Memorial Library Research Articles

Prepare to Be Challenged!

An examination of the controversy at the West Bend Community Memorial Library over homosexual materials in the young adult collection, and an informal survey of the collection development plans, challenge procedures, and challenge forms of more than sixty Wisconsin public libraries, raise questions about the challenge process itself. The survey shows widespread support of intellectual freedom principles but great variety in procedures to address patron concerns. Boards should consider policies that specify who may file a challenge, require an intermediate staff committee to document reviews and circulation statistics, and make a recommendation, set an expeditious timetable, and decide when or whether a public hearing is needed. A process that focuses on the offending item, not the offended patron, and asks whether the work meets the criteria of the library’s collection development process might enhance the process itself and the public’s understanding of why the library’s provision of diverse viewpoints benefits the entire community.

The 2009 West Bend Community Memorial Library Controversy: Understanding the Challenge, the Reactions, and the Aftermath

For most of 2009, the West Bend Community Memorial Library in West Bend, Wisconsin, was embroiled in controversy due to a series of community-based challenges against the presence of so-called “sexually explicit books” and “books for youth on homosexuality” in the library’s Young Adult section. The controversy generated considerable discussion and debate over the role of the library in providing access to information, the nature of intellectual freedom and professional authority, the influence of community and outside stakeholders, and the role of local governance in library operations. These discussions occurred in public meetings and across dinner tables, in community protests and editorial pages, on blogs and social media, and in professional and academic venues, and they reached far beyond the limits of the rural Wisconsin city, making the West Bend controversy an important and unique opportunity to explore how debates over intellectual freedom play out in the twenty-first century information ecosystem.

“I am not a hero, I am a composer”: Hanns Eisler in Hollywood by Horst Weber (review)

am not a hero, I am a Hanns Eisler in Hollywood. By Horst Weber. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2012. [536 p. ISBN 9783487147871. i48.] Music examples, illustrations, personalia, bibliog- raphy, filmography, index.Horst Weber's study of Hanns Eisler in Hollywood is without a doubt a big book. This biography of the Austrian composer focuses on a tumultuous period of his exile in the United States. Weber synthesizes wide-ranging detail-archival documents, close music analysis, psychoanalytical excur- sions, and reception history-to tell a story about earning money, writing music, nego- tiating shifting global politics, and living as a foreigner in California from 1942 to 1947. The German musicologist consis- tently taps into the debates that drive scholarship on the composer: How do we reconcile Eisler's politically-engaged com- positions with those for commercial film? How did the devoted Schoenberg student come to write almost entirely diatonic mu- sic in the German Democratic Republic? It is precisely the varied nature of Eisler's professional activities in Los Angeles that Weber isolates in order to stress continu- ities with the composer's life and musical language before and after. He thus coun- ters musicological narratives that under- stand exile as the cause of a decisive break in compositional style. Instead, in this sub- stantial scholarly study, the California exile comes to stand for the complex and often contradictory musical figure that Hanns Eisler was throughout his life.Weber's writing style sets the pace of the text, and his dedication to detail shapes the entire monograph. Most of the chapters re- produce substantial excerpts from primary documents, and Weber goes to consider- able efforts to set these off from his inter- pretation and synthesis, inviting other scholars to take advantage of the material's textual and musical richness. Of twin im- portance are Eisler's Hollywood composi- tions and the California papers of the com- poser and his wife, Louise Eisler-Fischer, which recently became available as a part of the Lion Feuchtwanger Memorial Library at the University of Southern California. From film score to lied to piano sonata to incidental music for Bertolt Brecht's the- ater, the musical works span genres. Weber accords each measured analysis, drawing out gestures, tonal spaces, and formal ten- sions to paint a picture of the composer's musical value system. Fragments of scores- many of which are currently unpublished- enable the reader to follow the nuances of Weber's close readings. Sometimes his insights come across as meant for scholars familiar with the voluminous literature on the composer, much of which is in German. But the author also contributes by synthesizing existing knowledge, such as the publication history of Composing for the Films and the sources and composition history of the Hollywood Songbook, and the resulting charts are a clear and helpful resource for musicologists of any stripe.The book's scope is vast, but the thick de- scription that pervades it evokes Eisler inti- mately and humanly. Weber sustains his own scholarly and personal reflections on exile and other traumas of twentieth- century history throughout the book, giv- ing the five-hundred-page tome a unified voice. An opening sequence serves as the introduction to the five thematic sections that clearly structure the book. It sets the author's ambition to study Eisler as a com- poser hidden by his exile, and it advo- cates for his originality and significance. The first section is devoted to Eisler's tran- sition to living in Los Angeles. After an evocative retelling of the composer's depar- ture from New York City and cross-country road trip-the section's first chapter con- tains some of the most dynamic writing in the entire book-Weber discusses his final compositions on the East Coast. Piecing together letters, receipts, and newspaper clippings that reveal Eisler's negative im- pressions of Los Angeles and frustrated re- ception in New York, Weber establishes the fundamental personal unhappiness and professional outsider status that define, through this book, Eisler's exile on the West Coast. …

