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2008-09
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Organizations tend to use annual reports to trumpet significant accomplishments -
major gifts, new buildings, innovative programs, and the like. The UCLA Library’s
version is no different in that regard; in the following pages you’ll find our share
of noteworthy acquisitions, generous donations, new initiatives.
Yet note the subtitle of this publication for a moment before you proceed; we quite
consciously call it a “progress report” rather than an annual report. The concept
of “progress” as incremental movement toward a goal, development in a positive
Letter direction, better captures the sense of a year’s accomplishments and activities at the
UCLA Library, a year that contained as many seemingly minor actions that together
from the
add up to significant feats as it did major announcements.
Take, for example, the research guides described in the collections section. One
University
guide, viewed on its own, may be very helpful to a certain group of users but is
unremarkable to the world at large. Yet five - ten - dozens of guides seen in aggre¬
Librarian
gate point to a redefinition and an enhancement of an entire aspect of library
collections and service.
Online chat reference offers a similar case in point. When the UCLA Library offered this service on
our own, we were only able to provide it during certain days and times, the hours our staff was available
When the service became a joint project of all University of California libraries, hours were expanded,
and it became more noteworthy. As you’ll see in the services article, we’ve now joined an international
consortium that makes this service available twenty-four hours a day seven days a week. What began as
a small step has progressed over time into a major accomplishment.
When it comes to acquisitions, the following pages contain many headline-worthy names - those of John
Fante and Aldous Huxley, just to name two. But don’t overlook the more routine acquisitions: new collecting
areas launched to support expanded areas of teaching and research, a large collection of electronic books
that can be used for any educational purpose, digitized rare books that are now accessible online to the pub¬
lic worldwide. Piece by piece, these “small” accomplishments add up to significant achievements offering
long-term benefits.
A similar assessment of incremental-approach-equals-accomplishment is evident even when it comes to
major grants. The first project the Library announced that would be supported by our extraordinary five-
million-dollar gift from the Arcadia Fund was “Collecting Los Angeles.” This new initiative doesn’t focus
on the collections of local Hollywood stars or world-renowned authors or top-ranked athletes; it seeks
out the hidden histories, the groups and individuals whose stories are lesser known and whose remarkable
contributions to the life of this city will crumble into dust and vanish from the historical record without
an organization stepping in to preserve it and make it accessible to current and future generations.
In addition to Arcadia, we are fortunate to have many major donors to thank in these pages for their
irreplaceable contributions to our success during this fiscal year. We also have a great many not-so-major
donors whose contributions collectively are equally irreplaceable, and we want to honor and thank each
of you as well.
Together, your contributions both large and small have enabled us to progress, sometimes in leaps and
sometimes by baby steps, toward our goal to support all aspects of UCLA’s mission of education, research,
and service. Through the work produced by UCLA’s students, faculty, and staff, you help us serve the
people of Southern California, the U.S., and the world.
Gary E. Strong
University Librarian
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Finding Resources
Using Information
Creating Knowledge
If you want to find information in a general area - not
a specific subject, mind you, but a general area - how do
you go about it? How do you identify what journals cover
that area most comprehensively, what primary resources
are available' whether there are digital or audio/visual
resources that you’re not aware of? In the case of the
UCLA Library, you might start with a research guide.
UCLA Users and Library Collections
Today’s increasingly complex, information-intensive academic world demands
research guides that are adaptable, expandable, and easy to use. That can of
course be a person, such as the collection development manager responsible
for a given subject area or a reference librarian who’s familiar with resources
in many disciplines. But since even the most dedicated and efficient librarian
can’t be available to all of UCLA’s students, faculty, and staff 24/7, the electronic
research guide offers a useful substitute.
When looking at the various UCLA campus libraries’ individual progress
reports for 2008-09, the near ubiquity of research guides stands out, particu¬
larly when compared with previous years. Nearly every librarian created one,
and many created more than one, some for specific disciplines and others
customized for individual courses. You can see them for yourself at <http://
www.library.ucla.edu/service/6428.cfm>.
