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Organizations tend to use annual reports to trumpet significant accomplishments – major gifts, new buildings, innovative programs, and the like. The UCLA Library’s version is no different in that regard; in the following pages you’ll find our share of noteworthy acquisitions, generous donations, new initiatives.
Yet note the subtitle of this publication for a moment before you proceed; we quite consciously call it a “progress report” rather than an annual report. The concept of “progress” as incremental movement toward a goal, development in a positive Letter direction, better captures the sense of a year’s accomplishments and activities at the UCLA Library, a year that contained as many seemingly minor actions that together from the add up to significant feats as it did major announcements.
Take, for example, the research guides described in the collections section. One University guide, viewed on its own, may be very helpful to a certain group of users but is unremarkable to the world at large. Yet five – ten – dozens of guides seen in aggre - Librarian gate point to a redefinition and an enhancement of an entire aspect of library collections and service.
Online chat reference offers a similar case in point. When the UCLA Library offered this service on our own, we were only able to provide it during certain days and times, the hours our staff was available. When the service became a joint project of all University of California libraries, hours were expanded, and it became more noteworthy. As you’ll see in the services article, we’ve now joined an international consortium that makes this service available twenty-four hours a day seven days a week. What began as a small step has progressed over time into a major accomplishment.
When it comes to acquisitions, the following pages contain many headline-worthy names – those of John Fante and Aldous Huxley, just to name two. But don’t overlook the more routine acquisitions: new collecting areas launched to support expanded areas of teaching and research, a large collection of electronic books that can be used for any educational purpose, digitized rare books that are now accessible online to the pub - lic worldwide. Piece by piece, these “small” accomplishments add up to significant achievements offering long-term benefits.
A similar assessment of incremental-approach-equals-accomplishment is evident even when it comes to major grants. The first project the Library announced that would be supported by our extraordinary five- million-dollar gift from the Arcadia Fund was “Collecting Los Angeles.” This new initiative doesn’t focus on the collections of local Hollywood stars or world-renowned authors or top-ranked athletes; it seeks out the hidden histories, the groups and individuals whose stories are lesser known and whose remarkable contributions to the life of this city will crumble into dust and vanish from the historical record without an organization stepping in to preserve it and make it accessible to current and future generations.
In addition to Arcadia, we are fortunate to have many major donors to thank in these pages for their irreplaceable contributions to our success during this fiscal year. We also have a great many not-so-major donors whose contributions collectively are equally irreplaceable, and we want to honor and thank each of you as well.
Together, your contributions both large and small have enabled us to progress, sometimes in leaps and sometimes by baby steps, toward our goal to support all aspects of UCLA’s mission of education, research, and service. Through the work produced by UCLA’s students, faculty, and staff, you help us serve the people of Southern California, the U.S., and the world.
Gary E. Strong University Librarian { UCLA Librarian } progress report 2008-09 page 3
Finding Resources Using Information Creating Knowledge
If you want to find information in a general area – not a specific subject, mind you, but a general area – how do you go about it? How do you identify what journals cover that area most comprehensively, what primary resources are available, whether there are digital or audio/visual resources that you’re not aware of? In the case of the UCLA Library, you might start with a research guide.
UCLA Users and Library Collections
Today’s increasingly complex, information-intensive academic world demands research guides that are adaptable, expandable, and easy to use. That can of course be a person, such as the collection development manager responsible for a given subject area or a reference librarian who’s familiar with resources in many disciplines. But since even the most dedicated and efficient librarian can’t be available to all of UCLA’s students, faculty, and staff 24/7, the electronic research guide offers a useful substitute.
When looking at the various UCLA campus libraries’ individual progress reports for 2008-09, the near ubiquity of research guides stands out, particu- larly when compared with previous years. Nearly every librarian created one, and many created more than one, some for specific disciplines and others customized for individual courses. You can see them for yourself at
This could be attributed to the fact that the UCLA Library licensed a Web-hosted application that makes customized research guides easy to create. It could also be attributed to librarians wanting to move guides they had created in print format or as static Web pages into the new application. { UCLA Librarian } progress report 2008-09 page 4
But as usage statistics indicate, the primary motive appears to be user-driven. UCLA’s students, faculty, and staff are increasingly studying and doing research around the clock and around the world, and they rely on the Library – all aspects of the Library, collections-related services as well as many of the collections themselves – to be available when and where they’re working.
The guides share certain commonalities; all contain the banner from the UCLA Library’s homepage so it’s easy to see that they’re official Library resources, and each contains contact information for the person or department that created it. But the contents are wildly diverse, reflecting the unique needs of and resources in the areas they cover.
Take, for example, the guide for indigenous literatures and languages of the Americas (see upper left). The section labels near the top are familiar enough and appear on countless other guides: books, journals, primary sources, refer - ence sources. But what is featured in the center of page? A series of YouTube videos featuring indigenous poets reading in their own languages. And off to one side are links to audio of interviews with contemporary Native American authors. What better way to introduce users immediately to those indigenous languages and literatures?
Many of the guides offer more than background on and links to useful resources; some also offer direct, real-time contact with the librarian who builds and provides services for the specific discipline. Stop by the guide to electrical engineering, and you’ll find a chat box in the right-hand column labeled “Contact Your Librarian” (see lower left). When the librarian is online, users can chat with him right then and there rather than sending an email and waiting for a reply.
The approach taken in certain guides also anticipates the knowledge level of its potential users. One of the music guides, on popular music and bands, seems keenly aware before they even arrive on the page that its users may not be familiar with searching a library for information in this area. It cheerily greets visitors with tips to get started and a featured section on “Where to look
• Frances Parthenope, Lady Verney; Life and Major Ac quisitions 2008-09 death of Athena, 1855? Limited-edition litho - graphed facsimile of a story about an owl Arts Library graphs, letters, and medical and political rescued by Florence Nightingale, which ephemera from this nearly forgotten figure became her pet and companion until it Catalogue raisonnés on Michelangelo, Joan in California medicine and politics; Young died; written and sent by her sister to cheer Miro, Edvard Munch, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, (b. 1828) participated in the temperance move - Nightingale up during a serious illness Diego Rivera, Auguste Rodin, ment, edited Bay Area journals, lectured on Alison Bunting Endowed Rare Books Fund: and Ed Ruscha public health topics, earned a medical degree, Lillian, and was active in founding the local branch Steven C. Daiber, 1995. An artist’s Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library of the Populist Party book responding to Marcello Malpighi’s Anatome plantarum, created for the 1995-96 Psychiatry Online Franklin E. Murphy, MD Fund exhibition “Science and the Artist’s Book” Radio-active Substances, at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries Psychiatry Legacy Collection • Susan Kae Grant, 1995. Limited-edition artist’s book juxtaposing Willard Lee Marmelzat, MD Collection Sage eReference Collection historic photographic images with text Endowment summarizing Curie’s experiments leading to Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library the discovery of radium; pages made out of Raymund Minderer, De calcantho seu vitriolo, History and Special Collections for lead sheeting 1617. First edition of an important book in the history of chemistry about the discovery the Sciences • Julius Arnold, Pathologische Anatomie, ca. 1880- of ammonium acetate 82. A detailed and perhaps unpublished Carrie F. Young Collection series of illustrated lecture notes on anato- Notebooks, ledgers, lecture notes, photo - mical and clinical pathology { UCLA Librarian } progress report 2008-09 page 5
first!” One of its tabs also offers the reminder that research is a process, not a destination: “To be thorough, look here too...”
Any library guide, however, is only as good as the collections it supports, and in that regard, the UCLA Library made remarkable strides during 2008-09.
A comparison of the total volumes listed on page sixteen with the figures from previous years shows a remarkable jump of more than six hundred and fifty thou - sand volumes in one year. During preceding years the total volumes increased at the pace of about one hundred thousand volumes a year, so what is behind this sizable increase?
