UCLA Librarian Annual Report 2005-2006

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by  University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Librarian

{ UCLA Librarian }
PROGRESS REPORT
2005-06
{ UCLA
Librarian }
PROGRESS REPORT
2005-06
Table of Contents
4 Yesterday’s Acquisitions,
Today’s Scholarship
12 Searching, Finding, Studying, Visiting
14 Exhibits and Events
16 Statistics on Collections, Users, Staff,
and Expenditures
17 Academic Senate Committee on Library;
UCLA Library Senior Staff
Preserving knowledge. . .
PROVIDING ACCESS TO
THE UNIVERSE OF IDEAS 18 Donor Honor Roll
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Chris Johanson and Anne Stiles were not acquainted, though they may have
unknowingly crossed paths at UCLA, Chris while working on his doctorate in
classics and Anne while completing her PhD in English. Both avid library users,
their research utilized UCLA Library resources and services that hearken back
to the traditional library of wood-paneled walls and book-lined shelves, yet
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fully embrace the present and future library of electronic collections and
off-site online access. from the
Even if Chris and Anne never crossed paths in person, they do in these pages, University
for we’ve used their experiences to illustrate the UCLA Library’s accomplishments
Librarian
during 2005-06. Their majors alone suggest certain preconceptions of which
libraries they frequented and how they used library materials. But as the following
pages show, those preconceptions are likely to be misleading. Though Chris’s
research focuses on a second-century-BC Roman, what he’s created with what he has found may surprise you.
And Anne’s interest in literature that reflects the history of neurology took her to a library not often thought
of for its humanities collections.
Whether they’re leafing through a manuscript or clicking a computer mouse, Chris, Anne, and the millions
of other library visitors - in person and online - remind us of what a difficult and extraordinary feat it is to
build world-class library collections. The Oxford English Dictionary defines “far-sighted” as “looking far before
one; forecasting, shrewd, prudent.” I define it as “collection development librarian,” the talented and thought¬
ful individuals who build library collections with one eye on the present and the other on the future.
The sheer magnitude of the task is daunting. Think of the countless items published each year, then add to
that the rare and unique materials offered only through auctions, specialty vendors, or private transactions.
And don’t forget items that are only available in their countries of origin, necessitating regular trips by UCLA
librarians and in-depth knowledge of local sources. And all of their judgments must be balanced by an evalua¬
tion of the worth of a given item not only to the students and scholars of today but also those of tomorrow.
The adjective “far-sighted” is equally descriptive of the Library’s many generous donors, who are listed in
the Donor Honor Roll beginning on page eighteen. Though the Library receives substantial funding from the
state, many purchases of opportunity, such as those described on page ten, are possible only because of your
invaluable contributions. Along with my heartfelt thanks, 1 offer you the gratification of seeing Chris and Anne
find the materials they need to launch them on their academic careers, an accomplishment your support has
helped to make possible.
Gary E. Strong
University Librarian
AND A NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN TELL
us about UCLA Library collections?
Collections For a start, that they cover an extensive period of time, span the globe, and
contain a wide variety of materials. More importantly, that no matter how old
the subject, they become as contemporary and relevant as today when they’re
essential to a scholar’s research.
First case in point: Chris Johanson. Chris has a foot in two departments:
the UCLA Department of Classics, where he is working on his doctorate, and
the university’s Experiential Technologies Center, where he is associate director.
He also has a foot in two worlds: the ancient Rome of 160 BC and a virtual
world in which he has recreated ceremonial spaces of the Roman Republic.
All of these worlds intersect in the person of Lucius Aemilius Paullus, a distin¬
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guished Roman general, consul, and censor whose funeral procession in 160 BC
is the subject of Chris’s dissertation. Though the dissertation will be a traditional,
printed volume, Chris is using technology to recreate the Roman ceremonial :
and political spaces that featured in Paullus’s funeral because this recreation
offers him a different way to examine questions about the purposes and aims —
of such spectacles.
