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March 2011 Volume 17, Number 1, March/April 2011 Jean C. Nelson University of Connecticut - Storrs, [email protected]

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YourLIBRARIES Information Connection www.lib.uconn.edu March/April 2011 University Transitions to Digital Masters Theses Requirement for Deposit into Library’s DigitalCommons Institutional Repository

Michael J. Bennett forms, students were required to submit two paper cop- On a number of different levels, the answer was no. ies of their thesis to the Graduate School, which after Primary among these considerations was that the n October 27th 2010, the office of the Vice approval of format and content, were then hand-de- Library’s Institutional Repository Team had been Provost of Research and Graduate Education O livered to Babbidge Library. Once there, Library staff receiving periodic inquiries from graduate students ask- announced to the University of Connecticut com- created a catalog record for the thesis, and then shipped ing when the University would allow for the inclusion munity that the Graduate School was now requiring both copies out to be bound for a fee that the Library of their theses into DigitalCommons. Increasingly, Master’s Plan A students to submit an electronic copy incurred. As these bound copies returned back to the today’s students not only prepare a text-based thesis as of their final thesis to DigitalCommons at UConn, Library, one copy went into the general circulating part of their programs’ requirements but also create http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu, the University’s collection, and the other went to the Dodd Research associated items such as project-based Excel datasets, institutional repository. Behind that seemingly singular Center as a non-circulating preservation copy. and illustrations in digital still image formats like JPEG, announcement, however, was months of collaborative With the advent of both born-digital student theses or PNG, for example. Such additional digital formats, effort between the Library and the established, though essential parts of the written thesis in many and the Graduate School operational presence of ways, were not an element of the Graduate School’s to hammer into place new the Library’s Digital- traditional degree requirement policy or the Library’s overall workflows, policy, Commons institutional digital collection landscape. With the possible use personnel assignments, and repository, a number of DigitalCommons, such items could potentially be the technical infrastructure of potential efficien- seamlessly uploaded along with the born-digital thesis needed to make the require- cies became apparent. and be directly associated with that thesis in subsequent ment a functional reality. Did it make sense, for online access. With the stable URLs that the insti- Since their earliest ex- instance, for a thesis, tutional repository affords to such content, students amples, UConn theses have originally authored as an could then also build more interactive CVs and resumes followed a paper-only trail electronic Word docu- that could then dynamically link to their efforts and among students, the Gradu- ment to then be con- highlight their accomplished research in full. Through ate School, and Library. In verted solely to paper? Continued on page 3 addition to other degree

Papers of African-American Poet and Artist Allen Polite Available for Research

Melissa Watterworth Batt serving in Japan and Korea, he settled in Greenwich Vil- painter Harvey Cropper. He decided to rchives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. lage and between 1954 and settle in Stockholm, where he joined an ADodd Research Center is pleased to announce 1956, studied philosophy at international group of artists centered the literary manuscripts and personal papers of writer Columbia University. The around a small community of African- and artist Allen Polite have been made available for writer LeRoi Jones acknowl- Americans already resident there. Polite research. edged Polite as his ‘mentor’ began a life of drawing and , Recently donated to the Dodd Research Center by in Jones’ Autobiography and in addition to his writing, and in 1964 Allen Polite’s widow Helene Polite, the collection dates first published Polite’s poetry organized and sponsored the exhibition from 1955 to 1993 and contains unpublished manu- in 1958 in the little magazine “10 American Negro Artists Living and scripts of his poetry, prose, songs, and a play for voices, Yugen. In the early 1960’s Working in Europe” at Den Frie, the larg- early writing and student work, notebooks including Polite worked on a novel est gallery in Copenhagen. In Sweden he drafts and notes, transcriptions of poetry by Helene Po- (never completed) and a long met Helene Etzelsdorfer who remained lite, as well as his published works. This rich collection cycle of poetry and prose his companion, and later his wife, from offers researchers ample source material for exploring called “The Dead Seeds,” but Self portrait in water color by Allen 1963 until his death in 1993. Polite Polite’s extensive body of work, for illuminating his life he refused to publish his work. More information about the collection as an artist and expatriate and his affiliations with the Polite’s writing was included in Sixes and Sevens, can be viewed online at http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/ Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, and for revealing his An Anthology of New Poetry (1962) and in Langston findaids/Polite/MSS20100117.html contributions to African-American history and culture. Hughes’ New Negro Poets, U.S.A. published in 1964. Melissa Watterworth Batt, Curator of Literary, Natural Born in 1932 and raised in Newark, NJ, Allen Polite In 1963 Polite left New York for Paris, London, and History and Rare Books Collections was drafted into the Army in 1952. After eventually Stockholm, where he visited his friend the r o m t h e v i c e p r o v o s t

