First Row: Dalia Corkrum, Jane Carmody, Beth Levin

Second Row: Will Gregg, Diana Alma Taya, John Lee, Alexandra Roston, Stefanie Barrera Aguila, Ann Chen

Not pictured: Mathurada Jullamon, Jake Lindsay, Frannie Nunn, Benjamin Roberson

Penrose Library Newsletter Spring 2014

help us to build our collections as if they were a single collection, share services and resources, and exploit new technologies. This move from 37 to one will help us achieve those goals. Better managing our resources and creating efficiencies in processes will enable staff to focus on value-added activities that will benefit our users and our institutions.

Because this is a massive migration from many systems to one, the process began in 2013 and will take 24 months to get all Alliance libraries up and running. Penrose Library will begin migration activities in June, 2014 and expect to go-live with the final group of libraries in January, 2015.

We appreciate your patience and good humor as we move to this better, easier-to-use library system. Information on how to use this new interface (including use of mobile apps) and a FAQ about the project will be available later this summer. Please contact me if you have any questions.

~ Dalia Corkrum, College Librarian

Big changes are in store for Penrose Library. Starting in June 2014 we are moving, with our Summit partner libraries, from 37 stand-alone library systems to one shared system. Why? Together the libraries want to improve the research experience for our students and faculty and to better manage our resources. The popu-lar library systems you have used to search for infor-mation and borrow library materials (Watson and the Penrose catalog) are being replaced by a new and im-proved user interface (Sherlock). This change will make it easier for you to find the information you need and get the items you are looking for both here at Pen-rose Library and through the Summit system. Whitman College is a member of the Orbis Cascade Alliance, a consortium of 37 academic libraries across Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. While the Alliance is the engine behind Summit, it is not the only initiative on which the 37 libraries collaborate. As a group, we are working toward unlocking opportunities that will

“Thank You, Graduates!” from Penrose Library

Message from the Director

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Maxine Darrow is retiring from her posi-tion as Cataloging Assistant after 27 years of service to Penrose Library. She has al-ways liked working with student employ-ees; but one of her favorite experiences was teaching international students (some of them adults with families at home) to cata-log and process books. Coming from coun-tries such as China and Africa through Whitman’s exchange program, students struggling to understand American English enjoyed the clarity of Max’s explanations and the cataloging process itself. No doubt they also benefited from her personal warmth, caring attitude, and sense of hu-mor, as have all of us who have worked with her in Penrose Library. May retire-ment bring you much happiness, Maxine!

Lynne Vieth is also retiring after 6 1/2 years working for Penrose, initially as an archives assistant but primarily as an instructional & research librarian. She will greatly miss the intelligence and friendship of the excellent team of librarians pictured below (from left: Julie Carter, Lee Keene, and Ben Murphy).

Ben Murphy was hired in August 2013 as the fourth Pen-rose instructional and research librarian, and he has taken to his new job with remarkable ease. Ben has a B.A. from Reed College and an M.A. from the University of Chicago Divinity School, where he studied New Testament and early Christianity, as well as American religious history. Most recently, he completed an M.S. in Library and Infor-mation Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Outside of work, Ben is a Neil Young-enthusiast who enjoys hiking, running, improvisational cooking, hoppy beers, public radio, and commiserating with fellow Chicago sports fans.

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Ben Murphy, Instructional & Research Librarian, attended the Orbis Cascade Alliance’s Library and User-Experience and Assessment Un-Conference (LUAU) with Dalia Corkrum and Dan Martensen. Based on a project Ben worked on in graduate school, he also co-authored a paper titled “Analyzing Archival Intelligence: A Collaboration between Library Instruction and Ar-chives” in Communications in Information Literacy (a peer-reviewed library e-journal). Collaborating with Pro-fessor Lydia McDermott and Instructional Technologist Kaitlin Justin, Ben and Melissa Salrin received an Inno-vation in Teaching & Learning grant to create a course that will introduce archival research and the designing of digital exhibitions to students interested in advanced composition study.

Jen Pope, Access Services Manager, attended the 2014 International ILLiad Conference in March 2014. ILLiad is the interlibrary-loan system Penrose Library uses to request, receive, and send articles and materials to and from other libraries worldwide. Jen learned how to up-date, upgrade, and further streamline the system so that requests can be processed more efficiently.

Melissa Salrin, Archivist & Special Collections Li-brarian, began her three-year term as a member of the Leland Award Subcommittee of the Awards Committee of the Society of American Archivists. After attending the Northwest Digital Archives (NWDA) Annual Meet-ing in Bellingham, she presented a paper, “Bringing EVA to the Northwest: The Challenges (and Promise) of Creating a More Participatory Archives” at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian and Northwest archival com-munity in Vancouver, B.C. in May 2013. On that topic, she has published “But Will It Play in Walla Walla? Em-powering Users to Create a More Participatory Ar-chives,” in Easy Access 39.2 (2013). In August 2013, she presented on the panel titled “Records Management Training Gumbo for the Digital Age” at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting in New Orleans.