Forum de la Paix from
Paul Bigot, Rome antique
au IVe siecle ap. J.C. (Paris:
Vincent, Freal, 1942)
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Chris Johanson lecturing in the
UCLA Visualization Portal
His re-creation is complicated by the fact that any existing remains lie buried
deep in the earth. The ruins visitors see today are from Imperial Rome, the city
of Julius Caesar and Augustus, but the Republican Rome in which Paullus lived
and died is several hundred years older. Thus, Chris turned to the resources
of the UCLA Library to help fill out the picture. Just one of the invaluable texts
he consulted is Rome antique au IVe siecle ap. J.C. by Paul Bigot, which documents
Bigot’s own attempt to build a physical scale model of ancient Rome.
Second case in point: Anne Stiles, who earned her doctorate in English at
UCLA in 2006. Anne’s interests lie in late-Victorian and Edwardian literature
Major Acquisitions 2005-06
ARTS LIBRARY two of his one-of-a-kind, large- beautiful visuals, nineteenth-century
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS format artists' books. LA. Riots (1992) works by English and French ornitho¬
and L A l.B. logists, and miniature bird books.
Collection of artists rooks
The Ralph R. and Patricia N.
The Arts Library began collecting
LOUISE M. DARLING Sonnenschein Medals Collection
artists’ books in 1985 with a large
BIOMEDICAL LIBRARY and Endowment
purchase from noted L.os Angeles
collector Judith A. Hoff berg. Pro¬ HISTORY AND SPECIAL Ralph Sonnenschein. MD, PhD, and
ceeds from the Cornelia Breitenbach COLLECTIONS UCLA professor emeritus of physio¬
Memorial Fund in the Arts supported logy, first became interested in scien
Reese and Rosemary Benson
a recent purchase from her collet tific portrait medals while working
tion, and Hoffberg also donated Bird Book Collection in I.ondon, when his wife. Pat, found
several artists' books by Ed Ruscha. The Bensons added to this previously an old medal of Joseph Priestley at a
Book artist Stephen Sidelinger established collection, which encom flea market and gave it to him. The
draws on varied disciplines to to passes more than seven hundred collection now numbers more than
create unique, hand-bound books books from around the world, two thousand pieces, and the accom¬
of contemporary illuminated manu including field guides to the birds panying $25,000 endowment will
scripts, which often include elabo¬ of countries or regions, large-format allow it to continue to grow.
rate fine embroidery. He donated works combining scientific text with
Silas Weir Mitchell
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
History and Special Collections
William H. Sweet, MD, DSc, CENTER FOR Koreans in Los Angeles
Collection of Papers, Books, ORAL HISTORY Interview Series
Surgical Instruments, RESEARCH Johng Ho Song, executive director
Stereotactic Devices, and of Koreatown Youth and Community
Film Interviews
Memorabilia Center, and Kil Joo Lee, chair of the
Sweet (1910-2001), a professor of Sid Caesar, comedian and television National Korean American Service and
personality
neurosurgery at I larvard Medical Education Consortium
Larry Gelbart, screenwriter
School and chief of the neurosurgical
service at Massachusetts General
Community Organizing COLLEGE LIBRARY
Hospital, was a leader in pain
research and treatment. Donated in the Aftermath of Watts With the increasing popularity of
by his widow, Elizabeth, this collec¬ Interview Series the graphic novel genre, particularly
tion documents his life and career Members of the Black Congress with the undergraduate students that
through personal and professional the College Library serves, the library
papers, research files, publications, Environmental Activism in Los has begun to collect them.
his personal operating instruments, Angeles Interview Series
One Hundred Demons (2002) by Lynda
and stereotactic devices; the gift also Dorothy Green, founder of Heal the
Barry
includes $100,000 for processing Bay, and Burt Wilson of Campaign
and preservation. against Utility Service Exploitation Playback: A Graphic Novel (2006), an
adaptation by Ted Benoit of a
Raymond Chandler screenplay
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and the history of science, and one place where those areas intersect is in
the person of Silas Weir Mitchell, a nineteenth-century American physician.
