Moffitt Revitalization Is Underway

THE LIBRARY Univer sity of California, Berkeley | No. 38 Winter 2016 | lib.berkeley.edu/give Fiat Lux Moﬃtt revitalization is underway NEW SPACES SUPPORT HOW TODA Y’S STUDENTS LEARN

Moﬃt Library’s fourth ﬂoor will feature collaborative space with transparent, movable walls, ready for students’ sketches and calculations.

A revitalization of Moffitt Library now underway Gensler—the architectural design firm involved is turning it into the premier campus location for in the project—is known for its service-based undergraduate study. New spaces on the fourth design. Their background includes work on and fifth floors will serve as magnets for social and Apple stores, Facebook’s headquarters, the newly group learning, while other spaces will support quiet, renovated Terminal 3 of San Francisco International solitary work. Technology-rich, 24-hour floors will Airport, and the new UC Berkeley Extension empower the around-the-clock, 21st century learning San Francisco campus. style of today’s students. Students eagerly await the collaborative spaces, “We model fresh thinking about ways to support snack-friendly policies, and increased availability today’s students who are active, connected, of Moffitt (projected to be 24 hours during the distracted and ambitious,” says associate university academic year). Jenna Maughan (’18) says that “We librarian Elizabeth Dupuis. She emphasizes the can definitely benefit from more group study areas. need to adapt the four-decade-old Moffitt to It’s also great that Moffitt will be open 24 hours help undergraduates make the best use of because a lot of us stay up late.” their study time. continued on page 3-4 The University Library “I HOLD A LIBRARY University of California, Berkeley AND EDUCATION MOFFITT REVITALIZATION IS UNDERWAY TO BE ALMOST DOE/MOFFITT LIBRARIES SYNONYMOUS.” Carmen Zheng (’17) adds that “Most of us with 21st century standards for access, heating Charles Franklin Doe Memorial Library —Professor William David P. Gar dner Stacks crave open, co-working spaces, as well as and ventilating. Enhanced power supplies and James K. Moffitt Library Swinton, University independent carrels. For their perfect augmented wireless access points for digital Graduate Services Librarian 1869-1874 library, undergraduates today want devices will be welcomed by all visitors to this Media Resources Center portable chairs, snacks and coffee heavily used library. Alexander F. Morrison Memorial Library As the intellectual for fuel, natural light, and of course abundant technology access!” Newspapers and Micr oforms commons of the South/Southeast Asia Library Berkeley experience, Students are glad that during the construction SUBJECT SPECIALTY, EAST ASIAN, AND BANCROFT LIBRARIES the University work, the other floors in the popular library— The George and Mar y Foster Anthropology Library Library serves tens as well as the Free Speech Movement Café— Art History/ Classics Library of thousands of remain open and available. The new 4th and 5th floors will welcome students in fall 2016. The Bancroft Library students, faculty, Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natur al Resources Library Thomas J. Long Business Library and visiting scholars Berkeley faculty enthusiastically testify to the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library each year. It provides need for collaborative, technology-equipped Earth Sciences and Map Library the resources they library spaces to support student learning. C.V. Starr East Asian Library need for exploration Barrie Roberts, who teaches public speaking, notes that “My College Writing colleagues Education-Psychology Library and new discoveries Kresge Engineering Library and I are thrilled that we'll finally have a place Environmental Design Library in fields spanning where students can experiment and develop Mathematics Statistics Library the sciences, arts their individual and group presentation skills, Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library and humanities, aided by cutting-edge technology.” Pamela and Kenneth Fong Optometry and Health Sciences Library and social sciences, Physics-Astronomy Library Sara Beckman, who has taught courses Haas faculty member Sara Beckman says as well as the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library on design, technology and operations “As pedagogy changes, we will increasingly interdisciplinary Social Welfare Library management, and entrepreneurship at Haas leverage the amazing talents of the Berkeley explorations that are School of Business for over three decades, student population in peer-to-peer learning, comments that “The new Moffitt space will AFFILIATED LIBRARIES a particular strength in situations that range from solution of Architecture Visual Resources Library be the perfect setting in which students can at Berkeley. simple problem sets to engagement in deep Earthquake Engineering R esearch Center Library work in interdisciplinary teams and learn Environmental Design Ar chives to apply their knowledge to important collaborations to solve so-called ‘wicked Ethnic Studies Library The Library is at world problems.” problems.’ Peer-to-peer learning, whether Giannini Foundation of Agricultur al Economics Library the heart of the one-on-one or in small groups, requires Institute of Gov ernmental Studies Library University’s mission Together with the new study spaces, the exactly the flexible, modernized, Institute of Industrial R elations Library of teaching, research, Moffitt revitalization is addressing much- technology-empowered spaces that needed improvements to the building’s Harmer E. Davis Tr ansportation Library and public service. are being developed in Moffitt.” Garrett W. McEnerney Law Library infrastructure. These include expanded restrooms, upgraded elevators, and a new roof, along

