May 2015 Archives

Thursday, May 28 at 12:00 pm in the rotunda of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, 333 Cedar Street.

Join us on May 28 for an opening tour of the new Medical Library exhibit Preserving Form, Preserving Content: Caring for Collections at the Medical Library, given by Preservation Librarian, Martha Horan.

The exhibit, which will be on view from May 21 through September 9, explores preservation efforts put forward in the Medical Library to care for its important and varied collections. The Library holds a rich variety of materials in many forms, including rare books, photographs and audio and moving image material. The exhibit also addresses collections in digital form. Also on view will be “Baldwin’s Patent Medicines,” a series of letterpress posters from the late 19th century, advertising the Baldwin Patent Medicine Company’s specific tonics and pills for an astonishing range of complaints.

Please join us to learn more about how the Library works to preserve the collection, keeping it accessible for future generations of researchers. All are welcome!

On Monday, May 18, the Sterling Memorial Library nave will serve as the location for the President’s Commencement Day luncheon for honorary degree recipients. This will affect access through the High Street entrance of SML on Monday as follows:

SML will be closed to the public until 3:00 pm, opening to users only 3:00-4:45 that day. Bass Library will be open its usual hours, 8:30 am to 9:45 pm. The tunnel between Bass and Sterling also will be closed until 3:00 pm. Because Commencement can be a heavy return day, the outside SML bookdrops will remain open until 3:00 pm, after which books can be returned inside the building.

Until 3:00 pm on May 18, the access point into and out of SML will be on York Street. After 3:00 pm, access will return to the High Street and Wall Street doors, and the York Street and loading dock entrances will close.

The SML nave and adjacent spaces such as the nave service area, the public tower elevators, and the L&B, Franke, and Starr reading rooms will all be completely inaccessible from 11:00 until 2:30.

Eli Express deliveries will take place that day, although schedules and delivery times may be adjusted depending on street closures.

Please be certain to carry your Yale ID with you at all times throughout the day.

This first annual exhibit in the Sterling Memorial Library Exhibits Corridor highlights four Yale students’ exceptional research at the Yale University Library. The subjects represented are as diverse as the Yale Library collections and convey a combination of both complete and ongoing research. Students share key library resources important to their research ranging from online databases to favorite study spaces. This year’s student curators are Andrew Cordova, History, Silliman College '15; Miranda Melcher, Political Science, Branford College '16; Scott Stern, American Studies, Branford College '15 and Caroline Sydney, Humanities, Silliman College '16. The exhibit will be on view in SML through the end of October.

Any Yale students interested in contributing to future library exhibits can click here for more information.

Winners of the 2015 Lohmann & Van Sinderen Prizes in Undergraduate Printing and Design were announced at last Friday’s judging ceremony in Haas Family Arts Library Special Collections. This year saw more than twenty entrants and featured a wide variety of personal, academic, and professional pieces made individually and collaboratively. All of this year’s participants are to be congratulated on the quality and imagination of their work.

This year’s first prize was awarded to Cindy Hwang (BK ’15) for her body of work, including a reversible poster for WYBC Radio’s Ante-Fling, books for campus publications Dimensions and The Yale Literary Magazine, and a pamphlet for Berkeley College’s Commonplace Society. Mariah Xu (SM ’16) was awarded second prize for her body of work, consisting of an art book of photographed intersections, a fold-out timeline documenting the life and work of designer Max Huber, and a series of Yale-branded pieces for the Yale Map Collection, in addition to her professional pieces.

Honorable mention was awarded for digital work to David Shatan-Pardo (MC ’15 ) for his log of early explorations in automated flag design, as well as for traditionally printed work to Grant Laster
(JE ’18) for his Small broadside, Katherine Rosenberg (ES ’18) for her Catulli flag book, and Sara Cho (BR ’18) for her accordion-style book, The Chair that No One Sits On.

The judges for this year’s competition were John Gambell, Basie Gitlin, Rebecca Martz, Emily Monjaraz, Wynne Patterson, Richard Rose, and Jae Rossman.

Wednesday, May 13, 2:00 pm, Bass Library LO1

Linked Jazz is an ongoing project investigating the potential of the application of Linked Open Data (LOD) technology to enhance the discovery and visibility of digital cultural heritage materials. More specifically, the project focuses on digital archives of jazz history to expose relationships between musicians and reveal their community’s network. New modes of connecting cultural data and making them searchable as a whole in a seamless discovery environment would open up unprecedented opportunities to create new kinds of meaning and elicit new streams of interpretation. The goal of this project is to help uncover meaningful connections between documents and data related to the personal and professional lives of musicians who often practice in rich and diverse social networks.

Matthew Miller is Head of Semantic Applications & Data Research at NYPL Labs and Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the Pratt Institute. He holds a dual master’s degree in Library and Information Science and History of Art from the Pratt Institute. This talk is sponsored by SCOPA.