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progress report

2010–11

Preserving knowledge. . .

providing access to

the universe of ideas

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As long as I’ve been at UCLA, the Library has been in a state of tran-sition. Print journal subscriptions transitioning to online licenses,in-person reference assistance at a service desk expanding intoonline chat-based exchanges, the concept of “using the library” shifting from solitary studying in the stacks to working on a groupproject with colleagues, not to mention the f luctuating levels of statefunding: the pace of change has been by turns terrifying and exhila-rating.

These transitions have offered us unique opportunities in many areas. For example,the shift to electronic journal licenses, accompanied by dramatically escalating costs, enabled us to broaden our conversations with faculty and researchers abouthow to modify license agreements to retain educational re-use rights. Open-accessalternatives to high-priced journals and legislation aimed at posting the results ofgovernment-funded research in public-access archives offered the chance to raiseour profile as a public library and strengthened contacts with elected officials to discuss, and even testify about, pending legislation.

Increasing interdisciplinarity among departments has opened up new avenues of collection development, interms of both subjects and formats. The addition of a capstone experience to the undergraduate curriculumhas given us opportunities to work in greater depth with undergraduate students on major research projectsrequiring library resources, services, and staff expertise. The trend toward collaborative projects, both amonggroups of students and of faculty with students, has created a new dialogue with campus administratorsabout the purposes library facilities serve and the funding that they require.

The transitions have also initiated new conversations with donors, both long-time and first-time. Gifts inrecent years have established the UCLA Library Prize for Undergraduate Research, launched the transforma-tive “Collecting Los Angeles” initiative, and expanded the Center for Primary Research and Training. Gifts of collections that encompass photos, video, or audio suggest new possibilities for digital library projectsthat broaden access to Library materials across the country and around the world.

Even with all the opportunities, I must acknowledge that many transitions have also come with a cost.Limited funds, limited staffing, limited space: all impact which opportunities we’re able to explore andwhich we have to regretfully put on hold, at least for the time being. Developing an institutional culture thatanticipates changes, effectively evaluates what is substantive and what is merely trendy, and thrives in thisenvironment has been a sometimes-painful process. But I firmly believe that the current status of our effortsas ref lected in the following pages has made it all worth it.

I’ve spent fifty years in and around libraries; I’ve seen some transitions fizzle into mere fads and othersendure, transforming the institution. But some things never change, like the thrill I get from handling new acquisitions or from seeing students working together on a project. From medieval manuscripts to collaborative student writing projects, each is remarkable and rewarding in its own right. With the steadfastsupport of our dedicated staff and many loyal donors, the UCLA Library will continue to collect, support,and produce scholarship and move in new directions that inspire and impress the world.

Gary E. StrongUniversity Librarian

Letter from the

UniversityLibrarian

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Years pass. In their lands spanning parts of Tuscany andUmbria, around the hill town of Monte Santa MariaTiberina, the Bourbon family expands in size and gathersmore distinguished titles and greater power. Ever-increasing piles of documents record both mundane andextraordinary events throughout the centuries, tracingthe political, cultural, and social history of one of theearliest aristocratic families in Italy.

Cut to the present day, as seven metal trunks arriveat UCLA Library Special Collections. Housing theBourbon del Monte di San Faustino Family Archive, theirextraordinary contents encompass civil and ecclesiasticalcontracts, documents from lawsuits and court cases, willsand post-mortem inventories, genealogies, certificates ofnobility, correspondence, and family chronicles.

With its unbroken provenance stretching back to the sixteenth century, the archive is a generous gift fromMontino Bourbon, the sixth Principe di San Faustino,Marchese di Monte Santa Maria, and his wife, Rita. Localand international scholars in economics, law, geography,diplomatic history, and literature and language allapplaud the acquisition and look forward to discoveringits treasures.

Parisani d’Ascoli coat of arms1747UCLA Library Special CollectionsBourbon del Monte di San Faustino

Family Archive

Treasures and Transitions:Building and TransformingCollectionsCast your mind back some twelve hundred years to medievalEurope. Charlemagne, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire,confers a patent of nobility upon a man who has served himwell, granting him land and royal favor. From this act emergesthe family name Bourbon and the title marchese.


A continent and many years away in Ethiopia, two scribes in a religious community take up handmade pens. On animal-skin parchment one carefullyinscribes calligraphic script recording the life of a saint, then painstakingly decorates and frames it with geometric ornaments and adds a beautifullydetailed miniature. Another delicately inks religious prayers onto a lengthyparchment scroll.

Days turn to weeks and months. The first scribe completes additional pages,then creates a unique and arresting frontispiece. Once all the contents are completed, the pages are bound together with heavy cord between woodenboards. The second scribe inscribes line after line, filling the narrow scroll withwords that have curative qualities, according to the religious tradition of theEthiopian Orthodox Church. He adds simple yet striking illustrations, then thescroll is rolled up and carefully placed into a custom-made leather case.

Though this practice dates back centuries, it is a living tradition that contin-ues to this day in Ethiopia, where until recently many religious works had notbeen reproduced in print format. Now, thanks to a magnificent gift from Geraldand Barbara Weiner, the UCLA Library has become the leading repository forEthiopic manuscripts in North America.

The Weiners’ extraordinary collection contains 137 bound manuscripts and 102 scrolls dating from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Among theelaborately illustrated liturgical texts are sixty-five psalters, thirteen homiliaries,five missals, and several lives of the saints. The large Ethiopian community inLos Angeles has praised the acquisition, and scholars eagerly anticipate workingwith items that are of great research value as well as uniquely beautiful.

There is something comfortingly solid and substantial about these two col-lections, a rock of stability amid the seemingly unending series of transitionsthat dominated collection building during the 2010–11 fiscal year. These transi-tions were fiscal, of course, as the University of California at a system level andUCLA at a campus level continued to cope with the challenges posed byreduced allocations from the state.

They were also more philosophical. In this increasingly electronic andinterdisciplinary world, with new forms of scholarship emerging daily, whatdoes it mean to build, maintain, and make accessible a comprehensive collec-tion of record? One thing it means is that collaboration is essential; no oneinstitution, regardless of its size and budget, can accomplish this alone.

In this regard the UCLA Library is fortunate to be part of the UC libraries system, which, with its collective size of some thirty-five million volumes, is larger than the Library of Congress. By coordinating selected book acquisi-tions with system colleagues, the UCLA Library was able to ensure that UCLAstudents, faculty, and staff have access to titles they need, while also freeing upfunds to acquire additional titles.

ScrollUndatedUCLA Library Special CollectionsGerald and Barbara Weiner Collection of Ethiopic

Manuscripts

above left, center left, and center right:

Illuminations from a psalterUndated; twentieth centuryUCLA Library Special CollectionsGerald and Barbara Weiner Collection of Ethiopic

Manuscripts

far r ight :

Illumination from a synaxariumUndated; nineteenth centuryUCLA Library Special CollectionsGerald and Barbara Weiner Collection of Ethiopic

Manuscripts


Part of the answer also involves changing the terms that frame the issue, from “collection building” to “content provision.” Looking at it in this light brings service into the process, whether on the front end to initiate an acquisition or at the back end to make both newly acquired and long-held materials more quickly and widely accessible.

To address the former, the Library’s user-driven acquisition pilot was expandedto the subjects of arts, biomedicine, humanities, management, popular music, and sciences. This service enlisted UCLA students and faculty in the acquisition processby enabling them to find records in the UCLA Library Catalog for items that theLibrary did not yet own but could order and receive quickly. By the end of the fiscalyear, more than six hundred titles had been ordered upon user request, selectedfrom among more than ten thousand records that had been added to the Catalog.

