Volume 14, Number 1 Fall 2004

NEWS from FONDREN A LIBRARY NEWSLETTER TO THE RICE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY

Timetable for Library renovation set

After several years of discussion, the building maintenance issues. The targeted listservs. renovation of Fondren Library is renovation project will address many During the construction period, scheduled to begin in early 2005. A of these problems. all materials in the general stacks and thorough review of the project was The plan will be implemented in government publications (including outlined in the spring 2004 News from Fondren, but now many details, including construction phasing, are nearly complete. To review, the spe- cific goals of the renovation project are to provide greater efficiency of service points and programs; to cre- ate more collaborative spaces, with an emphasis on the social nature of learning; to widely deploy technol- ogy; to provide better seating and reading areas; and to improve sight- lines between service points. As a physical facility, Fondren Library is currently a disjointed col- lection of spaces, constructed in two phases (1948 and 1968), with dif- ferent floor elevations, chopped-up departmental layouts, poor sightlines between service points, and deferred The cramped confines of the Reference Office will be replaced by spacious new offices in the basement. phases, so that library operations can microformat materials) will be brows- INSIDE this ISSUE be maintained during the project. The able and available for use. However, library is committed to providing excel- most materials in the Woodson Open Access Publishing ...... pg. 3 lent service throughout the duration of Research Center will be inacces- Hyginus Added to Woodson ...... pg. 4 the construction and hopes to minimize sible from September through late the impact on the Rice community by November of 2005. Faculty, staff, and Worldcat Proves Invaluable...... pg. 5 doing much of the construction work students should make plans to use Library Staff in Asia ...... pg. 7 over breaks and during summer holi- special collections materials in the Library Welcomes Students ...... pg. 10 days. Signs will be posted at the library summer of 2005 before the Woodson entrance and throughout the building Research Center is renovated. Did you Know? ...... pg. 10 to alert users to collection shifts, and Library Liaisons ...... pg. 11 messages will be posted online and via CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 lation to con- nect the floors In order to achieve the goals and make the outlined above and ready the build- building easi- ing for the impending project, er to navigate. less-used materials from Fondren To facilitate Library are being relocated to the circulation offsite Library Service Center (LSC). throughout By the end of 2004, approximately the building, 250,000 volumes will have been restrooms will moved from the library to the LSC, be stacked and materials will have been shifted vertically on internally and consolidated. the lower The first phase of the project three floors will be to shift and consolidate mate- of the library; rials on the second, third, and fourth and the stair- Son Mai and Duc Pham load library books being transferred to floors. Demolition will begin on the well will be the Library Service Center. second floor and in the basement enlarged and modernized fire suppression in January 2005. Once this part of made more visible. Following work in system, and the addition of new the project is complete, the QK-QP the basement and on the central core, technology. call number range will be moved a new information concourse and The final phase of the project from the basement to the second access services area will be built on involves staff work area renova- floor, and materials currently shelved the first floor. tions, transformation of the sixth on the sixth floor (call number A) The information concourse will floor into a “Rice only” study area, will be relocated to the fourth floor. be the major intellectual center of and the building of a new cyber The sixth floor will be used for Fondren Library, a place of explora- café pavilion on the west side of much-needed swing space through- tion, research, and learning. Staff will the building. On the second floor, out the renovation. In February, be available to provide assistance and group study rooms, an adaptive basement space will be renovated for services needed to retrieve, locate, and technology lab, an emerging tech- the document delivery offices, the assess information. A wide variety nologies experimentation area, and reference/collection development of technology will be available on other technology-rich spaces will staff, and the processing area for the the first and second floors, including be created. The project should be government publications depart- audiovisual viewing and listening sta- completed during the summer of ment. tions, wireless networked spaces for 2006. Once the northeast section of use with laptops, collaborative study The library staff welcomes the basement is renovated, staff spaces for small groups of students, the opportunity to take part in the will be relocated from the first floor areas that support individual study revitalization of Fondren Library. (May 2005). Engineering stacks and research, and other types of Through updating and renovation presently in the basement will be technology-enhanced spaces. of the library, research integrating relocated to the sixth floor, and work At the end of the summer of digital resources and technolo- will begin on the new government 2005, access services (circulation/ gies with traditional paper-based publications and microforms area. reserves and the scatter room, where resources will become easier, ser- The GIS/Data Center will move books are gathered to be reshelved) vice points will be enhanced by into the space currently occupied will be relocated to their new home better sight lines, library staff will by the Electronic Resources Center, on the west side of the first floor. have more efficient work space, which is moving to its new space in Periodicals will be consolidated on the and vital building infrastructure Herring Hall in February 2005. first floor in the area currently occu- will be upgraded and replaced. The central core of the library pied by access services. In fall 2005 will be expanded, with installation of the Woodson Research Center will be Sara Lowman an enlarged elevator, additional rest- renovated, with enhancements to the Director of Fondren Library and Associate University Librarian rooms, and enhanced vertical circu- reading room, installation of a [email protected]

