IN THIS ISSUE: The University of Chicago Library UNCAP Page 1 Uncovering interests in post-Depression pre-Civil with University faculty. The Library will Introducing... Page 2 Rights era African American literary partner with faculty members Robert von Your Opinion Matters Page 2 New Chicago and cinema history shaped their goal: Hallberg, English Department, and Travis Archives “to survey the holdings of Chicago-area Jackson, Music Department, to develop Engaging Students Page 3 libraries and archives and to identify and process University of Chicago Library Virtual Copyright Info Page 3 Project primary source materials … that were collections in contemporary poetry and (UNCAP) in need of processing and cataloguing.” the Chicago Jazz Archive, relying on their Faceted Navigation Page 3 Mapping the Stacks was established expertise to identify graduate students Regenstein Exhibits Page 4 Engages to perform that work, combining the and establish processing priorities and Faculty, Library, faculty members’ field expertise and labor levels, as well as to identify potential new Crerar Exhibits Page 4 power together with that of graduate collections of research and teaching value. and Graduate From the Director Page 5 students from the University of Chicago. UNCAP aims to create access to primary Students Mapping the Stacks began with a focus Addition News Page 6 sources needed by faculty and their on collections in the Vivian G. Harsh Alice Schreyer, Assistant Director for students and to ensure that currently Gifts & Grants Page 6 Collection of Afro-American History and Special Collections & Preservation hidden primary resources are preserved Literature of the Chicago Public Library, and accessible to scholars. Faculty he University of Chicago the DuSable Museum of African American members’ first-hand knowledge of the is currently piloting two History, and the editorial offices of the community, and word-of-mouth about models of library-faculty Chicago Defender. Seed monies from the T the initiative, are already bringing to partnerships that support cooperative university’s Center for the Study of Race, Volume 11 light privately held collections and Number 2 collection development and graduate Politics, and Culture and Humanities opening doors to others that were Spring 2007 student training. The Uncovering Division, supplemented by a Mellon previously inaccessible. We anticipate New Chicago Archives Project Foundation Officer’s Grant, provided that a number of collections will be (UNCAP), now in the first of its three support for the project’s initial phases. acquired as a result of UNCAP, some that years, is creating new research and Under UNCAP, Professor Goldsby will direct may be appropriate for the University of teaching resources and developing the third phase of Mapping the Stacks Chicago Library’s holdings and others graduate students’ skills in working (Professor Stewart will remain involved that will be housed at other institutions. with primary materials. UNCAP is with the project at Northwestern University, supported by a $617,000 award to the Preserving the identity of separate where she is now on the faculty). Because Library from The Andrew W. Mellon institutions within the context of a the faculty-directed model of Mapping Foundation. Alice Schreyer, Assistant seamless search experience across the Stacks requires intensive faculty time Director for Special Collections & repositories, collections, and formats is commitment, UNCAP also includes a Preservation, is the project’s Principal absolutely essential to inter-institutional faculty-guided component that requires Investigator. collaboration. The Library is developing less of a time commitment by the a technical infrastructure that meets UNCAP has its origins in Mapping the faculty members with greater reliance these needs and will be available for use Stacks, started by University of Chicago on librarians and archivists. By piloting by other groups and institutions. English Department faculty members the two approaches within UNCAP, the Jacqueline Goldsby and Jacqueline Stewart Library hopes to develop models that UNCAP is providing graduate students can be applied to future partnerships Libra in 2004. Their own research and teaching with training in conceptualizing Library Reports & continued on page Announcements Libra (Library Reports and Announcements) is a newsletter from the University of Chicago Library, written for the www.lib.chicago.edu/e/libra/ faculty and University community. If you have questions or comments about this issue of Libra, please contact Sandra Levy at 773-702-6463 or [email protected]. continued from page and using original sources that will worked as a student at the law libraries to connect alumni to the University. experience with usability studies and influence their careers as researchers at Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill, Prior to that, Joan was an assistant a Masters in Library and Information and teachers. Graduate students are as well as at the main (Davis) library director of regional clubs for the Alumni Science. In addition to being a member assigned to archival collections in their at UNC-Chapel Hill. He began at the Association. She worked with alumni of Phi Beta Mu, Tod received the own disciplines and work as part of an D’Angelo Law Library last October and in 12 cities and developed new alumni Information Systems/Technologies Award interdisciplinary team led by faculty has been staffing the reference desk, clubs in Austin, TX, Pittsburgh, PA and of the Graduate School of Library and creating and updating research guides Northern New England. Information Science of the University of members that includes graduate students for the website, and teaching first year Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005. from various academic departments legal research classes. Todd serves on the Joan attended Goucher College where and library staff. Discovering primary College Instruction & Outreach (CIAO) she earned a bachelor’s degree. She took Tod can be contacted at tod@uchicago. sources of direct interest and functioning committee and is a member of the master’s degrees in the humanities at edu and 702-8764. as part of an interdisciplinary team American Association of Law Libraries Yale University and musicology at the provide an incomparable intellectual (AALL) and the Chicago Association University of Chicago. Joan has taught ^ experience, especially since students in of Law Libraries (CALL). Todd can be music at Concordia University and the the humanities have fewer opportunities contacted at [email protected] and University of Chicago and for 10 years than those in the sciences to work in 702-9617. was the director of the One Voice Choir of Library Service Glen Ellyn. collaborative teams. ^ Quality: Your Joan can be reached at jhoffman@ The Library is very excited about Opinion uchicago.edu and 702-8742. Her office library-faculty partnerships that can help is located in JRL 180. Matters! transform teaching and research at the University of Chicago. We would be glad ^ Andrea Twiss-Brooks, 007 LibQUAL+ to hear from any faculty member who is Coordinator and Co-Director, Science Libraries Division, Head of Collection interested in pursuing such a project. Services eginning April 9 the Library ^ invites faculty, students, and staff to participate in Joan Bentley Hoffman B a survey to review and assess the Introducing: Associate Director for Library Development quality of library services. This survey is part of the Library’s continuing Joan Bentley Hoffman joined the efforts to better serve the research and Library’s development team in January educational aims of the University 2007. She is responsible for advancing Tod Olson Systems Librarian community. We value your opinions the Library’s major gifts effort and will and strongly encourage every Library serve as the development office’s liaison Tod Olson has recently accepted the user to take this opportunity to help to the University’s Alumni Association. position of Systems Librarian in Integrated by completing the survey. In order Library Systems. This position will play Joan has been a member of the a key role in further developing and to compare this year’s responses to University’s community for more than integrating services to library users, information gathered in 2004, the Todd Ito a decade and has worn the hat of building on core library systems that Library is again using the LibQUAL+ Law Reference Librarian graduate student, Library employee and facilitate research use of the library survey instrument created by the development professional. Most recently, Todd Ito joined the D’Angelo Law Library collections. The Systems Librarian will Association of Research Libraries and she served as an associate director for as the new reference and student services work closely with library public services Texas A & M University. Central Development’s Chicago Regional librarian. Originally from Virginia, staff to plan, design and document user Major Gifts Office. During a five-year The survey is designed to solicit an Todd spent the past twelve years in experiences and functionality for access to tenure in that position, she worked with Chapel Hill, where he earned his BA in the collection via various library systems. individual’s opinion about the adequacy major donors living in Chicago and History and Asian Studies, as well as his of services across different areas of library Boston. Also, she joined efforts with Tod brings experience as a programmer law (JD)