UC Berkeley Library Update

Maps of the Southern Border Pop-Up Exhibit

Posted on October 19, 2018 by cpotts

Maps of the Southern Border

Please join us next Friday for a public pop-up exhibit featuring maps of the US/Mexico border:

Maps of the Southern Border

Friday, October 26 | 1 – 3 PM

Earth Sciences & Map Library

50 McCone Hall

Presented in conjunction with Geography 159AC: The Southern Border.

Workshop: The Long Haul: Best Practices for Making Your Digital Project Last

Posted on October 19, 2018September 17, 2018 by Literatures at the Library

The Long Haul: Best Practices for Making Your Digital Project Last
Tuesday, October 30th, 1:10-2:00pm
Academic Innovation Studio, Dwinelle Hall 117 (Level D)

You’ve invested a lot of work in creating a digital project, but how do you ensure it has staying power? We’ll look at choices you can make at the beginning of project development to influence sustainability, best practices for documentation and asset management, and how to sunset your project in a way that ensures long-term access for future researchers. Register at bit.ly/dp-berk

Upcoming Workshops in this Series:

HTML/CSS Toolkit for Digital Projects

Please see bit.ly/dp-berk for details.

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November 1: Lunch Poems with Tyehimba Jess

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Library Communications

Tyehimba Jess Thursday, November 1
12:10 p.m. – 12:50 p.m.
Morrison Library in Doe Library
Admission Free

Tyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry, Leadbelly and Olio which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Midland Society Author’s Award in Poetry, and received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN Jean Stein Book Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Leadbelly was a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series and named one of the “Best Poetry Books of 2005” by both The Library Journal and Black Issues Book Review.

[Database Trial] Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations, 1959-, Part 2: Writers

Posted on October 17, 2018October 17, 2018 by Liladhar

The UC Berkeley Library had purchased the part 1 of Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations from Brill in 2017. Now, we are having a trial of part 2 of the same database- Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations, 1959 that deals with the writers. The trial will go through November 15th, 2018.

The trial can be accessed here: https://primarysources.brillonline.com/browse/cuban-culture-and-cultural-relations-part-2

More than 63,800 digital files

Records on 1,046 writers and artists
Full-text search functionality
Including MARC21 catalog records

Background and Resource Description

Founded in Havana in 1959, only a few months after the Revolution, Casa de las Américas quickly developed into one of the most prestigious cultural centers in Latin America and the Caribbean. To a large extent its success and survival are the result of its capacity to establish a remarkable intellectual network around a common vision. When during the early years of the Revolution many foreign embassies closed their doors, Casa de las Américas offered a space for progressive minds to exchange information and discuss new ideas. Here, writers and artists from Latin America, the Caribbean and other parts of the world met and gave lectures, organized concerts and exhibitions, staged theater shows, conducted research, and found a place to publish their writings. The record of their activities, which continue to this day, are preserved in Casa de las Américas’ archive, presented here in digital format for the first time.

The Vertical Archive

Casa de las Américas is home to a large library specializing in Latin American and Caribbean humanities and social sciences. Throughout its almost six decades of existence, this library has amassed and preserved an unparalleled archival collection known as “the Vertical Archive.” Organized in five parts, the present part, Writers, offers a unique insight into the activities of the more than a thousand writers and artists who visited La Casa. The archive consists of unpublished manuscripts, letters as well as authorial notes and redactions.

Writers

Famous writers from the twentieth century form the core of the collection. Here one encounters such luminaries as Jorge Amado, Mario Benedetti, Roberto Bolaño, María Luisa Bombal, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Aimé Césaire, Julio Cortázar, Roque Dalton and Gabriel García Márquez, to name but a few. Some of the leading writers from the nineteenth century are also represented, including José Martí and the pioneer Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis. These world-renowned figures are accompanied by hundreds of their arguably less illustrious peers, who are nevertheless equally essential to illustrate the cultural climate and history of the era.

Artists

In addition to writers, the archive includes files on painters, such as Roberto Matta and David Alfaro Siqueiros, filmmakers, such as Santiago Álvarez and Glauber Rocha, and musicians, such as Chilean singer-songwriter and political activist Víctor Jara.

Files means simply documentation: it could be an article from a local newspaper or magazine or a cable. The Casa de las Américas collected all sorts of documents over the past 60 years. Sometimes material they produced themselves, but also a lot of press clippings that were sent to them by other institutions across Latin America and the Caribbean. They did this partly to keep the Casa informed about how the Revolution and its culture was perceived abroad. This was especially important because a host of countries cut diplomatic ties with Cuba, turning the Casa de las Américas effectively in some sort of embassy.

New Books in Art History/ Classics: October

Posted on October 17, 2018 by Nina Bayley

You can find these and other new art history acquisitions on the New Books shelf in the Art History / Classics Library.

El libro de la muerte Wohin das Auge richt Otto Dix: the evil eye

I’m not myself at all Misère Iziko South African National Gallery

Nocturne Carol Rama: antibodies Songs for sabotage

Featured resource: Guides to November 6 ballot measures

Posted on October 17, 2018 by Library Communications

The Institute of Governmental Studies Library has released guides to the 11 ballot measures on the November 6 general election ballot. The ballot measure guides, as well as resources on the gubernatorial and U.S. senate races, are featured on the IGS website at:

https://igs.berkeley.edu/library/election-guides

In addition to voter resources and descriptions of the propositions and candidates, the site features Endorsements tables where you can compare endorsements from political parties, newspapers, and other organizations.

Ballot Measure Endorsements
Governor Endorsements
U.S. Senate Endorsements

For more info, contact Paul King: pking@berkeley.edu or Julie Lefevre: jlefevre@berkeley.edu