This could be attributed to the fact that the UCLA Library licensed a Web-hosted
application that makes customized research guides easy to create. It could also be
attributed to librarians wanting to move guides they had created in print format
or as static Web pages into the new application.
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But as usage statistics indicate, the primary motive appears to be user-driven.
UCLA’s students, faculty, and staff are increasingly studying and doing research
around the clock and around the world, and they rely on the Library - all aspects
of the Library, collections-related services as well as many of the collections
themselves - to be available when and where they’re working.
The guides share certain commonalities; all contain the banner from the UCLA
Library’s homepage so it’s easy to see that they’re official Library resources, and
each contains contact information for the person or department that created it.
But the contents are wildly diverse, reflecting the unique needs of and resources
in the areas they cover.
Take, for example, the guide for indigenous literatures and languages of the
Americas (see upper left). The section labels near the top are familiar enough
and appear on countless other guides: books, journals, primary sources, refer¬
ence sources. But what is featured in the center of page? A series of YouTube
videos featuring indigenous poets reading in their own languages. And off to one
side are links to audio of interviews with contemporary Native American
authors. What better way to introduce users immediately to those indigenous
languages and literatures?
Many of the guides offer more than background on and links to useful
resources; some also offer direct, real-time contact with the librarian who
builds and provides services for the specific discipline. Stop by the guide to
electrical engineering, and you’ll find a chat box in the right-hand column
labeled “Contact Your Librarian" (see lower left). When the librarian is online,
users can chat with him right then and there rather than sending an email
and waiting for a reply.
The approach taken in certain guides also anticipates the knowledge level of
its potential users. One of the music guides, on popular music and bands, seems
keenly aware before they even arrive on the page that its users may not be
familiar with searching a library for information in this area. It cheerily greets
visitors with tips to get started and a featured section on “Where to look
Major Acquisitions 2008-09 • Frances Parthenope, Lady Verney; Life and
death of Athena, 1855? Limited-edition litho¬
graphed facsimile of a story about an owl
rescued by Florence Nightingale, which
graphs, letters, and medical and political
Arts Library became her pet and companion until it
ephemera from this nearly forgotten figure
died; written and sent by her sister to cheer
Catalogue raisonnes on Michelangelo, Joan in California medicine and politics; Young
Nightingale up during a serious illness
Miro, Edvard Munch, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, (b. 1828) participated in the temperance move¬
Diego Rivera, Auguste Rodin, ment, edited Bay Area journals, lectured on
Alison Bunting Endowed Rare Books Fund:
and Ed Ruscha public health topics, earned a medical degree,
Steven C. Daiber, Lillian, 1995. An artist’s
and was active in founding the local branch
book responding to Marcello Malpighi’s
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library of the Populist Party Anatome plantarum, created for the 1995-96
Franklin E. Murphy, MD Fund exhibition "Science and the Artist’s Book”
Psychiatry Online
at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
• Susan Kae Grant, Radio-active Substances, 1995.
Psychiatry Legacy Collection
Limited-edition artist’s book juxtaposing
Willard Lee Marmelzat, MD Collection
Sage eReference Collection historic photographic images with text
Endowment
summarizing Curie’s experiments leading to
Raymund Minderer, T)e calcantho seu vitriolo,
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library the discovery of radium; pages made out of
1617. First edition of an important book in
lead sheeting
History and Special Collections for the history of chemistry about the discovery
• Julius Arnold, Pathologische Anatomie, ca. 1880-
the Sciences of ammonium acetate
82. A detailed and perhaps unpublished
Carrie F. Young Collection series of illustrated lecture notes on anato¬
Notebooks, ledgers, lecture notes, photo¬ mical and clinical pathology
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first!” One of its tabs also offers the reminder that research is a process, not
a destination: “To be thorough, look here too..."
Any library guide, however, is only as good as the collections it supports, and
in that regard, the UCLA Library made remarkable strides during 2008-09.
