Tuesday February 14th 1PM-2PM (lunch will be served from 12:30PM-1PM)
Teaching with Technology Tuesday: Digital Comics: Age of Bronze “Seen” – Thomas Beasley
International Room at Sterling Memorial Library
Tom's talk will discuss the use of digital comics as pedagogical tools with a focus on the iPad edition of Age of Bronze, a comic book retelling of the Trojan War for which he is writing a reader's guide.
Christianity in Nepal: Documentation from the Day Missions Collection
February 1 – July 31 Yale Divinity Library, 409 Prospect Street
A new exhibition at the Yale Divinity Library features materials from the archives of the United Mission to Nepal, the International Nepal Fellowship, and the Nepal Church History Project. These collections, received by the Divinity Library in 2008, document the opening of Nepal to Christianorganizations in the early 1950s, their programs in the areas of health services, education, rural development, and industrial development, and thedevelopment of the Nepali church. Until the early 1950s Nepal was a closed country where foreigners and Christian missionaries were not permitted. Until 1990, changing religion was illegal by government policy and the law authorized severe penalties for attempting toconvert another person.
The United Mission to Nepal (UMN) was formed in response to an unexpected invitation from the government of Nepal to establish a hospital in the chief western town of Tansen and to begin clinics in the Kathmandu Valley. Eight mission agencies working in India came together to form the United Mission to Nepal as an international, interdenominational mission on March 5, 1954. The International Nepal Fellowship (INF) developed from the Nepal Evangelistic Band, which was established in 1936. As Nepal began to open its borders, medical personnel trekked to Pokhara in November 1952, establishing a general hospital, the Shining Hospital, in April 1953.
The archives of the UMN and INF at the Yale Divinity Library document the groups’ efforts to spread the Christian message via health and education services, rural development, and industrial development. The Nepal Church History Project was an initiative begun in 1985 by local church leaders in Nepal to research and collect materials relevant to the history of Christianity among the Nepali peoples. It archives include Christian literature, photographs, and other documentation of Christianity in Nepal.
For more information about the Yale Divinity Library: http://www.library.yale.edu/div/
On view in the Cushing Rotunda
The first photographic atlas of the peripheral nervous system
Nicolas Rüdinger, Atlas des peripherischen Nervensystems des menschlichen Körpers, 1861-67
On view in the Library Corridor
Le Leçon de Dr. Velpeau with Anatomy Prints Selected from the Gift of Lilly Hollander 2010
The Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library is located at 33 Cedar Street
For more information: http://library.medicine.yale.edu/featured/nicolas
New Resources: Vault's Career Insider and Going Global
The Yale University Library has subscribed to two new resources – Vault's Career Insider and Going Global – both of enormous benefit to campus career service centers, but access is also available to the entire Yale community. These tools are both extremely useful across many subject areas and levels of study.
See below for a brief description:
Vault’s Career Insider
Vault’s “Career Insider is a digital resource for universities, libraries, and institutions…with comprehensive career information and management tools.” This resource contains career e-books, an internship database, discussion boards, articles about companies, careers, and industries, and more. NOTE: Requires registering an individual account with an email address.
Going Global“
Going Global career and employment resources include more than 10,000 pages of constantly-updated content on topics such as: job search sources, work permit/visa regulations, resume writing guidelines and examples, employment trends, salary ranges, networking groups, cultural/interviewing advice… and much more!”
There are also additional tutorial materials available for both of these products. For more information, please contact:
Christie Silkotch
School of Management Librarian
Yale University
christine.silkotch@yale.edu
ph: (203) 432-3306
Online video training FREE to the Yale community
Have you ever wanted to dig a little deeper into Adobe Creative Suite? Need to know how to make a pivot table or create a mail merge in Microsoft Office? Perhaps you wanted to sharpen your photography or photo restoration skills? You can do all of this and much, much more with Lynda.com. Thanks to the University Library, ITS, School of Management, Law School, School of Music, School of Drama, Center for British Art, and the Digital Media Center for the Arts, who all got together to fund Lynda Campus. The Lynda Campus program provides a broad range of self-paced video courses on a broad range of technical, business, and other topics. The full range of this content is now available to all faculty, staff, and students of the University.
