ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries The North Baker Library o f the C alifornia H istori­ c a l S o c i e t y h a s b e e n aw arded a grant o f $75,000 from the Durfee Foundation in support o f its autom ation project. The funds are to be used for personnel costs in th e c u rre n t p h a s e o f the project, w hich will include d ig itiz in g p h o t o g r a p h s , printed illustrations, photo­ g r a p h s o f p a in tin g s a n d three d im ensional objects h e ld b y th e Society, an d w orks o f art on paper. T he images will be cata­ loged into KLIN and th e images will b e linked to the bibliographic records in the library’s OPAC. Also in this phase, descriptive guides, ephem era lists, finding aids, and the shelf list for photographs will b e OCR scanned and made available online. The University of Southern California has received a $99,953 grant from the Korea Foundation to support USC’s K orean Heritage Library and establish a visiting professorship in K orean studies. At the Korean Heritage Library, the grant will be used to hire additional cata­ loguing personnel an d to finance the use o f electronic databases that link East Asian librar­ ies in the United States. The DePaul University Libraries have received a $26,160 grant from the Illinois Co­ operative Collection Coordinating Committee to purchase microfiche collections in Latin Ameri­ can Studies (H u m a n Rights D ocum ents 1980- 1 9 8 8 L a tin A m e r ic a a n d th e Caribbean)-, W om en’s Studies (W o m e n ’s Studies Manuscripts Collection fr o m the SchlessingerLibrary, R adcliff College. Ser. 2: W om en in N ational Politics and Records o f the W om en ’s In ternational League f o r P eace a n d Freedom, U.S. Section, 1919- 1959)-, a n d A frican-A m erican Studies (T he Albion W. Tourgee Papers). The College of Charleston's Robert Scott Small Library received a $27,000 grant from the P ost & C ourier F o u n d a tio n to u p d a te th e library’s microfilm collection o f C harleston, South Carolina new spapers. The grant will be used to purchase the Post & Courier microfilm G r a n ts a n d Acquisitions dating back to 1873 as well as antebellum new spapers w hich are part of the Readex Early A m erican Newspapers collection. The U n iv e rs ity of P ittsb u rg h ’s School o f Li­ brary an d Inform ation Sci­ ence received NCR eq u ip ­ m e n t v a lu e d at a p p r o x ­ im ately $145,000 th ro u g h the AT&T University Equip­ m e n t D o n a tio n P rogram . The eq u ip m en t includes a preconfigured client/server set-up consisting of one m odel 3445 com puter and 20 m odel 3215 com puters, w hich will be u sed by students an d faculty for general teaching, study, and research. The N e w York State Library received a grant o f $90,962 from the National Endowm ent for the Humanities to support a preservation microfilming project. The grant will allow the library to catalog and microfilm 510 books and 4 archival collections im portant to the study of Native Americans, in particular the Iroquois tribes. Books to b e filmed include w orks con­ cerned w ith Native American legal matters, es­ pecially land disputes; religious w orks p u b ­ lished in Iroquoian and Algonquin languages; captivity accounts by European-American set­ tlers w h o w ere captured an d later released o r escaped; publications by Society of Friends and o th e r o rganizations co n c e rn e d w ith Native American issues; and Native American serials published throughout the United States. Colorado College received a $ 4 6 ,5 7 9 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, to formalize its ar­ chives. The grant will fund a staff position of project archivist for tw o years. The project archivist’s first order o f business will be to con­ duct a campus-wide survey o f historical records, an d en ter the information in the library’s data­ base. Texas Tech University Libraries' South­ w est Collection received a $509,000 grant to add to the William Curry and Frances Mayhugh H olden Endowm ent. A $25,000 grant from the 4 7 4 /C&KL News Ewing Halsell Foundation w as matched by an additional $25,000 from the Houston Endow­ m ent, Inc. The W illiam Curry an d Frances H olden Endowm ent w as established in 1986 to provide research fellowships in Texas and Southwestern history and related studies and to purchase