NEWS from FONDREN 2 Open Access Publishing is Changing Scholarly Communication

Open access publishing is a recent to Patrick Frantz, phenomenon that has been made CMC Executive and possible by the emergence of elec- Technical Director, 90 tronic publishing on the Internet and percent of the archive encouraged by the escalating price is public. of print journals. Free electronic Open access documents have been available for journals differ from years, but the distinguishing charac- the electronic journals teristic of open access is that pub- that started appearing lications are available for unlimited in the late 1980s in use by readers. Authors publishing that the articles are in open access publications retain freely available for copyright but allow users to freely unrestricted use by the reuse the material as long as attribu- public. The Directory tion is given. Open access publish- of Open Access Journals ing includes two general categories (http://www.doaj.org) of resources: open access archives lists 1,250 of these Connexions Home Page (also referred to as “author self- journals in fi elds archiving”) and open access journals. ranging from A new open access journal will Archives are repositories for agriculture to visual arts. The soon be published here at Rice. articles (called “e-prints”) which are directory includes only journals Logical Methods in Computer Science is either waiting for publication or have that select papers through an editor, currently reviewing potential articles already been published. They can editorial board, and/or a peer-review for its fi rst issue. Moshe Vardi, a be institution-based (such as DSpace system. managing editor, expects that the at MIT: http://dspace.mit.edu/) Biomed Central (http://www. journal will begin publication in or limited by academic discipline biomedcentral.com/) is an inde- spring of 2005. For a preview see (such as arXiv: http://arxiv.org/—a pendent publisher that provides access the Web page at http://www.lmcs- physics archive hosted by Cornell to over one hundred journals. Their online.org/. University). Web page states, The high ideals behind the open Rice University supports several “BioMed Central is ... committed access, or OA, movement seem to open access archives. Connexions to providing immediate free suggest that high quality scholarly (http://cnx.rice.edu) is a repository access to peer-reviewed information will be free and easily of educational materials used in biomedical research. All the accessible by everyone. Right classes from primary to college original research articles in now, users have free access to OA level. The approximately fi fty journals published by BioMed publications if they have a computer courses include Musical Travels for Central are immediately and that connects to the Web. But these Children, a course for elementary permanently available online publications are not free to produce. school children, and Digital Signal without charge or any other Even though scholars typically Processing, a course taught at Ohio barriers to access. This com- donate their time to write and review State University. The Connexions mitment is based on the view content, costs include editorial home page stresses that all content is that open access to research is and administrative staff, computer free to use and reuse. central to rapid and effi cient hardware and software, and A second Rice archive began progress in science and that technical support. as a project of the Center for subscription-based access to In some cases, authors are Multimedia Communications research is hindering rather being asked to pick up part of the (CMC) and is now the ECE than helping scientifi c tab by paying for publication. Some Documents Database (http: communication.” OA publishers have been given //cmc.rice.edu/docs/). Articles The Public Library of Science funding by grant-giving agencies. For are submitted at various stages (http://www.plos.org/index.html) is a example, Connexions has received a of publication: prepublication, nonprofi t organization that publishes generous grant from the Hewlett submitted to a journal, accepted by PloS Biology and will add PloS Medicine a journal, and published. According this fall. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

