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UNCAP Page 1 Uncovering interests in post-Depression pre-Civil with University faculty. The Library will Introducing... Page 2 Rights era African American literary partner with faculty members Robert von Your Opinion Matters Page 2 New Chicago and cinema history shaped their goal: Hallberg, English Department, and Travis Archives “to survey the holdings of Chicago-area Jackson, Music Department, to develop Engaging Students Page 3 libraries and archives and to identify and process University of Chicago Library Virtual Copyright Info Page 3 Project primary source materials … that were collections in contemporary poetry and (UNCAP) in need of processing and cataloguing.” the Chicago Jazz Archive, relying on their Faceted Navigation Page 3 Mapping the Stacks was established expertise to identify graduate students Regenstein Exhibits Page 4 Engages to perform that work, combining the and establish processing priorities and Faculty, Library, faculty members’ field expertise and labor levels, as well as to identify potential new Crerar Exhibits Page 4 power together with that of graduate collections of research and teaching value. and Graduate From the Director Page 5 students from the University of Chicago. UNCAP aims to create access to primary Students Mapping the Stacks began with a focus Addition News Page 6 sources needed by faculty and their on collections in the Vivian G. Harsh Alice Schreyer, Assistant Director for students and to ensure that currently Gifts & Grants Page 6 Collection of Afro-American History and Special Collections & Preservation hidden primary resources are preserved Literature of the Chicago Public Library, and accessible to scholars. Faculty he University of Chicago the DuSable Museum of African American members’ first-hand knowledge of the is currently piloting two History, and the editorial offices of the community, and word-of-mouth about models of library-faculty Chicago Defender. Seed monies from the T the initiative, are already bringing to partnerships that support cooperative university’s Center for the Study of Race, Volume 11 light privately held collections and Number 2 collection development and graduate Politics, and Culture and Humanities opening doors to others that were Spring 2007 student training. The Uncovering Division, supplemented by a Mellon previously inaccessible. We anticipate New Chicago Archives Project Foundation Officer’s Grant, provided that a number of collections will be (UNCAP), now in the first of its three support for the project’s initial phases. acquired as a result of UNCAP, some that years, is creating new research and Under UNCAP, Professor Goldsby will direct may be appropriate for the University of teaching resources and developing the third phase of Mapping the Stacks Chicago Library’s holdings and others graduate students’ skills in working (Professor Stewart will remain involved that will be housed at other institutions. with primary materials. UNCAP is with the project at Northwestern University, supported by a $617,000 award to the Preserving the identity of separate where she is now on the faculty). Because Library from The Andrew W. Mellon institutions within the context of a the faculty-directed model of Mapping Foundation. Alice Schreyer, Assistant seamless search experience across the Stacks requires intensive faculty time Director for Special Collections & repositories, collections, and formats is commitment, UNCAP also includes a Preservation, is the project’s Principal absolutely essential to inter-institutional faculty-guided component that requires Investigator. collaboration. The Library is developing less of a time commitment by the a technical infrastructure that meets UNCAP has its origins in Mapping the faculty members with greater reliance these needs and will be available for use Stacks, started by University of Chicago on librarians and archivists. By piloting by other groups and institutions. English Department faculty members the two approaches within UNCAP, the Jacqueline Goldsby and Jacqueline Stewart Library hopes to develop models that UNCAP is providing graduate students can be applied to future partnerships Libra in 2004. Their own research and teaching with training in conceptualizing Library Reports & continued on page  Announcements

Libra (Library Reports and Announcements) is a newsletter from the University of Chicago Library, written for the www.lib.chicago.edu/e/libra/ faculty and University community. If you have questions or comments about this issue of Libra, please contact Sandra Levy at 773-702-6463 or [email protected]. continued from page  and using original sources that will worked as a student at the law libraries to connect alumni to the University. experience with usability studies and influence their careers as researchers at Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill, Prior to that, Joan was an assistant a Masters in Library and Information and teachers. Graduate students are as well as at the main (Davis) library director of regional clubs for the Alumni Science. In addition to being a member assigned to archival collections in their at UNC-Chapel Hill. He began at the Association. She worked with alumni of Phi Beta Mu, Tod received the own disciplines and work as part of an D’Angelo Law Library last October and in 12 cities and developed new alumni Information Systems/Technologies Award interdisciplinary team led by faculty has been staffing the reference desk, clubs in Austin, TX, Pittsburgh, PA and of the Graduate School of Library and creating and updating research guides Northern New England. Information Science of the University of members that includes graduate students for the website, and teaching first year Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005. from various academic departments legal research classes. Todd serves on the Joan attended Goucher College where and library staff. Discovering primary College Instruction & Outreach (CIAO) she earned a bachelor’s degree. She took Tod can be contacted at tod@uchicago. sources of direct interest and functioning committee and is a member of the master’s degrees in the humanities at edu and 702-8764. as part of an interdisciplinary team American Association of Law Libraries Yale University and musicology at the provide an incomparable intellectual (AALL) and the Chicago Association University of Chicago. Joan has taught ^ experience, especially since students in of Law Libraries (CALL). Todd can be music at Concordia University and the the humanities have fewer opportunities contacted at [email protected] and University of Chicago and for 10 years than those in the sciences to work in 702-9617. was the director of the One Voice Choir of Library Service Glen Ellyn. collaborative teams. ^ Quality: Your Joan can be reached at jhoffman@ The Library is very excited about Opinion uchicago.edu and 702-8742. Her office library-faculty partnerships that can help is located in JRL 180. Matters! transform teaching and research at the University of Chicago. We would be glad ^ Andrea Twiss-Brooks, 2007 LibQUAL+ to hear from any faculty member who is Coordinator and Co-Director, Science Libraries Division, Head of Collection interested in pursuing such a project. Services

