Architects'rendering of the study lounge and cafe space (Hammond, Beeby. Rupert, Ainge, Inc.,June 2005).
~ The Bass Library Grand Opening
inal preparations are underway for the re-opening and new shelves in the Bass Library. All construction activity is expected renaming of the Cross Campus Library, scheduled for October to be completely fin ished for its official rededication on November Fof 2007. Installation of the oak millwork and the e1evarors, 30[h, 2007. among other final construction details, are now being completed. The renovation will feature several architectural highlights. A New furniture is being moved into open study areas as well as in the new stone pavilion entrance into the Bass Library is located on the group and individualized study rooms. To recognize the generous Cross Campus lawn between Woolsey Hall and Berkeley College support provided by Anne T. and Robert M. Bass '7[, the Library Nonh. The former interior space of the underground library will will open on October [9, 2007, as the BASS LIBRARY. Students be completely transformed, with vaulted ceilings, elegant steel and others in the Yale community will be able to use the beautifully mullions that define several glass windows and panitions, and redesigned spaces in the Bass Library after a midnight kick-off event a custom designed tile frieze echoing the woodwork, stone, and (see www.library.yale.edufordetails). New electronic classrooms will windows found in SML. A new occagonal stairwell, made from be available for instruC[ional sessions, and the library will stan hosting limestone and sandstone, with decorative carvings that complement a new service that emphasizes the use of technology and information the stonework that James Gamble Rogers originally used, has been resources for teaching and learning. In order not to disrupt use of the built in the SML nave. This stairwell connects the nave with the new library, the CeL collection will be moved at night over several Wright Reading Room (named after William H. Wright II '82), a days. Readers will be able to access the CCL collection while it is beautiful space for comfortable seating, with three large group study moved from the Sterling Memorial Library (SML) stack tower to the rooms, as well as with the tunnel leading to the Bass Library.
2 library Cafe Collaborates with 4 Oral History of American Music 7 Launch of the University Yale Sustainable Food Project Posts First Podcast librarian's Development Council 3 Lewis Walpole library Reopens 4 Cuban Revolution Collection 7 Trustee's Corner 3 Yale University Librarian 5 AMEEl on the Road 8 Calendar of Exhibits Launches Blog 5 Bridging the Digital Divide 3 New Protection for Special 6 Tokyo in Cherry Blossom Season Collections: Solar Control for Exhibit Corridor Cases FALL 200 7
Two of the new and exciting ventures planned no·ta be·ne for rhe Bass Library are The Library Cafe, and the News from the Yale library Collaborative Learning Center. The Library Cafe is a collaboration between Yale Dining Services and The Yale Sustainable Food Project. The Library Cafe will offer hot and cold beverages, and delicious seasonal sandwiches, salads, and pastries, in an informal underground sening. And in the lower level of the library, &culry and students also will be able co explore pedagogical techniques, instructional technologies, and library resources with librarians, curators, and other experts from around campus at the new Collaborative Learning Center. The Center will complement the rerum of the popular computing cluster workstations, the Technology Troubleshooting Services, and the Self-Service Multi-Media stations managed by ITS. As we approach the exciting unveiling of the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass, '71 new Bass Library, please continue to follow the completion of construction and the re-opening and ':4nne and I can think of no better way to support rededication events scheduled for this fall, via the Nota Bmt is published during education at Yale than the renovation of the Cross the academic year to acquaint Campus Library Already a center for innovative renovation web site: www.library.yale.edulrenovaxnl the Yale community and others phase2alindex.htmL When the library re-opens, interested with the resources of teaching, research, and learning, this splendid facility check the 'Greeter Table' JUSt inside the entrance, the Yale libraries. Please direct promises to be a mOdelfor academic libraries in the comments and questions to 21st century We hope that alumni and friends will as welJ as the new Bass Library web site, for current Amanda Patrick, Editor, contribute generously to this important project ': events and other information. - RD Dirtctor ofDevtlopmtnt, Sterling Memorial Library, (phone: 432-4484, e-mail: Library Cafe Collaborates with Yale Sustainable Food Project [email protected]) ~
