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Volume 24 Fall 2019

A newsletter for faculty and the University community published by the University of Chicago Library with support from the Libra Library Society

BY RACHEL ROSENBERG

NEESAH ETTRESS’S GRANDMOTHER, Lena project at the University of Aneesah Ettress, a Ettress, was a librarian for most of her life and an Chicago Library. Divinity School student The new Hanna Holborn and Hanna Holborn Gray active member of the Nation of Islam for some years, Graduate Student Fellow who provided Muslim Girl Training and educated Gray Graduate Student Fellowship in Digital Scholarship women on their role in the Nation. Among the program, launched at the Library (Digital Humanities) family’s treasured possessions are a letter Lena wrote in winter 2019, is giving University in the 1970s to Minister Louis Farrakhan questioning of Chicago students unusual opportunities to expand their the supremacy of men over women in the Nation of professional horizons and enhance their development as scholars. AIslam and another she wrote to the Honorable Elijah Muhammad Fellows learn about careers in academic libraries and archives asking whether the Nation was aligned with “Cassius Clay,” who through hands-on work conducted under the mentorship of had taken the name Muhammad Ali by that time. a UChicago librarian, while simultaneously pursuing their These letters inspired Aneesah, an MDiv student and Hanna individual research and teaching interests. Holborn Gray Graduate Student Fellow in Digital Scholarship, With the support of stipends made possible by Hanna to focus on women’s theological discourse in the Nation of Islam Holborn Gray, the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service when she began developing her digital humanities fellowship Professor Emeritus of History and President of the University

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MISSION The University of Chicago Library empowers intellectual discovery, rigorous learning, and global engagement through its deep and rich collections, extensive expertise, innovative programs, A RENEWED SENSE OF PURPOSE and diverse spaces. BY BRENDA L. JOHNSON, Library Director and University Librarian VALUES The University of Chicago Library staff has begun the • Building a new Center for Digital support our acquisitions, cataloging, and Diversity: A diverse and inclusive Scholarship: A space on Regenstein’s circulation operations. academic year with a renewed sense of purpose. Over the environment builds a stronger, First Floor between the Dissertation Diversifying Collections: We more creative community. Office and the Circulation Desk will be • preceding months, we have reviewed our mission and values are exploring ways of coordinating User focus: Our users are at the renovated to create a new physical Center statements and the Strategic Directions that were developed purchasing with our Ivy Plus partners so center of all we do. for Digital Scholarship. It will enhance that we all have access to more diverse Innovation: We embrace for 2016-2019 and have worked to develop and articulate the Library’s current ability to act as a collections. curiosity, experimentation, and our commitments for 2020-2023. While many aspects of hub for digital scholarship that provides faculty and students with technologies, 5. Extend the University’s learning. our prior mission, values, and strategic directions remain instruction and consultation services that Impact through Local and Collaboration: We advance relevant today, our commitment to excelling in a changing support the exploration of new research Global Engagement knowledge and build a better methodologies, analysis of complex data, The Library continues to engage with future through partnerships. environment and to focusing on the needs of our Library and sharing of research and creative local and global partners to extend the Knowledge Sharing: Open and endeavors through new publishing models users is leading us to work in new ways and to refocus our University’s impact on pressing challenges equitable access to information Brenda L. Johnson (see page 6). strategic directions. Library Director and University Librarian in our city, nation, and the world. Some of is a cornerstone of research and • Enhancing Open Access to Data our current collaborations include: education. and Code: Knowledge@UChicago, the I would like to share with you here the needs of Muslim students, and for their development as scholars with the All of Us: As part of a National Library campus open access digital repository for • the key aspects of these statements and providing workspace for visiting students guidance of library mentors. I am deeply of Medicine program, librarians from our documents, data, and media, is managed a few of the preliminary projects and from the University of Puerto Rico honored that President Emeritus Gray John Crerar Library and the Chicago by the Library in collaboration with IT offerings we are providing as a result of affected by Hurricanes Irma and Maria. has recognized the wide variety of ways Public Library will work together to New librarians expanding our Services. This summer and fall, we have • our Strategic Directions. As we develop further plans to that Library experts and Library work provide training and access to high- capabilities include David Woken, our first implemented a new system and are adding cultivate diversity and inclusion, we expect can contribute to graduate students’ quality online health information for Latin American and Caribbean Studies new capabilities that better meet growing our strategies to include fostering a development (see page 1). public library patrons, taking an important Librarian, and Holiday Vega, our new campus needs for open access data Strategic Directions diverse, inclusive, and culturally competent step to help decrease the life expectancy Health and Social Services Librarian (see • Geospatial Workshops: GIS and sharing and preservation (see page 4). 1. Cultivate an Inclusive organization; actively recruiting and Maps Librarian Cecilia Smith is offering gap between Chicago’s wealthiest and our website). poorest neighborhoods (see page 9). Community retaining a diverse workforce; acting customized geospatial workshops for We are in the process of hiring a new as a strong partner in campus diversity 4. Enhance Access • Our first Strategic Direction is a new research groups in Crerar Library to Scholarly Resources • Black Metropolis Research Consortium Clinical Library Resident, who will enhance focal point. We are building an inclusive activities; providing welcoming, accessible (see our website). (BMRC): In September, we hired Marcia our ability to support clinical care at We will connect scholars with resources organization that cultivates and values library spaces and services; and Walker-McWilliams, PhD’12, as the new UChicago Medicine. Instruction in the Social Sciences: at the point of need by developing a diversity, recognizing the strength that it developing inclusive collections. • Executive Director for the BMRC, a Librarians are collaborating with faculty user-centered, content-rich, integrated brings to our community and operations. Chicago-based membership association 2. Empower Faculty and Students to provide customized instruction for discovery environment and by providing Transforming Purpose We are proud to be joining the University- of libraries, universities, and other archival with Library Services, Collections, students. For example, librarians partnered fast and convenient access and delivery wide Diversity and Inclusion Initiative and institutions based at the University of into Action and Spaces with the Social Sciences Research Center services. are beginning to determine how we will this summer to create a specialized Chicago Library with a mission of making These examples are only a few of the Our commitment to empowering faculty participate. Early steps in this process Research Lifecycle workshop series for Improving Discovery and Delivery: We broadly accessible its members’ holdings many ways we are beginning to transform and students continues. We will advance • have included bringing Vice Provost undergraduates in the Summer Institute in are building tools to improve the discovery that document African American and our renewed sense of purpose into action. state-of-the-art research, teaching, Melissa Gilliam to the Library for meetings Social Research Methods (see our website). of materials—including more than 216 African diasporic culture, history, and Some of our directions and corresponding and engaged learning by implementing with Library staff, hosting “Hearing One million items—held by our consortial politics. offerings are a continuation of long- Another” workshops for Library staff innovative and inclusive services and 3. Advance Digital Scholarship partners in the Ivy Plus and the Big Ten held Library commitments. Some reimagining library collections and spaces. members on our annual Staff Day, and In 2020-2023, our commitment to Academic Alliance. We are also building 6. Excel in a Changing Environment directions are driving new approaches to Just a few of our current offerings include: forming a Library Diversity and Inclusion advancing digital scholarship will continue better tools to speed the processing and We continue to build an agile, collaborating with you on groundbreaking Working Group that has developed a • Hanna Holborn Gray Graduate Student to grow. We will increase the University’s delivery of Interlibrary Loan requests. creative, and inclusive organization research, transformative educational Library diversity statement. Fellowships: Thanks to the generosity of scholarly impact by building spaces, To make these and other improvements that values diversity and encourages experiences, and work that confronts the The Library has been recognized our President Emeritus, this new program services, and technologies that facilitate possible, the Library is participating in a experimentation, collaboration, bold world’s problems. We look forward to in the University’s Summer 2019 is giving University of Chicago graduate digital approaches to creating, analyzing, community-driven initiative to develop thinking, and cultural competence in order working with you to develop new ways diversity report for creating a prayer students opportunities to expand their preserving, and openly sharing research. a next-generation, open-source library to meet the needs of the ever-changing of empowering intellectual discovery, and meditation space designed to meet professional horizons and enhance Most notably: management system called FOLIO that will academic environment. rigorous learning, and global engagement.

