NEWS & UPCOMING EVENTS2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 June 12, 2009 The initial release of Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996: West (and Western) Europe is now available. The entire FBIS Daily Reports database can be accessed from the library's A-Z databases list or directly at http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=FBISX. This West (and Western) Europe release includes 380,595 articles in 4,458 issues of the Daily Report. The content in FBIS Daily Reports, 1974-1996 - which also covers the Middle East, Africa, Near East, Asia & the Pacific, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union - is nearly complete. You can see the release schedule here: http://bit.ly/qppZE. (You'll notice that geographic areas were named and grouped differently over the years that the FBIS reports were published.) The Library is also acquiring FBIS Daily Reports 1941-1974. Thus far, reports for China for January-March 1974 are available, from the same interface as the FBIS Daily Reports, 1974-1996. I will announce major releases of the 1941-1974 reports as they become available. For more information or questions about this resource, contact Julie Linden, Librarian for Political Science, International Affairs, and Government Information (julie.linden@yale.edu; 203-432-3310). June 12, 2009 Yale University Library is pleased to announce the campus-wide availability of STRATFOR, a resource for geopolitical intelligence on political, economic, and military developments around the globe. For more information or questions about this resource, contact Julie Linden, Librarian for Political Science, International Affairs, and Government Information (julie.linden@yale.edu; 203-432-3310). June 9, 2009 Affra Al Shamsi, Head of the Central Medical Library, Royal Hospital-Sultanate of Oman, begins his three-month fellowship at Yale University Library. She is the 10th librarian to come to Yale under the auspices of the International Associates Progra. More... June 8, 2009 The Yale University Library has just purchased the following literary databases:
For more information or questions about these resources, contact Todd Gilman, Librarian for Literature in English (todd.gilman@yale.edu; 203-432-1761). May 26-29, 2009 Danuta Nitecki (Associate University Librarian for Public Services and Library Teaching and Learning) attended QQML2009, the Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, held at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh) Conference Centre, Chania, Crete, Greece. The conference proceedings - including Danuta's paper "Are qualitative and quantitative data appropriately gathered for managerial decisions?" - can be viewed at: http://www.isast.org/proceedingsQQML2009/. May 26, 2009 Yale University Library users have now access to five World Biographical Information System (WBIS) digitized archives: Baltic Biographical Archive Series II (BaBA II) includes 84,000 persons, 96 sources published from 1940 to 2002, 106,000 articles covering the Soviet era and social upheaval of the mid-1980s.Korean Biographical Archive (KBA) Online covers from King Tangun, the founder of the legendary kingdom Choson, to King Sejong who introduced the Korean alphabet in the 15th century, and the political representatives of modern Korea. There are entries for 20,000 persons with abstracts in English to increase ease of access to the more than 45,000 entries in Korean, German, English and French. Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American Biographical Archive to 2001 (ABEPI IV) covers the most recent decades with 158,000 persons from 351 volumes published 1995 to 2000 with 177,000 articles. South-East European Biographical Archive (SOBA) covers 88,000 persons from Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro and covers the period from the 9th century to late 20th century. South-East Asian Biographical Archive (SEABA) offers 90,000 persons, published 1850 to 1997 including 122,000 biographical articles from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Both, the colonial era and subsequent independence movements in south-east Asia are included in the Archive. For improved ease of access 10,000 entries have English abstracts. May 1, 2009 Selected French History and Culture Resources Article by Susanne Roberts (Librarian for European History, Coordinator of Humanities Collections) in FOCUS on Global Resources, the quarterly newsletter of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). To download FOCUS in PDF format, go to: http://www.crl.edu/PDF/pdfFocus/Spring2009.pdf April 30, 2009 A World of Free Knowledge: Ann Okerson (Associate University Librarian for Collections and International Programs) interviewed by ITP.net, a Middle Eastern Technology, Media and Business Web site. The same interviewed appeared also on Arabian Business, one of ITP's sister sites. A Soviet Poster Campaign against Venereal Disease, 1928 In 1928, Venereal Diseases and the Fight Against Them, a portfolio of forty posters for exhibition and use in public lectures, was distributed throughout the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic by the People’s Commissariat on Health. “The Soviet government is waginga relentless battle against venereal diseases” the first poster of the series announced. “Participation in this battle is everyone’s duty….” The exhibit, prepared by Alexander Kazberouk, Yale College Class of 2010, and Curator Susan Wheeler, displays a selection of posters from this recent