Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies Library: A Brief History

C. Weglarz
{"title":"Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies Library: A Brief History","authors":"C. Weglarz","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V52I1.1696","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"selected portions of the world's scientific literature on alcohol. Known as the Classified Abstract Archive of the Alcohol Literature # Grateful acknowledgment is extended to John A. Carpenter, Marilyn Carpenter, Mark Keller, Penny B. Page and Adeline Tallau for their help in researching material for this manuscript. 1 Nathan, Peter E. \"Reports from the research centres — 1. Rutgers: the Center of Alcohol Studies.\" B ritish Journal of Addiction. 82: 833-840. 1987. 8 T H E J O U R N A L O F T H E ( C A A A L ) , the index of 1029 original subject headings used a punched card manual retrieval system.2 Jellinek also brought his research staff from the New York Academy of Medicine to Yale, and the original Documentation and Information Divisions of the Section of Studies on Alcohol were put into place at that time.3 National requests for research information began to move efficiently through the Section's Information Division, which developed a symbiotic relationship with the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. The staff of the Information Division continued to collect, index and abstract the international alcohol literature; the abstracted results were added to the C A A A L , and each issue of the Quarterly Journal featured a section of selected abstracts as a current awareness service for its readers. The Information Division was also able to provide tailored subject bibliographies to its clientele, using the C A A A L as a finding aid.4 Mark Keller, Managing Editor and then Editor of the Quarterly Journal! Journal of Studies on Alcohol from 1950 through 1976, oversaw the continuous process of identifying, processing and disseminating alcohol studies information. In 1972 he outlined a model of a special library using the Library-Documentation-Information-Publication Division of the Center of Alcohol Studies as his example. Here, . . the specialist documentalists or information scientists . . . process'the literature,' convert it into the classified informational bits, and, on request from anywhere, provide very specific answers to most specific questions, mostly in the form of bibliographies and photocopies of abstracts.\"5 Yet there was not a distinctly separate library at Yale until some time in 1958, and that library did not absorb the information responsibilities of Keller's multifaceted Information Division until well after the Section, now known as the Center of Alcohol Studies, moved to Rutgers University in 1962. 2 Page, Penny B. \"The origins of alcohol studies: E. M . Jellinek and the documentation of the alcohol research literature.\" British Journal of Addiction. 83: 1095-1103. 1988. * Keller, Mark. \"Mark Keller's history of the alcohol problems field.\" The Drinking and Drug Practices Surveyor. No. 14: 1, 22-28. 1979. 4 Jellinek, E. M . \"The Abstract Archive of the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol.\" Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 2: 216-222. 1941. 5 Keller, Mark. \" A special-library information-center model for a societal-problem field.\" Pp. 121-129. In: Israel Society of Special Libraries and Information Centers. ISLIC International Conference on Information Science, Tel Aviv, 29 August-3 September, 197 / : proceedings. Vol. i. Tel Aviv : National Center of Scientific and Technical Information; 1972. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 9 We know that by March 1959 the Yale Center had designated a separate physical space in its headquarters for a library. The library's primary responsibility was to serve as a departmental information center. The fledgling library contained bound volumes of 91 periodicals dealing primarily with alcohol, over 75 file boxes of material published by regional organizations dealing with alcoholism and alcohol abuse, and additional books, reports, and reprints on subjects, other than alcoholism, related to beverage alcohol.6 In support of the work of the Information Division, Esther Henderson initiated an effort to collect full text copies of every document cited in the Classified Archive.7 Most of the books had been acquired to support the course work of the Summer School of Alcohol Studies, which held its first session in 1943 and continues