eginning April 9 the Library ^ invites faculty, students, and staff to participate in Joan Bentley Hoffman B a survey to review and assess the Introducing: Associate Director for Library Development quality of library services. This survey is part of the Library’s continuing Joan Bentley Hoffman joined the efforts to better serve the research and Library’s development team in January educational aims of the University 2007. She is responsible for advancing Tod Olson Systems Librarian community. We value your opinions the Library’s major gifts effort and will and strongly encourage every Library serve as the development office’s liaison Tod Olson has recently accepted the user to take this opportunity to help to the University’s Alumni Association. position of Systems Librarian in Integrated by completing the survey. In order Library Systems. This position will play Joan has been a member of the a key role in further developing and to compare this year’s responses to University’s community for more than integrating services to library users, information gathered in 2004, the Todd Ito a decade and has worn the hat of building on core library systems that Library is again using the LibQUAL+ Law Reference Librarian graduate student, Library employee and facilitate research use of the library survey instrument created by the development professional. Most recently, Todd Ito joined the D’Angelo Law Library collections. The Systems Librarian will Association of Research Libraries and she served as an associate director for as the new reference and student services work closely with library public services Texas A & M University. Central Development’s Chicago Regional librarian. Originally from Virginia, staff to plan, design and document user Major Gifts Office. During a five-year The survey is designed to solicit an Todd spent the past twelve years in experiences and functionality for access to tenure in that position, she worked with Chapel Hill, where he earned his BA in the collection via various library systems. individual’s opinion about the adequacy major donors living in Chicago and History and Asian Studies, as well as his of services across different areas of library Boston. Also, she joined efforts with Tod brings experience as a programmer law (JD) and library science (MSLS) operations. The twenty-seven main survey deans, faculty and her development peers analyst who has worked with the library degrees from the University of North questions probe the adequacy of the to organize regional programs designed web catalogs. That is supplemented by Carolina. Before moving to Chicago, he Library’s collections, the quality of staff  assistance, and the importance of library Engaging A Virtual faculty face, and develop them into an spaces that meet users’ needs. The survey online FAQ that will address local needs is designed to collect information about Students Copyright with local solutions. Once this is in place, perceptions of existing services as well as the Copyright Information Center web site Jim Vaughan, Assistant Director for Information expectations for minimum and desired Access & Facilities will be actively promoted in order to raise levels of service. There is also a space Center awareness of this new resource. for comments. Finally there are a few he Library Student Resource Elisabeth Long, Co-Director, Digital questions on general use of libraries and Group (LSRG) was established Library Development Center ^ resources and demographic information, T this year and serves as a formal but respondents remain anonymous. The channel of communication between he Library is developing an survey, which should take approximately students and the Library Administration. online Copyright Information Faceted 15-20 minutes to complete, closes on Chaired by Judith Nadler, the Library TCenter for faculty to provide April 23. Links to the survey appear on Director, the LSRG is composed of information about copyright issues Navigation: An library web pages, in email invitations, students from the College, the Graduate which affect their teaching and Interface to and in appropriate library publications. If Divisions and the Professional Schools. research. Created in collaboration you have questions or comments about In addition, three Librarians and a with the Provost’s Office, NSIT, and the Enhance the the survey, please email survey@lib. representative from the Office of the Office of Legal Counsel, this virtual Catalog uchicago.edu. Vice-President and Dean of Students in center will document University the University serve on the group. policies and practices, act as a resource James Mouw, Assistant Director for Technical and Electronic Services In response to the results of the 2004 for learning about copyright, and The LSRG offers a forum both for the LibQUAL+ survey, the Library made a provide local solutions for the legal Library to inform students of library n the past few years, the use number of changes. We added substantial use of copyrighted materials in projects and services and for students of faceted navigation systems online journal backfiles (including new teaching and research. The goal of this to communicate concerns about issues I in commercial web sites have JSTOR collections), electronic books, initiative is to coordinate efforts across allowed users to more quickly full-text databases, additional years of that affect their use of the Library. The campus in order to create a single, and easily find items of interest by coverage for online article indexes, and Group discusses matters relating to all centralized resource that meets faculty presenting categories that focus or more videos and DVDs. The Library of the University libraries, including needs and answers common questions broaden their search. In addition to completely redesigned its home