ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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The Annenberg Research
Institute received a $3,000 
matching grant from the 
Preservation Needs Assess­
ment Program of the Con­
servation Center for Art and 
Historic Artifacts (CCAHA), 
a program funded by the 
William Penn Foundation.
This grant will be used by 
the institute to preserve rare 
manuscripts and ephemera 
through improved storage 
and handling procedures, as 
well as through conserva­
tion treatment. The Annenberg Research Insti­
tute supports post-graduate scholarship in Ju­
daic and Near-Eastern Studies.

The Boston Public Library received a $1
million grant from the Boston-based Amelia 
Peabody Charitable Trust. The gift will be used 
to restore the Grand Entrance Hall of the his­
toric Copley Square Library designed by 19th- 
century architect Charles Folien McKim.

The John Jay Library at Brown University
has received a grant of $72,466 from the U.S. 
Department of Education, Title IIC Program for 
the first year of a two-year
project to catalog 4,000 books, 
pamphlets, and serials in the 
H. Adrian Smith Collection of 
Conjuring and Magicana. Us­
ing the card catalog created by 
Smith, 30% of the titles in the 
collection were converted by 
OCLC’s R etro co n  Service 
through the Title IIC grant re­
ceived in FY 1990-91. The re­
maining titles, estimated to 
require 95% original catalog­
ing, will be cataloged on RUN 
and loaded into OCLC.

Hood College has received
a $45,695 grant to extend net­
working and resource sharing 
in the state of Maryland by 
linking the Hood College Li­
brary to the same online sys­
tem installed at the University 
of Maryland. Participation in

G ra n ts
and

Acquisitions

John Cullinane and Arthur 
Curley check the progress of 
restoration to the foyer of the 
Boston Public Library.

this shared automated sys­
tem will provide users at 
Hood College with access to 
the combined catalogs of the 
University of Maryland Sys­
tem libraries as well as other 
systems such as the Univer­
sity of California, the Univer­
sity of Hawaii, and North­
eastern University.

Grants of $ 2 7 3 ,5 0 0  and
$40,500 from the Indianapo­
lis Foundation have been 
received by academic librar­

ies in Indianapolis.
The $273,500 grant will be divided among

the Indiana University School o f  Dentistry 
Library, the Indiana University Law Library, 
the Indiana University School o f Medicine 
Library, the Indiana University-Purdue Uni­
versity Libraries, Marian College Library, and 
the University o f Indianapolis Library to de­
velop local resource sharing and cooperative 
development of in-depth collections in speci­
fied areas.

The $40,500 grant will be divided equally 
among the Indiana U niversity School o f 
Dentistry Library, the Indiana University Law 

Library, the Indiana Univer­
sity School o f Medicine Li­
brary, the Indiana Univer­
sity-Purdue University Li­
braries, and the University 
o f Indianapolis Library to 
purchase a complete Ariel 
workstation based on an IBM 
PS/2 386sx with an 80 MB 
hard disk, a laser printer, a 
scanner, and furniture. Ariel 
is a document-delivery sys­
tem in which a document is 
scanned into a computer and 
transmitted over the Internet 
producing a product superior 
to telefacsimile.

The Melville J. Herskovits
Library of African Studies at 
N orthw estern U niversity
has received a three-year 
grant from the U.S. Depart­
ment of Education’s Center



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for International Education to increase materi­
als in its holdings. The grant, w hich totals 
$40,000 for the first year, will enable the li­
brary to enlarge its collection of periodical lit­
erature.

A cq u isition s
Alton P. English's privately published book,
The Young Family, 1240-1990, has been ac­
quired by the A rizona State U niversity Li­
braries’ Arizona Collection, Department of Ar­
chives and Manuscripts. English’s book traces 
the lineage of the Young (Yang) Family from 
its roots in 11th-century China to settlement of 
the “Young Association” in Ï9th-century Ha­
waii and 20th-century Los Angeles and Phoe­
nix. English’s work is based partly on original 
ancestral tablets transported from China to Ha­
waii by the Young family in 1935.

The B arbara Simonds Cornerstone Collec­
tion of Ecumenical Study Documents and Pa­
pers has been acquired by the Cathedral Li­
brary o f  St. J o h n  th e D ivine in New York

City. The collection consists of papers and cor­
respondence from 1890-1989. Simonds founded 
the library in the 1930s, and later moved the 
collection to Rome, w here she organized and 
h o s te d  p ilg rim ag es to  p ro m o te  h e r c o n ­
viction that church unity was necessary for world 
peace.

The collection o f th e Los Angeles C ounty
Medical Association Library, which closed in 
1991, has been acquired by the H untington 
Library and UCLA’s Louise Darling Biomedi­
cal Library. The collection has great historical 
significance to medical historians. The Hunting- 
ton Library received 6,250 volumes, including 
1,500 rare books on medicine and botany. UCLA 
received 24,943 volumes, including the whole 
of the Barlow Medical Library, a 14,000-vol- 
ume collection of 19th- and early-20th-century 
medical works.

The papers o f geographer and poet James
Wreford Watson have been acquired by the 
McMaster U niversity Library. Watson taught 
geography at various British and Canadian uni­
versities—am ong them  Sheffield University, 
McMaster University, and the University of 
Edinburgh— and published num erous books