Kathryn Hammond Baker presented “Closing the Circle: Community-Building at the Center for the History of Medicine” at Future Proof IV, a conference sponsored by the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences and Cooperation on Archives of Science in Europe, in Stockholm, Sweden, on April 24. She recently completed her ninth year teaching “Managing Records in Electronic Environments” at the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

Joseph Garver, reference librarian in the Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, recently gave a lecture on the cartographical history of Rhode Island to the Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport, and met with the Redwood’s Cartography Cartel to discuss the Harvard Map Collection’s digitization efforts.

Jay Hurd, preservation review librarian in HCL’s Preservation and Imaging Services, attended the 20th Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, where he gave a presentation entitled “An Introduction to the History of Baseball Literature for Children and Young Adults, Late 19th–Early 20th Centuries.”

Raymond Lum, librarian for the Western Languages Collection in the Harvard–Yenching Library and Asian bibliographer in Widener Library, HCL, was invited to submit an article on Hedda Morrison’s photographs of Beijing for the June issue of Orientations: The Magazine for Collectors and Connoisseurs of Asian Art, which is being prepared to coincide with the Beijing Olympics. Lum’s article, “Beijing 1933–46: The Photographs of Hedda Morrison,” is illustrated with a number of Morrison’s photographs, all drawn from Harvard’s VIA catalog.

A synopsis of the article is available on the Orientations web site.

Morrison’s China photos, which she bequeathed to the Harvard–Yenching Library, and additional information about the photographer and the collection are available at http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/harvard-yenching/collections/morrison.

Ann Robinson, science reference and interlibrary loan librarian in HCL’s Cabot Science Library, gave a talk in May at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) in Philadelphia entitled “The Transfermium Wars: Chemistry, Physics, and the Politics of Naming.” The talk was an overview of the thesis she wrote for the master of liberal arts at the Harvard Extension School. Robinson also received a travel grant from CHF to do further research in the archives of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, which are a part of CHF’s collections.

Lynn Shirey, librarian for Latin America, Spain, and Portugal in Widener Library, made an acquisitions trip to Manaus, Belém, and Fortaleza in northern and northeastern Brazil this past April. In addition to purchasing materials for the libraries, she met with publishers, book distributors, and library colleagues. She also visited the São Paulo office of Harvard’s Brazil Studies Program, which sponsored her trip. Shirey and a colleague from Michigan State University were featured in the Manaus daily A Critica, as “Miners of Amazonian Books.”

Jeffrey Spurr, Islamic and Middle East specialist in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Fine Arts Library, HCL, participated in a symposium, Homeward Bound: Returning Displaced Books and Archives, held at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City on April 6. He presented a paper entitled “Contested Patrimony: The Fate of the Iraqi Jewish Archive.”