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~ Centenary of the Day Missions Library letters were sent to miss ion agencies and in stitutions In the sp ring of 1891, Professor George Edward Day requesting the donation of their publications. Over the proposed to the "Friends of Christian Missions" the years, the holdings of the Day Missions Library have establishment of a new library at Yal e, which he hoped been rivaled on ly by the coll ec tion of the Missionary wo uld become "the most full and complete coll ection Research Library in New York City. of works on Foreign Missions in the United States and When the Divinity School moved to its new campus perhaps in the world." Day's proposal came when the on Prospect Street in 1932, its three specialized libraries foreign missions enterprise was enterin g the second (the Trowbridge Reference Library, Snearh Libra ry of decade of its half-century heyday. Tens of rhousands of Religious Education, and the Day Library) were con­ Americans would sa il abroad in the coming decades, solid ated. The Day Library was given a special \ving in seekin g to spread Christian beliefs, bringin g with them the new building, but the gradual process of its absorp­ th ei r devotion to Western civili zatio n. tion into the Divinity Library as a whole had begun. Geotge Edward Day was Professor of Hebrew Lan­ Sin ce 1950, mission s-related material has not bee n clas­ guage and Literature at Yal e from [866 to 1891. His avo­ sifi ed according to the "Day" system, but rather has cation was th e study of mi ssions and from his retire­ been integrated into the Library's ge neral collection. ment until his death in 1905, he devoted himself to the The "Day Missions Library " now refers to th e entire new "H istorical Library of Fore ign Missions ," later corpus of miss ions-related documentation available known as the Day Missions Library. Day traveled at the Divinity Library, both print and manuscript widely to purchase books, and by 1905 the Library al­ material. ready contain ed mo re than 7,000 volumes. Generous From its in ception, the Day Library "vas envisioned beq uests by Day and his wife, Oli via Hotchkiss Day, as a resource not only for Ya le, but also for the \vider made it possible to erect a building for the Library in scho larl y community. It was to be for Yale students as 1911 on the site where Calh oun Coll ege now stands. The Day Li brary was envisioned as a magnet for those preparing to be missionaries. The original building was desi gned to include a printing press , carpentry shop, map-mak ing room, and photograph y rOOI11, thus pro­ viding opportunity for tra ining in practica l skills. Day envisioned a Library of Foreign M issions con­ taining six types of material: th e history of mi ss ions in va ri ous countries, missionary biography, the annua l reports of missionary societi es, periodica ls, works pre­ pared by missionaries for the use of the peoples of mis­ sion fi eld s, and literature relatin g to Jewish mi ss ions. Related literature in areas such as ethn ology, geogra­ ph y, comparative reli gions and linguistics was included. Protestant missions were the primary focll s of co ll ect~ ing for the Library but essenti al Roman Catholic books and peri odica ls \...,ere also acq uired. Because of its ea rly origin, the Da y Library contains many works which are available no\vhere else in th e United States. Its holdings document not only institu­ tional hi stories, but also th e role o f women in th e mi s­ sions enterprise, the role of missionaries in portraying non-Wes tern cultures to the home public and the impact of missions on distinctive ethnic groups abroad. By 1929, the Day Missions Library included nearl y The current Dar Missions Reading Room in the 30,000 vo lumes; 323 monthly serial s were received; 500 Divinity Libm ry. ~ Slavic and East European Collections at Yale Ya le's Slavi c and East Euro pea n Collec ti on is among the fi ve largest and oldest such collections in the United States ancl enj oys intern ati onal recognirion. It presentl y contain s a half milli on volum es; some 92,000 concern Central and Southeast Eu ro pe and 4 00,000 