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Spring 2012 volume 25, no. 2 Duke University

Spring 2012 volume 25, no. 2 Libraries

University Librarian Deborah Jakubs Editor 4 Notes Aaron Welborn Members of the Library Advisory Board 10 Grand Central Station Harsha Murthy (Chair) ESQ T’81; H. Ross Arnold III T’67 L’76; Inside Duke’s Library Service Center Virginia Barber G’60; Douglas G. Beckstett T’74; Merilee Huser Bostock W’62; Sara H. Brandaleone W’65; Alan J. Brod P’04; Maryann Bruce T’82; Jerry P. Chappell W’62; Ann Q. Curry T’65; 18 Strap On Your Utility Belt Faith P. Diamond T’84; Barbara L. Dugan; Randolph R. Few Jr. E’82; Gretchen Schroder Fish W’68; Geoffrey Freeman; Harry H. Library Party Brings Out Duke’s Heroes and Villains Harkins Jr. T’73; Elizabeth L. Harper T’06; Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway; Harold Honickman; Richard H. Jones T’73; David L. Multimedia Project Studio Kim T’86; Carol L. Kohn W’60; Bradley J. Korman T’87; Steven H. 19 Korman P’86; Robert N. Laughlin Jr. T’68; Matthew M. McKenna The First Ten Years P’08; Douglas Eric McNeely T’84; Martha Hamilton Morris W’65; Eric Osserman T’81; Jeanne Shapiro Savitt T’89; Adam Silver T’84; Stewart Smith P’11; Michael Swotes T’85; Timothy D. Warmath 20 Foreign Exchange T’84; Victoria Bostock Waters T’85; Lizabeth B. Weaver; Rebecca H. Program Strengthens Ties Between Duke and Chilean Libraries Williams T’82; Tex Williams; Diana Williams-Shanks T’80; William W. Wilson P’02 Members of the Executive Committee of the Friends of the Duke 22 “Best Gift Ever” University Libraries Kathy World W’72 (Chair); Judith Ruderman G’76 (Vice Chair); 24 What Does Your Doctor Know? Bookmark Us Andrew Armacost; Pauletta Bracy; Canon Brodar T’13; Barbara Collie; Macey Colvin; Judy Dearlove; Leslie Dillon W’62; Jim Harper New Exhibit Explores Physician Education from Ancient Greece Stay connected with the Duke University Libraries T’59; Andi Houseworth T’03; Carson Holloway T’75; Deborah Lane to Duke Medicine and get daily updates on events, services, B’92; Walker Mabe T’79; Leland Phelps P’68; Frances Rollins W’58, P’91, ’93; Ruth Ross W’68; Sally Schauman W’59; Alice Sharpe tutorials, archival photos, trivia, and more. W’71; Mary Dunn Siedow; Deborah Spears G’87; David Stein; John 26 A Lifelong Love of Words, Poetry, and Libraries blogs.library.duke.edu Valentine T’71; Ginger Wilson W’62 Duke University Libraries (ISSN 0895-4909) is published twice a year by Duke University Libraries, Durham, NC 27708-0193 27 Meg’s Picks USA, (919) 660-5816. It is distributed to Duke University New and Noteworthy Books for the Find Us on Facebook faculty members and library staff, to members of The Friends of the Duke University Libraries, and to other libraries. Letters to Business-Minded Reader facebook.com/dukelibraries the editor, inquiries, and changes of address should be sent to the Editor, Duke University Libraries, Box 90193, Durham, NC 27708-0193 USA. 28 Writer’s Page Copyright © 2012 Duke University Libraries. Photography by To Free a Family Mark M. Zupan except where otherwise noted. Cover photo by Chris Hildreth, Duke Photography Designed by Pam Chastain Design, Durham, NC. 30 Giving Back by Giving Books Printed by Triangle Communications Group. Printed on recycled paper visit our online edition: library.duke.edu/magazine Notes Exhibits View the Libraries’ exhibits online at library.duke.edu/exhibits Perkins Gallery August/December Documenting the Politics of Food: Photographs from the April/July Rubenstein Library Collections What Does Your Doctor Know? In conjunction with the Student Action with From early Greek theory to modern-day practice, Farmworkers exhibit on display in the Perkins this exhibit traces the history of physician Gallery, this exhibit will feature photographs on education. Using a American agriculture and agricultural labor from the range of materials Rubenstein Library’s collections. The photographs from ancient were selected by students in Professor Charles papyri to a Duke Thompson’s Politics of Food class in spring 2012. University Medical School student’s Biddle Rare Book Room Cases first doctor bag, the April/July exhibit highlights From Blackface to Blaxploitation: Representations of the continuities African Americans in Film

and changes in the niversity Medical Center Archives African Americans have had a long and complex ways doctors have history in the American motion picture industry. Duke U learned and taught. Early twentieth-century films tended to cast A companion exhibit is open to the public in the black men and women in largely demeaning lower lobby of the Duke Medical Center Library. roles, which have gradually given way to more positive and multifaceted representations as more August/December African American actors, directors, writers, and Student Action With Farmworkers: 20 Years of Growing producers have helped shape American cinema. Farmworker Activists Nevertheless, portrayals of African Americans In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Student on the big screen continue to be fraught with Action with Farmworkers (SAF), this exhibit controversial images and stereotypical messages. explores the plight and dignity of the men and women who bring dinner to our table. SAF is a non-profit organization whose mission is “to bring students and farmworkers together to learn about each other’s lives, share resources and skills, improve conditions for farmworkers, and build diverse coalitions working for social change.” The ubenstein Library exhibit will include documentary photography and materials from the SAF Records held by the Duke Human Rights Archive.

