Library Directionsl A Newsletter of the University of Washington Libraries
Volume 8 NO.1 Autumn 1997
Foster Business Library Opens Gordon Aamot, Foster Business Library
The Foster Business Library opened to the public the z first day of Summer Quarter, June 23, 1997. It combines a spacious library environment with a technological infrastructure that permits a wide range of electronic services now, and will allow services to expand and change in the future. Background o The project was funded by a mix of private and public money. In late 1990, the University of Washington School of Business Administration received a gift of three million dollars from the Foster Foundation to help fund a new business library to be named in honor ofAlbert O. and Evelyn - W. Foster. Albert Foster graduated from the UW Business School in 1928, and founded the investment banking firm of Foster & Marshall in 1938. Evelyn Foster graduated from the UW in 1932. The Business School combined the Foster gift with photo by Loyd Heath, 1997 two others and developed the concept for a complex that would come to include the Seafirst Executive located above the reading area. The skylight and Education Center, the Boeing Auditorium, and the twenty-foot ceiling give the space a light, airy Foster Business Library. Planning for the project feeling. With 19,500 square feet, the library is one began in February 1991. Construction began in and one-halftimes the size of the old Balmer facility. March 1995, and continued through June 1997. u The lower level contains circulation, reference, the The Library collections, library workstations, and most of the The Foster Busi1less Library is a "below garden" reader seating. The mezzanine level overlooks the facility. The most striking physical characteristic of main reading area, and contains additional reader the new library is the 800-square-foot skylight seating and group study rooms.
Welcome to Autumn Quarter, 1997, from the University Libraries. Whether you are new to campus or have been around for a while, we hope you will take a look at the services available to you from the University Libraries. From over 20 facilities, the Libraries' staff is eager to show you the wealth of materials and information sources available to you, both in campus locations and via electronic access. Some of the newest databases, electronic journals and services are outlined in this newsletter, but we also want to remind you of more established services. Zephyr, a free personalllotification service, can provide you with a list of newly received materials listed in the UW Libraries Catalog or from the Currenl Contents database. Electronic forms are now available to request retrieval ofmaterials from storage, to renew circulated material, to send in requests for purchase of new items, or to request items via interlibrary loan. - Explore the UW Libraries Web page at http://www.lib.washington.edufor access to these and other services, or stop by your nearest library for assistance. Welcome back to an exciting year of study and teaching. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
The library offers a variety of study spaces to The library can be contacted at 543-4360, accommodate different user needs and preferences. [email protected], or through the Web at One of the biggest differences between the old and http://weber.u.washington.edu/-balib. new facilities is the addition of seven group study rooms, accommodating six to ten people each. The Electronic Journals Increase rooms may be reserved for two-hom periods up to Tim Jewell, Electronic Information Program one week in advance. Library seating consists of Steve Hiller, Science Libraries cheny-stained maple four-person tables or two Jim Stickman, Serials person canels. For individuals who prefer to cml up in a comfortable chair, there are eighteen soft chairs. Recently, concerns about the lack of "real content" on the World Wide Web began to be answered by the The new facility was designed to allow easy access to availability of "electronic journals": typically free, power and data. There are few spaces, including scholarly publications aimed at exploiting the tables and canels, within the library not within reach advantages of electronic distribution for serious of an outlet or data connection. Students and faculty academic research. Now publishers of many can bring in their laptop computers, plug into the established, print-based journals have joined that campus network, and access their uniform access movement by providing electronic access to some or accounts, the Libraries databases or the World Wide all of their titles, and the UW Libraries has licensed Web. hundreds of them and made them available to users on their own desktops. This infrastructme has enabled the library to expand its range of electronic business services. The Although we are quite far from having a "critical electronic reference area contains 20 library mass" of important journal literature available -w-orkstatiof.ls.-Users have access to net.workedl-- electronically,J:hese.