Visit http://www.lynda.com/portal/yale to access Lynda.com to access the site. You will be asked to login to CAS, and then you will be able to create your own profile, which will let you set site preferences, maintain training history, and much more.
If you have questions about Yale’s agreement please contact ann.brainard-dougan@yale.edu.
All are welcome to attend the Bass Media Fair in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall this Saturday February 4th, 1-4pm.
At the fair, students can get down and dirty with the ever-popular Bass Media Equipment Checkout program's equipment! There'll be an unveiling of new equipment, a new consulting aspect of the program, and there'll be 3 media demonstrations during the event. Students can play with equipment, see how the program works and ask questions about hardware and software. Light refreshments will be available. There will also be door prizes, such as 32GB SD cards, iTunes gift cards, and a Canon Powershot S95.
For more information, please call Erin Scott at (203) 432-4327.
Remembering Shakespeare
Wednesday, February 1 - Monday, June 4, 2012
Remembering Shakespeare tells the story of how a playwright and poet in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England came to be remembered as the world's most venerated author. Curated by David Scott Kastan, George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale, and Kathryn James, Beinecke Library Curator, the exhibition brings together works from the holdings of Yale University's Elizabethan Club, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale Center for British Art, and Beinecke Library, in an unprecedented display of one of North America's finest collections on Shakespeare. Drawing on these extraordinary resources, Remembering Shakespeare offers a unique visual history of how the "Booke" of Shakespeare was made and read, written and remembered, from his lifetime through the present.
An opening lecture and reception will take place on Wednesday February 15th, 4:30pm on the mezzanine level of the Beinecke. The lecture, "Remembering the Corpus: The Complete Works of Shakespeare", will be given by David Kastan, the Yale University George M. Bodman Professor of English
The exhibit and opening are free and open to the public. For opening times, please go to the Beinecke's website at: http://library.yale.edu/beinecke/
A web exhibition of Remembering Shakespeare and other exhibitions from the Shakespeare at Yale program of exhibitions and events in Spring 2012.
Yale University Library has acquired a substantial collection of interviews on the prominent choral conductor and composer, Sir David Willcocks. Perhaps best known as the director of music at King’s College, Cambridge University, Willcocks also held the directorship of London’s Royal College of Music, and published the popular anthologies “Carols for Choirs.” To see more, read the YaleNews story here.
The Yale Library's Map Department is pleased to announce the continuation of their schedule of GIS Workshops for the Spring 2012 Semester. Most workshops are held in the Bass Library Electronic Classroom L06A, in the lower level of the library (directly beneath the Thain Café). These workshops are drop-ins, so no registration is required, but seating is limited, so participants should arrive a few minutes early to ensure a workstation is available.
Below is a preliminary schedule (we are planning added offerings at the Yale Statlab at CSSSI and EPH Computer Labs, dates TBA), as well as a brief description of the individual workshops.
As always, you can find the most recent schedule of workshops, as well as downloadable tutorials and datasets from the workshops and additional Yale GIS Support information at the GIS LibGuide Website (guides.library.yale.edu/gis) and for timely updates on GIS at Yale, sign up for the Gis-l mailing list (http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/gis-l).
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The Collaborative Learning Center invites you attend the Spring 2012 series of Teaching with Technology Tuesdays. Entering its fourth year, the series will feature presentations by Yale faculty, students, librarians and technologists on a variety of scholarly applications of technology. For those who attend regularly, please note the new time and location.
For more information on the series or to access accounts and recordings of past sessions, please visit http://clc.yale.edu/twtt/.
Spring 2012 Schedule
Time: Tuesdays from 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Location: International Room of Sterling Memorial Library
New for 2012 – coffee and light food will be served!