continued on page 4 2 | FIAT LUX | Winter 2016 Winter 2016 | FIAT LUX | 3 The University Library “I HOLD A LIBRARY University of California, Berkeley AND EDUCATION MOFFITT REVITALIZATION IS UNDERWAY TO BE ALMOST DOE/MOFFITT LIBRARIES SYNONYMOUS.” Carmen Zheng (’17) adds that “Most of us with 21st century standards for access, heating Charles Franklin Doe Memorial Library —Professor William David P. Gar dner Stacks crave open, co-working spaces, as well as and ventilating. Enhanced power supplies and James K. Moffitt Library Swinton, University independent carrels. For their perfect augmented wireless access points for digital Graduate Services Librarian 1869-1874 library, undergraduates today want devices will be welcomed by all visitors to this Media Resources Center portable chairs, snacks and coffee heavily used library. Alexander F. Morrison Memorial Library As the intellectual for fuel, natural light, and of course abundant technology access!” Newspapers and Micr oforms commons of the South/Southeast Asia Library Berkeley experience, Students are glad that during the construction SUBJECT SPECIALTY, EAST ASIAN, AND BANCROFT LIBRARIES the University work, the other floors in the popular library— The George and Mar y Foster Anthropology Library Library serves tens as well as the Free Speech Movement Café— Art History/ Classics Library of thousands of remain open and available. The new 4th and 5th floors will welcome students in fall 2016. The Bancroft Library students, faculty, Marian Koshland Bioscience and Natur al Resources Library Thomas J. Long Business Library and visiting scholars Berkeley faculty enthusiastically testify to the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Library each year. It provides need for collaborative, technology-equipped Earth Sciences and Map Library the resources they library spaces to support student learning. C.V. Starr East Asian Library need for exploration Barrie Roberts, who teaches public speaking, notes that “My College Writing colleagues Education-Psychology Library and new discoveries Kresge Engineering Library and I are thrilled that we'll finally have a place Environmental Design Library in fields spanning where students can experiment and develop Mathematics Statistics Library the sciences, arts their individual and group presentation skills, Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library and humanities, aided by cutting-edge technology.” Pamela and Kenneth Fong Optometry and Health Sciences Library and social sciences, Physics-Astronomy Library Sara Beckman, who has taught courses Haas faculty member Sara Beckman says as well as the Sheldon Margen Public Health Library on design, technology and operations “As pedagogy changes, we will increasingly interdisciplinary Social Welfare Library management, and entrepreneurship at Haas leverage the amazing talents of the Berkeley explorations that are School of Business for over three decades, student population in peer-to-peer learning, comments that “The new Moffitt space will AFFILIATED LIBRARIES a particular strength in situations that range from solution of Architecture Visual Resources Library be the perfect setting in which students can at Berkeley. simple problem sets to engagement in deep Earthquake Engineering R esearch Center Library work in interdisciplinary teams and learn Environmental Design Ar chives to apply their knowledge to important collaborations to solve so-called ‘wicked Ethnic Studies Library The Library is at world problems.” problems.’ Peer-to-peer learning, whether Giannini Foundation of Agricultur al Economics Library the heart of the one-on-one or in small groups, requires Institute of Gov ernmental Studies Library University’s mission Together with the new study spaces, the exactly the flexible, modernized, Institute of Industrial R elations Library of teaching, research, Moffitt revitalization is addressing much- technology-empowered spaces that needed improvements to the building’s Harmer E. Davis Tr ansportation Library and public service. are being developed in Moffitt.” Garrett W. McEnerney Law Library infrastructure. These include expanded restrooms, upgraded elevators, and a new roof, along

