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City College Library of The City University of New York no.84 (n.s.) Spring 2012 A Japanese School Moves Forward I n a follow-up to the Spring 2011 issue of Circumspice in which we wrote of library fundraising efforts on behalf of the Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefec- ture, Japan, we are sharing a letter and a few photos. The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami destroyed Okawa’s school building and resulted in the tragic loss of 70% of its 123 students and many of its teachers. The library’s efforts raised $1300, an amount recently matched through the generosity of donor Julia Rush, a longtime supporter of both the library and the college. Her late hus- band was Richard Rush, the great- grandnephew of Townsend Harris, the founder in 1847 of the Free Academy of the City of New York (later to become City College) and the first US consul general to Japan. The library’s efforts began when CCNY librarian Yoko Inagi, Chief of the library’s Cataloging and MPC Divisions, together with reference librarian Rob Laurich, whose idea it Okawa school before the tsunami Okawa school right after the tsunami Classroom after the tsunami ...continued on page 3 was to find a way to support the Japanese people during this crisis, involved other librarians and staff members in fundraising activities last spring. At Rob’s urging, Yoko researched likely benefi- ciaries, discovering the Okawa School’s plight. She spoke with a school administrator there via Skype telling him of our efforts and arranging to forward funds to the school. In June Yoko brought the funds to a US Post Office where she pur- chased a money order, as checks are rarely used in Japan. Yoko sent the money order by certified mail directly to the Okawa School. Continuing her close attention to this project, she then called her mother in Japan with the tracking number. Yoko’s mother followed up, confirming that the money order had been received. Interestingly, in lieu of depositing Click here for Japanese version Heisei Year 24 January 19 Dear University Library of the City College, City University of New York Ishinomaki Municipal Okawa Elementary School Teruyuki Kashiba, School Principal Gratitude Dear University Library Dean, faculty, staff, and students. How do you do? We have received your kind donations and support to the students and the school, which have been severely affected by the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami on March 11, 2011. We would like to express our deepest gratitude for your warm support. We have received your sympathies and donations last June. At that time, we were still in confusion and could not calmly reply to your gratitude. We regret we have been extremely discourteous for having failed to formally thank you until this day. Please accept our deepest gratitude for your kind support. During the time we received your donations, our school meal pro- gram was not yet reinstituted. Thanks to your donations, we were able to compensate and provide meals for the children. Thank you very much. Currently, Okawa Elementary School has twenty three students and occu- pies the second floor of another school, Iinokawa Daiichi Elementary School, located approximately 10 km away from the area where the Tsunamis attacked us. We jointly held Undo-kai (sport day), and as for school art fes- tivals and school trips, we were able to host them on our own. Furthermore, the students participate in a monthly death anniversary event, wishing to show their diligent attitude toward life to their friends and teachers, who have passed away. Although we are still in a difficult situation, supported by you, together, hand in hand, the students, teachers and administrative staff are determined to do our best. We thank you very much for your support.
Transcript of A Japanese School Moves Forward I Spring 2011
City College Library of The City University of New York
no.84 (n.s.) Spring 2012
A Japanese School Moves Forward
In a follow-up to the Spring 2011 issue of Circumspice in which we wrote of library fundraising efforts
on behalf of the Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefec-ture, Japan, we are sharing a letter and a few photos. The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami destroyed Okawa’s school building and resulted in the tragic loss of 70% of its 123 students and many of its teachers.
The library’s efforts raised $1300, an amount recently matched through the generosity of donor Julia Rush, a longtime supporter of both the
library and the college. Her late hus-band was Richard Rush, the great-grandnephew of Townsend Harris, the founder in 1847 of the Free Academy of the City of New York (later to become City College) and the first US consul general to Japan.
The library’s efforts began when CCNY librarian Yoko Inagi, Chief of the library’s Cataloging and MPC Divisions, together with reference librarian Rob Laurich, whose idea it
Okawa school before the tsunami Okawa school right after the tsunami Classroom after the tsunami
...continued on page 3
was to find a way to support the Japanese people during this crisis, involved other librarians and staff members in fundraising activities last spring.
