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discovery of collections cover photo: A snapshot of images from some of the Yale Library’s special collections and in the center, some students, led by Senior Research Scholar, Barbara Shailor, using quills, parchment, and inks from the Traveling Scriptorium during a class session hosted in the conservation laboratory.

2 university librarian’s report 2012–13

This report marks my second year as University Walpole Library a substantial collection of historical Librarian at Yale University. As I reflect back across prints was cataloged, and a finding aid was created for the year, the word that best illustrates it is “discovery.” the full Horace Walpole collection of correspondence Discovery is reflective not only of my own journey as and manuscripts held at the library. In addition, this University Librarian, but also characterizes the sense year the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of purpose that guided a number of the Library’s exceeded its annual benchmark in a multi-year initiatives last year. project to process an estimated 13,000 linear feet of We believe that immersion in the Library’s collec- manuscript and archival materials, a project which will tions and engagement with our staff and services reach its conclusion in December 2014. With each of are transformative in the intellectual and academic these initiatives, the richness of our vast collections development of our students, and that this is what dis- becomes more apparent to the Yale community and tinguishes an education at Yale from all other academic global scholars. institutions. We must keep in mind, however, that the Through the generosity of the Arcadia Fund, the greatest collections in the world are useful only if they Library was able to pursue its theme of “Opening can be discovered; a collection without discovery points Yale’s Treasure House.” Several projects focused on is invisible to the world. Key elements in our strategy cataloging and digitizing rare and at-risk materials. to improve the discoverability of our collections include This year’s accomplishments included, for example, improving the cataloging of published materials the cataloging of 1,200 African-language pamphlets, and enhancing the descriptions of our manuscript which facilitates item-level, global and archival collections. The closure of the Seeley G. access for an important collection Mudd Library provided us with the unprecedented of postcolonial African literature. opportunity to review, enhance, and in many cases Over the past fifteen years, the create new cataloging records for the nearly two mil- Library’s Judaica Collection lion items in the Mudd Library. Included in this process has collected manuscripts of were over 632,000 government documents, 36,000 Jewish North Africa, including maps, 10,000 folios, and over 200,000 historical sound manuscripts relating to legal, recordings. These collections are now fully represented rabbinic, liturgical, folklore, in our library catalog, and as a result, their use has personal, and communal matters. greatly increased. Funds from Arcadia enabled a Discovery of our archival and manuscript robust, online finding aid to be collections has also been improved by projects that established for the collection. targeted archival collections in the Irving S. Gilmore In addition, three unique Music Library, including the Sylvia Fine and Danny heritage collections were digitized African Collection musical score Kaye Collection of Musical Comedy, the Charles Ives through the Arcadia Fund: 1) the from the Italian occupation period in Ethiopia, exalting the conquest of the Papers, and the Cole Porter Collection. At the Lewis Maurice M. Durand collection of battle of Adua.

1 …the greatest collections in the world are useful only if they can be discovered; a collection without discovery points is invisible to the world.

197 handwritten and woodblock texts in Hán Nôm, a “writing method for the Vietnamese language—adapted from and incorporating modified Chinese characters— developed in the thirteenth century and used until the twentieth century; 2) a subset of the Library’s collection of Persian philology texts that mainly originate from India or are rare European translations or reprints; and 3) a unique set of 62 Arabic and Scan and Deliver was launched in September of 2012 and received about 19,000 requests in the first year. Persian medical manuscripts and books and early translations of Arabic medical works. These digitized collections will soon be made available, worldwide and ery of pdf scans from the Library’s general print and at no charge, through a new library repository that microform collections. The Yale community quickly overcomes the challenges of digitized collections in adopted the new service with much acclaim, and non-Roman languages. just under 19,000 Scan & Deliver requests had been To complement the improved discovery of our col- received by June 2013. lections, the Library has focused on enhancing collec- Our improvements in discovery and access to our tion access and delivery. The size, geographic distribu- collections do not diminish, however, the importance tion, and labyrinth-like design of some of our libraries of personal interactions with our staff. Our Personal can often make access to our collections challenging. Librarian Program, which matches each incoming While we deliver nearly 200,000 items to the library Yale College freshman with a librarian, marked its 5th of the patron’s choice each year, we recognized that anniversary this year. Personal librarians are contacted our delivery services could be expanded using digital by the students approximately 400 times a semester, technology as well. In September 2012, a new “Scan & and the students report that the amount of interaction Deliver” service was launched, offering two-day deliv- with their personal librarians was either “just right” (90.3%) or not quite enough (9.7%); no one sought less contact with their personal librarian! Librarians are also partnering with students writing senior theses and dissertations, with an increasing number of academic departments requiring an interview with a librarian as a formal part of the thesis and dissertation process. Our librarians are also pushing beyond the boundaries of the Yale libraries to place themselves wherever their services are needed, including open office hours in academic departments, the Hall of Graduate Studies, inside the residential colleges, and throughout the network of Yale-New Haven Hospitals. When the physical distance cannot be overcome, our librarians can bring instruction to students virtually. For example, the Medical Library’s

left Digital Image from Maurice Durand Collection Arcadia Project–

˘ ˘ ˘ staff worked with faculty in the Department of -Da.i Viê.t Su’ Ky Toàn Thu’: Ban Ky (volume 15), a compilation of 19 books recording historical events from the Dinh Dynasty. Anesthesiology to create videos and modules for the new online education program for incoming residents. right A document concerning a rabbinic emissary, sent from the Maghrebi community of Jerusalem to Morocco in 1934. Arcadia funding The medical librarians helped manage, film, and edit helped provide a robust online finding aid for the collection of Jewish the video components of the new anesthesiology North African manuscripts in the Library’s Judaica collection. curriculum, occasionally even starring in a video.

2 For the Yale community and worldwide scholars who wish to enter the Yale libraries, we have opened the doors even wider. For example, in the 2012-13 aca- demic year, the Beinecke Library hosted 376 classes attended by more than 4,500 students, a critical ele- ment in our goal to increase the use of special col- lections by undergraduates, which we feel should be a hallmark of an education at Yale University. The Center for Science & Social Science Information, which opened in January 2012, had nearly 234,000 visitors in its first 18 months, with 167 instructional sessions. To our students, the libraries are inspiring spaces that convey scholarly gravitas. This is why they continue This has been a year of several anniversaries and to draw students and visitors in greater numbers even milestones. The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript though a growing portion of the Library’s collections is Library marked its 50th anniversary with a year of accessible online. We also strive for the Yale libraries to be a part of celebration in 2013, including several outstanding their local communities. For example, several events exhibits, lectures, conferences, concerts, and other in New Haven’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas events that highlighted the library building, its were hosted in the Beinecke Library, including “The collections, and its dedicated staff. The anniversary Quiet Volume,” a theatrical experience about books events marked the culmination of nearly two years of and reading. Students from Farmington High School planning, including a completely redesigned website came to the Lewis Walpole Library’s 14-acre property and an unprecedented calendar of events. In October to conduct a 3-day archaeological dig. For the regional 2012, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust community of librarians and budding librarians, yul Testimonies marked its 30th year collecting the personal hosted numerous conferences and workshops on topics stories of thousands of survivors and first-hand including literary archives, text encoding, and special witnesses of the Holocaust with a conference collections in the 21st century. The Library also hosted and exhibit. four seminars offered last summer by the University of Virginia-based Rare Book School, a first for Yale. As we have studied Yale curriculum and changes in scholarly communication across the academic dis- ciplines, we have recognized that our library services and expertise need to expand accordingly. This year we saw the introduction of several new types of librarian

top The Beinecke’s 50th anniversary logo for their yearlong series of events.

left Program cover from the 30th anniversary conference for the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, October, 2012.

The 2013 Donald Windham-Sandy Campbell Literature Prize Winners. Architects’ rendering of the south aisle (card catalog area) when the restoration of the Sterling Memorial Library nave is completed. (Courtesy of Helpern Architects).

positions. For example, the Library now has two data I cannot end this summary of the year without librarians, who help students and researchers find, use, acknowledging the beginning of the construction create, and preserve research data across the science phase of the Sterling Memorial Library nave and social science disciplines. Our new librarian for restoration in June. The project has been made digital humanities research can assist in the applica- possible by a generous $20-million gift from Richard tion of computational analysis to humanistic inquiry. Gilder ’54 and his wife, Lois Chiles, a gift which Students and scholars of the visual and performing honors former President Richard Levin and his wife, arts can explore digital media with our new arts-area Jane A. Levin. Designed by Helpern Architects, the digital librarian. In recognition that our collections, restoration will encompass the full interior of the including special collections, are increasingly digital, nave, including the card catalog areas to the south, the Library now has digital archivists and a digital the north space adjacent to the Selin Courtyard, and preservation manager. Our challenge is to ensure that the area behind the circulation desk. The project the Library is as strong a research partner and collabo- includes restoration of the nave’s painted glass rator to Yale’s community in the digital landscape as windows designed by artist G. Owen Bonawit, and we have always been, and will continue to be, with our repair and cleaning of the nave’s stone, woodwork, traditional, physical collections. painted ceilings, and Alma Mater mural. Scheduled This year also saw several “firsts.” In March, the to reopen in September 2014, the renovated Sterling winners of the inaugural Donald Windham-Sandy nave will retain the original cathedral design M. Campbell Literature Prizes were announced. The elements of architect James Gamble Rogers, while prizes called attention to the literary achievements subtly introducing improvements for serving the of nine writers, awarding them with an unrestricted 21st-century library user. grant of $150,000 each. The spring also marked the I hope the pages that follow inform you about Library’s first “New Directions for Digital Scholar- the breadth and depth of activities across the Yale ship” conference aimed at bringing world leaders in University Library and inspire you to join us in our digital humanities scholarship to Yale to encourage journey of discovery. critical reflection and debate on emerging trends in humanities scholarship. And in April, the Manuscripts Susan Gibbons & Archives department celebrated the formal opening University Librarian of the Charles Augustus Lindbergh Papers, the Anne Morrow Lindbergh Papers, and the Lindbergh Picture Collection with a conference and exhibit.

4 yale university library exhibits 2012–13

beinecke rare book and manuscript library robert b. haas family arts library Architecture in Dialogue: The Peter Eisenman Collection at Color Bound: Book Artists Seek Inspiration from Color Theory Yale Staging History, Making History: The Yale School of Drama and By Hand: Celebrating the Manuscript Collections of the Yale Repertory Theatre Beinecke Library Withal the Craft: The Life and Work of Carl Purington Rollins Celluloid West: Hollywood’s Depiction of the American West from Silent Movies through Contemporary Cinema sterling memorial library Descriptions of Literature: Texts and Contexts in the Gertrude Aviators, Authors, and Environmentalists: Exploring the Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers Lindbergh Papers and Photographs in Manuscripts & Archives Devotion and Inspiration: Beinecke People A Brief History of News (at Yale) In the Mind’s Eye: Beinecke Architecture Imagined Class of 1963 Authors Permanent Markers: Aspects of the History of Printing Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies: center for science & social science information Achievements and Challenges 1982–2012 Research at Yale: Shaping the Future—A Video Exhibit Himalayan Collections at Yale Women in Science and Engineering at Yale Latvian Publishing between the Wars Yale Reaches Out to Future Scientists—A Media Exhibit Library Staff Art Exhibit divinity library The Levin Years at Yale Yale Divinity School Milestones 1822–2012 Richard C. Levin, President of Yale, 1993–2013: An Exhibit of Documents Highlighting His Accomplishments harvey cushing/john hay whitney medical library Selling War: The Use of Propaganda in the Italian Conquest and “Family Doctor” by Grant Wood and Works by Other Mid 20th Occupation of Ethiopia, 1935–1941 Century American Artists Maternity Care in Pictures: A Portfolio of 31 Teaching Charts Showing Safe Maternity Care, 1939 Medicine at Work: A Selection of Instruments and Materials from the Medical Historical Library Nurses: A Selection of Materials from the Historical Medical Poster Collection and the Collection of Prints & Drawings Portraits of Wounded Bodies: Photographs of Civil War Soldiers from Harewood Hospital, 1863–1866 War–Selections from the Collections of Prints and Drawings and the Historical Medical Poster Collection Unveiling Medicine’s Past: Medical Historical Collections Online irving s. gilmore music library Hail to the Chief: Presidents in the Gilmore Archives, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library Wade in the Water: Musical Life of American Civil Rights Leader, Bayard Rustin lewis walpole library “Dancing on a Sunny Plain”: The Life of Annie Burr Auchincloss Lewis “In the Midst of the Jovial Crowd”: Young James Boswell in London, 1762–1763 lillian goldman law library And Then I Drew for Books: The Comic Art of Joseph Hemard From Litchfield to Yale: Law Schools in Connecticut

57 major gifts and grants

The Yale University Library is deeply grateful to the many donors and friends who support its work and activities. This list recognizes those individuals, households, and organizations that made gifts, bequests, or grants valued at $5,000 or greater between July 1, 2012, and June 30, 2013. The library acknowledges their generosity, as well as that demonstrated by all other supporters and donors of funds and materials.

