LIBRARY DIRECTIONS: A NEWSLETTER Volume 18, No. 1 OF THE LIBRARIES Spring - Summer, 2008 Library Directions is produced twice a year by Libraries staff. Inquiries concerning content may be sent to: Library Directions University of Washington Libraries LETTER FROM THE DEAN Box 352900 , WA 98195-2900 (206) 543-1760 ([email protected]) The symphony must be like the world. Paul Constantine, Managing Editor Maureen Nolan, Editor It must embrace everything. Susan Kemp, Production Manager, Photographer Gustav Mahler to Jean Sibelius (1907) Mark Kelly, Stephanie Lamson, Mary Mathiason, Mary Whiting, Copy Editors Library Directions is available online at www.lib. washington.edu/about/libdirections/current/. In many ways, libraries are like symphonies. Several sources are used for mailing labels. Please pass mul- tiple copies on to others or return labels of unwanted copies They must (and do) embrace the world and to Library Directions. Addresses containing UW campus photo by John Pai box numbers were obtained from the HEPPS database everything in it. For as long as memories have and corrections should be sent to your departmental existed and knowledge has flourished, libraries payroll coordinator. have connected people around the world.

In This Issue: In this issue of Library Directions, you will read how the Libraries is Letter from the Dean...... this page working to bring the world to the University of Washington and, OUGL Videoconferencing Studio likewise, to take the University of Washington to the world. Jacob —Think Globally, Meet Locally...... p. 1 Jacob A. Morris, collaborative technology Morris and Jill McKinstry reveal how the state-of-the-art Odegaard consultant, Catalyst Client Services, Learning & Scholarly Technologies, and Jill McKinstry, Undergraduate Library Videoconferencing Studio shrinks the world director, Odegaard Undergraduate Library and breaks down geographic barriers. Bill Jordan and Diana Brooking

Search Libraries Worldwide tell the transformative tale of WorldCat Local as it seamlessly links local with WorldCat Local...... p. 2 and global. Judith Henchy describes how a Vietnamese workshop on William Jordan, associate dean of University Libraries, Resource Acquisition and Descrip- journals challenged colonial and ideological models with notions of tion/Information Technology Services, and Diana Brooking, cataloging librarian (Slavic) enhanced access to research and scholarship. Alan Michelson discloses

Workshop: English Language Journals how a local Ballard landmark garners interest of global proportions in Viet Nam...... p. 3 in his article on Denny’s, Googie architecture and the Manning’s Judith Henchy, head, Southeast Asia Section controversy. And what could be more global than a discussion of the Denny’s and Googie Architecture Library of Alexandria in the digital age? Learn about a library initiative —the Manning’s Controversy...... p. 4 Alan Michelson, head, Architecture-Urban to document the local Baltic community through oral histories and Planning Library “time-lapsed” photography.

The Library of Alexandria in the Digital Age...... p. 6 Mary St. Germain, head, Near East Section Enjoy with me the many ways the University of Washington Libraries

Sand Point Shelving Facility Update...... p. 6 embraces the world and, in doing so, creates a global symphony of a Thomas Deardorff, coordinator for Access Services special sort.

Library Project Highlights Baltic Community...... p. 7 A.C. Petersen, Libraries Development Officer

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Odegaard VideoConference Studio —Think Globally, Meet Locally by Jacob A. Morris, collaborative technology consultant, Installation of this high-tech facility proved University of Antioquia, Columbia, Catalyst Client Services, Learning & Scholarly to be challenging. A massive crane was used who were constrained by travel Technologies, and Jill McKinstry, director, Odegaard Undergraduate Library to hoist the air conditioning equipment to warnings. the roof and long hours were required to Imagine that you are a student in South pull wire and coordinate multiple programs. ● The Treasury Office, responsible for Africa, studying the work of the National The results are splendid, however, with the investment and administration Book Award winner Professor Charles three 63-inch displays and a local 20-inch of the UW’s assets, often uses the videoconference studio to meet Johnson and you have the opportunity to videoconference monitor. The technologies potential fund managers around the invite the author into your class for a two- currently offered include Polycom, Access world, enjoying the advantages of a hour discussion, even though he is located Grid Node (AGN), and ConferenceXP, face-to-face meeting. thousands of miles away in Seattle, on the which began as a Microsoft Research campus of the University of Washington. project and is now being developed at the ● Departmental interviews and a thesis This imaginative and innovative scenario is UW. defense have been held in the Studio. one of many taking place each week in the The first round of interviews for the Odegaard Videoconference Studio. The Studio allows geographically UW chief of police were conducted separated groups to meet and collaborate through the Studio. The Studio, a collaborative partnership using various types of videoconference among the University Libraries, Learning and technologies. The Libraries has utilized ● The department of chemistry uses Scholarly Technologies, and UW Technology, the Studio regularly in its first year for the facility for its monthly Access opened a little over a year ago on the third planning and administrative meetings that Grid meeting, connecting with more floor of the Odegaard Undergraduate Library. include participants from all three UW than eight other institutions to share The videoconferencing room provides 16 campuses. current student and faculty research in seats for on-site participants, each captured chemistry. Highlights of other recent Studio uses by an automated high-definition camera include: and microphone system, and its location With time, usage will grow and the is ideal for the undergraduate library with Libraries is pleased to co-host this service. ● Two professors of dentistry shared their For more information, consult: 24-hour access and a history of successful work and research with students at the collaborations. catalyst.washington.edu/learning_spaces/ video_conferencing/index.html