Cross Campus Scholarly Communications/Copyright Team UConn Libraries Earns High Ratings Evelyn Morgen avigating methods and finding ways to distribute • Planning Open Access Week events for October, Brinley Franklin, Vice Provost 2011 University of Connecticut Libraries Nand pay for access are critical missions for aca- demic librarians today. How do we evaluate the quality Please contact a team member if you have ques- he University of Connecticut Libraries earned of an open access journal? Can authors retain their tions or suggestions: Tits highest ratings to-date according to the copyright when publishing in a well known commercial • Valori Banfi, Library Liaison for Nursing, Homer most widely used service quality instrument for journal? What are the mandates regarding making pub- Babbidge Library, [email protected]. libraries, LibQual+®. Scores from the Novem- licly funded research publicly available? All of these are • Michael Bennett, Digital Projects Librarian & Insti- ber, 2010 survey of 2,500 UConn undergraduate issues librarians explore and can help you navigate. tutional Repository Coordinator Homer Babbidge students, graduate students, and faculty members There were formerly two teams within the Libraries’ Library, [email protected] improved for each user group since the last survey, charged with dealing with these issues – the Copyright • Arta Dobbs, Collection Management Librarian, completed in 2008, and also were higher at each of Team and the Scholarly Communications Team. In an UConn Health Center Library [email protected] the Libraries’ physical locations. effort to involve more staff from several campuses and • Lee Sims, Head of Reference Services On a nine point scale, the overall quality of the improve efficiency, Brinley Franklin combined them in University of Connecticut Meskill Law Library, service provided by the library was perceived to January, 2010 to form the Cross Campus Scholarly [email protected] be 7.53, up from 7.38 in 2008, with UConn faculty Communications / Copyright Team. To save travel time, • Sheila Lafferty, Library Director, University of Con- reporting the highest perception of library service, the team meets monthly via videoconferencing – es- necticut – Torrington Campus, Shelila.Lafferty@ at 7.87, compared to 7.58 in 2008. UConn’s overall pecially useful this impossibly snowy winter! Projects uconn.edu score ranks among the top ten percent of the more completed or planned include: • Carolyn Mills, Library Liaison - Biological, Agricultural than 1,000 libraries in more than twenty countries and Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources • Updating the Scholarly Communications Website: Homer Babbidge Library, [email protected] that have used the LibQual+® survey instrument. http://lib.uconn.edu/scholarlycommunication/ I am immensely proud of the work done by • Evelyn Morgen, Library Director, • Updating the Copyright Website: http://www.lib. UConn Health Center Library, the UConn Libraries’ staff in achieving these high uconn.edu/copyright/ ratings. The library staff has been responsive to [email protected] • Responding to the National Science Foundation SF the University’s academic plan and has placed great Data Plan Mandate (see article on page 3 by Carolyn emphasis on helping the University’s undergraduate Mills) Evelyn Morgen, Director, L.M. Stowe Library, UConn Health Center students, graduate students, and faculty members succeed in their teaching, research, and learning. At the same time, given the LibQual+® survey’s distinctions between minimum acceptable level of service, perceived level of service, and desired Interim Director of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, level of service, we learn how well we are meeting Betsy Pittman, recently ac- specific needs and which library services are most cepted the donation of the important to our users. Based on users’ responses papers of the Cell Stress Society International (CSSI). to the thirty-five survey questions and their open- CSSI began at the University ended comments, we also learn where we need to of Connecticut in 1999 by Pro- fessor Larry Hightower and improve. continues today with over 230 Our undergraduate students, for example, are members. The rich history of most interested in “quiet space for individual activi- CSSI is well documented in the collection, including the ties” and “a comfortable and inviting location.” first publication ofCell Stress Insofar as the gap between undergraduate students’ & Chaperones, memorabilia from the many international average perceived score and their average desired conferences held, and invalu- score with respect to “quiet space” is larger, we able documentation about its know we are tasked with improving the quiet spaces founding and growth over the years. In the photo is Betsy we offer undergraduate students for their individual Pittman, Emeritus Professor work. Larry Hightower, and Manag- ing Editor Helen Neumann. UConn graduate students and faculty, on the other hand, are most interested in the Libraries “making electronic resources accessible from their home or office” and in “print and/or electronic journal collections they require for their work.” This was also true in 2008. On a positive note,

