October 2005

Volume 41
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In this Issue

New Library Staff

Kathryn James
Beinecke Library
Librarian
09/01/2005

Emily Ray
Catalog Department
Librarian
09/01/2005

Henry Przygocki
Library Administration
Security Officer
09/25/2005

Martha Repp
Yale Center for British Art
Librarian
09/26/2005

Rachel Dwight
Technical Services
Senior Administrative Assistant
09/28/2005

Estelle Paskausky
Integrated Library Technology Services
Librarian
10/03/2005

Departing Staff

Jennifer Kniesch
Beinecke Library
Senior Administrative Assistant
08/26/05

Staff In Focus

In Pursuit of an MLS Degree – Fantasia Thorne

A native of New Haven, Fantasia Thorne began working at Yale as a causal when she was 18 years old. She started out auditing accounts for patients at the hospital, worked at the Beinecke in 2001 and in 2002. She later worked in the Children’s Room at the New Haven Public Library.

In March 2005, Fantasia accepted a part-time Library Service Assistant position at the Art and Architecture Library and several months later she obtained an undergraduate degree in English from Southern Connecticut University. Spurred by her love for books, wonderful mentoring and encouragement from librarians Chris DeVallet and Susan Brady, and her own interest in pursing a career in librarianship, Fantasia is currently enrolled in the MLS program at Simmons. She is particularly interested in cataloging and management.

When asked what she enjoys most about her current position, she says, “ I enjoy the diversity of my position. I currently work with the special collections at the Arts of the Book Library. I also have an opportunity to supervise students which helps me in building up my supervisory skills.”

When she’s not studying or working, Fantasia enjoys shopping, spending time at the beach and enjoys reading. Some of her favorite authors include, Terry McMillan, Eric Jerome Dickey and E. Lynn Harris. In the not too distant future, she hopes to be working as a librarian at the Library of Congress and aspires to be a unit head. On the other hand, Yale hopes to coax her to remain here.

Congratulations Fantasia. Keep up the great work.

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Library In Focus

Crawford Collection Scene Design Files ~ at Drama Library

Traveling from the Library web page's Libraries & Collections A-Z, you can find yourself at "D" for Drama Library.
There it says, "Special items in the collection include files of scene designs from the Crawford Collection..."

For the few people accepted into the Yale Drama School to pursue a graduate degree specifically in scene design,
the Crawford Collection Scene Design Files are of great importance. The files are a pictorial collection:
prints, clippings, photographs, and programs. It totals fifty linear feet. Students consult the files when they are
assigned to projects or productions. They use it as a starting point for creating their own designs. They will study
for three years to earn a Master's of Fine Arts Degree.

This collection of film and play scenes in the Drama Library is a small section of the extensive Crawford Theatre Collection which is administered by the Manuscripts and Archives Department in Sterling Memorial Library. Jack Randall Crawford donated the collection to Yale in 1918, and it was placed in Sterling Library when it opened in 1930. The scene design files were transferred to the Drama Library in 1974. These files consist of the following:

A) Film Scenes (one file-drawer file cabinet – filed by date) Dates represented are 1875 to 1978. Files are mostly pictures clipped from magazines with some actual photographs.


B) Scenes from American Plays (two four-drawer cabinets – filed by date) Dates represented are 1815 to 1978. Some of the earlier scenes are engravings. Most of the later ones are clipped from magazines with some photographs and some souvenir programs.


C) Scenes from English Plays (one four-drawer cabinet – filed by date) Dates represented are medieval to 1971 (most are 18th century or later). Earlier scenes are engravings. Later ones are magazine clippings with some photographs and souvenir programs.


D) Scenes from American Musical Comedies (two drawers – filed by date) Dates represented are 1960 to 1980. Earlier scenes are engravings. Later ones are magazine clippings with some photographs and souvenir programs.


E) Scenes from English Musical Comedies (two drawers – filed by date) Dates represented are 1815 to 1972. Earlier scenes are engravings. Later ones are magazine clippings with some photographs and souvenir programs.


