The University Extra Volume 13 of Chicago Number 1 Fall 2008 Library Library Reports & Announcements Libra www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/libra/ The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library Recollections of Regenstein Inspired Mansuetos’ Gift The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library is being named in honor of two University of Chicago alumni in recognition of their extraordinary $25 million gift to the University.
“Like most students at the University, Helmut Jahn’s rendering of the view of the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library from the south. we found the library to be a central part of the experience. Our typical days Mansueto Library Construction Begins included going to Regenstein every night,” Joe Mansueto said. “So when we Construction of the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, Winter 2010 – Summer 2010 were looking to give a gift to the school, at 57th Street and Ellis Avenue, began on September ASRS a new library resonated with us.” 15 and will continue through 2010. Major phases of The automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) is In 1984, Joe Mansueto, AB’78, MBA’80, construction include the following: assembled on the lower level. founded Morningstar, Inc., a premier September 15, 2008 – September – December 2010 investment research firm, where Rika, Spring 2009 AB’91, worked as an investment analyst. Completion of Mansueto Construction Excavation and Slurry Wall and Loading of Materials Read more about the Mansuetos at Construction Finishing work is completed and materials from chronicle.uchicago.edu/080515/ The site is prepared, the hole for the structure is dug, campus libraries are loaded into the ASRS. Faculty, mansuetos.shtml. and the slurry wall is constructed. students, staff, and visiting scholars will begin using Spring 2009 – Summer 2010 the new Library in 2011.
Floor and Dome Construction The lower level and ground floor are put in and the For the latest information about ongoing construction dome is constructed. work, visit mansueto.lib.uchicago.edu/thismonth.
Autumn 2009 – Summer 2010
Bridge, Connections and Interior Work The bridge from Mansueto to Regenstein is built, the pathway through Regenstein to the bridge is constructed, and Mansueto interior work is finished. A cross-section of the Mansueto Library shows the glass dome above ground and the ASRS below ground. For more information, visit mansueto.lib.uchicago.edu. The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library
Inside the Mansueto Library
Ground Floor Grand Reading Room: This 8,000- square-foot room will provide comfortable seating for 150 faculty, students and visiting scholars under a soaring elliptical glass dome. Preservation Department: The Library’s capacity to preserve its rich collections will be Helmut Jahn’s rendering of a view from the Grand Reading Room. greatly expanded in the new 6,000-square-foot Mansueto Library’s area, which includes: ● Conservation Laboratory: Special Bold Design and Central Location paper washing sinks, fume hoods for Enable Groundbreaking Research chemical treatments, bookbinding equipment and flexible workstations will By building the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library dome. By opening up collection storage space in be used to conserve original artifacts. at the heart of campus, the University of Chicago the campus libraries, the Mansueto Library will ● Digital Technology Laboratory: Library creates new spaces and tools for collections, enable the rethinking and repurposing of spaces in Large-format digital cameras will be used preservation, and collaboration. libraries across campus, creating the opportunity to create high-resolution digital images for new individual and group study spaces, and of unique book and paper materials that “Groundbreaking research thrives on ready access increasing opportunities for collaborative work are too fragile for traditional conservation to a wealth of scholarly materials and inspiring within these libraries’ walls. treatment or frequent handling. spaces for their exploration. The Joe and Rika Circulation Service Center: Library users Mansueto Library gives us both,” said Judith The Mansueto Library will also house check out materials they requested from the Nadler, Director and University Librarian. state-of-the-art conservation and digital technology laboratories that will preserve ASRS and obtain information from Library staff. The University of Chicago Library is the only manuscripts and other rare materials, in their Lower Level top research library in North America acting to original form and through digitization. This work Automated Storage and Retrieval keep its entire collection on campus for the next will enable long-distance research and innovative System (ASRS): This system will shelve 20 years. The Mansueto Library, designed by approaches to scholarly collaboration. renowned architect Helmut Jahn, will provide materials underground by size rather than on-campus storage capacity for an additional For more information, visit mansueto.lib. library classification, in racks extending 3.5 million volumes, bringing the library uchicago.edu. 50 feet down, with a capacity to hold 3.5 system’s total capacity to 11 million print million volumes. volumes when full. Its high-density automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) requires one-seventh of the space of regular stacks. When a request is made for material stored in the system, it will be retrieved within minutes by a robotic crane—unlike retrieval from off-site storage facilities, where it may take up to three days to receive requested material. Helmut Jahn’s A cross-disciplinary collection of materials from rendering of the ground all of the existing libraries on campus will be floor of the united in the Mansueto Library, and scholars from Mansueto all disciplines will enjoy working in the Grand Library. Reading Room under a soaring elliptical glass
