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FONDREN Volume 19, No. 1 • Fall 2009 Library Searching Transformed With

Fondren Library recently unveiled One with its own unique interface. The as the words users click on appear in Search, an innovative new search and resources included in One Search blue. Users can change the word cloud discovery tool. A combination of two are: the library catalog, Fondren view into an author heading browser; separate products — a visual faceted digital collections, scholarly Web sites the author tab will be visible whenever discovery layer system and a federated and 50 of the library’s most popular there are one or more author listings search engine — One Search offers databases. These databases cover that match the entered search term(s). a more intuitive search interface with a wide range of subject areas and The remaining screen space is different ways to search, refine and are listed on the initial One Search divided between article database discover materials. screen. Included are discipline– results and local results. The article User feedback from the 2006 specific databases, such as Avery database results contain the items LibQUAL+ Survey indicated a strong Index to Architectural Periodicals, retrieved from the 50 databases, interest in having a simplified, yet Compendex, EconLit, Historical organized in subject categories. The more inclusive search interface for Abstracts and Philosopher’s Index; user can opt to show all results in one accessing library materials. Although multidisciplinary databases, such as list or view them by subject category the library catalog remains an Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, or individual database. Clicking on excellent tool for locating LexisNexis and Web of the “Refine Article Results” link opens known items, a Science; and reference a new window within the federated keyword search databases, such as search component of One Search. From in this new Britannica Online discovery tool and Oxford CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 will retrieve Reference a larger Online. number of A One Search CHECK IT OUT! relevant query displays items from results in a variety of three sections. Pg. 2 Fondren is a great place to explore your roots. sources. To the left is One Search the “discover” Pg. 4 Making videos at the library allows searching function, a word has never been easier or across all available cloud with the search more rewarding. content from a single term(s) located in the search box, instead of center and word associations Pg. 11 Our new collection will demystify things mystical. requiring repetition of radiating out from there. A color key the same search explains the relationship of each within various term to the entered search term(s): databases, word variations, spelling alternatives, each translations and synonyms. Clicking on one of the word associations will generate a new search and create a discovery trail within the word cloud, OUTREACH

Genealogy

Last summer, researchers from the answered questions about how to use Houston Genealogical Forum (HGF) WRC resources and gave advice on visited Fondren Library and learned preserving family papers and heirlooms. about its resources. The group of Esther Crawford, head of the Kelley approximately 30 members toured Center, gave a presentation explaining the Woodson Research Center (WRC), how to use the U.S. Congressional the Kelley Center for Government Serial Set for genealogical research. She Information and Microforms and the explained that the Serial Set is a rich Geographic Information Systems (GIS)/ resource that began in 1817 but that Data Center (GDC). includes coverage back to 1789. The Founded in 1958, HGF provides Serial Set contains House and Senate instruction and training on genealogical journals, records and documents. She and historical topics as well as also talked about other resources, such promotes and fosters interest in local as “War of the Rebellion: A Compilation history. of the Official Records of the Union and During the visit, Lee Pecht, Confederate Armies.” director of the WRC, talked about the Kim Ricker, head of the GDC, told center’s resources and pointed out the researchers about the power of relevant collections of rare books, data and mapping. She showed HGF university archives and manuscripts. members how they can use maps and He then gave the group a tour, which GIS software to track migration and included the vault where the most proximity patterns of individuals and precious materials are stored. Pecht families over time.

FINDING YOUR FAMILY AT FONDREN

Fondren Library has a wealth of which can be downloaded for free. Vietnam War. resources for genealogists, although The National Historical Geographic The WRC provides three main those resources may not be obvious Information System at nhgis.org also resources for genealogists: Houston to a first-time library visitor. Some of provides, free of charge, census data and Texas-related books, especially the best resources can be found in and GIS-compatible information for in the Masterson Texana Collection; the Geographic Information Systems the U.S. between 1790 and 2000. manuscript and archive collections (GIS)/Data Center (GDC), the Kelley Additionally, the Kelley Center related to famous Texas families, Center for Government Information provides information through like the Hutcheson and Anderson and Microforms, and the Woodson maps, newspapers and government Greenwood families; and online Research Center (WRC). documents in several microformats, digital collections that include The GDC allows genealogists to including microfilm. Resources transcripts and scans of original represent their family data visually. of special interest to genealogists documents. Whether your family Users can create a map showing include ArchiveGrid, which is a is prominently mentioned or not, the location and migration of family database of archival finding aids; these resources can help provide members and analyze that data over the Biography and Genealogy background information that puts time. The results will reveal how Master Index; and Heritage Quest your genealogical information into many family members lived within Online. Another resource is the U.S. historical context. a certain radius of each other or Military Collection, a commercial a geographic point. Genealogical database of military records from Philip Montgomery resources include Google Earth, the Revolutionary War through the Archivist Librarian

