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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 ofImage 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 a global impact and making made. We will make these choices informed by impact and guided by the principle that the Library a mecca for international scholars. Areas International Scholars and Librarians the more we invest in what matters, the greater the difference we can make. of special strength include East Asia, South Asia, In 2011-12, 9,610 visiting researchers unaffiliated the Middle East, and Slavic and Eastern Europe. with the University used the Library. Some came 5 Libra Fall 2012 Continued on page 4 Library’s Global Reach Ready access to extensive collections will be a boon to scholarship here and A Partnership in 3D British Library Awards UChicago £52,247 Grant Continued from page 1 throughout the Library system will be around the world. an invaluable underpinning for the work By Barbara Kern, Co-Director, Science Libraries Division, The University of Chicago Library; and Nicholas Labello, Scientific Computing Consultant, of scholars from around the world who and Robin Weiss, Research Programmer, Research Computing Center to Preserve Endangered Urdu Periodicals Exhibitions to conduct research individually. Others take advantage of the University’s new Exhibitions—in Regenstein and Crerar came to work cooperatively, such as those Collegium for Culture and Society. libraries and in online web exhibits— artnerships strengthen the Library. he University of Chicago has been Urdu was the lingua franca in much of attending the international symposium make the library’s rich and unique global And when those partnerships awarded a £52,247 grant from the the subcontinent during the 19th century Texting China—Composition, Transmission, Worldwide Discovery and Access resources available to local and international produce cutting-edge digital British Library’s Endangered and Urdu periodicals provide a broad P T and Preservation of Pre-Modern Chinese to Library Resources Online audiences. Five exhibits were offered in renderings of brain tumors in a larger-than- Archives Programme, funded by Arcadia, for spectrum of writings on a range of important Textual Materials. More than 100 scholars In partnership with Google through the the Special Collections Research Center life 3-dimensional environment, or 3D the digitization and preservation of 60 rare issues in South Asia through the 19th and of pre-modern China, curators of Chinese Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Exhibition Gallery in Regenstein in 2011- renderings from historical stereo cards in and endangered Urdu language periodicals. 20th centuries, making their preservation research library collections, and preservation we have digitized more than 100,000 12, drawing over 10,000 visitors, and the the Special Collections Research Center, or With the grant, digital images of magazines invaluable for scholars of the language and experts from China, Taiwan, the U.S., Library volumes including 21,000 volumes Library is hosting two exhibitions (see visualizations of the output of cosmological and journals will be produced at the Mushfiq the region. Canada, and Europe shared their expertise in the public domain that are now available page 6) featuring holdings from abroad and chemical simulations, the entire research Khwaja Library and Research Centre in “Thanks to the easy technology and low for three days at Regenstein and Mansueto to scholars worldwide. Additional local this fall: Transcending Tradition: Jewish and teaching enterprise at the University is Karachi, Pakistan, and made available cost of litho printing, the only accepted form libraries. The Library, the Department of digitization projects managed by the Library Mathematicians in German-Speaking strengthened. through the University of Chicago Library for Urdu script texts across South Asia, Urdu East Asian Languages and Civilizations, open our special and unique collections to Academic Culture at the John Crerar Such is the partnership between the and the British Library, giving scholars weeklies and monthlies began to appear in and the Center for East Asian Studies the world. Library and Swiss Treasures: From Biblical Library and the Research Computing access to a significant archive of the most the 1870s,” Naim explains. “It was in the collaborated to plan the conference. The Library is currently taking a Papyrus and Parchment to Erasmus, Zwingli, Center (RCC). This successful collaboration important Urdu periodicals from the 19th periodicals that all major modern writers The Library’s Robert L. Platzman leadership role in the Andrew W. Mellon Calvin, and Barth at the Special Collections couples the technical expertise of RCC and 20th centuries. and political and social figures made their Memorial Fellowships program supports Foundation-funded project to plan a Research Center. staff with high-end 3D visualization “Without a doubt, Urdu periodicals debuts and gained popularity. And it is only visiting researchers whose work requires portal to the Chicago-focused historical technology in the Kathleen A. Zar Room at published between the 1870s and 1940s in the periodicals that we can discover the on-site consultation of Library archives collections in 14 area museums, universities the John Crerar Library. The end result is an are of critical importance for anyone doing full extent of many literary and political and manuscripts. The Library awarded and libraries that make up the Chicago initiative that supports innovative research, research in the humanities or social sciences controversies that are only now beginning At Your Fingertips: 14 fellowships in 2012 and another 13 Collections Consortium (CCC). The teaching, and learning opportunities for concerning the Urdu-phone