Anonymous (4) Ravi D. Goel ’93 Peter D. L. Stansky ’53 Anonymous † Marian Goldman * John J. Stephan Arcadia Fund Bradford H. Gray ’73 PhD Susan Ann Stone ’83 Peter M. Baldwin ’78 † Esther F. Greene and Joshua Greene Roger L. Strong ’48 † Henry P. Becton, Jr. ’65 William H. Greer, Jr. ’51 † David J. Supino ’56 J. Frederick Berg, Jr. ’66 † Lynn and G. F. Robert Hanke ’60 † R. Stuart Swanson ’82 † Ruth Berson Kitty S. Harvey ’03 † G. Thomas Tanselle ’55 John R. Block ’77 Howard M. Holtzmann ’42, ’47 JD * Michael S. Wilder ’63 † James L. Bowditch ’61 † Ellen M. Iseman ’76 † Huntington Williams III ’76 Thomas Kimball Brooker ’61 † Kristaps J. Keggi ’55, ’59 MD Donald Windham * Allan E. Bulley III ’86 † Samuel H. Kress Foundation Eugene Winick John A. Burgess ’73 † Lorna G. LaDage William H. Wright II ’82 † Gerard N. Burrow ’58 MD David O. Leiwant ’77 Yale College Class of 1977 John P. Callaway ’88 † Evan Harris LePatner ’03 † Timothy Titus Yates ’69 Nathaniel M. Cartmell III ’73 † Wesley M. LePatner ’03 † Yuting Zeng ’08 † Mark L. Casey ’92 † John Preston Levis III ’83 The Coffin Memorial Fund and the Jane Warren Hiram Lowenhaupt Coffin Childs Memorial Fund (Class of 1914) * The Community Foundation for Greater Daniel N. MacEachron ’75 † New Haven Allen R. Maxwell ’80 PhD * Conference on Jewish Material Claims E. Hoy McConnell II ’63 † Against Germany, Inc. Jerrold I. W. Mitchell ’61 † Eugene F. Cowell III ’79, ’82 JD † Stephen R. Neuwirth ’84, ’87 JD Lawrence M. Crutcher ’64 † New York University Richard F. Czaja ’71, ’74 JD † Peter S. Noce ’61 † Roman E. Darmer II ’84, ’87 JD † Open Knowledge Commons Richard R. Davis ’62, ’65 LL.B. † Alfred H. Ostrand, Jr. ’47 † Anthony T. Dean ’67 Laurie E. Pearce ’77, ’82 PhD † Robert F. DeLucia ’67 † James Penniman (Class of 1884) * Christopher A. di Bonaventura ’77 † John E. Plym, Jr. ’88 Michele Saba Dillard ’93 William M. Redpath ’61, ’71 MFA John Donnelly William S. Reese ’77 † Laura Donnelly William R. Reid ’78 William Sherman Donnelly David Alan Richards, Esq. ’67, ’72 JD † Paul A. Downey ’61 John R. Robinson ’75 LG Helen Runnells DuBois ’78 † Alexander Roth ’88 Arthur Ebbert, Jr. ’71 MAH * and Erin Gibson Roth ’88 Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah David M. Rumsey ’66, ’69 BFA, ’69 MFA † Helene Fortunoff Leon Satenstein * Founding Fathers Papers, Inc. Marla H. Schnall ’86 top J. Frederick Berg, Jr. ’66 and David A. Richards ’67, ’72 Barbara Franke and Richard Franke ’53, and Peter A. Schnall ’86 JD, two generous and committed library supporters, at an ’97 MAH, ’01 LHDH † John J. Sciarra ’53 † event at the Beinecke in April, 2013. Michael L. Friedman ’55 James A. Shapiro ’92 † above Dedicated Yale University Library supporters Ellen Stephen F. Gates ’68 Maxine F. Singer ’57 PhD, ’94 ScDH M. Iseman ’76 and Stephen K. Scher ’56, ’66 PhD, during a Sonia Raiziss Giop Charitable Stephen A. Stack, Jr. ’67 † library event in April, 2013. Foundation † Alan Stamm ’52 †

* Deceased. The library extends sincere condolences to donors’ families and friends. † These donors made unrestricted gifts to the Library through the Alumni Fund for Library Resources, the University Librarian’s Discretionary Fund, the Yale Library Associates, or the Yale University Library Fund.

68 professional sta≠ appointments

Melissa Barton, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Brendan Haug, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Curator of American Literature, Drama, and Prose Writings Papyrologist

Andrew Berger, Manuscripts & Archives, Archivist Graziano Krätli, Divinity Library, Digital Projects and Technology Librarian Kristin Bogdan, Center for Science and Social Science Information, Science and Social Science Research Data Librarian Janice Krentz, Latin American Collection, Curator, Latin American Collection Tom Bruno, Access Services, Associate Director for Resource Sharing and Reserves Patrick Lavey, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Lead Catalog Librarian Rachel Chatalbash, Yale Center for British Art, Senior Archivist, YCBA Institutional Archive Peter Leonard, Humanities Collections and Research Education Librarian for Digital Humanities Research Raymond Clemens, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Curator for Early Books and Manuscripts Julie Linden, Collection Development, Assistant Director of Collection Development Mark Custer, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Archivist / Metadata Coordinator Francesca Livermore, Arts Area Libraries, Arts-Area Digital Librarian Geraldine Dickel, Catalog and Metadata Services, Hebraica Catalog Librarian Cindy Lu, Divinity Library, Librarian for Asian Christianity

Debra Falvey, Acquisitions Department, Collections Procurement Michael Meng, East Asia Library, Chinese Studies Librarian Librarian Susan Powell, Map Department, GIS Specialist Eric Friede, Acquisitions Department, Acquisitions Systems Librarian Gabriela Redwine, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Digital Archivist Jordan Gilbertson, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Reference Law Librarian Sarah Ryan, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Empirical Research Librarian Matthew Gorham, Manuscripts & Archives, Arrangement and Description Archivist

mission, vision, and guiding principles

mission (why we exist) yul guiding principles (how we will get there) Yale University Library (YUL) supports and enhances research, · We recognize that service to the Yale community is our top teaching, and learning at Yale and for the world-wide scholarly priority. community through our expertise, collections, facilities, and · We deliver value by anticipating, studying, and responding to services. the changing needs of our patrons. yul vision (what we will be) · We collaborate with partners, internal and external to YUL and Yale, to provide seamless and comprehensive services By 2015… and collections. · YUL will be one unified library system with the highest standards for academic and research support services, · We leverage technologies to provide the best services in the regularly exceeding the expectations of its users. most e≠ective and e≠icient manner. · YUL’s expertise, collections, and services will be recognized, · We assess what we do and how we do it to ensure valued, and understood by the Yale community as an operational e≠ectiveness and quality service delivery. essential, strategic component to the success of the · We are committed to creating an inviting environment University. that supports research, teaching, learning, innovation, and · YUL will be a physical and digital destination of choice for the collaboration. Yale community. · We hold ourselves and each other accountable for excellence in our work and our relationships. · We expect every sta≠ member to be an ambassador for the Library and for Yale.

6 7 highlights of the year highlights of the year

left The SML Lecture Hall served as the temporary location of the Shelving and Delivery unit during construction.

right Retrievals and Processing staff work in their temporary quarters in the Newspaper Reading Room.

access services Construction in the nave necessitated collec- The Scan and Deliver service was successfully launched tions and staff moves. In May 2013, the circulation, in September, offering a two business-day turnaround privileges, and information desks were combined and of pdf scans from the general print collections in sml, moved to the Franke Periodical Reading Room, while csssi, Divinity, Engineering, Law, and Medical—later the operations staff was temporarily relocated in the expanding to include the Geology, Library Shelving Newspaper Reading Room and Lecture Hall. Facility, Math, and Music libraries in October, and the Access Services staff aided with the closing of the sml Microform Collection in December. The service Mudd Library, helping to move over 8,000 folios has been enthusiastically adopted by Yale faculty, stu- into sml. A successful trial of self-check vendors was dents and staff, with just under 19,000 requests made conducted, and 3M was selected as the vendor for self- by the end of June 2013. services in sml. The department was reorganized and restructured at all levels with the goal of providing single points acquisitions of service in sml and Bass; streamlined retrievals, In December, two key acquisitions positions processing, and shelving activities; expert triage of were filled—the Acquisitions Systems Librarian resource sharing and reserves requests; and greater and the Collections Procurement Librarian. Staff flexibility and responsiveness in overseeing day to day was reorganized in various areas, including the operations. Four new units were created: Operations, Monograph Support Team, Acquisitions Systems, Front-Line Services, Resource Sharing and Reserves, Fiscal Support Team, and Continuations Area and Administration. The restructuring resulted in dra- Management Team. Electronic Resources was matic increases in retrieval and processing activities, incorporated into the Acquisitions Department service improvements to Resource Sharing borrowing in February. requests to ensure a 4 to 14 day turnaround, planning There were significant changes to the physical space and piloting of a new course reserves management on the York Street side of sml, historically occupied by software, and expansion of Information Services to the the Acquisitions Department. Following a rapid plan- Bass Library. ning phase, most of the department moved into “swing

