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Spring 2001 Volume 7, Number 2: April/May 2001 Suzanne Zack University of Connecticut - Storrs, [email protected]

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20-20 Vision Charters Archive of Blues & Vernacular Music

Brinley Franklin Sam and Ann Charters (far Director, University Library Services right) have donated their unparalleled archive of blues n recent months, the library and vernacular music to staff has updated the “vision Archives & Special Collections in the Dodd Research Center. statement” we wrote in 1995 Among other treasures, the as part of the Libraries’ strategic I archive includes a virtually plan. Six years ago, the potential complete collection of the of rapidly developing new African-American music information technologies prom- released on the Arhoolie record ised major advances in informa- label. Story on page three. tion delivery. Today, that technological promise has been fulfilled in web-based electronic services and digital library collections. Technology has become a critical part of the everyday world of librarianship and information services. Tomor- row, the next wave of technological innovation will bring changes we have yet to imagine. Exploring the Brave New World As the staff considered our vision statement anew, they were challenged to visualize a pre- of Digital Collections ferred future and to develop a shared idea of the The UConn Libraries are Investing in Digital Ini- library we want to become so that we can move collaboratively toward that goal. Library staff tiatives, Creating Unique Resources employed a systems model for organizational Heidi N. Abbey, Digital Collections Librarian design created by the Association of Research Libraries’ Office of Leadership and Management niversity Libraries’ staff are actively zations, the library recently launched a web- Services to develop Vision 2005, our new library- engaged in learning about the new world accessible database called “Digital Collections wide shared vision. (See page 6) of digital collections—planning, creating, Online.” This resource, created by Undergraduate If we are to work collaboratively toward the managing, and evaluating projects that will Services Librarian Kathy Labadorf and the Digital future we envision, we need to hold a common U facilitate online access to public domain materials Collections Librarian, includes information about understanding of the concepts imbedded in the as well as to the university’s varied and unique and links to digital collections worldwide, which language of our updated statement. So, once primary resources. The library’s digital initiative range in subject from classic American sheet Vision 2005 had been articulated, we met together is driven by our primary goal: to provide high music and Connecticut history to George to talk about what it means in practical, day-to- quality collections and information services in Washington’s papers at the Library of Congress. day terms. These are our conclusions: support of the university’s research and educa- The database currently contains detailed records • We view the Libraries as continuing to be the tional missions. It also stems from users’ demands for more than 100 digital collections and will be primary gateway for delivering information and expectations that materials will be available on updated continually. It is a useful learning tool resources to the University of Connecticut the Web anytime, from any location. for staff as well as a research source for the academic community at the same time that the The library has long been committed to University community. See university becomes one of the nation’s out- furthering access to a broad range of information . standing public universities. The Libraries will in a variety of formats. But, newly developed staff Although the library’s foray into digital maintain their critical leadership role in assignments and projects in the area of digital collections is still evolving, six significant projects providing high quality services to students, collections will strengthen our ability to contribute are already in development or have been approved faculty, and staff despite increased competition to scholarship at UConn and beyond. for future implementation. The first of these is from other information providers. The Digital Collections Planning Team was “Connecticut History Online” (CHO), a project • The Libraries will maintain a visible and established in 1999, and a full-time Digital Collec- funded by a National Leadership Grant from the welcoming physical presence on the tions Librarian was appointed in 2000. Both the Institute of Museum and Library Services. CHO is Continued on page 6 team and the librarian are charged with planning a joint effort of Archives & Special Collections in a strategy for developing the Libraries’ digital the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, the Con- collections program. Current efforts focus on necticut Historical Society, and the Mystic Seaport UCONN defining guidelines and policies relating to the Museum. When complete, this collection will Inside Libraries many issues that are integral to creating such provide access to over 14,000 images documenting resources, including copyright and metadata Connecticut history from the collections of the standards. three institutions. CHO will feature the largest PAGE 2 Collections & Services Enhancing staff skills for specific applications collection of Connecticut historical images on the PAGE 3 Music Changed My Life in the online environment is an essential long- Web, a resource for teachers and students in PAGE 4 Staff News term goal for the team. Therefore, a “Gateway to grades 7-12. Users will be able to search for PAGE 5 The Perilous Pricing of Academic Digital Collections Resources” website was created images that relate to specific geographic areas. A Journals: How We Can Create Change to assist staff who wish to propose and implement pilot website is available now; a final version will new projects. See . . PAGE 8 Exhibits: Reuben Nakian, William To promote awareness about the ever-expand- A second project relating to historical infor- Patterson, Ann Rosebrooks ing number and variety of digital resources mation about Connecticut is currently in develop- created by other academic institutions and organi- Continued on page 6

Avery Point Stamford Torrington Waterbury West Hartford April/May 2001 Storrs 1 UCONNLibraries Collections & Services

