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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Letters
CCDL Update
Libraries Website Redesign
Celebrate eading: National Library Week
Services Desk in Honnold/ Mudd
Meet Your Librarians Faculty Authors Reception
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Transforming the Libraries: The ext Chapter
In my Spring 2006 column, I
wrote about th Libraries Vision
Task Force and its work
to denne new directions for
library services and resources.
The Task Force focused on
ideas that would foster community,
provide resources and services, facilitate learning, and be cutting edge/ exp
rimenral. The process of planning for the future of the Libraries and our services to you was accelerated early laSt Fall when the Task Force membership was re- constituted as the Library Planning Task Force*.
e Task Force has engaged the architecturallirm of
hepley Bulfmch Richardson & Abbott ( SBRA) to help us evelop a compr hensive services and space pI' '" m for the Librarie . SBRA ha a long and stellar
list oflibrary clients including Dartmouth College, Princet n University, Rice Universiry, and Wellesley College. Carole Wedge, President, and Buddy Meal' of SBRA visited the campu es several times during Fall 2006 to gather information about the Libraries' servic s, resour es, and buildings. During a three- day visit in November, SBRA met with a total of ten focu . groups f Libraries constituents. Five of these focus groups were c mprised of faculty members selected by the Academic Deans. Additional focus groups were comprised of students, information an instructional
technology Staffs, student deans, CCDL participants,
and library Staff Faculty wh \/ re not able to parri ipate in the focus groups had the opporrunity to complete a qu stionnaire for revie by SBRA.
Wormati n gathering has continued during the Spring Semest r. In mid- January, memb rs of the Task Force visited libraries at Rice University, Duke Univer it}" and Dartmouth College as well as the Bok Center at Harvard University. The architects have also continued me ting in Claremont with the Task Force :. md other groups. The sh~ lpe of the plan is becoming
dearer, but lItany decisions remain. At present, th Task Force is concentrating on determining which new programs will go into the Honnold Library. A Teaching and L arning Center, a center for Dara Services
and GIS, an academic conference cemer, a digital medi · cenrer, student learning services, and a cafe are all high on the list. Another Task Force emphasis is on the decisions dut must be made in order to accomm
date access to pap I' collections that continue to grow at the same time that the transition to delivery of information in digital formats is accelerating.
The Task Force timetable calls for a final program pbn for the Lib ies to be completed no later th n June. 2007. Your academic dean will be following the process dosely and will be a good resource for information ab ut our progress; I am also happy co answer any questions or hear your comments. This is an exciting opportunity not only co enhance library resources and ervices but also to contribute to developing
a great I' sense of academic community across the colleges- thus malung a significant difference in the lives of our students, faculty, and staff
* Members of th Task Force are Pamela Gann, C [ C ( Ch:: lir); Robert Klitgaard, CGU; Laura Skandera Trombley, Pitzer; Greg Dew y, KGI; D niel Goroff, HMC; Gary Kates, Pomona; [ ichad Lamkin, Scripps; Kenneth Pflueger, Pomona; John Beckman, CUC; and Bonnie Clemens, Libraries. 0
Bonnit: Clt: mens is Dire tor of die Libmries of The Claremont Colleges I first met the Libraries' GIS Specialist in March 2006. His name is Warren Roberts and over the course of the spring semester he could be found extolling the merits of GIS ( Geographic Information
Systems) technology in workshop held at the Honnold/ Mudd Library. Whether helping
staff track alumme by zip code, enabling students to enhance their projects with census data, or giving faculty me tools to visualize their research or enhance their teaching, Warren's skill and colorful crime scene stories kept us all G. l. ptivated.
At its simplest, GIS technology provides a bird's eye view of me world, but like Petcr Pan with GPS, Warren showed us how GIS technologies
could allow us to fly over cities, explore the Grand Canyon, track criminals on the run, study urban demographics, and for my project - to travel b ck in time with an ease that H. G. Wells would have envied.
I was interested in exploring how I might apply GlS technology to my own research. In writing
my book, LYrlc/ Jing in thl: " Vest, 1850- 1935 ( Duke, 2006), I gener; lted an extensive appendix
of over 350 individual lynching cases for California - seven times the number recorded by the AACP' The book primarily considers how nineteenth century conceptions of difference
( race, national origin, or ethnicity) have obscured the fact that when taken collectively,
arive Americans, African Americans, Chinese immigrants, and Latinos fell victim to the mob's anger more often than persons of Anglo or European
d scent. So I wondered ifGIS could add another layer of understanding to the data.
