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Teaching Representations of the French Revolution ed. by Julia Douthwaite Viglione, Antoinette Sol, and Catriona Seth

Reviewed by: Teaching Representations of the French Revolution ed. by Julia Douthwaite Viglione, Antoinette Sol, and Catriona Seth Carrie F. Klaus Douthwaite Viglione, Julia, Antoinette Sol, and Catriona Seth, eds. Teaching Representations of the French Revolution. MLA, 2019. Pp. [i]-ix; 368. ISBN 9781603294652. $65.00 (cloth). 9781603294003. $34.00 (paper). Few events in world history rival the French Revolution for the myriad ways it is remembered, reappropriated, and, indeed, mythologized, as Lauren Pinzka observes in her contribution to this essential new volume in the Modern Language Association's Options for Teaching Series, in an essay informed by Roland Barthes' theory of mythmaking and Pierre Nora's concept of cultural memory. The mythification of the French Revolution involves an emptying-out of its historical complexity. Among other strengths, this volume seeks to restore, for instructors and their students, many of the rich and varied realities that have been eliminated in the creation of the myth of this revolution. It also offers suggestions for thinking and teaching about the deep and lasting impact of the event not only in France and Europe, but also around the world, in connection with such issues as borders, human rights, mobilities, privilege, and power. Essays examining Holland, Italy, Greece, the United States, Mexico, and Haiti illustrate the global reach of the French Revolution even as they implicitly challenge presuppositions about its primacy. A third strength of the volume are the links contributors identify between Revolutionary themes and current debates over freedom of expression and voice, access to work and fair wages, and religion and secularity in the public sphere. A first section, devoted to historical contexts, includes a narrative chronology of Revolutionary events; the essay on teaching the French Revolution as myth and memory; reflections on how military history can help students understand broader topics and meaningfully engage veterans; and a history of secularity in France as an entry into the study of expressions of Muslim identity in twenty-first century French hip-hop. A second section, on rhetoric and rights, describes teaching the language of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in the United States and Palestine; reading French romantic novels alongside legal records and abolitionist treatises; discussing the French Revolution with students who have [End Page 158] experienced protests, turmoil, and revolutions in their own countries; and studying caricature in France from the Revolution to Charlie Hebdo. A third section presents literary works of the time helpful for understanding the French Revolution, such as the political pamphlet "Le loup philosophique"; Marie-Françoise Kéralio's short epistolary novel Les visites par Mademoiselle D*** K***; Germaine de Staël's longer sentimental novel Delphine; Revolutionary plays; an eyewitness account by German travel-writer J. H. Campe; Victor Hugo's last novel, Quatrevingt-treize; the poem "La Marseillaise noire" published by a writer of color in New Orleans in 1867; and Georg Büchner's Danton's Death and Édouard Glissant's Monsieur Toussaint. A fourth section brings in the arts and mass media, discussing paintings and prints commissioned by the National Convention; the Revolution's effect on technological innovation; household ceramics featuring political emblems and slogans; propaganda and the popular press; the representation of women; and the expanding availability online of visual source material, such as collections of prints and ephemera. The fifth, and most fascinating, section is dedicated to global aspects of the French Revolution and begins with a discussion of how this event led to a sustained examination of history and politics in Britain. One essay in this section offers guidance for bringing the Haitian Revolution into courses on the French Revolution, while another identifies Haitian-produced primary sources that allow students to examine the Haitian Revolution on its own terms and not merely as an offshoot of the French Revolution and Enlightenment. This section also considers world literature, with comments on émigrés and national literatures, advice for moving beyond the instrumentalist use of literary texts, and discussion of connections between the French Revolution and eighteenth and nineteenth century German literary works, Spanish satire, and written sources on colonial uprisings in Latin America. The volume concludes with lists of revolutionary dates, people, and battles, as...