January
31 – Preparing for Student Media Projects – Erin Scott and Matt Regan
February
07 – Collaborative Services & Spaces: The CSSSI – Kelly Barrick and Themba Flowers *Please note that this presentation will occur at the Center for Science and Social Science Information, 219 Prospect
14 – Digital Comics: Age of Bronze “Seen” – Thomas Beasley
21 – eBooks in Overdrive – Todd Gilman, Brad Warren, Caitlyn Lam
28 – Yale Stock Market Game – Prof. Roger Ibbotson and David Hirsch
March
20 - Google Apps for Education – Student Technology Collaborative and the Instructional Technology Group
27 – Summer Session Online Classes - William Whobrey and Lucas Swineford
April
03 – Yale School of Medicine iPad Program – Gary Leydon and Mark Gentry
10 – Is a Paperless Course Possible Yet – iPads and the Study of Sustainability - Julie Newman
17 - Wires Crossed: Five Students’ Experience with Mobile Technologies – The Wires Crossed team
24 – Student Project Poster Session
The Collaborative Learning Center brings together the services of the Library, ITS, the Graduate Teaching Center, and the Center for Language Study in support of teaching and learning.
The Future of the Book: "Staging the Imaginative Act of Reading"
Monday January 30th, 5pm
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, 333 Cedar Street
Please join us for a conversation with John Collins, Founder & Artistic Director of the Elevator Repair service Theater Ensemble, New York and Marc Robinson, Professor of English & Theater Studies at Yale University.
Sponsored by the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library & The Program for Humanities in Medicine.
For more information or to RSVP, contact Melissa Grafe at (203) 785-4354
www.library.medicine.yale.edu
As of January 3, 2012, services and staff of the Engineering & Applied Science Library are now located on the first floor of Dunham Laboratory, 10 Hillhouse Ave., in rooms 105-107. They will remain in this interim location until January 2013.
The newly renovated space within the J. Robert Mann, Jr. Engineering Student Center provides a convenient access point to information services and library collections. The space includes workstations that provide access to a variety of information and research software resources. It contains flexible seating and tables that can be arranged to accommodate group and individual study, as well as seminars and presentations.
The information services that are available at this location include:
· Information assistance from the engineering librarian and staff;
· Reference collection;
· Pickup and return location for library materials and document delivery services.
Services that have moved to other locations during the interim period:
· Materials placed on course reserve are available at the Bass Library.
· High use books from the Engineering & Applied Science Library collection are available for browsing and borrowing in the Sterling Memorial Library stacks on the first floor;
· Lower use materials will be delivered upon request and will be made available at the interim location, or any other Eli Express library location on campus.
For further information: http://www.library.yale.edu/science/subject/engineering.html or to contact the librarian:
Andy Shimp
Engineering & Applied Science Librarian
Tel.: 203-432-7460
andy.shimp@yale.edu
The Center for Science and Social Science (CSSSI) Information opened on January 3rd and hosted an opening reception for the Yale community on January 11th. A virtual tour of the center and the opening event can be viewed at:
http://news.yale.edu/photos/inside-csssi
For more information on the resources and services offered: http://csssi.yale.edu
When Gregory Eow, Kaplanoff Librarian for American History and Librarian for British and Commonwealth History, arranged for Yale University Library to subscribe to three new digital history resources (Illustrated London News Historical Archive, Rotunda: America's Founding Era, and American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection), he expected that these databases would be of great value to Yale scholars and students. He didn't expect that there would be immediate important historical discoveries derived from Yale's new subscriptions. Yet this is what happened, as Fred Shapiro, Associate Law Librarian for Collections and Access and Lecturer in Legal Research at Yale Law School, found by searching the Illustrated London News a usage of the word "feminist" in 1894, earlier than the oldest citation in the Oxford English Dictionary. Within ten minutes of beginning his searching, he e-mailed this antedating to the OED. Shapiro has been described by the OED's Chief Editor as their major contemporary contributor, and is also the editor of The Yale Book of Quotations, published by Yale University Press. He uses the University Library's wonderful array of searchable historical text collections, one of the best available at any university, frequently in improving upon the historical record of words and phrases in the OED, and also used the same online tools in compiling The Yale Book of Quotations and the forthcoming Dictionary of Modern Proverbs, revolutionizing our knowledge of quotation and proverb origins in the process.