the perceived scores for both questions improved Brinley Franklin significantly in 2010. congratulates student As always, the University of Connecticut Librar- Arthur Waite, the winner of a $500 Gift Card to the ies strives to meet or exceed the expectations of UConn Co-op. The Co- our users. The LibQual+® survey is one of the op donated the prize as an incentive for students primary mechanisms we use to measure user satis- to take the LibQual+® faction with the Libraries and we are grateful to the survey. 2,500 members of the University community who took the time in 2010 to complete the survey and inform our efforts to offer the best possible library services.

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View from the Waterbury UConn Stamford Librarian NSF Data Management Campus Library Collaborates with Faculty for Fall Literature Series Requirement Shelley Goldstein Carolyn Mills Phil Poggiali o you expect to submit a grant funding proposal ast fall Dr. Michael J. Marotto, adjunct professor to the National Science Foundation (NSF)? If so, Lof English at UConn Stamford, teamed up with D be aware that the NSF application requirements have Stamford Librarian Phil Poggiali to present a series of changed. As of January 18, 2011, NSF now requires grant lecture-discussions on American authors of the 19th applications include a two page statement describing a century at the Ferguson Public Library in Stamford. management plan for the data generated by the funded The series began with a study of Edgar Allan Poe on research. This “Data Management Plan” will be evaluated October 28, and continued with Nathaniel Hawthorne by peer reviewers along with the body of the proposal. on November 18 and Herman Melville on December 9. In an effort to provide assistance to researchers, the These lectures, expanded from Dr. Marotto’s doctor- UConn Libraries developed a web page with links to an al research at Fordham University, considered the gothic ynergy, by renowned sculptor Barton Rubinstein, NSF guide for the data management plan and FAQs and grotesque in relation to Poe’s work, Hawthorne’s sits in the UConn Waterbury Campus courtyard about the topic at http://www.lib.uconn.edu/scholarlycom- S defining of the genre of romance, and the hostile, un- and affords the Waterbury Campus Library one of the munication/data.html The Libraries’ page also features predictable forces of nature in Moby Dick. Marotto even finest views. The dramatic and reflective steel sculpture an annotated outline of the five typical sections of a recited Poe’s “The Raven” from memory. The series serves to highlight a gentle flow of water and subtle data management plan: the type of data, standards and was well-attended and many members of the audience tones of orange and gold, alluding to brass and the formats, provisions for archiving and preservation, access contributed to the discussions. city’s rich manufacturing history. Light and suspen- policies and provisions, and plans for transition or termi- “Be prepared to ask questions, respond to questions, sion are further aspects of the sculpture that symbolize nation of the data collection. The page provides additional and challenge the thesis statement … of the presenter,” the theme of diversity and connectivity. Rubinstein’s information about data management plan developments Marotto said. “Challenging is important because, with- works are found throughout the country including at NSF and at other institutions, as well as examples of out the response to the literature, literature fails. Art the Strathmore Mansion in North Bethesda, MD. In plans from other settings, data storage and archival loca- fails.” addition to the sculpture, the courtyard was recently tions, and publications relevant to the topic. The opportunity for the library to work with faculty upgraded with a basketball court and a paved area for To help faculty and students navigate the new require- to develop the richness of each students experience is outdoor activities. ments, as well as learn more about best practices for data a great way to support faculty research management, the Library held a workshop in late March Shelley Goldstein, Director, UConn Waterbury Library and forming a collaborative relationship and is