8 highlights of the year

space” in the Newspaper Reading Room and the 1742 Special exhibits included By Hand: Celebrating the Room. Over the next four months, the York Street area Manuscript Collections; Permanent Markers: Aspects of was completely gutted and refinished from ceiling to the History of Printing; In the Mind’s Eye: Beinecke Archi- floor. In late April the staff moved back into the newly tecture Imagined; and Devotion and Inspiration: configured workspace, with new furnishings, two Beinecke People. Other anniversary events included huddle rooms, and a conference room. The open work- a lecture and reading by the spaces are designed to improve processing workflows U.S. Poet Laureate, Natasha and to facilitate greater communication and collabora- Trethewey, and a symposium tion among staff. called The Text: Literary Archives The department continued to work closely with in the 21st Century, which stakeholders to streamline monthly reporting rou- brought together literary schol- tines. The department also achieved primary project ars and information science goals related to the sql Server 2012, the creation and scholars, historians, curators, population of the (MS Access) License Summarization, archivists, writers, and publish- and development of the New Items Reporting Tool with ers to explore literary archives Library IT to facilitate the dissolution of the Review around teaching, research, digi- Plaza in preparation for the renovations. tization, scholarship, and insti- tutional stewardship. babylonian collection A new website and digital This year the collection published Cuneiform Documents library interface was launched from Hellenistic Uruk by L. Timothy Doty, edited by in January, meeting the goal Ronald Wallenfels (Yale Oriental Series: Babylonian of increasing access to the Texts XX) Yale University Press, 2012. Eight Beinecke’s collections and Assyriological seminars were hosted and 36 visiting improving how the Library scholars from 15 countries studied cuneiform tablets distributes its news. Online and ancient Near Eastern objects in the collection. exhibitions, an interactive time- There was participation in several major exhibits, line, and local blogs are some top Alabaster jar inscribed with including Antes del Diluvio 3500-2100 BC at the of the site’s new components. hieroglyphs and cuneiform script. The inscription glorifies Xerxes, king of Caixaforum in Barcelona (and continued later in the More than a redesign, the next Persia (519-465BC) and was part of the year in Madrid) and Echoes of Egypt at the Yale Peabody generation Digital Library was exhibition “Echoes of Egypt” at the Yale Peabody Museum. Museum. A cast of one of the tablets in the collection a complete platform migra- was sent for display at a new exhibit at the National above The Arthurian Romances— tion, moving from a monolithic one of the items on view in the Beinecke’s Museum in Muscat, Oman, and a photographic exhibit legacy infrastructure to a modu- bucket list tour. was created for the American Consulate in Basra, Iraq. lar and open-source environ- With a grant from mit, a video was produced for ment that leverages centralized services. teaching early mathematics to high school students, This year saw the Beinecke’s successful development using tablets from the Babylonian Collection. and execution of the inaugural Windham Campbell Prizes selection process. From a pool of 59 fiction, beinecke rare book & manuscript library drama, and non-fiction writers from ten countries, nine In January 2013, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript were selected to receive $150,000 unrestricted grants Library kicked off a yearlong celebration of its 50th to support their writing. The inaugural recipients of anniversary with a lecture by architect Robert Stern, the prize were: Tarell Alvin McCraney (Drama), Zoë entitled Lux et Libri: Beinecke at Fifty. Over the course Wicomb (Fiction), Stephen Adly Guirgis (Drama), of the year, lectures, conferences, tours, concerts, and Jonny Steinberg (Nonfiction), Adina Hoffman other events highlighted the Library and its collections. (Nonfiction), James Salter (Fiction), Tom McCarthy

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(Fiction), Naomi Wallace (Drama), and Jeremy Scahill and granite façade was cleaned, cracks in its marble (Nonfiction). were repaired, and the electrical infrastructure was The Beinecke participated in the International Fes- upgraded. tival of Arts & Ideas through a variety of programs, hosting an open house with tours and performances catalog & metadata services of The Quiet Volume, in which participants experienced A high priority this year was the processing and the intimate environment of the Beinecke Library’s transfer of materials from the Seeley G. Mudd Library reading room. in preparation for its closure and demolition. The The Library was instrumental in bringing Rare Book Donohue Group, Inc. (dgi) continued work on a School to Yale for the first time. Four classes and more multi-year project to catalog and barcode material in than 60 students used material from the Beinecke the general Mudd collections and to identify materials and other special collections at Yale. Classes offered in need of preservation treatment, to prepare them for included Medieval & Early Renaissance Bookbinding transfer to the Library Shelving Facility (lsf). They Structure, Introduction to Archives for Special Collec- processed approximately 329,000 items, bringing the tions Librarianship, Medieval Manuscript Studies, and total to date to 909,000. Yale staff from Catalog and Law Books: History & Connoisseurship. Metadata Services (cms) also processed 17,148 volumes Making the Beinecke Library’s collections accessible of books, serials, and folios. Between 2009 and August to Yale students continued to be a priority. During 2013, the team processed a total of 211,441 items of the past year, 376 class sessions with more than 4,500 print material and manually updated approximately students in attendance were held in the Library, as 228,000 catalog records. Through the combined efforts well as five semester-long classes. In the spring, the of dgi and staff from Mudd and cms, approximately first bucket list tour for graduating seniors was held— 1.15 million items from the Mudd general collections giving a final opportunity for students to see high- had been transferred to the lsf when the project was lights from the Beinecke’s collections. After the original completed in August. More than 11,000 folios were tour of 25 was filled in less than 30 minutes, additional also processed and integrated into the folio collection sessions were added. More than 100 students saw his- at sml. This project enabled access to a portion of toric items ranging from Thomas More’s prayer book the library’s material that had never been adequately to sketches from the Black Panther trials. represented in orbis or in oclc’s WorldCat database, Crucial to providing access to the collections is the the central storehouse of bibliographic holdings ongoing work of cataloging and processing. Over the information that serves libraries worldwide. past year the Manuscript Unit exceeded the annual goal of its multi-year Baseline Processing Project by processing 3304 linear feet; processing was completed on the Theatre Guild Archive, which at 540 linear feet is one of the largest collections in the Beinecke; the Rare Book Team cataloged 12,570 titles and 20,514 pieces; and approximately 70 Tibetan tankas (hanging scrolls or fabric temple banners with painted picture panels) were cataloged and made available through the Digital Library. A space planning study was completed with the Pfeiffer Group, which resulted in quantifying the amount and type of physical space necessary to accom- modate future plans to consolidate staff and support The renovated first floor of the South (York Street) side of Sterling Memorial Library, with natural light from the renovated windows and operations into two locations. The Beinecke’s marble new furnishings to meet the work space needs of the staff.

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dgi also completed work on the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library’s Historical Sound Recordings (hsr) collection housed at Mudd, cataloging approximately 30,000 33rpm records and 4,000 commercial CDs. These materials are now available for the first time in Orbis. Other key projects this year: Old backlogged mate- rial was moved to a single location, providing the opportunity to analyze and estimate the effort needed to eliminate backlogs. Materials from the Slavic & East European Reading Room locked cage were moved to the sml stacks and lsf. Historical medieval texts from various locations were consolidated to the L&B Room. A Judaica cataloging project described a collection of amulets, shiviti, and other Hebrew manuscripts held in the Beinecke, and assistance was given to the Medical Library to catalog several Arabic manuscripts. Staff was engaged in Metadata content standard development, adopting the Discovery Metadata element set, implementing Summon and Blacklight/ Hydra, and adopting ‘Resource Description and Access’ (rda). In preparation for the sml nave renovation, materi- als from several collections and arrearages in sml were processed, including the Near East collection backlog, folios in the sml basement, and serials selected for retention from the stacks. Catalog and Metadata staff moved into renovated quarters in April after four months in swing space. The renovations included new lighting, floors, workstations, a conference room, and huddle rooms. The Rare Book Team moved to new quarters on the sml mezzanine. top Browsing the new book shelf at the Classics Library. classics library above Tatjana Lorkovi´c, Slavic, East European & Central Asian The Classics Librarian initiated and co-taught The Librarian with the Head of the Special Collections of the National Library of Uzbekistan, Zukhridin Isamutdinov, looking at an old Church Slavonic Classical Tradition at the Beinecke Library. This book, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. workshop introduced participants to collections relevant to the study of Greco-Roman antiquity, including papyri, Byzantine, Medieval, and Renaissance manuscripts, and early printed books. Enthusiastically received by faculty and graduate students alike, it will be repeated next year. The Library’s collections are now regularly highlighted in the Classics Department’s recruitment efforts.

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Associate Research Scholar, Mark Turin, presented a lecture “Documenting the Voices of Vanishing Worlds” in November at the CSSSI.

A formal assessment program was introduced at made, and 200 new items added to Orbis, making the Classics Library, and LibAnalytics was adopted for it much easier for readers to find materials in the tracking interactions with patrons, which identified Classics Library. two immediate and actionable findings concerning collection development and undergraduate services. collection development The interviews confirmed that the changes made to A plan was developed and implemented for transition- the Library’s collection development policy in 2011 ing the Library’s collection development budget to were meeting the expectations of library users. They a foundation of endowment income. This included also resulted in closer collaboration with the Classics spending out fund balances, consolidating approval Department and better communication about the ser- plans and core electronic resource funding to more vices provided by the Library. Undergraduate use of effectively manage these collection development areas, the Library has subsequently picked up, and regular and allowing subject specialists to focus on managing requests are received for research. subject and program funding. Over 5,000 items of Yale Class materials were A Collection Development Philosophy was approved by inventoried; of these, over 2,000 corrections were the Library Executive Committee. The E-book Strategic

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Planning Task Force released a report in March on Yale administrators and faculty members and drafted their findings and recommendations, which included a strategic agenda for Yale, which was presented to a “value statement” to guide the Library in evaluating Susan Gibbons and Len Peters in January and sub- e-book content and platforms. A new Assistant Director sequently shared with the Provost. The Strategic of Collection Development was appointed, and the Agenda outlined areas of strength and opportunities Collection Development Department moved to offices for enhancement, including a list of specific next steps. on 1M in sml. Several of these were carried out during the spring semester, including benchmarking activities, develop- center for science & social science information ment of a data management training program, plan- The gate count for the csssi was 233,911. The Center ning for a unified website for data management ser- held 167 instruction sessions attended by 2,353 people, vices, and plans for a “Day of Data” event at Yale. The and librarians and staff responded to 3,597 reference Electronic Lab Notebook (eln) project, an its project questions. The instruction program was expanded originally separate from but related to the Strategic to include sessions on bibliographic citation software Agenda, was rolled out in March. (Refworks, Endnote, Mendeley, and Zotero), data The Chemistry Library was closed in December, management, Google tools for research, and where to in consultation with the faculty of the Chemistry publish your research. The second Science and Social Department; chemistry reference materials and a Science Data Librarian position was filled in March, designated working providing broader support for data management and collection were moved to visualization. the csssi. The Engineering csssi hosted lectures by Associate Professor Keith Librarian was relocated to Chen, Associate Research Scholar Mark Turin, and Pro- a newly renovated office fessor Karen Seto. The filmThe Journey of the Universe in 17 Hillhouse Avenue in was followed by a discussion with Mary Evelyn Tucker August. A 16-seat library and John Grim, Co-Directors of the Forum on Religion classroom was also opened and Ecology. In response to the Strategic Agenda for in 17 Hillhouse, providing eScience at Yale, csssi also hosted visits from Sayeed a new facility for library Choudhury, Associate Dean for Research Data Manage- instruction and study space. ment at Johns Hopkins University, and Jake Carlson, Data Services Specialist at Purdue University. Over digital initiatives 100 students attended “Study break game nights.” The A digital strategy was csssi was the location for several Lux Talks sponsored formulated for the Yale by the Collaborative Learning Center. Tours were also Library system, and provided for entering students, for the Yale Corpora- a Director of Digital tion, and for parents and students as part of Family Initiatives was appointed, Weekend events. supported by an Advisory Two new exhibits were presented on the csssi Board (including media-wall—Research at Yale and Yale Reaches Out to representatives from Future Scientists. Librarians from the csssi partnered various library units). This with its to participate in the arl/dlf eScience Insti- resulted in notable progress top Manuscript depicting a rhinoceros from the Medical-Historical collections in the tute–the goal was to assess the status of eScience sup- in terms of coalition Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. From the port and activities at Yale and to develop a strategic building, education, and Kit¯ab Kanz al-hukam¯a’. wa-ma.tlab al-a.tibb¯aʼ wa-al-‘ulam¯a’ (1612), this was digitized with agenda for eScience support going forward. Jill Par- communications, as well support from the Arcadia Fund. chuck, Michelle Hudson, and Ed Kairiss, Director of as in activities related to above From the promotional poster for the its Academic Services, conducted interviews with 20 new digital collections, New Directions for Digital Scholarship spring chapter.