Roger Stelk, Head of Collection Management, attend-ed the Charleston Conference in Charleston, SC in No-vember 2013. The conference is an annual gathering to discuss issues of importance common to librarians, pub-lishers, electronic resource managers, consultants, and vendors of library materials. The audience of 1,500 lis-tened to a variety of presentations on book and serial acquisition, but most presentations focused on the world of scholarly information — its collection, preservation, pricing and archiving.

Professional Activities Julie Carter, Instructional & Access Services Li-brarian, is chair-elect of the Summit Planning and Operations Team (SPOT), which works to improve resource sharing by promoting best practices and ad-vising the Orbis Cascade Alliance on policy matters relating to Summit activities. In addition, Julie is a member of the Shared ILS Training Working Group and a representative to the Shared ILS Circulation and Resource Sharing Working Group. The Shared ILS Working Groups are charged with identifying and im-plementing policies and procedures for the operations of the Shared ILS on a system-wide level. See page 1 for Dalia Corkrum’s message about this new system.

Dalia Corkrum, Head Librarian, was re-elected to a second term on the OCLC Global Council and was appointed Chair of the Nominating Committee. She has also been elected to a three-year term of the Ober-lin Group of Libraries Steering Committee. She has given numerous presentations to the Orbis Cascade Alliance, OCLC, and the Oberlin Group as well as attended conferences of the American Library Associ-ation (ALA), Association of College & Research Li-braries (ACRL), and the Scholarly Communication & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).

Lee Keene, Head of Instructional & Research Ser-vices, attended the Ex Libris Technical Seminar in Montreal for sessions focusing on the new Shared ILS. Lee learned about best practices for the implementa-tion of the new Discovery Service called “Sherlock” that will debut in January 2015. Lee will participate in the Ex Libris Users Group, which provides opportuni-ties to engage with other users of Ex Libris products. In the past year, Lee also attended the ACRL and two ALA conferences. In summer of 2013, Lee received a Pedagogical Research & Development Grant to ex-plore the topic of “Pedagogical Approaches to Teach-ing with Digital Collections.”  

Dan Martensen, Systems & Applications Librarian, attended several webinars and continues to work with Roger Stelk to prepare Penrose Library’s data for mi-gration to the Shared ILS. He also expanded the Li-brary's web presence by highlighting the departmental liaison program and improving the “Ask Us” webpage. Collaborating with fellow librarians, Dan developed a new resource to showcase the Archive’s digital collec-tions. Dan also engaged in a collaborative effort with Technology Services to design a web system for stu-dents to deposit their honors theses in the Library.  

Conferences, Committees, Grants, Publications

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New E-Collections

In 2007, Penrose Library provided access to slightly more than 20,000 unique e-resources. Since then, that number has grown to over 68,000. These additional e-resources have been purchased in 2013-14:

Accessible Archives: Full-text collections of primary source material in 18th and 19th century periodicals. Developed by instructors and students of Americana, these databases allow access to a rich store of materi-als that will be regularly updated.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences XI & XII: 125 titles in His-tory and Language & Literature; 125 journals in Law, Education, Asian Studies, and Political Science.

LGBT Studies: Covers political, cultural, and social movements throughout the 20th century and beyond.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Archive 5: Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civiliza-tion, and Conquest; Archive 6: Photography; Archive 7: Science, Technology, and Medicine; Archive 8: Women.

19th Century UK Periodicals: This database features content of interest to historians and students of nineteenth-century literature and culture, empire, feminism, the his-tory of the book, the creative and performing arts, sport and leisure, science and medicine. Penrose currently pro-vides access to 174 titles from two of the five series: I: Women, Children, Humour, Leisure; and II: Empire/Colonial, Travel, Culture, Missions.

Periodicals Archive Online - Foundation Collection: Online archive of digitized, full-image journal articles from 215 titles provides access to international, scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences disciplines from 1802 to 2000.

State Papers Online: 17th century British State Papers. Penrose subscriptions include Part III: The Stuarts: James I to Anne, 1603-1714, State Papers Domestic; Part IV: The Stuarts: James to Anne, 1603 – 1714: State Papers Foreign, Ireland; and Registers of the Privy Council.

~ Roger Stelk, Head of Collection Management

New Databases

Smart Dock

Penrose Library purchased a KIC scanner in 2010, and usage has steadily risen over the four years it has been in place. Patrons can transform items such as print docu-ments, photographs, and audio files into digital file types PDF, JPEG, PNG, RTF, and MP3. These could then be transported by email or USB.

Now the scanner is even more high-tech! The new Smart Dock allows you to connect your Android or iOS device via the scanner wifi network and upload your scanned document directly to your device. And if you’re using Google Docs for document storage, the upgraded soft-ware allows you to send documents directly to your per-sonal or Whitman accounts.

A reminder about copyright: That statement you “accept” every time you use the scanner pertains to Title 17, Sec-tion 107 , of U.S. Copyright Law, which defines the “fair use” of reproduced materials for research or teaching pur-poses. There are no hard and fast rules about what consti-tutes fair use, but it is well to keep in mind that copying entire books or other copyrighted documents usually lies outside the bounds of fair use.