A class in South Africa enjoys a two-hour discussion with author and UW English professor Charles Johnson, using the Odegaard Videoconference Studio.  search libraries worldwide with WorldCat Local

WorldCat Local provides a range of new to provide end-to-end discovery and search and display features. Start your delivery of a wide range of materials that search with the simple search box, or try formerly were only available in separate advanced search for more precision. Facets systems. The Libraries has purchased or make it easy to refine a search by author, licensed an amazing number of high-quality topic, date, or format. information resources for users, but this wealth of information is often difficult to find in multiple siloed interfaces with little or no integration between them. Three separate catalogs contain even more by William Jordan, associate dean of University Libraries, Resource Acquisition and Description/ resources: some at the UW, others available Information Technology Services, and Diana Brooking, through our consortial borrowing system, cataloging librarian (Slavic) Summit, and from WorldCat participating libraries via Interlibrary Loan. What we are The full record for books now includes beginning to do with WorldCat Local is to Have you noticed the new search box on images of the book cover (where available), bring those quality resources together to www.lib.washington.edu ? and different editions of a work are brought make them convenient for you to find and together using the use—to make quality convenient. evolving Function Requirements The Libraries is the first beta site for for Bibliographic WorldCat Local, which made its public Records (FRBR) debut here in April 2007. We worked standard. Some closely with OCLC on usability testing records include in May 2007. Based on the results of this user-contributed testing and additional user feedback, the reviews and tables interface was revised significantly over the of contents. With summer. We did additional usability testing WorldCat Lists, in February 2008, and OCLC is continuing you can create to make improvements and to add new lists of your features monthly in response to testing here favorite items to at UW and elsewhere. share with others via WorldCat, Since implementing WorldCat Local, or to export requests for UW materials are up 9%, UW into your own requests for materials held by other Summit citation manager libraries are up by 59%, and Interlibrary It is for WorldCat Local, an innovative like EndNote Loan requests are up over 40%. WorldCat search system that the University Libraries or RefWorks. Use the citation tool to see Local article citations now account for more has been beta testing. Developed by OCLC, bibliographic citations in five common hits on our full-text linking service than any the world’s largest library research and styles: APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA and source except for Web of Science. service cooperative, WorldCat Local is built Turabian. Displayed in a separate pop-up on OCLC’s WorldCat database. WorldCat window, the citations follow the reference Although still in a beta phase, WorldCat contains over 100 million bibliographic standard for each style. Local now is being implemented at a records from research libraries all over the number of other sites, including the Ohio world, augmented with an additional 30 WorldCat Local offers a single entry point State University, Cornell, and the University million journal article citations. WorldCat to discover and gain access to items of of California system. Give WorldCat Local Local is a localized version of the database interest no matter where or in what format a try at: that presents those materials most readily they are held. UW-licensed electronic available to UW users—locally owned journals and e-books, freely available www.lib.washington.edu/about/ and licensed content—first, followed by electronic resources, print journals and worldcatlocal/what.html holdings in Summit, and then holdings from books, and multimedia materials can all be other WorldCat libraries. accessed or requested through WorldCat Local. WorldCat Local interoperates with locally maintained services like circulation, resource sharing, and access to full text, 