NEWS from FONDREN  FALL 2004 3 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 Hyginus added to woodson Corporation. BioMed Central relies on author fees and membership science collection dues. (Rice is a member.) Open access publications— especially the archives—offer an advantage over traditional In June 2004 publications as far as speed of the Woodson publication. And visibility is steadily Research Center improving. Archived e-prints can acquired a 1517 be found through Internet search edition of an engines such as Google and Yahoo. astronomical Indexes such as Web of Knowledge primer commonly and PubMed Central provide access known as Poeticon

to selected OA journals. Ulrich’s Astronomicon, ONTGOMERY

International Periodicals Directory, a which describes M HIL major tool used by libraries, is also the constellations, P BY including these journals. planets, and stel- The future of open access lar objects visible publishing is difficult to predict. to the unaided HOTOGRAPH Critical issues include government eye. This work is P advocacy, sustainable funding the first printed A typical woodcut illustration from the Poeticon sources, and buy-in by the scholarly representation of Astronomicon. establishment. Initial signs are the constellations, encouraging: this summer a U.S. signs of the zodiac, and the planets. in the second century A.D. However, House of Representatives committee The full title of the book is De even his full name remains a mys- has recommended that the National Institutes of Health provide free mundi et sphaerae ac utriusque Partium tery. As author of this work, Grant access to all research funded. A declaratione cum planetis et variis signis rules out some better-known writers similar recommendation has been Historiatis. Melchior Sessa and Pietro with the name of Hyginus, including made by the British government. Ravani published Rice’s edition Hyginus the Surveyor and C. Julius Sources of funding other than “soft in Venice in 1517. The binding is Hyginus (a writer, librarian, and money” will need to be found, and nineteenth-century calfskin ruled in associate of Augustus). scholars will have to learn to view gold. The title page is a full woodcut; The author uses the constella- OA journals as prestigious and forty-eight additional woodcut prints tions as an opportunity to tell the authoritative. appear throughout the text. various myths associated with their In spite of its relative youth, The authorship of the book is celestial namesakes. For example, the open access movement has attributed to Hyginus, who is thought when Hyginus talks about the already shaken up the publishing to have been a Latin didactic poet constellation named the Great world. More and more professional living sometime before 207 A.D. Bear (commonly known as the Big associations and other organizations According to Mary Grant, who Dipper), he begins by telling a story are endorsing it, major foundations translated the book in 1960, little from the Greek writer Hesiod about are supporting it with grants, is known about him. (See “The Callisto and the way in which the and conventional publishers are Myths of Hyginus,” which appeared goddess Diana changed her into a beginning to experiment with it in University of Kansas Publications. bear. Variations of the same myth or or take related actions, such as Humanistic Studies, No. 34, 1960.) other myths are then given. making older journal volumes freely The order of the constellations fol- available or letting authors make lows that of Ptolemy’s Almagest, indi- Philip Montgomery reprints freely available. Whether cating that Hyginus probably wrote Special Collections Assistant it ultimately succeeds or fails, open [email protected] access is changing the face of scholarly publishing. Jane Segal Humanities/Social Sciences Librarian [email protected]

