Library Oberlin College Library Perspectives

A Newsletter Fall 2013, Issue No. 49 of the Library Oberlin College Library Perspectives

THE OBERLIN REVIEW ONLINE david ferriero to speak at friends dinner THE LIBRARY is in the process of making The 10th person and the first professional the full run of the Oberlin Review openly librarian to hold the Archivist’s position, he accessible online. The Review has been was appointed by President Obama in 2009. printed continuously since 1874, making Ferriero heads the National Archives it one of the oldest college newspapers in and Records Administration (NARA), one the United States. It is an essential source of of the largest archives in the world. Current historical information for both the college holdings of the NARA are staggering in and the town of Oberlin, providing in both quantity and diversity, despite the many instances the fullest—and often the relatively small percentage of federal records only—contemporary published accounts considered significant enough to keep each of issues and events. The online archive will year (1-3%). The NARA website describes be especially useful for courses that draw on “approximately 10 billion pages of textual local history, such as Professor of History records; 12 million maps, charts, and Carol Lasser’s class Oberlin History as architectural and engineering drawings; American History. 25 million still photographs and graphics; By early September, issues from 1874 to 24 million aerial photographs; 300,000 1911 and from the World War II era through reels of motion picture film; 400,000 video the 1970s will be online at the library’s and sound recordings; and 133 terabytes digital collections site; the complete run will of electronic data” (www.archives.gov). be available by January 2014. David S. Ferriero The Electronic Records Archives, now The online archive of the Review is avid S. Ferriero, Archivist of the being developed by the NARA, will ensure being created by converting microfilm of the United States, will be the featured permanent access to important electronic paper to digital form, a process managed by Dspeaker at the Friends of the Library records of the federal government. iArchives of Linden, Utah. The company annual dinner on Saturday, November 2. Ferriero was previously the Andrew W. is simultaneously digitizing the student continued on page 8 continued on page 7 new mellon grant to foster digital OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING SUPPORT scholarship practices TO SUPPORT AUTHOR CHOICE in publishing, The Five Colleges of Ohio, a consortium Fall 2010, Spring and Fall 2011, and Fall the library and the offices of the Dean of the consisting of Oberlin College, Denison 2012), which enabled librarians, faculty, College of Arts and Sciences and the Dean University, Kenyon College, Ohio Wesleyan and students to create more than 50 digital of the Conservatory have established a policy University, and The College of Wooster, has collections across a wide range of disciplines. to fund author fees for faculty and staff who been awarded a three-year $775,000 grant The new grant continues to focus on wish to publish in peer-reviewed journals by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to using digital collections to enhance faculty that are fully open access. strengthen the digital capabilities of the and student research, teaching, and learning Funding for a given article is limited libraries and integrate the use of digital while incorporating a new emphasis on to a maximum of $3,000 and should be scholarship into the liberal arts curriculum. digital scholarship. An additional priority of requested only after any grant resources Titled “Digital Collections: From Projects the grant is to make the scholarship of Ohio or other avenues of support have been to Pedagogy and Scholarship,” the grant Five faculty and students more visible and utilized. A brief letter of endorsement from continues the successful three-year “Next accessible. the requestor’s department chair should be Steps in the Next Generation Library” Sean Decatur, Oberlin’s former dean of submitted at the time of the funding request. Mellon grant (see Perspectives, Spring and the College of Arts and Sciences and the new continued on page 9 continued on page 7 1 RECENT GIFTS friends of the library THE LIBRARY gratefully acknowledges the 2013 following significant pledges, gifts and gifts- fall programs in-kind. • Robert Taylor and Ted Nowick have Exhibitions: established a charitable remainder trust that Romulus Linney ’53: A Mysteriously Buried Treasure will create in the future a major endowment Monday, September 30—Monday, October 28, Academic Commons, Mudd Center for special collections. • Robert Seeman ’65 has made a generous Lectures and Other Events: multi-year pledge to support acquisitions for “The Pennyroyal Caxton Bible,” Talk by Barry Moser gay and lesbian studies. Thursday, September 26, 4:30 p.m., Moffett Auditorium, Mudd 050 Major monetary gifts have been received from: “Relativity for the Questioning Mind,” Talk by Daniel Styer, Professor of Physics • William G. Roe ’64 for collection Wednesday, October 2, 4:30 p.m., Moffett Auditorium, Mudd 050 digitization. • Cynthia Marvell ’88 for the Friends of the Romulus Linney ’53: In Celebration Thursday, October 10—Sunday, October 13 Library. Evening of Linney One-Act Plays, October 10, 11, and 12, Little Theater • Clyde Owan ’79 for the George and Susan Romulus Linney Symposium, Saturday, October 12, 3:00 p.m., West Lecture Hall Lanyi Endowed Library Fund. Romulus Linney’s The Flower Hunter, world premier staged reading, • Barbara Bayless ’49 for the Friends of the