At Rob’s urging, Yoko researched likely benefi-ciaries, discovering the Okawa School’s plight. She spoke with a school administrator there via Skype telling him of our efforts and arranging to forward funds to the school.
In June Yoko brought the funds to a US Post Office where she pur-chased a money order, as checks are rarely used in Japan. Yoko sent the money order by certified mail directly to the Okawa School. Continuing her close attention to this project, she then called her mother in Japan with the tracking number. Yoko’s mother
followed up, confirming that the money order had been received. Interestingly, in lieu of depositing
Click here for Japanese version
Heisei Year 24 January 19
Dear University Library of the City College, City University of New York
Ishinomaki Municipal Okawa Elementary School
Teruyuki Kashiba, School Principal
Gratitude
Dear University Library Dean, faculty, staff, and students. How do you do?We have received your kind donations and support to the students and the school, which have been severely affected by the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami on March 11, 2011. We would like to express our deepest gratitude for your warm support.
We have received your sympathies and donations last June. At that time, we were still in confusion and could not calmly reply to your gratitude. We regret we have been extremely discourteous for having failed to formally thank you until this day. Please accept our deepest gratitude for your kind support. During the time we received your donations, our school meal pro-gram was not yet reinstituted. Thanks to your donations, we were able to compensate and provide meals for the children. Thank you very much.
Currently, Okawa Elementary School has twenty three students and occu-pies the second floor of another school, Iinokawa Daiichi Elementary School, located approximately 10 km away from the area where the Tsunamis attacked us. We jointly held Undo-kai (sport day), and as for school art fes-tivals and school trips, we were able to host them on our own. Furthermore, the students participate in a monthly death anniversary event, wishing to show their diligent attitude toward life to their friends and teachers, who have passed away.
Although we are still in a difficult situation, supported by you, together, hand in hand, the students, teachers and administrative staff are determined to do our best.
We thank you very much for your support.
2 Spring 2012
From The Desk Of The Chief Librarian
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With so much of the content of scholarly journals now avail-able online in full text, the
library faculty realized the time has come to take a long, hard look at those rows and rows of bound peri-odicals on the lowest floors of both Cohen and the Science/Engineering libraries. Much of that content is included in our permanent digital collection, so a journal consolidation program began in mid-December.
Before we began the consolida-tion, we tried to find libraries that are still interested in having paper copies of these journals, hoping to be able to donate them. But other libraries are doing the same thing we are – freeing up shelf space for new uses. So we worked with CCNY Green and the campus Facilities office to find a recycling firm that would take the materials with the covers still on them (a very uncommon option in the recycling world).
Once that was in place, the load-ing of the recycling bins began. The recycling portion of the proj-ect is complete for the Science/Engineering Library, but there is still more to be done in the Cohen Library.
And, not everything is going to recycling. There are still lots of titles that don’t have an online equivalent to which we have access, so the bulk of the project is shifting and pulling together those materials in Cohen Library. The Tech Center construction project messed up the alphabetical arrangement of the periodicals, so everything is being re-alphabetized as we go.
We are in the process of moving – across the avenue by hand truck – all the bound periodicals we must still keep in the col-lection into the first floor of Cohen Library through 1989. Science/Engineering “hard copies” for 1990-on still remain in the Marshak library.
As work goes on, we are making lots of changes and corrections in the library catalog, and when the proj-ect is complete, finding an article in a bound periodical should be easier, both digi-tally and physically.
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Comments, suggestions and feedback regarding the library’s services are always welcome and should be addressed to me by calling x7271, sending email to [email protected], or by dropping by NAC 5/333 (Cohen Library).
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the funds into a bank, the school may have deposited them into an account at a local post office since Japanese post offices also function as banks. The matching funds from Mrs. Rush have also reached the school.
Despite having to cope with this overwhelming crisis and its fallout, Okawa Principal Teruyuki Kashiba took the time to send this gracious and heartfelt letter of thanks. It was translated by Yoko.