Jablonski (Dean of Students), Scott Kennedy UConn African National John Kluge Donates (Head of Research and Information Services), and Congress Partnership $500,000 To Dodd Kathy Labadorf (Undergraduate Services Librar- ian). Moves Ahead Program in Human Rights The main issue currently under consideration by the committee is a USG proposal to extend The partnership between UConn and the John Werner Kluge, Presi- library hours, particularly past 8 pm on Friday African National Congress (ANC) to establish an dent and Chairman of the and 6 pm on Saturday, and past midnight on ANC archive in the Dodd Research Center Board of Metromedia Inc., weeknights during the academic year. Committee continues to evolve. one of the largest privately members also have expressed an interest in having Funded by a grant from the Andrew Mellon held businesses in the US, has the library open at 7 am rather than 8 am Monday Foundation, the oral history aspect of the donated $500,000 toward the through Friday during the academic year. project began in September 2000, led by Bruce Dodd Research Center USG representative Justin Carbonella coordi- Stave, Director of UConn’s Center for Oral program in human rights. nated a student survey, prepared by the USG History. Approximately 150 members of the Mr. Kluge’s gift will be used to establish a Academic Affairs Committee and endorsed by ANC will be interviewed and recorded in South biennial prize to an individual or group making SLAC, which sought to determine which addi- Africa. Copies of the audiotapes and the result- a significant contribution to the preservation of tional hours the library should be open and which ing transcripts will be placed both at the human rights through law. It is expected that services should be offered during extended hours. University of Fort Hare in South Africa and also the first award will be made during 2002. Concurrently, Scott Kennedy compiled statistics at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. Mr. Kluge has been a generous benefactor on the number of users in Babbidge Library at A UConn delegation including Thomas in a number of areas, including minority closing time each evening. The library is commit- Wilsted, Director of the Dodd Center, visited education and libraries. The Library of Con- ted to working with students to try to extend South Africa in February. There, they met with gress was a recent recipient of a gift of $60 library hours during academic year 2001-2002. officials at the University of Fort Hare and also million to establish the John W. Kluge Center in On another issue, the library has received with leaders of the ANC Archives Committee in the Library of Congress and to create the John helpful recommendations from committee mem- Capetown. A final agreement covering arrange- W. Kluge Prize in Human Sciences. bers regarding the retrieval of circulating books ments for the oral history project and a joint John Kluge, a self-made billionaire, came to that have been recalled by other borrowers. The archival project was achieved. The agreement the US from Germany in the 1940s as a student, students advised that overdue fines of $1 a day are establishes the University of Fort Hare as the supplementing his Columbia University scholar- not enough deterrent to assure that recalled books primary center for ANC Archives and specifies ship by selling shoes, working as a secretary, and will be returned promptly. The staff of Access the types of materials that will be deposited at playing poker. He served as a Captain in Army Services is now reviewing this policy. the Dodd Center and the conditions under intelligence during WWII (“Klug” is German Our first year of experience with SLAC has which they will be made available for research. for “clever”). He bought a Maryland radio been encouraging. I am appreciative of the The joint archival project will begin this station for $15,000 in 1946 and formed students who are donating their time and the summer in South Africa. Metromedia in 1960. By the early 1980s, he held various members of the campus community who Also during the visit, a team representing a huge portfolio of broadcast properties, includ- identified appropriate students to serve on the the ANC, UConn, and the University of Fort ing the country’s largest cellular telephone committee. We would welcome additional mem- Hare interviewed candidates for the position of network.. His original $30 million investment in bers and suggestions of topics that need to be archives coordinator and recommended a § Metromedia Fiber Network is now estimated to discussed. candidate to the ANC Archives Committee. be worth $2.3 billion. Now in his mid-80s, he Brinley Franklin, Director of Library Services; Members of the University of Fort Hare shows no signs of slowing down. He says: “I [email protected] or 860-486-0497. management team, including Yolisa Soul, Acting plan to work until they carry me out.” Mr. Continued on page 4 Kluge lives with his wife in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Source: Forbes.com) § An Old Friendship Yields Benefits for Today’s Students Students Offer Advice On Library Services The University Libraries recently received a Elsie Gray Marsh $50,000 bequest from Abbie Jean Quick (1910- (1887-1966), was the During the renovation of Babbidge Library, in 2000) of West Hartford in memory of her friend first librarian of the 1997-1998, the Dean of Students and her staff Elsie Gray Marsh (1887-1966). These funds have Mansfield Public facilitated meetings with student organizations to been placed in an endowment with the UConn Library and also a reference librarian at seek their advice on making the library more Foundation to support the newly established lei- the Connecticut attractive and useful for students. The students sure reading collection in the Homer Babbidge Agricultural College contributed a number of good ideas, which were Library, which will be called the Abbie Jean Library. Her life-long incorporated into the project. Quick Leisure Reading Collection. friendship with Abbie Jean Quick has led to an Building on that experience, a Student Miss Quick was born in Hartford and was endowment to support the new Leisure Reading Library Advisory Committee (SLAC) has been graduated from the Connecticut Agricultural Collection in Babbidge Library. formed to provide ongoing counsel to the Direc- College in Storrs in 1932. At the time of her capacity until she was forced to give up her tor of Library Services on matters of interest to retirement in 1975, she was Personnel Director duties for health reasons after 50 years of ser- undergraduates and graduate students on the and Consultant with the Atlanta-based manage- vice. Storrs campus. Comprised of the Dean of Stu- ment-consulting firm of Kurt Salmon Associates, In 1928, she was also appointed as refer- dents, undergraduates, and graduate students, Inc., after 31 years with that company. While a ence librarian at the Connecticut Agricultural this new committee complements the Chancellor’s student at the Connecticut Agricultural College, College Library, where she worked with her Library Advisory Committee, which is made up of she met Elsie Gray Marsh, a reference librarian close friend, Head Librarian Edwina Whitney. faculty, the Dean of Students, and a graduate in the college library, beginning a life-long She continued to work at the college library student. friendship that eventually led to her generous until 1949 when her eyesight had failed to the Student members of SLAC include: Sarah bequest to the library. extent that she could no longer drive. She was Bojarski (Honors Program), Aliza Boritz Miss Marsh was born in Mansfield, the then appointed Reference Librarian, Emeri- (SUBOG), Justin Carbonella (Undergraduate daughter of Dr. Elliot H. Marsh and Eunice tus. Student Government), Roxanne Donovan (Gradu- Anthony Marsh. She graduated from