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.

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).

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

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/

Congratulations to the new Center for Science & Social Science Information (CSSSI) now open in its new home on the concourse level of the Kline Biology Tower at 219 Prospect Street. Please join us for an open house celebration on Wednesday 11th from 4-6pm with refreshments, giveaways and a chance to tour the new center - all are welcome. For more information: http://csssi.yale.edu

The Engineering & Applied Science Library will be closing onTuesday, December 20 at 5:00pm. The library will open on Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at its interim location at the Mann Engineering Student Center on the first floor of Dunham Lab, Room 105, 10 Hillhouse Ave. The book drop will be relocated to the hallway outside of the Mann Center on December 21.

For more information, please contact Andy Shimp, the Engineering & Applied Science Librarian, at: andy.shimp@yale.edu or (203) 432-7460

The Lewis Walpole Library, a department of Yale University Library, invites applications to its 2012 - 2013 fellowship and travel grant program.

Located in Farmington, Connecticut, the Library offers short-term residential fellowships and travel grants to support research in the Library’s rich collections of eighteenth century—mainly British—materials, including important holdings of prints, drawings, manuscripts, rare books, and paintings, as well as a growing collection of sources for the study of New England Native Americans.

Scholars undertaking post-doctoral or equivalent research, and doctoral candidates at work on a dissertation, are encouraged to apply. Recipients are expected to be in residence at the Library, to be free of other significant professional obligations during their stay, and to focus their research on the Lewis Walpole Library’s collections. Fellows also have access to additional resources at Yale, including those in the Sterling Memorial Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Yale Center for British Art.

Lewis Walpole Library fellowships, usually for one month, include the cost of travel to and from Farmington, accommodation in an eighteenth-century house on the Library's campus, and a $2,100 living allowance stipend. The Library's travel grants typically cover transportation costs for research trips of shorter duration and also include on-site accommodation.

To apply for a fellowship or travel grant, candidates should send a curriculum vitae, including educational background, professional experience and publications, and a brief outline of the research proposal (not to exceed three pages) to:

Margaret K. Powell
W.S. Lewis Librarian and Executive Director
The Lewis Walpole Library
P.O. Box 1408
Farmington, CT 06034
USA

Fax: 860-677-6369

Application materials may also be submitted electronically to margaret.powell@yale.edu.

Two confidential letters of recommendation are also required by the application deadline. Letters should specifically address the merits of the candidate's project and application for the Lewis Walpole Library fellowship or travel grant. General letters of recommendation or dossier letters are not appropriate.

The application deadline is January 23, 2012. Awards will be announced in March and are expected to be taken up between July 2012 and June 2013.

Additional information about the Library may be found at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole.

The last day of operation for the Science Library, Social Science Library and StatLab will be Friday, December 16th. They will re-open as the Center for Science & Social Science Information (CSSSI) on Monday, January 3rd at 219 Prospect Street.

After December 21st, the book drop at 140 Prospect Street will not be available. Books will need to be returned at other libraries. Patrons with books to be picked up can do so after January 3rd at the CSSSI. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

For more information, contact: kelly.barrick@yale.edu

Starting on Friday, December 2nd, the Bass Library will have extended hours during reading week and finals. This will involve later closings all days of the week and opening at 10am on Sundays.

For a complete listing, please consult Bass Library hours.
http://resourcestest.library.yale.edu/libraryhours/Calendar.aspx?&library=BAS

The following exhibit is now on view at Yale's Lewis Walpole Library at 154 Main Street, Farmington, CT

Sacred Satire: Lampooning Religious Belief in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Curated by Misty Anderson, Associate Professor of English, University of Tennessee
and Cynthia Roman, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Paintings, the Lewis Walpole Library
September 22, 2011 - March 2, 2012

Religious beliefs and practices provided ample subject matter for the irreverent printmakers producing graphic satire in eighteenth-century Britain. While clerical satire is an ancient mode, eighteenth-century British artists seized on it with fresh vigor. Satirists appropriated centuries-old themes like corruption, hypocrisy, and greed, but updated them with contemporary concerns about the role of religion in the age of enlightenments. The visual rhetoric of these prints illustrates some of the ways in which eighteenth-century Britons were renegotiating their relationship to religious practice and belief.

The prints in this exhibition reflect a tension between a vision of religion as part of traditional life and the emergence of modern Christianity as a collection of new movements, practices, and ideas about belief. The eighteenth-century images on display preserve for us a moment in an ongoing conversation about the relationship of religion, representation, and modernity.
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The Lewis Walpole Library draws from its own collection of prints, drawings, and paintings along with manuscripts, books, and other printed texts, to mount several rotating exhibitions in Farmington each year. The exhibitions are free and open to the public during gallery hours: Wednesdays, 2 - 4:30 p.m. These exhibitions may also be viewed during tours of the Library by appointment. Please call 860-677-2140 for more information.

When students and faculty return to campus in January after winter break, they will discover a new place atop Science Hill where they can do research, study, and hang out. The new Center for Science and Social Science Information (CSSSI) is scheduled to open on January 3rd. A collaboration between the Yale University Library and ITS, the center will incorporate the services and facilities of the Science Library, the Social Science Library, and the ITS StatLab. To read more:

http://news.yale.edu/2011/11/28/center-science-and-social-science-information-open-science-hill

Nota Bene is published during the academic year to acquaint the Yale community and others interested with the resources of the Yale Library.

Read the latest Fall 2011 issue here
http://www.library.yale.edu/notabene/

Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today

Film Screening followed by discussion with Sandra Schulberg, Restoration Producer

Wednesday, November 30, 6:10 p.m.
Yale Law School, room 127

One of the greatest courtroom dramas in history, Nuremberg shows how the international prosecutors built their case against the top Nazi war criminals using the Nazis’ own films and records. The trial established the “Nuremberg principles” – the foundation for all subsequent trials for crimes against the peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Though shown in Germany as part of the Allies’ de-Nazification campaign, US officials decided not to release Nuremberg in America for political reasons, nor was it shown in any other country. Over the years, the picture negative and sound elements were lost or destroyed. Sandra Schulberg & Josh Waletzky’s restoration faithfully reproduced the original film in its entirety; and original audio from the trial allows audiences to hear the defendants’ and prosecutors’ voices for the first time. The film ends with Justice Robert H. Jackson’s stirring words – “Let Nuremberg stand as a warning to all who plan and wage aggressive war” – words that leap the decades and make Nuremberg startlingly contemporary.

Sponsored by the European Studies Council, Film Studies Program, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Genocide Studies Program, Lillian Goldman Law Library and Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights

This fall the Gilmore Music Library marks Liszt’s 200th birthday with an exhibit entitled Franz Liszt: Transcending the Virtuosic. The most dazzling pianist of the 19th century, a strikingly innovative composer, an important conductor, teacher, and author, and a charismatic personality, Liszt was as one of the most talented, colorful, and influential figures in the history of music. Our exhibit features five musical manuscripts wholly or partly in Liszt’s hand, four of his letters (including ones to to his daughter Cosima and his friend Robert Schumann), three early printed editions of his music, two books about Liszt (a biography published during his lifetime and a novel by an alumna of Yale’s Ph.D. program in musicology), three images (depicting Liszt in boyhood, middle age, and old age), a medallion that was owned at various times by Liszt, Toscanini, and Horowitz, and even a rose that he is said to have kissed.

Two locations in the Yale Library – Sterling Memorial Library and the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library - are hosting art installations from November to January as part of Artspace’s Library Science, an exhibition curated by Rachel Gugelberger, Senior Curator at Exit Art, New York. Bringing together a selection of work by 17 international artists, Library Science contemplates the personal, intellectual and physical relationship to the library as a venerable institution - and the information it contains - and how it is being radically transformed by the digital era. Through drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, painting and web-based projects, the artists in Library Science explore the library through its unique forms, attributes and systems: from public stacks to private collections, from unique architectural spaces to the people who populate them, from traditional card catalogues to that ever-growing “cyber-library,” the World Wide Web.

Artspace is New Haven’s largest independent visual arts venue, showcasing a mix of local and national artists in a downtown corner storefront in the historic Ninth Square district. While the bulk of the exhibit is on view at Artspace, several institutions around town are hosting installations. Sterling Memorial Library features Augmented/Obstructed by artists Carol Padberg and Andy Deck. Using barcode patterns installed in the old card catalog drawers, that are incomprehensible to the human gaze, but perceptible with the assistance of software, their work invites viewers to consider the consequences of the cultural journey from Sumerian tablets and the printing press, to digital tablets and the Internet. The Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library is hosting an installation by Tyler Starr called “Burning Wants”. Other locations hosting installations include the New Haven Free Public Library, The Institute Library and The Whitney Library of the New Haven Museum. The exhibit will be on view from November 12-January 28. For more information: www.artspacenh.org

Judith Schiff, chief research archivist, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Edward Bouchet Legacy Award, named after the first African-American graduate of Yale College. The Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society established the award to recognize stalwart contributors to the growth and expansion of the Bouchet Society, which has co-founding chapters at Yale and Howard. Read more at: http://news.yale.edu/2011/11/08/yale-archivist-receives-inaugural-bouchet-award

As preparations are made for the new Engineering & Applied Science Information Commons at 17 Hillhouse Avenue, the services and staff of the Engineering & Applied Science Library will relocate to interim space within the J. Robert Mann Jr. Engineering Student Center on the first floor of Dunham Laboratory starting in January 2012. Relocation of collection materials has begun and the present location in Becton Center will be vacated at the end of the fall term in December 2011. It is expected that the library will remain in the interim location until January 2013.

The renovated space in the Mann Student Center will provide a convenient access point to information services and library collections. In addition, it will be more fully utilized as a student center configured for research and study. The space will include workstations that provide access to a variety of information and research software resources. It will contain flexible seating and tables that can be arranged to accommodate seminars, presentations and gatherings, as well as group and individual study.

The information services that will be available in the interim space include:
• Information assistance from the engineering librarian and staff;
• Reference collection;
• Pickup and return location for library materials and document delivery services.

Services moving to other locations during the interim period:
• Materials placed on course reserve will be available at the Bass Library.
• High use books from the Engineering & Applied Science Library collection will be available for browsing and borrowing in a distinct location in Sterling Memorial Library;
• 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;

The Library staff will continue to provide the same high level of service patrons currently receive. If you have questions, please feel free to contact Andy Shimp, Engineering Librarian, at andy.shimp@yale.edu or (203) 432 7460 or Jill Parchuck, Director of the Center for Science and Social Science Information, at jill.parchuck@yale.edu or (203) 432-3304.

Susan Gibbons, University Librarian, warmly welcomes all Yale students to the first ever library study break!

Wednesday November 2nd, 3:30-5pm
L&B Room in Sterling Memorial Library
Free food, drinks and giveaways
An opportunity to meet the new University Librarian

Spread the word and come join us!

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University has acquired Eugene O’Neill’s “lost” one-act play, “Exorcism” (1919). The play, along with a facsimile of the typescript, will be published in a cloth edition by Yale University Press in February 2012, and will feature an introduction by the noted American playwright Edward Albee. The New Yorker has acquired first serial rights and published the play in its entirety, with an introduction by theater critic John Lahr, in the magazine’s Fall Books issue on Oct.17, 2011. A short video of the actor Tommy Schrider reading from “Exorcism” was featured on The New Yorker’s website and iPad application.

“Exorcism,” set in 1912, is based on O’Neill’s suicide attempt from an overdose of veronal in a squalid Manhattan rooming house. The play premiered at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York City on March 26, 1920. Following a few performances, however, O’Neill abruptly chose to cancel the production and to retract and destroy all known copies of the script. O’Neill biographers have speculated that the play, produced as the playwright’s father was dying, was perhaps too revealing of O’Neill’s own demons and potentially distressing for his parents.
Despite long-held presumptions that the play was irrevocably lost, O’Neill’s second wife, Agnes Boulton, apparently retained a copy of the play, which she gave as a Christmas gift to the writer Philip Yordan after her divorce from O’Neill. Yordan is perhaps best known for his O’Neill-inspired play, and later film, “Anna Lucasta,” starring an all-black cast.
The typescript, with edits and emendations in O’Neill’s own hand, was discovered by a researcher working in Yordan’s papers, together with the original envelope; the label is inscribed: “Something you said you’d like to have / Agnes & Mac” (Morris “Mac” Kaufman was Boulton’s third husband).

O’Neill, a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner and the only American playwright to receive the Nobel Prize for literature (1936), returned to many of the issues that surface in “Exorcism” in his heavily autobiographical play “Long Day’s Journey into Night,” published posthumously in 1956 and considered to be his masterpiece.

The discovery of “Exorcism” after 90 years adds significantly to O’Neill’s biography, intimating the overwhelming role that suicide would take in his personal life, along with the issue’s influence and impact on his work, noted Louise Bernard, curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature for Prose and Drama. The play also marks a pivotal moment in O’Neill’s prolific career, providing further insight into the later works for which he is now revered, she adds.
"The rediscovery of O'Neill's famously 'lost' play ‘Exorcism’ is quite remarkable and a wonderful supplement to the large and substantive collection of Eugene O'Neill Papers housed at the Beinecke Library,” said Bernard. “The revelation of this highly autobiographical play is a valuable addition to our knowledge of O'Neill, whom many consider to be the father of modern American drama."

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is the principal repository for the Eugene O’Neill Papers.
For inquiries about the play or the Eugene O’Neill Papers, contact Louise Bernard (louise.bernard@yale.edu).
For inquiries about the play’s publication in book form this February, please contact Brenda King (brenda.king@yale.edu), publicity director, Yale University Press.

Yale alumni gain free access to JSTOR’s extensive online scholarly resources
New Haven, Conn.— Yale’s more than 130,000 alumni worldwide now have access to a treasure trove of online resources thanks to collaboration between the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA), JSTOR and the Yale University Library. Alumni can freely use all JSTOR collections licensed by Yale. JSTOR (short for “journal storage”), a nonprofit service founded in 1995, is a trusted digital archive of over 1,000 academic journals and one million primary sources. To see more of the story click here.

On Monday, October 3, The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library discontinued use of all paper call slips in favor of online requesting using Aeon, the online registration, requesting, and transaction tracking system designed specifically for special collections and archives. Patrons will be able to place and track requests through their online account and Yale faculty, students and staff will be able to access their account using their NetID. Returning visiting researchers will be assigned a username and password at the service desk and new visitors may create an account. The Aeon login page is available at http://aeon-brbl.library.yale.edu/. Manuscripts and Archives has been using Aeon for patron registration since July 2010 and plans to go live with requesting later this year.

In addition to providing a convenient method of requesting material for patrons, Aeon allows library staff to process requests more efficiently and to gather more detailed usage statistics than ever before. Questions about the Beinecke implementation may be directed to Moira Fitzgerald at moira.fitzgerald@yale.edu.

You are warmly invited to join us for the Eighteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture on Friday, 21 October 2011 at 5:30 p.m.

