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Fall 2005 Vol. 8, no. 1

Google Scholar is another research tool in this issue Rest room reading Library informs you any time, any place. Page 2 What are you reading? Staff and faculty tell us about their summer reading. Page 3 What’s new? McCabe gets more space and new signs. W.H. Auden on web. Page 4 Digital collections Find primary documents, art, music, and more - all on the web. Page 5 Staff news George Huber, Barry Woolson retire. More changes. Page 6-7 Peace Collection reaches 75th year It all started with Jane Addams. Now there are 12 million documents. Page 8 Workshops/events Save this special section to see what’s happening this fall. special section

by Diane Skorina By now, everyone has probably heard of Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com), Google’s search engine for scholarly materials. Though technically still a Beta version, Scholar works, and students are definitely using it. Is this a bad thing? No, probably not: it is a better web search engine than regular Google (or any of the others) to find the kinds of information appropriate for college research papers. It is, however, only one more tool for the researcher, not something that replaces the many other resources in existence, or, as some might hope, one that makes research effortless and undemanding. The advantages Google Scholar’s interface works just like the regular Google’s – type in a few words or phrases that describe a topic, and up pops a list of hundreds or thousands of results. The major difference between the two is that Google Scholar searches a much smaller subset of the web than regular Google, and returns fewer but more scholarly results: records from library catalogs and for journal articles, many of which are copyrighted and lie behind subscription database walls. These citations for copyrighted articles have in the past not been open to Google’s spiders, the automated indexers that crawl the Internet collecting data about web pages, but recently database vendors have allowed the spiders behind their walls. The JSTOR and Project Muse databases, for example, are now open to Google’s spiders, so their content shows up prominently in Google Scholar search results. And since JSTOR and Muse are full-text databases, a researcher searching on a computer connected through a library that subscribes to them (as Swarthmore does) can directly link to the full-text of the

article from the citation in Scholar. So, instead of searching in several places – Tripod for books and then looking in JSTOR or Muse for articles – Google Scholar displays all types of materials (books, journal articles, theses and the like) from all subjects in one place. This is certainly a good thing, and Google is working with libraries to make it easier to go from citations on Scholar to all materials in the local library, not just those in JSTOR and Muse. The disadvantages Of course, Google Scholar isn’t the panacea for the myriad trials and tribulations of serious research – not yet, at least. It may replace the need to use the WorldCat interface through the library’s webpage to search for items the TriCo doesn’t own (for more information on that, see: http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/ default.htm). But this does not eliminate the usefulness of searching directly in Tripod anymore than WorldCat ever did. The materials in Tripod have been selected to complement and supplement the courses students take and the topics on which they conduct research – and they are, of course, available immediately. In addition, Tripod has more sophisticated search options than Google Scholar, allowing subject searching and limiting. Starting research locally is often still a better way to begin and to focus research than using the overwhelmingly large universe of books in libraries all over the world right off the bat. As for journal articles – if they aren’t in JSTOR or Muse or a database that Scholar spiders, you won’t find the citations. Many databases remain inaccessible to spiders, so searchers relying exclusively on Scholar will miss a good deal of relevant information. continued on page 2

Google Scholar continued from page 1 Another frustrating aspect is the fact that Scholar is not subjectspecific: a simple search on Nabokov (the author), for example, brought me literature-related materials, but also many articles written by a scientist with the same last name. The databases available on the Databases by Subject (http://tricolib.brynmawr.edu/databases/ dbsubj.cfm) pages eliminate this kind of problem: the content they contain is specific to a subject and, as in Tripod, they offer more sophisticated search and limiting options. These databases (such as MLA Bibliography and Sociological Abstracts) present records of all types of materials – books, journal articles, theses, book reviews – with the MORE! button linking to the full-text, the Tripod record, or, if not on campus, the InterLibrary Loan form. A balanced approach The important thing to remember is this: scholarly information is often the fruit of years of research and hard work, and is therefore copyrighted and not free. The libraries of Swarthmore College pay to provide access to this (sometimes very expensive) information. Google Scholar is an attractive and effective new way to find this information for students, professors and librarians alike, but it is only one among many ways, and it is relatively new, incomplete, and untested. Thorough, careful research is still a complex, time-consuming process, unlikely to be the sort of task easily completed in one place, at the entry of a couple of words or the click of a button – certainly it is not now. There is no one place that miraculously finds the relevant information in the vast sea of research out there needed for individual scholarly pursuits, just as there are no teleporters to transport us instantly to our destinations. But just as driving to someplace can be half the excitement of the whole trip, spending the time on research, for students at all levels, is a large part of the learning process. The recorded knowledge of humanity grows each day, and learning how to navigate through it using the most effective research tools for the task at hand – whether that is Google Scholar or the library resources, or some combination – is a critical skill.