Two factors played a role. In August 2008 the Library announced a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to address a backlog in cataloging its rare books. That project kicked into high gear almost immediately, and the concrete results are evident in these numbers. In addition, efforts to catalog electronic books and add them to the UCLA Library Catalog have increased; given the rapid increase in the Library holdings in electronic format, that amounts to a sizable number as well.
In fact, one of the Library’s major acquisitions of e-books serves as a reminder of how being part of the University of California system enhances the UCLA Library’s own holdings. Collectively, the UC libraries have the largest collection
Ralph R. and Patricia N. Sonnenschein Black Politicians Series: Action Center; Rudy Acuña, pioneering Medals Collection Fund David S. Cunningham, former Los Angeles City Chicano studies scholar Conquer SARS, 2003. Limited-edition bronze Council member; Robert C. Farrell, former Los medal issued by the Chinese government in Angeles City Council member Digital Projects honor of healthcare workers who battled the Digitized and accessible to the public through Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic Environmental Activism in L.A. Series: the Internet Archive are selections from three Andrea Hricko, director of community out - collections of rare books. Donald and Hisae Dickey Jr. Endowed Fund reach and education for Southern California James Sinclair, The Entomological and Ornithological Environmental Health Sciences Center; Maurice N. Beigelman Collection of Collector’s Hand-book, 1915. Variant editions of Antonio Ramirez, community organizer for Ophthalmology this California author’s work on collecting and the Port Teamsters in Long Beach; Selma Fifty-one landmark works in vision science preserving biological specimens, contempo - Rubin, community activist from the Renaissance, given to the Louise M. rary to research conducted by the naturalist, Darling Biomedical Library by Dr. Beigelman, Korean American Community Leaders hunter, collector, and photographer Donald a Los Angeles ophthalmologist; accessible at Ryder Dickey Series:
in the nation and one of the largest in the world, and during 2008-09 that collection grew even larger with the purchase of nearly every electronic book published by the German publisher Springer in English and German from 2005 to 2009.
These nearly twenty thousand books fall into the following broad subject areas: architecture and design; behavioral science; biomedical and life sciences; business and economics; chemistry and materials science; computer science; earth and environmental science; engineering; humanities, social sciences, and law; mathe - matics and statistics; medicine; physics and astronomy; and professional and applied computing. All belong to the Library in perpetuity, can be downloaded in PDF format, and can be used in part or in their entirety for any educational purpose: course reserves, course Web sites, in course management systems.
Also lending a major boost to collection building was a $5-million gift from the Arcadia Fund, the largest single gift for collections in the UCLA Library’s history. Given in the amount of $1 million per year for five years, these funds will be used to further develop, preserve, and make accessible Library collections, as exempli - fied by the first project to receive support from the gift.
“Collecting Los Angeles” gathers, preserves, interprets, and makes accessible collections documenting the remarkable multiplicity of cultures and at-risk hidden histories of the Los Angeles region. This new program builds on the Lib- rary’s existing strengths in this area, which encompass special collections; photo archives; oral histories; maps; and circulating materials on local history, govern - George Otto Hanft, cartographer. Pictorial map of Califor- ment, politics, and literary, performing, and visual arts. It is also transforming the nia missions and exploration routes; sponsored by Equitable Savings and Loan Association. 1967. Charles E. Young way the Library engages with local communities, in support of Chancellor Gene Research Library Department of Special Collections Block’s goal of civic engagement, while enhancing collection-building activities, drawing multiple new connections among existing collections, and attracting new audiences to their use.
But of course it’s the use of UCLA Library collections that is important, not sim - ply their existence. Recognizing that, Ruth Simon, retired UCLA campus counsel and a long-time Library supporter, created an endowment to support the annual
Robert E. Gross Collection of Rare Books in cang xijian fangzhi congkan [Series of rare Huizu wenxian congkan [Hui literature series] Business and Economics local gazetteers collected by Fujian Hui, or Muslim, is a major nationality Some two hundred volumes, including some Normal University Library] in China multiple editions, of pre-1800 works on trade and commerce purchased by the Eugene and Budengdaya wenku cang zhenben ziqu congkan Jinwen wenxian jicheng [Collection of Clementi Maxine Rosenfeld Management Library with [Rare drama series of the Budengdaya literature integration] funds given by the Lockheed Leadership collection] Classical and modern Chinese archaeological Fund and Mrs. Robert E. Gross; accessible Contains sixty-four kinds of Chinese drama research literature at
Poster for The Sport of the Gods ; released in 1921 by Reol Productions. Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collec- tions, George P. Johnson Negro Film Collection
Kango Takamura (1895-1990); Keeping the Camp Clean and Tidy; undated. Watercolor and ink on paper; 20 x 24 inches matted. Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, Kango Takamura Paintings
Zhongguo fengtuzhi congkan [Series of China Kenji Ito Collection Toshi, no¯son seikatsu cho¯sa shiry o¯ shu¯sei 2 geographic gazetteers] and Zhongguo Sixty-seven volumes, primarily in literature, [Collected works for research on urban shuilizhi congkan [Series of China water history, and law, collected by this long-time and rural lives, series two] conservancy gazetteers] attorney, donated by his daughter, Ayleen Raw research data from the Taisho (1912-26) Ito Lee Japanese: and the early Showa (1926-89) periods Keidanren shu¯ho¯: 1951-94 [Japan Federation Korean: Asahi Kikuzo II Visual: online version of Economic Organizations weekly] of Asahi shinbun (1945-), AERA (May 1988-), Eight CD-ROMs reproduce all issues of this Choson kogohak chonso [Korea archaeological and Shu¯kan Asahi (April 2000-; news weekly newsletter. reports] section only) Reports on major archaeological discoveries Nagasaki Shinbun, 1960-67 [Nagasaki news- from 1949 to 2005 issued by North Korea Fujin kurabu [Women’s club] paper] Tables of contents of pre-war issues of this E-Korean Studies popular monthly women’s magazine Yoko Sasaki Collection Integrates eleven major Korean databases 271 volumes on subjects including arts, his - Yuji Ichioka Collection tory, and literature collected by Ms. Sasaki’s Han-il hoedam chonggukwon kwallyon munso More than 1,100 volumes of books, serials, husband [Documental collection of Korean- and pamphlets on Japanese American Japan compensation negotiations] history from the collection of this long- Shakai hosh nenkan: 1951-60 [The social secu - From the 1952-66 Korea-Japan normaliza - time UCLA faculty member, donated by rity yearbook] tion talks his widow, Emma Gee Taiyo Online version of this 1895-1928 historical journal { UCLA Librarian } progress report 2008-09 page 8
UCLA Library Prize for Undergraduate Research. Awarded for the first time in April 2009, the Ruth Simon First Place Award went to Edgar Hermosillo Gaytan for his paper “A Community of Shared Goods as Presented in the New Testament Book of Acts of the Apostles: Pre-industrial Urban Reality.”
The paper was for a history directed research course, with the faculty support of Professor Scot Bartchy. In his letter supporting Edgar’s application for this award, Professor Bartchy said of his student, “Mr. Hermosillo far exceeded my require - ments and expectations regarding both the breadth and depth of his research on this topic. He thoroughly exploited a bibliography of excellent resources that required two and one-half pages to list. He demonstrated enormous intellectual curiosity and followed the footnotes in one book and article after another into Professor Scot Bartchy and Edgar Hermosillo new material.”
Edgar explained further how he used Library resources and services for this paper. “Truly, the UCLA Library system and its staff were pivotal in my research, not only assisting me in finding essential books and journals, but also in locating those that were not on the libraries’ shelves. The interlibrary loan office was a godsend, many times querying far-off institutions for obscure reference works, ...scanning pieces which these institutions might only reluctantly lend, and sending them to me directly by email.... I realize that the quality of my biblio- graphy is reflective of the amazing library facilities possessed here at UCLA.”
