"We are here to honor the faculty who have recently been promoted or tenured and the books that influenced their lives as scholars. Tisch Library is committed to supporting future scholars in their teaching and research and to nurturing their love of learning and reading. We hope that current Tufts students will receive similar honors in their careers and that they will remember the role Tisch Library played in their academic development."

A primary component of the Honored Faculty program is the selection of a book that is professionally meaningful to the honoree. The chosen book is added to the Tisch Library collection with a personalized bookplate. In addition, the books are included in a special exhibit marking the event (this year running Nov.16 – Jan. 15), along with a short piece from each honoree on the significance the book had in his/her professional development.

The list of honorees and the books they selected is as follows:

ARTS & SCIENCES

Promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor with tenure
• Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe, History Dept.
  Book: The Languages of Paradise by Maurice Olender
• Soha Hassoun, Computer Science Dept.
  Book: ComputerArchitecture: A Quantitative Approach by John Hennessey and Dave Patterson
• Margaret McMillan, Economics Dept.
  Book: Dissent on Development by P. T. Bauer
• Keith Maddox, Psychology Dept.
  Book: The Color Complex: The Politics of Skin Color Among African Americans by Kathy Russell, Midge Wilson and Ronald Hall
• Bernhard Martin, German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature Dept.
  Book: Truth and Method by Hans Georg Gadamer
• Sharun Mukand, Economics Dept.
  Book: Micromotives and Macrobehavior by Thomas Schelling
• Lisa Shin, Psychology Dept.
  Book: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
• Joseph Walser, Comparative Religion Dept.
  Book: History of Indian Buddhism by Etienne Lamotte

Promotion from Associate to Full Professor
• Ann Easterbrooks, Child Development Dept.
  Book: Attachment and Loss by John Bowlby
• Charles Shiro Inouye, German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literature Dept. and the Co-director of the International Letters and Visual Studies Program
  Book: The Tale of the Heike translated by Helen McCullough
• Gary Leupp, History
  Book: The Connected Discourses of the Buddha
• Lynne Pepall, Economics Dept.
  Book: The World as I Found It by Bruce Duffy
• Dan Richards, Economics Dept.
  Book: The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Tenure
• Dean Linda Abriola, Dean of Engineering
  Book: Dynamics of Fluids in Porous Media by Jacob Bear
  Christos Georgakis, Chemical and Biological Engineering Dept.
  Book: How We Know by Martin and Inge Goldstein

The fall semester saw the unveiling of the long-awaited portrait of former provost Sol Gittleman, which is located in the New Books area. Gittleman has been a member of the Tufts faculty since 1971. His portrait, painted by Lou Gippetti, is graced by a delightful quotation from Gittleman himself: “The best part of any day is being in the library with a good book in a comfortable chair.”

Located near the Gittleman portrait, patrons can gaze upon the myriad of elephants from the Baronian collection or check out the latest installation of student art in The Tower Gallery. The Tower café has its own impressive collection of prints and will soon have a café-themed sculpture hanging in the skylight area. The café sculpture comes to us from the artists Sarah Hollis Perry and Rachel Perry Welty, creators of “Zeros and Ones,” the scroll that hangs in the library entrance.

Another new addition to the Tisch Library is the life-size bronze sculpture by Hilary Hutchinson, donated by the Kroll family “for Tufts students past, present, and future.” The sculpture is of a woman seated on a bench reading a book, and has room for a student to sit alongside.

In addition, Schlegel and Michalak have selected ten new series of prints and paintings that will also be placed in the library.

Robyn Gittleman, director of Tufts Experimental College and one of the first campus leaders to utilize the space, spoke of inviting students’ reactions early on: "In late August when the peer teachers of the Exploration seminars were having their teacher training in Tisch library I decided to have our break in the not yet opened "Tower café "…. There were many oohs, and ahs and 'why do good things only happen the year I am graduating' comments. They loved the seating and newspaper availability. When I asked, 'do you think it would be popular'? I got the responses: 'It will be hard to find a seat,' and 'I wish it could be larger.'"

