City College Library of The City University of New York no.65 (n.s.) Fall 2002 Billy Collins, hief Librarian Pamela Gillespie done three or four readings together. They opened this well-attended April would “close out the night by reading Cevent in the library’s atrium by alternate poems as jazz, imitating a jazz announcing that Billy Collins’ talk tradition–– trading fours.” celebrated National Library Week and Collins next read poems by Poetry Month. As importantly, the poet’s Matthews and himself, noting that “Bill talk constituted the 5th Annual William was out of the box very quickly.” He read Matthews Memorial Reading. (The late “Blues for John Coltrane, Dead at 41,” William Matthews was a widely read and “Poem for Coleman Hawkins, RIP,” poet and beloved faculty member in and “Well, You Needn’t,” all by CCNY’s English Department before his Matthews, followed by his own untimely death in 1997). “Questions about Angels,” “Snow,” and English professor Paul Oppenheimer “Piano Lessons.” introduced Collins noting that it was an He ended with a reading of “Mingus “indirect personal pleasure for me because in Diaspora” from the last book of I have a tremendous respect for Billy Matthews’ poetry. Collins then played a Collins’ poetry.” recording of Matthews reading the same The poet began by saying that he poem years earlier to show how the poem “wished I weren’t giving this lecture, but had evolved over the years before being rather wished Bill Matthews were here.” eraser on a saxophone; no delete button finished––the art of revising. Collins He had agreed to give the talk “to help on a stand-up bass.” called this a “keyhole view of his methods keep his memory alive.” Noting that Bill While “the poet enjoys the of revision.” The recording took place in was “tagged as a jazz poet,” he asked, advantage of an eraser,” the jazz 1992 in Northern Ireland in the Poets’ “What do jazz and poetry have in musician is on a “higher-risk limb of House. Collins had been teaching at UC common?” He noted that the link is that improvisation, but, is he really? The Dublin and Matthews had invited him to both involve lyric expression and jazz musician like the poet does not join Matthews at a night of poetry reading. improvisation. “Poetry attempts to write really know where he is going when he Collins joked that a dog––Charlie––was phrases that are as expressive as begins his solo.” Collins said that they always present during these readings and, improvised jazz.” Collins said, however, both “want to maintain the benefit of “If Charlie got up and left the room while that poetry does not improvise the way that ignorance as long as possible.” This you were reading, it was considered worse jazz does. Poetry revises. “There’s no is the link: exploratory curiosity. It’s than a bad review in the Irish Times.” “like driving at night when you can just In closing, Collins said that see far enough ahead, and no more.” Matthews “took the risk to be wise–to Collins says you hear different (Continued on p. 2) NOV EB O voices when you IS DSPICE R B A A R C read others’ or even U one’s own poetry. S

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s every student on this campus is Internet Journal of Chemistry, painfully aware, the CUNY PhysChemComm, Theory and Practice Iraq – A New Online ABoard of Trustees established a of Logic Programming, and Evolutionary technology fee of $75 per semester for Ecology Research. Bibliography full-time students and $37.50 per semester for part-time students that went into effect Next, we will be adding CIAO— The position and policies of the for fall 2002. The trustees specified that Columbia International Affairs Online— United States government towards Iraq colleges use the revenue from this fee to the most comprehensive resource for have been front-page headlines for improve computer services for students theory and research in International months. But how much do you know and faculty. Affairs. CIAO began in 1991 and includes about Iraq beyond the information working papers from university research contained in sound bites and news clips? “Computer services” in this digital institutes, occasional papers series, What exactly did President Bush say to age also include access by computer to foundation-funded research projects, and the United Nations? The City College information resources, those materials proceedings from conferences, books, Government Documents Division has a traditionally provided by the library. Well journals, and policy briefs. CIAO also new bibliography of online government before the imposition of this fee, the has teaching