Sunday, October 13, 1:30 p.m, location to be announced Library. Generous monetary gifts have been received Friends of the Library Annual Events from: Saturday, November 2 • Dean Edmonds Foundation for the 1:30 p.m. Friends Council and Membership Meeting, Goodrich Room, Mudd Center Conservatory Library Special Book Fund. 5:45 p.m. Friends Annual Reception and Dinner, Root Room, Carnegie • Paulina Marks ’45 for the Friends of the 8:00 p.m. Featured Speaker, David Ferriero, Root Room, Carnegie Library. • David Miller ’60 for the Friends of the The Harold Jantz Memorial Lecture, “The Monuments Men,” Robert M. Edsel Thursday, November 7, 5:30 p.m., Sculpture Court, Allen Memorial Art Museum Library. • Geraldine Pergament for the Bass- “Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea,” Talk by Sheila Jager, Associate Professor Richardson Endowed Library Fund. of East Asian Studies • Jonathan ’64 and Jane ’64 Rodeheffer for Wednesday, November 13, 4:30 p.m., Moffett Auditorium, Mudd 050 the Friends of the Library. • Mark Smith ’90 for the Librarian’s “Materia Magica: The Archaeology of Magic in Roman Egypt, Cyprus, and Spain,” Talk by Discretionary Fund. Drew Wilburn, Associate Professor of Classics Significant Gifts-in-Kind include the Thursday, December 5, 4:30 p.m., Moffett Auditorium, Mudd 050 following: • Christina Delgado ’80 and Stephen Olson ’79 have donated books and materials about continued on page 9 friends update THE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY had an the curriculum. These included materials for Library Perspectives exceptionally successful year in 2012-13. The Special Collections (a Guy de Maupassant organization received $69,613 in regular short story collection with etchings based on Ray English membership contributions (an all-time high) monotypes by Edgar Degas, a 1733 London Cynthia Comer and helped to encourage a total of more edition of Voltaire’s Letters Concerning Megan Mitchell than $900,000 in gifts and commitments the English Nation, a richly illustrated Alison Ricker to the library. Membership in the Friends edition of the Rāmāyana, an artists’ book Editors increased to a total of 766, including 558 invoking the infamous staircase of death at regular members, 122 members who donated Mauthausen concentration camp), a variety A newsletter for users and Friends of to other library funds or made gifts-in-kind, of multidisciplinary resources in social the Oberlin College Library, Library 33 students or recent graduates, 42 Life sciences and humanities fields, and numerous Perspectives is issued two times a year. Members, and 11 Honorary Members. specialized materials to support courses in Printed from an endowed fund estab- The Friends allocated $40,099 to art, science, and music. The Friends again lished by Benjamin and Emiko Custer. support acquisitions in subject areas across awarded $500 to a student demonstrating continued on page 10 2 ROMULUS LINNEY '53: kovners donate pennyroyal caxton bible IN CELEBRATION THE LIBRARY hilanthropists Bruce will host from and Suzie Kovner have September 30 Pgiven the library a through October limited edition copy of the 28 an exhibition Pennyroyal Caxton Bible. on the life Designed and illustrated by and career of printer and artist Barry Moser, award-winning the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible playwright and is one of the finest examples of novelist Romulus printing and illustration in the Linney ’53. The 20th century. It was produced exhibition is in conjunction with a series of in an edition of 400 copies Pennyroyal Caxton Bible events honoring Linney to be held October (the library’s copy is number “Re-imagining this sacred cast of characters 10-13. 141) and its quality is comparable to the as living, breathing men and women lies at Planned events include performances Doves Press Bible (1903) and Bruce Rogers the heart of Mr. Moser’s project. For all of its of Linney one-act plays directed by Oberlin Oxford Lectern Bible (1935). It is the only traditional splendor, the Pennyroyal Caxton senior Annie Obermeyer, a symposium about Bible produced in the 20th century to be Bible is not a comfortable book; it has the Linney’s life and career featuring actors illustrated by a single artist, and the first such power to startle as readers begin to recognize and directors who knew and worked with illustrated Bible since Gustav Dore’s edition themselves in those iconic, larger-than-life him, and a world premier staged reading of Le Saint Bible in 1865. characters. In bringing a sacred text down to of The Flower Hunter, a play Linney wrote The Pennyroyal Caxton Bible contains a earth, Mr. Moser may just have created the shortly before his death in 2011. Scheduled total of 233 illustrations by Moser, including Bible for our time.” participants and attendees for the events at least one for each Biblical book. The The Pennyroyal Caxton Bible is include Linney’s two daughters, actress Laura illustrations draw on living people, conveying organized into five traditional sections Linney and writer Susan Linney, actress vividly the humanity of Biblical characters. paginated independently and bound in Kathleen Chalfant, director John Dillon, and Moser engraved them in a polymer resin, two volumes. Volume one contains The Linney’s widow Laura Callanan. rather than the traditional boxwood. Pentateuch, the Historical Books, and the Most of the materials in the library’s Miles Unger, reviewing the Bible for The Poetical Books, while volume two includes exhibition were prepared at Appalachian New York Times, commented: The Prophets and The New Testament. State University, home to the Romulus continued on page 7 Linney