The library book sale during Family Weekend, Oct. 26-28, attracted many book lovers looking for good buys. The Legacy of Rome was the first book sold.

Tasha Lewis ’12 created an installation of her cyanotype butterflies on the microfilm cabinets in McCabe Library and in other campus spaces in the fall.

January 9 – February 20

Hydrofracking site with drill rig. Columbia Township PA. All photographs © J Henry Fair 2013

McCabe Library Lobby Artist’s lectures: Friday, January 25,12:30 pm, McCabe Lobby Monday, February 18, 8 pm, Science Center 101

New York-based photographer J Henry Fair seeks to create art [...]]]> Extraction and the American Dream

January 9 – February 20

Hydrofracking site with drill rig. Columbia Township PA. All photographs © J Henry Fair 2013

McCabe Library Lobby
Artist’s lectures:
Friday, January 25,12:30 pm, McCabe Lobby
Monday, February 18, 8 pm, Science Center 101

New York-based photographer J Henry Fair seeks to create art that compels the viewer to consider the impact a consumption-based economy has on our life support systems. He researches, travels to, and photographs toxic sites in such a way as to create compelling images that give pause to the audience. His well-known Industrial Scars series researches our world’s most egregious environmental disasters and creates images that are simultaneously stunning and horrifying. Fair’s images have been compared to abstract paintings by Georgia O’Keefe and Jackson Pollock. His first book, The Day After Tomorrow: Images of Our Earth in Crisis was released in February 2011, published by powerHouse Books in cooperation with Random House.

Occuprint: Occupy Wall Street Artist’s Prints

Night and Day, Santana

March 1 – mid-April
McCabe Library Lobby

In March, McCabe will be Occupied by Occuprint!
Occuprint is an exhibit featuring poster art of the global Occupy movement. With urgency and relevance, these bold posters showcase the variety of political, social, and economic concerns of the Occupy protestors, with a compelling visual punch. Join us for a talk by one of the Occuprint editorial committee members (date and time TBA).

Logan Grider’s oil painting class

Mid-April – mid-June
McCabe Library Lobby

he studio art course “Oil Painting.” Students will receive these instructions ahead of the project: “Make an instrument. Make a sound with your instrument. Make a painting of the instrument with the color, light, composition, and paint application chosen to reflect the sound of your instrument. The instrument can be made of any material. There are no limitations on scale of either the instrument or painting.”

Kinnikinnick Brand Kickapoo Joy-Juice

Turkey Press, 2004 This is a delightfully whimsical book featuring the poetry of Jonathan Williams, an American poet, publisher, essayist, and photographer, known for his association with the experimental Black Mountain College. Sandra Reese, of Turkey Press, designed, letterpressed, and bound this gem, which also features hand-inked stencils [...]]]> by Anne Garrison

Kinnikinnick Brand Kickapoo Joy-Juice

Turkey Press, 2004

This is a delightfully whimsical book featuring the poetry of Jonathan Williams, an American poet, publisher, essayist, and photographer, known for his association with the experimental Black Mountain College. Sandra Reese, of Turkey Press, designed, letterpressed, and bound this gem, which also features hand-inked stencils and a little known typeface, Narrow Bembo.

An Alliterative Abecedarium of Anthropomorphic Animals

Michael Kuch, Double Elephant Press, 2010

Michael Kuch, who worked for many years with Leonard Baskin, has created an extraordinarily clever alphabet book with his Alliterative Abecedarium. This accordion book, which features a unique magnetic binding, features drawings of disenchanted dodos debating divorce, inexcusably insolent iguanas, an oracle octopus opining on and on, and a tormented tarantula terrified of the truth.

Alphabet of Endangered Mammals:
A Collection of Etchings depicting animals
considered Extinct in the Wild 2050

D.R. Wakefield, The Chevington Press, 2010

A companion piece to An Alphabet of Extinct Mammals, this work is a fanciful yet ironic ode to 26 nearly extinct mammals featuring Wakefield’s gorgeously colored etchings. The images pop off the page, both for their detail and color. And the accompanying text highlights Wakefield’s typical dry wit. He says of the Koala Bear for example: “Bush fires have always been part of the cycle of life in Australia, and their cyclical increase can reasonably be accounted for by global warming. However, the rise in bush fires, caused by arson cannot be defended quite so rationally, and the disastrous effect on the Koala Bears has left them being cuddled to death in mild captivity.”

Jessica Brangiel joined the library staff in early January as the electronic resources management specialist. She is responsible for overseeing the library’s collection of about 15,000 journals and 500,000 ebooks, managing the entire life cycle (purchasing, access, assessment, and archiving) of online materials. Her previous positions included working as global content [...]]]>

Jessica Brangiel

Jessica Brangiel joined the library staff in early January as the electronic resources management specialist. She is responsible for overseeing the library’s collection of about 15,000 journals and 500,000 ebooks, managing the entire life cycle (purchasing, access, assessment, and archiving) of online materials. Her previous positions included working as global content manager at QlikTech, Inc., serials and electronic resources librarian at Thomas Jefferson University, and electronic acquisitions librarian at the University of Pennsylvania Library.