acquisition to the library’s collections and explains how the posters were used for public education. An on-site computer is available to view the entire set of posters with an English translation. The Cushing Rotunda, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, until May 28, 2009. French Liberty. British Slavery: British Responses to the French Revolution from the Collection of the Lewis Walpole Library This exhibition explores British responses to the French Revolution, and focuses on the period of 1789-1794, from the beginning of the Revolution until the end of the Reign of Terror in France. Whether depicting the brutality and depravity of the events in France, the political divisions in Britain, or considering the nature of liberty and patriotism, the exhibition will look at the British response sparked by the French Revolution, as reflected in satirical prints by James Gillray, Isaac Cruikshank, and others, as well as political pamphlets by Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Richard Price, and others, and manuscript letters from Horace Walpole. All of the works in the exhibition are from the collection of the Lewis Walpole Library. The exhibit will run until August 28, 2009 and is free and open to the public. An opening reception will be held on April 17, 2009, 3-5 p.m. For detailed information, visit: http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/. The Lewis Walpole Library is located at 154 Main Street, Farmington, CT. For more information, contact Susan Odell Walker, Head of Public Services: susan.walker@yale.edu or (860) 677-2140. April 13, 2009 A Celebration of the Calligraphy of Ch'ung-ho Chang Frankel Opening reception with the renowned artist and a performance of Chinese Kunqu Opera by the Kunqu Society of New York. Sterling Memorial Library, East Asia Reading Room The Art of the Ketubah: A Study in Jewish Diversity An exhibit in Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library celebrates the art of the ketubah (plural ke tubot), the marriage contract that Jewish law requires a groom to provide for his bride on their wedding day. The ketubah is intended to protect the woman by establishing the man’s financial obligations to her in case of divorce, as well as provisions for shelter, clothing, and food. Signed by two witnesses and read aloud during the marriage ceremony, the ketubah is an important public and cultural document. The ketubot on display in the exhibit are from the Yale University Library’s Sholem Asch Collection and span from four centuries and many countries. Although many Jewish communities have historically decorated their ketubot, during the 17 th and 18 th centuries Italian Jews perfected the art of ketubah illumination. Italian ketubot from this period commonly feature rich floral ornamentation and images from the Bible as well as from Greek and Roman mythology. They often depict biblical personalities whose names were identical with those of the bride and groom, or they use images to identify their individual attributes like virtue and charity. A special feature of the ketubot of the Jews of Rome is the extended, rounded bottom edge which gave an opportunity to feature either a coat of arms, an object such as an urn, or a floral or geometric design which often include micrographic designs. Ketubot from Jewish centers in Muslim world, including those in Iran and Afghanistan, are more conservatively decorated, reflecting the prohibition of the creation of graven images, but feature dazzling floral and animal motifs. Those of the Sephardic Diaspora (Jews of Spanish and Portuguese origin) reflect the rich heritage and unique identity of these communities. The exhibit will be complimented by a lecture by Professor Vivian B. Mann on Tuesday, April 28 at 4:00 p.m. in the Sterling Memorial Library lecture hall (128 Wall Street). Mann is Director of the Master’s Program in Jewish Art at the Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Curator Emerita of the Jewish Museum in New York. Her talk, which is co-sponsored by the Judaic Studies Program, is titled “Jewish Marriage Contracts as Documents of Acculturation.” The exhibit will run until June 30, 2009 and is free and open to the public Monday-Thursday 8:30 a.m.-5:45 p.m.; Saturday 10:00 a.m.-4:45 p.m.; Sunday 12 noon-5:45 p.m. Opening hours will change on May 12, 2009. For detailed information, visit: www.library.yale.edu/hours. Sterling Memorial Library is located at 120 High Street in New Haven. For more information, contact Nanette Stahl, Judaica Curator, Yale University Library: nanette.stahl@yale.edu or (203) 432-2707. Starry Messenger: Observing the Heavens in the Age of Galileo This exhibition is in celebration of the International Year of Astronomy with the Yale University Department of Astronomy. In the autumn of 1609, the Italian mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei turned his telescope to the heavens, deciphering the cratered face of the moon, the four satellites of Jupiter, and other previously opaque features of the heavens. When, in 1610, Galileo published his Sidereus Nuncius, or Starry Messenger, the German astronomer Johannes Kepler responded with enthusiasm, praising the significance of Galileo’s observations with his own Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo, or, Conversations with the Starry Messenger (1610). To whom else did the stars speak in the early modern period? This exhibition reveals the furred and cratered faces, the portents and instruments in European observations