November 2003
Volume 22
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In this Issue

New Library Employees

Stephen Naron
Fortunoff Video Archive
Archivist
I began work on Oct. 27, 2003. I am from Kansas City, KS. I attended University of Texas, Austin, University of Kansas. I enjoy film, music, reading.

Eva Rose Guggemos
Beinecke - Technical Services
Acquisitions Assistant II
I began work on October 27, 2003. I am from Petaluma, California (-- which is in Sonoma County, just north of San Francisco.) I went to the University of Kansas, BA History and French and I attended Yale University, MA History with a concentration in Modern Europe and Holocaust Studies. I enjoy hiking, painting and sewing.

Robert A. (Bob) Heister
Engineering Library
Library Services Assistant II
I began work on October 30, 2003. I am from Illinois predominantly, but spent the previous ten years in Utah. I attended Northern Illinois University for my undergraduate and graduate degrees. I enjoy reading (British literature), music (jazz and other improvised musics), the out of doors and the species inhabiting it, and my two teen-age daughters.I've worked in university environments for more than thirty years, in both education and scholarly publishing, with a great deal of memorable time being spent in academic libraries.

Departing Employees
Doris Chadwick
Cataloging
10/31/03

Vicki Bennett
Beinecke Library
10/17/03

Library Links has changed the committee's role. Each library or unit has a representative serving on the LL Committee. The committee will be responsible for submitting ideas and articles to be included in Library Links each month. Please speak with one of the Library Links Representatives or contact me directly to inlcude an event or give a suggestion regarding your newsletter. This is your newsletter, so please feel like you can contribute. We look forward to your submissions. This issue will include submissions from fellow staff members.

Staff Highlights

November Highlights Winners of the ALPSP 2003 Awards are announced ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) held it’s annual awards dinner at the British Library on Thursday 18 September, presented the ALPSP and ALPSP/Charlesworth awards to thier winners. These prestigious awards recognise significant achievement in the field of learned and professional publishing and continue to grow in popularity each year. The winner of the ALPSP Award for Service to Publishers/Library Relations was the LIBLICENSE project, which is dedicated to informing communities and bringing them closer together. Ann Okerson has been its guiding star and has done a superb job in crafting the website and email discussion list, just part of this ongoing educational tool. For more information you can review these sites: The awards press release is at: http://www.alpsp.org/awards/ALPSP2003press.pdf The awards list (and a couple of photos) at: http://www.alpsp.org/awards2003.htm About ALPSP (a membership organization that includes about 275 professional and scholarly publishing houses): http://www.alpsp.org/about.htm   A birth announcement Margaret Ellen Dollar was born on October 3, 2003 to Daniel Dollar (Reference and Digital Resources Librarian) and his wife Ellen who already have a daughter Leah. She was 5 pounds, 8 ounces and 19 and 1/2 inches long. The Library Staff sends a warm welcome to the Dollar Family's new addition! Todd Gilman, PhD, tells his story Todd Gilman, PhD, tells his story, Becoming a Librarian. Please click on the link below to read Todd Gilman's artcile in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chroniclel of Higher Education Zoeter Marriage announcement Garrick Zoeter, Music library, was married to Mariana Mihai-Zoeter on October 2, 2003 in Belem, Brazil. Mariana and Garrick met at the summer music festival that they teach at in Brazil. How do two talented musicians exchange marriage vows? During a concert! Garrick, clarinetist, and Mariana, vocalist, had their marriage ceremony during a concert they gave that included classical works and love songs. They are still working with immigration to allow Mariana to move to the United States. They hope to be together in New Haven by Christmas.

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Staff Member in Focus

Charles Summa
Arts Library

Charles Summa has always been interested in photography. He didn't begin studying it, however, until 1980, when he became the night manager at the Art and Architecture Library. Although most people would find his weekday 3:30 pm -11:00 pm shift and 2:00 pm - 11:00 pm Sunday shift grueling, when he began working at Yale Summa liked the late hours especially because they gave him time to take photographs around his home town of Waterbury. They also gave him time to audit photography classes. Yale University had been involved in photography since the 1960's, where the program began taking form under great photographer Walker Evans, who taught in the art school until his death in 1975. The Masters in photography program was formally started in 1978 and went on to become, according to an article by Martin Parr in the October 2003 issue of Art Review, "the single most influential factor" in the American renaissance of photography. Parr writes that "the Yale MFA program…has revitalized the genre of documentary, and given it the subjectivity it needed to survive." Summa studied with Tod Papageorge, now head of the Photography Department; and Richard Benson, who is now Dean of the Art School. Both were appointed about a year before Summa began working at the Arts Library.