Photography Gallery May/August

Archive of Documentary Arts, R Randolph Bezzant Holmes: Photographs of Northern India and the North West Frontier Province

Photos taken by Randolph Bezzant Holmes during his travels throughout India and ubenstein Library Central Asia in the early twentieth century. British photographer Randolph Bezzant Holmes (1888-1973) lived in the North West Frontier Province of British India for over fifty years and travelled extensively throughout the region, photographing much of northern India and Generally, the Perkins and Photography Central Asia. Holmes took many of the detailed galleries are open Monday-Saturday, landscapes and topographical photographs in this 9am–7pm, and 10am–7pm on Sunday. exhibit when he accompanied the British colonial Visit library.duke.edu/exhibits for more army during the Third Afghan War in 1919. information, or call (919) 684-3009 to confirm hours. Photo by Jeff Whetstone. Archive of Documentary Arts, R

4 Duke University Libraries Spring 2012 5 Notes Events May 9 Friends of the Duke University Libraries Annual Dinner This year’s annual dinner will feature a program on “The Unknown Doris Duke,” with guest speakers Mary Samouelian and Bridget Booher T’82, G’92. Samouelian is the Doris Duke Collection Archivist at Duke University Libraries. She has been working exclusively with Ms. Duke’s personal records and CHAT Festival Returns artifacts for over two years. Booher, the associate editor of Duke Magazine, is to the Triangle writing a biography of Doris Duke. Both will share their discoveries and insights on this captivating personality. Material from the Archive and rare footage A conference celebrating the many collisions and of Doris Duke will be on display. Invitations to the Friends Dinner have been intersections between technology, art, and the humanities came to Duke in February. The CHAT Festival (short for mailed to members. If you have not received an invitation and would like to Another March Madness attend, contact Lizzy Mottern at [email protected]. Special thanks to Collaborations: Humanities, Art and Technology) showcased In March, prominent historians from Duke University, the University of North Carolina presenting sponsor SunTrust Bank and corporate sponsors DeHaven’s Moving how digital technology is influencing the scholarly arts and at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, and Ohio State University gathered in and Transfer, Whole Foods Market, and Duke’s Gothic Bookshop. Wednesday, humanities. The festival is a joint effort between Duke, the Gothic Reading Room for a one-day symposium marking the sesquicentennial of the May 9, reception in Perkins Lobby and Biddle Rare Book Room at 6pm, dinner the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North American Civil War. The symposium, Another March Madness: The American Civil War in the von der Heyden Pavilion at 7pm Carolina State University. The biennial event debuted at UNC at 150, drew more than a hundred people and featured talks on a wide range of topics in 2010. Faculty and students from all three institutions took related to the war and its ongoing impact a century and a half later. The event coincided May 15 part. “This festival is meant to showcase all the ways the with a related exhibit in Perkins Library, “I Recall the Experience Sweet and Sad”: From A Long and Happy Life to Midstream: Reading and Celebrating the Works of digital is transforming the humanities,” said Victoria Szabo, Memories of the Civil War, which showcased the memoirs of men and women who lived Reynolds Price CHAT festival director and assistant research professor through the conflict, including Walt Whitman, whose work as an army hospital nurse To celebrate the publication of Reynolds Price’s final book, Midstream, as well of Visual Studies and New Media at Duke. “You can do inspired some of his greatest works. For more information, visit the symposium website: as the fiftieth anniversary of his first book, A Long and Happy Life, the Libraries things with digital tools that you can’t do otherwise. Digital library.duke.edu/civilwar. welcome a distinguished group of Price’s friends, family, and colleagues to production and circulation change the way you see things, Above: Doris Duke discuss his life, work, and legacy. The event will include a experience things and share your ideas.” The festival, which Right: Reynolds Price display of materials from the Reynolds Price Papers in the was co-sponsored by the Libraries, included more than Below: Duke at the Rubenstein Library, including early handwritten manuscripts of National Archives thirty panel discussions, art displays, and research projects A Long and Happy Life, rare photographs and letters, and more. that rely on digital technology, such as three-dimensional Tuesday, May 15, 7pm, Rubenstein Library, Gothic Reading modeling for historical reconstruction and the creation of Room virtual reality games.

June 6 Duke at the National Archives Duke University Libraries and the Duke Alumni Association host a special evening at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Guests will be invited to a reception in the Archivist’s Room, Laura Poitras followed by a tour of the museum and Rotunda, and remarks CIT Supports Team-Based Learning by Deborah Jakubs, Rita DiGiallonardo University Librarian & Vice Provost for Library Affairs; David Ferriero, Archivist On March 16, about seventy faculty and staff from across Duke participated of the United States (and former Duke University Librarian); in a workshop in Perkins Library on team-based learning, a course approach and Harsha Murthy, chair of the Duke University Libraries Advisory Board. To that makes extensive use of students working in standing teams. The approach register, visit www.dukealumni.com. Wednesday, June 6, 6:30pm, National has been successfully implemented at the Duke-National University of Archives, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. Singapore Medical School and is being examined as a way to foster innovative undergraduate instruction at Duke. Dean and Vice Provost Steve Nowicki October 24 discussed Duke’s interest in innovative teaching, putting team-based learning Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Visiting Filmmaker Series Presents Laura Poitras in context with other teaching techniques. Participants also heard from a range Save the date! Documentary film director and producer Laura Poitras was of Duke faculty and students, including chemistry professor Stephen Craig, nominated for an Academy Award, an Emmy, and an Independent Spirit Award who used team-based learning in Fall 2011 to teach Honors Chemistry without for My Country, My Country (2006) about the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Her lectures or traditional textbooks. The workshop was part of a series of events 2010 documentary The Oath won the “Excellence in Cinematography Award and projects on team-based learning organized by the Center for Instructional for U.S. Documentary” at Sundance. Poitras will visit campus for the Libraries’ Technology (CIT), part of the Duke University Libraries. CIT supports Duke’s Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Visiting Filmmaker series in October. The academic mission by helping instructors find innovative ways to achieve their series features artists whose work addresses significant contemporary topics teaching goals by assisting instructors with projects, sharing information about of social, political, economic, and cultural urgency. Wednesday, October 24, effective practices, and examining the effects of technology on teaching and Nasher Museum of Art learning. To learn more, visit cit.duke.edu. 6 Duke University Libraries Spring 2012 7 Notes