considering holding more in the future. If you have with teachers at UConn Stamford. questions about the web site information or other issues Phil Poggiali, Reference Librarian, Jeremy Richard regarding data management plans, please contact Caro- Library, Stamford lyn Mills, science liaison at [email protected], or David Lowe, digital preservation librarian at david.lowe@ uconn.edu. Digital Masters Thesis More information about the requirements is available Continued from page 1 from the NSF at http://www.nsf.gov/eng/ DigitalCommons, students as copyright-holders of their more direct use of the original born-digital thesis. With general/dmp.jsp work would also have the ability to choose either open these two documents in hand, the case for change was access or limit access to on-campus networked devices then made over the course of months to the Gradu- Carolyn Mills, Liaison to the Biology, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources. only and/or impose an embargo period before online ate School in the form of a series of presentations that publication. the author conducted for both staff and the Graduate Possible gains realized by the University through Faculty Council Executive Committee. such consolidated and organized online access included With an agreed upon digital workflow finally in place, an enhanced level of positive exposure to the fruits of students can now submit their theses directly in the University-sponsored study for broader outreach as well form that they are created to DigitalCommons. Mean- as the greater good of the academic and lay communi- while the Graduate School, as administrators to the ties. For the Library, on a more granular level, only one Masters Theses series, can monitor student submissions, paper copy would be required for the Dodd Research request revisions, and approve and publish accepted Center archives instead of a second for the general theses all through the repository’s administrative web circulating collection. This would directly cut in half interface. For each of these steps, an automated history the Library’s bindery expenses towards theses and also of each thesis is logged so the Graduate School can realize additional staff efficiencies. In such areas as refer back to it if need be in order to track students’ Interlibrary Loan, for instance, the circulating copies names, email addresses, and the dates of submission of theses have required manual handling and shipping and re-submissions, along with any Graduate School for requesting patrons. With online access, patrons can mediation that may have taken place. Once published, Betsy Pittman, Interim Director of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center surveys the shipment instead download digital copies and serve themselves masters theses in DigitalCommons are fully indexed of documents from former Senator Christopher accordingly, 24/7, without Library staff mediation, and by Google, and in particular Google Scholar. There, J. Dodd as they arrived at UConn’s central student research has a greater opportunity to take part receiving docks in early February. The col- processing delay. lection, which will total over 2,700 linear feet, Subsequently this author then, in collaboration with in the broader scholarly conversation, and authors can documents over 36 years of Senator Dodd’s Library staff already involved with the traditional theses track possible citations to their work service to the State of Connecticut, first in the House of Representatives when he was elected process, created two schematic flowcharts to visu- over time. in 1974 until January of 1981, and then the ally simplify and consolidate further discussion. One Senate until January of 2011. This is one of the Michael J. Bennett, Digital Projects single largest collections Archives & Special flowchart outlined the paper-only workflow, the other Librarian & Institutional Repository Coordinator Collections has received, and will be made sketched a new way of doing things that incorporated available for research at a later time as the staff less Graduate School and Library staff mediation and works to organize it.

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Voices of the Renaissance at the Dodd Research Center