2 | LIBRA Fall 2019 Fall 2019 LIBRA | 3 Easy Data and Code Library News Sharing through Knowledge@UChicago Roundup Visit our website at lib.uchicago.edu/about/news for more on each of these stories.

ROFESSOR DORIAN ABBOT’S Sea ice, and data for the atmospheric circulation and Digital Scholarship is working with Professor John Lucy and RESEARCH explains fundamental climate of terrestrial planets orbiting sun-like and M the Social Sciences Division to make this problems in earth and planetary dwarf stars. Starting an Open Source critical teaching tool available to future sciences using mathematics and While there are other ways to share data and code, Journal with OJS generations on a sustainable platform. computational models. Abbot regularly Abbot finds that the platform and functionalities offered THE LIBRARY’S CENTER for Digital needs to share data and code associated through Knowledge@UChicago often serve him well. Williams joins Library of Scholarship is offering a new service for Congress National Digital with his publications to meet the “They are very easy to work with, they are free, and they UChicago faculty, staff, and students Strategy Roundtable requirements of journals and funding allow you to store a fairly large amount of data,” Abbot interested in open access publishing. We UChicago Library’s Stacie Williams joined will provide journal hosting on the Open agencies such as the National Science says. Knowledge@UChicago also conveniently issues a a Roundtable that advises the Librarian Journal Systems (OJS) platform, expertise Digital North Korean stamps available online: Foundation and NASA. “Sharing data is also a good DOI, or digital object identifier, that can be used to of Congress, Carla Hayden, AM’77, P in getting started, and training for editorial practice so others can reproduce our results,” he cite the submission. An enthusiastic user, he has PhD’87, and LC Labs on the LoC’s digital TOP LEFT: 봉산 탈춤 / The traditional Korean boards on the OJS infrastructure. Contact transformation of collections, services, Bongsan masked dance / Pongsan t’alch’um explains. recommended the digital repository to other [email protected] to schedule a and access points. Abbot deposits his data into Knowledge@ faculty members. consultation. ABOVE: 위대한 수령 김 일성 동지 께서 광복 의 천리 UChicago—an open-source digital repository The value of Knowledge@UChicago is not limited 길 을 걸으신 90돐 기념 / The 90th anniversary available to researchers across campus for preserving to researchers in the physical sciences. “More and more ‘Spoken Yucatec Mayan’ Online Exhibits of the One Thousand-ri Journey for national and making data and software available, along with often, medical grants are requesting that their awardees Textbook to be Republished liberation / Widaehan sury˘ong Kim Il-s˘ong Discovery, Collection, Memory: Tongji kkes˘o Kwangbok ˘ui Ch'˘olli Kil ˘ul k˘or˘usin articles, presentations, dissertations, and reports. make their data available,” notes Sam Armato, Associate IN THE MID-1960S a set of Mayan language The Oriental Institute at 100 90-tol kiny˘om Knowledge@UChicago (knowledge.uchicago.edu) Professor of Radiology and the Committee on Medical textbooks was created at UChicago that Through December 13 recently rolled out new features that improve research Physics. “National Institutes of Health applications was used by faculty and students around the world. Originally created in analog Special Collections Research Center, data and software preservation. First, the new platform have a section for it.” The Library expects that faculty Regenstein Library integrates with GitHub, an open-source version-control across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities will form, one of the books, Spoken Yucatec have worked rigorously to discover cultural Mayan, was eventually turned into a THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE—one of heritage, decipher ancient languages, have data that can be readily shared on Knowledge@ system used for managing and storing revisions of code website that was publicly available until the world’s premier institutions for the and reconstruct the histories of long-lost and files. Researchers can connect a GitHub repository UChicago. last year, when it was taken down due study of the ancient Middle East—has civilizations. This exhibition remembers the to Knowledge@UChicago and select the automatic The Library, which runs Knowledge@UChicago to security concerns connected with its conducted 100 years of excavation, Oriental Institute’s past through archival preservation of all new code releases. For a researcher in collaboration with IT Services, recently migrated outdated web platform. Today, the Library research, and scholarship. Its scholars fragments, artifacts, and ephemera as it interested in linking a specific version of code to a the repository to the TIND digital platform, with the celebrates its centennial. publication, this feature is particularly valuable. support of capital funding for Knowledge@UChicago to James Henry Breasted in his Haskell Office, ca. 1926. Courtesy of the Oriental Understanding North Korea Second, Knowledge@UChicago now collects better meet growing campus needs and interests around Institute Museum Archives. On display in Discovery, Collection, Memory exhibition. through Stamps rich information about research data, facilitating data management, sharing and preservation, open access, the reuse and understanding of the submitted files. and reproducible research results. TIND is based on Through December 15 Regenstein Library, Fifth Floor Depositors can point to related research in the the Invenio open-source software originally developed repository and on the web by providing a link and the at CERN—the European Organization for Nuclear THE LIBRARY’S EAST ASIAN Collection recently acquired more than 2,000 North type of relationship between the items, allowing for a Research—to manage its own digital outputs. Korean stamps, each of which has been connection to be made between a journal article and With the TIND migration, the Library has created digitized and accompanied by a wide a supporting dataset or images, for example. Last, as simple workflows for repository use. Researchers with range of in-depth data to form the first the result of a partnership with the Library and an active CNetID are able to log in to the repository digital collection of its kind developed by the University’s Research Computing Center, and create a record using a web form. A member of the any library worldwide. The full digitized Knowledge@UChicago will soon feature an API Library team reviews the submitted item to ensure that collection is available online at luna.lib. (application programming interface) that will allow the files can be opened, that there are no privacy or uchicago.edu/north-korean-stamp- for easy and automatable upload of metadata and copyright concerns, and that the metadata is sufficient to collection and an exhibit of selected stamps is on display on Regenstein’s Fifth Floor. data files. find and reuse the data. The Library, led by Korean Studies Librarian @ An early adopter of Knowledge@UChicago, At this time, the University of Chicago Library Jee-Young Park, has collaborated with Abbot and his co-authors have made several deposits, is able to accommodate datasets of about 5 GB. staff from the UChicago Visual Resources including data needed to reproduce findings from “The Researchers are encouraged to contact knowledge@lib. Center, Korea Foundation Visiting Librarian Snowball Stratosphere,” code for a simple model of uchicago.edu to discuss accommodating datasets that are Intern Jisu Yeom, and East Asian Languages evolution of melt pond coverage on permeable Arctic larger in size. and Civilizations graduate student Ethan Waddell to digitize the collection.