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with criteria being published for the creation of future was held at Yale, focusing on the History of the Mis- digital collections. A new monthly newsletter provided sionary Movement and World Christianity, the theme stakeholders at Yale with regular news related to being “Health, healing, and medicine in the history Digital Initiatives and Technology. A subject guide for of Christian missions and world Christianity.” There Digital Initiatives is now in place to make available were 80 participants coming from Brazil, Canada, related documentation (best practices, standards, and China, England, Germany, Ghana, India, Japan, Scot- background reading related to Digital Collections). land, Singapore, Switzerland, and the U.S. Collaboration with library colleagues led to A grant of $200,000 was received from the establishing a process for proposing new work, National Endowment for the Humanities (neh) to grant-funded or otherwise, covering digitization, digitize annual reports and periodicals from the Day cataloging, preservation, or information technology Missions collection and, as of the end of June, 210,000 development. The outputs of this effort now include of the targeted 350,000 pages had been sent to the a Project Planning Guide that offers guidelines for vendor for digitization. writing proposals and an online proposal submission Some major repairs happened in August following form. The progress made in the past year contributes a bad flood. Carpets were replaced on both the first to establishing a sustainable and strategic digital and ground floors. Some walls also had to be replaced, collections program appropriate for the creation and necessitating the removal of books from the compact delivery of digital content in support of the teaching shelving, material that had to be temporarily stored and learning services provided by the Library. elsewhere. Fortunately the work was completed before The March New Directions in Digital Scholarship the beginning of the new semester when the students launched what will become a twice-yearly conversation returned. at Yale among scholars, librarians, and technologists on the transformative possibilities of digital harvey cushing/john hay whitney medical library scholarship. The Medical Library’s Clinical Support Librarian and A steering committee was convened to identify Instructional Design Librarian worked with faculty commonalities across special collections units in order in the Department of Anesthesiology to create online to assess special collections efforts and capacities videos and modules for the Anesthesiology start pro- within the Library system and normalize processes gram for incoming residents. start is an online edu- around common software and best practices. The cational program (Successful Transition to Anesthesia committee issued a response to a recent Yale audit, Residency Training) originally begun by the Stanford identified the status of and procedures for reducing aim Lab and replicated at Yale. The medical librarians backlogs, sponsored a white paper on the need for helped manage, film, edit, (and occasionally appear in) a technological infrastructure to support special the video components of the Yale start curriculum. collections operations across yul, formed working http://vimeo.com/41311103 groups to address common priorities, and established The Medical Library spent approximately $3 mil- a forum for exchange and feedback. lion on databases, journals, and books in support of the educational and clinical enterprises of the Yale divinity library School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital With the arrival of the new Librarian for Asian Chris- (ynhh.) tianity, the Divinity Library was able to begin a major Yale’s clinical enterprise was significantly affected new initiative–collecting contemporary scholarly Chi- by ynhh’s acquisition of the Hospital of Saint Raphael nese-language Christian literature. The collection has (hsr). In response to this acquisition, the Medical always been strong in documenting Chinese Christian- Library made the decision in consultation with the ity, but primarily only in Western languages. Chief Medical Officer ofynhh to provide clinicians The annual meeting of the Yale-Edinburgh Group and researchers at both hospital campuses with access

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to the same set of library resources. Staff from the Yale Library to meet the future service needs of humanities Medical Library, the hsr library, and hospital admin- students and faculty. hcre and the library have istration worked together to identify and budget for already benefited from the recruitment effort and the the impact that this acquisition had on library resource accomplishments of the incumbent. expenditures. Staff from the Medical Library worked All hcre librarians not only carried out their with vendors to ensure that seamless access to all con- collection development and outreach duties but also tent was available for library patrons at either campus. contributed to the work of other library units. One The Library expanded its already robust support of librarian served for nearly a year as Assistant Director the research enterprise by assisting Principal Investiga- of Collection Development, another devoted part tors (pis), authors, and administrators with the nih of the year to the revision of the Library’s Western Public Access Policy compliance. Failure to comply European and North American approval plans, and a with a July 1 deadline would delay the processing of third librarian spent several hours per week working in grant awards if publications arising from the awards Manuscripts & Archives and the Music Library to assist were not in compliance with the open access policy. with the processing of collections. Librarians worked with Yale’s Grants and Contracts office to find ways to alertpi s to this new policy and international collections & research services ensure that they knew how to find help with compli- African Collection ance. Librarians were given access to the nih Compli- Classroom instruction for undergraduates and ance Monitor tool and spearheaded an initiative to graduate students was provided in several depart- reach out to pis by ysm and ysn department to raise ments, notably African Studies, African American awareness of and offer assistance with this complex Studies, and History and International Studies. process, becoming the de facto support unit for this The African Studies Curator completed her term as major undertaking at the Medical and Nursing schools. Interim Curator of the Latin American Collection, From April to July, librarians responded to over 1,500 upon the appointment of a new curator. A proposal questions by phone, email, and often in person per- was successfully completed for the next phase of the taining to compliance issues. Arcadia Project, involving cataloging African-language The Medical Historical Library finished a multi- pamphlets, and an exhibit on the topic of Selling War: year project culminating in renovated locked stacks The use of propaganda in the Italian conquest and occupa- and a newly expanded reading room. The final phase tion of Ethiopia, 1935–1941 was on display for several of the project, finished in March, included a renovated weeks in sml. Historical Office and new secure reading room within the footprint of the Historical Library. Patrons East Asia Library have flexible and movable seating and an easel for The Librarian for Chinese Studies was instrumental comparing prints and drawings, while collections in in arranging Yale’s participation in the Union Catalog of use have a secure environment. With new lighting and Chinese Rare Books, an online international repository windows, patrons can also enjoy a brighter room to of data about Chinese rare books sponsored by view their materials. the National Central Library in Taipei, Taiwan. In a memorandum of understanding, Yale agreed to humanities collections and research education (hcre) share bibliographic data about its Chinese rare book Robust programs of outreach were offered to the holdings for inclusion in the Union Catalog. Yale American Studies, English, French, History, Italian, students and faculty also gained enhanced access to the and Spanish/Portuguese departments through individ- information in the catalog as part of the agreement. ual consultations, classes, and collection development. A two-year collaborative project for the conser- A Librarian for Digital Humanities Research vation of documents on an unusual pair of Japanese was appointed, in an effort to align hcre and the folding screens was successfully concluded in August.

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The screens, known as the “Harimaze” folding screens, Judaica Collection were part of the Yale Association of Japan Collection In August the International Jewish Law Association in the Beinecke. The screens were sent to the met at Yale. Books relating to Jewish law in the Law Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo, Library collection were combined with materials from where conservation staff painstakingly removed the Judaica Collection in sml and displayed in an the 27 rare, hand-written documents pasted to their exhibit in sml, where the Judaica Curator and the Law surface—these had been assembled and attached to the Librarian spoke about the collections and the materials screens at the same Institute in the 1930s, prior to their on view. donation to Yale. The documents, ranging in date from In October the Judaica Curator hosted a gathering the 12th to the 18th centuries, relate primarily to major of 12 scholars who came to the Library to work with temples of medieval Japan, among them one with the manuscripts in the North African Jewish Manu- the calligraphic signature of Chōgen, a famous monk script Collection. The gathering was organized by Pro- instrumental in rebuilding the temple Tōdai-ji, now a fessor Moshe Bar-Asher, who has been working with Unesco World Heritage site. The screens themselves Yale for the last four years on cataloging and process- were dismantled, but the documents were returned to Yale last summer and featured in the program The Tale of the Japanese Folding Screens: A Journey from Japan to Yale (and Back) in October. The works of the renowned Chinese novelist Yan Lianke were featured in an exhibit in the East Asian Reading Room in the spring and summer. Serve the left Amulet from Germany or Poland from the late 19th or early 20th people! Yan Lianke and his works coincided with a visit century, containing Psalm 121:1-3. Calligraphy on paper. Judaica Collection, Yale University Library. to campus by Mr. Yan. The East Asia Library technical services staff moved right One of the books that was conserved and digitized as part of the Old Yale Persian Arcadia project. While this book came out of the into their newly renovated office space, which fea- general circulating collection, the paper was brittle to the point of being unusable. The Conservation staff made the decision to encase every page tures elegant workstations, new ceilings, new floors, - - by hand in mylar before digitization. “Nuskhah-i s.ah. ih. ah. -‘i Bustan,” - - - - - window repairs, and a bright and shiny paint job. Muslih. al-Din Sa’di Shirazi. Bombay, 1891.

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ing the collection. The scholars’ visit was subsidized acquire materials through mecap for the more “diffi- by the Program in Judaic Studies. The group worked cult” countries of the Middle East, while new blanket- in the Judaic Studies Reading Room for ten days, and order plans were established for materials published in the Program in Judaic Studies hosted a gala dinner in North Africa, the Middle East, and Turkey with ven- honor of the visitors. dors located in Cairo, Istanbul, and Cambridge, MA. David Moss, a book artist whose work the Yale A project was created to reduce the Near East Library has collected over a period of many years, gave Collection cataloging backlog. A term C&T employee an illustrated talk about his work in sml. Moss creates was hired and trained to copy catalog and move the illustrated books and broadsides in limited editions materials. relating to Jewish culture. Slavic & East European Collection Latin American Studies The President of Latvia, Andris Berzins, visited the The Latin American Studies Librarian worked to Yale Library and met with faculty and students. Latvian integrate library materials in the School of Forestry & Publishing between the Two World Wars was on display Environmental Studies’ Freshman Seminar–evst in sml and was accompanied by a well-attended lec- 020a Haiti Toward Sustainable Development, resulting ture by Professor Timothy Snyder of the Yale History in an extensive course guide and the participation of Department. the librarian in teaching a literacy session and a four- The reference collection of approximately 15,000 hour lab. volumes was completely reorganized. A number of The Department of Spanish & Portuguese accepted Slavic newspapers were relocated to the Center for a proposal by the Latin American Librarian to set Research Libraries (crl) in Chicago. Replacement up a program for new all-but-dissertation (abd) microfilms for a number of newspaper titles were students in the department, so that the students can purchased. The remainder of the newspapers (approxi- receive support for their dissertation topic, including mately 500 boxes) were placed in archival quality boxes books being purchased in their subject areas and help and transferred to the Music Library Annex. directing their research. The Curator had an active year of visits and pub- Materials in the Latin American workroom were lishing including: an article published about the digiti- sorted and processed. Boxes of rare books purchased 42 zation of the Joel Sumner Smith collection in the jour- years ago were processed and sent to Preservation, the nal Slavic and East European Information Resources—also Beinecke, or lsf. translated into Russian and published in the Rumiant- sevskie Chteniia-13; a translation of an article on the Near East Collection history of the Slavic Collection at the Yale Library in New this year was the inauguration of weekly “Bibliotekovedenie”; and a talk at the Rumiantsevskie “office hours” for the librarian, held in the Council Chteniia-2013 at the Russian State Library in Moscow. on Middle East Studies during the fall and spring terms. The result was increased contact and improved South Asia Collection communications with students and faculty members at Arcadia-funded work on the Old Yale Persian Philology the Council. This was in addition to the general “open- project neared completion this year with most books door” policy during working hours in the library, and being cataloged and uploaded into WorldCat. They reference consultations by appointment. were also digitized. Depending on condition, some The librarian trimmed the comprehensive blanket- were disbound to facilitate image capture, and the pages order plan with the Library of Congress Middle East were carefully collated and treated to remove previous Cooperative Acquisitions Program (mecap) from damage or staining. Some items will be returned to cir- nearly $53k to only $6k (not including the added costs culation, and other more rare and fragile items will be of overhead, binding, and shipping). Yale continues to moved to a secure off-site shelving facility.

