Library Directions: Volume 13, No. 2 a newsletter of the Spring 2003 University of Libraries Library Directions is produced two times a year Letter from the Director by UW Libraries staff. Inquiries concerning content should be sent to: Library Directions All books are rare books. —Ivan Doig (2002) Libraries Box 352900 In Ivan Doig’s compelling essay in this issue of Library Directions, he , WA 98195-2900 (206) 543-1760 reminds us that “all books are rare books.” We run the risk of losing ([email protected]) the lore, the curiosity, and uniqueness of each author’s insights if we Paul Constantine, Managing Editor Susan Kemp, Editor, Photographer don’t adequately preserve and make accessible the range of human Diana Johnson, Mark Kelly, Stephanie Lamson, eff ort through our libraries. Just as all books are rare books, all digital Mary Mathiason, Mary Whiting, Copy Editors publications are potentially rare publications. We run the same risk of Library Directions is available online at www.lib.washington.edu/about/libdirections/current/. seeing digital scholarship evaporate if we don’t archive and preserve Several sources are used for mailing labels. Please pass the new and evolving forms of publication. multiple copies on to others or return the labels of the unwanted copies to Library Directions. Addresses containing UW campus box numbers were obtained from the HEPPS database and corrections should On March 9-11, the University Libraries hosted a retreat on digital scholarship. Made possible be sent to your departmental payroll coordinator. through the generous funding of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the retreat was a watershed conversation among individuals who are deeply engaged in scholarship and the creation of knowledge that was not possible before digital technology. The participants In This Issue: outlined the academic support needed for technology-enabled scholarship, and identifi ed

Letter from the Director...... this page many opportunities for collaboration. One thing was clear. Scholars share Ivan’s appreciation for and trust in the Libraries and its mission to safeguard and keep alive scholarship, whether Ivan Doig and the UW Libraries: it be in codex or digital form. I invite you to check out the Digital Scholarship web site a History...... p. 1 Ivan Doig, author (www.lib.washington.edu/digitalscholar) developed for the retreat, and peruse the range of resources and models for digital scholarship. Searching for Pacifi c Northwest Territorial Collections Online ...... p. 2 Carla Rickerson, Head, Manuscripts, Special In this issue of Library Directions, you will read about how the Libraries is working to keep Collections, University Archives scholarship and research widely available by connecting people with knowledge in a variety of Suzzallo 75th Anniversary ways. Carla Rickerson provides a comprehensive strategy for mining our unmatched resources in and Reopening...... p. 4 Pacifi c Northwest territorial history. Relive the Suzzallo Library academic convocation through There...... p. 5 the photomontage. Drift across the centuries as you take in Linda Bierd’s magnifi cent poem Linda Bierds, professor of English commissioned for the ceremony. For fullest eff ect, stand in the middle of the restored Reading Room, look up at the stained glass windows, and read the poem. Meet Paul Constantine, our An Interview with Paul Constantine..p. 6 new Associate Director of Libraries, and learn about his vision for high touch services in a high Awards & Recognition...... p. 7 tech world. Celebrate the myriad awards received by the Libraries and its outstanding staff . Learn how you can join others who have invested in the Libraries future through Planned Giving. News and Events...... p. 8 Help ensure that the rich legacy of both books and digital scholarship is available to the future generations who will follow us.

On the Cover: The Miaozi people of Yunnan Province: illustration #5 from a recently produced facimile copy of 120 paintings in a 19th century album depicting the non-Chinese peoples of Yunnan Province, China. See page 8 for more information. 1