4 LIBRA Fall 2019 Fall 2019 LIBRA | 5 Center for Digital Scholarship Coming to Regenstein’s First Floor

BY STACIE WILLIAMS, Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship

LEFT: This refractor telescope at Yerkes Observatory was used to make some of the historical images. RIGHT: UChicago students The University of Chicago Library will be building a new Buduka Ogonor (left), Yingyi Liang (right), and Jorge Sanchez (in back) at Yerkes Observatory take an image using the same glass- plate method being studied in the pilot. home for its Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) on Regenstein’s First Floor, reimagining much of the space between the Dissertation Office and Circulation. Renovations Mining Historical Glass Slides are expected to be completed by Winter 2021. While this new Center will provide a focused hub for digital scholarship activity, University of Chicago Library staff are already available to provide a wide variety of workshops, for Astronomical Data consultations, and services to the University of Chicago community in areas ranging from BY ELISABETH LONG, Associate University Librarian for Information Technology and Digital Scholarship; scholarly communication and digital infrastructure to data management and data publishing. BARBARA KERN, Director of the Science Libraries; and Library staff can collaborate with faculty and train students on use of data and other digital RICHARD KRON, Professor and Assistant Chair for Academic Affairs, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics; and the College assets at every stage of the digital scholarship lifecycle. For example, faculty can: Discover COLLECTION OF 175,000 IMAGES Some of the earliest systematic to Yerkes Observatory. On these trips, OF ASTRONOMICAL OBJECTS photographic atlases of the sky (more librarians Elisabeth Long and Barbara Consult with CDS librarians on which of our licensed electronic resources are optimized for • on photographic glass plate specifically, the region along the Milky Way) Kern have shared their expertise in digital textual data mining. slides at Yerkes Observatory were undertaken at Yerkes Observatory scholarship and science librarianship with • Explore the Library’s historical map collection for use in digital humanities and geospatial offers tremendous potential for and published as paper- the students, working with them projects. both historians of science and print copies of the original to understand the collections Aastronomers and astrophysicists doing negatives. One of these, and identify sample slides for Acquire/Create cutting-edge research today. These the Barnard-Calvert atlas, digitization testing. At the same • Leverage acquisitions and technical service librarians’ expertise to get help acquiring photographic images, taken over the last was done in 1905, and time, the students have been proprietary or customized datasets from vendors. 120 years, document historic or periodic the other, from 1933, the able to learn how to use the • Consult with librarians on strategies and best practices for digitizing large-format events such as novae or comets, as well as Ross-Calvert atlas, was a historic telescopes at Yerkes to materials for research projects. providing a basis for studying changes in the deliberate repeat to track make observations, to utilize the night sky. If converted into a usable digital stars changing in position darkrooms to reproduce some Manage format, they can not only provide more or brightness. An even of the significant images, and to • Work with librarians on developing federally compliant data management and easily accessible glimpses into the scientific earlier series of plates of use modern tools such as nova. reproducibility plans for Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, or other heritage of the past but also serve as a well-known star clusters, astrometry.net to analyze our federally funded grant proposals. treasure trove of valuable information galaxies, and nebulae, from testbed images and compare that astronomers can use to make new 1901 to 1904, was done them to the data captured in A test image from the Analyze scientific discoveries. by George Ritchey with modern sky surveys such as the pilot study on mining Work with librarians to develop customized in-class training workshops on ArcGIS and The University of Chicago Library is the revolutionary 24-inch Sloan Digital Sky Survey. • astronomical data from other geolocation tools for use in class research or capstone projects. partnering with faculty and students in the telescope that he built For the Library, making historical glass slides. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Chicago. the data available for research Share to run a pilot study to determine how to Thanks to support as well as historical memory • Share your research or publish open access through several digital platforms supported by scan these slides in a way that will facilitate from the Kathleen and Howard Zar Science are top priorities. Archivists Daniel Meyer the Library. meaningful scientific inquiry. Significant Library Fund, the College, and Department and Eileen Ielmini are helping to identify Consult with librarians on strategies for avoiding predatory journals. work has been done in this area by of Astronomy and Astrophysics, we have glass plates that are representative of the • colleagues at Harvard University and the engaged a group of seven undergraduate University’s cultural history and should be Preserve Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory students on the project. In addition to rehoused in the Special Collections Research • Deposit your research paper, data, or analysis code in the Library’s Knowledge@UChicago working with their own 500,000-plate working on the feasibility testing of scanning Center. Sherry Byrne and Christina Miranda- repository for long-term preservation. collection, with custom-built equipment. methods, the students have had a chance Izguerra in the Library’s Preservation Chicago is now exploring the feasibility of to engage with the historical significance of Department are working with them on Work with librarians to create a data rescue or sustainability plan for older digital projects • using off-the-shelf digitization technologies the collections and to get a glimpse into how digitization sampling. The findings of the that need to be migrated from obsolete platforms or formats. by analyzing the level of scientific detail that astronomy was practiced in the past. pilot will be translated into a workable Faculty are encouraged to contact their subject specialists or me at [email protected] to can be captured and balancing that with the Since Winter Quarter 2019, Professor project plan that can be used to seek consult on digital scholarship. scanning time and resulting data sizes. Richard Kron has led regular expeditions funding for a larger scale project.

