ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries Septem ber 1 9 9 2 / 5 3 9 a a n is Eckerd College, St. Peters­ burg, Florida, has been awarded $24,000 by the Council on Li­ brary Resources to fund the first G r two years of the new College Library Director Mentoring Pro­ gram established by the Lead­ ership Committee of ACRL’s College Libraries Section. The program is intended to en ­ Acqu hance the leadership capabili­ ties o f new ly appointed col­ lege lib rary d ire c to rs b y matching them w ith expert- enced directors. Ten to 15 newly appointed directors will participate annually. The funds will support campus visits, com m unication costs, and a three-day sem inar given at the en d of each year. Individuals interested in partici­ pating, either as a m entor or mentee, should write o r call Larry Hardesty, Director o f Library Services, Eckerd College, P. O. Box 12560, St. Petersburg, FL 33733-2560; (813) 864-8336. The Folger Shakespeare Library has re ­ ceived an $82,326 U.S. D epartm ent o f Educa­ tion Title ITC grant— to be m atched by $61,000 from the Folger—for the preservation and im­ proved accessibility of nearly 900 presently u n c a ta lo g e d 18th- a n d 1 9 th -c e n tu ry n o n - Shakespeare prom ptbooks. Some of the more intriguing prom ptbooks in the collection are Tyrone Pow er’s 1907 production of Macbeth-, several late 17th-century Shakespeare pro d u c­ tions from the Theatre Royal D ublin in w hich the text is m ade u p o f leaves from a third folio of S h a k e s p e a re d a te d 1663-64; a n d J o h n Barrymore’s 1922 Hamlet, w ith autographs of the actors, a playbill, sketches, and music. Title II-C also provided su p p o rt for a re­ cently com pleted project to catalog an d con­ serve the Folger’s collection of Shakespeare First Folios, w hich contains 79 copies plus fragments and is the largest in the world. A total of $94,321 was provided by Title II-C, w ith $92,531 fur­ nished by the Folger Library. The M ontana Stale University Libraries has been given a grant o f $100,888 by th e U.S. D e­ partm ent o f Education, u n d er Title II-C of the Higher Education Act, to fund the acquisition of m aterials to fu rth e r b u ild th e lib ra rie s’ Yellowstone National Park Collection. The heart o f th e c o lle c tio n is th e n ts Haynes family gift o f 1977. The H aynes family w as the p h o to g ra p h y co n c e ss io n ­ aire in the park from 1881 d to 1968. itions The libraries o f N orth Carolina State University, D u k e U n iversity, and the U n iversity o f N orth Caro- li n a - C h a p e l H i l l h a v e b een aw arded a $281,669 grant for a second year of funding u n d er the U.S. D e­ partm ent of E ducation’s Title II-C Strengthen­ ing Research Library Resources Program. The joint project o n “D ocum enting the C ontem po­ rary American South” will enable the three in­ stitutions to continue building research collec­ tions that will allow scholars to undertake, from a single geographic location, m ultistate and com parative studies of the post-W orld War II South. The U niversity o f Io w a (Ul) Libraries has b een aw arded a four-year $168,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support apprenticeships in boo k conservation and train­ ing w orkshops for experienced b ook conser­ vators. Apprentices will begin the four-year pro­ gram in the fall of 1992 and advanced week-long w orkshops will be scheduled throughout the four-year period. A previous Mellon Founda­ tion grant of $140,000 w as aw arded to UI in 1988 for the sam e purpose. The G raduate School o f Library and In­ formation Science at the U n iversity o f T exas at Austin has been aw arded a two-year $661,000 grant by the National E ndow m ent for the Hu­ manities to establish a conservation education program. The $575,000 outright grant and up to $86,000 in federal m atching funds will e n ­ able the university to provide space and re­ sources for th e faculty an d administration of the Conservation Education Programs, formerly a com ponent of the School o f Library Service at Colum bia University. The