-developments_do-OffeLgreat and databases, the World Wide Web and CD-ROM compelling opportunities to broaden access and databases networked from the Foster Business improve services. Instead of physically traveling to Library server. UW students and faculty can also one of the campus libraries to search for and copy access NEXIS and Dow Jones News Retrieval in the articles from relevant journals, researchers and new NEXIS/DOW JONES Lab. These somces contain the full texts of thousands of news and business sources. Library Directions is produced three times a year by the University of Washington Libraries Staff. Business librarians will teach strategies and Inquiries concerning content should be sent to: techniques for using electronic resources in the Library Directions Library Seminar Room. This space will University of Washington Libraries accommodate up to 12 students and, when not in use Allen Library, Room 482 for instruction, will function as an open lab. In all, Box 352900 Seattle, WA 98195-2900 there are more than 30 public workstations available (206) 543-1760 in the Foster Business Library-twice the number in ([email protected]) the old library facility. These desktop stations, Betsy Wilson, Managing Editor combined with the laptop access available at the Carol Green, Assistant Editor wired reader stations, offer users a rich array of Susan Kemp, Production Manager electronic business resomces now, and the potential Michael Milligan, Photographer Diana Johnson, Anita Smith, Mary Whiting, for even more access in the near futme as laptop Copy Editors computing is incorporated into the curriculum. The current version of LibrQlY Directions can be found online at (http://www.lib.washington.edu/libinjo/ Stop by and visit the Foster Business Library. Homs libdirections!currentl), along with several previous issues. dming Autumn Quarter are: Several sources are used for mailing labels. If you receive Monday-Thursday 8am-llpm multiple copies please pass them on to others or return the Friday 8am-5pm labels of the unwanted copies to Library Directiolls. Satmday 9am-5pm Printed on acid-free, recycled paper. Sunday lpm-9pm
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students can now access them conveniently and One noteworthy attempt to try to address this For further quickly from their offices or homes. Electronic troublesome issue of archiving is the JSTOR project, information: versions often appear sooner, and in some cases which the Libraries joined as a charter member last UW web pages: provide supplementary materials, multimedia spring. This program is based in part on the fact that features, interactive simulations, or "bot links" to library shelf space is expensive, and that libraries all UW Libraries e-journals page (http:// other articles or citations that are clearly not possible over the country shelve the same back-file runs ofcore www.lib.washington.edu/ through the print medium. Future possibilities academic journals. Accordingly, the aims of the libinfo/ejournalsl) include automated interest profiling for users, and project's first phase are to scan and make available a permanent electronic archive (typically up to within Health Sciences Library's other improvements. Healthlinks list (http:// three to five years of the current year) of at least 100 healthlinks. washington. Not surprisingly, electronic offerings now available core journals within the next three years. So far, more edu/journalsl) to UW users are especially Oliented to current than 50 such journals have been made available, including such well-known titles as the JournaL of Physics Library e-journals information, and to scientific, technical, and medical page (http:// (STM) subjects, although there are important American History, the American PoLiticaL Science weber.u. washington.edu/ resources available in a wide range of disciplines. Review, EcoLogy, and the JournaL and the Transactions -phylib/ejourn.html) ofthe American MathematicaL Society. Several Professional associations such as the Institute of Java Willow (http:// additional key journals in mathematics, philosophy, Physics and the Society for Industrial and Applied www. washington. edu/ Mathematics have made dozens ofjournals available and sociology will become available within the next bibsys/jwillowl) few months. electronically within the last year, and commercial Publisher sites STM publishers have also been very active. Still other challenges relate to how users will access mentioned: Academic Press, for example, has quickly gained the plethora of electronic information. As electronic prominence by making 175 titles available through Johns Hopkins University journals proliferate, simply continuing the present Press Project Muse (http:/ its IDEAL program; the Libraries began to practice of listing available journals on a variety of /muse.jhu.edul) participate in it this spring. The Libraries is also web pages will soon prove impractical. Other serving as a beta test site for Springer Link, and