Amanda Vickery, Professor of Early Modern History, Queen Mary College, University of London will present “Family Life Makes Tories of Us All: Love and Power at Home in Georgian England”

Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall
1080 Chapel Street
New Haven
To see the state in miniature one need only go home. Husbands were to govern wives, masters and mistresses to rule servants, and parents to discipline children. The years after 1688 saw the acceptance of new ideas about political authority and social manners, but the household hierarchy endured regardless. Notoriously Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau did not include every adult individual in their democracy of consent, but rather every male head of household, who was seen to represent the interests of his patriarchal entourage. The British considered themselves enemies to tyranny, disparaging and caricaturing ‘oriental despotism’ in foreign families as confirmation of barbarity, but local servitude passed almost unnoticed by political ideas. I have yet to encounter a single gentleman musing on whether it might be possible to reconsider his domestic rule in the light of the new political ideas. ‘Family life’, it was observed in 1779, ‘makes Tories of us all… see if any Whig wishes to see the beautiful Utopian expansion of power within his own walls’.
The new political ideas which advocated government by consent did nothing to revolutionize the structures of domestic authority, but the content and meaning of domestic life was transformed over the eighteenth century.
New ideals of politeness revolutionized domestic manners and interactions amongst the modestly propertied, while the vogue for sensibility in novels and paintings inflated expectations about affection and happiness at home. What then was the balance of love and power in eighteenth-century marriage and family life? And how did dependents live with the contradictions? 'Do you not admire these lovers of liberty!’ snapped Elizabeth Montagu in 1765 ‘I am not sure that Cato did not kick his wife.'
Amanda Vickery is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary College, University of London. She is the author of Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (Yale, 2009) and The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England (Yale, 1998) which won the Wolfson, the Whitfield and the Longman/History Today prize. She is the editor of Women, Privilege and Power: British Politics 1750 to the Present (Stanford, 1991) and Gender, Taste and Material Culture in Britain and North America (Yale, 2006). She writes and presents documentaries for BBC2 and BBC radio 4. In 2011, she judged the Samuel Johnson prize.

The Lecture is Free and Open to the Public.

For more information: http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/programs/annual_lecture.html

Sponsored by the Lillian Goldman Law Library and The American Constitution Society

Book Discussion with Jack Balkin Wednesday, October 5, 2011
6:10 p.m.
Room 122
Yale Law School

Please join Jack Balkin and Visiting Professor Sanford Levinson as they discuss Professor Balkin's newest work: Constitutional Redemption: Political Faith in an Unjust World.

During this book talk, Balkin will argue that the American constitutional project is based in faith, hope, and a narrative of shared redemption. Our belief that the Constitution will deliver us from evil shows in the stories we tell one another about where our country came from and where it is headed, and in the way we use these historical touchstones to justify our fervent (and opposed) political creeds. What will such a Constitution become? We cannot know. But Balkin believes that our belief in the legitimacy of the Constitution requires a leap of faith—a gamble on the ultimate vindication of a political project that has already survived many follies and near-catastrophes, and whose destiny is still over the horizon.

Three libraries at Harvard University - Widener Library, Countway Library of Medicine, and Andover-Harvard Theological Library - began lending materials in the Borrow Direct program on September 26, 2011. In addition, the Harvard Depository will also be lending materials that were placed there by these three libraries. Harvard joined Borrow Direct as a borrower in the summer of 2011, but adjustments to their library IT systems and related testing delayed their ability to lend until the fall. Borrow Direct now includes all eight of the libraries in the Ivy League; the first non-Ivy member of Borrow Direct, MIT, anticipates joining the program before the end of October. For more information about Borrow Direct, please see: http://www.library.yale.edu/ill/borrowdirect.html

The Remarkable Run of a Political Icon: Justice as a Sign of the Law

Sept. 19 - Dec. 16, 2011
Rare Book Exhibition Gallery
Level L2, Lillian Goldman Law Library
Yale Law School
127 Wall Street, New Haven CT

How is it that the figure of a woman, draped, holding scales and sword, has been so widely recognized as a symbol of the law for more than 500 years?

This question is at the heart of the latest exhibit from the Yale Law Library's Rare Book Collection: "The Remarkable Run of a Political Icon: Justice as a Sign of the Law." Using images from books printed between 1497 and 1788, the exhibit traces the roots of the iconography of Justice, a remnant of the Renaissance, that remains legible today. The exhibit features eleven volumes from the Law Library's Rare Book Collection, along with four emblem books on loan from Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

The shifting attributes of Justice, displayed in the exhibit, reflect the complex relationships between judgment, sight, knowledge, and wisdom. In the 1400s and 1500s, a blindfold on Justice signified her disability; today the blindfold is commonly understood as a sign of justice's impartiality.

The exhibit is curated by Judith Resnik (Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School), Dennis Curtis (Clinical Professor of Law Emeritus, Yale Law School), Allison Tait (Gender Equity & Policy Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Women Faculty Forum), and Mike Widener (Rare Book Librarian, Yale Law Library). The exhibit draws heavily on Resnik's & Curtis' new book, “Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms” (Yale University Press, 2011).

The exhibit is on display through December 16, 2011 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 will also go online via the Yale Law Library Rare Books Blog, at http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/rarebooks/

For more information, contact Mike Widener, Rare Book Librarian, at (203) 432-4494 or mike.widener@yale.edu

Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library has digitized the complete 48 volumes of “The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence” (Yale University Press, 1937-1983). This new digital resource provides free online access to the complete correspondence of Horace Walpole (1717-1797). An author and collector, Walpole is well known for his Gothic villa called Strawberry Hill, which was built along the Thames River and attracted so much attention that it was considered a "treasure house." Walpole was the youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, England's first prime minister. The digitization of this scholarly work coincides with the 294th anniversary of Walpole’s birthday in September.

Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis ’18 B.A. dedicated nearly half a century to producing the “Yale Edition,” which set a new standard for scholarly editing by providing an authoritative text, extensive and informative annotations as well as a comprehensive index. The appendices include a wealth of supplementary texts, including writings by Walpole and several of his correspondents.

The “Edition” is considered a major contribution to the political and cultural history of Britain and remains an important resource for 18th-century studies. At the time of its publication, The New York Times praised the project for “transport[ing] us in time and space to Walpole’s England, with its politics, its literature, its society, and its gossip.” According to Lewis’ preface of the first volume, the “primary intention” of the “Edition” is “to facilitate the studies of scholars in the 18th century. Sooner or later, the 18th-century scholar, be his subject what it may, must consult Walpole's correspondence.”

To create the digital version of “The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence,” each page of the printed volumes was scanned and run through optical character recognition (OCR) processing to allow scholars to browse pages as well as search the text for keywords. In addition, users can browse indexes created from the OCR text, including indexes by date of correspondence and by name of correspondent as well as indexes to the illustrations and appendices.

The Lewis Walpole Library, a department of the Yale University Library since 1980, is an internationally recognized research collection in the field of British 18th-century studies. Located in Farmington, Connecticut, the library runs an active fellowship program and sponsors conferences, lectures, classes and exhibitions in cooperation with other Yale libraries and departments.

Links:

The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence: http://images.library.yale.edu/hwcorrespondence/

The Lewis Walpole Library: http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole

Yale University Library: http://www.library.yale.edu/

The Yale Library’s annual report from 2009-2010 is now available online at: http://www.library.yale.edu/notabene/

Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library

Ten years have passed since the tragedy that occurred on September 11, 2001, in several locations on the East Coast of the United States. People in all parts of the country were affected and many of them looked for ways to respond. This exhibition shows art work created by book artists in response to the events of that fateful day. Specifically, this exhibition focuses on works that memorialize the people lost and the indescribable sense that we, as a people, also lost something more intangible. Some might call it a sense of innocence, others might call it a sense of safety, but few Americans would deny that the world felt changed after that day. Using the book format, these artists have given form to these difficult thoughts and emotions to share with a wider audience and to help us remember.

The exhibition includes work by: Art of the Book program (Art School, Pratt Institute), Maureen Cummins, Mimi Gross & Charles Bernstein (Granary Books), Kate Ferrucci (People to People Press), Emily Martin (Naughty Dog Press), Mac McGill (Booklyn Artists Alliance), Sara Parkel (Filter Press), Werner Pfeiffer (Pear Whistle Press), Maria G. Pisano (Memory Press), Otis Rubottom, Sibyl Rubottom & Jim Machacek (Bay Park Press), Rocco Scary, Gaylord Schanilec & Richard Goodman (Midnight Paper Sales), Robbin Ami Silverberg (Dobbin Books), Patricia M. Smith (P.S. Press), Gail Watson (Zuni Press), Marshall Weber (Booklyn Artists Alliance), Pamela S. Wood (Rarehare Creations), J. Meejin Yoon (Printed Matter & Whitney Museum of American Art).

This exhibit is free and open to the public. Non-Yale community members must check in with the security guard in the lobby of the Loria Center, 190 York Street, to gain access to the Haas Family Arts Library. Photo ID required to enter library.

For more information please contact the Curator at jae.rossman@yale.edu.

You are warmly invited to an opening talk and reception for the upcoming exhibit, Nature’s Own Shape.

Talk given by exhibit curator, Bea Koch ’12, in Sterling Memorial Library’s International Room on Friday, September 9, 2011 at 3:30 PM

The opening event includes a 20 minute talk by Bea Koch in Sterling Memorial Library’s International Room followed by a reception and an opportunity to view the exhibit. The exhibit is a study of embroidery in early modern England. Embroidery was very popular in the time of the Tudors, when so many things, from nightcaps to bed-hangings, were covered with embroidered flowers, creatures, and whimsical patterns. The 16th century was a time of change for embroidery as it shifted away from religious to domestic use.

Embroidery today is thought of as a woman’s pastime, but in early modern England most of the professional embroiderers were men. The most famous female embroiderers of the period were noblewomen Bess of Hardwick and Mary, Queen of Scots. Many studies have been done about these two women, their unique skills, and their friendship. Ms. Koch’s exhibit draws from the Yale Library collections housed in the Yale Center for British Art, the Lewis Walpole Library, Sterling Memorial Library, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Bea Koch is a senior in Branford College at Yale. She is majoring in Renaissance studies with a focus on women’s history and textiles in early modern England. She has been interested in the Tudors and their history since the 5th grade. “Nature’s Own shape” is her senior project, which was prepared with the guidance of her advisor Dean Mia Genoni.

The exhibit will be on view from September 9, 2011 – December 16, 2011 in Sterling Memorial Library’s exhibit corridor and is open to the public.

Yale University’s East Asia and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript libraries have undertaken a collaborative project with The National Library of Korea to digitize Yale’s holdings of rare Korean works, totaling 140 volumes. This unique group of books and manuscripts includes religious, secular, and official publications from the Joseon period (1392 – 1910) and dates primarily from the late 18th and 19th centuries.

The National Library of Korea will provide funds for the digitization and plans to include the bibliographic information and page images of the Yale works in the Korean Old & Rare Collection Information System (KORCIS), an online full-text repository for Korean rare books. KORCIS currently contains the electronic versions of over 430,000 works from 85 collections worldwide. The bibliographic data and images will also be made available online through the Yale University Library’s website.

“We welcome the National Library of Korea’s interest in our Korean rare books and look forward to making these little-studied works more accessible to scholars,” said Ellen H. Hammond, curator of Yale’s East Asia Library.

“The Yale University Library believes that collaborating with peer institutions from around the world is essential in making their collections known to as wide an audience as possible,” said E.C. Schroeder, director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Yale’s Korean rare books offer a glimpse into the artistic and publishing world of the late Joseon period, ranging from woodblock print and manuscript maps, royal editions in moveable type, a manuscript novel written in hangul (Korean script), Buddhist sutras, Confucian texts and commentaries, paintings, rubbings and pictorial albums. The works in the Beinecke were donated by the Yale Association of Japan alumni group in 1934. The items in the East Asia Library are later additions to the collection.

For more information:

East Asia Library: http://www.library.yale.edu/eastasian

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: http://library.yale.edu/beinecke

Korean Old & Rare Collection information System (KORCIS): http://www.nl.go.kr/korcis

Curator of the East Asia Library: Ellen Hammond – ellen.hammond@yale.edu

To access the following article in the Yale Daily Bulletin: http://dailybulletin.yale.edu/article.aspx?id=8779

Farmington, Conn. – The Lewis Walpole Library has announced that it will seek to record recollections by contemporaries of the Library’s founders, Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (1895-1979) and Annie Burr Lewis (1902-1959), to round out the portrait of an extraordinary couple whose legacy is largely known through their remarkable collections of 18th-century English artwork and literature.

The W.S. and Annie Burr Lewis Oral History Project will elicit memories and reflections from people who were the couple’s friends, family, neighbors, colleagues and collaborators. These narratives will be added to the Library’s archives and will offer a valuable resource for understanding their rich and dynamic lives.

Those interested in participating in this project are invited to provide the Library with written or recorded memories in person, by mail, or by email. In addition, there will be opportunities for participants to audio- or video-record their stories at the Library. For information on participating in the project, please contact Margaret K. Powell at 860-677-2140 or margaret.powell@yale.edu.

Born in Alameda, California, Lewis graduated from Yale University in 1918. He acquired books, manuscripts, and prints as well as graphic and decorative arts, all in an extraordinary effort to gather information about Horace Walpole and his times, his house at Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, his interests, his friends and contemporaries. Lewis spent nearly half a century, until his death in 1979, editing Walpole's correspondence. Fully indexed and annotated, The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence extends to 48 volumes and remains a noteworthy accomplishment.

In 1928, Lewis married Annie Burr Auchincloss, who was born in New York and graduated in 1920 from Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, Connecticut. As an essential participant in her husband’s collecting, Mrs. Lewis served as their collection’s first curator of prints and was also active in support of historic preservation, most notably as Vice-Regent for Connecticut for the Mount Vernon Ladies Association.

The Lewis Walpole Library, a department of the Yale University Library, is located at 154 Main St. in Farmington, CT. A research library for 18th-century studies and the prime source for the study of Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill, its collections include significant holdings of 18th-century British books, manuscripts, prints, drawings and paintings, as well as examples of the decorative arts. It is housed in a historic frame house that was given to Yale by Lewis and Annie Burr Lewis.

SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO)
Alternative Name: SRMO
Type: Trial

Description: SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO) is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SRMO links over 100,000 pages of SAGE’s renowned book, journal and reference content with truly advanced search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since SRMO focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more.

With SRMO, researchers can explore their chosen method across the depth and breadth of content, expanding or refining their search as needed; read online, print, or email full-text content; utilize suggested related methods and links to related authors from SRMO's robust library and unique features; and even share their own collections of content through SRMO Lists. SRMO contains content from 600 books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks, the entire “Little Green Book,” and Little Blue Book” series, two Major Works collating a selection of journal articles, and newly commissioned videos.

The SRMO trial ends on September 9, 2011.

Selector or Contact: mailto:julie.linden@yale.edu

The Yale University Library is pleased to offer a streamlined and simplified design for the Yale Links menu. The new menu results from user studies and makes important features like Interlibrary Loan and citation management integration more obvious and easier to use.

The way that Yale Links connects patrons from citations to online (and print) full text will not change, but the updated design should make this important tool easier to use.

The Yale University Library is pleased to announce that several new Oxford Political Science Handbooks Online are now available to the Yale community.

They can all be accessed from: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/oso/public/oho_politics/subject_home.htmlEach title will be cataloged in Orbis.

