{"id":8135,"date":"2015-09-03T00:43:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T06:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=8135"},"modified":"2015-09-03T00:44:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T06:44:18","slug":"doigs-archives-coming-to-montana-msu-announces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2015\/09\/doigs-archives-coming-to-montana-msu-announces\/","title":{"rendered":"Doig’s archives coming home to Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Doig\"<\/a>

The late Ivan Doig.<\/p><\/div>\n

Montana State University officials announced Wednesday that the papers of novelist Ivan Doig will return to the state. The beloved novelist\u2019s archives will be housed at the MSU Library and be made available for public examination as well as being incorporated into the research and scholarly activities at the school.<\/p>\n

\u201cFew times in our lives we have an opportunity to witness a transformational event,\u201d MSU President Waded Cruzado said in a statement released by the school. \u201cThis is exactly what the acquisition of the Doig collection represents for our library and for Montana State University. The Doig collection will continue to establish Montana State University not only as a great school in agriculture and STEM, but also as a land-grant university fully committed to the humanities.”<\/p>\n

Carol Doig, widow of the celebrated writer, who died in April at age 75, said she chose MSU over two major West Coast universities as a location for the archive.<\/p>\n

\u201cIvan\u2019s archive is coming home,\u201d Carol Doig said in the release. The collection will include her husband\u2019s manuscripts, file cards, drafts, slides, tapes and other materials.<\/p>\n

MSU indicated that 26 people\u2014including scholars and regional authors\u2014wrote in support of the school\u2019s bid for the collection. Billings novelists Carrie La Seur and Craig Lancaster, who participated in an event honoring Doig last month at the Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, were among the writers lending their voice to the effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very grateful for Carol\u2019s generosity, and it\u2019s fitting for Ivan\u2019s papers to find their permanent home in Montana,\u201d La Seur said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Doig, who grew up in White Sulphur Springs and Dupuyer, published 16 volumes of fiction and non-fiction, the last of which\u2014the novel \u201cLast Bus to Wisdom\u201d\u2014was released last month and currently sits on the New York Times bestseller list. His first book, \u201cThis House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind,\u201d a memoir published in 1979, was a finalist for the National Book Award.<\/p>\n

Doig held bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in journalism from Northwestern University and a doctorate in history from the University of Washington. He was a former editor of The Rotarian magazine before turning to writing books. In 2007, Doig won the prestigious Wallace Stegner Award, named for the fellow prominent novelist and Western historian.<\/p>\n

\"CapreAir_Variable\"<\/a><\/div><\/div>Kenning Arlitsch, dean of the MSU Library, said the library will digitize the entire collection and make it available to the public on the Web as well as in print in the library\u2019s Special Collections and Archives.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy committing Ivan\u2019s archive to MSU, Carol Doig is placing immense trust in the institution and its people,\u201d Arlitsch said in the release. \u201cOur proposal to Carol was unique in that it offered a partnership of the MSU Library and the College of Letters and Science that will ensure open access to print and digital versions of the collection, as well as integration with MSU\u2019s teaching and research programs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicol Rae, dean of the MSU College of Letters and Science, said the college is making plans for a scholarly conference on Doig\u2019s legacy to be held in 2017.<\/p>\n

Arlitsch said that funding the acquisition will be made possible, in part, by a lead gift to the MSU Alumni Foundation by longtime MSU Library supporters Jim and Sue Hamilton of Bozeman.<\/p>\n

“We are grateful to Carol Doig for entrusting this extraordinary collection to MSU, and we were delighted to participate in the collaborative effort to make the acquisition,” the Hamiltons said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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