On the latter front, content provision encompassed every-thing from preservation activities to digitization projects tocataloging, processing, and preserving special collections. Ofparticular note were several activities funded by the ongoingfive-year grant from the Arcadia Fund.

Digitizing volatile nitrate negatives, which are subject todeterioration regardless of their storage conditions, is essentialto preserve the images they contain. During 2010–11 digitiza-tion was completed of negatives in the collections of CharlesChester Pierce (1861–1946), which illustrate California, thePacific Coast, and the Southwest; UCLA landscape architectRalph D. Cornell, whose other projects included Pomona College, Torrey Pines Park,the Los Angeles Music Center, and the La Brea Tar Pits; and painter, lithographer, andillustrator Conrad Buff.

In addition, using a very high-quality imaging system purchased with fundingfrom Arcadia, the Library was able to significantly speed up the digitization process.Nearly six hundred selections from the Holling C. Holling Papers, which includeillustrations, scrapbooks, memorabilia, correspondence, books, recipes, andephemera, and more than five thousand images from the Motion Picture Stills collection were digitized on this equipment during 2010–11.

A number of efforts made special collections materials easier to find and use. With staff from the Library’s Cataloging and Metadata Center and funding from theAndrew W. Mellon Foundation, more than twenty-eight thousand volumes of rarebooks were catalogued during 2010–11. Cataloging was also completed of books published by the inf luential Italian Aldine Press, providing comprehensive access to this pre-eminent collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century rare books.

Achievements in arranging, describing, and preserving archival holdings wereequally impressive: if boxes holding all the archival materials processed during 2010-11 were lined up, they would stretch for almost half a mile. These collectionsincluded the Aldous and Laura Huxley Papers, Federal Writers' Project CaliforniaRecords, R. B. Kitaj Papers, Unocal (Union Oil) Records, and Eric Zeisl Papers.

The Bourbon family continues to f lourish, and the Ethiopic tradition of hand-crafting liturgical texts remains strong. Their examples offer reassurance for thefuture, though philosophies and practices of collection-building continue to trans-form to accommodate new formats of materials, new potentials of technology, andthe ever-present restrictions of funding. The UCLA Library’s extensive accomplish-ments during the 2010–11 fiscal year provide a solid foundation from which toanticipate and weather these shifting winds of change.

Site plan for Centinela Park, Inglewood, California1945UCLA Library Special CollectionsRalph D. Cornell Papers

Richard C. Rudolph East Asian

Library

Ah and Howard Wong (Louis) HistoricalPapers in San Luis Obispo

Journalist Wang Kang’s Work Diaries(1950–59)

Rubel-Crohn Historical ShanghaiPhotographic Archive

E-resources:• Shen Bao [Shanghai Daily], 1872–1949 • Post-1949 Chinese Local Gazetteers• DragonSource Periodicals• Asahi Shinbun (1879–1945)• Historical Photo Archive (1930s–1945) • Nihon keizai shinbun (1876–1956;

1981–present)• Nikkei ryutsu shinbun (1985–present)• Nikkei kin’yu shinbun (1987–2008)• Nikkei sangyo shinbun (1981–present)

Digital Library Program

James Arkatov Collection of Photographsof Musicians

More than seven hundred photographs of jazzand classical musicians, conductors, and band-leaders performing in the Los Angeles area

Armenian Manuscripts, 1300-1899Fifty-nine manuscripts, including the GladzorGospels, considered a treasure of Armenianmedieval illumination

Walter Gordon Collection ofPhotographs, 1900–50

Approximately eight hundred photographs doc-umenting little-known aspects of AfricanAmerican history and culture in Los Angeles

Martin Perlich Interview CollectionInterviews of prominent figures in the artsincluding writers, directors, choreographers,and musical figures

Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld

Management Library

Business Expert PressE-books on marketing, human resource management, entrepreneurship, small businessmanagement, consumer behavior, businessethics, and more

Experian Simmons LocalDemographic/psychographic targeting and profiling system that quantifies individual consumer behavior on a local level for all 210 American media markets

Dun and Bradstreet’s U.S. Business andPoints-of-Interest (POI) Data

Major Acquisitions2010–11

Nielsen Claritas PRIZMDefines every U.S. household in terms of sixty-six demographic and behavior types or segments

Science and Engineering Library

EarthLimited-edition oversized atlas combining eighthundred photographs, authoritative text, and154 detailed maps

Earth From Above Limited-edition oversized book of aerial pho-tography by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Encyclopedia of Aerospace Enginering

Foundations of Differential Geometry

Fuel Cells Volumes five and six to complete this set containing the fundamentals, principles, andcurrent state-of-the-art

Metal Oxide Nanostructures and Their Applications

MoonFire: The Epic Journal of Apollo 11 Text by Norman Mailer; photography from thearchives of NASA, Life magazine, and othersources

Roger Penrose: Collected WorksRanging from quantum physics and theories ofhuman consciousness to relativity theory andobservations on the structure of the universe

UCLA Library Special Collections

Lloyd Cotsen Cuneiform Tablets CollectionAncient school texts, most dating from the OldBabylonian period (c. 2000–1600 BCE)

Ennis House Foundation RecordsHistoric Los Angeles home designed by FrankLloyd Wright and built by his son, Lloyd Wright

E! Entertainment Reference LibraryCollection of Television/Motion PictureStills and Tabloids

Stills and rarely preserved tabloid periodicals

Armand Hammer Museum of Art andCulture Center Exhibition Files

Includes correspondence, catalogs, and installation photographs

Center for Oral History ResearchNew series:• American Indian Relocation Project,

in conjunction with Professor PeterNabokov and graduate students inAmerican Indian studies: communitiesin Los Angeles

• Chicano Movement: Rosalio Muñoz, a founder of the Chicano MoratoriumCommittee; Felix Gutierrez, first directorof Cal State LA’s LA EducationalParticipation in Communities Program

• Justice for Janitors and the History of the SEIU, in consultation with ProfessorTobias Higbie

New interviews:• Author Carolyn See

• Latino Congressman Esteban Torres• Christopher Trumbo, son of blacklisted

writer Dalton Trumbo

Personal papers:• Si Frumkin, founder of the Southern

California Council for Soviet Jews• Ellen Stern Harris, environmental activist• Ivan J. Houston, World War II Buffalo

Soldier and second-generation leader ofthe Golden State Mutual Life InsuranceCompany

• Roy Huggins, American novelist, writer,and producer of television series includingMaverick, The Fugitive, and The Rockford Files

• Vahac Mardirosian, leader of the Chicanocommunity campaign around the 1968“Blowouts”

• Alan Rich, classical music critic whohelped create the new music scene in Los Angeles

• Nat Segaloff, freelance writer, producer,teacher, and journalist; includes extensivedocumentation of the Hollywood blacklist

• Allegra Fuller Snyder, dance ethnologistand former chair of the UCLA School ofthe Arts, Department of Dance, andDepartment of Ethnic Arts

UCLA faculty papers:• Social demographer Valerie K. Oppenheimer,

Department of Sociology• Geophysicist Louis B. Slichter, founder of

the UCLA Institute of Geophysics andPlanetary Physics

Dialogi by Pope Gregory I: Bound manuscript of a classic text from theMiddle Ages

Ahmanson-Murphy Early Italian PrintingCollection

• Julius Caesar,C. Iulii Caesaris commentariorumde bello gallico liber primus, Venice, 1490: A rare incunable edition of Caesar’s commentaries on the Gallic Wars

• L’institutione della Congregatione de s. Giorgio inalega di Venetia, Venice, 1574: First editionof statutes regulating the Benedictinemonastery of San Giorgio near Venice

• Arlotto Mainardi, Scelta di facezie, tratti, buffonerie, motti, e burle, Florence, 1579:Collection of humorous anecdotes and jokes

• Sisto de’ Medici, De foenore Iudaeorum,Venice, 1555: First edition of a detaileddiscussion of the money-lending practicesand privileges of Venetian Jews

• Pietro Targa, Cento, e cinquanta fauole...,Venice, 1569: A collection of fables with150 woodcut vignettes

• Le vite de tutti i santi...,Venice 1585: First vernacular edition of the Roman lives of the saints, with twelve woodcutsdepicting the labors of the months andtwelve woodcut portraits of saints

Artists’ Book Collection• Ken Campbell, Execution, 1990: Plots the

dismembering of a diagram

Books, manuscripts, and e-journals are not the only things UCLA Library users needfor their study and research. Within the libraries, they also need f lexible, comfortablefurnishings that enable them to spread out materials, avoid noise and distractions, orplug in a laptop.

