It’s that time of year when we choose new ebook titles from OpenEdition. Below you will find a few that have made it to the list. Please send other recommendations to the Librarian for Romance Languages by April 1.
Since 2014, the UC Berkeley Library has supported this initiative based at the Université d’Aix-Marseille to open scholarly content from Europe and France in particular to the world. The Freemium program allows the UC Berkeley community to participate in an acquisitions policy that both supports sustainable development of open access (OA) and that respects the needs of teaching, research and learning communities. With our participation, faculty, students, and other researchers can benefit from greater functionality while making it possible for anyone in the world to view in html and in open access 70% of the ebook catalog of more than 13,000 titles.
Through the Freemium model, UC Berkeley gains access to preferred formats (pdf, epub, etc.) with no DRM quotas and seamless access to the content with UC Library Search.
Livres de fleurs du xvie au xxe siècle. Namur: Presses universitaires de Namur, 2018.The Library has added more than 1,600 new ebooks to its collection in OpenEdition. Since 2014, we’ve been supporting this initiative based at the Université d’Aix-Marseille to open scholarly content from Europe and France in particular to the world. The Fremium program allows the UC Berkeley community to participate in an acquisitions policy that both supports sustainable development of open access (OA) and that respects the needs of teaching, research and learning communities. With our participation, Berkeley researchers and students benefit from greater functionality while making it possible for anyone in the world to view in html and in open access 70% of the ebook catalog of nearly 12,000 titles.
Here are a few titles from the latest acquisition, all discoverable in UC Library Search:
News from James Eason at the Bancroft Library: “More than two thousand digital images have just been added to the Finding Aid to the Thérèse Bonney Photograph Collection at the Online Archive of California. These images are the negative files, in their entirety, resulting from a Carnegie-funded trip Bonney made in 1941 to Portugal, Spain, and southern France. Bonney was documenting the effect of war on civilian populations, particularly children. Many images are from Franco’s Spain, with the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War starkly visible. She also took her camera to refugee camps across the French border (Perpignan, Rivesaltes, and Argelès-sur-Mer), where Spanish Republican refugees were housed at the end of the civil war, and which were being repurposed when German border closures and advances threw Europe into chaos early in World War II.”
The Thérèse Bonney photograph collection at The Bancroft Library consists chiefly of documentary photographs taken throughout Western Europe during World War II. Bonney (Berkeley class of 1916) photographed all aspects of the war, but focused on its effects on the civilian population.
An active humanitarian, Bonney frequently used universal symbols in her work, allowing her images to speak beyond language barriers and leading their viewers to see beyond cultural differences. Her photographs of children were exhibited and published widely, influencing audiences to contribute to relief efforts for innocent victims of war. But the images throughout her archive feature another prominent symbol — women. Old women, young women, mothers, sisters, friends, neighbors; always at work, usually together, forever the epitome of personal sacrifice for the greater good. In honor of Women’s History Month, the Bancroft Library’s Pictorial Unit presents this collection of newly digitized images from the Thérèse Bonney Photograph Collection. The Finding Aid to the Thérèse Bonney Photograph Collection circa 1850-circa 1955 is available through the Online Archive of California. The finding aid includes digital images for Series 6: France, Germany 1944-1946. Images for Series 3: Carnegie Corporation Trip: Portugal, Spain, France 1941-1942 are coming soon, with a preview offered here!