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The $15 million project is primarily funded through the Preserving the scholarly record Highlights of Moffitt’s generosity of our donors, with additional support from Digitization and collections for the next century of scholars New Floors campus. As well as the current 4th and 5th floor work, modernizing the first three floors is at the top of the University • Two meeting rooms for up to Library’s priorities. The Berkeley Library is one of the preeminent public university 10 people, outfitted for video libraries in the world. As the Library collects resources to support conferencing and video capture, Carmen Zheng (B.S. and B.A. research and teaching, it does so with an eye on potential uses so students can prepare ’17) notes that the “Moffitt decades in the future. This means that, alongside the immediate for class presentations or Library renovations thrive on need to make these items available, the Library also prioritizes interviews innovation and a new way to storage and curation.

• Natural light and views to work together. A good study Although the 27 Berkeley libraries have over 53 miles of stacks, there Strawberry Creek, the environment is critical at a is not nearly enough space to keep all the collections on campus. Eucalyptus Grove, Doe Library challenging school like Cal!” So, just ten miles northwest of campus, the Northern Regional and Memorial Glade Project planners worked with Library Facility (NRLF) houses over seven million volumes, • Library learning lab oﬀering an numerous student focus ensuring long-term preservation and easy access. array of free workshops, groups to gather priorities for The tiniest book at NRLF is this including a digital literacy the revitalization. Fittingly, NRLF is located on the site for the University’s miniature 1966 book of poems program pilot newest and boldest venture, the planned Berkeley Global Campus. with illustrations, by Serbian Envisioned as a coalition of leading academic institutions and • Meeting rooms on both ﬂoors poet and artist Đorđe Isakov for up to six people private sector and community partners (see bgc.berkeley.edu), those at the BGC will be able to utilize the advantages of a (1927-2001). • Ample supplies of whiteboards top-notch library close at hand. and open collaborative spaces

• Technology for loan includes laptops, tablets, and portable An Essential Facility projectors • Computer stations, scanners Total capacity at NRLF is 7.4 million volumes. The facility is and printers available on different from Doe, Moffitt and other libraries on campus in both floors that it prioritizes book storage and preservation over inviting study and reading spaces. NRLF features higher-density shelving • Wellness space to help students featuring 3D printers. The equipment enables students and manage stress through than what is found in campus libraries, in large rooms that are stretching, meditation, and through which three dimensional objects are created by temperature and humidity-controlled to ensure long-term power naps laying down successive layers of material. In other campus preservation of books, micro-formats, maps and even LPs. Makerspaces, Berkeley students have created objects such as • Vending machines to fuel sports equipment prototypes, electronics board cases, and NRLF and its sister facility, the Southern Regional Library Facility, students during prolonged building detail models on 3D printers. NRLF’s reading room provides collectively store over 14 million of the over 40 million items in stints of study The advent of this technology has spurred on the Maker research space for users, and will the University of California Library system. NRLF and SRLF have • The terrace next to Memorial be a key resource for the planned both been expanded over time, as collections grew. And, as Glade will become a new Berkeley Global Campus. Taken Berkeley professors Hickey and Koziol testify (see story on p. 8), entrance to Moffitt, and a together, the 10 UC libraries form it will soon be time to expand NRLF again. welcoming outdoor community Support from the UC Berkeley Student Technology Fund made the largest research collection in space for campus. the purchase possible. The venture represents a partnership the world.

continued on page 6 4 |4 FI | A FIT LATUX L | UX Wint | er WWinte 201i nte5 r 2015016 FIAT L UX | Wi nter 2016 | 5 Berkeley’s excellence is founded on its library. Opened in 1868 with one thousand books, the IT STARTS HERE University Library now holds over twelve million volumes, and ranks as one of the world’s great continued from page 5 research collections. Join us in supporting the growth and preservation of this stellar library.

