The College of Architecture and Urban Planning is planning a celebration to honor Betty L. Wagner. Betty has served the UW and the Architecture and Urban Planning Library for 45 years. The College plans to establish the Betty L. Wagner Endowed Library Enrichment Fund which will pay tribute to her many years of dedicated service, and will provide additional support to the Architecture and Urban Planning Library. For more information, contact Lyn Firkins at (206) 685-0931 or jasper@u.washington.edu.
Russian Humanities/Social Sciences Index, 1990 to date
Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies, a unique and rich source of information for students and specialists in Slavic studies, social sciences and the humanities, includes materials published in the Commonwealth of Independent States, in Eastern European countries, and elsewhere, including books, manuscripts, dissertations, and articles from more than 10,000 periodicals.
English Short Title Catalogue, 1473 to 1800
The English Short Title Catalogue, published by the British Library, contains records for works printed in any language in England or its dependencies from the beginning of printing through the end of the eighteenth century, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period.
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An 8 by 12 foot mosaic by senior ceramics major, Rachel Carpenter, was recently dedicated in the OUGL UWired collaboratory. The mosaic was selected in a competition sponsored by UWired and the Friends of the UW Libraries.
Tym Parsons joined the Libraries staff December 16, 1996 as Marcive Retrospective Conversion Project Librarian. Tym comes from Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. The Marcive Recon Project will create cataloging records for the Libraries monographic U.S. documents holdings from 1975 through 1994.
Ruth Krader, who retired from the Philosophy Library in 1976, died November 16, 1996 at the age of 85. She originally came to the U.S. from Germany in 1939, received a Ph.D. from Yale in 1945, and her MLS in 1955 from the University of Washington. She was the first librarian in what was then the Far Eastern library, now the East Asia Library.