Thus, expenditures from the University Librarian’s Discretionary Fund during2010–11 supported not only the acquisition of several rare and beautiful volumes; theyalso were used to acquire new furnishings for the renovated spaces in the Charles E.Young Research Commons.

Joining the Ahmanson-MurphyEarly Italian Printing Collection inUCLA Library Special Collections is Ivestigi dell’antichita di Roma (Rome, 1575)by Etienne Du Perac. One of the greatbooks of sixteenth-century Italianengraving, this beautiful volume con-tains thirty-nine engraved architecturalplates (example to the right) depictingthe major ancient ruins of Rome intheir early Renaissance environment.Arranged according to the itinerary customarily followed by visitors at that time, the images preserve many of Rome’s architectural details that have been lost to the present day.

The deluxe edition of Barbara Hodgson and Claudia Cohen’s new artists’ book The WunderCabinet (Vancouver, 2011) explores “humankind’s passion for accumulatingbeautiful, odd, and marvellous things.” Drawing upon and reinterpreting the long tradition of “cabinets of curiosities,” this magnificent boxed set contains both a beau-tifully illustrated volume and a unique collection of objects such as shells, fossils, andoptical devices from the creators’ own collections. It is housed in History and Special

Collections for the Sciences.One of the most striking new spaces on

the Research Library’s first f loor, the expansive,glass-enclosed reading room spans half thewidth of the building. Designed to inspire andsupport research and study by graduate studentsand faculty, this inviting space offers seatingboth at tables and in lounge chairs.

The wooden tables accommodate up to sixpeople, and each contains centralized power

outlets for laptops and other electrical devices. The comfortable leather lounge chairswrap around the sitter, offering privacy and cutting down on distractions.

The space also houses frequently used print reference materials, and electronic reference resources can be accessed at several public workstations as well as via thecampus wireless network. Reference librarians staff a service desk and consultationarea near the entrance, answering quick reference questions and providing more in-depth assistance with sophisticated research inquiries.

More extensive coverage of the Research Library’s renovations to its first f loorand A level, including photographs of all the spaces, will be featured in the 2011–12annual progress report.

University Librarian’sDiscretionary Fund Acquisitions

• Frances Jetter, Cry Uncle, New York, 2009:A journalist’s response to torture in AbuGhraib, Guantanamo, and Bagram

• David Thomas, An Artist Portrait of Vo NguyenGiap, 2010: A portfolio of images printedon handmade Vietnamese mulberry paperconveying the history and culture of Viet Nam

Children’s Book Collection• Louis Couvay, Premiere [et seconde] partie de

la grammaire latine…, Paris, 1668: Used toteach Latin grammar to the seven-year-old Grand Dauphin Louis de France(1661-1711); contains 636 mnemonic illus-trations of maps, animals, emblems, bodyparts, mythological and religious figures,household objects, and celestial bodies

• Ambrose Henkel, Das grosse ABC-Buch…,New Market, Virginia, 1820: Containsalphabets, word lists, glossaries, Biblicalpassages, and prayers

• Petite geographie amusante: abecedaire nouveauoffrant pour chaque letter de l’alphabet une cartecoloriee avec l’explication de chacune d’elles,Paris, [1851?]: ABC geography book withcolor lithograph maps for each letter

History of Medicine and the Sciences• Elisha Bartlett, Essay on the philosophy of

medical science, Philadelphia, 1844; Donald O.Walter Endowed Collection of Monographsin the History and Philosophy of Science

• Claude Bimet, Quatrains anatomiques des os etdes muscles du corps humain: ensemble un dis-cours de la circulation du sang, Lyon, 1664;Raymond C. Rothman Fund for the Historyof Cognitive Science: Information aboutbones, muscles, and blood circulation set to verse

• Jekal to Belgrade, Franklin E. Murphy, MDCollection: Typescript of an original, appar-ently unpublished, first-hand account by anunidentified female ambulance driver for theSerbian Army in the Macedonia/Serbianregion in 1918; with companion album ofphotographs

• Letter signed from Santa Claus to Anna C.Burwell, Buffalo, NY, 1843: Written to a six-year-old; “…You have been very good totake medicine & have the leeches on. I hopeyou will be better soon."

• Luigi Marchelli, Memoria sull'inoculazione dellavaccine, Genova, 1801; Franklin E. Murphy,MD Collection: Only edition of a landmarkannouncement of the invention of a mecha-nized vaccination tool; engraved platesfeature the earliest depiction of the act ofvaccination

Charles E. Young Research Library Reading RoomJune 2011


Introducing new undergraduate and graduate students—and their families—to the UCLA Library, librariansstaffed information points, conducted tours, andanswered endless questions during events includingBruin Day in the spring for all incoming freshmen;the Enormous Activities Fair held during Welcome

Week before the fall quarter began; the Major Bash,organized by the Office of Residential Life to helpstudents choose a major; and Graduate StudentOrientation, which encompassed a resource fair aswell as a series of workshops.

More than four thousand people receivedLibrary assistance in one of these settings. In fact,the total number of participants on tours and orien-tation sessions offered by the College Library alonemore than doubled, from not quite twenty-five hundred in the 2009–10 fiscal year to more than six thousand in 2010–11.

Perhaps the most traditional of library services,reference assistance continued to experience changingpatterns of usage during 2010–11. The fiscal yearbegan with the discontinuation of the text referencepilot; targeted at student athletes, whose travelschedules made getting reference assistance throughother channels more difficult, it ended because oflow usage levels and redeployment of library staff.

However, other modes of reference assistanceshowed significant increases. As one example, at theCollege Library the number of in-person transactionsand questions at the reference desk grew by morethan ten percent, while the number of email refer-ence questions leaped twenty-four percent.

Spanning reference assis-tance and access provision,services offered by UCLALibrary Special Collections saw a dramatic thirty-one percentincrease from September 2010through June 2011 over the sameperiod the previous year. Part of this was due to the reinstate-ment of Saturday hours, whichhad been cancelled during2009–10 because of budgetary

restrictions. The consolidation of service points wasanother factor, as access to Performing Arts SpecialCollections was shifted from a temporary readingroom in the Southern Regional Library Facility to theCharles E. Young Research Library Department ofSpecial Collections, which offered a more centrallocation and more than double the open hours.

Instructional programs varied across the libraries.With the entire undergraduate population to serve, the College Library focused its efforts on general education cluster courses for freshmen; these year-longinterdisciplinary courses introduce new students to collegiate-level instruction and strengthen their intel-lectual skills. The number of library sessions taught to cluster classes increased by forty-three percent,reaching more than fifteen hundred students.

With its more focused user pool, the Richard C.Rudolph East Asian Library took a different approachto instruction. Hands-on seminars emphasized thebasic skills involved in searching Chinese, Japanese,

From a campuswide fair at the start of the academic year to the undergraduate

research prize in the spring quarter, services offered by the UCLA Library

during the 2010–11 fiscal year refined and redefined the concept of and

settings for library services.

