What Was New in the Library - 1998 Archive
 Exhibits and Events
Electronic Resources - Trial Databases
News Archive
Current News
December 1998
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The Moffitt Library will be closed from Friday,
December 18, 1998 - Friday, January 8, 1999 while the main entry
is being renovated to comply with current ADA
requirements. Additionally, new security equipment, a new monitor desk
and new slate flooring will be installed. We look forward to a new updated
entry and thank you for your cooperation during the construction.
See the Winter Intersession
hours for other library hours.
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The Art History/Classics
Graduate Service will closed the week of January
4-8, 1999. The panels on their large skylight will be
completely replaced during this time.
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The Education-Psychology
Library will be closed December 23, 1998 - January 10, 1999.
During this week, the library will be getting new flooring in all of its
reading rooms and reference area. During the week of January 4-8
the library will provide paging services 1-4pm as the construction
allows. Assuming all construction goes as planned, the library should
be open 1-5pm during the week of January 11-15.
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Due to a system upgrade, GLADIS the UC Berkeley online catalog,
will be unavailable December 26, 1998 - January 3, 1999.
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Holiday closure: Doe Library
and the branches will be closed from December 24, 1998
- January 3, 1999. See the Winter
Intersession hours for other library hours.
November 1998
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Art
from the Cal Class of 1938 on Exhibit
Works by faculty and students in the Art Department in 1938 are on
display in the Rowell Case, on the second floor of Doe Library.
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Historic
California Tremblers
On Thursday, November 19, Philip L. Fradkin will speak on "Earthquakes
and Earth Science as Measured on the Seismograph of Environmental History"
at the third Bancroft Round Table of the fall semester. The event,
open to the community, will take place at noon in the Lewis-Latimer
Room of the Faculty Club.
October 1998
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The
Library and the Goethe Institut-München Collaborate on Exhibit
From mid-October to mid-December 1998, Doe Library's second floor corridor
will be the scene of an extensive pictorial and text exhibit focussing
on social and family issues in today's Germany.
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Rare
East Asian Library Book Translated and Reprinted
Henry Yoshitaka Kiyama's manga masterpiece, Manga Yonin Shosei (The
Four Students Manga), has just been translated and republished in English
by Stone Bridge Press in Berkeley. Retitled The Four Immigrants' Manga:
A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924, it is the work of
translator Fred Schodt, SF resident and a Japanese specialist; he also
provided an extensive introduction and series of historical notes. The
original is owned by East Asian Library.
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Gerald Lowell Named University Librarian
Jerry Lowell previously served as University Librarian and Associate Vice
Chancellor-Academic Information Technology at UC San Diego. Prior to that he was
an Associate University Librarian at Yale University for seven years. The UC
Berkeley campus will welcome Jerry Lowell as its new UL on December 1.
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EAL Exhibit Features Yamada Taichi, Noted Japanese Writer
Works of Yamada Taichi (b. 1934), a prolific contemporary Japanese
novelist and television screenwriter, are currently on exhibit at the East
Asian Library. This fine exhibit of his works, which includes
photos of his visit to campus, can be viewed outside the entrance to the
East Asian Library, 2nd Floor, Durant Hall. The exhibit was curated
by Yuki Ishimatsu, Librarian for Japanese Collections and Reference Services.
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A Morrison Library Inaugural Lecture --
Franciscans and Dominicans Under the Gaze of a Tlacuilo: Plural-World Dwelling
in an Indian Pictorial Codex
Thursday, October 15, 4 pm, in the Maude Fife
Room, Wheeler Hall
Featured speaker will be Professor of Spanish Jose Rabasa.
One of the greatest sources of confusion among Indians in sixteenth-century
Mexico were the discrepancies in the theological traditions of the religious
orders. Indians seeing through the different evangelical styles challenged the
friars' demands to abandon their indigenous world views. Codex Telleriano
exemplifies the Tlacuilos' capacity to conceive and to depict a plurality of
worlds within a single pictorial space. Dominican and Franciscan friars alike
viewed this sort of philosophical lucidity as emblematic of how the early
evangelical efforts had failed.
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Victor Fischer to Host Bancroft Round Table on Twain and the Mississippi
Milieu
The second Round Table of the Fall Semester will take place at noon
on Thursday, October 15th in the Lewis-Latimer Room of the Faculty Club.
Victor Fischer, one of the editors at the Mark Twain Project, will present
"Never so wonderful a book written by man," about Samuel Clemens'
lifelong connection to the Mississippi Valley,
where he grew up, piloted steamboats, and traveled-- later transforming
his experiences into literature.
As of September 1998
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Mark Twain at Large: His Travels at Home and Abroad
September 25-December 11, Heller Gallery,
The Bancroft Library
From the wealth of primary materials in the Mark Twain Papers we have
drawn together an enlightening selection of photographs, manuscripts, letters,
notebooks, and other artifacts documenting his travels and the composition
and revision of his many travel books, from The Innocents Abroad
to Following the Equator.
For a virtual peek at the exhibition, check out
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/MTP/
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Beyond the Basics: Advanced Pathfinder and Electronic Resources Overview Fall
1998. All of the classes will be offered in October, and
all of the classes will be held in 350C Moffitt Library (3rd Floor
Moffitt Seminar Room)
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The Information Center and The Teaching Library are happy to announce the
return of the Research
Advisory Service. UC Berkeley undergraduates writing research papers
in the humanities and social sciences may sign up for same-day, half-hour
appointments with reference staff. The Research Advisory Service
is located in the Reference
Center, 2nd floor Doe Library. Appointments will be available M
- F, 1 - 5 (last appointment at 4:30) from September 21 - November 25.
