Old Blue No More: A History of Latinos at Yale – exhibit reception
Tuesday June 5, 12 noon
Memorabilia Room, Sterling Memorial Library

Join us for a special reception to celebrate the exhibit Old Blue No More: A History of Latinos at Yale, now on display in Sterling Memorial Library's exhibit corridor. Enjoy refreshments and then view the exhibit, which showcases the presence of Latinos at Yale since the 1960s.

Latinos have been at Yale for close to 50 years. This exhibit tells a story of their history, inspired by the documents left behind. While incomplete, it is nevertheless a story worth telling. Most of the archives, found at the Latino Cultural Center and the Yale Library – the main collaborators on this project – are from the 1970s, and reveal the central themes driving the community over the years. Those themes – securing a cultural center, recruiting more Latinos, demanding representation, student group activism and alumni – are all explored in this exhibit.

For more information about the exhibit, please contact rosalinda.garcia@yale.edu

Sterling Memorial Library and Bass Library will commence Summer hours on Wednesday, May 9th. The hours are generally:

Sterling Memorial Library
Monday – Wednesday 8:30am – 4:45pm
Thursday 8:30am – 9:45pm
Friday 8:30am – 4:45pm
Saturday 10:00am – 4:45pm
Sunday CLOSED

Bass Library
Monday – Thursday 8:30am – 9:45pm
Friday 8:30am – 4:45pm
Saturday 10:00am – 4:45pm
Sunday CLOSED

Please keep in mind that there are exceptions to these hours for holidays and special events. Please click here http://resources.library.yale.edu/libraryhours to consult these hours along with all of the Yale University Library locations.

During the Memorial Day weekend, Friday, May 25th – Monday, May 28th, the Library will be upgrading its Orbis Library Catalog. While the upgrade is in progress, a read-only version of Orbis will be available. It will not be possible to renew items online, request materials, or add items to your bookbag until the upgrade is complete.

As part of the upgrade, the ‘Classic’ version of Orbis will be retired and replaced with the new Orbis interface. The retirement of Classic Orbis is made possible by several new features that will be introduced as part of the upgrade, including:

- Enhanced requesting functionality
- Additional Quick Limits for Maps and Microform
- Ability to browse subjects from a specific title
- Search term highlighting
- Enhanced My Account functionality
- Improved performance for Call Number browsing

For more information, contact us at AskYale at: http://ask.library.yale.edu/

All are welcome to an exhibition talk by

WILLIAM E. BUTLER
John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law and International Affairs
Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University

Wednesday, May 9, 2012
1:00 – 2:00pm
Room 121, Yale Law School
127 Wall Street, New Haven CT

"Monuments of Imperial Russian Law," now on display in the Yale Law Library, is perhaps the first rare book exhibit in the U.S. to focus on the history of Russian law. The lead curator of the exhibit, Professor William E. Butler of Penn State, will give a talk on the exhibit May 9 in the Yale Law School

The exhibition was co-curated by Mike Widener, Rare Book Librarian in the Lillian Goldman Law Library. It features principal landmarks in Russia's pre-1917 legal literature. Among these are the first printed collection of Russian laws, the 1649 "Sobornoe ulozhenie", and three versions of the "Nakaz", the law code that earned Empress Catherine the Great her reputation.

Butler is the pre-eminent U.S. authority on the law of the former Soviet Union. He is the author, co-author, editor, or translator of more than 120 books on Soviet, Russian, Ukrainian, and post-Soviet legal systems. He is a member of the Grolier Club, the leading U.S. society for book collectors, and the Organization of Russian Bibliophiles. He is also a leading bookplate collector who has authored several reference works on bookplates.

The exhibit is on display through May 25, 2012 in the Rare Book Exhibition Gallery, located on Level L2 of the Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street. The exhibit is open to the public, 9am-10pm daily. The exhibit is also online in the Yale Law Library Rare Books Blog, at http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/rarebooks.

Seven-Volume Limited Edition Will Reside at the Yale University Divinity School Library

The Yale University Library and Saint John's University today announced the acquisition of The Saint John’s Bible Heritage Edition by Yale University. A reception celebrating the arrival of the volumes was held on May 2 in the Day Missions Room of the Yale Divinity Library.

The Saint John's Bible is the only handwritten and illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine Monastery since the advent of the printing press more than 500 years ago. The Heritage Edition is a work of art in itself, a fine art reproduction of the original manuscript created under the direction of Donald Jackson, the artistic director of the original manuscript. Only 299 sets of the Heritage Edition were created.

"The mission of The Saint John's Bible is to ignite the spiritual imagination of people around the world," said Fr. Robert Koopmann, OSB, president of Saint John’s University. "We are delighted that generations of Yale students, faculty, staff and visitors will have access to these inspiring and historic volumes.”

The Yale acquisition represents a collaboration between the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, an interdisciplinary graduate center at Yale, and will be housed at the Divinity Library.

“The Beinecke Library and the Institute of Sacred Music are pleased to help bring such an outstanding work to Yale,” commented E.C. Schroeder, Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. “The acquisition of The Saint John’s Bible will provide an opportunity for scholars, faculty and students to compare this modern edition with the Beinecke’s Medieval manuscripts and early printed Bibles.”