The range of topics is broad and of potential interest to researchers in history, international relations, political science, law, sociology, economics, religion, and more, as the title list indicates:

Oxford Handbook of….
• American Bureaucracy
• American Elections and Political Behavior
• American Political Parties and Interest Groups
• American Presidency
• British Politics
• Canadian Politics
• Church and State in the United States
• Comparative Politics
• Contextual Political Analysis
• International Relations
• Law and Politics
• Local and Regional Democracy in Europe
• National Security Intelligence
• Political Behavior
• Political Economy
• Political Institutions
• Political Methodology
• Political Theory
• Public Policy
• The American Congress
• The Welfare State
• United Nations

For more information, please contact:

Julie Linden
Librarian for Political Science, International Affairs, and Government Information
Social Science Library
Yale University
140 Prospect St.
P.O. Box 208263
New Haven, CT 06520-8263
e-mail: julie.linden@yale.edu
phone: +1 (203) 432-3310

Red Cross Blood Drive

Sponsored by The Sterling Memorial Library & Yale Law School
130 Wall Street, New Haven, CT

Wednesday, July 27th
11:30am - 4:45pm
Held in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall

To sign up, please contact:
Elysa Bryant at (203) 436-8407 or Michael Wagner (203) 432-1857
or log onto http://www.redcrossblood.org/ (Sponsor Code: STERLING)

Yale Library Brings 18th Century England To Town. To read more, see the article in this week’s Hartford Courant:

http://www.courant.com/community/farmington/hc-farmington-library-20110627,0,6126096.story

Effective, Monday, June 27, 2011, in preparation for the renovation project that will create the Center for Science and Social Science Information (CSSSI), the staff and services of Kline Science Library will be moving to 140 Prospect Street, Urban Hall, with the Social Science Library.

Kline Science Library will close for the duration of the CSSSI construction project at the end of business (5pm) Friday, June 24, 2011.

We thank you for your patience as we make this transition. We will do our best to provide the same high level of service we have always provided.

CSSSI will open in January 2012.

Yale to Receive Kissinger Papers and Establish the Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy

New Haven, Conn.—President Richard C. Levin today announced that Dr. Henry A. Kissinger will donate his papers to Yale University. The collection, which consists of approximately one million documents and objects covering Dr. Kissinger’s extraordinary life as a diplomat, scholar, teacher, and private citizen, will enhance Yale’s existing strengths as an archival repository for major 20th century American leaders. Yale already holds the papers of renowned former diplomats and alumni Henry Stimson (Class of 1888), Dean Acheson (Class of 1915), and Cyrus Vance (Class of 1939, LAW ’42), as well as those of President Woodrow Wilson’s most influential adviser, “Colonel” Edward House.

To read more: http://opac.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=8656

Yale and New Haven, Yale and the World: Postcards from the Yale University Library Collections.
June 1 – September 5

This exhibit, currently in the nave of Sterling Memorial Library (diagonally opposite the circulation desk), presents a history focusing on Yale's changing role in the New Haven community over the past two centuries, incorporating the local history of Yale into a broader narrative of the University’s involvement in international affairs over the same time period. Drawing on the Library’s numerous collections of historic postcards, the exhibit represents over 30 countries and 310 years of Yale history—from a postcard of Yale’s first cornerstone in Old Saybrook, CT, to a gift of commemorative postcards for President Levin. At once visual and textual, private and public, mass-produced and deeply personal, the postcard offers fascinating inroads to understanding how notions of Yale and the world have changed over time, and what responsibilities lie ahead for Yale in the years to come.

From a single rented building with five faculty members and no hospital, the Yale University School of Medicine has grown to become a world-famous center for teaching, research, and clinical practice. This Bicentennial exhibit focuses on the history of the Medical School and its teaching mission over the past 200 years.

View the exhibit on your own or come and join us for a tour on Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 12 noon with Toby Appel

Curated by Toby A. Appel, former John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History
On View until September 11, 2011

Yale University President Richard C. Levin today announced the creation of the Yale Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, funded by a gift of $25 million from Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin ’78. The Institute, to be housed on Yale’s West Campus, will unite the vast resources of the University’s museum and library collections with the scientific and technological expertise of Yale’s academic departments to advance conservation science and its practice around the world.

“This extraordinary gift enables a breakthrough in the global practice of conservation and preservation,” Levin said. “Through their philanthropy, Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin have already established themselves among the world’s foremost custodians of cultural resources. I am deeply grateful that their support will allow Yale to combine the resources of its three museums and its library to develop new approaches to conservation and to engage in new international collaborations in research and education.”

The Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage will draw on the personnel and material resources of the University Library, the Peabody Museum of Natural History, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Yale Center for British Art and the Office of Digital Assets and Infrastructure. Curators and staff from these institutions will collaborate with faculty from chemistry, engineering, computer science and other departments to work on solving the most pressing conservation challenges.

The Institute will be located on Yale’s West Campus, a 136-acre complex acquired from Bayer Pharmaceuticals in 2007 and a short seven miles west of downtown New Haven. Scott Strobel, Vice President for West Campus Planning and Program Development, noted that the creation of the Institute represents another milestone in the development of the campus. “We already have an extraordinary community of faculty members and staff using the West Campus facilities to address shared conservation needs and to conduct original research within Yale’s collections of books, artifacts and natural specimens,” Strobel said. “The new Institute will build on this community to accelerate dramatically Yale’s mission of conservation, teaching, research and publication.” When fully built out, the West Campus will be home to six interdisciplinary research institutes related to the life sciences in addition to the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage.

The Institute’s physical home will be a sustainable, 212,000-square-foot building, architecturally optimized for the preservation of objects. It will provide scholars and students with access to laboratories, offices and world-class facilities for meetings, seminars, training programs and conferences.

The work of the Institute will be supported by two core facilities in conservation and digitization: The conservation core will provide specialized research tools and focus on new technologies and methods to reduce threats common to many objects. The digitization core will apply new technological tools to capture, store, curate and share material in digital form. As it works to meet these basic goals, the Institute will pioneer areas of research and analytical techniques that are at present unknown to the world of conservation.

“We felt that Yale was particularly well-equipped to host this institute,” Peter Baldwin said. “The University shares our deep conviction that new technology will not only help us protect our most valuable cultural assets, but also expand access to those assets for people around the world. We are confident that the work that Yale’s scholars and scientists are already doing within their own collections and at cultural sites across the globe will be quickly applicable for conservationists worldwide.”

Among other projects, the Institute will extend initiatives already under way at Yale to explore the use of nanotechnology to slow the decay of artworks; apply computer technology to create specialized tools to care for ancient mosaics; and use 3-D technology to digitize and study collections. The Institute also aims to build its faculty and staff resources so that it may increasingly offer services of assessment and technical analysis in the field, addressing site conditions and unique preservation issues that threaten the longevity of vital cultural resources in remote environments.

The Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage will be well positioned to disseminate its findings quickly and broadly. The Institute will convene scholars for conferences and meetings to discuss best practices and new findings. Its global outreach will go far beyond local work with visiting scholars. The Institute expects to develop a program of online courses based on its cultural heritage collections. And the University has adopted policies that make digital copies of its collections available to the widest global audience, without limitations.

Yale News Releases are available at http://www.opa.yale.edu

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. Visitors must present a photo ID and sign the library’s guestbook, located at the main service desk inside the library.

The Yale University Library has been able to gain licensed access for several key and much-desired e-resources related to study of the Middle East. These can be found in both Metalib and Orbis. The resources are:

* Bibliography of Arabic Books Online (BABO) - The Bibliography of Arabic Books Online (BABO) aims to become a comprehensive bibliographic database containing information about virtually all books published in Arabic before 1960, and then continuing up to the present. BABO contains over 60,000 bibliographical records from the National Library in Egypt, the British Library and the Library of Congress. Also data from catalogs of other participating national and research libraries of Europe, America and the Arab world, will be included in this unique bibliographical database. BABO will include Name Authority Files (NAFs) which list all the spellings variants of authors’ names found in the database. This will be an invaluable finding aid for end-users of BABO, and a practical reference for librarians cataloguing Arabic titles. In the future the spellings found in The Encyclopaedia of Islam will also be added. BABO will ultimately contain over 80,000 records and almost 35,000 unique name records. The resource is searchable in English, transliterated Arabic, and in Arabic script.

* Encyclopaedia Islamica Online - The Encyclopaedia Islamica is a projected 16-volume publication, consisting of an abridged and edited translation of the Persian Dā’irat al-Ma’ārif-i Buzurg-i Islāmī, one of the most comprehensive sources on Islam and the Muslim world. In addition to providing entries on important themes, subjects and personages in Islam generally, it offers the western reader an opportunity to appreciate the various dimensions of Shi’i Islam, the Persian contribution to Islamic civilization, and the spiritual dimensions of the Islamic tradition. New content will be added every year in alphabetical order. In 2008 the work started with the "A" and is expected to finish in 2023.

* Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics - The EALL Online comprehensively covers all aspects of Arabic languages and linguistics. It is interdisciplinary in scope and represents different schools and approaches to be as objective and versatile as possible. The online edition contains all content of the print edition and new content will be added on a regular basis as of 2010. New articles will be elaborations or updates of themes already discussed in the EALL, or will be new entries that are relevant to the field. The editorship of the dynamic online edition will be in the hands of two new general editors and a largely renewed editorial board.

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In addition, we've been granted, by the Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute, a year of free access to 24 Iranian movies based around the theme "Understanding Persian Culture Through Film." In fact, the grant is also sponsored by NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) and AsiaPacificFilms.com. Each film includes a video introduction by a scholar who will discuss the film's cultural and historical significance. There are also essays, guides, interviews, and a bibliography. This can be a unique opportunity to learn more about the culture of this important country.

Nota Bene is published during the academic year to acquaint the Yale community and beyond, with the resources of the Yale libraries. Each issue features articles on new collections and acquisitions, public programs, services to students and scholars, and special events and exhibits. Nota Bene transitioned to an electronic publication in Spring 2010. For the Spring 2011 Issue, please click here:
http://www.library.yale.edu/notabene/

New Haven, Conn.— Scholars, artists and other individuals around the world will enjoy free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries thanks to a new “Open Access” policy that the University announced today. Yale is the first Ivy League university to make its collections accessible in this fashion, and already more than 250,000 images are available through a newly developed collective catalog: http://TinyURL.com/4x2x2f3

To read the rest of the story: http://opac.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=8544

The department of Manuscripts and Archives in the Yale University Library is pleased to announce that it has received the papers of the John Hay Whitney and Betsey Cushing Whitney family, the records of the John Hay Whitney Foundation, and the records of Greentree Stud & Stable. Donated to Yale by the Greentree Foundation, a nonprofit organization created by the Whitney family in 1982 and dedicated to peace, human rights and international cooperation, the papers document the personal, family, and professional lives of a prominent American family with significant ties to Yale University.

Among his many accomplishments, John Hay Whitney (1904-1982, Yale Class of 1926, Fellow of the Yale Corporation 1955-1973) was one of the country’s first venture capitalists, an ambassador to the United Kingdom in the Eisenhower administration, and publisher of the New York Herald Tribune. Betsey Cushing Whitney (1908-1998) was a noted philanthropist in the fields of medicine, education, and the arts; a member of the Defense Advisory Committee advocating policies for American servicewomen in the 1950s; and the primary force behind the establishment of the Greentree Foundation. Together, they created one of the most significant fine art collections in American history and subsequently donated many works to the Yale University Art Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Art. The Whitney family papers also include materials about John Hay Whitney’s ancestors including his mother, Helen Hay Whitney (1876-1944), a distinguished poet and writer, and his grandfather, John M. Hay (1838-1905), author, statesman and assistant secretary to President Abraham Lincoln. Materials from Betsey Cushing Whitney’s family, including her father Dr. Harvey Cushing (1869-1939), pioneer neurosurgeon, and her mother Kate Crowell Cushing are also included.

The family papers consist of extensive correspondence, diaries, writings, photographs, scrapbooks, financial files, business and art collection management records. The John Hay Whitney Foundation records include financial and program files that document the Foundation’s innovative educational programs in the humanities and social sciences. The Greentree Stud & Stable records include legal and financial files and photographs that chronicle the Stable’s success in horse breeding and racing. Taken together, these collections provide researchers with a robust picture of the Whitney family’s many important contributions.

“We have long been interested in preserving the significant history that is documented in the papers of the Whitney Family,” said Christine Weideman, Director of Manuscripts and Archives. “We are delighted and grateful that the Foundation has made it possible for us to do so.”

The donation is the latest example of the Whitney family’s generous support of Yale. The family funded the building of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium in memory of Payne Whitney. The Yale Medical Library’s historical collection began with a donation by Dr. Harvey Cushing (Yale Class of 1891). A donation by John Hay Whitney helped Yale to establish the Whitney Humanities Center. A gift from Betsey Cushing Whitney made possible the renovation and expansion of the Medical Library which was then renamed the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library.

Given the Whitney family’s longstanding relationship with Yale, both the Greentree Foundation and the department of Manuscripts and Archives are pleased that the papers will be preserved by the University and made available to the research community.

For more information about the records, contact Caro Pinto, Project Archivist, in Manuscripts and Archives at 203-436-8405 or caro.pinto@yale.edu.

Susan Gibbons, vice provost and the Andrew H. & Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of the River Campus Libraries at the University of Rochester, has been appointed as University Librarian at Yale, President Richard C. Levin has announced. Full story.

A unique project at the Yale University Library is making 63 reel-to-reel tapes, comprising the pioneering research of noted Guinean scholar, Professor Djibril Tamsir Niane, available online to students and scholars. Made in the 1970s, the tapes include field recordings, interviews, ceremonies and practices of several groups, in particular the Baga and Maninka.

The research expeditions conducted in Guinea by Professor Niane and his students were historical events in themselves. In Guinea-Conakry during 1969-71, Professor Niane conducted research while the Sekou Touré regime’s "demystification program" focused on the destruction of all traditional cultural elements, actively discouraging academic interest in such subjects. At considerable personal risk, Niane and a team of his university students broke new ground by investigating Baga culture in their coastal villages, as well as collecting oral history and tradition elsewhere in Guinea. Niane was later imprisoned and eventually escaped into exile.

The resulting material is the only significant body of audio historical data on indigenous history and culture collected between 1958 and Sekou Touré’s death in 1984. It was not possible for other outside researchers to work in Guinea until after Touré’s death, so the Niane collection represents virtually the only research on Guinean history and culture between the period of French administration and the end of the 1980s. The preservation of and online access to this unique collection makes a valuable primary source available to scholars of Guinea worldwide for the first time.

The collection was catalogued by distinguished Africa scholar David Conrad
http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/study_leaders/davidcconrad/

This project was generously sponsored by the Arcadia Fund. Arcadia is the charitable foundation of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. Since its inception in 2001 Arcadia has awarded grants in excess of $190 million. Arcadia works to protect endangered treasures of culture and nature. For more information please see: http://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/about/about-arcadia

"The world of African studies at Yale and far beyond owes an immense debt to Professor Niane for his singular and heroic efforts on behalf of these African peoples, to David Conrad for his unstinting efforts to provide access to these materials, and to the Arcadia Fund for making access available," said Dorothy Woodson, Africana Curator at the Yale Library.