A comparison of the total volumes listed on page sixteen with the figures from
previous years shows a remarkable jump of more than six hundred and fifty thou¬
sand volumes in one year. During preceding years the total volumes increased at
the pace of about one hundred thousand volumes a year, so what is behind this
sizable increase?
Two factors played a role. In August 2008 the Library announced a grant from
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to address a backlog in cataloging its rare
books. That project kicked into high gear almost immediately, and the concrete
results are evident in these numbers. In addition, efforts to catalog electronic
books and add them to the UCLA Library Catalog have increased; given the rapid
increase in the Library holdings in electronic format, that amounts to a sizable
number as well.
In fact, one of the Library’s major acquisitions of e-books serves as a reminder
of how being part of the University of California system enhances the UCLA
Library’s own holdings. Collectively, the UC libraries have the largest collection
Ralph R. and Patricia N. Sonnenschein Black Politicians Series: Action Center; Rudy Acuna, pioneering
Medals Collection Fund David S. Cunningham, former Los Angeles City Chicano studies scholar
Conquer SARS, 2003. Limited-edition bronze Council member; Robert C. Farrell, former Los
medal issued by the Chinese government in Angeles City Council member Digital Projects
honor of healthcare workers who battled the Digitized and accessible to the public through
Environmental Activism in L.A. Series:
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic the Internet Archive are selections from three
Andrea FIricko, director of community out¬ collections of rare books.
Donald and Hisae Dickey Jr. Endowed Fund reach and education for Southern California
James Sinclair, The Entomological and Ornithological Environmental Health Sciences Center-, Maurice N. Beigelman Collection of
Collector’s Hand-book, 1915. Variant editions of Antonio Ramirez, community organizer for Ophthalmology
this California author’s work on collecting and the Port Teamsters in Long Beach; Selma Fifty-one landmark works in vision science
preserving biological specimens, contempo¬ Rubin, community activist from the Renaissance, given to the Louise M.
rary to research conducted by the naturalist, Darling Biomedical Library by Dr. Beigelman,
Korean American Community Leaders
hunter, collector, and photographer Donald a Los Angeles ophthalmologist; accessible at
Series: <http://www.archive.org/details/beigelman>
Ryder Dickey
Min Jung Kim, CEO of NARA Bank; James Ryu,
publisher of both KoreAm Journal and Audrey Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale Collection
Center for Oral History Research
magazine Sixty-four books including editions of
Black Educators Series: Nightingale’s influential Notes on Nursing (1859
Latina and Latino Elders Series:
and later) and her other publications as
Owen Knox, retired LAUSD assistant super¬
Grace Montanez Davis, aide to Los Angeles well as biographies and tributes given to the
intendent: Noma Lemoine, founder of LAUSD
Mayor Tom Bradley; Lilia Aceves, founding Biomedical Library by Los Angeles urologist
Academic English Mastery Program: Floraline
member of Comision Femenil Mexicana Elmer Belt; accessible at <http://www.
Stevens, director of LAUSD’s research, evalua¬
Nacional and director of the Chicana Service archive.org/details/fnightingale>
tion, and assessment branches
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in the nation and one of the largest in the world, and during 2008-09 that
collection grew even larger with the purchase of nearly every electronic book
published by the German publisher Springer in English and German from 2005
to 2009.
These nearly twenty thousand books fall into the following broad subject areas:
architecture and design; behavioral science; biomedical and life sciences; business
and economics; chemistry and materials science; computer science; earth and
environmental science; engineering; humanities, social sciences, and law; mathe¬
matics and statistics; medicine; physics and astronomy; and professional and
applied computing. All belong to the Library in perpetuity, can be downloaded
in PDF format, and can be used in part or in their entirety for any educational
purpose: course reserves, course Web sites, in course management systems.
Also lending a major boost to collection building was a $$-million gift from the
Arcadia Fund, the largest single gift for collections in the UCLA Library’s history.
Given in the amount of $1 million per year for five years, these funds will be used
to further develop, preserve, and make accessible Library collections, as exempli¬
fied by the first project to receive support from the gift.