Mobile Madness at Lilly Library New Tools and Support for Open-Access To celebrate the exhibition Alexander Publishing Calder and Contemporary Art at As part of an effort to promote broader access Duke’s Nasher Museum of Art, Lilly to academic research, Duke University Libraries Library sponsored a mobile-making has launched a new service to help members contest for Duke students, staff of the Duke community create and publish and alumni. Awards were given peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journals. for entries in three categories: Open-access journals make published research most creative, most humorous, and available for free to anyone who has Internet most Duke. Shown here is Duke access. With the advent of online publishing, undergraduate Katherine Noel’s open access has emerged as an alternative entry using carved books to make an to the traditional fee- and subscription-based airplane and bombs, which took the model of scholarly publishing, which limits most creative prize. The contest drew access to those who can pay for content and over twenty entries, and winners the high overhead costs of printing. As one

elda Webb took home $100 for individuals and N of the first faculty members to use the new Women’s Health Pioneer Supports $200 for group entries. service, Joshua D. Sosin, Associate Editor of Bingham Center A Dickens of a Birthday Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, said “The Duke Libraries and the Department of Classical On February 7, women’s health pioneer Merle Hoffman visited the Rubenstein Library to Studies have long collaborated to provide free, read from her new memoir, Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought web-based access to some of the University’s Abortion from the Back Alley to the Boardroom. Hoffman has been a fearless advocate most ancient materials. We are thrilled to be for women’s health services for over forty years. After abortion laws were liberalized in able to extend that partnership to scholarly research. Socrates famously did not accept New York state in 1970, she founded Choices Women’s Medical Center, one of the first fees; this piece of critical infrastructure allows ambulatory surgical centers for women, which has become one of the largest and most Charles Dickens was the publishing phenomenon us to do the same!” comprehensive women’s medical facilities in the U.S. Last fall, Hoffman pledged $1 million of the Victorian era. His memorable characters, to endow the directorship of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture inventive prose, and suspenseful plots were at the Rubenstein Library. Her papers are part of the Bingham Center’s collections. Center immediately popular, and he remains one of director Laura Micham said Hoffman’s gift “will enable us to expand our activities and the world’s most widely read authors today. See blogs.library.duke.edu impact, bringing us closer to our goal of building one of the premier research centers for Dickens also transformed the business of writing, for more library news women’s history and culture in the world.” publishing, and selling literature. Throughout the 1850s and 1860s, he performed a series of dramatic public readings adapted from his own works, impersonating characters from famous scenes in Exhibits Librarian Receives Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Great Expectations, Duke and UNC Archives Face Off Presidential Service Award and other beloved novels. In celebration of Dickens’s 200th birthday, which is being celebrated Meg Brown, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter The deep-seated rivalry between the Blue Devils and Tar around the world this year, the Libraries invited Foundation Exhibits Librarian, was recently chosen to Heels isn’t limited to basketball. In March, the archives of the award-winning Duke author, professor of receive a Meritorious Service Award by Duke University two universities staged a friendly competition of their own. Theater Studies, and consummate Dickensian President Richard H. Brodhead. The awards, which are The rules were simple. Whichever institution got the most Michael Malone to re-enact these entertaining among the most prestigious honors given to Duke staff and new “Likes” for their Facebook page between the first Duke- performances. Malone, an unabashed fan of faculty, recognize employees’ distinctive contributions UNC men’s basketball game on February 8 and the rematch Dickens, performed before a standing-room only over the past year. Anyone who has ever wandered into on March 3 would win. The loser would be required to change crowd in the Rare Book Room on February 8. The Perkins Library and stopped to admire a lavishly illustrated their Facebook profile picture to an archival image of the event was held in conjunction with the exhibition sixteenth-century medical treatise or a letter penned opponent’s choosing for one week. Big stakes, indeed! Sadly, Charles Dickens: 200 Years of Commerce and by Walt Whitman himself is familiar with Brown’s work. As exhibits librarian, not only did UNC beat Duke on the court and win the ACC Controversy, outside of the Biddle Rare Book Room, she is responsible for the design, fabrication, and presentation of several major regular season title, but the UNC Archives edged out Duke featuring rare first editions of Dickens’s works library exhibits throughout the year. She also organizes exhibit-related events, University Archives 1,862 likes to 1,551. (There’s always next and other materials from the David M. Rubenstein publications, and outreach activities. Brown and the other Presidential Award year!) Of course, the real winners are the Facebook fans, who Rare Book & Manuscript Library. To see a video of winners were recognized by President Brodhead at a special awards luncheon on receive regular and edifying doses of history from their alma Malone reading from Dickens’s work, visit tinyurl. April 18 at the Inn. mater—a win/win all around. com/malonereadsdickens.