materials such as original resources to help answer your questions. library provided access to many full-text case studies written by leading resources on the Web, and a portion of international affairs experts and course You’ll find background information the new tech fee will be used to add more packs of background readings for history about Iraq and links to full-text resources that we haven’t been able to and political science classes. Congressional hearings, information purchase before. about the sanctions, the British Then we will be improving access government’s dossier on the Iraqi regime, First, we will be adding new to other databases that we have been and the text of President Bush’s address electronic periodical titles from the receiving for years: We will convert our to the United Nations. SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and subscriptions to Science Citation Index Academic Resources Coalition) partners, (on CD ROM) and Current Contents Find the bibliography on the CCNY a group founded by the Association of Connect (on the Web) to Web of Science, Library’s Website at: www.ccny.cuny.edu/ Research Libraries. We will be adding providing totally Web-based access library/Divisions/government/iraqbib.html the BioOne package of 56 journals, the under the Web of Knowledge platform. Grace-EllenMcCrann MIT CogNet package of eight journals, [email protected] and the following individual titles: Also, we will drop our current INSPEC CD ROM in favor of Web access that will allow everyone to access this LIBRARY important physics, engineering, and Billy Collins, Poet... (Continued from p. 1) PHONE computer science resource. ✆ NUMBERS tell you a truth.” “He was never guilty of Chief Librarian 650-7271 Comments, suggestions, and moralizing,” and, although a contemporary, Archives 650-7609 feedback regarding the library’s services Matthews “was a complete hero and master Circulation 650-7155 are always welcome and should be to me.” Reference 650-7611-12 addressed to me by calling x7271, sending A reception and book-signing Architecture 650-8768 followed. This event was co-sponsored Music 650-7174 email to [email protected], or by Science/Engineering 650-8246 dropping by NAC 5/333 (Cohen Library). by the Friends of the City College Library, iMedia 650-6708 City’s English Department, and the Simon Pamela Gillespie Slide Library/Architecture 650-8754 H. Rifkind Center for the Humanities and Slide Library/Art 650-7175 the Arts at CCNY. Fall 2002 3 2

iMEDIA COLUMN Faculty may have a need to display (3) In the “File name” box, type a Web pages in a classroom setting. They descriptive name for the page if the may not be in a room equipped with a default name is not adequate. You network connection, and it is risky to can also just number the pages depend on the Internet or remote sites consecutively if you will be being available when needed. presenting multiple pages. The safest and most dependable (4) In the “Save as type” box, select he City College Library will way to display Web pages in a class is to “Web Page, complete” file type. celebrate Black History Month save the Web page, text, and graphics (5) In the “Encoding” box, select Tin 2003 with the only regional prior to the class. The page can be saved “Western European.” showing of The Jazz Age in Paris: 1914- on the faculty member’s laptop or on (6) Click “Save.” This saves all the 1940, a traveling exhibition organized removable media such as a floppy disk files needed to display this page, by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling or CD-Rom. If you are using Microsoft including graphics, frames, and Exhibition Service (SITES). The Explorer, you can save a Web page on style sheets in the original format. exhibition will be on view in the Cohen your computer by following the (7) Disconnect from the Internet, Library Atrium from January 18 through instructions below. click on the files that you have March 16, 2003. saved and check for any problems. The Jazz Age in Paris is a panel (1) On the “File” menu, click (8) Now you are ready to exhibition that examines Europe’s early “Save As.” dependably and quickly present jazz movement, its close relationship to (2) Double-click the folder in Web pages to a class regardless of the development of jazz in the United which you want to save the page. I Internet availability or connection States, and the American artists, writers recommend creating a new folder speed. and musicians who lived in Paris during on the desktop with the name and Jeffrey Clapp the early 1900s. [email protected] date of the class. “America gave birth to jazz, but