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The exhibit Himalayan Collections at Yale was on the 13th until the 20th century. The materials were view in sml in the spring, with support from Yale outsourced for digitization, and then quality control professors in South Asian Studies and Religious Stud- was performed by the Vietnamese language assistant ies. It included special collections material relating to hired for the project, in conjunction with the Southeast the Himalayas from across the Yale University Library Asian Curator. Metadata records with descriptions in system. The Yale Himalaya Initiative also created a both Vietnamese and English were created for each of parallel online display on its website: http://himalaya. the digital files. yale.edu/exhibits. The Curator made a research and acquisitions trip The Curator worked with faculty to arrange a to Yangon, Hà Nôi, Đà Nang, Sài Gòn, and Manila library orientation to support research for students’ in July, meeting with vendors and current gift and junior and senior essays in South Asian Studies and exchange partners, and visiting Christian missionary also presented at a meeting of consald (Committee organizations to survey their publication efforts to of South Asian Libraries and Documents) in April, benefit both the Divinity Library and the Southeast attended by librarians in Asian Studies from all over Asia Collection. In Manila, the Curator worked with North America. two major vendors and the Library of Congress Rep- resentative Librarian to make initial plans to travel together to Cebu and Mindanao to explore better col- lecting efforts for the Philippines outside of the Manila region. These plans are part of a collaborative effort to divide up collecting for the Philippines with Cornell University Library. The Southeast Asia Collection Reading Room, located on the third floor ofsml , moved to a new loca- tion on the second floor. The new room now includes a monitor and a small seminar room in one part, and the current periodical collection and small reference collec- tion in the other.

irving s. gilmore music library The “Harimaze” Japanese Folding Screen from Beinecke’s Yale Association of Richard Warren, Jr. (B.A. 1955, magna cum laude, Phi Japan Collection, featured at a news conference in Japan, prior to conservation work done for Yale through a collaboration with the Historiographical Institute Beta Kappa), Curator of the Collection of Historical of the University of Tokyo. Sound Recordings (hsr) and the American Musical Theatre Collection (amtc), died on October 7, 2012. Southeast Asia Collection Richard had served Yale for 45 years and had been This year saw the successful proposal submission and curator since 1970. He authored many articles on completion of an Arcadia-funded project to digitize, sound recordings, which were published in the arsc and to create new metadata for the access of, Hán Journal. His independent work included a discography Nôm handwritten and woodblock manuscripts held on Charles Ives (B.A. 1898), which he had just in Manuscripts and Archives as part of the Maurice completed updating in September, and which will be Durand Collection. The collection contains a wide put online for the use of students and scholars. Warren variety of literature, poetry, historical texts, and gov- was proudest of his work for the reissue of historical ernment edicts from the pre-colonial kingdom of recordings, including some of Cole Porter (B.A. 1913). Vietnam. They were written in Hán Nôm, a writing Robert Blocker, Dean of the School of Music, wrote method for the Vietnamese language adapted from and in October, “The recent loss of Rich Warren came as a incorporating modified Chinese characters, in use from great surprise to us. His devotion to the Yale Collection

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of Historical Sound Recordings enriched all of the programs at Yale, and will always be a legacy for future generations.” Staff and student assistants completed the processing of several archival collections: the Adelina Carola Appleton Papers, the Charles Henry Kauffman Collection of Materials Relating to Charles Ives, the Sylvia Fine and Danny Kaye Collection of Musical Comedy, and the Wagner-Jenkins Correspondence. Substantial progress was also made in processing two very large archival collections: the Betsy Jolas Papers and the Claude Palisca Papers, as well as additions to the Charles Ives Papers and Cole Porter Collection. In the summer, more than 1,000 boxes of special collections materials were transferred to the Library The Solomon Cowles House (1784), Lewis Walpole Library, newly painted in mid- Shelving Facility (lsf). Staff also created long-term twentieth-century color palette as part of the exterior restoration project. workflows for both rare books and archival additions. Staff and students completed searching and sorting A new space at 344 Winchester Avenue was the extensive gift books and scores backlog (ca. 21 developed for the Collection of Historical Sound linear ft.). The CDs in the Recordings Collection Recordings (hsr), and the 78-rpm, LP, tape, and backlog were sorted and shelved; 1,350 have since other early recording formats were transferred there been cataloged. in the spring. The materials are now arranged for A new collection limit was created for hsr record- ease of access and retrieval, reducing the lag time ings, allowing patrons to limit to the 74,000 recordings between a research request and delivery of material. now cataloged in Orbis, or to limit to those within In addition, rare recordings are now housed in the Music Library’s Recordings Collection, which are appropriately climate-controlled conditions. An onsite immediately retrievable. hsr cds and some tape col- digitizing station has been set up to reduce wear and lections were transferred from the Music Library stacks prevent potential damage to the 78-rpm recordings, and Mudd Library to the lsf for long-term preserva- eliminating the need to transport these fragile tion. A by-product of this transfer is that Music Library recordings across campus to the hsr Studio in the special collections staff can now retrieve and make the Gilmore Music Library. In the Music Library, a security cds available to patrons in the Gilmore listening area camera was installed to assist in the supervision of the within one to two business days. Rare Book Reading Room. Several of the paper-based collections in the amtc have been transferred into the Music Library Special lewis walpole library Collections. These include the Cole Porter Collection, The Lewis Walpole Library (lwl) expanded its the E.Y. “Yip” Harburg Collection, the South Before outreach in several areas this year, but perhaps the War Company Papers, the Sam Pottle Papers, and the most noteworthy effort has been the increased the amtc Sheet Music Collections. This year marked programming with and for local residents. With the the centennial year of Cole Porter’s graduation from fall exhibition, Dancing on a Sunny Plain: The Life of Yale, generating a notable increase in use of the Cole Annie Burr Auchincloss Lewis, the Library was able to Porter collection. provide an evening talk about Mrs. Lewis and a tour of Staff began the process of changing the circulating the exhibition as part of the Director’s College series of status of about 1,000 hsr books in the open stacks, lectures sponsored by the Farmington Public Library. from non-circulating to circulating. The lecture and tour were very well received, and the

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Library intends to continue this partnership in the lead-free, and the windows are restored. The roofs over future. the exhibition space and classroom have been replaced, Another opportunity for community outreach and some chimneys have been completely dismantled presented itself in June when the Library hosted a and rebuilt. The exterior paint colors were chosen with three-day archaeological field school on its property the aid of a paint study and analysis that revealed what for Anthropology and Archaeology students from had been on the house in the mid-twentieth century, the Farmington High School, under the direction when both W.S. Lewis and Annie Burr Lewis were of teacher Jeremy Pilver and other members of the active. To preserve the evidence of the paint layers Friends of the State Archaeologist. The students “historic paint islands” were left in place on strategic presented their findings at a public event later in spots of the exterior (e.g., behind shutters). The the month. house now shows itself to great advantage, with all the The lwl took great strides in making its collections architectural details once again clearly evident. increasingly accessible and available. The Technical Services unit created catalog records or finding aids for large collections of prints that had either never been cataloged at all or had only brief cards in a card file in Farmington: over 50 linear feet and about 800 catalog records. The Bunbury collection of prints was com- pleted as were the collections of topographical prints, portrait prints, and theatrical prints, the latter for use in Professor Joseph Roach’s class in the fall. Further catalog records were added to both the Hogarth and the Strawberry Hill collections, bringing those col- lections ever closer to comprehensive representation, both by catalog records and by links to digital images. A finding aid was created for the Horace Walpole col- lection of correspondence and manuscripts held in the Yale Law School Dean Robert Post examines recent acquisitions from the Lewis Walpole Library. Taussig collection with Fred Shapiro, Mike Widener, and Law Librarian Blair Kauffman. This year also saw the completed digitization and delivery of the original manuscripts of all the cor- lillian goldman law library respondence of Horace Walpole held by the lwl. It is Following user surveys, the Library’s new web site now possible to search the lwl’s online Yale Edition was redesigned with two main goals—to make the site of the Correspondence of Horace Walpole and link to more intuitive to users, better meeting their informa- corresponding images of the original letters. tion needs, and to make a responsive web site where In the spring, the Library began in earnest to minor adjustments could easily be made. develop a master plan for the buildings and the site, In addition to its Scan and Deliver service, the Law based on a list of projects put together for the lwl Library also adopted a Deliver on Demand service, Board of Managers to review. The work that has been allowing patrons to request Law Library books to be done to investigate the buildings thoroughly will allow sent to them off-site in the United States or Canada— us, in FY 2014, to look at all the costs and assess degrees an important service for patrons who spend time away of urgency in order to set priorities and establish a in the summers. Items are shipped, with tracking and rational sequence of projects. insurance, using a parcel delivery company, and have In 2012-2013 the Partial Envelope Restoration cost on average $9 per item to ship. In order to avoid project on the exterior of the Solomon Cowles House shipping costs for users, items are checked out for (1784) was begun and completed. The exterior is now extended periods, so that the patron can simply bring

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them back to the library when he or she returns to suggestions for ways to improve orientation and campus. general library-to-student communication. Results The cataloging team worked diligently this year to of this productive group included the purchase of reduce the backlog, which now stands at fewer than several stand-up desks for the Library; changes to JD 750 titles, the lowest in recent memory. orientation; easing library restrictions during reading The Law Library Advisory Council was formed—a week and exam periods; improvements in library- collaborative group of librarians and students working student communications; an inaugural Game Night; to make the Law Library even better—led by the Head and the creation of a workshop focusing on strategies Law Librarian. Points of discussion included finding for publishing student scholarship. creative ways to maximize library space; responding to ergonomic needs of our students; soliciting feedback library information technology on the Law Library’s website organization, design, The Library’s website went through a major overhaul and content; requesting topics for legal research- this last year, with the new site being released in related instructional sessions and courses; and seeking January. It includes dynamic new content, a new visual aesthetic, better functionality, and adaptive design (to display properly on portable devices); the number of html pages was reduced by more than half and Drupal and Springshare LibGuides enabled the Library to begin syndicating content management out to the content owners instead of bottlenecking content at a single webmaster. The Library committed to Fedora as its primary digital collections platform. Soon thereafter, in collaboration with Stanford, Columbia, the University of Virginia, and other partners, Yale Library joined an effort to create a set of repository tools to control management, indexing, discovery, retrieval, and pres- ervation of digital materials at all phases of an object’s lifecycle. These tools are known collectively as the Hydra project (http://projecthydra.org). In May, the above Charles and Library became the 18th official Hydra partner. Work Anne Morrow Lindbergh exploring cliff dwellings went into setting up an IT infrastructure to support in New Mexico, 1929. development and production systems for an initial set Lindbergh Picture Collection (MS 325B). of collections, including three Arcadia-funded projects Manuscripts and Archives, (Arabic and Persian Medical Manuscripts, Maurice Yale University Library. Durand Collection of Hán Nôm Manuscripts, and right An image from South Asian Collection of Urdu and Persian Hold- the Theodore Martindale Purdy Papers (MS 1994). ings), the Yale Indian Papers Project, and the Day Manuscripts and Archives, Missions collection. Yale University Library. A project was begun in the fall to improve discovery of the Library’s electronic resources and to begin inte- gration of the many discovery systems into a unified interface. Strategic criteria for selecting an e-resource search platform were that it needed to be quick and easy to implement, require as little as possible ongo-

