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JUNE
Friday, June 5, 2009
Cataloging Discussion Group Meeting
11:00 am–12:30 pm
Lamont Forum Room
Lamont Library
Nell Carlson, 617-495-6728 or ncarlson@hds.harvard.edu
The Cataloging Discussion Group will meet to discuss the KNITSS statistics pilot program. KNITSS (Keeping Nicely Integrated TS Statistics) is the pilot program developed jointly by the TS Statistics Project Group and an HCL-TS Implementation Team. It is composed of three parts: consistent, documented guidelines about what to count; a standard set of cataloging definitions; and a new methodology for counting titles and volumes added. Sarah Tudesco (collection management analyst and reporting librarian for Harvard College Library) and Danielle Adams (technology strategist and reporting librarian, Harvard College Library) will present information on the history and current status of the program and will answer questions. The meeting is open to all members of Harvard's library community.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Ice Cream Social
3:30–5:00 pm
Theatre Room
Harvard Faculty Club, Lower Level
20 Quincy Street
Reed Lowrie, 617-496-5534 or lowrie@fas.harvard.edu
Join your colleagues for free ice cream, toppings, and conversation. Be sure and enter the raffle for door prizes.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Preservation of Treasured Works on Paper: The Use of Innovative Mounting Systems
2:00–3:00 pm
Lamont Forum Room
Lamont Library
Barbara Movius, 617-495-8596 or barbara_movius@harvard.edu
It is essential that libraries, archives, and museums use the least invasive techniques for the care and display of cultural materials. Over the past 20 years, speaker Hugh Phibbs, coordinator of preservation services in the Department of Exhibitions and Loans, Conservation Division, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, has developed innovative designs for the housing and display of works on paper, including those selected for traveling exhibitions. In this presentation for Harvard library, archives, and museum staff, Mr. Phibbs will share some of the care and display techniques employed at the National Gallery of Art. The beauty of many of the procedures to be described is that construction does not involve adhesive or permanent attachment of objects to housings and that they can be used by conservators, exhibit preparators, picture framers, and the general public alike. Presented by the Weissman Preservation Center in the Harvard University Library. Please RSVP to Barbara Movius in the WPC no later than June 18.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Rare Book Catalogers' Discussion Group Meeting
12:30–2:30 pm
Lamont Forum Room
Lamont Library
The topic for discussion will be the physical processing of rare books. This is obviously a subject that is of interest to more than just catalogers and we hope that, in particular, end-processing staff and conservation staff will bring their expertise to this discussion. Librarians from the Schlesinger, Baker Library, and Houghton have agreed to share their experiences as a springboard for initiating the conversation. Make sure to pack your lunch!
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Macro User Group Meeting
11:00 am–12:00 pm
Lamont Library, Room 310
Have a macro that's not working quite right? Have an idea for a macro, but not sure where to start? Want to implement some of the "fancier" macro features (like repeat commands, use of clipboard, file processing, and more), but find the Macro Express help explanations confusing? Please bring your questions to the June 25 Macro User Group Open Lab. After a brief update on macro developments in the Library, there will be the opportunity for you to sit down one-on-one with a member of the Aleph Macro Working Group, or another of your peers in the Library, about the macro issue that you bring. If you would like help on an existing macro, please bring it on a flash drive. (Be aware that some macros may not run properly in Lamont 310 if they are written to expect particular files in particular locations.) Even if you don't have a macro already started, it would be good to bring a flash drive in case you get to put together some draft macro code in the course of the session and want to take it back with you.
JULY
Friday, July 31, 2009
Tour of Harvard-Yenching Library with MADE
3:00–5:00 pm
Harvard-Yenching Library
RSVP to Cat Holbrook, cholbroo@radcliffe.edu, by July 22
Join MADE (the Manuscripts and Archives Development Working Group) for a tour of the Harvard-Yenching Library, the largest university library for East Asian research in the Western world. Although as an organized library it dates only from 1928, the collection can trace its beginnings back to 1879, when Chinese was first offered as part of Harvard's regular curriculum. In that year a group of Bostonians engaged in the China trade invited Ge Kunhua, a Chinese scholar from the city of Ningbo in Zhejiang Province, to give instruction in Chinese at Harvard. The small collection of books that was bought for his courses, the first acquisitions in any East Asian language at the Harvard College Library, marked the beginning of a Chinese collection. A Japanese collection was similarly launched in 1914 when two Japanese professors, Hattori Unokichi and Anesaki Masaharu, both of Tokyo Imperial University, came to lecture at Harvard and donated several important groups of Japanese publications on Sinology and Buddhism to the Harvard College Library. In 1928 these two collections, then consisting of 4,526 volumes in Chinese and 1,668 volumes in Japanese, were transferred from Widener Library to the newly established Chinese-Japanese Library of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, which had itself been independently incorporated that year in Massachusetts. Join MADE (the Manuscripts and Archives Development Working Group) for a tour on July 31.
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