The Memory Library: How the Library in Hellenistic Alexandria Worked

For millennia the famous library in Hellenistic Alexandria has been praised as an epicenter of enlightenment and wisdom. And yet, a question still seems unanswered: how was its literature classified and retrieved? It is a subject that has been given surprisingly little attention by the field of library-and-information science―indeed, by scholarship in general. Furthermore, a certain way of thinking has influenced the few answers that have so far been attempted. It is as if the scholars of our era have tried to identify the modern, physical library in the Hellenistic library in Alexandria. But such an approach is biased in a basic way: It simply does not consider the impact of the cultural and intellectual context of the library. This article differs fundamentally, because I reject the notion that the library was like those of today. Accordingly, an entirely new way of understanding how the library actually worked, in terms of classification and retrieval processes is presented. The key element is to understand the library both as a physical structure and as a struc- ture in the memory of the Alexandrian scholars. In this article, these structures are put together so as to propose a new interpretation of the library.

Articles in Brief

Global Business and Organizational ExcellenceVolume 33, Issue 2 p. 103-105 Currents Articles in Brief Rachael Green, Rachael Green Noel Memorial Library, Louisiana State UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Rachael Green, Rachael Green Noel Memorial Library, Louisiana State UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 18 December 2013 https://doi.org/10.1002/joe.21537AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume33, Issue2January/February 2014Pages 103-105 RelatedInformation

Report From the Field: The Los Angeles Archives Bazaar

Whatever lingering confusion you feel about the name ‘‘Archives Bazaar’’ dissolves as you step into the exhibition hall. The airy confines of the Los Angeles Times Reference Room in USC’s Doheny Memorial Library— usually a studious place where students bow their heads over books and laptops—have been transformed into a bustling marketplace. Not a marketplace of threads and trinkets but of stories, swapped between archivist and researcher, collector and author, librarian and student across some eighty tables, most of them topped with vintage postcards, century-old train tickets, orange-flavored candy, black-and-white photographs, maps, books, a stuffed owl, and an Army-green typewriter used to write the novel Psycho—among many other things. ‘‘Bazaar’’ fits the scene. Now in its eighth year, the Los Angeles Archives Bazaar is the first of its kind: a daylong celebration of Southern California’s history that brings together, all in one place, collections from academic libraries, museums, official archives, and community organizations. Crucially, the bazaar incorporates private collections and independent archives that researchers might otherwise miss, transforming private passions into public resources. Take David Boule. For decades, the marketing and public relations professional has collected seemingly everything related to

Georgia Library Spotlight - Gould Memorial Library, College of Coastal Georgia

Georgia Library Spotlight - Gould Memorial Library, College of Coastal Georgia

Lowell Gallagher, editor, Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism, University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth – and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2012, pp. x + 342, £48.00, ISBN: 978-1-4426-4312-3

Lowell Gallagher, editor, Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism, University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth – and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2012, pp. x + 342, £48.00, ISBN: 978-1-4426-4312-3 - Volume 31 Issue 4

Alison Gregory Named Director of Library Services at Lycoming College

Alison S. Gregory has been named Lycoming College’s Associate Dean and Director of Library Services at the John G. Snowden Memorial Library, according to an announcement by Dr. Phil Sprunger, Provost and Dean of the college. She began her duties July 1, having served the college since 2005 as Assistant Professor and Instructional Services Librarian and Coordinator of Information Literacy and Outreach. She is replacing Janet McNeil Hurlbert, who retired at the conclusion of the 2012-13 academic year.