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New E-Collections

“Portraits of Our Past”

In 2013, Penrose Library began a project to highlight the history of Whitman College with a focus on the campus community. Using photographic content from its Northwest and Whitman College Archives, Penrose librarians developed “Portraits of the Past,” an interac-tive timeline that highlights people, places and events from college history.

Dan Martensen, Systems & Applications Librarian, had the initial vision for a photographic timeline. Using his background in computer science and web design, Dan developed a scalable and sustainable codebase to host the timeline. Dan hired and supervised Benjamin Roberson, ‘14, who digitized and described the content.

Melissa Salrin, Archivist & Special Collections Librari-an, provided guidance in selecting archival content and advised the project’s creation and use of metadata. Refer-ence assistance and editorial oversight was provided by Ben Murphy, Instructional & Research Librarian. Since its inception, the project has been generously supported by College Librarian Dalia Corkrum

The timeline is a living entity and plans are in place to add new timeline modules in areas such as academics, campus buildings, and student life. You can access the website at http://www.whitman.edu/penrose/portraits. The Library is very grateful for the many insights and support provided by Nancy Mitchell and Jennifer Northam in Alumni Relations.

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“The History of Penrose Library” What started with $25, fourteen bound volumes and fifteen pamphlets, some donated by Rev. Myron Eells in 1882, has grown into Penrose Memorial Library, a modern facili-ty with more than 40,000 unique journal titles and 160 da-tabases, and over 500,000 print volumes.

In honor of National Library Week 2014, Librarian Ben Murphy designed a digital exhibit that takes a look back at the growth of the library over the years. The exhibit high-lights significant people – such as our first professional librarian and Whitman alumna Arminda Fix, shown here in 1908– as well as library buildings and collections. While the exhibit offers only a snapshot of Penrose Library’s his-tory, it reminds us that the library has always been a vital part of Whitman’s campus. Visit the exhibit by pointing your browser to http://www.tinyurl.com/PenroseHistory .

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Sarah Hurlburt, Associate Professor of French, and Melissa Salrin, Archivist & Special Collections Li-brarian, were awarded a Perry Research Grant and Soden Research Award in summer 2013 to collaborate with four senior French majors (Meghan Browne, Lauren Elgee, Anne Gaskins, and Annique Rice) on a research project on the late 19th- and early 20th-century francophone diaspora in the Pacific North-west. While the project initially focused on thirty-five letters exchanged in the 1880s and 1890s between a nun, Sister Marie-Augustin Bergevin, based in Que-bec and her extended family in Frenchtown, Washing-ton Territory, collaboration with Bergevin family de-scendants has more than tripled this initial corre-spondence. The students alternated between archival work and primary source acquisition, primary source analysis, and secondary source research. This work has laid the foundation for collection development of material about these French-Canadian communities and their role in Pacific Northwest history.

Sister Marie-Augustin Bergevin 1880s, Schenectady, NY

2013 Exhibits

French-Canadian Connection

Fine Printing on the West Coast, curated by Erik An-derson, ’15. The burgeoning cities of Seattle, San Fran-cisco and Los Angeles were ready markets for book col-lecting. The resulting West Coast book-arts tradition is responsible for many of the masterpieces of the American Fine Press Movement that continues in small-batch art-ists’ books, such as those published by Ian Boyden’s Crab Quill Press.

In Memoriam Display of Bill Gulick, 1916-2013, curated by Bill Huntington and Beth Levin, ’14. Gulick’s research brought him to Walla Walla and the Whitman College li-brary and archives in the late 1940s. Knowing that he want-ed to write about the Northwest, Gulick and his wife Jeanne moved to Walla Walla in 1949. Gulick began donating his papers to the Whitman College & Pacific Northwest Ar-chives in 1960, when Jeanne Gulick became the Pacific Northwest Librarian at Penrose Library.

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In the course of this last hundred years, artists’ books have acquired an identity which synthesizes the tradi-tions of the craft of the book, the visions of the fine

press and independent publishing, and the conceptual artistic idea of the multiple in all its variations into a

form which did not exist before. Unlike sculpture or painting, printmaking or even pho-tography, each of which has a longer history as an art form with its own identity, the artist’s book is a new hybrid whose identity is continually emerging as dis-

tinct from any of these contributing antecedents.

~ Johanna Drucker The Century of Artists’ Books

Noted for their ingenious paper mechanics, designers of children's books have exerted an influence on the struc-turing of artists' books, many of which make considera-ble use of pop-ups, cutouts, and accordion folds.

~ Renée & Judd Hubert The Cutting Edge of Reading: Artists' Books

Book Art Book Art ARTISTS’ BOOKS Art Book Art Book

~ Exhibit curated by Librarians Lynne Vieth and Ben Murphy ~ Special thanks to Art Prof. Nicole Pietrantoni and her Beginning Book Arts class for contributing their accordion books (on right)

Pop-up books selected and displayed by Access Services Manager Jen Pope

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