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○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ quickly embracing the sounds introduced by U.S. infantry bands that played in Europe during World War I. Between wars, African-Americans gravitated to Paris, to freedom from racial prejudice, and to an atmosphere of innovation. This exhibition chronicles the wild success of jazz music in Paris between 1914 and 1940 and its influence in the establishment of the reputations of scores of African-American musicians, composers, vocalists, and conductors. Alumnus Richard Schepard (’64) graciously provided support for this exhibition at City College. Development of The Jazz Age in Paris: 1914-1940 was made possible through the generous support of Nissan North America. The exhibition is part of America’s Jazz Heritage, a partnership of the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund and the Smithsonian Institution. Richard Cohen, Dorene Cohen, Gene Cohen Tweraser, Karen Cohen Holmes, Marianne Smigelskis, Dorothy Cohen, Richard Smigelskis, August Wohlt, and Gabriel Holmes at the new library For more information on the Jazz entrance in front of the bust of Morris Raphael Cohen (after whom the library is named). These Age exhibition at the City College grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the late Professor Cohen gathered this summer for the Library, please call (212) 650-7271. Ryshpan family reunion (MRC’s wife was Mary Ryshpan). Pamela Gillespie [email protected] 4 Fall 2002 CircumSpice

The CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Library: Resources on the Diaspora

n March the CUNY Dominican The impact of the library’s Studies Institute (DSI) Library relocation is evident. Library hours Irelocated its collection to a expanded, the collection continues to temporary space on Cohen Library’s grow, and the in-house catalogue will first floor. The only university-based soon go online. All are welcomed and Dominican resource center in the encouraged to visit the DSI Library to United States, the DSI Library opened discover the complexity of the in 1994 with an outreach to the CUNY Dominican culture. For more community and to organizations information, call (212) 650-7170 or dealing with Dominican issues. Of e-mail: [email protected], or check CUNY’s 43,058 undergraduate the Website: www.ccny.cuny.edu/dsi Hispanic students, 18,834 consider Sarah Aponte the Dominican Republic as the country they most identify with (Institutional Harold Martinez Research Office data, Fall 2001). Helping CUNY fulfill its important Library Exhibits responsibility in representing one of its The relationship between the DSI largest Hispanic populations, the DSI and the Cohen Library began with co- 2002 – 2003 Library brings together resources on sponsored exhibits in the fall of 1999. Dominican thought and life that Hispaniola: One Island, Two Cultures How Much Does It Cost? previously were difficult to access or provided an historical glance at the origins July 25 - November 22, 2002 non-existent in CUNY libraries. of Haitians and Dominicans, the two Cohen, Architecture, Science/ The library is a central component groups sharing the island of Hispaniola. Engineering and Music of the DSI, an interdisciplinary, academic The Evolution of an Ethnic Community: research unit that began as a pilot project Dominican-Americans in Upper CCNY in Souvenirs 1847-1947 in 1992. Approved in 1994 by CUNY’s introduced the complexity of Fall 2002 Board of Trustees, the DSI gathers, the Dominican community in the diaspora Cohen Library Archives produces, and disseminates knowledge (see CircumSpice Fall 2001 issue for on the Dominican experience. Sharing more information). Both exhibits inspired Photography Past/Forward: the mission of the institute, the library others to continue investigating the Aperture at 50 identifies, organizes, preserves, and exhibits’ topics. In July, for example, October 21 - November 3, 2002 facilitates information on Dominican sixteen educators from Yale University’s Cohen Library Atrium culture. A rich, diverse reference 2002 Teaching about Latin America collection, in English and Spanish, it Summer Institute came to City College Reflections of Intransigence: offers books, journal articles, newspaper to peruse the Evolution of an Ethnic Northeast China, 1998-1999 clippings, book chapters, audiovisuals, Community... and learn more about our Photographs by Peter Waldvogel and PhD dissertations with a special resources. November 25 - January 16, 2003 concentration on the diaspora. According to the 2000 census data Cohen