Byen Pre Pa Lakay : Toward a Complete Bibliography of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Writings

Byen Pre Pa Lakay: Toward a Complete Bibliography of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Writings Drexel G. Woodson Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1949–2012) was professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago and just 62 years old when he died suddenly on July 5, 2012. Rolph (to colleagues and students) or Roro (to family and close friends) was Haitian-born and deeply committed to Ayiti cheri/Ayiti toma, even though he was a resident of the United States and a cosmopolitan world citizen. From 1978 to 2002, Rolph became one of the most accomplished and influential scholars and teachers of his generation. By word and deed, he shared deep knowledge of theory, method, and evidence in several intellectual disciplines, as well as keen awareness of the political roots and implications of knowledge for nearly a quarter-century. The inspiration for this bibliographic project comes in part from Caribbeanists Sidney W. Mintz and Richard Price, who were Rolph’s main advisors during his graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University as well as my teachers at Yale some years earlier. Professors Mintz and Price taught us to combine bibliography with ethnography and historiography as a means of studying culture, history, society, and political economy in Haiti and elsewhere. This lesson led me to explore and value work by master Haitian bibliophiles and bibliographers Ulrick “Père” Duvivier (1867–1932), Edmond Mangonès (1883–1967), and Max Bissainthe (1911–78). Their work created an infrastructure for research and policymaking that has been pursued by Max Manigat and Michel S. Laguerre since the 1970s.1 “Byen Pre Pa Lakay” (“Being Close By Is Not the Same as Being Home”) is an apt title for this bibliography because research on Rolph’s writings is far from complete. Despite the recent compilations by Rolph’s students Jason Antrosio2 and Yarimar Bonilla,3 as well as my ongoing investigations, we do not yet have a comprehensive and accurate list of Rolph’s always-informative and thought-provoking writings about anthropology, history, political economy, literature, music, art, and politics. Here, I expand the selective bibliography published with Rolph’s obituary in Caribbean Studies.4 The following compilation enables readers to gauge the range of Rolph’s [End Page 183] writings and track the development of his ideas over time. It is another token of my respect for Roro—frè ak bonjan zanmi-kamarad-mwen. My hope is that it will inspire others to prepare the kind of bibliography that Professor Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s work richly deserves, and that those who would follow his lead sorely need. Drexel G. Woodson University of Arizona Notes 1. See Ira P. Lowenthal and Drexel G. Woodson (eds.), Catalogue de la Collection Price-Mars, Pétionville, Haïti, December 1973. Yale University Sterling Memorial Library; Lowenthal and Woodson (eds.), Catalogue de la Collection Mangonès, Pétionville, Haïti, 1974. ARP Occasional Papers, 2, Yale University Antilles Research Program; Woodson, Review of Michel S. Laguerre, The Complete Haitiana: A Bibliographic Guide to the Scholarly Literature, 1900–1980. Nieuwe West-Indische Gids/New West Indian Guide 57, no. 3/4 (1983): 233–37; and Woodson, Review of Frantz Pratt (ed.), Haiti: Guide to the Periodical Literature in English, 1800–1990. New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 68, no.1/2 (1994): 189–92. 2. See Jason Antrosio, “In Memoriam, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, 1949–2012.” Anthropology Report (Real Anthropology, Real Anthropologists). July 5, 2012. http://anthropologyreport.com/in-memoriam-michel-rolph-trouillot-1949-2012/. 3. See Yarimar Bonilla, “Michel-Rolph Trouillot: A Comprehensive Bibliography.” Small Axe 17, no. 3.42 (2013): 213–22. 4. See Drexel G. Woodson and Brackette F. Williams, “In Memoriam: Dr. Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1949–2012), with a Selective Bibliography.” Caribbean Studies 40, no. 1 (2012): 153–68. [End Page 184] Michel-Rolph Trouillot: Writings Curriculum Vitae 1996 Curriculum Vitae: Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Krieger/Eisenhower Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, and Director, Institute for Global Studies in Culture, Power, and History, The Johns Hopkins University (Fall 1996). MS, 11 pp. 2001 Curriculum Vitae: Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Professor, Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago. MS, 14 pp. Books 1977 Ti difé boulé sou istoua Ayiti. Brooklyn...