Professor Bartchy’s letter makes it clear that Edgar has taken the next step in the process, which is not simply to consume information but to produce knowledge. “He became so interested in doing further research on this topic that he asked if I would continue to mentor him during spring quarter. Although my schedule was already full, I quickly agreed to do so. I have come to regard Mr. Hermosillo as one of the best young scholars I know.”
Perhaps one day Edgar Hermosillo Gaytan’s published research will join UCLA Library collections, and their supporting research guides, to engage new genera - tions of students and scholars.
Ilche ha chonsi chejegi chongchaek saryo chongso Deal Pipeline Uniworld Online [Japanese colonial rules and policies News coverage and analysis for mergers and Directory of American Firms Operating in on Korea] acquisitions, venture capital, private equity Foreign Countries and Directory of Foreign Documents on Japanese colonial rules and deals, hedge funds, initial public offerings, Firms Operating in the United States policies in Korea during the latter part of the bankruptcies, and business auctions colonial period (1937-45) Wharton Research Data Services First Research Industry Reports CISDM HedgeFund/CTA Database; Center for Korean Film Council: seventy-six DVDs and Overviews and analyses of U.S. niche and Research in Securities Prices Survivor-Bias- seventy-one monographs difficult-to-research industries Free US Mutual Fund Database; KLD Stats Professor Sang-Oak Lee Collection Global Market Navigator Music Library More than six hundred volumes of mono - Market size, share, segmentation, and com - graphs and academic journals in linguistics pound annual growth rate for consumer and Three important facsimiles of musical man - and literature given by this Seoul National industrial products and services in the U.S. uscripts acquired with the Professor Richard University professor and more than fifty markets worldwide Hudson Endowment in Music and the Henry J. Bruman Educational Investext Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld Foundation Endowment Fund: Chansonnier de Equity analyst reports from U.S. and world - Management Library Jean Montchenu, Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, wide investment banks and consulting firms Rothschild MS 2973; Chopin Piano Datamonitor Company Case Studies Mergent Horizon Concerto in F Minor; Codex Chantilly, Musée More than two hundred consumer- Database of U.S.-traded companies organized Condé, MS 564 products-focused case studies for U.S. by their goods and services and key business and UK companies relationships { UCLA Librarian } progress report 2008-09 page 9
University Librarian Discretionary Fund Acquisitions
Of the twenty-eight percent of the Library’s budget spent on issues about work, pressure to produce, and the anonymity of materials, only a small percentage reflects expenditures for the average worker. acquisitions from the university librarian’s discretionary fund. Yet these few items offer insight into how the Library builds Moving from the printed, albeit altered, page to the built envi - collections and adapts them to encompass scholarship in non- ronment, research needs are very different in the architecture traditional print formats and to support expanded areas of and urban design programs. Though these students and faculty research and instruction. would much prefer to travel in person to see buildings and urban settings they are studying, Altered books are artists’ books that that is often impractical. Thus, high- have been constructed using an entire quality DVDs about the work of existing book or elements of one as noted architects and major projects a starting point, which then become fill an essential need. something completely new after being altered by an artist. The Arts Library Among the recent releases acquired acquired two altered books by by the Arts Library are Kochuu: Japanese California artists to enhance its Architecture / Influence and Origin (2006), already strong artists’ book collection, which is justly regarded about modern Japanese architecture; Great Expectations: A Journey as a community treasure (for more on its use by UCLA students, through the History of Visionary Architecture (2007), examining innova - see services article on page twelve). tive architecture from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present; and Waste = Food (2007), exploring the “cradle Carolyn Berry (b. 1930) is known both as a painter and a to cradle” movement, which aims at an ecologically-inspired mixed-media artist; her unique 2005 book More or Less Genuine industrial revolution. definitely falls into the latter category. Terry Braunstein’s (b. 1942) 1995 work Shorthanded, produced in an edition of Three other DVDs focus on the work of individual architects. twenty-five, uses analtered shorthand textbook to raise Shigeru Ban: An Architect for Emergencies (2006) features interviews
Performing Arts Special Collections Archives of Los Angeles area painter Vsevold Nicouline Correspondence to D. J. Hall and painter/printmaker Walter Bernard Meeks James Arkatov Jazz Photographs Gabrielson Collection of twenty-seven letters and Steve Bramson Jag Scores envelopes with original watercolor illustra - Aldous and Laura Huxley Collection tions from children’s book illustrator Julia Duffy Papers The literary archive of the visionary novelist Nicouline to children’s book collector Meeks Ralph Edwards Productions Records and essayist and the papers of his wife, Laura, an author and lay therapist Anne and Billy Wilkinson Collection of Elliott Gould Papers Library Postcards Merv Griffin Papers Miriam Matthews Collection of Los Angeles Approximately 5,800 postcards representing African American newspapers, ca. 1948-85 Curtis Kheel Scripts Collection libraries during 1900-90; given in honor of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts: James Davis Laemmle Theater Records • Gratien (twelfth century) with Bartolomeo Science and Engineering Library Martin Leeds DesiLu Productions Contracts da Brescia, Decretum, France; Latin, illumi- Los Angeles Opera Theater Records nated manuscript on parchment More than forty new bio- and nanophoton - • Nicolas de Biard, Distinctiones, France, ics books in support of expanded efforts of Charles E. Young Research Library c. 1250-75; Latin, decorated manuscript the Department of Electrical Engineering Department of Special Collections on parchment and the California NanoSystems Institute • Publius Terentius Afer [Comoediae], Phormio, John Fante Papers Western Bavaria, c. 1460-70; manuscript on Materials on the formation and evolution The literary papers of this Los Angeles novel - paper of planetary bodies, astrophysical environ - ist, short-story writer, and screenwriter ments and planetary phenomena, and comets and other primitive bodies in the { UCLA Librarian } progress report 2008-09 page 10
with Ban (b. 1957), known for his use of inexpensive construc - Keeping pace with these changes, the Science and Engineering tion materials, and footage of his projects. Renzo Piano: Work Library acquired a number of recently published books that deal in Progress (2006) follows different stages of three of this non- with ocean-atmosphere interactions. conformist architect’s (b. 1937) projects to explore his artistic They included C hemical Oceanography philosophy and the operations of his office. Eileen Gray: Designer and the Marine Carbon Cycle (Cambridge and Architect (2007) uses archival footage and excerpts from University Press, 2008 ); Freshwater Gray’s (1878-1976) writings to Ecosystems and Climate Change in North chronicle her life and her reso- America: A Regional Assessment (Wiley, lutely modern furniture and 1997); An Introduction to Ocean Turbulence building designs. (Cambridge University Press, 2007); and Managing and Transforming Water Shifting from the built environ - Conflicts (Cambridge University Press, ment to the natural world and 2009). In addition to those print from North Campus to South titles, the library also acquired three Campus, the Department of online publications: Air-Ice-Ocean Interaction Atmospheric Sciences recently (Springer, 2008); Breaking Ocean Waves: Geo- changed its name to the Depart- metry, Structure, and Remote Sensing (Springer, ment of Atmospheric and Oceanic 2007); and Hurricanes and Climate Change Sciences, and its instruction and research have expanded (Springer, 2009). to reflect this broadening of scope. Research in this area ranges from the role of the ocean in the physical climate system to its part in the global carbon cycle and also emphasizes the study of the coastal environment and interactions between land and open sea.
