The University Library and the Institute of Industrial Relations Library are very pleased to announce that the Committee of Industrial Relations Librarians (CIRL) 58th Annual Conference will be held at UC Berkeley. For general information and a very preliminary program description, point your browsers at http://www.iir.berkeley.edu/cirl
CIRL is a professional alliance of information professionals with subject expertise in labor, employment and work-related issues. Its membership is comprised of both academic and special librarians. The conference program will include a variety of speakers and panel discussions, exploring labor and employment issues in California, the Pacific Rim, and the United States. Our corporate sponsors include the University Library, the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc, Readex, and ZAI Associates.
Members of the UC Berkeley library community will be welcome to attend the program at no charge, on a space available basis. We are also hosting a reception in the Morrison Library, thanks to The Library and our corporate sponsors, and this event will also be open to all library staff, once again on a space available basis. The program for the conference is still in the planning stages but will be finalized in the next few weeks.
We will make further announcements about this event as it approaches this spring, but the CIRL Planning Committee wanted our local colleagues to be aware of the conference in order to mark the dates.
CIRL Planning Committee Members:
- Terry Huwe, IIRL
- Lincoln Cushing, IIRL
- Janice Kimball, IIRL
- Cindi Wolff, Federal Documents Libarian
- Jim Ronningen, Social Sciences Librarian
Terry Huwe, IIRL
Vice President/President Elect, LAUC
California Feminist Presses Collection
A new exhibit in the Sheldon Case in Doe highlights selected publications from the California Feminist Presses Collection located in The Bancroft Library. Begun in 1994 as a project of the UC Women's Studies Consortium, the collection contains archival copies of the output of current Northern California feminist publishers including Aunt Lute, Down There Press, Kelsey St. Press, Post-Apollo Press, Third Woman Press, and Volcano Press. The display contains a brief history of each press along with selected books, newsletters, and photos of feminist publishers.
As women in California have been forerunners in feminist writing, printing and publishing of the Womens Movement of the late sixties and early seventies it was important that these materials were collected and preserved especially as in recent years many of these publishers and feminist bookstores have been forced to close due to rising costs and competition from chain stores. The UC Women's Studies Librarians developed a plan to collect and preserve these materials with The Bancroft Library and UC Santa Cruz Library accepting responsibility for acquiring the publications and archives of northern California feminist presses while UC
Santa Barbara became the depository for southern presses materials.
All the publications in the collections are listed in the MELVYL catalog as well as in local campus catalogs with an added entry under "California Feminist Presses Collection". A complete list of the presses can be found at http://gort.ucsd.edu/ek/ushist/consort/calfempress3.doc
The exhibit was put together by Beth Sibley, RRC, Doe and Bonnie Bearden, Acquisitions, Bancroft with graphics assistance by Heather Nichols and Cathy Dinnean.
Beth Sibley
Women's Studies Librarian
Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft Collection on View in the Brown Gallery
A selection from The Bancroft Library's collection of materials on the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft (Fruitbearing Society) is on display in the Bernice Layne Brown Gallery of Doe Library from January 20 to April 17th, 2004. The Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft was the first learned society on German soil, dating from 1617, and it was an active force in German culture until approximately 1680. Its chief focus was on the development of German as a literary and scholarly language, and among its members were many of the most influential figures in early modern German letters and science. The exhibit contains early printed works, manuscripts and pictorial works, mostly from 17th century Germany.
When the collection was acquired by The Bancroft Library in 1998 from the noted Swiss Baroque scholar, Martin Bircher, it was called "the most important acquisition of early modern German materials in the last 25 years by an American research library." A printed catalogue (Im Garten der Palme) of the complete collection has been published, as well as an integral microform edition. The printed works have been fully catalogued and Bancroft's staff has created a remarkable finding aid for the manuscripts, pictorial works and realia in the collection.
A public lecture and reception in connection with the exhibit are planned for later this semester, and it will serve as a focal point for the UC Colloquium on Early Modern Europe to be held on campus in April 2004.
Also in connection with the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft collection, a smaller exhibit of the Codices Selecti (a manuscript facsimile series also held by Bancroft) will be concurrently on display in the east wing of the Brown Gallery.
I would like to express especial thanks to Anthony Bliss, Franz Enciso, Heather Nicholls, Catherine Dinnean and Rob Schechtman for their untiring assistance in the production of this exhibit.
James H. Spohrer
Librarian for the Germanic Collections
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