The Yale Sustainable Food Project was Copyright 01007 founded in 2001 with the goal of fostering Yale University Lib~ ISS!-< o894-13SI a culture that draws meaning and pleasure from the connections among people, land, and food. The Project directs a sustainable and seasonal dining program in the resi Contributors to this issue include dential dining halls, manages an organic Ann Okerson (AO) farm on campus, and suppOrts academic Simon Samoeil (55) inquiry related to food and agriculture. Graziano Krlidi (GK) Since its founding, the Project has steadily Rebecca Martz (RM) expanded its scope; the dining program has Amanda Patrick (AlP) Robert Daigle (RD) grown from its roOtS as a test kitchen in Paula ZyatS (pz) Berkeley College to offer sustainable options Evviva Weinraub (EW) in every residential dining hall, and with Libby Van Cleve (LVC) the help of the Lazarus Fund for Sustainable Geoffrey Litde (GL) Food and Agriculture at Yale, the Project Cesar Rodriguez (CR) inaugurated an annual speaker, workshop, Maggie Powell (M P) and film series in 2006. Melina Shannon-Dipietro (MSD) In its most recent venture, the Project has collaborated with the Library and Yale
EDITORIAL INFORMATION: Dining Services to open the new Library Alice Prochaska, Cafe in the renovated Bass Library. Staff Univmity Librarian and students helped to plan the cafes menu, Amanda Patrick, joining in summer tastings which resulted in Sylvia Bingham (TO '09) harvests basil at the Yale Farm. Editor (Dirtctor ofDevtlopmtnt) a menu with items ranging from sandwiches and salads to pastries and espresso drinks. food to the heart of Yale's campus, providing a place Jenifer Van Vleck, for students to work, study, or chat over simple and Editorial Assistant The Library Cafe's mission is to bring soundly-produced and reasonably-priced satisfying food. - MSD news
~ The Lewis Walpole Library Reopens
The Lewis Walpole Library's collection of on the library's grounds in Farmington, research library for eighteemh~century books, manuscripts. prints. and drawings Connecticur. Guests came from as far studies and the prime source for the is once again available to researchers by away as England and included William study of Horace Walpole and Strawberry appointment. Construction began in the Waldegrave (Lord Waldegrave of North Hill. Its collections include significant Spring of 2006. The newly renovated Hill) and his wife Caroline, whose holdings of eighteenth~century British spaces include a spacious reading room, presence emphasized the Waldegrave books. manuscripts. prints, drawings and state-of-the-art collection storage, and family's long connection with Horace paintings. as well as important examples new staff and conservation workspace. Walpole, his house Strawberry Hill, of the decorative arts. The completion of the renovations was and the Lewis Walpole Library. For more information: http://www. celebrated in September with a lawn party The Lewis Walpole Library is a library.yale.edulwalpolel. - AJP & MP
~ Yale University Librarian Launches Blog
Nice Prochaska, Yale's U niversity Librarian, has launched
a blog. Designed [Q capture and communicate news from across rhe Yale Library system, the blog will also give a profile to the exciting work that the Library is doing to provide services and information resources to readers. both in~person and in virtual space. The blog will be updated regularly and will feature occasional guest contributors from other areas within the Library. Reader comments and feedback are welcome and you can find the blog at: http://www.library.yale.edulmtblogl ulibrarianl. - GL
preservation
~ New Protection for Special Collections: Solar Control for Exhibit Corridor Cases
The Exhibits Task Force. which is part light by fifty percent and the UV of the Special Collections Sub~committee. component of the light by ninety~nine was established to address exhibit area issues percent. Second, light-and-UV-blocking at Sterling Memorial Library, particularly sleeves will be placed over the fluorescent the safery of objects displayed in the bulbs that light each case, further reducing Library's cases. dangerous levels. Heat. light, and UV rays cause organic Between these twO protective measures, materials to deteriorate, and reducing these it is expected that damaging UV levels will levels is therefore important to collection be reduced by one hundred percem within preservation. The windows that line the the corridor cases, and the light levels will exhibit corridor transmit a great deal of be reduced by up to seventy percent with sunlight into the corridor cases, often no decrease in visibility. - PZ raising light, heat and UV levels within damaging ranges for exhibit materials. The Task Force's first goal was to reduce sunlight levels within the exhibit cases in the Sterling corridor. Two improvements were made. First, solar control window film was applied to the glass of the cases, blocking transmitted collections
~ Oral History of American Music Posts First Podcast
Vivian Perlis (left) and Libby Van Cleve (right) with a picture oj Aaron Copland in the Joreground.