In the summer of 2006, I took the NITLE ( ational
Institute ofTechnology and Liberal Education)
GI workshop at Pomona, and happily, Warren sat next to me. The workshop was great and we learned how to navigate through the ArcGIS, Google Earth, and most importantly for my project, we were able to get access to digital
Sanborn Maps of Calib rnia. These maps exist
for many cities and most of those have been updated and redrawn numerous tim s over the past century. The Sanborn Maps are available through Blais, the Libraries' online catalog, and offer an incr dible glimpse ' back to the very beginning
of the state and Los Angeles in particular.
VYhen I starred this project, few people ' believe that California had a history of lynching, : ll1d terms like frontier justice, vigilance committee,
necktie party, and b. ngar 0 court colored mose cas s that were known. In researching the book and the case list, I began driving to rhe v rious lynch sites. Using the case histories as my guide, I have crossed ne: trly every county in the state. As straightforw3rd 3S my goal to find these forgotten sites may seem, California cities have changed dramatically over the past cenrury
and a half, and tracking down the original hanging trees WdS not always possible. I had set out to look for, to witness, as many of the sites as I could - knowing that many could never be found. My GIS project grew out of this interest, and I wanted to credte an experience that could be shared by everyone. In planning for n exhibition
of my photographs held at the Pomona College Museum of Art in September 20 6, I decided to create a walking tour of lynch sites for downtown Los Angeles.
With the Sanborn Maps and \ Varren.' s skill, we were able to overlay the dty's old streets on top of the present ones and determine the approximate
locations of 32 lynchings sites. The map and accompanying text were included in the Pomona exhibition cat: llogue and provided visitors with a unique opportunity to experience this past for themselves. The self- guided walking
tour begins at the doors of Union Station in downtown Los Angeles : lnd is only a short train ride away from Scripps and e Claremont Colleges. The walking tour revisits places and events made infamous in the first decades of the city - a period that was colored by great social, economic, and cululraJ unrest. The modern city has er: lsed much of this past bur there are still places where the old city can be found and like a war- rom battlefield, it demands recognition for its dead.
Kerl Carlz lies Day is Associate Professor, and OJair of the Dep" lrtment of Art, Scripps College The CCDL ( Claremont Colleges Digital Library) formally launched with nine collections on April 13, 2006. Continually growing, the CCDL currently holds 18 collections, with several more in the wings. These collections cover a broad range of subject areas
and disciplines including psych I gical symposia,
college hiscory, art, business management, and mathematics.
Serving the academic community, the CCDL fosters
faculty and srud or use of its online collections in both the classroom and beyond. The CCDL team is continually explores new ways to provide access to the growing range of materials within the digital library. Here are three collections brought to the digital library by faculty.
CODEE Learning Assets Lwrary The CODEE Learning Assets Library came to us through Darryl YOlli1g, faculty from the Math Department
at Harvey ludd College. The Consortium
for Ordinary Differential Equations Experiments
( CODEE) pt blication focuses on the use of computer experiments and software related to ordinary differential equations ( ODEs) and their applications. The publication enhances [ he expertise
of mathematics faculty in the development and use ofinteractive computer experimems designed to teach ODE · .
Murals of orthem Ireland the Murals of Norrhem Ireland is a collection of photographs taken by Scripps faculty Tony Crowley.
The murals are located principally in West Belfast.
and display both Republican and Loyalist murals,
painted during the recent period of Troubles. The images are records which include hisrorical representation, political standpoints, commlli1it: y concerns, andfOnns of ideol gical address. They range from overtly political declaration, ro brutal depictions
of the conflict, to humor and irony. Professor
Crowley is the Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Hummities at cripps College, and is Honorary Research Fellow at the In. titute of Irish Studies at the University ofLiverpooL He worked in Northem Ireland during the Troubles and has wrirten widely on various aspects of language debates in Ireland.
PerfOrmance Practice Review Robert Zappulla, the Fred W. Smith and Grace Hobson Smith Chair in Music and Chair for the Claremont Graduate University Music Department,
edits Performance Practice Review, a peer- reviewed
joumal devoted co the srudy of Westem musical performance practices and the conventions or styles of perforrn~ mcecharacteristic of particular periods, places, or groups. Originally published biannually
from 1988 to 1997, contributions to Performance
Practice Revinv from 2006 onward will be published exclusively online.
Most of the collections in the CCOL are continually growing and RSS notification is available to ke p tabs on your favorite collections. Look for highlights from the CCOLinfuture editions ofConnections. If you would like more information on the collections, prospective coUections, or the CCOL in general, please contact Pat Vince, the Digital Initiatives librarian,
at ( 909) 607- 0496 or pat. vince@ libraries. daremont. edu. We welcome your inquiry and participation.
