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no·ta be·ne news from the yale library volume xxviii, number 2, fall/winter 2012 yale university library launches scan and deliver program On September 4, 2012, the Yale University that is currently in Sterling Library, the Law Library launched a new service called Library, the Medical Library, and Sterling Scan . Building on similar scan-on- Memorial Library. Beginning on October 1, and Deliver demand programs at the Medical Library the Music Library, Geology Library, Math and Law Library, the expanded service allows Library, and the Library Shelving Facility Yale students, faculty, and sta≠ to request are anticipated to join the service. Scan and digital copies of book chapters and journal materials will also be available from Deliver articles, which they can retrieve via e-mail the Microform Reading Room in Sterling as PDF files. Users may request the scans Memorial Library toward the end of the fall by following a simple link from Orbis, the semester. Scan-on-demand services like Scan Library’s online catalog, and they can expect are popular at libraries that already and Deliver to receive their copies within two business provide them. Library users living o≠-campus days. There is no charge for the service. or travelling outside of New Haven appreci- Susan Gibbons, Yale University Librarian, ate the ability to receive copies of research Photo of raf pilot in cold weather gear, commented, “The print collections of Yale materials they need. Library patrons who from War Illustrated, January 1941 — an University Library are among the best in live or have o∞ces on campus also appreciate example of an image that was scanned the world. We believe our Scan and Deliver the service, because it saves them the time it as part of the new program. service will help to ensure that even in a digital would take to locate and scan library materials age, the Yale community will continue to themselves. By providing copies of materials explore the riches of our print collections.” that are already in Yale libraries, or for which the Yale copy may be unavail- Scan and becomes an important third part of able, and traditional interlibrary loan. Initial participants in the program included Deliver Bass Library, the Center for Science and document delivery services. These already More information about Scan and Deliver Social Science Information, the Divinity include Borrow Direct, in which patrons can can be found at http://guides.library. Library, the Engineering Library collection request materials that are not held by Yale, –bw & kc yale.edu/scananddeliver achievements and challenges: 1982–2012: Table of Contents the fortunoff video archive for holocaust 3 One Donor's Vision 3 French Intern Helps Describe Composers' Letters testimonies celebrates 30th anniversary in Music Library 3 Preserving and Accessing Diaporic Literary Archives This fall, the Fortuno≠ Video Archive for sible; and streams educational programs of 4 The Latest from oham Holocaust Testimonies, a unit of Sterling testimony excerpts from its website ( 4 Charting Vanishing Voices: UK Workshop www. Memorial Library’s Manuscripts and Archives, ). The entire col- 5 The Story of the French Archives Collection library.yale.edu/testimonies celebrates its thirtieth anniversary. Founded lection is currently being migrated to digital 5 Restoring the Windows of the sml Nave 6 The Tale of the Japanese Folding Screen in 1981 and inaugurated in 1982, the Archive formats for preservation and access purposes, 6 Preservation Fellows Gained Experience in is dedicated to the recording, collection, and a project expected to be completed in 2014. Yale Library 7 Pigments, Inks & Bindings: A New Teaching Tool preservation of videotaped oral testimonies To mark thirty years at Yale, several events of survivors and witnesses. It holds 4,500 7 Yale Divinity Receives Grant to Digitize Missionary are scheduled for October, including a Materials testimonies comprising over 12,000 hours full-day conference on Sunday, October 21. 7 International Group of Scholars will Study Yale of videotape, which were recorded in coop- Keynote speakers are prominent Holocaust Maghrebi Collection 8 Yale University Library Gazette now Available eration with thirty-seven a∞liate projects scholars Professors Christopher Browning in North America, South America, Europe, in jstor (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), 8 Summer Visitors to Beinecke Israel, and the former Soviet Union. The Lawrence L. Langer (Simmons College), 9 Portraits of Wounded Bodies Archive advises students, scholars, museums, and Aledia Assman (University of Konstanz, 9 Staging History, Making History and educational associations; catalogs its Germany). There will be three panels. 