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Fall 2012 Bradin Cormack, Associate Professor, REPORTS LIBRARY & ANNOUNCEMENTS But—Not for Long INSIDE THE BOARD OF THE LIBRARY 2 A Partnership 3 Preserving Urdu 4 Library News 5 To Make a 6 Swiss Treasures 6 Jewish Mathematicians 2012-13 To Make a Difference Exhibitions in 3D Periodicals Online Difference in German Culture Andrew Abbott, Chair; Gustavus F. & By Judith Nadler, Director and University Librarian Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor, SWISS TREASURES Department of Sociology and the College, From Biblical Papyrus and Parchment to Senior Fellow, Computation Institute hen I embarked the Viking Legend this summer on a Danube tour from Erasmus, Zwingli, Calvin, and Barth Robert Bird, Associate Professor, Budapest to Passau, I was looking The Special Collections Research Center Department of Slavic Languages and W Exhibition Gallery Literatures and the College forward to revisiting cultures and places I once called my home. Beyond phone and email, I was September 21 – December 14, 2012 Jason Bridges, Associate Professor & Director resolved not to make this a working vacation. The Situated in the of Undergraduate Studies, Department of memories, the landscape, and the people seemed Volume 17 Philosophy and the College heart of Europe, TRANSCENDING TRADITION conducive to my resolve. Switzerland has Fall 2012 Bradin Cormack, Associate Professor, REPORTS LIBRARY & ANNOUNCEMENTS But—not for long. Through walking tours, long been a center Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture Department of English Language and Literature, lectures, and formal and informal presentations Director, Nicholson Center for British Studies for biblical studies The John Crerar Library, 1st Floor— October 4 – December 18, 2012 we learned from and about each other, and soon and transformative Richard Kron, Professor, Department of This international exhibition presents the life and works of Jewish mathematicians in Libra I was tempted to talk about the Library. contributions to Astronomy and Astrophysics, and the College; How do you engage people from different Germany. Spanning a period of 150 years, it documents their emergence from segregation This Dunhuang Fermilab: Experimental Astrophysics Group Judeo-Christian into the academic limelight, recalls their emigration, flight or death after 1933, and illuminates manuscript scroll is backgrounds, ages, and stages in life in issues that culture. This held by the University Kathleen D. Morrison, Neukom Family their lasting legacies. Learn more at tt.lib.uchicago.edu. are close to your heart but not necessarily to theirs? exhibition explores of Chicago Library. Professor, Department of Anthropology and An expert from the How do you capture and sustain their interest in the importance the College exploring the ways in which the Library can make a National Library of of Swiss religious ON THE EDGE China examined the Anne Walters Robertson, Claire Dux difference at a University that is already great? How influences across a range of traditions manuscript during Swift Distinguished Service Professor, The more we invest in what Medieval Margins and the Margins of Academic Life do you convey that much is needed to enable the and historical personalities, among them the Texting China Department of Music and the College Web Exhibit: lib.uchicago.edu/e/webexhibits/ontheedge/ Library to make an even greater difference? matters, the greater the Erasmus, Zwingli, John Calvin, and Karl symposium and I let numbers tell my story as I pointed to suggested that it dates James T. Robinson, Associate Professor, difference we can make. Barth. Papyri, parchments, first editions, This year marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of Image on Divinity School the Library fact sheet on my iPad. back to the seventh early printings, and modern manuscripts the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art by University of Chicago art history century. Mindy Schwartz, Associate Professor of The University of Chicago Library is the represent treasures in Swiss institutions professor Michael Camille (1958-2002), a work that looks at the playful Medicine 9th largest research library in North America; that link these and other religious thinkers and parodic images in the margins of illuminated manuscripts. Inspired by it provides 10.7 million volumes in print and Katherine Fischer Taylor, Associate to the philosophical, theological, and Camille’s work, this exhibition explores the symmetry between medieval electronic form, 48,252 linear feet of archives and Professor, Department of Art History and political movements that have shaped margins and the modern margins of academic life. On the Edge features the College manuscripts, and 107.6 TB of University electronic archives and research data. These figures the modern world. medieval manuscript marginalia paired with student photographs