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Ernst Krenek Exhibit
From March 22 to April 8, the Honnold/ Mudd Library will host a traveling exhibit celebrating the centennial birthday of the composer, writer, essayist, poet, and painter Ernst Krenek. The exhibit chronicles the life and work of this Austrian composer who emigrated to America durin g World War II and resided in Southern California from 1947 until his death in 1991.
Concerts of Krenek's works will be held at the Pasadena Armory ( March 16), the Norton Simon Museum ( March 23 and 24), and theColburn SChoolofMusicinLosAngeles( March20 and 27).
The exhibit has been shown at the Vienna State Opera, the Symposium- Dresden, the Berlin Festival, the Prague Opera, and King's College, London, and is made possible through the generous suppo rt of the Austrian Cultural Institute, New York,
Bonnie Clemells
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Seeley G. Muddı Scienceı Accessing the Libraries' Electronic Resources from Off- Campus
Most of me Libraries' electronic resources are accessible only to users at The Claremont Colleges or connecting to The Claremont Colleges Proxy Access Server or a campus modem pool. The Proxy Access Server allows off- campus users connecting to the internet via an internet service provider ( for example, dialing in to Earthl. ink or AOL) to appear to have an oncampus
[ P address and to access resources available only to members of The Claremont Colleges co mmu nity. In order to use the Proxy Access Server, users must first configure their web browser to use the proxy server. Instructions for using th Proxy Access Server are available at this web address: http:// www. d1rem mt. edu/ ClNElProx yAccesslmdex . hlml.
Proxy server accounts and pa swords have been established for all facu lty, staff, and grad uate students. Undergraduate students who would like an account may contact their IT office for assistance. Also, if you have problems using the Proxy Access Server, please contact the IT office on your campus for help. Acontacts page for IT offices on each campus can be found on me web at this web address: http :// www. daremont. edu/ CL'\ jT: lProx yAccess/ help. html,
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Passport: New Library Orientation
In me fall me Libraries inaugurated Passport to me Libraries to introduce new undergraduate students to me Libraries and their services. The goal of the Passport program was to create a fun learning activity mat stude nts
could do on their own or with friends during the first three weeks of the fall semester. During Orientation, each student received a Passport booklet, which included some key activities that all students do in their first weeks
on campus, such as activating their library card, using Blais, and getting course reserves. Passport also required students to visit at least three of our four libraries. Those who turned in completed Passports qualifi ed
for a prize drawing which was held on September 21 on the Honnold/ Mudd library south lawn, complete with music and ice cream. Onestudentfrom eachcollegewasawarded thegrandprize, a
Palm Pilot. Dozens of additional prizes were awarded to other Passport parti cipants. Oneofthelastactivitiesinthe Passportaskedstudents tosaywhat had been useful or not useful ab out their Passport experience. Here are a few of their co mments:
• Passport orientation was well put together. Unless [ forgot the things it covered, it was all useful. I learned something with each exercise.
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Finding things and getting my card activated.
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Going around to each of the libraries was useful, because it allowed me to see where each is located and what they specialize in.
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Learning how to do a search using Blais. It will make it a lot faster when I have to do a paper.
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[ learned where the libraries are and especially how to access them online.
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[ found it very useful to have to find a book and a journal. Even though [ know how to do this, every library is different. I feel more comfortable looking for things now.
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[ think [ learned a lot about me library and became more familiar just spending time here and walking around to the different desks.
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Finding the various materials in the main library was helpful because it will enable me to find research materials much more quickly the next time [ need to for class.
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" What is the use of a book without for the Class1= use, says Birkholz, "\ Vith its medieval design and pictures or conversations?" decoration, thi library inspires our discussi ons" For Birkholz, meeting in - Alice in ~ nde rJand Denison for e class also reinforces for the students the relationship of books in a library , ttmg. " Meeting here [ in the library] makes my course, " Allthat mankind has done, thought, which is based on using rare and valuable materials, actually work, while gained or been: it is lying as in magic respecting the security and handling issues that the library has, After all, preservation inthepagesof books." thesebooksaremorethan500yearsold. Atthe sametime, thestudentsare
enthusiastic."
- Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and
Teaching the course involves bringing primary texts, reserved at many
Hero- Worship
institutions only for graduate and faculty study, into the undergraduate classroom This approach to the course accomplishes several things at once. First, it introduces undergraduates to fundamental aspects of primary You might S. 1Y that the students in
research, an invaluable experience for students anticipating graduate school.
Professor Dan Birkholz's English 170
Second, it offers undergraduates the chance to do " field research: to allow
" Manuscript Culture" seminar debate these
the th eoretical models that faculty use in their own research to come to life, notions weekly.
as it were, in the cl: Jssroom.
Made up of juniors,
Using primary resources in die se nio rs, and o ne
classroom also presents students with sopho mo re , the Pomona
problems to solve and many ways in College class is stu dyin g the
which to solve them, In fact, handling the
material culture of the Middle
manuscripts changes the experience of
Ages in Europe. A crucial
studying. The students work with the " real
part of the seminars dynamic
thing," not a picture in a text, on a web
is examining medieval
site, or on a slide. Being introduced to
manuscripts that are held in
scholarly tools like manuscripts challenges
the Libraries' special
die students. According to Birkholz,
collections. The Llbraries are
" Hands- on access to the manuscripts
thrilled that Professor
makes the course exciting. u wou ldn't be
Birkholz has made use of
worth doing without the books."
some of our most important
\' furking ' With the original manuscripts,
resou rces as the central focus
adds Birkholz, changes the tenor of class discussion: " The terms of the
of die stude nts' work. " Use by stude nts is
discussion are not just quahtanve and aesthetic, comments are concrete, not
the principal reason we care for and
imagined. The students have real examples to contribute, and they raise
prese rve this unique mate rial. Donors
questions that may not otherwise be asked."
entrusted these treasures to the Libraries to
Most importantly, studying primary resources helps students develop
enhance education at The Claremont
' critical literacy": it provides them with more than a " text' and " me answers."
Colleges," asserts Judy Harvey Sahak,
It allows the students to think about literary study in a new way. " It's not
Assistant Director of the Libraries.
about pape rback editions," explains Birkholz. " Our focus is on the
The students prepare for their weekly
materiality of the book as object, and the discussion inevitably broadens into
meetings by examining the manuscripts to
the material culture- the social, political, economic, and cultural facrors- s- of
be discussed at either Denison or
the book in the Middle Ages."
Honnold/ Mudd Special Collections. They
According to Professor Birkholz, " There are a lot of courses that ought to
also complete outside readings and
be co ming to the Libraries and dealing with primary mate rials. The Libraries
compile bibliographies on several topics.
have rich collections that can contribute to a wide variety of co urses. My
Ultimately, the students will write a
students are excited about the opportunities they've had so far. Using me
research paper on an aspect of me book as
manuscripts in the seminar has made this a richer, more thoughtful
a cultural artifact.
experience for all of us."
The seminar meets for its Monday afternoon class in the Holbein Room of
Came Ma rsh, Dell 1501 1
Denison Library. Denison is a suitable she
cmarsb~ 1" OCky. claremont . edu capture image, time, and sound, yet democratio< Illy accessible to both creator and audience, video has become an alternative medium of
LECTURE SERIES · SPRING 2001
choice for many artists to present their vision . With her " Blindness
Saxophones ( and Co rne~) tluough series," an epic- in - process of eight
the: Smog: Jazz Great and Pomona videos, Tran, T. Kim- Trang examines
llege ' s Bobhy Bradford Recalls a fundamental basis of both soc ie ty
the vant Garde Jazz Scene in and the visual arts: vision itself. First
them California conceived in 1991, with a projected
Thursday. February 15th, 4: 30pm.
completion date of 2002, the series ranges thematically from the philosophical, psychological, and social to the physical, presenting the concept of " blindness"- the lack of Sight or vision- in both us medical and metaphorical manifestations. For this presentati on, we had the opportunity to sample from the metaphors and images of blindness with this unique artist, Trau, T. KimTrang,
as our guide.
