Fall 1989 Volume Il l, Number J Nota Bene ~ News from the Yale Library

As the new academi c year began, much o f the attention Perhaps th e most familiar form of assistan ce to th e of the Yale community turned to the task of engagin g library user are the card catalogs found throughout the our newest members in scholarly activi ry . The Yale Yale librari es. The 45,000,000 catalog cards at Yale pro­ Library is an active participant in the orientation of vide extensive but incomplete access to the coll ections. new srudems to Yale and in the nurturing of their inves­ T hey are supplemented by a broad array of other refer­ tigatory skills. ence tools which point the way to specific materials The first opporwnity for many new studen ts to located at libraries outside Yale. become acquainted with the Library is th e freshman The Class of '93 is the first to be welcomed by Orb is, orientation tOUf. These rours, cooperatively o rga ni ze d Ya le's online library catalog, which wi ll eventually with the res idential coll eges, provide an introduction to replace the card catalogs and provide at one terminal the Sterlin g Memorial and Cross Campus libraries. Stu­ far mo re efficient access than was ever poss ibl e with th e dents can also take advantage of myriad opportunities card catalog. to expl ore the many librari es of Yale, to learn the skills This fall we are takin g a major step toward extending of findin g needed information, and to experi ence the the library beyond its own wall s. With the suppOrt of excitement of trailing an idea through the mass of var­ the Counci l of Masters, the Lib rary has arranged for at ied media in the library coll ecti ons. least one terminal to be directl y connected to Orbis in Students learn earl y that the leap from their high each of the colleges. T hrough these terminals, under­ sc hool libraries to Yale's is enormous. Our intention is graduates will be able to explore the Orbis catalog even that they shall also learn that the Library staff are dedi­ during those early morning and weekend hours when cated to helping them make that leap and become the library was formerl y inaccessible. skill ed seekers of information and users of libraries Yale's residential colleges and her libraries play cen­ throughout their li ves. tral and complementary roles in the liv es of our under­ Help is provid ed in many ways. One common way is gradu ates. Our gro\\'i ng conn ecti ons will continue to personal ass istance at th e reference desks an d in th e strengthen our support of rh e undergradu are education­ special coll ecti ons of Ya le's libra ries. This gu idance is al experi ence. extended to groups of students through the library'S instructi onal offerings; these are typicall y provided in Millicent D. Abell response to requests from instructors who recognize that the size and complexity of the library's collections present substa ntial problems ro neophyte researchers.

Universiry Librarian Millicent D. Abell and Berkeley College Maste r Rob in Win ks with one of rhe Orbi s terminals that wi ll be in sta ll ed soon to link the colleges to the Library's on~line catalog. Sandra K. Petcrsoll, Documents Librariall, in the Main Reading Room o ( the Government Documenrs Ccnter in Seeley Mudd Librnry.