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Fall 2019 LIBRA ALL, Director of the Science Libraries OF US Directorof Library Research in Medical Education,and BARBARAKERN , The John Crerar Libraryhas a history of community engagement, ESEARCHERS NEW YORK AT UNIVERSITY School of Medicine who analyzed data from the City Health Dashboard found have that Chicago has the nation’s highest gap in life expectancy in its neighborhoods: the data show a 30-year life expectancy gap between the wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods. Working together as a team, librarians from the University of Chicago’s John Crerar Library and the Chicago Public Library will provide (CPL) training on and access high-quality to online health information for patrons, taking an important step help to address this health disparity. providing access science to collections since the Library first opened its doors are we bringing Today, in 1897. expertise and knowledge the to community through the All of Us Community Engagement Network Ambassador Program. Through this program, which has awarded the University of Chicago Library Our goal improve is to Chicago residents’ access quality to health information from the The John Crerar Library will provide programming the to community partnering by with of Us”The award is sponsored “All the by National Network of Libraries of Medicine. $100,000, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) aims improve to health literacy and access highto quality health information in communities throughout the United States through partnerships with public libraries. NLM and increase health information knowledge, empowering people in our communities to make informed health decisions. The John Crerar librarians, including Deb Werner, Director of Library Research in Medical Education; Holiday Vega, Health and Social Services Librarian; and a new clinical library resident, as well as a health outreach coordinator, are providing training, including in-person workshops for CPL staff, on provide how to quality health information services and health programming within their community. Training began this summer and will continue throughout the The year. six participating CPL branch libraries include Coleman, Douglass, Humboldt Park, Portage-Cragin, Scottsdale, and West Chicago Avenue. University of Chicago Medicine programs with national expertise in precision medicine and community health, including the Institute for Population and Precision Health, the Center for Community Health and Vitality, and the Office of Community Engagement and Cancer Disparities. Through a speaker series organized Crerar by and Chicago Public Library staff, leading experts from these institutes and centers will provide critical health information directly patronsto at the selected CPL branch libraries during the fall and spring. In addition, medical students at the UChicago Pritzker School of Medicine, which has a strong community health curriculum, will participate in the program, which may include providing health screenings at various public library branches and distributing information about health services that are provided at student-run medical clinics. LIBRARIES TACKLE HEALTH DISPARITIES Sharingby Medical Information with the Community through of Us’ ‘All BY DEBRABY WERNER R Debra Werner Werner Debra is one (center) of the Crerar librarianswho will empower community members with high- health quality information.

May CarlosCisneros Kevin Irakoze The inaugural Hanna . CENTER: , the Hanna Graduate Gray Student Holborn as in a Fellow Library Research Services, Support as in a Fellow University Archives, and Juno Dong provided research services in Regenstein. continued from page1

“We are delighted“We that Emeritus President has Gray enabled While Fellows commit working to a minimum for a of AriadneArgyros as in a Fellow Digital Scholarship (Digital Archival Collections), the skills developed she as pursues she a career in museums. us new opportunities provide to graduate for students and are that has she honored deeply recognized the important that role the Library can in play expanding students’ academic horizons,” said Library Brenda Johnson, Director and University Librarian. launched the program“We and attracted a cadre Fellows of with several aims in mind: fuel to cross-disciplinary ideas and work through digital scholarship, enhance to research skills, provide to experience in planning and delivering instruction, and foster to curiosity academic about careers in libraries and archives. In turn, through the fellowships, the Library has gained the expertise and contemporary perspectives the of Chicago’s University of some of most talented graduate students.” quarter, they are also renewals for invited apply to so that they can pursue varying projects of lengths. Following the selection an of inaugural Fellows, cohort of which also included Fellow in Web Exhibits in andFellow Web an MA student in Middle Eastern Studies, came the to Library with a background in archaeology and museum including work, experience creating physical exhibits. As part fellowship, created her she of three exhibits web drawing theon Library’s special collections journalist on and activistIda Mildred photographer B. Wells, Mead, and early students the at Chicago.University of Argyros valued the opportunity choose to ownher focus in creating exhibits and looks forward applying to accepted a Hanna Graduate Gray Fellowship Student in Holborn Historical for GIS Chicago Data. selected She maps print from the Library’s collections, digitized and georeferenced them, created storymaps, and published them online use for researchers by discovered In she doing so, worldwide. sociological maps that are allowing expand to her the period covered in dissertation, her which explores the relationship between arts and economic development. Juno Dong as in a Fellow Metadata the for Digital Media Archive, the Library invited new applicants summer for and fall fellowships. In addition theto Hanna Graduate Gray Fellowships, Student Holborn a John Crerar Foundation History Science of and Medicine Fellowship was offered in summer. the Peterson