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Allegra Gonzales is th" Digital Library Catalogerfor the Claremont CCDL, Honnold! M'ldd LibnllJI. Last Fall the Libraries debuted a new web site which emphasizes re ources faculty and students
use most - including Blais and other databases, electronic j urnals, and digital collections
- while still providing access to orher
information our campus community and visitors need. Thus, our home page showcases those most- used resources in the center section of the page. A new " How to" section guides you in finding articles and books, provides a focus on primary source materials, and links to subject
research guides and contacr information for subject specialist librarians. Also prominent on the home page are the latest news stories from the Libraries; liblog, our web- based newslerter; and descriptions of featured resources, which we hope will entice you to explore our collections
for even more. Students have told us they find the home page easy to use an nearly always comment on the" Hours for Today" area that automatically
displays the current building hours for each library.
About our new look: yes, that mountain village really is Claremont! The image is derived from a 1 08 postcard in the ' W'heeler Scrapbooks ( Sp cia! Collections, Honnold/ Mudd Library) showing a tinted photograph of Claremont. The postcard image appears in the web header, and elements of the im. ge serve as the background of each page; nestled at the bottom of each page is a close- up of Claremont village as depicted on the postcard. We have integrated the appearance
and functionality of all the elements of our web presence, so the new look of our site is shared by our online CltalOg, Blais, as well s by the Claremont Colleges Digital Library and our electronicjournals portal. To emphasize ur connection to The Colleges, most pages display the logos of each of The Claremont Colleges, as well as the logo of the Claremont University Consortium; logos are linked to the respective web sites. More images, including images of students and faculty using Libraries resources, increase the visual interest of web pages.
Other changes are behind the scenes. Since our last rede ign in 2003 the world of web design has moved toward the adoption of emerging web standards that encourage the logical Structuring
of web documents, separating the documents
themselves from the code which handles the way those documents - web pages - are displayed in web browsers. With this redeSign we were able to plan for standards- compliant browsers like Firefox, Safari, Opera. and IE 7. Changes in tl1e way some informati n is generated
has also moved us toward our goal of making
the Libraries' site increasingly database- driven,
making updates easier and information more dependable. We also have incorporated blog technology, allowing us to disseminate news and information more quickly than before.
Other features and improvements are in the works so please visit our site often. Where, you ask? Same address as before: http:// libraries. claremont. edn. []
Jarnes Otto is the Web Admil1istmtor, at Honnold/ lvf~ ldd Library ClOY 5 BRL F L1
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The Services Desk, located on the second ( main)
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floor of Honnold/ Mudd, provides a one- stop
location for reference, information, circulation,
and reserves services during all hours the library
is open. Providing service
ince August 2006,
this desk replaces the previously separate Reference/
Informatioll : lnd Circulation desks. The
fonner Circulation Desk space has been reconfigured
as a comfortable seating area ; ll1d showcases
the Braxton Collection of popular fiction
and non- fiction as well as"
ew Books:'
At the Services Desk, you can check out books and audiovisual materials, pick up LI K+ books and interlibrary loan items, ask general information questions, and speak with or make an appointment wirh a subject specialist librarian
~ or in- depth research assistance. Faculty can drop off materials to be placed on r serve in Honnold/ Mudd Library or on ERes ( electronic
reserves). Faculty, students, and staff who are unable to come to the Services Desk for inperson
assistance can dick on the ASK U link at the top of the Libraries' home page to learn about how to send an Instant Message to Services
Desk staff during library hours. ASK US also allows them to send an email questi n any time of the day or night. Email questions are answered
by 5: 00pm on the n xt working day, but are usually answered much sooner.
If you have any questi ns or concerns about the Services Desk in Honnold/ Mudd, please contact
Librarian Cindy Snyder, at 909- 607- 7106 ( x77106), or email her at cindy. snyder@ librari
s. claremont. edu.
On your next visit to Honnold/ Mudd Library, stop by [ 0 say hello! ;:]
Cindy Snyder and Kimberly Y Fmnklin are ReIerencelInstmction Librnrirl115, at Honnold/ M~ ldd Libmry. Linda Gunter was born and grew up In Kansas City. She earned a BA in Asi: m Srudies from Washington University in St. Louis, an MA in Asian Studies from Claremont
Graduate University, then a NIasters in Library Science from USC and a doctorate
in Information cience from Nova University. he has worked as a librarian at a law firm library, at the University of La Verne, at Cal State Fullerton, and has been at Honnold/ Mudd Library for the past 22 years. In her present position as Head ofAccess Services, she oversees the operations of Circulation,
Sheri Irvin is the Reference Librarian at Denison Library on the Scripps campus.