Papers. Linney’s grandfather was a founder of Appalachian State and many of his barry moser to lecture on plays are set in the context of the Appalachian mountains, where Linney was born. The pennyroyal caxton bible exhibition will include original materials ARTIST BARRY MOSER will National Gallery of Art, from the Oberlin College Archives. • visit Oberlin September the British Library, the 26-27 to lecture on the Library of Congress, Pennyroyal Caxton Bible and by academic and (see article above) and research libraries around participate in events related the world. In addition to to Oberlin’s developing the Pennyroyal Caxton programs in book studies. Bible, which has garnered A celebrated widespread acclaim, printmaker and illustrator he has been celebrated of literary works, Moser for his illustrations for has produced books Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s under the Pennyroyal Adventures in Wonderland Press imprint since the and Through the Looking- early 1970s. His prints and Barry Moser self-portrait Glass, winning the American the books he has designed Book Award for design and and illustrated are held by the Metropolitan illustration in 1982 for the former work. Romulus Linney in an Oberlin Drama Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Moser studied at Auburn University and Association Production, 1952 continued on page 7 3 african artwork donated in honor of eduardo mondlane ’53 r. and Mrs. Lloyd H. Ellis, Jr. Liberation Front (FRELIMO) of Solon, Ohio have given the from its founding in 1962 in Dlibrary a stunning painting Tanzania until his assassination by Mozambican artist Malangatana in 1969. He is widely Ngwenya (1937-2011). Their gift considered to be the father of was made in memory of Eduardo Mozambican independence. Chivambo Mondlane ’53, leader After graduating from Oberlin, of the Mozambique independence Mondlane earned MA and PhD movement and a close associate of the degrees in anthropology from artist. The painting has been installed Northwestern University. He in the Margaret Forsythe Classroom for taught anthropology at Syracuse teaching with special collections and University before returning to archival materials, where it highlights Malangatana, The Witch Doctor Africa to lead the independence the Herbert Shore Collection in Honor movement. A plaque of Eduardo Mondlane. commemorating his life is installed in the lobby of Peters Hall. Malangatana, as he is commonly known, is considered the most The Herbert Shore Collection in Honor of Eduardo Mondlane, prominent contemporary artist of Mozambique and is also among a rich collection of both original and reproduced materials the most recognized African artists. His works, often painted in vivid documenting Mondlane’s life, is held jointly by the Oberlin College colors, reflect the mythology and witchcraft of rural Mozambique as Archives and the Special Collections Department. It was donated well as his country’s struggle for independent statehood. to the library by the late Herbert Shore, professor of theater at the The painting given to the library,O Feiticeiro or A Purificação University of Southern California and a close friend and associate of da Criança (The Witch Doctor or Purification of the Child), depicts a Mondlane (see Perspectives, February 2000). witch doctor attempting to heal a bleeding child, while his worried Dr. and Mrs. Ellis are parents of Oberlin double-degree student parents and neighbors look on. Bleeding disorders were common David Ellis ’14. They have also given a Malangatana painting entitled among Africans living in Mozambique when Malangatana completed O Bebé Poeto (The Poet as Child) to the Allen Memorial Art Museum. the work in 1962. Dr. Ellis served in Mozambique with the State Department in the Eduardo Mondlane served as president of the Mozambican 1960s, where he met Malangatana and learned of Mondlane. • students form letterpress co-op ExCo course offered by Special Collections Librarian Ed Vermue. Although she didn’t get into that class, last January she participated in Vermue’s winter term project, an intensive, experience-based course on the art of printmaking. At the end of winter term, Velasco and other students in the course decided to form the new co-op. Their goal was to find a way to continue using the studio beyond winter term and to enable others to do so as well. The co-op’s charter was approved by the General Faculty at the end of the 2013 spring semester. There will be a general interest meeting early in the fall to choose officers and begin planning activities. Experienced co-op members plan to hold monthly workshops on use of the printing equipment. They also hope to sponsor open studio sessions for those who have learned basic letterpress skills. The group would like to open membership to Jessica Tolbert '15, Charles Kaplowitz '16, and Molly Lieberman '16 work on a the wider Oberlin community and eventually develop specialized Vandercook press during their Winter Term Project workshops on such topics as creating posters for campus events or FOLLOWING A SURGE OF INTEREST in the library’s letterpress studio, a developing poetry broadsides. The co-op may also hold screenings of group of students has founded the Letterpress Co-op as an official letterpress-related films and seek other opportunities to spread the student organization. The co-op’s purpose is to educate Oberlin word about the studio. students and community members about letterpress printing, to Velasco views letterpress printing as an exciting way to create provide opportunities to use the presses and materials in the studio, tangible art forms. She believes preservation of this historic and to celebrate letterpress printing as an art form. equipment depends on its continued use: “Our intention is to help Victoria Velasco ’15 first learned of the studio as a first-year maintain the presses and studio so that the art of letterpress printing student when she joined the waiting list for the letterpress printing can continue to thrive in Oberlin.” 