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“A place of beauty, serenity, openness and light inspires research, teaching and learning.” news.lib.uchicago.edu — Judith Nadler, Director and University Librarian The University community is invited to celebrate The Dedication of the Mansueto Library at Harper Memorial Library Commons Tuesday, October 11, 2011 4:00–5:15 pm (doors open at 3:30 pm) Reception following Keynote Speaker Anthony Grafton, AB’71, AM’72, PhD’75, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University Remarks Robert J. Zimmer, President Thomas Rosenbaum,Provost Judith Nadler, Director and University Librarian Joe Mansueto, AB’78, MBA’80, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Morningstar, Inc.

World premiere of the Mansueto tribute, “Double Helix” for two violins. Composed by Augusta Read Thomas, University Professor of Composition

Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis Enabling Preservation A Paradox of Contextualism A Mecca for Scholars

By Steve Wiesenthal, Associate Vice President and University Architect By Andrew Abbott, the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Sociology and the College; Chair, Board of the University of Library onstruction of the Mansueto Library made it possible to ow does one possibly add onto the by re-establishing the street wall. That is in expand the space available to he Joe and Rika Mansueto Library more easily. At the same time, the physical monograph browsability that is central to C formidable Regenstein Library? effect what the Max Palevsky residence hall the Preservation Department and, as a gives the University’s research materials contained quality judgments scholarly work. Under one roof, researchers That was the question posed to does to the north. Imagine a new rectilinear community reason to celebrate. unavailable online and for most purposes can be confident that any research lead can result, to acquire additional, state-of-the- Ann Lindsey works with an H T architects once the University made the building, perhaps connected to Regenstein art equipment for the conservation and interactive Soviet children’s , By locating this new facility at the heart were more rapidly scannable. In practice, be followed, digital or physical, without unique commitment to keep its amazing by tunnel, south of Henry Moore’s “Nuclear digitization of collections. Sever, iug, vostok i zapad (North, of campus, adjacent to Regenstein, the expert researchers work steadily between having to wait for retrieval of materials collection of and archives on campus. Energy” sculpture that would be big and “The kinds of things we can do South, East, and West: 1932), on has repeated the the two. A new facility had to accept and from off-site storage. one of her large, new tables. The University had already made a solid enough to house and protect 3.5 now were almost unimaginable before success of the prior library, again creating further this synergy, not fight against it. singularly bold statement in the Regenstein million volumes of books. Mansueto,” says Preservation Librarian the most research-effective academic library Avoiding the Self-fulfilling 40 years ago when it replaced its football In a paradox of contextualism, the Sherry Byrne. “From washing paper to system in the United States—one that The Importance of Browsing Prophecy field with one of the nation’s largest univer- futuristic spaceship-resembling Mansueto safely and more rapidly scanning fragile will be a mecca for scholars from around Traditional library research has relied very A great danger with off-site storage­—as the sity libraries. Its design is in stark contrast Library actually works as a light and bound manuscripts, our new equipment the world. heavily on browsing at all levels: in the experience of peer libraries had shown—is to the preceding campus architecture in airy foil to Regenstein and as an elegant will allow us to make the Library’s the self-fulfilling prophecy. Material looks the Quadrangles immediately across 57th landscape object set askew both to point on collections more usable and more widely And, as a result of the expanded space, But not all of the Library’s materials unused, so it is sent to storage. But then it is Street to the south. The Quads are all about axis to the Henry Moore sculpture to the available to students and scholars, here and the Preservation Department has been able can be digitized by Google. Rare books, even less likely to be used, because scholars, shaping and containing space and the north and to deflect away from Ellis Avenue around the world.” to obtain 7 ft by 11 ft tables that allow staff manuscripts and archives from the Special although often seeking out specific rare to clean, stabilize, repair, and otherwise treat Collections Research Center and oversized activity within. They are comprised of 33 to reveal the corner of Snell-Hitchcock in materials, base most of their research—and Conservation: Preserving Materials very large materials on library premises for and fragile materials from the Library’s buildings linked around one primary and the Quadrangles to the south. all of their browsing—on materials readily in Their Original Formats the first time. A 19th-century map of Paris’s general collections are among the items six secondary courtyards. The 3.5 million volumes are stored accessible, material that does not have to In contrast, Regenstein is all about where they belong: below ground in a high- Charged with meeting the conservation arrondissements, early 20th-century maps of that are candidates for the Library’s own “I think [our design for be waited for but that can be used when a singular object commanding its space. density, 60 ft deep volume with stable needs of millions of print volumes in Chicago neighborhoods, and giant Soviet local digitization program. needed. This is particularly true for tracing Surrounded by lawn, its rough hewn climatic conditions and an automated the Library’s collections, as well as maps propaganda posters from the 1930s are a The Library began digitizing materials the Mansueto Library] bibliographical and research trails through “Brutalist” limestone panels separated retrieval system that brings requested and other flat works on paper, Head of few items treated since these tables arrived. using flatbed scanners and making them multiple sources. An item stored off-site by vertical bands of windows create an materials up to the light of day in three to Conservation Ann Lindsey is delighted by This new equipment supplements other freely available online in 1997. In 2005 has been embraced by is often wanted not for itself, but simply enormous abstract composition of solid five minutes. what she can do with her new equipment. tools long held by the Library that have it acquired a Better Light 4x5 digital for some further reference it contains— and void. The setback