Library News for the Faculty

Recent Acquisitions Round-Up

Libraries across campus have added noteworthy resources to their collections in preparation for the new academic year.

Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library

Faculty of 1000 Medicine supports evidence-based decision-making by highlighting published research about therapy, diagnosis, screening, prognosis, causation, and mechanisms of disease.

The Library has licensed access to the Thieme Publishing Group's Flexibook Atlases and Textbooks Series, which features titles in biochemistry, cardiology, neurology and neuroscience, physiology, and radiology.

Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics provides articles that summarize vital drug facts including elements of action, pharmacology, clinical studies, adverse effects, drug interactions, dosing, and product pricing.

Two new Stat!Ref collections offer online access to the full text of textbooks: the Dental Collection of eight titles and the Nursing Collection of fourteen titles.

The online version of Grzimek's seventeen-volume Animal Life Encyclopedia.

In conjunction with the California Digital Library (CDL), the library has licensed access to JSTOR's Biological Sciences Collection of fifty-seven journal titles, which is expected to grow to one hundred when it is completed next year. The collection features complete journal back runs, excluding the most current two-to-five years, depending on the publishers' license agreements.

The library's History and Special Collections has acquired several noteworthy books. Icones stirpium, seu plantarum tam exoticarum, quam indigenarum... by Matthias de l'Obel (Antwerp, 1591) features more than two thousand wood engravings of botanical illustrations. This copy has the pre-Linnaean classifiction name printed with each illustration, under which a previous owner has written the post-Linnaean name. The Report of the Royal Commission on the Practice of Subjecting Live Animals to Experiments for Scientific Purposes: with Minutes of Evidence and Appendix... (London, 1876) is the most important medical document on the circumstances surrounding the passage of the Cruelty to Animals Act of 1876, which regulated the practice of vivisection by experimental physiologists.

History and Special Collections has started building a collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century baby record books, in which parents recorded milestones in their child's development and sometimes added photographs and other mementos. Recent additions include an early baby record book published in 1892 in Los Angeles and annotated in 1893-94 for a boy born and raised in Los Angeles; and a 1916 book for a girl raised in Brooklyn during 1917-19, which includes locks of hair, report cards, a high school commencement program, and a photographic postcard of the child at age one year, one month, dated 28 October 1918, with the annotation "This card has been on the Battle Field over In France."

Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library

Si ku jin hui shu cong kan & xu kan [A series of banned and destroyed works in four categories and its sequel] is a four-hundred-volume work that includes Chinese classics and rare books that were banned and destroyed in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Sengo Nihon kogai jiken shiryo shusei: Bando Katsuhiko shiryo [Collected materials of post-war pollution cases: Bando Katsuhiko materials], which comprises seventy-five microfilm reels and a CD-ROM, reproduces some four thousand original items about the Niigata Minamata disease including legal and governmental documents, private correspondence, posters, and flyers; it was collected by the leading lawyer for the Niigata Minamata disease suit, which lasted from 1967 to 1996. With the support of Library discretionary funds, the library also made a special-opportunity purchase of some seven hundred titles in more than two thousand volumes in the fields of Chinese archaeology, classics and literature, history, art and art history, philosophy, and religions.

Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld Management Library

The Management Library has subscribed to Plunkett Research Online on behalf of the UCLA community. This resource provides profiles of thousands of public and private U.S. and international companies; detailed analyses including trends, statistics, and rankings of some thirty major industries and industry groups, both established and emerging; links to trade and professional organizations; and industry-specific glossaries.

Music Library

The library has added the Database of Recorded American Music, a digital audio database that includes recordings of American composers and artists on important labels such as New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc., and Albany Records, among others. Together with the Naxos Music Library digital audio database, the library now provide access to a substantial repertoire of streamed classical, jazz, and some popular music. It is currently accessible to users on the campus network; as soon as an incompatibility issue with the proxy server is resolved, it will also be available to faculty, students, and staff accessing the campus network from off campus.

Music Library Special Collections has acquired the Romo Vincent Collection of Music Arrangements. Vincent (1908-89), a comedian, vaudeville star, and character actor, performed with Cab Calloway, Lou Costello, Tony Curtis, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, Roy Rogers, Frank Sinatra, and the Three Stooges, among others.

Charles E. Young Research Library

Online access to the full text of the Handbooks in Economics series has been licensed by the CDL. Volumes are definitive reference sources surveying the most recent discussions in journals and describing new develoments; series editors are Kenneth Arrow of Stanford University and Michael Intriligator, professor emeritus of economics at UCLA.