4 continued on page 9 ROBERT EDSEL TO DELIVER morrison society office dedicated JANTZ LECTURE ROBERT EDSEL, THE OFFICE OF THE TONI MORRISON SOCIETY in author of The Mudd Center was officially dedicated with Monuments Men, a ribbon-cutting ceremony on February 25, will deliver the 2013, nearly a year after Morrison announced Harold Jantz in a Finney Chapel appearance that the Memorial Lecture society would move to Oberlin. The office on Thursday, houses the official records of the society, November 7. which was founded in 1993 and now has His book relates over 600 members from the United States the story of and several foreign countries. Nazi attempts The society publishes a semiannual to gain control newsletter and an annual Morrison Marvin Krislov, Carolyn Denard, Sean Decatur of European art treasures and destroy art bibliography. It also sponsors biennial and members of the Morrison Society board considered to be “degenerate.” A special force conferences and panels at meetings of the called the Monuments Men, consisting of American Literature Association, and her works for the past twenty years, most American and British museum directors, supports scholars and educators who teach recently at Lorain County Community art historians, and others, risked their lives Morrison’s writings. The society’s records College. She notes that a staff member will to save art works and prevent cultural include local information about Morrison, be in the office, located in the southwest destruction. who grew up in Lorain, as well as childhood corner of Mudd’s fourth floor, more regularly Edsel also authored Rescuing Da Vinci photos. in the fall. and Saving Italy, two other books that deal Volunteers staffed the office sporadically The Toni Morrison Society will with efforts to save art works during World during the summer, establishing routines celebrate its 20th anniversary with a War II. He co-produced the award-winning for archiving materials and cataloging lecture in Finney Chapel by University of documentary filmThe Rape of Europe on the documents. Marilyn Valentino, one of the Pennsylvania professor Herman Beavers ’81 same topic and has lectured widely at major volunteers, is a charter member of the society on Thursday, September 19 and other events museums in the United States and abroad. and a Morrison scholar, having taught on Friday, September 20. • A film version ofThe Monuments Men, staring George Clooney, will be released in new digital resources December. • THE LIBRARY recently acquired the following new resources to support curricular programs and research. THERAPY DOGS BRING RESPITE Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment documents FROM STUDY relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. The variety of cultures THREE SPECIALLY- in early North America was extraordinary, with Dutch, English, TRAINED THERAPY French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, African, and a host of DOGS came to indigenous peoples involved in a complex web of interactions and Mudd Center engagement. Assembled from hundreds of sources, the collection during midterms focuses on personal accounts that provide unique perspectives from last spring and a wide variety of protagonists, both men and women, including students flocked traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and officials. The project covers to the study a range of published and unpublished accounts, including oral narratives, speeches, diaries, lounge adjacent journals, letters, and publications. Also included are hundreds of images, prints, and maps, to Moffett many in color. The “literature of place” that unfolds through these sources covers cultural Auditorium issues such as kinship, Indian ceremonies, dress, and religious practices; observations and views to enjoy their canine companionship. of each group toward the other; descriptions of landscapes, fauna, and flora that Europeans Organized by the Office of Student Wellness, were seeing for the first time; and the propaganda written to persuade potential colonists to the event attracted 30 students who took emigrate. turns getting nose to nose with a patient pup New books from Harvard University Press are the latest addition or burying faces in clean doggy fur. Many to the library’s expanding collection of electronic books. Through a students looked absolutely gleeful as they partnership with Berlin-based publishing house De Gruyter, the library left the study lounge, refreshed for another will receive over 150 titles published in 2013 through the German bout of midterm preparation. The dogs publisher’s online platform. New titles are issued simultaneously with visited campus again in May, where students their print editions, and can be found in OBIS and through the Summon welcomed them on Wilder Bowl. • discovery service as they become available. In addition to displaying continued on page 8 5 thornton wilder and “a resplendent virgil”

