RICHARD
D. HACKEN
European Studies and Linguistics
Librarian
5523 Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 84602, USA
e-mail: hacken
@ byu.edu
Record of Education
B. A. (1969):
Brigham
Young University.
German, with minors in French and
International Relations)
M. A. (1971):
University of California at Davis.
(German)
Ph.D. (1975):
University of California at Davis.
(German Literature)
M.L.S. (1990): Brigham Young University.
(Emphasis on Collection Development)
Record of Employment
University of California at Davis:
1975-77, Instructor in German.
Oregon State University:
1977, Instructor in German.
University of Kansas:
1977-1979,
Visiting Assistant Professor of German.
University of Kansas:
1979-1981, Cataloger of rare economic history books in
German, Dutch, Danish and Swedish
(Title II-C federal grant); cataloger of
the German-American collection (Max Kade Foundation grant).
Brigham Young University:
1981- present, European Studies and Linguistics Librarian at the Harold B. Lee Library.
Specialized
reference and collection development in German, Dutch, French, Italian,
Scandinavian
and general Western European studies -- including language, literature,
political science, history and culture.Responsible for BYU London Centre Library,
Palace
Court.
Member, Advisory Board of Sophie:
A Digital Library of Works by German-Speaking Women.
Foreign
Language Skills
German:
near-native fluency (reading,
writing, comprehension, speaking)
Swedish, Dutch, French and Italian:
good reading ability and comprehension, some speaking
ability.
Danish, Norwegian:
good reading ability
Latin, Portuguese and Spanish:
fair reading ability.
European travel, research and residence:
1965-1967
(two years – Germany);
1982 (2
months – Germany);
1984 (2 months – West
Germany, East Germany);
1986 (6
months – Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Britain, Denmark, more);
1988
(twice, total 3 months – West Germany, East Germany, Italy);
1990 (6
weeks – Germany, Austria, Hungary, more);
1992 (6
weeks – Britain, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, more);
1995 (3
weeks – Austria);
1997 (3
weeks – Germany, Austria);
1999
(twice, total 2 months – Germany, Austria, France);
2000 (3
weeks – Austria, Italy);
2002 (3
weeks – Sweden, Norway, Denmark);
2003
(twice, total 6 weeks – Austria, Germany, Netherlands);
2004 (twice, total of 5 weeks
– France, Germany, Great Britain);
2005
(2 weeks – Italy, Vatican City, France, Monaco);
2006 (twice, total of 5 weeks
– Germany, Austria);
2008 (2 weeks – England,
Germany);
2009 (twice, total of 6 weeks
– Germany, Luxembourg, France, Austria);
2011 (twice, total of 6 weeks
– Austria, Germany, France);
2012 (3 weeks – Italy,
Croatia, Greece, Turkey);
2013 (twice, total of 4 weeks
– Spain, Morocco, Ireland);
2014 (3 weeks – France, Austria)
2015 (twice, total of 5 weeks
– Turkey, Netherlands, Austria, Hungary)
2016 (three times, total of 7 weeks - England, France, Netherlands, Germany, Italy)
Book
fairs visited multiple times:
Frankfurt, Leipzig, Paris, London.
Publications & Presentations (most
recent listed first)
German Literature:
East-West
Mediation in the Works of Galsan Tschinag
Presented September 20, 2014 at
the German Studies Association conference in Kansas City.
Deutsche Dichterhandschriften des
Poetischen Realismus: Ortsverzeichnis
[Internet files: 1995
to present]
Presented March 25, 2004 at the
European conference for Migrations in
Society, Culture, and
the Library held in Paris.
Appeared in proceedings: Migrations in Society, Culture and the
Library (Chicago: ACRL,
2005), pp. 166-172.
"Walter-Kempowski-Bibliographie" [with Bernd Hagenau]
in: Walter Kempowski zum 60. Geburtstag (Munich: Knaus, 1989):
47-110.
"Gottfried Keller's Realism:
The Socioeconomic Ground between Switzerland and Seldwyla,"
in:
In Search of the Poetic Real. Festschrift for Clifford A.
Bernd,
ed. John F. Fetzer, Roland Hoermann
and Winder McConnell (Stuttgart: Heinz, 1989):
151-68.
The Religious Thought of Martin Opitz.[Revised form of 1975
dissertation].
Stuttgart:
Heinz, 1976.(Stuttgarter
Arbeiten zur Germanistik, 18)
Theodor Storm-Paul Heyse Briefwechsel, ed. Clifford A. Bernd, 3
vols.(Indexing)
Berlin:
Schmidt, 1969-1974.
Numerous book reviews on German Baroque Literature and
German Poetic Realism
in Monatshefte (1979 – 1992).
Numerous book reviews on German language pedagogy in Unterrichtspraxis (1976 – 1984).
