ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 600 / C &RL News News from the Field Internship, fellowship, and grant deadlines approaching The U. S. Department o f Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement Library Programs invites applications for the Strengthening Research Library Resources Program. This award provides financial assistance to major research li­ braries to maintain and strengthen their collections and to make their holdings available to other librar­ ies whose users have need for research materials. D eadline: O ctob er 28, 1991. C ontact: Louise Sutherland or Linda Loeb, Library Development Staff, Library Programs, U.S. Department o f Edu­ cation, 555 New Jersey Ave., N.W., Room 404, Washington, D C 20208-5571; (202) 219-1315. The U.S. Department o f Education, O E R I-L i - brary Programs invites applications for its College Libraiy Technology and Cooperative Grants Pro­ gram. These grants are to encourage resource- sharing projects among academic libraries through the use o f technology and networking to improve the library and information services provided to them by public and nonprofit private organizations and to conduct research or demonstration projects to meet special needs in using technology to en­ hance library and information sciences. Deadline: January 17, 1992. Contact: Neal Kaske, Library Programs, U.S. Dept, o f Education, 555 New Je r­ sey Avenue, N.W., Room 404, Washington, DC 20208-5571; (202) 2 19-Í315. The Council on Library Resources (C LR) invites applications for its Academic Library Man­ agement Program. Up to three librarians will be selected to spend nine months working with direc­ tors and administrative staff at research libraries. Each intern will be awarded a stipend up to $35,000 equal to basic salary and benefits for the nine- month period. Deadline: October 31, 1991. Con­ tact: C LR, 1785 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Suite 313, Washington, D C 20036; (202) 483-7474. T he R einecke R are Rooks and Manuscript Library at Yale University invites applications for its 1 9 9 2 -9 3 Fellowship Program. The seven named fellowships are to support visiting scholars pursuing post-doctoral or equivalent research in its collec­ tions. The fellowships, which support travel to and from New Haven and pay a living allowance of $1,500 per month, are designed to provide access to the library for scholars who reside outside the greater New Haven area. Deadline: January 15, 1992. Contact: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, P.O. Box 1603A Yale Station, New Haven, C T 06520-1603; (203) 432-2977. The R ockefeller Archive C enter, a division o f Rockefeller University, invites applications for its Travel and Research Grants. The competitive pro­ gram makes grants o f up to $1,500 to researchers in any discipline who are engaged in research that requires the use o f collections at the Center, which include records o f the Rockefeller family, the Rocke­ feller Foundation, Rockefeller University, and other philanthropic organizations. Deadline: D ecem ber 3 1 ,1 9 9 1 . Contact: Darwin H. Stapleton, Director, Rockefeller Archive Center, 15 Dayton Ave., North Taπytown, NY 10591-1598; (914) 631-4505. ANSI approves Serial Item and Contribution Identifier T h e American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved the Serial Item and Contribution Identifier (S IC I), a bar code symbol that includes title, volume, and issue data. The new bar code is designed to facilitate serials check-in and to reduce claims for missing issues. Several major publishers including Kluwer Academic Publishers, B. H. Blackwell Periodicals Division, Elsevier Scientific Publishing, Pergamon Press, and John Wiley & Sons have agreed to print the bar code symbol on all o f their journals within six months o f approval o f the standard, ANSI/NISO Z39.56-1991. “Swedes in America” symposium held Swedish-American Bibliography was the subject o f a workshop in connection with “Swedes in America,” a symposium held at the Swedish Em i­ grant Institute in Vaxjo, Sweden, May 3 1 -Ju n e 3, 1991. Representatives from Swedish and American libraries and archives discussed methods for re- cording titles o f books printed in Swedish in America from the mid-19th century to the 1930s. The first phase o f this project was completed with the regis­ tration o f Swedish-American imprints in the Tell G. Dahllof collection o f Swedish Americana at the October 1991 / 601 Photo credit: Bob Rubic Docum ents o f D issent a re on view at the New York Public L ib rary until F ebruary 15,1992. Shown h ere a re a C hinese n ew spaper an d handbill, a Polish Solidarity party bulletin, a n d an East G erm an exhibition p o ster show ­ ing bann ers an d placards u sed in dem onstra­ tions leading to the f a l l o f the Berlin Wall. University o f Minnesota (published by the Royal Library in Sweden in 1988). T h e plan calls for expanding the database, located in the Swedish L IB R IS system, with Swedish-American imprints from other Swedish and American libraries. Con­ tact Mariann Tiblin, Scandinavian Bibliographer, 5 Wilson Library, 3 0 9 19th Avenue South, M inne­ apolis, M N 5 5 455, for more information. Ohio University designated Swaziland depository T h e Swaziland M inister o f Education, C h ie f Sipho Shongwe, signed a formal agreem ent making Ohio University Libraries (O U L) the United States depository for publications from Swaziland. T h e Republic o f Botswana and Malaysia have also des­ ignated O U L as their depositories in the U.S. Harvard Law School honors Archibald Cox “T hat Justice B e D one: Archibald Cox’s L ife