Nelson Cozies Up Bartlett Hall Study Space Sarah R. Buchholz CHRONICLE STAFF April 28, 2000 English professor John Nelson and Chronicle photographer Stan Sherer are collaborating on a new look for part of Bartlett Hall's lobby. Nelson, who has gradually revitalized the building's ground-floor common spaces with furniture that seats up to 40 students, lighting, reference books and a computer for student use, contacted Sherer earlier this year to ask him to contribute some of his photographs of Albania. "He said he'd donate the images, and I said I'd make the frames," said Nelson, who is an accomplished woodworker. Eleven of Sherer's Albanian photographs now line the southern alcove of Bartlett lobby in matching frames. Nelson plans to frame an accompanying text to add to the display in the near future. "The kids just love it," he said. "They're surprised. They expect to see advertisements or graffiti. Instead, they're transported into the Third World. "He's just a treasure," Nelson said of Sherer. "I'd first seen Stan's images at a wonderful show at Amherst College a few years ago. I have never forgotten that show; it was so arresting." Some of the photographs featured in the Bartlett Hall "gallery" are from Sherer's 1995 book, "Long Life to Your Children!: A Portrait of High Albania," for which his wife, Marjorie Senechal, Louise Wolff Kahn Professor of Mathematics at Smith College, wrote the text. The volume was published by the University of Massachusetts Press.