The Library's Oral History of American Libby Van C leve, Associate Director of of approximately 900 interviews with Music (OHAM) project is pleased to OHAM, (Yale University Press, 2005) . established composers as well as young announce its first podcasr. featuring The Copland podcast is derived from emerging talents. As an important interviews with and excerpts of music this material. repository of source material. the by Aaron Copland (19°0-1990), an Founded in 1969 and affiliated with collection has been the basis for many outstanding composer and leader in the the YaIe.School of Music, OHAM is books and articles as well as documentary promotion of American music. Copland the only ongoing project in the field films and television, radio, and concert was interviewed by OHAM's founding of music dedicated to the coll ection productions. director, Vivian Peri is, between 19 75 and and preservation of oral and video To hear the podcast, see http://www. 1978. Excerpts of these interviews appear memoirs from creative musicians of our yale.edu/musiclpodcast! - LVe in Composers' Voices from /ves to Ellington, time. OHAM's core co llection, Major a CD and book publication by Perl is and Figures in American Music, consists
~ Cuban Revolution Collection
In January 2007. Yale University Library as well as from Jorge Made C ruz, Vice student life, meetings of the Communist completed a two-year project co preserve, Director of Research at C uba's National Youth, volunteer labor brigades, and digitize, and describe a rich nove of Archive, who collaborated with Professor "political oriemation" workers among materials now known as the Cuban Guerra in writing descriptions of the peasants (a duplicate set of which were Revolution Collection. The project materials for the inventory. donated to the InstitutO de HistOria de - made possible by a $188,000 grant The coll ection consists of approximately C uba); and a manuscript notebook of from the Seaver Institute - was led by 5,000 photographs, 60 unedited films, an interview with Castro. Professor Lillian Guerra of the HistOry printed matter, memorabilia, and other The project promises to transform Depanment (who is using the materials materials documenting the C uban Yale into a unique and internationally for her current book project, a social Revolution, particularly the years I957- known center for the research and study history of the Revolution) and Cesar r960, r964, and I969. Highlights include of the Cuban Revolution. For a complete Rodriguez. CuratOr of the Library's Andrew St. George's photographs of the description of the materials, see: tb Latin American Collection. Additional 26 of July Movement and of Fidel Castro httpjlmssa.library.yale.edu/findaidsl assistance came from the Manuscripts & during his first year as prime minister; eadHTMUmssa.ms.o650.hnnL - CR Archives and Preservation departments, David C. Stone's documentary films of international
~ AMEEL on the Road
Simon Samoeil (left) with Rachid Oriss. President. Association a/International Studies. President of the Tunisian Human Rights Commission, and former Tunisian Ambassador to the United Nations and the United States. Also, Editor-in-Chief of Etudes Internationale, Dr. Driss signed a copyright per mission form which will enable this journal to be made available to scholars worldwide.
In the spring of 2007, two Yale librarians of the participating institutions, with journals that had been selected far full - Carol Jones (Head, Document the long-term goal of expanding such text digitization as part of the AMEEL Delivery) and Simon Samoeil (Curator cooperation to include other libraries in project. The task proved challenging of the Near East Collection) - joined the Arab world. Twenty-four participants and time-consuming for a number af Randa AJ-Chidiac, Electronic Resources attended from six countries: Bahrain, cultural, logistical, and technical reasons. Librarian at Lebanon's Balamand Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Nonetheless, Simon was able to obtain University, CO conduct an Interlibrary Tunisia. The president of the Universiry permissions for all of the journals in Loan workshop in Amman, Jordan. The of Jordan, Professor Abdelrahim Huneiti, question, thus making it possible for the workshop was part of Arabic and Middle mastered the opening ceremony, which AMEEL team to begin digitizatian at the Eastern Electronic Library (AMEEL) , a was followed by an overview of rhe beginning of 2008. These journals will four-year, U.S. Depanmenr of Education AMEEL project. A second workshop eventually be available free of charge to funded project that will digitize 100,000 will be organized in the Middle Easr pages of scholarly journal content from (in a country as yet to be determined) students, scholars and researchers araund ten Middle Eastern countries. to follow up on the achievements and the world. The workshop, which [Ook place at the experiences gathered in Amman. For more information about the the Universiry of Jordan in collaboration Following the workshop, Simon Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery with the American Center for Oriental Samoeil visited AJgeria, Egypt, Lebanon, workshop and the AMEEL project, Research, aimed to establish Documents Syria, and Tunisia in order to secure visit: http://www.library.yak.edulameeU Delivery cooperation among the libraries copyright for a number of academic omheroadhtml. - 55 & GK