For more information, visit mansueto.lib.uchicago.edu. The University
Volume 13 of Chicago Number 1 Library Fall 2008 Library Reports & Announcements Libra www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/libra/ In this issue:
High–Tech Classrooms 1
Library Connection at Harper 2
Computing at Crerar 3
From the Director 4
Faces of the Library 5
At Your Fingertips 5
The Kathleen A. Zar Room (Photo by Lloyd DeGrane) Exhibitions 6
Faculty Invited to Schedule Classes and Gather Spontaneously in High-Tech Library Meeting Spaces
The Library recently opened several new or renovated up to 50 people on demand. This room is perfect for classrooms and meeting spaces in the Crerar, meetings that combine lectures with break-out sessions. D’Angelo and Regenstein libraries. Rooms have Regenstein 207 and 523: Audio and video been equipped with video technology and Internet recordings in numerous formats can be shown connections and can be reserved in advance. Faculty, in these rooms, which are both equipped with an students, and staff are also welcome to gather in international VCR, a multi-region international most rooms spontaneously when they are not already DVD/VCR player, a ceiling-mounted projector, and reserved or in use. a retractable projection screen. In addition, there Kathleen A. Zar Room, Crerar 1st floor: A are video and audio cables available to easily project technology-equipped space for training programs, content from your laptop. Wireless is available in both lectures, seminars, classes, and informal gatherings, rooms, as is an analog phone line that can be used Libra (Library Reports and the Zar Room can be rapidly reconfigured to facilitate with a spider phone for webinars. Room 207 seats 20, Announcements) is a newsletter both large lectures and small group work styles. and Room 523 seats 35. When not reserved or in use, from the University of Chicago Equipped with a projector and retractable projection the keys to the rooms may be checked out from the Library, written for the faculty and screen, a DVD player with a 42-inch monitor, and circulation desk by faculty, students and staff for up the University community. If you a wide variety of comfortable, moveable chairs and to 4 hours. These rooms are well suited for rehearsing have questions or comments tables, the room can seat up to 20 people. A folding presentations with an audio or video component. about this issue of Libra, please partition can be opened to create a larger space for contact Rachel Rosenberg at 773-834-1519 or continued on page 3 [email protected]. New Harper “Library Connection” Will Serve 21st-Century College Students
By Rebecca Starkey, Reference Librarian/ Collaboration: Economics tutors meet with Instruction Services Specialist a librarian about possible data sources for an upcoming assignment. For nearly a century, College students have studied in the grand reading rooms of the Networking: The College Class Librarians hold William Rainey Harper Memorial Library. But a coffee hour for their students. while past generations of students surrounded themselves with books and writing paper, today’s Upon its opening, students can expect to find undergraduates are just as likely to be listening an open, welcoming learning space at the to a music assignment on their iPod, reading an Center where they can discover new information e-book, or searching databases on their laptop. resources and meet library staff who can guide them through the research process. The space As the research and study needs of today’s will also be an ideal place for librarians to undergraduates are changing, so is Harper partner with faculty and academic support Library. Over the next several years, Harper services to help undergraduates gain the A photo of the William Rainey Harper Memorial Library from the University of Chicago Library’s Library will be transformed into a 21st-century research skills they need for a successful future online Archival Photographic Files learning space. The new Harper College Center (both during College and beyond graduation). (http://photofiles.lib.uchicago.edu/) will be a place where students, faculty, and staff can meet and collaborate using the latest The Library Connection at the Center provides technology, while still being inspired by the a unique opportunity for the Library to develop only a place for books, but also a resource for building’s historic architecture. programs and services that reach beyond our teaching, learning, and discovery for the next walls into the daily lives of students. In doing generation of College students. The University of Chicago Library is embracing so, we hope to help redefine the Library as not this new learning environment by creating an exciting new center for undergraduate research. ^ The Library Connection at the Center, located in the Stuart reading room, will connect College students to the enormous range of resources and services provided by the Library.
Below are just a few examples of the types of activities that will take place at the Library Connection at the Center:
Ready Reference: A student writing in the Center drops by to learn how to cite a Web page.
Consultation: A librarian meets with two students about finding sources for their group project.
