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No·Ta Be·Ne News from the Yale Library no·ta be·ne news from the yale library volume xxix, number 1, spring/summer 2014 yale library associates help acquire “uniquely important” machu picchu expedition materials A photo from the 1912 Yale Peruvian Scientific Expedition showing George Eaton directing the excavations of the Machu Picchu burial caves, from the Peabody Museum collection of Bingham photos. Thanks to the generosity of the Yale Library Expeditions, Manuscripts and Archives is Associates, the Library’s Manuscripts the premier center for research on the historic and Archives department has acquired investigations at Machu Picchu and other an important collection of unpublished sites in Cuzco’s Sacred Valley. Given this role, Table of Contents 2 The Beinecke Gears Up for Major Renovation documents related to the Yale Peruvian the Library was thrilled to acquire a new set 3 1850s Prison Memoir of African American Scientific Expeditions, which rediscovered of hand-written materials by Eaton related Authenticated and excavated the Incan city of Machu to the time he spent at Machu Picchu. These 3 Unprecedented Collection of Middle English Picchu in the early twentieth century. papers include a partial draft of his pioneering Texts Deposited at the Beinecke 4 Sterling Memorial Library Nave Restoration In 1912, when Hiram Bingham III orga- monograph on the burial caves and, more Heads Toward Completion nized the Second Yale Peruvian Scientific importantly, his detailed notes on the contents of the caves. According to Richard Burger 6 Digital Innovations: Bringing the Classroom Expedition, he chose George Eaton (1894 into the Archives ’72, Yale’s Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of BA, 1898 PhD) and Ellwood Erdis to oversee 6 A New Course Reserves Management System the excavations of Machu Picchu, since Anthropology, “the Eaton diary is a one-of- for the Library Bingham himself was more interested in kind document that is uniquely important 7 The Klein Archive of Spoken Arts in the mapping the now famous site and explor- in filling in the gaps of the Yale Peruvian Historical Sound Recordings Collection ing the area surrounding it. Although Erdis Expedition Papers. Of all of the mem- 7 Yale Represented at Harvard's 2013 Leadership was hired as the expedition’s “archeologi- bers of the expedition, with the exception Institute for Academic Librarians 7 Writers from Seven Countries Awarded $150,000 cal engineer,” Eaton, Curator of Osteology of Bingham, Eaton was the person most Yale Prize at Yale’s Peabody Museum, proved to be responsible for the archaeological contribu- 8 The Library Hosts a “Day of Data” the more skilled excavator. Between July tion of the project. His notes are essential 8 “Emulation as a Service” Technology Opens Up 24 and August 24, 1912, Eaton directed the for interpreting the materials recovered Opportunities for Engagement with Historic excavation of some fifty burial caves, and from the burial caves at Machu Picchu.” Digital Content he published the results of these investiga- For more information on the resources 9 A Tale of Two Globes: Alumni Support tions in his 1916 volume Conservation of the Coronelli Globes The Collection of of Manuscripts and Archives, call . 9 Exhibit Spotlight: Selling Smoke: Tobacco Osteological Material from Machu Picchu (203) 432-1744, view the website at Advertising and Anti-Smoking Campaigns As the repository for the documentation http://web.library.yale.edu/mssa/ or visit 10 Calendar of Exhibits – 2014 of the three Yale Peruvian Scientific the department in Sterling Memorial Library. 11 Exhibit Spotlights: Jazz and the Book Arts, Bulldog and Panther: The 1970 May Day Rally — continued on page 2 and Yale spring/summer 2014 Machu Picchu Expedition Materials . continued from page 1 For details about the Yale Library Associates no·ta be·ne and how the organization has supported news from the yale library the Library for over 80 years, please contact Benjamin Yousey-Hindes at 203-432-8087 or [email protected]. –rb George Eaton's pencil drawing of the disturbed interment in Burial Cave 47 that he excavated at Machu Picchu in 1912. the beinecke gears up for major renovation is published during The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library 2014. To help accommodate this work, the library Nota Bene the academic year to acquaint will close for a major renovation following com- will suspend acquisitions for one year begin- the Yale community and others mencement ceremonies in May of 2015. ning in July. During construction, the library will with the resources of the Yale The project will overhaul the 50-year-old building’s operate a temporary reading room in the Franke Library. Please direct comments Periodical Reading Room and a temporary class- and questions to Amanda Patrick