Ivan Doig and the UW Libraries: a History Ivan Doig was born in White Sulphur Springs, to write work that when I was writing what became the memoir, in 1939, and grew up along the Rocky will last. I’m the This House of Sky, I told Bob Monroe I was Mountain Front where much of his writing takes one up here talking working on a passage about being with my place. A former ranch hand, newspaperman, because I came out father, when I was about as tall as his elbow and magazine editor, Doig is a graduate of on the short end as he judiciously bent it into the nine saloons and holds a Ph.D. in of that pounce by of White Sulphur Springs, Montana, back history from the University of Washington. Betsy and Marjan, when he hired haying crews in those dives in so while I’m at it the late 1940’s—but my memory had come up His fi rst book, the highly acclaimed memoir This anyway I may as short on a couple of the names of the saloons. House of Sky, was a fi nalist for the National well be the writers’ Bob nodded, and led me down into his Special Book Award. His most recent novel, Prairie designated bragger, Collections stacks, into the bibliophiliac Nocturne, will be published in the autumn of too. Since our various equivalent of a wizard’s cellar, and handed this year. Mr. Doig lives in Seattle with his wife pedigrees are on me the 1948 phone book for the town. Carol. the list that came with the invitations, I’ll But, try justifying caring for a 1948 phone The following is taken from a talk by Mr. Doig simply sum up that at the tables with you are Northwest writers with so many attainments book, or this little non-bestseller, to a on the occasion of the University Libraries legislative budget committee in these tattered Literary Salon in December 2002. He recalls and awards that if we wore them to occasions like this we’d clank when we walked. economic times. I will frankly tell you, as a a tour of Suzzallo Library renovations given devout user of the place, there have been times to him by Betsy Wilson, Director of University But books such as ours don’t simply pop out in past years and years of budget cuts when I Libraries and Marjan Petty, then Director of of us every so often. ... Probably every writer thought the pulse of this library was slipping Development. here has similar library tales to tell, but in dangerously. It’s little short of a miracle my own case, every one of my books—on that Betsy and her predecessor managed to the brink of being ten, now—has had to have squeeze out of Olympia and elsewhere the Back in September, Betsy and Marjan were research done under this roof. A lot of it in funding not only to shore this building up giving me a perfectly nice innocuous tour of the kind of library holdings that don’t come against earthquake threat, but to bring back the library renovations until we strolled into cheap, because they take up space almost out logic, elegance and convenience in its use. Of the Smith Room (down there where we’ve to infi nity. I slipped into the stacks to grab course now the place needs to be kept going, in all just had beverages in our hands). There I off this piece of show-and-tell. In the novel something like the style to which we all want made the mistake of thinking out loud while I I’ve just written, Prairie Nocturne, some of to stay accustomed, which is a need that you was gawking around. “Hmm,” I heard myself my characters alight into New York in the as supporters of this library are well familiar hmming, “thirty-six years ago about now, I period between the world wars. I needed with. And just on the outside chance that you wandered into this room to start to try to learn to know what details of New York city life might ever be in for a pounce from Betsy and how to be a history grad student.” would have made the strongest impressions Marjan, I can assure you it’s a positively life- Both Betsy and Marjan instantly pounced. on newcomers. Snoozing right out here on enhancing experience. What was on all those shelves then, how was the shelves are memoirs and impressionistic Let me just leave you with this, and the the room used, what did I do in there? works which were the perfect forgotten eyewitnesses I needed. This one happens to be living evidence of literary perseverance So, in what I guarantee you will be a brief The Silent Traveler in New York, by a Chinese sitting there with you at each of your tables. remembrance of things shelved, I stand poet, Chiang Yee—full of scenes from Central All books are rare books. Each one comes before you in the unsought role of the Proust Park and Harlem and all the rest, with detailed from a curious, one-of-a-kind combination of the Smith Room. Because, the fact is I sketches and prints. I was the fi rst person to of writerly determination and available lore. indelibly know what lined the walls of that check this book out in seven years, and only When that lore isn’t adequately preserved, history-redolent room back then: rare books. two other users before me back to about 1990. in a community trove such as Suzzallo, the That area of Suzzallo then housed Special Hardly any demand for books like these, until consequent muteness—the gaps of silence as Collections—which included the Pacific I or one of the other of this literary gang of budget cuts take away and take away—costs Northwest Collection, my particular interest fourteen shows up needing precisely books us as writers and you as readers in ideas and as a rookie grad student—and the librarian in like these. eloquence and possibilities for directions of charge there, Bob Monroe, lived and breathed our lives. But when the lore is kept alive and the printed word. ... Other material I’ve used here would make ready, and you turn the pages of what we fi nancial bean-counters faint away because write, the miraculous whisper of the paper Tonight you are with fourteen of us who they require specialized caretaking just begins here. spend our waking hours, and most of our short of black magic. To give you my most subliminal ones as well, trying our utmost boggling example, although just one of many, —Ivan Doig 2