Melissa Watterworth Batt and Kristin Eshelman 1921 and 1922. Black Swan Records, established in January, 1921 as a subsidiary of the Pace Phonograph xplore the through the poetry, Corporation, was the first record label owned and man- Enovels, plays and music that emerged between aged by African-Americans and issued material recorded 1917 and 1934, a period in American history character- exclusively by African-American musicians. Board mem- ized by an “unprecedented mobilization of talent and bers of the Pace Phonograph Corporation included W. group support in the service of a racial arts and letters E. B. Du Bois and James Weldon Johnson. The record movement,” according to renowned contemporary his- label was named after the opera singer Elizabeth Taylor torian and author David Levering Lewis. First editions Greenfield, nicknamed “the Black Swan”. The Black by Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Jessie Fauset, Swan catalog included European classical, jazz, and Rudolph Fisher, , Nella Larsen, Alain blues. Fletcher Henderson, who’s musical intelligence Locke, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Wallace Thurman, and taste were important factors in creating the charac- ter of big-band jazz, served as the house accompanist. In March, 1923 the Pace Phonograph Corporation was renamed the Black Swan Phonograph Company. This Cover art from Black Swan, The Record Label of was the last year any new records were issued, although the Harlem Renaissance VJM Publications, 1996, Pace reissued Black Swan recordings through 1926. depicting recording of “Strut Miss Lizzie” by Lulu Whidby, manufactured by Pace Phonograph Corp.” This new acquisition of publications and record- ings from the Harlem Renaissance period supplements tration, and book design of the early era of the Harlem the Dodd Research Center’s holdings of first editions, Renaissance, will find value in the visual materials in the limited, and small press editions by a wide range of 19th collection. The work of Aaron Douglas, Charles Cullen, and 20th century American and British poets, novelists, Prentiss Taylor, and others can be found on the original and dramatists. It also strengthens affiliations with the book jackets and book covers, as well as in the periodi- Samuel and Ann Charters Archives of Blues and Ver- cals that comprise the collection. The premier issue of nacular African American Musical Culture, established Wallace Thurman’s short-lived literary quarterly Fire!! at the University of Connecticut in 2000. The archives, Devoted to Younger Negro Artists published in 1926 fea- also housed at the Dodd Research Center, comprise tures the cover design, page decorations and drawings the collection of scholar and producer Samuel Charters, of Aaron Douglas, next to poetry contributions by Arna one of the pioneering collectors of jazz, blues, and folk Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Helene Johnson, Edward music. The Archives sound recording holdings include Silvera, and Waring Cuney, as well as the short play and 1,500 discs, 900 cassettes, 300 tape reels, and 2,000 often-anthologized story “Sweat” by . compact discs. Among the many recordings in the collection are

First Edition of Countee Cullen’s Color, a land- record albums featuring poets reading their work and a Melissa Watterworth Batt, Curator mark publication of the Harlem Renaissance. rare Black Swan recording of Marianna Johnson singing of Literary, Natural History and The book was illustrated by Charles Cullen, no Rare Books Collections “The Rosary” and “Sorter Miss You”, accompanied by relation to Countee. Kristin Eshelman, Curator for the Black Swan Symphony Orchestra recorded between Multimedia Collections Zora Neale Hurston, and George Schuyler, as well as original pamphlets, periodicals, audio recordings, and reference sources are now available at the Dodd Re- search Center. The rich collection of materials, currently comprised of 48 items, was recently donated to Archives and Special Collections by Ann and Samuel Charters. In addition to first editions of novels, the collection contains rare periodicals that document several young poets’ first appearance in print. The November, 1924 is- sue of the The American Mercury features Countee Cul- len’s “The Shroud of Color”. Four blues – poems which Langston Hughes said were “modeled after Negro folk- songs known as Blues” – including “Hard Luck”, “Po’ Boy Blues”, “Red Roses,” and “Suicide”, can be found in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse from November, 1926. The collection also includes groundbreaking anthologies such as Alain Locke’s The New Negro published in 1925 and Plays of Negro Life published in 1927. With illustra- tions and page decorations by Aaron Douglas, Plays of Negro Life offers readers “Twenty Contemporary Plays Greater Hartford librarians Bill Uricchio, Janice Mathews, and Marsha Lee presented a poster ses- of the Contemporary Negro Theater”, photographs of sion at the Association of Research Libraries’ conference “Library Assessment: Building Effective, scenes from current productions of plays, and a chronol- Sustainable, Practical Assessment”. Held in Baltimore, MD, the conference focused on crafting, implementing, and analyzing the data from a variety of assessment instruments. Their poster was ogy and bibliography of American drama with African- called: “All Satisfaction is Local: Using a Tactical Assessment Tool to Gauge Student Satisfaction American themes. and as the Basis for On-the-Fly Program Improvements.” Students and researchers interested in artwork, illus-

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Human Rights Film Library Exhibits Branching Out Collection Adds

