Library Projects
and Activities in or about MULTPLE REGIONS
'Making No Compromise':
Margaret Anderson and the Little Review
Famous for her strong opinions about art as well as for her
beauty and wit, radical editor Margaret Anderson was a key
figure in American and European Modernism. Between 1914 and
1929, Andersons pioneering art and literature magazine, the Little
Review, published poetry, criticism, and artwork by many
of the most significant writers and artists of the 20th century,
including William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein,
Pablo Picasso, Hart Crane, Man Ray, Mina Loy, Wyndham Lewis,
T.S. Eliot, Sherwood Anderson, and Francis Picabia. James Joyces
Ulysses appeared serially in the Little Review before
it was published in its entirety in 1922; the Little Review and
its editor became the subjects of a widely publicized obscenity
trial when the United States Post Office deemed some segments
of the work obscene and refused to distribute copies. Making
No Compromise celebrates the life and work of Margaret Anderson
and the remarkable influence of the Little Review on
twentieth-century arts and letters. The exhibition is drawn
largely from the Margaret Anderson-Elizabeth Jenks Clark Collection,
housed at the Beinecke Library.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Exhibition,
October 1, 2006 - January 5, 2007
A Lens of One's Own: Visual
Ethnography Around the World
The exhibition showcases three ethnographic collections
in conjunction with The American Museum
Of Natural History's Margaret Mead Traveling Film And Video Festival
At Yale, the longest-running documentary film festival in the
United States. It is named in honor of renowned ethnographer and
anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-1978), whose work and writings
are credited with contributing significantly to the understanding
of human history. C oordinated and mounted by the Social Science
Libraries and Information Services staff, the Sterling exhibit features
library collections related to the additional Yale programs included
in the festival.
Sterling Memorial Library Exhibition, September
15 - November 4, 2006
Contact: Kelly
Barrick, Coordinator, Reference
and Instruction, Social Science
Libraries and Information Services
Recent Acquisitions in the Historical Collections
A new exhibition prepared by Susan Wheeler, Curator of Prints
and Drawings, showcases dozens of rare books, photographs, prints,
and posters recently acquired by the Medical Historical Library.
Highlights include: Hans von Gersdorff’s popular surgical
field manual Feldbüch
der Wundartzney (1517), represented here by the first edition with
hand-colored woodcuts (Augsburg, 1528); Paracelsus’ balneological
treatise, Baderbüchlin (1562); birthing manuals by two
French midwives, Louise Bourgeois and Marguerite du Tertre de la Marche
(1609 and 1677, respectively); Charles Emile Jacques’s Les
Malades et les mèdecins (1843), a comic series on doctors
and their patients, first appeared in the Parisian newspaper Le
Charivari; a 1928 portfolio of Soviet posters on how to fight venereal
diseases; two photographic albums documenting the activities of a German
orthopedic hospital during the First World War, and a Colony of Mental
Patients in Argentina during the same period; and several prints by
prominent artists such as Eugène Grasset (The Morphine Addict,
1897), Honoré Daumier, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Max Klinger,
Käthe Kollwitz, Georg Grosz, Lea Grundig, René Georges Hermann-Paul,
and Henri-Gabriel Ibels.
Harvey
Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library Exhibition, August-November
2006
Contact: Toby
Appel, Medical Historical Librarian
OARE
The Online Access to Research in the Environment
(OARE) program is jointly operated by Yale University, the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and leading science and technology
publishers, to enable developing countries to gain free access to
one of the world's largest collections of environmental science
research literature. Through the OARE partnership—to be officially
launched at the end of October, 2006—the world’s largest
publishers are offering their resources to approximately one thousand
environmental institutions in the least developed countries throughout
the world, in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Yale
University Library and the School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies are managing, with grand funding from the Hewlett and MacArthur
foundations, the initial three years of this effort.
Time frame: 2006-onward
Contact: Ann Okerson, Associate University Librarian for Collections and International Programs
International Associates Program
Launched in 2005, the Library's International Associates Program reflects and
supports Yale's transformation into a global intellectual resource.
Globalization has been clearly articulated by the University's administration as
a strategic goal and priority, and the International Associates Program supports
the broader interests of Yale University by creating and fostering ties with
research and educational institutions around the globe.
The Program brings 1-2 information professionals a year from abroad to Yale, without restrictions about the type of library or the country of provenance. (Past associates came from public, academic, national and international organizations, as well as from a variety of countries including Australia, Congo, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Oman, Poland, Singapore, and Uganda).
The main goal of the program is to nurture professional development and leadership at home and abroad by establishing and developing professional relationships between Yale librarians and archivists and their colleagues in other countries.
Contact: Graziano
Krätli, International Program Support Librarian
The Art of Medicine
Medieval manuscripts from the collections at Beinecke and treasures
from the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library show the importance of
the visual in early medicine. Alchemy, astrology, hawking, and
horse care jostle with anatomy, forecasting of the outcome of
illness, and the business of healing. The way medical books were
designed and decorated to meet the needs of contemporary owners
and users enhanced their meaning for readers at the time and makes
a striking visual impact today.
Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library Exhibition, April 16-May 15, 2004
HINARI
The Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative
(HINARI), of which the Yale Library is one of the institutional
partners, is a World Health Organization (WHO)-sponsored program
providing free or very low cost online access to the major journals
in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit
institutions in developing countries. The initiative was developed
in the framework of the Health InterNetwork, introduced by UN Secretary
General Kofi Annan at the Millennium Summit in 2000, and officially
launched in 2002. There are currently 1300 institutions in 103 countries
registered for HINARI. During 2003, users at these institutions
downloaded over one million articles.
Time frame: 2002-onward
Contact: Contact: Ann Okerson, Associate University Librarian for Collections and International Programs
Victorian Missionary Periodicals
The Victorian age saw the formation of large numbers of religiously inspired
organizations and movements. The missionary movement was the first of these
movements to develop its own press, which was the largest religious press
until it was surpassed by the temperance press in the mid-nineteenth century.
Most of the missionary press was the product of denominational missionary
societies or of missionary societies serving a group of denominations. Each
society published magazines reporting the progress and difficulties faced
in the missionary fields for their contributors. They also published periodicals
for a popular audience, and juvenile magazines. While the basic function of
the missionary press was to generate support for the missionary work, the
periodicals also provided geographical and cultural information for the readers.
Divinity School Library Exhibition, September 15,
1999 - January 15, 2000
Contact: Martha
Smalley, Research
Services Librarian and Curator, Day Missions Collection,
Divinity Library
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