from Ellis Avenue, The space above ground is for people— A recently acquired suction table is remained substantially unchanged in their scanning back camera, allowing it to the leadership of the quite possibly to something not in storage. a primary campus artery, served as a a vast winter (and summer) garden for study. allowing Lindsey to clean, flatten, and mend design since the 19th century or earlier— undertake digitization of rare and fragile Off-site storage of material thus has a vast foreground to the limestone piles A product of creative architectural genius large materials, such as a map of Fuzhou, book presses, a board shear, and sewing materials such as the Goodspeed Collection University, because it multiplicative negative effect on library of Regenstein. and precision technical engineering, the China, printed between 1860 and 1911. By frames are used to repair or create new of 5th- to 19th-century papyri fragments research. A traditional approach to urban 240 ft long, 35 ft high dome of the Mansueto Professor Andrew Abbott laying the item on the table’s flat, perforated bindings for books, often with historically and New Testament manuscripts, and represents the mission and campus planning would suggest Library provides a dynamic, transparent consults dissertations in a metal surface, covering it with a clear plastic sympathetic materials. the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae Keeping an Open Mind correcting the “problem” of Regenstein presence on the revitalizing Ellis Avenue. Mansueto research cubicle. dome-shaped top, and connecting it to a engravings of Rome and Roman of the University of about Research Practice Digitization: Scanning Collections powerful vacuum, she is able to control antiquities. As we look to the future, we know research humidification precisely and undertake and Making Them Freely Available With the opening of Mansueto, Head Chicago as catalyst practices will continue to shift. By building aqueous and solvent-based treatments while Online of Digitization Kathleen Arthur added a a facility that can be reconfigured to handle protecting the original paper and ink. Preservation staff members are part of Zeutschel scanner that can more rapidly for the advancement all of the University’s physical library needs, New fume hoods allow for the use of the Library team that is facilitating the digitize large bound volumes in a face up if future research practices become purely organic solvents to remove tape and reduce digitization of UChicago volumes as part position, preventing damage to a book’s of knowledge. It The decision to build such a structure stacks, in reference tools, in bibliographies, digital, thereby releasing Regenstein for stains. A special sink allows staff to wash of a partnership between Google and the pages and spine. A number of major when so many of our peer institutions are in the books and articles of other scholars. other scholarly uses, we are not committed degradation products from paper. Committee on Institutional Cooperation. projects using the Zeutschel will begin in is interesting that shipping materials off-site was not reached This browsing is a continuous activity to any one vision of the research future. the 2011-12 academic year, including the lightly. Rather, it resulted from serious that constantly renews research, not an Rather we are prepared to deal with a broad scanning of bound manuscripts from a this happened at an intellectual inquiry and collaboration occasional matter that on rare occasions range of possible trajectories of research number of archival collections held in the between faculty and librarians. Four central leads to serendipitous discovery. We knew practice. Special Collections Research Center. Institution where the principles emerged in this process. therefore that any storage plan must Among those underway are Lincoln A Mecca for Scholars maximize opportunities for browsing The Mansueto Library embodies these basic manuscripts from the William E. disciplines of Architecture Decision-making and in particular for the browsing of the principles in a facility that will serve the Barton Collection of Lincolniana and Based on Research most rewarding materials: traditional University and its library-based researchers bound manuscripts from the Chicago and Engineering are The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library The concept of Mansueto was based on monographs. We had to keep those on the for at least two decades. There will, of Committee of Fifteen—records gathered actual study of the research habits of faculty shelves at all costs. course, be changes in those decades, new for an investigation of Chicago crime not taught, but a spirit and graduate students. Our surveys and Mansueto uses the best of technology worlds of material and possibly new modes focusing on prostitution and the illegal other research showed that research online to protect and enhance this core research of research. But by designing a flexible sale of alcohol (1908-1911). A collection prevails to go beyond and research in physical materials were activity. By concentrating material that building that complements Regenstein and of more than 300 Russian satirical journal “Researchers can be confident that any research lead can be followed, digital or highly complementary in the practice of cannot be browsed or that is browsed that reflects the realities of current research issues published during the Russian where others stop.” researchers. Powerful online tools increased only rarely into a high-density system, practice, we are uniquely prepared for Revolution of 1905-1907 and currently physical, without having to wait for retrieval of materials from off-site storage.” the use of physical materials—and of Mansueto frees space on open shelving in them, even as we are uniquely positioned to Lindsey uses her new suction held in Special Collections will also be ­—Architect table to treat large maps. esoteric physical materials in particular— Regenstein and other campus libraries for facilitate the forms of library research that digitized. —Professor Andrew Abbott because scholars could find things much millions of new monographs, preserving the scholars have evolved over the last century. Enabling Preservation A Paradox of Contextualism A Mecca for Scholars