solar system in support of the research Edward A. Lasher Chemistry Library Fund • Lees’ Loss Prevention in the Process Industries: Hazard directions of three new faculty in the • Comprehensive Chemometrics: Chemical and Identification, Assessment, and Control, 2005 Department of Earth and Space Sciences Biochemical Data Analysis, 2007 Complete information on theory, practice, Four-volume set examining the merits and design elements, equipment, and laws per - Nearly sixty titles covering a wide range of limitations of each chemometric technique taining to process safety mathematical applications in support of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology, • 2009 University Archives current research directions of the Institute Four-volume set examining the role of for Pure and Applied Mathematics chemistry and chemical techniques in the life sciences Gustave Arlt, Department of Linguistics; Initial titles for a core collection in mathe- Graduate Dean matics for teacher education in support of • Chemical Biology: From Small Molecules to Systems Albert Boime, Department of Art History the Department of Mathematics’ Philip C. Biology and Drug Design, 2007 Curtis Jr. Center for Mathematics and Three-volume set edited by the world Robert Emerson, Department of Sociology leaders in this emerging field Teaching • Handbook of Environmental Data on Organic Sheldon K. Friedlander, Department of More than twenty books on radio fre- Chemicals, 2009 Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering quency identification in support of the Four-volume set containing information Harold Garfinkel, Department of Sociology needed to use potentially dangerous che- Wireless Internet for Mobile Enterprise Richard C. Maxwell, Dean, School of Law Consortium, a UCLA-based university, micals prudently industry, and government collaboration, • Handbook of Green Chemistry: Green Catalysis, and the Department of Electrical 2009 Engineering Summarizes recent work on breakthroughs, innovation, and creativity in green chem - istry and engineering { UCLA Librarian } progress report 2008-09 page 11
Preserving Copyright, Broadening Access
Student Collaboration Yields Cost Savings
Several years ago, student representatives from the routinely share information on arti - USAC Academic Affairs Commission approached cles from electronic journals used the Library to talk about textbook-related costs. in course readers, and when the Judith Smith, vice provost for undergraduate edu - educational-use terms of Library journal licenses allow, Academic cation, and the Faculty Committee on Educational Publishing is able to eliminate addi - Technology had suggested they ask whether the tional permissions fees for using those articles. This has lowered Library could help them find a way to lower the readers’ prices substantially, costs of course readers. A significant portion of depending on the number of eligi - the readers’ contents has been published in elec- ble articles. tronic journals to which the Library licenses In addition to informing faculty about the cost savings their stu - access or subscribes to in print and in books it dents would achieve if their course owns, so the Library was a natural partner in readers were produced by Aca- this effort. demic Publishing, this project gave the Library another opportunity to remind faculty members to Sharon Farb, associate university librarian for collec - negotiate the terms of all author tion management and scholarly communication, agreements they sign. By retaining the copyright responded with enthusiasm, seeing the possibility for educational re-use, such as posting on a course of leveraging Library-licensed/owned materials to Web site or depositing in the open-access University accomplish this goal. She brought in ASUCLA Aca- of California eScholarship Repository, faculty can demic Publishing, which produces course readers increase access to their scholarship and broaden on a cost-recovery basis; the price of each reader its reach. includes the actual cost of making it, such as paper and staff time, plus a permissions fee paid to a copy - right clearing house on behalf of publishers for use of the contents. The permissions fee, which is calcu - lated by multiplying the number of students enrolled in a course by the number of pages or number of articles, can amount to as much as sixty percent of a reader’s cost.
Together, the three organizations developed a pilot study during Spring 2008 to analyze a small sample of course readers. Looking at only journal articles With its direct benefit to students’ budgets, this used in the sample readers, the study identified project opened a new front in the Library’s copy - savings ranging from a minimum of twelve cents to right, publishing, and intellectual property program. a maximum of $30.18 when the terms of the Library’s It joins ongoing efforts to help scholars make their license agreements allowed this educational use work more visible and usable, assist with copyright without additional permissions payments. questions and use of the eScholarship Repository, and inform the campus community about develop - With this background information in hand, the colla- ments affecting author rights, the use of copyrighted borative project began in earnest in Fall 2008 and is materials in research and instruction, and open- ongoing. The Library and Academic Publishing now access initiatives. { UCLA Librarian } progress report 2008-09 page 12
A New Approach A Broader Reach – A Personal
Just as not all books can be defined by the traditional description of printed pages con - taining content bound together within two covers, not all library instructional sessions can be characterized as students, staff, or faculty sitting across a desk or in a classroom learning about library collections and services from a librarian.
Case in point is a Fiat Lux course offered by visual arts Collections and gained a sense of the richness and librarian Robert Gore in Fall 2008. Begun in Fall 2002, diversity of these materials, particularly with regard to Fiat Lux one-unit seminars for freshmen provide valu - book artists active in Los Angeles and California. They able forums in which students and faculty explore also met a real book artist; Barbara Drucker, professor topics of intellectual importance and participate in of painting and drawing in the Department of Art, critical discussion of these topics. Their small-group talked about one of her own creations and also about setting develops students’ critical thinking skills and altered books (for more on altered books, see the arti - allows close contact with and attention from the cle on page nine on acquisitions with the university instructor. librarian’s discretionary fund).
(l-r) Rebecca Liu, Inextricable, 2008; Paul Kim, Untitled, 2008; Joanna Rodriguez, LA by Bus, 2008
In “Artists’ Books in the UCLA Library and Beyond,” For their final assignment, students had the choice of Gore offered an introduction to the genre of artists’ making their own artist’s book or giving a presentation books and to the remarkable collections of these works on a book artist or artist’s book. Most chose to make a held at UCLA. During sessions led by guest lecturers, book; through unusual combinations of content, struc - students examined artists’ books in the collections of tures, and images, the students commented on topics the Arts Library, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library ranging from the birth of Venus to fashion to dreaming. History and Special Collections for the Sciences, The creative, unique results were displayed in an exhib - William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, and Charles it at the Research Library, which then traveled to the E. Young Research Library Department of Special Biomedical Library. { UCLA Librarian } progress report 2008-09 page 13
Touch
More traditional library instruction also took place, as the figure of nearly twenty-five thousand partic - ipants on the statistics page makes evident. In addition to regular instructional sessions for courses, the College Library offered for the first time an honors UCLA students, faculty, and staff. Any questions that collegium, designed to assist undergraduates who can’t be answered by an information specialist at planned to be involved with a major research project another institution are referred back to the UCLA or to undertake an honors thesis or comprehensive Library for follow-up by a librarian here. project in the social and behavioral sciences. The Though broad descriptions are useful in setting the collegium brought subject specialists in to talk about stage for the Library’s service-related accomplishments print and electronic collections in specific disciplines during this fiscal year, one specific anecdote highlights as well as Library experts in intellectual property man - the real meaning that abstract word “service” had for agement, who outlined ways that students can manage a particular user. their own copyrights to ensure broad public access
to published research. Guillaume Sutre, UCLA professor of violin and first violin in the Ysaye Quartet, sent an urgent email to The ubiquity of the cellphone has long been esta- music librarian Gordon Theil one Monday afternoon blished, and during this fiscal year the Library’s in March, explaining that his quartet’s luggage hadn’t reference services expanded to add text messaging arrived in Montreal, where they were playing that to the other methods – online chat, email, in person, night, and one of the parts he was to play, the Bartok and on the phone – by which users can obtain assis - string quartet No.6, was in the luggage. tance. Begun as a pilot focused on student athletes,
whose busy travel schedules make them even more None of the music shops in Montreal had the part, reliant on their phones than typical students, the so as a last resort, Sutre asked if someone in the service expanded to the entire UCLA community Music Library could scan the part from its collections as of Fall 2008. and email it to him as a PDF. Within two hours, the part was scanned and the PDF sent. Several hours In addition, reference assistance via online chat later a follow-up email arrived from the musician: expanded to round-the-clock service seven days a week “just played the Bartok, thank you so much for your as of January 2009. Together with the other University help. Without you I would have been in big trouble; of California libraries, the UCLA Library joined the you saved our concert!” Online Computing Library Center’s 24/7 Reference Cooperative, through which librarians worldwide Now that’s service! answer informational and research questions from { UCLA Librarian } progress report 2008-09 page 14
Exhibits
Happy Anniversary: Darwin’s On the Origin of Species
February 2009 Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the publica - tion of Charles Darwin’s landmark work On the Origin of Species (1859) as well as the author’s two-hundredth birthday, the Biomedical Library exhibited its two copies of the first edition from History and Special Collections for the Sciences, together with a portrait of Darwin This photograph was taken by Jonathan Wilson, instructional technology services and support coordinator close to the age at which he wrote it. with Library Computing Services, as part of his ongoing One/Day Project. The complete project can be viewed online at
The other, from the collection of former UCLA Chancellor and ardent UCLA Library supporter Franklin D. Murphy, came by a more circuitous route. Myron Prinzmetal, a clinical professor of cardiology at UCLA as well as an avid book collector, presented Dr. Murphy with his copy of the Darwin book when Dr. Murphy became chancellor. Dr. Murphy thanked him and promptly gave it to the Biomedical Library.
