Inside & Outside the Yale Library: 7-10 April 2008

My coordinator, Graziano Kratli continues to enrich the programme. Whenever something interesting arises, he finds a way of bringing it in. He leaves no stone unturned and by the end of the programme I will have gone through virtually all functions and services!

In between very fruitful meetings this week, as part of a small research project set up by Alan Solomon, Head of Research Services & Collections, I have been going through Resources for College Libraries and searching titles on the Orbis circulation system to identify high use materials. It is a bigger undertaking and I can already see I won't go that far in the limited time available. But its been nice just getting the time to appreciate and maybe do a little assessment of Resources for College Libraries as well as getting a feel of Orbis.

Today, 10 April 2008 has been a day to see Yale outside the library. At the invitation of Danuta Nitecki, Associate University Librarian, I attended a get together of the Trumbull College Fellows ---excellent company. After the cocktails and the dinner, there was a presentation, "Newly Discovered Primates: Implications for Primate Origins and Conservation" by Eric Sargis, Associate Professor of Anthropology and a curator of mammals at the Peabody Museum of Natural History. It was such an incisive presentation of the discovery of a new monkey in Tanzania. Of particular interest, the data sets from this research are safely kept and accessible. What good news?