By Steve Wiesenthal, Associate Vice President and University Architect By Andrew Abbott, the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Sociology and the College; Chair, Board of the University of Chicago Library onstruction of the Mansueto Library made it possible to ow does one possibly add onto the by re-establishing the street wall. That is in expand the space available to he Joe and Rika Mansueto Library more easily. At the same time, the physical monograph browsability that is central to C formidable Regenstein Library? effect what the Max Palevsky residence hall the Preservation Department and, as a gives the University’s research materials contained quality judgments scholarly work. Under one roof, researchers That was the question posed to does to the north. Imagine a new rectilinear community reason to celebrate. unavailable online and for most purposes can be confident that any research lead can result, to acquire additional, state-of-the- Ann Lindsey works with an H T architects once the University made the building, perhaps connected to Regenstein art equipment for the conservation and interactive Soviet children’s book, By locating this new facility at the heart were more rapidly scannable. In practice, be followed, digital or physical, without unique commitment to keep its amazing by tunnel, south of Henry Moore’s “Nuclear digitization of collections. Sever, iug, vostok i zapad (North, of campus, adjacent to Regenstein, the expert researchers work steadily between having to wait for retrieval of materials collection of books and archives on campus. Energy” sculpture that would be big and “The kinds of things we can do South, East, and West: 1932), on University of Chicago has repeated the the two. A new facility had to accept and from off-site storage. one of her large, new tables. The University had already made a solid enough to house and protect 3.5 now were almost unimaginable before success of the prior library, again creating further this synergy, not fight against it. singularly bold statement in the Regenstein million volumes of books. Mansueto,” says Preservation Librarian the most research-effective academic library Avoiding the Self-fulfilling 40 years ago when it replaced its football In a paradox of contextualism, the Sherry Byrne. “From washing paper to system in the United States—one that The Importance of Browsing Prophecy field with one of the nation’s largest univer- futuristic spaceship-resembling Mansueto safely and more rapidly scanning fragile will be a mecca for scholars from around Traditional library research has relied very A great danger with off-site storage­—as the sity libraries. Its design is in stark contrast Library actually works as a light and bound manuscripts, our new equipment the world. heavily on browsing at all levels: in the experience of peer libraries had shown—is to the preceding campus architecture in airy foil to Regenstein and as an elegant will allow us to make the Library’s the self-fulfilling prophecy. Material looks the Quadrangles immediately across 57th landscape object set askew both to point on collections more usable and more widely And, as a result of the expanded space, But not all of the Library’s materials unused, so it is sent to storage. But then it is Street to the south. The Quads are all about axis to the Henry Moore sculpture to the available to students and scholars, here and the Preservation Department has been able can be digitized by Google. Rare books, even less likely to be used, because scholars, shaping and containing space and the north and to deflect away from Ellis Avenue around the world.” to obtain 7 ft by 11 ft tables that allow staff manuscripts and archives from the Special although often seeking out specific rare to clean, stabilize, repair, and otherwise treat Collections Research Center and oversized activity within. They are comprised of 33 to reveal the corner of Snell-Hitchcock in materials, base most of their research—and Conservation: Preserving Materials very large materials on library premises for and fragile materials from the Library’s buildings linked around one primary and the Quadrangles to the south. all of their browsing—on materials readily in Their Original Formats the first time. A 19th-century map of Paris’s general collections are among the items six secondary courtyards. The 3.5 million volumes are stored accessible, material that does not have to In contrast, Regenstein is all about where they belong: below ground in a high- Charged with meeting the conservation arrondissements, early 20th-century maps of that are candidates for the Library’s own “I think [our design for be waited for but that can be used when a singular object commanding its space. density, 60 ft deep volume with stable needs of millions of print volumes in Chicago neighborhoods, and giant Soviet local digitization program. needed. This is particularly true for tracing Surrounded by lawn, its rough hewn climatic conditions and an automated the Library’s collections, as well as maps propaganda posters from the 1930s are a The Library began digitizing materials the Mansueto Library] bibliographical and research trails through “Brutalist” limestone panels separated retrieval system that brings requested and other flat works on paper, Head of few items treated since these tables arrived. using flatbed scanners and making them multiple sources. An item stored off-site by vertical bands of windows create an materials up to the light of day in three to Conservation Ann Lindsey is delighted by This new equipment supplements other freely available online in 1997. In 2005 has been embraced by is often wanted not for itself, but simply enormous abstract composition of solid five minutes. what she can do with her new equipment. tools long held by the Library that have it acquired a Better Light 4x5 digital for some further reference it contains— and void. The setback from Ellis Avenue, The space above ground is for people— A recently acquired suction table is remained substantially unchanged in their scanning back camera, allowing it to the leadership of the quite possibly to something not in storage. a primary campus artery, served as a a vast winter (and summer) garden for study. allowing Lindsey to clean, flatten, and mend design since the 19th century or earlier— undertake digitization of rare and fragile Off-site storage of material thus has a vast foreground to the limestone piles A product of creative architectural genius large materials, such as a map of Fuzhou, book presses, a board shear, and sewing materials such as the Goodspeed Collection University, because it multiplicative negative effect on library of Regenstein. and precision technical engineering, the China, printed between 1860 and 1911. By frames are used to repair or create new of 5th- to 19th-century papyri fragments research. A traditional approach to urban 240 ft long, 35 ft high dome of the Mansueto Professor Andrew Abbott laying the item on the table’s flat, perforated bindings for books, often with historically and New Testament manuscripts, and represents the mission and campus planning would suggest Library provides a dynamic, transparent consults dissertations in a metal surface, covering it with a clear plastic sympathetic materials. the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae Keeping an Open Mind correcting the “problem” of Regenstein presence on the revitalizing Ellis Avenue. Mansueto research