News & Upcoming Events2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 June 16-30, 2008 CHARLES GREENBERG (Coordinator, Curriculum and Research Support, Medical Library) will serve for two weeks as Fulbright Senior Specialist at the Yerevan State Medical University in Yerevan, Armenia. The Fulbright Senior Specialists Program is designed to provide short-term academic opportunities (two to six weeks) for U.S. faculty and professionals. At YSMU, Charles will present small group workshops in a training center equipped with internet-compatible computer workstations. A comprehensive English-language lesson workbook will be created for each targeted participant and presented during the program, suitable for future Armenian translation. In addition, there will be a course management system to deliver additional online content and links to readings and tools. A primary goal of the program is to assess and then renew the knowledge, skills, and information competencies of the Armenian medical library community and introduce them to contemporary service and support models for medical education, research, and clinical care. A secondary goal is to provide teaching faculty with interest in knowledge management topics not only a level of skill and facility with information resources, but also launch a new era of collaboration between librarians and medical educators, researchers, and clinicians. June 16-26, 2008 JOANNE W. RUDOF (Librarian, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies) will attend a research workshop in Bad Arolsen, Germany, sponsored by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), and the International Tracing Service (ITS). The workshop will focus on use of ITS’s archival materials, which include multi-million page collections of (1) concentration camp, deportation, transport, ghetto, and arrest records; (2) forced and slave labor records; and (3) postwar displaced persons (DP) and resettlement records. Collections relating to the early use of the records to respond to inquiries from Holocaust and forced labor survivors will also be accessible to workshop participants. The objectives of the workshop are to utilize the workshop-group setting to explore the various major sections of the documentation and to identify key portions of the material that offer particularly rich opportunities for new research. Sixteen scholars from North America, Europe, and Israel have been selected for the workshop. June 4-7, 2008 CHARLES GREENBERG (Coordinator, Curriculum and Research Support, Medical Library) will attend ETD2008: Spreading the Light, the 11th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, for which he also created and maintains a specific blog. The symposium, to be held at The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, is an initiative of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. May 16, 2008 JEFFRY LARSON (Librarian for Romance Languages & Literatures, Linguistics, and Classics) participates in a roundtable on "Les bibliothèques face aux moteurs de recherche" (Libraries and Search Engines) at the Sorbonne University in Paris. The roundtable is part of the conference "L’Economie et le Droit des moteurs de recherche," organized by the Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne (Université Paris1), in collaboration with the Chaire Innovation et régulation des services numériques (Ecole Polytechnique et Télécom ParisTech), and the Institut Français de la Communication. April 1, 2008 CHRISTINE BYARUHANGA (Assistant Librarian and Archivist, Uganda Christian University, Mukono), who begins today her three-month visit at the Divinity School Library, is the seventh librarian to come to Yale under the auspices of the International Associates Program. April 1, 2008 The Passover Haggadah: Modern Art in Dialogue with an Ancient Text The Haggadah is a composite liturgical text made up of biblical and rabbinic passages with ancient folk songs at the end. It was likely assembled sometime during the late Second Temple Period in Palestine and was meant to be read on Passover eve during the seder, a ceremony commemorating the Israelite delivery from Egyptian bondage. This exhibit, curated by the Judaica Collection, features a selection of Haggadahs illustrated by modern artists, some of whom have used the medium and the text to make personal or communal statements. Current artists, for example, have addressed the lack of women in the original text, as well as the devastation of European Jewry during World War II. Sterling Memorial Library Nave, on display until June 26. March 31, 2008 PAIKI MUSWAZI, Deputy Client Services Librarian at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, begins his month-long residence at the Yale Library as part of a professional development program funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Read more... March 26, 2008 Ellen Hammond (Curator, East Asia Library) and Haruko Nakamura (Librarian for the Japanese Collection) attended the day-long workshop on Japanese materials, where they presented on “The Prewar History of the East Asia Library at Yale” and “Heritage Sources in the Japanese Collections at Yale University,” respectively. Part of the Todai-Yale Initiative, the workshop was held in cooperation with academic staff specializing in the field of Japan Studies from the Yale University Council on East Asian Studies, and the East Asia Library. Center for Language Study, 370 Temple Street, New Haven, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
March 18, 2008 Curated by the Near East Collection, it features modern and contemporary editions of books in a dozen languages (Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Spanish) by and about the North African scholar Ibn Khaldūn (Tunis 1332 – Cairo 1406). On display until May 31 in the Sterling Memorial Library Cloister, 120 High Street, New Haven. Free and open to the public. March 13, 2008 Panel discussion on projects related to the cultural
reconstruction of Iraq. As part of the Library's Exploration
and Adventure series, Charles Kolb of the National
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will talk about
the goals, challenges, and success of Recovering
Iraq's Past, the NEH's
recently ended initiative to
preserve, protect, and document Iraq's cultural heritage in the
face of looting and destruction. Ann Okerson, Simon Samoeil, and
Elizabeth Beaudin of the Yale University Library will also describe Iraq
ReCollection, the Yale's
Library's two-year, grant-funded effort to digitize some 100,000
pages of Iraqi humanities journals. Though a 2005 U.S. Department
of Education Title VI grant, the Library is also developing Arabic
and Middle Eastern Electronic Library (AMEEL), a Web-based
portal for the study of the Middle East, including its history,
culture, development, and contemporary face. March 10-11, 2008 Two librarians from the the American University in Cairo, Hoda El Ridi (Head, Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery) and Amal Khalil (Resource Sharing Coordinator), spent two days at Sterling Memorial Library working with Carol Jones (Head, Document Delivery), Elizabeth Beaudin (Manager, International Digital Special Projects) and Simon Samoeil (Curator, Near East Collection) on aspects and issues related to the AMEEL (Arabic and Middle Eastern Electronic Library) project.