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ing support, and integrate well with our Blacklight welcome dinner and tour of the Fortunoff migration strategy. A two-pronged approach was chosen: Serials facility in sml. Speakers from all over the world pre- Solutions Summon was selected as the new platform sented at the conference, and members of the Fortu- for discovery of licensed e-resources, while Blacklight noff family were among the invited guests. An exhibit (Hydra) was to be the integrated discovery front-end in sml marked the anniversary. Founded in 1981 and that would eventually pull together Summon results, inaugurated in 1982, the Fortunoff Archive is dedicated both library catalogs (yul and Law), website search, to recording, collecting, and preserving of videotaped and digital collections. The latter half of fy13 was accounts of Holocaust survivors and witnesses. The dedicated to beginning implementation of Summon for entire collection is being migrated to digital formats a fall 2013 rollout, and development of the Blacklight for preservation and access purposes, with completion interface to the initial digital collections, also slated for planned for 2014. the fall. Manuscripts and Archives collaborated with the Office of the President on the records of former presi- manuscripts & archives dent Richard Levin, providing critical documentation In April Manuscripts and Archives hosted an event of one of the most important 20-year periods in Yale marking the formal opening of the Charles Augustus history. The project included a detailed physical and Lindbergh Papers, Anne Morrow Lindbergh Papers, intellectual appraisal of records in the President’s office and the Lindbergh Picture Collection. Speakers and the hiring of a temporary on-site archives assistant included Dorothy Cochrane, Curator, Smithsonian to help with the arrangement, description, and pack- National Air and Space Museum, Aeronautics ing of 160 linear feet of archival records for transfer to Division; Reeve Lindbergh, author and daughter of the University Archives. After consultations with the Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh; Edward Archives staff, the Office of the President hired a pro- Trippe, Chairman, Pan Am Historical Foundation, and fessional archivist for an 18-month term, tasked with son of Juan Trippe; and Jenifer Van Vleck, Assistant creating and implementing policies and procedures Professor, American History and American Studies, for the routing, appraisal, description, and filing of Yale. Several members of the Lindbergh, Trippe, permanent print records, and devising a comprehen- and Sikorsky families, including Reeve Lindbergh’s sive plan for the appraisal and storage of the incoming brother, Land, also attended. The exhibit Aviators, president’s electronic records. Authors, and Environmentalists: Exploring the Lindbergh New software (Aeon) was implemented to improve Papers and Photographs in Manuscripts and Archives collection security, on-site storage conditions, and highlighted various aspects of the Lindberghs’ lives researcher services in the reading room. In addition to and legacies. These events were the culmination of a empowering researchers to request collection material yearlong project, funded by John Block ’77, to process remotely in advance of a research visit, Aeon gives staff the Picture Collection, consisting of approximately members the ability to easily track the location and 30,000 items, and over 140 boxes of public opinion movement of each box of collection material or volume mail contained in the Charles A. Lindbergh Papers. of a Yale publication throughout the workspaces in Project staff also enhanced the descriptions of Charles the department—a substantial improvement from the and Anne’s papers and created online finding aids past, paper-based requesting and tracking of collection for the three collections, now accessible to the global materials. Under the new system, materials requested community of students, scholars, and aviation by researchers are held in a basement storage vault enthusiasts. until the researcher arrives in person to use them. The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Tes- Boxes are paged three at a time, one for active use by timonies marked 30 years at Yale with a conference the researcher and two on temporary hold on new wire entitled “Achievements and Challenges: 1982–2012” shelving racks behind the reading room service coun- in October. Several days of related events included a ter, allowing staff to utilize a small amount of available

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space to store, close at hand, up to approximately 150 MacArthur Fellow, composer, pianist, and musical collection boxes in active daily use by researchers. Not adviser to Jazz at the Kennedy Center; Vivian Perlis, only has this increased staff interaction with research- Founder and Senior Research Scholar at oham; and ers, but it has also helped restore the natural beauty of Willie Ruff, Founding Director of the Duke Elllington the reading room, noted by many visitors to Manu- Fellowship Program and Adjunct Professor at Yale scripts and Archives. School of Music. This august group will serve the oham Director by advising on interviewee choice and map department other aspects of the program. A gis Specialist for Metadata on a one-year term The oham Director participated in the annual joined the department to help manage and further conference of the Oral History Association, both develop bibliographic control of the series maps. After presenting and moderating sessions, including, an inventory of the series maps, the specialist found “Broadcast, Webcast, Publish, and Tweet it Out: a total of 933 series in the collection containing about Public Dissemination of Materials from Yale’s Oral 175,000 sheets, of which 97% have been cataloged History of American Music.” at series record level and about 14% at sheet level. oham Director and the Trade and Academic Divi- Approximately 8% of the entire collection of about sion of Oxford University Press forged an agreement 230,000 maps still require electronic bibliographic control. There were 5,649 reference questions, 79 instruc- tion sessions, and 1,578 attendees. The office-less hours for gis reference continue to be a success at both the csssi and Medical Library locations and now account for the majority of reference questions for the Map Department. Approximately 36,000 maps were left The move of the Historical Sound Recordings to 344 Winchester processed from the Mudd Library to the lsf. Avenue facilitated bringing together collections that were formerly in scattered locations, such as the Spoken Arts Collections of recordings of poetry and literature pictured here.

oral history of american music center Amy Beth Kirsten, composer, granted Oral History of American An Advisory Board was formed consisting of: John Music a series of interviews documenting the process of creating her ambitious multi-media work, “Columbine’s Paradise Theatre” for the Adams, Pulitzer-prize-winning composer; Martin new music group, eighth blackbird. Bresnick, Charles T. Wilson Professor in the Practice right Pat Metheny, celebrated jazz guitarist and composer, was of Composition, Yale School of Music; Jason Moran, interviewed by Oral History of American Music staff.

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to launch a series of books based on materials held at oham. The books will include extended interviews with musicians, short essays, and interview excerpts with related figures Each volume will be 200-300 pages long with illustrations. oham interviewed several noteworthy artists this year, including prominent jazz musicians Pat Metheny, Steve Swallow, Oliver Lake, Don Preston, and Jack DeJohnette. Multiple interviews documented left Senior Research Scholar, Barbara Shailor, and her students using the process of creating the multi-media work quills, parchment, and inks from the Traveling Scriptorium during a class “Columbine’s Paradise Theatre” by composer Amy session hosted in the conservation laboratory. Beth Kirsten. Pulitzer-Prize-winning composers David top Assistant Chief Conservator, Paula Zyats, treats a papyrus Lang and Stephen Stucky and Guggenheim-award- fragment from the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. winning composers Ingram Marshall, and Michael above Digital Reformatting & Microfilming Services shows a scanned book page: on the left the original and on the right the cleaned up copy Daugherty were also interviewed. the online reader will see.

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preservation program development & research Conservation and Exhibition Services—one of the Planning for the restoration and renovation of the three units of the Preservation Department—treated Sterling Memorial Library (sml) nave continued at and/or housed 3,849 items. This work was carried out full speed, and numerous planning meetings, enabling in three labs in sml, with additional activities taking projects and communications, paved the way for place on-site at the Beinecke, Lewis Walpole, and construction to begin on June 3. The Yale Art Gallery Medical libraries. supervised the removal of the tapestry, marble bust, Preservation worked with the Beinecke to address and three painted portraits (Rogers, Sterling, and the needs of the papyri collection. A papyrologist was Bouchet) that decorated the nave crossing near the hired to reinitiate the processing of the collection. The circulation desk; these items will remain in fine arts Assistant Chief Conservator researched treatment storage until the nave is completed. A temporary and housing protocols for papyri, which revealed the pedestrian tunnel was constructed to enable patrons to need for treatment to separate papyri text adhered continue to access the Library’s collections during the together in bundles called ‘cartonnage,’ originally part period of the restoration. of mummy cases. Treatment trials occurred to separate The inaugural faculty of Yale-nus (National Uni- the mummy wrappings successfully. In addition, some versity of Singapore) College spent the academic year earlier housing efforts did not address certain basic in residence in New Haven to develop the curriculum stabilization issues, such as flattening creases and folds for the new college. or removing old repairs that compromised the legibil- The Associate University Librarian for Program ity of the text. After consulting with specialists in the Development and Research met with the Faculty U.S. and abroad, the approach to the physical care and Library Committee to discuss the services that yul housing for the materials was redefined. can reasonably supply to the new college, while Exhibition Preparation staff worked on 33 remaining within established parameters for interna- exhibitions over the course of the year, reviewing, tional resource sharing between research libraries. treating, and mounting materials for exhibits, and The resulting agreement provides for expedited helping to plan and install them in several locations delivery of physical materials on interlibrary loan to the across the library system, showcasing approximately new college, as well as a light version of the popular 1,300 items from the library collections. Scan and Deliver service. Work has begun on building During the past year, Digital Reformatting and the infrastructure that will be required to provide these Microfilming Services drms( ) microfilmed 548 services. volumes, representing 204,764 pages. A further 165 yul hosted an Ivies Plus meeting in October on the titles, representing 54,181 images, were digitized topic of library support for undergraduates. Guests through a commercial vendor. Digitized versions of came from Stanford, UChicago, Cornell, Harvard, 324 damaged and brittle titles otherwise requiring Columbia, Penn, and Brown. digitization were found in HathiTrust, so e-variant records were created by drms staff and a link to the robert b. haas family arts library HathiTrust copy provided. drms changed to mobile The first Arts Area Digital Collections Librarian was workstations, allowing for maximum flexibility for appointed—a position that will actively collaborate different projects. with visual and performing arts faculty and library The Preservation Services Librarian reviewed subject specialists to pursue newly published digital 11,035 books from circulating and cataloging backlog publications, while also participating in Arts Area collections—almost double the number from last year. research education and public services programs. A Following a review, a new commercial binder was Library Services Assistant position was also added. hired to provide updated binding software used in The Winterhouse Collection for Design and Visual processing titles, invoicing, and tracking. Culture was established. Jessica Helfand (Adjunct

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left Reference Library, Yale Center for British Art. Photograph by Richard Caspole.

right The Bibliographic Press installed in its new location in Sterling Memorial Library.

Professor/Yale School of Art) and William Drenttel a live printing demonstration on the Albion press, for (Senior Faculty Fellow/Yale School of Management) groups of 15 or fewer students at a time. are aiga award-winning designers and the proprietors The Visual Resources Collection (vrc) adopted of Winterhouse Studios, Winterhouse Editions, artstor’s new image cataloging service, Shared Shelf, Winterhouse Institute, and the blog Design Observer. allowing for the intregration of the Yale Library They are generously donating their personal collection collection into the artstor environment. This allows of design books covering design history, graphic access to a combined collection of two million images. design practice, typography, and significant examples The vrc also continued developing resources of publication design, which further expands the for the School of Architecture with the purchase of Library’s design and history of art and architecture more than 6,100 images from the vendor Archivision, collections. including coverage of important modern and This year saw the revitalization of the Bibliographi- contemporary architecture by Alvar Aalto, Rem cal Press, previously housed in the basement of sml Koolhaas, Marcel Breuer, Santiago Calatrava, and and moved this year to a new press room just adjacent Norman Foster, among others. to the entrance of the L&B Room on the first floor of Fifteen hundred 35mm slides were digitized sml. The Albion hand press, built in England in the covering the History of Costume from an original slide 1830s, was intended to teach students of literature set authored by Jeanne Button and Stephen Sbarge, as the difficult process of creating those treasured early were 380 black-and-white mounted photographs of books. The first University Printer, Carl P. Rollins, and The Art of Latin America since Independence exhibition Professor of English, Arthur Ellicott Case, conceived that was originally hosted by the Yale University Art the idea of the Bibliographical Press in 1927 as a way Gallery and the University of Texas Art Museum in to teach Yale students of early literature how the books 1966. that they studied were physically created. To complete Folios are now available and browse-able by the this small-scale working pressroom, the sml installa- public onsite in the Haas Arts Library in the lower tion includes a composition stand given by the Oxford level compact shelving. University Press in 1932, a type cabinet filled with a variety of fonts, a library card catalog repurposed to undergraduate research & education hold spacing material, and two cabinets for storage Nighttime Library Study Breaks were held in each of paper and printing tools. Professors can schedule a of Yale’s twelve residential colleges, beginning with short introduction to printing technology, including Berkeley College in the fall and ending with Silliman

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College in the spring. The Director of Undergraduate Research and Education and some student library advocates (slas) planned a unique theme for each college (“Taking the Library with You,” “The Library’s Best Study Spaces,” “Getting Research Help for Your Major”), invited Personal Librarians and other library colleagues, and served thousands of burritos from Chipotle to students. Many students met their Personal Librarians face-to-face for the first time, and hundreds more were introduced to library collections, tools, and services. In the fall, yul hosted the Ivies Plus Public Services Conference, attended by over 40 colleagues. The theme was “Innovative Services for Student Library Advocates Eunju Namkung, Rowillie Ross, and Nicholas Undergraduates.” The keynote speaker was Susan Gonzalez at the Trumbull College Study Break, November 2012. Gibbons. The Director of Undergraduate Programs at Yale spoke about incorporating undergraduates into the Library’s outreach programs, and staff from the University of Chicago spoke about introducing undergraduates there to special collections.

yale center for british art reference library ycba hired an inaugural Institutional Archivist in charge of all aspects of the Archives, including historical documents and records retention. The Field Librarian program continued with a librarian’s presence in the class Art and War in Britain, 1652–1815 (hsar 442) and contributed to the high quality of the students’ research. The linking of more than 1,000 bibliographic citations to the Center’s objects continues as an ongoing project that enhances the Center’s collection database and greatly increases the research capabilities for the Library’s constituents. The Library was an active and crucial participant in the Mellon Course Development for Faculty program.