8 Duke University Libraries Spring 2012 9 Grand Central Station

Inside Duke’s Library Service Center

Ten years since it opened, the Libraries’ high-density repository is bigger and busier than ever. A look behind the scenes puts the work of running a modern-day research library in perspective.

10 DukeDuke UniversityUniversity LibrariesLibraries Spring 2012 11 Left: Although the LSC is not a browseable collection, it does have a reading room for researchers who want to use materials on-site, like this Duke graduate student in Art, Art History, and Visual Studies. Opposite and Below: Daniel Walker, Library Assistant at the LSC, scans some journals as they return from circulation and uses a special lift to retrieve and reshelve items in the facility.

Welcome to Marvin Tillman’s world, where the forecast is always 50 degrees with 30 percent humidity. Those are ideal conditions for preserving books and paper, says Tillman. He should know. As head of Duke’s Library Service Center (LSC), he oversees a state-of-the-art, high-density repository designed to extend the life of printed materials by fifty years or more. Most students and faculty at Duke never see the LSC. “A lot of people don’t know we even exist,” Tillman says. But those who Wdo venture out here are inevitably surprised by what they find. Tucked away in an industrial park a few miles south of downtown Durham, it might look like just another warehouse. But inside, a massive steel door rolls back to reveal the biggest bookshelves you’ve ever seen. Each one is three stories tall and almost as long as a football field. Aisles and aisles of densely packed volumes seem to go on—and up—forever. The air is cool and dry, and mercury-vapor lights (which won’t damage paper and ink) cast an orange glow over the awe-inspiring scene. The LSC houses more than four million books, documents, and archival materials belonging to Duke and the library systems of several other Triangle area institutions. A new addition is currently being constructed with room for three million more. At full capacity, the LSC will be able to accommodate nearly Tucked away in an industrial park nine million volumes—more than all the materials in Duke’s ten libraries combined. a few miles south of downtown Most of the items kept here see only occasional use, so housing them off campus in a controlled environment makes sense. Durham, it might look like just It also frees up valuable library space for students and researchers while still maintaining quick and easy access to everything. another warehouse. But inside, But the LSC is more than a glorified storage depot. I“ t’s more like Grand Central Station,” Tillman says. a massive steel door rolls back Indeed, the most important job for Tillman and his staff is rapidly finding and delivering materials requested from those to reveal the biggest bookshelves colossal stacks. And they take pride in meeting the heavy demand. you’ve ever seen.

12 Duke University Libraries Spring 2012 13 Left: Marvin Tillman, Head of the Library Service Center Below: Library Assistant Emmanuel Senga sorts books and journals into trays. Items in the LSC are grouped by size, rather than call number. Each item is barcoded, and each barcode is associated with a specific tray and shelf. Opposite: Every book and tray is scanned multiple times, as demonstrated by Library Assistant Dexter McCrae. Repetitive security measures ensure that nothing ever gets lost.

“We don’t believe in making patrons wait,” he says. Let’s say you’re interested in some obscure, out-of-print tract you find mentioned in a footnote. You look it up in the online catalog and see that it’s somewhere in the LSC. With the click of a mouse, it can be pulled and delivered to the Duke library of your choice within 24 hours, and typically less. “Last week, under a publication deadline, I struggled to track down some elusive articles from the 1930s and 1940s, in French, by some of the lesser-known pioneers in my field,” wrote one Duke professor of statistics recently. “Without much hope, I “Without much hope, I submitted submitted a request on Friday for a book I knew we had, but alas it was in the off-site storage facility. Early Saturday, I learned that the a request on Friday for a book I book was being held for me in Perkins. I had expected to wait days or even weeks. The library got this material for me in hours!” knew we had, but alas it was in Such testimonials are common. On any given day, some 1,500 items are checked in or out from the LSC. The facility has the off-site storage facility. Early special hydraulic lifts for fetching items from the highest shelves, and a delivery truck makes runs to campus every morning and Saturday, I learned that the book afternoon. What’s even more impressive: even with four million was being held for me in Perkins. I volumes to keep track of, nothing ever gets lost. In a regular library, items can drift from their proper had expected to wait days or even places. Patrons sometimes put things back on the wrong shelf, or leave them behind in strange places. “That doesn’t happen here,” weeks. The library got this material Tillman says. “We never have to do inventory, because nothing comes in or goes out without being barcoded and scanned. So you for me in hours!” never have to go looking for it.” Although Duke manages and staffs the Library Service Center, the facility also provides storage and access services for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, and North Carolina Central University. (Duke and UNC actually split the cost of the first LSC expansion in

14 Duke University Libraries Spring 2012 15 Left and opposite: When completed later this year, the new addition to the LSC will increase the facility’s capacity to nine million volumes. Below: Senior Library Assistant Earl Alston scans articles that will be emailed to students and faculty. In addition to handling physical items, the LSC digitizes some materials on-site for speedier delivery to researchers.