NEWS from FONDREN 4 WorldCat Proves Invaluable to Rice Researcher

Professor Ira Gruber has been from other plausible search terms. . Gruber notes interested for many years in the Moreover, with fragmentary informa- that British officers often went to the reading preferences of tion a researcher has to guess how Continent, taking a year’s leave from officers in the era of the American something should be looked up. A their regular duties to study the art Revolution. Last spring he called library card catalog would have many of war. Since there was little formal Melinda Reagor Flannery, Fondren’s ways of searching each bibliographic military education, recommended Assistant University Librarian for record—by title, authors, subjects, reading lists were very important to Technical Services, to express his related works, and the like—but an officer’s education. The Royal profound appreciation for OCLC would be limited to the resources of Military Academy at Woolwich did WorldCat, a primary resource for one specific library. offer a curriculum with reading lists, bibliographic information used in WorldCat began as a resource but those lists focused primarily on used by librar- the training of engineering and artil- ies for internal lery officers. library pur- Gruber is careful to speak of poses, primar- officers’ preferences rather than their ily the sharing reading habits. Twenty-first-century of cataloging readers are not the only ones to records and speak of, check out from the library, support for or buy books we never read! But interlibrary finding in an individual’s papers ref- lending and erences to works on military matters borrowing. does indicate some preference for Gradually, as those works. Gruber’s study tracks libraries around the preferences of forty-two British the world con- officers based on references in their tributed more letters, journals, death inventories, of their biblio- wills, and other documents, including graphic records orders to booksellers and, sometimes, to the com- annotated catalogs advertising the mon database, sale of a deceased officer’s library. Melinda Reagor Flannery and Professor Ira Gruber discuss the particularly He has also consulted works such results of his research by convert- as Samuel Bever’s The Cadet, which ing the rich recommended an all-French list of libraries around the world. He said contents of their card catalogs to works every military cadet should that his current research would have machine-readable form, WorldCat read. Altogether, Gruber’s officers been impossible without the ability became a much more comprehensive preferred approximately six hundred to search the WorldCat database. source for bibliographic information books on war. When he began researching on historical published works. What With WorldCat, Gruber was his interest almost thirty-five years began as a staff tool has in recent able to follow shorthand references ago, Professor Gruber sought bib- years been made directly available to to published works, keying in a few liographic information primarily library users. As researchers have dis- words plus a date span. At the begin- through paper sources such as the covered, WorldCat’s great advantage ning of the eighteenth century, the National Union Catalog and the British over paper sources is that it can be most popular works preferred by Library catalog. As valuable as these searched by full or partial terms in a British officers appear to have been resources were and are, they include variety of configurations. English and classical authors, includ- only very limited ways of searching This single resource has made it ing Julius Caesar, Polybius, and for bibliographic records—usually possible for Gruber to identify many Vegetius. By far the most highly one copy of the catalog card, of the books preferred by British with limited cross references to it army officers at the time of the CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

NEWS from FONDREN  FALL 2004 5 warfare, he argues. The reliance on Bland’s five-hundred-page work, A caution and prudence had developed Treatise of Military Discipline, which in Europe with the growth of large has been shortened quite a bit in the national armies as resources to be American edition, leaving out details conserved. European generals moved not useful for colonial soldiers. slowly, along rivers for easy encamp- Fondren Library holds a number ment, feeding, etc. Several important of the books on war that Gruber’s French authors illustrate the methods: officers preferred, many of them Saxe, Feuquieres, and Folard (includ- acquired from the John Crerar ing his commentary on Polybius), as Library in Chicago. Gruber also well as the engineers Vauban and the relies on the collections of the British Chevalier de Clairac. Library, the U.S. Military History The British could have chosen to Institute in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, read from more aggressive experts in and, above all, the Society of the their own national tradition, such as Cincinnati. books on the Duke of Marlborough, The Society of the Cincinnati the victor at Blenheim, and James Library in Washington, D.C., is Wolfe, who captured Quebec in extremely interested in Gruber’s 1759. Yet British officers like Clinton work, as its primary collecting inter- and Burgoyne clearly preferred est is books on warfare. Although books reflecting the more prudential its early focus was on books used by Continental approach to warfare. and his officers, An eighteenth-century work on Clinton’s notebooks from the 1760s later that focus broadened to include military history from Fondren’s to the 1790s, preserved at the John materials favored by the French and Woodson Research Center collection. Rylands Library at the University of the English. The society has either Manchester, document his readings, bought or plans to buy all works CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 including Continental and classical identified by Gruber not already held authors. Clinton occasionally showed there. Gruber often visits the society esteemed work, preferred by twenty- his preference for military caution by library in order to compare multiple eight of the forty-two officers, was reading against the clear intention of works or editions. Caesar’s Commentaries, in many an author. For example, in reading The working title of Gruber’s editions. However, by the 1720s/30s Caesar’s Commentaries he admired the own book is Books on War: What through the 1760s, well over half barbarians when they avoided battle British Army Officers Preferred in the Age of the most popular works were of with Caesar. of the American Revolution. The book French origin. Burgoyne stated that Gruber also notes the importance will include, in addition to an inter- one must know French to read the of translations into English in the pretive essay and composite list of best books on war. Three of Folard’s American context. One discovery all books preferred, an introductory works were preferred, and Marshal was Clairac’s L’ingeneur de campagne, sketch on each officer and his library. Saxe, a major figure in the War of translated into English in the 1750s There is also a section on books not the Austrian Succession, wrote the in Ireland. The fieldworks described taken, that is, books that could have best-selling memoir Mes Rêveries by Clairac were easier and cheaper been preferred but seem not to have (1757). Finally, by the decade of the to construct than permanent fortifi- been—some 250 books, identified American Revolution, English and cations and were thus well-suited to mainly from advertisements included German works were coming into the defensive needs of the rebellious in the books the officers did prefer. prominence. American colonists. Washington’s Appendices to Gruber’s work will Gruber posits that French meth- officer Lewis Nicola, unable to find a summarize reading preferences from ods of warfare became popular at copy of the English translation, trans- the late seventeenth to the early an inopportune time. The French lated Clairac again in 1776 in seven nineteenth centuries. A scholarly bib- style of war was then prudential and weeks. liography will follow the appendices. patient, not particularly suited to One of Gruber’s doctoral stu- combating a rebellion. The great- dents, Mark Olsen, is writing a dis- Melinda Reagor Flannery est defeats of the British, such as sertation on the abridgement of Assistant University Librarian [email protected] Saratoga and Yorktown, resulted European books for American audi- from too cautious an approach to ences. A good example is Humphrey