Fits, Trances, and Visions : Challenges and Opportunities Facing Historians of
1950s " Experience," Ann Taves, Professor of
who really History of Christianity and American
began to galvanize Religion at the Claremont School of
Southern Califo rnia's avant garde Theology and Professor of Religion at
settlement, Breaking the hard and the Claremont Graduate University
fast rules of bebop, Coleman Wednesday, March 28th, 4: 15pm
attracted such jazz pion eers as Donı Ch rry, Charlie Haden, Edı
Rather than explained, some things
Blackwell, Billy Higgins, and a are explained away. To the modern
young trumpeter/ c ornetist secular mind, religious ecstasy is
named Bobby Bradford. ln this interpreted skeptically, often as a
lecture, Bradford spoke as someone product of psychological delusi on
who was here at the birth and or the ext ernal affectations of
co ntin ues 10 be a witn ess to the IA outright hucksterism, Competing
avant garde , past, present, and explanations of unusual experiences
futu re.
are nothing new. Ann Taves uses these dramatic and controversial experiences to explore the intimate
Blindness and its Metaphors: An relati onship between interpretation
In lig:; ll ion in IUBhr - i< I '- hy- /
let • P e- thin
Tran, T. Kim- Trang, Assistant co mpeting commun ities of
Professor o f Med ia Studies at explanation. In her book, PITS,
Scripps College TRANCES AND VtStONS: EXPERtP.. CING
Wednesday, March 7th, 4: 15pm.
RELlGtO AND ExplAINING E:\' l'ERIENCP. fROM WESLEY TO JAMES ( Princeton,
Powerful in its ability to concisely 1999) hailed by William R. Everde ll
Doing Research in the Web Environment
is spring the libraries will offer two differenr workshops for faculty.
Using Web search Engines focuses on information freely available to all on the web. In this workshop, you will learn the most effective ways [ 0 locate web sites for research, get tips on the best ways to search using web directories such as Yahoo and web search engines such as HotBot to find relevant web sites, and critically exa mine web sites to determine their usefulness for your research. This workshop is offered on Thursday, March 29,5: 00- 7: 30 p. rn., in the Keck Learning Room, Honnold/ Mudd Library,
Using Online Library Catalogs and Scholarly Databases focuses on resources theLibrariesprovidefortheresearch needsofourfaculty, students, andstaff. [ n this worksh op, you will search local and international web- based library catalogs to find books and primary sources, learn the most effective ways to search a variety of scholarly databases for relevant articles for your research, and discover the many full- text resources available through the Libraries' web site. This workshop is offered on Thursday, April 5, 5: 00- 7: 30 p. rn., in the Keck Learning Room, Honnold/ Mudd Library.
Register today! You can register online at http. z/ voxhbrts. claremont. edu/ research/ facregistrauon. html or send your name, college, phone. email address. and area of research interest to Gale Burrow, gburrow@ rocky. claremonr. edu, ext. 73987. [ f you are unable to attend a workshop of interest to you, we would be happy to schedule another one for you or for your department. Workshops can be scheduled in the Learning Room, in your offlce, or on your campus.
in the New York Times Book Review " as much a treat as it is a treatise," Professor Taves engages the actual stories and narratives of religious experience in America with the reactions of contem porary philosophers, psychologists, and clergy, in order to reveal their competing agendas and assumptions. Ann Taves will discuss both the particular problems she faced in the writing of a more embracing history and the value for historians in attempting to reconstruct the history of " experience" across disciplinary lines .
