{"title":"Alexander Library: Transition to the Future","authors":"R. Toyama","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V54I2.1719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V54I2.1719","url":null,"abstract":"Within the unified system of the Rutgers University Libraries, Alexander Library has been established as the research library for humanities and social sciences, and delivers services and builds collections on this basis. It is a repository of scholarly resources which provides access to worlds of information inside and outside the building; an environment conducive to the process of information seeking, analyzing and synthesizing; and provides assistance to patrons in need of these resources. All library activities being carried out by librarians and staff are for a single purpose: providing meaningful services effectively to the target audience—library patrons in the Rutgers community and beyond. In keeping with its service mission, the Library must be sensitive to the needs of Rutgers students and faculty of today and tomorrow, support the philosophy and goals of the university, and must operate effectively within a constantly changing environment. A major factor which will continue to affect the Library's operations is the rapidly developing computer and telecommunications technology. The impact is as significant as the invention of movable typesetting on the publishing world. Today, formats in which information is stored are no longer limited to manuscripts, books, journals, microforms, CDs, or laser disks. Electronic means for generating, retrieving and disseminating information have already broadened the concept of library services beyond the walls of the building. In order for the library to deliver meaningful services effectively, librarians must constantly reassess service priorities, learn and apply new technology, and make decisions on emerging issues. The newly expanded and renovated Alexander Library building must be responsive to this on-going transition.","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115868144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Fond Remembrance of Edward B. Wilkens, Rutgers' First Planning Professor","authors":"H. Moskowitz","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V51I1.1683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V51I1.1683","url":null,"abstract":"I enrolled in Rutgers College in September 1950, hoping to graduate in June 1954 with a degree in electrical engineering. All engineering students took the same curriculum during their freshman year, and only in their sophmore year did they begin to specialize. As part of our first year's, program, we were required to attend lectures given by representatives of each of the engineering departments—electrical, chemical, civil, etc. The idea was good—many of the freshman had no idea as to what engineering speciality they were interested in. I remember talking to one freshman who picked electrical engineering because he thought he would be able to fix his television set when he graduated.1 One of the orientation lectures was given by a tall, crew-cut professor by the name of Edward B. Wilkens—-\"Doc\" Wilkens to faculty and students. His pitch was for city planning engineering. Rutgers was, at the time, one of only three colleges offering undergraduate degrees in city planning engineering.2 In fact, in 1950-1951, only 19 colleges were offering graduate degrees in planning.3 Wilkens' lecture was full of slides, a device he used with great effectiveness in all his courses. He talked about city planning as the field for the Renaissance Man, a term which probably meant nothing to most of the fledgeling engineers listening to Doc's somewhat high-pitched voice and frequent laugh as he told funny stories about planners and politicians. His point was effective, at least to this listener: Planning was a field which encompassed engineering, architecture and design but also relied on law, economics and political science. The planner might be called upon to design a housing layout, come up","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125670625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Historical Role of Libraries in Scholarly Communication","authors":"P. Richards","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V49I2.1671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V49I2.1671","url":null,"abstract":"TH E I D E A of the library as a center of scholarship is ancient and widespread, but modern sociologists and historians of science have recently emphasized how much of scholarly communication goes on outside of libraries: Harriet Zuckerman has demonstrated the importance of the teacher, and of the network of colleagues, in the passing on of scholarly standards.1 Diana Crane has shown how modest a role in the diffusion process is played by libraries, which are less influential and far less immediate than teachers, networks of colleagues, manuscript circulation, conferences and preprint circulation.2 In fact, it can be as much as several years after an idea's original conceptualization that an article presenting the idea is actually published in a journal, thus making the idea accessible in the library. In these pages I will try to show that all of these non-print methods of scholarly information transfer, although unquestionably vital and preliminary to diffusion through books and journals, are, in their international functioning, extremely vulnerable and can suffer critical curtailment in times of war. I will focus particularly on the period of the Second World War, when, as a result of the almost total breakdown of the various interpersonal methods of scientific and scholarly exchange between the Axis and Allied countries, scholars were forced to rely on printed material in libraries. So clear did this dependency become to governments on both sides of the conflict that when the international book trade itself began to falter, official emergency information-gathering networks were instituted. We will see that in both Germany and the United States this process raised the consciousness of the central authorities to the strategic importance of libraries and had an effect on postwar developments in library planning.","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129011924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Appreciation of Chinese Calligraphy","authors":"Wang Yu","doi":"10.14713/jrul.v52i2.1701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/jrul.v52i2.1701","url":null,"abstract":"Calligraphy means \"artistic writing.