Not just graffiti is on the rest room walls by Justin Clarke and Linda Hunt Knowing how terribly busy our patrons are, but wanting to convey to them the richness and diversity of our library resources and services, a small committee of dedicated, pun-loving library staff have come up with a cunning plan to bring pertinent information to the patron. While embracing the model of digital communication, such as email, blogs, and websites, we also respect that time-honored form of contact – the print publication. After a few meetings and plenty of potty humor, the idea for a bathroom broadcast was born. Launched in Spring 2004, the Toilet Papers provides rest stop reading in all library stalls in McCabe and Cornell. The TPs, as they are affectionately known, aim to inform, enlighten, inspire, and amuse our bathroomgoing library patrons. Issued weekly, this pipeline of information includes topics such as new library databases and exhibits, collections and policy reminders, libraryrelated themes such as banned books, celebrations of National Library Week, as well as the cost of online resources. Positive feedback came flushing forth, hailing the installation of this lavatory literature. The team decided to take the plunge and included essential information about registration and voting procedures for the 2004 election and even included a charmin’ advertisement for the Career Peer Advisor evening hours in McCabe. The Toilet Papers are proudly produced by Anne Garrison, humanities librarian, Linda Hunt, access and lending services specialist, and Justin Clarke, technical services specialist. If there is something about the library you’ve been anxious to know, please contact us and your question just might be throne into the next issue. U R IN AL our thoughts! - The Paper People

Google digitizing library collections

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by Terry Heinrichs

is the newsletter of the Swarthmore College Libraries, published once a semester.

Google has embarked on an ambitious project to digitize millions of books owned by the New York Public Library, the University of Michigan, and Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford Universities. Digitizing may take about six years to complete, but books are continually added to the site as they are ready. Google PrintTM also gets content from publishers. Books that are no longer protected by copyright law (generally before 1922) will display their entire content. Books still under copyright will allow viewing of only a few sentences or a few pages. To help locate a book to buy or borrow, the site offers links to online bookstores and to libraries by zip code. Links to book reviews and to related web sites are also listed. See Google Print at http://print.google.com/. 2

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Editors: Pam Harris Terry Heinrichs Annette Newman Interns: Melanie Maksin, Diane Skorina Thank you to all who contributed to this issue, especially: Adam Brin, Wendy Chmielewski, Barbara Grubb, Kelly Mueller, Pat O’Donnell, Meg Spencer, and Barb Weir E-mail: libnews@swarthmore.edu Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081

What are you reading? We asked staff and faculty what they read this summer.

Chronicles: Volume One

The Birth of Venus

Breaking Her Fall

by Bob Dylan

by Sarah Dunant

by Stephen Goodwin

Michael Rapp Information Technology Services

Jennifer Barrington Career Services

Kathy Grace Bookstore

Freakonomics

Them: A Memoir of Parents

Trace

by Stephen D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

by Francine du Plessix Gray

by Patricia Cornwell

Barbara Fleming Research – Development

Dorothy Kunzig Registrar’s office

Steve Levin Bookstore

The Old Man and the Sea

The Scorpio Illusion

Guns, Germs, and Steel

by Ernest Hemingway

by Robert Ludlum

by Jared Diamond

Carmen Duffy Investment Office

Jeff Jaquith Facilities Management

Brian Meunier Art

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Compact shelving adds space to McCabe

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by Barb Weir Croquet anyone? If you see students playing croquet or bocce on the lawn near the Science Center, they probably borrowed them from Cornell Science Library. Student Council bought the sets and asked the library to handle the lending. Library website Reaction to the re-designed library website (http://www.swarthmore.edu/ library/) has been positive from users, with most commenting that it is “much better organized” and “more attractive,” said Kelly Mueller, digital information services librarian. The re-design project focused on a thorough content revision, navigation, usability, and architecture and coding standards effective for maintenance, content migration, and future design updates. Headed by Kelly, the team consisted of Ann Cary, Justin Clarke, Terry Heinrichs, Melanie Maksin, and Diane Skorina