F) Scene and Costume Designers (one and a half drawers – filed by name of designer) Designers represented are primarily from the first half of the twentieth century with some earlier ones. The files contain clipped magazine articles about the designers and their work as well as some actual photographs of their work.


G) Stage Sets, Stagecraft and Décor (one half drawer – filed by country) Magazine clippings on stagecraft around the world.


H) Scenes from Shakespearean Plays (two drawers – filed by play title) The files contain magazine clippings with some photographs and souvenir programs. Productions represented are primarily American and English.

It is easy to see that this collection was created and is maintained through unusual devotion to theatre arts.

~Submitted by Claire Halloran

Henry Roe Cloud: Yale College's First Native American Graduate

Photographs and other archival materials documenting the distinguished life and career of Yale College’s first Native American graduate, Henry Roe Cloud, are now on display in Sterling Memorial Library. After graduating in 1910, Cloud became one of the most recognized American Indian educators of the early 20th century, improving social and educational opportunities for American Indians in the United States.

Born into the Thunderbird Clan on December 28, 1884 on the Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska, Cloud attended the mission-run Santee Normal Training School near the South Dakota-Nebraska border. He trained as a printer and a blacksmith before accepting a place at Yale. His entire life transformed in the spring of his freshman year after he attended a lecture by missionary Mary Wickham Roe about American Indians’ conversion to Christianity, something that anchored Cloud’s religious beliefs and was a major force in his work throughout his life. He went on to excel throughout his life in both government service and service to Indian peoples throughout the United States.

The exhibit includes photographs and other documents that trace Cloud’s relationships and achievements, with a particular focus on his life at Yale as both an undergraduate and a graduate student and on his family. Included are a copy of the 1910 Yale College yearbook, ephemera from Cloud’s speaking career during and after college, and correspondence written to his adoptive parents. The material is drawn almost exclusively from the Roe Family Papers, held by Manuscripts and Archives, the most significant cache of Cloud’s paper still extant in the United States.

The exhibit will remain on display in Sterling Memorial Library until October 14th and is a precursor to “A Celebration of Henry Roe Cloud and Yale’s Native American Community” which will be held at Yale November 5-6, 2005. Events during the weekend will include a public drum performance on Cross Campus, tours and lectures for Native American students, alumni and friends, and a ceremony awarding the first Henry Roe Cloud Native American Alumni Achievement Medal and the first Association of Native Americans at Yale Community Medal. The weekend of events is sponsored by a number of campus organizations, including the Native American Cultural Center Board, the Association of Native Americans at Yale, the Yale Dean’s Office, the Association of Yale Alumni, Native American Yale Alumni, and the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders.

For more information, please contact: Kathleen.burns@yale.edu

Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont, and the Challenge of Democracy

Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont, and the Challenge of Democracy is the current exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Curated by Beinecke Director Frank M. Turner, the exhibition features many of the treasures of the Beinecke’s extensive Tocqueville holdings, including the draft manuscript of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America,
long considered the greatest book on the United States by a foreign observer. Also included are the American sketchbook of Tocqueville’s traveling companion Gustave de Beaumont and extensive documentation of the men’s research on American prisons, as well as a letter to Tocqueville from former President John Quincy Adams offering corrections of Tocqueville’s comments on his presidency.

A brochure produced for the exhibit contains Turner’s essay “Tocqueville and Beaumont and the Experience of Early Nineteenth-Century American Democracy.”

The exhibition runs through October 24th on both the ground and mezzanine floors of the Beinecke Library. Further information can be found at:

http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/brblevents/brblexhibits.html

Event Highlights

Sherman Alexie Reading
Beinecke Library

On Friday, September 16, a reception and poetry reading by Native American poet, novelist, and screenwriter Sherman Alexie was held in Batell Chapel and Beineceke Rare Book Library. Sponsored by the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund of the Yale Collection of Western Americana and the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Davenport College, the Native American Cultural Center at Yale University, and the Yale Group for the Study of Native America.