The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints 1770–1850 ed. by John Ittmann

Reviewed by: The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints 1770–1850 ed. by John Ittmann Waltraud Maierhofer John Ittmann, ed. The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints 1770–1850. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art/ New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2017. 424 pp., 350 illustrations. This oversize volume is substantial in more than one way. The book with 350 color illustrations of the highest quality showcases the museum's amazing collection of German Romantic prints by the collector John S. Phillips. This collection is the most encyclopedic in the US and contains rare works missing even in European collections. "Maler Müller," Caspar David Friedrich, Adrian Ludwig Richter, and Philipp Otto Runge are just a few of the illustrious artists covered. The book helps us "imagine the tremendous effect of these black-and-white masterpieces on the era's imagination," as Cordula Grewe puts it in this volume. The impressive volume grew out of the exhibition with the same title at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2013, which displayed 125 etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts. The exhibition explored the works of artists from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and investigated how printmaking reflected the cultural changes that impacted the German-speaking regions of central Europe during this period. The book edited by John Ittmann (curator of prints at the Philadelphia Museum of Art) is much more than an exhibition and collection catalogue, assembling under its cover what could be separate monographs by Ittmann (who has four topic articles in it plus one on the collector Philips, an introduction, and several shorter articles on specific artists) and by Cordula Grewe who builds on her expertise displayed in the monographs Painting the Sacred in the Age of [End Page 365] Romanticism (2009) and The Nazarenes (2015). Grewe is acknowledged on the title page as "editorial consultant" and contributes four articles. Further expert studies are provided in articles by Warren Breckman (author of European Romanticism: A Brief History, 2008), Mitchell B. Frank (German Romantic Painting Redefined, 2001), F. Carlo Schmid (coeditor of a 2008 exhibition catalogue, The Romantic Era: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings, 1765–1852), and German Romanticism and word and image expert Catriona MacLeod, who is of course well-known to members of the Goethe Society. The prints show the many artistic enthusiasms of the period. The articles, all richly illustrated, structure and investigate major aspects such as the Romantic fascination with landscapes both wild and idealized, the intimacy of family and friendship scenes and of portraits, the influence and legacy of sagas and fairy tales, as well as the synthesis of image, word, and music. All the articles are meticulously researched and well written. They deserve to be listed here by title, at least, and the wide range of investigation and expertise they offer is certainly worthy of a more detailed discussion. In "Central Europe between 1770 and 1850: The Rise and Fall of German Romantic Art and Culture," Warren Breckman explores the economic and social transformations of the time period, focusing on the contrast between Friedrich II of Prussia and Ludwig I of Bavaria. He states, "Contributing to and also reflecting this cultural ascent was the expansion of printmaking, a field in which Germans became renowned innovators. Prints distributed images more broadly than ever before, helping not only to advance the fine arts but also to provide a visual accompaniment to the great events of the period." John Ittmann's article, "Albrecht Dürer and His Hallowed City of Nuremberg," examines the veneration of Dürer as part of a movement to rehabilitate German art and architecture as "creations of a long-forgotten golden age of artistic excellence north of the Alps" and of Germanness. Prints by Ludwig Emil Grimm and Johann Jakob Kirchner demonstrate how art lovers venerated Dürer's house and burial place in Nuremberg as sacred sites. In the early 1800s, Dresden became a destination for German artists and art lovers who wanted to admire Raphael's Sistine Madonna, and the engraving by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Müller was once as highly esteemed as the painting itself. Cordula Grewe ("Raphael's Sistine Madonna Domesticated: A Return to Purity and Piety in German Prints") maintains that the cult of...

Introduction

Introduction Rika Hiro (bio) The purpose of this section, "Japan Housed in LA," is to highlight instances of "Japan"—its artwork, design, presentation, and at times mispresentation found in Los Angeles. Dianne Lee Shen's case study of Yamashiro, a 1911 castle-style private estate in the Hollywood Hills, historicizes Southern Californians' fascination with Japan and various things Japanese as an example of Hollywood Japonisme in the early twentieth century. Shen's study is juxtaposed with contemporary examples of "Japan" housed in the city nearly a century later at JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles, which has been launched by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to showcase "the very best" of Japanese arts and culture along with two other locations in London and São Paulo.1 Izumita Yukiya's (2017) ceramic work and Utagawa Hiroshige's Foxfire at Ōji (1857), from the renowned series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, were included in exhibitions that Hollis Goodall and Meher McArthur, respectively, curated for JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles in 2019 and 2021. Goodall's exhibition KESHIKI attempts to locate Japanese landscape condensed as or appearing within objects in fired clay. In contrast, Foxfire at Ōji, which is drawn from the collection of Hiroshige's prints at Scripps College's Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, shares the historical context of the art and artifacts displayed at Yamashiro. In the final part of this section, Southern California-based artist Bruce Yonemoto's (b. 1949) conceptual presentation of export ware from the Occupation period emblematically merges America in Japan and Japan in America. [End Page 131] Rika Hiro Rika Hiro is a Visiting Assistant Professor, Occidental College, California. Her doctoral dissertation looked at the aftereffects of the atomic bombs in arts and exhibition culture in postwar Japan. She co-founded the non-profit art space Art2102 of Los Angeles and co-curated Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan 1950–1970 and Radical Communication: Japanese Video Art, 1968–1988 at the Getty Research Institute. She is currently researching Japanese diaspora artists in mid-twentieth-century Los Angeles with a fellowship of the DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion. (rikahiro@gmail.com) Note 1. "Project Vision," JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles, https://www.japanhousela.com/aboutus/ (accessed August 10, 2021). Copyright © 2022 Review of Japanese Culture and Society