“Collecting Los Angeles” gathers, preserves, interprets, and makes accessible
collections documenting the remarkable multiplicity of cultures and at-risk
hidden histories of the Los Angeles region. This new program builds on the Lib¬
rary’s existing strengths in this area, which encompass special collections; photo
archives; oral histories; maps; and circulating materials on local history, govern¬
George Otto Hanft, cartographer. Pictorial map of Califor¬ ment, politics, and literary, performing, and visual arts. It is also transforming the
nia missions and exploration routes; sponsored by Equitable
way the Library engages with local communities, in support of Chancellor Gene
Savings and Loan Association. 1967. Charles E. Young
Research Library Department of Special Collections Block’s goal of civic engagement, while enhancing collection-building activities,
drawing multiple new connections among existing collections, and attracting
new audiences to their use.
But of course it’s the use of UCLA Library collections that is important, not sim¬
ply their existence. Recognizing that, Ruth Simon, retired UCLA campus counsel
and a long-time Library supporter, created an endowment to support the annual
Robert E. Gross Collection of Rare Books in cang xijian fangzhi congkan [Series of rare Fluizu wenxian congkan [Hui literature series]
Business and Economics local gazetteers collected by Fujian Hui, or Muslim, is a major nationality
Some two hundred volumes, including some Normal University Library] in China
multiple editions, of pre-1800 works on trade
Budengdaya wenku cang zhenben ziqu congkan Jinwen wenxian jicheng [Collection of Clementi
and commerce purchased by the Eugene and
[Rare drama series of the Budengdaya literature integration]
Maxine Rosenfeld Management Library with
collection] Classical and modern Chinese archaeological
funds given by the Lockheed Leadership
Fund and Mrs. Robert E. Gross; accessible Contains sixty-four kinds of Chinese drama research literature
at <http://www.archive.org/details/gross>
Chuci wenxian jicheng [Comprehensive litera¬ National Index to Chinese Newspapers and
ture of Chu poetry] Periodicals [online]
Richard C. Rudolph East Asian
Research literature on these “Songs of the
Library Qingdai difang renwu zhuanji congkan [Series of
South” from around 800-200 BCE
local biographies of Qing Dynasty]
Chinese:
Collection of 822 movies, TV series, docu¬
Super Star Electronic Books
Apabi Digital Resources mentaries, and performing arts films from
'Statistical yearbooks containing economic and the China Beauty Media Co. Wan Qjng guoji huiyi dang’an [international
social statistics and more than five hundred conference archives of Late Qing Period]
Difangzhi renwu zhuanji ziliao congkan, Fluadong
reference titles
juan shangbian [Source series of biogra¬ "Window to China,” National Library of
Beijing shifan daxue tushuguan cang xijian fangzhi phies in local gazetteers, East China China: 132 books on various subjects
congkan [Series of rare local gazetteers sub-series, Part one]
collected by Beijing Normal University
Library] and Fujian shifan daxue tushuguan
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Poster for The Sport of the Gods; released PICTURE
in 1921 by Reol Productions. Charles E. Young
Research Library Department of Special Collec¬
tions, George P. Johnson Negro Film Collection
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Kongo Takamura (1895-1990); Keeping the
Camp Clean and Tidy; undated. Watercolor
and ink on paper; 20 x 24 inches matted. Charles
E. Young Research Library Department of Special
Collections, Kongo Takamura Paintings
Zhongguo fengtuzhi congkan [Series of China Kenji Ito Collection Toshi, noson seikatsu chosa shiryo shusei 2
geographic gazetteers] and Zhongguo Sixty-seven volumes, primarily in literature, [Collected works for research on urban
history, and law, collected by this long-time and rural lives, series two]
shuilizhi congkan [Series of China water
attorney, donated by his daughter, Ayleen Raw research data from the Taisho (1912-26)
conservancy gazetteers]
Ito Lee and the early Showa (1926-89) periods
Japanese;
Keidanren shuho: 1951-94 [japan Federation Korean:
Asahi Kikuzo II Visual: online version of Economic Organizations weekly]
Choson kogohak chonso [Korea archaeological
of Asahi shinbun (1945-), AERA (May 1988-), Eight CD-ROMs reproduce all issues of this
reports]
and Shukan Asahi (April 2000-; news weekly newsletter.
