Recently in CCDL Category

Are you a Claremont Colleges undergrad? If so, you are invited to submit academic writing that you have produced while a student at The Claremont Colleges for publication in a new online journal in scholarship@Claremont, which will feature outstanding undergraduate academic works from the 5Cs. The first issue of this journal will be published in Spring or Fall of 2012.

Submissions should be received by Friday, March 23, 2012.

This new journal seeks to publish outstanding academic writing from across the disciplines. What is academic writing? It's the kind of writing you generally do for classes--for example, research papers, project reports, historical analyses, psychological studies, political arguments, close readings or explications of another piece of writing.

All submissions will have identifying information removed and will then be reviewed by a Board of Reviewers and an Editorial Board, both comprised of students, faculty, and librarians from across The Claremont Colleges.

To submit your academic writing to this new journal:

Email two copies to Gale Burrow (gale_burrow@cuc.claremont.edu).
Copy 1: pdf format
Copy 2: MS Word format from which you have removed any information that would identify you (name, college, etc.). You can simply replace that information with a string of xxxxx. (This is the copy that will be reviewed, and reviewers should not know whose work they are reading.)

With your submission, please provide the following information as a separate document:
Required
--Name:
--College:
--Graduation Year:
--Preferred email address:

Optional but strongly encouraged
--If the work was done for a course, the name of the course, semester and year you took the course, and name of the professor.
--Statement from a professor commenting on the quality of the writing and on the contribution of the work to the discipline. (This may be submitted later and will be very strongly encouraged for all submissions that are selected for publication.)

Submissions should be received by Friday, March 23, 2012.

Note for seniors: Senior theses will not be published in this new journal. Instead seniors are encouraged to ask their faculty advisers to submit their theses to the Theses & Dissertations collection in scholarship@Claremont. If you are a student at CMC or in the 5Cs Environmental Analysis major, you may submit your thesis yourself. Otherwise you may ask your advisor/reader to submit your thesis for you. For more information, contact Allegra Gonzalez, Digital Initiatives Librarian (allegra_gonzalez@cuc.claremont.edu).

The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (JHM) is a recent collaboration in publishing between the Library and faculty editors Gizem Karaali at Pomona College and Mark Huber at Claremont McKenna College. JHM is a peer-reviewed, online, and open access journal with an editorial board comprised of faculty across The Claremont Colleges, North America, and Europe.

Scholarship@Claremont (S@C) collects, maintains, preserves, records, and provides access to the intellectual capital and output of The Claremont Colleges (TCC), reflects TCC's excellence, and shares that work with others. S@C was established to provide fair and equitable access to information; help create a deeper understanding of the value of higher education in the community; promote increasingly rapid advancements in science, medicine, technology, art, and the humanities; and ensure the survival of intellectual assets for future generations.

FMI: Allegra Gonzalez, Digital Initiatives Librarian

Special Collections of The Libraries of the Claremont Colleges are pleased to announce that the first series of the Dr. Walter Lindley Scrapbooks is available online in the Claremont Colleges Digital Library, CCDL.

The Lindley Scrapbooks were assembled by Dr. Walter Lindley (1852–1922), early resident of Los Angeles and prominent physician, and are a part of the Francis Haynes Lindley Memorial Collection housed in Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library for The Claremont Colleges. The Lindley Scrapbooks consist of 33 scrapbooks covering the period 1861 to 1921 and document through clippings, correspondence, and ephemeral materials, Dr. Lindley’s professional and civic achievements. The first series to be made available through the CCDL covers his candidacy for mayor of Los Angeles. Among the other series to be digitized are the formation of the California Hospital, the development of the Whittier State School for Boys, the Los Angeles Public Library board, and the founding of a tuberculosis sanitarium in Idyllwild.

Digitization of this collection is made possible by a grant from The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.

The Lindley Scrapbooks also are available for study in person in Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library during our Reading Room hours and by appointment.

FMI: Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library (909) 607-3977

The Ella Strong Denison Library and Honnold/Mudd Special Collections are pleased to announce a new collection in the Claremont Colleges Digital Library: the N.A. Chandler Gold Rush Era Letters.

The N. A. Chandler Gold Rush Era Letters collection consists of fifty-six handwritten letters from 1855 to 1872. Newton Amos Chandler (1818?-1880) wrote these letters from San Francisco and California mining camps, and Nevada silver and gold rush locations. These letters offer insights on life in San Francisco, Virginia City, Civil War opinions in California and Nevada, and the opportunities and discouragements of a prospector. In addition, Chandler’s letters provide some information on the settling of Nevada, Native American interactions, and the mining history of Northern California and Nevada.

A gift from John I. Perkins to the Ella Strong Denison Library at Scripps College in 1942, the Chandler letters were purchased by Perkins from a rare manuscripts dealer in Los Angeles in 1932. Previous to that, these letters may have been owned by N.A. Chandler’s surviving daughter, who died in 1948.

For a school project, Jacob High (CGU) was charged with reading any primary source gold rush letters and was referred to a collection of “California Pioneer Letters” at Denison Library that were written by a Northern California prospector to his wife. Jacob immediately recognized one of the letters written on a picture sheet featuring “The Miners’ Lamentations” as a picture sheet that was recently reproduced in Susan Lee Johnson's well respected Gold Rush book “Roaring Camp,” though the source of her picture was the Huntington Archives. Of more interest to Jacob were small references to events in early Nevada Territory and statehood, including the Paiute Indian War of 1860. This battle was described by Hubert Howe Bancroft in his history of Nevada and was widely considered the most important engagement with American Indians in the history of Nevada. After reading these letters, Jacob recommended that these letters be digitized; volunteering to create an item-level finding aid for the Online Archive of California and to create the descriptive metadata for a CCDL collection. To further his research into these letters, Jacob made a trip to Eureka, Nevada where Chandler wrote the last two letters in this collection and visited several courthouses stretching from San Francisco to North Eastern Nevada to find mining claims and legal deeds or other references to Chandler and the contents of the letters. The information he obtained will be compiled and, with this new online digitized collection, form part of his graduate portfolio and aid in the writing of his Master’s thesis.

We would like to thank Jacob High for providing all of the descriptive metadata and Alannah Haddad for digitization of the letters. We would also like to thank Special Collections at the University of Nevada-Reno Library and The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley for allowing a digital copy of an original N.A. Chandler letter from each of their collections to appear as part of this collection.