The Backbone of Preservation and Access Investment Needed

Far from a simple book warehouse, NRLF is now the Although much of the publishing backbone of preservation and collection access for world is going to digital formats, UC Libraries. UC libraries still necessarily acquire hundreds of thousands • NRLF is a major contributor to Library digitization of print volumes every year. On initiatives, collaborating with Google to digitize three million volumes so far. The full text of almost a campus, libraries are increasingly million volumes is accessible to the general called on to meet new needs, public through Google and the HathiTrust. including technology-rich learning requirements, collaborative space • NRLF is leading the digitization of UC Berkeley for groups, and new research habits. theses and dissertations. This project of over (See the Moﬃtt Library story in this At NRLF, new deposits amount to about 200,000 items per 40,000 historic works is focused on preserving issue for an example.) year. Charlotte Rubens, shown above, served as head of NRLF and improving access to the original scholarship of

UC Berkeley. until last year. About 1250 requests are processed at While floors full of books may no • Mor e than 60% of Doe Library’s collection is housed NRLF every week. Shown here is Yu Ting longer be the center of campus at NRLF. Bu, who loved her student job at NRLF, libraries, the need to acquire and preserve these items for researchers remains. Current projections are • Twenty-five percent of NRLF’s holdings are special and says “I had never seen so many that NRLF will begin exceeding its capacity in 2017, posing a challenge for the continued preservation of collections. These holdings range from historic books before.” Yu Ting graduated in Berkeley’s new collections. records of California’s prisons and of her logging environmental economics and policy industry to 17th century French manuscripts and last year. Erik Mitchell, associate university librarian, points out that nothing is more central to the Library’s mission the papers of Nobel-prize winning physicist Ernest than preserving our invaluable collections for future researchers. Orlando Lawrence. • In partnership with the 10 UC campuses, NRLF and SRLF are building a unified print and digital archive “It’s impossible to predict all the innovative uses to which scholars of tomorrow of federal documents held by UC Libraries. This archive will greatly benefit researchers accessing these will put our materials,” he says. heavily used materials across the UC system. • NRLF is a key partner in WEST, a print journal archiving program shared by over 100 libraries in the One example is a digitization project to convert government documents from the 1940s into western U.S. computationally-ready data for a pair of doctoral students. The books contain U.S. military procurement records, and should reveal a snapshot of the industry at the time that researchers can use alongside other data to study history, economics and other topics in new ways. Had these documents not been preserved, our researchers would not have even known they existed.

Mitchell adds that projects like these fuel his continual amazement “at how central the RLFs have become to serving the mission of UC libraries, and how their collections are being rediscovered by new generations of researchers.” FIAT LUX, or LET THERE BE LIGHT, is the motto of the UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN AND CHIEF DIGITAL University of California. The Fiat Lux newsletter of the Library at SCHOLARSHIP OFFICER the University of California, Berkeley is published quarterly by the Jeﬀrey MacKie-Mason Library Development Oﬃce, University of California, Berkeley. DIRECTOR of DEVELOPMENT and EXTERNAL RELATIONS Your feedback and suggestions are warmly invited. You can reach David Duer us at (510) 642-9377 or [email protected] DIRECTOR of COMMUNICATIONS Printed on recycled paper with soy-based ink. Damaris Moore

PHOTOGRAPHY Peg Skorpinski, p. 5-9 6 | FIAT L UX | WI NTER 2015 FIAT L UX | WI NTER 2016 | 7 Berkeley’s excellence is founded on its library. Opened in 1868 with one thousand books, the IT STARTS HERE University Library now holds over twelve million volumes, and ranks as one of the world’s great continued from page 5 research collections. Join us in supporting the growth and preservation of this stellar library.