Academic Press (http:// approaches like "hot linking" the online catalog using through the end of the year will have free access to www.idealibrary.coml) a future version ofJava Willow are being pursued here all Springer journals available in electronic form, at the UW. Available workstations, both within the JSTOR (http:// more than 200 at this time. The Johns Hopkins www.jstor.org/) Libraries and those available to users outside it, may University Press is making about 40 humanities and need to be upgraded or replaced. (A typical minimal Institute of Physics (http:// social science titles available through its Project requirement is a PC or other workstation running www.iop.org) Muse program, including two that are available Netscape or Internet ExpLorer, plus a direct Internet exclusively in electronic form. Springer Link (http:// connection or high-speed modem. In addition, many e link. springer. del journals also require the installation of general home.htm) No major developments come without issues and purpose "helper" applications like Adobe Acrobat, or General information: challenges, however, and electronic journals pose more specialized ones like Ghostview and Ghostscript, Association of Research their share. An editorial by William Miller in the to display and manipulate page images, graphs, Libraries (ARL) Directory August 1, 1997 issue of the Chronicle ofHigher formulae, and the like.) New systems for managing of E-journals, etc.: http:// Education, for instance, points out that subscribing to printing services and costs must also be implemented ari.cni.org/scomm/edir/ index.html electronic journals will not save libraries money in within the Libraries, and the introduction of formal the long run: fewer and fewer electronic journals are license agreements, competing user-authentication NewJour (lists new free, and increasing numbers are "bundled" with approaches, and the trend toward marketing of electronic journals): http:// print subscriptions in a way that makes canceling electronic access primarily to library consortia have gort. ucsd. edu/newjour/ print economically disadvantageous. Should a introduced a new level of decision-making For further information library cancel a print subscription, the library retains complexity. about electronic journals, the volumes it has already received. Canceling an contact Tim Jewell at electronic journal, on the other hand, can mean that Not all ofthese challenges are likely to be solved in the 543-3890 or tjewell@u. washington. edu the library either loses access to those issues to which short run, but the Libraries is making a serious it was once entitled, or that it has to assume the costs commitment to the Digital Library as a strategic of making them available electronically for decades direction, and electronicjournals will continue to be an or longer. important part of that picture.
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The Digital Library 'ph! community voice, the majority of materials on the site are produced in conjunction with community With the start ofAutumn members. EthnoMed assumes that culture is Quarter, 1997, the :E:t/inoMea dynamic, and that an electronic medium is ideal for following new databases Soci~tut&Ibunenlohetlm c.&t:ttulBMt Uilly u:>da'llOOd Ulltrml oflutJ..- it II an capturing and expressing these changes. omiouthindtmce to the re:1woluh!p..,hal are available via UWIN and plIJU01oll. UId p1olttll.l do flO( fpc:B the ntllt. hn,cuaae M.cKe<:!il!imlttl>oI:r='reVld 1ddni1. boweYef. ire the bimen ldakd Willow. cultcnl hu!$h bdid"~ ~ pc:1Cficu Web-based medical records are being linked to EUvtoMtdlt t.'¥dl-b1.Jed,ch=.lWttlClllEU tbtl IIIIU to badr tIlue 1l.ll~~ Uld Ollll.ll'll information files so that, for example, a health care bunll1'l t'GCDGIUc:red ducnl1. bile! Illm.w 810515, 1991- The world's ",at lA pubmlu.lhc pP:IJt~ WIllIG IddrtM ltl.inan,mCl:umbuol_.EtqIi
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As a cataloger examines the first item to be processed Manuscripts Contributes Social Work Abstracts, for the day, she clicks on an icon that automatically to University Press Books 1977- The primary index to accesses the world's largest database ofbibliographic Avril Madison, Manuscripts and University Archives journal articles published in records. Searching a database of over 37 million social work and social records, she usually finds one that matches the item. Five books recently published or forthcoming by the welfare, including selected When a record is not found, the cataloger contributes University of Washington Press have depended dissertations. Updated a cataloging record to the database for use by other heavily on archival sources in the Manuscripts and quarterly. Search Tips at: libraries around the world. University Archives section of the UW Libraries. http://www.washington.edu/ lib-help!HELP!UW-SP If a record is found, the cataloger edits it to provide SWAlUW-SP-SWA.html the best access for users at the University Libraries. Opening another