~ Bridging the Digital Divide
On July TO, 2007, the partnership now officially committed to offering their materials in the health sciences, began for Online Access to Research in the information resources through at least in 2001 through a partnership between Environment (OARE), Health Inter 2015, matching the rarget date for the Yale University Library and the World Network Access to Research Initiative UN Millennium Developmem Goals. Health Organizacion. Jn Ocwber 2006, (HINARl), and Access ro Global Online The HINARI program, which OARE came from a second partnership Research in Agriculture (AGORA) provides the world's poorest nations berween the Yale Library, the School of announced that all three programs are with access to peer-reviewed academic forestry and Environmental Studies at
(continu~d - nat pi1g~) international library events calendar
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Exploration and Yale, and the United Nations The partnership also recently use of the programs in Advent ure in the Environment Programme. announced that Microsoft has developing countries. Yale Library The Library is also an ancillary joined as [he programs' nrst For more information, partner in AGORA, which technology partner. Microsoft see www.oaresciences.org, is administered by Cornell has provided a new system www.who.intlhinari, and uilding on the success of University and the UN Food for access and authentication www.aginternetwork.org/en/. BThe Global Faces of the Yale and Agriculture Organization. enabling secure and effective -EW Library, the library is engaging in another exciting program of events, lectures, and exhibits
for 2007-2008 surrounding the theme of Exploration and Adventure in the Yale Library. A number of events associated with this theme will unfold during the year, including the opening of the Bass library (formerly the Cross Campus Library) and the completion of a major renovation project at the Lewis Walpole library in Farmington.
Along with special events and tours of collections across the library system, a number of notable authors including Penelope Lively, Stephen Carter, James O'Donnell, and William J. Mann, will be speaking over the course of the year, We look forward to welcoming them to Standing (left to right); Mr. Yasubumi Tochitani, Mr.lkuo Sasakawa (retiredfrom UT Library), Ellen Hammond, the Library and know that they Ms. Sakurako Ichimura. Seated (left to right); Dr. Kazuh iko So igo, Director. Un ivers ity of Tokyo Library. Ann Okerson. will prove both popular and illuminating for so many across the University. ~ Tokyo in Cherry Blossom Season For more information and a detailed schedule, In March 2007, Ellen Hammond, curator of the and faculty exchanges in the coming years. Library's East Asia Collection, and Ann akerson, Further meetings were held with the Director viSit the Library's web site: Associate University Librarian for Collections and of Tokyo University Libraty and his staff. A www.library.ya/e.edu. - Gl International Programs, visited Tokyo on behalf of highlight of the visit was a seminar on the future Yale. The nrst signs of the season's cherry blossoms of the humanities with Hammond, Joseph, and were in evidence. Professors ChristOpher Hill (East Asian Languages and Literatures) and Aaron Gerow (Film Studies). The trip's centerpiece was a series of meetings Hammond and Okerson also visited the library at Tokyo University, with whom Yale is signing ofWaseda University, where they viewed its a memorandum of understanding for future spectacular rare books and special collections and cooperation. Hammond and Okerson joined learned about its impressively managed digitization Assistant Secretary of the Univers ity D. George project for rare books, carried on in a state-of-the Joseph in meeting with President Hiroshi art laboratory. The trip concluded with a visit to Komiyama of Tokyo University and his senior Kinokuniya Books, the major supplier of Japanese staff to discuss reciprocal arrangementS for student materials to the Yale Library. - AO development f.f, Launch of the University Librarian's Development Council
this new council of volunteers. The group While visiting campus late last year, will help the Library to make important Bill addressed a standing-room-only crowd
connections and (0 help host events around in Sterling Memorial Library, sharing some the country that highlight important Library reflections on the important role the Yale funding opponunities. Library had played in his own student days An investment banker with more than and how this served to fuel his passion for twenty years experience, Bill manages proclaiming the critical role of libraries in complex financing arrangements for leading today's world. national and international companies and Alice Prochaska, University Librarian, governments. says: He was born in Hempstead, Texas, and '1 am thrilled and deeply gratefol taised in Norfolk, Virginia, and during his that Bill Wright has agreed to take juniot year at Yale was publisher of the Yale on this important role on behalfof Daily News and coxswain of the lightweight the Library. His standing as the jirst Wilfiam