The Backbone of Preservation and Access Investment Needed

PHOTOGRAPHY Peg Skorpinski, p. 5-9 6 | FIAT L UX | WI NTER 2015 FIAT L UX | WI NTER 2016 | 7 OFF-CAMPUS LIBRARY FACILITY NEEDS ROOM TO GROW WELCOMING JEFFREY MACKIE-MASON excerpted from the Daily Cal 1/30/15

available online. Some of the same people argue At the dinner, Mackie-Mason was interviewed that universities will strongly beneﬁt from this by poet, professor and LAB member Robert Hass. change because they will no longer need to spend The lively dialogue covered his academic and money buying books and journals only occasionally personal background, as well as the exciting consulted or building the facilities to store them. potential of libraries in a digital era. Both claims are false.

We do not say this because we are Luddites who romanticize books. Far from it. Many who do research in the humanities and social sciences know the value of digitization. Most of us not only use online materials—we rely on them. We could not do our research or our teaching without them. Precisely because we are such heavy users of online resources, we know their advantages and their limitations. And there are limitations.

As a number of recent studies have shown, reading on a screen is very eﬃcient for many purposes— LAB members William Banks, professor emeritus, but not for all purposes. No one can analyze a complex argument presented in a 500-page book using with Garry I. Parton ’86. Banks is the former chair of ebrary or ACLS e-Books (try it sometime). No one can do research if they have to wait ﬁve minutes for Berkeley’s African American Studies Department; a single page to load from Internet Archive. In any case, the majority of editions available online were he currently teaches a freshman seminar on sport, made available only because they are so old that they have passed into the public domain. Nothing in the celebrity and American culture. Garry Parton is a foreseeable future is going to do away with the need for hard copies of books. NRLF is not sexy, but it performing arts consultant based in New York. is essential.

The obvious solution is to add capacity at the existing site at NRLF. Certainly, it is the cheapest and fastest solution. NRLF’s existing buildings were constructed modularly, anticipating the need for expansion, so the space is available, while loading docks, roads, reading room and, not least, skilled staﬀ is already in place. The buildings need to be climate-controlled but do not need to be expensive displays of cutting-edge MacKie-Mason with LAB President Charlene architectural design (after all, they are basically warehouses). And because UC Berkeley is by far the Liebau and Camilla Smith. Liebau praises largest user of NRLF (and also the largest supplier of materials), it makes obvious sense to keep the MacKie-Mason’s vision of how libraries and holdings nearby. librarians are “more essential than version of ever before, to help us access and Marc Bloch’s 1939 Feudal Society for the 21st century. evaluate the vast amount of information and data available today.”

> To read the full version of their column, see www.dailycal.org/2015/01/30/oﬀ- > follow Mackie-Mason’s reﬂections on libraries campus-library-facility-needs-room-grow/ and the information age at madlibbing.berkeley.edu

It might be thought that the problem of physical The Library Advisory Board welcomed the new University Librarian at a reception and dinner in October. storage of physical copies of research volumes is “I’ve always been passionate about service to the public, and about the opportunities for information old-school and that NRLF will soon be unnecessary. professionals to improve the world,” MacKie-Mason says. “I am humbled—and a bit giddy—to serve as After all, many people seem to believe that hard University Librarian on one of the best campuses in the world. Berkeley is an extraordinary place!” copies will soon be outmoded because nearly everything one reads can be digitized and made available online. Some of the same people argue At the dinner, Mackie-Mason was interviewed that universities will strongly beneﬁt from this by poet, professor and LAB member Robert Hass. change because they will no longer need to spend The lively dialogue covered his academic and money buying books and journals only occasionally personal background, as well as the exciting consulted or building the facilities to store them. potential of libraries in a digital era. Both claims are false.