Cristina Sakamoto Front row from left: Kevin Irakoze, Ariadne Argyros, Cristina Sakamoto, and Juno Dong. Back Ariadne Argyros created a web exhibit, A Voice for Justice: The Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells Ettress is using the open-source publishing platform Scalar The Library’s fellowshipprogram providing is an unusual Other Fellows are exploring different aspectsof “I was“I I read wondering when the letters from my Ettress has begun collecting her gathering by relevant Fall 2019 Holborn Gray Graduate Student Fellows. row from left: May Peterson, Aneesah Ettress, and Carlos Cisneros. RIGHT: LEFT: Women Committed to the Truth,” which provides access Committed the to Truth,” Women recordingsto discussing gender women of the Nation’s exceptionalist plans She collect to additional philosophy. publications, as well as photographs, letters, ephemera, and interviews with in mosques the at in women Nation Chicago and Louis. St. will She then digitize, and map, annotate the collected materials, creating the digital presentation that will be archived and made available through the Library. presentation and her for will be teaching others the at Library use to how Scalar after becoming familiar with the platform. opportunity Ettress, for as student in to Divinity, a master’s get training an on and extended mentorship digital humanities from anproject expert in digital scholarship, Stacie Williams. “What this about I appreciate fellowship opportunity are the space and resources both in human and financial capitalto pursue inquiry open and technical develop my skills in the digital humanities,” Ettress said. Williams, Director the of Library’s Digital for Center Scholarship, has taught to her build a sustainable and ethical following project the National the for HumanitiesEndowment Socio-technical Sustainability Roadmap. librarianship and connections their to own academic interests. example,For PhD candidate in sociology of Chicago from 1978 to 1993, the seven inaugural 1993, to Chicagoof fellows from 1978 are each learning particular about aspects scholarship of and librarianship and bringingtheir backgrounds and interests to bear in their in unique work ways. grandmother whether in Islam the of other women Nation had the said same Ettress, questions,” is who collecting materials and creating digital a presentation that will preserve them. Through research the she is fellowshipher conducting for plans she project, this explore to and other lines inquiry. of theological“What discourse is women’s in the she Nation?” asks. “Where does take it place? these do How discourses transform—or Islam of not—Nation religious practices and perceptions?” family documents and keepsakes and locating by an archival a Michigan of website called group of Islam “The Nation HANNA HOLBORN GRAY GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS STUDENT GRADUATE GRAY HOLBORN HANNA LIBRA | 8 A New Chair of the Library Council