H. Wright 1/ '82 crew team while an undergraduate major African-American alumnus o[Yale in history. Since his graduation from Yale, College to become a major donor, and Mr. Wright has been involved in both his deep commitment to the Library One year after the official launch of the University's financial suppOrt and as a place that meant so much to him the Yale» Tomorrow Capital programmatic reviews. He chaired the gift in his undergraduate days, make him Campaign, the Library»Tomorrow committees for his tenth and fifteenth class an especially suitable chairman for the campaign is well underway. One reunions. In 1993 he was appointed to the University Librarian s Development notable coup for the Library is the Yale Alumni Fund Board and was elected Council. More than that, Bill's recent appointment of a Chairman to a two-year term as chair in 2004. He extraordinary interest in people and to the newly formed University also serves on the Development Board and his support for everything that goes on Librarian Development Council s Campaign Executive Committee. In 2001 at Yale, coupled with his infectious William H. Wright II '82, Managing Mr. Wright was appointed to the University enthusiasm and wonderfol sense of Director at Morgan Stanley, Council, which advises the president humor, have made him well known committed volunteer in several and officers about selected academic and and loved among all generations of capacities at Yale and extremely adminisuative issues. He became a trustee Yalies, present students very much generous donor to the Yale Library. of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale in included. It will be an inspiration has agreed ro oversee the activities of January 2006. to work with him." - AJP
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Founded in I930 by an eminent group of bibliophiles, the Yale Library Associates provide support aud visi in middle school. A recent favorite lasting connection to his alma mater. bility for Ya/e'slibraries. Their 40-member Board of acquisition is Morley's first book, His fondest memories include time Trustees includes Joseph V. Agostini, M.D. Yale '93, published while he was a student at spent explore the Sterling stacks, reading thefocus ofthis Trustee's Comer. Oxford in 1912 - a tide Joe has been in the Selin Courtyard, or catching the pursuing since his years at Yale. latest exhibition at the Beinecke. He JOSEPH V . AGOSTINI. M .D. Joe grew up in nonheastern YALE '93 also has a special place in his hean for Yale Library Associate Connecticut and returned to New the Periodical Reading Room, where he Haven after attending medical school was a student worker for several years. at Vanderbilt. An internal medicine Joe joined the Associates as an By graduation, he says, he could have physician specializing in geriatric undergraduate, during which located anyone of the thousands of time he won the Van Sinderen medicine, he serves on the faculties at journals with his eyes closed! - RM Book Collecting Prize nOt the Yale School of Medicine and the once, but twice - as a sophomore for his Sherlock VA Hospital in West Haven. Holmes collection and as a senior for his collection Even as an undergraduate, Joe knew on Christopher Morley. Joe began collecting books that Yale's libraries would provide a ~ calendar of exhibits
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The Eponymous Dozen: Naming Yales 12 Residential Colleges Documenting Slavery Until October 31, SML Nave (opp. Starr Main Reference Rm) Until October 31
The East Asia Library at [00 The Very Picture a/Transgression: Visions ofPirates since 1650 Until October 31, SML Nave Until October 31 Paul Mellon (19°7-1999)' Yale Student, Friend and Benefictor Celebrating Italian Festivals Until October 31, SML Exhibit Corridor Until January 9 Reflectiom on America's Interoenuon in Post- World War Greece Daniel Read and the Flowering o/Sacred Music in New Haven Umil October 31, Memorabilia Room Until December 22 Food and Drink .. More Harmfol Than You Think The Nibelungenlied and its Homerian Context: Creating Until November 31, SML Nave (opp. Stacks Elevators) Germanys National Myth Views ofLos Angeles, the City Beautiful: Ed Ruschas Artists' Books November 5-December 22 Umil December 20, Arts of the Book Collection Divinity Library Singing the Lords Song in a Foreign Land: For more inform arion: http://www.library.yale.eduldivl Early Sacred Music in America exhibits.html November-December, SML Gilmore Music Library
250th Anniversary ofthe University Church Medical Library November-December, SML Nave For more information: http://www.med.yale.edullibrarylabout! AMANDLA! Southern African Liberation Posters from the Collection exhibits.html ofImmanuel Wallerstein December- January, Memorabilia Room Yale Center for British Art Travels with My Librarian: Professional Exchanges Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, and the Culture o/Gift 160o-I830 January-February, SML Exhibit Corridor February 7-April 28, 2008 Birds in Babylonia A New World: Englands First View ofAmerica January-March, SML (opp. Sracks Elevarors) March 6-June T, 200S Please see our web site at: http://resources.library.yale.edulonline.news.aspfor a complete listing of exhibits.
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