Searching for Pacifi c Northwest Territorial Collections Online by Carla Rickerson, Head, Manuscripts, Special 1879 and developed real estate around Puget Photographs Collections, University Archives Sound. In 1884 he was appointed Governor Access to photography collections at both In March 2003, Carla of the , and during his WSU and the UW are available through the Rickerson (UW) and term he declared martial law in Seattle to universities’ websites. There you can look at Laila Vejzovic (Wash- maintain order during the anti-Chinese riots. either fi nding aids describing collections, or ington State Univer- He was president of the Washington Statehood at the UW, a large collection of digital images. sity) gave a joint Convention in 1889. Squire’s personal papers If you don’t fi nd what you need among the presentation to the are held at the UW Libraries, while his offi cial digital images, turn to the list of fi nding aids Pacific Northwest papers reside at the State Archives. to locate photograph collections you can come Historians’ Guild on into the library to see. finding territorial materials in the UW The historical photography collection at WSU and WSU libraries. can be found online at www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/ The following is the holland/masc/mascphoto.htm. Listed in the content of Ms. Rickerson’s presentation, which next section are fi nding aids for several of their focused on catalog access, photographs, and photography collections, including an early collection by Edwin L. Chalcraft. The guide indexes. Access to online inventories for manu- to Chalcraft tells you exactly what images are script collections was covered by Ms. Vejzovic. in the collection. Cascade From the UW website, content.lib.washington Cascade (cascade.lib.washington.edu) is an .edu/all-collections.html, you can navigate to a search page for Pacific Northwest photograph online catalog that combines the collections From our territorial holdings, the eight groups of the public baccalaureate institutions, collections. Groups of photographs include of records that turned up in our Cascade search Seattle, and the Yukon, Expeditions including the University of Washington, include those of Isaac Stevens, James Swan, Evergreen State College, Washington State, and Adventures, and Politics. You can reach the McMicken family (an early pioneer family this page either from the MSCUA home Central Washington, Eastern Washington who lived mainly in Seattle and Olympia), and Western Washington Universities. This page,www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll, or , Manring from the UW Libraries Information Gateway. catalog will be expanded by September to (including materials on the ), and include the holdings of additional Washington The search screen allows you to search across the Washington Territorial Volunteers. Only all the digitized PNW collections, or search universities and colleges and schools in one group of papers, those for Thain White, , and will be known as ORBIS Cas- by individual collections. If I search “coal” appear from WSU’s holdings when you search across all of the PNW photograph collections, cade Alliance (ORCA). Since many of our “Washington State History to 1889.” manuscript holdings are not yet cataloged, the I come up with 119 images, including this image of the steamship from an album most certain way to fi nd all of our holdings On the other hand, a keyword search on of photographs collected by Charles Prosch, is by traditional inquiry, whether phone call, Washington and Territory limited to imprint taken in 1885 by an unknown photographer. visit, or e-mail. We are constantly working to date before 1889 turns up 1,458 items! improve electronic access through both the catalog and online fi nding aids. The use of subject headings, then, is necessary to fi nd territorial materials. Watch the subject Two standard subject headings for fi nding ter- headings list in the record for items that look ritorial material in the UW Libraries Catalog useful as additional headings. For Squires, two are “Washington Territory” and “Washington possibly useful headings are “Frontier and Pioneer State History to 1889.” Although helpful, the Life” and “Governors—Washington (State)” heading, “Washington State History to 1889” which includes the territorial governors. does not pull up nearly all of the rich pool of resources held at the participating institutions, including the UW. For the six Cascade univer- sities, you will currently fi nd only 65 items listed under this heading. This list contains eight sets of territorial papers, including the Watson C. Squire papers. If I were looking at this list online, by clicking on the Squire list- ing I would fi nd that the UW Libraries houses You will fi nd the work of several territorial these papers in Manuscripts, Special Collec- photographers digitized at this site, including tions, University Archives (MSCUA). The William F. Boyd, Boyd and Brass, Asahel record tells me that Squire moved to Seattle in Curtis, Wilhelm Hester (whose 1880 3