populations of to gain the attention of scholars.” - - Humayun was a prominent monthly fellowships for the 2012-13 academic year, purpose of this Chicago Portal is to enable Online Resources faculty, staff, and students at UChicago. India and Pakistan,” says Professor Emeritus A panel of internationally recognized literary magazine produced in Lahore PHOTO BY NICHOLAS LABELLO NICHOLAS BY PHOTO bringing the total to 57 since the Fellowships free and open access through a single search Established in late 2011, the RCC provides C.M. Naim, who taught Urdu in the Urdu scholars, including Naim, will select from 1922 and continuing into the 1950s. Researchers can interact with large data sets and high-performance computers were founded in 2006. Recipients come site to collections documenting the history researchers with high-performance computing, directly from the Zar Room. Department of South Asian Languages and the periodicals to be archived. The selected storage, and visualization resources. In addition Civilizations at the University of Chicago. titles will be preserved by creating high- LIBRARY NEWS ONLINE the consortium. He noted that “this project to providing the fundamental building blocks initiative. Established in 2008, the Zar In addition, the Library and RCC have resolution digital page The Library offers news on our is a testament to what is possible through the of computational research, the RCC also offers Room was designed to contain cutting- used the Zar Room as a venue for seminars images. website and through social media, University’s collaboration with our colleagues including two new Facebook pages scientific computing support, consultation edge technology, including stereoscopic 3D and workshops related to technology apart The Mushfiq Khwaja in Pakistan and India. The teamwork will launched this fall: with computing specialists, and an ongoing projectors that have mesmerized many with from visualization. Examples of such Library and Research benefit scholars around the world through technical workshop and training series. These displays of 3D images. sessions include tutorials on GPU computing, Centre, which is owned free access to invaluable primary research LIBRARY NEWS SITE offerings extend to fields in the humanities, By combining the technology in the Zar the fundamentals of Unix, Matlab, Python, and managed by the resources.” The University of Chicago and the biological, physical, and social sciences. Room with the expertise of the RCC, and Parallel programming with MPI. University of Chicago Nasir Javaid, the Mushfiq Khwaja Library News With the rise of Big Data, visualization researchers have an opportunity to explore Since partnering with the Library, Library on behalf of a Library and Research Centre Executive news.lib.uchicago.edu can make data-analysis more practical. how visualization can bring insight and the RCC has made upgrades to the Zar consortium of U.S. research Director, will lead digitization activities in “Our vision for the Research Computing innovation to their research and Room including establishing a connection libraries, houses one of the Pakistan. As a byproduct of the project, best Center is to create an environment that teaching. One of the first faculty members to Midway, the RCC’s High Performance finest collections of Urdu ON FACEBOOK practices for conservation and digitization inspires interdisciplinary science and to take advantage of the Zar Room, Computing cluster. This downlink enables periodicals in the world, will be disseminated to collaborating The University of Chicago Library collaboration, and so becomes the Dr. Jonathan Silverstein, used the new results from computations running on making it an ideal location facebook.com/uchicagolibrary institutions across Pakistan and India. destination for research computing support,” technology for an Immersive Virtual Midway to be streamed live to the Zar Room for the project. James Nye, New this fall Digital images will be archived by says H. Birali Runesha, the Director of Anatomy course taught to College for visualization and post-processing, thereby University of Chicago the British Library and the University of University of Chicago Special Research Computing. “Computational students at UChicago, and simulcast via enabling interactive supercomputing and Library Bibliographer for Chicago Library, and disseminated via Collections Research Center research traditionally involves interacting the AccessGrid to students 3,831 miles away simulation. Southern Asia and Principal the Digital South Asia Library and the facebook.com/uchicagoscrc

with resources that are remote in both space in Cardiff, Wales. For more information about high- Investigator for the project, SMITH JASON BY PHOTO HathiTrust Digital Library. Digital and New this fall and time. Calculations are submitted to This year, the technologies available in performance computing, data storage, acquired the collection for Researchers, curators, and preservation experts from around the world applaud a paper copies of the periodicals will be D’Angelo Law Library high-performance computers that may be the Zar Room enabled researchers working visualization technology and the Zar Room, speaker at the Texting China symposium. cataloged and made visible via OCLC’s facebook.com/dangelolawlibrary thousands of miles away, and could run for a with Dr. Paul Sereno of the Department faculty may email the RCC at info@rcc. WorldCat and the South Asia Union long time. By partnering with the Library, of Organismal Biology to build digital 3D uchicago.edu or call 773-795-2667. Catalogue. from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Britain and culture of the Chicago region. This we have been able to create an environment reconstructions of dinosaur fossil specimens, The Kathleen A. Zar Room was created For more information