Dr. Mitchell’s medical speciality was neurology, and he pioneered the use
of the rest cure for nervous disorders such as hysteria. However, Dr. Mitchell’s
talents were not only medical, they were also literary - while working at a
hospital in Philadelphia during the Civil War, he submitted his first short story,
“The Case of George Dedlow,” to the Atlantic Monthly. Framed as a doctor’s notes
on an interesting case, the story utilizes both physiological and psychological
elements to tell a vivid Civil War tale. The doctor/author successfully combined
both careers for the rest of his life, publishing medical papers at the same time
as novels, short stories, and poetry.
Dr. Mitchell fit neatly into the subject of Anne’s dissertation topic, Neurological
Fictions: Brain Science and Literary History, 1865-1905, which focuses on works by Robert
Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and H.G. Wells. For the chapter Mitchell shares
with Stoker, Anne consulted the S. Weir Mitchell Collection in the Louise M.
Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections. Presented to the
library in the early 1950s by Dr. Elmer Belt, the collection includes all of
Mitchell’s published works.
The sources that Chris and Anne relied upon illustrate one of the guiding prin¬
ciples of research library collection management, which is that librarians build
collections to support instruction and research both of the present and of the
A Scanner Darkly (2006) by Philip K. has been digitized. A collaboration literature, dictionaries, and English
Dick with the Center for Medieval and manuals; donated by Seoul National
Renaissance Studies, it was funded University Press, two hundred volumes
The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on
by a grant from the Gladys Krieble related to Korean studies
Dropsie Avenue (2006) by Will Eisner
Delmas Foundation.
The Quitter (2005) by Harvey Pekar, A special, one-time opportunity pur¬
writer; Dean Haspiel, artist; Lee chase of some seven hundred titles in
Lough ridge, gray tones; and Pat RICHARD C. RUDOLPH more than two thousand volumes on
Brosseau, letters EAST ASIAN LIBRARY Chinese archaeology, classics and lit¬
erature, history, art and art history,
The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo (2003) by
Major Multi-Volume Sets: donated philosophy, and religions
Joe Sacco
by China’s Ministry of Education,
two hundred volumes on Chinese Seisen kindai zasshishu: unit 5-7
Confucianism and one hundred vol¬ More than one thousand microfiches
DIGITAL LIBRARY PROGRAM
umes of Chinese reference works; reproducing seventeen Japanese liter¬
Canon Law donated by the East China Normal ary journals published in the early
University Press, sixty titles and the twentieth century
The three-volume set of Corpus
promise of its new publications;
Juris Canonici (1582), containing
donated by Ronald Y. Otsuka, the Sengo Nihon kogai jiken shiryo
the Decretals of Gregory IX as they
Tamotsu Gomi Library of more than shusei: Bando Katsuhiko shiryo
appeared with marginal commentary
five hundred titles including transla¬ [Collected materials of post¬
in the Corpus canonicum glossatum
promulgated by Gregory XIII in 1580, tions of American and European war pollution cases: Bando
Digital Collections Capture Yesterday and Today
Though long dead, Lucius (im»rP-s-1 Looking at materials access to its contents for the term of
Aemilius Paullus and Dr. \WA. L<*?5fW * ■ !, j. a»u. rmfmf V like maps and folios the license, at the end of which, unless
Silas Weir Mitchell live on online is often much the license is renewed, access is termi¬
on the World Wide Web. ATLANTIC MONTHLY. easier than physically nated. To avoid this, the Library carefully
“The Life of Aemilius” from A Magazine of Literature. Science. Art. handling unwieldly, reviews the terms of licenses and nego¬
and Politics.
Plutarch’s The Parallel Lives oversized sheets. With tiates with publishers to ensure that
VOL XVIIL — JULV. IUC.-XO. CV.
is available online, as are the case or crorct okdlowT digital surrogates it’s access to the licensed content is main¬
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the texts of several of Dr. also possible to view tained even if a subscription to subse¬
Mitchell’s stories including specific aspects in quent content is canceled.