panorama of Seattle is pictured above), Frank In the card fi le, under each subject heading, LaRoche, early theater photos of the Prior and the cards are fi led in chronological order with Norris Vaudeville Company, and the Prosch the oldest or undated cards fi led fi rst. Seattle Views albums. Since we have digitized only a small part of our holdings, you must The Regional Newspaper and Periodical Index still come into the library to see the rest of started as a WPA project in the 1930s. Over the collections. the years the level of indexing has varied, but we have been adding to it on a regular basis Finding Aids since the late 1950s. Since 1996, the index has been compiled online, and is available at Finding aids are tools for research in db.lib.washington.edu/pnw. unpublished papers and records. To get a full view of the contents of the UW photography We are currently working on converting the collections, look at the finding aids page, This unique resource, which consists mainly immense card fi le into the online index. Since db.lib.washington.edu/photos. On this page, of clippings from the 1930s, may be searched we have not been able to find a technology that you can search for photographs by keyword, by keyword, broad subject area, or newspaper will allow us to adequately scan the cards, we collection name or collection number. When title. When I searched for articles on Spokane are manually inputting the information. We’ve searching for “coal,” I came up with 31 with something about “territory” in them, I fi nished the University of Washington cards collections that included images with coal retrieved 50 clippings, many about territorial and have begun on the Seattle drawers. in them, including a collection by the early events, even though the articles were written Washington photographer, A.C. Warner. When In the online index, you are able to do a global in the 30s. I click on the full record link on this screen, I (keyword) search or a search by fi nd a list of the images in this collection, with One of the resources unique to subject, publication, or date. the word I searched highlighted. the UW is an index to Puget To give you an idea of our Sound area newspapers and index so far, I searched magazines called the Regional “University and territorial” Newspaper and Periodical and got 52 entries, many Index. of which were for articles written prior to 1889. As This index is living in two we continue to convert more mediums—a huge card fi le that cards, you will see additional contains citations to newspapers, retrospective material. periodicals and pamphlet The University Libraries is open to materials back to the mid-1800s, anyone who wants to come in and use and an online index that we started in 1996. the collections. You are welcome to visit the There are over 1,328,000 cards and 500,000 Libraries and explore our rich and varied Keyword searches may be limited by searching citations in the Index. It includes indexing to collections. just one geographic or subject area. You can, territorial newspapers like the Washington for example, search for individual buildings Standard and the Daily Olympian, copies of and streets. which the UW Libraries also owns. Ö Newspapers The Regional Newspaper and Periodical Index Newspapers are another useful source of ter- is a subject index. There are a few entries by ritorial information. Both WSU and the UW have author, but none by title. At right is a typical extensive holdings of territorial papers. One card from the fi le on the subject of “Olympia- resource that WSU has added to its website History,” in this case an 1865 article from the is the PNW Clippings Collection. Washington Standard. 4

Suzzallo 75th Anniversary and Reopening Celebration November 11, 2002

Linda Bierds, professor of English, reading her poem, “There,” composed for the Suzzallo Celebration.

Past and present directors of the University Libraries: Betty G. Bengtson (1990 - 2000), Merle N. Boylan (1977 - 1988), Lizabeth A. Wilson (2001 - present), Charles E. Chamberlin (1988 - 1990)

Suzzallo Reading Room, November 11, 2002

University of Washington academic leaders and dignitaries

Interim President (then Provost) Lee Huntsman

Choral music performed by members of the UW Chamber Singers, under the direction of Geoff rey Boers, Professor Ronald Moore, University Marshal, carries School of Music the offi cial mace 5 There Suzzallo Library, University of Washington, November 2002 Back from the tablet of sun low on the western mountains and the salt canal at the mountains’ edge, back from the shoreline of black fi rs and the city’s shoreline streets, back through the streets, back through the snow-fi lled, boot-pocked campus square a sound is traveling, back from its vast dispersal, as a bird might fl y backward through time, regaining the sloughed shares of itself. From the snowy square, fl ushed by the library’s stained-glass light, it fl ies, small sound, small word, circles its gothic habitat, the library’s roofl ine and stone façade, the arches and niches, the eighteen fi gures in terra cotta, a full-length Shakespeare peering down, a full-length Dante peering down,

as the sound strokes back through the ornate doors, back up the concave tread of the marble staircase and into the great room … where a man and young woman look up from their separate tables. Both place, for a moment, in their open books the bookmark of an open hand, then lightly close the covers—his on lists of irregular Spanish verbs, hers, on geometry’s leggy hypotenuse—as the silent word fl oats back to the ceiling, down its ribbed vaults In 1390, on a peninsula of land looped by Verona’s Adige River, a papermaker and chandeliers, back pressed into damp pulp the watermark of a stag. Five hundred thirty-fi ve years later, an artisan translated that horned watermark into stained glass—one of past windows of leaded cathedral glass, their stained medallions fi fty-six window medallions to glow in a band on the westward wall of Suzzallo stylized from ancient watermarks, back past the dolphin, chariot, goat, scallop, to the red eyes of Library. Seventy-fi ve years after that medallion was set, I translated its image the stag, and back through the stag, into words. back through the artisan who gave to those liquid eyes eight droplets of red stain, My contribution to the ongoing resonance of that early watermark began when back through the stain and the centuries, the sound library director Betsy Wilson asked me to write a poem in honor of Suzzallo’s almost whole now, the long wing of its syllable seventy-fi fth anniversary, which coincided with the library’s reopening after gliding down past treetops and cellulose vats extensive earthquake retrofi tting. Together, in hard hats, we visited the empty to a single, paper sheet Reading Room. Of all of the grandeur there, the chandeliers and ribbed vaults, I was drawn most powerfully to the stag window medallion, its red eyes damp with its antlered watermark. There, someone says, holding up to the sunlight the muzzle and round eyes. There, translucent darkening as the sun set. The next morning, with the help of Gary Lundell, a in the fi bers. Just there, small sound of achievement library specialist in Special Collections, I learned of the window’s Italian heritage and designation. Almost a breath, there, and my poem began. yet shapeable in script of fl ight, as the quiet word opens again to its circular journey, past vats All art, I believe, is communal, and those unions, those haunting and vital and medallions to the dusk of a newer world … where progressions, inspired the poem: watermark, paper, book; metal, glass, ink. a woman and young man turn back to their books, And science tells us that no sound is ever lost; its energy ripples endlessly. lifting from the moist pages Imagine, then, that papermaker in 1390 breathing a sigh of achievement as the watermarks the translucent lines of stag rose from pulp. And imagine that sigh moving of their own brief hands. Once again they had been summoned, up forward through the centuries and into the atmosphere, where it turns in a from their reading. By what? A palpable nothing, they might say. great arc to retrace its eternal journey. That’s where this poem begins. Nothing. Just the singular silence of thought. In the air of this singular room, that is all —Linda Bierds that is ever there. 6