To access the collection, please see:
http://library.yale.edu/digitalcollections/african-guinea-niane/index.html
For more information, contact:

Ann Okerson, Associate University Librarian
Collections & International Programs
Ann.Okerson@yale.edu

Dorothy Woodson, Curator
African Collection
Dorothy.Woodson@yale.edu

You are warmly invited to “America Transformed: From George Washington’s American Atlas to the 21st Century”, a special talk to mark the opening of the George Washington map exhibit next week.

The George Washington Atlas, one of the jewels of the Yale Map Department, recently underwent some much-needed conservation treatment. This subsequently inspired Yale alum, Barnet Schecter, to write his book “George Washington’s America: A Biography Through His Maps”. He will be speaking about his research using the maps at the opening talk next week. The following link is a sample animation that will be part of the exhibit and well worth a few minutes of your time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdIE1MvxvVU

The talk will be at 3pm on Wednesday 23rd in the SML Lecture Hall, followed by an opportunity to view the exhibit in the Memorabilia Room.

The event is free and open to the public.

Save-the-Date:
Wednesday, March 23rd, 4:00-5:00pm
Presentation by Tony Hey
Sudler Auditorium, 100 Wall St. , Wine & Cheese reception to follow

The Fourth Paradigm:Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery
There is a sea change happening in academic research -- a transformation caused by a data deluge that is affecting all disciplines. Modern science increasingly relies on integrated information technologies and computation to collect, process, and analyze complex data. It was Ken Wilson, Nobel Prize winner in physics, who coined the phrase “Third Paradigm” to refer to computational science and the need for computational researchers to know about algorithms, numerical methods, and parallel architectures. However, the skills needed for manipulating, visualizing, managing, and, finally, conserving and archiving scientific data are very different. “The Fourth Paradigm” is as about data and the computational systems needed to manipulate, visualize, and manage large amounts of scientific data. A wide variety of scientists—biologists, chemists, physicists, astronomers, engineers – require tools, technologies, and platforms that seamlessly integrate into standard scientific methodologies and processes. This talk will illustrate the far-reaching changes that this new paradigm will have on scientific discovery.

Tony Hey Short Biography:
As corporate vice president in Microsoft Research, Tony Hey is responsible for worldwide university research collaborations with Microsoft researchers. Hey is also responsible the multidisciplinary eScience Research Group within Microsoft Research. Before joining Microsoft, Hey served as director of the U.K.'s e-Science Initiative, managing the government's efforts to build a new scientific infrastructure for collaborative, multidisciplinary, data-intensive research projects. Before leading this initiative, Hey led a research group in the area of parallel computing and was Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science, and Dean of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Southampton. Hey is a fellow of the U.K.'s Royal Academy of Engineering and was awarded a CBE for services to science in 2005. He is also a fellow of the British Computer Society, the Institute of Engineering and Technology, the Institute of Physics, and the U.S. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Tony Hey has written books on particle physics and computing and has a passionate interest in communicating the excitement of science and technology to young people. He has co-authored popular books on quantum mechanics and on relativity.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/tonyhey/default.aspx

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street

Yale historian Jonathan Spence will present the keynote address for the 63rd annual lecture sponsored by the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Associates.

Spence, one of the world’s leading experts on Chinese history and culture, is the author of more than a dozen books. His most famous book The Search for Modern China charts the history of China from the fall of the Ming dynasty through the Tiananmen Square uprising. It became a New York Times bestseller and continues to be a standard text on Chinese history from the 17th century. Notable other titles include The Gate of Heavenly Peace: the Chinese and Their Revolution, Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man, Treason by the Book, and Mao Zedong.

Spence was born in England and graduated from Clare College at the University of Cambridge. He received his Ph.D. from Yale and joined the Yale faculty as an assistant professor in 1966. He became the George Burton professor of history in 1976 and Sterling professor of history in 1993.

Yale University Library will be making changes to its Privileges Policies for Yale Alumni and non-Yale researchers on April 4, 2011. These policies will change the usage, costs and borrowing limits for Desk Passes, Stacks Passes and Borrowing Privileges. Current Yale faculty, staff, students, affiliated researchers, spouses and affiliates with Yale IDs will not be affected by these policies. For more information and a summary of the changes, please click here.

Daniel J. Sharfstein ’00
The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White
Monday, March 7, 2011, at 6 p.m.

Yale Law School (Room 129)
127 Wall Street
New Haven, CT

The Lillian Goldman Law Library together with the Yale Law School Legal History Forum and the Yale Black Law Students Association invite you to a discussion featuring an important new book by Professor Daniel J. Sharfstein, with critical commentary by Professor Claire Priest.
The Invisible Line unravels the stories of three families who represent the complexity of race in America and force us to rethink our basic assumptions about who we are. For example, one of the families that started out black produced a Yale-educated Confederate general! This book has been called a “must read” by major scholars spanning the fields of legal history and African American Studies. It is written with the sensitivity of a novelist from the perspective of a legal scholar and provides a fascinating account of how laws and court decisions help shape racial attitudes.

Daniel J. Sharfstein is Associate Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University.

Claire Priest is Professor of Law at Yale University.

LIFE AND LAW IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND: AN EXHIBITION MARKING THE CENTENARY OF THE ELIZABETHAN CLUB

February - May 2011
Rare Book Exhibition Gallery
Level L2, Lillian Goldman Law Library
Yale Law School
127 Wall Street, New Haven CT

English law not only underwent deep changes in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, but also played a leading role in politics and culture. "Life and Law in Early Modern England," a new exhibit from the Lillian Goldman Law Library and Yale's Elizabethan Club, illustrates this period with works drawn from the rare book collections of both institutions.

The exhibit is on display February-May 2011 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 was curated by Justin Zaremby, a 2010 graduate of the Yale Law School, assisted by Mike Widener, Rare Book Librarian at the Yale Law School's Lillian Goldman Law Library.

"Life and Law in Early Modern England" is part of the year-long Centenary celebration of the Elizabethan Club, founded in 1911 as a meeting place for conversation and discussion of literature and the arts. For a complete calendar of Centenary events, visit <http://www.yale.edu/elizabethanclub/centenary.html>.

In conjunction with the exhibit, the Law Library and Elizabethan Club are sponsoring a public lecture by Professor Josh Chafetz (Law '07) of Cornell Law School, entitled "'In the Time of a Woman, Which Sex Was Not Capable of Mature Deliberation': Late-Tudor Parliamentary Relations and Their Early-Stuart Discontents." The lecture will take place February 24 at 6:15pm in Room 127 of the Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street.

In his introduction to the exhibit, Zaremby writes, "The occasion of the Club's Centenary provides the opportunity to bring together two impressive collections of early modern texts at Yale to illustrate a rich moment in English legal history." The books and manuscripts on display date from 1570 to the 1670s. They include guides to legal practice, textbooks, a play performed at an Inn of Court, and works dealing with church-state relations, legal philosophy, court jurisdiction, and the claim of Mary Queen of Scots to the English throne. Among the authors included are several of the era's leading figures, such as Francis Bacon, Francis Beaumont, Lord Burghley, Edward Coke, and John Selden.

For more information, contact Mike Widener, Rare Book Librarian, at (203) 432-4494 or <mike.widener@yale.edu>.

It was recently announced that Roberta Pilette is the 2011 Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Preservation Award recipient. Ms. Pilette is currently the Director of the Preservation Department and Chief Preservation Officer for the Yale University Library. Her on-going impact on the preservation field as an active leader, educator, and mentor has spanned over twenty-five years, and she continues to be intimately involved in some of the most important explorations and discussions going on in the field today. She has influenced the development of our current preservation practices as well as shaped a generation of library and archives preservation administrators and conservators.

The Banks-Harris Award includes a $1,500 cash grant donated by Preservation Technologies, L.P., and a citation. The Award was presented during a ceremony at the American Library Association Annual Conference.

On February 7th, 2011, the Yale Library will introduce an upgrade to the Orbis catalog.

New features include:
• Cover images from books
• Links to tables of contents, limited previews and full text, when available, from Google Books
• The ability to filter results by format, date of publication and other criteria
• Easier export to tools such as EndNote and RefWorks
• Icons indicating format and availability
• The ability to include a subject field and notes when emailing records
• Stable URLs for each record in Orbis, for inclusion in ClassesV2 web pages and course syllabi

Classic Orbis will remain available through July at its current address: http://orbis.library.yale.edu.

You can begin using the new Orbis now at: http://neworbis.library.yale.edu/vwebv. We welcome your comments and feedback about this upgrade. Please use the Feedback links in the catalog, or send email directly to neworbis@collaborate.library.yale.edu.

Due to the weather conditions, the libraries will open on a delayed schedule at NOON TODAY*. This delay is for both patrons and staff.

Eli Express deliveries are CANCELED for the remainder of the day. Special collections researchers should call an archivist or librarian before heading to the library this afternoon.

These libraries are closing early today, please consult the library hours page for updated closing times, including:

• Haas Family Arts Library, 5:00 pm


• Engineering and Applied Science Library, 6:00 pm


• Kline Science Library, 5:00 pm


• Social Science Library, 5:00 pm


• Yale Center for British Art Reference Library, 5:00 pm

*Additional closures:

Geology Library is closed.
Lewis Walpole Library is closed.

Updates will be posted here as needed.

Due to weather and staff shortages, the Haas Family Arts Library will close early tonight at 9:00 pm.

Libraries will be opening at 10:30 this morning to both staff and patrons. Patrons should be aware that some services will not be fully available until staff have had time to prepare after their arrival.

Eli Express deliveries, including special collections, will NOT be made today. If you plan to conduct research in a special collection reading room today, please contact the reference archivist or librarian for details on delivery schedule.

The Geology Library is closed today.

The Chemistry Library is closed today.

Thain Family Cafe in the Bass Library is closed today.

Wall Street entrance to Sterling Memorial Library is closed - please use the High Street entrance.

Arts Library Special Collections are closed today. Normal hours will resume next week.

Kline Science Library - The entrance from the Prospect Street side of KBT is inaccessible due to the snow, which has not yet been cleared. Please use alternate entrances from the KBT lobby or the southern entrance to KBT.

Early closures this evening:

Kline Science Library will close at 5 pm.

Engineering and Applied Science Library will close at 5 pm.

Other service adjustments for Thursday, January 27, 2011 will be posted here.

Due to the inclement weather and staff shortages, the following libraries will be closing early today Wednesday January 26.

• Kline Science Library and Engineering & Applied Science Library will close at 5:00 pm.
• The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library will close at 9:00 pm
• Manuscripts and Archives will close at 4:45 pm
• Haas Arts Library will close at 9:00 pm

Eli Express will NOT operate this afternoon because roads are unsafe. Deliveries between campus libraries and the Library Shelving Facility (LSF) will not be made. This includes regular requests made through Orbis and special collection materials like Manuscripts and Archives boxes and Beinecke off-site materials. We apologize for the inconvenience.

The Harvard Library announced on Monday that it would join the Borrow Direct partnership, making its circulating materials available to Yale University Library patrons. Borrow Direct, pioneered a decade ago by Yale, Columbia and Penn, now includes all of the Ivies and MIT. Yale patrons can search across all available items and request delivery to a Yale library. Borrow Direct loans are fast - your books will arrive in less than a week.

While not everything is available through Borrow Direct, more than 50 million volumes are. And interlibrary loan can still be used for individual articles and special materials like microfilm.

The Harvard and MIT libraries will begin adding their records to the Borrow Direct catalog this summer. More information and the link to search Borrow Direct are available on the Library's web site.

Vice President Linda Lorimer, Associate University Librarian Ann Okerson, and Interim University Librarian Jon Butler joined in opening the new International Room in Sterling Memorial Library on Thursday, Jan. 20. The room brings together highlights of the Library's vast international resources and provides a gathering space at the heart of campus for programs and events with an international focus.

Please visit the room, located next to the Franke Periodical Room in the south-east corner of the first floor of Sterling Memorial Library.

Yale's Office of Public Affairs and Communications has more in the Yale Daily Bulletin.

Vivian Perlis has been named Musical America’s Educator of the Year, and her contribution to American music and musicians is immeasurable. The founding director of Yale University's Oral History of American Music 40 years ago, she has logged some 2,000 interviews with or about such major musicians as Ives, Copland, Bernstein, Cage, Ellington, Schuman, Carter, Adams and Eubie Blake, among many others. The co-author of Copland’s autobiography and an award-winning book on the music of Ives, she authored “Composers' Voices from Ives to Ellington: An Oral History of American Music” (Yale, 2005), with Libby Van Cleve. The Oral History project, states Musical America in its citation, “was nothing less than a revolution in the preservation of music history--all due to the foresight of this visionary woman.” For the full story, click here: http://www.musicalamerica.com/news/newsstory.cfm?archived=0&storyID=23906&categoryID=3

Geoffrey Hartman, Sterling Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, and Faculty Advisor to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at the Yale Library, received the distinguished achievement award for Holocaust studies and research on November 5, 2010 at the Lessons and Legacies Conference in Boca Raton, Florida. Professor Hartman was recognized for his foundational role in establishing the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library in 1981, bringing this material to the forefront of Holocaust studies, as well as to many other areas of academic research. In presenting the award, Professor Lawrence Langer of Simmons College noted Hartman has established “the theoretical and practical legitimacy of using eye-witness survivor accounts in the study of the catastrophe of European Jewry we call the Holocaust,” which has largely led the most distinguished historians of the Holocaust to rely on testimonies, such as those at the Fortunoff Archive, as one of their most important primary resources. Langer further noted:
...without the Fortunoff Archives at Yale and other similar collections, the story of what individual human beings endured during the Holocaust would remain entombed in a mausoleum of silence, locked in the vault of memory that loomed over the subject in the decades following their liberation. And it is now clear, or should be, that this silence was not the result of a reluctance or inability to speak about the unspeakable, but the absence of a sympathetic audience to hear what survivors had to tell…. But equally important is Hartman’s notion that telling is a form of facing. If Holocaust consciousness is ever to become more than a number (six million), a name (Mengele), and a place (Auschwitz), then audiences must develop the will to acknowledge and confront both the victimage and the human voice that has survived it.

Hartman is presently raising funds to migrate the video testimonies from obsolete analog formats to digital files for preservation, as well as for increased access. The three-year migration project began this fall and has received major support from the Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation, Michael Vlock and Karen Pritzker, Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing, and Michael L. Friedman.

Professors Omer Bartov of Brown University and Yehuda Bauer of Hebrew University (Jerusalem) also received this award. Past recipients have been Professors Christopher Browning (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Saul Friedlander (University of California, Los Angeles and Tel Aviv University). Lessons and Legacies has been held biannually since 1989 and is sponsored by the Holocaust Education Foundation in partnership with the host universities, this year Florida Atlantic University. Past conferences have been at Northwestern, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, University of Minnesota, Brown, and Claremont McKenna College.

THE FORTUNOFF VIDEO ARCHIVE FOR HOLOCAUST TESTIMONIES: The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies is a collection of over 4,400 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust. Part of Yale University's department
of Manuscripts and Archives, the archive is located at Sterling Memorial Library. For more information about the archive: http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/about/index.html

Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders Donates Records to Yale University Library

Over 30 years’ worth of records documenting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender legal history are being donated to Yale University by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD). GLAD is the New England litigation organization whose precedent-setting legal victories include bringing marriage equality to Massachusetts in 2004 and Connecticut in 2008.