are about the Soviet Union. T he Libra ry subsc ri bes to over 500 peri odi ca ls and newspapers, and th e reference col­ lection in the Slavi c Rea ding Room contain s ap proxi­ mately 15,000 titles in all Slavic and Ea st Europea n languages. Among th e co ll ecti on's many strength s is a ri ch group of Ba ltic material s, es pec iall y Estonian li te rature. An other coll ection is that of Ru ss ian emigre li terature, one of the besr in the world. Russian, Poli sh and Czech language monographs and se ri als are particu larl y we ll reprcscmecl , and Czech and Slovak materi als are strong in soc ial sciences and humanities. South Slavic pub li ca­ George Edward Day, Professor of Hebrew Lang uage tions are currentl y bein g aggressively acq uired to sup­ and Literature fr om 1866 ro 1891, fo under of rhe Oa)' rvlissions Li br:uy. po rt rh e South Slavic studies conducted by Professor Iva Banac. Complementa ry holdings are the Beinecke's notable ill uminated manuscripts, in cunabula, and ea rl y maps of Bohemia and Nlorav ia, as \\'ell as th e arch ives we ll as "for that expert outsid e constituency who will of Czeslaw Milosz and many first edirions of distin­ come here for special investi garion and work. " The gui shed Poli sh writers. A prize possession is a co py of vi sion of the Day Library as a "literary workshop" has Coperni cus' De revolutiollibus (1 543) . become a reality over the years as rare holdings in the The past twO yea rs have seen unprecedemed coll ec ti on attract scholars from arou nd the world . changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The Documentati on of th e mi ss ions enterprise and of world continues to wa tch as thi s pan of the world Third World Christianity continues to be a primary redefi nes its basic social , economic, and politica l pos­ coll ecting focus fo r the Divinity Library. It was estimat­ ture. lvlean while, a virtual ex plosion in publishing is ed in 1987 that one-third of the Library'S holdings relate taking place in th ese countries. Ne v.,rly orga nized politi ­ to these topics . In recent decades the Library has added ca l pa rti es pub li sh th eir own newspapers and journ als; an active manu scripts and archives departm ent, acquir­ rebelli ous republics and provin ces distribute their plat­ in g personal papers of mi ss ionaries and archival fo rm s to the press; va lu able statisti cal data is made records of numerOliS mi ssions-related agencies. The availabl e by nat iona l and provincial governmen ts; and Lib ra ry currentl y participates in the Intern ati ona l the wrirings of long suppressed and banned autho rs are Christi an Literature Documentation Project, an effort being published for the fi rst time. Strong, centra ll y-con­ of the American Theological Library Association to tro ll ed publishing and srri ct ce nsorship ha ve shaped the ind ex and promote access to sources for th e stud y of "book tracle " in th e Eas tern bloc into something quire missions and Third World Christi anity. different fro m publishing in the West, and new As the centenary of the Day Libra ry is celebrated, rh e entrepreneurs are consequ entl y in experi enced in th e heyday of foreign missions is long past; the United techniques of Western book trade. States and Europe no lo nge r contain the majori ty of the Tat jana Lorkov ic, Curaror of Slavic an d East Euro­ world's Christi ans. In th is changed serring, the Day pean coll ections travell ed in Ivlay 1990 to Eastern Library continues to draw scholars to irs ri ch hi stori cal Europe to assess fi rsth and how these changes would treasures even as it strives to fu lfill its ne w role of docu­ affect Yale 's ability to obtain Slavic and East European menting Christi anity in the Third World. -MLS mate ri als. Focusin g on Yale's book exchange partn ers and on the possibility of establishing blanket o rders with East European libraries and book dea lers, she to ured Czechoslovakia , Poland, Hungary, Bulga ria, Professor Paul Bushkovitch (HislOry ), Tatjana Lorkovic, Curator of the Slavic Collection and Professor Iva Banae {History) examine the recently acquired coronation book of Tsar Nicholas II.