Interview with Paul Constantine LD: How do these emerging digital services coexist with traditional library services? Library Directions (LD) recently interviewed Paul Constantine, Associate Director of Libraries for Research and Instructional Services. Paul joined the PC: The current climate has certainly resulted in some students and scholars making less use of the library as Libraries in August 2002, having come from a position as head of the Reference a place. But the physical library holds our incredibly Services at Cornell University Libraries, one that has given him a rich print collections, augmented by access to online digital information. While many of our librarians are unique and useful perspective on not only our strengths and challenges, but increasing the amount of time they spend “off-site,” those of academic research libraries in general. the physical library still serves as a home port for our talented, user-centered, service-oriented staff. The library provides a setting for academics to come together as part of a greater community of scholars, and for undergraduates—at least in the humanities—to LD: How do you view the role of the academic research library? observe faculty at work. In the social setting of the library, graduate students discuss the job market and PC: I began my career working at Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library. Carved their dissertations, undergraduates come to meet TAs into the stone wall adjacent to Sterling’s main entrance is a quotation from William and each other, scholars and students come to meet Osler, “The Library is the Heart of the University.” This is certainly true for academic with librarians to consult about research and to help research libraries. shape the collections. The Odegaard Undergraduate In addition to providing access to the knowledge and wisdom Library in many ways refl ects a happy marriage of the digital and the traditional. Still home to a print housed within the collections, and increasingly available electroni- collection, OUGL also houses extensive computing cally, academic research libraries such as the UW’s are vibrant capabilities which enable its users to create as well as spaces for teaching, learning, and the advancement of scholarship. access digital resources. If we provide warm, vibrant, The UW Libraries embodies the traditional values of academic electric, welcoming spaces in the libraries, spaces such research libraries—excellent service, user-centeredness, and col- as the new Suzzallo Espresso, we will comfortably laboration. accommodate our users and their needs.

In this digital age, we need to expand our concept of “library” to LD: Do you see the UW Libraries as unique among include the digital library as well as the bricks-and-mortar library. academic research libraries, or are we merging into As we develop the digital library’s collections and services, those digital entropy? traditional values I mentioned should inform all that we do; they continue to position us to be the fi rst place our users turn to meet their information needs: that is, to remain PC: I think it’s very important that we continue the “Heart of the University.” to build the unique collections that distinguish us from other libraries, and respond to the needs and LD: What new programs and services would you like to see at the UW Libraries? expectations of our particular clienteles. If we don’t do this, we risk becoming a cookie-cutter library. We PC: Right now the University of Washington Libraries is partnering with the Cornell remain strong by stretching and developing. We can University Library to provide “real-time” or “chat” digital reference services, whereby share with our users access to the expanding world of library users can interact “live” with a reference librarian via the Internet. Both Cornell digital resources, while continuing to celebrate and and the UW had existing “chat reference” programs. The partnership has allowed us enrich local collection strengths and providing a lively each to leverage the time zone difference so that we can increase the number of hours academic environment. the service is offered without additional staff. Our service is called Q&A Live and it’s I also think that we need to do a better job making accessible from our Information Gateway. The Health Sciences Library has begun to our strengths—our collections and our services—more offer library instruction via the Internet by means of streaming video. We have a UIF widely known. We need to educate the University and funded project to develop information literacy modules for delivery over the Internet. the community about all the things we can do for our Our next opportunity is to expand and to more fully integrate these services into the users. This includes broadening our base of support. digital library. The digital library and the Internet enable us to break the constraints of time and space, providing online service and instruction to distant learners, alumni, By developing strategic partnerships and collaborations and other lifelong learners, as well as to the campus community. throughout the region, we can expand expertise, knowledge and experience for ourselves as well as our I’m also very interested in taking the library to our users. Several of our subject librarians partners. Outside the UW, K-12 schools, corporations, have offi ce hours in the academic departments they serve. I’d like to expand this service museums and galleries seem to be perfect choices as and also to begin to have librarians providing service to students in non-traditional partners with whom we can work to strengthen our places. In fact, one librarian has already suggested a wireless laptop and a lawn chair collections and visibility. Joint projects with partners for providing service on the Hub Lawn. As the campus becomes increasingly wireless, such as these will serve multiple audiences and can it will be easier for librarians to echo Paladin, that 1950s cowboy: “Have Computer, result in a stronger, more diversifi ed base of support Will Travel.” for the Libraries and its budgetary needs. 7