Sherman Alexie is among the most important living Native American writers. He is the author of more than 15 books of poetry and fiction, including The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems, Ten Little Indians: Stories, Smoke Signals, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, and Old Shirts & New Skins. Among many other awards, he has received National Endowment for the Arts grants, the American Book Award, and the Independent Spirit Award for best first screenplay. His most recent book was a finalist for the 2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction.

For information about and examples of Sherman Alexie’s work visit:
http://www.fallsapart.com/
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/alexie/alexie.htm
http://www.ravenchronicles.org//raven/rvback/issues/0397/Alexie.htm
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/395

The Yale Special Collections Fair

Fascinating displays from the Arts Library, Art Gallery, Babylonian Collection, Beinecke Library, Center for British Art, Divinity Library, Manuscripts and Archives, Map Collection, Historical Medical Library, Music Library, Historical Sound Recordings, Oral History American Music, Preservation Dept., and Walpole Library gave a small glimpse into the amazing treasures of Yale's special collections.

HR in Focus

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Upcoming Events

Yale Holiday Calendar

Learning Plan Highlights

If you have a Learning Plan success that you would like to share, contact Shaundolyn Slaughter at 432-1810.

For more information on the Learning Plan go to: http://www.library.yale.edu/training/stod/learningplan.html

HR Updates

Faculty and Staff Bereavement Group

For those who want to talk with others about living with loss and grief following the death of someone significant.

Thursdays, noon to 1 p.m.
Begins October 6 and will meet for six weeks.

In the Lovett Room of Battell Chapel
(Enter from street-level door on College Street at the corner with Elm Street)

(After the second week, the group will be closed to additional participants)

Facilitators: Kristen Leslie, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Pastoral Care and Counseling, Yale Divinity School &
Susan Olson, Coordinator of Student Ministries, University Chaplain’s Office
This group is sponsored by the Chaplain’s Office. It is not a religious support group, and it is open to employees of all religious traditions and no religious tradition.

Questions?
Contact Susan (432-9485; susan.olson@yale.edu)

Local 34 Training Initiative

The Joint Training Advisory Committee, which was established during the 2002 contract negotiations, is pleased to announce implementation of the thirty (30) hour release time training initiative for clerical and technical (C&T) staff. This contractual program is described in Article XXXIII.4 of the Agreement:

"Each full-time Staff Member shall receive upon request a guarantee of... effective July 1, 2004 no less than 30 hours of release time per year for skill-based training applicable to the Staff Member’s job family or closely related job family at no cost to the Employee for such Yale or Yale-sponsored training. Less than full-time Staff Members shall receive a pro-rated benefit equal to regular work hours divided by 37.5. Release for such training on a given date or dates is subject to reasonable operational needs."

Staff Members should consult their supervisors before enrolling, and supervisors should review and approve training requests prior to enrollment. To enroll in a course please complete the course registration process found at www.yale.edu/learningcenter or call 432-5660 for more information. Please provide a copy of your electronic enrollment confirmation to your supervisor upon receipt from the Learning Center.

For a list of currently approved skill-based training courses available at the Learning Center, click here http://learn.med.yale.edu/lcdb/courses/courseslist.asp .

Effective immediately, departments will no longer incur a direct charge for Yale or Yale-sponsored training hosted through the Learning Center. This will allow C&T staff to attend valuable training that may enhance existing skill sets. Departments will be responsible for tracking the training time for each Staff Member. The Learning Center policy includes charging a no-show fee of $50.00 to the department if cancellation notification is not received within forty-eight (48) hours prior to the start of the training.

Shortly, the Joint Training Advisory Committee will be surveying various managers and C&T staff to assess training needs. We anticipate adding additional skill-based courses to the curriculum and look forward to your input.