of the heavens from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century. Drawing in part on a recently acquired collection of early modern comet literature, the exhibition explores the fascination and anxiety with the world, its state, and its possibilities of imperfection that infused the early modern European discussions of the stars. Beinecke Rare and Manuscript Library, until June 30, 2009. For more information, contact Rebecca Martz, Public Relations Coordinator: rebecca.martz@yale.edu or (203) 432-2969. April 1, 2009 Visitors to This Old Library Howard F. McGinn, Dean of University Libraries, Seton Hall University, leads a group of visitors from Bulgaria ona tour of Sterling Memorial Library and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The group consisted of Professor Alexander Dimchev, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, "St. Kliment Ohridski" University of Sofia, and three students enrolled in the Library and Information Studies program. Early Arabic Printing: Movable Type & Lithographs A new exhibit in Sterling Memorial Library (across the from the stack elevators) explores the history of printed Arabic books and the gradual introduction of the printing press and printing techniques in the Arab world. The first Arabic book printed using movable type was published in Fano, Italy in 1514, and presses supported by the Catholic Church subsequently printed books for the benefit of the Arabic speaking Christians in the Ottoman Empire. Over succeeding decades, religious and secular authorities in the Arab world sought to suppress presses over fears that printers might tamper with sacred religious texts or publish seditious literature. While presses were established in Aleppo (Syria) and Constantinople in the early years of the 18th century, it was only after Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 that the printing using movable type was widely adopted in the Near East. The books displayed in the exhibit are drawn from the University Library's Near East Collection. Many volumes were printed using movable type, while others were printed using lithography, a technique invented at the end of the 18th century. Lithography is based on the chemical repellence of oil and water. Designs or text are drawn or painted with greasy ink or crayons on specially prepared stone. The stone is moistened with water, which the stone accepts in areas not covered by the crayon. An oily ink, applied with a roller, adheres only to the drawing and is repelled by the wet parts of the stone. The print is then made by pressing paper against the inked area. The exhibit is free and open to the public and will run until June 30, 2009 and is free and open to the public Monday-Thursday 8:30 a.m.-5:45 p.m.; Saturday 10:00 a.m.-4:45 p.m.; Sunday 12 noon-5:45 p.m. Opening hours will change on May 12, 2009. For detailed information, visit: www.library.yale.edu/hours. Sterling Memorial Library is located at 120 High Street in New Haven. For more information, contact Simon Samoeil, Curator of the Near East Collection, simon.samoeil@yale.edu or (203) 432-1799. March 31, 2009 Datasets of five more "New Democracy Barometer" surveys available Following the first acquisition of four "New Barometer" survey datasets, Yale's Social Science Data Archive now contains an additional five New Democracies Barometer datasets, filling the gaps before and between the previously acquired ones:
Together with those from the first acquisition, these now provide Yale researchers with the opportunity to study public opinion in Eastern European countries from primary data spanning the time period from 1991 to 2004/5. For questions, contact the Social Science Data Librarian. March 25-31, 2009 Visitors to This Old Library Svetlana G. Mamakina, Chief of the Scientific and Technical Library, Gipronickel Institute/Kola Branch, in Monchegorsk, Murmansk region, Russia, spent five days at the Yale Library as a guest of the Slavic and East European Collection. March 23, 2009 Cyrill Walters, Librarian (Music Specialist) at the W.H. Bell Music Library, University of Cape Town (UCT) Libraries, begins her five-week visit at Yale University Library under the auspices of the Research Libraries Consortium (RLC). More... March 6-8, 2009 Danuta Nitecki (Associate University Librarian for Public Services and Library Teaching and Learning) attended the Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education and Practice (A-LIEP 2009) at the University of Tsukuba, in Japan, where she was a panelist in the "Symposium on Future Perspectives in Globalization of Library and Information Professionals." March 6, 2009 Thanks to Tang Li (Public Services Librarian), a Mandarin-language recording that describes the East Asia Library collections, resources and services is now available on Yale University Library News,as well as on iTunes. March 2, 2009 Henryk Citko, curator of the Zbigniew Herbert Archive at the Biblioteka Narodowa (National Library of Poland) in Warsaw, begins his three-month fellowship at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. More... February 26, 2009 Film screening of Adrift on the Nile (1971) In conjunction with the Arab Cinema Posters exhibition, the Near East Collection is sponsoring a screening of Adrift On The Nile, an Egyptian film directed by Hussein Kamal and based on the homonymous novel by the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz. The film will be introduced by Near East Curator Simon Samoeil, who will also talk about Arab cinema in general and the poster collection on display in the Memorabilia Room. Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall, 2:00 p.m February 4, 2009 Michael Kasusse, librarian at the Albert Cook Medical Library, Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, begins his three-month fellowship at Yale's Cushing/Whitney Medical Library under the auspices of the International Associates Program. Michael is the eight International Associate since the inception of this program in the fall of 2005. February 1, 2009 Yale University Library celebrates the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's (1809-82) birth, and the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species (published 24 November 1859) with the following six exhibitions:
