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2003 > Collections > Archives From_the_Archives Published by > University of Southern California Information Services Published by > University of Southern California Information Services B1BL10TECH_USC Annual_Report_Edition > 2003 Once dubbed by Dorothy Parker as “72 suburbs in search of a city,” Los Angeles has long been known for its intricate labyrinth of freeways connecting a huge and disparate geo- graphic area. Plans for the region’s freeway system began in the 1920s and the first free- way (the Arroyo Seco Parkway, now the Pasadena Freeway) opened on New Year’s Eve 1939. The network of freeways grew most significantly during the 1940s and 1950s and, by 1968, the city of Los Angeles alone contained 138 miles of freeways. (Photos from the Los Angeles Examiner Collection) > Top: The annual luncheon meeting of the Downtown Business Men’s Association drew a crowd of 150 to dine under umbrellas on the Fifth Street Harbor Freeway entrance on June 29, 1953. > Middle: A lone automobile parked south of Point Dume in the middle of the dirt-road pred- ecessor to the Pacific Coast Highway > Bottom: What is now known as the McClure Tunnel connecting the Santa Monica Freeway to the Pacific Coast Highway was brand-new when this photo was taken in February 1936. PCH was then known as the Roosevelt Highway, named for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Santa Monica Freeway (built from 1961 to 1966) had yet to be constructed. USC Information Services Non-profit Org. U.S. Postage Los Angeles, California 90089-0183 PAID University of super_model Southern California super_model 2003 > Home > CIO Message Bookmarks The Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Library, designed to improve students’ ability to navigate our information-rich world, turns 10 this year. This popular facility has evolved over the decade, as Features > you may read in our cover story beginning on page 20, but has remained focused on Shoah_Foundation_02 its information-literacy mission and on its Computing_Network_16 customers — USC’s students. Other stories in this issue similarly Kathleen_McCarthy_18 highlight how USC Information Services Leavey_Library_20 continually adapts to new needs and O Whenever I am asked to speak about USC demands. One particularly meaningful Information Services, a number of items program, the Survivors of the Shoah come to mind: More than four million Visual History Foundation Access Project, books; thousands of electronic journals; provides streaming access to testimonies nearly two dozen libraries; wireless of Holocaust survivors from select work- Q QQQ Internet access; multimedia-equipped stations on the USC campus. You may Editor Class_Act_02 Net_Gain_16 Library_of_Note_28 classrooms; high-performance computing. read about how this project is enhancing Susan L. Wampler As important as these resources and classroom learning on page 2. Associate Editors USC’s partnership with the Shoah Information Services strengthens the A harmonic convergence of services are, they are worthwhile only if Our libraries continue to grow and Kevin Durkin Foundation brings digital video USC computing infrastructure — and resources past, present and future Darren Schenck they help USC students, faculty and staff expand. The East Asian and Music libraries archives into the classroom. its value to the university. Intern Final_Exam_30 reach their academic and professional are acquiring considerable new resources Alyssa Hu Making_History_06 Family_Ties_18 goals. That is why USC Information for faculty and student research, while the Advisory Board Los Angeles Examiner Collection Stephen Allison Services constantly is working to identify Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library has New collections support the study Kathleen Leavey McCarthy continues remains a vital archive long after Marianne Afifi and meet the information needs of the uni- created new physical spaces that enhance Candy Borland of premodern East Asia. her family’s longtime support of USC. the newspaper’s demise. versity community. In addition to supplying study and scholarship. These develop- Kay Ferdinandsen the information infrastructure that sup- ments and more are highlighted in the Tyson Gaskill Quick_Clicks _10 Super_Model_20 Annual_Report_31 Karen Howell ports email, telephony and the USC Web, following pages, along with the USC Kevin Mulroy Library openings and renovations; Ten years after its opening, Leavey Friends and partners, 32; we help to advance USC’s academic mis- Information Services annual report for fis- Gamward Quan appointment of new Health Sciences still sets the standard for high-tech acquisition highlights, 34; events sion and most pressing initiatives, goals cal year 2003. In this report, you will find Marje Schuetze-Coburn