Wisely Selected...Carefully Preserved: Sixtieth Anniversary of the University Archives September 22-December 5, 2008 Powell Library Rotunda
In 1948 – twenty-nine years after UCLA’s opening in September 1919 as a “junior branch” of the University of California’s Berkeley campus – UCLA Librarian Lawrence Clark Powell established the University Archives. Though twenty-nine years was not much time for a person, family, or even a university campus to develop a “history,” Powell understood the value and necessity of establishing an archival program for UCLA.
Because of Powell’s vision, anyone interested in the history of UCLA has access to a wealth of archival materials, a sampling of which were on display in this exhibit. Materials collected by the University Archives include correspondence files of the chancellors, deans, directors, and chairs; minutes of departmental meetings; and records of administrative units and academic departments. Biographical files on persons affiliated with UCLA, photographs, moving image and audio recordings of sports and campus events, memorabilia, and architectural histories of the campus are also collected.
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Archaeological and Ethnographic Conservation May-June 2009 Charles E. Young Research Library
Preserving the past, documenting the present, and nourishing culture for the future, the Agua Caliente Cultural Museum in the heart of Palm Springs interprets the history and culture of the Agua Caliente band of Cahuilla Indians and other Cahuilla peoples. Tohono O’odham (Papago) Basket; Devil’s Claw, tule, and cottonwood or willow; Agua Caliente Cultural Museum, Gift This exhibit featured objects from museum collections that students from of Barbara Stewart the UCLA/Getty master’s program in archaeological and ethnographic con - servation researched, treated, and documented during the winter quarters in 2007 and 2009. The students’ work, which included weaving and plant gathering with tribal experts, was undertaken as part of a course designed to engage students in consultation with both tribal and museum stakeholders about preservation practices.
The exhibit was organized by Ellen Pearlstein, assistant professor of information studies and a core faculty mem - ber in the master’s program, which is administered through the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.
Rio de Janeiro: Two Centuries of Urban Change, 1808-2008 January-June 2009 Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections
Rio de Janeiro is a magical place, a city of fabled beauty and dramatic contrasts, where nature and the human hand have joined to create a landscape of panoramic views and iconic images – Guanabara Bay, the peaks of Sugarloaf and Corcovado, the rows of royal palms, Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, the arcos of the eighteenth-century aqueduct, the Avenidas Rio Branco and Beira-Mar, the statue of Christ the Redeemer, historic churches, and hilltop shantytowns known as favelas.
This exhibit showed how over the past two hundred years artists Panorama Visto do Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro, Charles E. Young Research and photographers have repeatedly been drawn to these images Library Department of Special Collections in a process of icon building within a dynamic context of urban growth and modernization. Printed books, periodicals, and pho - tographs were featured, along with manuscripts, maps, films, original artworks, lantern slides, stereocards, chapbooks, and ephemera.
It was co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies and organized by Stephen Bell, Ludwig Lauerhass Jr., and José Luiz Passos. Accompanying events ranged from screenings of popular period films to a lecture on the bossa nova.
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The Hard Numbers: 2008-09 Statistics
Collections: Expenditures – $ 43.2 million
• 9,045,818 total volumes; includes print and electronic Where it goes
• 38,975 current serial titles (30,758 Student and limited-appointment print, 8,217 electronic) staff: 10%
• 283,113 electronic resources
Library materials: 28% Benefits: 11% Users:
• 3,934,128 visitors to all campus libraries Academic salaries: 13% • 4.4 million virtual visits to Library Web pages Staff salaries: 28%
• 24,977 participants in library instructional programs Supplies and expense: 10% • 1.9 million items circulated (check - outs plus renewals)
• 136,010 reference questions answered (111,319 in person; 15,737 by telephone; 7,324 by Where it comes from email; 1,310 online; 116 by mail; 204 by text message)
• 1.05 million visits to the UCLA Library Catalog
• 37,922 interlibrary loan items borrowed State funds: 86%
• 46,796 interlibrary loan items Gifts and endowments: 5.1% loaned
• 2,701 document delivery requests Sales and service activity: 3.6% filled Contracts and grants: 4.4%
Staff: Student and other fees: 0.9%
• 85 Librarians
• 246 Staff
• 427 Students { UCLA Librarian } progress report 2008-09 page 17 UCLA Library Senior Staff*
UCLA Academic Senate Gary E. Strong, University Librarian Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication Susan E. Parker, Deputy University Librarian Judy Consales, Associate University Librarian for Sciences; Director, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, National Network of Lib- raries of Medicine – Pacific Southwest Region Shane Butler Department of Classics Sharon E. Farb, Associate University Librarian for Collection Chair Management and Scholarly Communications Pat Hawthorne, Director, Library Human Resources
Gary E. Strong Kevin Mulroy, Associate University Librarian for Academic Services; University Librarian Interim Head, Charles E. Young Research Library Collections, Research, and Instructional Services
Sarah Barbara Watstein, Associate University Librarian for Nina Byers Research and Instructional Services Department of Physics and Astronomy
Alison Armstrong, Head, College Library; Director, Undergraduate James Catterall Initiatives Department of Education Tania Bardyn, Associate Director for Public Services, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library Leon Fine Teresa Barnett, Head, Center for Oral History Research Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a UCLA-affiliated hospital Charlotte Brown, University Archivist
Colleen Carlton, Director, Southern Regional Library Facility Emily Klenin Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures M. Rita Costello, Head, Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld Management Library
Stephen Davison, Head, Digital Library Program Helen Rees Department of Ethnomusicology Lisa Kemp Jones, Head, Library Computing Services
Jacob Nadal, Preservation Officer
Andrew Watson John Riemer, Head, Cataloging and Metadata Center David Geffen School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology Heidi Sandstrom, Associate Director, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Southwest Region
Dora Weiner Dawn Setzer, Director, Library Communications Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Debra Shade, Director, Library Business and Enterprise Services
Don Sloane, Head, Charles E. Young Research Library Access Keri Botello Services Librarians Association of the University of California, Los Angeles Representative Amy Smith, Executive Director, Library Development
Vicki Terbovich, Head, Library Information Technology Gautam Prasad Head, Arts Library and Music Library Graduate Student Association Representative Gordon Theil, Amy Tsiang, Head, Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library
Cathy Davis Germaine Wadeborn, Head, Print Acquisitions Department Academic Senate Staff Zheng (John) Wang, Head, Library Web Services
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Man-Hing Chen* Memorial Endowment 2008–09 To establish the Man-Hing Chen Memorial Endowment in memory of the first head of the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Donor Honor Roll Library; the endowment will support the highest priorities of the East Asian Library