U niversity o f V irg in ia Library w a s aw arded a grant for $96,263 from the D epart­ m ent o f Education’s HEA Title II-C program, 5 4 0 / C&RL N e w s “Strengthening Library R esources.” T he funds will be used to support the first year of a pro­ p o se d th ree-year p roject to convert to m a­ chine-readable form th e 10,873 unconverted m anuscripts an d University Archives catalog records. A cquisitions Two previously unrecorded manuscripts by poet Emily Dickinson have been acquired by Amherst College, Massachu­ setts, for its Special Collections in the Robert Frost Library. One is an unpublished letter, tenta­ tiv ely d a te d to 1858, to Dickinson’s sister-in-law Susan in which the poet embeds a short poem and refers to her withdrawal from social life. The second manuscript is a new variant of a well-known poem beginning “The feet of people walking home.” In this version, D ickinson has w ritten the poem as a letter, presumably also to Susan. The two manu­ scripts, acquired from a private collection, join the collection already at Amherst, which con­ L aw ren ce W elk a n d h is a c c o r d io n , cir c a 1938.tains approximately half of Emily Dickinson’s known manuscripts. Tw o Jack London manuscripts have been acquired by th e H u n tin g to n Library from Christie’s auctions in N ew York. T he first, ac­ quired in D ecem ber 1991, is a four-page, d e­ tailed autograph letter w ritten in 1902 to the editor o f the Youth’s C om panion answering spe­ cific questions about the content o f L ondon’s celebrated short story “To Build a Fire” prior to its publication. The second, p urchased in June 1992, consists of 42 pages o f autograph w ork­ ing notes for London’s 1908 novel Adventure. The manuscripts join the m ore than 30,000 lit­ erary m anuscripts, letters, photographs, docu­ m ents, scrapbooks, an d broadsides comprising th e H untington’s London Collection. A large collection of Lawrence W e lk m em ­ orabilia has b e e n donated to N orth D akota State U n iversity, Fargo, by W elk’s family and the W elk G roup, Inc. The gift includes more than 15,000 musical arrangem ents used o n the L aw rence W elk telev isio n show , all o f the ban d lead er’s office furniture, photographs, and scrapbooks of his early days. The university will actively acquire additional W elk-related materials in the future including artifacts, oral interviews, and personal papers. Welk died at the age of 89 in May 1992. The A le x a n d e r F la n ig a n H y m n o lo g y Collection has b een acquired by the Library of R eform ed T h e o lo g y S em inary, Jackson, Mis­ sissippi. Flanigan w as a dockw orker in Belfast, Ireland, w ho spent much of his life collecting Chris­ tian hym nology totaling about 1,800 volumes, over 300 periodicals, and som e archival materials. The col­ lection is predom inantly British, b u t other northern E u ro p e a n title s are in ­ cluded, particularly Scan­ dinavian. A century and a half of Bristol history has become part o f th e Archives and P erm anent Collections of the Main Library at R oger W il li a m s U n iv e r s i t y , B ris to l, R h o d e Is la n d . Some 150 volumes of back issues o f the Bristol P hoenix dating back to the 1830s w ere deposited at the library in May af­ ter Bristol’s Tow n Hall could no longer hold the collection. A num ber o f manuscript groups from the A uerbach Collection w ere recently acquired by the Bancroft Library at the U n iv ersity o f Cali­ fo rn ia , B erk eley. H erbert S. A uerbach, son an d n ep h ew of the founders o f the Auerbach Company, one o f the great mercantile com pa­ nies of Salt Lake City an d the far West, amassed a collection o f books, manuscripts, maps, and pictures o f the O ld West w hich w as partially sold off after his death in 1945. The rem ainder o f the collection held back by the family was recently put u p for sale an d acquisitions by the B ancroft include the un p u b lish ed autograph mem oirs o f b o th Samuel H. A uerbach and his w ife Eveline Brooks Auerbach; rem iniscences by early residents of Rabbit Creek, California