World Digital Library now online

The World Digital Library, a free, multilingual collection of primary materials from around the world, of which Yale is a primary contributor, was launched yesterday.

The World Digital Library, which was officially inaugurated Tuesday at the Paris headquarters of UNESCO, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, has started small, with about 1,200 documents and their explanations from scholars in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian. But it is designed to accommodate an unlimited number of such texts, charts and illustrations from as many countries and libraries as want to contribute.

World Digital Library putting human history a click away Edward Cody Chicago Tribune 4/22/09

More from the YDN here.

-Chris

Eli Express for Law Library Materials

stepnout @ Flickr

Via Yale University Library News:

The Law Library is happy to announce that Library readers may now request to have Law Library books delivered to Eli Express libraries.

Requests for delivery should be made through Morris, the Law Library’s online catalog.

Visit the Eli Express web site for more information.

-Chris

“Interior Design” on Gwathmey’s new art complex

Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, basement; view of the Great Hall,2008

“How often does an alumnus get the chance to reshape the educational institution that helped form his professional vision? Just ask Charles Gwathmey, who seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity by designing a major new arts complex for Yale University, where he collected his Master of Architecture in 1962.”

Gwathmey Siegel Completes Yale Arts Complex Nicholas Tamarin — Interior Design, 10/20/2008

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YUL series on iTunes

Via the Yale University Library ListServ: We are very happy to announce that the Yale University Library now has a dedicated series for our netcasts, or web-based broadcasts, on Yale’s iTunes (http://itunes.yale.edu). Netcasts are provided in MP3 format for easy use on computers or multimedia devices. This is the first new series to be launched on Yale’s iTunes U since the University partnered with Apple in September 2007. It brings together existing Library content and will provide a home for future netcasts of events and lectures, as well as those highlighting exhibitions, collections, resources, and services across the Library system. We also expect to make video netcasts available on iTunes U in the near future. The Cushing / Whitney Medical Library also has many free video netcasts available through the educational technology section of the iTunes store. You can find these by searching for the Cushing / Whitney Library as artist.

To access Library netcasts within Yale’s iTunes U, simply click on the’ Yale Library’ icon and browse content from Sterling Memorial Library and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. You can also quickly and easily subscribe to new content as it is made available using iTunes’s subscription feature.

Gwathmey’s challenge

The Art & Architecture Addition: What Would You Have Done? Lawrence Biemiller Buildings & Grounds 6/3/08

“But before the harsh words start flying in earnest, ask yourself what you would have done in Charles Gwathmey’s position… Do you imitate your professor’s building, if you can, and subject yourself to criticism for not doing something original? Do you come up with a design that’s completely different and then take the heat for being unsympathetic? Do you ask yourself what your professor would have wanted you to do? He certainly didn’t put up copycat buildings himself—in 1963 he was celebrated for his originality. Would he have failed you for doing something imitative?”

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The Library Café

The Library Café is a weekly program of table talk with scholars, artists, publishers and librarians about books, ideas, and the formation and circulation of knowledge. It is hosted by Thomas Hill, and can be heard on WVKR FM 91.3 Tuesday afternoons between 12:00 Noon and 1:00 p.m. ET (16.00-17.00 GMT) during the academic year.

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If wood and iPods don’t say Yale, what does?

“My friends in-the-know tell me that Bass isn’t beautiful, it’s derivative: too many architectural themes and too few new ideas. I’m always a little suspicious of architecture majors, who claim to love the Art and Architecture building, but, in this case, I see their point. ‘Look, it’s Yale!’ the bookshelves scream. ‘We have wood and iPods and everything!’ I believe those book shelves, even if no one has gotten around to putting books on them yet. If wood and iPods don’t say Yale, what does?”

Modern ‘Yale Man’ measured in cups of Bass coffee Michael Pomeranz Yale Daily News 3/31/08

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3 exhibitions and a conference

“The relationship between image, history and memory will be explored at a graduate student conference titled ‘Photographic Proofs,’ to be held Friday-Saturday, April 4-5, at Yale.”