To increase shelving capacity in the library, the lower level of McCabe will have new compact shelving this fall. The Census Room and the Closed Stacks were demolished to create a large open space for the new system, which almost doubles the shelving capacity of this area. The new shelves have 13,000 feet of shelf space. Compact shelving is a system of moving shelves on tracks that can be compressed together to conserve space. So, patrons can move the shelves – either by mechanical or electrical means, depending on the system – to get to the particular row of materials they need. While the compact shelves in Cornell are controlled by an electrical system, McCabe’s (made by Elecompack) are mechanical, operated by hand crank. Sound a little dangerous? Don’t worry. The shelving was designed to withstand earthquakes. And most important: an aisle lock mechanism prevents movement of the shelves when someone is in an open aisle – so no one gets squished.

Most of the shelving houses government documents, with a locked section for materials formerly housed in the Closed Stacks. You’ll still need to ask librarians to get to these materials. Moving the government documents to the compact shelving frees up space for books. National Library Relocations was hired to shelve the government documents in the new shelving, and to move the other books on the floor. Books will be shelved in a more intuitive arrangement, incorporating call numbers BF and G from other floors of the building. The circulation and reference staff are more than happy to help you find what you need. Some of the little used materials from Closed Stacks and the Census Room have been moved to an offsite storage facility. Tripod will show their location as “S Offsite Storage” with a status of “5-day delay.” If you want to use any of these, you may request them through Tripod.

New signs in McCabe by Ann Cary

Virtual exhibit features W.H. Auden by Melanie Maksin He was a poet who wrote in his library books, a celebrity who greeted visitors in his bathrobe and slippers, and a professor who believed that “a professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.” W.H. Auden taught at Swarthmore from 1942 through 1945, and he participated in campus life as a distinguished lecturer, a contributor to the Phoenix and the Dodo literary magazine, and a consultant (and occasional actor) in the theater club. In the decades that followed, he returned for lectures, discussions, and to receive an honorary degree from the college. Visit the new virtual exhibit, Fellow Irresponsibles, Follow Me: W.H. Auden and Swarthmore College, 1940-1972, to read about Auden’s presence in the Swarthmore community and to view rare documents and unique artifacts from the Auden Collection of McCabe’s Rare Book Room. The collection features an assortment of Auden oddities, from Phoenix articles and library call slips to a manuscript notebook and the typewriter he used while he was a member of the English department. This online exhibit is at http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/auden. If you’re interested in other special collections in McCabe, check out the Rare Book Room page: http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/collections/rarebooks.html. 4

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To make navigating McCabe Library a little less confusing, new signs are being installed this semester. These new signs reflect another major change in the library: the floor numbers have been renamed. Patrons now enter the library on Level 1, go up to Levels 2 and 3, and go down to the Lower Level; before, many were thrown off that the main level was actually called Level 2. Long overdue for a signage make-over, McCabe is notorious for its circular corridors, hidden alcoves, and ability to confuse even someone with the best sense of direction. The incomplete and inaccurate signage, a product of a time when the library’s collections were much smaller, didn’t help matters much. A recent survey revealed that the majority of people have some trouble finding call numbers in McCabe. Visiting the library should be a pleasant and productive experience, and we hope that the new signs and floor numbers will improve your library visit. 5

Libraries and museums are just a click away by Terry Heinrichs what’s what’s new new With its current project to digitize thousands of books from major library collections (see article on page two), Google joins the vast number of digital collections on the web. Libraries and museums have been digitizing their unique materials for years, providing free access to their non-copyrighted materials via the web. The Tri-Colleges have Triptych, a collection of online primary documents from their own collections. There is an amazing world of digital collections on the web, containing primary documents, works of art, photographs, sound recordings, and films. The sheer number of these materials is simply staggering, and they open up a whole new world to professors and students, who can use them for teaching and assignments, and also to anyone who wants to explore other times and continents from their computer. It’s like going into the largest museum ever built with thousands of doors that open into rooms of all sizes, filled with everything from the paintings of Renoir to the letters of Abraham Lincoln to obscure technical documents.