Workshop: English Language Journals in Viet Nam by Judith Henchy, head, discussion of the characteristics of scholarly and does not lend itself readily to keyword Southeast Asia Section journals and their research roles within access. This discussion led to an exploration different disciplines. Questions of whether of the difficulty of bibliographic verification The Journal journals carry book reviews and research in Vietnamese scholarly writings, due to Donation Project updates in the field, or whether they are lax citation practices, as well as the scarcity (JDP) is an initiative commercially published or a journal of of indexing for Vietnamese journals. of an enterprising record of a scholarly society were assessed Previously limited indexing access to the faculty member at in comparison with Vietnamese counterparts. world’s scholarly literature compounded The New School The relative importance of journals and these difficulties; few libraries have had in New York, books in the different disciplines was access to print or online indexes for the aimed at providing subsidized journal discussed in light of the faster production titles that they are now receiving through literature to countries with less developed time-line for books in the Vietnamese the JDP, although an effort is now under educational resources and research libraries. context. The importance of peer review (still way to provide table of contents information After a three-year project in Viet Nam, without a real equivalent in Viet Nam until in translation, and there was discussion of with the financial assistance of the Ford very recently) was discussed. the potential importance of Google Scholar. Foundation’s Office for Viet Nam and Thailand, an evaluation showed that the Many of these concepts were unfamiliar Despite the limited resources available to journals being provided to 23 humanities in a research environment where all most libraries, many had been proactive institutions of higher learning were not publications require permission from the in promoting their English language well used by researchers and students, and Ministry of Culture, where most publishers journal collections. While it is clear that that their impact on scholarship had been are associated with some branch of the English language competency remains a limited. In an attempt to enhance journal state’s political or social apparatus, and major obstacle to journal usage, the habits use in these institutions, Southeast Asia until recently, universities and research of scholarly inquiry in the Vietnamese Section Head, Judith Henchy, was invited institutions were exclusively controlled academy offer another constraint. Research to teach a three-day workshop for librarians by the government. Discussions about patterns remain rooted in limited circles and researchers in Hanoi in January 2007. plagiarism and copyright, issues of interest of personal relationships to knowledge Judith had previously worked with the to both librarians and researchers, revealed centers, including data collections and Ford Foundation in Viet Nam as a library concerns about the limits of permissible acknowledged scholars, rather than in resource advisor for their project to reassess paraphrasing and quotation practice, the systematic and open-ended discovery the university social sciences curriculum, copying for teaching purposes, preservation process that is the expectation of the U.S. and had many years’ experience related to of frail materials for class use and academy. These latter research methods, training Vietnamese librarians. interlibrary borrowing. The Libraries’ online however, are enabled by the sort of indexing research guide, Research 101, and other and database access that have in the past Three key elements were used as a online resources on the Libraries website, been unavailable to Vietnamese scholars. framework for the journals workshop: provided very useful illustrative tools for It remains to be seen how long it will take general research methods, information these discussions. for current levels of enhanced access to literacy, and library services. This framework profoundly change research habits and was adapted from the Association of College Besides acquiring print journals through scholarly expectations. and Research Libraries’ Guidelines on the JDP, all the government-sponsored Information Literacy Competency, but the libraries in Viet Nam had recently been challenge of the workshop was to make these provided access to online journals through ideals relevant to the Vietnamese situation, the EBSCO database. This service was where learning and research habits are still being subsidized by the Programme for profoundly influenced by French colonial the Enhancement of Research Information models, as well as ideological priorities (PERI) of the International Network for of the modern communist state. Such the Availability of Scientific Publications concepts as the “life-cycle of information” (INASP), based in the U.K. Curiosity and the role of journals in the process of about this service broadened discussion information evolution made for a lively of searching methods, particularly the exchange amongst participants, as did the role of keyword searching in the online environment, and the continuing need for “controlled vocabularies” and citation tracing for certain fields in the humanities, a bookshop in the Buddhist Institute where the research language is ambiguous in Saigon, Viet Nam 