Reports on major archaeological discoveries
section only)
Nagasaki Shinbun, 1960-69 [Nagasaki news¬ from 1949 to 2005 issued by North Korea
Fujin kurabu [Women’s club] paper]
E-Korean Studies
Tables of contents of pre-war issues of this
Yoko Sasaki Collection Integrates eleven major Korean databases
popular monthly women’s magazine
271 volumes on subjects including arts, his¬
Han-il hoedam chonggukwon kwallyon munso
Yuji Ichioka Collection tory, and literature collected by Ms. Sasaki’s
[Documental collection of Korean-
More than 1,100 volumes of books, serials, husband
Japan compensation negotiations]
and pamphlets on Japanese American
Shakai hosh nenkan: 1951-60 [The social secu¬ From the 1952-66 Korea-Japan normaliza¬
history from the collection' of this long¬
time UCLA faculty member, donated by rity yearbook] tion talks
his widow, Emma Gee
Taiyo
Online version of this 1895-1928 historical
journal
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UCLA Library Prize for Undergraduate Research. Awarded for the first time in
April 2009, the Ruth Simon First Place Award went to Edgar Hermosillo Gaytan
for his paper “A Community of Shared Goods as Presented in the New Testament
Book of Acts of the Apostles: Pre-industrial Urban Reality.”
The paper was for a history directed research course, with the faculty support of
Professor Scot Bartchy. In his letter supporting Edgar’s application for this award,
Professor Bartchy said of his student, “Mr. Hermosillo far exceeded my require¬
ments and expectations regarding both the breadth and depth of his research
on this topic. He thoroughly exploited a bibliography of excellent resources that
required two and one-half pages to list. He demonstrated enormous intellectual
curiosity and followed the footnotes in one book and article after another into
new material.”
Professor Scot Bartchy and Edgar Hermosillo
Edgar explained further how he used Library resources and services for this
paper. “Truly, the UCLA Library system and its staff were pivotal in my research,
not only assisting me in finding essential books and journals, but also in locating
those that were not on the libraries’ shelves. The interlibrary loan office was a
godsend, many times querying far-off institutions for obscure reference works,
...scanning pieces which these institutions might only reluctantly lend, and
sending them to me directly by email.... I realize that the quality of my biblio¬
graphy is reflective of the amazing library facilities possessed here at UCLA.”
Professor Bartchy’s letter makes it clear that Edgar has taken the next step in the
process, which is not simply to consume information but to produce knowledge.
“He became so interested in doing further research on this topic that he asked
if I would continue to mentor him during spring quarter. Although my schedule
was already full, I quickly agreed to do so. I have come to regard Mr. Hermosillo
as one of the best young scholars I know.”
Perhaps one day Edgar Hermosillo Gaytan’s published research will join UCLA
Library collections, and their supporting research guides, to engage new genera¬
tions of students and scholars.
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[Japanese colonial rules and policies News coverage and analysis for mergers and Directory of American Firms Operating in
on Korea] acquisitions, venture capital, private equity Foreign Countries and Directory of Foreign
Documents on Japanese colonial rules and deals, hedge funds, initial public offerings, Firms Operating in the United States
policies in Korea during the latter part of the bankruptcies, and business auctions
Wharton Research Data Services
colonial period (1937-45)
First Research Industry Reports CISDM HedgeFund/CTA Database; Center for
Korean Film Council: seventy-six DVDs and Overviews and analyses of U.S. niche and Research in Securities Prices Survivor-Bias-
seventy-one monographs difficult-to-research industries Free US Mutual Fund Database; KLD Stats
Professor Sang-Oak Lee Collection Global Market Navigator Music Library
More than six hundred volumes of mono¬ Market size, share, segmentation, and com¬
graphs and academic journals in linguistics pound annual growth rate for consumer and Three important facsimiles of musical man¬
and literature given by this Seoul National industrial products and services in the U.S. uscripts acquired with the Professor Richard
University professor and more than fifty markets worldwide Hudson Endowment in Music
and the Henry J. Bruman Educational
Investext
Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld Foundation Endowment Fund: Chansonnier de
Equity analyst reports from U.S. and world¬
Management Library Jean Montchenu, Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale,
wide investment banks and consulting firms
Rothschild MS 2973; Chopin Piano
Datamonitor Company Case Studies
Mergent Horizon Concerto in F Minor; Codex Chantilly, Musee
More than two hundred consumer-
Database of U.S.-traded companies organized Conde, MS 564
products-focused case studies for U.S.
