ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries June 1990 / 567 separate archives/records m anagem ent facilities; and only two special collections departm ent are responsible for records m anagem ent in-house. Tables 1 and 2 require little explanation, but in the interest of completeness several conclusions might be drawn. The average special collections department in the southeast is supported by an en ­ rollment of 18,200 and has a staff of 10.7— 4.9 p ro ­ fessionals, 4.7 paraprofessionals, and 1.1 clerical staff—who perform three functions. They adm ini­ ster rare books, 61,900 volumes; manuscripts, 6,300 linear feet; and archives, 4,000 linear feet. The University of Georgia has the largest rare book collection and the most processed archives, LSU the largest manuscript collection and Duke the largest staff. And we should add a final caveat. It could be argued, and rightly so, that our choice of institu­ tions was arbitrary. We included Duke, but not the University of North Carolina or North Carolina State. In our single foray across the Mississippi we included the University of Arkansas, but not the University of Missouri or any of a num ber of com­ parable institutions in Texas. We included East Carolina but not W estern Carolina, the University of Southern Mississippi but not Mississippi State, etc. All true. And we have no defense to offer other than to point out that we were aiming for a rep re­ sentative sample, not comprehensiveness. ■ ■ News from the Field Acquisitions • Bowling Green State University’s Popular Culture Library, Ohio, has recently acquired an important new collection of books and manuscript materials in the field of science fiction, fantasy, and horror literature from Sheldon R. Jaffery of Cleve­ land, Ohio. A special strength of the collection is Jaffery’s near com plete series of Arkham House books, the oldest and most prestigious publisher of weird and supernatural fiction. F ounded in 1939 for the express purpose of perpetuating the w rit­ ings of H.P. Lovecraft, this specialized press b e ­ came the foremost showcase for the greatest writ­ ers in the genre of macabre fiction. Arkham House was where the works of Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, A.E. Van Vogt, Ramsey Campbell, and Fritz Leiber, for example, were first published in book form. These rarities are included in the Jaffery Collection at the Popular Culture Library. The collection also includes correspondence, m anu­ scripts, research files, and notes that Jaffery used in writing more than eight books, research guides, and anthologies. O f particular value is the corre­ spondence Jaffery conducted with many of the Arkham House authors while compiling his book Horrors and Unpleasantries: A Collectors Price Guide and Bibliography o f Arkham House (1982) and the revised edition, The Arkham House Com­ panion (1989). M anuscript materials for Jaffery’s The Corpse-Maker (1988), an anthology of pulp magazine short stories by Hugh B. Cave, and Fu­ ture and Fantastic Worlds: A Bibliographical (1972-1987) Retrospective o f D A W Books (1987) are also included in the collection. • Kent State University Libraries, Ohio, have recently received the papers of actor-director Robert Lewis, whose 60-year career has taken him from Broadway to Hollywood to London. The collection includes letters from w riters Sean O ’Casey, K atherine Anne P o rter and Trum an C apote, com posers Aaron C opeland, Stephen Sondheim and Virgil Thomson, and artists Don Bachardy, Cecil Beaton and Alfred Stieglitz in addition to hundreds of actors with whom he has worked. Lewis’s papers also include annotated scripts o f all the plays in which he appeared as well as those he directed. Kent’s D epartm ent of Special Collections houses other significant theater re ­ search collections as well as the Collection of Motion Picture and Television Performing Arts which features clipping files on hundreds of actors. • Saginaw Valley State University’s Melvin J. Zahnow Library, University Center, Michigan, has acquired two major gifts. The Nancy Stube Collec­ tion consists of over 3,500 volumes in the areas of late 19th Century American history and the phi­ losophy of political science collected over several decades. It was donated to the Library by Mrs. Stube in memory of her parents. The second acqui­ sition is the personal library of Harold Anderson, form er Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University and one of the founders of the study of child psychology. This collection represents 40 5 6 8 / C&RL News years worth of periodicals and monographs used by Anderson in his research. Anderson donated this collection to Melvin J. Zahnow after he retired from active research. • The University at Albany, State University of New York, has acquired by gift the papers of Frederick Ungar (1898-1989) the Austrian-born writer and publisher. There is extensive correspon­ dence with authors, including fellow emigre writers such as Fritz Hochwaelder, Joseph Liutpold Stern, E rnst Waldinger, and Marie Weiss, 1940-84; and a com plete run of catalogs and other promotional publications of the Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, which he founded in 1941 and directed from its offices in New York City for more than forty years. U ngar’s publishing career