NEWS from FONDREN 6 Library staff members share expertise in Asia

DENTAL STUDENTS teaching the evaluation skills central Bebermeyer, working with Lee to the EBD. As we discussed the prob- Hilyer, formerly on the Fondren LEARN ABOUT lem, we realized that the Web might Library staff and now with the INTERNET RESOURCES help his students in Cambodia and Houston Academy of Medicine- Vietnam overcome that access barrier. Texas Medical Center (HAM-TMC) The tea is free in the Internet cafés By using the Web they might be able Library, secured temporary access for of Phnom Penh—at least when to reach around the world to gather the classes to the electronic resources you rent the whole café. I found information not available to them at available at HAM-TMC and to that out in December 2003, when home. ILLiad (an interlibrary-loan system) I needed a computer lab for a class My job, as Information Specialist, for article posting to the Web. For I was team-teaching at the Faculty was to help the students learn to a while, at least, our students in of Odonto-Stomatology of the structure their research questions in Phnom Phen and HCMC had access National University of Cambodia. searchable ways. Even for those of to the same electronic resources The class had twenty students; the us more familiar with the structure as TMC researchers right here in school had one computer: not good of information, that’s not as easy as Houston. odds for hands-on experience. So it sounds; for many of our students Due to contractual limita- every afternoon it was out of the it was literally a classroom and into the nearest foreign concept. Internet café–with free tea! To make matters I went to the university in more difficult, I Phnom Penh and the National soon found that Hospital of Odonto-Stomatology in “Fluoride in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) as the Drinking Water,” Information Specialist half of a two- the research person team headed by Dr. Richard question most Bebermeyer, Professor of General often mentioned Dentistry at the University of Texas in class, isn’t Dental Branch at Houston. Under quite structured the auspices of Health Volunteers enough for thor- Overseas, Dr. Bebermeyer teaches a ough, efficient weeklong Evidence-Based Dentistry searching. course in third-world countries for Talking the- local practitioners working toward ory, of course, is no substitute certification in public health dentist- Randy Tibbits working with dental students in Ho Chi Minh for hands-on ry. In case you’re not familiar with City. the term (I wasn’t before I joined experience. In the team), Evidence-Based Dentistry our Internet café tions with vendors, that access had (EBD) involves evaluating and apply- “computer labs,” the students got the to end when we left. But it was a ing the best existing evidence to chance to apply the dryly theoretical real joy seeing the amazement on real-life situations in order to use lessons they’d heard (I’m reluctant students’ faces as they pulled up resources wisely and to keep from to say “learned”) in the classroom. articles instantly from electronic repeating research already done. Some had never before accessed the journals or printed out items they’d Since Dr. Bebermeyer had Web. Even the Internet-savvy had, for requested only hours before. Such taught the course alone in HCMC the most part, never used it in their instant access, which we now take for previously, he knew from experience professional lives. Judging from the granted, seems almost a miracle in a that getting access to relevant pub- course evaluations and decibel level country like Cambodia, where the lished evidence, especially in coun- in the Internet café, everyone enjoyed National Dental School, due to lack tries where information resources the experience. are limited, is almost as difficult as As an added resource, Dr. CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

NEWS from FONDREN  FALL 2004 7 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7

of funding, receives only one current ONTGOMERY serial—a gift from a French dental M HIL organization. P BY The two weeks weren’t all work, of course. Our local hosts in each

city entertained us royally. Though HOTOGRAPH our teaching schedule meant we P missed many of the “sites,” we did get glimpses of the real-life cities we’d never have seen just as tourists. And Dr. Bebermeyer and I spent the weekend between our two classes at the vast temple complex of Angkor Wat—a lifelong dream. But even more gratifying than realizing such a dream was accepting the thanks of our students at the end of our classes and sensing that skills we’d been able to share might have a real impact for good, through the students, for the people of Cambodia and Vietnam.

