Library News for the Faculty

Recent Acquisitions Throughout the Library

Through UC-systemwide licenses, UCLA users now have access four new electronic resources. The Physics Today archive includes full text from 1985 to all but the most recent twelve months, and plans are to digitize all back issues since the journal's launch in 1948. The University of Chicago Press online journals features nearly fifty scholarly journals and annuals in a wide range of subjects.

Global Financial Data contains long runs of historical data on security markets and macroeconomic trends for more than two hundred countries. Source OECD includes full-text publications and statistical data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Arts Library

Peter Norton's annual Christmas Project commissioned artist Nina Katchadourian to create a piece that features salt and pepper shakers re-invented as snow globes. This 2007 commission has joined the Arts Library's complete collection of Norton Christmas Project artists' books, which will be featured in an exhibit in December 2008.

Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library

The Biomedical Library joined the Science and Engineering Library to license Cold Spring Harbor Protocols, a definitive, interactive source of new and classic research techniques. The database covers cell and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, and imaging. Protocols will be continuously expanded, updated, and annotated by the techniques' originators and users.

The Biomedical Library has purchased the third edition of the Handbook of Statistical Genetics (John Wiley and Sons, 2007). To the extensive content of the second edition, this two-volume reference resource adds an expanded section on network modeling.

The Biomedical Library History and Special Collections has added four rare books to its holdings. Purchased with support from the University Librarian's discretionary fund, two of the books establish the foundation for an interdisciplinary special collections in the sciences. Daniel Dollfus-Ausset's Matériaux pour l'etude des glaciers (Paris, 1864-72), a rare first edition of a monumental scientific work on Alpine glaciers, includes an atlas of forty folio-sized plates. This copy was owned by Dollfus-Ausset's son-in-law, who entered remarks and corrections in pencil. Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn's Topo­graphische und natur­wissenschaftliche Reisen Durch Java...Mit einem aus 38 tafeln und 2 höhenkarten bestehenden atlasse (Magdeburg, 1845), a first edition of a work about volcanoes in Java, features colored lithographs including two large fold-out plates showing the profile of Java in relief and sketches of architectural ruins and sculptures.

Observations on the Duties and Offices of a Physician; and on the Method of Prosecuting Enquiries in Philosophy (London, 1770) by John Gregory, acknowledged as the father of modern medical ethics, incorporates ideas from Francis Bacon and David Hume. La Volière des Dames (Paris, 1815) by Charles Malo is a first edition of a charming ladies' almanac illustrating birds in an aviary and containing extensive natural history detail.

College Library

The electronic resource Reference Uni­verse allows users to search the complete indexes of more than ten thousand print and electronic reference titles, including subject encyclopedias, handbooks, and compendia, and identify articles that provide topic overviews and references to additional resources. It is particularly suited to helping undergraduates find foundational sources for research projects.

Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library

Zhongguo Kaoguxue Jicheng, Huadong Juan: Jiangxi Sheng, Shanghai Shi, Zhejiang Sheng [Collection of Chinese Archaeology, East China Series: Jiangxi Province, Shanghai Municipality, Zhejiang Province] (Zhengzhou Shi, 2006) is a thirty-volume collection of nearly 4,800 research papers on archaeological discoveries and research in the region since the early twentieth century. Wu Guan­zhong Quanji [Complete Works of Wu Guanzhong] (Changsha Shi, 2007) comprises eight volumes illustrating more than two thousand artworks by this well-known painter who introduced Western art to China and one volume of his essays.

The library received a gift collection of five hundred volumes from the Shanghai Library on art and art history, archaeology, and local history. It also received a gift from prefectures and cities across Japan of sixty-eight titles of Kenshi [prefectural history] and Shishi [city history] compiled and published by local governments, which are often not for sale on the regular book market but are basic sources for studies of regions or localities.

Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library

Through a license negotiated by the Law Library, the UCLA community has access to the U.S. Congressional Documents Collection. This image-based, searchable resource includes the Congressional Record from 1873-80 and 1996-2003 as well as its predecessors, the Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-89), Annals of Congress (1789-24), Register of Debates (1824-37), and Congressional Globe (1833-73); it also includes American State Papers from 1789 to 1838. Later this year, the entire collection of the Congressional Record will be released.

Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld Management Library

The Management Library has licensed Freedonia Focus Market Reports for its users and the rest of the UCLA community. Created by the market-research firm the Freedonia Group, it offers hard-to-find coverage of business-to-business products in eighteen industry sectors including building materials, chemicals, electronics, energy, industrial components, machinery, packaging, plastics, and textiles.

Charles E. Young Research Library

In response to numerous requests from faculty and graduate students, the Research Library has licensed the online Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Burney Collection Newspapers, which contains newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817). The largest single collection of English news media from this era, it features items published mostly in London, though there are also English provincial, Irish, and Scottish papers and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe, and India. The acquisition was made possible with support from the UCLA Department of English Library Committee, the Grace M. Hunt Memorial English Reading Room, and the Frederic Thomas Blanchard Fund; Professor Peter Reill and the Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies; and Professor Margaret Jacob through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Research Library Department of Special Collections acquired a number of rare and artists' books as well as two significant manuscript collections.