OAIster is a gateway A master guide to digital collections is OAIster (http:// www.oaister.org/o/oaister/), a University of Michigan project that catalogs scholarly digital resources that may be difficult to find through the major search engines. It provides links to over 500 collections, with some containing many individual collections, totalling nearly six million records. Here are some that you’ll find at OAIster: American Natural Science in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century - http://www.acnatsci.org/library/ collections/imls/index.html English Heritage ViewFinder - http://viewfinder.englishheritage.org.uk/ Jet Propulsion Laboratory Technical Reports Server http://jpl-trs.jpl.nasa.gov/ The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) - http://nsdl.org/ OpenVideo Project - http://www.open-video.org/ The Rosetta Project - http://www.rosettaproject.org/live

Use your search engine One of the quickest ways to find a digital collection is to use Google, Yahoo, AskJeeves, MSN or any other search engine. You can be as specific as you want when searching like this, since these engines will search within digital collections during a regular search. But even a general search on the phrase “digital collection” brings back many thousands of results. Here are a few: American Memory Project - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem Canada’s Digital Collections - http://collections.ic.gc.ca/ NASA: Johnson Space Center - http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/ New York Public Library - http://nypl.org/digital/ Perseus Digital Library - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ The British Library - http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ homepage.html

Why you still need the library It’s the old money problem again. Many things aren’t free and the only way to access them is through the library databases or Tripod. Some of the best online collections of primary sources are owned by for-profit companies. Fortunately, Swarthmore pays for access to some amazing collections – Harper’s Weekly from its inception, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, the New York Times from its first issue in 1851, and art images on Amico, ARTstor, and Grove Dictionary of Art. You can find these on the “History – Primary Sources” and “Art/Art History” links on the database list: http://tricolib.brynmawr.edu/databases/dbsubj.cfm. Digital collections of images, documents, films, and music – whether free or paid for - are one of the best things about research on the web, bringing primary source material straight to your desktop.

Triptych http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/

The Tri-College digital collection currently has 10 individual collections with more in the works. These include over 700 photographs documenting the history of the Society of Friends, over 800 photographs of suffrage leaders and events, correspondence of prominent Quaker families in the Philadelphia area, unique items from the Peace Collection at Swarthmore, watercolor paintings of the flora of Delaware County, and the records of a 1923 trip to view the solar eclipse in Mexico. Publishers, researchers, teachers, and students are searching Triptych and using the images available there – a very gratifying fact to the library staff who have spent many hours scanning documents and entering data. Barbara Grubb, who administers Bryn Mawr’s Catt Collections Suffrage Photographs on Triptych, said “I’m getting

photo illustration requests from everyone from middle school level websites that were a class project on women’s suffrage to the Carrie Chapman Catt Childhood Home, which wanted to reproduce some for a permanent exhibition. In a number of cases these images are apparently not available elsewhere or are very difficult to locate.” “The new book on the underground railroad, Bound for Canaan, by Fergus M. Bordewich (2005) has a ‘ton’ of photos from Friends; some of them were found on-line, and the rest requested through the initial contact,” said Pat O’Donnell, archivist at the Friends Historical Library here. @library.edu

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Finé: George Huber retires as music librarian Music Librarian George Huber, who retired in June, began working at Swarthmore on August 3, 1964, three years before McCabe even existed, when the library was housed in an old Carnegie building at the bottom of the hill. The Computer Center in Beardsley opened that year, as did Sharples Dining Hall, where smoking was allowed and waiters served meals — briefly. There was talk, by the newly formed Campus Conservative club, of Goldwater winning Pennsylvania, and people in town were campaigning against the construction of the Blue Route while students protested the Vietnam War. College tuition was under $2,000 a year. Much has changed in the 41 years since George began as an assistant in the circulation department. Books are no longer arranged in three-story, freestanding stacks with floors of semi-opaque glass. They’re in McCabe, which was built in 1967, when George became the special collections librarian, in charge of the Treasure Room and the Swarthmoreana collection; and they’re in Underhill, which was built in 1973, when George became music librarian. Inventing policy as he went along, George made Underhill the place it is today, integrating the Dance collection in the mid-70s and helping countless students find symphonies, quartets, trios, music history books, and much more. “Music is a very complicated subject to search for in a catalog,” Huber said, so students have needed a lot of assistance over the years. He will surely miss them: “That’s the sad part about leaving.” Huber praised the Tricollege cooperation with Haverford and Bryn Mawr, greatly facilitated by a shared database. “We’re trying to make, in theory, a kind of university library by combining the [holdings of the three] and not duplicating what each has.” Underhill also circulates a set of African drums and metronomes to be used for practice in the building. George isn’t worried about finding things to do in retirement: a lover of theater, music and books, he’ll no doubt have plenty to keep him occupied. “I think it is time to move on,” George explained, “which is why I am retiring. I’ll let someone else come in and change things if they want to…I’ve been there, done that, and think it is time to leave these joys to someone else to worry about.” - Diane Skorina