Georgia Library Spotlight - Simon Schwob Memorial Library, Columbus State University

Georgia Library Spotlight - Simon Schwob Memorial Library, Columbus State University

England's Rivera: The Lost Murals of Viscount Hastings 1931–1939

Beyond his work as Diego Rivera's assistant in San Francisco and Detroit, little has been written about the British mural painter Viscount ‘Jack’ Hastings, creator of the Worker of the Future Upsetting the Economic Chaos of the Present at the Marx Memorial Library in London. Drawing on a range of documentary sources and discussing some hitherto unknown murals in both the US and the UK, this article will examine the development of Hastings’ work as an artist and political activist. A key theme of this article will be to explore Hastings’ role in attempts to promote mural painting and socially committed art in England through his involvement with the Artists International Association and his writings for Left Review and Architectural Review. This article will also examine the relationship between Hastings’ work and his political interests, which culminated in his abandoning his artistic career in order to serve as a junior minister in Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government.

A Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Located at Villanova University

This article represents the first formal catalogue of the manuscripts located at Villanova University. Thirteen are kept in Falvey Memorial Library, and two are housed in the Augustinian Historical Institute. The collection comprises manuscripts dating from the thirteenth through the eighteenth centuries; the catalogue describes their physical characteristics, as well as their authors and texts.

Seeing Through the Eyes of Students: Participant Observation in an Academic Library

Participant observation of study spaces in the Killam Memorial Library at Dalhousie University revealed significant insight into the study behaviours of individual students and groups, the impact of building design on these behaviours, and the research methodology itself. The effect of unintentional panoptical design (on adherence to quiet study rules) and ambient noise (on productivity and popularity of spaces) were both observed, as were the blending of social and academic activities, and the choices of students to work individually and collaboratively within a community environment rather than solitude. As an ethnographic methodology, participant observation is rarely conducted in library spaces. This study proves the value of this methodology when students observe fellow students. Their complete membership in the culture under observation permits unobtrusive access and a richness of collected data that is enhanced by observer insight into student life.

Bihar, California, and the US Midwest: the early radicalization of Jayaprakash Narayan

Jayaprakash Narayan (JP) is often remembered as a ‘Gandhian Socialist’ because of his explicit rejection of revolutionary Marxism in and embrace of Gandhian principles in the 1950s and 1960s. However, the easy mapping of a ‘Marx to Gandhi’ trajectory in JP's political life minimizes the complexity of his political journey, in which cultural nationalism and internationalist Marxian thought were intertwined. This article, based on JP's 1972 interview with Hari Dev Sharma of the Nehru Memorial Library and Museum, investigates his early radicalization in the 1920s, and examines the uneven development of his political consciousness in that context. As such, it makes a specific contribution to the historical record of Indian revolutionaries, bringing JP into that story and suggesting that his later political turns may have had as much to do with the crises of global revolutionary thought and organization in the interwar period as with his own ideas and beliefs.

The Heritage Hunt: From Start to Update

The librarians of the Weinberg Memorial Library developed and implemented a new library orientation program in only three short months. The library orientation, referred to as the Heritage Hunt, is an interactive scavenger hunt that was designed to reach the entire freshmen class. In this article, the author discusses how the librarians managed to accommodate such a large number of students, why this program was developed, the difficulties that were experienced along the way, and plans for improvement based on the findings.

Articles in Brief

Global Business and Organizational ExcellenceVolume 32, Issue 4 p. 88-90 Currents Articles in Brief Rachael Green, Rachael Green Noel Memorial Library at Louisiana State University in ShreveportSearch for more papers by this author Rachael Green, Rachael Green Noel Memorial Library at Louisiana State University in ShreveportSearch for more papers by this author First published: 12 April 2013 https://doi.org/10.1002/joe.21498AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume32, Issue4May/June 2013Pages 88-90 RelatedInformation

Survey of user preferences from a comparative trial of UpToDate and ClinicalKey

In December of 2011, the A. T. Still Memorial Library at the A. T. Still University of Health Sciences was invited to be a beta test site for ClinicalKey, a major new point-of-care and research platform recently introduced by Elsevier. The advance marketing for ClinicalKey implied its use as a point-of-care-product for physicians. Over the past several years, library staff had been exploring an institutional subscription to UpToDate, so we decided to conduct a side-by-side trial of the two products and to survey participants about their experiences and preferences if the library were able to subscribe to only one of the two. Survey questions were designed to ascertain not only the participants' overall preference, but to provide detailed information to the library staff concerning the basis of this preference, including ease of access and use and the relative value of the two products in the students' didactic and clinical years. ClinicalKey is a new product launched by Elsevier in April 2012. It brings together the content from a number of Elsevier's medically related products, including MD Consult, First Consult, Procedures Consult, over 500 clinical journals, and more than 950 medical electronic books. It is being marketed to physicians as “Faster, more relevant clinical answers, so you can spend less time searching and more time caring for patients,” in an apparent attempt to compete with UpToDate as a point-of-care clinical tool. UpToDate is a point-of-care physician evidence/decision tool developed in 1992. In 2008, it was purchased by Wolters Kluwer, a large global information services and publishing company. It provides detailed, clinically related information written by physicians for physicians to use in clinical settings. It has been heavily marketed directly to physicians and is considered by many physicians as the key evidence-based, point-of-care online tool. There have been numerous studies on the value of UpToDate in clinical settings 1–5. This brief communication adds to this literature by presenting the results of a side-by-side trial of these two products based on reports by undergraduate medical students and their faculty.

Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism ed. by Lowell Gallagher (review)

Reviewed by: Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism ed. by Lowell Gallagher Christopher Haigh Redrawing the Map of Early Modern English Catholicism. Edited by Lowell Gallagher. [Clark Memorial Library Series.] (Toronto: University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. 2012. Pp. x, 342. $75.00. ISBN 978-1-4426-4312-3.) This reviewer groaned as he began to read the barely comprehensible editorial introduction to this volume: more pretentious, jargon-ridden, English-lit. theorizing seemed in prospect, with little that is useful to historians of religion. It is striking how much of the work on early-modern English Catholicism is now being done in English departments in the United States, probably because so many of the easily available sources are literary texts of one sort or another, and archival resources of the kind historians often use are limited (and on the other side of the Atlantic). For all its achievements, this scholarly effort has unbalanced our understanding of post-Reformation Catholicism, with its concentration on poetry, hagiography, heroic piety, priests, and the nobility and gentry—at the expense of conventional practice, social relations, and the lower social orders. But this groaning reviewer fretted too much—although ten of the twelve contributors to this collection work in English departments, most of them can, unusually, write comprehensible English, and some make serious contributions to historical understanding. Eleven essays are organized in three sections: three in “Signposts” (on “signature topics”), four in “Poetics” (on Catholic poetry) and four in “Communities” (on confessional identity). Arthur Marotti looks carefully at Catholic responses to Protestant attacks on Catholic worship as idolatry, but finds there is more to say about John Donne and John Milton than Nicholas Sander and Thomas Harding. It looks as if Catholics gave up trying. Frances Dolan cleverly analyzes a ponderous official text exposing the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and a murder pamphlet from 1681, although it is not clear that they go together in any helpful way. Holly Crawford Pickett tells the stories of three “serial converts” (William Alabaster, Marc Antonio De Dominis, and William Chillingworth) and suggests that they were irenic and ecumenical rather than hypocrites or shallow time-servers: in these three cases, it looks as [End Page 363] if she is right, although others are more problematical. Alison Shell sensitively examines Alabaster’s poetry and prose of conversion in more detail, and Richard Rambuss defends Richard Crashaw’s style as devotional, intellectual, and both Anglican and Catholic. Gary Kuchar convincingly characterizes St. Robert Southwell’s poem on St. Peter’s repentance as an alchemical allegory of transmutation, and Jennifer Rust presents a canto of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1590–96) as a response to Southwell’s Marie Magdalens Funerall Teares (1591).The “Communities” section is more obviously historical. Phebe Jensen shows neatly how traditional and Counter-Reformation Catholicism interacted in Catholic celebrations of Christmas, using manuscript collections of carols. Susannah Monta offers a thoughtful assessment of Southwell’s Short Rule for a Good Life and other Catholic texts on holy living, as patterns of domestic piety that fostered communal identity and were copied by Protestants. Anne Dillon reconstructs in meticulous detail the piety and practice of the Confraternity of the Rosary that flourished at Cardigan House in London between c.1650 and 1678, and Stefania Tutino emphasizes the Catholic elements of Thomas White’s The Grounds of Obedience and Government (1655). The editor’s introduction is probably best ignored, but the eleven other essays all have something useful to say and those by Pickett, Jensen, and Dillon in particular have real significance for historians of English Catholicism. It is, therefore, a worthwhile collection. But how can we convince editors in search of a title that “Remapping” and “Redrawing the Map” have been done to death? Christopher Haigh The Catholic University of America Copyright © 2013 The Catholic University of America Press

Catalogue of Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Collections of the United States of America. Part VII: Madison, NJ, Drew University, Rose Memorial Library

This article, part seven of the “Catalogue of Greek Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Collections of the United States of America,” analyzes and describes the Greek manuscripts held in Rose Memorial Library of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.