THE LIBRARY IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE that Dayna Langfan, AB’83, has been appointed Chair of the University of Chicago Library Council. Langfan has served as a member of the Council since 2014, and assumed the role of Chair in July 2019. Since that time, she has helped establish the current iterations of the Library Council Nominating Subcommittee and Development Subcommittee. Langfan succeeds Patrick Spain, BA’74, who joined the Council (then the Visiting Committee) in 2014 and served as Chair from 2015 to 2019. Spain has been an active supporter and friend to the Library for more than two decades. “I would like to thank Patrick for his devotion to the Library and the Library Council,” said Brenda Johnson, Library Director and University Librarian. “The Library Council has benefited greatly from Patrick’s thank you leadership, fueled by his expertise in the technology industry, coupled with his passion for digitizing older We wish to thank our donors who have pledged or made gifts, grants, or bequests of $250 or more between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019, to the University of Chicago Library. Through their generosity, these individuals and print material to make it available to a wider audience. We are grateful that he will continue on as a member of the Library Council.” organizations have supported the Annual Fund, the Library Society, Library endowments, Library collections, and Langfan, a native New Yorker, earned her AB in Art History at the University of Chicago and JD at the special projects. Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. After practicing corporate and real estate law, she joined her family’s $1 million and more Susan M. Levy, AM’73, and Deborah Morrow Vaughan, AM’73, and Suzy Wahba national commercial real estate investment firm, The John Maloof (gift in kind) Donald Levy James M. Vaughan Kathleen and Willem Weijer Langfan Company, where she has been a managing Franklin A. Presler, AM’72, PhD’78, John Vickrey, PhB’49, AM’52 Wendall Wheeler Wilson, AM’71, partner for thirty years. She has served as a Board $500,000–$999,999 Marianna J. McJimsey, Henry Diana Churchill White, PhD’78, JD’81, PhD’87 member, Secretary of the Board, and Trustee Estate of Edward A. Allworth, AM’53 A. Presler, Titus L. Presler, and and Peter White Yagi Bookstore Ltd. Emerita of the Horace Mann School, a Treasurer of Ping Tian and Robert Chen Wesley H. Presler (gift in kind) Bettie and Wallace Wooten David E. Zuccaro the National Council of Jewish Women–New York $250,000–$499,999 Carol and Don Randel Yuri Okuizumi-Wu, LAB’86, AB’90, $250–$499 Section, and a co-Treasurer of the Bard High School The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John M. Scalzi II, AB’91 and Daniel Thomas Wu, AB’90 Carolyn W. Schmidt and Priscilla Yu 5 anonymous donors Early College–Queens PTA. She currently serves $100,000–$249,999 H. E. Schmidt III in honor of Robert Tang, AB’68 Clifford Ando as a member of the National Advisory Council Library Douglas G. Baird in memory of Louise K. Smith Foundation William O. Autry, Jr. of Bard Early Colleges and is a trained facilitator Eleanora C. Gordon, MD* The James and Edith Spain Foundation $500–$999 Greta Myrrl Bever, AB’85, AM’86 Council Hanna Holborn Gray James H. Stone Sajjad A. Akhtar, MBA’04 Ronald S. Burt, PhD’77 with Parents in Action, an organization dedicated Estate of Julius Lewis, AB’50, AM’54 Jerome H. Stone Family Foundation John G. Allen Linda J. Corder and Albert Somit, to fostering parental networks and encouraging Dayna K. Langfan, AB’83, Dorothy Patton, PhD’67 Preston M. Torbert, AM’70, PhD’73 The Baila Foundation AB’41, PhD’47 communication between parents and children at Chair (planned gift) Nancy H. Wilder and Patricia Carroll and J. Thomas Senko Marcia Dam and Kenneth Dam, JD’57 home. A mother of four (one of whom is a graduate Ann Cope and Thomas Cope, PhD’01 Robert P. Doyle Chris Sorensen Jerome V. Frazel, AB’83 of the College), Dayna lives in New York City with