These photos attest to the tragedy but also to the spirit of the children who survived this disaster and who are now returning to the Okawa School which temporarily occupies the second floor of a neighboring school. May the best be with them as they move forward.
“Randoseru,” a firm-sided school backpack, commonly used by Japanese elementary schoolchildren. Red ones are for girls, black/blue ones are for boys.
Parents in mourning clothes/dress praying in front of a shrine. It was built where the Okawa school used to be.
Owaka School students walking to a new school
4 Spring 2012
The Library Scene
Hubert Williams standing next to two of his photographs of jazz musical performers
English professor Jo-Ann Hamilton holds The Fifth National Black Writers Conference poster. The reverse advertises artist Gilbert Fletcher’s book Painted Voices about his series of portraits of African-American writers. Fletcher stands to the right of the poster. On the far right is Archie Hamilton at Shots’ opening reception on Feb. 1, 2012.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History’s traveling exhibit, The Many Faces of George Washington, was on display in the Cohen Library Atrium during February and March.
(l. to r.) Nigel Freeman of Swann Galleries, Gordon Thompson, Director of CCNY Black Studies Program, Todd Roulette of Roulette Fine Arts, and Mark Thomas Gibson, Yale University Graduate School of Art prior to the talk and discussion between Mr. Freeman and Mr. Gibson on Feb. 28, 2012
The exhibit Shots, Strokes and Threads featured the work of eight African
American artists and celebrated Black History Month. Shots was on display in the Cohen Librry Archives Gallery in February. Several artists’ talks and
receptions accompanied the exhibit. (See full article on the last page.)
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rIn March the Library’s Archives Art Gallery displayed art
produced by the women of CCNY. These four works were among the many on display.
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Mud Moods. Jacqueline Gill, reference librarian. 2012
Self Portrait. Yumna Pirach, CCNY student. 2011
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Are you stymied in your research…
… when, after searching for books in the online WorldCat database or for scholarly journal articles in one of the library’s many other online data-bases (such as Academic Search Complete, Philosopher’s Index, or Web of Knowledge), you discover that a number of possibly helpful books or journals are nowhere to be found in any CUNY library? (See our complete list of databases on the library’s home page.)
Boost your research by accessing these materials at other metro-area university libraries!
How do we help you do this?
Along with 250 libraries and archives in this area, the City College of New York Library is a member of the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency (METRO). This non-profit organiza-tion promotes the development and maintenance of essential library services throughout the New York City region. METRO works to provide greater library access for all con-stituents of its member institutions. It enables students, faculty and staff to enrich their research with materials available at other members’ libraries.
How do you know which library has the book or journal you need?
When you search for books or jour-nal articles in our online databases, you will see in the online records for the books or articles that you’ve dis-covered through your search terms these words: “Libraries worldwide that own item.” Click to see which local libraries offer what you need. If you see that a book or journal is not available at CCNY or CUNY and is not in the public library system but is
at Columbia, NYU, or Fordham, for example, stop by a reference desk at any of CCNY’s campus libraries to request a “METRO” referral card. This card won’t get you on the subway, but it can give you access to one of these private libraries for on-site use of the book/s or journals needed.
When you ask for the card, our librarians will first verify that the books or journals are indeed unavailable in CUNY or in the public library system. If items are in a public library, simply go directly to the branch or to the reference library indicated, such as the NYPL Reference Library in the Schwarzman Building at 42nd Street and 5th Avenue. The librarian will issue a METRO card for access to a private library only if what you need is unavailable in CUNY or in the public library system. The librarian will also check with that library to verify the item’s availability and possible cur-rent user restrictions.
METRO options
The METRO referral card system includes two user options. The more widely used yellow card makes it pos-sible for users to search in a private library for particular book/s or jour-nal/s. Access is usually for one day. The blue card allows users to search across a subject area at other librar-ies. The host library determines the length of time that a user may have
access for searching its collec-tions. Access is not unlimited and does not guarantee that materials will be available at a given time. In most cases, access is limited to the range of materials indicated on the blue card. Again, a CCNY librar-ian will assist you with acquiring the right card and filling out information required by METRO.
