C&RL News November 2017 574

G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n sAnn-Christe Galloway

Arizona State University (ASU) has been  
awarded a $450,000 grant from the Andrew W. 
Mellon Foundation for a three-year project de-
signed to build and expand community-driven 
collections, in an effort to preserve and improve 
ASU’s archives and give voice to historically 
marginalized communities. Under the leader-
ship of ASU Library Archivist Nancy Godoy and 
coinvestigators Sujey Vega and Lorrie McAllister, 
the project—titled “Engaging, Educating, and 
Empowering: Developing Community-Driven 
Archival Collections”—will implement Archives 
and Preservation Workshops and Digitization and 
Oral History Days, as well as digitize and make 
publicly accessible existing archival collections 
from the ASU Library Chicano/a Research Collec-
tion and Greater Arizona Collection. In 2012, the 
Arizona Archives Matrix Project, a statewide initia-
tive to gather data about local archives, identified 
several historically marginalized communities in 
Arizona, including LGBT, Asian American, Afri-
can American, and the Latino community, which 
make up 30 percent of Arizona’s population but 
is represented in less than 2 percent of known 
archival collections. With the aim to address this 
inequity, the ASU project will build on Godoy’s 
previous work coestablishing the Arizona LGBT 
History Project and collaborating with ASU faculty 
members Vega and Vanessa Fonseca on an ASU 
School of Transborder Studies seed grant, which 
implemented archives and preservation work-
shops statewide and helped to assess community 
needs and interests. 

A c q u i s i t i o n s

The personal research library of historian  
Jonathon Riley-Smith has been acquired by 
Oakland University Libraries. The late Riley-

Ed. note: Send your grants and acquisitions to Ann-
Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, email: 
agalloway@ala.org.

Smith was a historian of the Crusades and 
the Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History. 
Prior to his death in September 2016, he was 
a Fellow of Emmanuel College at Cambridge 
University. Riley-Smith was also a Knight of 
Grace and Devotion of the Sovereign Mili-
tary Order of Malta and Bailiff Grand Cross 
of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital 
of St John. He is the author of more than 15 
books on the Crusades and has mentored 
more than 30 doctoral students. The collec-
tion includes more than 1,100 volumes from 
Riley-Smith’s personal library, slides of cru-
sader sites in the Middle East, lecture notes, 
and interview transcripts. While most of the 
volumes are contemporary, some important 
pre–20th-century works are included.

The records of the children’s literary maga-
zine Cricket have been donated to the Spe-
cial Collections Research Center of Southern 
Illinois University-Carbondale. In all, the 
Cricket literary magazine collection consists 
of 100 boxes of archival materials, including 
correspondence, illustrations, literary manu-
scripts, printed materials, and a complete 
set of the literary magazine itself. Cricket is 
an illustrated literary magazine for children 
published in the United States. Marianne 
Carus had worked on “literature-based ba-
sic readers” for the school markets and had 
learned from teachers that there was a class-
room demand for high-quality, short read-
ing material. Founded in September 1973 
by Carus, her intent was to create “The New 
Yorker for children.” Created on the belief 
that children naturally explore their world 
through the lens of imagination, Cricket has 
always stayed true to its guiding principal: 
the belief that imaginative young readers 
will respond enthusiastically to wonderful 
stories accompanied by world-class illustra-
tions, building a lifelong love of great lit-
erature and beautiful art that will stay with 
them throughout their lives.  

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