~ Government Documents Center marks and economic activity; and research on ropics such as 130th Anniversary rox ie waste, nuclear pro liferatio n, agricultural develop­ ment, and drug abuse. 1989 marks the I}oth anniversary of Yale's designation as T he Government Documcnts Center receives most of a Federal depository for public documents. Librari es its coll cctions as a participant in deposito ry library pro­ were first authorized to receive public documents in grams. In exchange for the publicati o ns received, the 181); the law all owed one copy of the journals and doc­ library is obligated to make them available to the gen­ uments of the U.S. Senate and House of Representa­ eral publi c, to provide bibliographic access and refer­ tives to be sent to each coll ege, university and in corpo­ ence assistance, to maintain and preserve the materials, rated historical society in rhe States. A joint resolu tion and ro cooperate with other depository li braries. T he in 1858 provided for each rep resentative ro designate a Center is the onl y UN, FAa, European Communities depository library in hi s congressional di strict and an and Canadian Federal government depository library in 1859 act authorized Senators to designate one depository Connecticut, but three other U.S. Federal depositories each. Representative John Woodruff of New Have n exist in the New Haven area-Yale Law Library, Uni­ designated Yale Coll ege as a depository li brary; the first versity of Ne\ov Haven and Southern Connecticut State documents were received by President Theodore D. University. Woolsey in July 1859. Government po li cies, reduced government budgets For over 100 yea rs rhe documents received through and changes in techno logy in recent years have rhe depository program were integrated into the gener­ increased pressures fo r changes in the depository pro­ al coll ections of the Ya le libraries. In the 1960'S when grams and in how government information is dissemi­ the number of government publications dramatically nated. In the U.S., for example, most Federal agencies increased, a Documents Room was established in Ster­ now coll ect and disseminate information electronicall y, ling Memorial Library and staff began to centrali ze but legal interpretations differ as to whether the deposi­ Yale's government documents collections. When thi s tory law appl ies only to ink-en-paper or to info rmation task was nearing completi o n, in 19 82, th e Documents in electronic format as well. Nevertheless the Docu­ Room was moved to the Mudd Library and renamed ments Center docs receive electronic products and ser­ the Government Documents Center. vices. Compact-disc products which provide biblio­ Today the Government Documents Center hOll ses graphic access to U.S. Federal government depository more than 800,000 items published by the U. S. Federal publications and to U.S. Congressional publications government, Canadian Federal government, United (17 R9-present) arc available for searching by users. The Nations agencies, European Communities and the Food Government Printing Office has distributed to deposi­ and Agriculture Organization. The coll ecti on contains to ri es a compact disc conta in ing selected fil es from th e information about government, its laws, regulations, 1982 Cellsus of Agriculture alld Cellsus of Retail Trade. domestic and fo reign affairs; statistics o n populatio n The center also regularl y downloads the consumer Watercolor of Poi"t of Rocks, Prouty Creek from the Bcincckc Librar)"s Kern Collection