Refining and Redefining Services


and Korean studiesresources, and librariansalso taught instructionalsessions for students inChinese etymology andcalligraphy courses andmodern Japan seminars.

Instruction took amore non-traditionalform at several libraryevents. The Center forOral History Researchawarded its first John B.Jackson Oral History Faculty Curator Grant to RichardG. Hovannisian, UCLA Armenian Education FoundationChair in Modern Armenian History, who organized aconference focusing on the preservation and dissemi-

nation of oral histories from the Armenian genocide.In conjunction with UCLA’s Department of Theaterand Confucius Institute, the East Asian Library presented a master class in theater with three distin-guished Chinese artists: Shang Changrong with theBeijing Opera; Mao Weitao with the Yue Opera; andZhou Zhiqiang with the National Theater of China.

UCLA Library Special Collections launched anew series of curators’ conversations exploringLibrary collections and projects with the staff whoacquire and make them available. The inaugural eventfeatured Jane Collings, the editor of an oral historyseries on environmentalism in Los Angeles, while the second was a freewheeling conversation between Tom Hyry, director of UCLA Library SpecialCollections, and Russell Johnson, curator for specialcollections in medicine and the sciences.

In addition, the UCLA Library joined more than120 academic and public libraries in more than thirty

countries to celebrateOpen-Access Week,which focuses attentionon the growing globalmovement toward openpublic online access toscholarly research results.UCLA events included ascreening of the 2009documentary CopyrightCriminals, which asks “Can you own a sound?”Featuring many of hip-hop music’s founding

figures, including Public Enemy, De La Soul, andDigital Underground, as well as emerging artists, thefilm examines the creative and commercial value of

musical sampling and relateddebates over artistic expres-sion, copyright law, andmoney.

Library services came inmany different forms, deliv-ered in widely scatteredphysical and virtual locationsby a number of methods. Butwhile refining and redefin-ing the concept, librariansand staff remained focusedon one unchanging goal: tofulfill the academic andintellectual needs of UCLAstudents, faculty, and staff.

Lifeguard and woman inspecting anoil-covered beach in Santa Monica

1969UCLA Library Special CollectionsLos Angeles Times Photographic

Archive

left to r ight :

Mix Master Mike (Beastie Boys,Invisibl Skratch Piklz) at a performance in Atlanta, Georgia

UndatedCourtesy ITVS

De La SoulUndatedCourtesy ITVS

Pete Rock, considered one of the best and most inf luentialproducers in hip-hop

UndatedCourtesy ITVS

“Quarantined ... Polluted Water” signwith children playing in the sandbehind it on Cabrillo Beach

1973UCLA Library Special CollectionsLos Angeles Times Photographic

Archive


John Fante: A Life in the WorksOpened February 2011Charles E. Young Research Library Department

of Special CollectionsForgotten in his lifetime, John Fante (1909–83) is now widely consid-ered one of the great outsider figures of twentieth-century Americanletters. His autobiographical novels and stories of growing up poor,Catholic, and Italian-American in the xenophobic Colorado of hisyouth prefigured the later maturation of an ethnically diverse nationalliterature.

Likewise, Fante’s tragicomic narratives of youthful desperation and romantic desire inDepression-era Los Angeles—savage, poetic, and ahead of their time—captured the spirit of the cityin ways that still resonate today. Together with his satires of the Hollywood film industry, whichhe knew from a forty-year scriptwriting career, these works have become important touchstonesin the cultural history of Los Angeles.

UCLA Library Special Collections acquired the John Fante Papers in 2009. Featuring original manuscripts, screenplays, letters, diaries, and assorted other personal and professional documents,this exhibit provided a window into the author’s life, creative process, and literary milieu.

“No Greater Service”: UCLA and the Peace CorpsMarch–June 2011Powell Library Rotunda

There can be no greater service to our country, and no source of pride more real, than to be a member of the Peace Corps of the United States.

—president john f. kennedy, 1962

Kennedy’s election in November 1960 ushered in a new era. His youth and energy inspired enthusiasm and optimism among hissupporters, including the many young people known as “Kennedy’sKids,” and when he announced his plans for the Peace Corps, theyf locked to volunteer.

UCLA played an integral role in the early years of the PeaceCorps, when volunteers were trained in the U.S. before leaving fortheir overseas assignments. UCLA’s first Peace Corps traineesarrived in September 1961, and by the time the last group arrived in1969, UCLA programs had trained some two thousand volunteers

for service in countries including Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana,Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Panama, Peru, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Venezuela.

As part of UCLA's campuswide celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Peace Corps, this exhibitmoved from Los Angeles during the 1960s to countries throughout Africa, Latin America, and Asia.Weaving together maps, photographs, archival documents, audiovisual elements, and personal recollec-tions and mementos from UCLA faculty, staff, alumni, and trainees, it followed Peace Corps volunteers ofthe ‘60s and more recent years as they traveled the world to make a difference.

John Fante at his home in Malibuc. 1950sUCLA Library Special CollectionsJohn Fante Papers

Journalist and UCLA alum Maureen Orth serving as a teacher in Colombia

1964-66Courtesy Maureen Orth

Exhibits


Uncataloged Selections from the Judith A. Hoff bergCollection: A Student-Curated Exhibit Opened March 7, 2011Arts LibraryJudith Hoff berg acquired the bulk of her extraordinary collec-tion of artists’ books during the later 1970s through to the1990s, as artists from across the country and around the worldsent her copies of their latest books to be reviewed in herUmbrella newsletter.

Her collection highlights the efforts of both visual poetswho experimented with the concrete materiality of languageand conceptual artists who saw the book form as a means ofdematerializing artistic expression. Her particular focus on theartists’ book as a democratic multiple, Fluxus art, and corre-spondence art was ref lected in the materials in this exhibit.Artists’ books from small presses as well as self-publishedmaterials demonstrated an idiosyncratic history of the rise ofthe underground press, the “mimeograph revolution,” and othertechniques that allowed artists to control the means of produc-tion and to find alternative modes of distribution.

Held primarily in the Arts Library, Hoff berg’s extensive collection provides opportunities for the study of the culture of alternative publishing in the 1970s and ‘80s and of the aesthetics, politics, and methods of thisgeneration of book artists.

Graduate students from Johanna Drucker's Information Studies 289 class organized this exhibit, selectingitems from an extensive inventory undertaken as a class project.

UCLA Common Book: Zeitoun by Dave EggersSeptember–October 2010Charles E. Young Research LibraryAbdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American father, chooses to stay in New Orleans during the Hurricane Katrina period. Eggers’s book not only por-trays his experience through this difficult time but also explores his Syrian rootsand relationships with his family.

UCLA Common Book gives new Bruins a shared intellectual learning experi-ence, helps them prepare for their career at UCLA, and encourages them toapproach world issues from a social justice perspective. Book discussions tookplace during the first week of the quarter, and the author came to Royce Hall fora discussion that was free of charge and open to all.

The subject of the 2010 UCLA Common Book gave the UCLA Library anopportunity to showcase materials related to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.Contents included photographs, oral histories, maps, a music score, and govern-ment reports.