Illustrated by the multitalented painter, decorator, architect, and designer Jean Burkhalter, Collection Décor et Couleurs Album No. 2. (Paris, c. 1920) features a stunning array of seventy floral motifs in eighteen pochoir plates that offer bold, colorful designs to inspire those working in all fields of the decorative arts. It was purchased with funds provided from the Kenneth Karmiole Endowment for Rare Books and Manuscripts.

In 1843 Marie-Thérèse, Empress of the Two Sicilies, married Emperor Pedro II of Brazil. Her voyage to South America and sojourn in Rio de Janeiro are described in Eugenio Rodriguez's Descrizione del Viaggio a Rio de Janeiro della Flotta di Napoli (Naples, 1844), accompanied by several engravings, including a rare pano­rama of Rio. It was purchased with funds from the Ludwig Lauerhass Jr. Endowed Collection in Brazilian Studies.

Support from the Library Associates funded the purchase of three artists' books. Pierrot Lunaire (Bridge Press, 2007) is Brian Cohen's visual interpretation of the cycle of twenty-one poems by Belgian Symbolist poet Albert Giraud that was later composed into a song cycle by Arnold Schoenberg. Housed in a clamshell box made of sheet aluminum, it was published in an edition of twenty-one. One of Carol Schwartzott's latest projects is The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Lilliput Press, 2007), translated by Edward FitzGerald. Printed in an edition of twenty-five, the book is richly illustrated with architectural details rendered in silver and gold leaf, pencil, and laser-cut patterns on clear vellum. At first glance, Johanna Rogers's book Secrets (Johanna Rogers Press, 2005) appears to be blank. However, when its pages are exposed to the black light included in its container, text appears that contains revelations from friends and strangers in response to the artist's request for their secrets.

Joining the department's Toy and Moveable Book Collection is a remarkably well-preserved edition of the Mammoth Menagerie (Essingen, Germany, late 1880s). This charming book consists of six chromolithographed pop-up illustrations, including men riding camels, an aquarium depicting undersea life, a lion tamer, and tropical birds in a jungle setting. It was purchased with funds from the Theresa G. Aaron Endowed Collection in Children's Literature.

The department has also purchased a scarce copy of Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad, Comprising Many Thrilling Incidents of the Escape of Fugitives from Slavery, and the Perils of Those Who Aided Them (New York, 1879) by Eber Pettit, a deacon in the Fredonia (New York) Baptist Church who was for many years a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Purchased with support from the university librarian's discretionary fund, the Bernard Rosenthal Collection of Italian Manus­cripts consists of 195 documents of mostly northern Italian origin, chiefly from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The documents constitute a record of the lives of individuals, including commercial transactions, legal disputes, real estate deals, testamentary arrangements, settlements of lawsuits, and the like, from major cities including Venice and Vicenza as well as smaller municipalities.

Given by her nephew, Charles Matthews, the personal papers of UCLA alumna Miriam Matthews (1905-2003) record her eventful life as the first credentialed African Ame­rican librarian in the state of California. During her thirty-three-year career with the Los Angeles Public Library, she was involved with organizations concerned with censorship and the freedom to read, libraries, archives, health, education, youth problems, civil rights, and black history. She was among the first to promote the celebration of Negro History Week, which later became Black History Month.

Science and Engineering Library

In the age of wikipedia and Google, students and researchers continue to need basic reference tools with strict editorial policies, and the Science and Engineering Library has added three such resources.

The tenth edition of the Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (McGraw-Hill, 2007) contains more than seven thousand articles; newly covered topics include cellular automata, cloning, computational intelligence, computer-aided circuit design, extra`"terrestrial intelligence, food allergy, fossil humans, fossil primates, genomics, stem cells, voice-over IP, and water supply engineering. It is supplemented by a free Web site.

Of interest to researchers in earth sciences and geotechnical engineering as well as botany, the Encyclopedia of Soil Science (Springer, 2008) combines an encyclopedia with a glossary of terms, emphasizing the study of soils as an integral part of the earth sciences, while considering agricultural, environmental, and technological aspects as well. Individual soil types are keyed to the World Resource Base Classification with concordance to soil taxonomy, in order to meet the needs of an international audience.

The Encyclopedia of Wireless and Mobile Communications (Auerbach, 2008) offers up-to-date information on the constantly evolving field of mobile and wireless communications. This three-volume work provides survey articles on two hundred essential topics including data communication networking devices, data procession, emerging communication technologies, global positioning systems, IP multimedia systems, mobile internet technologies, peer-to-peer and autonomous networks, 3G networks, and ultra-wideband communications.