cubicle. dome-shaped top, and connecting it to a engravings of Rome and Roman of the University of about Research Practice Digitization: Scanning Collections powerful vacuum, she is able to control antiquities. As we look to the future, we know research humidification precisely and undertake and Making Them Freely Available With the opening of Mansueto, Head Chicago as catalyst practices will continue to shift. By building aqueous and solvent-based treatments while Online of Digitization Kathleen Arthur added a a facility that can be reconfigured to handle protecting the original paper and ink. Preservation staff members are part of Zeutschel scanner that can more rapidly for the advancement all of the University’s physical library needs, New fume hoods allow for the use of the Library team that is facilitating the digitize large bound volumes in a face up if future research practices become purely organic solvents to remove tape and reduce digitization of UChicago volumes as part position, preventing damage to a book’s of knowledge. It The decision to build such a structure stacks, in reference tools, in bibliographies, digital, thereby releasing Regenstein for stains. A special sink allows staff to wash of a partnership between Google and the pages and spine. A number of major when so many of our peer institutions are in the books and articles of other scholars. other scholarly uses, we are not committed degradation products from paper. Committee on Institutional Cooperation. projects using the Zeutschel will begin in is interesting that shipping materials off-site was not reached This browsing is a continuous activity to any one vision of the research future. the 2011-12 academic year, including the lightly. Rather, it resulted from serious that constantly renews research, not an Rather we are prepared to deal with a broad scanning of bound manuscripts from a this happened at an intellectual inquiry and collaboration occasional matter that on rare occasions range of possible trajectories of research number of archival collections held in the between faculty and librarians. Four central leads to serendipitous discovery. We knew practice. Special Collections Research Center. Institution where the principles emerged in this process. therefore that any storage plan must Among those underway are Lincoln A Mecca for Scholars maximize opportunities for browsing The Mansueto Library embodies these basic manuscripts from the William E. disciplines of Architecture Decision-making and in particular for the browsing of the principles in a facility that will serve the Barton Collection of Lincolniana and Based on Research most rewarding materials: traditional University and its library-based researchers bound manuscripts from the Chicago and Engineering are The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library The concept of Mansueto was based on monographs. We had to keep those on the for at least two decades. There will, of Committee of Fifteen—records gathered actual study of the research habits of faculty shelves at all costs. course, be changes in those decades, new for an investigation of Chicago crime not taught, but a spirit and graduate students. Our surveys and Mansueto uses the best of technology worlds of material and possibly new modes focusing on prostitution and the illegal other research showed that research online to protect and enhance this core research of research. But by designing a flexible sale of alcohol (1908-1911). A collection prevails to go beyond and research in physical materials were activity. By concentrating material that building that complements Regenstein and of more than 300 Russian satirical journal “Researchers can be confident that any research lead can be followed, digital or highly complementary in the practice of cannot be browsed or that is browsed that reflects the realities of current research issues published during the Russian where others stop.” researchers. Powerful online tools increased only rarely into a high-density system, practice, we are uniquely prepared for Revolution of 1905-1907 and currently physical, without having to wait for retrieval of materials from off-site storage.” the use of physical materials—and of Mansueto frees space on open shelving in them, even as we are uniquely positioned to Lindsey uses her new suction held in Special Collections will also be ­—Architect Helmut Jahn table to treat large maps. esoteric physical materials in particular— Regenstein and other campus libraries for facilitate the forms of library research that digitized. —Professor Andrew Abbott because scholars could find things much millions of new monographs, preserving the scholars have evolved over the last century. Enabling Preservation A Paradox of Contextualism A Mecca for Scholars

By Steve Wiesenthal, Associate Vice President and University Architect By Andrew Abbott, the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Sociology and the College; Chair, Board of the University of Chicago Library onstruction of the Mansueto Library made it possible to ow does one possibly add onto the by re-establishing the street wall. That is in expand the space available to he Joe and Rika Mansueto Library more easily. At the same time, the physical monograph browsability that is central to C formidable Regenstein Library? effect what the Max Palevsky residence hall the Preservation Department and, as a gives the University’s research materials contained quality judgments scholarly work. Under one roof, researchers That was the question posed to does to the north. Imagine a new rectilinear community reason to celebrate. unavailable online and for most purposes can be confident that any research lead can result, to acquire additional, state-of-the- Ann Lindsey works with an H T architects once the University made the building, perhaps connected to Regenstein art equipment for the conservation and interactive Soviet children’s book, By locating this new facility at the heart were more rapidly scannable. In practice, be followed, digital or physical, without unique commitment to keep its amazing by tunnel, south of Henry Moore’s “Nuclear digitization of collections. Sever, iug, vostok i zapad (North, of campus, adjacent to Regenstein, the expert researchers work steadily between having to wait for retrieval of materials collection of books and archives on campus. Energy” sculpture that would be big and “The kinds of things we can do South, East, and West: 1932), on University of Chicago has repeated the the two. A new facility had to accept and from off-site storage. one of her large, new tables. The University had already made a solid enough to house and protect 3.5 now were almost unimaginable before success of the prior library, again creating further this synergy, not fight against it. singularly bold statement in the Regenstein million volumes of books. Mansueto,” says Preservation