ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries November 1984 / 555 ★ ★ ★ News from the Field Acquisitions • C o rp u s C h risti S tate U niversity L ib ra ry , Texas, has acquired the D an E. Kilgore South Texas Collection. It contains approximately 7,500 m onographs and 2,500 docum ents an d m a n u ­ scripts dealing w ith Texas as a p art of Mexico, as a republic, and as a state. The tim e span is from the early 18th century to the present. • The Hoover Institution’s East Asian Collec- tion, Stanford, California, has purchased 1,963 volumes of rare Japanese materials from a private book collector. Most of the books date back to the first half of the 19th century or earlier. They are prim arily popular illustrated accounts of the age and reflect Japanese perceptions of the society, cus­ toms and manners, literature, art education, and the role of women. None of the books have been re­ printed in this century. • T he L ib rary of Congress, W ashington, has been given a valuable archive of w ritten and re­ corded m aterial th a t documents the early days of radio. Shane O ’Neil, president of RKO General, Inc., presented discs containing news, music, and dram a, as well as scripts, musical arrangem ents, and inform ation about the operation of WOR-AM in New York to the Library on September 18. Actor Tony Randall also took p a rt in the presentation. The broadcasts in the collection contain historic news stories from 1922, w hen W OR first w ent on the air, through the 1980s. Included are stories about the attack on Pearl H arbor, the convening of the United Nations, and a plane crash into the E m ­ pire State Building in 1945; “Year in Review” broadcasts from 1936 to 1943; Marlon Brando in “A Streetcar Named Desire” and Orson Welles in “The Black M useum” ; Beverly Sills singing the Rinso W hite commercial, and the Andrews Sisters singing for Coca-Cola. • T he N a tio n a l A rchives’ M odern M ilita ry H eadquarters Branch has opened for research ap ­ proximately 194 feet of W orld W ar II Office of Strategic Services (OSS) operational records from the C entral Intelligence Agency. This is the first in­ crem ent of an estimated 2,500 or more feet to be transferred over the next several years. The bulk of the records fall into several series of which the His­ tory Office files, 1941-1945, and the records of the Foreign N ationalities Branch, 1941-1946, com ­ prise half. The rem ainder consists of adm inistra­ tive records, 1943-1945; th e w ar diaries of the London Field Office; records relating to secret in­ telligence operations, 1942-1945; the O peration G roup com m and file, 1942-1945; and scattered records of the Office of the Director, 1942-1945. • Ohio State University’s Library for Communi- cation and Graphic Arts, Columbus, has acquired the archives of the Association of American E dito­ rial Cartoonists. The Association, formed in 1957, is m ade up of some 300 North American newspaper editorial cartoonists. Among the materials are edi­ torial drawings of recent U.S. presidents. • The Ohio University Libraries, Athens, have been presented w ith 594 books and 212 other items by the C ultural Division of the Republic of China (Taiwan). The books provide reference resources and general works on philosophy, political science, medicine, history, and other topics. The gift vol­ umes and scrolls were exhibited at the ALA Annual Conference in Dallas last June. The gift is the result of a special cooperative agreement between the N ational C entral Library of Taiw an and the Ohio University Libraries. In return for the gift the li­ braries are providing training and practical experi­ ence in m odern library systems and m anagem ent for librarians from the National C entral Library. The first two participants, Stella Hsiu-ying Chiang and Dennis Hsi-chang W ang, have just completed a three-m onth training program . • The State University of New York a t Buffalo’s History of Medicine Collection has received a gift of medical books by Frederick K. Neuberger, a Buffalo area otolaryngologist. T he books w ere w ritten and signed by his father, Max Neuberger, a renowned medical historian who helped establish the study of medical history as an academic disci­ pline and the founder of an im portant history of medicine museum in Vienna. • The University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has m ade available to scholars a new research col­ lection, the Archives of Scientific Philosophy in the Tw entieth Century. The literary estates of Rudolf C arnap and Hans Reichenbach consist of their cor­ respondence to and from hundreds of noted philos­ ophers and scientists, lecture and research notes from throughout their careers, their working li­ braries, and thousands of photographs and miscel­ laneous items. The Frank C . Ramsey papers consist exclusively of about 1,500 sheets of lecture and re­ search notes, most of which are unpublished and of p a rtic u la r interest to W ittgenstein researchers. These materials were acquired and organized for use over a 10 year period. • The V anderbilt