9 Hail to the Chief testimonies to make them intellectually acces- 10 Latvian History between the Wars — continued on page 2 11 Upcoming Exhibits at Beinecke 11 Calendar of Exhibits fall/winter 2012 Achievements and Challenges . continued from page 1 no·ta be·ne news from the yale library is published during Nota Bene the academic year to acquaint the Yale community and others with the resources of the Yale Library. Please direct comments Master copies of the tapes. and questions to Amanda Patrick Editor, Sterling Memorial Library (phone: 203-432-4484, e-mail: [email protected]) The first, “At Yale: Testimonies Romanaa Strochiliz Primus. Several associated events will in the Classroom,” will be led by Samuel Kassow (Trinity) take place before and after the Copyright ©2012 Yale professors Jessica Helfand, and Raye Farr (United States conference, and a related exhibit Yale University Library issn 0894-1351 Katie Trumpener, and Jay Winter, Holocaust Memorial Museum, will be on display in Sterling representing, respectively, art, Film Archives) will speak at Memorial Library through- Contributors to this issue include literature, and history. The the third panel, “Using the out the fall. All events are second panel, “What Children of Archives.” The conference will free and open to the public. Elizabeth Beaudin (eb) Dominique Bourassa (db) Survivors Do with their Parents’ be held be at Linsly-Chittenden For additional informa- Richard Boursy (rb) Experiences,” will feature Melvin Hall, Room 102, 63 High Street, tion visit: Remi Castonguay (rc) Bukiet (Sarah Lawrence) and beginning at 8:30 a.m. http://www.library. Kendall Crilly (kc) –jr Heather Dean (hd) yale.edu/testimonies/ Molly Dotson (md) Melissa Grafe (mg) Ellen Hammond (eh) Kathryn James (kj) Zoe Keller (zk) Lindsay King (lk) Stacey Maples (sm) Elizabeth Peterson (ep) Jae Jennifer Rossman (jjr) Joanne Rudof (jr) Lynn Sette (ls) Martha Smalley (ms) Nanette Stahl (ns) Mark Turin (mt) Libby Van Cleve (lvc) Bradley Warren (bw) Benjamin Yousey-Hindes (byh) editorial information University Librarian Frank Cli≠ord, Video Archive Project Manager, digitizing Debra Bush, Archives Assistant, processing materials Susan Gibbons the testimonies. from the archives. Editor Amanda Patrick Director of Communications Copy Editor Christa Sammons Publication Design ChenDesign 2 one donor’s vision for the library As an undergraduate, Elai Katz ’92 loved get- collecting and classifying information. We ting lost in the stacks of Sterling Memorial now have access to a tremendous amount of Library, discovering unexpected treasures, data and texts through electronic sources, and imagining the students and scholars and yet, more than ever, we need exceptional who had run across those same books long libraries and librarians to organize and before. Like generations of students before understand the contexts of those materi- and since, when it was time to study, Elai als so we can make good use of them.” would settle down in the Linonia & Brothers By checking the “Library Resources” box Reading Room, surrounded by others when they make their annual Alumni Fund who shared his a∞nity for the Library. gift, graduates like Elai help the University This past spring, in honor of his twentieth Librarian address the Library’s most pressing Yale College Reunion and in recognition of needs and ensure that it remains a world- the Library’s special place in the life of the class resource for a world-class university. University, Elai made a generous five-year Non-alumni can have the same impact by pledge to the Alumni Fund for Library directing a gift to the Yale University Library Resources. Why does Elai (now an antitrust Fund. If you have any questions about sup- attorney in New York City) support the porting the Yale University Library, please Elai Katz ’92 Yale University Library in this way? He contact Benjamin Yousey-Hindes, Assistant gives because he believes, “especially in this Director of Development, at 203-432-8087 digital age, a great academic institution or . –byh [email protected] such as Yale must maintain its leadership in french intern helps describe composers’ letters in music library The Irving S. Gilmore Music Library had such as Beethoven, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky, the pleasure of welcoming Elsa Gabaude, an as well as famed American composers like intern from the École nationale supérieure des Elliott Carter, Virgil Thomson, and many sciences de l’information et des bibliothèques others. Ms. Gabaude’s command of German, (enssib) in February 2012. Prior to her work French, Italian, and English helped a great at enssib, Elsa studied at the École nationale deal in this endeavor. She also developed des chartes, a school that prepares students Library Research Guides (LibGuides) on in the conservation of written patrimony in topics such as vocal music, early music, and France. She was also trained as a harpsichord- composers, and she collaborated with Camille ist and is a connoisseur of Baroque music in Poiret, another intern from enssib, on general. At the Music Library she worked on researching and describing a magnificent describing a collection of over nine hundred Book of Hours from the Rouen School held letters from composers and musical perform- at the Music Library. Their work will be put ers, acquired by the Gilmore Music Library to good use in an upcoming online exhibit.