to run every summer. (The Summer of 1990 will bring three separate sessions of this continuing education program to the Rutgers New Brunswick campus: the 1990 Summer School of Alcohol Studies, the 1990 New Jersey Summer School of Alcohol and Drug Studies, and the 1990 Advanced School of Alcohol and Drug Studies.) Additional monograph material in the collection included review copies of books highlighted by the Quarterly Journal. Further library collection development efforts do not appear to have been made. However, there was now one location where all the diverse items identified by the Documentation Division could be organized, stored, and made available to the visiting researcher. The new library was also able to provide copies of the items abstracted in the C A A A L via phone or mail request. Adeline Linton was the first to supervise the collection in its new format. The Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers ( 1962-1971) In 1962 the Center of Alcohol Studies moved to the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University. This move was funded with support from the National Institute of Mental Health and the Christopher D . Smithers Foundation. Selden D. Bacon, Director of the Center at Yale since Jellinek's departure in 1950, continued in that role at Rutgers.8 The Center's Information, Publication and Documentation offices, in6 Bacon, Selden D . \"Communication of research: role of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies y Alumni News of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies. 15: 1-3. 1959. 7 Bacon, Selden D . \"The McCarthy Memorial Collection in 1 9 7 1 Q u a r t e r l y Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 32: 472-477. 1971 . 8 Milgram, Gail G. \"The Summer School of Alcohol Studies: an historical and interpretive review.\" Pp. 59-74. In: Strug, D . L . , Priyadarsini, S. and Hyman, M . M . , eds. Alcohol Interventions: Historical and Sociocultural Approaches. New York: The Haworth Press; 1986. 10 T H E J O U R N A L O F T H E eluding the library, were transferred to what is now the headquarters of the Methodist parsonage on Easton Avenue in New Brunswick. Librarian Adeline Tallau arrived in June of 1962 and discovered the Yale library distributed among various rooms of the old house on Easton Avenue, with most of the journals and non-book materials packed away in boxes in the attic. An additional number of biochemical journals were stored at the offices of David Lester and Leon Greenberg on Busch campus in Piscataway. Books from the Yale Summer School were scheduled to arrive at a later date. Very little of the monograph material was cataloged, and there was only a partial printed list of available journal titles. Tallau reports that her first bit of business as Librarian was to requisition a typewriter, a Kardex, and an electric eraser. She then had to immediately organize the collection for the 1962 Summer School of Alcohol Studies, which was held at Douglass College that year. A portion of the library was moved to Douglass Campus in New Brunswick for a six-week period and then returned to Easton Avenue. A second shipment of books soon arrived from Yale, namely, the Anne Roe collection of textbooks on alcohol education. By this time Tallau had managed to set up a system of shelving in the living room of the Easton Avenue house. She had also inventoried the boxes of journals stored in the attic, and produced a holdings list. Monograph material was being systematically cataloged and entered into the Rutgers University Union Catalog. In 1964 the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies moved at last to Christopher D. Smithers Hall on Busch Campus, with the formal dedication occurring on April 2, 1964. The different divisions were reunited from their temporary offices on the Busch and College Avenue campuses in the spacious new building. Tallau supervised the arrangement of the Library's physical space, the selection of library furniture and permanent shelving, and the transfer of the reorganized collection.9 The Information Division remained the primary resource for alcohol information requests for the public at that time. The Center's Information specialists continued to prepare and distribute subject specific research bibliographies using the C A A A L system, which was maintained in full operation until 1978. The Library was the organized repository for printed materials, primarily the full text documents identified in the Classified Archive. In 1965 these documents were designated the McCarthy Memorial Collec9 Adeline Tallau. Rutgers Library of Science and Medicine, Piscataway, NJ. Interview, 1 March 1988. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 11 tion in honor of Raymond G. McCarthy, one of the Center's illustrious alumni. Center Director Seldon Bacon described the McCarthy Collection in 1971 : \"The Collection is . . . the most superb organization of scholarly materials in the field. It is growing. It is useful . . . It is a memorial which we are sure would please Ray and in which the contributors and workers may feel a justifiable pride.\"1 0 In 1990 the McCarthy Collection is still growing and still useful. It is the core of the modern Center of Alcohol Studies Library. The Library was also a place where visitors could pursue their own research in 1964. The shelves of books and journals, all related in some way to the study of alcohol and alcohol problems, were recognized as an important compilation. The Library continued as a departmental information resource for the Center's faculty and staff. Adeline Tallau began a Master Catalog of all items collected by the Library for the Journal abstracting service, C A A A L , and the International Bibliography of Studies on Alcohol IÇOI-IÇ^O (Mark Keller, ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies; 1966). This catalog contains a single first author entry for each item stored in the Library, as ","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V52I1.1696","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2

Abstract

selected portions of the world's scientific literature on alcohol. Known as the Classified Abstract Archive of the Alcohol Literature # Grateful acknowledgment is extended to John A. Carpenter, Marilyn Carpenter, Mark Keller, Penny B. Page and Adeline Tallau for their help in researching material for this manuscript. 1 Nathan, Peter E. "Reports from the research centres — 1. Rutgers: the Center of Alcohol Studies." B ritish Journal of Addiction. 82: 833-840. 1987. 8 T H E J O U R N A L O F T H E ( C A A A L ) , the index of 1029 original subject headings used a punched card manual retrieval system.2 Jellinek also brought his research staff from the New York Academy of Medicine to Yale, and the original Documentation and Information Divisions of the Section of Studies on Alcohol were put into place at that time.3 National requests for research information began to move efficiently through the Section's Information Division, which developed a symbiotic relationship with the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. The staff of the Information Division continued to collect, index and abstract the international alcohol literature; the abstracted results were added to the C A A A L , and each issue of the Quarterly Journal featured a section of selected abstracts as a current awareness service for its readers. The Information Division was also able to provide tailored subject bibliographies to its clientele, using the C A A A L as a finding aid.4 Mark Keller, Managing Editor and then Editor of the Quarterly Journal! Journal of Studies on Alcohol from 1950 through 1976, oversaw the continuous process of identifying, processing and disseminating alcohol studies information. In 1972 he outlined a model of a special library using the Library-Documentation-Information-Publication Division of the Center of Alcohol Studies as his example. Here, . . the specialist documentalists or information scientists . . . process'the literature,' convert it into the classified informational bits, and, on request from anywhere, provide very specific answers to most specific questions, mostly in the form of bibliographies and photocopies of abstracts."5 Yet there was not a distinctly separate library at Yale until some time in 1958, and that library did not absorb the information responsibilities of Keller's multifaceted Information Division until well after the Section, now known as the Center of Alcohol Studies, moved to Rutgers University in 1962. 2 Page, Penny B. "The origins of alcohol studies: E. M . Jellinek and the documentation of the alcohol research literature." British Journal of Addiction. 83: 1095-1103. 1988. * Keller, Mark. "Mark Keller's history of the alcohol problems field." The Drinking and Drug Practices Surveyor. No. 14: 1, 22-28. 1979. 4 Jellinek, E. M . "The Abstract Archive of the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol." Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 2: 216-222. 1941. 