Claire Conceison, a new addition to the Tufts Drama Department, frequently meets with her students in the café. When asked about her experience she said, "The café has provided an ideal spot for meeting with individual students, chatting with my TA, and for gathering my class together before film screenings upstairs. Twice on rainy days, we were able to relax together in a dry, comfy place during the hour between our class and our film screening. I especially love the armchairs with small oval tables attached--they are perfect for resting a beverage or using a laptop. I just wish the café could be expanded, because I think it is going to become very popular!"

Student Axey Ann McPherson, who has met with her peers from the Experimental College and with her TA to discuss paper topics and exchange political ideas, has expressed appreciation for the “warm fall tones of the walls and furniture” and “comforting atmosphere” of the café as well as the tendency it had to make her “feel like a café revolutionary,” and Adrienne Buckman, a senior and an International Relations student observed: "The atmosphere of the café is relaxed, and I think that it contributed positively to the meeting I had with my TA. The café is a great addition to Tisch."

Teaching assistants are frequent users of the Tower café. Marcy Brink-Danan, a current instructor for Howard Woolf, shared her experience: "As an Experimental College Instructor, I use the Tower café as my 'office' to meet students and prepare class materials. A very kind woman serves me tea in my newly acquired café mug so I don't have to waste. (I also appreciate that the space is equipped with sockets to charge my computer.)"

Thanks to these café patrons who, on request, sent us their e-mailed comments.

Café books are available for a two-week checkout, with no renewals. In October, there were sixty-six circulations in the twenty-book collection! Books will stay in the café for a year, at which time the bibliographers will decide if they should be added to the permanent collection.

In addition to books, the café houses a “high-brow” popular magazine collection and the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Boston Globe.

Tisch Library uses statistics in ways other than cost monitoring. By looking at electronic journal usage data, bibliographers can determine subject trends, analyze the need for journal backfiles, and select new titles in similar subject areas. The bibliographers also examine book circulation data on an annual basis to make similar types of decisions.

The AMICO Library (Art Museum Image Consortium) is an online image collection of works of art from around the world, from ancient times to the present. Images, text and multimedia represent a broad range of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photo-graphs, textiles, costume and jewelry, and decorative art. The database can be searched by artist, title of individual work, art of a certain time period or culture, and other means. All works in The AMICO Library are cleared for non-commercial, educational use.

The Boston Library Consortium (BLC), through its central buying fund, is now providing access for all BLC institutions to the Naxos Music Library, a pioneering new service created by Naxos – the leading classical music label.

Although Naxos is famous for their classical recordings (they received more Grammy nominations in 2004 than any other classical label), this new service also includes world music and jazz. Over 5,000 CDs with more than 85,000 individual tracks are now available through online streams, with more being added each month.

The Naxos catalog may be searched by browsing through title lists grouped under various categories (classical, jazz, world/folk, etc., including “all titles A-Z”), or by an Advanced Search feature that allows selection by composer, composition title, performing group, genre, etc. Naxos also provides lists of recent releases and of repertoire highlights.

Faculty can create playlists – selections of specific tracks or entire CDs that are retained within the Naxos Music Library under a name created by the faculty member, and are made accessible (but not editable) to all other Naxos users. Alternatively, faculty can use the persistent URL architecture of the Naxos Music Library and link to selected tracks from their Blackboard course sites. If you are interested in either of these features, please contact Michael Rogan, Music Librarian, as a special account will need to be created for you for these faculty privileges.

The Naxos label has gained stature by pioneering groundbreaking projects like the American Classics Series (a comprehensive recording project of American concert music) and their Historical Series (a massive project engineered by leading restoration engineers/ artists). Other notable ongoing series being developed include the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music and the releases of Naxos World/Marco Polo.

Please explore and enjoy the Naxos Music Library! Opportunities exist for general enjoyment of new musical experiences and for all faculty to use streaming audio to make courses and course websites more engaging and illustrative. We are grateful for the BLC for funding this unique resource!

Contributors to this issue:

Laura Walters

Amy Lordan

Stacy Howe

Chao Chen

Michael Rogan

Amy Lordan, photographer

Stephanie St.Laurence, photographer

Editor: Margaret Gooch