For more events and exhibits, go to <<http://www.library.ucla.edu/about/3542.cfm<>

Ben AllenParticles from SpaceUndatedArts LibraryJudith A. Hoff berg Collection


Where it goes

Expenditures—$41.6 millionCollections:

• 9,748,501 total volumes; includesprint and electronic

• 101,235 current serial titles (51,735 print, 49,500 electronic)

• 373,008 electronic resources

Users:

• 3,045,122 visitors to all campuslibraries

• 27,509 participants in libraryinstructional programs

• 1.63 million items circulated (checkouts plus renewals)

• 139,245 reference questionsanswered (108,728 in person, 19,223 by telephone, 6,969 by email, 4,037 online, 192 by mail, 96 by instant messaging)

• 4,345,222 million virtual visits to all Library Web pages

• 1,060,089 million visits to the UCLA Library Catalog

• 44,179 interlibrary loan items borrowed

• 41,064 interlibrary loan itemsloaned

• 1,746 document delivery requests filled

Staff:

• 73 Librarians

• 228 Staff

• 432 Students

The Hard Numbers: 2010-11 Statistics

Where it comes from

Staff Salaries: 26.4%

Student and limited-appointment staff: 9.5%

Library materials: 26.6%

AcademicSalaries: 11.8%

Supplies and expense: 12.3%

State funds: 82.7%

Student and other fees: 2.2%

Contracts and grants: 5.2%

Gifts and endowments: 5.6%

Sales and service activity: 4.3%

Equipment: 1.2%

Benefits: 12.2%


UCLA Library Senior Staff *

Gary E. Strong, University Librarian

Susan E. Parker, Deputy University Librarian

Judy Consales, Associate University Librarian for Sciences;Director, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, NationalNetwork of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Southwest Region

Sharon E. Farb, Associate University Librarian for CollectionManagement and Scholarly Communication

Todd Grappone, Associate University Librarian for DigitalInitiatives and Information Technology

Kevin Mulroy, Associate University Librarian for AcademicServices; Interim Head, Arts Library, College Library, Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library, Music Library

Teresa Barnett, Head, Center for Oral History Research

Tania Bardyn, Associate Director for Public Services, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library

Charlotte Brown, University Archivist

Marta Brunner, Head, Charles E. Young Research LibraryCollections, Research, and Instructional Services

Colleen Carlton, Director, Southern Regional Library Facility

M. Rita Costello, Head Librarian, Eugene and MaxineRosenfeld Management Library

Stephen Davison, Head, Digital Library Program

Amy Drizhal, Director, Library Development

Tom Hyry, Director, UCLA Library Special Collections

Julie Kwan, Associate Director, National Network of Librariesof Medicine, Pacific Southwest Region

Carlo Medina, Director, Charles E. Young Research LibraryAccess Services

Jacob Nadal, Preservation Officer

John Riemer, Head, Cataloging and Metadata Center

Angela Riggio, Head, Scholarly Communication and Licensing

Gloria P. Robledo, Director, Library Human Resources

Dawn Setzer, Director, Library Communications

Debra Shade, Director, Library Business and Enterprise Services

Germaine Wadeborn, Head, Print Acquisitions Department

*As of June 30, 2011

UCLA Academic Senate

Committee on Library and

Scholarly Communication

Christopher KeltyCenter for Society and Genetics; Department of Information Studies Chair

John DagenaisDepartment of Spanish and Portuguese

Elizabeth DeLoughreyDepartment of English

Leon FineCedars-Sinai Medical Center, a UCLA-affiliated hospital

Reynaldo MaciasCésar E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies

Todd PresnerDepartment of Germanic Languages

Helen ReesDepartment of Ethnomusicology

Ramesh SrinivasanDepartment of Information Studies

Francis SteenDepartment of Communication Studies

Gary E. StrongUniversity Librarian

Rhonda LawrenceLibrarians Association of the University of California, Los Angeles Representative

Christina OlagueGraduate Student Representative

Ethan NguyenUndergraduate Student Representative

Cathy DavisAcademic Senate Staff


* Indicates the donor is deceased

The UCLA Library system is ranked among the top academic researchlibraries in North America and continues to draw international atten-tion for its superlative collections and innovative use of technology.

To assure the Library’s support of UCLA’s acclaimed academic andresearch programs, private contributions are more important thanever. We are honored to thank the individuals, foundations, and corporations whose generous philanthropy has played a vital role inthe continued success of the UCLA Library during the fiscal year from July 1, 2010, through June 30, 2011. Listed here are donors whogave cash gifts totaling $1,000 or greater or an appraised gift-in-kind. A comprehensive list of all donors appears in the Donor Honor Rolllink on the Library Development website at<<<http://www.library.ucla.edu/development>>.

Research and Training in UCLA LibrarySpecial Collections

Henry J. Bruman* TrustTo enhance the Bruman Map Collection in the Charles E. Young Research LibraryCollections, Research, and InstructionalServices

John G. and Susan S. EbeyIn support of the conservation of librarymaterials in UCLA Library SpecialCollections by the Library Conservationand Preservation Program

William P. and Ann EdwardsTo acquire the Aldous Huxley Archive forUCLA Library Special Collections. Anadditional gift to the Library Associates insupport of the highest priority needs ofthe Library. Mr. Edwards also made oneadditional donation to the Order of theBlue Shield Fund in the UCLA Library

Caroline B. EricksonIn support of the renovation of theCharles E. Young Research Library

Arthur M. and Helen GeoffrionIn support of University Archives as itacquires and processes the professionaland research papers of the AndersonGraduate School of Management (AGSM)faculty; this donation also supports the

Board of Visitors

Fereshteh M. DibaWilliam P. and Ann EdwardsWilliam FlumenbaumRobert M. HayesKenneth KarmioleNorman J. and Armena B. PowellLeon and Barbara RootenbergRuth M. SimonCharles W. SteinmetzRobert and Patsy SungBernice WenzelChancellor Emeritus Charles E. Young

Major Gifts

These individuals, corporations, and foundationsmade cumulative cash contributions of $10,000 or greater.

The Ahmanson FoundationA donation to support the Center forPrimary Research and Training in UCLALibrary Special Collections. An additionalgift in support of California Rare BookSchool courses and sessions held in con-nection with Library Special Collections

The Arcadia TrustA donation in support of transformationalchanges in UCLA Library collections andthe services that support them. An addi-tional gift for the Center for Primary

acquisition and processing of AGSMarchival administrative records in coordi-nation with AGSM records managementand UCLA’s Office of RecordsManagement

Edna and Yu-Shan Han CharitableFoundation

To support the Edna and Yu-Shan HanCollection and Endowment Fund in theRichard C. Rudolph East Asian Library. An additional gift to the Library Associatesin support of the highest priority needs ofthe UCLA Library

Nubo Huang of Zhongkun GroupTo augment the Nubo Huang of ZhongkunGroup Cultural Endowed Fund, which willsupport the acquisition, processing, andpreservation of Chinese materials on con-temporary literature and occasionalcultural events in the Richard C. RudolphEast Asian Library

Max Lawrence* EstateTo establish the Rita and Max LawrenceSpecial Collections Discretionary Fund insupport of the highest priorities of UCLALibrary Special Collections

Sammy Yukuan Lee FoundationTo augment the Sammy Yukuan Lee FamilyEndowment for Chinese Archaeology andCulture in the Richard C. Rudolph EastAsian Library

Midler Family FoundationTo support the hiring of a Center forPrimary Research and Training studentfellow to process collections residing in Performing Arts Special Collections

Murray H. and Lenore P. NeidorfTo establish the Lenore and MurrayNeidorf Collection Endowment forJudaica in the UCLA Library

Norman and Armena PowellTo augment the Norman and ArmenaPowell Endowed Fund to support thehighest priority needs of the Library. An additional gift to the LibraryAssociates, also in support of the highest priority needs of the Library

Ralph and Shirley Shapiro To augment the Ralph and Shirley ShapiroEndowment for the University Librarian

Robert G. RifkindTo augment the Robert Gore RifkindFoundation Endowment for the Arts,which supports the acquisition, preserva-tion, and processing of library materialsin the arts

2010–11 Donor Honor Roll


Shirley S. Rothman* EstateTo augment the Raymond C. RothmanEndowed Collection in the History ofCognitive Science in the Louise M.Darling Biomedical Library

Ruth M. SimonTo augment the Ruth Simon Library Prizefor Undergraduate Research. An additionalgift to the Library Associates to supportthe highest priority needs of the Library

Steinmetz FoundationTo support the processing of the Bourbondel Monte di San Faustino Family Papersand to make this collection available forscholarly research

William A. and Mary Lou SteinmetzA gift for the highest priority needs of theUCLA Library

Joan S. ZenanTo augment the Joan S. Zenan EndowedDiscretionary Fund to support the highestpriorities of the Louise M. DarlingBiomedical Library

Corporate and Foundation Gifts

These corporations and foundations madecumulative cash contributions of $1,000 orgreater or cumulative gift-in-kind contributionsvalued at $5,000 or greater.