\" Writing involves written language and a written language involves a writing system. Of the world's existing writing systems, there are basically three different types: phonetic, as in English; syllabic, as in Japanese kana; and logographic. The Chinese writing system is unique and is the only one that is logographic. Logographs involve meaning. Meaning is always complicated. So logographs in writing have to be numerous. Nobody knows when Chinese writing started. In 1985 and 1986, near the city of Xi'an, China, ancient characters carved on bones were found. These bone objects have been dated to 2500 B.C. Already at that time the forms of the characters were quite sophisticated. How many characters are there in the Chinese writing system? The largest dictionary contains more than one hundred thousand characters. The contemporary daily-used characters number over three thousand. In English, there are printed forms and handwritten forms. In Chinese, because of the long history of writing, the handwritten forms have evolved inta at least seven general categories: 1. In 1899, at the Shang dynasty capital Yin, near the city of Anyang in Henan province, a large cache of bones and turtle shells was unearthed. The bones and shells with writings carved on them were used for divination in about the 13th century B.C. Over four thousand different characters were found. These characters have been called \"oracle bone form.\" 2. Before the Qin dynasty (221-207 B.C.), characters cast in bronze or carved on stone have been preserved. These character forms were called \"Great Seal form.\" 3. In the year 221 B.C., following the unification of China, the emperor Shihuangdi tried to unify the forms of the characters. The resulting characters were called \"Small Seal forms\" and show rounded corners as their distinctive feature.","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121307979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Court Records: History in the Making, Knowledge for the Taking","authors":"L. Garth","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V51I2.1690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V51I2.1690","url":null,"abstract":"IT H A S only been of recent date that organizations such as the Historical Society of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the Historical Society of the Third Circuit have come into being, in order to fill a void in sore need of being filled. This void may have occurred because, for reasons still unfathomed, historians by and large have traditionally ignored court records as a source of historical research. It may be that they have done so because, not having been trained primarily in the law, historians have not been attracted to, or may be unaware of, the rich historical lore that is buried in judicial records. O r , it may be because a basic lack of familiarity with the legal discipline has led historians to discount the historical value of materials found in these records. By doing so, they may very well have forfeited an understanding of those events which preceded, and then succeeded, a particular case decision—events that may have had an influence on the future directions that our society has taken. More likely, in my judgment, the failure to study and analyze court records from an historical perspective, stems from a combination of these factors, as well as others, to which I have not adverted. Whatever the reason, however, even a hurried and abbreviated journey through early court dockets reveals to us now that the problems facing us today have had in many instances their genesis in years past, and that the events g iv ing rise to those problems may, when examined and understood, possibly provide assistance in solving the 20th Century concerns presently confronting us. Indeed, it should come as no surprise to us that","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117019535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eighteenth-Century French Angolmania and Champigny's \"Memoires de Miss Fanny Palmer\"","authors":"Josephine Grieder","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V50I2.1680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V50I2.1680","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114888992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Title Page: Fiftieth Anniversary Issue 1937-1987","authors":"A. Anonymous","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V49I2.1693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V49I2.1693","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130463464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rare Book Acquisitions","authors":"Janice A. Kraus","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V49I1.1666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V49I1.1666","url":null,"abstract":"The rebirth of interest in classical literature, the discovery of new lands with exotic customs, early investigations in the medical sciences and a nationalistic philological enterprise in a young country are the dominating themes of the rare books acquired for Special Collections & Archives this year. These volumes have been purchased with a view to enhancing those areas in which there are good base collections, areas in which Special Collections & Archives can make a contribution both to preserve a part of our cultural and intellectual heritage and to interpret our holdings to those in the Rutgers community and those outside. This revitalized rare book collection, through steady growth, can become an essential part of the library and an asset to the scholarly world. Accordingly, rare books are carefully selected for purchase each year, purchases made possible by the generous bequest of Charles H . ('25) and Mary Elizabeth Brower and, just this year, the Cameron Memorial Fund.1 The following is a discussion of the volumes thus acquired. The Venetian printer/publisher Aldus Manutius (1449/50-1515) and his heirs were among the driving forces in the popularization of classical literature in the sixteenth century. Aldus himself was responsible for the coming together of elements critical to both the quality and visual enjoyment of a text: stringent scholarly editing, an easy-to-read italic typeface and the handy octavo (\"pocketbook\") format. The Aldine volume acquired this year consists of two classical texts, the De coniuratione Catalinae. Eiusdem De bello lugurthino of Sallust (86-35 B . C . ) and the De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni of Quintius Curtius Rufus (1st cent. A . D . ) , published in Venice in 1509 and 1520, respectively. Neither were simply reproduced from earlier printed or manuscript editions; Aldus and his associates brought their own expertise to bear on the texts. Aldus and Francesco Torresano (d. 1546), the son of his partner Andrea Torresano (1451-1529), edited the Sallust texts, incorporating two previously un-","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"38 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130733525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retrospective Catalog of the Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series","authors":"Kate McGruder","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V54I1.1716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V54I1.1716","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134421671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The New Brunswick-Japan Connection: A History","authors":"D. Heinlein","doi":"10.14713/JRUL.V52I2.1700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JRUL.V52I2.1700","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247763,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129735090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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