rom the opening of the 20th accompanied the gift reflects her century in 1900, Charles own nobility of character: “Any FWager taught at Oberlin sort of activity or interest now College for 35 years, and for those seems futile,” she wrote, “against 35 years he served as the head of the background of nightmare in its studies in English. The esteem Europe, but I want to see these few in which he was held by almost all possessions of Charles’s that were his students was remarkable: two of dear to him in loving hands.” them who later themselves served The recipient of Annie as distinguished members of the Wager’s letter (and the book) Oberlin faculty—Frederick Artz was Thornton Wilder. Wilder— and Andrew Bongiorno—flatly Virgil’s works, 1544 Venice edition among whose distinctions was declared him the best teacher the winning of two Pulitzer they had ever known. Pressed to explain remained behind, partly to economize prizes for drama and one for fiction—had that distinction, Professor Artz marveled and partly to allow an extended visit studied with Wager during his three years at Wager’s uncanny ability virtually to with her aging parents in New Jersey. at Oberlin, from 1915 to 1918; and as a impersonate the literary figures whose Their separation led to an exchange of sophomore had told his father that “there works he interpreted. correspondence, during which Professor is no conviction stronger in me” than that To sustain such strenuous labors Wager wrote a letter from Florence in in the classroom, Professor Wager read which he confessed with mingled pride “I’ve bought,” he proclaimed, “the most voraciously, and in his reading he amassed and sheepishness that he had made a costly resplendent Virgil you can imagine... a large personal library. The library awed purchase. “I’ve bought,” he proclaimed, when I came to Italy I meant to buy me a those students who gathered to participate “the most resplendent Virgil you can Virgil, but I had no notion of anything so imagine.” He went on to say that “when in the advanced seminars he led at his spectacular as this.” sturdy brick home on West College Street. I came to Italy I meant to buy me a –Charles Wager But when he sought refreshment, what he Virgil, but I had no notion of anything so loved more than anything was to slip away spectacular as this.” “when I sit under Prof. Wager ‘it is good from Oberlin’s summer heat and humidity: The “Virgil” of which he spoke for me to be there.’” He was an assiduous his destination of choice was Italy—and was a book published in Venice in the correspondent, and regularly exchanged particularly the warm, dry hills of Italian year 1544 by the Giunti, a firm that letters with Wager after his departure from Tuscany. Something in its dappled contributed greatly to the establishment Oberlin. He also sent him copies of his landscape, its historic culture, its honey- of the publishing industry. It included own books as they came into print. colored stone, and the red tiles of its roofs all the works of the famed Roman poet There is a final twist to this little story. both soothed and invigorated him. and contained more than a hundred Thornton Wilder carefully kept Wager’s Wager was alone in Tuscany in the large woodcuts of what Professor “resplendent Virgil.” When he died in summer of 1923. His wife Annie had Wager described as “the most engaging 1975, his sister Isabel (the executor of his quaintness.” The woodcuts had been made estate) handsomely repaid Annie Wager’s for an even earlier edition of Virgil’s works, generous gesture by donating that book to and they seemed quaint because they Oberlin College. Today it reposes in the depicted his characters—gods, shepherds, special collections of the Oberlin College lovers, and Trojan warriors—in medieval Library—a handsome quarto whose rather than antique Roman dress. graceful print is undimmed and whose Professor Wager brought his woodcuts retain their quaint freshness after “resplendent Virgil” back with him to almost five centuries. It bears witness, in West College Street, and it reposed in his a quiet but durable way, to the powerful library until his death in 1939. A year later, influence of the printed word on the bond Annie Wager (who was his sole heir and between a distinguished teacher and a on whom fell the burden of dealing with distinguished student. • his estate) had an inspired thought. She Robert Longsworth, Emeritus Professor mailed that fabulous book as a gift to one of English and President, Friends of the Thornton Wilder of Wager’s former students. The letter that Oberlin College Library

6 FRIENDS SCHOLARSHIP WINNER Mellon Grant, continued from page 1 president of Kenyon College, believes that increased faculty engagement with digital scholarship is an essential objective for all five campuses. “This new grant will enable more of our faculty to experience the positive pedagogical impacts of digital collections,” he said. “It will also enable us to build on the very positive working relationships that have been established between librarians and faculty. The possibility of extending grant activities into digital scholarship areas is especially exciting.” The grant has five primary objectives: (1) to help the libraries foster development of curriculum-driven digital collections in partnership with students and faculty, and expand the scope of projects to include digital scholarship practices; (2) to hire a digital scholar to foster the development of new collections, support digital scholarship efforts, and engage the MARGUERITE (MARI) MONOSOFF-RICHARDS ’11 campus communities in related considerations of pedagogy; (3) to mount additional efforts to has been awarded the Friends of the Library capture and provide open access to student and faculty scholarship; (4) to support continued graduate library school scholarship in the professional staff development, collaboration, and implementation of best practices across amount of $3,500. She plans to attend the the Ohio Five libraries; and (5) to facilitate the creation of new collaborations with similar School of