began in the 1920s in his native Vienna, where he founded and directed Phaidon Verlag and Saturn Verlag. H e had special interests in G erm an literature and the work of the Austrian w riter Karl Kraus. The University at Abany has also acquired the historical records of the M. C. Lawton Civic and Cultural Club, an African American w om en’s club formed in Albany, New York, during W orld W ar I with the goals of community service, educational advancement, improved race relations, and self- development. Minutes, m em bership rosters, cor­ respondence, official publications, and other rec­ ords docum ent the club’s history since 1921. It was nam ed after Maria C. Lawton, president of the E m pire State F ed eratio n o f W om en’s Clubs, 1916-26, with which it has aways been affiliated. The Lawton Club records are one of several Afri­ can American collections being added to the Uni­ versity’s Archives o f Public Affairs and Policy. • The University of British Columbia, Van- couver, recently acquired a collection of over 500 dictionaries most of which were published in the 18th and 19th centuries, though 75 are from the 16th and 17th centuries and two are incunabula (pre-1500). T hey w ere d o n ated by H. Rocke Robertson, UCB’s first professor of surgery. The collection, although primarily English dictionaries, also includes ancient Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, bilingual and polyglot dictionaries influ­ ential in the complilations of English lexicogra­ phers. There are also some early encyclopedias, including a first edition of the Encyclopaedia Bri­ tannica published in Edinburgh in 1771. • The University of Illinois Library at Ur- bana-Champaign’s Asian Library has been se­ lected as the recipient of an im portant collection of current Chinese language publications in Asian studies. These 400 titles in 600 volumes were cho­ sen for a special book exhibition at the 1990 Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies held in Chicago April 5-8. Thus, they represent the state of the art in the publishing industry of the Republic of China. They are gifts of the Govern­ m ent Information Office and the National Central Library of Taipei, Taiwan. Although the collection covers a wide range o f fields, it is especially note­ worthy for major monographic works on Chinese art and literature and history, as well as cultural, religious, social developments and other studies in the humanities. • Washington University School of Medi- cine Library, St. Louis, Missouri, has accepted the deposit of the St. Louis Medical Society’s three im portant rare book collections, the Robert E. Schleuter Paracelsus Collection, the world’s largest o f works by or concerning the Germ an Renaissance physician and philosopher; the James Moores Ball Collection, author of the Sack-’Em-Up Men, 1926, containing many rare folio volumes of early works of anatomy, science and medicine; and the general rare book collection of the Society, a large and eclectic collection of items from 1700 to historical reference works of reletively recent date. In addi­ tion to the above collections, a transfer agreem ent betw een the W ashington University School of D ental Medicine and the Medical Library has added the D ental School’s rare books collection to the Special Collections. The H enry J. McKellops Collection consists of approximately one thousand volumes of monographs and journals and is par­ ticularly comprehensive, including some very early European works. A copy of the second edition (1532) of Zene Artzney, the first dental book, is included and is, according to the NUC, the only copy of this edition in American libraries. Grants • The Annenberg Research Institute, Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, has been awarded a grant of $3,334,311 by the Annenburg Foundation to pay the mortgage balance on the Annenberg Research In stitu te’s new building at 420 W alnut Street, Philadelphia. The grant is the latest of several major contributions totalling $11,300, which the Institute has received from the A nnenberg F oun­ dation and the Annenberg Fund, to m eet the cost of constructing, furnishing, equipping and operat­ ing ARI’s new facility. • Columbia University, New York City, has received a grant of $20,000 from the United States Institute of Peace to convert the remaining paper card catalog records of the International Law Col­ lection of the Columbia University Law School Library into com puter-usable electronic records that will be added to two national library com puter netw orks. • The DePaul University Loop Campus Li- brary, Chicago, Illinois, is expanding its direct marketing collection due to funding by a grant from A C Q U IS IT IO N PERSPECTIVES 6 . Book House is in its fourth gen­ eration of autom ation. O ur custom software allows us the flexibility to accept orders generated through your computerized system or in the mail. Our policy is to develop a working compatibility with the automated sys­ tem in your library to facilitate receiv­ ing orders, transmitting open order re­ ports and invoices electronically. Let's explore interfacing your auto­ mation with ours. JOBBERS SERVING LIBRARIES WITH ANY BOOK IN PRINT SINCE 1982 208 WEST CHICAGO STREET JONESVILLE. MICHIGAN 49250 Call or Write TODAY 1 • 800 • 248 • 1146 FAX: 517 • 