ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries June 1 9 9 4 /3 7 9 w ith p rotective en clo su res w ith the aim o f preserving all physical evidence o f p ro­ d u c tio n , d istrib u tio n , an d ow nership, while copy-spe­ cific an d local inform ation will be given for each pam ­ phlet. The records produced by this project will form part o f th e H untington’s online catalog and will eventually b e distributed through RLIN an d OCLC. Nearly $ 1.4 million has b een aw arded to four lead­ ing adult literacy organiza­ tions in the U nited States: the Association for Com mu­ nity Based Education, W ash­ in g to n , D.C. ($ 5 2 4 ,0 0 0 ); Bronx Educational Services, New York ($298,994); Lit­ eracy South, Raleigh, N.C. ($430,000); an d the National C enter o n A dult Literacy, Philadelphia ($150,000). The one-to-tw o-year grants w ere m ade by the Lila Wallace- Reader’s Digest F und to im prove the quality of instruction an d to m ake it m ore available to greater num bers o f people. The funds will e n ­ able the grantees, all regarded as leaders in the field o f adult literacy, to concentrate their w ork in four states n o ted for their national leader­ ship in improving the overall effectiveness of their adult literacy systems. The Fo lger S h a k e s p e a r e L ib ra ry in W ashington, D.C., has b e e n aw a rd e d a U.S. D ep artm en t o f E ducation Title IIC grant o f $90,000 to catalog, conserve, an d microfilm the library’s incunabula collection. Approximately 250 items will receive treatm ent during the first year o f the grant, w hich will include in-depth cataloging for b ib lio g rap h ic access th ro u g h RLIN, restoration an d repair o f dam aged vol­ umes, and microfilming for purposes o f pres­ ervation, security, an d b roader access through reproduction from m aster negatives. The Huntington Library in San Marino, California, has received $150,000 from the Na­ tional E ndow m ent for the Humanities to su p ­ port the conservation and cataloging of approxi­ m ately 6,000 16th-, 17th-, an d 18th-century English pam phlets b o u n d into 587 volumes. The volumes will be conserved and provided Ed. note: Entries in this column are taken fro m library newsletters, press releases, a n d other sources. To ensure that yo u r grant a n d acquisition news is considered f o r publication, write to: Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 5 0 E. H uron St., Chi­ cago, IL 6 0 611-2795. Photos related to y o u r news will be considered f o r publication. The Rosenbach Museum Philadelphia has received $26,310 in grants m the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum mmission, the Stockton Rush Bartol Foun­ tion, an d the Barra F oundation to catalog the sh-Williams-Biddle Family Papers, an archive cum enting the lives an d careers of m em bers those prom inent Philadelphia families. Com­ sing som e 10,000 letters, business records, d other docum ents, the collection sheds light the political, scientific, and social concerns Americans from ca. 1770 through 1919- The lection includes papers of Dr. Benjamin Rush, most famous physician o f his day and signer the Declaration o f Independence, and Rich­ Rush, a secretary o f state an d minister to nce. The archive w as d o n ated to the m u ­ m in 1976 by Julia Rush Biddle Henry. racu se U niversity's G eorge Arents search Library has received a $225,000 grant m the Gladys Krieble Delmas F oundation in w York City to begin a three-year project t will preserve o n microfilm and com plete electronic cataloging o f tw o valuable col­ tions o n European history: the materials in libraries o f 19th-century G erm an historian opold von Ranke and 20th-century Czecho­ vakian econom ist Jan Maria Novotny. Among collections' treasures is a first edition of Table lk, a collection o f mealtime conversations b e ­ e e n M artin L uther a n d his stu d e n ts an d ends published in 1566. e University of Washington (UW) Health iences C en ter (HSC) in Seattle h as b e e n arded a five-year $2.75 million grant from National Library o f M edicine to im plem ent ’s long-range Integrated Advanced Informa- in fro Co da Ru do o f pri an o n o f col the of ard Fra seu S y Re fro N e tha the lec the Le slo the Ta tw fri Th S c aw the UW Grants a n d Acquisitions Pam Spiegel 380/C&RL News A rare copy of a first American printing of Melville’s Moby Dick presented to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. tion Management System (IAIM S) plan for health sciences. The plan, developed in the last five years, calls for linkages o f key clinical, edu­ cational, and research databases and systems; a state-of-the-art high-speed network connect­ ing all areas o f the HSC; and creation o f a num­ ber o f sophisticated tools in support o f easy desktop access for users. W a s h in g to n U n iv e r s it y ’ s C h e m is try Library has been awarded a $15,000 grant by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation to evaluate the cost-effectiveness o f expanding chemical databases through the Washington University online system. The purpose o f the study is to establish the costs for a distributive access model o f the electronic library in two phases: 1) for broad dissemination o f online bibliographic resources, and 2) for online ac­ quisition o f the primary literature, including full text and graphics o f journal articles. Acquisitions The T ho m as M cG u an e P a p e rs, do cu ­ menting the literary career o f Thomas McGuane, have been acquired by the Michigan State University CMSU) Libraries. In the 23 years since the publication o f his first book, The Sport­ ing Club, McGuane has published ten volumes o f essays, short stones, and novels, as well as seven produced screenplays. In the collection are drafts and working papers associated with the novels The Bushwhacked Piano, Nobody’s Angel, and others; a book o f short stories called To Skin a Cat; and a collection o f essays called Outside Chance. Also represented are his writ­ ing and directing efforts for the movies Mis­ souri Breaks, Rancho Deluxe, and Cold Feet, and letters to writer Jim Harrison which span 24 years. A winner o f many awards for his writ­ ing, McGuane is a 1962 graduate o f MSU. The p erso n al p a p e rs of J a m e s E. A llen, former assistant secretaiy for education and U.S. commissioner o f education in the U.S. Depart­ ment o f Health, Education, and Welfare, have been acquired by the New York State Library’s Division o f Manuscripts and Special Collections. Before working for the U.S. government, Allen served as commissioner o f the State Education Department o f New York (1955-1969. His pa­ pers include manuscripts o f articles and speeches, correspondence, and other materials. Forty-three original illustrations b y child­ ren’s author Lois Lenski (1893-1974) have been donated to the Walter Clinton Jackson Library, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, by her son; Steven Covey o f Broomfield, Colo­ rado. Among the works are 16 original pencil illustrations for Grandmother Tippytoe (1931), and six pen-and-ink drawings for Susie Mariar (1939). From 1958 to 1968 Lenski donated doz­ ens o f her manuscripts, photographs, correspon­ dence files, and field notes to Jackson Libraiy. In 1946 she received the Newbery Medal for her book Strawberry Girl. A gift of 3 0 0 volumes from the personal library o f Herman Melville scholar Merton M. Sealts Jr. has been donated to the University o f Wisconsin (UW)-Madison’s Memorial Li­ brary by Sealts and Ruth Mackenzie Sealts. The gift includes first and rare editions o f works by Melville, Thoreau, Emerson, Henry James, and Margaret Fuller, as well as critical editions and secondary sources on Melville. Sealts, an emeri­ tus professor o f English at UW-Madison, also donated an extensive collection o f offprints of scholarly articles and reviews dealing with Melville, which offers an exceptional record of Melville scholarship in the second half o f the 20th century. The collection has been further strengthened by the donation o f a family copy o f the rare first American printing o f j Moby Dick (1851), given by Jean F. Melvill (spelled with­ out the final “e ”), a collateral descendant of Herman Melville’s. ■