Information at the University institutions, particularly those focused on the digital humanities, and broadly disseminate the of Michigan and pursue a library career in products and processes developed under the grant. youth programming. The second of these objectives is well on the way to being met with the recent hiring of In her application Mari describes a love Jacob Heil, the consortium’s new Mellon Digital Scholar. Heil earned a PhD in English from affair with libraries that began before she Texas A&M University in 2009. With a background spanning English Renaissance drama, could read at story time and continued as she early modern texts, and digital humanities, he is well positioned to work with faculty in volunteered at her local library throughout advancing the study and practice of digital scholarship in both teaching and research contexts. high school. At Oberlin she majored in While his home base will be at Wooster, Heil will be in Oberlin often to work on grant- neuroscience and worked in the Reference and related projects and activities. A campus committee will be formed soon to oversee Oberlin’s Instruction Department of the Main Library. participation in the grant program and administer its share of the funding. As with the earlier According to Eboni Johnson, Reference and Mellon grant, proposals related to digital collections and digital scholarship will be sought Instruction Librarian, “she displayed a high from faculty. Procedures and protocols are currently under development, with an initial call for degree of responsibility, enthusiasm, and proposals expected to go out this fall. ambition. Her friendly, easygoing personality According to Associate Director of Libraries Alan Boyd, who was instrumental in was an asset in providing reference assistance managing the earlier inter-campus initiative and who works closely with digital projects at to library patrons.” Oberlin, the new grant will help Oberlin faculty and students become more versed in digital Since graduation Mari has worked scholarship. “We plan to capitalize on our previous digitization efforts to help faculty who in public libraries in Greenville, South want to incorporate emerging techniques and platforms of digital scholarship into their Carolina and Ann Arbor, Michigan, where approaches to both pedagogy and research,” he said. Many of the projects funded under the she’s gained experience in providing readers’ original grant are showcased in a public portal at www.ohio5.org/portal. • advisory services, working with teen achiever programs, and circulation and access roles. • Oberlin Review, continued from page 1 Kovners, continued from page 3 Moser, continued from page 3 newspapers of the other four colleges in the The text follows Frederick Scrivener’s 1873 the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Five Colleges of Ohio (Denison, Kenyon, critical edition of the Cambridge Paragraph and also did graduate work at the University Ohio Wesleyan, and Wooster) as a final Bible of the Authorized English (King of Massachusetts Amherst. He became project under the consortium’s "Next James) Version. The two volumes are bound particularly drawn to printing and book Generation Library" grant from the Andrew with vellum spines and handmade paper illustration through his work with Leonard W. Mellon Foundation (see Perspectives, overboard and set in Galliard typeface, Baskin. He served on the faculty of the Spring 2010 and subsequent issues). which Matthew Carter designed in 1978 and Rhode Island School of Design and is The capacity to search by keywords and refitted for Moser’s project. The Bible was currently professor in residence and printer to dates will greatly increase the speed and ease composed and printed by a digital letterpress the college at Smith College. of access to accounts of notable events such process in folio size by Bradley Hutchinson Moser’s lecture on the Pennyroyal as Martin Luther King’s visits to campus in of Austin, Texas. The bindings were created Caxton Bible will be held on Thursday, the 1950s and 1960s. The added capability by Claudia Cohen and Sara Creighton of September 26 at 4:30 p.m. in the Moffett of simultaneously searching all student Easthampton, Massachusetts. Auditorium (Mudd 050). While on campus newspapers of the Five Colleges will open Moser will visit Oberlin in late he will also visit classes, meet with the up new research options for understanding September to lecture about the Pennyroyal Letterpress Co-op, offer a demonstration of the response of liberal arts colleges in Ohio Caxton Bible and participate in other events wood engraving, and discuss books and book to the social and political events of the past related to book studies and the book arts studies with interested faculty. • century. • (see article on page 3). • 7 OBERLIN SHARES MOVES TO NEW Digital Resources, continued from page 5 PLATFORM content online, all titles can be downloaded, printed, and e-mailed at the user’s discretion. OBERLIN SHARES, the college’s institutional Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 is the single largest compilation of Spanish- language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection open access repository (see Perspectives, Fall 2012) will migrate early in the fall to a new features hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers, including many long-scattered and platform shared with Denison University. forgotten titles. Based on the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project,” a The repository has until now been part national research effort, the database includes many newspapers published bilingually in of the OhioLINK Digital Resource Spanish