5 Keller, Mark. " A special-library information-center model for a societal-problem field." Pp. 121-129. In: Israel Society of Special Libraries and Information Centers. ISLIC International Conference on Information Science, Tel Aviv, 29 August-3 September, 197 / : proceedings. Vol. i. Tel Aviv : National Center of Scientific and Technical Information; 1972. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 9 We know that by March 1959 the Yale Center had designated a separate physical space in its headquarters for a library. The library's primary responsibility was to serve as a departmental information center. The fledgling library contained bound volumes of 91 periodicals dealing primarily with alcohol, over 75 file boxes of material published by regional organizations dealing with alcoholism and alcohol abuse, and additional books, reports, and reprints on subjects, other than alcoholism, related to beverage alcohol.6 In support of the work of the Information Division, Esther Henderson initiated an effort to collect full text copies of every document cited in the Classified Archive.7 Most of the books had been acquired to support the course work of the Summer School of Alcohol Studies, which held its first session in 1943 and continues to run every summer. (The Summer of 1990 will bring three separate sessions of this continuing education program to the Rutgers New Brunswick campus: the 1990 Summer School of Alcohol Studies, the 1990 New Jersey Summer School of Alcohol and Drug Studies, and the 1990 Advanced School of Alcohol and Drug Studies.) Additional monograph material in the collection included review copies of books highlighted by the Quarterly Journal. Further library collection development efforts do not appear to have been made. However, there was now one location where all the diverse items identified by the Documentation Division could be organized, stored, and made available to the visiting researcher. The new library was also able to provide copies of the items abstracted in the C A A A L via phone or mail request. Adeline Linton was the first to supervise the collection in its new format. The Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers ( 1962-1971) In 1962 the Center of Alcohol Studies moved to the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University. This move was funded with support from the National Institute of Mental Health and the Christopher D . Smithers Foundation. Selden D. Bacon, Director of the Center at Yale since Jellinek's departure in 1950, continued in that role at Rutgers.8 The Center's Information, Publication and Documentation offices, in6 Bacon, Selden D . "Communication of research: role of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies y Alumni News of the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies. 15: 1-3. 1959. 7 Bacon, Selden D . "The McCarthy Memorial Collection in 1 9 7 1 Q u a r t e r l y Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 32: 472-477. 1971 . 8 Milgram, Gail G. "The Summer School of Alcohol Studies: an historical and interpretive review." Pp. 59-74. In: Strug, D . L . , Priyadarsini, S. and Hyman, M . M . , eds. Alcohol Interventions: Historical and Sociocultural Approaches. New York: The Haworth Press; 1986. 10 T H E J O U R N A L O F T H E eluding the library, were transferred to what is now the headquarters of the Methodist parsonage on Easton Avenue in New Brunswick. Librarian Adeline Tallau arrived in June of 1962 and discovered the Yale library distributed among various rooms of the old house on Easton Avenue, with most of the journals and non-book materials packed away in boxes in the attic. An additional number of biochemical journals were stored at the offices of David Lester and Leon Greenberg on Busch campus in Piscataway. Books from the Yale Summer School were scheduled to arrive at a later date. Very little of the monograph material was cataloged, and there was only a partial printed list of available journal titles. Tallau reports that her first bit of business as Librarian was to requisition a typewriter, a Kardex, and an electric eraser. She then had to immediately organize the collection for the 1962 Summer School of Alcohol Studies, which was held at Douglass College that year. A portion of the library was moved to Douglass Campus in New Brunswick for a six-week period and then returned to Easton Avenue. A second shipment of books soon arrived from Yale, namely, the Anne Roe collection of textbooks on alcohol education. By this time Tallau had managed to set up a system of shelving in the living room of the Easton