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Podcasts CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 at Fondren?! Library Searching Transformed … Homegrown audio and video podcasting this page, the user has a variety of category shown is a number which has blossomed at Fondren Library and sorting options and the ability to denotes the exact number of items now includes topics such as a tour of further refine the search with an available. Fondren, the life of a book, research at Fondren, the Digital Media Center advanced search feature. Access to The “My Discoveries” function and treasures of the Woodson Research One Search is available off campus offers users the oppportunity to Center. but requires login with a Rice Net contribute their own knowledge Debra Kolah, science librarian; ID and password to access the and opinions about library Jane Segal, humanities/social sciences librarian; and Jeff Koffler, Web developer, article database results. materials in the form of tags, make up the team that produces the Local results include materials ratings and reviews. Users can also Fondren Library podcasts. Kolah and from the library catalog, Woodson create any number of personal Segal brainstorm and solicit ideas from Research Center finding aids, the lists with “My Discoveries” and the Fondren staff. They then meet once a month during the fall and spring Rice Digital Scholarship Archive, may choose to make these lists semester to plan a podcast and meet the library Web site resources and public and thereby searchable and following week to record it. Kolah sends Google Books. Records for books retrievable within One Search. the audio recording to Koffler, who does and music CDs also incorporate Each record within the local light editing, adds atmospheric music Syndetics Indexed Content results section displays a “Save and uploads the file to Podomatic and iTunes. Enrichment (ICE)®, providing or Tag” link; clicking on this link At the podcast archive located book and CD cover images, tables first prompts users to log into “My at http://library.rice.edu/services/ of contents, track listings and Discoveries” and then displays podcasts, you can listen to podcasts summaries. More book tables of input options. covering leisure reading at Fondren, hear interviews with staff members and contents are now searchable, as Prior to making One Search learn useful research tips from reference video summaries, music track available on the library Web site, a librarians. listings and some book tables library committee conducted one- The Woodson Research Center has of contents already have been on-one usability testing for a three- already completed two video podcasts — “Silk Stockings: Photographs of Vera through the library catalog. The month period. This feedback was Prasilova Scott and Houston Society addition of this valuable searchable shared with the vendor in weekly in the 1920s” and “Sing the Glory: An content allows users to retrieve conference calls and was essential Illuminated Manuscript of Adoration.” records for books that were in fine-tuning the features, “Silk Stockings” features photographs not obviously relevant because functionality and appearance of of Vera Prasilova Scott, a photographer in Houston during the 1920s and 1930s. keywords of interest did not One Search. The library continues “Sing the Glory” focuses on a 16th- appear in their titles or subject to encourage comments from users century illuminated manuscript donated headings. on their experiences with One to Rice in 1949. Both podcasts can Items retrieved within local Search by means of a short online be viewed at http://library.rice.edu/ collections/WRC. results are by default sorted survey, the link to which is on the Ongoing projects include by relevance, but users have initial One Search screen. collaborating with The Shepherd School the option of selecting a sort of Music and the Virtual Museum of by year of publication, author Sandra Edwards Houston to create new podcasts. Head of Reference or title. Facets under the menu Most Fondren podcasts are also available at YouTube.com by searching “Refine Local Results,” such as for Fondren Library or by the podcast’s format, publication date, author title. To learn more about podcasting or and subject, allow further, more how to make your own, visit Fondren specific navigation of the local Library’s Digital Media Center. results. Note that next to each Philip Montgomery Archivist Librarian

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Students Show Off Creativity in Rice Video Contest