and Yugoslavia to visit national, university, and acade­ lallnch the microfilming of a series of gubernatorial my o f sciences libraries. She also conferred with book reports from 18 04-[9[7. These reports from local gover­ import-export companies and publishers. O nly one nors were the tsars' primary sources of information on sc heduled stop, a mid-June visit to Bucharest, was can­ their empire. O n film this vaillable resource for [9th celled due to the violence that erupted during pro­ century Russian history wi ll be available for the first democracy demonstrations there. She plans another time to scholars in the West. - TL acquisitions trip this summer. Grants and gifts also contribute to the acquisitions program. Recently, the Slavic Collection rece ived a grant from the United States Peace Institute for acquir­ ing new materials to serve the scholars in the post Cold war era. A Department of Education grant also sup­ Naill Bene is published during ,he academic year '0 ports acquisition and processin g of Slavic materials. acquaint the Yal. community I1Ddqtlt~ m'...... d wish Donations are a treasured source of new material. A tho rtsoUtcC. of the Yale Iibran ..,:fIe ... iIkeConnecticut, of a beautifully pre­ Department, Sterling Memorial Library (43)'1'/6.).

served copy of Coronation in Moscow, published in Copyrigh, C!~~1 Yale Univemity Ubniry [899. Even when first published, the two ornately ISSN 0894"W bound volumes were rare and valuable. With ample photographs, illustrations and prose, they document COIllributotB to tIm is.ue include Tatian. Lorkovic, Margaret K. Powen, Chr"Jazz Musicians," it offers rare views of cabinets in the Bibliography Room. the musicians and si ngers who helped shape the jazz Finally, as many read ers have discovered, two new movement, widely consid ered to be America's ch ief sections of periodicals have been established in the co ntribution to th e world of co ntemporary mu sic. Periodical Rea ding Room through the joint efforts of The display is arranged chronologically. One sectio n, the bibliographers and the reference staff. Section 19, tirled "Pioneers of jazz," features images of cleven jazz Judaic Studies, and Section 20, Arabllslamic Studies, figures born in the 19th century who were active per­ co mprise betvvee n th em so me 100 journals in Engli sh, formers before the 1920S. These include Louis Arm­ Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish, French, Turkish, Persian, and strong, Eubie Blake, W. C. Handy, Fletcher Henderson, Kurdish. In the Newspaper Reading Room, roo, th e Bessie Sm ith and Willie "the Li on" Smith. Also pic­ number of current subscriptions has grown, in part in tured in this section are enrire orchestra s, such as response to rea ders' in creasing demand for foreign McKinney's Cotton Pi ckers, the King Oliver Band and news, panicularly from Eastern Europe and rhe Sov iet the Jimmie Lunceford Band. Other phorographs depicr Un ion, and in part a reflection of th e recent shifrs in the ten bands from the ' 920S and twenty bands fro m the Eastern European press. 1930S through 1950S. For morc information about these or any other Separate cases are dedicated ro Duke EllingtOn, changes in the public service areas in Sterling Library, Count Basie and Earl Hines. Some of the phorographs please see a reference librarian in rh e Ste rling Nave, or have been arranged according to instrument-with call 432-1775 during business hours. -MKI' cases devoted [0 "reed'! players, trumpeters or pianists. T he pharos in the exh ibit were recently acquired by the Uni versity through rhe generosity of an anonymous ~ Photo History of Jazz donor. In addition ro the photographs, the University An exhibit presenting a phorographic hisrory of jazz in has acquired a coll ecti on of jazz periodi cals from Mr. America-from the "pioneers" of rh e musical move­ Da nce . ment's early years to lege nds from its heyday-is on Mr. Dance amassed some 6,000 photOgr. phs of jazz display at the Sterling Memorial Libtary. Compiled by mu sicians over the course of his career. A nat iv e of Harold Samuel, mus ic librarian and professor adjunct England he began writing aboLlt jazz in 1935. He moved at the School of Music from the collection of noted jazz to the United Stares in 1937, where he wrote for such critic Stanley Dance, the exhibit includes hundreds of publications as Downbeat, Metronome, th e New phorographs. York Herald Tribune, and Jazz Journal, to which he