icon, she starts a session that RILM: Music Abstracts, contains all the Library of Congress subject 1969- An international index headings. Headings appropriate to the item are to publications in music, copied and pasted from the electronic documentation including historical into the cataloging record. The primary heading also musicology, contains a hotlink to a call number in the Library of ethnomusicology, Congress classification schedule that is then copied instruments and voice, into the record. dance and music therapy. Updated monthly. Search Next the cataloger opens a teInet session into the Tips at: http:// local catalog to browse the call number list. www.washington.edu! Comparing this list with an alphanumeric table open lib-help!HELP!OCLC-RILM! in another window, she completes the call number so OCLC-RILM.html that it interfiles correctly with the rest ofthe materials in this part ofthe collection. With two keystrokes, the Center for Research record is completed. Libraries (CRL): The A scenario from the future? Not at all. This electronic Center for Research multi-tasking is happening today behind the scenes Libraries lists periodicals, in cataloging units at the University Libraries. foreign and domestic Workstations combine the latest in Windows newspapers, archival software, telecommunications, networking, and materials, US Documents, documentation databases to searnlessly bring foreign doctoral together electronic resources on the desktop. The dissertations and a wide bibliographic record database described above is range of materials for located in Ohio, the library catalog is in Computing International Studies. All & Communications, and the CD-ROM In Pi/chuck: A Glass School published in 1996, Tina are available through documentation from the Library of Congress is in Oldknow chronicles the history of the school which Interlibrary Borrowing Suzzallo Library. UW cataloging procedures are on began in 1971 when Dale Chihuly held a summer Service. Web pages running from a local server, and other workshop at the Pilchuck Tree Farm near Stanwood. Oldknow used several collections in Manuscripts and MELVYL: U. of California Web resources used in cataloging, such as a database Catalog. The Union catalog for geographic names, are in other parts of the University Archives to help construct this work, of the University of country. including the personal papers ofAnne Gould Hauberg, Seattle arts patron and early supporter of Chihuly and California library system This electronic environment is an important of Pilchuck. Oldknow also consulted oral histories in and selected bibliographic contribution to catalogers' abilities to provide the Archives of Northwest Art conducted by LaMar databases, as provided by accurate and timely access to information for the UW Harrington and others, which document the the University of California community. As more documentation becomes contributions ofPilchuck to the studio glass movement Office of the President. available electronically, and interfaces become more in the United States. uniform, the new technologies will continue to dramatically impact day-to-day worklife in technical William Lang's biography, Confederacy ofAmbition: processing. William Winlock Miller and the Making ofWashington
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Digital Library, cont. Territory, published in 1997, details a different Galya Diment explores a life and a relationship in her period of Northwest history, 1850 -1876. forthcoming Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc PAIS: Public Affairs Washington's early territorial politics were Information, 1972 Szejtel, and uncovers the gentle protagonist of dominated by ambitious and energetic men who Expanded backfile Nabokov's Pnin. Russian immigrants, Szeftel and capitalized on every economic opportunity. Through coverage from 1972 to Nabokov met while teaching at Cornell University. private ventures and various government present, covering social Szeftellaterjoined the UW faculty, teaching Russian appointments and elected offices, Miller and public policy history from 1961-1972. Diment, Associate accumulated one of the largest private fortunes in the literature from over Professor of Slavic languages at the UW, relied on territory. Lang sees Miller as typical of a breed of 1,400 periodicals and men who manipulated government and its resources letters in the Marc Szeftel Papers to illuminate her thousands ofgovernment to their own and the region's advantage. Many of discussion. documents, books, and Miller's personal papers are at Yale University. other sources. Updated However, Lang credits the correspondence, monthly. Search Tips at: Friends Book Sale a Success documents, and financial records found in Miller's http:// papers in Manusclipts and University Archives with Over 200 volunteers helped to sort, label, stack, and www.washington.edu/ providing key information to interpreting Miller's sell books and other items at the Friends ofthe UW Iib-help/HELP/OCLC public and private