Should you have any questions regarding this initiative please contact one of the following Committee members: Mary-Jo Mark, Sr. Administrative Assistant, Finance, (maryjo.mark@yale.edu), Sirlester Parker , Research Assistant, Pharmacology, (sirlester.parker@yale.edu), Michele Schena, Director of HR, Art Gallery, (michele.schena@yale.edu), or Deborah Stanley-McAulay, Director of Learning, Human Resources,(deborah.stanley-mcaulay@yale.edu).

Donna M. Cable, Director, Labor-Management Relations
Laura Smith, President, Local 34

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Recipies

Apple Crisp

Preheat oven to 350ºF.

Ingredients
Filling:
4 cups of peeled, cored, and sliced apples
3 tbsp cinnamon
few shakes of nutmeg (optional)
1/3 cup water

Topping:
1/2 stick butter
1 cup sugar, or 1/2 white sugar and 1/2 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup oats

Prepare filling: Place apples, spices, and water in large bowl. Stir
until apples are evenly coated. Pour into 1.5 quart baking dish.

Prepare topping: Cut butter into pats or small cubes. Place butter into
medium sized bowl. Add all other ingredients to bowl. Using pastry
cutter, two knives, or fingers, crumble all together until well blended.
Put on top of apples.

Bake for 30-40 minutes.

City Farmers' Market

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Market locations and hours - New Haven
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Saturdays, 9am - 1pm
WOOSTER SQUARE
Russo Park, corner of Chapel Street and DePalma Court
(directly across from Wooster Square Park)
*11am - guitar and fiddle music by James Velvet & Joe Gerhard*

Sundays, 10am - 2pm
EDGEWOOD PARK
tip of Edgewood Park, corner of West Rock and Whalley Avenues
*12pm - music by the Sawtelles*

Wednesdays, 9:30am - 2pm
DOWNTOWN
Temple Street Plaza, across from the Omni Hotel
*in collaboration with Town Green Special Services*
*make a purchase at the market and get a coupon for FREE coffee or tea*

Thursdays, 3pm - 7pm
FAIR HAVEN - featuring El Gran Mercado
Quinnipiac River Park, corner of Grand Ave. and Front Street
*in collaboration with Junta & GAVA*
*5pm - harmonica music by Chris De Pino*

~All Fruits and Vegetables are Connecticut Grown * Most are Organic or Pesticide-Free~
salad greens, all-natural meats, tomatoes, onions, garlic, peaches, blueberries, beans, broccoli, beets, free-range eggs, herbs, maple syrup, yogurt, cheese, handcrafted bread, chips and salsa, ice cream, honey, organic herb butter and vegan spread, organic fruit chutney, handmade soap and more!

Bring a friend (rain or shine)!
CitySeed seeks to engage the community in growing an equitable, local food system that promotes economic development, community development and sustainable agriculture.

Click on http://www.cityseed.org/ for more info on CitySeed and the markets!
Please click on http://www.cityseed.org/get_involved/index.html for VOLUNTEER opportunities!

Educators and Support Staff save at Borders 10/14-10/18

Borders stores nationwide will honor local educators for their commitment to spreading knowledge and encouraging life-long
learning during Educator Appreciation Weekend, Friday-Tuesday, October 14-18, with café receptions on October 14 from
4pm-8pm.

In recognition of the superior work done by educational institutions such as yours, Borders Books, Music and Café will treat educators to giveaways, special events, and an exclusive reception on Friday, October 14th. During the five-day event, educators will be offered a 25% discount on books, music, and gift items and a 20% discount on DVD’s. This discount applies to classroom as well as personal items.

The discount is available not only to the classroom instructor. It is also offered to all the employees including administrators, professors, assistants, librarians, custodians, retirees, etc. Borders believes that all employees of a school/college play a role in the education of the students attending that school.

Since this is one of only two events per year in which educators are invited to participate, we ask your help in getting the word out and sharing this with the your department and any others that may be interested.

For more info or to find a location near you, visit www.bordersstores.com/educator

When shopping, employees should bring proof of employment. A paycheck stub or an ID bearing the college’s name would suffice.

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