Translations:
The Poetry of Galsan Tschinag (a Tuvan-Mongolian
shaman who publishes in German)
[Internet
files: 2005 to present]
Poetry selections of Theodor Storm (from German) and Hans Christian Andersen (from Danish)
in Clifford A. Bernd,Theodor Storm: The Dano-German
Poet and Writer
(Oxford:
P. Lang, 2003).
Into the Sunset: Anthology of
Nineteenth-Century Austrian Prose
Riverside,
Calif.: Ariadne Press, 1999.
Translations
from German of 14 novellas with a general introduction and author-specific
prefaces.
Eulogy for Hans Christian Ostro [from Norwegian];
in Ann Hagedorn Auerbach, Ransom: The Untold Story of International
Kidnapping
(New York: H. Holt, 1998): 110-112.
Selections of Klaus Groth's and Theodor Storm's poetry
[from German];
in Clifford A. Bernd, German Poetic Realism (Boston: Twayne, 1981).
O.M. Brouwer-van
Velthoven's "Luigi Malerba
en de nieuwe Roman in Italië,"
Levende Talen 308
(1974): 390-95 [from Dutch];
in Criticism in Translation I/1 (1976): 39-45.Includes a preface on the nouveau
roman.
Clemens Brentano's poetry [from
German];
in John F. Fetzer, Romantic
Orpheus:Profiles of Clemens Brentano
(Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1974).
European and International History:
EuroDocs: Online
Sources for European History
[Internet
files: 1996 to present]
World
War I Primary Document Archive
[Internet files; with
WWI-L listserve: 1996 to present]
Letters of Philip II, King of Spain
[Internet files; facsimiles and transcriptions
from BYU Special Collections: 1996 to present]
Wien
Geschichte Wiki: Vienna's New Semantically Linked Local History Portal,
WESS
Newsletter,
vol. 38, no. 1 (Fall 2014).
One Man, 100,000 Items: The Jackie Clarke Collection of Irish History,
WESS
Newsletter,
vol. 37, no. 1 (Fall 2013).
"Online Primary Documentation of
Contemporary History: Trends, Changes and Consequences in
the New Millennium" in: Frédéric Clavert and Serge Noiret, ed., L'histoire contemporaine à
l'ère
numérique. Contemporary History in the Digital Age (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2013),
pp. 307-315.
"German Views of Amazonia through
the Centuries" in: Pamela M. Graham, ed., Migrations
and
Connections:
Latin America and Europe in the Modern World (New Orleans, SALALM,
2012), pp. 175-184.(Proceedings of
presentation below).
Book review of Menorah,
Jüdisches Familienblatt für Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur (1923-
1932) in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of
Jewish Studies, 28, no. 4 (2010): 188-189.
"German Views of Amazonia through the
Centuries"
presented at the annual conference of
theSeminar for the Acquisition of Latin
American
Library Materials (SALALM),
Berlin, Germany, July 6, 2009.
"Online Primary Documentation of Contemporary History:
Trends, Changes and Consequences in
the New Millennium"
Paper delivered at the
conference, "Contemporary History in the Digital Age,"
Luxembourg City, October 16, 2009.
"Into the Imagined Forest: A 2000-Year
Retrospective of the German Woods"
presented at the BYU House of Learning
Lecture, Provo, Utah, November 20, 2008.
"The Boat is Full: Swiss Asylum Denied," film review in Swiss-American Historical Society Review
44, no. 3 (November, 2008):
26-29.
"Online
Narratives of Famous Americans Traveling in Italy"
presented at the Italian Center of the
West, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 18, 2008.
"The Current State
of Primary Historical Sources Online," BYU
Studies 47, no. 1 (2008): 148-52.
Central
European Economic History from Waterloo to OPEC, 1815-1975.
A Bibliography.
New
York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
(Bibliographies
and Indexes in Economics and Economic History, 6)
"Scandinavian Social
Economics Since 1930:A Bibliographic
Note,"
Review
of Social Economy 44, no. 2 (l986): 159-77.
"Scandinavian Social
Economics, 1850-1930:A Bibliographic
Note,"
Review
of Social Economy 41, no. 2 (l983): 137-51.
Book
review on Swiss-American history in Society for German-American Studies
Newsletter 5,
no. 4
(1984): 31.
Librarianship and Library History:
Big Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Libraries.
presented at the International
Conference on Computing in Engineering and the Sciences,
Istanbul,
Turkey, July 30, 2015.
"The Obsessional Information Professional: Four Decades of Versifying Libraries and Librarians"
published in ScholarsArchive, the BYU Institutional Repository
Provo,
Utah, May 5, 2015.
"Semantic
Ontologies for Multimedia Indexing (SOMI): Application in the e-Library Domain"
Library
Hi Tech 32, 2
(April 2014): 206-218.
Co-authored with Issam Bendib, University of Badji Mokhtar, Algeria;
Mohamed Ridda Laouar, University of Tébessa, Algeria, and Mat Miles, BYU-Idaho.
"A Social History of Technology in Libraries,"
presented at the International
Conference on Information Systems and Technologies,
Tangier,
Morocco, March 22, 2013.
