 22, 4:30 p.m.

WHERE: Special Collections reading room on lower level, Mullins Library, 365 N. Ozark, University of Arkansas.

WHO: Speaking will be Dean of Libraries Carolyn Allen, Chancellor John A. White, and Manuscripts and Archives Librarian Tim Nutt.

PARKING: Garland Parking Deck (next to University Union).