FESPACO—Promoting African Film Development and Scholarship

FESPACO—Promoting African Film Development and Scholarship M. Africanus Aveh (bio) If there is any single event that has significantly developed and promoted African film over the past half century, then it is the Festival Panafricain du Cinéma et de la Télévision de Ouagadougou (Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou), or FESPACO, based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, West Africa. The festival also has been a source of great scholarship in film studies. Historical Development At a meeting in Algiers in 1969, a group of African filmmakers decided to organize a "Film Week" to showcase African films produced on the continent and share creative ideas. The event was hosted in Ouagadougou, and its initial success led to the repeat of the event in the subsequent two years, with increased participation not only of filmmakers but also of attendees. This led to the formation of the Fédération Panafricaine des Cinéastes (Federation of Pan-African Filmmakers) with the acronym FEPACI. In 1972, the festival was instituted. It received official state support in Burkina Faso and was placed under a ministry. This marked the birth of the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou with the acronym FESPACO. For fifty years, FESPACO has grown to become the most significant event in the promotion and development of African film through its biennial festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It has become the converging point for showcasing African film as well as a congregation of the continent's filmmakers in one place. But for this festival, little would have been known of Burkina Faso even by its neighbors in the region. [End Page 117] The Organizational Structure FESPACO is organized as a body corporate headed by a chief executive and staff operating a secretariat located in Ouagadougou. It is currently headed by Ardiouma Soma.1 The secretariat is funded with budgetary allocations from the Burkina government and donor support from international agencies. The secretariat also houses the African Film Library, established in 1989 to preserve African film heritage. The library boasts a collection of original prints of African films and a restoration center for processing films for storage. It is a major resource for African film research in the world.2 The Festival Structure FESPACO is a biennial film and television festival on specific themes. For the 2019 edition, the theme was "Memory and Future of African Cinema." Calls are made for full-length films to be submitted in competition for the grand prize, which takes the form of a stallion named after a royal princess warrior, Yennenga.3 Other categories in competition are short films, documentaries, animation, television series, and student films from African film schools. Each competitive category has its own jury that adjudicates separately. Films in competition must be made by African nationals. There is, however, a Paul Robeson Prize for films made by Africans in the diaspora. There are non-competitive special prizes awarded by juries according to certain laid-down objectives. The festival also screens a selection of non-competitive films from around the world. The dates of the festival are fixed, beginning on the last Saturday in February and ending on the first Saturday in March in odd years. There is an opening ceremony, normally held at the sports stadium on the opening Saturday evening, with musical fanfare, dances, and gymnastic displays. The festival is symbolically opened with a giant clapperboard operated by the prime minister. The closing ceremony on the evening of the last day also normally has taken place at the sports stadium, with the juries' reports accompanied by the announcement of the winners of the awards in the various categories. Each winner is called to a podium to collect a statuette and a dummy check of the accompanying cash prize, culminating in the ultimate grand prize, which is presented by the president amid fanfare. After the awards ceremony comes a massive display of celebratory fireworks. In the past there was then a screening of the grand prize–winning film on a giant inflatable screen mounted in the middle of the soccer pitch. This has not been done for the past four or five festivals, so the closing ceremony ends...