University Medical Center Li- brary, Nashville, Tennessee, has received the p a ­ 556 / C& RL News pers of Barney Brooks, chairm an of the D e p a rt­ m ent of Surgery at V anderbilt from 1925 to 1952. The papers contain files of han d w ritten letters by Alfred Blalock, E varts A. G rah am , W illiam S. H alstead, C obb Pilcher, C anby Robinson, and m any other medical lum inaries of the early 20th century. The papers w ere donated by M ary Jane Brooks Evans, Brooks’s daughter. Grants • The American A ntiquarian Society, Worces- ter, Massachusetts, has received tw o grants to tal­ ing $124,542 from the N ational E ndow m ent for the H um anities. The grants will fund the Society’s long-term fellowship program and underw rite two series of public lectures in 1985 and 1986. The fel­ lowships will allow scholars from all over the coun­ try to conduct research at AAS for periods ranging from six to twelve months. The first public lecture, on “Popular Music in N ineteenth-C entury Am er­ ic a ,” will be held in the spring of 1985; the second lecture one year later will be organized around the them e of “Historical W riting in A m erica.” • D artm o u th College L ibrary, H anover, New H am pshire, has been aw arded a $183,336 U.S. D e­ p artm en t of E ducation grant to fund a project th a t will im prove access to the library’s collection of New H am pshire im prints. Included in th e collec­ tion are over 10,000 items printed by local presses prior to 1840. The access project is in three stages: converting m anual records into m achine-readable form and loading them into tw o of th e national bibliographic utilities; conservation and preserva­ tion; and filling in gaps in the collection. • The H arvard University D ivinity School Li- b rary has received a grant of $56,856 by the N a­ tional E ndow m ent for the H um anities to ensure preservation of and enhance access to the Paul T il­ lich m anuscript collection. • M oravian College, Bethlehem , Pennsylvania, has received a grant of $125,000 from the Reeves F oundation for m aintenance of the library. • M uskingum College, New C oncord, Ohio, has received a $75,000 grant from the Pew M emorial Trust. The grant will be used to help fund installa­ tion of a system of electrically operated, m ovable com pact shelving. The project of w hich this instal­ lation is a p a rt is intended to upgrade the current library facility by creating additional and m ore a t­ tractive space for both readers and m aterials stor­ age. • The New Bedford W haling M useum, Massa- chusetts, has been aw arded a 1984 Conservation “How do these things work?” A L A delegates to the 50th IF L A General Conference in Nairobi last A ugust test the translation equip­ m ent. L e ft to right: Beverly L ynch, A L A President-Elect; Robert W edgew orth, A L A Executive D irec­ tor: and E.J. Josey, A L A President. The Conference, w hich attracted 800-1,000 participants, was hosted by the Kenya Library Association. Cr: Lee Pellegrini The new Thomas P. O ’Neill, Jr. Library, Boston College. Project Support grant by the Institute of Museum Services. The aw ard of $19,814 will be m atched by the Museum and used to trea t deteriorated volumes in its collection of over 1,000 m anuscript w haling logbooks and journals. The goals of the project in­ clude restoration of fifty logbooks of w hich tw enty will be “worst case” examples requiring full-scale paper and binding treatm ents. Also planned is the establishm ent of standards and procedures to be in­ corporated into a m anual for future logbook repair and restoration, training a technician to assist in the project and carry out future work on the collec­ tion, and m icrofilm ing eighty logbooks formerly used as scrapbooks or added to the collection since the previous filming in 1981. • The Philadelphia College of Pharm acy and Science has received $30,000 from alumnus W il­ liam H elfand (class of 1952) to provide for com pact shelving. Its installation will alleviate crow ded conditions in the room housing the historical col­ lections and will create m uch space for fu tu re growth. • The Research Libraries G roup, Stanford, Gal- ifornia, has been provided w ith a m atching funds grant by the N ational E ndow m ent for the H u m an ­ ities in the am ount of $162,666 for an archives and m anuscript retrospective conversion project. P ar­ ticipating libraries include Colum bia, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, SUNY-Buffalo, Brigham Young, Brown, D artm outh, the New York Historical Soci­ ety, NYU, N orthw estern, Rutgers, and Michigan. These libraries will enter their records for special collections of archives and m anuscripts into RLIN. • T ufts University L ib rary , M edford, Massa- chusetts, has received a grant of $100,000 from the Surdna Foundation for program s on inform ation technology. • The University of N evada, Reno, L ibrary has been aw arded a grant of $15,000 by the Xebec Cor­ poration to purchase m aterials on flexible m anu­ factu rin g systems for th e E ngineering L ibrary. Flexible m anufacturing systems are