Library News for the Faculty

Recent Acquisitions Throughout the Library

Arts Library Special Collections

The Arts Library Special Collections received the Joel Siegel Collection of comic books shortly before the film critic and UCLA alumnus's untimely death in June. The collection includes both original and reprint comic books from the 1940s to the '80s, with the majority from the '60s. Titles include Archie, The Amazing Spiderman, Blondie, Captain America, Captain Marvel Adventures, Four Color, Mad, and Magic Comics.

Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library

The Biomedical Library has added the extensively illustrated three-volume edition of The Encyclopedia of Pain (Springer, 2007) to its core reference collection. This definitive, detailed guide to understanding complex topics in pain research features more than three thousand entries from more than five hundred expert authors.

Through a UC purchase, users now have online access to the backfiles for the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Journal of Pathology, and Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology. The backfile for the Annals, one of the oldest scientific journals in the U.S., goes back to volume one, December 1879; the backfiles for the journals begin with the first volume, published in 1892, and continue through 1969.

The library has also purchased a number of electronic encyclopedias.

The Encyclopedia of Biodiversity covers the evolution of biodiversity, systems for classifying and defining biodiversity, ecological patterns and theories of biodiversity, and an assessment of contemporary patterns and trends in biodiversity.

The Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science captures contemporary thinking about the workings of the mind and brain; reviews common themes of information and information processing, representation, and computation; and contains in-depth coverage of the core areas of psychology, philosophy, linguistics, and neuroscience.

The Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics focuses on studies based on the human and mouse genomes and also covers other important model eukaryotes as well as pathogenic bacteria in depth.

The Encyclopedia of Gerontology explores the latest research on the complex process of aging, including biological, behavioral, social, and environmental influences.

The Encyclopedia of Medical Devices and Instrumentation focuses on the practice of medicine that is assisted by devices. It is the only encyclopedic resource on the market that addresses this subject.

The Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences contains more than one thousand entries on topics in neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, and other related areas.

Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library

The East Asian Library has completed its collection of all published Siku classics with the purchase of Siku Quanshu Cunmu Congshu [Siku Quanshu Existing Titles] (Qi Lu shu she, 1995-97), which contains twelve hundred volumes; Siku Quanshu Cunmu Congshu Bubian [Supplement to Siku Quanshu Existing Titles] (Qi Lu shu she, 2001), which contains one hundred volumes; and Siku Weishoushu Jikan [Siku Quanshu Excluding Titles] (Beijing chu ban she, 2000), which contains 301 volumes. It is now one of the few major North American libraries with the complete series.

A 101-CD/DVD-ROM set of Yomiuri shinbun 1874-1970 reproduces the full text of one of the major daily national news­papers in Japan from its first issue on November 2, 1874, to 1970. It is especially useful because no adequate print indexes to any Japanese newspapers are available.

With the acquisition of the microfilm set Osaka nippo/Osaka Mainichi shinbun: 1876-1912, the library becomes the only one in the U.S. with the entire run of the newspapers Tokyo nichinichi shinbun and Mainichi shinbun.

The fourteen-volume Zenkoku hogen shuran [Collection of all Japanese dialects] (Taiheiyo Shigen Kaihatsu Kenkyujo; Seibutsu Johosha, 2000-04) constitutes a dictionary of animal and plant names in Japanese dialects, with more than a million variant names in all regional dialects.

More than three thousand titles of Korean electronic books published by the Korean Studies Information Services are now available. Subjects include art, culture, economics, education, history, language, law, literature, medicine, politics, science, sociology, and technology.

Management Library

The Management Library has licensed four new business databases. The Best Practice Database contains benchmarking data and other strategic research from studies originally commissioned by Fortune 500 clients on real life best practices in such areas as customer service, sales and marketing, human resources, and the Internet and e-business.

IBISWorld Industry Market Research provides in-depth, regularly updated analyses of more than seven hundred U.S. industries representing more than ninety-seven percent of the U.S. economy.

The Web-based mapping application SimplyMap can be used to create professional-quality interactive maps and reports using thousands of U.S. demographic, business, and marketing variables.

Zephyr is a comprehensive database of current, future, rumored, and historical corporate deals, including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, joint ventures, and private equity/venture capital transactions.

Research Library

Additions include several electronic resources. The Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths-Kress Library of Economic Literature contains more than sixty-one thousand books from 1460 to 1850 and nearly five hundred pre-1906 serials. This comprehensive collection essential for the study of early economic, political, business, and social history is drawn from the holdings of libraries at the University of London and the the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.

Footnote.com contains searchable versions of original documents that provide users with a view of the events, places, and people that shaped the U.S. and the world; contents are drawn from archives around the world as well as from personal collections. Through an agreement with the National Archives, some 4.5 million pages from selected records in the Archives' holdings have also been digitalized and are available.

The Research Library Department of Special Collections has acquired five noteworthy rare books. Laura Battiferri's Il Primo Libro dell'Opere Toscane (Florence, 1560), this Florentine poet's first publication and her main work, contains madrigals and sonnets on the theme of romantic love. A protégé of the Medici family, Battiferri (1523-89) dedicated this book to Eleonora of Toledo, the wife of Cosimo I de' Medici.

Luigi Tansillo's Il Vendemmiatore (Parma, 1567) is an extraordinarily rare edition of a racy poem; its ribald verses, written in the vulgate Italian, consist of invitations to love and licentious behavior from a grape-picker in a tree to women passing below him. It was extremely successful, but after the Council of Trent in the mid-sixteenth century, it was placed on the index of prohibited books.

The department also acquired three works published by Aldus Manutius. Publius Terentius Afer's Terentius (Venice, 1521) contains a reprint of the 1517 edition of six comedies by Terence with significant textual revisions and corrections and an important dedicatory preface to Jean Grolier by Aldus's father-in-law and business partner, Andrea Torresani.

Catullus-Tibullus-Propertius (Venice, 1502), a compendium of the most famous works of these classical poets, is a variant printing of a popular book but has not been noted in most standard bibliographic sources. It was one of the last Aldines to be printed without the well-known printer's device of the dolphin and anchor.

Erasmus wrote Opusculum, Cui Titulus est Moria (Venice, 1515), known in English as The Praise of Folly, in England during his 1509-10 stay at the home of Thomas More and dedicated it to his host. The eminent Aldine scholar Antoine Augustine Renouard called this text "l'une des plus rare des editions Aldines."

The department also acquired a significant manuscript collection: the papers of Josephine Fowler (1957-2006), who studied social activism and the experiences of radicals in marginalized groups. Her research into the experiences of Asian immigrants and the Communist Party resulted in the book Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activists: Organizing in American and International Communist Movements 1919-33, published earlier this year by Rutgers University Press.

Science and Engineering Library

The ten-volume Encyclopedia of Sensors (American Scientific Publishers, 2006), the first encyclopedia on this subject, provides an international compendium of the field and applications ranging from medical diagnostics to industrial manufacturing to defense and national security.

The ten-volume Handbook of Theoretical and Computational Nanotechnology (American Scientific Publishers, 2006) focuses on theory, modeling, design, and simulations of nanostructured materials and nanodevices, quantum computing, computational chemistry, physics and biology, nano­mechanics, nanomachines, nanoelectronics, nanoprocesses, nanomagnetism, nano-optics, nanomedicines, and nano­biotechnology.

The online version of the multi-volume series International Tables for Crystallography contains articles and data tables relevant to crystallographic research and applications of crystallographic methods in sciences concerned with the structure and properties of materials, with emphasis on symmetry, diffraction methods and techniques of crystal structure determination, and the physical and chemical properties of crystals.