Avenue house. She had also inventoried the boxes of journals stored in the attic, and produced a holdings list. Monograph material was being systematically cataloged and entered into the Rutgers University Union Catalog. In 1964 the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies moved at last to Christopher D. Smithers Hall on Busch Campus, with the formal dedication occurring on April 2, 1964. The different divisions were reunited from their temporary offices on the Busch and College Avenue campuses in the spacious new building. Tallau supervised the arrangement of the Library's physical space, the selection of library furniture and permanent shelving, and the transfer of the reorganized collection.9 The Information Division remained the primary resource for alcohol information requests for the public at that time. The Center's Information specialists continued to prepare and distribute subject specific research bibliographies using the C A A A L system, which was maintained in full operation until 1978. The Library was the organized repository for printed materials, primarily the full text documents identified in the Classified Archive. In 1965 these documents were designated the McCarthy Memorial Collec9 Adeline Tallau. Rutgers Library of Science and Medicine, Piscataway, NJ. Interview, 1 March 1988. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES 11 tion in honor of Raymond G. McCarthy, one of the Center's illustrious alumni. Center Director Seldon Bacon described the McCarthy Collection in 1971 : "The Collection is . . . the most superb organization of scholarly materials in the field. It is growing. It is useful . . . It is a memorial which we are sure would please Ray and in which the contributors and workers may feel a justifiable pride."1 0 In 1990 the McCarthy Collection is still growing and still useful. It is the core of the modern Center of Alcohol Studies Library. The Library was also a place where visitors could pursue their own research in 1964. The shelves of books and journals, all related in some way to the study of alcohol and alcohol problems, were recognized as an important compilation. The Library continued as a departmental information resource for the Center's faculty and staff. Adeline Tallau began a Master Catalog of all items collected by the Library for the Journal abstracting service, C A A A L , and the International Bibliography of Studies on Alcohol IÇOI-IÇ^O (Mark Keller, ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies; 1966). This catalog contains a single first author entry for each item stored in the Library, as
罗格斯大学酒精研究中心图书馆:简史
精选部分世界上有关酒精的科学文献。被称为酒精文学分类摘要档案#感谢约翰·a·卡彭特,玛丽莲·卡彭特,马克·凯勒,佩妮·b·佩奇和艾德琳·塔劳,感谢他们帮助研究这份手稿的材料。1内森,彼得·E。“来自研究中心的报告——1。罗格斯大学:酒精研究中心[j] .中华医学杂志。82:833-840。1987. 1 .采用打孔卡人工检索系统,对1029个原始主题目进行检索耶利内克还把他的研究人员从纽约医学院带到了耶鲁大学,当时酒精研究部门的原始文件和信息部门也成立了国家对研究资料的请求开始通过该科的信息司有效地进行,该司与《酒精研究季刊》建立了共生关系。信息司的工作人员继续收集、索引和摘要国际酒精文献;摘要结果被添加到C - A - A - L中,每期《季刊》都以精选摘要为特色,为读者提供当前的了解服务。3 .新闻司还能够利用《国际书目》作为查找工具,为其服务对象提供量身定制的专题书目马克·凯勒,《季刊》的总编辑和编辑!《酒精研究杂志》从1950年到1976年,负责监督识别、处理和传播酒精研究信息的持续过程。1972年,他以酒精研究中心的图书馆-文献-信息-出版部门为例,概述了一个特殊图书馆的模型。这里,……专业的文献学家或信息科学家……处理“文献”,将其转化为机密信息,并应任何地方的要求,对大多数具体问题提供非常具体的答案,主要以参考书目和摘要复印件的形式。然而,直到1958年的某个时候,耶鲁才有了一个明显独立的图书馆,而且直到凯勒多方面的信息部(现在被称为酒精研究中心)于1962年搬到罗格斯大学(Rutgers University)很久之后,这个图书馆才吸收了该部门的信息职责。2 .选B。酒精研究的起源:e.m.。耶利内克和酒精研究文献的记录。”中华医学杂志。83:1095-1103。1988. *马克·凯勒。"马克·凯勒的酗酒史"饮酒及药物管制测量师第14期:1,22 -28。1979. 耶利内克,E. M .。《酒精研究季刊摘要档案》《酒精研究季刊》2:216-222。1941. 马克,凯勒。”一个社会问题领域的特殊图书馆信息中心模型。121 - 129页。见:以色列特殊图书馆和信息中心协会。国际信息科学会议,特拉维夫,1997年8月29日至9月3日。第一卷:特拉维夫:国家科学和技术信息中心;1972. 罗格斯大学图书馆我们知道,到1959年3月,耶鲁中心在其总部指定了一个单独的物理空间作为图书馆。图书馆的主要职责是作为部门的信息中心。这个新成立的图书馆有91本主要与酒精有关的期刊的合订本,75个档案箱收录了各区域组织出版的关于酗酒和酗酒问题的资料,以及除酗酒以外与饮料酒精有关的其他主题的书籍、报告和重印本为了支持信息司的工作,埃丝特·亨德森发起了一项努力,收集机密档案中引用的每一份文件的全文。7获得的大部分书籍是为了支持酒精研究暑期学校的课程工作,该学校于1943年举行了第一届会议,每年夏天都继续举办。(1990年夏天,罗格斯大学新不伦瑞克校区将有三个独立的继续教育项目:1990年酒精研究暑期学校、1990年新泽西州酒精和药物研究暑期学校和1990年酒精和药物研究高级学校。)在收集的其他专著材料包括由季刊突出的书籍的评论副本。图书馆似乎没有作出进一步的馆藏发展努力。但是,现在有一个地方可以组织、储存文件司确定的各种物品,并提供给访问研究人员。新图书馆还可以通过电话或邮件请求,提供《中国图书馆》中摘录的项目的副本。 此目录包含库中存储的每个项目的单个第一作者条目,如
本文章由计算机程序翻译,如有差异,请以英文原文为准。
求助全文
约1分钟内获得全文 求助全文
来源期刊
自引率
0.00%
发文量
0
×
引用
GB/T 7714-2015
复制
MLA
复制
APA
复制
导出至
BibTeX EndNote RefMan NoteFirst NoteExpress
×
提示
您的信息不完整,为了账户安全,请先补充。
现在去补充
×
提示
您因"违规操作"
具体请查看互助需知
我知道了
×
提示
确定
请完成安全验证×
copy
已复制链接
快去分享给好友吧!
我知道了
右上角分享
点击右上角分享
0
联系我们:info@booksci.cn Book学术提供免费学术资源搜索服务,方便国内外学者检索中英文文献。致力于提供最便捷和优质的服务体验。 Copyright © 2023 布克学术 All rights reserved.
京ICP备2023020795号-1
ghs 京公网安备 11010802042870号
Book学术文献互助
Book学术文献互助群
群 号:604180095
Book学术官方微信