RICHARD D. HACKEN
European Studies Bibliographer
5523 Harold B. Lee Library
e-mail: hacken @ byu.edu
Record of Education
B. A. (1969):
(German, with minors in French and International Relations)
M. A. (1971):
(German)
Ph.D. (1975):
(German Literature)
M.L.S. (1990):
(Emphasis on Collection Development)
Record of Employment
1975-77, Instructor in German.
1977, Instructor in German.
1977-1979, Visiting Assistant Professor of German.
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).
1981-present, Western European Studies Bibliographer 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. Responsibility for BYU London Centre Library, Palace Court.
Current coordinator of the Collection Development Working Group, CRL German-North American Resources Partnership.
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 – Germany)
1986 (6 months – Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Britain, Denmark, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, more);
1988 (twice, total 3 months – FRG, DDR, Italy)
1990 (6 weeks – Germany, Austria, Hungary, more)
1992 (6 weeks – Germany, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, England, 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 –
2004 (twice, total of 5 weeks – France, Germany, Great Britain)
2005 (2 weeks – Italy, Vatican City, France, Monaco)
2006
(twice, total of 5 weeks –
2008 (2 weeks –
England, Germany)
2009 (twice, total of 6 weeks - Germany, France, Luxembourg, Monaco, Austria)
Book fairs visited multiple times:
Frankfurt,
Leipzig, London.
Publications & Presentations
(the most recent are listed first)
German Literature:
“Images of Migration and Change in the German-Language Poetry of Galsan Tschinag.”
Presented
Appeared in proceedings: Migrations in
Society, Culture and the Library (Chicago: ACRL, 2005), pp. 166-172.
Deutsche
Dichterhandschriften des Poetischen Realismus: Ortsverzeichnis
[Internet
files: 1995-2008]
"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
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.
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: 2005-2008]
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
(
Into the Sunset: Anthology
of Nineteenth-Century Austrian Prose
Translations [fromGerman] of 14
novellas,
also with a general introduction and author-specificprefaces.
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.
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.
European
History:
EuroDocs: Online
Sources for European History
[Internet files: 1996-2008]
World
War I Primary Document Archive
[Internet files; with WWI-L listserve: 1996-2008]
Letters of Philip II, King of Spain
[Internet files; facsimiles and transcriptions from BYU Special Collections: 1996-2008]
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 XLIV/2 (l986): 159-77.
"Scandinavian Social Economics,
1850-1930: A Bibliographic Note,”
Review
of Social Economy XLI/2 (l983): 137-51.
Book review on
Swiss-American history in Society
for German-American Studies Newsletter V/4 (1984): 31.
Librarianship and Library
History:
with Mohamed Ridda LAOUAR and Mathew Miles:
" The Role of Web Services in Portal Design: Approaches for an Algerian University Library,"
Library Hi Tech, 27, No. 3 (November 2009): 460-479.
"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]
"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
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
in: Western European Studies: Current Research Trends and Library Resources,
ed. E. Sartori et
al.
(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,”
Collection Management VII/2 (1985): 17-32.
"Current Trends in the Planning and
Development of Northern European Collections,"
Collection Management V/3-4 (1983): 69-87.
"
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
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
contemporary German writer Walter Kempowski
listed above].
October 1984: National Endowment for the Humanities
"Travel to Collections"
[to the
articles on Scandinavian social economics listed above].
June-July 1984: Fulbright Commission "Landeskunde Seminar" in
October-November 1982: German Academic Exchange Service "Study
Visit"
[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].