Denny’s and Googie Architecture—the Manning’s Controversy by Alan Michelson, head, Architecture-Urban Planning I did some research Library on the building and In July and August 2007, I was asked discovered that the several reference questions in the Manning’s chain Architecture and Urban Planning Library had a long and about the history of the Manning’s fascinating history. Cafeteria (later Denny’s Restaurant) Brothers William located on the northwest corner of NW W. Manning (d. Market Street and 15th Avenue NW in 1939) and Edward the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Each M. Manning, Sr. (d. patron indicated that they were researching 1956) started their the building because a developer wanted to coffee empire from tear it down and build a mixed-use condo/ a single stall in the retail complex there. Tear it down? I had Pike Place Market seen a number of other local landmarks in 1908, a year around the city torn down including the after the market Twin Teepees, a classic roadside restaurant opened. From very Manning’s on a snowy Seattle day, c. 1975. of the 1930s, and I did not want to see this humble beginnings, architecturally distinctive corner landmark the brothers had, The term “Googie” was most often applied fall, too. To me, its delightful eccentricity by 1936, built an innovative chain of 60 to roadside commercial architecture symbolized old Ballard. stores and cafes from Bellingham to San built during the 1950s-1960s, and its Diego. Their business helped to train genesis lay in designs by Frank Lloyd One researcher asked about the restaurant’s many employees who went on to found Wright (1867-1959) and his Los Angeles architect, Clarence Mayhew. Mayhew, a their own West Coast restaurants, the most disciples, Lautner and Rudolph Schindler San Francisco Bay Area architect of the well-known being Seattle mogul, Walter (1887-1953). Googie began in Southern 1930s-1960s, was F. Clark (1896-1990)1. The company California, but spread across the country a contemporary emphasized the quality of its coffee, through franchises like Big Boy, Sambo’s of William W. particularly highlighting methodical and others. Its characteristics were designed Wurster, an preparation and brewing. In this way, for maximum visibility from a moving architect on whom Manning’s was a significant forerunner automobile. Thus, Googie restaurants I wrote my doctoral of Seattle’s later quality coffee chains, frequently had large areas of glass (enabling dissertation. Starbucks, Tully’s, and Seattle’s Best distant views of the interior), flamboyant, Mayhew, along Coffee. After World War II, by expanding soaring roof forms, bold colors and signage, with a group of into institutional food service and and diverse, modern building materials. other practitioners marketing coffee and other prepared foods Building and signage forms often suggested working in San in supermarkets, Manning’s became one of weightlessness or movement; airplanes Francisco at the the two largest food service companies in (boomerang shapes) or space travel vehicles Clarence Mayhew c. 1970. Courtesy of Joan Mayhew time, composed the western United States. Beales one of the most important and The building’s distinctive style needed influential regional schools of architecture no further research. It clearly fell in in the U.S. Between 1935-1950, the the category of Googie coffee shop Bay Area School published ranch house architecture. Having lived in San Francisco designs that critics in other parts of the and Los Angeles, I had seen many such country lauded for their fusion of local and buildings. The editor of Architectural international characteristics, indoor-outdoor Forum, Douglas Haskell, coined the term living spaces, and sophisticated, understated “Googie” architecture, following a late aesthetic. Knowing that a fine architect like 1940s tour of buildings by the noted Los Mayhew designed this Manning’s Cafeteria Angeles architect, John Lautner (1911- prompted me to get more involved in its 1994)2. Googie’s (1949) was a coffee shop possible preservation. designed by Lautner located next to the famous Schwab’s Pharmacy on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Postcard image of interior of Manning’s in 1964, shortly after opening 

