Library Online News

Date: February 15, 2006 Issue: #37

Congratulations To:

The Research and Publication Committee is pleased to announce the award of many RPC grants. Congratulations to these library faculty:

Paula Carns (Modern Languages & Linguistics) for a project entitled: "The Cult of Saint Louis and Capetian Interests in the Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux." Paula's article will address how the French royal family's personal and dynastic interests shaped the textual and visual programs in a Book of Hours (medieval prayer book) made for the French Capetian queen Jeanne d'Evreux (1324-1328). Though the book has received a fair amount of scholarly attention, especially because of its extraordinary beauty and refined style of painting, no other scholar has noticed how Capetian ideology has influenced the book's design. As such, Paula's article will discuss an important component of this book that has previously been overlooked.

Jane Block (Architecture and Art) for La Maison d'art: forerunner of Siegfried Bing's Parisian gallery, L'Art nouveau - Funds to translate manuscript from English into French for a scholarly symposium sponsored by the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique.

Alvan Bregman (Rare Books and Manuscript) for "Narcissus Luttrell's annotated pamphlets" - A study of the relationship between the 17th-century collector's reading and the content of his political diaries.

KC Elhard (Cataloging) for Harsdörffer's Librarian - Funding to cover the costs to publish a reproduction of the painting, The Librarian, which will accompany an article appearing in the journal Emblematica.

JoAnn Jacoby and Lynne Rudasill (Education and Social Science) for User Centered Web Design for Librarians - On contract with Haworth Press for full length book, complete with a CD-ROM containing tools, scripts and forms for data collection, administration and analysis that can be downloaded and customized for a variety of situations. Based on previous work on usability practices in libraries.

Cherie Weible (Interlibrary Loans) and Stephanie Atkins (Central Circ) for State of the Stacks After Oak Street - Will analyze a sample of requests for the main bookstacks identified by IRRC during February 2006 with a status of "not on shelf" after a minimum of one physical search for the item as a follow up to previous research that took place before materials were being moved to Oak Street to reduce Stacks crowding, which was published as "Needles in a Haystack: Using Interlibrary Loan Data to Identify Materials Missing from a Library's Collection," in Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services.