herrilynne Fuller, Director of Health SSciences Libraries (HSL), was recognized as a fellow in the Medical Library Associa- Awards & Recognition tion (MLA) at the Annual Meeting in May 2003. Fellow status is awarded in recognition erry Ann Jankowski, HSL, has accepted wo UW librarians have been elected to of distinguished and Ta two-year appointment to the Natural Tnational offi ces in the AmericanLibrary sustained contributions Medicines Comprehensive Database Association. Theresa Mudrock, History to the advancement of the Editorial Advisory Board. Natural Medicines Librarian, will serve asMember at Large of purposes of MLA and the Comprehensive Database is an evidence-based the History Section of the Reference and profession. resource for clinical and patient information on User ServicesAssociation. Cass Harnett, US herbals and dietary supplements used in the Government Documents Librarian, will serveon . the By Laws and Organization Committee of the Government DocumentsRoundtable. avid Snyder (Media Technician DSupervisor, Bothell/Cascadia Library) isa Oberg and Betty Jo Kane and Paula Walker , HSL, has accepted a two-term etsy Wilson, Director of Libraries, has (the Suzzallo Renovation Libraries Team) L(2003-04) appointment to the Library Bbeen elected to serve on the Orbis Cascade have been selected as 2003 recipients of the Council of Washington representing special Alliance (ORCA) transitional executive University of Washington Distinguished Staff libraries. The Council advises the Washington committee which will oversee the merger Awards. State Library and the offi ce of the Secretary of Orbis and Cascade. This merger creates a of State on statewide areas of need in library The Distinguished Staff Awards program was consortium of 26 academic institutions and service and the use of Library Services and double the size of the database of library established in 1997 to focus attention on the Technology Act (LSTA) funding. accomplishments of outstanding University material available to faculty, students, and of Washington staff. Each year, five staff staff of the member institutions. members or teams of staff are recognized for their extraordinary contributions to the ouise Richards and Cindy Raquepau, eiko Yokota-Carter University. LFisheries-Oceanography Library, have , East Asia Library, published an article in Reference Services Khas received a Multi-volume Set Grant Review, 34(4), 319-323. The article, from the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources for he American Institute of Architects (AIA) “Investigating the environment: teaching and purchase of audio-visual materials on Japanese and the American Library Association learning with undergraduates in the sciences,” T Studies. Video set titles are Butai kesho (a (ALA) announced the presentation of the evolved from an Informatics 220 class and comprehensive introduction to theatrical 2003 Library Buildings Awards on March 28. a subsequent LOEX/West presentation. It makeup in Japanese traditional performing These awards are presented every two years describes their course development and arts), Nihon bunkashi (introducing Japanese art to encourage excellence in the architectural measures of assessment, based on the ACRL design and planning of libraries. It recognizes Best Practices Initiative in Information and culture), and classic feature fi lms produced distinguished accomplishments in library Literacy. during the 1950s and 1960s. architecture by an architect licensed in the United States for any library in the U.S. and abroad. Top Issues Facing Academic Libraries The Suzzallo Library Renovation was selected as one of the seven awardees from over 120 In 2001, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) appointed a Focus nominations. Seattle-based fi rms Cardwell on the Future Task Force to identify the top issues that face academic libraries: Architects and 1. Recruitment, education and retention of librarians Mahlum Archi- tects shared 2. Role of the library in the academic enterprise responsibility for 3. Impact of information technology on library services the planning and 4. Creation, control and preservation of digital resources implementation 5. Chaos in scholarly communication of the massive 6. Support of new users seismic and life safety renova- 7. Higher education funding tion of Suzzallo Library. An article by W. Lee Hisle in C&RL News, November 2002, describes each of the issues at www.ala.org/acrl/hislenov02.html. 8