Jon Butler, former dean of the Graduate School and a leading historian of American religion, has been named acting University librarian, President Richard C. Levin has announced. Butler, who stepped down as dean of the Graduate School June 30, 2010 will begin his new role December 1.

Full story in the Yale Daily Bulletin

With the University on break, the Thain Family Café in Bass Library will have limited hours and a limited menu this week. The Café will be open on Tuesday, Nov. 22, and Wednesday, Nov. 24, 8am-2pm, with a menu of fresh coffee and grab and go snacks. The Café will be closed Nov. 25-28 and will resume normal hours on Monday, Nov. 29.

There will be a mass for University Librarian, Professor Frank Turner on Tuesday, Nov 16th, at 11:00am at the Trinity Church on the Green in New Haven. A reception will immediately follow at the Beinecke Library, and the burial will be private.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to St. Martin de Porres Academy, 208 Columbus Ave., New Haven (http://www.saintmartinacademy.org/academy) or to the charity of one's choice.

Former provost and distinguished intellectual historian Frank M. Turner — who only two months ago embarked on a five-year term as University librarian, overseeing one of the largest academic library systems in the world — died suddenly yesterday morning.

Full story in the Yale Daily Bulletin

President Richard C. Levin wrote to the Yale community today with very sad news:

"I write with shock and sadness to let you know that Frank M. Turner, John Hay Whitney Professor of History and University Librarian, died suddenly this morning. Frank was a dedicated member of the Yale community. In addition to serving on the faculty, Frank was the University Provost from 1988 to 1992, Director of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library for seven years, and interim University Librarian since January. He had just begun his term as University Librarian in September.

Frank will be greatly missed. He was a wise counselor, brilliant scholar, skilled administrator, and a friend and colleague to many. We extend our deepest sympathy to his wife, Ellen Tillotson."

The Library staff and trustees share President Levin's sadness at the loss and add our condolences to his wife.

The higher education news site, Campus Grotto, recently rated the 25 most beautiful college libraries across the country. The Sterling Memorial Library comes in at #10 and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library appearing at #24. The article can be found at the following link: http://www.campusgrotto.com/most-beautiful-college-libraries.html#sterling

Yale Library digital resources are available to you anywhere in the world you might travel, but you’ll need to use Virtual Private Network (VPN) software when you are not on the Yale network. If you want to do library research while you are away from Yale over the Thanksgiving break, find out now how to use VPN to access library resources. See http://www.library.yale.edu/about/offcampus.html for more information on how to use Cisco AnyConnect software (available at no charge from the ITS Software Library).

Yale ITS will be upgrading the Central Authentication System (CAS) on Wednesday, November 10. Starting on that day, you will see an updated login screen when logging in to CAS to use library services, including Orbis, Find a Database/Article, Borrow Direct, Yufind, and Digital Collections.

Your password will not change and you need not take any action. Just be aware you will see a screen that looks different. If in doubt, you can always click on the "GeoTrust" badge to verify the page is genuine. You should also check that the address displayed in your web browser begins with https://secure.its.yale.edu.

The new login page will look like this.

For more information about secure computing and being safe online, visit http://www.yale.edu/its/secure-computing/.

The official University announcement about this change is linked here for added security. https://light.its.yale.edu/messages/itsmsgs/detail.asp?Msg=59279

The Wiley Online ejournals and ebooks service underwent a server upgrade October 30th. After the upgrade we’ve now noticed that Yale Links, the SFX OpenURL links which allow patrons to link from reference in databases directly to Wiley journal articles, are sometimes not working. Links at the journal title level from the library’s list of ejournals are working (http://sfx.library.yale.edu/sfx_local/azlist), but links from databases such as Pubmed, Web of Science and Scopus are problematic.

If patrons encounter a problem to a Wiley journal from a Yale Links menu, they should still be able to get the article by looking for the journal title at http://sfx.library.yale.edu/sfx_local/azlist and then navigating to the article at the journal site.

E-Collections staff are aware of this problem and are working with Wiley representatives to address it. They will let us know when it is resolved.

A Preservation Lecture will be given Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 4:00pm in the Lecture Hall of the Sterling Memorial Library. Helen Shenton, Former Head of Collection Care at the British Library and current Deputy Director, Harvard University Library willl be speaking on "Paradoxes of Preservation," a personal and strategic perspective on crossing the Pond.

A reception will immediately follow the Lecture

Prior to the Lecture
2-3:30p.m.
Preservation Department Open House

Feel free to visit all areas of the Department.
Meet at the Circulation Desk in Sterling Memorial Library

The following products and services are expected to be unavailable for approximately 4 hours on
Sunday, November 7th at 2:00am (eastern time) and Saturday, November 13th at 8;00am (eastern time).

•ScienceDirect
•Scopus
•Hub
•Journals Consult

Wiley Online resources, including ebooks and ejournals, may be unavailable for up to 2 hours Saturday, October 30, starting at 5 AM (Eastern time).

Yale Library is engaged in year-long collaboration with Oxford University Press to evaluate a new family of scholarly databases: Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO). Your feedback will be instrumental in improving and tailoring OBO so that it best meets your needs. OBO is designed to help scholars and students find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly resources in whatever form or format they appear--from books, chapters in books, and journal articles to online archives, data sets, and blogs. OBO is arranged in portals: Atlantic History, Classics, Criminology, Islamic Studies, Philosophy, Renaissance and Reformation, and Social Work.

What does your participation involve? OUP asks that you complete 4 online surveys and 2 focus groups over the next 12 months. You may drop out at any time for any reason.

Incentives: In return for your time, you will receive some gifts during the assessments from Oxford University Press. To start, you will receive a gift bag, mug, and USB drive (quantities limited and available while supplies last). After you complete the first survey, you will be entered in a drawing for a Kindle (one name will be drawn at random, only Yale faculty and students are eligible to enter).

Eligibility for Participation: Open to Yale faculty and students.

If you are willing to participate, please send an email to kathleen.bauer@yale.edu with the following information: your name, academic department/school, and status (faculty, graduate student, or undergraduate student).

The Manuscripts and Archives department in Sterling Memorial is opening its new exhibit, “The South in Manuscripts and Archives” with a wine and cheese reception on Friday, October 1, from 3:15 until 4:30 pm.

The exhibit highlights departmental holdings relating to the American South. It centers on a selection of approximately fifty photographs from the Ulrich Bonnell Phillips Papers, which document the southeastern United States, especially South Carolina and Louisiana, during the first part of the twentieth century. Subjects depicted included African-Americans, both casually and at work; city and rural life; and work activity in cotton and sugar cane fields. Other collections included in the exhibit document slavery, Native Americans in the South, the Civil War, civil rights and school desegregation, architecture, and industry.

During the reception, Patricia Bixel, an associate professor of history at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, Maine, will speak briefly about her research in the Phillips Papers for her forthcoming book, Seeing the New South: The Photographic Archive of U. B. Phillips, which is being published by the University of South Carolina Press. With her co-author John David Smith, Charles H. Stone professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, she has examined the Phillips Papers in order recover and reconstruct geographic and/or occupational communities.

The exhibit is open to the public weekdays from 8:30 am until 4:45 pm in the Memorabilia Room in Sterling Memorial Library, until the end of November.

Pioneering book artist Richard Minsky will speak about his life and work at the Yale University Library, New Haven, CT. Please join us on Tuesday, October 5, 2010, at 1pm in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall, 130 Wall Street. Light refreshments will be served after the talk. This event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Yale University Library Standing Committee on Professional Awareness.

This event is held in conjunction with the current exhibit at the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library “Material Meets Metaphor: A Half Century of Book Art by Richard Minsky” on display through November 29, 2010. The entrance to the Haas Family Arts Library is in the lobby of the Loria Center for the History of Art at 190 York Street, a short walk from Sterling Memorial Library. The exhibit is open to the public from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm on the day of the lecture.

Richard Minsky, contemporary book artist and founder of the Center for Book Arts in New York City, is known for his conceptual approach to hand bookbinding and commitment to changing the perception of the book arts from craft to fine art. He combines a background in Economics with an innovative use of traditional methods and new materials to create sculptural, often political bookworks. The blending of an eclectic mix of interests, from musical and theatre performance to social issues and virtual worlds, remain a hallmark of Minsky's career. This exhibition showcases his editioned (non-commissioned, made in multiple copies) bookworks alongside selections from the Richard Minsky Archive, which documents the history of his career and his working process.

A PDF catalog of the exhibition is free to view and download at
http://www.library.yale.edu/arts/specialcollections/Material_Meets_Metaphor-Minsky.pdf

The Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library opened in August 2008 in the renovated Paul Rudolph Hall and the new Loria Center for the History of Art. The library brings together the collections, staff, and resources from the former Art + Architecture and Drama libraries and the Arts of the Book Collection, as well as staff and services for the Visual Resources Collection. It serves as the library for the Schools of Art, Architecture, and Drama, as well as the Department of the History of Art and the Yale University Art Gallery. The library is open to the public Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. on Fridays. For more information, visit http://www.library.yale.edu/arts/

Yale students – are you analyzing a numeric dataset for a research paper this semester? ICPSR (the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) is offering two research paper competitions for undergraduates and one for master's students in 2011. ICPSR invites undergraduate and master's papers analyzing any dataset(s) in the ICPSR archive or its Thematic Collections. The other competition, sponsored by the Research Center for Minority Data (RCMD), solicits papers addressing issues relevant to minorities in the United States, including immigrants. These papers must draw on data in the RCMD archive.

Three Yale students have won prizes in this competition in the past two years – you could be the fourth! The deadline is January 31, 2011. ICPSR’s site provides all the submission details.

The Lillian Goldman Law Library is proudly sponsoring a Book Talk by Yale Law School PROFESSOR IAN AYRES who will be discussing his newest book CARROTS AND STICKS: UNLOCK THE POWER OF INCENTIVES TO GET THINGS DONE. The talk is scheduled for 6:00 p.m., on Tuesday, September 21, 2010, at the Yale Law School, Room 120.

The first 25 audience members to arrive will receive door prizes awarded by the Lillian Goldman Law Library, as “carrots”.

We've added two additional tours of Sterling Memorial & Bass libraries for incoming graduate students and new faculty:

Thursday, September 9th, 3:30-4:30pm
Friday, September 10th, 11-12 noon

Please meet your guide at the Information Desk in the Sterling nave. There is no need to register for the tour although a valid Yale ID card is required. (The tours will include a brief stacks orientation, and, as always, Yale ID is required for entrance to the Sterling stacks.)

Please note, tours for undergraduates will begin September 15th.

Librarians from across Yale University Library are welcoming the Yale College class of 2014 by introducing incoming students to the Personal Librarian program.

Along with a freshman advisor, freshman counselors and college dean, each new student gets a librarian as part of the academic support network. Personal Librarians help students with research that involves using the Yale University Library and its extensive collections.

Although the library is one of the world’s leading research libraries, its size and complexity can be overwhelming, especially for new students. Personal Librarians help new library users navigate this system more smoothly.

For more information, see the Personal Librarian web page: http://www.library.yale.edu/pl/.

Patrons of Sterling Memorial Library will notice a change in newspaper services for the upcoming academic year. Over the summer the library reduced print newspaper subscriptions from 138 to 51 core titles. Because of the smaller space requirements of the reduced collection, newspapers in SML are now displayed with current print journals in the Franke Periodical Reading Room on the first floor.

The library will offer access to more newspapers through PressDisplay’s nearly 1000 digital international newspapers. These newspapers are available on the web (use VPN when not on the Yale network) or stop by the Franke Periodical Reading Room in SML to use PressDisplay on one of four dedicated terminals with large screen monitors.

Note that the library's major holdings of older newspapers on microform and in digital format remain unchanged.

We are pleased to announce that Yale has access to the Homeland Security Digital Library at https://www.hsdl.org/, a collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. Documents are collected from a wide variety of sources, including federal, state, tribal, and local government agencies; professional organizations; think tanks; academic institutions; and international governing bodies.

Yale’s access to this database is by virtue of our participation in the Federal Depository Library Program at: http://www.fdlp.gov/, and is restricted to Yale IP addresses.

If you have any further questions, please contact Julie Linden, Librarian for Political Science, International Affairs and Government Information, at: Julie.linden@yale.edu

We've made updates to our popular Borrow Direct service, which brings you books from the collections of Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Princeton University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Starting today, you'll notice a new search/request interface that should make it easier to find the books you'd like to request. The other key change is that once your Borrow Direct books are checked out, they're treated just like Yale's books - they'll show up in your Orbis account, you'll need a receipt to exit Sterling or Bass libraries and you can RENEW the books once in Orbis to keep them an additional 6 weeks. Of course, like Yale's books, you'll be subject to fines and replacement charges for overdue or lost books.

Complete information, including login for the new service are on the Borrow Direct service page.

Vivian Perlis, the founder and Director of Oral History of American Music (OHAM) at Yale University, has announced that she will step down as Director on June 30, 2010. Perlis, a historian in American music, specializes in twentieth-century composers and is known for her publications, lectures, recording and film productions. On the faculty of the Yale School of Music for many years, Perlis founded OHAM and developed it into a unique archive of recorded interviews with leading figures in American music. In April of this year, in recognition of Perlis’s accomplishments, Dean Robert Blocker presented her with the prestigious Sanford Medal from the Yale School of Music.

Among Perlis’s publications are: Charles Ives Remembered, An Oral History, which was awarded the Kinkeldey Prize of the American Musicological Society in 1975; and two volumes co-authored with Aaron Copland: Copland: 1900 Through 1942, which garnered a Deems Taylor/ASCAP award, and Copland: Since 1943. Perlis is co-author with Libby Van Cleve of the award winning book and CD publication, Composers’ Voice from Ives to Ellington, published by Yale University Press (2005). Among her productions are recordings of the music of Leo Ornstein and Charles Ives, and television documentaries on Ives, Eubie Blake, Aaron Copland, and John Cage.

Vivian Perlis received the Charles Ives Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1972); a Grammy nomination for “Charles Ives 100th Anniversary” (1974); the Harvey Kantor Award for excellence in the field of oral history (1984); a Guggenheim Fellowship (1987), the Irving Lowens Award for distinguished scholarship in American Music from the Society for American Music (1991). With recognition of her leadership, the American Music Center awarded OHAM a Letter of Distinction (2004). Perlis received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for American Music (2007) and was named an honorary member of the American Musicological Society (2008).

As Senior Research Scholar at Yale, Vivian Perlis will continue her work in the field of American Music. Among her many activities as consultant and lecturer, she continues as Vice President of the Aaron Copland Fund for Music and the Charles Ives Society.

Libby Van Cleve will succeed Perlis as Director of OHAM. A graduate of the Yale School of Music, Van Cleve is the co-author of Composers’ Voices from Ives to Ellington and the author of Oboe Unbound, a book on contemporary oboe techniques. She is an adjunct professor at Wesleyan University and Connecticut College, and has served as Associate Director of OHAM since 2000.

Now celebrating its fortieth anniversary, in 2008 OHAM became a component of the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale, with transitional support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information: http://www.yale.edu/oham/

Oral History of American Music
Oral History of American Music (OHAM) is the preeminent project in the field of music dedicated to the collection and preservation of oral and video memoirs in the voices of the creative musicians of our time. The project’s origins can be traced back to 1968 when Vivian Perlis, then a reference librarian at Yale’s Music Library, began to conduct interviews with individuals who had known and worked with the composer Charles Ives. Her award-winning book, Charles Ives Remembered, was published in 1974 by Yale University Press, and was quickly hailed as a model of how oral history could illuminate the activities of musicians and their place in society.