Illustrating GRE vocabulary words with music … documenting how two premed students won an MTV-U contest to cover the Oscars … visiting an AIDS clinic in Botswana. These were all winners in Rice’s First Annual Student Video Short Film Contest. The contest challenged students to make films that, in five minutes or less, illuminated some aspect of student life at Rice. As a co-sponsor of the contest, Fondren Library hopes to encourage students to develop skills in multimedia storytelling and create a pool of videos that illustrate what it’s like to be a student at Rice. Entries for next year’s contest are due March 26, 2010, and will be screened at the Rice Media Center on April 14, 2010, at 7 p.m. More information about the video contest can be found at http://cic.rice.edu/videocontest. To see the winning films from 2009, go to http://edtech.rice.edu/VideoContest_ECatholic.html.

Lisa Spiro Director, Digital Media Center Faheem Ahmed and Anish Patel prize-winners in 2009 Student Video Contest

New Electronic Reserves System

Fondren has made it easier for faculty to put both digital Faculty can make requests on Ares and track and physical items on reserve and for students to access them online. Integration with OwlSpace, including use and organize their reading materials. A product of Atlas statistics, is coming soon. Ares streamlines administrative Systems, Ares replaces Fondren’s 15-year-old homegrown staff functions, storing reserve lists and pdfs of articles electronic reserves system. and chapters for later reuse and facilitating copyright management. Students can access their online course readings by logging in with their Net ID and password, receive alerts for new resources and add personalized tags to reading lists. To access Ares, look for the Course Reserves link under “Library Tools” on the Fondren home page at http://library.rice.edu.

Lisa Spiro Director, Digital Media Center

DeAndrea Smither, User Services Associate with reserves materials to be scanned

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Fondren Joins the Social Network

In case you didn’t get the tweet — that’s a Twitter message for the uninitiated — Fondren Library is social networking using some popular Web 2.0 technology, including Facebook and Twitter. Facebook is a global social networking Web site that allows users to connect with friends and send them messages, as well as keep a running profile, updates and photos of themselves. To visit Fondren Library’s site, go to www.facebook.com and search for “Fondren Library.” www.library.rice.edu Twitter is a free microblogging service that Has a New Look enables its users to send and read messages known as This fall, students and faculty returned to see an all-new Fondren Web site, tweets. Tweets are text-based featuring a clean, visually appealing design that includes icons for core only and cannot exceed 140 categories. The upgrade also included a new section that focuses on library characters. Log on to www. tools, such as course reserves, book renewal, and specialized searches for twitter.com to register, and Fondren film and e-book collections. then you can follow Fondren Additionally, the new site implements the latest version of Plone, the Library. open-source content management system on which the site is built, and So if you want to be features more accessible design and better integration of data feeds. Two connected, limber up your search boxes are provided at the top of each Web page — One Search thumbs, power up your (see related article on Page 1) and the library Web site search tool. Future plans include increased support for mobile devices and further integration computer or turn on your of content from other sites. Jeff Koffler, Fondren Library’s Web developer, mobile phone. See you in planned and implemented the redesign. cyberspace soon.

Lisa Spiro Philip Montgomery Director, Digital Media Center Archivist Librarian

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LibGuides: A New Way to Jump-Start Your Research

LibGuides, a system that provides postbaccalaureate scholars, the opportunities for musicians. interactive library research guides, is guide has sections on career advice, The mobile resources guide now available on the Fondren library grants and fellowships, minority provides information on research Web site. LibGuides is an ideal place and women scholars, writing tips, tools with interfaces compatible with to begin your study of any topic scholarly societies/agencies, and mobile devices. Other guides in the from anthropology to mathematics to many other topics. General Reference section teach women’s studies, from accessibility Instructors will also find users how to find and use images, standards to finding and using LibGuides to be a helpful tool for provide stable URLs for Fondren images. enhancing their classroom resources. resources and locate materials for A typical individual LibGuide Custom guides geared toward the young readers. brings together discipline-specific needs of students in a specific LibGuides make it easy to databases, online journals, digitized class can now be created and then contact Fondren’s librarians through primary sources and reference works. connected from the class page in the profile boxes available on the Guides also provide direct links to OWL-Space. Librarians and faculty home page of every subject guide. the library catalog, the new One are already collaborating on a Interactive technologies such as chat, Search engine, interlibrary loan (the number of class guides. user surveys and podcasts also are Illiad system), topical microfilms, Mary Du Mont Brower, music available. The number of LibGuides statistics, RSS feeds and more. librarian, continues to add to a is rapidly growing and is now Particularly popular is the guide rich and growing array of music approaching 70. for Rice Ph.D. students and postdocs guides. Guides on more than a You can find LibGuides on the developed by Linda Spiro, education dozen musical instruments are now Fondren Web site at http://library. librarian, in cooperation with the available for musicians. There are rice.edu or by going directly to office of the dean of graduate and also guides for program planning, http://libguides.rice.edu. postdoctoral studies. In addition to finding music manuscripts and Anna Shparberg listing Rice-specific resources for early printed editions, and career History Librarian