Librarian the most research-effective academic library Avoiding the Self-fulfilling 40 years ago when it replaced its football In a paradox of contextualism, the Sherry Byrne. “From washing paper to system in the United States—one that The Importance of Browsing Prophecy field with one of the nation’s largest univer- futuristic spaceship-resembling Mansueto safely and more rapidly scanning fragile will be a mecca for scholars from around Traditional library research has relied very A great danger with off-site storage­—as the sity libraries. Its design is in stark contrast Library actually works as a light and bound manuscripts, our new equipment the world. heavily on browsing at all levels: in the experience of peer libraries had shown—is to the preceding campus architecture in airy foil to Regenstein and as an elegant will allow us to make the Library’s the self-fulfilling prophecy. Material looks the Quadrangles immediately across 57th landscape object set askew both to point on collections more usable and more widely And, as a result of the expanded space, But not all of the Library’s materials unused, so it is sent to storage. But then it is Street to the south. The Quads are all about axis to the Henry Moore sculpture to the available to students and scholars, here and the Preservation Department has been able can be digitized by Google. Rare books, even less likely to be used, because scholars, shaping and containing space and the north and to deflect away from Ellis Avenue around the world.” to obtain 7 ft by 11 ft tables that allow staff manuscripts and archives from the Special although often seeking out specific rare to clean, stabilize, repair, and otherwise treat Collections Research Center and oversized activity within. They are comprised of 33 to reveal the corner of Snell-Hitchcock in materials, base most of their research—and Conservation: Preserving Materials very large materials on library premises for and fragile materials from the Library’s buildings linked around one primary and the Quadrangles to the south. all of their browsing—on materials readily in Their Original Formats the first time. A 19th-century map of Paris’s general collections are among the items six secondary courtyards. The 3.5 million volumes are stored accessible, material that does not have to In contrast, Regenstein is all about where they belong: below ground in a high- Charged with meeting the conservation arrondissements, early 20th-century maps of that are candidates for the Library’s own “I think [our design for be waited for but that can be used when a singular object commanding its space. density, 60 ft deep volume with stable needs of millions of print volumes in Chicago neighborhoods, and giant Soviet local digitization program. needed. This is particularly true for tracing Surrounded by lawn, its rough hewn climatic conditions and an automated the Library’s collections, as well as maps propaganda posters from the 1930s are a The Library began digitizing materials the Mansueto Library] bibliographical and research trails through “Brutalist” limestone panels separated retrieval system that brings requested and other flat works on paper, Head of few items treated since these tables arrived. using flatbed scanners and making them multiple sources. An item stored off-site by vertical bands of windows create an materials up to the light of day in three to Conservation Ann Lindsey is delighted by This new equipment supplements other freely available online in 1997. In 2005 has been embraced by is often wanted not for itself, but simply enormous abstract composition of solid five minutes. what she can do with her new equipment. tools long held by the Library that have it acquired a Better Light 4x5 digital for some further reference it contains— and void. The setback from Ellis Avenue, The space above ground is for people— A recently acquired suction table is remained substantially unchanged in their scanning back camera, allowing it to the leadership of the quite possibly to something not in storage. a primary campus artery, served as a a vast winter (and summer) garden for study. allowing Lindsey to clean, flatten, and mend design since the 19th century or earlier— undertake digitization of rare and fragile Off-site storage of material thus has a vast foreground to the limestone piles A product of creative architectural genius large materials, such as a map of Fuzhou, book presses, a board shear, and sewing materials such as the Goodspeed Collection University, because it multiplicative negative effect on library of Regenstein. and precision technical engineering, the China, printed between 1860 and 1911. By frames are used to repair or create new of 5th- to 19th-century papyri fragments research. A traditional approach to urban 240 ft long, 35 ft high dome of the Mansueto Professor Andrew Abbott laying the item on the table’s flat, perforated bindings for books, often with historically and New Testament manuscripts, and represents the mission and campus planning would suggest Library provides a dynamic, transparent consults dissertations in a metal surface, covering it with a clear plastic sympathetic materials. the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae Keeping an Open Mind correcting the “problem” of Regenstein presence on the revitalizing Ellis Avenue. Mansueto research cubicle. dome-shaped top, and connecting it to a engravings of Rome and Roman of the University of about Research Practice Digitization: Scanning Collections powerful vacuum, she is able to control antiquities. As we look to the future, we know research humidification precisely and undertake and Making Them Freely Available With the opening of Mansueto, Head Chicago as catalyst practices will continue to shift. By building aqueous and solvent-based treatments while Online of Digitization Kathleen Arthur added a a facility that can be reconfigured to handle protecting the original paper and ink. Preservation staff members are part of Zeutschel scanner that can more rapidly for the advancement all of the University’s physical library needs, New fume hoods allow for the use of the Library team that is facilitating the digitize large bound volumes in a face up if future research practices become purely organic solvents to remove tape and reduce digitization of UChicago volumes as part position, preventing damage to a book’s of knowledge. It The decision to build such a structure stacks, in reference tools, in bibliographies, digital, thereby releasing Regenstein for stains. A special sink allows staff to wash of a partnership between Google and the pages and spine. A number of major when so many of our peer institutions are in the books and articles of other scholars. other scholarly uses, we are not committed degradation products from paper. Committee on Institutional Cooperation. projects using the Zeutschel will begin in is