that impressed my new-found friends. But more impressive were numbers that convey the capture the margins of campus life. Mauricio Tenorio, Professor, Department magnitude of services we offer: 333,630 volumes circulated to 14,414 unique individuals; of History and the College; Director, Center 12,359 Scan & Deliver requests; 5.6 million successful responses to full-text article requests; for Latin American Studies 21,248 questions to reference librarians; 4,000+ attendees at training sessions. Ruey Tsay, H.G.B. Alexander Professor Our rich and distinctive collections reflect a history of generous budgets to support their Judith Nadler Contributors Michael Kenny, Barbara Kern, Nicholas Labello, of Econometrics and Statistics, Booth School strength, but we are falling behind in sustaining this strength with current budgets. The Director and University Librarian Daniel Meyer, James Nye, Barbara Palmer-Bostick, Laura Ring, of Business Alice Schreyer, Jason Smith, James Vaughan, Robin Weiss exponential growth of electronic resources raises the expectation and demand for more such Rachel Rosenberg resources at a time when traditional and electronic resources coexist and compete for limited Director of Communications Design The Barn Company LibraLIBRARY REPORTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS EX OFFICIO budgets. Technology brings exciting changes for collections and services, and by not taking PHOTO BY MICHAEL KENNY BY PHOTO Robert J. Zimmer, President and advantage of their full potential we are falling behind in serving our users. Teaching and THE UNIVERSITY Trustee of the University; Professor, training in the use of collections in an increasingly complex research environment presume OF CHICAGO LIBRARY Department of Mathematics and Physical staff time and expertise beyond what we can afford. 1100 East 57th Street The Library’s Global Reach Sciences Collegiate Division And I let pictures color my story: a breathtaking and awe-inspiring rendering of the Chicago, Illinois 60637 Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Provost of the Mansueto Library filled the screen; an underground storage capacity to accommodate rom the hosting of the Texting China To complement its resources, the Library builds University; John T. Wilson Distinguished collection growth of 3,500,000 printed volumes; a conservation laboratory for physical symposium to the digitization of Library foreign area studies collections jointly with the Service Professor, Department of Physics, repair and a digitization laboratory to digitize collections for preservation and access; a A newsletter for faculty and the holdings to the exhibition of international Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and provides University of Chicago community F James Franck Institute, and the College soaring glass dome embracing the magnificent space to create the Joe and Rika Mansueto histories and religious treasures, the Library did access to CRL’s international collections of foreign published with support from the Garrett Kiely, Director, University of Library—a structure of programmatic and architectural vision of the future. Library Society much to collect, preserve, and promote the use of dissertations, global newspapers, and scholarly Chicago Press The spaces and programs of the Mansueto Library enable the expansion and easy its global collections in 2011-12 and continues to journals. Klara Jelinkova, Associate Vice President retrieval of collections, their preservation for future generations of users, and their Libra can be found online at do so as the new academic year begins. Since June 2011, several Library appointments & Chief Information Technology Officer, digitization for access around the world. Our services support the education of the brightest www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/libra. were made to strengthen collection building and IT Services of students and attract and retain the greatest of faculty, but these services must be sustained news.lib.uchicago.edu Global Collections and New Appointments access in the Library’s South Asia and East Asia and expanded to new initiatives, if we are to continue to excel. Send questions and comments INSIDE: Judith Nadler, Director and University Forty-five percent of the Library’s collections are in operations, including a Chinese studies librarian; And in the resounding applause there was recognition for what a great Library can do to [email protected] or call Librarian Rachel Rosenberg at 773.834.1519. non-English languages and published outside the a Korean studies librarian; and an assistant South for an already great University. United States, supporting University of Chicago Asia librarian. Diana Jergovic, Associate Provost for Expanding opportunities within limited budgets will require that tough choices be Academic and Budgetary Initiatives faculty research with
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