CIO; upcoming exhibitions and teaching libraries. and exhibitions, 36; collections and projects. financial information, statistics on re- JoEllen Williamson Design conferences; and more and connections, 39; financial This issue of Bibliotech highlights a sources, significant acquisitions, and our Warren Group Los Angeles Greene_Space_26 information, 40 few of the ways in which Information honor roll of donors who help make much Principal Photography According_to_Plan_12 Services is supporting students, faculty of our work possible. John Livzey Classic Arts and Crafts architecture From_the_Archives_back_page and staff throughout USC. One of the I would like to thank each of you who The university begins implementing finds a new home on the Web. Bibliotech_USC is published by its strategic plan for information most ambitious projects in which we are supports the efforts of USC Information USC Information Services. From a businessmen’s lunch on the involved — the university-wide strategic Services year after year. Working together, Direct inquiries to: services. Chat_Room_27 Harbor Freeway to a dirt-road Pacific Doheny Memorial Library, #316 planning process for libraries and informa- we continue to create a library and infor- Q&A with customer-service maven Coast Highway, a look at the history Los Angeles, CA 90089-0183 tion technology — has led to a dozen uni- mation technology organization that keeps Rooms_With_a_View_14 of the Los Angeles freeway system Call 213.740.3270 or send email to Lynn Jasper versity-funded projects that address pace with our ever-changing world. [email protected] Renovated spaces in Doheny Library information needs that were identified by are designed to serve the academic Jerry D. Campbell ©2004 University of Southern California faculty and students two years ago. You Chief Information Officer All rights reserved community. may read about some of these projects Dean of the University Libraries and the six pathways to information excellence on page 12. Q Home_ 02_ 03_ 04_ 05_ 06_ 07_ 08_ 09_ 10_ 11_ 12_ 13_ 14_ 15_ 16_ 17_ 18_ 19_ 20_ 21_ 22_ 23_ 24_ 25_ 26_ 27_ 28_ 29_ 30_ 31_ 32_ 2003 > Feature > Shoah Foundation By Susan L. Wampler > Academy Award®-winning documentary filmmaker Mark Harris uses the Shoah Foundation archive as a tool for teaching interview techniques to his USC students. Class_Act USC’s partnership with the Shoah Foundation brings digital video archives into the classroom. When Professor Mark Jonathan Harris was researching his Learning effective storytelling Oscar-winning documentary Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories In fall 2003, immediately after the archive became accessible on of the Kindertransport, he was a frequent visitor at the Survivors campus, USC Cinema-Television Professor Harris began using of the Shoah Visual History Foundation headquarters in the resource in his course Creating the Non-Fiction Film. He North Hollywood, where he perused a number of the chose a testimony for each of his 11 students, all seniors in the foundation’s 52,000 testimonies of Holocaust survivors and screenwriting program, and asked them to watch the testimony witnesses.Today, thanks to USC Information Services’ part- and report on it to the class. nership with the Shoah Foundation, Harris can access that He originally intended the assignment to be part of same digital video archive in his classroom on the University a three-week segment on interview techniques, but the Park campus. class ended up discussing the testimonies for several addi- Such access is possible in large part due to a $1 million tional weeks. grant from the Andrew W.Mellon Foundation.The funding “Since I’ve made Holocaust films, some of the testi- allows the Shoah Foundation to deliver its testimonies monies I assigned were people I have interviewed myself,” through the Internet2 network to USC, Yale and Rice says Harris, who used the Shoah Foundation archive for his universities so that the archive may be used readily in class- research on not only Into the Arms of Strangers (2000), but also rooms as well as in faculty research projects. The Long Way Home (1997). Both films won the Academy The Shoah Foundation and USC Information Services Award® for best feature-length documentary. previously partnered to catalog Holocaust testimonies col- “I wanted the students to focus on what makes a good Like Arntz, Dara Flowers learned about the Shoah that was affected by this. You usually think about the lected in California and to make technological advances at interview versus what makes a bad one, and to consider what Foundation archive through the course. As they watch Holocaust in a more general way, rather than about how it both institutions — a project that received three years of fed- sections of the testimonies would work well on film,” adds Flowers present excerpts