In addition to Yale University, these fine art editions of The Saint John's Bible can also be experienced at more than 50 universities, museums, libraries and churches around the world. Original pages of The Saint John's Bible are always on exhibition at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (www.hmml.org) on the Saint John's Abbey and University Campus in Collegeville, Minnesota. The public can see original pages from the Bible as part of its touring exhibition program at the New Mexico History Museum (www.nmhistorymuseum.org) now through December 31, 2012.

The Saint John's Bible is a 15-year collaboration of scripture scholars and theologians at Saint John's Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minn. with a team of artists and calligraphers at the scriptorium in Wales, United Kingdom under the direction of Donald Jackson, one of the world's foremost calligraphers and Senior Scribe to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's Crown Office at the House of Lords. Written and drawn entirely by hand using quills and paints hand-ground from precious minerals and stones such as lapis lazuli, malachite, silver and 24-karat gold, The Saint John's Bible celebrates the tradition of medieval manuscripts while embracing 21st century technology to facilitate the design process and collaboration between Saint John's in Collegeville and the scriptorium in Wales.

For more information on the Yale University Library: www.library.yale.edu For more information about The Saint John's Bible, please visit www.saintjohnsbible.org.

Have you been billed for lost Yale Library books?
Give us your most creative excuse and have your unreturned book fees waived!

Bring lost books and your excuse (in 500 ‘clean’ words, or less), to the Privileges Office by May 15th 2012 for a full waiver of lost item replacement fees & overdue fines* – up to $110.00 per book!

The “fine” print:

Maximum fine forgiveness is $110.00 per returned book.
Yale Affiliates only
SML, BASS, CSSSI, Divinity, LSF, Music, Geology, Mathematics & Engineering Libraries books only
Does not apply to recall or reserve fines or fines not associated with lost books.
Books must be returned between May 1st and May 15th, 2012 for full waiver.
Get creative, but keep it clean, please.

Contact the Privileges Office for more information:(203) 432-7189 or smlcirc@yale.edu

April 30 to August 17
The Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library
180 York Street

Also known as ex-libris, bookplates are labels pasted inside the front covers of books to indicate ownership. This exhibition explores the ex-libris through the theme of image making. Despite its small format, the bookplate is an inventive art form that inspires artists working in an encyclopedic array of graphic media. The bookplate functions as a mark of possession; however, this simple purpose belies how fervently book owners and artists consider the bookplate a vehicle for self-expression. [Your Name Here] examines both historic and modern examples of bookplates with a variety of motifs. It also uncovers how questions of authorship arise in the collaboration between artist and patron as well as in the act of collecting itself.

With an estimated one million individual bookplate specimens, dating from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, the Yale Bookplate Collection is one of the largest such collections in the world. However, this collection is not a singular entity; rather, its holdings comprise many different collections and an assortment of documentary materials. It is a unique visual archive that forms a timeline of the history and the art of the ex-libris. Moreover, the collection serves as a significant resource for the study of bookplates as well as that of biography and histories of the book, art and design, and collecting. In addition to bookplates, the selections on view include process materials, original sketches, correspondence, publications, and other related printed ephemera.

The exhibit is curated by Molly Dotson, Bookplate Project Archivist in the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library. For more information, contact her at molly.dotson@yale.edu or at (203) 432-7074.

The exhibit will be on view until August 17. It is free and open to the public. A current Yale ID (with a prox chip) is required to enter the Haas Family Arts Library during all regular business hours. Non-Yale visitors are also welcome and can gain access to the Library through the security guard in the Loria Center entrance hall.

Thursday, May 3, 5:00 pm
Location: SML International Room

The libraries of the British National Trust (in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland) together form one of the greatest repositories of early printed books in Europe, and they are almost certainly the largest collection of historic libraries in the hands of a single institution anywhere in the world. For decades these libraries were almost entirely invisible and inaccessible, but over the last ten years the Trust has been engaged in a huge program to get their catalogues online, to open up the collection for research, and to investigate the cultural significance of books which have often remained for hundreds of years in the places where they were once collected and read. This illustrated presentation will give an overview of the libraries—many but not all in country houses, a summary of current projects, and some thoughts on the research value of 300,000 books divided among more than 150 separate locations.

Mark Purcell has been Libraries Curator to the National Trust since 1999. He originally read History at Oriel College, Oxford, trained at University College, London, and has published extensively on the history of books and libraries in early modern Britain and Ireland.

About SCOPA
Yale University Library’s Standing Committee on Professional Awareness, SCOPA, strives to encourage professional growth and the development of librarianship as a dynamic profession. SCOPA organizes a regular series of forums devoted to a wide range of topics concerning initiatives in Yale libraries and academic libraries in general. SCOPA welcomes suggestions concerning possible future forums.

More information on SCOPA

NEED A STUDY BREAK?

All Yale students are welcome to join us for food and fun at The Center for Science & Social Science Information (CSSSI) at 219 Prospect Street on Monday, April 23rd from 8:30pm - 10:30pm

Enjoy free pizza, snacks, and drinks and play video games on our giant media screens!

Questions? Call 203-432-3300. See you there!