Windham Miss Marsh was an avid reader from her ate Student Senate), Natasha Franco (Women’s High School in 1904 and took courses at the earliest years and in her duties at both the Center), Dan Hardy (Greek Life), Amy Hawley Columbia University School of Library Service Mansfield Library and the College Library she (First Year Experience), Samanatha Locke (African but never earned a library degree. When the promoted reading actively. It is especially fit- American Cultural Center), Hayley Love (Rainbow Mansfield Library was organized in Mansfield ting, therefore, that the income from Miss Center), and Marisela Ramos (Puerto Rican and Center in 1907, Elsie became the unofficial, Quick’s bequest will be used to support a popu- Latin Studies Institute). Students are expected to unpaid librarian. In 1909, at age 22, she was lar reading collection. § serve both as representatives for specific interest appointed librarian officially when the library Norman Stevens, Director of University groups and also as advocates for students at-large. was set up in the upper floor of the old brick Librariesr, Emeritus In addition to the Director of Library Ser- school in Mansfield Center. She served in that vices, other members of the committee are: Peggy

UCONNLibraries 2 April/May 2001 Music Changed My Life The Samuel and Ann Charters Archive of Blues and Vernacular Music Suzanne Zack, Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Information Services, Marketing and Communications

In 1950, a 21-year-old aspiring musician named Fame, Charters simply says, “The two sides of my Sam Charters headed to New Orleans in hopes of career balance pretty well, with considerable studying with the celebrated clarinetist George emotional rewards from both. I couldn’t be one Lewis. Charters succeeded in coming under without the other.” Lewis’ tutelage but he discovered that the stories In his “resume,” published last year—a 137- the veteran musician recounted were far more page Checklist of the Productions, Recordings, Compi- captivating than the notes the duo played. lations, and Writings for Album Release—Charters “When we weren’t playing, he reminisced says he intended to produce four albums, then go about the early years of jazz in New Orleans— on to “write novels, find a job somewhere as a stories I had never heard before,” Charters labor economist, and finally work for the United recalled. Even though Charters was informed Nations.” Charters did manage to produce novels, about jazz, he realized there were significant gaps but that is where his plan ended. Of his lifelong in his knowledge of the musical tradition’s history passion and the course his life eventually did take, that needed to be filled—even more than his Charters states the obvious: “Music changed my playing needed to improve. life.” Over the next four decades, Charters traveled A mutual love of music is what drew the the globe in search of African-American music, couple together; they became acquainted as amassing an extraordinary collection that includes undergraduates in a music harmony class in 1954 everything from recordings and sheet music, to at Berkeley. “He had the best ear for music of any field notes and musicians’ contracts. Last fall, man I’d met,” says Ann Charters, who trained as a Charters and his wife and collaborator, UConn classical pianist before turning her sights to English Professor Ann Charters, bequeathed their literature. unparalleled collection to the Thomas J. Dodd In 1958, the couple collaborated on “A Joplin Research Center. The collection includes every Bouquet,” the first album to record Scott Joplin’s type of recording, from Ethiopian piano melodies rags in traditional style, in which Ann Charters The Blues Makers is one of numerous books written by printed as sheet music in the 1840s, the precur- plays songs like “Maple Leaf Rag” and “Helio- Sam Charters. Others include The Country Blues, sors of American blues, to contemporary rap and Jazz: New Orleans, The Bluesmen, Robert hip-hop and recent music videos. Johnson, and The Roots of the Blues. “This wonderful collection will be used by students, faculty, and outside researchers alike,” Ann Charters credits Robert Stephens, says Thomas Wilsted, Director of the Dodd interim director of the Institute for African- Center. “Already, we have a student studying lyrics American Studies with recognizing the impor- for a thesis project and a faculty member using tance of the collection and helping to facilitate its material in teaching. We are grateful to Sam and move to the Dodd Center. “The Charters’ treasure- Ann Charters not only for the generous gift of trove of musical history will become the nucleus of their collection, but also for their support in a growing resource that represents one of the most developing a state-of-the-art multi-media facility in comprehensive collections of its kind available the Dodd Center.” today,” Stephens says. “A remarkably complete Charters drew upon the musical insights representation of the evolution of African-Ameri- gained from his travels to write numerous books: can music during the last 150 years, the collection The Country Blues, Jazz: New Orleans, The Bluesmen, opens doors that afford often intimate views of the Robert Johnson, and The Roots of Blues, which evolution of issues and ideas affecting the African- earned him a Deems Taylor Award for Excellence American community reflected in the words and in Music Writing. At the same time, he pursued a images of many of the community’s premier career in the recording industry and produced artists.” blues, jazz, and folk for the Folkways, Prestige, Sam Charters’ production of zydeco artist Clifton The Charters collection includes more than and Vanguard labels. A Grammy winner for his Cnenier’s 1983 album “I’m Here” won a Grammy 1700 recordings of traditional jazz vocalists from production of zydeco artist Clifton Chenier’s 1983 Award. the 1930s through the 1950s, which Charters album I’m Here and member of the Blues Hall of examined and helped bring to the university—an trope Bouquet.” The same year, they traveled to almost complete record of the major African- the Bahamas to research the Africa-inspired American jazz singers of the period. The archive vernacular music of Andros Island. There, they also includes a virtually complete collection of the discovered guitarist Joseph Spence and Ann African- American music released on the Arhoolie Charter’s talent for photography. “They were very record label. In addition to donating the collec- poor fisher folk who didn’t have contact with the tion, Charters also created an annotated catalog progress that Americans did on the mainland, so for it. Among the many unique items in the their music had an incredible spirituality and collection, researchers will find Charters’ record- power that I never heard anywhere else,” she says. ing of Sam “Lightning” Hopkins, recorded in the “It was like a dream.” The resultant Folkways artist’s rented room in Houston in 1959, which release, “Music of the Bahamas,” features one of marked his rediscovery and which became an Ann’s photographs on the cover, and an account important influence on the blues renaissance that of their time on Andros is the subject of the book, began in the early 1960s. The Day Is So Long, and the Wages So Small. Subse- Sam Charters has produced recordings for quent images are in the archive and in the Char- two Swedish companies, Sonet and Gazell, since ters’ book Blues Faces. 