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Cross Training: Planning for the Next Emergency

Hurricane Ike taught us something: The next time a storm rolls The library is important to its users! around, more library staff who can After the storm, during those hot travel safely to Fondren will be able days without electricity and weeks of to provide support for services at the cleanup, traffic in the library remained circulation desk, such as checking steady. You came to the library to out books and other materials, check out materials, read, use the providing assistance with course computers, charge your cell phones, reserves and retrieving recalled items. and just be in a place that was safe and In addition, the library has stocked cool! up on emergency supplies, including In preparation for the next flashlights, first aid kits and bottled possible emergency, employees from water, to ensure that staff will be safe all library departments who are likely while in the building. to be able to reach the library under This effort is the first of a series of adverse conditions are being trained cross training activities the library is to staff the circulation desk so that implementing as we continue to look basic instruction and research activities for ways to keep costs under control will not be interrupted. They are also and, at the same time, optimize our being trained in the recovery processes services. necessary to keep the collections safe Leah Krevit in case of water or other kinds of Assistant University Librarian damage. for Public Services

“The Secret Life of a Book”

Did you ever wonder how a book authored by actress Diane Keaton with becomes part of a collection or makes photography by Paul Hester, adjunct its way onto the shelves in Fondren professor of photography and his wife, Library? It happens because dozens of Lisa Hardaway. Vessels collaborated with dedicated Fondren staff members work the photographers and many library staff to ensure that scholarly materials are members to tell the book’s story. The film made available to you when you need features a flamenco guitar soundtrack, them most. But Mike Vessels, a resident which was donated by Jeremy S. Garcia, amateur filmmaker at Fondren, took a Spanish guitar instructor at San Jacinto that process one step further this past College in Houston. summer. The film is now available on the To bring more transparency to Fondren Library YouTube channel at library service and show what’s involved www.youtube.com/user/FondrenLibrary in taking an author’s creative work and as well as in the Woodson Research putting it in the hands of students,Vessels Center archives. came up with the idea of turning the journey of a book into a film. “The Debra Kolah Science Librarian Secret Life of a Book” tells the story of “California Romantica,” a book about Michael Vessels Spanish Colonial Revival architecture Library Receiving Coordinator

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Fondren Staff Goes Digital: Creating Metadata

Rare books and archival collections (http://timea.rice.edu), the Rice are being digitized at libraries all Institute Pamphlet (http://scholarship. over the world. Digitizing unique rice.edu/handle/1911/8324) and the materials makes them available William Ward Watkin architectural Area-Wide Forum to more people than would ever collections (http://scholarship.rice. on Scholarly be able to see them in person. edu/handle/1911/12394). “The Digitizing, however, requires TIMEA and Watkin collections Communications expertise beyond what most libraries include a lot of material that isn’t Houston-area librarians came have; so many are expanding published and isn’t primarily textual, together at a forum on July 22 their capabilities by creating new such as photographs and postcards,” to discuss the future of scholarly positions and training existing Chapman explained. “Creating communications as it relates to library personnel. metadata for them requires me to numerous topics, including open Keith Chapman, Fondren’s music think a lot more about how a user access, copyright in the digital cataloger, is a good example of might search for subjects.” age, mobile technologies, digital preservation and institutional how the library is using current staff Chapman also emphasizes the repositories. members in its digitizing endeavors. importance of being able to work The morning session was While Chapman’s primary as part of a team. “Catalogers have sponsored by the Scholarly responsibility is to provide original tended to work in isolation, but Communications team, consisting cataloging for all music scores and creating digital projects requires of representatives from Fondren sound recordings purchased for staff with different areas of expertise Library, the University of Houston Libraries and the Houston Academy the library’s collections, he has to work together,” said Chapman. of Medicine–Texas Medical Center taken his duties a step further. In Both staff members and the library Library. The University of Houston the past few years, Chapman has administration are enthusiastic about Libraries hosted the event, which was created descriptive metadata for the new possibilities for evolving and held at M.D. Anderson Library on the several digital collections, including improving library services. central campus. Travelers in the Middle East Archive While many Fondren librarians Mary Du Mont Bower either led or participated in (TIMEA) Music Librarian roundtables, some also gave general talks to the group participants. Rice presenters included Lisa Spiro, director of the Digital Media Center, who gave an introduction to scholarly communications, and Geneva Henry, executive director of the Center for Digital Scholarship, who talked about legislative and institutional open access mandates. For more information about the Scholarly Communications forum or to access some of the presentations from the event, visit the Web site at http://libguides.rice.edu/content. php?pid=45887&sid=432910.