2007. Likewise, UNC has signed a thirty-year storage agreement to secure half of the capacity in the current expansion project.) It’s one more example of how all four institutions benefit from their close Duke’s Library Service Center geographic proximity. By the Numbers The consortial universities pay Duke the cost of having their materials processed, shelved, and retrieved. The LSC also stores Volumes Held: Approximately 4 million materials at no charge for the Durham County Library, the Full Number of items belonging to Duke: 2,829,552 Frame Documentary Film Festival, the American Dance Festival, Now, with the final phase of the UNC: 1,121,077 and the History Society as part of the university’s NC State: 18,610 service to the community. Perkins Project about to begin, NCCU: 15,761 Ten years ago, when the LSC was built, it played a crucial Durham County Library: 15,000 role in the initial phases of the Perkins Project, the multi-year the LSC is gearing up to receive expansion and renovation of Duke’s main library complex. All of Current Capacity: 6 million volumes those books and materials had to go somewhere while the hard-hat some 20,000 linear feet of books Expected Capacity (after new addition): 9 million volumes work was being done, and everything had to remain quickly and Average Daily Items Checked In/Out: 1,500 easily accessible to students and researchers. and archival materials that must Now, with the final phase of the Perkins Project about to Year-round Environmental Controls: 50° F, 30% Relative Humidity begin, the LSC is gearing up to receive some 20,000 linear feet of be moved for the renovation of books and archival materials that must be moved for the renovation of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. That’s the David M. Rubenstein Rare almost four miles of collection material, much of it irreplaceable and requiring careful handling. Another 10,000 or so linear feet will Book & Manuscript Library. move to the Rubenstein Library’s temporary renovation headquarters on the third floor of Perkins Library. That’s almost four miles of Tillman and his staff are ready. The new addition to the LSC is on track to be completed by October 2012, just in time to absorb collection material, much of the mountain of material coming their way. In the meantime, they’ll continue to keep the Libraries’ it irreplaceable and requiring “Grand Central Station” running smoothly, and every item on those enormous shelves accounted for. careful handling.

16 Duke University Libraries Spring 2012 17 Strap on Your Utility Belt Library Party Brings Out Duke’s Heroes and Villains The Library Party is one of the largest, most anticipated, and most unusual events at Duke. The entire campus is invited. Once again, the Libraries teamed up with the Duke Marketing Club to organize this year’s event, which took place on February 24 and drew over 3,000 students, faculty, staff, and alumni to Perkins Library for a night of sophisticated fun and entertainment. The theme for this year’s party—Heroes and Villains—was inspired by a truly remarkable collection of comic books at Duke that was assembled over the course of forty years by two brothers who live in Durham. Edwin and Terry Murray have been avid collectors of comic books and other articles of “pulp culture” since childhood. In 2003, the Murray brothers donated their comic book collection to Duke University Libraries. It took five truckloads and nine months to move all those Green Lanterns, Fantastic Fours, and X-Men, which are now preserved in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke. The Murray Comic Book Collection includes over 65,000 comics from the 1930s to the present, making it one of the largest archival comic collections in the world. Although not your standard research library fare, comic books provide a fascinating reflection of American society and culture. But comics are also a commercial art form. That’s why this year’s party was a joint production of the Duke University Libraries and the Duke Marketing Club, which offers experience to Duke students interested in Multimedia Project Studio marketing and advertising careers. And when superheroes, librarians, and marketing gurus The First Ten Years unite—watch out, agents of ignorance and enemies of fun! ne of two specialized The relocated facility will build on DiGiallonardo Holloway University traffic, given the increased demand cheirer Omultimedia production labs successful collaborations between Librarian and Vice Provost for for graphic and video resources Watch a video about the Library at Duke will move to a renovated the Libraries and Duke’s Office of Library Affairs. “OIT’s second as more faculty incorporate space inside Bostock Library in the Information Technology, which multimedia lab on East Campus multimedia projects into their Party on our YouTube Channel: coming months. manages the labs. has been a great fit in Lilly Library, courses. youtube.com/dukeunivlibraries so this is a natural move.”

Photos courtesy Daniel S The West Campus branch of “The Multimedia Project Studio Michael Faber, Multimedia Above: Scenes from the Heroes and Villains Library Party on February 24. Even the Multimedia Project Studio will be a welcome addition to the Both labs feature high-end, Specialist and MPS lab manager, Duke President Richard Brodhead and wife Cindy Brodhead enjoyed the fun. (MPS), currently housed in the Perkins/Bostock library complex, integrated hardware and software created this infographic to illustrate Old Chemistry building, will making this some of the most for creating and editing graphics, the dramatic growth and usage Right: Selections from the Edwin and Terry Murray Comic Book Collection. relocate to the lower level of technology-rich space on campus,” web pages, audio and video. The of the labs during their first ten Bostock, adjacent to the Link. said Deborah Jakubs, Rita new location should see increased years.