Randy Tibbits Rawai Progressive Montessori School Document Delivery Team Leader [email protected] and sluggish after slipping halfway much that she looked like she was around the world through eleven time chewing her crowns to dust. The zones and across the International eight remaining graduate students Date Line. I couldn’t remember if bowed their heads and burrowed AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL it was yesterday or tomorrow back into their tasks of automating the home in Houston. school’s four-thousand-volume LIBRARY IS ORGANIZED IN My job was to be the systems English-language library. This was THAILAND and analysis guy in an IT support paradise, or so the travel brochures team, which meant I was one of three claimed, and I wanted to go home. Last May my first day on the job as University of North Texas (UNT) My purpose in going to a study-abroad student in the library graduate students in the library sci- Thailand was to earn credit for six of the Rawai Progressive Montessori ence program that had slightly more hours of course work towards my School in Thailand seemed more than an inkling of what “TCP/IP” master’s of library science degree like first grade than graduate school. and “WAN” meant. Work was not and to broaden my cultural hori- Nothing made sense, and everything going according to our timetable. zons. The description of the classes seemed wrong. Already that morning my team had sounded straightforward. The first Standing barefoot in the tried unsuccessfully for hours to load was school library operation and one-room library, I stared out an a library automation program and policy development, and the second unscreened window at a row of establish a network between four PCs was system implementation. rotting huts near the school. Yellow- and the Rawai librarian’s computer. Eventually, we solved the infor- eyed myna birds screeched in the Power failures, dead backup batteries, mation technology problems that bamboo. My head ached from the machines clogged with viruses, and plagued us the first day. By the end eighteen-hour flight from Houston spyware defeated us. of two weeks of eight-hour work- to Bangkok and on to the island of Our professor, an imposing six- days, I had traded in my despair Phuket. My nose ran because of foot-tall woman, showed her displea- for the knowledge that my fellow smoke billowing off piles of burning sure by standing with hands on hips students and I were doing valuable vegetation. My body felt waterlogged and glaring at everyone. Her teaching service work for the staff and teach- from sweating in the tropical heat assistant flexed her jaw muscles so ers at the Rawai school.

NEWS from FONDREN 8 From the beginning, the chal- ject headings and Dewey classifica- The accusation stunned us, but, for- lenges to our implementation plan tion numbers to blue slips of paper tunately, we found the books on her were numerous. The library was inserted into each book. A student bookshelves. That same teacher later loosely organized. In theory, the then carried the books to the catalog- thanked us for all of our hard work Dewey Decimal system was used. ers, who entered the material into the and became an advocate for our In fact, the librarian used colored database of one of four workstations. automation system. duct tape to indicate where to shelve We couldn’t network the databases; so Finally, we established new circu- books. (For example, red tape might each night the databases were merged lation and checkout procedures and represent books for young readers.) into one, with duplicate records prepared an operational manual. However, the tape system was arbi- eliminated. Then each morning we Then we compiled a new policies trary, with books shelved randomly loaded the complete database onto and procedures manual, including a throughout the room. And, in the the individual machines. The process disaster plan, and handed that off to tropical heat, the glue from the tape was not elegant, but it worked. We the librarian and school administra- smeared, causing books to stick also established a station for repairing tors. In the end, we successfully cata- together. books and attaching spine labels and loged 3,315 books. We had counted on access to barcodes. On the last day, we trained the Internet to allow us to search Well into the first week we discov- the Rawai teachers to use the new online catalogs from which we ered more than one thousand books system, explained the barcode and could copy existing records, but we in the classrooms throughout the automation process, and gave them quickly exceeded the school’s allot- school. Teachers had not checked out hands-on demonstrations. The teach- ment of Internet usage time. So, to the books, which in most cases had ers expressed their joy at being able save money, we resorted to original come to permanent rest on the teach- to search for books that fit lesson cataloging, using two copies of the ers’ bookshelves. One team of UNT plans or find books squirreled away Abridged Dewey Decimal Classification students collected classroom books in other classrooms. At that point, I and two copies of Sears List of Subject after giving each teacher one-day’s realized that my work as a graduate Headings. Our professor had to create notice that we would be coming to student was more than just the fulfill- a cataloging short course for students collect. In most cases, the collection ment of course requirements and a like me who had yet to take catalog- process went off without a hitch, but trip to an exotic country. In an emo- ing in school. one elementary teacher accused all tional farewell, the teachers and the We established a “markup table” the UNT students of “stealing” her graduate students mingled, bowing where graduate students added sub- personal books from her classroom. to each other in thanks and grati- tude. In the end, I fell in love with Thailand and regretted leaving, and I began to see myself as the librarian I hope to become. ONTGOMERY M