Jane Recchio 500th Film

aking the show on the road, the University of ages electronically at http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/ Valerie Love TConnecticut Libraries is expanding its exhibition exhibits/days_work/. program to include a selection of traveling exhibits The images were handpicked to illustrate the he Human Rights Film Collection at Homer Bab- that will circulate through the regional campus librar- contribution that Connecticut women made to the bidge Library has now reached 500 titles, making it ies. The first exhibit is titled “All in a Day’s Work: Pho- T labor force. They span from when the Industrial one of the largest collections in the United States. The tographs of Women in Connecticut Industry from the Revolution ‘ushered in a new role, that of the paid collection includes both documentary and narrative films collections of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center” worker,’ where economically disadvantaged women from around the world, focusing on issues as varied as and features 27 reproductions of photographs and augmented their household income by working in the environmental rights, child labor and human trafficking, publications from the Business History Collections textile mills and industrial factories through World women’s rights, development and globalization, war, and held in the Archives. The exhibition debuted at the War I & II. More specifically, the women featured are genocide. The film collection is used extensively by hu- Waterbury campus in March and will tour through the working in the American Brass Company, Cheney man rights faculty at UConn, who incorporate films from remaining regional campuses and serve as a resource Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company, Farrel Com- the collection into their courses. “The human rights film for UConn classes and local community groups. pany, New Britain Machine Company, New Haven collection has been a huge asset for my classes,” agrees The items in the exhibition were selected by Laura Railroad, Thermos Company, and the Wauregan- Kerry Bystrom, assistant professor in the Department of Smith, curator of the Business History Collections, in Quinebaug Company. The regional campus libraries English. “Engaging with fictional and documentary film consultation with Shelley Goldstein, director of the are already utilizing the resource by working with gives the students a new dimension of understanding of UConn Library at the Waterbury campus and coor- their communities to expand the reach through human rights issues.” dinator of the project, and Janice Matthews, Social public events. On March 31, the Waterbury campus The Dodd Research Center, along with the Human Sciences Librarian at the Harleigh B. Trecker Library hosted a roundtable event featuring Dr. Judith Meyer, Rights Institute, hosts an annual human rights film series, on the Greater Hartford campus. Shelley was aware Associate Professor of History, Waterbury; Dr. Mary screening films from the collection to illustrate histori- the collection had material about Waterbury’s brass E. Cygan, Associate Professor of History, Stamford; cal and contemporary human rights violations, focusing industry and wanted to share that material with her Laura Katz Smith, Curator for Business, Railroad, on a different theme each year. As part of the series, a campus population without jeopardizing the integrity and Labor Collections, Dodd Research Center; and documentary filmmaker is invited to campus for a screen- or protection of the archival material. Reproducing Dr. Cecilia F. Bucki, Professor of History, Fairfield ing of their film in order to engage with students in a the photographs and magazine articles by scanning University. In addition, the Faculty Learning Com- question and answer session following the film. Partici- the material and then printing and mounting the scans munity at the Avery Point campus will use the exhibit pating filmmakers have included Karen Kramer (Children gave her the means to share the riches of the archives. when it arrives in April as a cornerstone to their pro- of Shadows); Peter Kinoy (Living Broke in Boom Times, Seeing an opportunity to do the same for all the gram highlighting “Industrial Epilogues,” a theme to The Reckoning; State of Fear); Anayansi Prado (Children regional campuses, it was decided to put the “show on address industry and its impact on the environment, in No Man’s Land; Maid in America); and Jon Nealon the road.” The project also includes access to the im- economy, and minorities. (Goodbye, Hungaria). "When developing syllabi for my The Libraries’ Exhibition Program is proud to be undergraduate human rights course, I routinely shift the a part of this public outreach and looks forward to order of topics so that they coincide with the films being developing more travelling exhibits. For example, we screened in the Human Rights Film Series,” says Shareen are currently working with Art & Art History Profes- Hertel, associate professor of Political Science. “The sor Cora Lynn Deibler’s “Topics in Illustration” films bring to life the themes we discuss in class." class to install an exhibition of student work. The The 2010-2011 Human Rights Film Series focused work was the result of a class project celebrating the on human rights in Latin America, with films shown 50th Anniversary of the Peace Corps. We are also monthly. The series will conclude with a screening of collaborating with John Bell, director of the Ballard the Cuban classic, Fresa y Chocolate, on April 13, 2011 at Institute & Museum of Puppetry for 4:00 pm in Dodd Research Center’s Konover Auditorium. the coming year. Additional information is available at http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/events/ Jane Recchio, Exhibits and Publications Specialist hr_film_series_2010_2011.htm