in the Law” is the title o f an exhibition staged by the Harvard Law School L ib ra ry to honor Archibald Cox on the 45th anniversary o f his appointment as professor at the Harvard Law School. Two o f the 15 exhibit cases examining Cox’s life are devoted exclu­ sively to Cox’s m onths as director o f the W atergate Special Prosecution F o r c e in 1973. Acquisitions • E a ste rn W ashington University acquired the personal collection o f W endal S. Jon es, profes­ sor o f music at E W U and a nationally known com ­ p oser and conductor. Jon es’s collection includes scores, sheet music, and books. Jon es’s donation includes a cash gift to fund a com puter workstation and music database. • New York State L ib ra ry has acquired the papers o f Judge Jam es T . Foley, form er C h ie f Judge o f the U.S. D istrict Court for the Northern District o f New York, and o f Edward W . “Ned” Pattison, congressman from the 29th district o f New York. Foley served 41 years on the federal bench, presid­ ing over hundreds o f civil and criminal cases. Pattison was chiefly responsible for the comprehensive re­ form that created the m odem Federal Copyright Law passed in 1976. • T h e O h io S ta te U n iv e rsity C artoon, Graphic, and Photographic Arts Research Library has received 1,386 original editorial cartoons from Ray Osrin. T h e drawings w ere published in the C leveland Plain D ealer from 1964 to 1991. This donation adds to the 1,682 cartoons Osrin donated in 1981. • R ad cliffe C olleg e’s Schlesinger Library on the History o f W om en has opened the papers o f Crystal Eastm an (1 8 8 1 -1 9 2 8 ), a social investigator, p eace worker, and feminist. Eastm an’s study o f industrial accidents did much to advance the move­ ment for workmen’s compensation laws. • T h e U niversity o f M iami has acquired the following collections: the Carson M cCullers C ol­ lectio n (th e research m aterials and papers o f McCullers biographer, Virginia Sp encer Carr); the Amos B . E ato n Papers (a diary written by Eaton during his service in the U .S. Army including the Seminole Indian W ar); and a letter from Zachary Taylor to G eneral T . S. Jessup (April 27, 1838). • T h e Unisys Corporation has donated to the C h arles B a b b a g e In stitu te at the University o f M innesota records relating to the Burroughs C or­ poration. Over 5 0 0 cubic feet o f materials covering over 100 years o f the company’s history from 1883 to its merger with the Sperry Corpora-tion.Beginning in 1886 as a firm for practical adding machines, the Burroughs Company had becom e by the 1980s a m ajor supplier o f com puter mainframe equipment and systems. • T h e University o f N orth C arolin a at G reen sb o ro ’s Special Collections Division has added several hundred new titles to its Robbie Em ily Dunn C ollection o f American W om en’s D etective Fiction. T h e collection includes Seeley Regester’s The D ead L etter (1867), the oldest known work o f American detective fiction written by a woman, and continues through the present. 602 / C &RL News • T he University o f Southern California Cinema-Television Library has acquired the papers and scripts o f radio and TV writer/producer David Victor, who died in 1989. Victor created some o f the most popular shows o f the 1960s and 1970s includ­ ing “The R ebel,” “Dr. Kildare,” “T he Man from U .N .C .L .E .,” “Lucas Tanner,” “Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law,” and “Marcus Welby, M .D .” • Virginia T ech ’s Archives o f American Aero­ space Exploration has received the personal papers o f Robert Gilruth, the first director o f the NASA Manned Spacecraft C enter in Houston, and six other aeronautical and aerospace leaders, design­ ers, and pioneers. Among the papers o f Gilruth, known as the father o f the manned space program in the U.S., are a diary kept during the period that included the successful test flight o f Mercury-Atlas 2 on F ebruary 2 ,1 9 6 1 , and a copy o f an unpublished personal memoir, “From Wallops Island to Project Mercury, 1 9 4 5 -5 8 .” Grants & Gifts • A $269,330 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. will be used by Auburn Theological Semi­ nary to establish the Auburn Center for the Study o f Theological Education. The Center will focus on themes such as the financing o f theological educa­ tion, the culture and ethos o f theological schools, and teaching. • T he C en ter for R esearch L ibraries was awarded a $68,860 grant by the National Endow­ ment for the Humanities on behalf o f the South Asian Microform Project (SAMP) to improve ac­ cess to 2,00019th-century South Asian publications in Hindi now in the British Library’s India Office Library. The project includes microfilming the volumes for preservation and wider dissemination to scholars and the creation o f machine-readable bibliographic records. • C en tral College, Pella, Iowa, was awarded $100,000 by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to help fund an integrated library automation sys­ tem. The library has mounted Innovative Interfaces software on a D ECsystem 5000. The College also received a $69,000 equipment grant from the Digi­ tal Equipment Corporation toward the project. • Colgate University has received $77,500 from the Charles E . Culpepper Foundation to renovate and expand its book conservation labora­ tory. The library will purchase equipment that will allow the conservation staff to expand their activi­ ties to deacidification o f brittle paper and restora- tio n o fsom eo fth e library’s collections o f rare books and manuscripts. • Colum bia University’s Academic Infor­ mation Systems group has received a $330,000 