Library News for the Faculty

Recent Acquisitions throughout the Library

Libraries across campus have added significant print and electronic acquisitions recently.

The Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library purchased the seven-volume encyclopedia Comprehensive Molecular Insect Science for its reference collection. In addition, Ralph and Pat Sonnenschein gave their collection of some 2500 pieces of medallic art commemorating famous people in science to History and Special Collections.

The Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library acquired Zhongguo kao gu ji cheng. Huanan juan [Collected works of archaeology. South China] to complement its Chinese archaeology collection, and Zhongguo di fang zhi ji cheng. Shangdong fu xian zhi ji [Collected works of Chinese local histories. Shangdong] to enhance its extensive collection of Chinese local histories.

The Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld Management Library has one of the few collections of company and industry histories in the United States. Notable recent additions include Anatomy of Greed: The Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider by Brian Cruver; Hello Kitty: The Remarkable Story of Sanrio and the Billion-Dollar Feline Phenomenon by Ken Belson and Brian Bremner; Mutually Beneficial: The Guardian and Life Insurance in America by Robert E. Wright and George David Smith; German Industry and Global Enterprise: BASF: The History of a Company, edited by Werner Abelshauser et al.; and The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance L. Hays.

Recent acquisitions in the Charles E. Young Research Library enhance holdings in several areas. The online German Reference Resources has expanded to contain sixty-three reference works including dictionaries, encyclopedias, and resources in art, culture, history, law, literature, management, medicine, the sciences, and technology. Science in a Colonial Context. Part 1: Scientific Expeditions in the Netherlands East Indies, 1888-1948 includes more than five hundred microfiches with a printed guide.

The CJKV-English Dictionary provides online access to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters and compounds related to East Asian cultural, political, and intellectual history. The Digital Dictionary of Buddhism incorporates Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Pali, and Sanskrit resources. And a facsimile of Jardins anglo-chinois, ou, Détails de nouveaux jardins à la mode by Georges Louis Le Rouge gives an exhaustive view of the art of gardening, the study of Chinese gardens, and their influence on European gardens.

The Research Library's Department of Special Collections enhanced its holdings of women's travel literature with three titles:Lady Elisabeth Craven's Journey through Crimea to Constantinople (1789), Emmeline Stuart Wortley's Travels in the United States, &c., during 1849 and 1850, and Jemima Kindersley's Letters from the island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies (1777).

The department acquired the papers of Irving Krick, a pioneer in long-range weather forecasting techniques whose expertise aided in the selection of dates for crucial operations in World War II. Enhancing the Los Angeles architecture collection is a portfolio with original samples of wall-coverings, fabrics, and borders as well as text and photographs from the Schumacher Company of New York; Frank Lloyd Wright used Schumacher fabrics in many of his earlier houses and in 1955 began to design textiles and wallpapers for them.

The department also acquired an extraordinary facsimile of an important sixteenth-century codex about the Michoacan state, Relación de Michoacán: Relaçión de las çerimonias y rrictos y poblaçión y governaçión de los yndios de la provinçia de Mechuacan hecha al yllustrísimo señor don Antonio de Mendoça, virrey y governador desta Nueva España por su Magestad, ecétera.

Finally, several titles were acquired through the California Digital Library. The CQ Electronic Library, a major refer-ence source on American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs, includes CQ Weekly online, the CQ Researcher, and the CQ Congress Collection. The digitized version of the United States Congressional Serial set, when completed, will contain all the reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. And Early American Newspapers features cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, primarily from before 1820; it contains more than one million pages as fully text-searchable facsimile images.

All of these titles are accessible through the UCLA Library Catalog or the electronic resources search options available on the Search menu of the Library homepage.