Valerie Love, Curator for Human Rights and Alternative Press Collections

The 28 students in Professor Cora Lynn Deibler’s “Topics in Illustra- tion” class created posters cel- ebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Peace Corps. The exhibit was a focal point for the University’s anniversary celebration in March and will now travel to our regional campus libraries. This poster was created by Kristen Candella. In her words, “Peace simply stated is to envision a world without violent conflict. My vision of peace refers to the planting process and how societies can benefit if everyone Worker at the Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company altruistically assisted in the growth of Manchester, Connecticut, ca. 1925 of other nations.”

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New Staff Upcoming Events

Jim Norris Friday, April 1, 10:30-11:30am Wednesday, April 13, 10:30-11:30am The Status of Hispanic Americans in the first decade of the 21st The Status of Hispanic Americans in the first decade of the im has joined our staff as a Century 21st Century JFinancial Assistant on the Ac- This workshop will teach attendees how to access and Level 2 Electronic Classroom, Homer Babbidge Library quisitions, Financial Services, and utilize the wealth of information available from the decen- Statistics Team. Jim is a certified nial U.S. Census on the Hispanic American population. Wednesday, April 13, 4:00-5:00pm public accountant with Bachelor Undergraduate Research Classroom, Homer Babbidge Human Rights in the America’s Film Series presents “Fresa y of Science Degrees in Account- Library Chocolate (Chocolate and Strawberry)” ing and Business Administration The film Fresa y Chocolate opened in Cuba in 1993 and from Central Connecticut State University. He also has Sunday, April 3, 2:00-4:00pm within the space of a few months became one of the earned 18 credits towards a Master of Science Degree “Brief Encounters with the biggest box-office successes for Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, in Accounting at the University of Hartford. Jim’s work Dead” Exhibit Reception with one of Latin America’s celebrated and Cuba’s most Herbert Greene, Grateful Dead revered filmmakers. experience includes working as a senior accountant for Photographer MassMutual’s Financial Reporting Department; serving Konover Auditorium, Dodd Research Center Herbert Greene photo- as Assistant Controller for Data Mail, Inc; and various graphed the rock musicians Wednesday, April 13, 1:30pm responsibilities with Harvey and Horowitz, Certified and other members of San Francisco’s cultural milieu Public Accountants. “UConn Nurses and their Military Service: Recently Acquired during the sixties, with many Oral Histories” of his photographs becoming signature portraits of these musicians, including those of the Grateful Dead. Exhibit Gallery Walk with Nursing Professor Jennifer David Ruiz Telford Stevens Gallery, Homer Babbidge Library avid has joined the library Dodd Research Center Gallery Das the Windows System Wednesday, April 13, 12:00-1:00pm Administrator. For the past 5 Research Highlights @ Noon presents “The Other Irish: Depic- Thursday, April 14, 10:30am-12:00pm years, David was a network tions of Irish-American Travellers (“Irish Gypsies”) on US Library Forum with College of administrator for the Savings television” with Mary Burke Liberal Arts & Sciences Dean Institute Bank and Trust. He has Mary Burke, Associate Professor of English at the Uni- Jeremy Teitelbaum experience managing a similar versity of Connecticut, was the 2003-04 NEH Keough- “Open the pod bay doors, Naughton Fellow at Notre Dame and the 2010 Boston VMware environment there, Watson: Artificial Intelligence College-Ireland Visiting Research Fellow. in Science Fact and Fiction” as well as Active Directory and Class of 1947 Meeting Room, Homer Babbidge Library E-mail. He is currently studying accounting part-time Konover Auditorium, Dodd Research Center at ECSU and lives with his fiancée and two dogs Frida and Monkey. Thursday, April 21, 2:00-4:00pm Billie M. Levy Travel Grant Presentation by Kena Sosa Ms. Sosa will discuss her research in the Northeast Children’s Literature Collection on Jewish children who Learning Commons Update escaped Nazi persecution by means of the Kindertrans- port program. e are pleased to welcome the Language and Cultural Center to the Learning Commons area on Level 1 of Homer Babbidge Library. Administered by the Department of Modern & Classical Languages, the Cen- W Conference Room 162, Dodd Research Center ter supports second language and culture for students through tutoring by graduate students who are heritage speakers of their respective languages. It will also serve as a place for language and cultural clubs to meet. Thursday, April 21. 4:00-5:30pm The Library is also working on revamping some of its services on Level 1. The reference desk has been Raymond and Beverly Sackler replaced by a more interactive consultation area for reference assistance, as well as an identifiable location for Distinguished Lecture in Human patrons to go when they need help with library technology or services. Also, the multimedia viewing area and Rights with Professor Diane Orentlicher the multimedia collection are being International Justice, Transitional relocated onto Level 1, to provide a Justice: What Have We Learned About What “Works”? more central location for this heavily Diane F. Orentlicher is serving used collection. as Deputy, Office of War Crimes Issues, in the Department of State, while on leave from ’s Washington College of Law, where she is a Professor of International Law. Dr. Oren- tlicher has been described by the Washington Diplomat as “one of the world’s leading authorities on human rights law and war crimes tribunals.”