"The Case of George greater detail than with
Dedlow” (pictured right). the original document. Another challenge is the U.S. Copyright
Act. The act currently restricts the ability
Digital materials make up an But the challenges are of libraries to make digital content avail¬
increasing share of library considerable. One is able outside its physical premises, which
collections and offer a num¬ the issue of persist¬ obviously cancels out one of its great
ber of advantages over phys¬ ence. When the Library advantages. In concert with the campus,
ical items. Chief among these is ease of purchases a print issue of a journal, it the Library already uses technology to
access: users on campus or across the owns that issue - and users can consult limit access to licensed resources to
country can do everything from reading it - in perpetuity. With an electronic UCLA students, faculty, and staff; with
journals to reviewing photographs online. journal, however, the Library licenses this in mind, in April 2006 University
Managing Intellectual Property
The online environment is both part of the problem and part of the solution when it comes to the free flow of scholarly infor¬
mation. The Web offers immense possibilities in terms of making research articles and other scholarly output available broadly,
but serious limitations are posed by economic factors, including rapidly escalating journal prices; copyright restrictions that require
authors to assign copyright for published works to the publisher and limit authors' ability to share their work in other forms and
through other outlets; and the tenure process, which values publication in historically prestigious journals, regardless of their price
or copyright policy, over alternative, often more cost-effective, peer-reviewed outlets.
To focus faculty attention on these issues and outline concrete steps they can each take, the Library hosted the seminar “Managing
Intellectual Property: What Faculty Need to Know to Publish and Teach in the Digital Age” in November 2005. Nearly 1^0 attendees
listened to keynote speaker James Hilton, then associate provost for academic, information, and instructional technology affairs and
interim university librarian at the University of Michigan, outline copyright myths and realities. They then attended breakout sessions
where they could ask campus experts about using copyrighted materials for courses, managing their own copyrights, increasing the
impact of their scholarship through the Web, and meeting new requirements for disseminating research findings.
Katsuhiko materials] EUGENE AND structure, telecommunications,
Reproductions in microfilm, MAXINE ROSENFELD networking, hardware and software
CD-ROM. and print of some four MANAGEMENT LIBRARY applications, and the Internet;
thousand original items about the acquired in conjunction with the
Niigata Minamata disease including Factiva Science and Engineering Library.
legal and governmental documents, A mega news and business online
Plunkett Research Online
private correspondence, posters, and information service from Dow Jones
Profiles of thousands of public
flyers; produced by the leading lawyer Reuters Business Interactive with
and private U.S. and international
for the disease suit during 1967-96 content from nearly nine thousand
companies; detailed analyses includ¬
sources - trade and industry publi
Zhongguo slw Inm dian ku [A collec¬ ing trends, statistics, and rankings
cations, general and financial news
tion of Chinese calligraphy and papers, newswires, media transcripts, of major industries and industry
paintings] and Web sites - from 152 countries groups; links to trade and profes¬
sional organizations; and industry-
One-hundred-plus-volume set with in twenty-two languages
specific glossaries
more than ten thousand images of
Faulkner Advisory on
calligraphy from the eleventh century
BC to the early twentieth century, Information Technology Studies
MUSIC LIBRARY
many unpublished, and more than A virtual library of full-text reports,
one thousand images of traditional tutorials, market trend analyses,
Rudolf Friml Collection
Chinese paintings from the third and product and vendor profiles
Friml (1879 1972), a highly regarded
century BC to the modern era. covering information technology
Bohemian-American operetta and
and computing areas including infra¬
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Librarian Gary E. Strong submitted com¬
ments to a study group and the Copyright
Office of the Library of Congress urging
that the act be revised to reconceptualize THE CASE OF Title page for “The Case of George
“premises” in the digital age. GEORGE DEDLOW Dedlow” by Silas Weir Mitchell, from
The Autobiography of a Quack;
Strong’s comments also cited an example and The Case of George Dedlow
3 HE following notes of my own
from California’s November 2005 special case have been declined on vari¬ (New York: Century, 1900)
ous pretexts by every medical
election to urge that the Copyright Act
journal to which I have offered
be revised to permit archiving of content
them. There was, perhaps
that exists only on the Web. Immediately some reason in this, because many of the
following the election, Governor Arnold medical facts which they record are not al¬
together new, and because the psychical de¬
Schwarzenegger’s campaign staff called to
ductions to which they have led me are not
in themselves of medical interest. I ought
to add that a great deal of what is here re¬
lated is not of any scientific value whatso¬
ever; but as one or two people on whose
judgment I rely have advised me to print
my narrative with all the personal details,
rather than in the dry shape in which, as a future. Identifying current needs
psychological statement, I shall publish it
elsewhere, I have yielded to their views. I is simple compared to the judg¬
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ask if the Library had captured the entire
blog section of the campaign Web site;
When Bigot’s book was acquired or when Dr. Belt gave the Mitchell collection,
apparently they had accidentally deleted
all the information on their servers.