1971. Currently, he is distributing American jazz Ann Charters joined UConn’s faculty in 1974. for Gazell, producing new recordings of Swedish A leading authority on the rebellious American folk music, and distributing American folk music writers known as the “Beats,” she has written or and jazz on his own record label. In addition, he edited more than 30 books and articles about has written a biography of a 92-year-old Afro- Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and their contem- Cuban pianist entitled Mambo Time – The Story of poraries. In fact, she says it was Ginsberg, a friend Bebo Valdes, scheduled for publication this spring. from her days at Berkeley, who once told her that Continuing a musical quest that began more she and her husband were “paying attention to than fifty years ago in New Orleans, Sam Charters America’s secret heroes.” will soon journey to the Canary Islands, the “We did this because we have a conscience Georgia Sea Islands, and Trinidad to research his and we felt that the country was not paying close latest book project, which focuses on all the music enough attention to these neglected artists,” Ann of the African diaspora. “Daddy Hot Cakes” (George Montgomery), photographed Charters says. “The arts were a way of being by Ann Charters, is featured on the cover of the politically active without being in politics. It’s Charters’ book, Blues Faces. been the direction of our lives the whole time.” April/May 2001 3 UCONNLibraries Collections and Services Staff Continued from page 2 University Librarian, visited UConn in early April, to continue the planning process with News university and library staff. § Anniversaries More Support for the New Leisure Reading Collection Nineteen library staff members, some of whom are Joanne Palko 25 years; Jane Recchio 10 years; pictured below, were honored recently for service Fred Rick 10 years Laura and Walter Broughton have made a to the university of ten years or more. They • Director’s Office Melinda Bentley 10 years; $10,000 gift to the library for the purpose of include: Robert Fall 25 years;Dennis Thornton 30 years refurbishing the space that will house the new • Access Services Judith DeLottie 20 years; • Regional Campus Libraries Norma Holmquist Leisure Reading Collection, and the room will be Frances Horila 25 years; and Gail Yuschalk 10 15 years; Sheila Lafferty 15 years; Susan named in their honor. Laura Broughton, a years Thebarge 30 years member of the Class of 1947, participated in the • Collection Services Peter Allison 10 years; Lee • Research & Information Services Ellen 50th reunion class project to refurbish and equip Astin 20 years; Sandra Baker 20 years; Sandra Embardo 25 years; Pat McGlamery 20 years § the Class of 1947 Lecture Room. Gallup 10 years; Frances Libbey 10 years; We are also pleased to report that total donations to the David Garnes Honor with Book Fund, which will support the collection, are nearing the goal of $10,000. All gifts to that fund Staff Members will be acknowledged formally. Gifts of $50 or more received by April 30 will be acknowledged on a plaque. Donors of gifts between $100-$249 will be designated as “Benefactors,” and donors of $250 or more will be listed as “Leadership” contributors. To make a donation, please call Linda Perrone at 860-486-0451. § A Gift of Art Books

Dennis Thornton Ellen Embardo Robert Fall Lee Austin Patrick McGlamery Professor Walter Cahn, Yale University Mediaeval 30 Years 25 Years 25 Years 20 Years 20 Years Art Historian, has donated 158 books from the collection of his late wife, Annabelle Simon Cahn, to the Art & Design Library. Professor Annabelle Cahn, also an art historian, taught at Southern Connecticut State University. The collection is especially rich in materials on Islamic, Turkish, and ancient Near Eastern art and culture and will help to fill lacunae in those subject areas of the collection. §

Peter Allison Melinda Bentley Sandra Gallup Fred Rick Gail Yuschalk Electronic Document 10 Years 10 Years 10 Years 10 Years 10 Years Delivery Inches Closer...

Are you tired of having to travel to the library to retrieve requested Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan photocopies? Just can’t wait for documents to get to you via campus or US mail? Well, imagine being able to sit at a computer in your David Bretthauer has joined the staff of Informa- oping training materials, and leading classes in home, office or anywhere in the world, and access tion Techonology Services as Network Services standard productivity software as well as web these photocopies on line in PDF (portable Librarian. Formerly, David served as Systems development software. Shirley received her document format). Imagine being able to print or Librarian at Southern Connecticut State Univer- Bachelors degree in Industrial Technology from save these documents as you wish. sity. Prior to that, he was a cataloger at SCSU. Central Connecticut State university in 1993 and The staff of Document Delivery/Interlibrary David received his MSLS from Columbia in 1987 her Masters in Educational Technology (Instruc- Loan (DD/ILL) is inching closer to offering and is one of the co-founders of the LITA Open tional Design) from CCSU in 1999. § Electronic Document Delivery (EDD) to the entire Source Special Interest Group. § UConn community on all campuses. For the moment, we continue in our test phase with about Joe Scott, Assistant Music Librarian, is the author 350 participants, working out hardware issues, Claudia Lopes has joined the of the recently published Music Core Lists: Recom- but accepting new participants as they volunteer staff of the Trecker Library as a mend Recordings for Public Library Collections, List (see below). EDD will change the way we do permanent, part-time Access #13, Classical Vocal Music, (New England Chapter, business, allowing you to retrieve photocopies in Services Assistant responsible for Music Library Association, 2000), an annotated one central web location from anywhere in the Document Delivery/Interlibrary discography of 47 CDs recommended to public world. We’ve even seen some documents arrive Loan and student supervision. A libraries interested in building a core collection of within hours of our request via OCLC—without student worker at the Trecker choral recordings. § tagging them as “rush.” And we can make these Library for the past three years, documents available to users only moments after Claudia is a member of the Yi Zhang has joined the staff of they arrive in the DD/ILL office. UConn Class of 2001. She has facility with both the Director’s Office as a finan- Spanish and Portugese—an asset that will be of Here’s how the EDD service works: cial assistant. Zi was formerly great assistance on the multi-cultural Greater • The document/article you request is converted accounts payable coordinator at Hartford campus. Ms. Lopes has indicated an to portable document format (PDF). WTIC TV (Fox 61) in Hartford. interest in pursuing graduate education in library • The document is stored on a server. She holds a Bachelor of Science science, law, or both. § • You receive an email message letting you know degree in Accounting from a document is waiting for you along with Eastern Connecticut State instructions about how to retrieve it. Shirley Quintero has joined the University. • You go to the web address noted in the email staff of Information Technology message. Services as Applications Devel- • You use your email address and a unique oper. She has been Web Site personal identification number (PIN) as a Specialist for the Town of username and password to access the docu- Manchester since 1997, creating ments waiting your retrieval. the majority of their database- Continued on page 5 driven web applications, devel-