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price index, producer price index and monthly uneI11 ~ Improved bibliographic access is still needed for the ployment figures from the electronic Economic BIlI­ European Communities' and United Nations' publica­ letin Board of the Department of Commerce . tions. Bibliographic tools for the former arc nonexis­ Because of the volume of publication, the depository tent and collections of agencies related to the latter are library programs long ago ceased to meet all govern­ spread out over several Yale libraries. ment information needs. Commercial publishers, sllch The Center is staffed by rwo librarians and numerous as the Congressional Information Service, began to dis­ assistants. Its stacks are open to the public, and refer­ se minate government information through bibliograph­ ence assistance is available whenever the building is ic indexes and abstracts. Hundreds of them now market open. The librarians conduct bibliographic instruction products and services lIsing government inform ation. for individuals and groups and welcome suggestions The Center supplements its depository holdings by concern in g collections and services. During the aca­ purchasing microform coll ections, such as the non de­ demic year, a selected list of new publications and set­ pository materials from the American Statistics Index vices is distributed to interested faculty and staff and the CIS Index to the Publicatiolls of the Congress. (call 2-3209). An exhibit in the Sterling Nave in earl y Bibliographic access to Yale's government publica­ November will celebrate th e lJorh anniversary of the tions has both changed and improved si nce the '960s. U.S. Federal depository collection. -SKP Comm ercial indexing and abstracting services provide more in-depth access to government in formation than was available through card catalogs. Indexes allow searchi ng by subj ect, author, title, report number, geo­ ~ Kern Collection Opens Up the West graphic area, demographic characte ri stics, and congre s­ Between ,846 and ,853 Edward and Richard Kern of sional witness name and are accompanied by abstracts. Philadelphia were the most active and influential Anglo­ Access to government publications through the main American artists at work in the Far Southwest. Individ­ catalog, not avai lable after the 1960s, has now resumed ually or together they accompanied John C. Fremont with the in troduction of the online catalog. ORRIS now into the Southern Rockies and California, James Si mp­ reflects most of the currently received serials in the son on the first American reconnaissance of Navajo Center as well as many of the depository publications country, Lorenzo Sitgreaves across central New Mexico housed in school and departmental libraries. and Arizona and John Gunnison along the 38th parallel It gives staff and user at the Government Documents in Utah. The sketches, drawings and watercolors they Center rapid bibliographic access to related coll ections made o n these and other, personal, ttips provided throughout the library system, such as the National Americans with their fitst comprehensive visual record Security Council doculllents in the Microtext Room, of the territory acquired in the course of the Mexican thus casing the job of assembling scattered sources. War. During their lives and immediately after their deaths the offi cial artist and photographer for the North th e Kern s' paintings and sketches attracted much imer· Pacific Exploring Expedition under the command of est throughout the United States. Their works were Captain Cadwalader Ringgold. He died in [8 63 . widely exhibited then and are now well-represented in The acquisition of the Kern Papers strengthens Yale's the nation's most prestigious museums and librari es. renowned collection of books, manuscripts, maps and Nonetheless, much of the brothers' art passed to ori ginal art concerning Western exploration. The new William E. Kern, a nephew, who left the papers in a ma te rial supplements original art by Samuel Seymour, basement crawl space where they were rediscovered in George Catlin, Alfred Jacob Miller and Paul Kane as 1958. The collection remained in private hands until well an outstanding collection of prints and illustrated April 1989 when the Yale Co ll ectio n of Wes tern Am eri­ books. The Kern Papers should attract considerable can a acquired it. attention, for they promi se to reveal much about how The coll ection co mprises eleven sketchbooks contain · Anglo-American s encountered the Indian and Hispanic ing numerOllS finished watercolors of the Southern peoples as well as the landscape of the far Southwest. Plains, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Chihuahua -GAM and locati ons overseas as well as hundreds of prelimi­ nary sketches; three journals, including a previ ously unavailable account by Edward Kern of Fremont's third ~ Commemorating the French Rellolution expedition; and an assortm ent of letters and documents The Library commemorated the two-hundredth concernin g Edward's participation in th e North Pac ific anni ve rsa ry of th e French Revolution thi s year with an Exploratio n. ex hibit called "Interpreting rh e French Revolution: The The Kern s' involv ement with th e Far West began in Bi centennial, 1789-1989." 1845 with Edward Kern 's selection for the position of The di splay, on view until Ocrober loth, featured "artist" with John C. Fremont's third expedition. No over 250 obj ects-books, pamphlets, prints, o fficial hi story of the ex pedition has ever been wrirten, manu scripts, maps, coins, weights, mu sic, posters and but among the Kern Papers nO\\' at Ya le is an illustr ated ephemera drawn from several libraries and collections. journal kept by Edward Kern during the journey . It was prepared by Humanities Bibliographer Susanne In 1848 Edward, Richard, and Benj amin Kern joined Roberts with th e aid of numerous colleagues. Ya le's Fremont's privately sp onsored expedition to ascertain rich holdings for the revolutionary period were com­ whether a transcontinental railroad could be built along bined with modern works of scholarship to interprer the 38th parallel. To establish the practi cability of the th e revolutionary decade 1789-1799 through a number route, Fremont had to traverse the Southern Ro cki es in of re lated themes. winter. The party encountered heav y snows whi ch con­ The exhibit ex plored the causes of the Re volution tributed to the death of II men and fo rced the surviv ors and recent interpretations that crace its roots ro the to retreat to Santa Fe. The Kern brothers blamed Fre­ (Contillued 0 11 p.7) mont fo r the loss of life and refused to accompany him any further. A seri es of watercolors and sketches illus­ crate th e expedition. Loui s·Michei Lepelletier de In July 1849 Edward and Richard joined Lt. James H. Saint· Fargeau, first martyr Simpson on hi s reconnaissan ce of th e Navajo coumry. of the French Republic, w ho Later, under the command of Lorenzo Sitgreav es, was assassin ated in January l793 after voting for the Richard vi sited Zuni Pueblo. Am ong the Kern Papers execution of Louis XIV. are some of the earliest known sketches of Canon de This commemorative por- Chell y and various Zuni ceremonial costumes. The col­ trait by Jacques·Louis David lecti on also includes finished lithographs based on th e was on exhibi t in Sterling Memorial Library. preli minary sketches. Beru!een th eir work on vari oll s official expeditions, both Richard and Edward trave led through th e Southwest, documenting their trip s with sketchbooks and finished watercolors. Ri chard Kern's final service was as parr of John W. Gunnison's survey of th e 38th parallel. On October 25, 1853 he and Captain Gunnison were killed by a party of Ute Indians. By that time, Ed,,~! ard Kern was se rvin g as Yale University Library Selectors Directory