page, collections, access, services, and present about copyright. leading users to the most frequently deployed the Database Finder tool, and future needs of student users. chosen and popular items, these improved the electronic journals list, Members also address how the Library The Copyright Information Center is systems have been successful in and moved the video collection in the can better communicate its resources, being built in several phases. The initial making users aware of many more Joseph Regenstein Library to a browseable services, and plans with students as well phase surveyed the resources available at relatively obscure items. Large location. We added Microsoft Word and as how students can most effectively peer institutions and developed a basic commercial sites like Amazon, which Excel to all library public machines, and share their needs, wishes, and concerns set of University-endorsed guidelines and employ such systems, have flourished made changes in the FindIt! menu for full with the Library. resources which are supplemented by as people easily find and choose many text, interlibrary loan and other document pointers to good information available Although the Library has always received different items, in addition to the services. Recent electrical upgrades to elsewhere. This has been presented to feedback and suggestions from students smaller number of popular ones. Regenstein Library provide more outlets several groups for feedback, including The in more informal ways, such as the for laptop users and new chairs were Board of Computing Activities, The Library online suggestion blog, the LSRG allows While this technology was developed to purchased for Regenstein Library. More Board, and The Council on Teaching. the Library to hear directly from students improve sales on commercial sites, a electrical upgrades are planned for 2007- Based on comments gathered during these and to discuss their needs, wants and faceted navigation interface was recently 08 to the John Crerar Library. sessions, the web site is being revised and concerns in an open forum. implemented by the North Carolina State launched later this spring. Concurrently, University Library as a method to search The 2007 LibQUAL+ survey team is Additional information about the Library through a broader initiative by NSIT to through the library catalog. Library confident that this year’s survey will Student Resource Group, including the gather information from Departments and staff at Chicago were impressed with this highlight additional areas needing meeting agendas and the meeting minutes, Divisions about their computing needs, technology and its potential to improve improvement and will help set the is available at http://www.lib.uchicago. we will compile examples of common some types of searching in the library agenda for Library strategic planning for edu/e/about/studadv. copyright problems and concerns that catalog. Although faceted navigation the coming years.  Regenstein is not particularly helpful for known-item searching, (e.g. when you search a citation), or for tasks such as Exhibits Crerar Exhibits recalling or renewing material, it provides an alternative way to browse through very large collections and The Meaning of Origins of Color markedly improves sorting through large result sets Dictionaries Crerar Atrium from keyword searches. Special Collections Research April 16 - November 2 In order to validate the usefulness of these features Center, Main Gallery to Chicago researchers, a small study was done with Through July 6 Origins of Color explores the historical and scientific graduate students. The object was to assess their development of pigments and dyes and their production reaction to faceted navigation, relevancy ranking and Focusing on English language dictionaries, this exhibit and uses in both fine art as well as craft manufacture. visualization of search results sets. The study found that explores the ways dictionaries have defined meaning The exhibit features books from the Crerar collections “of 12 subjects at the PhD level who are either in the from the Enlightenment to together with mineralogical samples, vials of pigments process of writing their dissertations or in the proposal the digital age, as well as what and dyes, and various samples of textiles and other end process, 9 found materials of interest to them that they dictionaries mean within their products of color processes. had not previously found in our current catalog”. cultural contexts. Featured are historical dictionaries The John Crerar Foundation provided generous support Implementing a faceted navigation system with the from the Special Collections for this exhibit. catalog would allow the Library to capitalize on past Research Center’s holdings, investment in subject cataloging, since the facets allow as well as archival materials more effective use of the assigned topics and subtopics such as correspondence, page than the linear subject browse catalog. Other coding proofs, word citation cards, Ongoing Exhibits: in the catalog records for language, dates and type of photographs and other items material can also be exploited. from the University of Chicago Press Records covering Paleontological the making of The Dictionary of American English Currently, the Library is working to add a faceted and Dictionary of Americanisms. Display (dinosaur bones navigation interface to the Library catalog by autumn from Paul Sereno) quarter. The interface will be particularly useful for searches at the point where researchers are casting a Karl Marx in From the South wide net to find as many resources as possible related Pole to the South to their topic. Since this has been identified as a the Ludwig particularly important activity for researchers, the Rosenberger Side of Chicago: Library sees implementing a faceted navigation system Library of Judaica Degree Angular Scale as a good investment, one that will make it easier for Interferometer (DASI) students and faculty to discover what is available in Special Collections Research Center, Ludwig Rosenberger Crystara Library’s extensive collections. Library of Judaica Gallery ^ Through June 22 Karl Marx, the founder of modern communism with Friedrich Engels, was born to parents of Jewish descent. Although he was baptized when he was six years old, Marx’s Jewish ancestry exerted a major influence on his work. Drawing on sources in the Ludwig Rosenberger Library of Judaica, this exhibit explores Karl Marx’s complex relationship to Jews and Judaism and his writings on these subjects.