about the and Germany. Those coming in 2012-13 web-based portal will provide access to ON TWITTER where high-end computation and the and in a recent collaboration between the to honor the memory of Kathleen A. Zar, Sala’e- am,- a highly . Endangered Archives Programme, will consult materials such as the papers of descriptive information about the many The John Crerar Library resulting data can be interacted with directly, RCC and Professors John and Stephanie Science Librarian and Assistant Director for influential periodical, @CrerarLibrary visit http://eap.bl.uk/. Joachim Wach, Melchior Palyi, Stephen A. Chicago-related research resources held by in the Kathleen A. Zar Room.” Cacioppo from the Center for Cognitive the Science Libraries from 1994-2006. It was published from Douglas, Robert M. Hutchins, and Harriet CCC members. It will also provide access In creating the Library’s Kathleen A. 1908 through 1929 and Social Neuroscience, 3D interrogation was made possible through the generosity of from Delhi. It is held Monroe; 18th- and 19th-century books on to the digitized versions of the contents of ON YOUTUBE Zar Room, the importance of 3D of X-Ray CT imagery was used to discover Kathleen’s husband, Howard Zar; her mother, in the The Mushfiq midwifery; Batak manuscripts from Sumatra; these collections when available. Integrating The University of Chicago Library visualization and maximizing technology for and better understand the structure of Margaret Sykora; the John Crerar Foundation; Khwaja Library and and the Lincke Collection of German our rich UChicago-based collections with youtube.com/uchicagolibrary research was at the forefront of our design lesions found in neural tissue. and many friends. Research Centre. Popular Literature. those of the other participating members News and instructional videos

2 Libra Fall 2012 3 Libra Fall 2012 4 Libra Fall 2012 Library’s Global Reach Ready access to extensive collections will be a boon to scholarship here and A Partnership in 3D British Library Awards UChicago £52,247 Grant Continued from page 1 throughout the Library system will be around the world. an invaluable underpinning for the work By Barbara Kern, Co-Director, Science Libraries Division, The University of Chicago Library; and Nicholas Labello, Scientific Computing Consultant, of scholars from around the world who and Robin Weiss, Research Programmer, Research Computing Center to Preserve Endangered Urdu Periodicals Exhibitions to conduct research individually. Others take advantage of the University’s new Exhibitions—in Regenstein and Crerar came to work cooperatively, such as those Collegium for Culture and Society. libraries and in online web exhibits— artnerships strengthen the Library. he University of Chicago has been Urdu was the lingua franca in much of attending the international symposium make the library’s rich and unique global And when those partnerships awarded a £52,247 grant from the the subcontinent during the 19th century Texting China—Composition, Transmission, Worldwide Discovery and Access resources available to local and international produce cutting-edge digital British Library’s Endangered and Urdu periodicals provide a broad P T and Preservation of Pre-Modern Chinese to Library Resources Online audiences. Five exhibits were offered in renderings of brain tumors in a larger-than- Archives Programme, funded by Arcadia, for spectrum of writings on a range of important Textual Materials. More than 100 scholars In partnership with Google through the the Special Collections Research Center life 3-dimensional environment, or 3D the digitization and preservation of 60 rare issues in South Asia through the 19th and of pre-modern China, curators of Chinese Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Exhibition Gallery in Regenstein in 2011- renderings from historical stereo cards in and endangered Urdu language periodicals. 20th centuries, making their preservation research library collections, and preservation we have digitized more than 100,000 12, drawing over 10,000 visitors, and the the Special Collections Research Center, or With the grant, digital images of magazines invaluable for scholars of the language and experts from China, Taiwan, the U.S., Library volumes including 21,000 volumes Library is hosting two exhibitions (see visualizations of the output of cosmological and journals will be produced at the Mushfiq the region. Canada, and Europe shared their expertise in the public domain that are now available page 6) featuring holdings from abroad and chemical simulations, the entire research Khwaja Library and Research Centre in “Thanks to the easy technology and low for three days at Regenstein and Mansueto to scholars worldwide. Additional local this fall: Transcending Tradition: Jewish and teaching enterprise at the University is Karachi, Pakistan, and made available cost of litho printing, the only accepted form libraries. The Library, the Department of digitization projects managed by the Library Mathematicians in German-Speaking strengthened. through the University of Chicago Library for Urdu script texts across South Asia, Urdu East Asian Languages and Civilizations, open our special and unique collections to Academic Culture at the John Crerar Such is the partnership between the and the British Library, giving scholars weeklies and monthlies began to appear in and the Center for East Asian Studies the world. Library and Swiss Treasures: From Biblical Library and the Research Computing access to a significant archive of the most the 1870s,” Naim explains. “It was in the collaborated to plan the conference. The Library is currently taking a Papyrus and Parchment to Erasmus, Zwingli, Center (RCC). This successful collaboration important Urdu periodicals from the 19th periodicals that all major modern writers The Library’s Robert