research materials in the areas of Southwestern history and culture, Native Ameri­ can and Mexican ethnohistory, anthropology, archeology, Southwestern arts and architecture, arid lands, water, and w om en’s history. Texas Tech University also received a $1,515 grant from the Southwestern Bell Foundation to pur­ chase the Library o f Congress’s Subject Headings. A c q u is itio n s The library of noted feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker has been acquired by the U ni­ versity o f California, Santa Cruz. Aptheker, a professor o f w om en’s studies at UCSC and a leading scholar in the field, served as chair of the Board of Studies in W om en’s Studies, was a prom inent student activist in the 1960s, and was an organizer o f the Free Speech Move­ ment. She is the author of several books, in­ clu d in g Tapestries o f Life: W o m e n ’s Work, W o m en ’s Consciousness a n d the M eaning o f D aily Experience (Amherst: University o f Mas­ sachusetts Press, 1989). Appraised at more than $30,000, the Aptheker collection includes more than 2,000 books, periodicals, and pamphlets. The gift establishes the W om en’s Studies Li­ brary, a noncirculating special collection of books and journals that is available to scholars, faculty, staff, students, and the public, at UCSC’s Kresge College. The papers of Harold E. Edgerton have been acquired by M assachusetts Institute o f T ech n ology. Best know n for his w ork photo­ graphing extremely rapid events— his photos w ere published in, am ong other places, Life Magazine—Edgerton cam e to MIT as a gradu­ ate student, and subsequently served as pro­ fessor o f electrical engineering, head of the Strobe Lab, Institute Professor, and Institute Professor Emeritus until his death in 1990. The 45-cubic-foot manuscript collection includes un­ published autobiographical fragments, corre­ spondence, blueprints, writings, and speeches, as well as Edgerton’s laboratory notebooks from 1930 to 1990, w hich docum ent in detail inno­ vations in stroboscopic photography. The papers of British poet and novelist L aw rence D urrell hav e b e e n a c q u ire d by McMaster U n iversity library. Best know n as the author o f the A lexandria Quartet, consist­ in g o f fo u r n o v e ls , J u s tin e , B a lth a z a r , Mountolive, and Clea, Durrell spent most of his writing life in the Mediterranean and In­ dian outposts of the already fading British Em­ pire. Included in the acquisition are 15 letters and postcards dated from 1944 to 1976, m anu­ scripts o f some 50 poems, the carbon of a let­ ter from Durrell to Henry Miller (1942), and inscribed copies of tw o of Durrell’s books, Cit­ ies; Plants a n d People and On Seeming to Presume. The collections of tw o legendary band­ masters, Merle Evans and Lynn L. Sams, have been acquired by the U n iversity o f Maryland at C ollege Park’s Music Library. Merle Evans w as bandm aster for “The Great­ est Show on Earth,” the Ringling Bros, and Barnum and Bailey circus for 50 years, from 1919 to his retirement in 1969. In this capacity, Evans cued the entire circus performance, de­ ciding w hat music w ould accom pany each act. The Merle Evans Collection, which is a gift from Merle’s sister, Juanita Evans, contains letters, awards, programs, photographs, band music, posters, an d m em orabilia relating to Evans’ career w ith the circus. Lynn L. Sams was a bandm aster of a very different kind. The inspiration for Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man, Sams began his ca­ reer selling horns and drums to high schools and later devoted full-time to organizing high school bands. The Lynn Sams Collection con­ sists of 30 boxes of manuscripts, publications, recordings, and memorabilia. Over 9 0 0 rare books and periodicals dating from the 17th century w ere acquired by the N ation al Library o f Canada from Mont­ real scholar-bibliographer, Lawrence M. Lande. Included are 635 French official publications dating from 1607 to 1809, focusing on com ­ merce and finance, the fur trade, cod and whale fisheries, and the colonization of the French Empire in North America. Also in the collec­ tion are 193 rare books dealing mainly with eco­ nomic policy and the practices o f the major European colonial pow ers in the 17th and 18th centuries, particularly those o f France. ■ September 1 9 9 3 / 4 7 5