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Lunch Poems
a noontime poetry reading series - current schedule now available!
As of August 1998
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Jonto speak Friday, September 18th, 3:00 p.m. South Hall
Room 202 - FlexLab. The Townsend Center Working Group: Computers and the Humanities and The
Library of University of California at Berkeley are pleased to sponsor
a talk by Jon Bosak entitled: "XML: The Universal Publishing Format."
This talk is being offered in collaboration with the Friday afternoon seminar
in the School of Information Management & Systems. Faculty, students,
staff, and the general public are cordially invited to attend.
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The South/Southeast Asia
Library Service (S/SEALS) has temporarily relocated due
to seismic renovation in Doe Library. Please visit them at their new location, 120 Doe Library
As of July 1998
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The UC Berkeley Library has received funding from the National Endowment
for the Humanities for the second phase of a project to identify and preserve
state and local historical literature about agricultural development and
rural life covering 1820-1945. Please see Preserving
our Printed Agricultural Heritage: Phase II of a National Collaboration
for more information.
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Lexis-Nexis® Academic
Universe is now available. This web based program of Lexis-Nexis®
provides access to thousands of full text news, business and legal sources.
Academic Universe is available from computers on campus or remotely
through Berkeley IP address recognition. From the Library Web home
page, access Academic Universe via the Electronic
Indexes & Abstracts link.
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Also available is Academic Access, the online version of Lexis-Nexis®
for the academic market. Academic Access is accessible
on two terminals in GSSI.
Training will be offered starting Fall semester.
June 1998
As of May 1998
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Chancellor Berdahl has announced that Millicent
("Penny") Abell will come to the UC Berkeley Libraries in July
1998 to act as Interim University Librarian until the recruitment process
is completed for the University Librarian position.
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The final Bancroft Round Table of the Spring Semester will take
place on Thursday, May 21st, at noon in the Lewis-Latimer Room of the
Faculty Club. Bancroft Fellow Elizabeth B. Leavy will speak
on "'The Artist's Genius' and 'The Author's Facile Pen': Word and Image
in John Muir's Picturesque California."
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Renovation of the Art History/Classics Graduate Service (Doe Library, room 308) will
require AH/C to be closed for 3-5 weeks beginning May 26, 1998.
AH/C will reopen as soon as possible. Patrons will be allowed into AH/C
each day Monday - Friday from 4:00-5:00 pm.. Patrons may check out
material and it will be due the following day at 4:00 pm. A book drop will
be available outside of 308 for the return of materials whenever the Doe
Library is open. Ph.D students or patrons with unusual circumstances or
special deadlines should consult with Kathryn
Wayne (kwayne@library.berkeley.edu), or John Ceballos (jceballo@library.berkeley.edu)
immediately.
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The STAT-USA database is now available.
STAT-USA is divided into two sections: State of
the Nation (domestic information); and GLOBUS/NTDB (GLOBUS=Global
Business Opportunities and NTDB= National Trade Data Bank). Stat-USA
is only available only from UC IP addresses.
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On Friday, May 8, Reino Lipponen will give a luncheon lecture
on "The Information Sources of the European Union" at noon
in Room 103 Stephens Hall. Mr. Lipponen is visiting the Library on
exchange from Oulu University in Finland, and while here he is working
on a variety of digital library projects, chiefly in GSSI.
The lecture is co-sponsored by the Finnish Studies Program and the Scandinavian
Department. For further information, please contact Frances Katsuura at
642-9314 or via e-mail at cwes@uclink.berkeley.edu.
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Open Meeting on the State of the Library.
The recent drop in the national rating of the U.C. Berkeley Library,
combined with the new Blue Ribbon Committee report acknowledging critical
internal problems and deepning concern by many users of the Library, raises
urgent questions about the present state and future direction of one of
the world's leading research facilites. Beyond the obvious problems created
by a radically shrunken budget lie larger issues caused by the coming of
the 'virtual library' and the privatization of the intellectual commons,
as discussed by Professors Litwack and Berring in the February issue of
the California Monthly. So far, there has been almost no democratic discussion
of how the 'digital revolution' is and will be affecting print collections,
staff morale, and continued free access to all that constitutes our collective
memory.
What are the forces now transforming the historical role of the library
as a repository of the printed word? Come to an open meeting on May
12 at 7pm in 105 Northgate Hall to discuss the state of the Library.
There will be brief presentations from staff, student, faculty, and community
perspectives to prime the discussion.
April 1998
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Moffitt's Information Gateway is open on Sunday too!
Monday-Thursday 9am-6pm, Friday 9am-5pm and
Sunday 1pm -5pm.
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The Bancroft Library cordially invites the campus community, and the general
public, to the Inaugural Lecture of Professor David Hult, French
Department. The lecture entitled Manuscript Transmission, Reception,
and Canon Formation: The Case of Chretien de Troyes, will be held Thursday,
April 9 at 4 pm in the Maude Fife Room - 315 Wheeler Hall. A reception
will follow the lecture.
- Saturday, April 18th is Cal
Day and The Library will be hosting many exciting
events!
March 1998
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Coming up on April 2, poet Marilyn
Chin will read from 12:10 to 12:50pm in the Maude Fife Room, 330
Wheeler Hall. The reading is co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies
Department.
January 1998
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The Library recently obtained access to Congressional
Compass and Web of Science.
Congressional Compass (UC Access Only) provides full-text and bibliographic access to Congressional Publications including
House and Senate Reports and Documents, Hearings, Committee Prints, bills,
laws, legislative histories and more.
Web of Science (UCB Access Only) contains:
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1987-present
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1997-present
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1997-present.
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