and English, and offers a diversity of voices ranging from intellectuals and literary Commons. Due to financial and operational notables to politicians, union organizers, and grassroots figures. In the United States, the constraints, OhioLINK is no longer able to Hispanic press has played a vital role in the lives of immigrants, exiles, and native Hispanic host the collections of individual member peoples. For more than two centuries, these newspapers have united Spanish speakers and institutions. preserved their cultural heritage through news, editorials, and literature as well as by providing The impact of the migration on leadership, solidifying communities, and spearheading social movements, offering perspectives Oberlin researchers will be minimal. The not always reported in mainstream U.S. newspapers. new repository software, provided by Open Vanderbilt Television News Archive has been recording, preserving, and providing access to Repositories, will offer an attractive interface U.S. network TV news broadcasts since August 5, 1968, spanning presidential administrations and additional functionality. New features from LBJ to Obama. The archive will include the ability of authors to track offers online streaming video the number of times their works have been for thousands of hours of news downloaded from the repository as well as broadcasts from NBC (beginning the geographic locations of the downloads. in 1968) and CNN (beginning in 1995). New recordings are made available a minimum of Oberlin is partnering with Denison on the 72 hours following their original broadcast. Additional special news broadcasts, such as for project through the Five Colleges of Ohio, political conventions, presidential speeches and press conferences, Watergate hearings, and but each institution will maintain its own coverage of the Persian Gulf War, the September 11 attacks, the War in Afghanistan, and the branded content. • War in Iraq are also included. Besides the streaming content, the archive’s core collection also includes evening news broadcasts from ABC and CBS (both since 1968), as well as Fox News Ferriero, continued from page 1 (since 2004). A searchable database of over 1,000,000 news abstracts and catalog records Mellon Director of the New York Public makes it possible to identify specific news segments of interest. Due to copyright restrictions, Libraries (NYPL), the largest public library access to broadcasts from these additional networks is only available through a loan service, in the nation and one of the largest research with additional fees charged to cover the cost of creating and mailing custom-made DVDs. libraries in the world. At NYPL he worked New modules were recently purchased for several important digital collections, to integrate four research libraries and 87 significantly expanding the library’s access. branch libraries into one “seamless library Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) offers three new collections titledU.S. service” for users. He was also instrumental Intelligence and China: Collection, Analysis and Covert Action; Japan and the U.S.: Diplomatic, in developing partnerships with Google Security & Economic Relations, 1961- and Microsoft as part of NYPL’s digital 2000; and Argentina, 1975-1980: initiatives, which include an open access The Making of U.S. Human Rights digital library of more than 750,000 images Policy. DNSA contains declassified and the library’s website which serves 25 government documents covering million users annually. critical world events, countries, and U.S. international policy decisions from post-World War II Ferriero’s earlier experience includes through the 21st century. The library has been purchasing DNSA content since 2003. service in the Navy during the Vietnam Four new collections have been added to Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): War, three decades of library professional Photography: The World Through the Lens; Science, Technology and Medicine, 1780-1925; positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Women: Transnational Networks; and Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, Technology, and eight years as the University and Conquest. NCCO provides a window into one of the most studied historical periods, Librarian and Vice Provost for Library offering access to rare and important primary materials sourced from leading libraries Affairs at Duke University. Ferriero earned worldwide. The library purchased access to the initial fourNCCO modules last year (see bachelor's and master’s degrees in English Perspectives, Fall 2012). literature from Northeastern University ProQuest Congressional Hearings Digital Collection, Retrospective Part C, 2004-2010 in Boston and a master’s degree from the brings the library’s digital collection of historical hearings forward an additional seven Simmons College School of Library and years, complementing existing access to over 119,000 hearings from 1824 to 2003. Part of Information Science, also in Boston. the ProQuest Congressional Publications collection, the new segment offers access to 8,360 Ferriero will bring a broad perspective hearings, which are also individually accessible through OBIS. Published hearings comprise on archives and libraries when he addresses the official record of committee hearings proceedings, which are held to enable committee the Friends on November 2. • members to gather opinions and information and to help them make decisions regarding 8 continued on page 9 PHYLLIS BOULTON JOINS LIBRARY STAFF oberlin honors theses online OBERLIN STUDENTS have been encouraged the oldest being a 1936 master’s thesis in to submit their honors theses