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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