849 • 9716 570 / C&RL News the Educational Foundation o f the Chicago Asso­ ciation of D irect Marketing. The Institute of D irect Marketing of the Kellstadt C enter for Marketing Analysis and Planning at DePaul received the fund­ ing of which $5,000 will be used to purchase mono­ graphs and periodical subscriptions. DePaul has also received a matching grant of $2,500 from the Canadian government for the purchase of Canadi- ana materials in an effort to prom ote Canadian Studies. • The Hispanic Society of America, New York City, D epartm ent of Manuscripts and Rare Books been awarded a grant $20,293 from the 1990/91 New York State Discretionary Grant Pro­ gram for Conservation and Preservation of Library Research Materials. This funding is for conserva­ tion tre a tm e n t of twelve m anuscript portolan charts, which will be placed in custom-designed cases for storage and display. Each chart will also be reform atted via color transparencies to facilitate the accessibility of this material. • The Library of Congress has received a grant of $391,526 from the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation to continue the Washingtoni- ana II project in the Prints and Photographs Divi­ sion. The project will survey, catalog, and preserve approximately 40,000 architectural materials and support the publishing of Washingtoniana II, A Guide to the Architecture, Design and Engineering Collections o f the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area in the Prints and Photographs Division o f the Library o f Congress. The project, begun last year under the initial funding from The Cafritz Founda­ tion, has already resulted in a preliminary survey of the work of 222 architects or architectural firms whose drawings, blueprints, presentation watercol­ ors, and related materials are in the Library. The Library’s Prints and Photographs Division contains more than 15 million photographs, architectural materials, examples of popular and applied graphic art, posters, and fine prints. • Pennsylvania State University’s Libraries, University Park, have received a $2.5 million grant from D igital E q u ip m en t Corp, for co m p u ter equipm ent that facilitates information sharing. The new VAX 9000 mainframe and other equipm ent will enable the Libraries to im plem ent a significant upgrade of the Library Information and Access System (LIAS) electronic catalog. With the new computing power, for instance, 800 users will be able to access LIAS simultaneously, com pared to the current 320-user capacity. Penn State’s LIAS, made available to the public in 1983, was designed to be used even by people who had minimal com­ puter knowledge. Last November, Digital gave Penn State and the University of California a grant to create a link between LIAS and UC’s online catalog. The goal of this link is seamless computing, whereby users can search the records of either system by using the familiar commands o f their home system. LIAS contains records for nearly 1.5 million titles from the Penn State collections, and records are continuously added for books, journals, manuscripts, archives, government publications, microforms, music recordings, audiovisual m ateri­ als and com puter files. On an annual basis, LIAS currently handles over 30 million searches. The Digital grant is part of the Campaign for Penn State, a six-year drive to raise $300 million in private support. The Campaign, which ends June 30, had raised $338 million as of March 31. • St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York, has received a grant in the am ount of $5,700 from the H.W. Wilson Foundation in support of its forthcom ing Congress for Librarians with the them e “Cataloging Heresy: Challenging the Stan­ dard Bibliographic Product.” The Congress will be held on the Queens Campus of St. John’s Univer­ sity on Presidents’ Day, 1991. Nationally known catalogers, thesaurus designers, and library sys­ tems analysts will be invited to examine the validity of the notion of standard cataloging data, i.e., that a single set of descriptive and subject headings is appropriate for all types of libraries and users. The implications of modifying and customizing cen­ trally supplied cataloging data will be explored, both from the economic perspective of library managers as well as from the viewpoint of biblio­ graphic utilities. • The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, has been awarded an $11,000 grant by the United States Institute of Peace to survey, catalog, and microfilm unprocessed collections relating to peace currently in the Society’s library. • The University of California, Berkeley’s Bancroft Library has received a grant of $199,623 from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission for a joint project with the Sierra Club, “D ocum enting 100 Years of Conser­ vation: The Sierra Club Records.” These records not only docum ent the Sierra Club, they also are an unparalleled resource for the study of the issues that have concerned its members: the creation of the wilderness preservation system and the wild and scenic rivers systems, the establishment and preservation of national parks, as well as issues which affect the global environment. Since 1970 the Sierra Club has been giving its national histori­ cal records to the Bancroft Library