by their goods and services and key business
and UK companies
relationships
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University Librarian Discretionary Fund Acquisitions
Of the twenty-eight percent of the Library’s budget spent on issues about work, pressure to produce, and the anonymity of
materials, only a small percentage reflects expenditures for the average worker.
acquisitions from the university librarian’s discretionary fund.
Moving from the printed, albeit altered, page to the built envi¬
Yet these few items offer insight into how the Library builds
ronment, research needs are very different in the architecture
collections and adapts them to encompass scholarship in non
and urban design programs. Though these students and faculty
traditional print formats and to support expanded areas of
would much prefer to travel in person to see buildings and
research and instruction.
urban settings they are studying,
Altered books are artists’ books that UCLA LIBRARY that is often impractical. Thus, high-
have been constructed using an entire quality DVDs about the work of
existing book or elements of one as noted architects and major projects
a starting point, which then become fill an essential need.
something completely new after being
Among the recent releases acquired
altered by an artist. The Arts Library
ARTS LIBRARY by the Arts Library are Kochuu: Japanese
acquired two altered books by
Architecture / Influence and Origin (2006),
California artists to enhance its already
strong artists’ book collection, which is justly regarded as a about modern Japanese architecture; Great Expectations: A Journey
community treasure (for more on its use by UCLA students, see through the History of Visionary Architecture (2007), examining innova¬
tive architecture from the beginning of the twentieth century
services article on page twelve).
to the present; and Waste - Food (2007), exploring the “cradle
Carolyn Berry (b. 1930) is known both as a painter and a to cradle” movement, which aims at an ecologically-inspired
mixed-media artist; her unique 2005 book More or Less Genuine industrial revolution.
definitely falls into the latter category. Terry Braunstein’s
Three other DVDs focus on the work of individual architects.
(b. 1942) 1995 work Shorthanded, produced in an edition of
twenty-five, uses analtered shorthand textbook to raise Shigeru Ban: An Architect for Emergencies (2006) features interviews
Archives of Los Angeles area painter Vsevold Nicouline Correspondence to
Performing Arts Special Collections
D. J. Hall and painter/printmaker Walter Bernard Meeks
James Arkatov Jazz Photographs Gabrielson Collection of twenty-seven letters and
envelopes with original watercolor illustra¬
Steve Bramson Jag Scores
Aldous and Laura Huxley Collection
tions from children’s book illustrator
Julia Duffy Papers The literary archive of the visionary novelist Nicouline to children’s book collector Meeks
and essayist and the papers of his wife, Laura,
Ralph Edwards Productions Records
an author and lay therapist Anne and Billy Wilkinson Collection of
Elliott Gould Papers Library Postcards
Miriam Matthews Collection of Los Angeles
Merv Griffin Papers Approximately 5,800 postcards representing
African American newspapers, ca. 1948-85
libraries during 1900-90; given in honor of
Curtis Kheel Scripts Collection
James Davis
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts:
Laemmle Theater Records
• Gratien (twelfth century) with Bartolomeo
Science and Engineering Library
Martin Leeds DesiLu Productions Contracts da Brescia, Vecretum, France; Latin, illumi¬
Los Angeles Opera Theater Records nated manuscript on parchment More than forty new bio- and nanophoton¬
• Nicolas de Biard, Distinctiones, France, ics books in support of expanded efforts of
c. 1250-75; Latin, decorated manuscript the Department of Electrical Engineering
Charles E. Young Research Library
on parchment and the California NanoSystems Institute
Department of Special Collections
• Publius Terentius Afer [Comoediae], Phormio,
John Fante Papers Western Bavaria, c. 1460-70; manuscript on Materials on the formation and evolution
The literary papers of this Los Angeles novel¬ paper of planetary bodies, astrophysical environ¬
ist, short-story writer, and screenwriter ments and planetary phenomena, and
comets and other primitive bodies in the
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with Ban (b. 1957), known for his use of inexpensive construc¬ Keeping pace with these changes, the Science and Engineering
tion materials, and footage of his projects. Renzo Piano: Work Library acquired a number of recently published books that deal
in Progress (2006) follows different stages of three of this non¬ with ocean-atmosphere interactions.
