Holiday Card 2013

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H A P P Y H O L I D A Y S 2 0 1 3 . . . CATHERINE QUINLAN Dean of the USC Libraries Dear Friends, I wish you the happiest of holidays from the faculty and staff of the University of Southern California Libraries. We have much to celebrate this year, as our libraries have made tremendous contributions to the intellectual and artistic achievements of the entire Trojan Family. I am particularly proud that our USC Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study has begun offering its first-ever for-credit course—a yearlong multi- disciplinary exploration of the history of Los Angeles taught by USC University Professor and Associate Dean of Libraries Kevin Starr. rough this class, we are bringing to bear our libraries’ preeminent regional history collections to advance Sidney Harman’s vision for a unique—and uniquely USC— polymathic approach to teaching and learning. We also have begun training a new generation of library leaders, in partnership with the Marshall School of Business, through our Master of Management in Library and Information Science program. Our first cohort joined us in May, and they are on track to become influential leaders in digital librarianship, academic librarianship, and libraries in urban environments. ose are but two highlights of a busy and productive 2013. You will find many more at www.usc.edu/libraries/engage. Wishing you wondrous holidays and a joyous 2014,

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USC Libraries Dean Catherine Quinlan shares her 2013 holiday card.

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CATHERINE QUINLANDean of the USC Libraries

Dear Friends, I wish you the happiest of holidays from the faculty and staff of the University of Southern California Libraries. We have much to celebrate this year, as our libraries have made tremendous contributions to the intellectual and artistic achievements of the entire Trojan Family. I am particularly proud that our USC Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study has begun offering its first-ever for-credit course—a yearlong multi-disciplinary exploration of the history of Los Angeles taught by USC University Professor and Associate Dean of Libraries Kevin Starr. Through this class, we are bringing to bear our libraries’ preeminent regional history collections to advance Sidney Harman’s vision for a unique—and uniquely USC—polymathic approach to teaching and learning. We also have begun training a new generation of library leaders, in partnership with the Marshall School of Business, through our Master of Management in Library and Information Science program. Our first cohort joined us in May, and they are on track to become influential leaders in digital librarianship, academic librarianship, and libraries in urban environments. Those are but two highlights of a busy and productive 2013. You will find many more at www.usc.edu/libraries/engage. Wishing you wondrous holidays and a joyous 2014,

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GRANT SUCCESSES AND LIBRARY COLLECTIONS

Bill Dotson has increased our grant-seeking activity in recent years, with transformational results. Thanks to support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, we’ve digitized nearly 40,000 at-risk photographic negatives from our Dick Whittington Collection that document the expansion of Los Angeles during the 20th century. And with grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and the Council on Library and Information Resources, the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries are on track to process and make discoverable its entire collection of LGBTQ research materials—the largest such collection in the world.

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2013 WITH THE FRIENDS OF THE USC LIBRARIES

The Friends of the USC Libraries help us engage our campus community and everyone who looks to our libraries for opportunities for discovery and lifelong learning. Friends programs began this year with Paul Lieberman, author of Gangster Squad. We explored the imagined future of a Los Angeles that never came to pass with Greg Goldin and Sam Lubell, curators of the Never Built: Los Angeles exhibition. And we brought the year to a close with a special, one-day viewing of the most valuable book in the world, the Bay Psalm Book, and an evening with USC University Professor Leo Braudy, who read from his new book—Trying to Be Cool.

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April 17, 2014, will mark the 10th anniversary of the USC Libraries Wonderland Award. In anticipation of that milestone, we’ve begun a yearlong series of special events. Four Bay Area alumni groups convened in October for Wonderland Everywhere,

Everywhere Wonderland—an evening showcasing our Cassady Lewis Carroll Collection and its contribution to intellectual life at USC. In November, we hosted the Lewis Carroll Society of North America and published the Liddell Book of Poetry, the first volume in a series of books celebrating USC students’ creative exploration of the world of Lewis Carroll.

WONDERLAND EVERYWHERE

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2013 AWARDS We’ve been honored to receive several awards this year that recognize the achievements of our libraries and our library faculty and staff. The Association of Research Libraries named Chiméne Tucker and Melanee Vicedo as 2013-2014 Leadership Fellows and Shahla Bahavar received the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s I Love My Librarian Award. The California Library Association selected us as their Public Relations Excellence Award winner. And L.A. as Subject—an organization of 250 libraries, museums, and private collections hosted by the USC Libraries—received the L.A. Historical Society’s Thomas J. Owen History Award.

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This year, Nathan Masters and Liza Posas developed new partnerships and grew existing projects—with KCET TV, Los Angeles Magazine, and Gizmodo—to showcase our librariesand the university as essential sources for understanding the past, present, and future of Los Angeles and its role as a world-influencing metropolis. In October, Ruth Wallach, head of our Architecture and Fine Arts Library, published Miracle Mile in Los Angeles—an examination of Wilshire Boulevard’s cultural and commercial history as expressed through its architecture.

USC LIBRARIES AND LOS ANGELES

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In February, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of a distinguished Trojan tradition—the USC Libraries Scripter Award. Founded by the Friends of the USC Libraries, Scripter has honored each year’s best adaptation of the printed word into film since 1988, when author Helene Hanff and screenwriter Hugh Whitemore accepted the inaugural Scripter for 84 Charing Cross Road in 1988.

CELEBRATING TWENTY-FIVE YEARS

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TRILLION$

The United States Federal Reserve arouses controversy and draws political approval and disapproval in equal measure. Our exhibition—Trillion$—held in partnership

with the Federal Reserve, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, and the UC Irvine Center for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion, examines

the first century of the central bank’s influence on public, private, and

corporate life in the United States.

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CELEBRATING THE ART OF

LASZLO IVANYI

ONE Archives at the USC Libraries, under the leadership of Joseph Hawkins, presented the first solo exhibition in the United States of Hungarian-born, French artistLaszlo Ivanyi. The exhibition presented the artist’s figural studies and abstract worksalongside English translations of his diaries that created a biographical context for viewing his work. The artist donated a collection of 10,000 items to the archive, and I was very pleased to welcome him and his partner Grégoire Bertier to the USCTrojan Legacy Circle and the Trojan Family.

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A Red-carpet entrance to the 25th-annual Scripter Awards B Color photograph of Griffith Observatory, ca. 1930s, USC Libraries Dick Whittington Collection C The 25th-annual Scripter Awards D Postcard showing orange groves framed by snow-capped peaks. Courtesy of the Orange County Archives E Historic currency on display from the fall exhibition Trillion$ F “Wonder Bucks” entry from the third-place winner Eillen Tai in the 9th-annual Wonderland Award competition G Artwork by Laszlo Ivanyi donated to the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries H Hollywood Boulevard aka “Santa Claus Lane,” ca. 1938, USC Libraries Dick Whittington Collection I Drawing of plan for LAX, shownat September Literary Luncheon “Never Built Los Angeles”