infrastructure. The heating and air conditioning Editor, Yale Univeristy Library systems will be replaced, while plumbing, security, room in the International Room, both located in (phone: 203-432-4484, electrical, and fire suppression systems will be fully Sterling Memorial Library. At times some collec- e-mail: [email protected]) upgraded. The project will double the number of tion material may be temporarily unavailable. Copyright ©2014 classrooms, provide private consulting space adjacent The library will reopen for the fall 2016 semes- Yale University Library to the reading room, and create space for exhibi- ter, poised for another 50 years as a world- issn 0894-1351 tion preparation. The library’s Technical Services class center of research and scholarship. Department will relocate permanently to new Contributors to this issue include Visit the renovation website for more details: headquarters at 344 Winchester Ave., consolidating Tom Bruno (tb) http://beineckelibraryrenovation.yale.edu operations that currently occur in four locations. Richard Burger (rb) —mc Kendall Crilly (kc) The imposing task of moving 12,000 linear feet Michael Cummings (mc) Molly Dotson (md) of collection material o≠site commences in April Melissa Grafe (mg) Holly Hatheway (hh) Michelle Hudson (mh) Michael Kelleher (mk) Trip Kirkpatrick (tk) Bill Landis (bl) William Massa (wm) Christine McCarthy (cm) Roberta Pilette (rp) Jae Jennifer Rossman (jjr) Allen Townsend (at) Mark Turin (mt) Luke Wagner (lw) Benjamin Yousey-Hindes (byh) editorial information University Librarian Susan Gibbons Editor Amanda Patrick Director of Communications Copy Editor Christa Sammons The Beinecke Library will close for a major renovation following commencement ceremonies in May 2015, Publication Design ChenDesign reopening in August 2016. 2 1850s prison memoir of african american authenticated while incarcerated in New York State from the 1830s through the 1850s. It is an insider’s account of the prison system and race relations in the mid-19th century. Caleb Smith, professor of English and American Studies, authenticated the manuscript and identified its author as Austin Reed, a free black man from upstate New York. “Finding any new text by an African- American author of the 19th century is significant, but this memoir has so much to say about captivity, freedom, and human rights,” says Smith. “It’s a beauti- ful and haunting piece of writing.” The key piece of evidence was an 1895 The inside cover and first page of "The Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict," which was handwritten letter, preserved in state files, meant to introduce a curious public to life inside a New York penitentiary. from Austin Reed to a prison o∞cial that recounts some of Reed’s story and inquires Research has confirmed that an 1858 Acquired by the Beinecke in 2009, the about records of his incarceration. manuscript housed at the Beinecke Rare 304-page manuscript, titled “The Life The manuscript, which Random House Book & Manuscript Library is the earliest- and Adventures of a Haunted Convict” plans to publish in early 2016, is available known prison memoir written by an and written under the name Robert online at: African American. Reed, describes the author’s experiences http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/reed –mc unprecedented collection of middle english texts deposited at the beinecke Students and scholars can now study and compare three early copies of Chaucer’s at the Beinecke Rare Book & Canterbury Tales Manuscript Library — an experience possible in only a handful of libraries worldwide. The Chaucer manuscripts, among the last in private hands, belong to an extraor- dinary collection of Western medieval manuscripts placed on deposit at the library last fall by Toshiyuki Takamiya, professor emeritus at Japan’s Keio University. Professor Takamiya’s collection boasts 51 medieval English vernacular texts of literary, histori- cal, scientific, and cultural significance. Last semester, all sections of English 125 visited the library to view Takamiya’s copies of . This Three copies of "The Canterbury Tales" and Chaucer's "Astrolabe," the smaller work on the far right, The Canterbury Tales semester, Jessica Brantley, an associate highlight the Takamiya Collection. The open manuscript is the Delamere Chaucer. professor in the English Department, is using the manuscripts in her classes. ing the significance of readers’ annota- of John of Mandeville’s , several Travels tions in English histories, and formulating Wycli∞te Bibles, the B-version of the William “The Takamiya collection is a treasure trove theories about how and why miscellaneous Langland’s , and several copies for scholars and students of Middle English,” Piers Plowman poetic compilations were assembled." of John Lydgate’s . View a Brantley
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