their immediate usefulness may not have been evident. But their importance
Because the managers of the Library’s
Online Campaign Literature Archive had to Chris and Anne, and likely to countless other researchers in the intervening
saved some of the contents, they were
years, is unquestionable. To see highlights of just a few of the thousands of items
able to provide the governor’s staff with
a copy of a.portion - though not all, due the Library acquired for current and future scholars during the 200^-06 fiscal
to the technical limitations of capture
year, please see the sidebar below and the following pages.
software - of this unique and valuable
historical record.
film composer and songwriter, and music for The Rifleman television Subject-Specific Acquisitions and
donated a manuscript collection series; he was also music director for Reference Resources:
in 1968. This subsequent gift from the CBS Television Network in the
AnthroSource
his widow, Kay, contains unique mid-1960s.
handwritten musical scores and British Biographical Archive to 2002
sketches, published musical works, Documentos colombinos en el
CHARLES E. YOUNG
audiotapes, acetate and aluminum Archivo General de Simancas
recordings, commercial recordings, RESEARCH LIBRARY
Documentos colombinos en la Casa
correspondence, scrapbooks, business
Government Information: de Alba
papers, and memorabilia.
Global Development Finance Online Encyclopedia of India
Herschel Burke Gilbert
Historical Statistics of the United Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
Collection
States Gale Virtual Reference Library
An addition to the collection of
manuscript scores and parts and Public Affairs Information Service Le Grand Robert de la Langue Lraticaise
Archive
audiotapes of soundtracks Gilbert
Immigrants from Selected Middle East
(1918-2003) wrote for television and U.S. Department of Homeland Countries Entering Argentina
film, this gift contains professionally Security Digital Library Between 1890 and July 1929
digitized files on hard drives for
World Bank E-Library International Bibliography of Book
many of the audiotapes. A three-time
World News Connection Reviews
Academy Award nominee, Gilbert is
perhaps best known for his theme
University Librarian Discretionary Fund Acquisitions
Through contributions to the University Discretionary funding supported the The Research Library Department of
Librarian Discretionary Fund, the Library licensing of Corpus de la litterature narrative Special Collection enhanced its holdings
made special-opportunity purchases du Moyen Age au XXe siecle; Romans, Contes, of Raymond Chandler’s papers with the
of unique and valuable items it would Nouvelles, a digital library of some one purchase of a series of unpublished let¬
otherwise have been unable to acquire. ters written during 1933-38, his first
Bj years as a full-time writer. Sent to
Cooperative efforts among campus lib¬ a friend who had moved to South
raries have built a rich collection of Africa, each describes an important
works on Brazil. Joining this collection transitional period in his develop¬
is the three-volume, beautifully illus¬ ment as a writer. The complete
trated Nova Genera et Species Plantarum quas set of Femina Magazine from 1901-07
in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVIl- will be useful to scholars of art
MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi history, English, and women’s his¬
I. Bavariae regis augustissirni... (Miinchen: tory. Vintage albumen prints taken
1824-29) by C.F. P. Martius (pictured by Herve Friend for the Bear Valley
lower right). This joint acquisition bet¬ Irrigation Company in Redlands
ween the Louise M. Darling (pictured left) follow in the tradi¬
Biomedical Library History tion of American landscape photo¬
and Special Collections and graphers including Carleton
the Charles E. Young Research Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge,
Library augments their hold¬ thousand works of French whose works the department also has.