Earthquakes and the Waiting Gameı for Southern Califo rnia, Gregoryı A, Lyzenga, Professor of Physics, ı Harvey Mudd College and Technicalı Group Leader at th e J etı Propulsion Laboratory in Pasad enaı Wednesday, April 18th, 4: 15pm. ı
Longtime residents of Southernı California are familiar with theı occasional seismic tremors thatı come with living on the boundaryı between two of the Earth's tectonicı plates. However, an uneasinessıalmost
like a subconsciousı reminder- pervades discussions ofı the proverbial " big one" that atı some uncertain future date promisesı to cause serious damage and injuryı to the society and economy. In thisı lecture, Gregory A. Lyzenga willı survey some of the scientific andı technological advances of the lastı de cad e that have brought theı problems of under standingı earthquakes and related processesı into sharpe r focus. ı
All ( et: lure'i; takeplace- in- Hon'nol< J/ ı Mudd Library. Refreshments willı be provided. For more information, ı contact Adam Rosenkranz, ext. ı 73986 . ı
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Welcome O Uf New Staff
James Otto, who has served in many
capacities at the libraries, has recently become the World Wide Web Administrator. Prior to this position, he was the DigitalProjects Specialist. During his nearly twelve years of experience at the
libraries, he Ius served as the Circulation Desk Supervisor and Assistant to the librarian at Sprague Library and as Cataloging Assistant at Honnold/ Mudd , James' background is in music; he came to the Libraries just after completing his MAin
Historical Musicology from u. c. Riverside .
Cindi Trainor has been appointed Information Technology Coordinator for the libraries effective May 14, 2001. She is currently Team Leader for the Electronic Resources/ Support Team at the University of Kentucky libraries at Lexington. She previously worked at UK as the Electronic Resources librarian and has performed
• Perspective •
As an undergraduate I knew where the library was on campus : I walked past it on my wa y to the stu dent union nearly every day. Though a frequent public library l er and an avid book reader since childhood, I didn t have a need to use my college library until my third year. p to that point m ost of my readings as a history major came from the assigned texts or from photocopied handouts distributed in class by my professors. History M ethods r e quired m e to attend a library instruction session. I relished the idea of receiving instruction from a re a l librarian; with her guidance I imagined myself a researcher. Imag ine my disappointment as I stru led with the online catalog ( 0 find the library's holdings of boo ks un Eliza bethan England. By trial and error I WJS able to find where the b o o ks on the history of England were located and I browsed [ he shelf. Not a very productive use of the onlin catalog! So as the User Support Spe ialist responsible for Blais, I take very se riously my I' esponsibilities to pro vide support
to the user. serve as liaison with the vendor, tr ubleshoot problems, and investigate system capabilities. 1 may be biased, but I think we've got a reall fine catalog.
extensive service on university and library
committees. She is a member of the
Special Libraries Asso ciation
Information Technology Division in
which she served as Member services
Committee Chair, 1999- 2000, and was
named Outstanding
Chapter Member
( Kentucky) in 1999.
Marsha Biscar has joined the libraries
staff as
Information Desk Ass ist ant at Honnold/ Mudd Library.
David Jackson
has joined the
li braries staff in
the Circulation
Departme nt at
Ho n- no ld / Mudd
Li brary.
Alberta Walker, Associate Director of LIbraries, ı ext. 18045ı
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CO NNECfIO NS'fj afs ew: Traditional & Electronic Reference Sources
Alldatabases described here are available to faculty, students, and staff of The Claremont Colleges from the
Research section of the Llbrarles' web site. You can find them in the list of
Databases by Title and in the appropriate sub ject database lists. Call numbers are provided for resources in pa per and microform.