*Shannon Prickett, Senior Computer Specialist, News & Events Library Systems, February 24, 2003 *Paula Walker, Interim Head, East Asia Library, February 10, 2003 Anne Zald, Head, Map Collection & Carto- In the spring of 1903, John Charles Vistas of Green: the graphic Information Services/Geography Olmsted, of the Olmsted Brothers fi rm of Librarian, Map Collections, Dec. 30, 2002 Olmsted Legacy in the Brookline, MA and stepson of nationally University Neighborhood known landscape architect Frederick Law *indicates temporary appointment Olmsted, arrived to survey the Seattle area An exhibition celebrating the local and create a plan for open spaces in Seattle. Retirements landscape designs of the Olmsted Brothers This exhibit celebrates the Centennial of Susan Baker, Library Technician III, Forest is on display in the Exhibition Room (fi rst the presentation of the Olmsted Brothers Resources Library, November 30, 2002 fl oor) of the Suzzallo Library from May 1 Parks plan to the Seattle Board of Park until August 29, 2003. Commissioners in October of that year. Min-chih Chou, Head, East Asia Library, Using materials from the Manuscripts, February 28, 2003. Awarded Librarian Special Collections, University Archives Emeritus status March 1, 2003. (MSCUA) Division of the Libraries, the display presents the contributions the Marjan Petty, Director of Development. Olmsted Brothers made to the landscape December 31, 2002. of the University of Washington campus, Anita Smith, Library Specialist I, Collection and to the parks in the University Management Services, December 31, 2002 Neighborhood. Included in the exhibit are Ravenna and Cowen Parks, the University of Katherine Staatz, Library Supervisor I, Washington campus, and the Arboretum. , April 30, 2002

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Facsimile Album of Chinese illustrations Judith Blair, Library Technician III, Serials Anne-Marie Davis, Evening Access Services Services Division, November 1, 2002 The Libraries Preservation Offi ce and East Librarian, OUGL, January 1, 2003 Asia Library, working with a local vendor, Gail Kouame, Consumer Health Coordinator, Recognition of Length of Service have produced a beautiful facsimile copy Health Sciences Libraries/Regional Medical In 2002, the following employment anni- of a set of 120 hand-painted illustrations Library, January 13, 2003 versaries with the University of Washington depicting the non-Chinese peoples of Yunnan were recognized. Province, southwestern China. Albums such Ann Lally, Head, Digital Initiatives, Digital Initiatives Program, March 1, 2003 as this, now quite rare, were produced from Five (5) years of service: Diana Brooking, the 18th through early 20th centuries as Monographic Services Division; Catherine guides or mementos. The Yunnan volume Burroughs, Regional Medical Library; was probably donated byJoseph Rock, the DSpace Federation Barbara Cantwell, Collection Management Austrian-American botanist and ethnographer who lived in Yunnan Province for many DSpace, developed by MIT and Hewlett Services/Gifts Section; Cass Hartnett, years. The album has no date, but was almost Packard, is open source software for Government Publications; Barbara certainly produced in the late 19th century. creating an institutional repository of Henderson, Circulation Division/Cashier The project was fi nanced by a generous grant digital scholarship. The intent is to simplify Office; Susan Kane, OUGL; Dong Ning from the Friends of the UW Libraries. (See a the capture, description, discovery, (Peggy) Lin, East Asia Library; Karen Liston, detail of one of the facsimile paintings on the and retrieval of digital assets as well as UWorld Express; Maureen Nolan, Natural cover of this newsletter.) to provide a framework for long-term Sciences Library; Kurima Ritsuko, East Asia preservation activities. The UW Libraries Library; Adam Schiff, Monographic Services Appointments is one of six partners working with MIT Division; Venta Silins, Bothell Library/CCC; Cyndi Asmus was appointed in a Mellon-funded “DSpace Federation” Katie Whitson, Bothell Library/CCC; and Director of Development on May 5, to adapt the software for use at other Mary Yutani, Bothell Library/CCC.. 2003. Cyndi comes to the Libraries institutions over the next year. A Digital from UW Bothell, Director of Repository Steering group, chaired by Ten (10) years of service: Maryanne Blake, Development since 1999. In addition to 14 Joyce Ogburn, will be coordinating UW’s Regional Medical Library; Patricia Carey, years of non-profi t fund raising experience work with DSpace. Natural Sciences Library; Stephen Dobell, she brings a great passion for libraries. Her OUGL; Emily Hull, Health Sciences favorite quote, “We’re all in development!” Libraries; Bill Jordan, Library Systems; Karl 9