Following the Ives project, it was evident that there was no systematic scholarly research in place to document the work of musical figures by means of tape-recorded interviews. Several composers had spoken about Ives and themselves, including Arthur Berger, Elliott Carter, Lou Harrison, Bernard Herrmann, Nicolas Slonimsky, and Dane Rudhyar. These formed the nucleus for a broader-based project, Oral History of American Music. Since the founding of OHAM, composers have continued to be the project's primary focus and OHAM currently holds over 2,000 interviews with over 900 subjects. Project staff continue to interview major figures in American music.

In addition to the ongoing efforts to document contemporary American music, OHAM is an important archive and provides primary source materials to scholars, arts presenters, students, and radio and television producers. Several highly esteemed musicological publications have been derived directly from OHAM interviews, including Copland: 1900-1942, co-authored by Aaron Copland and Vivian Perlis; Copland Since 1943, by Copland and Perlis; and the book and CD publication, Composers’ Voices from Ives to Ellington, co-authored by Perlis and OHAM Associate Director Libby Van Cleve. OHAM has recently produced two netcasts on the composers Aaron Copland and Charles Ives. To learn more about OHAM and to listen to the netcasts visit: www.yale.edu/oham/.

We are fortunate that Paul Saffo will be on campus at the beginning of next week and has offered to give a talk to Library Staff and Friends at 3 p.m. on Monday, 19 July, in the Sterling Library Lecture Hall.

Paul is coming to Yale to be one of the featured innovator-speakers in the University Press's brand new, week-long "Yale Publishing Course," which will focus on publishing as a global enterprise, with a strong emphasis on understanding and utilizing the latest advances in technology. (For more information about the course, see: http://publishing-course.yale.edu/). He will give us a variant on his Pub Course lecture: "From Gutenberg to Galaxy: Publishing's bright future in a personal media age."

His description of the talk:
"The internet bubble marked the end of the information revolution -- and the beginning of something much bigger, an age of personal media. It is a revolution we have been anticipating ever since McLuhan turned Media into a household word in the 1960s, but as typically happens, even this most anticipated of revolutions is arriving late, and in utterly unexpected ways. “Media” is information that has gone deep into the structure of society, and the changes it is triggering present publishing innovators with both unnerving uncertainty -- and vast new opportunities. For example, the way we read will change, what we read will change -- and we will discover that the newest and most popular authors aren't even humans..."

Brief Bio of Paul Saffo, Managing Director, Foresight, Discern Analytics
Paul is a forecaster with over two decades' experience helping corporate and governmental clients understand and respond to the dynamics of large-scale, long-term change. Paul is Managing Director of foresight at Discern, and he teaches at Stanford where he is a Consulting Associate Professor in the Engineering School and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Media-X Program. Paul is a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and is a member of the US National Academies Committee on Forecasting Disruptive Technologies. His essays have appeared in a wide range of publications including The Harvard Business Review, Foreign Policy, Fortune, Wired, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The New York Times and the Washington Post. Paul holds degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Stanford University.

See also his most interesting Web site: http://www.saffo.com/aboutps/index.php

The Visual Resources Collection is pleased to announce the launch of a new digital image collection, the Yale Silk Road Database. http://library.yale.edu/digitalcollections/yalesilkroad/index.html
The Yale Silk Road Database presents over 6,000 images of major sites in the Silk Road region taken during faculty site seminars led by Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan (Professor, History of Art) under the auspices of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University in the summers of 2006-2009. The collection serves as a multi-disciplinary resource with relevance to students and faculty working in the fields of art and archaeology, religious studies, history, East Asian languages and literatures, Central Asian and Islamic studies.

The collection currently features original photographs taken by Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan, Koichi Shinohara (Senior Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, Yale University), and Abbey Newman (Executive Director, Council on East Asian Studies). Photographs included in this collection were taken during faculty site seminars in Gansu, Ningxia, and Xinjiang Provinces in 2006, seminars in Sichuan and Yunnan during the summer of 2007, visits to Liao Dynasty sites in Shanxi, Liaoning, Hebei, and Inner Mongolia during the summer of 2008, and a program along the Tarim Basin and in northern Xinjiang during the summer of 2009. The coordinators and contributors to the Yale Silk Road Database hope that the resource will encourage new ways of exploring and learning about the visual and material cultures of the Silk Road regions.

Access to the Yale Silk Road Database collection has been made possible through the courtesy of the Council on East Asian Studies’ Silk Road Studies Project, activities of which have been supported by the Council's National Resource Center Title VI Grant from the United States Department of Education. The Yale Silk Road Database was conceived and developed by Professor Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan (History of Art, Yale University) and Pam Patterson (Senior Instructional Technologist, Instructional Technology Group), in conjunction with the Visual Resources Collection.

The Yale Library has purchased a new collection of digitized declassified documents, The United States and the Two Koreas: 1969-2000.

The National Security Archive's collection on U.S.-Korean relations covers both diplomatic, security, and economic relations between the United States and its ally, South Korea; and the challenges to the U.S. posed by an adversarial North Korea. It spans events dating from the Nixon administration's response to the April 15, 1969 downing, by North Korean MiG-17s, of a U.S. EC-121 reconnaissance plane over the Sea of Japan, to efforts during the Clinton years to deter Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. The collection contains approximately 1,800 records documents released by the State Department, the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and other agencies, as well as historical material compiled through research at the National Archives and the presidential libraries.

Read more and access the materials through the Digital National Security Archive (a major source of declassified government documents) at: http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/collections/content/KO/intro.jsp

New Haven, Conn..-Yale University Library has received a grant of $250,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support "The New England Indian Papers Series: The Connecticut Colony Collection, 1603-1783," an online compendium of important and rare historical documents relating to the Native American peoples of Connecticut during the colonial period from First Contact to 1783. The grant is part of the NEH's "We the People" program, which encourages and strengthens the teaching, study and understanding of American history and culture.

For years, scholars and tribal members interested in New England Native Americans have been hampered by a lack of published primary source materials, despite the existence of thousands of relevant documents. Equally problematic for researchers is the dispersion of original materials across a number of repositories, mostly throughout the Northeast. Archaic or poor handwriting or restrictions placed on worn and fragile papers also make research time-consuming and costly.

"In today's technology-driven age, students, teachers and scholars need a varied but reliable source of information when researching topics such as New England Indian communities," said Paul Grant-Costa, the project director and the Executive Editor of the Yale Indian Papers Project. "By gathering related primary resources from various institutions together in one place and making them readily accessible, both visually and intellectually, 'The New England Indian Papers Series' brings research about New England Native Americans into the 21st century."

Several institutions with significant New England Indian collections - including Yale, the Connecticut State Library, the Connecticut Historical Society, the Massachusetts Archives and the National Archives of the United Kingdom - have formed a collaborative archival and educational initiative called the Yale Indian Papers Project (YIPP). Based at Yale's Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut, the project will address the restoration of lost history by publishing an electronic database, "The New England Indian Papers Series." As the first in the series, "The Connecticut Colony Collection" will comprise over 1,400 primary source materials written by, about or for Connecticut Indians. Taken together, the documents reveal a continued Native American presence in the region, as well as the Native American experience in a colonial world. The database will allow researchers and the general public to explore nearly 400 years of New England Native American history, community, culture, sovereignty, land, migration, law and politics, as well as issues of gender, race, and identity.

"The Yale Indian Papers Project builds on the rich tradition of scholarly editing based at Yale that began with W.S. Lewis's magisterial 'Yale Edition of the Correspondence of Horace Walpole,' " said Margaret K. Powell, the W.S. Lewis Librarian and Executive Director of the Lewis Walpole Library, "The project also establishes connections between 18th-century British history and culture and the Native Americans in New England, allowing us to think broadly of a Native Atlantic world."

For more information on "The New England Indian Papers" or the Yale Indian Papers Project, visit http://www.library.yale.edu/yipp/ or contact walpole@yale.edu.

Yale, in partnership with the University of Michigan, and the University of California, Irvine, is conducting a study funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services to evaluate the use of topics to facilitate image and full-text search, in the context of teaching, learning, and research. Look for signs by public workstations in Sterling Memorial Library and Bass Library.

Contact topicmodel@mailman.yale.edu if you have any questions or want to learn more about the study.

Connecting the Dots: Annual Report of the Yale University Librarian for 2008-2009 is now available here (PDF).

Annual reports from previous years, along with the current and previous issues of Nota Bene: News from the Yale Library, are available at: http://www.library.yale.edu/notabene/. An RSS feed allows visitors to register for automatic updates when new materials are published to the Nota Bene site.

Just in time for Commencement, the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of Nota Bene: News from the Yale Library is now available here: http://www.library.yale.edu/notabene/.

This issue also marks Nota Bene's transition from print and online versions to online-only. Previous volumes to 1997 are also available on the newly-designed Nota Bene web site.

To receive automatic updates when new issues are published, visit the web site and sign-up for the RSS feed.

Sterling Memorial Library will be open on a modified schedule over the Yale Commencement period (May 23 and 24). The library will be open for study hours only on Sunday, May 23 (Baccalaureate Day) from 12 noon until 2:45 p.m. On May 24 (Commencement Day) the library will be closed to the public until 3:00 p.m., opening only between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. Bass Library will be open its usual hours on May 24 from 8:30 a.m. to 9:45 p.m. Readers who wish to return Library materials on May 24 are welcome to do so at Bass Library.

Yale University Library congratulates all graduating seniors, professional and graduate students, and their families.

Yale University Library is celebrating its 150th anniversary as a depository for United States federal government documents. John Woodruff (1826-1868), U.S. Representative from Connecticut, designated Yale College a repository for public documents in 1859 and the records of the second session of the 35th Congress of the United States were sent to New Haven in July, 1860.

Over the succeeding fifteen decades, Yale has continued to build its collection of federal government documents by participating in the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), administered by the U.S. Government Printing Office. The FDLP provides government documents at no cost to designated depository libraries across the country and in American territories, as well as to selected libraries overseas. In turn, these libraries provide free public access to their depository collections.

The Library is marking this anniversary year with a major accomplishment: the cataloging of the entire federal depository collection in Orbis, the Library’s online catalog. Until now, only documents from 1976 onwards were cataloged, meaning that much of the collection was accessible only through complicated print indexes.

“Yale’s U.S. federal depository collection is used by students and faculty studying a wide range of subjects including history, political science, art and architecture, science, and medicine,” said Frank M. Turner, the John Hay Whitney Professor of History and Interim University Librarian. “The completion of an ambitious project to catalog the entire collection has made many thousands of items available to researchers and will greatly enhance access and benefit scholarship.”

All items in the depository collection, which number nearly a half-million volumes, can now be found in the online catalog and requested for delivery to libraries across the campus. Yale will also share these online records with other libraries so that they can identify and catalog items in their own collections. Senior essays based on research done in the federal depository collection are also eligible for consideration for the Harvey M. Applebaum '59 Award, which has been given since 2008.

For more information about the U.S. federal documents depository collection at Yale, contact Julie Linden, Government Information Librarian, at julie.linden@yale.edu or (203) 432-3310.

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Link: Government Documents and Information Center:
http://www.library.yale.edu/govdocs/index.html

Yale University’s Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library has received a significant and generous gift of hand bookbindings from Sarah Valentine Nerber, daughter of bookbinder Mary Ellet Kendall Valentine and James A. Valentine. Ms. Nerber donated the collection in honor of her father, a member of the Yale Class of 1902.

Mary Ellet Kendall Valentine and her sister, Sarah Ellet Kendall, traveled to England in the early years of the twentieth century to study bookbinding with T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, proprietor of the Doves Press and Doves Bindery. Cobden-Sanderson founded the Doves Bindery in 1893 and it produced over one thousand bindings before closing in 1922. The bindings were mainly designed by Cobden-Sanderson and executed by professional binders. An early supporter of women’s rights, Cobden-Sanderson took a young American woman as his first pupil in 1895 at a time when it was unusual to find a woman working in the bookbinding trade. His political sympathies led him to train a series of female students and his only requirement was that they dedicate a year to learning the art and skill of bookbinding. The Kendall sisters trained with Cobden-Sanderson from 1907 to 1909 and on returning to America they opened the Golden Bindery in the Fine Arts Building in Chicago. Sadly, Sarah Kendall died a few years later. Her sister Mary Ellet Kendall married James A. Valentine in 1910 and continued to produce bindings into the 1920s.

The Valentine Collection consists of full leather bindings with gold stamped decorations that showcase both the technical and design skills of Mary Valentine and Sarah Kendall. The intricate patterns are influenced by their Arts and Crafts training, yet also show a tendency toward Art Deco and other modern influences. The collection includes bindings executed jointly by the sisters, as well as solo work by Mary Valentine. Many of the bound books were gifts to the sisters from Cobden-Sanderson and are inscribed. The 23 bindings in the collection are in exquisite condition and are the best examples of fine binding by a single artist in the Arts of the Book Collection, part of the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library Special Collections.

For more information on the Valentine Collection or the Haas Family Arts Library Special Collections, contact Jae Rossman or visit www.library.yale.edu/arts/specialcollections/

The Yale University Art Gallery and Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library together have acquired the Lee Friedlander Archive, which includes 2,000 of the photographer’s master prints as well as negatives, working prints, letters, books and other articles cataloging his creative process and output.

With this acquisition, Yale University becomes home to the largest archive of material produced by one of America’s most celebrated and prolific photographers.

“We have been particularly pleased to work so closely with the Beinecke Library to secure this monumental acquisition,” notes Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery. “Together, the Friedlander Archive and master prints form an unmatched resource for those interested in the life and work of one of photography’s most ambitious masters.”

Selected from Friedlander’s past two decades of work, the master prints—1,800 of which will reside at the Yale Art Gallery—include examples of every image published in Friedlander’s monographs of new work since 1996. The archive, housed at the Beinecke along with a smaller group of master prints of Western landscapes, includes all of the photographer’s negatives, contact sheets, journals, monographs, correspondence, books featuring his images and preliminary work prints corresponding to Yale’s master prints.

Born in 1934 in Aberdeen, Washington, Friedlander began his deep engagement with photography as a teenager. He studied photography at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and moved to New York in the mid-1950s to begin his career taking portraits of jazz musicians for record covers. In the 1960s, he emerged as one of the leading “street” photographers of his time, influenced by such pioneers of the genre as Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Eugène Atget and Garry Winogrand. His signature black-and-white images from this period often explore social and cultural subjects through their reflection on shiny surfaces—storefront windows, rear-view car mirrors and TV screens, among them— and helped to broaden public appreciation of the compelling power of photography as an art form.

Since 1970, Friedlander has also directed his creative energies to the printed page, conceiving and supervising the production of over 30 distinct monographs to date.

Among other honors, he has been the recipient of multiple Guggenheim Fellowships, a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. Friedlander received an honorary doctorate from Yale in 2004, and his work was the subject of a major traveling retrospective organized by the Museum of Modern Art in 2005.