Catherine Wimberley

Catherine Wimberley is the new weekend supervisor in access and lending at McCabe Library, working Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 6 pm. Catherine received a master’s in library and information science from Drexel University and a bachelor’s from Bryn Mawr College. While at Drexel, she did a practicum in McCabe at the Research and Information Desk.

Spencer Lamm, Swarthmore digital initiatives librarian and tri-college library technology coordinator, gave a presentation at the fall member meeting of the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI) in Pittsburgh on December 5. His presentation focused on why and how the libraries choose, in Tripod, to modify the VuFind Open Source catalog into a Discovery layer including content from ExLibris’ Primo Central article aggregator, CONTENTdm, and LibGuides. He discussed how the tri-college libraries do distributed technology decision-making, the major features of the system, and the reasons for developing a channeled solution instead of purchasing an interfiled discovery layer (all content including articles, newspapers, monographs, special collections in one set of results) like Summon, Primo, or Ebsco Discovery Service.

Amy McColl, assistant director for collections, attended the Charleston Library Conference in early November. The conference focused on library acquisitions, collection development, and eresources. The main topics of conversation were ebooks in libraries, patron-driven acquisition programs, digital scholarship, and open access initiatives.

Barbara Weir, associate librarian for technical services and digital initiatives, attended the Library Assessment Conference in Charlottesville, Virginia, in late October. By bringing together interested practitioners and researchers, the conference aimed to build and further a vibrant library assessment community.

This semester five students have been selected for the ninth Library Intern Program: Christina Aruffo ’14, Stephanie Braziel ’15, Maria Mejia ’15, Maureen Murray ’14, and Alison Ryland ’14. Each week, the interns will explore a different aspect of librarianship in classes taught by various members of the library staff and participate [...]]]> by Meg Spencer

This semester five students have been selected for the ninth Library Intern Program: Christina Aruffo ’14, Stephanie Braziel ’15, Maria Mejia ’15, Maureen Murray ’14, and Alison Ryland ’14. Each week, the interns will explore a different aspect of librarianship in classes taught by various members of the library staff and participate in group and individual projects. Last year’s projects included a campus book crafts workshop, and a very funny, and slightly profane, video created by interns MC Mazzocchi ’12 and Tayarisha Poe ’12.

A field trip has been planned for a behind-the-scenes tour of Longwood Gardens in the spring, hosted by a visual resources specialist who works in Pierre du Pont’s Archives. Other possible field trips include a visit to LIBRA, the high-density storage facility in New Jersey, and the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia.

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that includes full-text content of more than 1,400 academic journals, as well as thousands of primary sources.

More library staff will be involved that day. Lucy Saxon will be answering questions on ebooks or other library-related topics at [...]]]> The Library and ITS are sponsoring the Academic Tech Fair on Tuesday, February 19, 10 am to 2 pm, in the Scheuer Room. Librarians Kate Carter and Donna Fournier are on the organizing committee.

More library staff will be involved that day. Lucy Saxon will be answering questions on ebooks or other library-related topics at the Ask-Us-Anything table. Melinda Kleppinger will be at the archives table, showing the dance video archive, the Halcyon, theses, and the Phoenix. Sarah Elichko will manage the GIS table, and Pam Harris will be welcoming people and answering their questions.

Accessible Archives Swarthmore had a portion of these titles previously, but now all the tri-college libraries will have the full title list. Contains full-text primary resource materials in American history including newspapers, magazines, and genealogical records originally only offered on microfilm. Covers 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and includes African American newspaper [...]]]> by Amy McColl

Accessible Archives
Swarthmore had a portion of these titles previously, but now all the tri-college libraries will have the full title list. Contains full-text primary resource materials in American history including newspapers, magazines, and genealogical records originally only offered on microfilm. Covers 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and includes African American newspaper collections, Godey’s Lady’s Book, The Lily, the Pennsylvania Gazette, county histories, and perspectives on the Civil War.

Burney Collection newspaper archive, 17th and 18th century
Provides full text to the newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817), representing the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London; however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.

Chronicle of Higher Education Online
Access has changed from login/password to IP access at Swarthmore. The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle’s web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; an archive of previously published content; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, and salary databases.

ClimateWire
Produced by Environment & Energy Publishing, ClimateWire is a daily publication focusing on global climate policy, science, energy and market issues.

EnergyWire
Also produced by Environment & Energy Publishing, EnergyWire is a daily publication covering the politics and business of unconventional energy.

Financial Times Online
The Financial Times was founded in 1888 as the friend of “The Honest Financier and the Respectable Broker.” Over 1.8 million readers in more than 140 countries rely on the Financial Times for timely and objective coverage of key events across the globe. Swarthmore now has full access to the latest edition online via the Financial Times’ site.

Short Story Index
Previously produced in print, this index is available online to tri-college patrons. This database is an essential resource for readers seeking short stories by author or genre, or for those researching a body of work of a literary figure. Content will include: detailed indexing of more than 117,000 stories from more than 4,200 collections and anthologies; full text for nearly 5,000 stories; and coverage dating as far back as 1984.

Statistical Abstract of the United States
(2013 forward via Proquest)
The ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. The Proquest online edition has significant enhancements over the Census Bureau’s online version: line-item access to tables; updated monthly instead of annually; table-specific capabilities for narrowing results by source, data date, subject, type of data breakdown.