Barry Woolson retires from library Barry Woolson retired from the library on June 30 after serving the college for 23 years. Barry worked as the Serials Specialist and was responsible for managing the print and electronic journal collection in McCabe. In recent years, her position changed from one in which the primary responsibility was for overseeing the receipt, claiming, renewal, binding and shelving of print titles, to one in which she worked to ensure that students and faculty had access to several thousand electronic journals and databases, while still managing the print journal collection. Barry began to work in the library on August 30, 1982. It was actually her daughter Mary, a student here at the time, who encouraged her to apply. Barry began as an afternoon receptionist at the front door. After two years she moved to Acquisitions and worked for Monique Constantino and Libby Amann, and was responsible for the receipt of new books. Later Barry moved to a new position working half-time as the periodicals assistant to Shirley Kirby and half-time as the processing assistant. When Shirley retired in 1989, Barry took the fulltime position in serials. Barry said what she liked about her job was the people and the variety - she never knew when she came in each day what kinds of problems she would need to solve. Barry’s calm demeanor, level-headedness, attention to detail, and penchant for order will be missed by all of us in the library. We’re glad to have had the chance to work with her and know she’ll enjoy having more time to spend at her house in Ocean City and with her three children and five grandchildren. – Barb Weir 6

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Donna Fournier is the new Performing Arts Librarian at Underhill Library, replacing George Huber. She worked as the Associate Librarian of Haverford College Library and was the former music librarian there. A graduate of Connecticut College, she has an M.L.S. from Southern Connecticut State University and an M.A. in music history from West Chester University. A gambist and cellist, Donna instructs viola da gamba students at Temple University, is a member of the baroque ensemble Le Triomphe de L’Amour, and performs with several orchestras and ensembles.

Khoo begins; Maksin heads to Pitt

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Evelyn Khoo ‘05 is the recipient of a year long selective internship funded through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As a Swarthmore College Library Associate through next summer, she will have an opportunity to learn about the significant challenges facing the library profession, and explore the potential of librarianship as a career. This internship is part of a broader grant involving six academic libraries (Atlanta University Center, Mount Holyoke, Oberlin, Occidental, Swarthmore, and Wellesley Colleges) with the intention of addressing librarian recruiting and diversity issues at the under-graduate level. As a spring ’05 library intern, Evelyn organized a “Cookbook Event” for the library, developing a collection of cookbooks.

Justin Clarke became a new sales rep for Harrassowitz, the book seller and subscription agent. In his position in the technical services department since 2002, he was responsible for standing order checkin and cataloging, binding, mail sorting, and management of the SFX service. “His degree in German and experience in serials and acquisitions (not to mention his winning personality!) will make him a valuable employee to Harrassowitz,” said Barb Weir, department head.

Miss Manners, W. H. Auden, and Pulp Fiction, have all been the purview of Melanie Maksin ’04 who, upon completion of her year-long Swarthmore College Library Associate internship on August 15, began attending graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Information Sciences. She is the recipient of a selective scholarship awarded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As an intern she served as a panelist on the topic of high school/library transition, attended national conferences, and gained experience in the day-to-day operation of an academic library. We wish Melanie well as she steps into librarianship outside the walls of McCabe library. and imagine her doing “crusading-socialist-librarian work that’s the stuff of many politicians’ nightmares.” - Pam Harris

Anna Headley is the newest member of the technical services department, leaving her position as late-night supervisor in the circulation department. As technical services specialist, Anna is responsible for monographic ordering and cataloging and for mail sorting.

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Robbie Hart is the new late night supervisor in McCabe’s Access and Lending Services Department. A 2004 Swarthmore graduate, he has been working as a research assistant to Professor David Harrison, Linguistics department. While a student here, he worked in the Access and Lending department and was a library intern in the Mellon program.