18 Duke University Libraries Spring 2012 19 It has been two years since a massive “Collaborating with Tatiana and Paula has 8.8-magnitude earthquake devastated central Chile. afforded us the opportunity to consider the universal According to official sources, it was the sixth largest needs of the academic community,” said Debra Kurtz, Foreign Exchange quake ever recorded. Over 500 people lost their lives, Head of Digital Experience Services and one of the and nearly one in ten Chileans lost their homes. Duke representatives who will travel to Chile in June. The financial aftershocks were also severe. The “We look forward to meeting the second group of Program Strengthens Ties Between Duke and Chilean Libraries United Nations estimates that the earthquake cost Chilean librarians and to our own trips to Santiago Chile’s economy between $15 and $30 billion. and Concepción. If you want a fresh perspective on the Right and bottom left: The new library building Among the many people and institutions truly collaborative nature of global research, there’s no at the Universidad del Bío-Bío. affected, the earthquake had serious repercussions for substitute for immersing yourself in other cultures.” Chilean universities and their libraries in the area near In recent years, Duke has hosted librarians from Bottom right: Members of the Duke-Chile Library Exchange (left to right), Patrick Stawski, the epicenter, Concepción. Severely damaged library Mali, Turkey, Chile, China, and South Africa, and Paula Díaz, Aisha Harvey, Holly Ackerman, buildings had to be closed, books were moved to other countries have played host to our librarians as Debra Kurtz, and Tatiana Morales. storage, and library services were suspended. well. It’s one of many ways the Duke Libraries reflect In June 2010, a hundred days after the disaster, a the university’s global outlook and support Duke’s delegation co-sponsored by the U.S. State Department many international academic programs and networks. and the American Council on Education toured the “Libraries throughout the world are experiencing affected universities. One of the members of that great changes, and the more we can share expertise, delegation was Deborah Jakubs, Rita DiGiallonardo ideas, and models of service, the more we all stand to Holloway University Librarian and Vice Provost for gain,” said Deborah Jakubs. “If previous programs of Library Affairs at Duke. this type are any indication, the relationships formed Jakubs spoke with the directors of the five between individuals as well as inter-institutionally will Chilean libraries hit hardest by the earthquake and endure well beyond the grant period, leading to other discussed measures that would assist their recovery joint projects in the future.” efforts. Everyone agreed that a formal exchange of ideas, expertise, and face-to-face collaboration would offer extensive benefits to all institutions involved. The first of those exchanges took place The Duke-Chile Library Exchange: this spring, thanks to a grant from the Carnegie Participating People and Institutions Corporation of New York. Tatiana Morales, librarian at the Universidad del Bío-Bío, and Paula Díaz of the Duke University Libraries Representatives Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción Holly Ackerman, Librarian for Latin American, visited the Duke University Libraries for three weeks in March. They are the first of five librarians from Chilean Iberian and Latino Studies universities who will visit Duke this year to observe the Aisha Harvey, Head of Collection Development workings of a U.S. research library and take back ideas Debra Kurtz, Head of Digital Experience Services to their respective universities. Patrick Stawski, Human Rights Archivist Because Duke is a member of the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN), the visiting Chilean Library Representatives librarians will also meet with colleagues from the Sandra Carrizo, Universidad de Talca University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Paula Díaz, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Carolina Central University, and North Carolina Concepción State University to observe different models of library Manuel González, Universidad de Concepción organization and learn about TRLN’s collaborative Carmen Gloria Herrera, Universidad Católica del Maule interlibrary programs. Meanwhile, in May and June, Duke will Tatiana Morales, Universidad del Bío-Bío send four library staff members to Chile to see the affected libraries up-close, and consult on collection In addition, the Pontifícia Universidad Católica in Santiago development, strategic planning, electronic resource will host the Duke delegation for their initial two days in Chile. management, and instructional technology.

20 Duke University Libraries Spring 2012 21 “Best Gift Ever” Five years after her father’s death, a woman hears his voice again through a Duke online oral history

Pinkard, who lived with “I can’t begin to tell you how powerful it was,” said Madonna her father at the time, thought Chism Pinkard, a local television talk show host, of what it the surprise box of books was a was like to hear her father’s voiceBy five Camille years Jacksonafter he died. “If scam. She thought her father’s credit card had been charged and I closed my eyes I could have swore Daddy was sitting right chided Ortiz for taking advantage next to me,” she said. “It was such a powerful moment.” of senior citizens. He corrected her and explained the oral history project. Ortiz had conducted the eventeen years ago, “My father has one interview during Chism’s class Pinkard’s father Tolbert remaining sister and she just reunion at the Fargo Agricultural Chism of Brinkley, turned 90. For her to hear that, School in Arkansas. Arkansas, contributed to you must understand ... how “I felt like this was a San oral history project by Duke’s much it meant,” said Pinkard, groundbreaking project,” Pinkard Center for Documentary Studies. who shared her father’s digitized said. “Jim Crow doesn’t exist but The project recorded stories told oral history on the Chism family his sons and daughters do. The by older African-Americans who Facebook page. book was very powerful.” survived the Jim Crow South. Chism shared many stories It inspired Pinkard to It was later turned into a book, with his daughter about what life continue exploring her family Remembering Jim Crow (2001). was like during Jim Crow. history. She can now trace her In November 2011, Duke “As a child, we heard all of family back to the 1870s.

nc. University Libraries posted 100 these stories about how important “It gave me even more of a digitized versions of the oral it is to go to school. He had to go profound respect for Daddy. He

elevision, I histories online, complete with to a school for colored students would tell me about (historical transcripts, as part of a new digital only. We always heard how moments like) the Trail of collection called “Behind the Veil.” important it was to receive an Tears and how our people were Listen to Tolbert Chism’s interview and other The interviews are also available on education and how hard it was for transplanted from the Mississippi

WFMJ/WBCB T Behind the Veil oral histories online: iTunes U. him to receive,” Pinkard said. Delta,” said Pinkard. Madonna Chism Pinkard When the university Yet, she says her father did Hearing her father’s voice library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/behindtheveil announced news of the digitized not tell her about his involvement again, she said, was “the best archive, Pinkard, the community with the oral history project, Christmas gift ever.” relations director at an NBC nor that he was included in affiliate in Youngstown, Ohio, Remembering Jim Crow. Camille Jackson is a communications received the announcement. In 1995, Paul Ortiz, specialist in the Duke Office of News and “It shocked me,” said the graduate student who’d Communications. Pinkard, who knew about the interviewed Chism, sent a box book but not the digitized archive. of complimentary copies of She said hearing her father’s voice Remembering Jim Crow to the again was “unbelievable.” Chism home.

22 Duke University Libraries Spring 2012 23 Check out the exhibit online: exhibits.library. duke.edu

Throughout history, certain people have taken responsibility for healing the sick, the wounded, and the suffering. Medical knowledge that was once passed down verbally gradually became more codified in writing and professionalized through apprenticeships and university education. Over the course of centuries, the licensed physician of today emerged.