Inside-Out and Outside-In: A Holistic Approach to Metadata Assessment for an Off-Site Storage Collection

ABSTRACT As more libraries rely on remote storage facilities to preserve print collections, this presents challenges for resource discovery and access. Since off-site storage facilities often have no open shelves or public access, increased importance is placed on metadata to connect users to resources. At the University of Toronto Libraries (UTL), we conducted a metadata assessment of the serials collection located in its Downsview high-density storage facility. Using quantitative and qualitative methods based on the assessment metrics proposed by Bruce and Hillmann (2004) we gained a holistic view of the quality and effectiveness of the metadata for the Downsview serials collection. The study also revealed many of the challenges associated with making off-site resources discoverable and accessible in online systems.

Keep the books on the shelves: Library space as intrinsic facilitator of the reading experience

Library literature frequently reports projects to remove print collections and replace them with other amenities for patrons. This project challenges the untested assumption that the physical library itself serves no useful function to its users unless they are actively consulting books from the shelves. The alternative hypothesis is that readers benefit from the mere act of studying while in a book-filled environment.To test this possibility, ten subjects completed SAT-style reading comprehension tests in both a traditional library environment, and a renovated chapel that strongly resembles library space except for lacking books. Results provide a reasonable basis to support an expectation that readers perform better on reading comprehension tasks performed in book-rich environments.

Use of Choice Reviews to Build the Geosciences Collection

Objective. The Nazarbayev University School of Mining and Geosciences was established in 2016 to study and conduct research on the vast mineral reserves of the country. The school now has three bachelor’s programs, two master’s programs and the recently launched PhD program. The purpose of the study is to determine how many subjects from Choice Reviews are already part of the collection, and how many the library needs to buy to create a good geological collection. Methods. Introducing new programs, it is important to identify the academic and additional resources that will need to be offered during training. In 2018, the library acquired Choice Reviews Online to help the subject librarians create good discipline-oriented collection. Results. According to the survey, only 12.5% of the list is part of an existing print collection, and 87.5% should be added as a potential collection of mining and geology sciences. The analysis of e-book collection is as follows: 55% of the list is already part of this collection, and 45% of the library is required to be purchased when developing an e-book collection. Conclusions. The university has only just begun to develop the field of mining and geology, so there is still time to expand the library's collection of these disciplines. Subject librarians are interested in adding important titles from standardized Choice Reviews tools; as well, they should review and identify various resources that are relevant to the promotion of research to acquire them.

Kunstkammer in Schrift und Bild.

Kunstkammer in Word and Image. The ‘Kunststube’ of Johann Septimius Jörger (1594–1676) in Nuremberg. The Kunstkammer of Johann Septimius Jörger in Nuremberg, created in the middle of the 1630s and dispersed only after 1676, is not among the well-known collections of the 17th century. It is not mentioned in the correspondence of famous art collectors, nor is it recorded in the travelogues of the time. Only sporadic information is available about the works of art that had been kept in the Kunstkammer. We regard the owner as an art collector because of a watercolour in the collection of prints and drawings of the University Library of Erlangen, in which the Nuremberg painter Michael Herr (1591–1661) depicted the interior of Jörger’s Kunstkammer. The present contribution aims to enrich our knowledge of this collection based on two new sources, namely a visual representation (cabinet painting) and an inventory of the Kunstkammer drawn up in 1667.

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Technological process of extracurricular individualization of foreign masters training in education management

The paper poses and solves the problem of the technological organization of extracurricular individual activities of foreign undergraduates. The technological effectiveness of the individualized educational process during graduate studies, developing on the basis of the implementation of the capabilities of information and telecommunication technologies, provides faster and better mastery of knowledge, skills and abilities by foreign undergraduates. Information library resources play a significant role in their development, offer great didactic opportunities for individualized training of foreign Masters in education management who do not speak Russian well and, as a result, need tutorial support outside the classroom to process professionally significant scientific information. The authors present a theoretical and methodological substantiation and the results of modeling and testing the technology of extracurricular individualization of foreign Masters training in education management under the guidance of a librarian using a set of information library resources. This technology provides for the interconnected educational and research activities of a foreign undergraduate and the advisory activities of a librarian, implemented during extracurricular times and aimed at the individual processing of professionally significant scientific information in professionally defined situations using a set of information library resources used as means of pedagogical communication to achieve professional goals. The complex of information library resources includes: print collections, electronic catalogs, search platforms and electronic databases and takes into account the direction of training of foreign undergraduates. The technological process of extracurricular individualization provides an algorithm for the interrelated actions of a librarian and a foreign undergraduate in the design, organization, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and diagnosis of educational results and difficulties of extracurricular individual scientific activity. The organizational and pedagogical conditions for the effective implementation of the authors technology are determined and diagnostic tools are developed, including tests and diagnostic criteria for the level of mastery of complex of information library resources. The simulated technology provides individual informational, methodological support to each foreign undergraduate and improves the quality of their research activities, implemented in the virtual educational space of libraries.