"The Role
of Web Services in Portal Design: Approaches for an Algerian University Library"
Library
Hi Tech 27, 3
(November 2009): 460-479.
Co-authored with Ridda
LAOUAR, Univeristy
of Tébessa, Algeria, and Mat Miles, BYU-
Idaho.
"Designing an Academic Web Portal" presented by Ridda
LAOUAR (with myself as co-author
in absentia)
at Second International Conference on Web and Information Technologies,
Sfax, Tunisia,
June 14, 2009
Wozu
Outreach in dürftiger Zeit?
Fallstudie an einer UB in
den westlichen USA
presented at the Berliner Bibliothekswissenschaftliches Kolloquium,
Humboldt University,
June 30, 2009.
"Digital
Germany: Virtual Archives, Powerful Portals, Wise Wikis,"
Global
Resources Newsletter,
no. 8 (Winter 2006-2007), pp. 12-13. [Internet File]
"Körperlich
gesunde Tage." BuB: Forum Bibliothek und Information 58,
no. 7/8 (July 2006): 540.
A
German-language report of the 2006 German librarians' convention in Dresden.
"The WESS East German Study
Tour: A Report"
WESS Newsletter, Fall 2006 [Internet
File]
"Online Guides und andere Hilfsmittel zur Informationskompetenz" presented at Seminar on
Teaching Information Skills, Amerika-Haus, Berlin, Germany, March 14, 2006.
"Recognizing,
Digitizing, Advertising: GNARP Efforts with Unique German Studies Materials,"
Global
Resources Newsletter,
no. 6 (Winter 2005-2006), pp. 7-8. [Internet File]
"Types of Digital Library
Cooperation in German Studies"
Paper
delivered at the Toronto ACRL/WESS program, June 23, 2003.
"The Jewish
Community Library in Vienna: From Dispersion and Destruction to Partial
Restoration."
Leo Baeck
Institute Year Book 47 (2002): 151-172.
"The Current State of European Studies in North America and of Scholarly
Publishing in
Western
Europe," The Journal of Academic
Librarianship XXIV/3 (May 1998): 201-207.
The
above article was first presented as a keynote address at the pre-conference of
WESS
(Western European Studies
Section) of ACRL (Association of College and Research
Libraries) of the American
Library Association (ALA) in 1997:
"The Current State of
European Studies in North America and of Scholarly Publishing in
Western Europe."
"Finding Your Proper Niche
in the Bibliotheca Academiae: Or, The Study of
Elephant Hunting
Behavior," Collection Management
XVII/3 (1993): 25-27.
"The RLG Conoco Study and Its
Aftermath: Is Resource Sharing in Limbo?"
The Journal of Academic
Librarianship XVIII/1 (1992): 17-23.
"The Germanic Studies
Collection at Brigham Young University,"
in: Western
European Studies: Current Research Trends and Library
Resources,
ed. E. Sartori et al.Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 1990.
(WESS Occasional Publication, 3):
103-109.
"Tomorrow's Research Library:
Vigor or Rigor Mortis?"
College
and Research Libraries XLIX/6 (1988): 485-493.
"Statistical Assumption-Making in
Library Collection Assessment: Peccadilloes and Pitfalls,"
VII/2 (1985): 17-32.
"Current Trends in the
Planning and Development of Northern European Collections,"
Collection
Management V/3-4 (1983): 69-87.
"Madrid
to Malmö, Thames to Tiber, and Seine to Spree:Being the Letters of Two West European
Studies Bibliographers"
[with Eva Kronik, Cornell],Western
European Specialists Section
Newsletter VI/2 (1983): 6-12.
Book reviews on librarianship in Collection
Management XVI/4 (1992): 99-104 and in
Serials
Librarian XXXII 3/4 (1997): 186-88.
Grants and Honors
March 2006: WESS Study
Tour: "Leipzig, Dresden, Weimar: Exploring a Library Landscape"
[See
interactive online
report].
October
2003: Nedbook Northwest Europe Award for attendance
at Frankfurt Bookfair.
October 1999: Martinus
Nijhoff International West European Specialists Study
Grant
[to Vienna for research into the fate of the Jewish libraries
of Vienna following the Anschluss
of 1938, resulting in the article listed above, published in the
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
2002].
June 1993: Named a Fellow of the Molesworth Institute for Library Humor.
August 1988:National Endowment for the Humanities
"Travel to Collections"
[to the Niedersächsische
Landesbibliothek in Hannover, resulting in the
bibliography on the
contemporary German writer Walter Kempowski
listed above].
October 1984:National Endowment for the Humanities
"Travel to Collections"
[to the University of Kansas Howey
Economic History Collection, resulting in the two
bibliographic articles on
Scandinavian social economics listed above].
June-July 1984:Fulbright Commission "Landeskunde Seminar"
in Bonn and Berlin.
October-November 1982:[research
at the Library of the Weltwirtschaftsinstitut at
the University of Kiel, West
Germany, leading to the bibliography on Central European economic history
listed above].