We encourage you to expand your research via the METRO card!
Thanks to the generosity of many participating libraries, our CCNY com-munity can benefit enormously from this access to additional research materials not available either physi-cally in our campus libraries or via our ever-growing online offerings. So do avail yourselves of this opportu-nity to go beyond! Our librarians will be happy to show you in person or in our library research sessions how to access our many databases and online catalogs to find what you need in support of your research.
Additionally, please check our “Research by Subject” link on all our libraries’ home pages to point you to specific resources available by subject area as detailed in our many librarian-created libguides.
Click here for more detailed informa-tion on the METRO Library Referral program.
METRO Access to Books and Journals in the NYC Metropolitan Region
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Hello...
Shea Taylor (far left), receives a fond sendoff from colleagues as she departs the Cohen Library after five great years of librarianship during which she also earned her 2nd master’s degree in creative writ-ing.
Shea, the library’s outgoing chief of user services, is now heading off to world-wide travels before settling out west. We all wish her the very best in that fun experience and in her future career opportunities.
We’ll miss her personable and collegial presence. On the plus side, we do look forward of course to Shea’s travel writings!
Introducing New Staff...
The City College Library welcomes Tresha Antoine as the new manager of its Materials Processing Division.
Tresha comes to us from Hunter College where she earned her BA in history while working in that college’s ESL Department as a college assistant and also in the Department of Continuing Education. A native of St. Vincent, she arrived in the US with her family at the age of 10. Planning to return to her roots, Tresha has immersed herself in the history and culture of St. Vincent and the Grenadine Islands.
As she settles into her new position, Tresha looks forward to the challenges of working with the backlog of materials to make room for new books. Enthusiastically she said with a smile, “I am eager to get the library’s backlog in order and to develop new collaborations with other divisions in the library to identity materials in need of repair.”
Tresha’s long-term goal is to get her master’s in either pubic administration or education.
William Gibbons [email protected]
... and Goodbye
(l. to r.) Yoko Inagi, Lena Marvin, and Anita Meyers
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Hello...
Author/playwright Seamus Scanlon, librarian at CCNY’s satellite Center for Worker
Education campus in lower Manhattan, enjoyed a successful staging of his one-act play, Dancing a Lunacy, which ran through March at the Irish Cell theatre in NYC.
Lunacy garnered a slew of favorable reviews in such venues as Backstage Magazine, Inside New York, and the Huffington Post. Prior to this event,Seamus had a number of writing awards under his belt including the 2011 Fish Publishing One Page Story award, the 2011 Gemini Magazine Short Story award, and Galway, Ireland’s 2010 Over the Edge Writer of the Year award. He was a finalist for the 2012 Roanoke Review Fiction Prize and has been invited to attend the prestigious MacDowell Colony for artists in May.
Way to go, Seamus!
CCNY librarians joined fellow librarian and author/playwright Seamus Scanlan at the March 24 performance of his highly lauded play.
(l. to r.) Amrita Dhawan, Seamus, Gina Houghteling, and Judy Connorton
CCNY Librarian a.k.a. Irish Playwright
On March 24 Mr. Tetsuya Sakano, an English language teacher at the Shimoda, Japan High School,
brought his class to visit the City College Archives, renewing the close ties between Shimoda, Japan and the college.
Shimoda is the location of the first American consulate in Japan established by City College founder, Townsend Harris.
Additional students from the NYC school named in his honor, Townsend Harris High School, also came to visit with their teacher, Dr. Mariko Sato, sister to Mr. Sakano. The group listened to a presentation on the life and career of Townsend Harris by City College Archivist Sydney Van Nort with assis-tance from library faculty members Yoko Inagi and Lena Marvin.
Students viewed selected documents from the Townsend Harris papers as well as a set of dolls appropriate for the Girls’ Day Festival commemorated in Japan on March 3. The dolls were a recent gift to the library from CCNY art professor Marjorie Munsterberg.
The group then enjoyed lunch in the cafeteria courtesy of President Lisa Staiano-Coico, a tour of the college campus, and shopping at the college’s bookstore.