Jazz at Yankee Stad ium in 1940, with, from lefr, Car Anderson, Ju nior Raglin, AI Scars, Rex Stewart, Johnny Hodges, Duke Ell ington and Claude Jones. The photograph is fro m the Stanley Dance Coll ec ri on rece ntlr acquired by the Mu sic Libr:try. Other "Black Ja zz Photographs" are cu rrently on view in Sterling LibrOlrY. contributed a monthly column. He has written several ~ Boswell at the Beinecke books consisting mainly of interviews w ith musicians, In 1949, headlines coast to coast proclaimed YALE GETS including The World of Swing, The World of Duke BOSWE LL PAPERS , and with the best-selling publi cation Ellington, The World of Count Basie, and The IYforld of Boswell's London Journal, the name of this 18th-cen­ of Earl Hines. Mr. Dance had a particularly close rela­ tury Scottish lawyer and biographer became a house­ tionship with Duke Ellington, whom he accompanied hold word. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of James on several international tours; he worked occasionall y Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, the Beinecke as "unofficial" manager for Earl Hines and other jazz Library offers two exhibitions. greats. He won a Grammy Award in 1963 for his liner "The Making of Boswell's Life of j ohnson" explores notes to "The El lington Era" and received the ASCAP­ the making of the Life with drafts from the original Deems Taylor Award in 19 79 for his book Duke Elling­ manuscript, revisions, proofs, and other materials ton in Person: All 1ntimat.e Memoir (1978). demonstrating how the work was crafted. In an interview from his California home, Nir. Dance The second exhibit, "Treasures of Auchinleck: The said he began collecring photographs of the first figures Rest of the Boswells" traces the history of the Boswell on the jazz scene early in his career. Many of the pho­ family, Scottish landowners of over five hundred years. tographs are "q uite rare ," according to Mr. Dance, The old est item in the exhibition is a parchment docu­ since th eir value was not always appreciated ea rly on. ment of 1431, recording an inquest into the ownership For instance, a cac he of photographs of bandlea der of properties in Ayrshire in southwest Scotland. The Fletcher Henderson was rescued by trombone player founder of the family, the litigious David Boswell, Dickie Wells from the trash after Henderson's death. is represented by an indenture of 1436, complete with The photos were late r given to Mr. Dance for hi s col­ its original seals. Early rental accounts, sa le agree­ lection and are among the images acquired by the ments, charters, and documents concerning religious Un iversity. controversy between Presbyterian di ssenters and the The Stan ley Dance Photographic Coll ec ti on is avail­ Church of England are also on view. By the mid-17th able to research ers nationwide. Mr. Dance's col lection, century, the Boswell estate was heavily indebted; its combined with th e archives of Benny Goodman, Ted return to relative prosperity is evident in the detailed Lewis and John Hammond, make Yal e's Music Library 18th-century account books and in th e successful legal a significant repository for information on th e hi story career of James Boswell 's father, Alexander. of jazz. -LAT A complementary exhibition, "Johnson's London," is being shown at the Yal e Center for British Art. -CAS

Unpack ing Boswell at Y" lc; one of the seven trunks of docum ents some of which are on disp lay in the Heinecke Libra r}'. ~ Calendar of Exhibits

BEINECKE RARE BOOK LIBRARY MEDICAL LI BRARY The Making of Boswell's "Life of}ohnso1l" AchIevements in Cardiac Surgery through June through July The Rest of the Boswells: Treasures of Allchinleck through June STER LI NG MEMORIAL LIBRARY Fre,u;h Illustrated Books of the 16th alld I7th Black }a2Z photographs from the Stanley Cemuries Dance Collection July 8 through September April through Jun. Americans in Paris: Eugelle and Ma ria }olas O,'er There: The 71th Anl/iversary of World Wa. J July 8 through September July through September Yale and Conservatron DIVINITY LIBRARY July through September Ministry in Time of War-YDS and World War 11 through September The New Sterling Divinity Quadrangle of the I9JOS through September

Bookplate ma de b ~' the Spn nish nrrist Vi ncente Beltran for Irene D. Pace in '905. An internationally known collector, she bequ eathed her collection of [50,000 bookplates to Ya le in the [9605.

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