Diane Adams Virginia Stigler and Stephen M. Dorothy Crabb and Rose B. Dyrud Dayna Langfan, new Chair of the Library Council Roger Baskes $2,500–$4,999 David Crabb, JD’63 Robert Clatanoff, AM’90 her husband, Lawrence Heller, AB ’84, MBA ’88. Stigler, LAB’59 (gift in kind) Catherine Braendel, Catherine Braendel, LAB’81 Elizabeth Crawford, AM’76, and Susan Feingold, AM’72 LAB’81 $50,000–$99,999 Marianna Tax Choldin, LAB’59, AB’62, Stephen Crawford, PhD’80 Anita Samen and David Follmer, AM’66 Elizabeth R. Beasley in memory of AM’67, PhD’79, and Harvey M. Danette Gentile Kauffman, AM’69 Rena K. Fowler, AM’74 T. Kimball Brooker, William J. Alspaugh, AB’64, Choldin, AB’60, AM’63, PhD’65 Bing Guan and Jiawei Du Thomas D. Frazel, AB’90 AM’89, PhD’96 AM’90* Patricia Klowden, AB’67, and Mary Sue Kranstover and Mark Davis The Richard and Mary L. Gray Philip M. Burno, AM’64 Teri J. Edelstein and Neil Harris Michael Klowden, AB’67 Arthur Elstein Foundation Margaret E. Foorman Estate of Eleanora C. Gordon, MD The Korea Foundation Hazel S. Fackler Judy Gross, AB’73 and Jerome V. Frazel, AB’83 (gift in kind) Mary Schloerb and Elizabeth Fama, AB’85, MBA’91, Stephen Heller, AB’73 Mary Louise Gorno, Susan Lubin Huntington, LAB’59, Robert G. Schloerb, JD’51 PhD’96, and John Cochrane Debra Hammond, AM’90, MBA’95 and John C. Huntington (gift in Susan Schlough, PhD’79, and Desiderata MBA’76 F.W. Fischer Janet and Robert Helman Mary L. Gray, AM’78 kind) Andrew Abbott, AM’75, PhD’82 Susan Tax Freeman, LAB’54, AB’58 Jack Anthony Licate, AM’67, PhD’75 Please consider a contribution to enhance our collections. Dayna K. Langfan, AB’83, and Michael Thompson Judith N. Getzels Judith Locke and John Locke, AM’68 Danette Gentile Lawrence A. Heller, AB’84, MBA’88 Ann Dudley Goldblatt, LLM’78, and Elisabeth Long Librarians are seeking funding for a variety of titles that would be valuable resources Kauffman, AM’69 $1,000–$2,499 Kathleen and Howard Zar Science Stanford Goldblatt, LAB’54 Susan T. Lyon, AB’76, LAB’72, and for University of Chicago faculty and students. Below is a sampling of these items. Anne M. Kern 4 anonymous donors Library Fund Ingrid E Gould and Robert Hsiung D. Brett Stanwyck, MBA’86 Julia and Michael Allen Diana H. King, EX’55 James Hanson, AB’76, MBA’82 Anthony and Mary Mahowald $25,000–$49,999 Thomas Edward Dannenberg Henry VIII Songbook. Intro. by David Fallows. Oxford, UK: Diamm Facsimiles, 2014. A full-color facsimile on Michael L. Klowden, Rebecca and Joseph Jarabak Lucy K. Marks and Scott Sprinzen, Trust Estate of E.M. Bakwin, MBA’61 Robert J. Dunn heavy matt art paper. As an anthology of mostly secular pieces, it was probably copied in London ca. 1510-1520 AB’67 Kyohei Jinno AB’76, AM’80 Seth Cropsey (gift in kind) Madeleine and Joseph Glossberg Susan M. Levy, AM’73 Jeanne Kent and Eben L. Kent, AM’77 Linda Carol McLarnan, AM’82 and definitely associated with the Court of Henry VIII. In all likelihood it contains the repertory of Henry’s own Trust Estate of Robert W. Evans, Nancy and Nicholas Haritatos Janice Kozovich, AM’76 James Mouw music-making sessions. $169 Carolyn Nelson, AM’64, PhB’50, AM’55 J. Michael Homan, AM’71 Bernard L. Krawczyk Jocelyn Spitz Nebenzahl and PhD’67 The Helen M. Harrison Foundation Shan-Yuan Hsieh, AM’65, PhD’72 Sidney J. Lee, LAB’80, and Kenneth Nebenzahl Martin Codax. Pergamino Vindel: Cantigas de amigo. Barcelona, Spain, s.n., 2016. Full-color facsimile. Seven Col. (IL) Jennifer N. Judith Kolbas (planned gift) Norman O. Jung, AM’59 Mark M. Yee Ralph Orlik, AB’67, AM’76 cantigas de amigo (literally, songs for a friend) by 13th-century Galician composer Martin Codax. A genre native The Rhoades Foundation Anne M. Kern Pritzker (Ret.) Susan Levine and Michael Levine William B. Parker, MBA’78 with the cooperation of L. Randall Koenig, SM’59, PhD’62 to the northwest Iberian Peninsula, these cantigas were sung by maidens awaiting their absent loves. $637 Robert G. Schloerb, JD’51 Ky Martinetti and Ronald Martinetti Melanie Payne, AM’63 Julius Lewis, AB’50, AM’54* Monica