conformist architect’s (b. 1937) projects to explore his artistic They included Chemical Oceanography
philosophy and the operations of his office. Eileen Gray: Designer and the Marine Carbon Cycle (Cambridge
and Architect (2007) uses archival footage and excerpts from University Press, 2008 ); Freshwater
Gray’s (1878-1976) writings to Ecosystems and Climate Change in North
chronicle her life and her reso¬ America: A Regional Assessment (Wiley,
Air-Ice-Ocean
lutely modern furniture and 1997): An Introduction to Ocean Turbulence
Interaction:
building designs. (Cambridge University Press, 2007);
Turbulent Ocean Boundary Layer
Exchange Processes
and Managing and Transforming Water
Shifting from the built environ¬ Conflicts (Cambridge University Press,
Springer
ment to the natural world and 2009). In addition to those print
from North Campus to South titles, the library also acquired three
Campus, the Department of online publications: Air-Ice-Ocean Interaction
Atmospheric Sciences recently BREAKING (Springer, 2008): Breaking Ocean Waves: Geo¬
OCEAN WAVES
changed its name to the Depart¬
Geometry, Structure, metry, Structure, and Remote Sensing (Springer,
and Remote Sensing
ment of Atmospheric and Oceanic
2007): and Hurricanes and Climate Change
Sciences, and its instruction and research have expanded
(Springer, 2009).
to reflect this broadening of scope. Research in this area
ranges from the role of the ocean in the physical climate I f
system to its part in the global carbon cycle and also
emphasizes the study of the coastal environment and
interactions between land and open sea.
solar system in support of the research Edward A. Lasher Chemistry Library Fund • Lees’ Loss Prevention in the Process Industries: Hazard
directions of three new faculty in the • Comprehensive Chemometrics: Chemical and Identification, Assessment, and Control, 2005
Department of Earth and Space Sciences Biochemical Data Analysis, 2007 Complete information on theory, practice,
Four-volume set examining the merits and design elements, equipment, and laws per¬
Nearly sixty titles covering a wide range of limitations of each chemometric technique taining to process safety
mathematical applications in support of the
• Wiley Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology, 2009
current research directions of the Institute
Four-volume set examining the role of University Archives
for Pure and Applied Mathematics
chemistry and chemical techniques in the
Gustave Arlt, Department of Linguistics;
life sciences
Initial titles for a core collection in mathe¬ Graduate Dean
matics for teacher education in support of • Chemical Biology: From Small Molecules to Systems
Biology and Drug Design, 2007 Albert Boime, Department of Art History
the Department of Mathematics’ Philip C.
Three-volume set edited by the world
Curtis Jr. Center for Mathematics and Robert Emerson, Department of Sociology
leaders in this emerging field
Teaching Sheldon K. Friedlander, Department of
• Handbook of Environmental Data on Organic
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
More than twenty books on radio fre¬ Chemicals, 2009
quency identification in support of the Four-volume set containing information Harold Garfinkel, Department of Sociology
Wireless Internet for Mobile Enterprise needed to use potentially dangerous che¬
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