Sydney Van Nort [email protected]
Shimoda, Japan High School and Townsend Harris High School
Students Visit the City College Library Archives
The ninth annual International Dominican Women Writers’ Book Fair in the United States in March
honored Assistant Professor Sarah
Aponte among others. The book fair, rapidly becoming the premier liter-ary gathering of Dominican women poets and writers in the U.S., was spon-sored by the Dominican Women’s Development Center, the City University of New York, Cayena Publications, Hostos Community College and
CUNY DSI Chief Librarian Sarah Aponte HonoredFundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE). Approximately 300 people attended the March 23 opening ceremony which included guests from Venezuela, Haiti, Romania, and the United States.
In 1994 Sarah started the DSI Library with a donation of bibliographical materials from the Council of Dominican Educators. The library has grown since. In subsequent research visits to archives and libraries here and abroad, she has discovered previously unpublicized bibliographical materials, since catalogued and made available to the public. Along with Dominican Institute Director Dr. Ramona Hernández and Dr. Silvio Torres-Saillant, founding director of the institute, she has spearheaded the sharing of these invaluable resources through lectures, workshops, and writings.
Sarah received six awards at the ceremony including one from the book fair committee, three New York City citations from Senator Adriano Espaillat, Assemblyman Nelson Castro, and Assemblyman Guillermo Linares, and a New York City proclamation from Council Member Ydanis Rodríguez.
Library Exhibits / Events 2012
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RMS Titanic: 100 Years Later April 5-June 10, 2012Cohen Library Atrium
This Beautiful World; Photographsby Robert Radin
April 1�-June 8, 2012Cohen Library Archives Gallery
First Night of Gotham: Bashford Dean
September 4-October 31, 2012Cohen Library Archives Gallery
Stanley H. Kaplan: King of Test Prep
September 4-December 31, 2012Cohen Library Atrium
New York Cityscape: Prints November 4-December 31, 2012Cohen Library Archives Gallery
City College Libraries and the Black Studies Program Present Art Exhibit
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Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief.
Join us in helping the children of Ishinomaki-city, Miyagi prefecture rebuild Okawa Elementary School.
Thank you for your contribution.
CCNY Libraries Care
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Following last year’s success, the CCNY Libraries and the Black Studies Program presented in February Shots, Strokes, Threads, Volume 2 in the Cohen
Library Archives Gallery. Shots featured the work of eight African American artists, Gilbert Fletcher, Laura James, Robert Ross, Mark Thomas Gibson, Sakinah Northern, Frank Leslie Hampton and Hubert Williams.
The artists are known and recognized both nationally and internationally. Hubert Williams has photographed such luminaries as James Earl Jones, Herbie Hancock, Smokey Robinson, and Ruby Dee. Gilbert Fletcher has exhibited widely in museums, galleries and universities across the country and has published Painted Voices: An Artist’s Journey into the World of Black Writers. Laura James’ illustrations in the Ethiopian Christian Art style also grace the Book of the Gospels published by Liturgy Training Publications.
The February 1 opening reception featured an artist’s talk with Gilbert Fletcher. Additional talks were held throughout the month moderated by Black Studies Professor Jo-Ann Hamilton. February 7 featured Robert Ross and February 21, Sakinah Northern and Hubert Williams. The February 28 talk presented Nigel Freeman, Curator of African American Art at Swann Galleries in dialogue with Mark Thomas Gibson, currently an MFA student at Yale.
Generous additional funding was provided by the CCNY SEEK Program, the Division of Humanities and the Arts, the Division of Social Sciences, the Bunche/Globus Memorial Lecture Fund, and the Harlem Arts Alliance.
Sydney Van Nort [email protected]
Toni Morrison portrait by Gilbert Fletcher from the Painted Voices series
Edgar Nkosi White is a Montserrat-born playwright and novelist. He is the
City College Library Writer-in-Residence and was featured in our Spring 2011 issue.
Read his latest piece, Always Occupy, just in from Montserrat.
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