Teaching: A group of students attend a session about SciFinder Scholar, a chemistry database. Aaron Seider meets with his Latin class in Regenstein 207, which has been renovated and supplied with new video equipment. (Photo by Lloyd DeGrane)
2 Libra Fall 2008 Digital Media Technology with Combined NSIT/Library Support to be Readily Accessed at Crerar Beginning Autumn Quarter
Digital media and other technology from Harper visualization, digital image processing, and video provide computing support, sharing the reference Library, Regenstein 216, and the USITE/Crerar creation and production. desk with a Science Librarian. Computer Cluster are being relocated to dynamic The USITE/Crerar Computing Cluster that was Providing support for library research and digital new workspaces in the John Crerar Library, where previously located on Crerar’s lower level is being media in one space is expected to help faculty and faculty and students can easily obtain support relocated to the first floor of the John Crerar students conduct research and complete complex from both computing specialists and librarians. Library. Both Mac and PC computers will be made media projects more efficiently. A high-end multimedia lab for faculty and available. Stations for individual computing are For more information, contact Emily Baker at advanced graduate students will open this being positioned along the west windows. A digital [email protected]. autumn in the former USITE space on Crerar’s media area is being created and will be populated lower level. Faculty and graduate students with Mac computers, scanning stations, and video can use the equipment and consult with NSIT editing equipment. In addition, a Computing ^ specialists on projects involving 3D modeling and Assistant will be stationed on the first floor to
Library Classrooms Offer Video Equipment, Phone and Internet continued from page 1
Special Collections Research Center: The Marie Louise Rosenthal Seminar Room, where classes use rare books and manuscripts in connection with document cameras, plasma screen displays, and the Internet, has been updated with new, larger plasma screens. Faculty members are welcome to schedule individual sessions or quarter-long classes that draw on SCRC resources.
D’Angelo Law Library: As a result of the The Marie Louise Rosenthal Seminar Room in the Special Collections Research Center offers access to renovation of this Library, there are seven small rare books, manuscripts, and archival materials as well as two large plasma screens, cameras, and Internet access. (Photo by Lloyd DeGrane) group study rooms seating 10–60 students available, as well as a Law School faculty For more information or to reserve a room, contact: workshop space equipped for presentations. It is used for Law School faculty work-in-progress Crerar: Barbara Kern, lunches and job talks. [email protected], 773-702-8717 D’Angelo: Additional Spaces www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/using/confrooms.html
A list of other seminar rooms and teaching spaces Regenstein: Vicki Rankin, throughout the library system can be found at [email protected], 773-702-8740 www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/using/services.html Special Collections Research Center: Students study Latin in Regenstein 207. under the heading Facilities, at Seminar Rooms / David Pavelich, [email protected] (Photo by Lloyd de Grane) Classrooms / Group Study. Libra Fall 2008 3 Faces of the Library
Christopher Cronin Jennifer Hart Previously, Jenny has served as a reference Director of Metadata and Cataloging Services Science Reference Librarian librarian and subject specialist for mathematics and physics at Brandeis University, as a serials payment specialist at Harvard College Library, as a reference assistant at Wentworth Institute of Technology and as a reference librarian at Boston University.
Jenny has an M.L.I.S. from Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and a B.A. in Mathematics from Brown University.
Christopher Cronin was appointed the Library’s Jennifer Hart joined the staff of the John Crerar Jenny can be reached at 773-702-7569 or at first Director of Metadata and Cataloging Library as a Science Reference Librarian in [email protected]. Services in September 2008. Chris’s new position June 2008. Jenny is responsible for reference, was developed to ensure that patrons can instruction and outreach to the science ^ discover and use a wide variety of information community at the University of Chicago and resources expeditiously through the coordination to visiting science researchers and scholars. of several ongoing initiatives, including faceted More specifically, Jenny is the library liaison to browsing (Lens); introduction of new data and the physics department, a role which includes content sources to the catalog (e.g., records for evaluating and purchasing physics resources the CIC Google Book project); and the linking of both in print and electronic formats. disparate access systems within the Library, on Jenny is involved in the implementation of new campus, and beyond. features in Lens, the Library’s new search engine, Chris will contribute to the development and is managing the Crerar Library exhibition of processing models in support of digital program. The first exhibition to open under her initiatives, such as the creation of digital direction will be “Science at the University of collections and online finding aids, as well as Chicago: A History from the Library’s Archival preservation efforts utilizing digital technology. Photofiles” on October 20. Chris will also participate in reviewing, analyzing, and recommending for adoption appropriate tools for information discovery. At Your Fingertips: Selected Online Resources
Chris comes to us from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he most recently was Try It! Library Database Trials, Betas, and Tools the Head of Digital Resources Cataloging. He holds an M.I.S. from the University of Toronto The Library's new Try It! page lists databases and earned a B.A. in English from the University under consideration for purchase, offers a of British Columbia. Chris has an impressive sneak peek at Library services in development, list of publications and presentations and was and presents useful Library tools and widgets. selected to participate in the ALA Emerging Leaders program in 2007. Find the Try It! page at www.lib.uchicago. edu/e/whatsnew/try/. We encourage you to visit Chris can be reached at 773-702-8739 or at regularly to see the latest tools. [email protected].