ings of works by this impor¬ literature including novels, In addition, providing a diverse voice
tant German botanist. short stories, and tales from within the department’s holdings of
the eleventh to the twentieth artists’ books are Resistance Is Useless:
The Richard C. Rudolph
centuries. Portraits of Slaves from the British West Indies
East Asian Library acquired
(2004) by D. R. Wakefield and Disasters
Yonhaengnok chonjip [The com¬ 01 u'& The Research Library pur¬
of Love - A Defense of Delilah (2005)
pleted works of travel diary chased a collection of more
by Michael Kuch.
records]. An eighteenth- than one hundred culinary
century Korean envoy’s travel diary fills books that provide insight into the The Science and Engineering Library
one hundred volumes with vivid histo¬ socio-economic and cultural life of acquired several major reference works.
rical details about political and cultural the Ottoman Empire and Turkey during The eleven-volume Encyclopedia of Mate¬
relationships between Korea and China. the twentieth century. The library also rials: Science and Technology comprehen¬
The four-hundred volume Si ku jin hui shu added to its holdings of reproductions sively covers the increasingly broad
cong kan & xu kan [A series of banned and of primary documents relating to interdisciplinary field of materials.
destroyed works in four categories and the Middle East with collections on Supporting the dynamic, multidiscipli¬
its sequel] includes Chinese classics and boundaries and boundary disputes nary field of surface and colloid science
rare books that the government banned from the mid-nineteenth century to is the Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid
and destroyed during the Qing Dynasty the mid-1960s and on the slave trade Science. And the six-volume Encyclopedia
(1644-1911) and that Chinese scholars into Arabia from 1820 to 1973.
of Catalysis covers the most significant
rediscovered in the 1980s and ‘90s.
aspects of the various types of catalysis.
Japan Weekly Mail: A Political, Commercial, CHARLES E. YOUNG Curtiss, this collection concerns a
and Literary Journal: Parts I and II RESEARCH LIBRARY research subject who as a child suf¬
(1870-79) DEPARTMENT OF fered extreme, abusive isolation and
whose lack of language and social
Jewish Pogroms in Ukraine: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
skills was studied by UCLA linguists
Documents of the Kyiv District
Commission for the Relief of Albumasar, Introductorium in and psychologists. It contains their
Victims of Pogroms Astronomiam, 1506; bound with research papers, reports, transcripts,
files, video and audiotapes, and a
Alphonsus de Corduba, Tabulae
Latin American Fiistory and Culture:
portfolio of her drawings.
An Archival Record. Series VII: Astronotnice Elisabeth Regina, 1503
Cuba and the American Sugar The J. Paul Getty Trust Endow¬ Leandro Degli’Alberti, Vrophetia
Trade, 1897-1920: Braga Brothers ment for Pre-Seventeenth-
dello Abbate Joachino circa il Vontifice
Collection Century European Books and
R.E., 1527
Eugene Maximilien Haitian Collection, Manuscripts The J. Paul Getty Trust Endow¬
1847-1933 These two rare and important astro¬ ment for Pre-Seventeenth-
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas logical texts illustrated with woodcut Century European Books and
diagrams and vignettes have been
Manuscripts
Oral Fiistory Online
bound together.
This very rare edition of the pro¬
phecies of Joachim di Fiore contains
Collection of Research Material
thirty brief, illustrated papal pro¬
about Genie (pseudonym)
phecies and is considered one of the
Donated by UCLA professor Susan