interesting that shipping materials off-site was not reached This browsing is a continuous activity to any one vision of the research future. the 2011-12 academic year, including the lightly. Rather, it resulted from serious that constantly renews research, not an Rather we are prepared to deal with a broad scanning of bound manuscripts from a this happened at an intellectual inquiry and collaboration occasional matter that on rare occasions range of possible trajectories of research number of archival collections held in the between faculty and librarians. Four central leads to serendipitous discovery. We knew practice. Special Collections Research Center. Institution where the principles emerged in this process. therefore that any storage plan must Among those underway are Lincoln A Mecca for Scholars maximize opportunities for browsing The Mansueto Library embodies these basic manuscripts from the William E. disciplines of Architecture Decision-making and in particular for the browsing of the principles in a facility that will serve the Barton Collection of Lincolniana and Based on Research most rewarding materials: traditional University and its library-based researchers bound manuscripts from the Chicago and Engineering are The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library The concept of Mansueto was based on monographs. We had to keep those on the for at least two decades. There will, of Committee of Fifteen—records gathered actual study of the research habits of faculty shelves at all costs. course, be changes in those decades, new for an investigation of Chicago crime not taught, but a spirit and graduate students. Our surveys and Mansueto uses the best of technology worlds of material and possibly new modes focusing on prostitution and the illegal other research showed that research online to protect and enhance this core research of research. But by designing a flexible sale of alcohol (1908-1911). A collection prevails to go beyond and research in physical materials were activity. By concentrating material that building that complements Regenstein and of more than 300 Russian satirical journal “Researchers can be confident that any research lead can be followed, digital or highly complementary in the practice of cannot be browsed or that is browsed that reflects the realities of current research issues published during the Russian where others stop.” researchers. Powerful online tools increased only rarely into a high-density system, practice, we are uniquely prepared for Revolution of 1905-1907 and currently physical, without having to wait for retrieval of materials from off-site storage.” the use of physical materials—and of Mansueto frees space on open shelving in them, even as we are uniquely positioned to Lindsey uses her new suction held in Special Collections will also be ­—Architect Helmut Jahn table to treat large maps. esoteric physical materials in particular— Regenstein and other campus libraries for facilitate the forms of library research that digitized. —Professor Andrew Abbott because scholars could find things much millions of new monographs, preserving the scholars have evolved over the last century. Mansueto enables virtual access through the dissemination of content in digital form. We must build up our local digitization capacity to complement Mansueto: Where from Here? mass digitization efforts towards a program that will open our collections to users here and around the world.

Mansueto enables both disciplinary and Mansueto enables education, teaching, and outreach. interdisciplinary collocation. Collections in all We must equip all vacated library spaces with state-of-the disciplines will be housed in the high density facility. art equipment to support study and teaching with library At the same time, our automated discovery tools resources and in library environments. And we must “As they filled the room, support virtual browsing by disciplinary classification maximize the beauty and programmatic capabilities of I caught a glimpse of Mansueto’s future, regardless of where the material is physically located. the new Special Collections Research Center Exhibition We must sustain and further develop this capability but I also knew our work had just begun.” as our collections grow in number and diversity.

Mansueto enables physical accessibility. It supports delivery within minutes of materials that can only be virtually browsed.

Mansueto enables flexibility. The random location The genius of Mansueto is in its beauty of materials in high density is more conducive to collection rearrangement than the classified arrangement It is imperative that we take full advantage of and functionality; its power is in its of materials in the open stacks. We must continue to Mansueto’s enormous potential to enable scholarship enabling features. Unless we mine these rationalize the location of collections as we monitor and teaching at the University of Chicago. We are their use. eager to meet this important challenge, but we cannot At 8 a.m. on May 16, 2011, the Mansueto Library The process of loading materials into Mansueto started enabling features, we will have wasted do it alone. Grand Reading Room officially opened its doors to soon thereafter and continued throughout the summer its powerful promise. the University of Chicago community and scholars so that nearly 1 million volumes could be loaded into Mansueto is first and foremost about discoverability. from around the world. A group of early risers were in Mansueto by the fall. Shelf browsing and serendipitous discovery by roaming Gallery by extending the breadth of our physical position, waiting to claim the first seats under Mansueto’s open shelves is the surest way to stumble upon exhibition program and complementing it with a rich magnificent dome, and more students streamed in The formal dedication of Mansueto will be held unexpected information, and Mansueto enables this virtual exhibition program. on Tuesday, October 11. This highlight will mark the throughout the day and late into the night. As they type of discoverability by freeing the open stacks of completion of the construction phase and the starting filled the room, I caught a glimpse of Mansueto’s future, materials that cannot or do not need to be browsed. Mansueto enables partnership and collaboration. but I also knew our work had just begun. point for the next phase of programmatic developments. As our collections continue to grow, we must sustain It frees space throughout the library system for shared, the careful and continuous process of collections collaborative cross-university initiatives. We must management guided by the principles of discoverability: invest in cultivating affinities and collaboration with move to Mansueto what is not to be browsed, keep in different units on campus that contribute to the the open stacks what is. information enterprise.