UCONNLibraries 4 April/May 2001 Collections and Services Continued from page 4 The Perilous Pricing of Academic Journals: • You view, print, and save your documents using How We Can Create Change Acrobat Reader. Each document will stay on the server 30 days Scott Kennedy from the post date. But you can save your docu- Head, Research & Information Services ments to disk and not have to worry about them ach year, research libraries As academics, we have a differ- disappearing. Take a look at our EDD FAQ for set about the annual ritual ent goal. “When we give a paper to more information concerning the service, of canceling yet more publishers for free, it is with the . subscriptions to journal titles understanding that the publisher You can download the latest version of the Acrobat E serving fields of research central will try to disseminate that paper as reader at . cause for this exercise has little to used to teach others and to help If you would like to see some samples of the do with the real cost of journal others do their work.” Our aim is power of this technology, view some PDF elec- production. Academic journals, not to maximize profit; our aim is to tronic documents by going to: once the province of professional disseminate knowledge. . societies and university presses Between 1986 and 1998, the • Use this login: [email protected] dedicated to the dissemination of unit cost of academic journals • Use this PIN: 4061 knowledge, increasingly have increased by 9% each year at a time If you are interested in receiving your re- come under the control of large when the consumer price index quested DD/ILL documents electronically, go to commercial publishers, who have rose by only 3.4%. Over the last the very last question in our EDD FAQ “How do I At a recent forum on scholarly found there is great profit to be communications, University of four years, the average cost of a sign up for Electronic Document Delivery?” and made from the scholarly commu- Arizona Professor of Biology commercially published scientific follow the directions: . Once we get your On March 15, at the Dodd for librarians and faculty to help periodical price survey conducted message, we will send all subsequent documents to Research Center, Chancellor John control journal subscription prices. by Library Journal in April 2000, you electronically. All we ask is that your email Petersen introduced a program reported that the median price of a address in your DD/ILL web request user profile entitled “Publish and Perish: the Perilous State of physics journal had reached $1879.71, and that of is up-to-date. To change or check your email Academic Journals.” This second university forum a chemistry journal $1781.58. address in your profile, log into your profile on scholarly communication was held to review Once a publisher announces its new, inflated and choose the underlying issues in the journals crisis and to journal prices, notes Rosenzweig, they monitor “Change your Personal Profile and Delivery discuss efforts now underway to return academic the howling and the screaming that we in the Option Information.” § journals from commercial commodities back into market do. “If we do not howl and scream very Joe Natale, Document Delivery/Shared Resources instruments of service to education and research. much, they think they haven’t raised the prices Librarian Continued on page 7 The first speaker, Lawrence Hightower, enough. If we claw and scratch, they back off a bit, UConn Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, as they have begun to do in the past year or two.” Steal This Exhibit! described his Alice in Wonderland experience The question, says Dr. Rosenzweig, is not when the journal for which he served as editor, whether big commercial publishers are doing The Hoffman Family Collection Cell Stress & Chaperones, came under the control of competent value pricing—that is not in doubt; the an international conglomerate out to maximize question is whether value pricing is ethical in an The University Libraries’ Archives & Special profits at the expense of education and research. arena that exists to maximize, not profit, but Collections, at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Seeing the price of the journal skyrocket over academic knowledge and learning. In this arena, Center, has acquired a collection of materials night for no apparent cause, the journal’s edito- because so high a value is placed upon the infor- from Jack Hoffman, the younger brother of rial board, under Hightower’s leadership, decided mation created, society pays for its creation in political activist Abbie Hoffman. Known as the to act. This story, which has a happy ending, is advance through academic salaries and grants. In Hoffman Family Collection, it includes family related in UConn Libraries (September 2000) and this arena, authors offer their findings for free, correspondence, article research and personal in the UConn Advance (March 12, 2001) and place their trust in publishers to disseminate papers, and writings by and about Abbie . Cell these findings as widely as possible. Hoffman, co-founder of the Yippie movement Stress & Chaperones now sells to university libraries “But why,” asks Dr. Rosenzweig, “should and co-defendant in the Chicago 7 Trial, which for $350 per annum. Its competitor journal, academics care how much profit a publisher followed the riots at the 1968 Democratic Journal of Cellular Physiology, (published by Wiley makes?” The answer is that those high profits have National Convention. The collection also Interscience), sells for $5000 per annum—despite so much reduced access to information that includes copies of government files and newspa- its lower impact factor. learning and research are suffering. Despite the per articles, 16 mm films of the family, and The second speaker, University of Arizona fact that the budgets of the 120 member libraries personal photographs. Professor of Biology Michael Rosenzweig, is of the Association of Research Libraries have risen The Hoffman Family Collection is an founder of the independent journal, Evolutionary an average of 7% in inflation adjusted dollars over intriguing mix of the personal and the political. Ecology Research. Dr. Rosenzweig, related a similar the past twenty years, these libraries have had to A significant portion of the collection consists