Jackie Magagnosc, former government documents librarian here, accepted the position of serials and electronic resources specialist, replacing Barry Woolson. She is responsible for managing the print and online periodical subscriptions and troubleshooting access problems with electronic resources. Jackie started working in the government documents collection in 1988. Three years ago, she became the government documents librarian for the Tri-Colleges when the depository programs merged. Diane Skorina is the new reference and instructional services librarian at Ursinus College in Collegeville, after interning here for the past year. She worked on various special projects, including the African studies collection, Infotrac alternative task force, and the staff intranet site on Blackboard. At Ursinus, Diane consults with patrons at the reference desk, teaches classes, and provides individual advanced research assistance. Laura Zielinsky left her position in the technical services department in the spring, returning to her home town of Chicago. Laura was particularly adept at finding sources for the foreign language materials the library purchased. She also helped Bryn Mawr College Library in cataloging a backlog of Spanish books.

Library recruiting interns The Mellon Librarian Recruitment Grant continues its “Current Issues in Librarianship” programming this fall with a mini-documentary, Google and Libraries, starring David Cohen of Astronomy, Roxanne Yaghoubi ’05, Ryan Esquejo ’05 and Social Sciences Librarian Megan Adams; dates of screenings and discussions tba. Applications for Spring ’06 Mellon Library internships are available on the library website. @library.edu

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The Peace Collection observes 75th anniversary by Wendy E. Chmielewski, George Cooley Curator The Peace Collection continued to collect material on the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, the international antinuclear movement, the anti-war movement of the Vietnam war era, the covert wars in Central America, peace efforts in the Middle East, citizen efforts at reconciliation with the U.S.S.R., and the peace movement during the Persian Gulf War. Today the Peace Collection collects material in all formats on peace, anti-war movements, civil rights, nonviolence, women’s activities in the peace movement, disarmament, anti-militarism, and conscientious objection. The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), an organization that Jane Addams helped to establish, still sends its files to the Peace Collection, as do newer organizations like United for Peace and Justice. There are now over 12 million documents, in more than a dozen languages, in the Peace Collection, Chmielewski along with thousands of books, journals, photographs, videos, political buttons, bumper stickers, banners, graphics, and a large poster collection. Thousands of people visit the Peace Collection every year in person, through email inquiries, or by visiting the extensive web site (http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace), using its resources for many reasons.

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In 1930 Jane Addams, founder of Hull House in Chicago and internationally known peace activist, donated 200 books from her personal library to Swarthmore College. This spurred Frank Aydelotte, Swarthmore’s president, to establish a special library focusing on issues of world peace. Originally named the Jane Addams Memorial Peace Collection, it was later renamed the Swarthmore College Peace Collection as its scope grew. With direction from Aydelotte, Ellen Starr Brinton, the library’s first Curator, collected materials on the issue of peace around the world. She added books, pamphlets, and papers of peace organizations and activists, including those of Addams after her death. The international scope of the collection grew when Brinton traveled to Europe in the late 1930s. Brinton saved the documents of many European peace organizations and Brinton activists who were opposed to the Nazi regime. After World War II, the Peace Collection acquired files of organizations that had assisted conscientious objectors during the war. It now has the largest collection in the United States on the history of conscientious objection, with over two million documents and hundreds of audio-visual materials from World War I to the present.

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special events - fall 2005 workshops The first three of these workshops will be in McCabe Library’s computer classroom on Level 3; the last will be in the Rare Book Room. RSVP to Ann Cary at acary1. Super Searching - Google and the Library Wednesday, Sept. 21, 12:30-1:30 Learn simple yet powerful techniques to get the most out of your Google searches, and learn when to use online library resources for even better results. Light refreshments served. Using Endnote: Make Your Lives Easier! Friday, Oct. 28, 1:00-2:30 A workshop for anyone looking to take the stress out of formatting a bibliography and save yourself hours. RSS: What’s all the fuss about? Tuesday, Nov.15, 11:30-12:30 Learn to use a free web service, called a news aggregator, to subscribe to and collect content delivered through RSS (Really Simple Syndication) in your own web space. Get weather, news headlines, blogs, tables of contents from scholarly journals, etc. Bestiaries & Miniatures Friday, Dec. 2, 3:00-4:00 p.m. Investigate tiny books and bestiaries in the Rare Book Room of McCabe in this interactive session.

events The Seven Library Collections at Swarthmore Exhibit: Aug. 19 - Sept. 19 Celebrating 75 Years of the Peace Collection Exhibit: Oct. 3 - Nov. 14 Lecture: John D’Emilio, An Agitator for Justice: the Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. Thursday, Oct. 27, 7:30 pm, Location TBA. Film Screening: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin. Tuesday, Oct. 25, 8:00 pm, Science Center #199. Bookmobile visits Swarthmore College Wednesday, Nov. 2 2005 A. Edward Newton Award Exhibit: Nov. 21 - Jan. 10 Talk: Anna Torres ’07 presents her award winning collection of Yiddish Literature, TBA.