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"SchooVDcpartmcnt al Library Two bookplates of Louis Anto ine Paul Bourbon Busset. The ornate prerevolutionary plate from 1788 lists the positions of the Vicomte in rhe service of the kin g, the army and the representative body the Estates o f Burgundy. In 1793 rhi s ciri zen of re~' o l ll[ionar y Fra nce adopted a simple republican style ro mark his books. Fro m the Bookplate Collecrion.

(Cont illued (rom fJ.4 ) vi nce the public of the rightness of thei r cause and of emergence of a new politi cal cu lture in th e late 18th the vi llainy of the opposition. The government subsi­ cemury. Displays of the works of Jean-Jacques Rous­ dized plays, music and prints that both conveyed and seau and numerous politica l pamphlets illustrated th e inspired revolutionary fervor. Contemporary prints and changed environment that gave birth to the Revolution. modern reproductions gathered for the exhibit illustrat­ T he decade of revolutionary events fo ll owing the ed the fraternal mood of 1789, the satire that helped dis­ storming of th e Bastille in 1789 saw momentous changes mantle the o ld regime, and the commemo ration of con­ in French politics and life. A display of prints, consriru­ tempo rary heroes and events. tions, an d commentari es charted the politica l evolu tion, Reli gious culture and politics were central to the from a moderate constitutio nal monarchy, through the Revolution. Contemporary prints, pamphlets, and radical republic with its bloody Terror, to rhe despo­ almanacs documented changing official attitudes-from ti sm of Napoleon Bonaparte. depend ence and rejecti on to accommodation- and Freedom of the press was one of rhe mosr ardenrly enduring popular feelings toward religion. Another sec­ desired rights before rhe Revoluri on, and o ne of its fi rst tion traced the evolution of hi storians' interpretations results was a culture dominated by political ephemera . of the Revolution over the past rnm centuries. Periodicals fro m the ea rl y revo lu tionary period running Anniversaries of Revolu tionary events have long pro­ the ga mut from counter-re voluti onary or rad ica l to vid ed occasions for refl ection on the mea ning and lega­ sa tirica l and detached were well -represented in the cies of that turbulent decade. The exhibit showed how exhibit. th e Centennial in 1889 and this year's Bicentennial have The foundation of a new society and the education of stimulated impo rtant scho larly efforts and the creati on its citi zens were the central concerns of the re volu tion­ of lasting monuments, ephemeral celebrations, and ary government. It aimed (Q rebui ld th e French nation grand ex hibits. 011 new an d rati o nal bases and to create an informed Two hundred years after it occurred, th e French Rev­ citizenry. Ma ps, almanacs, ca lendars, weights and olu tion reta in s its power to excite patriotic cmotion, broadsi des documented efforts to reorgani ze space an d poli ti ca l conflict, intell ectu al controversy, and cultural time, rati onali ze the system of weights and measures, ferm cnt. The Bicentennial offers citizens and scholars and manipulate public opi ni on. the occasion to refl ect on th e meaning of th ose events. Revolutionaries used li te rature and the arts to con- -SFR Among the best loyed sculptures in the ~ Calendar of Exhibits exhibi tion corridor of Sterling Library is this student using one of the aids to scholarship of fifty BEINECKE RARE BOOK LIBRARY years ago: a typewriter. The Cautos of Ezra Pound through December

DIVINITY LIBRARY Missionaries as Recorders of IndigenoHs Culture Th rough December

INTERNATI ONAL LAW LIBRARY The Legacy of 1789:The Declaration of the Rights of Man October J through November (1 The Congress of Viemla and the Treaty of Paris: The Making of Modem Europe November 12 through December

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/I Yale ill World War Copyrighr 0 19119 Yale Un iversity Library Octoher It> through December I SSN o894-IJSI From New Haven to Africa: The Amistad's Long

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