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african collection · Rare collection of letters from Charles O. Nash, an English pioneer in South Africa during the gold rush. · Italian-produced propaganda ephemera relating to the Occupation of Ethiopia in the 1930s. · Hylton Nel: A Curious World. A special edition of two volumes in a slipcase, with an original watercolor by the noted South African artist. · 250 historical African postcards. · Subscription to African Newspapers from the World Newspaper Archive, Part 2. Hosted by the Center for Research Libraries. · Major set of microfilm for an important South African newspaper, Natal Witness, 1948–1963, documenting the rise of Somali Children in Mogadishu, c.1900, from the African Postcard Collection. apartheid.

babylonian collection · David Supino Collection of Books by center for science & social science · Volumes 34–46 of the Italian journal Henry James. All editions, printings, and information Mesopotamia, 1999–2011. publication variants are supplemented · AccessEngineering . An engineering refer- by scarce ephemeral publications by the ence tool that provides access to a trusted beinecke rare book and American novelist. collection of critical, regularly updated manuscript library · Susan Stewart Papers. Poet and critic engineering reference information, such · Richard Rolle, De emendatione vitae, Susan Stewart is the author of numerous as Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Hand- London, ca. 1450s. A finely written, ele- books of poetry and prose. book and Marks’ Standard Handbook for gantly illuminated compilation of texts Mechanical Engineers. · Janet Malcolm Papers. Janet Malcolm and translations in its original medieval is the author of eight books, including · agu Ebooks and the agu Backfiles. All binding. Diana and Nikon, Psychoanalysis: The books published by the American Geo- · Simon de Courcy, L’Aiguillon d’amour Impossible Profession, In the Freud Archives, physical Union through 2011, includ- divine and Stimulus amoris, Reims 1461. The Journalist and the Murderer, The ing the Geophysical Monograph, Field A French illuminated manuscript on Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes Guides series, and agu Reference Shelf, vellum. and Two Lives: Gertrude Stein and Alice B. covering content from 1896–1996. · The Anthony Taussig Collection of Eng- Toklas in War and Peace. · The Fish, Fisheries & Aquatic Biodiversity lish Legal Manuscripts and Printed Books. · Gwendolyn Bennett Papers. Poet and Worldwide. An online searchable collec- An extraordinary gathering of English visual artist Gwendolyn Bennett (1902– tion of citations on the culture, propaga- manuscripts and printed books from the 1981) is widely recognized as a key figure tion, genetics, behavior, ecology, and 13th through the 19th centuries. of the Harlem Renaissance. habitat of aquaculture species. · The papers of French Lettrist poet and · N. Scott Momaday Papers. Kiowa poet, · Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability. artist Gil J. Wolman. The papers include playwright, novelist, artist, educator and An online resource on the growing body numerous unpublished Guy Debord social activist N. Scott Momday received of knowledge about ways to restore the letters, and production material for Wol- the Pulitzer Prize for his first novel, planet, with almost 1,000 peer-reviewed man’s experimental filmL’Anti-Concept House Made of Dawn (1969), which is entries covering the science, social sci- as well as extremely rare ephemera and widely regarded as the foundation work ence, and humanities. manuscripts documenting the first years of the late 20th-century Native American · EthVest Ethical Investing Database. A of the Lettrist movement. literary renaissance. database produced by Interfaith Center · The archives of John Holmstrom. The · Sugg-McDonald Family Papers. An on Corporate Responsibility (iccr) collection contains production files archive documenting three generations provides details on more than a decade of Punk magazine, but is also rich in of an African-American family whose of shareholder initiatives by faith-based manuscript and photographic material progenitor, William Sugg, was brought and socially responsible investors. documenting the transformation of the to the California gold mines as a slave · The Federal Research in Progress Database New York music/artistic community of in 1850. (fedrip). Provides access to information the mid-1970s. · Ansel Adams, Parmelian Prints of the High about ongoing federally funded projects · The Harold Nicolson papers. Correspon- Sierras, San Francisco: Jean Chambers in the fields of the physical sciences, dence, writings, artwork, diaries, per- Moore, 1927. Adams’s first portfolio pub- engineering, life sciences, and social and sonal papers, and other papers document lication. behavioral sciences. the life of British diplomat and author · Handbook of Global Climate and Envi- Harold Nicolson, the husband of writer ronment Policy. An online resource that Vita Sackville-West. includes a new authoritative, coherent,

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and comprehensive overview of policy · Adam Matthew Databases: full-text containing over 20,000 periodicals pub- issues related to climate change. databases of primary sources. Collection lished during China’s Republican period · The International Terrorism: Attributes of topics include: American West; China: from 1911 to 1949. Terrorist Events (iterate), a numeric Trade, Politics and Culture; Foreign · Web Oya (https://www.oya-bunko. database based on international terrorism Office Files for China, India, Pakistan, com). An online Japanese periodi- event chronologies represented in major and Afghanistan; Jewish Life in America; cal index from the O¯ ya So¯ichi Bunko media, research, news, and information Medieval Travel Writing; Medieval (Library), known for its strong collection services. Family Life; Meiji Japan; Slavery, Aboli- of popular weekly, general interest, and tion, and Social Justice; and Victorian women’s magazines. Web Oya indexes · International Historical Statistics, 1750–2010. Popular Culture. An online version of International Histori- magazine articles from 1988 to 1995 and cal Statistics, broken out into geographic · Readex full-text databases: African- will include retrospective data from 1868 regions and containing a wealth of statisti- American Periodicals, Ethnic American to 1987. cal indicators on population, labor, agri- Newspapers, and Twentieth-Century · Kindai Nihon Kirisutoky¯o shinbun culture, education, trade, and more from American Newspapers. sh¯usei. Dai 1-ki (近代日本キリスト the 18th century to the present. 教新聞集成. 第1期) To¯kyo¯: Nihon divinity library · Knovel . An online reference resource in Tosho Senta¯, 1992 in 173 microfilm reels, · Several hundred 18th-century theologi- a reprint of 15 Christian newspapers, engineering and science including nano- cal books from the Episcopal Diocese technology, metals and metallurgy, com- originally published between 1875 and of Connecticut. This collection was 1944. puter hardware, optics, and photonics. originally gathered by Henry Lloyd and · lgbt Studies in Video. An online database was housed for many years at St. John’s · Han’g˘ul Taejanggy˘ong (한글대장경) of award-winning documentaries, inter- Episcopal Church in Stamford and the S˘oul T˘ukpy˘olsi: Tongguk Taehakkyo views, archival footage, and select feature Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of Con- Pus˘ol Tongguk Y˘okky˘ongw˘on, a retro- films exploringlgbt history, gay culture necticut. spective acquisition of 22 volumes of the and subcultures, civil rights, marriage Han’g˘ul Taejanggy˘ong 한글대장경, the · 1,385 books published by the Christian Korean version of Chinese Tripitaka. equality, lgbt families, aids, transgender Literature Society for China and the issues, religious perspectives on homo- Council on Christian Literature for Over- harvey cushing/john hay sexuality, global comparative experiences, seas Chinese and digitized by Hong Kong and other topics. whitney medical library Baptist University. · Clinical Key. This online database pro- · Patai’s Chemistry of Functional Groups. An vides one-stop access to several hundred online database that covers all aspects east asia library medical journals, reference books, and of the chemistry of functional groups · Zhongguo fang zhi ku中國方志庫 videos, ranging from Abeloff’s Clinical including physical organic chemistry, (http://server.wenzibase.com/). A Oncology to Zakim and Boyer’s Hepatology. analytical chemistry and techniques, database containing over 10,000 gazet- · 63 books from the Mystic River Society. reaction mechanisms, chapters on teers, published in China from the Song These books were passed from doctor synthetic pathways, reactions and Dynasty through the Republican period. to doctor over the span of 200 years, strategies as well as applications in drug · Minguo shi qi qi kan quan wen shu ju starting with Dr. John O. Miner of discovery, pharmaceuticals, biochemistry, ku 民国时期期刊全文数据库 (http:// Groton, following the Revolutionary and molecular biology. www.cnbksy.cn/). A full-text database War. They were finally donated to the Mystic River Historical Society by Mrs. classics library · Brill Companions in Classical Studies Bradford Blanchard Crandall in 1981 Collection Online. The collection includes before coming to the Medical Historical 25 titles from the ongoing series, covering Library at Yale. a range of classical authors and topics · 2,600 global public health and safety from Homer to Historiography in Late posters from 56 countries. Topics include Antiquity. maternal and child health, anti-drug · Encyclopedia of Ancient History. This major and tobacco campaigns, breastfeeding, new encyclopedia comprises over 5,000 clean water, prevention of diseases articles by 1,827 contributors and extends such as malaria and polio, and accident from Western Europe to Iran, from the prevention and safety. Late Bronze Age to the 7th century A.D. humanities collections & research education collection development · Le Grand Corpus des littératures française · Project Muse University Press E-book et francophone du Moyen Âge au 20e Collection: more than 16,000 e-books siècle. The Great Corpus of French and from major university presses and Francophone Literature, from the Middle scholarly publishers. Ages to the 20th Century, offers the four · Gale Cengage Databases: more than 100 online corpora of literature published by full-text databases of primary sources, This selection from the new Public Health Classiques Garnier Numérique. historical newspapers and magazines; prints and posters is an advertisement and a · Confederate Newspapers: A Collection from government records; Civil Rights Move- reminder (in Chinese) that husbands and men Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and ment papers; and materials on literature, also have responsibility in planning a family. Alabama. 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ers a mixture of issues and papers from Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and Alabama ranging from 1861 to 1865. · African America, Communists, and the National Negro Congress, 1933–1947 (elec- tronic resource). The National Negro Congress was conceived as a national coalition of church, labor, and civil rights organizations that would coordinate protest action in the face of deteriorating economic conditions for blacks. · Victorian popular culture. Circuses, Side- shows and Freaks, 1810–1965. Music Hall, left George Woodward, “About Your Theatre and Popular Entertainment, 1584– Business.” Watercolor. 1795. From the Lewis 1940. Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic, Walpole Library. 1584–1940. An electronic collection of rare books, ephemera, and visual mate- above Samuel Alken after Thomas rial relating to the world of travelling and Rowlandson, “A French Family.” Aquatint with hand-coloring. 1792. From the Lewis Walpole entertainment, which brought spectacle Library. to vast audiences across Britain, America, and Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries. · The Music of Reuven Kosakoff, ca. 1920– latin american collection · British Literary Manuscripts Online. This 1987. Kosakoff (1898–1987, MUS ’15) · Queer literature from Latin America. electronic collection presents facsimile was born in New Haven and composed Most of the titles in this collection of gay images of literary manuscripts, including primarily Jewish liturgical music. Gift of literature are rare monographs from the letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, the Ravi Goel Collection. 1920s, 30s and 40s, although more recent novels, and other literary works. · Additions to the Richard C. Burns Col- literature is also represented. lection of Overtone Records, including · Fuente Académica Premier. A full-text irving s. gilmore music library concert recordings, masters, published · Orchestral scores and parts for Cole database of scholarly journals published recordings, and administrative records. in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate, given by the containing Latin American and Iberian Cole Porter Trusts in January 2013. · Additions to the Mel Powell Papers, including photographs from his years subject matter in the social sciences, Two groups of manuscript scores and humanities, and the sciences. parts of arrangements for Benny Good- with the Benny Goodman band and at man’s band: ten arrangements formerly Yale and correspondence with composers · Collection of handmade books from Gua- on deposit, the gift of Gail LaDage in Milton Babbitt, Aaron Copland, Richard temala. These beautifully made books December 2012; and Mary Lou Wil- Donovan, and André Previn, among were created by the only atelier doing liams’s “Whistle Blues” and Mel Powell’s others. traditional fine book making, printing, “Mission to Moscow,” the gift of Marion fine bindery, woodblocks, and case work Hoffman Koenig in honor of her daugh- judaica collection between Mexico and Columbia. The col- ter Erica Nicole Koenig, in March 2013. · A collection of Jewish-Italian manu- lection represents the revival and evolu- scripts in Hebrew. Written between the tion of the ancient indigenous book arts beginning of the 17th and the end of the of amate papers, deer skin parchments, 19th century, the manuscripts consist of and painted, calligraphic codices. poems celebrating of weddings, births, · Princeton University Latin American anniversaries, and other happy occasions. Pamphlet Collection. This is an impor- · Three illustrated marriage contracts tant collection of primary sources for (ketubahs) from Yazd, Iran, 1827–1917. Latin Americana. Marriage contracts provide a great deal of primary source information about the lewis walpole library social, religious, artistic, and economic · George Woodward, About Your Business. life of the communities from which they Watercolor, ca. 1795. come. · Samuel Alken after Thomas Rowlandson, · The Mordecai Hillel Kroshnitz (1915– A French Family. Aquatint with hand 1998) Archive. Kroshnitz was a Yiddish coloring. Published November 5, 1792, by journalist and writer, born in Baranowice, S.W. Fores. Belarus. The archive contains more than · Remarkable criminals 1713–1767. This col- 2000 typed or handwritten documents, lection of pamphlets, prints (many from A marriage contract (or ketubah) dated including letters from well-known writ- The Tyburn chronicles and the malefac- 19th of Sivan. 5587 (1827) at Yazd. Though ers and other prominent figures. the decorations on the ketubah follow the tors register), newspapers and newspaper conventions of ketubah illumination in Iran, · Manuscripts from Keszthely, Hungary. clippings, chapters from books, and other the art on this one is particularly expert and Prayers in Yiddish for women. publications, documents nine of the most colorful. Yale Library Judaica collection. famous crimes in the eighteenth century.