of story to that of Professor Hightower, describing cancel over 24% of their journal subscriptions. the surveillance files of the FBI and the New what happened when his original publisher, And libraries are not just canceling titles of the York City Police Department. At one time, Chapman & Hall, was taken over by a large “offending publishers,” one of the finest, oldest, Hoffman was under surveillance by as many as international corporation. After seeing the sub- and most cost efficient journals on the market seven local, state, and federal agencies. Abbie scription price for their original title rise from today, the American Naturalist, has seen a 23% Hoffman died in April 1989, in New Hope, $100 per year to $800, the physical quality of the decline in institutional subscriptions. Pennsylvania, very near to where Thomas Paine binding and paper deteriorate, and the copy- The situation is even worse in poorer coun- wrote Common Sense. His death was ruled a editing standards fall to “K-Mart” levels, tries. How is a developing nation to develop if it suicide. Rosenzweig and his editorial board resigned en lacks access to scientific and technological infor- This exhibit continues to May 25 in the masse and launched their own alternative title. mation? According to Rozensweig, “In the name Dodd Research Center Gallery. Upon publication of the first issue, the new of obscene profits, certain publishers are locking venture was able to reduce the cost of the journal up the knowledge that we produce and contribute to libraries and other institutions by 62% and to to them, and they are locking it up in the name of individual subscribers to the marginal cost of profit.” production and mailing. They currently produce Unfortunately, this effect is not limited to the over 1000 pages a year in eight issues, on sched- world of serials. Dollars at academic libraries ule, and continue to charge the same price to worldwide previously reserved for acquiring libraries as in the inception year of 1999. monographs have had to be shifted to fund critical Dr. Rosenzweig’s presentation underscored journal expenditures, resulting in a 25% decrease the fundamental difference between academic in the number of monographs purchased by publishing and raw commercial publishing. In North American research libraries in the most raw commercial publishing, optimizing your recent decade. profits becomes the ultimate goal. In such a Currently, a university press can expect to sell world, where every article and monograph 300 copies of a first line monograph; twenty years represents a virtual copyright monopoly, prices ago this number was 1200. That is 75% fewer copies can skyrocket to heights comparable to profes- of these monographs being printed, sold, and made Abbie Hoffman sional sports figure salaries. The corporate entity available to our students. “The result is restriction New York City, 1975 recognizes no fundamental obligation to its of access, not dissemination of knowledge.” Photo: Fred McDarrah readers, only to its stockholders. Continued on page 7

April/May 2001 5 UCONNLibraries Exploring the Brave New World of welcome the creation of a third digital collection Digital Collections recently approved for implementation: “Steam Continued from page 1 and Electric Locomotives of the New Haven Railroad.” Laura Katz Smith, Curator for Business, Railroad, Labor & Ethnic Heritage and Immigration Collections in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, will develop this re- source. When completed in early 2002, the collection will provide online access to over 460 black-and-white photographs that document steam and electric locomotives owned and operated by the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad from the 1870s to the mid- 1900s. Patrick McGlamery, Map Librarian in the North Eagleville Road, 1918, Storrs, CT. Map and Geographic Information Center Connecticut History Online, Archives & Special (MAGIC), has created a fourth digital resource, Collections; Photograph Jerauld A. Manter the “MAGIC Historical Map Collection.” This compilation includes 287 digitized maps of ment, “Colonial Connecticut Unbound: The “A map of the most inhabited part of New England...,” Connecticut, Long Island Sound, New England, Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1755. MAGIC Historical Map Collection, from the the Northeast Atlantic region, and the United Library of Congress Geography and Map Division; 1636-1776.” Proposed and planned by David F. States from the period 1676-1919. See Created by Thomas Jefferys Avery, University Library Assistant in Research . digitized pages from all fifteen volumes of the ally invasive vascular plants, with both historic Library staff at UConn’s Stamford campus Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut avail- and current data. In its final development, this are creating a resource known as the “Benthic able to researchers worldwide. Initially, users digital atlas will support early detection and Marine Algal Herbarium of Long Island Sound will be able to search a subject index of the text rapid response to invasive plant species in New Digital Collection.” Still in the production and dates contained in all fifteen volumes. England, which will serve as an effective learn- phase, it will eventually include an identification Future plans include full-text searching capabili- ing tool for students, researchers, land manag- database of collected and pressed specimens of ties and an enhanced index. Web access to this ers, conservationists, government agencies, the algae from Long Island Sound and an image collection is expected in late spring 2001. nursery industry, and the interested public. The archive for the University of Connecticut’s algal Railroad buffs and scholars of 19th- and 20th- invasive plants digital collection represents an herbarium. Proposed by Library Director Nancy century transportation and business history will exciting partnership between library staff and Gillies and Shelley Cudiner, Reference Librar- faculty in the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology ian/Business Liaison, this digital project is a Department (EEB) on the Storrs campus. The collaboration among library staff, faculty at the project will be created, managed, and owned UConn Stamford Campus, and the Northeast jointly by the University Libraries and EEB. Algal Society. Library staff view these six projects as only Finally, a sixth digital collection proposal the beginning of a new era in which digital recently approved for implementation has been projects will be undertaken in cooperation with submitted by Carolyn Mills, Liaison Librarian faculty, staff, and other institutions and which for the Biological Sciences. Entitled “Prototype will benefit researchers locally, nationally, and of an Atlas of Invasive Plants in Connecticut and worldwide. We are creating a brave new world of New England,” this database will comprise digital collections, filled with challenges, New Haven Railroad steam engine 1000, Norwood, records, descriptive information, and images of rewards, and the excitement of information MA, June 1937. Fred Otto Makowsky Papers, fifteen invasive plant species. In a future phase discovery! Archives & Special Collections; Photograph Fred Otto of the project, the database will be expanded to Makowsky For more information, contact Heidi N. Abbey at include approximately 100 species and will be [email protected] or 860.486.2993. complemented by an interactive atlas of region-