Philip Montgomery Archivist Librarian Keith Chapman, Music Catalog Librarian

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Where Did the Reference Folks Go?

moved to the circulation department. librarian for public services. Krevit cited While the move from one service several reasons for the change. Recent desk to another is just a few steps, user studies, such as that conducted by it represents a significant shift in the the Association of Research Libraries’ library’s philosophy of service. McAfee LibQual+, show that library users tend to is continuing to offer reference help be confused when confronted with more while taking on new circulation than one service point. So this change responsibilities. “When it comes time will hopefully alleviate some of that for midterm exams and papers,” McAfee confusion. said, “we’ll be able to see how well Additionally, challenging economic the change is working.” Additionally, times call for creativity in staffing. By Erin McAfee circulation staff members are being teaching existing personnel new skills, Reference Assistant trained to help users with basic they gain perspective on the library’s full reference questions. range of services while becoming more Fondren Library visitors looking for “This is the first step toward a new informed for users. reference help in the evenings will service model that will cluster a wide Mary Du Mont Brower notice a change. Over the summer, range of services at a single point,” Music Librarian evening reference assistant Erin McAfee said Leah Krevit, assistant university

New GIS Support Specialist

Jean Niswonger joined Fondren GIS/Data Center Library’s staff this past summer in the Geographic Information The GIS/Data Center offers two- hour short courses about how to Systems (GIS)/Data Center use basic GIS software. (GDC). Niswonger is helping with course development for Introduction to GIS the center and has developed a General concepts and spatial referencing course. She applications of GIS will maintain the GDC Web site and will work with Kim Ricker, Adding Tabular Data head of the GDC, toward Adding census data to maps remote access to Fondren’s GIS data, currently available only Jean Niswonger, GIS Support Specialist Creating and inside the library. Geoprocessing Vector Data Before coming to Rice, Niswonger University of Maryland. She especially Using analytical tools with GIS used her GIS skills as a lab instructor likes the way both sustainable design Spatially Referencing Data at the University of Texas at Austin. and GIS can bring people together as Learning how to coordinate Prior to that she worked at the Steps well as helping people new to GIS to systems and projections to a Healthier Austin Program and at become proficient. the National Center for Smart Growth Ricker notes that “Jean’s friendly Research and Education in College demeanor and ability to quickly create Visit the GIS/Data Center online Park, Md. a smart plan of attack to solve tough for more information and for class Niswonger will receive an M.S. GIS problems have already made her schedules. in sustainable design this fall from an essential part of the GDC team.” the University of Texas at Austin, www.library.rice.edu/services/gdc Esther Crawford building on her undergraduate Head, Kelly Center for civil engineering degree from the Government Information and Microforms