including 123 linear feet of historical files, inactive administrative files and subject files on conservation issues, more than 20,000 photographs, 67 films, 82 tape record­ ings, and Sierra Club publications. Forty-seven individual club members have also sent their p er­ sonal files to be added to the archives, and they continue to do so. The collection today consists of approximately 1325 linear feet of records and 34,400 photographs and other pictorial items. June 1 9 9 0 /5 7 1 • The University of California, Los Angeles’ D epartm ent o f Special Collections in the U niver­ sity Research Library recently received a grant of $50,000 from the Ahmanson Foundation for the retrospective conversion o f its Abraham W olf Spi­ noza collection on OCLC. T he departm ent ac­ quired the collection en bloc in 1950 from the firm of Internationaal Antiquariaat, which served as the agent for the sale o f th e library o f the late Professor Abraham Wolf, H ead o f the D ep artm en t o f the History and Philosophy o f Science, University of London. At m ore than 1300 titles, the library was the largest private collection o f works by and about Baruch de Spinoza o f its time, and included Spi­ noza’s works in m any editions, im portant bio­ graphical and critical works about his writing, and a partial collection o f titles known to be in Spinoza’s own library. Among th e m ore im portant items in the collection are T he Codex Townley, thought to be the earliest m anuscript o f J.M. Lucas’s La vie de feu M onsieur Spinoza; one o f two known copies of the first edition o f Lucas’s La vie et l ’esprit de Mr. Benoit de Spinoza; and issues A through D of Spinoza’s Tractatus theologico-politicus, not re ­ corded in Linde. • University of Rochester’s Rush Rhees Li- brary, Rochester, New York, has received a grant of $15,000 from th e Lucius N. L ittauer Foundation to establish an endow ed Judaica book fund and to preserve Judaica materials already in the collec­ tion. The grant will assist the library in making annual acquisitions o f literature relevant to its Judaica collection, so that it can provide a balanced collection for students and scholars. T he grant is the first the University o f Rochester has received from the L ittauer Foundation. • The University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, and the Libraries of the University of Oregon received grants from the H enry Luce Foundation o f $280,000 and $45,000 respectively to support library developm ent in th e field of Southeast Asian Studies. Initiatives for library development came from th e Southeast Asian Stud­ ies Programs at the two universities, which, to ­ gether with th e program at the University o f British Columbia, com prise th e N orthw est Regional C on­ sortium for Southeast Asian Studies. As a Canadian institution, th e University o f British C olum bia is not eligible to com pete for funds offered by the Luce Foundation. At th e University o f W ashington Libraries th e grant is being used in p art to support a full-time position for a Southeast Asia specialist. The Southeast Asia Librarian will be working with Southeast Asian Studies Liaison Librarians at the University o f O regon and th e University o f British Columbia to coordinate collection developm ent emphases, consult on major purchases and facili­ tate resource sharing activities. T he grants, which will be paid over a period o f four years, will enable the recipient institutions to strengthen resources in support o f rapidly increasing teaching activities in the field o f research-level collections. News notes • Alfred University, Alfred, New York, has broken ground for its $6.2 million Scholes Library, being built on a hillside on the w estern New York campus. T he new facility will provide a free-stand­ ing facility for the library collection, now housed in a portion o f H ard er Hall on th e Alfred University campus. T he ceramics college persuaded the State University o f New York (SUNY) system that con­ struction o f a new library was th e best alternative. First, the construction estim ates w ere com parable to what it would have cost to renovate H ard er Hall for th e library’s continued use. Second, a new structure frees up m uch-needed space in H arder Hall for th e School o f Art and Design. T he project is being m anaged and financed by th e State Univer­ sity o f New York; th e College o f Ceram ics is p art of th e state’s university system. T he new building will b e a five-and-a-half-story, 5 0 ,0 0 0 -sq u are-fo o t structure with a brick face, arched windows and the distinctive te rra cotta (red tile) roof featured on many Alfred buildings. • Berea College is currently undertaking a $65 million fundraising campaign which includes a $5 million expansion o f H utchins Library. The 30,000 square foot addition will provide a new hom e for both the C o m p u ter C e n te r and the Library’s Spe­ cial Collections, and expanded stack and study space for th e Library’s general collections and patron study space. O th er portions o f the enhance­ m ent effort for C o m p u ter and Library services in­ clude th e addition o f $1 million to th e endow m ent for th e purchase o f library materials and $1.2 mil­ lion for expansion o f com puter equipm ent and im plem entation o f an autom ated library system. As