McQuaid and Albert Somit, AB’41, Craig Thompson Mason Caryle Perlman, AB’63, and Der Chansonnier von Zeghere van Male. Stuttgart, Germany: Faksimile-Edition Rara, 2018. Full-color facsimile. Trust Estate of Arthur Wilkins, Charles P. McQuaid, MBA’76 PhD’47 Margaret M. Mitchell, AM’82, PhD’89, Robert Perlman, LAB’54, AB’57, AM’50 Robert C. Michaelson This songbook became part of the current public collection after the French Revolution. The manuscript and Richard A. Rosengarten, AM’88, SB’58, ND’61, PhD’63 Patrick J. Spain, BA’74 Mary L. Murphy, AM’77, PhD’85, and contains 229 compositions, some present only in this source. Colorful drawings adorn each folio. $638 $10,000–$24,999 PhD’94 Laura Prail and John L. Cella, Jr. James H. Stone William Michael Murphy, AM’70, William M. Card Charitable Trust Lucina Lea Moses, AM’72 Lorna Puttkammer Straus, LAB’49, Michael Thompson, PhD’81 Friedrich Schiller. Sämtliche Werke, Berliner Ausgabe. Aufbau-Verlag, 1980-2005. Digital version. Schiller (1759– Col. (IL) Jennifer N. Pritzker (Ret.) Judith Nadler SM’60, PhD’62 Chair, Library Society Nebenzahl-Spitz Foundation 1805) is best known for his influence on German literature along with his philosophical contributions. His essays Linda Parshall and Donald L. Schenker Janis Notz and John Notz, Jr. helped shape one of the most prolific periods of German philosophy, especially in the field of aesthetics. Preston M. Torbert, $5,000–$9,999 Peter W. Parshall, AM’67, PhD’74 Alice D. Schreyer $3,400 Ruth O’Brien, AB’83, AM’91, and AM’70, PhD’73 Diane Adams Naomi Reshotko and David Shapiro, AM’88 Stuart A. Rice Joel Paul Wachs, AB’92 Julie and Roger Baskes Paul Benjamin Schechter, AB’73, Linnea Sodergren, AM’72 To support the purchase of one of these titles, please send a check for the full cost, payable to The University David William Schab, AB’93 Joan and John Blew AM’75, PhD’76 Virginia Stigler and of Chicago, with the title in the comment field, to The Library Society, 1100 East 57th Street, Suite 180, Chicago, Deborah H. Selch, AM’88, and T. Kimball Brooker, AM’89, PhD’96 Anne N. Rorimer Stephen M. Stigler, LAB’59 Jason Bakwin Selch, AB’82, MBA’88 IL 60637. You may also call Catherine Niehaus, Development Associate, at 773-702-7695. Thank you for your David H. Chan, AB’09 Alison Marie Scott, AM’82 David W. Tsai, PhD’79 Nancy F. Seyfried generosity. James H. Christian, AB’09 Mara A. Tapp, AM’77, and Howard Stanley White, AM’75 Barbara Van Deventer Diana Hunt King and Neil King Michael Silverstein Barbara Wilson, AB’59, AM’65 in memory of June P. Farris* and For additional titles in need of funding, please visit Michael Krauss, AB’75, MBA’76 Jacqueline M. Vossler and Meyer Wolin, PhD’54 in honor of Sandra Levy lib.uchicago.edu/about/thelibrary/supportus/libsoc/desiderata. Richard Rennen *deceased

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Library receives 2,700 vintage prints by VIVIAN MAIER

HE UNIVERSITY of “This exceptional Chicago Library has collection will give researchers received a second and students a more complex donation of vintage understanding of Vivian Maier prints by celebrated as a unique figure in 20th- photographer Vivian century photography,” said MaierT from collector John Brenda L. Johnson, Library Maloof. Few of the 2,700 prints Director and University have ever been published or Librarian. “We are so pleased displayed. The collection is now that, with the receipt of this open for research. magnificent gift from John The gift includes more than Maloof, the UChicago Library 1,200 black-and-white and 1,400 has the largest collection of color prints that Maier made, Maier photographs held by ranging from her travels around the world to her street any museum or library—and the only large collection of photography in Chicago. Because Maier chose to make the Maier’s work that is open to all interested researchers.” prints herself, the collection provides a rare glimpse into her creative process and the photos to which she was drawn. Learn more at bit.ly/Maier-UChiLib.