“Friedlander’s pictures from the past two decades playfully exploit the medium’s still-thrilling ability to create fresh and unexpected relationships out of the things we see every day,” observes Joshua Chuang, the Yale Art Gallery’s assistant curator of photographs. “Even if you think you’ve seen it all, they make it easy to become ecstatic about the possibilities of photography all over again.”

At the core of the Beinecke’s Friedlander Archive are more than 40,000 rolls of film and associated contact sheets representing the artist’s creative output since the mid-1950s, including his wide-ranging portrait, landscape and still-life work. Also included are a vast array of the photographer’s preliminary explorations in the darkroom, materials that demonstrate the artist’s rigorous editing and proofing process from negative to finished print.

“We are excited that Friedlander’s work will join the library’s extensive collections of works by American photographers, including Carleton Watkins, Timothy O’Sullivan, Alfred Stieglitz, Carl Van Vechten, David Plowden, Carl Mydans, and Eve Arnold, and pleased that we could collaborate with the gallery to create an unprecedented resource for scholarship about one of America’s foremost visual artists,” notes George Miles, the William Robertson Coe Curator of the Collection of Western Americana at the Beinecke Library.

Founded in 1832, the Yale University Art Gallery has more than 185,000 objects in its collections, spanning the globe and ranging in date from ancient times to the present. In addition to its celebrated collections of American paintings and decorative arts, the gallery is noted for its important holdings of Greek and Roman art, early Italian paintings, later European art, Asian art, African art, art of the ancient Americas, and Impressionist, modern and contemporary works.

The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Yale University's principal repository for literary papers and for early manuscripts and rare books in the fields of literature, theology, history and the natural sciences. In addition to its general collection of rare books and manuscripts, the library houses the Yale Collection of American Literature, the Yale Collection of German Literature, the Yale Collection of Western Americana, and the Osborn Collection.

James M. Reilly, Director of the Image Permanence Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology, will deliver the Yale University Library’s inaugural preservation lecture on Wednesday, April 7 at 6:00 p.m. in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall (128 Wall Street). The title of Reilly’s talk is “Sustainable Stewardship: The New Thinking, Preservation Environments and Building Operations.” A reception will follow.

Reilly is an expert on the effects of temperature and humidity on library, archival, and museum collections; the deterioration of 19th-century photographic prints; environmental monitoring and control; the management of film archives; and the major causes of image deterioration. He is the co-director of the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation at George Eastman House and in 1998 he received a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The lecture series is being organized by the Yale University Library’s Preservation Department, which is responsible for the long-term care of the rich and unique record of human thought and creativity held by the Yale Library. The Department’s activities include education, outreach, research, repair, conservation, and reformatting of collections in all media.

A gift from Paul Schott Stevens, Class of 1974 and a member of the University Librarian’s Development Council, helped establish the series.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information on the lecture, contact Roberta Pilette at (203) 432-1714 or roberta.pilette@yale.edu.

Yale historian David W. Blight will present the keynote address “Slaves No More: Two Recently Discovered Slave Narratives and the Story of Emancipation” for the 62nd annual lecture sponsored by the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Associates on Wednesday, April 14.

The lecture in the Medical Historical Library of the Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street will begin at 4:00 p.m. A reception will follow in the Beaumont Room. The event is free and open to the public.

Blight is the Class of 1954 Professor of American History and author of A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including their Narratives of Emancipation published in 2007. This book combines two newly discovered narratives in a volume that explores the lives of the authors, John Washington and Wallace Turnage. Blight is also the author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory which received eight book awards. In addition to his other published works, Blight is a frequent book reviewer and has written many articles on abolitionism, American historical memory, and African American intellectual and cultural history. He also teaches summer institutes for secondary school teachers and park rangers and historians in the National Park Service.

Blight joined Yale's Department of History in January 2003. He previously taught at Amherst College for 13 years. In June 2004 he became the Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale. As director of the Center, he organizes conferences, working groups, lectures, the administering of the annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and many public outreach programs regarding the history of slavery and its abolition. He is currently writing a book in anticipation of the Civil War sesquicentennial (2011-15), rooted in the work of Robert Penn Warren and comparing the 100th anniversary of America’s most pivotal event to its 150th, and has begun work on a new, full biography of Frederick Douglass.

He has been a consultant for many documentary films, including the 1998 PBS series, "Africans in America," and "The Reconstruction Era" (2004). Blight has a PhD. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and did his undergraduate degree at Michigan State University. He has also taught at Harvard University, at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, and for seven years was a public high school teacher in his hometown, Flint, Michigan. He was also senior Fulbright Professor in American Studies at the University of Munich in Germany in 1992-93.

In a world of e-books, e-readers, and changes in reader behaviors and expectations, Yale University Library is pleased to present two lectures and one workshop that will explore the changing landscape of digital reading and literature. All events are free and open to the public.

"A Scholar Gets a Kindle and Starts to Read"

James J. O'Donnell
Provost & Professor of Classics, Georgetown University
Thursday, April 1, 4:30 p.m. (not 4:15 p.m. as previously advertised)
Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall, 128 Wall Street

E-books promise a lot: what do they deliver for the serious scholarly reader? This talk will include no kvetching about funny keyboards, no technophobia, and no vague generalizations. Professor O'Donnell will explore the ways an e-book device can support scholarly reading, can challenge it to change for the better, and sometimes can thwart it outright. He thinks he's discovered something about Jeff Bezos.

James J. O’Donnell has been Provost of Georgetown University since 2002. He is a distinguished scholar of Classics, recognized innovator in the application of networked information technology in higher education, and the author of seven books.

Teaching w/Technology Tuesday: Kindles

Jessica Brantley & Jessica Pressman
Department of English, Yale University
Tuesday, April 6, 12:00 noon
Bass Library L01

A new Yale College seminar being taught this semester, “Medieval Manuscripts to New Media: Studies in the History of the Book,” invites undergraduate students to explore how contemporary digital literary culture intersects with medieval manuscript culture—and can challenge preconceptions about print culture both past and present. Co-taught by Professors Jessica Brantley and Jessica Pressman, the course calls on a variety of technologies to help students find new ways of reading and interpreting medieval and contemporary texts and to inform their own creative and critical processes.

Using manuscripts, Kindles, archives, and digital software, students are asked to conduct close readings and innovative analyses of medieval and digital texts. This session will focus on the use of Kindles to support this innovative course and how this new technology has affected student engagement and learning.

“Bookishness and Digital Literature”

Jessica Pressman
Assistant Professor of English, Yale University
Thursday, April 29, 4:00 p.m.
Beinecke Lectures in the History of the Book
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street

Jessica Pressman’s work pursues connections across literary experiments from the 20th and 21st centuries and across media forms. She is interested in how technologies affect our understanding of literature, both in terms of aesthetics and reading practices. Her first book project, Digital Modernism: Making it New in New Media, reads contemporary works of digital literature in relation to literary modernism. Her current research focuses on how 21st-century literature—both in print and online— responds to the threat of an increasingly paperless and multimodal society.

The records of the Bloodroot Collective, an important feminist work collective formed in Connecticut in 1977, have been donated to the Yale University Library's Department of Manuscripts and Archives by collective members Selma Miriam and Noel Furie. Miriam and Furie have also donated their personal papers to the Library.

The Bloodroot Collective grew out of a women's cooperative exchange hosted by Miriam in her Westport, Connecticut, home in the mid-1970s. The collective opened Bloodroot, a vegetarian restaurant and feminist bookstore, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in March 1977. In the 1970s and 1980s the restaurant was a hub for feminists and lesbians and hosted many performers and writers including Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Mary Daly, Kay Gardner, Chrystos, and Dorothy Allison. In 1980 the Collective organized a feminist press, Sanguinaria, to publish The Political Palate, one of the first cookbooks to advocate seasonal recipes and cuisine. Today, Bloodroot is an iconic bookstore, vegetarian restaurant, and feminist space.

The records include correspondence, writings, and creative works by collective members and other feminist thinkers; oral histories of Selma and Noel; photographs by Noel documenting Bloodroot activities; and legal, financial, and promotional records and ephemera of the bookstore and restaurant.

The Bloodroot Collective records are part of a growing collection of primary source material in Manuscripts and Archives documenting gender and sexuality at the local, national, and international levels. For more information about the records, contact Mary Caldera at (203) 432-8019 or mary.caldera@yale.edu. A description of the records is also available at http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1955. For more information on Manuscripts and Archives at the Yale University Library, visit http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/.

James J. O'Donnell
Provost & Professor of Classics, Georgetown University

Thursday, April 1, 4:30 p.m. [not 4:15 p.m. as earlier advertised]
Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall, 128 Wall St. | Free and open to the public

E-books promise a lot: what do they deliver for the serious scholarly reader? This talk will include no kvetching about funny keyboards, no technophobia, and no vague generalizations. Professor O'Donnell will explore the ways an e-book device can support scholarly reading, can challenge it to change for the better, and sometimes can thwart it outright. He thinks he's discovered something about Jeff Bezos.

James J. O’Donnell has been Provost of Georgetown University since 2002. He is a distinguished scholar and recognized innovator in the application of networked information technology in higher education and the author of seven books. His latest, The Ruin of the Roman Empire, was published by HarperCollins in 2008. In 1990, he co-founded the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, the second online scholarly journal created in the humanities. In addition to his duties as Provost, Professor O'Donnell is a member of the faculty of Georgetown’s Classics department. He is a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and has served as president of the American Philological Association, the primary professional association for classicists in the United States and Canada. He earned his doctorate from Yale in 1975.

Kline Science Library has initiated a service for delivering library materials to Yale readers located on the West Campus. West Campus readers can request materials by completing the online form located at http://www.library.yale.edu/science/services/westcampus.html. Library staff will mail books and scan book chapters and articles. Books will be checked out to readers and shipped via UPS through the Sterling Memorial Library shipping room. Please note that this service is only available for readers with West Campus addresses. Readers are responsible for an item from the time it is shipped to the time that it is returned. Items can be returned to any Yale library with circulating collections.

The link for this service is on the Science Library's web site under Quick Links For Services:
http://www.library.yale.edu/science/.

The library has established a four working days turnaround goal, based on Borrow Direct’s example.

For more information, contact Marybeth Bean at the Kline Science Library.

The Lewis Walpole Library offers one- and two-month summer fellowships to students enrolled in a doctoral program at Yale University who are engaged in or preparing for dissertation research and whose topic of study is supported by the Lewis Walpole Library collections.

The program affords students the opportunity to spend four or eight weeks during the months of June, July, and August in residence at the Library to delve into its collections of eighteenth-century British books, manuscripts, and graphic materials. Fellowship awards include accommodations on-site in Farmington and a stipend of either $3,900 or $1,950, depending upon the duration of the fellowship. Students are expected to be in residence and focus their research on the Library collections.

There is no application form. Applicants should submit the following materials to the Librarian of the Lewis Walpole Library:

-A résumé
-A brief research proposal (not to exceed three pages), explaining the relationship between
the Lewis Walpole Library’s collections and the applicant’s dissertation research
-An approved dissertation prospectus or equivalent statement outlining the scope of the doctoral thesis

The applicant must also arrange to have two confidential letters of recommendation sent to the Librarian, one of which should come from the applicant’s dissertation advisor.

Applications are due by April 30, 2010. Awards will be announced in May.

For more information, please contact Margaret Powell, W.S. Lewis Librarian and Executive Director, (860) 677-2140, or margaret.powell@yale.edu.

Mailing address for application materials:

Margaret Powell
W.S. Lewis Librarian and Executive Director
The Lewis Walpole Library
P.O. Box 1408
Farmington, CT 06034
Fax: (860) 677-6369

More information about the scope of the collections may be obtained by phone: 860-677-2140, or by e-mail: walpole@yale.edu.

Due to increasingly inclement weather, the Library will not be running the regular Eli Express delivery service this afternoon. Eli Express special collections deliveries, however, will take place as usual.

Please send any questions about today's changes in Eli Express service to Mike DiMassa.

A lecture by Pericles Lewis, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale, titled "The Burial of the Dead in Modern Fiction" will be the first in a series of public lectures at Sterling Memorial Library during the spring 2010 term. Talks by Hazel V. Carby and Graeme Reid will help mark Black History Month and Yale Pride, and James J. O'Donnell, Provost of Georgetown University, will deliver a meditation titled "The Scholar Reads His Kindle." Author Marlene Wagman-Geller will conclude the series with a talk on the history of literary dedications.

The lectures are free and open to the public and will be held in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall, 128 Wall Street.

Wednesday, February 3, 4:00 p.m.
Pericles Lewis, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Yale University
"The Burial of the Dead in Modern Fiction"

Thursday, February 18, 4:15 p.m.
Hazel V. Carby, Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies and Professor of American Studies, Yale University
"Bristol, England"

Thursday, April 1, 4:30 p.m.
James J. O'Donnell, Provost and Professor of Classics, Georgetown University
"The Scholar Reads His Kindle"

Thursday, April 29, 4:00 p.m.
Graeme Reid, Lecturer in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies, Anthropology, and Sociology, Yale University
"Elusive Records and Hidden Histories: Compiling the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa"

Thursday, May 13, 4:00 p.m.
Marlene Wagman-Geller
"Once Again to Zelda"

With regret, previously advertised lectures by Christopher Buckley and Molly Haskell have been postponed indefinitely.

Yale Library Studies: Library Architecture at Yale
Published by Yale University Library; distributed by Yale University Press
December 2009; 160 pp.
ISBN 9780300164770
$50.00 plus tax

Yale University Library is pleased to announce the publication of the first volume of Yale Library Studies, a new annual series that succeeds the Yale University Library Gazette, which was published from 1926 to 2008. Taking Library Architecture at Yale as its theme and subtitle, the first volume features drawings, designs, and photographs of Yale libraries by James Gamble Rogers, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, Paul Rudolph, Gordon Bunshaft, and many other distinguished architects.

Essays by Robert A.M. Stern, Charles Gwathmey, Marjorie Wynne, Mark Simon, Margaret K. Powell, Danuta A. Nitecki, Aric Lasher, and Laura Tatum explore a of range of topics including library architectural history, space and renovation planning, sustainable design, and Yale’s architectural archives. Library Architecture at Yale presents a unique record of the buildings that have housed the Yale Library and its collections over the past three hundred years. It was edited by Geoffrey Little, with an introduction by Alice Prochaska.

Copies are available for $50 plus tax and shipping-and-handling from the Yale University Press web site.

Future volumes of Yale Library Studies are being planned on the themes of collections and collectors who built them and teaching and learning with collections.

The Library will be closed on Monday, January 18 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Streaming video content from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies is now available on the Archive's web site and the Yale YouTube channel.

You can view these programs under the heading View Edited Programs, or you can go directly to the Thematic Programs and the Single-Witness Programs.

The programs are also accessible via the Yale YouTube channel.

The fall 2009 issue of Nota Bene: News from the Yale Library is now available here: http://www.library.yale.edu/NotaBene/nbhome.html.

The Map Department's new hours are: Monday to Friday, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. For more information, contact Abraham Parrish.

The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, the largest building in the world devoted exclusively to the preservation of rare books and literary manuscripts, is on Facebook and Twitter. Who knew?

Become our Facebook fan. And then subscribe to our Twitter feed.

Learn more about Beinecke collections, events, & exhibitions on our website.