Mansueto enables preservation. It functions Our friends and advocates have been with us as we built as a trusted print repository in a high-density the case for Mansueto, and as we built its walls. Your storage vault. And it highlights the importance of foresight, generosity and investment have supported conservation to ensure that materials can be safely our achievements thus far. Together, we have built a used over time. We must respond with a preservation magnificent frame and a powerful infrastructure for the program that is commensurate with the needs of forward-looking programs of a great library. I now invite our collections and the expectations of our users. your continued engagement and support in realizing the full potential of Mansueto as we build Library programs that further fuel research, study, and teaching at this “It is imperative that we take full advantage of Mansueto’s greatest of universities. enormous potential to enable scholarship and teaching.” By Judith Nadler, Director and University Librarian Enabling Preservation A Paradox of Contextualism A Mecca for Scholars

By Steve Wiesenthal, Associate Vice President and University Architect By Andrew Abbott, the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Sociology and the College; Chair, Board of the University of Chicago Library onstruction of the Mansueto Library made it possible to ow does one possibly add onto the by re-establishing the street wall. That is in expand the space available to he Joe and Rika Mansueto Library more easily. At the same time, the physical monograph browsability that is central to C formidable Regenstein Library? effect what the Max Palevsky residence hall the Preservation Department and, as a gives the University’s research materials contained quality judgments scholarly work. Under one roof, researchers That was the question posed to does to the north. Imagine a new rectilinear community reason to celebrate. unavailable online and for most purposes can be confident that any research lead can result, to acquire additional, state-of-the- Ann Lindsey works with an H T architects once the University made the building, perhaps connected to Regenstein art equipment for the conservation and interactive Soviet children’s book, By locating this new facility at the heart were more rapidly scannable. In practice, be followed, digital or physical, without unique commitment to keep its amazing by tunnel, south of Henry Moore’s “Nuclear digitization of collections. Sever, iug, vostok i zapad (North, of campus, adjacent to Regenstein, the expert researchers work steadily between having to wait for retrieval of materials collection of books and archives on campus. Energy” sculpture that would be big and “The kinds of things we can do South, East, and West: 1932), on University of Chicago has repeated the the two. A new facility had to accept and from off-site storage. one of her large, new tables. The University had already made a solid enough to house and protect 3.5 now were almost unimaginable before success of the prior library, again creating further this synergy, not fight against it. singularly bold statement in the Regenstein million volumes of books. Mansueto,” says Preservation Librarian the most research-effective academic library Avoiding the Self-fulfilling 40 years ago when it replaced its football In a paradox of contextualism, the Sherry Byrne. “From washing paper to system in the United States—one that The Importance of Browsing Prophecy field with one of the nation’s largest univer- futuristic spaceship-resembling Mansueto safely and more rapidly scanning fragile will be a mecca for scholars from around Traditional library research has relied very A great danger with off-site storage­—as the sity libraries. Its design is in stark contrast Library actually works as a light and bound manuscripts, our new equipment the world. heavily on browsing at all levels: in the experience of peer libraries had shown—is to the preceding campus architecture in airy foil to Regenstein and as an elegant will allow us to make the Library’s the self-fulfilling prophecy. Material looks the Quadrangles immediately across 57th landscape object set askew both to point on collections more usable and more widely And, as a result of the expanded space, But not all of the Library’s materials unused, so it is sent to storage. But then it is Street to the south. The Quads are all about axis to the Henry Moore sculpture to the available to students and scholars, here and the Preservation Department has been able can be digitized by Google. Rare books, even less likely to be used, because scholars, shaping and containing space and the north and to deflect away from Ellis Avenue around the world.” to obtain 7 ft by 11 ft tables that allow staff manuscripts and archives from the Special although often seeking out specific rare to clean, stabilize, repair, and otherwise treat Collections Research Center and oversized activity within. They are comprised of 33 to reveal the corner of Snell-Hitchcock in materials, base most of their research—and Conservation: Preserving Materials very large materials on library premises for and fragile materials from the Library’s buildings linked around one primary and the Quadrangles to the south. all of their browsing—on materials readily in Their Original Formats the first time. A 19th-century map of Paris’s general collections are among the items six secondary courtyards. The 3.5 million volumes are stored accessible, material that does not have to In contrast, Regenstein is all about where they belong: below ground in a high- Charged with meeting the conservation arrondissements, early 20th-century maps of that are candidates for the Library’s own “I think [our design for be waited for but that can be used when a singular object commanding its space. density, 60 ft deep volume with stable needs of millions of print volumes in Chicago neighborhoods, and giant Soviet local digitization program. needed. This is particularly true for tracing Surrounded by lawn, its rough hewn climatic conditions and an automated the Library’s collections, as well as maps propaganda posters from the 1930s are a The Library began digitizing materials the Mansueto Library] bibliographical and research trails through “Brutalist” limestone panels separated retrieval system that brings requested and other flat works on paper, Head of few items treated since these tables arrived. using flatbed scanners and making them multiple sources. An item stored off-site by vertical bands of windows create an materials up to the light of day in three to Conservation Ann Lindsey is delighted by This new equipment supplements other freely available online in 1997. In 2005 has been embraced by is often wanted not for itself, but simply enormous abstract composition of solid five minutes. what she can do with her new equipment. tools long held by the Library that have it acquired a Better Light 4x5 digital for some further reference it contains— and void. The setback from Ellis Avenue, The space above ground is for people— A recently acquired suction table is remained substantially unchanged in their scanning back camera, allowing it to the leadership of the quite possibly to something not in storage. a primary campus artery, served as a a vast winter (and summer) garden for study. allowing Lindsey to clean, flatten, and mend design since the 19th century or earlier— undertake digitization of rare and fragile Off-site storage of material thus has a vast foreground to the limestone piles A product of creative architectural genius large materials, such as a map of Fuzhou, book presses, a board shear, and sewing materials such as the Goodspeed Collection University, because it multiplicative negative effect on library of Regenstein. and precision technical engineering, the China, printed