Library Projects and Activities in or about NORTH AMERICA

'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, September 15 - November 4, 2006

Contact: Kelly Barrick, Coordinator, Reference and Instruction, Social Science Libraries and Information Services

Tocqueville and Beaumont and the Challenge of Democracy

The Tocqueville/Beaumont collection now housed in the Beinecke Library is the largest publicly available assemblage of such material in the world. Drawing on this collection, the current exhibition accompanies a two-day international conference held by the Beinecke on September 30/October 1, to mark the bicentennial of Tocqueville’s birth.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Exhibition, August - October 2005

Contact: Frank Turner, Director, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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