p art o f this project a cam pus com puter network will be installed. O f these goals $700,000 has been raised for library acquisitions and m ore th an $350,000 for com puter equipm ent and software. • Bowling Green State University Library, Ohio, had its first ever Read-a-Thon, a 13-hour m arathon that was th e library’s vision o f ALA’s “N ight o f a Thousand Stars.” T he event was at­ te n d e d by over 550 people. Each hour was devoted to a genre o f literature (children’s, hum or, local history, etc.) and was sponsored by cam pus organi­ zations and Bowling G reen businesses, each of whom sponsored one or m ore hours o f cultural diversity materials. N um erous campus celebrities volunteered as readers, including 2 deans, 1 vice- president, many professors, and four published creative writers (reading th eir own work). 5 7 2 / C&RL News • Ohio University, Athens, has b een officially designated by the G overnm ent o f Botswana as th e N orth American depository o f Botswana publica­ tions. In an April trip to G abarone, Botswana, Hwa- W ei Lee, director o f libraries at Ohio University, formalized arrangem ents with th e Botswana N a­ tional L ibrary Service for th e d ep o sito ry a n ­ nounced last June by Botswana’s President, Q u ett Masire. U nder th e depository, th e National Library will collect a copy o f all reference and cu rren t publications on Botswana, governm ent docum ents available for public d istrib u tio n , and selected archival and historical records to be sent to Ohio University Library. Some archival records and out- of-print publications may be microfilmed. It is estim ated th a t some 400 publications will be sent during 1990 as a beginning o f th e Botswana deposi­ tory. Ohio University Library will pay th e mailing and m icrofilm ing costs as well as be responsible for th e cataloging o f these publications into th e O CLC online union catalog and for making th e collection available to A m erican com panies, governm ent agencies, researchers, students and others. ■ ■ •P E O P L E • Profiles George S. Bobinski, dean o f th e School o f Inform ation and Library Studies at th e State U ni­ versity o f New York at Buffalo, has b een appointed by G overnor Mario C uom o to serve on a newly established New York State G overnor’s C om m is­ sion on Libraries. Bobinski said th e 30-m em ber commission will plan and establish policy for a G overnor’s C onference on Libraries to take place in late N ovem ber in Albany. T he conference th em e will be “Library and Inform ation Services for L iter­ acy, Productivity and D em ocracy.” Bobinski, dean of U B ’s School o f Inform ation and Library Studies since 1970, has b een actively engaged for several years in researching th e status o f C arnegie libraries throughout th e U nited States. F u n d e d by A ndrew Carnegie, m ore than 1,600 such libraries w ere built in th e U.S. from 1889 to th e mid-1920s. In 1977, he traveled to Poland w here he served as a Fulbright scholar/lecturer at th e University o f Warsaw. After earning a bachelor’s degree in history and a m as­ te r ’s degree in library science at Case W estern Reserve University, Bobinski attained an ad d i­ tional m aster’s degree in history and his Ph.D . in library science from th e University o f Michigan. Richard De Gennaro, director o f th e New York Public Library, has b e e n n am ed Roy E. Larsen Librarian o f H arvard College. T he H arvard Librarian oversees and manages a collection of m ore than 7.5 million volumes, 67 individual librar­ ies, and a staff o f 400. T he College Library is the largest com ponent in H arvard University’s library system. From 1958 to 1970, D e G ennaro held several senior positions w ithin th e University Li­ brary including reference librarian, assistant direc­ tor, associate university librarian for systems devel­ opm ent, and senior associate university librarian. H e spent the next 16 years as director o f libraries and adjunct professor o f English at th e university of Pennsylvania before assuming his p resen t position at th e N ew York Public Library in 1987. D e G ennaro holds an MLS from C olum bia University as well as a m aster o f liberal studies degree from W esleyan University, w here he also earn ed his BA. H e com pleted th e Advanced M an­ agem ent Program at H arvard Business School and has also studied abroad at th e Universities o f Paris (the Sorbonne), Poitiers, Barcelona, M adrid, and Perugia. His professional activities include m an­ agem ent consulting for a variety o f institutions in­ cluding Bell Laboratories, M IT R E Corporation, th e G etty C e n te r for th e H istory o f Art, and n u m e r­ ous colleges and universities. H e has served as p resid en t o f th e Association o f R esearch Libraries, chairm an o f th e board o f th e Research Libraries G roup, and chairm an o f th e American Society for Inform ation Science Special In terest G roup on Library A utom ation and N e t­ works. D e G ennaro has published extensively on library autom ation, library service in academ ic institutions, library m anagem ent, com puter-based library networks, and the changing role o f libraries in th e inform ation m arketplace. D e G ennaro succeeds Y.T. Feng, who is retiring after 10 years o f distinguished service as H arvard College librarian.