20-20 Vision Continued from page 1 VISION 2005 NIVERSITY OF ONNECTICUT IBRARIES university’s campuses, offering both on-site U C L and virtual services from state-of the-art facilities. In 2005, as the University of Connecticut be- As highly competent and experienced li- • Library staff will seek actively to acquire the comes one of the outstanding public universi- brary professionals, we will enable our clien- new skills required to serve users effectively in ties in the United States, the University Librar- tele to navigate and critically evaluate the grow- the context of the university’s improving ies will provide institutional and professional ing information universe as we assess and se- education, research, and outreach programs. leadership as the primary gateway for the deliv- lect our increasing base of traditional and elec- As information professionals who interact on ery of information resources to the local aca- tronic resources to meet the university’s evolv- a regular basis with our users through liaison demic community. ing curricular needs. and outreach programs, we will be positioned Operating from state-of-the-art libraries, we Informed in part through our strategic uniquely to help students and faculty navigate will be a facilitative and flexible learning orga- partnerships, the University Libraries will ex- and assess traditional library materials, as well nization, meeting and anticipating user needs plore, implement, and promote innovative lo- as the newer electronic resources that increas- in concert with the university’s outreach and cal and remote services in an environment that ingly comprise our “collections.” education programs. fosters academic achievement and research • We will engage in frequent strategic partner- excellence. ships with libraries, vendors, faculty and other information providers to create an environment of academic achievement and research excellence through innovative local and remote services. This is the future we envision for the The Libraries’ “visioning” process involved all staff and included an inventory of the current activities of each University of Connecticut Libraries. We look operational area, environmental scans, a “look-ahead” at forward to taking the journey with you, our activities which areas will be engaged in, and finally, area users. vision statements. Representatives from each operational area Contact Brinley Franklin at 860-486-0497 or – the Vision Team, pictured here – wrote the culminating [email protected]. library-wide vision statement based the area vision statements. Team members include: (standing left to right) Elizabeth Tonucci, William Uricchio, Thomas Wilsted; (seated left to right) Joanne Palko, Jo Ann Reynolds, Amelia Hinchcliffe; (foreground) Steven Batt.

UCONNLibraries 6 April/May 2001 The Perilous Pricing of Academic Journals: How We Can Create Change The Dark Side of the Digital Revolution: Continued from page 5 Commercial ventures are not in business to care Disappearing URLs about the dissemination of knowledge, nor are they in business to care about the archiving of informa- ince the mid-1990s, the wiring of the US Universities with large library collections— tion; they are ephemeral profit-taking entities college campus has had a dramatic effect on often a measure by which research universities are responsible principally to their stockholders. “In how students search for information. Much compared—should be concerned if students are the western world,” Rosenzweig declared, “there is Sof the research that once was done in libraries no longer taking the opportunity to use them, says but one institution that lives to keep knowledge now can be done in computer labs or on dorm Davis. Professors should be concerned that they alive, and that is the library. The library has been room PCs. The result is that students increasingly are not exposing their students to academic civilization’s archive for over four millennia.” It is cite popular Internet sites in their class papers literature in their field, he says. time for academics to recognize this fact and to instead of sources found in the library. The researchers noted that electronic access to begin contributing to the solution. Now, a study by Cornell University librarians information is more convenient for students, and shows that many web addresses, known as Uni- this might be especially true for those who work What Can Academics Do? form Resource Locators (or URLs), cited in on their papers the night before they are due. The student term paper bibliographies often are researchers say that the Cornell library system, Here are Dr. Rosenzweig’s recommendations. incorrect or refer to documents that no longer like many college libraries, has increased the Academics should: exist. “The likelihood that web citations would number of scholarly electronic resources available • Keep the copyright to their own papers lead to the correct Internet document has de- to the students and faculty. As a result of this • Declare upfront that their work may be freely creased significantly,” says Philip M. Davis, Life study, Abowd requires at least one professional used for non-commercial educational purposes Sciences Librarian at Cornell’s Mann Library. “A journal citation in a research paper’s bibliogra- When a publisher is identified as a profiteer, URL that doesn’t work means the professor has no phy, and if an Internet link is used, the link must Academics should stop dealing with it! way to check the original document for plagia- be checked. • Stop submitting to its publication rism.” But from a professor’s perspective, can web • Stop reviewing for them Davis and Suzanne A. Cohen, Reference citations undermine academic integrity? “This is a • Stop editing for them Service Coordinator with the university’s very hard problem—certifying the timeliness and • Stop reading them Catherwood Library, studied the citation behavior accuracy of Internet citations. I do not expect my • Stop citing them of undergraduates in a large, multi-college class, Economics 101 students to bullet-proof all of their Academic editors should work to peel away their Introduction to Microeconomics (Economics 101), citations,” says Abowd. journals from the publishing profiteers one by one, taught by John M. Abowd, Cornell Professor of Rather, I hope that they will be able to learn being careful never to agree to give notice of resigna- Labor Economics in the university’s School of from the experience of having their citations tion in advance, or to refrain from editing another Industrial and Labor Relations. Their research, checked and from my expectation that they use publication. “The Effect of the Web on Undergraduate Citation certified professional journals.” Behavior 1996-1999,” will be published in a Davis and Cohen suggest that professors set Academic societies should cease doing business with forthcoming