Month: February 2016

PhiloBiblon 2016 n. 1 (febrero) y el II Seminario Internacional en CiLengua

Posted on by Charles Faulhaber

Nos complace anunciar la primera entrega de PhiloBiblon para el año 2016.

Asimismo nos complace anunciar el II Seminario Internacional de PhiloBiblon, que tendrá lugar en CiLengua, en el monasterio de San Millán de la Cogolla, la semana del 27 de junio del año en curso: II Seminario Internacional PhiloBiblon

A diferencia de la versión del año pasado, empezará con  una jornada de intoducción a la codicología en la Biblioteca Histórica “Marqués de Valdecilla” de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Charles B. Faulhaber
Ángel Gómez Moreno
Nicasio Salvador Miguel
Antonio Cortijo
María Morrás
Óscar Perea Rodríguez
Álvaro Bustos Táuler
Elena González Blanco

BITAGAP

Arthur L-F. Askins
Harvey L. Sharrer
Martha E. Schaffer
Cristina Sobral
Pedro Pinto
Filipe Alves Moreira
Mariña Arbor Aldea

BITECA

Gemma Avenoza
Lourdes Soriano
Vicenç Beltran

Trial: Digital resources related to Civil Rights, Japanese-American Relocation, Farm Workers, and Native Americans

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The Library has set up trial access to evaluate four digital collections:

Ralph J. Bunche Oral Histories Collection on the Civil Rights Movement
National Farm Worker Ministry: Mobilizing Support for Migrant Workers, 1939-1985
Fight for Racial Justice and the Civil Rights Congress
Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life

These are all part of a resource called Archives Unbound from Gale Cengage. The company was not able to set up a trial for just these four resources, so all of the collections are available to view.

Available via the same link is another trial resource, Indigenous Peoples: North America, which covers the history of American Indian tribes and supporting organizations. The collection includes sources from American and Canadian institutions, tribal newspapers, and Indian-related organizations. The collection also features Indigenous language materials, including dictionaries, Bibles, and primers.

I am particularly interested in your feedback on the resources listed above, but if you see other collections of interest, let me know and I’ll put them on my wish list.
Trial access ends 3/17/16.

Primary Sources: South American Missionary Society records, 1844-1919

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South American Missionary Society records, 1844-1919  Includes most of the material held in the SAMS archives for the period up to 1919. When originally founded in 1844, this Church of England-affiliated organization was called the Patagonian Mission. This collection reproduces the minute books, reports from the mission field, articles and photographs on the geography, anthropology, natural history and economic development for the society’s magazine, launched in 1867, as well as the journals of its Anglican founder, Captain Allen Gardiner, and two others of its missionaries, Edward Bernau and Adolfo Henriksen.

Primary Sources: Update to Declassified Documents Reference System

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Declassified Documents Reference System is now called U.S. Declassified Documents Online. The resource has a new interface, additional search and annotation features, and additional content that includes selected records up to 2008.

A new feature allows you to graph either the frequency of your search term (the number of documents per year in which it appears) or its popularity (the percent of the total documents each year in which it appears). This of course only reflects the frequency or popularity of the term in the universe of documents that are contained in this database, which is not a comprehensive collection of declassified documents.

 

Try your hand at basic bookbinding, Feb 23

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Ribbons with

Learn three basic bookbinding techniques:

  • Single signature
  • Japanese stab binding
  • Accordion fold

No prior experience necessary.

Lauri Twitchell, book artist and manager of Blake Garden, and artist Peter Suchecki will lead this hands-on workshop.

No need to register. We will provide materials and tools.

Date: February 23, 2016

Time: 7:00 – 8:30 PM

Place: 305 Wurster Hall (Library Training Room)

A small number of “hyper-polluters” doing the most harm, mostly to communities of color

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A recent study published in Environmental Rsearch Letters concludes that a relatively small number of polluting facilities is responsible for the greatest amount of pollution. And, this promarily affects communities of color or low-icome areas.

This research relies on two data sources?the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Risk Screening Environmental Indicators-Geographic Microdata (RSEI-GM) from 2007 and the US Census of Population and Households from 2000. Results of the analysis provide strong evidence that toxic outliers exist. And, as they isolated the points with the highest exposure estimates, a greater density of low income households and nonwhite populations were found. "In an analysis of all permitted industrial facilities across the United States, we show that there exists a class of hyper-polluters – the worst-of-the-worst – that disproportionately expose communities of color and low income populations to chemical releases."

Linking ‘toxic outliers’ to environmental justice communities Mary B Collins, Ian Munoz and Joseph JaJa Environmental Research Letters, Volume 11, Number 1 (in a special issue, Focus on Environmental Justice: New Directions in International Research).

Primary Sources: Colonial State Papers

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The Library has acquired Colonial State Papers, a joint venture of ProQuest and the National Archives (UK) that resulted in the digitization of the Colonial Office Collection 1, Privy Council and related bodies: America and West Indies, Colonial Papers.  It contains thousands of papers that were presented to the Privy Council and the Board of Trade between 1574-1757, and which relate to England’s governance of, and activities in, the American, Canadian and West Indian colonies.

Included in this database is the Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739, a bibliographic tool providing over 40,000 descriptive records. The Calendar covers not only CO 1, but also documents from many other collections relating to the colonial past. Many of the bibliographic entries in The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739 are supplemented with full transcriptions, extracts or summary abstracts, all of which can be searched in Colonial State Papers.

The search box defaults to searching both Colonial State Papers and the Calendar, but it is possible to limit your search to just items that have been digitized, and those documents can be downloaded as images or PDFs. Each record also has a durable URL that can be linked to from bCourses or a website.
The quality of the scanned images is very high, which helps with the fact that the original documents and hand-written, and sometimes stained, damaged, or faded. Tools built into the database will allow you to zoom in to see detail.
example of zoom feature in database

Bancroft Library Open House, Feb 26

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Cartoon images climbing on a large peach

The Friends of the Bancroft Library invite you to join us for the Open House at the Bancroft Library.  You’ll have a chance to explore The Bancroft Library Collections and see magnificent displays of dynamic compendia.

The open house will also feature museum exhibits, staff talks, and demonstrations.

When: Friday, February 26, 2016

Time: 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Where: The Bancroft Library

For more information, call 510-642-3782 or send us an email.

 

Post contributed by Alison Wannamaker, Publications and Production Specialist