4 Libra Fall 2008 The Board of the Library 2008/2009 From the Director
Randal C. Picker, Chair; Paul & Theo Leffmann Professor of Commercial Law, On Your Terms: Law School
Clifford Ando, Professor, Classics and New Library Spaces on Campus the College By Judith Nadler, Director and University Librarian
Rachel Fulton, Associate Professor, Department of History and the College echnology and new patterns in study and These ambitions are now within reach. D’Angelo Law Susan Gal, Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of teaching are changing the role of the Library Library now provides increased space for individual Anthropology, Linguistics, Social Sciences, and the concept of library space. In this rapidly and group study that is specifically tailored to meet the and the College T changing environment, we aim to meet our users in needs of faculty and students at the Law School; the Michael E. Geyer, Samuel N. Harper their space and on their terms. Completed renovations renovation has garnered praise from inside and outside Professor, Department of History and the College of the D’Angelo Law Library, current and future the University for its warm, inviting qualities and Lenore Grenoble, Carl Darling Buck Professor in Slavic Linguistics, Departments of renovations to the John Crerar Library and the William faithfulness to Eero Saarinen’s original design. Slavic Language & Literature and Linguistics Rainey Harper Memorial Library, and construction of and the College Plans are underway for the transformation of the the new Joe and Rika Mansueto Library will help us to Harper Memorial Library into a college learning Philip E. Lloyd, Associate Professor, pursue this philosophy. Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology center that will offer an array of individual and group and Physiology; Committee on Cell Physiology; My own ambitions for Library space were inspired by Committee on Neurobiology study spaces and educational services, including a a visit to the Graduate School of Business’s Charles M. “Library Connection.” The John Crerar Library is Armando Maggi, Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harper Center and a tour of its classrooms, study areas, being reconfigured to make creative use of technology Committee on History of Culture, and the College and breathtaking meeting spaces at its opening in and learning spaces, combining Library and NSIT Patchen Markell, Associate Professor, 2004. As incoming Director and University Librarian, offerings in new ways. And the Joseph Regenstein Department of Political Science and the College I made it a Library priority to reexamine our existing Library offers two newly renovated classrooms equipped William Novak, Associate Professor, spaces in light of new teaching and learning patterns with up-to-the-minute international video, audio, Department of History and the College and to make these the prevailing principles in Library telecommunications and wireless Internet technology. Christian Wedemeyer, Assistant renovation and new building design. Professor, Divinity School Finally, Helmut Jahn’s bold design for the Joe and Rika Increasing use of collaborative learning methods is Mansueto Library will provide faculty and students Ex officio escalating the demand for group working spaces, with ready access to an extraordinary wealth of Robert J. Zimmer, President and while, simultaneously, the ready availability of online scholarly resources from all disciplines and a Grand Trustee of the University; Professor, Department resources and changing patterns in campus housing Reading Room that has the power to inspire and of Mathematics and Physical Sciences Collegiate Division are increasing demand for quiet on-campus study support groundbreaking intellectual activities. The space for individuals. state-of-the-art technology and magnificent spaces Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Provost of the University; John T. Wilson Distinguished of the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library will bring to The expanding role of librarians as teachers of Service Professor, Department of Physics, James campus functionality that we have never had before Franck Institute, and the College electronic research skills calls for spaces conducive and the enormous capacity to better position our Keith Moffat, Deputy Provost for to tutoring and small group interactions. Faculty library system for the future. Research; Louis Block Professor, Biochemistry and students need spaces equipped with adjustable and Molecular Biology multi-media tools in a variety of private and group I look forward to continuing to work with you to find Gregory Jackson, Vice-President and Chief Information Officer of the University configurations. We need spaces that connect the best solutions for your evolving research needs. people and facilitate interdisciplinary research in Garrett Kiely, Director, University of Chicago Press a social setting. And, yes, there is need for space for ^ Judith Nadler, Director and University books—arranged for easy and rapid access—and Librarian beautiful spaces for their use. Susan Kastendiek, Secretary of the Faculties
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