The Ahmanson FoundationAntiquarian Booksellers Association of

America, Inc.Arcadia TrustSanford and Phyllis Beim Family

FoundationCalifornia Community Foundation• W. J. Barlow Fund• Sara and Harold Lincoln Thompson

FundCenter Theater GroupCotsen Family FoundationFriends of UCLA Armenian Language and

Culture StudiesEdna and Yu-Shan Han Charitable

FoundationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics

EngineersIntrada, Inc.LA-LA Land Records, Inc.Sammy Yukuan Lee FoundationWillard L. Marmelzat FoundationMidler Family FoundationJanet and Henry Minami FundJames O. Page Charitable FoundationRobert Gore Rifkind FoundationRalph and Shirley Shapiro FundSteinmetz FoundationSidney Stern Memorial Trust

Tung Family Charitable Foundation Inc.University of UtahZhongkun Group Inc.

Library Associates—

Powell Society

These individuals made cumulative discretionarygifts of $1,000 or greater.

Marianne H. and Abdelmonem A. AfifiPatti and Harlan AmstutzKurt R. and Marion V. AnkerJean L. AroesteIra E. BilsonStephen L. and Lavinia P. BoydRonda and Stanley BreitbardDavid H. and Nancy G. BrownDavid R. and Marlene CapellA. Josephine CarmenFereshteh M. DibaGordon H. and Cathie C. DixonWilliam P. and Ann EdwardsCaroline B. EricksonDonald O. and Linda Taylor FareedWilliam and Patricia FlumenbaumRoger Allers and Leslee HackensonDavid M. and Carol M. HamiltonCatherine B. HawkinsRuby M. HoriWendell E. Jeffrey and Bernice M. WenzelStephen K. KempSan Oak and Chung P. KimFrank X. LauterburJune E. and David LewinJane and Richard A. LopattRonald P. LovellSonia J. LunaJanet E. MarottJohn E. MatthewsLloyd M. Mc CulloughDavid R. McEwenJeffrey B. McKeeverJanet and Henry MinamiAli R. and Giselle C. NamazieSallie B. O'NeillKaren Orren and Stephen D. WernerGeorge Ow, Jr. and Gail Michaelis-OwNorman and Armena PowellMarcie H. RothmanRuth M. and David W. SabeanRuth M. SimonHerbert F. SlavinDavid P. SmithRaymond SotoAnne-Marie and Alex SpataruCharles W. SteinmetzWilliam A. and Mary Lou SteinmetzRobert E. and Patsy SungEunice TingWalter W. von Gremp Jr.

April A. WakemanScott L. WaughPamela J. WeinbergerDorothy M. WellmanRobert S. and Marion L. WilsonThe Honorable Zev YaroslavskyWilliam L. Zeltonoga*

First Century Society

These members of the First Century Society haveincluded the UCLA Library in their estate plans.

Marion and Kurt AnkerJean L. AroesteBarbara A. BoothJacqueline BriskinWade A. and Alison O. BuntingWilliam and Patricia FlumenbaumJack FromkinBessie F. GishWilliam GoodmanRobert M. and Sandra C. HobbsJames C. and Mary G. Holland Margaret C. Jacob and Lynn A. HuntWendell E. Jeffrey and Bernice M. WenzelRon KasperSarah R. LesserMichelle LondonBasil W. MartinezSheila MorrisonGillian NeufeldJames J. and Rosemarie J. NixIrla Z. OetzelClarice Campbell OlcottNorman and Armena PowellSusan F. RiceHilda N. RolfeRichard H. and Mary A. RouseRuth M. SimonElizabeth S. Stacey and W. Peter MarienWilliam A. and Mary Lou SteinmetzV. S. and Veda VaradarajanDavid S. and Suebelle S. VerityJacqueline S. WeberMary E. WilliamsJoan S. Zenan

Bequests

The UCLA Library received distributions from theestates of the following individuals.

Henry J. BrumanNorah E. JonesMax LawrenceConstance LodgeAlan RichNancy RosenbergShirley S. Rothman



Donors

These donors made cumulative cash contributionsof $1,000 or greater or cumulative gift-in-kindcontributions valued at $5,000 or greater.

AMarianne H. and Abdelmonem A. AfifiRoger Allers and Leslee HackensonPatti and Harlan AmstutzKurt R. and Marion V. AnkerSalome R. ArkatovJean L. Aroeste

BSanford M. and Phyllis B. BeimClaire Q. and Robert BellantiWilliam C. BeverlyIra E. BilsonMontino and Rita Bourbon del MonteStephen L. and Lavinia P. BoydRonda and Stanley H. BreitbardDavid H. and Nancy G. BrownAlison and Wade A. Bunting

CDavid R. Capell and Marlene CapellA. Josephine CarmenDonald T. ChadwickLloyd E. and Margit S. CotsenDavid L. Crockett

DFereshteh M. DibaGordon H. and Cathie DixonLauren Dudley

EJohn G. and Susan S. EbeyWilliam P. and Ann EdwardsCaroline B. Erickson

FDonald O. and Linda Taylor FareedLisa and Shimon FeldmanWilliam and Patricia FlumenbaumElla Frumkin

GArthur M. and Helen GeoffrionNancy Goldberg

HDavid M. and Carol M. HamiltonCatherine B. HawkinsRuby M. HoriMr. and Mrs. Nubo HuangJames P. Huggins and Penelope Miller

JRonald N. Jacobs

KFarley P. Katz and Carolyn FuentesStephen K. KempSan Oak and Chung P. Kim

LLudwig and Francis H. Lauerhass Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Frank X. LauterburHoward K. and Norma LeeStephen O. LesserJune E. and David LewinJane and Richard A. LopattRonald P. LovellSonia J. Luna

MNancy MaloneVahac and Eunice MardirosianWillard L. and Ruth B.* MarmelzatJanet E. MarottJeffrey L. MarrJohn E. MatthewsLloyd M. Mc CulloughDavid R. McEwenJeffrey B. McKeeverBette MidlerJanet and Henry Minami

NAli R. and Giselle C. NamazieMurray H. and Lenore P. Neidorf

OGretchen OhSallie B. O'NeillKaren Orren and Stephen D. WernerGeorge Ow Jr. and Gail Michaelis-Ow

PJennifer Kulik Perez and Glen KulikMartin PerlichJoseph L. PfingstenNorman and Armena Powell

RRobert G. RifkindLeon and Barbara RootenbergMarcie H. RothmanRichard H. and Mary A. RouseMary A. Rudolph

SRuth M. and David W. SabeanPeter W. ShapiroRalph J. and Shirley L. ShapiroSara Sherman-Levine and Donn LevineRuth M. SimonHerbert F. SlavinAmy S. Smith and Robert L. SimonDavid P. SmithRaymond SotoAnne-Marie and Alex Spataru

Nancy S. SpirkoffVictoria SteeleCharles W. and Ellen K. SteinmetzWilliam A. and Mary Lou SteinmetzGary E. and Carolyn J. StrongRobert E. and Patsy Sung

TGladys C. and Benjamin E. ThomasEunice TingDonald H. and Amy C. Tsiang

VWalter W. von Gremp Jr.