L. Platzman leadership role in the Andrew W. Mellon Calvin, and Barth at the Special Collections couples the technical expertise of RCC and 20th centuries. and political and social figures made their Memorial Fellowships program supports Foundation-funded project to plan a Research Center. staff with high-end 3D visualization “Without a doubt, Urdu periodicals debuts and gained popularity. And it is only visiting researchers whose work requires portal to the Chicago-focused historical technology in the Kathleen A. Zar Room at published between the 1870s and 1940s in the periodicals that we can discover the on-site consultation of Library archives collections in 14 area museums, universities the John Crerar Library. The end result is an are of critical importance for anyone doing full extent of many literary and political and manuscripts. The Library awarded and libraries that make up the Chicago initiative that supports innovative research, research in the humanities or social sciences controversies that are only now beginning At Your Fingertips: 14 fellowships in 2012 and another 13 Collections Consortium (CCC). The teaching, and learning opportunities for concerning the Urdu-phone populations of to gain the attention of scholars.” - - Humayun was a prominent monthly fellowships for the 2012-13 academic year, purpose of this Chicago Portal is to enable Online Resources faculty, staff, and students at UChicago. India and Pakistan,” says Professor Emeritus A panel of internationally recognized literary magazine produced in Lahore PHOTO BY NICHOLAS LABELLO NICHOLAS BY PHOTO bringing the total to 57 since the Fellowships free and open access through a single search Established in late 2011, the RCC provides C.M. Naim, who taught Urdu in the Urdu scholars, including Naim, will select from 1922 and continuing into the 1950s. Researchers can interact with large data sets and high-performance computers were founded in 2006. Recipients come site to collections documenting the history researchers with high-performance computing, directly from the Zar Room. Department of South Asian Languages and the periodicals to be archived. The selected storage, and visualization resources. In addition Civilizations at the University of Chicago. titles will be preserved by creating high- LIBRARY NEWS ONLINE the consortium. He noted that “this project to providing the fundamental building blocks initiative. Established in 2008, the Zar In addition, the Library and RCC have resolution digital page The Library offers news on our is a testament to what is possible through the of computational research, the RCC also offers Room was designed to contain cutting- used the Zar Room as a venue for seminars images. website and through social media, University’s collaboration with our colleagues including two new Facebook pages scientific computing support, consultation edge technology, including stereoscopic 3D and workshops related to technology apart The Mushfiq Khwaja in Pakistan and India. The teamwork will launched this fall: with computing specialists, and an ongoing projectors that have mesmerized many with from visualization. Examples of such Library and Research benefit scholars around the world through technical workshop and training series. These displays of 3D images. sessions include tutorials on GPU computing, Centre, which is owned free access to invaluable primary research LIBRARY NEWS SITE offerings extend to fields in the humanities, By combining the technology in the Zar the fundamentals of Unix, Matlab, Python, and managed by the resources.” The University of Chicago and the biological, physical, and social sciences. Room with the expertise of the RCC, and Parallel programming with MPI. University of Chicago Nasir Javaid, the Mushfiq Khwaja Library News With the rise of Big Data, visualization researchers have an opportunity to explore Since partnering with the Library, Library on behalf of a Library and Research Centre Executive news.lib.uchicago.edu can make data-analysis more practical. how visualization can bring insight and the RCC has made upgrades to the Zar consortium of U.S. research Director, will lead digitization activities in “Our vision for the Research Computing innovation to their research and Room including establishing a connection libraries, houses one of the Pakistan. As a byproduct of the project, best Center is to create an environment that teaching. One of the first faculty members to Midway, the RCC’s High Performance finest collections of Urdu ON FACEBOOK practices for conservation and digitization inspires interdisciplinary science and to take advantage of the Zar Room, Computing cluster. This downlink enables periodicals in the world, will be disseminated to collaborating The University of Chicago Library collaboration, and so becomes the Dr. Jonathan Silverstein, used the new results from computations running on making it an ideal location facebook.com/uchicagolibrary institutions across Pakistan and India. destination for research computing support,” technology for an Immersive Virtual Midway to be streamed live to the Zar Room for the project. James Nye, New this fall Digital images will be archived by says H. Birali Runesha, the Director of Anatomy course taught to College for visualization and post-processing, thereby University of Chicago the British Library and the University of University of Chicago Special Research Computing. “Computational students at UChicago, and simulcast via enabling interactive supercomputing and Library Bibliographer for Chicago Library, and disseminated via Collections Research Center research traditionally involves interacting the AccessGrid to students 3,831 miles away simulation. Southern Asia and Principal the Digital South Asia Library and the facebook.com/uchicagoscrc

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