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Major Acquisitions 2008-09 Arts Library Catalogue raisonnés on Michelangelo, Joan Miro, Edvard Munch, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Diego Rivera, Auguste Rodin, and Ed Ruscha Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library Psychiatry Online Psychiatry Legacy Collection Sage eReference Collection Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences Carrie F. Young Collection Notebooks, ledgers, lecture notes, photo- graphs, letters, and medical and political ephemera from this nearly forgotten figure in California medicine and politics; Young (b. 1828) participated in the temperance movement, edited Bay Area journals, lectured on public health topics, earned a medical degree, and was active in founding the local branch of the Populist Party Franklin E. Murphy, MD Fund • Susan Kae Grant, Radio-active Substances, 1995. Limited-edition artist’s book juxtaposing historic photographic images with text summarizing Curie’s experiments leading to the discovery of radium; pages made out of lead sheeting • Julius Arnold, Pathologische Anatomie, ca. 1880- 82. A detailed and perhaps unpublished series of illustrated lecture notes on anatomical and clinical pathology { UCLA Librarian } progress report 2008-09 page 4 But as usage statistics indicate,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, reference 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 • Frances Parthenope, Lady Verney; Life and death of Athena, 1855? Limited-edition lithographed facsimile of a story about an owl rescued by Florence Nightingale, which became her pet and companion until it died; written and sent by her sister to cheer Nightingale up during a serious illness Alison Bunting Endowed Rare Books Fund: Steven C. Daiber, Lillian, 1995. An artist’s book responding to Marcello Malpighi’s Anatome plantarum, created for the 1995-96 exhibition “Science and the Artist’s Book” at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries Willard Lee Marmelzat, MD Collection Endowment Raymund Minderer, De calcantho seu vitriolo, 1617. First edition of an important book in the history of chemistry about the discovery of ammonium acetate
{ UCLA Librarian } progress report 2008-09 page 5 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 thousand 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 Medals Collection Fund Conquer SARS, 2003. Limited-edition bronze medal issued by the Chinese government in honor of healthcare workers who battled the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic Donald and Hisae Dickey Jr. Endowed Fund James Sinclair, The Entomological and Ornithological Collector’s Hand-book, 1915. Variant editions of this California author’s work on collecting and preserving biological specimens, contemporary to research conducted by the naturalist, hunter, collector, and photographer Donald Ryder Dickey Center for Oral History Research Black Educators Series: Owen Knox, retired LAUSD assistant superintendent; Noma Lemoine, founder of LAUSD Academic English Mastery Program; Floraline Stevens, director of LAUSD’s research, evaluation, and assessment branches Black Politicians Series: David S. Cunningham, former Los Angeles City Council member; Robert C. Farrell, former Los Angeles City Council member Environmental Activism in L.A. Series: Andrea Hricko, director of community outreach and education for Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center; Antonio Ramirez, community organizer for the Port Teamsters in Long Beach; Selma Rubin, community activist Korean American Community Leaders Series: Min Jung Kim, CEO of NARA Bank; James Ryu, publisher of both KoreAm Journal and Audrey magazine Latina and Latino Elders Series: Grace Montañez Davis, aide to Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley; Lilia Aceves, founding member of Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional and director of the Chicana Service Action Center; Rudy Acuña, pioneering Chicano studies scholar Digital Projects Digitized and accessible to the public through the Internet Archive are selections from three collections of rare books. Maurice N. Beigelman Collection of Ophthalmology Fifty-one landmark works in vision science from the Renaissance, given to the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library by Dr. Beigelman, a Los Angeles ophthalmologist; accessible at Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale Collection Sixty-four books including editions of Nightingale’s influential Notes on Nursing (1859 and later) and her other publications as well as biographies and tributes given to the Biomedical Library by Los Angeles urologist Elmer Belt; accessible at
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