Konover Auditorium, Dodd Research Center

Thursday, April 28, 4:00-5:00pm Teale Lecture Series with Professor Nancy Grim, Arizona State University “Challenges in Water Provisioning, Delivery, and Quality for Urban Populations: analysis of global patterns and an aridland case study”

Konover Auditorium, Dodd Research Center

For more information about our events, please contact Jean Nelson at [email protected].

6 r i e n d s o f t h e u n i v e r s i t y l i b r a r i e s Gifts to the University Libraries July 1 to December 31, 2010

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7 Storrs, CT 06269-2005 Unit 2005 369 Fairfield Way Library Homer Babbidge Connecticut University of 273700 What’s I n s i d e Page 2 The Vice Provost for University Libraries presents the results of the recent LibQual+® survey. • The Director of the UConn Health Center Library provides an overview of the new efforts to communicate across the campuses on issues of copyright and access to research.

Page 3 Our regional campus libraries give us a glimpse of what is happening on their campuses. • We take a look at the new National Science Foundation data management requirements.

Page 4 Archives & Special Collections receives a donation that explores the Harlem Renaissance.

Page 5 The Libraries’ exhibition program is working with regional campus libraries on new travelling exhibitions. • The Human Rights Film Collection becomes one of the largest collections in the United States.

Page 6 Two new staff members join the library. • Mark your calendars for a great line up of public programs in April.

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Gallery on the Plaza, Homer Babbidge Library Both are part of the Roger L. Crossgrove Exhibit Series Both are part of the x h i b Bothi t s March 21 – June 10, 2011

E Coming June 20 – Sept. 30, 2011 Brief Encounters with the Dead Things That Go Bump in the Night: Photographs by Grateful Dead Photographer Herbert Greene Sculpture and by Gregor Bugaeff

Homer Babbidge Library, Stevens Gallery & West Alcove Homer Babbidge Library, Stevens Gallery Reception: April 3, 2pm to 4pm Studies of the Nude in Collage Collages by Martin Bloom

Homer Babbidge Library, Gallery on the Plaza

Beyond Real Illustrations: Magic Lantern Nights: The Projected Image “Really, It’s Not Photography” in 19th Century America By Kentwood D. Wells Technical Illustrations by Christopher Iorillo Thomas J. Dodd Research Center Gallery Homer Babbidge Library, Gallery on the Plaza Reception: March 27, 2pm to 4pm

The public is cordially invited to attend an opening reception on UConn Nurses and their Military Service: Sunday, June 26, 2011 Recently Acquired Oral Histories and Artifacts 2pm to 4pm

Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, Dodd Gallery Reception: March 27, 2pm to 4pm Homer Babbidge Library and Thomas J. Dodd Research Center

Babbidge Library, West Alcove