As the practice of medicine evolved, so too did medical David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, the training and education. Certain core subjects like anatomy have exhibit explores the age-old question every person in need of been part of the curriculum for over five hundred years. But medical care has asked at some point: What Does Your Doctor educational methodologies have advanced from oral tradition to Know? physical autopsy to video instruction and, now, virtual simulation. The exhibition, divided between Perkins Library and the But just how different is the training of a Duke medical Duke Medical Center Library, will be on display April 17 – student today from physician education in, say, Padua in July 31. the sixteenth century, or early nineteenth-century American An opening reception will take place Wednesday, April 25, universities? at 4 p.m. in Rubenstein Library’s Biddle Rare Book Room. The A new exhibition spanning two Duke libraries traces the event will feature a lecture on medical education by Dr. Edward history of medical education, from the days of ancient Greece to Buckley, Vice Dean of Medical Education in the Duke School the founding of Duke University’s School of Medicine. Drawing of Medicine. The exhibition and reception are free and open to on a range of materials from the Duke University Medical Center the public. Archives and the History of Medicine Collections in the

24 DukeDuke UniversityUniversity LibrariesLibraries SpringSpring 20122012 2525 Meg’s Picks A Lifelong Love of Words, New and Noteworthy Books for the Business-Minded Reader

Poetry, and Libraries Reviewed by Meg Trauner, Director of Ford Library at Duke’s

On November 6, 2011, the Duke The Red Market: University Libraries lost a longtime prime lenders often score high on the psychopath test, On the Trail of the made loans to where their love of power and lack of friend and cherished colleague. World’s Organ unqualified empathy are useful. Pairing an amusing Myrna Ruth Kanner Jackson, 76, Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood borrowers tone with nightmarish details, Ronson worked in fundraising for many Farmers and Child by falsifying delivers an engaging read about the impact years at Duke and served as the Traffickers documents, psychopaths have on people and society. Libraries’ Director of Development By Scott M. forging from 1991 to 1999. During that time, Carney signatures, A First-Rate Madness: (William misrepresenting she helped usher in a period of Uncovering the interest rates, Morrow, 2011) Links Between

tremendous organizational growth Photos courtesy Cheryl Thomas Scott Carney inflating and change. Leadership and investigates the deeply secretive, global appraisals, and charging exorbitant fees. Mental Illness Jackson was responsible for raising much-needed The choice had personal significance for Jackson, marketplace for blood, bones, and organs, These loans were bundled and sold on Wall By S. Nassir awareness, and financial support, for the Perkins Project, who was a poet herself. She was a member of a local writing where human hearts, kidneys, other Street to unsuspecting investors by firms Ghaemi a multi-year library renovation project that began with the group and published a number of poems throughout her life, “spare parts” are traded like commodities. like Lehman Brothers, which bankrolled (Penguin, 2011) construction of Bostock Library and the von der Heyden including one that was recognized in the Independent Weekly Under this system, organ donors cannot Ameriquest. In this excellent read, Psychiatrist Pavilion, followed by the complete renovation of Perkins poetry contest. She counted Donne, Marvel, and Yeats as her be paid and must remain anonymous for Michael Hudson uses the rise and fall of Nassir Ghaemi Library. (The final phase of the Perkins Project will begin favorite poets. medical privacy reasons. Since recipients Ameriquest and Lehman to tell the larger examines the this year, with the upcoming renovation of the David M. Her love of language made her an effective pay thousands of dollars for healthy story of the sub-prime mortgage industry, relationship between mental illness and Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.) communicator. She took pride in helping her staff become transplants, middlemen are profiting which played a major role in the global leadership in the lives of eight outstanding She also established and recruited the first Library better writers, and helping them advance to better positions. handsomely and good health is being economic crisis. leaders, including Lincoln, Churchill Advisory Board, a group of library friends and advocates with Those same talents also made her a gifted teacher. After transferred from the destitute to the and media entrepreneur Ted Turner. wealthy. Carney’s account contains a few The Psychopath Among his findings: in times of peace the means, expertise, and dedication to bring the Libraries’ retiring from the Libraries, Jackson taught reading at Test: A Journey harrowing stories about the exploitation of and prosperity, the ideal leader is someone needs to the attention of the wider university community. Lakewood Elementary School, and she taught poetry for a through the Several of the board’s inaugural members still serve on it semester at a charter school for at-risk high school students. third-world nations, but most of the book Madness Industry with good mental health who meets today. One of them, Virginia Barber G’60, recently said of Her passion for Shakespeare, opera, jazz, and the American is a thoughtful treatment of the ethical By Jon Ronson the community’s expectations. Yet the Jackson, “She was an outstanding human being, and I have songbook gave her a wealth of things to draw upon to reach issues involved in exchanging money for (Riverhead personal qualities associated with mental always been immensely grateful to her for recruiting me to the her students. human flesh. If each human life is precious Books, 2011) illness, such as depression and bipolar Library Advisory Board, the best board I’ve ever served on or According to Jackson’s partner Cheryl Thomas, “Myrna and equal, Carney argues, perhaps the How do disorder—realism, empathy, resilience, and could ever imagine.” was fearless, funny, strong, and courageous. She could get market is not the best way to allocate you spot a creativity—are the very ones that make A native Philadelphian and graduate of the University people on board with an idea. She liked to use ‘jolly’ as a health and well-being. psychopath? effective leaders in times of crisis. of Pennsylvania, Myrna Jackson came to Durham in 1965. verb—as in to jolly someone along, and she was good at it.” Jon Ronson Those who suffer from depression, for The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders She went to work for Duke in 1977, when she began editing In addition to Thomas, Jackson is survived by her (The Men example, are far better than normal and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America and people at anticipating threats, a benefit for for the Duke Press and took on freelance assignments for daughter and son-in-law, Laura Jackson and James Biddell Spawned a Global Crisis Who Stare at Goats) interviewed doctors, generals in time of war. Ghaemi concludes Chancellor Kenneth Pye, who encouraged her to pursue a of Raleigh; her sister and brother-in-law, Elenore and Phillip By Michael W. Hudson researchers, and criminals to identify that while insanity is painful for the career in development. To which Jackson characteristically Weinberg of California; and her nephews, William and David (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2010) twenty key attributes. Psychopaths are sufferer, sometimes it confers a vital benefit replied, “But I don’t know anything about real estate.” Weinberg, also of California. Needless to say, she also leaves This is the story of Ameriquest Mortgage, smart, charming, and impulsive. They to society. In 1991, former library director Jerry Campbell behind many friends in Durham, at Duke, and around the the leader in the sub-prime mortgage are easily bored, have an inflated sense recruited her as the Libraries’ development director, a role she country. industry, and its CEO Roland Arnall. of self-worth, and blame others for their continued under former Vice Provost and University Librarian A memorial service and reception in Myrna Jackson’s For years, Ameriquest and other sub- mistakes. Corporate and political leaders David Ferriero. In 1992, Jackson helped to select the Duke honor will be held at 3 p.m. on May 6, 2012, in the von der University Libraries’ landmark four-millionth volume, a 1633 Heyden Pavilion. To read more of Meg’s Picks, or to find out what’s going on the Ford Library, first edition of John Donne’s Poems. follow the Ford Library blog at blogs.fuqua.duke.edu/fordlibrary.