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Fondren Turns 60

While the campus has Hyde, Jeff Koffler, Debra Kolah, Jiun Kuo, drastically changed over the Kiem-Lieu Le, Lee Pecht, Ali Salman, years, Fondren Library continues Linda Spiro and Jane Zhao. to be at the center of Rice’s intellectual life. The library Philip Montgomery marked its 60 years of campus Archivist Librarian contributions with a panel discussion, “Reflections: Sixty Years of Fondren Library,” underwritten by the Friends of Fondren, which featured several alumni, faculty, staff and current student speakers. Additionally, an exhibit, “Fondren at 60: We Have Seen It All,” is on display On Nov. 4, 2009, Fondren Library outside Kelley Lounge in the Ley celebrated its 60th anniversary. Thanks Student Center. Visitors to the library to a generous $1 million gift by Mrs. can also view an exhibit in the Hobby W.W. Fondren and her children, the Information Commons on the first floor, library has been an integral part of the and Fondren-themed souvenirs are campus community since its dedication available for purchase at http://www. on Nov. 4, 1949. At the grand opening, cafepress.com/fondrenlibrary. Mrs. Fondren presented the key to the Fondren Library’s 60th anniversary library, and John Burchard, former dean committee was co-chaired by David of humanities at Massachusetts Institute Bynog and Leah Krevit. Other committee of Technology, gave a talk. members included John Hunter, Karen

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Fall 2009: “Fondren Library at 60: We Feb. 25, 2010, 4–5:30 p.m.: Technology, Through March 2010: Moon rock Have Seen it All.” This exhibit is on Cognition & Culture lecture series. honoring President John F. Kennedy display through the fall semester in Jerome McGann will give a lecture titled and presented to Rice University is on the Rice Memorial Center outside Kelly “Philology in a New Key: Information display on the first floor of Fondren Lounge. A project of Fondren’s 60th Technology and the Transmission of Library. Anniversary Committee, the exhibit Culture.” The event is open to the public features photographs from the Woodson and sponsored by Fondren Library, the Through April 2010: “Around the Research Center. Humanities Research Center and the World with Edgar Odell Lovett, 1908– Ken Kennedy Institute for Information 1909.” This Woodson Research Center Dec. 10–12, 2009: Friends of Fondren Technology. McGann is the founder of exhibit is part of Rice University’s Book Sale. This sale will feature Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth- centennial celebration. The exhibit thousands of new and used books, Century Electronic Scholarship (NINES), highlights the world tour of Rice’s including comic books, children’s and general editor of a 17-volume first president with a map from the books, and rare books, records and Rice University Press series, “Literature GIS Data Center, loan items from E.O. CDs. Book prices are $2 for hard cover by Design.” For more information, Lovett II and new acquisitions from and 50 cents for soft cover. Better books go to http://citi.rice.edu/EventsList. the Lovett family, including Mary Hale are priced individually. For details, go aspx?EventRecord=11729. Lovett’s travel diary, photographs and to http://library.rice.edu/about/Alumni_ postcards. and_Friends/friends-of-fondren/friends- Through March 2010: “Fondren Library of-fondren-events. at 60.” Fondren Library Exhibits and Outreach (FLExO) committee is curating Through Feb. 2010: Items from the this exhibit on the library’s first floor, humor collection donated to Fondren showing through photos, drawings and Library by Dr. Gordon Sack are on ephemera how Fondren has changed display in the Lovett Lounge, third floor. through the years.

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New Pavek Collection: Staff Supporting Scholars of Mysticism Book Picks