American Periodicals Series ( APS)
Online
Would you like to read about " The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry" in The Southern Literary Messenger fromJanuary 1860? Or perhaps you're more interested in '' The Erie Railroad Contest" from The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, April 1868. These and hundreds of other full- text articles from America's early magazines are now available through APS Online. \'(! hen complete in 2003, APS Online will provide full- text electronic access to over 1000 periodicals published in America be tween 1741 and 1900. This is an outstanding resource for anyone studying the development of Ameri can htstory and culture from colonial days to ( he dawn of the 20th century. If you have questions ab out APS Online, please contact Gale Burrow, ext. 73987, gburrow@ rocky. clarernont. edu.
Education Full Text
Education Pull Text abstracts and
indexes 478 key education journals,
including 207 journals with full- text
articles. Indexing coverage begins in
1983, abstracting coverage begins with
199 · 1, and full- text coverage begins w ith 1996. If you have qu aions about
Education Full Text, please contact Judy Moser, ext. 18919, jmoser@ rock- y. c1aremont. edu.
Gr ove Dktionary of Musi c and
Musicians Online
The Libraries provide online access to
the full- text of the latest edition of the
ew Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which was published in 2001. The New Grove contains bio graphies, bibliographies, and lists of works for composers and performers as well as information on major music topics and musical instruments. The online version is enhanced by links to sound and image files. You will find the print volumes of the 2001 ew Grove in the Honnold/ Mudd reference collection ( MUOO 48 2001). If you have questions about this resource, please contact Holly Gardinier, ex t, 78626, hgardinterjerocky. claremont. edu .
Iter Iter, a major interdisciplinary electronic resource for scholarly materials about the Middle Ages and Renaissance, indexes books and journals articles published since 1859. The database is jointly sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America, the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation at the University of Toronto, and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University. Please contact Adam Rosenkranz, ext. 73986, arosenkranz @ rocky. claremonLedu, for further information about this and other history resources at the Libraries.
Lyndon B. Jo hnson National Security Files The Libraries have just acquired the Lyndon B. johnson National Secu rity Files on microfilm. Thissetcoversthe years 1% 3- 1% 9, and includes rich primary source material on United States foreign relati ons with Vietnam , The 33- reel set can be found in the Honnold/ Mudd Microfilm section, ( E 846 L9625 1999). Please cone ct Ruth Schooley, ext. 77122, rschoole rocky. claremont. edu, for further information about this and other government resources.
Past Masters Past Masters is an incomparable collection of full- text scholarly editions of classic philosophy and theology texts online. The texts can be read by chapter or part and searched by keywords. Advanc ed searching capabilities make the database an excellent tool for basic research or text analysis. Claremont's access to Past Masters currently includes the selected
or complete works of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Augustine, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnlz, Hobbes, Bacon, Locke, Luther, Santayana, Machiavelli, Mill, Nietzsche, Pierce, Rousseau, Sidgwick, Anselm, Kierkegaard, Dewey, and others. Included are three omnibus collections of selected seminal texts: British Philosophy 16001900,
Political Philosophy; From Machiavelli to Mill, and Continental Rationalists. Works by other phil osophers and authors may be added in the future. This resource will be of interest to students and scholars in philosophy, theology, political theory, and intellectual history. The Libraries would like to thank Professor Charles Young of the CG Philosophy Department for his help in acquiring Past Masters. For further information about this and other philosophy resources, contact Adam Rosenkranz, ex t, 73986, arosenkranz@ rocky . claremont. edu.
SCiFinder SCholar SciFinder Scholar, a bells- and- whistles program used for 24- hour access to Chemical Abstracts online, is an award- winning desktop research tool designed especially for use by stude nts and faculty to easily access the information in tile CAS databases. \ Vlth no special training, researchers can explore the world ' s most comprehensive collectjon of published scientific research through a variety of ways- by author name, research topic, substance identifier, chemical structure, or chemical reaction. Simply point and click to retrieve more than 28 million substances and links to the full- text of electronic scientific journals on the web and in- house library holdings. To use SciFinder Scholar, go to this web address : hnp: l/ 134.173.1 34.10/ scifmder/ scifinde
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There is currently no su pport for Linux and Unix. Tony lagarda of the Libraries' IT group would appreciate any input you have on d ownloading this software. Please contact him at ext. 18683, ( lagarda@ ro cky. cIaremonl. edu . Also, Brian Ebersole, chemistry subject specialist, would appreciate hearing about the functionality of this resource for your research purposes.