between 1860 and 1911. By frames are used to repair or create new of 5th- to 19th-century papyri fragments research. A traditional approach to urban 240 ft long, 35 ft high dome of the Mansueto Professor Andrew Abbott laying the item on the table’s flat, perforated bindings for books, often with historically and New Testament manuscripts, and represents the mission and campus planning would suggest Library provides a dynamic, transparent consults dissertations in a metal surface, covering it with a clear plastic sympathetic materials. the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae Keeping an Open Mind correcting the “problem” of Regenstein presence on the revitalizing Ellis Avenue. Mansueto research cubicle. dome-shaped top, and connecting it to a engravings of Rome and Roman of the University of about Research Practice Digitization: Scanning Collections powerful vacuum, she is able to control antiquities. As we look to the future, we know research humidification precisely and undertake and Making Them Freely Available With the opening of Mansueto, Head Chicago as catalyst practices will continue to shift. By building aqueous and solvent-based treatments while Online of Digitization Kathleen Arthur added a a facility that can be reconfigured to handle protecting the original paper and ink. Preservation staff members are part of Zeutschel scanner that can more rapidly for the advancement all of the University’s physical library needs, New fume hoods allow for the use of the Library team that is facilitating the digitize large bound volumes in a face up if future research practices become purely organic solvents to remove tape and reduce digitization of UChicago volumes as part position, preventing damage to a book’s of knowledge. It The decision to build such a structure stacks, in reference tools, in bibliographies, digital, thereby releasing Regenstein for stains. A special sink allows staff to wash of a partnership between Google and the pages and spine. A number of major when so many of our peer institutions are in the books and articles of other scholars. other scholarly uses, we are not committed degradation products from paper. Committee on Institutional Cooperation. projects using the Zeutschel will begin in is interesting that shipping materials off-site was not reached This browsing is a continuous activity to any one vision of the research future. the 2011-12 academic year, including the lightly. Rather, it resulted from serious that constantly renews research, not an Rather we are prepared to deal with a broad scanning of bound manuscripts from a this happened at an intellectual inquiry and collaboration occasional matter that on rare occasions range of possible trajectories of research number of archival collections held in the between faculty and librarians. Four central leads to serendipitous discovery. We knew practice. Special Collections Research Center. Institution where the principles emerged in this process. therefore that any storage plan must Among those underway are Lincoln A Mecca for Scholars maximize opportunities for browsing The Mansueto Library embodies these basic manuscripts from the William E. disciplines of Architecture Decision-making and in particular for the browsing of the principles in a facility that will serve the Barton Collection of Lincolniana and Based on Research most rewarding materials: traditional University and its library-based researchers bound manuscripts from the Chicago and Engineering are The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library The concept of Mansueto was based on monographs. We had to keep those on the for at least two decades. There will, of Committee of Fifteen—records gathered actual study of the research habits of faculty shelves at all costs. course, be changes in those decades, new for an investigation of Chicago crime not taught, but a spirit and graduate students. Our surveys and Mansueto uses the best of technology worlds of material and possibly new modes focusing on prostitution and the illegal other research showed that research online to protect and enhance this core research of research. But by designing a flexible sale of alcohol (1908-1911). A collection prevails to go beyond and research in physical materials were activity. By concentrating material that building that complements Regenstein and of more than 300 Russian satirical journal “Researchers can be confident that any research lead can be followed, digital or highly complementary in the practice of cannot be browsed or that is browsed that reflects the realities of current research issues published during the Russian where others stop.” researchers. Powerful online tools increased only rarely into a high-density system, practice, we are uniquely prepared for Revolution of 1905-1907 and currently physical, without having to wait for retrieval of materials from off-site storage.” the use of physical materials—and of Mansueto frees space on open shelving in them, even as we are uniquely positioned to Lindsey uses her new suction held in Special Collections will also be ­—Architect Helmut Jahn table to treat large maps. esoteric physical materials in particular— Regenstein and other campus libraries for facilitate the forms of library research that digitized. —Professor Andrew Abbott because scholars could find things much millions of new monographs, preserving the scholars have evolved over the last century. The Board of the Library 2011-12

Andrew Abbott, Chair; Gustavus F. & Diane Sperling Lauderdale, Professor, Ex officio Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Health Studies and the College Robert J. Zimmer, President and Trustee Department of Sociology and the College, Senior Susanne Luedemann, Associate Professor, of the University; Professor, Department of Fellow, Computation Institute Department of Germanic Studies and the College, Mathematics and Physical Sciences Collegiate Jason Bridges, Associate Professor & Director Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Division of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Germanic Studies Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Provost of the Philosophy and the College Kathleen D. Morrison, Professor, Department University; John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Kevin Corlette, Professor, Department of of Anthropology and the College, Director, Center Professor, Department of Physics, James Franck Mathematics and the College for International Studies Institute, and the College Bradin Cormack, Associate Professor, James T. Robinson, Associate Professor, Garrett Kiely, Director, University of Department of English Language and Literature, Divinity School Chicago Press Director, Nicholson Center for British Studies Lisa Ruddick, Associate Professor, Department of Klara Jelinkova, Associate Vice President Darby English, Associate Professor, English Language and Literature and the College & Chief Information Technology Officer, Department of Art History and the College IT Services Katherine Fischer Taylor, Associate Professor, Adrian Johns, Allan Grant Maclear Professor; Department of Art History and the College Judith Nadler, Director and University Department of History and the College, Chair, Librarian Committee on Conceptual and Historical Diana Jergovic, Associate Provost for Studies of Science Academic and Budgetary Initiatives Judith Nadler Contributors Photographers Director and University Librarian Andrew Abbott, Kathleen Arthur, Sherry Lloyd DeGrane, Dan Dry, Tom Rossiter, Rachel Rosenberg Byrne, Joan Bentley Hoffman, Helmut Jahn, Jason Smith, Tom van Eynde Director of Communications Ann Lindsey, Barbara Palmer-Bostick, Art Direction James Vaughan, Steve Wiesenthal Elisabeth Long and Bradley Busenius Design thebarncompany.com

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