At the request of Jeffrey Kripal, the J. Lauren Mueller, Copy Cataloger Newton Rayzor Professor of Religious PR6037.A95 H28 1987 Studies, Fondren Library has acquired a “Hangman’s Holiday” by Dorothy L. collection of approximately 1,000 books Sayers on unconventional healing and spiritual science. The books come from the PR6054.U4 O77 2009 collection of Richard Pavek, a researcher “The Orpheus Trail” by Maureen Duffy and therapist who developed Specific Human Emotional Nexis, or SHEN, a hands- PL855.I566 O8713 2003 on healing technique. “Out” by Natsuo Kirino The connection between these esoteric Philip Montgomery, Archivist Librarian topics and the study of religion may not Benjamin Brochstein, graduate student, and Jeffery Kripal, J. Newton Rayzor seem obvious. However, the Department U37.T47 1985 Professor of Religious Studies of Religious Studies is launching GEM, a “Three Byzantine Military Treatises” new graduate area of study that focuses Text, Translation, and Notes on gnosticism, esotericism and mysticism. contacted Pavek, who invited him to his by George T. Dennis According to Kripal, the focus on home in Sausalito, Calif. During the visit, gnosticism is located in the ancient world, Pavek told Brochstein about Valentine U35 .S637 1996 the focus on esotericism in the medieval Greatrakes, a 17th-century faith healer “The Late Roman Army” by world and the focus on mysticism in the who claimed he could cure scrofula Pat Southern and Karen Ramsey Dixon modern world. “The collection will give our and other diseases. As a result of this Leah Krevit, Assistant University graduate students working in the modern meeting, Brochstein now plans to write his Librarian for Public Services period an immensely rich resource for dissertation on Greatrakes. looking at the various 19th-century and Additionally, this unique collection PR6070.O455 B76 2009 early 20th-century metaphysical movements will be a valuable resource for researchers “Brooklyn: A Novel” by Colm Tóibín that form the backdrop for contemporary in a variety of fields for years to come. As mysticisms, including animal magnetism, titles are added, they can be viewed from PS3503.I785 Z49 2008 mesmerism, spiritualism and the psychical the library catalog through choosing a “Words in Air: The Complete research tradition.” “Words anywhere” search for Gift: Pavek Correspondence Between Elizabeth Benjamin Brochstein, a graduate Collection. Bishop and Robert Lowell” by Elizabeth student in religious studies, said, “My entire Bishop and Robert Lowell, Edited by Thomas Travisano With Saskia Hamilton project has been redirected because of Jane Segal Social Sciences/Humanities Librarian the Pavek collection.” Last fall, Brochstein PR6003.E282 Z48 2009 “The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929–1940” by Samuel Beckett, Editors, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Lois More Overbeck; Associate Editors, George Craig, Daniel Gunn The Lovett Hall LEGO gift box was a promotional item, which PS3566.E354 N53 2006 the Association of Rice Alumni “The Night Gardener: A Novel” presented to key volunteers and by George Pelecanos leaders in fall 2006. The design was created using LEGO’s Melinda Flannery, Assistant University downloadable digital designer. Librarian for Technical Services Source: LEGO kit and model of Lovett Hall, Rice University PR9199.3.M494 F36 2001 Archives Memorabilia, box 61. “Family Matters” by Rohinton Mistry

PS3562.A316 N36 2003 “The Namesake: A Novel” by Jhumpa Lahiri

PS3554.I86 U5 2001 “The Unknown Errors of Our Lives: Stories” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni For a complete listing of collection development library liaisons, see: http://library.rice.edu/collections/about-fondrens-collections/subject-specialist

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NEWS from FONDREN FONDREN LIBRARY REGULAR HOURS Volume 19, No. 1 • Fall 2009 Aug. 23, 2009–Dec. 6, 2009 and Editor Jan. 10, 2010–May 4, 2010 Melinda Reagor Flannery Open 24 hours, Sunday noon–Friday 10 p.m. Newsletter Committee Saturday 9 a.m.–10 p.m. Liliana Acero Mary Du Mont Brower Library hours are modified during the following periods: Esther Crawford Larry Jines Labor Day Weekend Martin Luther King Weekend Philip Montgomery Friday, Sept. 4–Monday, Sept. 7 Friday, Jan. 15–Monday, Jan. 18 Jane Segal Lisa Spiro Jane Zhao Fall Midterm Recess Spring Midterm Recess Friday, Oct. 9–Sunday, Oct. 11 Friday, Feb. 26–Saturday, Mar. 6 Designer Jackie Limbaugh Thanksgiving Recess Spring Recess Wednesday, Nov. 25–Friday, Nov. 27 Thursday, Apr. 1–Saturday, Apr. 3 Photographer Jeff Fitlow Final Exams and Holidays Last Week of Classes—Commencement Friday, Dec. 4–Saturday, Jan. 9 Friday, Apr. 23–Sunday, May 16 Proofing Joe Hatfield

For information, contact SUMMER HOURS Melinda Reagor Flannery Rice University May 5, 2010–Aug. 21, 2010 Fondren Library–MS 44 P.O. Box 1892 Monday–Thursday 7 a.m.–9 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Houston, TX 77251-1892 Friday 7 a.m.–6 p.m. Sunday Closed 713-348-3773 [email protected] (Closed Saturday–Monday, May 29–31, for Memorial Day and Saturday–Monday, July 3–5, for Independence Day)

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