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(real or imagined) offered formal imagery. criteria set by the LPB for Seattle landmark Unfortunately, we could not present our There was no stylistic formula, however, status. (Ironically, Seattle’s landmark most up-to-date research before the LPB and Googie restaurants, gas stations and ordinance carries more legal weight than at the designation hearing on February motels, had great formal diversity. They either national or state recognition. Seattle 20, 2008. Conversely, the developer’s were designed to appear clean and up- landmark status can actually prevent a lawyer and two paid consultants presented to-date and to compete for the motorist’s building from being demolished.) As I an expensive but ultimately misleading attention on rapidly developing, ever- saw it, the Manning’s was an “outstanding presentation. The LPB still ruled in favor changing roadside sites. work of an architect or builder,” possessed of designating the Manning’s a Seattle City “distinctive visible characteristics of Landmark, but by a narrower 6-3 margin.5 As a result of frenetic real estate an architectural style,” and reflected “a Feeling aggrieved, the developer’s lawyer development and business competition, significant aspect of the cultural, political, has vowed to fight the LPB decision. few of the once-plentiful Googie buildings or economic heritage of the remain along Seattle’s major arterials such community, city, state or nation.” as Aurora Avenue (Highway 99), Lake At the very least, “its prominence City Way, and 15th Avenue NW. I believe of spatial location, contrasts of that the Manning’s is the best of perhaps a siting, age, or scale,” made it an half-dozen Googie survivors in the city. Its “…identifiable visual feature scarcity is, in itself, a compelling reason of its neighborhood or the city,” for preservation. It remains an important contributing “…to the distinctive artifact of the automobile era in the quality or identity of such U.S., and its vibrant, modern appearance neighborhood or the City.”3 crystallized the era’s enthusiasm and faith in consumerism and technology. I was not I had no idea how inflammatory alone in my assessment of the building’s the idea of preserving a Googie stylistic importance. Alan Hess, an architect coffee shop might be. On January and author of two seminal studies of Googie 2, 2008, the Seattle Landmarks architecture, concurred, writing two very Board voted 8-1 to nominate strong letters supporting preservation. the Manning’s Cafeteria (and later Denny’s Restaurant) a City Because opponents of demolition did not of Seattle Landmark. Sensing file a nomination report within the legal controversy, various media timeframe, we could not present our case outlets—the Seattle Times, the Manning’s building in its later Denny’s incarnation directly before the Seattle Landmarks Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Preservation Board (LPB)—a diverse group 1 See P.E. Tibbetts, Mr. Restaurant, A Biography of Seattle Weekly, The Stranger, a few local Restaurateur Walter F. Clark, (Seattle, WA: Murray of 11 design professionals, historians, television stations, and even the Los Angeles Publishing, 1990), p. 16-17, 34-45. realtors, and financial people appointed Times and Chicago Tribune covered the 2. Douglas Haskell, “Googie Architecture,” House by the Mayor—either at nomination or story. After nomination, there was quick and Home, 2/1952 ,v. 1, p. 86-88. Haskell served as designation hearings. What we could opposition from the developers, their Architectural Forum’s Editor from 1949-1964. For more do was send in reports PR consultants and attorneys, and local on Haskell, see http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/ indiv/avery/da/haskell.html. Accessed 12/26/2007. summarizing our research residents. The decision to save what they for the board to consider viewed as a pitiful, worthless old Denny’s 3. See SMC 25.12.350 Standards for Designation : and speak for two minutes had endangered the entire Seattle landmarks http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~scripts/nph-brs.exe?s1= at each hearing as 25.12&s2=&S3=&Sect4=AND&l=20&Sect1=IMAGE&S process. ect3=PLURON&Sect5=CODE1&d=CODE&p=1&u=%2 interested citizens. I wrote F%7Epublic%2Fcode1.htm&r=1&Sect6=HITOFF&f=L3 three papers supporting The opposition lambasted our group, the %3B1%3B25.12.350.SNUM. Accessed 3/9/2007. preservation, indicating LPB, and Seattle in general. They claimed 4. See http://www.newsweek.com/id/116775/output/ that the restaurant met that historic preservation was not a public comments. Accessed 3/9/2008. four of six designation issue, and that this effort to defend what we 5. Another LPB member, a noted architectural felt was a landmark was another example historian who could not be at the meeting due to his of the Seattle city government overstepping mother’s death, also strongly supported designation. its bounds, “taking” land from benevolent landlords. One blogger commented, “The communist city of Seattle again steals from a good company.”4 Postcard image of interior of Manning’s in 1964, shortly after opening 

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has pioneered the digitization of Arabic script texts. Yale University Library and the by Mary St. Germain, head, Bibliotheca Alexandrina partnered to offer a program, which converts scans from images to Near East Section week-long invitational workshop on digitizing text. A great deal of effort was spent on ways Arabic text at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in In 2002, Egypt’s new to decrease the error rate of the conversion. Alexandria Egypt, from December 3-7, 2007. Library of Alexandria, the One of the most important long-term goals Bibliotheca Alexandrina, The Bibliotheca employs around 120 of the Workshop is to address the lack of opened. Like the original individuals to scan and OCR (Optical reference tools for Arabic language materials, Library of Alexandria, which seems to have Character Recognition software used to including journal article indexes. Many of been severely damaged around the time translate images into searchable text) Arabic the participants, including the UW, already of Julius Caesar, it is dedicated to a spirit language texts. Each group of two or three contribute lists of their holdings of journals of openness and scholarship. However, participants had its own trainer in addition in Middle Eastern Languages and about instead of attempting the impossible task to the session leader. The UW Libraries, the Middle East to a searchable database of creating a collection of printed books represented by Mary St. Germain, head, called Oacis (www.library.yale.edu/oacis/). representing many centuries of knowledge, Near East Section, was chosen as one of the Digitization training will allow members the Bibliotheca has pioneered the latest participants in the Workshop. The training was to move into a new phase of cooperation, technologies as a way to provide internet thorough and began with hands-on instruction in which an online periodical index will be access to Egyptian and Arabic publications in scanning. Participants received detailed created by scanning and digitizing the tables and to other materials such as movies and art, training in three programs used to clean scans, of contents of the journals listed in Oacis. as copyright issues can be worked out. improve the quality of the printing in the text, Planning is underway to provide document As a partner in the Million Book Project and standardize the size of the scans. The delivery. www.ulib.org, the Bibliotheca Alexandria most difficult program to use was the OCR