The UCLA Library system is ranked among the top ten academic Council on Library and Information Resources research libraries in North America and continues to draw inter- A gift in support of the UCLA Library’s national attention for its superlative collections and innovative undergraduate initiatives program use of technology. Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation A grant in support of the Center for To assure the Library’s support of UCLA’s acclaimed academic and Primary Research and Training documen - tary film project in the Charles E. Young research programs, private contributions are more important than Research Library Department of Special ever. We are honored to thank the individuals, foundations, and Collections corporations whose generous philanthropy has played a vital role Dickey Family Trust in the continued success of the UCLA Library during the fiscal year To augment the Donald and Hisae Dickey Jr. Endowed Fund, which supports the from July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2009. Listed here are donors Donald R. Dickey Collection of Vertebrate who gave cash gifts totaling $1,000 or greater or an appraised gift- Zoology in the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special in-kind. A comprehensive list of all donors appears in the Donor Collections for the Sciences
Honor Roll link on the Library Development Web site at
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Sammy Yukuan Lee Foundation Ann E. Sumner* Estate James O. Page Charitable Foundation To establish the Sammy Yukuan To establish the Ann Sumner Library Fund Northrop Grumman Foundation Lee Family Endowment for Chinese endowment for the purchase of books in PricewaterhouseCoopers Foundation** Archaeology and Culture to support the art history Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation purchase of books and other materials Zhongkun Group Inc. pertaining to Chinese archaeology and Amy C. Tsiang and Donald H. Tsiang culture for the Richard C. Rudolph East To establish the Amy Ching-Fen Tsiang Asian Library Legacy Endowment, which will support Library Associates – Powell the purchase of materials for the Richard Society Andrew W. Mellon Foundation C. Rudolph East Asian Library These individuals made cumulative discretionary A grant to support the cataloging of gifts of $1,000 or greater. unprocessed collections of rare and Adam F. Wechsler* Trust unique materials in the UCLA Library A gift to support the highest priority Roy H. Aaron needs of the Louise M. Darling Bio- Marianne H. Afifi and Abdelmonem A. Wallace I. Nispel* medical Library Afifi, PhD To support the highest priority needs of Dean V. Ambrose the Library Joan S. Zenan To establish the Joan S. Zenan Endowed Patti and Harlan Amstutz James O. Page Charitable Foundation Discretionary Fund to support the highest Patricia R. Anawalt To establish the James O. Page Collection priorities of the Louise M. Darling Bio- Jean L. Aroeste Endowment, which supports the acquisi - medical Library Christy Beaudin tion, preservation, and processing of Ronda and Stanley Breitbard materials for the James O. Page Collec- Zhongkun Group Inc. David H. Brown tion, housed in the History and Special To establish the Nubo Huang of Zhongkun H. J. (Joe) Bryant Collections for the Sciences in the Louise Group Cultural Endowed Fund, which will S. Adelaide Coulter and Ian D. Coulter M. Darling Biomedical Library support the acquisition, processing, and Fereshteh M. Diba preservation of Chinese materials on Gordon H. and Cathie C. Dixon Norman and Armena Powell contemporary literature and occasional William P. Edwards and Ann Edwards To augment the Norman J. and Armena cultural events in the Richard C. Rudolph Caroline B. Erickson B. Powell Endowed Fund to support the East Asian Library highest priority needs of the Library. An William and Patricia Flumenbaum additional gift to the Library Associates, Rose R. Gilbert also in support of the highest priority Corporate and Foundation Gifts Mildred R. Johnson needs of the Library These corporations and foundations made cumu- Chung P. and San Oak Kim lative cash contributions of $1,000 or greater or Susan and George Kinney Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation cumulative gift-in-kind contributions valued at June E. Lewin and David Lewin To establish the Robert Gore Rifkind $5,000 or greater. Jane Lopatt and Richard A. Lopatt Foundation Endowment for the Arts, Janet E. Marott The Ahmanson Foundation which will support the acquisition, pre- Kay Mason servation, and processing of materials in Arcadia Fund John E. Matthews the arts. An additional gift to the Library B. H. Breslauer Foundation Marilyn W. McIntyre Associates to support the highest priority California Community Foundation Herb and Margery Morris needs of the Library –W.J. Barlow Fund Giselle C. Namazie – Sara and Harold Lincoln Thompson Raymond C. Rothman* Endowed Robert Gore Rifkind Fund Collection in the History of Cognitive Leon Rootenberg and Barbara Rootenberg Council on Library and Information Science Susan C. Salenger Resources To augment the Raymond C. Rothman Ruth M. Simon Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Endowed Collection in the History of Wendy B. Smith and Barry M. Meyer Ralph Edwards Productions Inc. Cognitive Science in the Louise M. Amy Sherman Smith and Robert Simon Elsevier Inc. Darling Biomedical Library Raymond Soto Friends of UCLA Armenian Language and Gary E. and Carolyn J. Strong Ruth M. Simon Culture Studies Robert and Patsy Sung A donation to augment the Ruth Simon Edna and Yu-Shan Han Charitable Library Prize for Undergraduate Research. Foundation John W. Sweetland An additional gift to the Library Asso- John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Dr. Bernice M. Wenzel and Dr. Wendell E. ciates to support the highest priority Foundation Jeffrey needs of the Library Infotrieve, Inc. Gloria S. Werner Institute of Electrical and Electronics Lyle N. and Jacqueline Whited Gary E. Strong and Carolyn J. Strong Engineers To establish the Gary E. and Carolyn J. International Society of Appraisers Strong Endowment for the University Southern California Chapter Librarian in support of the greatest needs Sammy Yukuan Lee Foundation of the Library. An additional gift to the Mayday Fund Library Associates, also in support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation highest priority needs of the Library
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First Century Society Donors H These members of the First Century Society have These donors made cumulative cash contributions Edna and Yu-Shan Han Charitable included the UCLA Library in their estate plans. of $1,000 or greater or cumulative gift-in-kind Foundation contributions valued at $5,000 or greater John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Roy H. Aaron Foundation Marion and Kurt Anker A Lois Haytin Jean L. Aroeste Roy H. Aaron Mrs. Dexter H. Howard Hans Baerwald and Jennifer S. Buchwald- Marianne H. Afifi and Abdelmonem A. Rosanne and Bruce Howard Baerwald Afifi, PhD Mr. and Mrs. Nubo Huang Barbara A. Booth The Ahmanson Foundation Jacqueline Briskin Dean V. Ambrose I Wilmer B. Buckland* Patti and Harlan Amstutz Infotrieve Inc. Wade A. and Alison O. Bunting Patricia R. Anawalt Institute of Electrical and Electronics Paul Craft Arcadia Fund Engineers Robert L. Eckert and Jerome Elliott* Salome R. Arkatov International Society of Appraisers Marian Engelke Jean L. Aroeste Southern California Chapter William and Patricia Flumenbaum J Jack Fromkin B Mildred R. Johnson William Goodman Cecile C. Bartman Norah E. Jones* Robert M. and Sandra C. Hobbs Christy Beaudin Sanford M. and Phyllis B. Beim James C. and Mary G. Holland K C. Mae Benjamin Margaret C. Jacob and Lynn A. Hunt Zovinar Kalfayan Sharla P. and Barry W. Boehm Wendell E. Jeffrey and Bernice M. Wenzel Barbara H. Katt Ronda and Stanley Breitbard Norah E. Jones* Farley P. Katz and Carolyn Fuentes B. H. Breslauer Foundation Max Lawrence Chung P. and San Oak Kim Jacqueline Briskin Sarah R. Lesser Susan and George Kinney David H. Brown Constance Lodge* R. B. Kitaj* Trust Michelle London Henry J. Bruman* Trust Basil W. Martinez H. Joseph Bryant Jr. L Sheila Morrison Alison Bunting and Wade A. Bunting Ludwig Lauerhass Jr. Sammy Yukuan Lee Foundation James J. and Rosemarie J. Nix C Stephen O. Lesser Irla Z. Oetzel California Community Foundation June E. Lewin and David Lewin Clarice Campbell Olcott –W.J. Barlow Fund Jane Lopatt and Richard A. Lopatt Judy A. Postley* – Sara and Harold Lincoln Thompson Katie and Jim Loss Norman J. and Armena B. Powell