 The Board of the Library 2006/2007 From the Director

Andrew Abbott, Chair, Gustavus F. & Ann M. Swift Working with about appropriate methods for using copyrighted Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology information in their teaching and research. This virtual and the College Partners Center is being developed with input from faculty and Rachel Fulton, Associate Professor, Department of History and the College will address common situations they face, as well as Jan E. Goldstein, Professor, Department of Judith Nadler, Library Director provide a process for getting further assistance. History, Committee on Conceptual & Historical Studies of Science, and the College It is the mission of the Library to build collections and We partner with faculty and students Philip E. Lloyd, Associate Professor Associate provide access to information in support of research in innovative approaches to collection Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology and development and access and to explore new Physiology, Committee on Cell Physiology, Committee on and teaching at the University. Outreach, engagement, Neurobiology, and the College. and partnerships enhance our ability to perform this ways in which the Library can participate in teaching and learning —The Uncovering New Armando Maggi, Associate Professor, Department important mission. of Romance Languages and Literatures, Committee on Chicago Archives Project (UNCAP) funded by the Andrew History of Culture, and the College We engage our users in the assessment Mellon Foundation relies on the expertise of faculty and Patchen Markell, Associate Professor, Department of the services we provide— We employ graduate students to guide archival processing priorities of Political Science and the College various assessment strategies including LibQual+, and processing levels, to train graduate students in Martin Stokes, Associate Professor, Department of a standardized survey developed by the Association Music and the College, Committee on History of Culture, the use of archival resources, and to extend the access and the College of Research Libraries to gauge users’ perceptions, provided by the Library to materials outside of our own Noel Swerdlow, Professor, Departments of preferences, and expectations of library services. collections. Astronomy & Astrophysics and History, Committee on LibQual+ helps libraries collect and interpret library Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, and the We engage our students in decision making College user feedback systematically over time and provides comparable assessment information from peer processes—The Library Student Resource Group Maria Christina von Nolcken, Associate serves as a formal channel of communication between Professor, Department of English Languages and institutions. We will undertake a second round of Literatures and the College assessment this spring using this tool, following a first students and the Library administration. Together Christian Wedemeyer, Assistant Professor, round in spring 2004. The survey will engage a broad we explore how the Library can most effectively Divinity School segment of library users-- students, faculty, and staff. communicate its resources, services and plans to students, and conversely, how students can most Ex officio We act on user input to make changes to effectively communicate their wishes, needs and Robert J. Zimmer, President and Trustee of the University; Professor, Department of Mathematics and the many tools we use to provide access to concerns to the Library. Physical Sciences Collegiate Division information—The internet has opened a growing There is an important leadership role for the Library in Thomas Rosenbaum, Provost of the University; universe of information and has changed both John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor, Department information seeking behavior and information use. the increasingly complex information environment that of Physics, James Franck Institute, and the College In response to these changes we are now exploring can best be performed by partnering with those whom we Martha Roth, Deputy Provost for Research and serve. We want to ensure that faculty and students take Education; Chauncey S. Boucher Distinguished Service features of internet information discovery that help Professor in Near Eastern Languages, the Oriental Institute guide the user to more specific research results. We are full advantage of the services we offer and welcome their and the College looking at faceted navigation interfaces in addition to partnership in exploring new services they need. Paula Duffy, Director, University of Chicago Press our traditional catalog interface. Library users, faculty Gregory Jackson, Vice-President and Chief and students will provide input and inform our decision Information Officer of the University ^ about this interface. 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