WApril A. WakemanDiane E. WatsonScott L. WaughJacqueline S. WeberPamela J. WeinbergerGerald and Barbara WeinerDorothy M. WellmanBernice M. Wenzel and Wendell E. JeffreyGloria S. WernerRobert S. and Marion L. Wilson

YThe Honorable Zev Yaroslavsky

ZWilliam L. Zeltonoga*Joan S. Zenan

Memorial Gifts

These individuals, corporations, and foundationsmade gifts of $1,000 and greater to perpetuate thememory and works of their relatives, friends, orcolleagues.

In memory of Mr. She-Wo ChengTung Family Charitable Foundation Inc.

In memory of Miss Ardis LodgeConstance Lodge* Trust

In memory of Mrs. Bessie MarrJeffrey L. Marr

In memory of Miss Olivette MarrJeffrey L. Marr

In memory of Mr. Sam M. MarrJeffrey L. Marr

In memory of Dr. Richard C. RudolphMary A. Rudolph

In memory of Mrs. Geraldine J. ShermanSara Sherman-Levine and Donn LevineAmy S. Smith and Robert L. SimonVictoria Steele



Honorary Gifts

These individuals made gifts of $1,000 andgreater in honor of their relatives, friends, or colleagues.

In honor of Dr. Roberto O. and Myriam P. Cabello

Ali R. Namazie and Giselle C. Namazie

Selected Gift Collections

These individuals have donated manuscripts,books, and other materials, the cumulative valueof which is $10,000 or greater.

Salome R. ArkatovA collection of 2,912 photographs to augment the James Arkatov JazzPhotograph Collection

Montino and Rita Bourbon del MonteThe Bourbon del Monte di San FaustinoFamily Archives

Lloyd E. and Margit S. CotsenThe Cotsen Cuneiform Collection ofancient school texts, primarily from the Old Babylonian period

David L. CrockettOld Tucson Studios memorabilia, including film posters, lobby cards, and photos

Ella FrumkinThe Si Frumkin archives

James P. Huggins and Penelope MillerTelevision scripts, production files, andother materials relating to the career ofRoy Huggins

Jennifer Kulik Perez and Glen L. KulikAnnotated scripts, set designs, and other materials relating to Buzz Kulik'scareer as a film and television directorand producer

Martin PerlichThe Martin Perlich Archival InterviewCollection

Joseph L. PfingstenMaterials from the E! EntertainmentTelevision research library, including photographs, industry reports, tabloids,and other entertainment and fashion-related magazines

Richard H. and Mary A. RouseManuscripts, leaves, and early printedbooks to augment the Richard and Mary Rouse Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and EarlyPrinted Books

Gerald A. and Barbara WeinerThe Weiner Ethiopic ManuscriptCollection of manuscripts and magic scrolls

Collection Endowments

Established as of June 30, 2011

Theresa G. Aaron Endowed Collection inChildren's Literature

Friends of UCLA Armenian Language andCulture Studies Collection Endowment

Walter Jarvis Barlow History of MedicineCollection Fund

The Sanford and Phyllis Beim EndowedCollection in Jewish Studies

The Dr. John and Mae Benjamin EndowedCollection in the History of Biology,Medicine, and Science

Biomed Alumni and Staff ReferenceCollection Endowment Fund

Biomed Fiftieth Anniversary FacultyCollection Endowment Fund

Order of the Blue Shield Fund

The David Bohnett FoundationEndowment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,and Transgender Collections

Edgar Bowers Estate Endowed Fund forSpecial Collections

The Ira L. Boyle Endowment for ActuarialScience and Mathematics

Cornelia Breitenbach Memorial Fund inthe Arts

The Bert and Jacqueline Briskin EndowedCollection in Fiction

Henry J. Bruman Educational FoundationEndowment Fund

Henry J. Bruman Endowed CollectionDevelopment Fund

Alison Bunting Endowed Rare Books Fund

Thomas Gill Cary Library Fund

Center Theater Group Collection Fund

Man-Hing Chen Memorial Endowment

The She-Wo Cheng Memorial Fund

Bruno Chiappinelli Memorial Fund

The Yong Chen Chu Endowed Fund inSupport of Chinese Language and Culture

Alice Lee-Tsing Chung MemorialCollection Endowment

Ralph D. Cornell Memorial Fund forSpecial Collections

Theodore E. Cummings Collection of Hebraica and Judaica

James Davis Rare Books Fund

Ernest Dawson Memorial Fund for Booksabout Books

The Donald and Hisae Dickey Jr. Endowed Fund

Henny and Rudolf Engelbarts Fund

The Francis P. Farquhar MountaineeringCollection and Endowment Fund

Dr. Marvin E. Fieman Endowed Collectionin Contemporary World History

The Samuel and Frances FlumenbaumEndowed Collection in Jewish Studies

The Friends of UCLA Armenian Languageand Culture Studies CollectionEndowment

The J. Paul Getty Trust Endowment forPre-Seventeenth-Century European Booksand Manuscripts

Maggie Gilbert Memorial Endowment

Phyllis Gilbert Memorial Endowment inMaterials Chemistry—Electrochemistry

Joan S. and Ralph N. Goldwyn EndowedCollection in Jazz

William Goodman Boxing CollectionEndowment

Edna and Yu-Shan Han CollectionEndowment Fund

The Harold A. Haytin MemorialEndowment

The Evelyn Troup Hobson and WilliamHobson Endowed Collection

Nubo Huang of Zhongkun Group CulturalEndowed Fund

Professor Richard Hudson Endowment in Music

Infotrieve Collection Endowment Fund

Norah E. Jones Fund for Fine PressPrinting

Kaiser Permanente Medical Care ProgramCollection Endowment

Kenneth Karmiole Endowment for RareBooks and Manuscripts

The Herbert Klein Endowment

Allan and Maxine Kurtzman EndowedCollection in Beat Literature

Carol Dana Lanham Memorial Endowmentfor Books in Medieval Latin Studies

Edward A. Lasher Chemistry Library Fund

Ludwig Lauerhass Jr. Endowed Collectionin Brazilian Studies

The Gold Shield Marjorie Alice LenzEndowed Collection in Fashion andCostume Design


Collection Endowment InitiativeThe Collection Endowment Initiative provides critically needed funds to acquire, preserve, and make accessible library materials in a particular subject area of interest. Collection endowments begin at $50,000, and the Library invites donors to make a single gift or to build an endowed fund over several years. Special bookplatesref lecting the interests of the philanthropist are designed in consul-tation with the donor and affixed to each printed item added toLibrary collections that was made possible by his or her generosity.

Center for Primary Research and TrainingThe Center for Primary Research and Training offers UCLA graduatestudents the opportunity to work with primary source materials inUCLA Library Special Collections, thereby integrating these rare andunique materials further into the teaching and research mission ofthe university. Support for this program provides funding for five toten participants each quarter and offers a special naming opportunityto interested donors.