Summa, who has a Masters degree in philosophy from the University of Connecticut, says that when he first asked to sit in on Benson's popular, crowded class, Benson told him yes, but added half-jokingly, "I can cut off your head at any time!" Summa, however, says that "it was an enormous privilege to be in the presence of people who really knew something about good photography," and felt honored when his own work was included in the class critiques. Later he enrolled in Yale College as a special student for two semesters. He also sat in on graduate critiques for many years. When checking out books to photography students at the Arts Library he would converse with them about the field, learning more through each discussion.

In a note he wrote to this interviewer, Summa says that at the time he began the school's focus "was about the straight black and white photograph-no cropping, no dark room artifice, no dependence on fancy equipment or technique. It was about the discipline of using the whole frame; it was about seeing, not manipulating; responding to what was seen, not constructing. Some found this school of thought confining, I found it to be liberating."
Summa continues to use what he learned in these classes when he's on vacation. He travels extensively, taking photographs in every country he visits. Over the past ten years he has taken eleven trips to Asia, where he spent a total of six months, and about four months in Europe and Latin America. Before that, he writes, "I spent about 16 months traveling in Europe, North America, North Africa, and the Middle East, visiting in all about 56 countries, 16 of those Asian."
Many of the photographs he took of Egyptian and Moroccan architecture were selected by members of the Art History faculty to be kept in the slide library, which is located in the Visual Resources Collection in Street Hall. The Visual Resources Collection is also, like the Drama Library, the Classics Library, the Art and Architecture Library, and the Arts of the Book Collection, part of the group of institutions collectively known as the "Yale Arts Library." Summa's slides are occasionally used in presentations given by professors and students in Architecture and Art History classes.
Summa also helped in selecting and building the Arts Library's photography collection. This collection, which was relatively small at the beginning of the 1980's. It has now grown to be the third largest section of the Art and Architecture Library. Some also consider it to be one of the best collections of photography books in the world.

Morroco, 1985	Children in Morroco, 1985

More Pictures

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Staff Submissions

Recipes
Apple Dip
Submitted by Marybeth Bean from the Kline Science Library

Pumpkin Dump Cake
Submitted by Gerry Burke from the Kline Science Library

Apple & Cider Salad
Submitted by Roy Bohlander from the Business Office

 

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Library in Focus

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A Word From the University Librarian

The Association of Research Libraries

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), as most readers of Library Links will know, is the leading membership organization for research libraries in North America. To quote the ARL web site (http://www.arl.org),

ARL is a not-for-profit membership organization comprising the leading research libraries in North America. Its mission is to shape and influence forces affecting the future of research libraries in the process of scholarly communication. ARL programs and services promote equitable access to and effective use of recorded knowledge in support of teaching, research, scholarship, and community service.

The Association articulates the concerns of research libraries and their institutions, forges coalitions, influences information policy development, and supports innovation and improvements in research library operations. ARL operates as a forum for the exchange of ideas and as an agent for collective action. There are currently more than 120 members. ARL Membership Meetings are held twice a year and proceedings are available online.

Any library with holdings of more than one million volumes and a strong research community of users may apply to join, and the association maintains good links with the many other bodies that have an impact on our work. Among its many activities, ARL publishes annual statistics (to which Yale library staff make a substantial contribution) and holds two membership meetings each year for library directors. Last week I attended the fall meeting in Washington DC. A crowded agenda included parallel committee meetings and discussions, so it was not possible to attend everything. My own focus was on the Special Collections Task Force, chaired by Joe Hewitt, University of North Carolina librarian, and the Collections and Access Issues Committee, which I chair.

The Special Collections program at ARL is very active, and Yale is making a distinctive contribution in this area. Last month's conference on " Exposing Hidden Collections" at the Library of Congress, sponsored by ARL's task force, put forward the principle that collection level access should be given to collections of special materials as soon as they are acquired (or identified as inaccessible and therefore effectively "hidden"). The conference also recommended that research libraries might share information about, and eventually undertake a joint inventory of, collections that are not adequately described. Local decisions about the desirable level of cataloguing in the long term would not be affected by this policy.