issue of the Journal of the American guidelines for acceptable citations in course any publisher who becomes, or is taken over by, a Society for Information Science. A preprint of the assignments. Also, they believe that collegiate publishing profiteer. article is available at www.people.cornell.edu/ libraries should create and maintain scholarly The only way for us to restore sanity to pricing pages/pmd8/. portals for authoritative web sites with a commit- and property rights, notes Dr. Rosenzweig, is by The study, using term papers between 1996 ment to long-term access and instruct students on ceasing to indulge ignorance. “We are supposed to and 1999, found that after four years, the URL how to evaluate resources critically. be the bearers of knowledge. But it is the ignorance reference cited in a term paper stood an 80% “In the world of academic scholarship, of all these circumstances among ourselves— chance of no longer existing. URL references references form a link to original works, give ignorance of opportunities, ignorance of our stood more than a 50% chance of not existing after credit to original ideas and form a network of influence, ignorance of the role we play, and only six months. connections to related documents,” says Davis. “A ignorance of what we can do to redress the prob- The researchers also discovered a significant viable link—whether in print or electronic form— lem—that keeps the problem alive.” decrease in the frequency of scholarly resources is absolutely necessary in order to preserve This forum was co-sponsored by the University cited. Book references dropped from 30% to 19%. scholarly communication. Without citations that Libraries and the Chancellor’s Library Advisory Newspaper citations increased from 7% to 19%, pass the test of time, we have no way to proceed Committee. A videotape of the program is available and web citations increased from 9% to 21%. “We forward because we can no longer see the past.” at the University Libraries. For more information are seeing a dramatic move from the use of Source: Cornell University News Service, on the underlying issues, and how one might credible, peer-reviewed materials to popular and December 15, 2000 contribute to the solution, please visit: unfiltered information,” says Davis. and . Yes, I want to be a Friend! Collections and Services I want to make a tax-deductible contribution to support the University of Connecticut Continued from page 5 Libraries in the amount of: Library User Survey r Associate $50-$99 Underway r Fellow $100-$499 r Curator $500-$999 The library is conducting a web-based, system-wide r Patron $1,000-$4,999 survey to determine faculty and student satisfaction r Benefactor $5,000-$9,999 with library services and resources. 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The Paintings of Reuben Nakian William Patterson Selections from the Centennial Exhibition William Patterson was born in Albany, Reuben Nakian, born Nakian’s work is New York in 1941. August 10, 1897 in College represented in the perma- He earned degrees at Point, New York, enjoyed a nent collections and the Hartford Art long and distinguished sculpture gardens of many School, where he also career, maintaining his of America’s most presti- taught for a number innovative spirit and gious museums and of years, and at creativity over more than institutions. He has been Syracuse University; seventy years, constantly honored with major one he also spent several rethinking and revising his man exhibits at the Los years at the American Academy in Rome. His work modes of sculptural Angeles County Museum has been exhibited in fifteen solo exhibitions, has expression and exploring (1962), the New York been displayed in many invitational group shows, and mastering new me- Museum of Modern Art and is included in more than fifty public and dia—marble, clay, plaster, (1966), the Hirshhorn private collections. Mr. Patterson is now a profes- metal, paper, and, in his Museum, Washington, DC sor at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst; last years, styrofoam. (1981), the Milwaukee Art Europa and the Bull, 1945; he lives in historic Deerfield. This exhibition is Nakian received Bronze 10” x 91/2” x 41/2” Museum (1985), the made possible through the courtesy of the Sherry honorary doctorates from Gulbenkian Centro de Arte French Gallery, New York. the Universities of Nebraska (1969) and Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal (1988), and a Dodd Research Center, West Corridor Bridgeport (1972), medals from the Philadel- Centennial Retrospective at the Reading (PA) phia College of Art (1967) and the American Public Museum and the Corcoran Gallery of Academy/National Institute of Arts and Art in Washington, DC (1999), the site of Letters (1973), and the Skowhegan Medal for Nakian’s first one-man museum exhibition Sculpture (1983). He was the recipient of in 1935. Garden of the Gods I was one of five Recollections awards from the Connecticut Commission on sculptures to inaugurate the Metropolitan the Arts (1979), Brandeis University (1977), Museum of Art Roof Garden, while other of Paintings by Ann C. Rosebrooks and the Rhode Island School of Design his monumental works preside over civic (1979). and private settings across America. Connecticut artist Nakian was a guest of honor at the Reuben Nakian is a major figure in 20th Ann C. Rosebrooks’ Famous Artist’s Evening at the White House Century art, his long career touching more lifelong fascination (1966), and the Smithsonian Institution of American art history than most artists, with patterns is produced a documentary on his life and living or dead. He died on December 4, evident in her work work titled “Reuben Nakian: Apprentice to 1986 in Stamford, Connecticut at the age of over the past nine the Gods,” (1985). He was awarded a eighty-nine, “one of the most distinguished years. She has Guggenheim Fellowship in 1931 and a Ford American sculptors of the 20th Century” exhibited in numer- Foundation Fellowship in 1958, and he (New York Times obituary, 12/5/86). ous shows throughout New England and New represented the United States as the major This exhibition is made possible York, most recently at the National Association sculptor in the VI Bienal in Sao Paulo, through the courtesy of Paul (class of 1957) of Women Artists annual exhibit in New York Brazil (1961) and the 1968 Biennale in and Maria Nakian. City, where she received the Knapp Award. Venice, Italy. Babbidge Library, Gallery on the Plaza Babbidge Library, Stevens Gallery

Volume 7, Number 2 www.lib.uconn.edu April/May 2001 UConn Libraries is published by the University of Connecticut Libraries four times each year to provide current information about collections, services, and activities to faculty, staff, friends, and others who are interested in the welfare of the Libraries. Editor David Kapp Contributors Heidi Abbey, Fritzi Batchelor, Roger Crossgrove, Francine DeFranco, Brinley Franklin, Ann Galonska, Amelia Hinchcliffe,Terri Goldich, Tom Jacoby, Scott Kennedy, Peter Morenus, Joe Natale, Michele Palmer, Linda Perrone, Norman Stevens, Deborah Stansbury Sunday, Betty Tonucci,Thomas Wilsted, Rutherford Witthus, and Suzanne Zack