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NEWS from FONDREN  FALL 2004 9 LIBRARY WELCOMES STUDENTS AT OPEN HOUSE Did you Know?

On September 9, 2004, Fondren Microforms, and Brown Fine Arts As of October 15, 2004, there Library welcomed students at Library. Students who completed the were 232,105 volumes housed an open house coordinated by tour were eligible to win a drawing in Fondren Library’s offsite the Fondren Research Education for one of seventeen excellent prizes facility, the Library Service Committee. Participating students donated by individuals and corporate Center. From January through toured seven public service areas: sponsors, including the Houston August, 738 volumes were Reference, Circulation, the Woodson Museum of Natural Science, Rice retrieved upon request (0.4% of Research Center, the Electronic University Campus Store, Hungry’s the total). The industry defines Resources Center, GIS/Data Center, Café and Bistro, Beautique Day Spa “success” as less than 3%. This Government Publications and & Salon, and Jason’s Deli. low level of requests shows that proper criteria are generally in use for identifying less-used materials to be housed offsite. See the LSC Web site at http: RAWFORD

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HOTOGRAPH P The Collection Management Project has completed its inven- tory of the library’s general collections. Although this was intended as the final phase of a project begun in 1998, the proj- ect has been extended to include microforms and government publications. The barcoding and subsequent linking of these materials to their bibliographic records will make these holdings more visible in the public cata- Science Librarian Debra Bailey chats with students log and allow the housing of some of the “low use” materials in the Library Service Center.

Corrections:

In the spring 2004 issue of News from Fondren, the name of the A number of long-time photographer for the exterior pictures of the Library Service library staff members retired in the spring and early sum- Center (on page 4) was inadvertently omitted. Photography was mer of 2004. In this group by Hester + Hardaway. were Kathy Knox, Sharon Link, Rita Marsales, Jeannette We also incorrectly stated that the Felted Nest, by Barbara Kile Monroe, Heather Phillips, (on page 9) was photographed by her. The picture was actually Lupe Villarreal, and Sophy taken by Jack B. Zilker. Silversteen.