Connecticut’s Marriage Equality Story to be Preserved at Yale University

Love Makes a Family, a coalition of individuals and organizations that has been the leading voice in the campaign for marriage equality in Connecticut since 2000, has donated its records to the Yale University Library. Having accomplished its core mission of winning the freedom to marry for same-sex couples in Connecticut, the group is ceasing operations on November 13, 2009.

The Love Makes a Family records include correspondence, planning and legal documents, photographs, minutes of meetings, reports, website content, publications, financial documents, press releases, and research and subject files. The materials will be available in Manuscripts and Archives in Sterling Memorial Library in New Haven, where they will be part of a growing collection of primary source material documenting gender and sexuality at the local, national, and international levels.

Carol Buckheit, Executive Director of Love Makes a Family, said, “Yale’s world class library system will allow generations of people to access and learn from Love Make’s a Family’s work to win marriage equality in Connecticut. We are extremely gratified that our civil rights legacy will be preserved for all time.”

“Love Makes a Family has been a key agent of change in local and national lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights,” noted Christine Weideman, Director of Manuscripts and Archives. “Their records will provide valuable insight into the same-sex marriage movement and will be of essential value to scholars, students, and activists. We are honored to be entrusted with their preservation.”

Manuscripts and Archives, a department of Yale University Library, is a major center for historical inquiry and also serves as the documentary memory of Yale University. The Yale University Library supports all areas of current and historical lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender scholarship at Yale.

Records designated by Love Makes a Family as open to research will be available by spring, 2010.

For more information about the records, contact Mary Caldera in Manuscripts and Archives at (203) 432-8019 or mary.caldera@yale.edu.

Applications Invited for Lewis Walpole Library Fellowships and Travel Grants for Eighteenth-Century Studies

The Lewis Walpole Library, a department of Yale University Library, invites applications to its 2010 - 2011 fellowship program. Located in Farmington, Connecticut, the Library offers short-term residential fellowships and travel grants to support research in the Library’s rich collections of eighteenth century—mainly British—materials, including important holdings of prints, drawings, manuscripts, rare books, and paintings, as well as a growing collection of sources for the study of New England Native Americans. Scholars undertaking postdoctoral or equivalent research, and doctoral candidates at work on a dissertation, are encouraged to apply. Recipients are expected to be in residence at the Library, to be free of other significant professional obligations during their stay, and to focus their research on the Lewis Walpole Library’s collections. Fellows also have access to additional resources at Yale, including those in the Sterling Memorial Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Yale Center for British Art. Lewis Walpole Library fellowships, usually for one month, include the cost of travel to and from Farmington, accommodation in an eighteenth-century house on the Library's campus, and a living allowance stipend (now $2,000). The Library's travel grants typically cover transportation costs for research trips of shorter duration and also include accommodation on site.

To apply for a fellowship or travel grant, candidates should send a curriculum vitae, including educational background, professional experience and publications, and a brief outline of the research proposal (not to exceed three pages) to:

Margaret K. Powell
W.S. Lewis Librarian and Executive Director
The Lewis Walpole Library
P.O. Box 1408
Farmington, CT 06034
USA

Fax: 860-677-6369

While application materials may initially be submitted electronically to walpole@yale.edu, a hard copy is required for the application to be considered complete.

Two confidential letters of recommendation are also required by the application deadline. Letters of recommendation should specifically address the merits of the candidate's project and application for the Lewis Walpole Library fellowship. General letters of recommendation or dossier letters are not appropriate.

The application deadline is January 18, 2010. Awards will be announced in March and are expected to be taken up between July 2010 and June 2011.

Additional information about the Library, its collections, facilities, and programs, may be found at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole.

The Handheld Librarian 2009: An Online Conference About Mobile Library Services

More people than ever are using mobile devices for a wide variety of purposes including communication, internet access, text messaging, research, and entertainment. It is important that libraries provide services on these devices as use increases.

Yale University Library hosted a local broadcast of the first ever Handheld Librarian Online Conference, on July 30, 2009. The program sponsored by the Alliance Library System, LearningTimes and Infoquest, featured a talk by Yale Science Librarian Joe Murphy, who along with other experts in the field, provided information on topics relating to the use of wireless and handheld devices in libraries. Due to the success of this initial broadcast, a second Handheld Librarian Online Conference is being planned for the February 2010 timeframe.

In anticipation of the handheld technology becoming part of business as usual in libraries, the Library will be hosting a series of lunch time re-broadcasts from the conference, featuring what we’ve determined to be the best and most applicable presentations. All sessions will be held in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall (128 Wall St) as brown-bag lunch presentations, from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. Moderators will be available to tee-up each session and conduct a facilitated discussion after each presentation. The dates of the lunch time series are as follows:

9/14: Keynote: Mobility and Singularity: People, Communication, Information, Information Objects, and Information Services in Motion

9/28: Sending out an SMS

10/12: Mobile Medical Information: View from the Medical Library

10/26: Everything We Know About Implementing a Kindle Loan Program

11/9: Altarama Infoquest, a Collaborative Text Messaging Reference Project

12/7: Twittering in Libraries

The sessions are free and open to the public. No advance registration is required. More information can be obtained at www.handheldlibrarian.org/ or www.facebook.com/yalehhlib.

A lecture on September 24 by Brad Gooch, Professor of English at William Paterson University and author of the best-selling Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor, will be the first in a series of public lectures and programs sponsored by Yale University Library during the 2009-10 academic year. Exhibits are also being held across the Library system and additional events will be announced over the course of the year.

The schedule of lectures and exhibits in Sterling Memorial Library follows below. Updates to the schedule will be posted at www.library.yale.edu/librarynews/.

LECTURES
All lectures are free and open to the public and will be held
in the Sterling Memorial Library lecture hall, 128 Wall Street.

September
Brad Gooch, William Paterson University, author of Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (Little Brown, 2009)
September 24, 4:00 p.m.

October
Vivian Perlis & Libby Van Cleve, Oral History American Music, Yale University,
authors of Composers' Voices from Ives to Ellington (Yale, 2005)
Wednesday, October 28, 4:00 p.m.

November
Beverly Gage, Department of History, Yale University, author of
The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror (Oxford, 2009)
Date and time TBA

December
Christopher T. Buckley, author of Losing Mum and Pup (Twelve, 2009)
Date and time TBA

January
Molly Haskell, author of Frankly, My Dear: Gone with the Wind Revisited (Yale, 2009)
Date and time TBA

February (Black History Month)
Hazel V. Carby, African American & American Studies, Yale University,
author of Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America (Verso, 1999)
Date and time TBA

March
James J. O'Donnell, Provost & Professor of Classics, Georgetown University,
author of The Ruin of the Roman Empire (Ecco, 2008)
Date and time TBA

April (Yale Pride)
Graeme Reid, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Studies, Yale University,
author of Above the Skyline (forthcoming)
Date and time TBA

May
Marlene Wagman-Geller, author of Once Again to Zelda (Perigee, 2008)
Date and time TBA

EXHIBITS IN STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Information on exhibits across the Library system can be found on
individual library and department web sites.

July-September: Islamic Art and Architecture

July-October: Whiffenpoof Centennial Exhibits

September-November: Benny Goodman: A Century of Swing (Gilmore Music Library)

November-January: From Nineveh to New Haven

November-December: Treasures of the Babylonian Collection

December-February: Centennial of Tel Aviv

December-February: Stover at Yale

March-May: Architecture, Utopia, and Empire

March-May: Medieval Studies at Yale

Tours of Sterling Memorial and Bass Libraries will begin on Tuesday, September 8 and continue to Friday, September 18. The dates and times are:

Tuesday, September 8, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, September 9, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Friday, September 11, 2:00-3:00 p.m
Friday, September 18, 2:00-3:00 p.m.

These tours are open to anyone in the Yale community. No sign-up is necessary, but a valid Yale ID is required. Tours will begin at the Information Desk in the Sterling Memorial Library nave.

Please note that tours for freshmen will begin the week of September 14; freshmen should contact their Personal Librarian for a schedule.

For more information, contact Emily Horning.

Individual library hours vary on Labor Day (Monday, September 7). To see which libraries will be open, visit www.library.yale.edu/hours/.

Benny Goodman: A Century of Swing
Gilmore Music Library
Fall 2009

This fall the Gilmore Music Library marks the centenary of the King of Swing, Benny Goodman (1909-1986), with an exhibit featuring big band arrangements, clarinet concertos by Paul Hindemith and Aaron Copland, photographs, and a wide variety of other materials, such as Goodman's honorary doctorate from Yale, a program and ticket from his famous Carnegie Hall concert in 1938, and a letter from fellow clarinetist Woody Allen.

The exhibit is free and open to the public. For more information and opening hours, visit the Music Library's web site.

The Social Science Library after hours book drop has been moved from the porch of 124 Prospect Street (Brewster Hall) to the front of the Social Science Library at 140 Prospect Street. It is now located along the sidewalk towards the handicap ramp, a few yards from the street.

The Yale University Library has updated its Strategic Plan, first completed in 2003. The July 2009 Update to the Strategic and Operational Plans, just released, reflects the progress made since 2003. It also focuses on how the Library should invest its valuable resources in meeting its mission in the future. The Update features three new goal areas that identify where the Library will direct its energy in the next five years in addition to existing priorities: Library Engagement with Teaching and Learning, Enhanced Emphasis on Special Collections and Unique Materials, and Environments to Inspire Research and Learning. The update also reaffirms the importance of the original strategic priorities. For a copy of the July 2009 Update, please see http://www.library.yale.edu/strategicplanning/

A read-only version of the Library’s Databases & Article Searching page will be available for a short period during the week of August 3 due to a software upgrade. Once upgraded with the latest release, Databases & Article Searching will feature Full-Text and Peer Reviewed indicators, as well as the ability to limit search results by a number of criteria listed in a new left-hand menu. This represents a significant improvement in the ability to search and access electronic information. The Library apologizes for any inconvenience.

For more information, contact Kalee Sprague in the Library's Information Technology Office.

Starting Monday, June 29, the Sterling Memorial Library Information Desk will be changing its service hours to 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday and 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Saturday during the summer. Readers needing research assistance can contact staff through multiple avenues such as chat, text, e-mail, telephone or in person. Please visit www.library.yale.edu/reference/asklive/ for more information.

The Lewis Walpole Library Fellowship and Travel Grant Recipients for 2009-2010 are:

Post-doctoral Fellows

Roger W. Eddy Fellow
Timothy P. Campbell
University of Chicago
Historical Fashion: Commercial Temporality and Modern Historicism in Britain, 1745-1819

Nancy W. Collins
Columbia University
W.S. Lewis and the Anglo-American Relationship: A Study in the Rise of European Studies in Postwar America

Jonathan Gross
DePaul University
Anne Damer's "Belmour"

Charles J. Cole Fellow

R. A. Houston
University of St. Andrews
Relationships between Landlords and Tenants on Estates in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, 1600-1850

Matthew M. Reeve
Queen’s University, Ontario
Walpole’s Two Gothic Narratives: "The Castle of Otranto" and Strawberry Hill

Fiona Ritchie
McGill University
Women’s Responses to Shakespeare in the Eighteenth-Century Theatre: The Cases of Frances and Charlotte Hanbury Williams

Pre-doctoral Fellows

Gail Aw
University of Virginia
Empire and Empiricism: Enlarging Mental Space in the Long Eighteenth Century

George B. Cooper Fellow

Emrys Daniel Jones
Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
Friendship and Politics in Sir Robert Walpole’s England

LWL-ASECS Fellow

Amanda Lahikainen
Brown University
Anglicizing the French Revolution: The Politics of Humor in Late Eighteenth-Century English Political Graphic Satire

Colleen M. Terry
University of Delaware
Presence in Print: William Hogarth in British North America

Jonathan Alexander Yarker
Trinity College, University of Cambridge
Copies and Copying: Attitudes towards Reproduction in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Travel Grant

Lisa L. Moore
University of Texas at Austin
Sister Arts: Lesbian Genres and Eighteenth-Century Landscapes

Fellow Deferred from 2007-2008
LWL-ASECS Fellow

Mark Phillips
Carleton University, Ottawa
Then and Now: Historical Distance and Visualization, 1740-1850

For more information about the Library's Fellowship and Travel Grant program, see http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/information/fellowships.html.

The Lewis Walpole Library and Centerbrook Architects have been recognized by Environmental Design + Construction magazine's 2009 Excellence in Design Awards. The awards honor "commercial, government, institutional and educational projects as well as single-family residences that demonstrate a clear commitment to green building and sustainable design."

The library was a finalist in the education category and will be featured in the magainze's September issue.

More information on Environmental Design + Construction and their awards program is available here.

Yale President Richard C. Levin today announced that University Librarian Alice Prochaska has been appointed Principal of Somerville College, Oxford effective September 2010.

"This is a tremendous honor for Alice, and although we will miss her at Yale, her new position provides her with a remarkable opportunity for leadership at her alma mater," said Levin. "During her eight years as our University Librarian, Alice has provided conspicuous leadership in advancing Yale’s library system—although she would be the first to say that it is not her work, but that of the Library staff that should be credited."

Among a number of achievements during her tenure at Yale, Prochaska has overseen improvements in the physical fabric of the library system, from the renovated Lewis Walpole Library to the expanded Library Shelving Facility, the Haas Family Arts Library, and the Bass Library. She has provided leadership in local outreach programs, building up a network of relationships with schools, colleges and public libraries in Connecticut and the New Haven area. She has also demonstrated a commitment to improving diversity and collaboration in the workplace and it has given her particular pride to see the Yale University Library develop as the leading international research library of North America, with its growing strengths in nearly all parts of the world, and its extraordinary collections of special, rare and unique materials.

“I am honored and delighted to have been chosen as the next Principal of Somerville College,” Prochaska said. “I am sad about leaving Yale University Library, where I will have worked for nine years with a wonderfully talented and dedicated group of staff, but I know my colleagues will understand the tug of affection and loyalty that I feel in returning to Oxford.”

Prochaska studied at Somerville and received her undergraduate degree and doctorate in Modern History from Oxford University. Prior to her appointment at Yale in 2001 she was Director of Special Collections at the British Library and has previously held positions at the Institute for Historical Research at London University and the National Archives in the United Kingdom. She has served as Chair of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Standing Committee of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), chair of the National Council on Archives, a university governor and a Commissioner of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research and of Royal Holloway, University of London. Prochaska has just completed a term as Chair of the Board of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and she currently chairs the Special Collections Task Force of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL).

Prochaska will embark on research leave beginning in January 2010, during which she will develop research on the restitution of cultural materials and related questions concerning international cultural heritage, a topic that she has dealt with over the course of her professional career.

The Library is providing campus-wide access to STRATFOR, a resource for geopolitical intelligence on worldwide political, economic, and military developments. STRATFOR provides exclusively published breaking news and an ongoing series of monographs and assessments that offer rigorous forecasts from its experts throughout the world.

Questions and comments can be directed to Julie Linden, Librarian for Political Science, International Affairs, and Government Information.

The Thain Family Café is open for the summer Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The Café is offering freshly made sandwiches and salads, along with daily baked goods and pastries from Milanis Bakery and Judies European Bakery. The Café also has a great selection of all natural and organic snacks, yogurts, and beverages, as well as organic, fair trade, shade grown coffee. Smoothies are now also on the menu.