Sand Point Shelving Facility Update by Thomas Deardorff, coordinator for Access Services/ and concluded that additional space was controls are being installed to minimize Libraries copyright officer needed to accommodate collection growth damage to library materials. The temperature Even though more and more resources are through 2015. The study concluded that the will be set to 65 degrees and the relative becoming accessible online, the University remainder of the third floor at Sand Point humidity to 45%. Beginning May 2008, Libraries continues to acquire a large amount be occupied by compact mobile shelving the shelving installation will begin creating of print material. Over the past four years, and that better environmental controls be new space for approximately 525,000 UW Seattle library units have added an put in place to minimize the impacts of book volumes and 25,000 archival boxes, average of 67,156 volumes annually. This temperature, humidity, ultraviolet light, including all archival material currently is the equivalent of a middle-sized branch and pollutants. housed in another offsite facility in the Oak library with 1.3 miles of very full shelves. Tree area. Concurrent with the construction Since most of the shelving in our libraries Funds were allocated by the University project, library staff have been working to is operationally full, we have been making for the project and construction began in select additional materials for transfer to room for new acquisitions by moving May 2007. The project scope included Sand Point and planning the big move. valuable, but lesser-used materials to our development of new unoccupied space and Sand Point shelving facility. The facility, upgrading of the existing Baker Auxiliary The Libraries has worked to maintain a located on university property at the former Stacks containing 232,000 volumes. A high level of access to materials housed at Sand Point naval base, was established in major challenge of the project was to protect Sand Point. Library staff retrieve materials 2000 to accommodate the need for additional the collection during construction. In the from Sand Point twice a day, Monday- shelving. Two shelving areas, the Auxiliary first phase, lights, fire alarms, sprinklers, Saturday and once on Sundays. Material Stacks and Baker Auxiliary Stacks, were air ducts and new walls were installed in can be requested through the UW Libraries created on the third floor of Building 5D the undeveloped area. Then the books and catalog and delivered to Suzzallo Circulation to house approximately 600,000 volumes. shelving in the Baker Auxiliary Stacks within hours or to any Seattle library units By 2003 these areas were essentially full. space were moved into the new space and within one or two days. We continue to The University then conducted a review of the second renovation phase began. A small work on improving Sand Point services and the Libraries offsite shelving requirements office space also is being developed on the are currently investigating the feasibility of third floor to provide library staff with better scanning journal articles for desktop delivery access to the collections. Environmental to requesters.  library project highlights Baltic Community

Amanda Swain, project coordinator of the exhibit, is a Ph.D. student in the by A.C. Petersen, Libraries development officer UW Department of History specializing in Baltic history. Her passion is clear In 2003, Nicolette Bromberg, visual materials when she speaks of the importance of curator for UW Libraries Special Collections, the project, saying, “I’ve been involved toured Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania while on with the Baltic-American communities in When the Boeing 747 project was launched in 1965, I a trip to attend a conference in Helsinki. After Seattle since the early 1990s. They have was busy working on its initial baseline configuration an inspiring visit to the Latvian Photography been very supportive of my studies and development. There I invented the High Cab interest in the Baltic Countries. This is configuration of the 747 airplane and contributed to Museum, she started to think about creating numerous other design concepts. But being of Latvian a project documenting the Baltic countries. a great opportunity for me to give back heritage was also like living in two different worlds at This is a signature trait of Bromberg, who to the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian the same time. One world was entirely dedicated to my believes in “proactive collecting” by working communities by creating this exhibit that daily work at the Boeing Company and keeping abreast tells their stories.” of local and national events. The other world was with communities to document their history basically centered on keeping the Latvian heritage alive. through photography and archival collections. A copy of the exhibit will be made into a ~ Edvins Circenis Upon her return to Seattle, Bromberg bound book that can travel to schools in talked to Michael Biggins, head of the region and be a part of the fabric of the Libraries Slavic and East European history of the diverse communities. Studies Section, and Guntis Smidchens, professor of Baltic Studies, who arranged Funding for the project and exhibit is from a meeting with representatives from the 4Culture, Nancy Nordhoff, the UW Baltic three local Baltic community organizations. Studies Program, the Libraries Slavic and Each organization identified a group of East European Section, and the Lithuanian- King County residents, individuals who American Community in Seattle. immigrated to the U.S. from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—many as adults or children following World War II—as well as those of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian heritage who were born in the U.S. The resulting exhibit comprises the history of these individuals through portraits by noted photographer Mary Randlett, and personal statements and family photographs from the I had never been a folk dancer in Estonia, but I am a 19 subjects, including: founding member of the Estonian folkdance group in Seattle which was reestablished 3 years ago … the most • Edvins Circenis, who came from Latvia expensive and special costume I have in my closet is an to Seattle in 1956 to take a job as an Estonian folk costume collected together piece by piece. engineer with the Boeing Company, The costume belongs to the Pühalepa district of the Estonian island, Hiiumaa. Every piece of this costume is where he was one of the designers of the hand-made. Boeing 747. The striped colorful skirt I received as a gift from a • Tiina Oviir, who came from Estonia to friend of mine. The blouse was purchased from a local Seattle Estonian, as well as the brooch, which was New York in 1997 and then to Seattle made by an Estonian artist in the Seattle area. The rich several years later. She was an assistant crocheted lace apron was made by my mother and the professor in the UW School of Dentistry belt with copper chains I ordered from an old master in and is now in private practice. Estonia—one out of two still alive who knows how to make this item. • Rasa Raisys, who grew up in Seattle ~ Tiina Oviir and was a member of the dance group Lietutis and now teaches children Tiina Oviir, left, and Edvins Circenis, above. Details of Lithuanian dances and songs through photos by Mary Randlett, Libraries Special Collections the Lithuanian-American Community.  news, events and awards