NEWS from FONDREN 10 LIBRARY LIAISONS

SUBJECT LIBRARIAN TELEPHONE E-MAIL ACADEMIC LIAISON Anthropology Jane Segal 713-348-3802 [email protected] James Faubion Architecture Jet Prendeville 713-348-2259 [email protected] Spencer Parsons Art History Jet Prendeville 713-348-2259 [email protected] Marcia Brennan Biochemistry Robert Sabin 713-348-4324 [email protected] Charles Stewart Biomedical Engineering Robert Sabin 713-348-4324 [email protected] Bahman Anvari Chemical Engineering Robert Sabin 713-348-4324 [email protected] Matteo Pasquali Chemistry Robert Sabin 713-348-4324 [email protected] Philip Brooks Civil & Environ. Engineering Esther Crawford 713-348-6212 [email protected] Pol Spanos Classics Elka Tenner 713-348-4320 [email protected] Donald Morrison Computational & Applied Mathematics John Hunter 713-348-3892 [email protected] Mark Embree Computer Science John Hunter 713-348-3892 [email protected] Moshe Vardi Earth Science John Hunter 713-348-3892 [email protected] William Leeman Ecology & Evol. Biology Robert Sabin 713-348-4324 [email protected] Lisa Meffert Economics Peggy Shaw 713-348-2801 [email protected] Mark Dudey Education Elka Tenner 713-348-4320 [email protected] TBN Electrical Engineering John Hunter 713-348-3892 [email protected] James Young English Jane Segal 713-348-3802 [email protected] Krista Comer French Studies Sandi Edwards 713-348-2504 [email protected] Bernard Aresu German Studies Sandi Edwards 713-348-2504 [email protected] Klaus Weissenberger Hispanic Studies Samantha Hager 713-348-6211 [email protected] Lane Kauffmann History Elka Tenner 713-348-4320 [email protected] Carol Quillen Kinesiology Robert Sabin 713-348-4324 [email protected] James Disch Library Science Elka Tenner 713-348-4320 [email protected] N/A Linguistics Sandi Edwards 713-348-2504 [email protected] Robert Englebretson Management Peggy Shaw 713-348-2801 [email protected] TBN Mathematics Debra Bailey 713-348-2350 [email protected] Frank Jones Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science John Hunter 713-348-3892 [email protected] Yildiz Bayazitoglu Music Mary Du Mont 713-348-2593 [email protected] Bill Bailey Philosophy Kerry Keck 713-348-2926 [email protected] Rachel Zuckert Physics Debra Bailey 713-348-2350 [email protected] Patrick Hartigan Political Science Kerry Keck 713-348-2926 [email protected] Gilbert Cuthbertson Psychology Elka Tenner 713-348-4320 [email protected] David Schneider Religious Studies Jane Segal 713-348-3802 [email protected] Matthias Henze Slavic Studies Sandi Edwards 713-348-2504 [email protected] Ewa Thompson Sociology Jane Segal 713-348-3802 [email protected] Elizabeth Long Statistics Debra Bailey 713-348-2350 [email protected] Rudy Guerra Visual Arts Jet Prendeville 713-348-4832 [email protected] Karin Broker

LIBRARY CONTACTS FOR SPECIAL MATERIALS Archives & Manuscripts Lee Pecht 713-348-2120 [email protected] Electronic Texts & Images Lisa Spiro 713-348-2594 [email protected] Geographic Information Systems & Data Sets Eva Garza 713-348-2595 [email protected] Government Publications Esther Crawford 713-348-6212 [email protected]

NEWS from FONDREN  FALL 2004 11 RICE UNIVERSITY FONDREN LIBRARY

News from Fondren REGULAR HOURS Volume 14, Number 1, Fall 2004 August 22, 2004–December 14, 2004 and Editor January 10, 2005–May 11, 2005 Elizabeth Baber [email protected] Open 24 hours, Sunday noon–Friday 10:00 P.M. Newsletter Committee Saturday 9:00 A.M.–10:00 P.M. Esther Crawford Kerry Keck Library hours are modified during the following periods: Karen Oster Alice Rhoades First Week of Classes & Labor Day Martin Luther King Weekend Jane Segal Shirley Wetzel Friday, Sept. 3-Monday, Sept. 6 Friday, Jan. 14-Monday, Jan. 17

Graphic Designer Fall Midterm Recess Spring Break Jana Starr Friday, Oct. 8-Sunday, Oct. 10 Friday, Mar. 4-Saturday, Mar. 12 Photographer Jeff Fitlow Thanksgiving Recess Spring Recess (unless otherwise noted) Wednesday, Nov. 24-Friday, Nov. 26 Thursday, Apr. 7-Saturday, Apr. 9 Proofing Joe Hatfield Final Exams and Holidays Last Week of Classes—Commencement Friday, Dec. 3-Sunday, Jan. 9 Friday, Apr. 29-Tuesday, May 10 For information, contact Elizabeth Baber Rice University SUMMER HOURS Fondren Library–MS 44 P.O. Box 1892 May 11, 2005-August 21, 2005 Houston, Texas 77251-1892 713-348-3749 Monday-Thursday 7:00 A.M.-9:00 P.M. Saturday 10:00 A.M.-6:00 P.M. Friday 7:00 A.M.-6:00 P.M. Sunday 1:00 P.M.-5:00 P.M. © 2004 Rice University (Closed Saturday-Monday, May 28-30, for Memorial Day 209/04 and Saturday-Monday, July 2-4, for Fourth of July)

Please call 713-348-4800 for information. Library hours are subject to change.

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