John B. Gage ’75 THEN NOW HONORARY ADVISORY BO ARD Victoria L. George ’78, ’82 Richard C. Atkinson Th e Gar d e ns& of L earning President Emeritus, Richard Greene ’60, JD ’63 University of California

Kathleen Gutierrez ’10 Mollie P. Collins ’65 Past President, LAB Timothy J. Hachman ’63 Chair, Friends of the Bancroft John Cummins This 1924 image offers a view of Helen and Paul Chapman, seated alongside Library Council the Mark Twain sculpture in Doe Library. Shannon M. Drew ’50 Doe Library with the Botanical Carole Krumland ’67 CHAIRMAN Troy Duster Garden in the foreground. The Nicholas B. Dirks Thomas C. Leonard Ph.D ’73 Chancellor's Professor Chancellor of the University University Librarian Emeritus first small campus garden was Charles B. Faulhaber John Maccabee established in the 1870s on VICE CHAIRMAN Director Emeritus, Bancroft Library Jeffrey MacKie-Mason the site now occupied by University Librarian and Chief Digital Rita Moreno Artist Trustee David Pierpont Gardner Ph.D. ’66 Scholarship Officer President Emeritus, Moffitt Library. Susan Morris ’63 University of California PRESIDENT Charlene C. Liebau ’60 Harvey L. Myman ’70, ’92 S. Allan Johnson ’62, ’69 In 1894, a large glass conservatory Past President, LAB VICE PRES IDENTS Garry I. Parton ’86 modeled after the London Crystal Paul D. Chapman J. R. K. Kantor ’57, ’60 Jason Di Napoli ’90 Michael Robarts ’87 Emeritus University Archivist Palace was the center of the Library Representative to official Garden. the UCB Foundation W. Timothy Ryan ’59, MBA ’62 Yvonne Koshland ’68, ’70

William M. Banks Rishi N. Sharma ’02, JD ’05 Watson M. Laetsch Since moving to a 34 acre site Miriam D. Starc ’83, JD ’86 Annie Barrows ’84 Raymond Lifchez MCP ’72 Author Trustee above campus, in Strawberry Robert G. O’Donnell ’65, ’66 Janice Bea Canyon, the Garden has expanded Carolyn P. Paxton ’70 Robert M. Berdahl to include over 13,000 diﬀerent Chancellor Emeritus Lila S. Rich ’55 kinds of plants from around the Scott Biddy Roger Samuelsen ’58, JD ’64 world, including many rare and Vice Chancellor, University Relations Longtime Library friends Ray Lifchez and Robert Wong. endangered ones. Cacti are the Robert J. Birgeneau Stephen M. Silberstein ’64, ’77 Chancellor Emeritus best represented family. George Starr Camilla M. Smith Chair, Academic Senate Haley Broder ’16 Library Committee Undergraduate Student Member G. Stuart Spence ’52 Claude Steele Paul Churchill ’82, JD ’86 Janet Stanford ’59 Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Carol Kavanagh Clarke ’60 Elaine C. Tennant Katharine Thompson ’48 Director, The Bancroft Library David Duer ’68 Sheryl Wong ’67, ’68 Director, Development Judy C. Webb ’60 Past President, LAB & External Relations Lesley G. Yeary ’85 Carl Franklin ’71 Theo Zaninovich ’64

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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H.W. past century. Meant to be read in computers Bush. The ADA is one of America's most comprehensive NO LEGACY || LITERATURA and other digital devices, the electronic stories pieces of civil rights legislation that prohibits ELECTRÓNICA and poems reveal new ideas about literary and discrimination and guarantees that people with Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Library media developments and encourage visitors to disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone March 11 through August 2016 interact with the machines. Exhibit cases and else to participate in the mainstream of American check lib.berkeley.edu for hours tables were designed by students in a Berkeley life—to enjoy employment opportunities, to purchase Center for New Media seminar. Through the use goods and services, and to participate in state and local This exhibit, NL||LE, presents a collection of vintage computing equipment, NL||LE also government programs and services. The exhibition of digital works of literature—in Spanish, highlights challenges involved in the preservation draws on the history of the disabled, the activism of the Portuguese, Catalan as well as English—side by of electronic literature. 1970s, and events which led to the passage of the ADA. side with experimental print materials from the

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