Paroquia Del Dulce Nombre de Maria in Donna Carlotta. Madrid, Spain. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 51, item 287
Rivesaltes, France circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 53, item 593
Fish market. Portugal circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 64, item 2242
Collioure, France circa 1945. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 6, NNEG box 95, item 121
Maria Molina Home. Madrid, Spain. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 52, item 501
Oropesa, Spain circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 50, item 228
France circa 1945. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 6, NNEG box 90, item 1133
Maria Molina Home. Madrid, Spain. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 51, item 376
Banyuls, France circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 63, item 2114
Flea Market. France circa 1945. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 6, NNEG box 86, item 472
Isabel Pell. Puget-Théniers, France circa 1945. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 6, NNEG box 87, item 539
Badajoz, Spain circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 50, item 172
Flower Market. Lisbon, Portugal circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 49, item 37
Aubusson, France circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 54, item 725
Red Cross. Vichy, France circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 56, item 1016
Badajoz, Spain circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 50, item 171
Sardine Box Factory. Lisbon, Portugal circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 49, item 46
Madrid, Spain circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 52, item 486
Vineyard workers. Ammerschwihr, France circa 1945 BANC PIC 1982.111 series 6, NNEG box 97, item 40
Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 50, item 151
Escoutoux, France circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 56, item 952
Butcher’s Wife. France circa 1945. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 6, NNEG box 89, item 976
First Communion. Ammerschwihr, France circa 1945 BANC PIC 1982.111 series 6, NNEG box 94, item 129
British prisoners. Lisbon, Portugal circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 49, item 104b
Maria Molina Home. Madrid, Spain. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 51, item 372
Alsatian Girls. France circa 1945. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 6, NNEG box 87, item 649
Banyuls, France circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 63, item 2111
Fish market. Portugal circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 64, item 2229
Bennwihr, France circa 1945. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 6, NNEG box 87, item 544
Chateau De Pusy LaFayette, France circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 56, item 969
Red Cross. Vichy, France circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 56, item 996
Setúbal, Portugal circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 64, item 2136
Badajoz, Spain circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 50, item 188
Rose Valland. France circa 1945. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 6, NNEG box 90, item 1039
Red Cross Distribution. France circa 1945. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 6, NNEG box 84, item 133
Puget-Théniers, France circa 1945. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 6, NNEG box 87, item 544
Maria Molina Home. Madrid, Spain. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 51, item 384
France circa 1945. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 6, NNEG box 84, item 89
Badajoz, Spain circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 50, item 205
Prisoner’s Train. Lyon, France circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 61, item 1643
Paroquia Del Dulce Nombre de Maria in Donna Carlotta. Madrid, Spain. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 51, item 296
Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal circa 1941. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 3, NNEG box 50, item 142
Edel. Ammerschwihr, France circa 1945 BANC PIC 1982.111 series 6, NNEG box 94, item 183
Collioure, France circa 1945. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 6, NNEG box 95, item 79
Collioure, France circa 1945. BANC PIC 1982.111 series 6, NNEG box 95, item 77
Ana Hatherly, Poeta chama poeta I, 1989, Col. Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto.
In anticipation of the conference/symposium on Portuguese visual artist/poet/scholar/filmmaker Ana Hatherly (1929-2015), we’ve assembled a bibliography of works authored by and about her in the Berkeley Library. Hatherly was one of the pioneers of the experimental poetry and literature movement in Portugal and already well-known in Europe before earning her PhD at Berkeley in 1986. Many of the books in the collection came to the Library through her dissertation advisor Arthur Askins who maintained close contact with her after she returned to Portugal. Other books were acquired more recently through the support of the Portuguese Studies Program in the Institute of European Studies (IES) and from donors such as retired Berkeley librarian AnneMarie Mitchell.
A back issue of an award-winning bilingual cultural journal from Portugal was brought to our attention earlier this week. Usually librarians only become involved with journal receipts when they haven’t been arriving regularly, prices have increased or formats have changed but this special issue of Egoísta was like no other I had seen before. It came with a small bag of hard red candies and the cover was designed to hold them them in place. Clearly there was a connection between the issue’s theme on doce (sweet) but can you imagine the environmental risks that might ensue if we left the candies attached to the journal and housed them with the rest of the print resources in the Main Stacks? Happy Valentine’s Day!
Claude Potts Librarian for Romance Language Collections
In the 19th century and owing to advances in printing technologies, illustrated journals proliferated. The satirical press was among the most graphic and visual engaging genres with their bold caricatures and humorous editorial cartoons. Though difficult to track down in our library’s discovery systems unless you know an exact title, the UC Berkeley Library has a rich collection of these published in Europe and the Americas. Charivari is a weekly from Portugal whose name was probably inspired by the Parisian weekly Le Charivari (1832 to 1937) with the same name. It was published in Porto towards the end of the decade by two illustrators José de Almeida and Joaquim Maria Pinto Silva and provides a critical perspective on the political, economic and cultural reality of Portugal and the world in general. We recently digitized our copy of Charivari and all issues are available through the HathiTrust.
If you like the work in this publication, you’ll enjoy the work of their contemporary Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro too. He is considered Portugal’s greatest caricaturist, and directed several other satirical magazines such as Almanach de caricaturas para ..., O Antonio Maria, and Parodia that have been digitized by the National Library of Portugal and are also held in print in The Bancroft Library.
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News from James Eason at the Bancroft Library: “More than two thousand digital images have just been added to the 