Fund Daniel W. Luckenbill Susan F. Rice Lucie Cheng* Hilda N. Rolfe James A. Collins M Ruth M. Simon S. Adelaide and Ian D. Coulter Willard L. and Ruth B. Marmelzat Carmela H. Speroni* Council on Library and Information Janet E. Marott Elizabeth S. Stacey and W. Peter Marien Resources Jeffrey L. Marr William A. and Mary Lou Steinmetz Warren Marr Ann E. Sumner* D Kay Mason David S. and Suebelle S. Verity Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation John E. Matthews Jacqueline S. Weber Fereshteh M. Diba Mayday Fund Mary E. Williams Dickey Family Trust Gordon H. and Cathie C. Dixon Marilyn W. McIntyre Lauren Dudley Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Bequests Janet and Henry Minami The UCLA Library received distributions from the E Herb and Margery Morris estates of the following individuals. Ralph Edwards Productions Inc. William P. Edwards and Ann Edwards N Henry J. Bruman* Elsevier Inc. Giselle C. Namazie R. B. Kitaj* Caroline B. Erickson Wallace I. Nispel* Wallace l. Nispel* Northrop Grumman Foundation Ann E. Sumner* F P Nancy Lee Thorner* William and Patricia Flumenbaum James O. Page Charitable Foundation Adam F. Wechsler* Peter and Barbara Frank Friends of UCLA Armenian Language and Norman and Armena Powell Culture Studies PricewaterhouseCoopers Foundation
G Rose R. Gilbert
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R In memory of Harold A. Haytin Collection Endowments Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation Lois Haytin Established as of June 30, 2009 Leon Rootenberg and Barbara Rootenberg Marcie H. Rothman In memory of James G. Davis Theresa G. Aaron Endowed Collection in Rita C. Rothman Norah E. Jones* Children’s Literature Richard and Mary A. Rouse Friends of UCLA Armenian Language and In memory of Ralph Edwards Deborah M. Rudolph and John H. Hawley Culture Studies Collection Endowment Ralph Edwards Productions Inc. Mary A. Rudolph Walter Jarvis Barlow History of Medicine In memory of Raymond C. Rothman Collection Fund S Rita C. Rothman The Sanford and Phyllis Beim Endowed Renee Saifer Collection in Jewish Studies Fred and Susan Salenger In memory of Robert S. Stein The Dr. John and Mae Benjamin Endowed Laurence and Sallie Seigler Patti and Harlan Amstutz Collection in the History of Biology, Cubby Sherman Medicine, and Science In memory of Geraldine Sherman Edwin S. Shneidman* Biomed Alumni and Staff Reference Ruth M. Simon Cubby Sherman Collection Endowment Fund Amy Sherman Smith and Robert Simon Amy Sherman Smith and Robert Simon Biomed Fiftieth Anniversary Faculty Wendy B. Smith and Barry M. Meyer Collection Endowment Fund In memory of Teri G. Aaron Raymond Soto Roy H. Aaron Order of the Blue Shield Fund Charles W. and Ellen K. Steinmetz Sharla P. and Barry W. Boehm The David Bohnett Foundation Endow- William A. and Mary Lou Steinmetz ment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Diana Story Transgender Collections Gary E. Strong and Carolyn J. Strong Selected Gift Collections Edgar Bowers Estate Endowed Fund for Ann E. Sumner* Estate These individuals have donated manuscripts, Special Collections Robert E. and Patsy Sung books, and other materials whose cumulative The Ira L. Boyle Endowment for Actuarial John W. Sweetland value is $10,000 or greater. Science and Mathematics Cornelia Breitenbach Memorial Fund in T Salome R. Arkatov the Arts Gladys C. Emerson Thomas Forty-nine four-by-six-inch color photo - The Bert and Jacqueline Briskin Endowed Nancy Lee Thorner* Estate graphic prints and 452 eight-by-ten-inch Collection in Fiction Donald H. and Amy C. Tsiang black-and-white prints Henry J. Bruman Educational Foundation W Barbara H. Katt Endowment Fund Adam F. Wechsler* Trust Scripts from the acting career of Barbara Henry J. Bruman Endowed Collection Dr. Bernice M. Wenzel and Dr. Wendell E. Hale and her late husband, Bill Williams Development Fund Jeffrey Alison Bunting Endowed Rare Books Fund Farley P. Katz and Carolyn Fuentes Gloria S. Werner Thomas Gill Cary Library Fund Forty-nine fifteenth- and sixteenth- Lyle N. and Jacqueline Whited Center Theater Group Collection Fund century text manuscripts from France Billy R. Wilkinson and Ann M. Wilkinson and the Savoy Man-Hing Chen Memorial Endowment T. Joe Willey and Barbara Willey The She-Wo Cheng Memorial Fund R. B. Kitaj* Trust Z Bruno Chiappinelli Memorial Fund Eleven oil paintings and one collage by Joan S. Zenan The Yong Chen Chu Endowed Fund in the late artist Zhongkun Group Inc. Support of Chinese Language and Culture Dan Luckenbill Alice Lee-Tsing Chung Memorial Yannis Tsarouchis, Portrait of Young Man, Memorial Gifts Collection Endowment Maroussi [Athens, Greece], 1966, pencil These individuals, corporations, and foundations sketch Ralph D. Cornell Memorial Fund for made gifts of $1,000 and greater to perpetuate Special Collections the memory and works of their relatives, friends, Diana Story Theodore E. Cummings Collection of or colleagues. Ralph Story’s Los Angeles scripts collec - Hebraica and Judaica tion, 1964-68 James Davis Rare Books Fund In memory of Dexter H. Howard Mrs. Dexter H. Howard Ernest Dawson Memorial Fund for Books Billy R. Wilkinson and Ann M. about Books Wilkinson In memory of Philip M. Burnett The Donald and Hisae Dickey Jr. Endowed Approximately 5,800 postcards from 1900 Fund Jim and Katie Loss to 1990 Henny and Rudolf Engelbarts Fund In memory of Richard C. Rudolph The Francis P. Farquhar Mountaineering Mary A. Rudolph Collection and Endowment Fund Dr. Marvin E. Fieman Endowed Collection In memory of Robert H. Mason in Contemporary World History Kay Mason
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The Samuel and Frances Flumenbaum The Dr. Judd Marmor Endowed Collection Cynthia J. Shelton and Gary B. Nash Endowed Collection in Jewish Studies in Psychiatry Collection Endowment in South- The Friends of UCLA Armenian Language Maxicare Research and Educational western History and Culture and Culture Studies Collection Foundation Collection Endowment Geraldine J. Sherman Memorial Endowment Khorshid Metghalchi Endowment for Endowment for Artists’ Books The J. Paul Getty Trust Endowment for Iranian Studies The Smotrich Family Endowed Collection Pre-Seventeenth-Century European Everett and Jean Moore Endowment in in Jewish Studies Books and Manuscripts Reference Ralph R. and Patricia N. Sonnenschein Maggie Gilbert Memorial Endowment Franklin D. Murphy Memorial Fund Medals Collection Fund Phyllis Gilbert Memorial Endowment The Franklin E. Murphy, MD Fund for the The Raymond Soto Endowed Collection in Materials Chemistry – Electro- History of Medicine in English and American Literature chemistry James and Irla Zimmerman Oetzel Gary E. and Carolyn J. Strong Endowment Joan S. and Ralph N. Goldwyn Endowed Endowment Fund Ann E. Sumner Endowed Collection in Art Collection in Jazz The Dini Ostrov Endowed Collection History William Goodman Boxing Collection in French Letters, Language, and Johanna Eleonore Tallman Trust Fund for Endowment Architecture the Science Today Collection Edna and Yu-Shan Han Collection Endow- James O. Page Collection Endowment Amy Ching-Fen Tsiang Legacy Endowment ment Fund Marianne Puncheon Noah’s Ark Endowed Giselle von Grunebaum Memorial Endow- The Harold A. Haytin Memorial Endow- Fund ment for World Literature ment Daniel T. Richards Endowment for Donald O. Walter Endowed Collection The Evelyn Troup Hobson and William Support of the Thomas Baxter Camp of Monographs in the History and Hobson Endowed Collection and Alice Jarrett Camp Collection Philosophy of Science Nubo Huang of Zhongkun Group Cultural The Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation Marie and Raymond Waters Discretionary Endowed Fund Endowment for the Arts Collection Endowment Professor Richard Hudson Endowment in George Ross Robertson Chemistry Library Jacqueline and Eugen Weber Collection Music Fund Endowment in European History Infotrieve Collection Endowment Fund Barbara and Leon Rootenberg Endowment The Mary Williams Endowed Collection Norah E. Jones Fund for Fine Press Fund in Motion Picture Arts Fund Printing Leon and Barbara Rootenberg Collection Thomas L. and Betty Lou Young Family Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program Endowment Endowed Collection in Southern Collection Endowment Roth Family Foundation Endowed Fund California History Kenneth Karmiole