February 2009 Jeffry Larson (Librarian for Romance Languages & Literatures, Linguistics, and Classics) is portrayed in the current issue of Archimag, a French monthly magazine dedicated to information professionals and related topics, such as document management, Internet/Intranet, digitalization, records management, knowledge management, and economic intelligence. The article was based on an interview Jeffry gave while attending the Salon de la Revue in October 2008 January 23, 2009 Dorothy Woodson (Curator, African Collection) participated in a panel discussion on African traditional textiles and modern clothing at Empire State College, State University of New York, in East Syracuse, New York. The panel, which also included Yale scholar Dr. Ann Biersteker, Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies, Dr. Deborah Amory, Dean of Empire State College’s Central New York Center, and Dr. Margaret Sithole, Assistant Professor in the ESC Business program, was held in conjunction with the exhibition “African Social and Political Cloths: Kangas, Kitenges and T-Shirts,” to which Dorothy also contributed samples of African cloths from her own private collection January 20 - April 18, 2009 Book of Secrets: Alchemy and the European Imagination, 1500-2000 From Chaucer to Harry Potter, this exhibition explores the curious centrality of alchemy in the European imagination from the early days of print through the present. From the sixteenth century, books of alchemical secrets were published in almost every European language. Terms such as the philosopher’s stone entered into the popular understanding in the world of Harry Potter as in that of the sixteenth-century magus. Alchemy was chemistry, practiced by the leading scientists of the period; it was also mystical, seen by thinkers as prominent as Isaac Newton to be the means to understand the source of life itself. Skeptics like Ben Jonson satirized it in plays; poets from John Donne to Ted Hughes adopted its imagery. The twentieth-century psychologist Carl Jung based his theory of the psyche on his analysis of alchemy. Above all, people wrote, read, and thought about alchemy from the early modern period through the present day. [ca. 110 items] Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library January 15 through March 31, 2009 The Splendor of Hangul: The Korean Script in Calligraphy and Print Sponsored by Yale’s East Asia Library, this exhibit celebrates hangul, the alphabet developed in the fifteenth-century by the Korean King Sejong and a group of scholars he convened for this purpose. Featuring print and manuscript books from the Yale Library’s collections, as well as calligraphy by the distinguished artist Dr. Yoo Sung Lee, the exhibit traces the development of hangul styles over time, ranging from early geometric forms through gothic styles and finally to pure abstraction in art. More... Sterling Memorial Library January 10-13, 2009 Simon Samoeil (Curator, Near East Collection) attended the international conference on Faith and Community at the University of Southern Mindanao, in the Philippines. The conference was organized by the Institute for Training and Development, in collaboration with the University of Southern Mindanao, as part of an international exchange project for Filipino and American educational, religious, and community leaders in order to initiate a dialogue on the practice of Islam in open, diverse, and democratic societies. The eight-member American delegation visited the Filipino participants’ institutions, observed how the teaching and practice of religion is integrated into Southern Philippines culture and society, and took part in a 2-day conference at USM, where Simon gave a presentation on “Finding Common Ground, Rediscovering Our Roots.” January 10-13, 2009 Joanne Rudof (Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies) attends the conference Witnessing: Sites of Destruction and the Representation of the Holocaust, in Bergen-Belsen, Germany. Co-organized by the Bergen-Belsen Memorial in cooperation with the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University. Through February 28, 2009 Arab Cinema Posters An exhibition of some of the 1,200 movie posters recently acquired by the Near Eastern Collection and housed within Manuscripts and Archives. The first Arabic film was produced in Egypt in 1923 and the Arab world boasts an active and prodigious film industry. Advertising films produced in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq, the colorful and engaging posters offer unique insight on both cinematic and social history in the Arab world. Sterling Memorial Library, Memorabilia Room December 10, 2008 through February 28, 2009
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