The Sammy Yukuan Lee FamilyEndowment for Chinese Archaeology and Culture

Stephen O. Lesser Endowment

The Raymond L. Libby Fund

Library of Architecture and Allied Arts of Los Angeles Endowment Fund

The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation Judaica Book Fund

Bing Liu of Evergreen Books EndowedCollection in Chinese Culture

Ardis Lodge Memorial Fund for theReference Collection

Ann Scott Longueil Fund for Literature

The Willard Lee Marmelzat, MDCollection Endowment

The Dr. Judd Marmor Endowed Collectionin Psychiatry

Maxicare Research and EducationalFoundation Collection Endowment

Khorshid Metghalchi Endowment forIranian Studies

Everett and Jean Moore Endowment in Reference

Franklin D. Murphy Memorial Fund

The Franklin E. Murphy, MD Fund for theHistory of Medicine

Lenore and Murray Neidorf CollectionEndowment for Judaica

James and Irla Zimmerman OetzelEndowment Fund

The Dini Ostrov Endowed Collection inFrench Letters, Language, andArchitecture

James O. Page Collection Endowment

Marianne Puncheon Noah's Ark EndowedFund

Daniel T. Richards Endowment forSupport of the Thomas Baxter Camp andAlice Jarrett Camp Collection

The Robert Gore Rifkind FoundationEndowment for the Arts

George Ross Robertson Chemistry Library Fund

Barbara and Leon Rootenberg Endowment Fund

Leon and Barbara Rootenberg Collection Endowment

Roth Family Foundation Endowed Fundfor Los Angeles Photography

Raymond C. Rothman EndowedCollection in the History of Cognitive Science

Cynthia J. Shelton and Gary B. NashCollection Endowment in SouthwesternHistory and Culture

Geraldine J. Sherman MemorialEndowment for Artists’ Books

The Smotrich Family Endowed Collectionin Jewish Studies

Ralph R. and Patricia N. SonnenscheinMedals Collection Fund

The Raymond Soto Endowed Collectionin English and American Literature

Gary E. and Carolyn J. Strong Endowment

Ann E. Sumner Endowed Collection in Art History

Johanna Eleonore Tallman Trust Fund forthe Science Today Collection

Amy Ching-Fen Tsiang Legacy Endowment

Giselle von Grunebaum MemorialEndowment for World Literature

Donald O. Walter Endowed Collection of Monographs in the History andPhilosophy of Science

Marie and Raymond Waters DiscretionaryCollection Endowment

Jacqueline and Eugen Weber CollectionEndowment in European History

The Mary Williams Endowed Collectionin Motion Picture Arts Fund

Thomas L. and Betty Lou Young FamilyEndowed Collection in SouthernCalifornia History

Endowment Collection for Complementaryand Alternative Medicine founded by Yda and Irwin Ziment, MD

Other Library Endowments

Established as of June 30, 2011

Page Ackerman Staff Opportunities Fund

Edgardo and Francesca Acosta Endowment

Ahmanson Endowed Fund for SpecialCollections

Ahmanson UCLA University Librarian'sDiscretionary Fund

Alison and Wade Bunting EndowedDiscretionary Fund

Campbell Student Book CollectionCompetition Endowed Fund

The Bonnie Cashin Archives Endowed Fund

The Bonnie Cashin Endowed LectureSeries Fund

Center Theater Group CollectionEndowment

Giving Opportunities


UCLA Library AssociatesSupport from the UCLA Library Associates annual giving programensures that critical needs, from special-opportunity acquisitions toinformation literacy programs, are addressed. Discretionary funds avail-able to the university librarian have a significant impact on the quality,innovative resources and services that the UCLA Library is able tooffer. The generosity of the Library Associates is acknowledgedthrough invitations to a variety of stimulating activities throughout theyear and courtesies such as borrowing privileges.

Honor with BooksHonor with Books allows donors to pay a lasting tribute to a specialperson by placing a bookplate in his or her honor in one newly pur-chased book in the subject area of the donor’s choice. This $100 giftdirected to the Honor with Books Fund will support a critical acquisi-tions need while honoring a loved one, friend, or colleague inperpetuity.

Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library StaffDevelopment Fund

James G. Davis Conservation andPreservation Endowment Fund

James G. Davis Charles E. Young Research Library Department of SpecialCollections Fund

Hugo and Christine Davise Fund

Robert G. and Janet S. DunlapConservation and Preservation Endowed Fund

Richard C. Rudolph East Asian LibraryVarious Donors Fund

Arthur Geoffrion University Archives Fund

Kathryn Elizabeth Gourlay Discretionary Fund

Honor with Books Endowed Fund

John B. Jackson Tribute Endowment for the Oral History Program

Library Conservation and PreservationEndowment Fund

Constance Lodge Memorial Fund

Blake R. Nevius Oral History Program Fund

William A. Nitze Memorial Fund

For Further Information,

Please Contact:

UCLA Library Development Office

11334 Charles E. Young Research Library

Box 951575

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575

Telephone 310.206.8526

Fax 310.206.8594

Email <[email protected]>

http://www.library.ucla.edu/development

Joan Palevsky Endowment for the Centerfor Primary Research and Training

John and Judy Postley Endowed Fund for Library Technology

Norman and Armena Powell EndowedFund for the UCLA Library

Betty Rosenberg Fund

Marie Saito Endowed Scholarship Fund

Rita A. Scherrei Endowed Fund for LibraryStaff Development

1995 Senior Class Gift Fund for College Library

Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Endowment for Conservation and Preservation

Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Endowment for the University Librarian

Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Award toSupport Student Research and Training in Special Collections

Ruth Simon Library Prize forUndergraduate Research

Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Research Fund

James and Sylvia Thayer EndowedFellowships for Special Collections in the UCLA Library

Gloria Werner Endowed DiscretionaryFund for the UCLA Library

Bob and Marion Wilson LibraryDiscretionary Fund

Bernadine J. L. M. Zelenka Endowment

Joan S. Zenan Endowed Discretionary Fund

Every effort has been made to ensure the completeness and accuracy of

this list. However, if you discover an error or omission, please call Library

Development at 310.206.8526 so that we can correct our records.

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Some of the mostremarkable stories

about the UCLA Libraryare told by graduate stu-dents in the Center forPrimary Research andTraining.

Working witheverything from the

papers of Thomas Jefferson’s “lost” grandchildren and actor Charles Laughton to collections of Mexican proclamations issuedduring the Mexican-American War and French political broadsidesfrom eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, these students bringtheir passion, energy, and subject expertise to archival processingprojects.

Until recently, you could only hear these stories by talkingwith one of the center students. But all that has changed, with thecompletion of an award-winning series of short films documentingthe history of the center and highlighting four student projects.The projects featured reveal both the breadth of UCLA LibrarySpecial Collections and the depth of the students’ subject knowl-edge, ranging from ancient cuneiform tablets to colonial Mexicanmanuscripts, African American collections and Near Eastern manu-scripts.

The films can be viewed online at <http://www.library.ucla.edu/specialcollections/researchlibrary/9613.cfm>> or on UCLA’s YouTubechannel at <<http://www.youtube.com/ucla>>.

Written, directed, and produced by Erin Flannery, the filmseries was selected from among eighty entries to receive the onlyGrand Gold Award granted by the Council for Advancement andSupport of Education as part of their 2011 Circle of ExcellenceAwards.

Launched in 2004, the Center for Primary Research andTraining hires graduate students, trains them in archival methods,and matches them with “hidden” or underprocessed collections intheir areas of interest. Students gain hands-on experience workingwith primary sources that may inform their research while makingthe rich and varied holdings in UCLA Library Special Collectionsaccessible to the public.

The Story of the Center for Primary Research and Training

Treasures of the UCLA Library:

Editor Dawn Setzer | University Librarian Gary E. Strong | Director of Development Amy Drizhal | Designer Sue Yee

The UCLA Librarian circulates to UCLA Library donors, Library Associates, and other libraries. Please send any comments or inquiries to Dawn Setzer, UCLA LibraryCommunications, 53442 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575.

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