Until recendy she w s based in Honnold/
Mudd and was the U. S. Government and International Publications Librarian.
Throughout the last 25 years she has worked in a variery oflibraries and information
settings including: Academic - Cbremonr Colleges, CSU Fullerton
Governm nr Publications, CSU Fullerton
Oral History Center archivist, and Glendale Community College Referen e and Instruction Public - Riverside Public Library's Eastside Cybrary after- school computer and information
literacy and outreach program for an under- represented population School - Anaheim City School District as Information Lireracy Consultant, Adjunct faculty for the School of Library and Information
Science, San Jose Srate University
She has an undergraduare degree in English
Literature from the University of California,
Santa Barbara, and an M. L. LS from Interlibrary Loan, Material Handling, and the Welcome Desk.
In addition, Linda is a Reference Librarian,
responsible for the subject areas of Economics and Information Science. She works with students individually, in classes, and at the S rvices Desk.
Her outside interests focus on her children and grandchildren, baking, various rypes of needlework, vegetable gardening, horseracing,
and she is a staunch LA Lakers fan. Some of her favorite life experiences have been a year spent in Taiwan, and special rides in a glider and in a hot air balloon.
San Jose Stare University. Aside from interests that include the history of California and the southwestern United States polirics, gardening, film ( especially 1 50' s and 60' s British and U. S. science fiction movies), agate hunting, poetry, the ocean, and porrery ( particularly Mata Ortiz,
Eric Darrow and Harrison McIntosh), Sheri also enjoys research in library history. She is active in the California Library Association,
especially with the Library History
Round Table. She is co- author of nvo published articles: " At the Pleasure of the Board: Women Librarians and the Los Angeles
Public Libr: lty, 1880- 1905;' in Libnlries
& C'llwre 34: 4, Fall 1999; and another article published in 1996 in Feminist Collections
A Quarterly of Womens , wdies Resources,
ricled" Interactive Video and Female Learning: Implications tor a Feminized Professi n:' The former Carnegie Libr: uy on the Pomona College campus is a current topic of interest on her radar! On Thursday, March 22, the first Faculty Authors Reception was held by the Libraries ro recognize and celebrate Claremont Colleges £" tculey who have recently published a book. The reception featured good food, great speakers, and an engaged audience.
Several faculey from The Claremont C lIeges
talked about such issues as their inspiration for writing their books, the ob tades they had ro surmoum, and the things they were able co laugh aboutin theprocess ofpublishing. The mosthe: trtfelt
comments focused on the inspiration for writing
and the process and evolution of id . s through CO their culmination in publication. Although nor planned, each speaker's presenration built superbly on the previous speaker's stoey. Especially interesting
was the common thread each of the speak rs related of experiencing some form of prejudice in their publishing experiences.
Gregory Ortalea, Assistant Professor of Creative
Writing, Pitzer College and author of vera!
books, most recently TIJe Arab Americans: A History, reminisced about growing up as an Arab American in the United States. He also described how experiences since 9/ 11 have changed the perceptions
of many Arab AmericlI1s in the United States. His commems were both descriptive and moving.
Gail Thompson, Associate Professor in the Sch 01 of Educational Studies, Claremont Graduate Universiey,
is author of the recently published book,
Exposing the " Cllltlm: ~ f Arrogance" in the Academy: A BI,~ eprint for Increasing BklCk Fawlty SatisJlction
ill Higher Education. She spoke ab ut an earlier
book, Up Where ' We Belong: Helping Aji- imn American and Latino Students Rise in School and in
Life. Her corrunents were provocative, raising questions
about racial inequalities in educ, cion.
Ken Gonzalt.- z- Day, Associate Professor of Art and Chair of the Arc Deparnnenr Scripps College,
engaged the audience with the Story of how his work with ph tographs at the Huntington Library
led co questions that provided the genesis of his book, Lynching in the West, 1850- 1935, which was recently nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Ken described how an inscription on a seemingly innocent
photog ph led CO this extraordinary book.
The 6. naI. presentation was inspired by the book, TIJe Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television, written by the last speaker, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Associate Professor of English
and ivIedia Studies and Coordinator of the Media Studies Program, Pomon College. Issues raised in this book provided a segue inca : l conversation
about the future of the book in light of other communications media such as television. Kathleen described the exciting discussions she is now engaged in concerning the lUture of mt.: novel and the future of media scholarship, in the Media Commons web project which she belped found.
We in the Libraries hope dus event will be the first in a continuing series of such events that celebrate the publications ofClaremont Colleges fleuley. a
Mary Martin is a Reference/ Instruction Librariall, at Honnold/ Mudd Libmry.