Taking these recommendations a few steps further, last week's meeting decided to send out a resolution on collection level access to all ARL libraries, and we also started to investigate where there might be potential for partnerships to tackle some of the huge arrearages or inadequately described material, in subjects or formats that most libraries have in common. (Topics like printed and manuscript material relating to immigration, and pamphlets as a common problem format, came up.) The task force greeted the Yale paper on Unlocking Collections, produced by our objectives planning group led by Joan Swanekamp, as a model that they would like to see mounted on their web site. Yale attracted praise for being open about the extent of its own problem and for sharing the criteria we have developed to help tackle it. Additionally, we talked about training special collections librarians, working with others to identify where there are shortages of skilled people, and how ARL libraries can help.

The Collections and Access Issues Committee heard reports from Ingrid Parent of the National Library and Archives of Canada, and Deanna Marcum of the Library of Congress. In Canada the newly merged institution is putting access at the heart of its programs, and focuses on partnerships with other libraries internationally. It is leading a program to create digital access to all Canadian dissertations and theses from a certain date. At LC, Deanna Marcum as the new Associate Librarian for Services, stated that her first priority is to connect LC better with the broader library community and with the scholarly community. LC is sponsoring the national digital preservation program (NDIIP) with an application deadline for grants of November 12. Amongst it own contributions to digital preservation, the Library of Congress has collaborated with City University of New York and George Mason University to create a web archive relating to 9/11; and it is harvesting election web sites from the 2002 and now the 2004 US elections.

Our committee also heard reports from the various library consortia that run patron-initiated borrowing (Borrow Direct is one of these), with some fascinating information about the way in which users' behavior is changing as a result of having these services available, and the impact on collection decisions that result from this form of sharing. For example, member libraries in Missouri's consortium, Mobius, now purchase fewer replacements for lost books; and they have experience a three-fold increase in inter-library lending since they introduced their patron-initiated system. In Oregon and Washington, two partners in the Orbis-Cascade consortium are beginning to build a shared journal collection. They also find that students are expressing frustration when they are able to find material on their own library's shelves, because they prefer to receive a loan copy delivered to their desktop. (There always has to be some price for success!) We heard next from Clifford Lynch of the Coalition for Networked Information, and Brian Schottlaender of the University of California San Diego, about a new initiative to create a shared cyber-infrastructure for preserving scientific data. Finally, the committee spent some time considering the role of the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago. CRL increasingly supports access to rare international materials, as part of the ARL's Global Resources Network, another area in which Yale has an important role to play.

The ARL meeting concluded with plenary sessions where we heard from speakers about new forms of student learning, uses of library space, and new models of journal publishing. Sarah Thomas, University Librarian of Cornell, was installed as the new president of ARL for a one-year term. I have invited Sarah to visit Yale on December 12, and hope to arrange an opportunity for YUL staff to meet with her.

This has been a very partial overview of my own time at the ARL meeting. It is a great experience to be part of the community of research library directors. I find I always learn a great deal from them, and I am proud of the contribution that Yale librarians make, through quite a few different channels, to the important work of the Association. For those who want to know more about it, I encourage you to visit the ARL web site, and explore the proceedings of the many committees and task forces that I have not had space to mention here.

by Alice Prochaska

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Join Alice, The University Librarian for Tea Time @ Spoon Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:00-3:00 pm Sterling Spoon Thursday, December 18, 2003 9.30 - 10.30 am Sterling Spoon   Remember Alice has Office hours every Monday between 8:30-9:30. Please call Antonia for an appointment @ 21818.

Libray in Focus

The Law Library
http://www.law.yale.edu/library/

Did you know....

That the Law Library has a beautiful "Fish Tank" on its premises
(6 ft long and 200 gallons of water, with about 10 different varieties of fish)

If you would like to visit our Law Library, please contact Cesar.Zapata@Yale.Edu
to arrange a personal tour for you and your family, on either Saturdays or Sundays.

Department Highlights

Service Quality Improvement Ceremony

More information regarding the awards is available at the following link:
http://www.library.yale.edu/Administration/SQIC/about.htm

The nomination form is available to print at the following link:
http://www.library.yale.edu/Administration/SQIC/nomination_form2003.pdf

Please don't hesitate to contact any member of the committee if you
have any questions or wish to discuss the award process.

2002-2003 Service Quality Improvement Awards Committee
Sharon Forbes
Jan Glover (Chair)
Claire Halloran
Jeanette Murdock
Holly Grossetta Nardini
Bernadette Cioffi (ex-officio)
Danuta Nitecki (sponsor)

Watch for more information about the SQI Awards Ceremony which will
be held in late January or early February 2004.

HR in Focus

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Calendar of Events

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Yale Holiday Calendar

 

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Hr Updates

Learning Plan

How's your Learning Plan going?