26 Duke University Libraries SpringSpring 20122012 2727 Giving Back by Giving Books

hen John Hoy T’67 was a student at Duke, the will be added to the book’s online catalog library wasn’t a place you could simply browse listing, noting that the title has been around. The stacks were closed to undergraduates, provided in recognition of the honoree. W and librarians weren’t always trained to be as warm John liked the idea so much he and friendly as they are today. named books in memory of each of his Nevertheless, the Florida circuit court judge has fond parents, and in honor of his wife and memories of the countless hours he spent studying in the Gothic both sons. “It was a way to say thank you Reading Room, absorbing the lessons of American and world to my parents, to tell my children how history. And proud I am of them, and to express my his ties to the love for my wife,” he said. university remain Best of all, it’s a gift that has a lasting impact. And it strong today. comes with the satisfaction of knowing that the people who have Beth Doyle He volunteers enriched our lives will continue, in some small way, to enrich the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter with the Alumni lives of others. Senior Conservator Association “The Beach Boys said it best,” John said. “Be true to Head, Conservation Services Verne and Tanya Roberts to interview your school.” Conservation Lab prospective students applying Left: John Hoy (right) with wife Alesia and son Logan in the to Duke, and he Gothic Reading Room. and his wife Alesia are the proud parents of one son who is a Duke graduate and another who is about to be. About the Honoring with Books Program Their older son Alex earned a bachelor’s degree in 2009, When you make a gift of $100 or more, our librarians will double-majoring in political science and history and minoring select a new book in one of 25 different subject areas of in economics. Their younger son Logan will graduate this spring your choosing. Once the book is selected, an electronic with a double major in electrical and computer engineering and bookplate with your honoree’s name will appear in economics. Logan has also been accepted into Duke’s Master the book’s online library catalog record. Because the of Engineering Management program. He has already started bookplates are electronic, it’s easy to share them with coursework in that program and expects to complete the degree friends and family by simply emailing a link. CRAZY SMART in 2013. According to John, both boys practically lived in Perkins Honoring someone with a library book is a wonderful way Every day, another piece of history threatens to disappear. Book bindings crack. Library. “So why wouldn’t I say thanks?” he said. to thank and acknowledge parents, grandparents, children, Newspapers crumble. The faces in old photographs fade away. friends, colleagues, and others who have enriched our The Hoy family has supported the Duke Libraries for many Preserving the holdings of a world-class research library is important work, but it comes years, and in many ways. A group study room in Bostock Library lives. It’s also a great way mark important milestones, such with certain challenges. as birthdays, births, weddings, anniversaries, retirements, is named in honor of John’s parents, Franklin and Margaret Take this little Blue Devil. He was someone’s Duke souvenir, purchased in 1938 and recently Hoy. And John and Alesia regularly contribute to the Libraries’ and personal achievements. (Graduation will be here donated to the University Archives. When he arrived in the conservation lab, he needed annual fund. before you know it!) special attention. This year, John wanted to do something different with his Your honoree will receive a notice from the Duke University That’s why our conservators are trained and equipped to handle everything from medieval annual donation. He still wanted to support the Libraries, but he Libraries about your gift and their electronic bookplate. manuscripts to comic books and medical instruments. And yes, even felt-and-straw dolls. also wanted to personalize his gift in some way. By honoring someone with a book in the Duke University History comes in many forms, and we aim to keep them all. That’s not just smart. John looked into the Libraries’ Honoring with Books Libraries, you’re not only giving a memorable gift to them. That’s crazy smart. program, which allows you to pay tribute to a special person by You’re making a gift to the entire Duke community. Do something historic. Support Duke University Libraries. naming a book in their honor. For $100, the library will purchase Find out more: library.duke.edu/support/give a book in a subject area of your choosing. An electronic bookplate library.duke.edu/crazysmart

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