A number of acquisitions support Latin American studies and programs in Spanish and Portuguese. Latin American History and Culture: An Archival Record: Series VII: Cuba and the American Sugar Trade, 1897-1920: Braga Brothers Collection is a major microfilm set of this important collection held by the University of Florida. Another microfilm set, Eugene Maximilien Haitian Collection, 1847-1933, contains materials relating to Haiti's diplomatic and consular service from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Two books of facsimiles relate to Christopher Columbus's voyages: Documentos colombinos en la Casa de Alba, a two-volume set, and Documentos Colombinos en el archivo general de Simancas. And Immigrant Passenger List: Immigrants from Selected Middle-East Countries Entering Argentina Between 1890 and July 1929 has been acquired on CD-ROM.

The online Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics covers the full range of topics in contemporary linguistics, including all aspects of spoken, written, or signed language. It is the most authoritative international reference source in applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and text linguistics, with applications for animal communication, anthropology, cognitive science, computer science, education, language acquisition, language pathology, law, media, medicine, psychology, and sociology.

For Slavic and East European studies, the library acquired materials in a variety of formats. Books include Bol'shaia entsiklopediia [The Great Encyclopedia], a comprehensive encyclopedia in Russian, of which twenty-four of its projected sixty-two volumes have been published to date; and A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, published by Central European University Press. There are two new online databases: Universal Database of CIS and Baltic Periodicals, a collection of periodicals and newspapers from former Soviet republics, and the All Russia Census, which has been added to the Universal Database of Statistical Publications.

A major microfilm set supports Jewish studies as well as East European studies. Jewish Pogroms in Ukraine: Primary Documents of the Kiev District Commission for Relief to Victims of Pogroms 1918-21 is a forty-microfilm set of correspondence, witness accounts, reports, records of investigations, refugee and victim lists and statistics, communications with Western relief organizations, and documents relating to Jewish emigration.

For Southeast Asian studies the library purchased the major microfilm set Finding Aids for Dutch Colonial History from the National Archives of the Netherlands, Part One: Index to the Public Archives (verbaal) of the Ministry of the Colonies, 1814-49, consisting of more than two thousand microfiches.

The Research Library Department of Special Collections has acquired the personal papers of American-born figurative painter R.B. Kitaj, one of only three Americans in the Royal Academy of Arts. The collection documents his career and creative process and contains personal correspondence with well-known figures in arts and letters including Robert Creeley, Lucien Freud, David Hockney, Philip Roth, and Susan Sontag.

The Western States Jewish History Archive consists of official documents, manuscripts, photographs, correspondence, and audiotapes of oral interviews from the 1960s and 1970s relating to Jewish history. It also includes fifty years of bound volumes of The Heritage Newspaper, a journal covering Los Angeles Jewish history during 1954-2004.

The department's holdings of Raymond Chandler's papers are enhanced by a series of unpublished letters written from 1933 to 1938, during Chandler's first years as a full-time writer. Sent to a friend who had moved to South Africa, each letter describes an important transitional period in his development as a writer, and some describe his personal life with his wife, Cissy, and their black Persian cat.

A rare sepia-tone photographic portrait of Anaïs Nin's father (right), Joaquin Nin, taken in Paris in 1914, has been added to the department's collection of the writer's papers.

The department has also acquired two significant rare books. Il Novo Corteggiano de Vita Cauta et Morale (Venice: G. Tacuino, 1535) is a very rare copy of a book attributed to Savonarola but more recently thought to be by Mario Equicola, who was a secretary to the d'Este family in Ferrara. This conduct book discusses the proper moral and spiritual attributes of an ideal courtier. Imprese Nobili, et Ingeniose di Diversi Prencipi ed Altri Personaggi Illustri nell'Arme et nelle Lettere by Giovanni Battista Pittoni and Lodovico Dolce (Venice: Francesco Ziletti, 1583) combines rich illustrations by Pittoni of emblems, allegorical figures, ornamental designs, and floral compositions with Dolce's rhymes in honor of a variety of noble and wealthy benefactors as well as to the glory of artistic and literary figures, including a rhyme written by Dolce about himself.

Science and Engineering Library

The library has added the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Sciences to its reference collection and moved its first edition (2002) to the stacks for wider use. This dynamic, multidisciplinary field involves faculty from UCLA departments including civil and environmental engineering, pharmacology, and chemical engineering.

The library is now providing access to the following computer science and electrical engineering publications in the Foundations and Trends series: communications and information theory, computer graphics and vision, electronic design automation, stochastic systems, information retrieval, networking, and theoretical computer science. Within each series, extensive review articles offer a gateway to the primary literature through bibliographies and links to online content.

The ten-volume Treatise on Geochemistry offers a comprehensive, integrated summary of the field, including meteorites, comets, and planets; the earth's mantle, core, and crust; the atmosphere; surface and ground water, weathering, and soils; the oceans and marine geochemistry; sediments, diagenesis, and sedimentary rocks; biogeochemistry; and environmental geochemistry. The electronic version offers extensive browsing and searching capabilities as well as internal cross-reference linking and dynamic cross-reference links to abstracts and full-text journal articles.