Endowment for Rare for Los Angeles Photography Endowment Collection for Complemen- Books and Manuscripts Raymond C. Rothman Endowed Collec- tary and Alternative Medicine founded The Herbert Klein Endowment tion in the History of Cognitive by Yda and Irwin Ziment, MD Allan and Maxine Kurtzman Endowed Science Collection in Beat Literature Carol Dana Lanham Memorial Endowment for Books in Medieval Latin Studies Edward A. Lasher Chemistry Library Fund Ludwig Lauerhass Jr. Endowed Collection in Brazilian Studies Giving Opportunities The Gold Shield Marjorie Alice Lenz Endowed Collection in Fashion and Collection Endowment Initiative Costume Design The Collection Endowment Initiative provides critically needed funds to The Sammy Yukuan Lee Family Endow- ment for Chinese Archaeology and acquire, preserve, and make accessible library materials in a particular sub - Culture ject area of interest. Collection endowments begin at $50,000, and the Stephen O. Lesser Endowment Library invites donors to make a single gift or to build an endowed fund The Raymond L. Libby Fund over several years. Special bookplates reflecting the interests of the philan - Library of Architecture and Allied Arts of Los Angeles Endowment Fund thropist are designed in consultation with the donor and affixed to each The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation Judaica printed item added to Library collections that was made possible by his or Book Fund her generosity. Bing Liu of Evergreen Books Endowed Collection in Chinese Culture Ardis Lodge Memorial Fund for the Ref- Center for Primary Research and Training erence Collection The Center for Primary Research and Training offers UCLA graduate students Ann Scott Longueil Fund for Literature the opportunity to work with primary source materials in UCLA Library spe - The Willard Lee Marmelzat, MD cial collections, thereby integrating these rare and unique materials further Collection Endowment into the teaching and research mission of the university. Support for this program provides funding for five to ten participants each quarter and offers a special naming opportunity to interested donors. { UCLA Librarian } Progress Report 2008-09 page 23
Other Library Endowments John B. Jackson Tribute Endowment for Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Endowment for Established as of June 30, 2009 the Oral History Program the University Librarian Library Conservation and Preservation Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Award to Page Ackerman Staff Opportunities Fund Endowment Fund Support Student Research and Training Edgardo and Francesca Acosta Endowment Blake R. Nevius Oral History Program in Special Collections Ahmanson Endowed Fund for Special Fund Ruth Simon Library Prize for Under- Collections William A. Nitze Memorial Fund graduate Research Ahmanson UCLA University Librarian’s Joan Palevsky Endowment for the Center Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Research Discretionary Fund for Primary Research and Training Fund Alison and Wade Bunting Endowed Dis- John and Judy Postley Endowed Fund for James and Sylvia Thayer Endowed Fellow- cretionary Fund Library Technology ships for Special Collections in the Campbell Student Book Collection Com- Norman J. and Armena B. Powell UCLA Library petition Endowed Fund Endowed Fund for the UCLA Library Gloria Werner Endowed Discretionary The Bonnie Cashin Archives Endowed Betty Rosenberg Fund Fund for the UCLA Library Fund Marie Saito Endowed Scholarship Fund Bob and Marion Wilson Library Discre- tionary Fund The Bonnie Cashin Endowed Lecture Rita A. Scherrei Endowed Fund for Library Series Fund Staff Development Bernadine J .L.M. Zelenka Endowment Center Theater Group Collection 1995 Senior Class Gift Fund for College Joan S. Zenan Endowed Discretionary Endowment Library Fund Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Endowment for Staff Development Fund Conservation and Preservation James G. Davis Conservation and Preser- vation Endowment Fund James G. Davis Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections Fund Robert G. and Janet S. Dunlap Conser- Every effort has been made to ensure the completeness and accuracy of vation and Preservation Endowed Fund Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library this list. However, if you discover an error or omission, please call Library Various Donors Fund Kathryn Elizabeth Gourlay Discretionary Development at 310.206.8526 so that we can correct our records. Fund Honor with Books Endowed Fund
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Behind the Bytes World’s Largest Online Archive of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings
“When I first heard Mexican ranchera music, I was just fascinated The collection encompasses a vast array of musical and performance by the accordion players and their wonderful polkas,” said Chris styles, including early corridos, boleros, sones, patriotic speeches, and Strachwitz, who initially ran across the music in the late 1940s on comedy skits. Among its many gems are the first known recordings in a Santa Paula, California, radio station. “I couldn’t understand the 1908 of the mariachi group Cuarteto Coculense in Mexico City, the lyrics, but it had the same soulful feeling as other vernacular music.” first recordings in 1928 by Tejano music legend Lydia Mendoza and her family, and the first recordings By the 1960s Strachwitz had started collecting the music in 1937 by accordion pioneer seriously, scouring record stores, jukebox companies, radio Narciso Martinez. stations, and people’s homes, mainly in South Texas, to find records. He also convinced record companies to The singers and musicians sell him their 78 rpm records, which were no longer who made these records helped being recorded and were stored away in popularize and preserve a num - warehouses. In 1995 Strachwitz established ber of traditions that constitute the Arhoolie Foundation to document, the roots of current Mexican present, preserve, and disseminate and Mexican American music. authentic traditional and regional Many of these records are one vernacular music, including his own of a kind and were originally remarkable collection. recorded by companies that no longer exist. Now these rare and fragile recordings, many of which were at risk of disap - Scholars throughout the nation are already using the archive for pearing, have been digitized and made their research. At UCLA, brothers Jorge and Luis Herrera, who also available through a search interface and are pursuing musical careers, have used the archive both in their Web archive developed by the UCLA Library’s research and in their creative endeavors. Jorge, who is working on Digital Library Program. This collaborative project also involved the a doctorate in ethnomusicology, is writing his dissertation on how Arhoolie Foundation, which provided the collection; Los Tigres Del norteño and other traditional Mexican music styles changed when Norte Foundation, which donated major funding; and UCLA’s Chicano Mexican musicians crossed into the United States. Luis, who used Studies Research Center, which brought all the parties together. the archive to complete his master’s degree in Latin American The Fund for Folk Culture, National Endowment for the Humanities, studies at UCLA, said the brothers also have used the songs as a National Endowment for the Arts, Grammy Foundation, Lucasfilm source of inspiration. Foundation, and others also provided funding for the project. “If it wasn’t for the Frontera Collection, there’s no way a common Accessible through the Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and person could get their hands on this kind of music,” said Luis, Mexican American Recordings at
Editor Dawn Setzer | University Librarian Gary E. Strong | Executive Director of Development Amy Smith | Designer Ellen Watanabe The UCLA Librarian circulates to UCLA Library donors, Library Associates, and other libraries. Please send any comments or inquiries to Dawn Setzer, UCLA Library Communications, 53442 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Photography credits: Ann Johansson (cover, lower left; pp. 3, 5; p. 13, right) ; Todd Cheney, UCLA Photography (p. 8) ; Leslie Barton (p. 11) ; Robert Gore ( p. 12); Reed Hutchinson/Calfoto (p. 13, left); Jonathan Wilson (p. 14, top)