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· Twenty-six beautiful folio prints, · Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Compara- · Drawings and Office Records from “design’d by able masters, and curiously tive, and International Law, 1600–1926. An Cooper, Robertson and Partners (crp), engrav’d: representing the most remark- extensive collection of online historical an award-winning architectural firm able transactions of twenty six celebrated legal treatises. in New York City headed by Yale gradu- malefactors, either highwaymen, pyrates, · Cambridge Books Online (Law) is an ates Alexander Cooper (BA ’58; MArch murderers, shop-lifters, street-robbers, extensive collection of ebooks pertaining ’62) and Jaquelin Robertson (BA ’55; or pick-pockets.” London: Sold by J. to law from Cambridge University Press. MArch ’61). Janeway, printer, in White-Friars; and Tho. Bakewell, printseller, in Fleet-Street; manuscripts and archives map department and by most booksellers in the country, · The Ruth Barcan Marcus papers. Docu- · A 1545 map of Asia in the Ptolemaic mdccxxxvi [1736]. Printed on only one menting the professional career of Yale cartographic style by the 16th-century side with engraving above and letterpress philosophy professor Ruth Barcan German professor and cartographer text below. Sebastian Munster. The map covers Marcus, who received her M.A. (1942) · Journal of Two Voyages Made by Captain and Ph.D. (1946) degrees from Yale Western Asia between the Caspian and Nehemiah Holland from Jamaica to Liv- University. The papers consist of profes- Persian Gulf (modern day Iran, Iraq, erpool, 1774 and 1778. The first is titled sional and academic correspondence; Armenia, and Syria). The map comple- “Journal of a voyage in the ship Pole (24 Yale and professional committee files; ments a later map of Asia by Munster, guns) Nehemiah Holland, Master, from Yale course lecture notes and syllabi; published in 1570, and adds to the lim- Jamaica to Liverpool.” The second por- Department of Philosophy files; personal ited number of 16th-century Asia maps tion is titled ”Journal of a passage in the files, including copies of Marcus’s aca- in the collection (fewer than two dozen). ship Sara Goulburn (26 guns). Nehemiah demic work at New York University and · An early 19th-century map of North Holland, Master, from Bluefields in Yale University; and conference and com- America by Richard Phillips of London Jamaica to Liverpool.” mercially produced audio tapes. showing Canada and the United States · The Theodore Martindale Purdy photo- as far west as the Mississippi. graphs and papers, 1883–1931. This col- · An early Spanish-language map of lection documents the worldwide travels New York in 1835, the year of New of Purdy (1862–1944), including his role York’s Great Fire. as a correspondent for the New York Mail and Express, and consists of travel jour- near east collection nals, annotated maps, and other related · Arab e-Marefa and Hiperkitap (both materials. through ebsco). Two important full- text, online resources for materials in · Five thousand drawings from Stanley Arabic and Turkish. These resources Tigerman (BArch, 1960; MArch, 1961). complement online resources in Middle The collection includes an array of mate- Eastern languages already subscribed rials from architectural projects, exhibi- to (or created in-house) by Yale and Professor John H. Langbein, Sterling Professor tion and product designs, and conceptual provide access to hundreds of vernacular- of Law and Legal History at Yale Law School, pieces that display Tigerman’s humor and Mike Widener, Rare Book Librarian, language scholarly e-books, journals, and and critical wit. examine recent arrivals of the Taussig dissertations for Yale researchers, faculty, collection. Professor Langbien often uses and students. the Law Library’s rare books in his classroom teaching.

lillian goldman law library · Over 200 printed books from Anthony Taussig’s collection of English legal man- uscripts and early printed books, includ- ing the first printed book of English law (Abbreviamentum statutorum, ca. 1481). · The Farley P. Katz Collection of Italian City-State Laws & Decrees. A collection of 266 printed works and manuscripts mainly from 1550–1650 and especially strong in items from Venice, Florence, Milan, and Casale Monferrato. · Over 100 law-related photographic post- cards from the early 20th century, many dealing with the struggle over separation of church and state in France, the French left Nueva York, 1835. From the Yale legal profession, and English breach-of- Library Map Deptartment. promise cases. Gift of Lois Montbertrand (law ’85). right Tabula Asia by Sebastian Munster, 1545. From the Yale Library Map Department.

3331 selected notable acquisitions oral history of american music · The Benezit Dictionary of Artists. One of · Video interviews and corresponding the most comprehensive and definitive transcripts of prominent American English-language resources on artists, composers from New Music Box, the many of whom are obscure. Benezit also webzine of New Music America. Includes contains thousands of auction records, interviews with Chou Wen-chung, John museum holdings, bibliographies, and Corigliano, Fred Ho, George Lewis, includes images of artists’ signatures, Annea Lockwood, Alvin Lucier, Meredith monograms, and stamps. Monk, and Pauline Oliveros. · Corinna Thierolf, John Cage: Ryoanji: Catalogue Raisonné of the Visual Artworks, robert b. haas family arts München: Schirmer/Mosel, in associa- Pat and Rosemarie Keough. Labyrinth Sublime: library tion with Pinakothek der Moderne, 2013. the Inside Passage. Salt Spring Island, B.C. : · Etienne Delicourt, Album du contraste Catalogues raisonnés are one of the great Nahanni Productions, 2011. Acquired by the simultané des couleurs d’après le système strengths of the Haas collection. Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library. de M. Chevreul, Paris, 1847. Large-scale, hand-painted chips are arranged in an slavic and east european · 40 reels of the Cebu Daily News, 2003– oblong folio as an illustration of the prin- collection 2007. ciple of simultaneous contrast, first intro- · Lietuvos metrika / Lietuvos Istorijos institu- duced in 1839 by M.E. Chevreul, chemist tas; (pareng˙e Egidijus Banionis). A valu- and head of the Gobelin’s tapestry works. yale center for british art able source for the history of the Grand reference library · Pat & Rosemarie Keough, Labyrinth Duchy of Lithuania and for early modern · Art in Print, Chicago: Art in Print, 2011–. Sublime: The Inside Passage, Salt Spring Russian and Polish history and relations Important new journal devoted to art Island, B.C.: Nahanni Productions, 2011. among the three countries. and prints with a scope that includes the The latest book production from pho- · Iskusstvo kino. A major online source on complete history of printed images from tographers Pat & Rosemarie Keough Soviet and Russian film. ancient China to the 21st century. documents the history of the beautiful · Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic landscape of the Northwest Pacific coast south asia collection Artists and Illustrators, New York: Oxford of Canada and the United States. · A collection of material about women in University Press, 2012. Multi-volume · Dmitry Sayenko, Collection of India from the pre-Independence years, subset of the Benezit Dictionary of Bookplates, 1993–2003. With over 50 including movies and documentaries by Artists with a focus on Great Britain. acclaimed Indian director Satyajit Ray. specimens—both etchings and linocuts— · Laurie Garrison, Panoramas, 1787–1900: the Sayenko collection significantly · A collection of books from South Asia Texts and Contexts, London: Pickering increases the Yale Bookplate Collection’s about Theravada and Pali Buddhism, & Chatto, 2013.The 5-volume set holdings of contemporary bookplates. as practiced outside of Sri Lanka. reproduces fugitive printed material · Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online/ · Routledge’s assorted South Asian social documenting the very earliest years of Artists of the World Online. Includes science and history titles, ca. late 2000’s. the panorama in Great Britain and the Thieme-Becker/Vollmer 1 encyclopedia, United States. Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon, southeast asia collection the and · Laurence Jefferson Weber, Annotated · 116 titles on Christianity purchased from a the Lexikon der Künstlerinnen. More Dictionary of Fore-edge Painting Artists and number of ethnic missions and Christian than a million artists and 500,000 Binders: The Fore-edge Paintings of Miss extensive, signed biographical articles are organizations found in Yangon, Myanmar, C.B. Currie with a Catalogue Raisonné, and Da Nang, Viet Nam. searchable in full text. Los Angeles: Jeff Weber Rare Books, 2010. First major dictionary of fore-edge painters.

left Whistle Blues, by Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981). Williams created the arrangement for Benny Goodman’s band. The gift of Marion Hoffman Koenig in honor of her daughter Erica Nicole Koenig. From the Benny Goodman Papers, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library.

right The opening page of the flute part to Cole Porter’s “Harlequin Ballerina” or “Harlequin Dance.” This number was composed for Kiss Me, Kate, but was cut from the performance. It received its world premiere at Yale in January 2013, at the University Theatre in a concert performance of Kiss Me, Kate, conducted by David Abell. From the Cole Porter Collection, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library.

3432 facts and figures

source of funds millions of dollars library statistics $ % 2012–2013 2011–2012

Volumes (print & electronic) in the Library University General $39.6 36.8% 15,243,443 Appropriations $35.6 34.5% Full-text article requests 9,103,057 Endowments $61.0 56.7% $62.6 60.7% Manuscript and archival holdings 116,148 Gifts and other income $6.0 5.6% (excluding pledges) $3.1 3.3% Reference transactions 24,444

Instructional sessions, work- Grants and contracts $0.9 0.8% shops, and tutorials o≠ered $1.9 1.8% 1,243

Clerical and technical sta≠ Non-operating costs $0.0 0.0% (including construction) $0.0 0.0% 337

$107.5 Managerial and professional $103.2 sta≠ 248

Student assistants expenditures millions of dollars 56

$ % 2012–2013 2011–2012

Compensation $47.5 44.2% $45.3 43.9%

Library collections $35.8 33.3% and binding $34.0 32.9%

Building alterations $16.0 14.9% and maintenance, $16.3 15.8% utilities and University assessments

Equipment, supplies, $8.2 7.6% and services $7.6 7.4%

$107.5 $103.2 36