alter Berg has endowed the university Her writing has appeared in Image, Open he Southeast Asia Section and the Warchivist position with a pledged gift Spaces, Wild Earth, Conservation Biology TSoutheast Asian Studies Center of the of $250,000. This is the first position to be Journal, Birdwatcher’s Digest and The Jackson School collaborated to participate endowed in the history of the Libraries. On Prairie Naturalist. Her latest book is The for the first time in the Seattle Vietnamese the completion of Berg’s gift, the position will Importance of Everything and Other Lessons Tết new year celebrations, “Tết in Seattle,” be known as the University of Washington from Darwin’s Lost Notebooks. which took place at the Seattle Center over the Libraries Walter L. and Rosemary S. weekend of February 2-3, 2008. The Southeast Berg Endowed University Archivist. Berg Asia librarian, Judith Henchy, organized an established this endowment to honor his first arla Rickerson, head of art activity that was included in the “Kids ‘N wife, Rosemary, and to support the work of CSpecial Collections, is Tet” festivities for children. Based on motifs the Archives. Proceeds from the endowment the 2008 recipient of the from traditional Ðông Hồ village wood block will be used for preservation and preservation Genealogical Publishing prints, the UW team designed various levels supplies, student and staff assistants, and Co./History Section of artistic activities which allowed the children professional development and travel of the Award presented by the to experiment with creating a design that archivist. Reference and User could be printed on mulberry paper. A total Services Association of 280 children visited the table and printed (RUSA), a division of the a design. As was hoped, while the children rand Army of the American Library Association (ALA). The were sketching and carving blocks, the parents GRepublic is the award consists of $1500 and a citation donated asked questions about programs at the UW name of a new digital by the Genealogical Publishing Company and and looked at the sample books that were collection created by is given to encourage, recognize and commend brought from the Southeast Asia collection. the Libraries. After the professional achievement in historical The Libraries also displayed several books on Civil War, veterans reference and research librarianship. ethnic minorities in Viet Nam in the exhibit who had fought for area, which focused on the theme of this year’s the Union formed the festivities, minority groups. Grand Army of the he Libraries holds the honor of submitting Republic. Around Tthe 100th million record to OCLC 1915, local members WorldCat. A bibliographic record for ooking Glass for the put together an album of photographic Miscellaneous Contributions (U.S. Fisheries LMind: 350 Years of portraits collected from members over the Laboratory; 1950-1954) was established and Books for Children was previous 25 years. The leather-bound book Kris Lindlan and Linda Pitts upgraded the the exhibit on display in was donated to the Seattle Public Library in record to CONSER full level. In 1988, the Suzzallo 102, the Allen 1971. Only 106 portraits remain, and some are Libraries received a gold record for the 18th Lobby and in the Special unidentified, but they all form a remarkable million record. Collections Lobby from resource for Seattle history. View the album March 24 to May 30, 2008. of photographic portraits at content.lib. The exhibition featured washington.edu/garweb/ photographic exhibit called Black nearly 400 historical APanthers: Making Sense of History was children’s books both from Special Collections on view at Odegaard Library from April 2 to and on loan from collector and donor, Pamela he Libraries and UW May 31, 2008. Photographer Stephen Shames K. Harer, who, with Sandra Kroupa, book arts TAlumni Association had unprecedented access to the Black Panther and rare books curator, co-curated the exhibit. presented Lyanda Lynn Party and captured not only its public face but On April 17, 2008, Harer gave a gallery talk, Haupt as a Blom Lecture also unscripted behind-the-scenes moments. providing a walk-through with comments Series speaker on March 7, The 47 image photographic exhibit coincided regarding the joint collection of books and other 2008, in Suzzallo Library, with the 40th anniversary of diversity efforts materials from the 17th to the 20th centuries. All followed by a reception on the UW campus, including the student materials are in some way related to learning—at and book-signing.Haupt has c r e a t e d takeover of then-president home, in school, for a trade, or for fun. and directed educational programs for Seattle Charles Odegaard’s office. Audubon, worked in raptor rehabilitation These diversity activities in Vermont, and as a seabird researcher resulted in the formation of heresa Mudrock, history librarian in the for the Fish and Wildlife Service in the one of the first black student TReference & Research Services Division, remote tropical Pacific. Her first book, Rare unions in the United States. is the recipient of the first-ever Distinguished Encounters with Ordinary Birds, explores The Seattle chapter of Librarian Award. There were more than 20 the relationship between humans, birds and the Black Panther Party librarians nominated for the award, many of ecological understanding, and is a winner played an instrumental them by the faculty and graduate students of the 2002 Washington State Book Award. role in these activities. that they serve. 