systems used in advanced m anufacturing technologies, such as sen­ sors, robotics, and com puter-aided design and m anufacturing. • W agner College, Staten Island, New York, has been aw arded two grants: the first is a grant of $20,000 by the James A. M acDonald Foundation for lib ra ry c o m p u te riz a tio n an d online b ib lio ­ graphic services; the second is a grant of $25,000 by the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation for a fund for the purchase of library books. News notes • Boston College, C hestnut Hill, Massachusetts, held ceremonies on October 14 celebrating the ded­ ication and official opening of its new, $28-million central research facility, the Thomas P. O ’Neill, Jr. Library. One year ago the five-story building was nam ed in honor of Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Tip O ’Neill, a 1936 graduate of Boston College. O ’Neill addressed invited guests at the outdoor ceremonies on the library plaza and was feted at a dinner later in the evening. The new Novem ber 1984 / 557 558 / C&RL News building has the capacity to house 1.25 million vol­ umes, a 140-station public com puter term inal area, nine classrooms, research office space, and the university Telecommunications Center. The O’Neill Library was designed by The Architects Collaborative, Inc., of Cambridge. • The Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, is now accepting, within certain guidelines, the de­ posit of library materials from its member institu­ tions. The amount of material accepted will be lim ited to quantities th a t can be processed and made readily available for use based on current staffing levels. The Center’s ability to accept de­ posits of library materials was restricted for the past several years by a lack of adequate material processing staff and shelf space. Following the con­ struction of a second building, the approval by the membership of a revised deposit policy, and a staff reorganization, materials may again be deposited under the new policy. Inquiries about type of m a­ terials suitable for deposit should be addressed to Esther Smith, Center for Research Libraries, 6050 S. Kenwood Ave., Chicago, IL 60637. • The Northeast Document Conservation Cen- ter, Andover, Massachusetts, participated in the salvage of paper currency from the Andrea Doria safe and will perform the restoration of the soggy bills. Mary Todd Glaser, senior conservator at the Center, served as a consultant to the project and was one of two paper conservators on hand when the safe was opened on August 16. Glaser assisted in removing bundles of waterlogged currency and was shown during the live television coverage sepa­ rating and examining the bills. The material will be freeze-dried and eventually sent to the Center for treatm ent. Once the bills are dried, they will be separated, washed for removal of salt, alkalized, and dried again. The Center will then experiment on a small batch of the currency to find measures to strengthen the paper—sizing or polyester film en­ capsulation are possibilities. ■ ■ • P E O P L E • Profiles Millicent D. Abell, university librarian of the University of California, San Diego, has been ap­ pointed librarian of Yale University, effective Jan­ u a ry 1. She suceeds R utherford D. Rogers, who was appointed uni­ versity librarian in 1969 and w ill re tire in D e­ cember. Abell has been u n i­ versity librarian at San Diego since 1977. Her previous positions have included associate direc­ tor of university libraries a t SUNY-Buffalo (1973-1976), assistant Cr: Art Plotnik director for undergrad­ Millicent Abell u a te lib ra ry services (1971-1973) and assistant librarian in the Business Administration Library at the University of Wash­ ington (1969-1971), reference librarian at the Col­ orado Springs Public L ibrary (1966-1968), and referen ce/p erio d icals lib ra ria n at W est P oint (1964-1966). A bell served as A C R L ’s 43d p re s id e n t in 1980-1981 and still serves on the ACRL Board of Directors as representative to ALA Council. She is currently chair of the Board of Directors of the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago. She has also served on the editorial board of the Journal of Academic Librarianship. In 1976 she was editor of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education: Its Im ­ plications fo r Governance and Faculty Status fo r Librarians. Born in W ichita, Kansas, Abell received a bach­ elor’s degree in psychology (1956) and a master’s degree in personnel adm inistration (1958) from Columbia University, an MLS from SUNY-Albany in 1965, and a master’s in political science from the University of Colorado in 1969. B . Donald Grose, director of library services at In d ian a U niversity-Purdue University at F ort Wayne since 1975, has been appointed director of libraries at the University of Massachusetts, Bos­ ton. Grose received master’s degrees in library sci­ ence and English from the University of Kentucky and a Ph.D. in speech and dram a from the Univer­ sity of Missouri, Columbia. At Fort Wayne he also