Susan Gibbons began a five-year term as University Librarian in July 2011. In that role, she oversees one of the largest university libraries in North America, which includes over 12.5 million volumes housed in 18 different libraries.
Before coming to Yale, Gibbons worked at the University of Rochester, where she began as digital initiatives librarian in 2000. In 2008, she was appointed vice provost and dean of the River Campus Libraries.
She took time out of her hectic schedule to meet with YaleNews and you can read the edited transcript of that conversation here:
The Yale University Library is now offering access to three new and important digital resources related to U.S. and British history.
Gale/Cengage’s digital archive of the Illustrated London News (1842-2003):
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/29002?db=ILN
Rotunda: America’s Founding Era product from the University of Virginia Press. Rotunda contains a searchable collection of the papers of several important Founding Fathers – including Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and Madison (both James & Dolley) – in one database.
http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/FGEA.html
Series one of the American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection, which was produced through a partnership between EBSCO & the American Antiquarian Society. This resource contains nearly 500 fully searchable periodicals from 1691-1820.
http://databases.library.yale.edu:8331/V/?func=find-db-1-locate&mode=locate&restricted=all%20&F-IDN=YUL07179
More information about the AAS/EBSCO product can be found here:
http://www.ebscohost.com/archives/featured-archives/american-antiquarian-society
All of these resources can be found in Metalib (the ‘find databases’ section of the library homepage).
For more information on any of these resources, please contact Gregory Eow, Kaplanoff Librarian for American History and American Studies & Librarian for British and Commonwealth History at: gregory.eow@yale.edu
http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/subjspec/ge.html
The graphic design of Yale alumnus Tom Morin is the focus of a new exhibition at The Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library. “Tom Morin's Threads of Influence: The Visual History of a Life in Graphic Design” will be on display from Jan. 13 to April 13 in the William H. Wright Special Collections Exhibition Area.
Morin's recently published book, “Threads of Influence: The Visual History of a Life in Graphic Design” (Fall 2011), traces his development as a designer — from his childhood drawings in the mid-20th century through his professional work during the 21st century. The exhibit presents a survey of Morin’s career as a graphic designer, with a particular focus on his student projects and influences while enrolled in the graphic design graduate program at the Yale School of Art from 1966 to 1968.
Founded by Josef Albers and Alvin Eisenman, the graduate program in graphic design at the Yale School of Art aims to attract outstanding professionals as faculty, and to inspire its students to develop a cohesive body of visually engaging work over the course of the two-year program. During the late 1960s, when Morin was a student, faculty included Alvin Eisenman, Paul Rand, Bradbury Thompson, Norman Ives, Herbert Matter, and Walker Evans. The exhibit shows the strong influence of each of these important artists on the program and the larger world of graphic design.
Morin was a student of both Rand and Thompson, and his papers provide a glimpse into another generation of designers. Following Alvin Eisenman, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville (MFA ’64) became the chair of the graphic design graduate program at Yale in 1990.
Morin says of his experience: “Alvin [Eisenman], who still resides with his wife, Hope, in Bethany, is single-handedly responsible for plucking hundreds of students like me from the obscurity of upstate New York and from all over this country, to the far reaches of the world; and giving them an incredible opportunity to sit at the feet of some of the best designers this world has ever seen. The field of graphic design has been forever changed and redirected by this program.”
The exhibit features layouts from Morin’s book, paired with his original documents and projects, from childhood drawings to his most recent work as a principal for Context Design. Morin has donated all the original materials showcased in the book to the special collections of the Haas Family Arts Library. This archive will be available for students and scholars to study as the Tom Morin Papers. The exhibition is also a celebration of Morin’s gift, which augments the Yale University Library’s other collections of papers by noted graphic designers, such as the Paul Rand Papers and Bradbury Thompson Papers. The acquisition of this archive furthers the Haas Family Arts Library’s goals to provide access to primary source materials about the history of graphic design, and to preserve the legacy of graphic design and make it available to scholars worldwide.
The Haas Family Arts Library is located at 180 York Street, New Haven. Library opening hours and other information about the exhibit can be found at: http://www.library.yale.edu/arts/