One of the three components of the AMEEL project is to introduce and foster Document Delivery exchanges among Middle Eastern academic libraries. To do this, the AMEEL team started by holding a Document Delivery workshop in March 2006 in Amman, Jordan. From the workshop participants, the team chose two universities, the American University in Cairo and the University of Bahrain, to begin a pilot exchange. Hoda and Amal participated in this pilot exchange as members of the Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery department at the American University in Cairo. Their visit to Yale was timed so that they could attend the 2008 OCLC ILLiad International Meeting, held on March 13 th and 14 th in Virginia Beach, Virginia. ILLiad is a resource-sharing management software used by many academic libraries to automate their routine interlibrary loan functions. March 10, 2008 TAJANA LORKOVIĆ (Curator, Slavic and East European Collection) attended the conference on "Google and Libraries," held at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs as part of the 10th International Workshop "Digital Resources and International Information Exchange: East-West." The International Workshop is organized annually in the United States by the International Library Information and Analytical Center (ILIAC) and the Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology. February 15, 2008 Ms. YAN ZHAO, of the Library of the Chinese Academy
of Sciences (LCAS) in Beijing, begins today her six-month
term as visiting librarian at the Yale University Library, focusing
on electronic resource work. February 12, 2008 ARABIC MUSIC: AN EXHIBITION IN THE IRVING S. GILMORE MUSIC LIBRARY Curated by the Near East Collection, the exhibition displays a variety of books on the various musical traditions of the Middle East. On display until March 31 at the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, 120 High Street, New Haven. Free and open to the public. February 1, 2008 ARNOLD CARL KLEBS, 1870-1943: TUBERCULOSIS SPECIALIST, HISTORIAN, AND BIBLIOPHILE AND A FOUNDER OF THE MEDICAL HISTORICAL LIBRARY Arnold Carl Klebs was one of the three physician/historians who offered to donate their libraries of rare books to Yale if Yale would build a place to house them. That place was the Yale Medical Library, now the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Son of the famous pathologist and bacteriologist Edwin Klebs, Arnold Klebs followed his father from Switzerland to America in 1896, becoming a noted tuberculosis specialist in Chicago. In 1909, having inherited wealth, Klebs returned to Switzerland where he devoted his career to the history of medicine. Harvey Cushing and Klebs met at Johns Hopkins in the first decade of the twentieth century and became lifelong friends. Thirty years later, Cushing suggested to Klebs that he and John F. Fulton join him in pledging their books to become the nucleus of a new medical historical collection at Yale. On display until March 15 at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Rotunda, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven. January 29, 2008 MISSIONARY JOURNEYS: STORIES OF ADVENTURE AND PERIL FROM THE DAY MISSIONS COLLECTION This exhibition contains a sampling of manuscript and published works from the Yale Divinity Library's renowned Day Missions collection that describe missionary journeys from the 17th century through the first half of the 20th century. Letters, journals, photographs, and published works provide a glimpse of the exotic destinations, perilous adventures, ground breaking exploration, and unique experiences of missionaries who set out to spread the gospel. On view through July at the Yale Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven. January 16, 2008 THE RECKONER'S ART: READING AND WRITING MATHEMATICS IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND Mathematics became an essential part of literate culture in England in the early modern period. This exhibition showcases the means, serious and playful, by which readers learned, practiced, and implemented mathematics in England, from the mid-sixteenth through the eighteenth century. Drawing on the Beinecke Library's print and manuscript collections of early modern English material, the exhibition includes student exercise books, almanacs, textbooks, illustrations, account books, poems, literature, and instruments made out of paper. OPENING RECEPTION,
Wednesday, January 16, 5:15 p.m. January 11-12, 2008 MARTHA SMALLEY, Curator of the Day Missions Collection, Divinity Library, attended the Third Annual Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong, where she made a presentation on China resources at the Yale Divinity School Library.
January 11, 2008 BIRDS IN BABYLONIA The abundance and diversity of bird life in ancient Mesopotamia were reflected in art, literature, and administrative records. People carefully observed birds, raised them for food, made up stories about them, and drew pictures and carved sculptures of them. The tablets and objects in this exhibition, selected from the Yale Babylonian Collection, illustrate numerous aspects of the relationship between birds and human beings thousands of years ago.
On view until March 31 in the Sterling Memorial Library Nave (between the Circulation Desk and the Cloister). January 7, 2008 TRAVELS WITH MY LIBRARIAN: Professional Exchanges and Gift Culture The ancient and honorable practice of gift exchange is common to all mankind, though its forms and reasons may differ from country to country. Gifts remain indeed one of the oldest and most enduring social-binding forces, a traditional aspect of archaic societies which remains very much alive today, if often demystified, trivialized or regulated by circumstances and policies. Whether they are exchanged by family members, friends, or business and professional acquaintances, gifts always fill the gap represented by distance and difference—geographic, cultural or otherwise. In our age of networked information, international cooperation and global issues, librarians increasingly participate in projects and activities that take them farther and farther afield, or conversely that bring colleagues and other professional visitors from overseas to their home institutions. More often than not, international travel and hosting are marked by an exchange of gifts, to express gratitude, openness and friendliness, but also as a first, symbolic step towards a possible collaboration. This exhibition explores the custom and culture of international gift exchange by presenting a selection of objects received by Yale librarians and administrators, either during their professional travels or while hosting international visitors to New Haven. On view until February 29 in the Sterling Memorial Library Cloister.
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