Trophies of war: British flying officers' photograph albums and the memory of air operations in Egypt, 1915—1918

AbstractThis paper addresses the impact of technological modernity on the tactical conduct of the First World War and on how it was subsequently remembered. Specifically, it considers a now lost archive that has received scant historical attention: the collection of photographic intelligence material, comprising negatives and prints, housed on airfields and in military headquarters in Egypt, generated during photographic reconnaissance missions flown during combat operations over enemy held territory in the Middle East. In the absence of the archive itself, the paper asks: what did veteran flying officers who had employed military imaging technologies while on duty, do with the prints they chose to retain, examples of which abound in their private photograph albums. The paper argues that veterans’ photograph albums served as condensers, crystallising personal memories of wartime experience in Egypt through a process whereby their makers ordered the material at their disposal as they saw fit in order to give shape to memories, and thereby construct a privatised sense of their wartime past. It addresses three categories of image: those sourced from the military intelligence archive; photographs of British flying stations and aerodromes (used as airborne navigation aids); and training mission photography of locations in Egypt associated with Nile tourism. It concludes that while albums made by flying officers might contain images more commonly associated with Nile tourism, the inclusion of salient images from the military intelligence archive elevated them to the status of trophy objects: private trophy albums owned by former air warfare practitioners signposted their membership of a wartime in‐group defined by its mastery of state‐of‐the‐art technologies, the conduct of an unprecedented type of combat, and of quotidian life on a new type of military installation‐the aerodrome, a restricted place in which a gated community of high‐value specialists went about its professional duties. Moreover, flying officers’ trophy albums were constitutive of a post‐war fictive kinship in the British veteran community, and informed the cultural construction of a family of remembrance without precedent.

Investigating the condition of iron gall ink drawings: developing an assessment survey

It is well established that iron gall ink causes deterioration and embrittlement of paper in the presence of one or more risk factors, such as unstable ink components, high humidity and unsafe handling, with the ink changing colour from black to shades of brown. As iron gall ink has been the prevailing drawing medium in the West from medieval times to the eighteenth century, with its use declining into the twentieth century, monitoring the condition of iron gall ink drawings is of great concern to all custodians of graphic art collections. Selected iron gall ink drawings have been examined using visual methods in the British Museum Prints and Drawing collection to identify, assess and describe condition issues specific to the medium. This has led to the production of a reference catalogue of damage, which has underpinned this draft-design for a condition survey tool. This survey has then been developed with input from conservators at the Albertina, Vienna, Kupferstichkabinett Staatliche Museum zu Berlin, Musée du Louvre, Paris, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, based on the material from their collections. This article presents the pilot project used to test the survey alongside its initial validation and outcomes.

Managing a Mass Collections Review from Assessment to Deselection

ABSTRACTStarting in 2017, Falvey Memorial Library at Villanova University initiated a long-overdue review of the monograph collection. This was partly to ensure a healthy collection with room for growth, but also to prepare for a renovation of the building—ideally completing the collection review by the summer of 2019. This presentation explores the ongoing process of organizing and enacting the weeding project. This includes using OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC)’s GreenGlass software to assist liaison librarians with selection, developing criteria for deselection, and incorporating faculty participation in the project without undermining it. The talk highlights the ongoing challenges related to this project, which hopefully encourages some discussion of the issues academic libraries encounter when reviewing and withdrawing volumes from their print collections.

The Impact of a University’s Language Policy on Its Library’s Print Collections

The aim of this study was to establish the impact of the North-West University’s language policy on its library’s print collections. It analyses the languages represented by books held by the North-West University Library and Information Services. The article further established the strategies used by the libraries to develop, preserve and promote African languages in support of the university’s language policy. The paper employed bibliometrics and focus group interviews to gather data. The findings revealed that books in African languages that were recognised by the university were difficult to get on the market. As a result, the majority of books accessioned by the libraries were in English, followed by Afrikaans, and relatively few books in Setswana, and Sesotho. The study is the first of its kind focusing on language policy and academic libraries in South Africa. It is valuable to both policy makers and librarians in their endeavours to develop sizeable African language collections in support of the curricula and research. Among the recommendations is that African language departments at various universities should collaborate with libraries to start open access African language journals, and publish them through the institutional repositories.