life. Libraries Booksale held last April. The sale grossed PAIS/OCLC-PAIS.html over $34,000 to benefit various library programs and collections. Many customers commented In the forthcoming Warren G. Magnuson and the Other databases positively on the quality of the materials and how recently added to the Shaping ofTwentieth Century America, Shelby well they were presented. The "Better Books", CDs campus network include: Scates traces SenatorMagnuson's impact on regional and records did a brisk business as well as items in and national public policy. Scates documents a the reference, history, and children's book areas. ASFA: Aquatic political career that spanned five decgdes and shaped Sincere thanks to..a.U..who helPed as well a,,"s.1h#o1=e~ ~~__~~~ Sciences and Fisheries domestic legislation and programs in a variety of thousands who came to buy. Abstracts, 1978+ areas including civil rights, consumer protection, education, environmental protection, health research, GEOBASE, 1980+ Payroll Deduction Adds Up railroad reorganization, and power generation in the Marjan Petty, Libraries Development Office GEORef, 1785+ Pacific Northwest. In constructing this account, Scates and an assistant spent the better part of two "Keep adding a little to a little, and soon there will be a great History of Science and years in Manuscripts and University Archives heap." -Virgil Technology, 1975+ plumbing the voluminous Magnuson Papers. Recently the Book Arts Division of Special HealthSTAR, 1990+ Collections purchased a unique book produced by Imprisoned Apart: The World War II artist Enid Mark of Wallingford, Pennsylvania. HealthSTAR, 1975-1989 Correspondence ofan Issei Couple, to be published Beyond the Map, one of an edition of 35, contains soon, features Iwao and Hanaye Matsushita who lithographs and letterpress-printed poems of women Washington College & were living in Seattle at the beginning of World War writers on the topic of travel. Normally this purchase University Catalog II. Through their cards and letters, Louis Fiset would not have been possible because of budget incorporating the recaptures in microcosm the wrenching effects ofthe constraints. However, Michael Peskura, a University catalogs of the six four incarceration of West Coast people of Japanese Computing Services program manager, has made year public colleges and descent during the war. Iwao was arrested on the gifts to the Librmies through the payroll deduction universities in night of December 7, 1941, and sent to Fort program for several years. His contributions Washington. Missoula, Montana, a Justice Department camp for accumulated over time to approximately $1,000, and enemy aliens. Hanaye, along with many Japanese made this special acquisition possible. Americans from Seattle, was incarcerated in 1942 in Minidoka, the Idaho "relocation center." In this Payroll deduction is an easy and painless way for book, Fiset reveals the consequences of Executive University employees to contribute to any area Order 9066 on a human scale. Written in both within the University Libraries. Small deductions Japanese and English, these letters are part of the grow into lm-ge gifts. For example, a $9 deduction Iwao Matsushita Papers. Mr. Matsushita worked as a each payday (the cost of a few lattes!) will subject specialistin the UW's East Asia Library from accumulate to an annual gift of $216. With a 1951-1979. minimum of $2 per paycheck per gift designation,
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funds are automatically deducted from your library facilities proved to be the most attractive of Suzzallo Renovation paycheck and deposited into the receiving account. several candidates that expressed an interest in Project Delayed You can choose any area within the Libraries to acquiring the collection. The UW is the only university Funding for the Suzzallo receive the gifts: The Business Library Fund, in North America currently offering a curriculum in all Library Renovation was Historical Photography Fund, Library Collections three Baltic languages and literatures, Latvian, not approved by the Fund, Helen Johns Library Staff Endowment, and Lithuanian, and Estonian. Baltic Studies at the UW are State Legislature for the Health Sciences Library Fund are a few which can jointly sponsored by the Department of Scandinavian 1997-99 biennium, so the benefit from your thoughtfulness. Languages, and the Russian, East European and project has been Central Asian Studies Program of the Jackson School delayed. (For a What is the next step? Call 543-1760 for a simple of International Studies. Materials from this gift will description of the form to fill out and return. In a few weeks your become available as part of the Suzzallo and Allen project, which is payroll deduction will begin. For further Libraries collection over the coming months. information, call Marjan Petty, Director of designed to address Development for the University Libraries, 685-1973, Building the UWired Commons structural, mechanical, or visit