Seven libraries of Swarthmore exhibit You’ve heard about the seven wonders of the world, but what about the seven libraries and collections of Swarthmore? On this campus, in those collections, you can find 19th century abolitionist Isaac Hopper’s cane and the typewriter W.H. Auden used when he was teaching here. You can examine up-close materials as varied as an actual manumission certificate freeing a slave and a Soviet propaganda poster from the 1920s urging citizens to “annihilate flies.” There’s more, much more: artists’ books no more than two inches tall, African dance how-to videos, an Aramaic edition of the Talmud, a score for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, The Journal of Experimental Zoology, a signed copy of Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement, and the entire seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. All of this – and a great deal more – can be found on Swarthmore’s campus, dispersed throughout the college’s seven libraries and collections. Most people know about McCabe, the main library; science majors know Cornell quite well; and music and dance majors are no stranger to Underhill. But the College’s other rich library resources are sometimes a little harder to find: the Friends Historical Library, a world-renowned collection of Quaker materials; the Peace Collection, established by Jane Addams’ donation of materials on peace and social justice in 1930; the Beit Midrash Center for the Study of Classical Jewish Texts, where students learn to read Hebrew from scratch; and the Black Cultural Center Library, with its many autographed editions. The Seven Libraries of Swarthmore exhibit brings together materials from all of the libraries under McCabe’s roof, highlighting the eclectic mix of texts (old and new), CDs, DVDs and videos, and myriad other materials (from African drums to croquet sets) that the libraries at Swarthmore collectively have to offer. - Diane Skorina

Bayard Rustin’s life is focus of Peace Collection’s anniversary celebration The Library and Peace Collection are co-hosting a lecture by John D’Emilio, author of Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin, and a screening of the documentary Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin. Both of these significant works made use of the Peace Collection’s resources to research and document this controversial peace and civil rights activist. The lecture on October 27 at 8:30 is entitled An Agitator for Justice: the Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. D’Emilio, Director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and Professor of History, Gender D’Emilio and Women’s Studies at the University of Chicago, will talk broadly about the commitments and contours of Bayard Rustin’s life. The film Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, by the producer director team of Nancy Kates and Bennett Singer, premiered on PBS in 2003 and will been shown here on October 25 at 8:00 pm in Science Center 199. Since its premier, the film has won awards and accolades worldwide for illuminating the life of this vital and influential figure.

Bookmobile visits campus on November 2 Now in its sixth year, Mobilivre-Bookmobile is an annual touring exhibition of artist books, zines, and independent publications. Traveling by way of a vintage Airstream, the Bookmobile visits a variety of venues in Canada and the United States, including community centers, schools, libraries, festivals and artist-run centers. A group of coordinators traveling with the exhibition facilitate a series of workshops, artist talks, and educational forums. The project has exposed thousands of visitors to a unique collection of independently produced book works, from handmade and one-of-a-kind to photocopied and small press publications. The Mobilivre-Bookmobile project is a community arts initiative founded by the Bookmobile collective, a diverse group of emerging North American artists and community activists. Their mandate is to fuse artistic production with political activism and community organizing. The collective consists of a fluctuating group of dedicated volunteers, coordinators, jury organizers, and tour guides. Although the project is based primarily in Montreal, QC, and Philadelphia, PA, collective members reside in various cities throughout North America. You can read more about them at http://www.mobilivre.org. – Pam Harris

2005 A. Edward Newton award for book collections Katherine Bridges ’05 received first prize for her collection, “Printmaking, Typography, and Book Arts.” Second prize went to Anna Elena Torres ’07 for “Yiddishkeit,” a collection of books on Yiddish culture and literature that will be on display in McCabe from November 21 – January 10. The “Classic Texts of Christian Theology and Spirituality” collection belonging to Liza Anderson ’05 received the third prize. The three collections chosen by the judges truly express the spark of bibliophilism. For both Katherine and Anna in particular, these collections were built by combing through used bookstores, library book sales, and even dumpsters. Now that’s dedication! - Pam Harris