With the fall semester now in full swing, the labor contract settled, and committees gearing up or already in hot pursuit of achieving strategic planning action goals, it would be easy to sideline your own professional development. However, creating a plan for developing and improving your individual capabilities is a critical step in achieving the mission and vision of the Library as well as enhancing your own skill set.

What's a Learning Plan?

If you're a new staff member to the Library or need a refresher on the what the Learning Plan is and how to complete one, please attend one of the scheduled sessions, open to all C&T and M&P staff members, on: Nov 13 2003 (Thu), 2:00 PM- 4:30 PM; or Dec 9 2003 (Tue), 9:30 AM- 12:00 PM. All All sessions will be held in Sterling Memorial Lecture Hall, 130 Wall Street.

To register for one of these sessions, click: http://learn.caim.yale.edu/lcdb/courses_lib/classinfo.asp?CourseID=604
Visit the the Learning Plan support site : http://www.library.yale.edu/training/stod/learningplan.html

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Saftey Bulletin

The current issue of the Safety Bulletin is available on the web at:
http://www.yale.edu/oehs/PDF_files/Fall2003.pdf

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Suggestions and Comments
Send all comments to the Editor, Jessica Linicus

If you would like something or someone featured in the next Library Links, please contact me.

Library Human Resources hopes you enjoyed this issue of Library Links.
You can also contact one of the members of the Library Links Committee.

~Robin Gordon~Randy Main~Marybeth Bean~Nicole Benevento~
Susan Brady~Lynn Sette~George Stranz~Pedro Soto~Julie Niemeyer~
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Wellness in Focus

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Humor in Focus

Wellness Now

What is Depressive Disorder ?

Depression is a "whole-body" illness, involving your body, mood, and thoughts. It affects the way you eat and sleep, the way you feel about yourself, and the way you think about things. A depressive disorder is not the same as a passing blue mood. It is not a sign of personal weakness or a condition that can be willed or wished away. People with a depressive illness cannot merely "pull themselves together" and get better. Without treatment, symptoms can last for weeks, months, or years. Appropriate treatment, however, can help most people who suffer from depression.

The symptoms of depression may vary from person to person, and also depend on the severity of the depression.
Depression causes changes in thinking, feeling, behavior, and physical well-being.

Changes in Thinking - You may experience problems with concentration and decision making. Some people report difficulty with short term memory, forgetting things all the time. Negative thoughts and thinking are characteristic of depression. Pessimism, poor self-esteem, excessive guilt, and self-criticism are all common. Some people have self-destructive thoughts during a more serious depression.

Changes in Feelings - You may feel sad for no reason at all. Some people report that they no longer enjoy activities that they once found pleasurable. You might lack motivation, and become more apathetic. You might feel "slowed down" and tired all the time. Sometimes irritability is a problem, and you may have more difficulty controlling your temper. In the extreme, depression is characterized by feelings of helplessness and hopelessness.

Changes in Behavior - Changes in behavior during depression are reflective of the negative emotions being experienced. You might act more apathetic, because that's how you feel. Some people do not feel comfortable with other people, so social withdrawal is common. You may experience a dramatic change in appetite, either eating more or less. Because of the chronic sadness, excessive crying is common. Some people complain about everything, and act out their anger with temper outbursts. Sexual desire may disappear, resulting in lack of sexual activity. In the extreme, people may neglect their personal appearance, even neglecting basic hygiene. Needless to say, someone who is this depressed does not do very much, so work productivity and household responsibilities suffer. Some people even have trouble getting out of bed.

Changes in Physical Well-being - We already talked about the negative emotional feelings experienced during depression, but these are coupled with negative physical emotions as well. Chronic fatigue, despite spending more time sleeping, is common. Some people can't sleep, or don't sleep soundly. These individuals lay awake for hours, or awaken many times during the night, and stare at the ceiling. Others sleep many hours, even most of the day, although they still feel tired. Many people lose their appetite, feel slowed down by depression, and complain of many aches and pains. Others are restless, and can't sit still.

Now imagine these symptoms lasting for weeks or even months. Imagine feeling this way almost all of the time. Depression is present if you experience many of these symptoms for at least several weeks. Of course, it's not a good idea to diagnose yourself. If you think that you might be depressed, see a psychologist as soon as possible. A psychologist can assess whether you are depressed, or just under a lot of stress and feeling sad. Remember, depression is treatable. Instead of worrying about whether you are depressed, do something about it. Even if you don't feel like it right now.

Think Now

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