http://weber.u.washington.edu/-dev/adis/ Kay Denfeld, Odegaard Undergraduate Library electrical, and life safety gpa/paypol.html. Your gifts, growing over time, can deficiencies, see the Autumn Quarter sees the debut of the new UWired make a world of difference. Winter and Spring 1997 Commons, a student lab with 240 computing issues ofLibrary workstations. Constructed this summer on the second Directions, or contact fI oor ofthe Odegaard Undergraduate Library (0UGL), Paula Walker in the Commons, funded in part by the Student Libraries Administration, Technology Fee, is the largest general access 206-616-8513.) computing facility on campus. The project has involved Undergraduate Education, Computing & In the meantime, the Communications, and the Libraries. Libraries staffare moving The UWired Commons is open all the hours OUGL is ahead to be ready for the open. Workstations provide access to e-mail, word future resumption of the processing, spreadsheets, Libraries databases, the Suzzallo Renovation World Wide Web, and other personal computer uses. Project. The upgrade of Visit the UWired Web site for a preview of the the three public construction. (http://www.washington.edu/uwiredl) elevators in the Suzzallo Library is proceeding with Linda Gould, University Libraries; Richard J. Dunn, College Other exciting new construction projects at OUGL of Arts and Sciences; Terje Leiren, Department of funding allocated Scandinavian Studies; and James D. West, Russian, East involve upgrading the Collaboratory and the Library separately. Work on the European and Central Asian Studies Program. Instruction Laboratory on the first floor; relocating the elevators will take place Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology to the during Fall Quarter, butat Major Gift Supports Baltic Studies southeast corner of the second floor; and dividing no time will all three room 320 into two rooms. The remodeling will A. Gerald Anderson, Reference and Research SeNices elevators be out of Michael Biggins, Slavic & East European Section enhance information and computing services just as seNice. The four Allen OUGL begins its 25th year. Further publicity on a 25th library elevators will be The UW Libraries has received as a gift one of the anniversary celebration will be presented later this fall. available for use during most extensive collections of Latvian studies this renovation. materials in North America, numbering some 12,000 Libraries Briefs books, 100 journals and periodicals and 370 microfilm reels. The original owner, the Latvian Appointments Studies Center Library in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Betty Bengtson, Director of Libraries, has been developed this collection over several decades to appointed Acting Director of the Graduate School of serve as a central cultural resource for Latvians in Library and Information Science while the search for a America. Recent financial exigencies made it permanent director is being conducted. necessary for the Center to relocate the collection. Diana Brooking started in the position of Science The University of Washington with its active and Cataloger on September 22,1997. She previously growing Baltic Studies program and extensive worked at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Chandra Heller, previously in a temporary postion, presented at the Special Libraries Association Annual started as Engineering Information Services librarian Conference in Seattle in June 1997. on August 1, 1997. Elaine Jennerich, Libraries Staff Development, Joe Kiegel was promoted to head, Cataloging recently published the 3rd edition of her book, The Division, on July 1, 1997. He has worked in the Reference Interview as a Creative Art. Cataloging Division since 1984. A Web site on Camp Harmony developed by Theresa Jill McKinstry was appointed head, Odegaard Mudrock, Reference and Research Services, as part Undergraduate Library effective August 16, 1997. ofthe Japanese American Exhibit and Access project, She has most recently held the position of interim was featured on "The Site," MS-NBC's popular show head, Systems Distributed Computing. about the Internet and technology. "The Site" is at http://www.thesite.com. and the Camp Harmony site, Kelly MecHl moved from a temporary position into which was chosen as one ofYahoo's "Cool Sites" and her new assignment as science cataloger on August Lycos' top 5% sites, is at http://weber.u.washington 16,1997. .edu/-mudrockJALLEN/index.htmt. Pamela Zilius-Careaga, formerly at the University Deaths of Michigan, became the new Engineering Instruc tion Services librarian on August 1, 1997. Marie Gosebrink, who developed the initial undergraduate library collection and served as its first Achievements librarian, died February 18, 1997. She had previously Charles Lord, Engineering Library, won the SLAJEi been head of Acquisitions and an assistant to Ken Engineering Librarian of the Year Award which was Allen, former associate director of libraries.
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