Library Atrium The diversity of its resources analyzed by Dr. Ramona Hernández enables the library to serve academics, (current DSI Director), approximately The Jazz Age in Paris 1914-1940 educators, students, journalists, artists, 60% of Dominicans in the United States A SITES/ALA/NEH Exhibition and others interested in the Dominican reside in New York, constituting the January 18 - March 16, 2003 culture. Researchers range from a couple largest single immigrant group in the Cohen Library Atrium of doctoral students from Oslo, Norway city. As Dr. Silvio Torres-Saillant (DSI investigating the Washington Heights founding director) stated in CUNY The 137th Street Elks Club: A Dominican community to our own CUNY Matters (Winter 2002), the DSI’s primary Documentary History. 1907-1997 Dominican-American students searching goal is “to help New York learn about Spring 2003 for their ethnic/racial roots. The collection itself. For there is no stopping the Cohen Library Archives also brings investigators from the continued growth of Dominicans as an Dominican Republic, frustrated by the ever larger component of the city’s Academic Architecture at CCNY: lack of information in that country about population.” The Post Legacy the diaspora. March 19 - July 10, 2003 CircumSpice Fall 2002 5

Art on Campus ince the college doesn’t have a currently displayed in the formal art acquisition program, and library’s electronic classroom, Ssince curatorship for the college’s 1/217A, and the latter will join it artistic properties currently resides within there shortly. my area of responsibility, I am taking √ Dr. Jacob Jay advantage of the library’s newsletter to Lindenthal, physician/educator/ acknowledge some recent developments. photographer who taught at √ Renowned conservator Luca CCNY in 1960, has donated 17 Bonetti has restored the college’s 1957 large color photographs in mural by Charles Henry Alston, a 10' x 8' memory of Dr. Milton L. Barron, scene depicting an academic theme. The longtime chair of the Sociology mural had been in storage, folded flat Department at CCNY. These around a 4"x 1" wooden bar since the photographic landscapes are on demolition of the Finley Student Center. view in the Admissions Office in Mural by Charles Henry Alston The folding caused much deterioration. the Administration Building and This extensive conservation project was in the Hungry Mind Café in Cohen collection, point your Web browser to: funded through the generous support of Library. http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/ the Agnes Gund Foundation, the Milton √ In 1998 the college received artcollections.html and click on: “Click and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, The Joseph Konopka’s Sunbather #2 from here to search the CCNY Art Properties City College Fund, and the Alumni the artist in memory of alumnus Philip database.” Association of The City College. The Desind (’34, ’38). Mr. Desind’s daughter, Pamela Gillespie mural now hangs resplendent on the south Barbara Desind Kernan, has augmented [email protected] wall of the Aronow Theatre lobby in the this gift with another in memory of her NAC. It serves as a fitting tribute to a father, this one Twin Arches: City College, renowned member of our Art Department a watercolor by Frederick Brosen. Both The New Cuny+ faculty. works will be on display in the Cohen √ Mr. Herbert Liebman (’40) has Library Atrium upon completion of the The new version of CUNY+, the donated two drawings by contemporary skylight replacement project. university’s online library catalog, should artist James Brown. The works, Take the √ Phyllis and Anni Newbeck have be up and running by year’s end. This ‘A’ Train and Woman and Still Life, are donated 19 artworks, 15 of them by Ralph version runs on Aleph 500 software, a executed in carbon pencil. The first is Fabri, an Art Department faculty member product of the Ex Libris Company. for many years, who is remembered This Web-based version offers annually at the presentation of the Fabri Award for the best MFA user-friendly features, one of which exhibition. enables users on each campus to search √ Alumnus Bernard Bernbaum directly in that campus’s online cata- (’34), an award-winning photographer, log without having to scroll through has donated his photograph, Winter book, journal, and media listings in all Twilight – City College. CUNY libraries. A simple click on the √ Alumnus George Garofalides link identified as the all-CUNY search (’40) has donated a cartographic drawing option, however, will allow the user to with watercolor by Dr. John Hastings, search the entire CUNY online catalog if professor of anthropological and economic geography at CCNY for 21 that is indeed desired. Another useful years. Dr. Hastings taught from the 2,000 feature is the ability to limit searches by maps he drew himself, painstakingly publication type or format. traveling 325,000 miles to make sure Please consult the reference librar- they were accurate. ians at the Cohen Library or at any of our campus libraries for assistance in exploring For a fuller description of these and the these and other useful features of this new many other artworks in the college’s Winter Twilight-City College Bernard Bernbaum system. 6 Fall 2002 CircumSpice