grant from Cabletron Systems of Rochester, New Hampshire, to expand Columbia’s networking ca­ pabilities and enhance its ability to manage existing networks. Columbia’s data communication net­ work connects desktop computers to local, campus- wide, and international information sources. • The C raft and Folk Art Museum Library in Los Angeles received renewed funding in the form of a two-year grant o f $100,000 from the James Irvine Foundation for the continuing development o f the C enter for the Study o f Art and Culture (CSAC). The C enter’s programming will be devel­ oped around current issues relating to the exhibi­ tion and interpretation o f cultural materials. • Southern M ethodist University has re­ ceived a $1.5 million gift from the Fondren Foun­ dation o f Houston to renovate Fondren Library, the University’s central library, which was constructed 50 years ago with funds provided by W alter William Fondren Sr. and his wife, E lla Florence Fondren. W. W. Fondren was one o f the founders o f the Humble Oil Company, which later became Exxon. • The Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research at the University o f California, R iver­ side, recently received three grants. Two awards will fund components o f the English Short Title Catalog, a machine-readable bibliography and union catalog o f the output o f the English press to 1801. One o f these is for $170,000 in matching funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and will support record creation for the period 1475-1701. The second award is for $85,331 from the Department o f Education’s Title II-C Strength­ ening Library Resources Program and will fund the first year o f creation o f 22,255 machine-readable AACR2 records for the microfilm set The Thomason Tracts. • The C enter also received $1,402,323 from N EH to fund the first three years o f the California Newspaper Project, a part o f the U.S. Newspaper Program to locate, catalog, and preserve on micro­ film all o f the newspapers published in this country since 1690. The California project is expected to take nine to fifteen years to complete, and one o f its products will be the creation and maintenance o f a union list o f newspapers for California repositories. The bibliographic records will be created and made available in O CLC. • The University o f California, Santa B a r­ bara, has been awarded $127,800 by the National Endowment for the Humanities for the writings of Heniy D. Thoreau. The project will produce new editions o f Thoreau’s works including his journal and correspondence. • An endowment o f over $750,000 has been established at the University o f Illinois Archives to study student life and culture. T he new Steward October 1991 / 603 S. Howe Archival Endowment Fund was created with a $300,000 challenge grant from the Stewart S. Howe Foundation, plus $100,000 in matching funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It was the donation o f Stewart Howe’s collection of fraternity- and sorority-related materials to the archives in 1973 that created what is now the country’s largest collection o f material on student life. • T he students o f the class o f 1991 at the University o f Maryland at College Park estab­ lished an endowed book fund for the Hombake Library to provide literature with multicultural themes, authors, or subjects. T he students hope to raise $10,000 and double the endowment to $20,000 through challenges and matching gifts. Libraries’ director Joanne Harrar hailed the gift as “particu­ larly significant because students today are seeking to deepen their understanding o f the world through cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary studies. Unfortu­ nately, because o f budget limitations, it is impos­ sible for the University Libraries to purchase all of the multi-cultural materials being requested by students for their research.” • The University o f W isconsin-Eau Claire has received a Title I I I grant o f $1,650,000 from the U.S. Department o f Education to enhance the campus computer network, video instruction, tele­ conferencing, and program reception. T he grant will assist a recently funded $9 million expansion and renovation o f McIntyre Library which will be housed with Computer and Network Services in a newly formed “Information and Technology R e ­ sources Center” to be completed in 1994. • T he Sterling Chemistry Library at Yale Uni­ versity has received a $500,000 gift from Robert Maxwell, president o f Maxwell Communications and new owner o f the New York Daily News. The gift, in honor o f retiring chemistry professor Harry H. Wasserman, will fund new electronic services and systems that will provide access to chemical information. ■ ■ Correction The Proyecto CARIDAD archival project directed by Salvador Güereña reported in the June issue is underway at the University of California, Santa Barbara— not at the Univer­ sity of California, San Diego. C&RL News re­ grets the error. Full-text databases for the humanities scholar The Patrologia Latina Database a complete, machine-readable edition of J. P. Migne’s Patrologia Latina from the Patrologiae Cursus Completus. The English Poetry Full-Text Database an electronic version of the complete works of 1,350 poets from the Anglo-Saxon era (6 0 0 AD) to the end of the 19th century. Both databases are SGML-encoded in accord with emerging Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standards and published with a liberal networking structure. For more information, contact Melissa Henderson at 8 0 0 -7 5 2 -0 5 1 5 , or write to Chadwyck-Healey Inc., 1101 King Street, Suite 38 0 , Alexandria, Virginia 22314.