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he Libraries served as a host institution Appointments Katie Blake, manager, special sollections, Tfor Caroline Dean, electronics resources Special Collections, 4/16/08 librarian and acting head, Nedbank Commerce Alison Aldrich, technology outreach Library from the University of Cape Town coordinator, Health Sciences Libraries, *Nicole Dettmar, education & assessment Library. Dean is one of six South African 1/1/08 coordinator, Health Sciences Libraries, librarians who were selected to participate 5/1/08 in a six-week internship program divided *Chandra Heller, engineering librarian, between the Mortenson Center at the Engineering Library, 1/1/08 *indicates temporary appointment University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and six major research libraries in the United *Junghae Lee, James Palais Collection Visiting Scholar States. cataloger, East Asia Library, 1/1/08 Caroline Dean, electronics resources librarian Dean was at the UW from March 31 to April *Christine Tawatao, systems librarian, & acting head, Nedbank Commerce Library 25, 2008, and met with many members of the Information Technology Services, 1/22/08 from the University of Cape Town Library. staff in her goal of learning how the Libraries Dean is one of six South African librarians provides services to campus researchers, *Bonnie McTaggart, resources who were selected to participate in a six- conducts collection development, raises management librarian, Health Sciences week internship program divided between the funds, and about use of technology and the Libraries, 1/29/08 Mortenson Center at the University of Illinois, Libraries assessment program. The program Urbana-Champaign, and six major research was funded by a grant from the Carnegie *Danielle Rowland, reference & instruction libraries in the United States. Corporation. librarian, Bothell Campus Library, 2/11/08

Helice Koffler, Manuscripts and Retirements im Jewell, director, Special Collections materials cataloger, Phyllis Caswell, manager, personnel & TInformation Resources, Monographic Services Division, 2/28/08 administrative services, Office of the Dean, Collections, and Scholarly 3/31/08 Mara Fletcher, manager, Libraries human Communication is the resources, Office of the Dean, 3/16/08 winner of the first annual Larry Jamieson, manager, purchasing & supplies, Purchasing & Supplies, 3/31/08 Coutts Award for Innovation Norma (Abby) Larson, manager, in Electronic Resources purchasing & supplies, Purchasing & Peter Stevens, business reference librarian, Management. The award Supplies, 4/1/08 , 5/31/08 recognizes significant and innovative contributions to electronic collections management and development practice. The recipient receives a $2,000 award generously donated by Coutts Information Services and a citation.

he Libraries is piloting a project to Tscan and provide free PDFs of journal articles that are normally available in print format only. Faculty from the College of Education and the College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences have been invited to submit article requests through Interlibrary Loan. Articles are pulled and scanned, and posted for users. The goal of the pilot is to determine best practices, costs and user satisfaction, with the objective to determine the feasibility of providing the service campus-wide.

From a pool of 65 applicants, ten students were selected to receive $1000 Student Employee Scholarships for 2008. Back row, from left to right: Shalina Bajracharya, Lynetta Gray, Siu Wah Hui, Scott Dalessandro, Scot T. Rastelli, Sara Mamman. Front row, left to right: Anna Nash, Sianny Frans, Tracey L. West, Kirsten Sullivan Your bequest to the University of DISCOVERY IS AT THE HEART OF THE UNIVERSITY Washington Libraries is a thoughtful way to achieve your charitable goals without making an outright gift today. Your bequest may reduce your estate taxes as well as provide you with other benefits, including: • Your assets remain in your control during your lifetime. • You may direct your bequest to serve a specific “area of interest” within the Libraries. • You can modify your bequest at any time if your circumstances change. • Your bequest will benefit the students and researchers of tomorrow. If you would like to learn more about making a bequest to the UW, please contact Cynthia Asmus with Libraries Development at 206- 616-8397 or the Office of Gift Planning at 206-685-1001, toll free at 800-284-3679, or via e-mail at [email protected].

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