. ontact Bnan at bebersolen rockv. claremont. edu.
Women Writers Onlineı Are you looking for primary sources inı
history and Women's Studies? Womenı Writers Online provides full- text accessı to important books by and ab outı women published from 1400 to 1850. ı Authors include Aphra Behn, Margaretı Cavendish, Elizabeth I, and Margaretı Fell. At present the collection containsı 200 texts, with a special subset for theı
Renaissance peri od. If you haveı questions about Women Writersı Online, please contact Amy Wallace, ı ex!. 77957, ı awallaced rccky. clarernont. edu. ı
Other N L" WS on Electronicı Resourcesı Early English Books Online ( EEBO) ı and the Digital National Securityı Archive are online resources whichı have been available for severalı months. EEBO provides full- textı images of publications in English fromı 1600- 1741. The Digital Nationalı Security Archive provides access toı declassified primary documents inı twelve sets, including the Berlin Crisisı 1958- 1% 2, the Cuban Missile Crisis, EIı Salvador, the Iran- Contra Affair, theı Iranian Revolution, and military usesı of space. Our major psychologyı database has changed its name: ı PsycLIT has bec ome PsycINFO. Bothı the content and the search capabilitiesı remain the same. The Libraries haveı upgraded the WiIsonSelect database toı WilsonSelcctPlus which providesı access to hundreds of additionalı popular and scho larly full- text articlesı across the disciplines. ı
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AT HO:\' Nol. D/ McDD LiBRARY 75th Anniversary of The Claremont Colleges Group Plan Nocember3, 2000 - February 2, 2001 Envisioned by james A. Blaisdell, then President of Pomona College, the creation of a consortium of independent liberal arts colleges sharing joint facilities and services known as The Group Plan of The Claremont Colleges was a unique and grand experiment in higher education in California in the early 1920s. The central coordinating body for the group of Claremont colleges, now known as the Claremont University Consortium or CDC, was incorporated on October 14. 1925. Historical photographs and documents from The Claremont Colleg Archives were exhibited to mark CUC's 75th year.
Western Books Exhibition
February 9- Marcb 2, 2001
This exhibit showcased award- Winning examples of works produced by fine press printers, book artists, and publishers from the western United States using a wide variety of styles. Many of the selections include special bindings, hand- printed illustrations, and uniquely printed letterpress as well as books designed with computer digital technology.
Ern.~ t Kren ek Ma rch 22 - April 8,2001 This exhibit celebr- ates the centennial birthday of the compos r, writer, essayist, poet, and painter Ernst Krenek, Displays chronicle the life and
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work of this Austrian composer who emigrated to America during World War [[ and resided in Southern California from 1947 until his death in 1991. The exhibit is made possible through the generous support of the Austrian Cultural Institute, New York, and the Austrian Consulate General in Los Angeles.
For more information, contact Special Collections at ( 909) 607- 3977.
AT D E.' 1SO.'" LI BRARY Nt- ow and Noteworthy Books january 16 - Ma rch 26, 200 1 On display aft' recent gifts to Denison Library, including books on women's medicine, historic Bibles, artist's books, and other new aquisitions to Denison's arts and humanities collections.
Slocum Award for Student libraries
Ap' 1l 2- May 13, 2001
Established at Scripps in 1936, the Slocum Award is given to the Scripps Senior who, during her four years at coliege, has formed the most meaningful collection of books in the field or fields of her interest. Each Scripps Senior is eligible to enter her personal book collection. The subjects of past collections include Irish literature, zoology, censorship, and women poets.
For more: information, contact Denison Library at ( 909) 607- 3941.
Library Research, Publications and Events at The Claremont Colleges