Kawahara, Receiving Room; Sarah Leadley, Library; Margaret Sandelin, Circulation Ardis Dull, Resource Sharing Services; Bothell Library/CCC; Niclas Loesch, Bothell Division; and Leilani St. Anna, Health Wendelyn McDaniel, Natural Sciences Library/CCC; Marcia Monroe, Tacoma Sciences Libraries. Library; Guita Monfaredi, OUGL; Huong Library; Lisa Oberg, Health Sciences Thanh Ngo, Monographic Services Division; Libraries; Mark Roberts, Resource Sharing Twenty (20) years of service: Lili Angel, Hilary Reinert, Government Publications; Services; Jim Stickman, Serials Services Monographic Services Division; Soraya and Hank Stowell, Receiving Room. Division; Ju-yen Teng, East Asia Library; Clemans, Serials Services Division; Curtis and Betsy Wilson, Administration. Cronn, Serials Services Division; Thom Thirty (30) years of service: Mary Kalnin, Deardorff, Access Services; Kathryn Monographic Services Division; Jo Lewis, Fifteen (15) years of service: Edward Leonard, MSCUA Division/Mendery; MSCUA Division; Dennis Montgomery, Baczewski, Circulation Division; Brenda Pamela Mofjeld, Washington State Monographic Services Division; Janet Catlett, Serials Services Division; Linda Cooperative Library Project; Glenda Pearson, Schnall, Health Sciences Libraries; and Di Biase, Collection Management Services; Microforms and Newspapers Collection; Colleen Weum, Health Sciences Libraries. Nguyet Duong, Architecture/Urban Planning Deborah Pierce, Music Library; and Nancy Library; Pamela Freeman, Monographic Press, Regional Medical Library. Thirty-five (35) years of service: Eleanor Services Division; Kristin Lindlan, Serials Chase, Government Publications; Clairann Services Division; Jill McKinstry, Odegaard Twenty-fi ve (25) years of service: David Chan, Schickler, Serials Services Division; and Undergraduate Library; Chris Nelson, Art International Studies/South Asian Section; Katherine Staatz, Foster Business Library.

New Image Collections in Digital Van Olinda Photographs Initiatives: content.lib.washington.edu This collection of 420 photographs from Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives depicts life on Vashon Island, Fashion Plate Collection Whidbey Island, Seattle and other communities from the 1880s to the 1930s. It provides a glimpse of early pioneer activities, The Digital Initiatives Program is proud to announce the industries and occupations, recreation, street scenes, ferries and boat availability of the Fashion Plate Collection. traffi c at the turn of the century. Also included are a few photographs of Native American The collection consists of over 400 fashion plates activities such as documentation of a from the 19th and early 20th centuries of women’s potlatch on Whidbey Island. Most of and men’s costume. These color plates are drawn the photographs were taken by Oliver from some of the leading fashion journals of Scott Van Olinda (1868-1954) a the time. They depict styles and dress from the career newspaperman and resident Empire (1806-1813), Georgian (1806-1836), of Vashon Island. Regency (1811-1820), Romantic (1825-1850), Victorian (1837-1859), Late Victorian (1860-1900) and Prior and Norris Troupe Edwardian (1901-1915) periods. Photographs Nowell Collection The Prior and Norris Troupe Photographs collection has been added to the Digital The Libraries’ Digital Initiatives Program has mounted Collections website. Pat Prior and his wife/ 281 photographs by Frank Nowell documenting scenery, partner, Effi e May Norris, formed the vaudeville towns small and large, businesses, mining activities, team of Prior and Norris, and later, with their daughter Native Americans, and Eskimos in the vicinity of as the third member, were known as The Prior Trio. The Nome, Alaska between 1901-1909. This online offering couple spent the latter part of the 19th century and incorporates Manuscripts, Special Collections, University the early 20th century touring around the United Archives’ entire collection. States performing on the vaudeville circuit. The 224 photographs and ephemera from Henry M. Sarvant Photographs The Prior and Norris Troupe Collection Photographs by H. M. Sarvant depicting his climbing document not only their performances, but expeditions to Mt. Rainier and scenes of the vicinity from additional vaudeville performers and acts of the late 1892 to 1912 are now available in the Digital Initiatives online 1800s and early 1900s. These include images of collections. Also included are images of Sarvant’s trip to the Klondike the troupe’s friends and colleagues, identifi ed gold fi elds in 1897, documenting his journey over the Chilkoot Pass, and unidentifi ed vaudeville performers, publicity and mining activities in the vicinity of Dawson, Yukon Territory. postcards, and vaudeville stage productions, the Funding from The Mountaineers helped create this collection. most signifi cant being Fanchon and Marco. 10

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