The relationship between photography, history and memory examined in student conference Yale Bulletin “March 28, 2008|Volume 36, Number 23

“Works by sculptor Joseph Saccio, a former associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, are on exhibit now through April 24 at the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) and the Community Services Network (CSN).

The exhibit is the first for The Parachute Factory, which is the organization’s new arts initiative and shares space with PRCH and CSN at 319 Peck St., Erector Square.”

New exhibition space hosts show exploring themes of loss, renewal March 28, 2008|Volume 36, Number 23 Yale Bulletin

“Religious images by African-American artists that portray ‘biblical teachings, the hallowed bodies, the celebrations and sorrows, the politics and poets, [and] the grief and gratitude’ are featured in a new exhibition at the Institute of Sacred Music (ISM).”

‘Visual Exegesis’ features artistic interpretations of biblical texts March 28, 2008|Volume 36, Number 23 Yale Bulletin

“The timeless Passover Haggadah text will be celebrated in a new exhibition opening on Tuesday, April 1, at Sterling Memorial Library.”

Exhibition features Haggadah illustrations by modern artists March 28, 2008|Volume 36, Number 23 Yale Bulletin

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Whither the library of the future?

Ryan Cassella

Listen to Dr. Christina Baum, Director at Southern Connecticut State University’s Buley Library, discuss the future of libraries on NPR.

The Future of Libraries WNPR 12/5/07

“The old-fashioned library is quickly becoming a thing of the past. The dusty stacks of little-read books, the earnest volunteers urging “quiet” are being replaced by coffee shops,concert series, and increased connectivity.”

And read about a forward-thinking library known as the ‘idea store’ here.

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Art Is Where You Find It

Sterling Library show offers proof that ‘Art Is Where You Find It’ Yale Bulletin February 22, 2008|Volume 36, Number 19

“Original works of art that were tucked away amidst other papers in the Yale University Library’s collections are showcased in the exhibition ‘Art Is Where You Find It,’ on display through May 30 in the Memorabilia Room of Sterling Memorial Library.”

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Architectural review of Bass Library

Wood-varnished Bass improves on CCL … sort of Yonah Freemark Yale Daily News 11/30/07

“Seemingly unable to make up their minds about how the library should appear, the architects cherry-picked references to styles centuries apart in origin. But these references do not befit one another and prevent the library from assuming a necessary stylistic consistency. Likewise, the library, while providing a valuable sense of openness, is unable to resolve the conflict between public and private space, resulting in less-than-maximized utility.”

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For those who wish to smell like libraries

CB Experience: “In the Library” perfume

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Creating Today’s Library

Announcing:
“Creating Today’s Library: A Symposium Celebrating the Bass Library”

The Decorative Arts Program in the Bass Library
Aric Lasher, Principal at Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge
& Stephanie Odegard, President of Odegard Inc.
Friday, November 30, 10:00 a.m.
Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall (128 Wall St.)

Library Architecture at Yale:
A Panel Discussion by Three of America’s Foremost Architects
Robert A.M. Stern, Thomas H. Beeby, & Cesar Pelli
Moderated by Laura Cruickshank, Yale University Planner
Friday, November 30, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Levinson Auditorium, Yale Law School (127 Wall St.)

More information

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

“Great American Cock” (Male Wild Turkey) by John James Audubon, plate #1 in his Birds of America (1827-38). Image found at Robert Winkler’s webpage on Giving Thanks for Wild Turkeys.

The Arts Library will close at 5:00 on Wednesday, November 21.

We will also be closed on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; resuming normal hours at 2pm on Sunday.

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“The new Haas Family Arts Library”

Restoration of iconic Rudolph building is key step in creation of Arts Complex Yale Bulletin November 16, 2007|Volume 36, Number 11

“The arts and architecture library will be vastly expanded and transformed, as the University’s art-and-architecture and drama libraries and its arts of the book collections — currently located in separate buildings across campus — are integrated into a single, comprehensive resource. The new Haas Family Arts Library will straddle the two buildings of the arts complex at the ground-floor level.”

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