Donor Honor Roll We are sincerely grateful to all those Igor Gantz ’94 as the Assistant to the Chief of Technical who have generously supported the City Esther K. Gelbard ’52 Services, handling the financial accounts College Library this year. Private gifts James Juszczyk of the campus libraries. Previously Anita play a crucial role, enabling the library Robert Laurich worked at Paul Decorative Products and collections to continue to grow. We wish LTCB International Library Trust the Police Department in to offer our donors special recognition Neil Lundy Adventure Film the areas of accounting and payroll. She for all they have done. Productions has her AA from Touro College. Anita The gifts listed below represent the Mark Mirsky “looks forward to a challenging career at vital commitment of individuals to the Sidney Ozer in memory of City College and hopes to pursue an library. Donors of both monetary gifts Richard Cohen advanced degree in accounting.” We wish and collections are listed according to the Leon C. Paretsky ’66 her success in that goal. total amount of their library donations. Kathleen Pritchard Herbert Robinson ’37 $1,000+ (FOUNDER) Alexander Strasser ’38 Bernard Bernbaum ’34 Martin Tamny ’63, ’73 Art/Architecture David Bushler ’56 Stanley A. Waren ’38 Slide Curator Chinese Information and Culture Rosamond L. Wilen Center This Donor Honor Roll lists gifts received Appointed Irene J. Goldminz-Roberts by the library between July 1, 2001 and Eugene Herscher ’47 June 30, 2002. Every effort has been In March Ching- Nanice Lund made to ensure accuracy. Please notify Jung Chen began work Richard K. Manoff ’37 Library Development at (212) 650-7271 as CCNY’s new curator. A member of Estate of Edward Rivera of any errors or omissions. the library staff, she supervises the slide

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Sydney Rothstein ’43 ○○○○○○ and in the Art Department. Ching-Jung $500-$999 (PATRON) holds a Ph.D in art history from Rutgers, Bernard Bellush’41 Carla Spence specializing in eighteenth-century George Greenspan ’45 English painting. Her MLS is from Ruth Halle Rowen Carla began work Columbia and her BA from the National at Cohen’s Circulation Taiwan University. $250-$499 (FRIEND) Desk in July, arriving Ching-Jung had worked in Rutgers’ Harriet Alonso here from Lehman’s Visual Resources Collection since 1998. Edward Silverman Graduate Admissions She is active in her community as a Office. A student at Lehman pursuing a member of the Dharma Drum Mountain $150-$249 (SESQUICENTENNIAL BS, Carla has her AS from Hostos. She Buddhist Association New Jersey chapter, SUPPORTER) plans to attend Hunter for her MPH. where she coordinated the establishment Melva Peterson Asked about working in the library, Carla and operation of a Buddhist Studies Florence G. Rich noted that I “love to be surrounded with library. Estate of David Wertman ’35, ’36 so much knowledge...there isn’t enough Ching-Jung is excited about time to read all these interesting books advances in the delivery of visual $100-$149 (REGULAR MEMBER) and journals.” She loves being at City resources and looks forward to David C. Balderston College “with its diverse cultural establishing a campus-wide digital image David Unger population,” and she thinks that CCNY collection. Robert Wall “is the perfect learning environment for intelligent young minds.” Sounds like a $1-$99 (ASSOCIATE MEMBER) good description of Carla. is published by The City College Library, The City Victor Alonso College of New York/CUNY Howard C. Appleman ’48 Anita Meyers 138th Street and Convent Avenue Steven Bookman NY, NY 10031 Sam Burton Anita began work in November Editor: Professor Judy Connorton 2001 as Stacks Supervisor at the Cohen [email protected] Center for Holocaust Studies, Production: Nilda Sanchez & Rodolfo Leyton University of Vermont Library Circulation Desk. In June she ISSN 0069-4215 Percy Dean transferred to the Acquisitions Division