Library News for the Faculty

Recent Acquisitions throughout the Library

Among the highlights of recent print and electronic acquisitions is online access to The Chronicle of Higher Education. UCLA faculty, staff, and students can now access the publication without entering a user name or password.

Arts Library
Recent changes to ARTstor have greatly improved the usability of this online repository of images designed to enhance scholarship, teaching, and learning. ARTstor contains four hundred thousand images of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as partial collections from many major museums. Its contents are expected to grow to five hundred thousand images by the middle of 2006.

Presentation software to display images in the classroom is available for downloading; registration is required, which is free to all UCLA faculty, staff, and students. For assistance, contact Robert Gore, visual arts librarian, by telephone at extension 65426 or by email.

Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
The Biomedical Library has added several recently published core titles to its reference collection. In the Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine, the library has received the first four volumes: adipocytes to biological regulation by protein phosphorylation, bioorganic chemistry to chamydomonas, chromosome organization within the nucleus to e-cell (computer simulation), and electric and magnetic field reception to FTIR of biomolecules. The remaining volumes in the ten-volume set will be added when they are published. The Library has also acquired the four-volume Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition and the four-volume Encyclopedia of Toxicology.

History and Special Collections has acquired the medical daybooks and ledgers of three physicians, a father and son of the same name, Thomas Wood, and a cousin, George Wood, of Muncy, Pennsylvania, spanning 1803 to approximately 1861. The daybooks contain daily entries detailing the date, patient's name, treatment, and cost of services for conditions including gunshot wounds, broken limbs, childbirth, venereal disease, and congenital problems such as club foot. The records provide insight into early nineteenth-century medicine in the then-frontier of the United States.

Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld Management Library
Faulkner Advisory for Information Technology Studies is a virtual library of full-text reports, tutorials, market trend analyses, and product and vendor profiles. Acquired in conjunction with the Science and Engineering Library, it covers key information technology and computing areas including infrastructure, telecommunications, networking, hardware and software applications, and the Internet and the World Wide Web.

Factiva, a mega news and business information service from Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive, is now accessible to all UCLA faculty, staff, and students; it was previously restricted to users in the Anderson School of Management. Content, which covers nearly nine thousand sources from 152 countries in twenty-two languages, ranges from trade and industry publications to general and financial newspapers, newswires, media transcripts, Web sites, photographs, and more. Factiva is updated continuously, with more than nine hundred sources available on or before the date of publication, and coverage in some titles extends back more than twenty-five years.

Charles E. Young Research Library
An important old Dutch journal, the Gazette d'Amsterdam, has been ordered on CD-ROM. At its time (1691-1796), this publication was considered the most important journal of political information.

Access to AncestryLibrary, which reproduces records for the 1790-1930 censuses, has been expanded, with an unlimited number of researchers now able to use the database concurrently. It also contains immigration records; birth, marriage, and death records; and U.K. census records.

Richard Rouse, UCLA professor emeritus of history, and his longtime collaborator and co-author, Mary Rouse, have donated the Richard and Mary Rouse Collection to the Research Library Department of Special Collections. The collection of 113 manuscripts, seventy-eight leaves, and three incunable leaves offers an extensive overview of manuscript culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Its texts, which are in Latin as well as in a range of Western European vernacular languages, are on subjects including history, law, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, religion, and science. The earliest item dates from the ninth century and the latest from the seventeenth century, with the majority from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries.

The department has also acquired a number of rare books. They include a first edition of Thomas G. Fessenden's The New American Gardener; comprising practical directions on the culture of fruits and vegetables; including landscape and ornamental gardening, grapevines, silk, strawberries, &c. (Boston, 1828), which was one of the most popular garden books in America during the first half of the nineteenth century, and J. Robson and H.D. Symonds's Topographical Miscellanies, Containing Ancient Histories, and Modern Descriptions, of mansions, Churches, monuments, and Families, with many Engravings, Particularly of Ancient Architecture (London, 1792), a beautifully bound and illustrated guide.

Other rare books include a rare first edition of Squitinio della Liberta Veneta. Nel quale si adducano anche le raggioni dell' Impero Romano sopra la Citta & la Signoria di Venetia (1612), a famous satirical study of Venetian history and its political system, which was immediately banned by order of the Venetian senate; Epistolarum Familiarum Libri Sexdecim (1502), an exceedingly rare Venetian edition of Cicero's letters "ad familiares," with commentaries by Ubertinus Clericus (ca. 1480), Filetico Martino (ca. 1430-90), Giorgio Merula (d. 1494), and Angelo Poliziano (1454-94); Euclid's Elements of Geometry, Book 1 (New York, 1944), one of five hundred copies stylishly designed and signed by the eminent graphic artist Bruce Rogers; and Peter and Donna Thomas's The History of Papermaking in the Philippines (Santa Cruz, California, 2005), which uses text by Peter and block-print illustrations cut by Donna and was designed, letterpress-printed, and handbound by the Thomases on paper they made.

Three major manuscript collections were acquired. The Ethel Silver Young Papers document early preschool and K-level curricula for multicultural and mixed-income preschool environments; Young was a leader in the local cooperative nursery school movement and was on a UCLA committee that set up courses to train early childhood educators at University Elementary School in the 1960s. The Ho Young Ham Papers comprise the manuscripts, papers, correspondence, books, memorabilia, photographs, and documents of Ham, who was born in Korea in 1869 and emigrated to Hawaii in 1905 to work on the sugar plantations; his unpublished diaries provide a vivid chronicle of the first generation of Korean émigrés to Hawaii, and the books in the collection are extraordinarily scarce in the West. Donated by UCLA Professor Susan Curtiss, the "Genie" Collection concerns a research subject called Genie (not her real name) who as a child suffered extreme, abusive isolation at the hands of her father; Genie's lack of language and social skills attracted the attention of linguists and psychologists at UCLA in the early 1970s, and the collection contains their research papers, study reports, transcriptions, grant files, video and audio tapes, and a portfolio of Genie's drawings.

Science and Engineering Library
The new Science of Synthesis: Houben-Weyl Methods of Molecular Transformations, a standard reference work for synthetic chemists, is intended to comprise forty-eight printed volumes with a completion date in 2008-09. And it now includes a new online edition which features fully interactive text and structure searching and also includes access to the complete electronic backfile, containing editions of Houben-Weyl's Methods of Organic Chemistry published during 1909-2004. The print and online versions will eventually contain contributions from one thousand authors on eighteen thousand experimental procedures for 180,000 reactions and eight hundred thousand structures.

On behalf of the UC campuses, the California Digital Library has negotiated access to additional titles in the O'Reilly Technical book series, which increases the total now available from 220 titles to 335, with more titles added monthly. Titles added recently include Oracle PL/SQL for DBAs, Integrating Excel and Access, Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, Applied Software Project Management, Unix in a Nutshell, Time Management for System Administrators, Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual, and Linux Multimedia Hacks.