for inclusion theology. in the OhioLINK Electronic Theses & A time-consuming aspect of the project Dissertations (ETD) Center since 2009. involves contacting authors to obtain Approximately 20 departments now allow permission to digitize and make their works their honors students to contribute their available online. Oberlin alumni who would theses to the ETD Center upon completion. like to contribute their theses to the ETD The library has also worked to digitize Center are encouraged to contact Sara older master’s theses and honors papers. Hasley of the Cataloging and Metadata With the approval of individual authors, Services Department ([email protected]) library staff have scanned papers held in to initiate the process. PHYLLIS BOULTON is the library’s new print form, processed the files with optical The OhioLINK ETD Center was bookkeeper, having joined the Cataloging character recognition software to facilitate recently redesigned and rebuilt by staff at and Metadata Services Department on the full text searching, and uploaded the texts to OhioLINK, programmers at OH-TECH, first of July. She is responsible for oversight the ETD Center, where they are made openly and librarians at OhioLINK member and accounting operations for the library’s accessible. Master’s and honors theses from libraries. The new site offers enhanced materials budget and for receiving shipments the anthropology, sociology and economics capabilities for searching and browsing of new books. Her specific duties involve departments have been processed so far by institution and department as well as processing invoices for materials received for and papers from the history and English several options for exporting and formatting all of the campus libraries, preparing financial departments will follow. Nearly 300 Oberlin citations and downloading statistics. • reports and statistics, and working with the papers have been uploaded to date, with Controller’s Office to reconcile financial data. Letterpress, continued from page 4 Recent Gifts, continued from page 2 A lifelong resident of northeast Ohio, Created and organized in 2010 (see the artists Ana Mendieta and Felix Gonzalez Phyllis earned a degree in accounting at Perspectives, Spring 2011), the letterpress To rr e s . Lorain County Community College. She printing studio is an assemblage of several • Erica Katz, parent of Justin Halliwell ’13, previously worked for an accounting firm and hand-operated presses, numerous trays of has donated a large collection of art and art an optometrist’s office. In gaining her first movable type and linocuts, and various method books from the estate of her mother. experience in a library setting she notes she other tools of the trade. These items have • Former faculty member Pauline Chen has has learned a lot in a short period of time: been donated, loaned, and in some cases donated a large collection of materials related “I am amazed at how much goes on behind purchased from a variety of sources over to East Asia. the scenes in order to get a library book on several years. The studio complements the • Gil Miranda, Emeritus Professor of Music the shelf.” college’s emerging book studies curriculum, Theory, has donated materials related to In her free time Phyllis enjoys cooking, and draws on the library’s traditional Portuguese literature. gardening, reading, and, weather permitting, collection strengths in the history of • Shirley Hayward ’51 has donated a large motorcycle rides with her husband. • printing, the book arts, and small and fine collection of music materials, including many presses. Housed on the second floor of Mudd scores and recordings. Digital Resources, continued from page 8 Center, the studio has been the site of several • Sarah G. Epstein ’48 has continued to proposed legislation and fulfill their winter term courses, resulting in projects donate books about Edvard Munch as well as oversight and investigatory responsibilities. ranging from the design and publication books on art history. A number of major new multi-volume of an original poetry chapbook to a series • Stuart Friebert, Emeritus Professor of reference encyclopedias have been added of broadsides based on a book of poems Creative Writing, continues to donate books to the library’s e-book collection, including published by the Oberlin College Press. • on poetry and literature. Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of Science • Robert Jackson has made a large donation and History, The Gale Encyclopedia of Public Open Access, continued from page 1 of art catalogs and art materials. Health, St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Support is not available for publishing in • Nelson Cleary ’62 has donated a set of Culture (2nd ed.), Encyclopedia of U.S.- traditional subscription-based journals that Mozart facsimiles to the Conservatory Latin American Relations, Encyclopedia of allow individual articles to be made openly Library. Race and Racism (2nd ed.), Guide to U.S. accessible for a fee. • Michael Rosen, Professor of Percussion, Foreign Policy: A Diplomatic History, Guide Faculty and staff who anticipate continues to donate percussion scores and to U.S. Elections (6th ed.), and Encyclopedia publishing an article in an open access CDs. of Contemporary American Social Issues. All journal should contact Ray English, Director • Lloyd H. Ellis has donated numerous titles can be accessed through OBIS. • of Libraries, for more information. • books and ephemeral items about Africa. • 9 Oberlin College Library NONPROFIT ORG. 148 West College St. U.S. POSTAGE Oberlin, OH 44074-1545 PAID OBERLIN COLLEGE

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