Grants and Acquisitions

The Library of Congress has received a $540,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to evaluate the physical health of the national collection of books in American research libraries and to guide their archive retention and preservation decisions. Since there currently is no objective formula to assess the condition of millions of books in the custody of the nation’s libraries, this scientific study will help inform best practices and provide a baseline for libraries to analyze their print collections based on established scientific guidelines. This is the first effort of its kind to lay the scientific groundwork for the development of a national effort to preserve the corpus of books held in American libraries.

Crafting an Active Print Collection for the Academic Library: A Case Study from the Claremont Colleges Library

In 2016, The Claremont Colleges Library began to imagine what it might look like to provide access to our collections in ways that are informed by how our community uses those resources. From the beginning, this effort was a response to difficulties helping researchers connect our digital and physical resources, unsatisfactory storage space, and opportunities arising out of renovations and master planning. Through this work we aim to ensure the organization and presentation of our collections support how our researchers need to work with them and be inspired by them. To that end, we have engaged colleagues in other academic libraries on these questions. We have also convened task forces and conducted an in-depth, qualitative study to understand the different yet complementary engagements scholars have when browsing and searching print and electronic resources. In this case study, we will review provocative conversations at Claremont and beyond about the place of print in the digital age and discuss what we are learning from our local investigations of research behaviors. Building on this foundation, we will share plans for a fledgling program at Claremont that we expect will resonate with and be vital to the future of many academic libraries. The “Active Print” program includes a variety of approaches to enhancing the traditional stewardship role of the library by engaging our users in re-envisioning the organization and presentation of our physical collections.

Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l’ancienne France. Normandie (1820–1821): a specific genre of travel literature in the Stroganovs’ family library

ABSTRACTThis article presents a case study of a collection of prints titled Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l’ancienne France. Normandie (1820–1821) that is housed in the Research Library at Tomsk State University as part of the Stroganovs’ family library. The edition is considered as an example of the genre of “voyages pittoresque” (pictorial journey). The genre encompasses two varieties: a scientific and an artistic literary journey. Both involve two modes of expression: a pictorial and a textual one, with the latter incorporating such structural elements as descriptions of geography, history, exterior and interior images of cities, towns, temples and castles, mentions of local legends and works of fiction, as well as first-hand impressions of travellers during their visits to the area. The core of the text is a myth about a confrontation between time and culture, revealing itself in history and architecture, visual perception of history and description of “les lieux de mémoire”.

Adding Haystacks to Our Needles? Assessing Changes in Collection Composition after the Introduction of Uncurated Packages

Although academic library print collections are traditionally carefully selected, collection strategies for online materials often involve the addition of large, uncurated packages of eBooks and other online materials. This study examines how adding such packages has altered the composition of one library’s collection in terms of publication date, format, and subject. It then utilizes WebPAC and Summon search results to understand how the collection is experienced by library searchers. Results show rapid growth in uncurated collections. Whereas WebPAC heavily favored newer items and eBooks from uncurated collections, Summon promoted print books from cultivated collections to a degree greater than expected.

Interview with the New Head of the Library of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law

AbstractIn this article, where Liz Murray, Information Resources Manager at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) in London, interviews Claudia Holland, Head of the Library of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, the strategic direction of the new Head Librarian is explored. The strengths of this major international, comparative private law library are considered and the balance between providing electronic access to law resources while still maintaining an excellent legal print collection is examined. The importance of networks and collaboration is also highlighted.

Paradise and Apocalypse: Critiques of Nuclear Imperialism in Kathy Jetnˉil-Kijiner’s Iep Jāltok

This article considers both the material and the psychic impact of the militarization of the Pacific, focusing primarily on Marshallese poet-activist Kathy Jetnˉil-Kijiner’s first print collection, Iep Jāltok (2017). Interrogating the spatial mythologies that have made the Pacific Islands a key site for the US to test weapons and launch foreign wars, Jetnˉil-Kijiner exposes the racist and gendered logic that justifies colonial violence in the Pacific.