ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


November 1994 / 679

The American Institute
of Physics (AIP) in College 
Park, Maryland, has received 
a bequest of approximately 
$600,000 from the estate of 
Rose Hutchisson to endow  
the Rose and Elmer Hutch­
isson Fund. Income from the 
fund will support the AIP’s 
Center for History o f Phys­
ics. Elmer Hutchisson, w ho 
served as the AIP’s second 
director (1957-64), spent a 
lifetime prom oting physics 
and its community.

Chatham College has recently received
three grants totaling $537,000: an anonymous 
fo u n d a tio n  grant o f $500,000 to fu n d  th e 
college’s strategic plan for educating women 
in the 21st century; a $22,000 grant from the 
Council for Independent Colleges to conduct 
w orkshops for faculty on service learning as 
pedagogy; and a $15,000 grant from the Camille 
and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. in sup­
port of a chromatology teaching station.

Drexel University's College of Informa­
tion Studies has received a $1.1 million grant 
from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to support 
the developm ent of the Drexel Curriculum for 
Information and Computing Professionals.

The Library of Congress's Rare Books
and Special Collections Division has received a 
grant of $45,000 from the Lynde and Harry Bra­
dley Foundation to support a pilot lecture se­
ries on “books that mattered to Western citi­
zenship, statecraft, and public policy.” Subject 
matter will include classics of Western political 
philosophy and social thought.

Mississippi University for Women has
received a grant of $3,797 from the Snowdoun

Ed. n ote: Entries in this colum n are taken 
fro m  library newsletters, press releases, a n d  other 
sources. To ensure that y o u r news is considered 
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G r a n ts
a n d

Acquisitions

Hugh Tho

A ssociation o f Colum bus, 
Mississippi, to restore and re­
produce 20 scrapbooks that 
w e re  c o m p ile d  b e tw e e n  
1865 and 1922 by Edward 
Turner Sykes, a local Colum­
bus attorney, civil w ar vet­
e r a n , a n d  s ta te  s e n a to r  
(1883-88).

University of Missouri-
Kansas City librarians Sharyl mpson McMillian-Nelson and Mari­
lyn G ra u b e rt h a v e  b e e n  
awarded an $8,000 grant to 

provide library services to visitors with special 
needs. The three-part program will offer basic 
library information in English and five other 
languages, in large-print and braille formats, 
and through interpreters for international visi­
tors. Staff sensitivity training and collection en­
hancem ent will also be supported by the grant.

The University of North Dakota, Grand
Forks, received a library support grant for the 
third consecutive year from the Canadian Con­
sulate General in Minneapolis and the Interna­
tional Council for Canadian Studies to purchase 
materials relevant to Canada.

W ayne State University's Library and
Information Science Program has been awarded 
two grants: $44,000 from the Title IIB Library 
Education and Human Resource Development 
Program of the U.S. Department of Education 
to fund two full-time library and information 
science graduate fellowships to assist people 
w ho plan to work in urban-area libraries; and 
$53,000 from the National Historical Publica­
tions and Records Commission to conduct a 
pilot archival survey of African American oral 
history sources to develop a plan for a national 
survey of these materials.

A c q u is itio n s
The works of Total Quality Management
(TQM) pioneer J. M. Juran have been acquired 
by the GMI Engineering & Management Insti­
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address in Detroit, Juran presented both GMI 
and Wayne State University with autographed 
copies o f his original b ook on TQM. GMI was 
o n e o f the earliest educational advocates of 
teaching TQM, the concept o f involving the 
w o rk  force in th e problem -solving process, 
keeping the custom er’s interests forem ost in 
business activities, and m aking im provem ent 
o f product an d  service
quality the prim e goal of 
b o th  labor and m anage­
ment.

A collection of mate­
rials dating mainly from 
the 1790s to the 1830s 
docum enting the life of 
Loyalist Jam es M oore’s 
fam ily in N ew  B ru n s­
wick, Canada, has been 
acquired by the Harriet 
Irving Library at the Uni­
versity o f New B runs­
w ick . T h e c o lle c tio n , 
w hich includes mostly 
letters, provides a rare, 
in tim a te  v ie w  o f  th e  
daily lives o f w om en in M in ers in  T h u rb er,
19th-century New Bruns­ F rom  th e  U n iv e r s it
wick. t o n ’s T h u rb er c o lle c

Materials documenting life and times
in th e tu rn -o f-th e-œ n tu ry  tow n o f Thurber, 
Texas, have b een  acquired by the Special Col­
lections Division of the University o f Texas at 
Arlington. The donations from several sources 
include new spapers, photographs, drawings, 
c o r r e s p o n d e n c e , b ro c h u re s , a n d  re c ip e s.

Correction
In the October C&RL News we inadvert­

ently om itted the departm ental affiliations 
for Charlotte Hess and Gerald Bernbom  at 
the bottom  of their article, “INforum: Build­
ing strong partnerships.’’ H ess’s correct p o ­
sition is director of library and information 
services in the W orkshop in Political Theory 
and Policy Analysis at Indiana University; 
Bernbom  is assistant director and senior in­
formation technology architect in the Office 
of Information Technologies at Indiana Uni­
versity. The editors regret the error.

 
y

Thurber, a com pany tow n wholly ow ned by 
the Texas and Pacific Coal Company, was hom e 
to the miners w ho w orked the local coal d e­
posits and was distinguished by its consider­
able ethnic diversity; b etw een 18 and 23 Euro­
p ean  nationalities w ere reportedly represented 
in Thurber. A significant feature of the tow n’s 
history, w hich began in 1888, is its labor strife 

and beginnings of union 
o rg a n iz a tio n . T h u rb e r 
w as a b a n d o n e d  in the 
1920s w ith the discovery 
of oil and the beginning 
of the Depression.

The papers of the
Kitchener-W aterloo
b ra n c h  o f th e  Y o u n g
Men’s Christian Associa­
tion have b e e n  acquired 
by the Doris Lewis Rare 
B ook Room at th e Li­
brary of the University of 
W aterloo, Ontario. The 
p a p e r s  d o c u m e n t th e  
history of the local asso­
c ia tio n , w h ic h  w a s  

T e x a s, c ir c a  1906. f o u n d e d  in  B e r lin / 
 o f  T e x a s at A r lin g ­ Kitchener in 1895.
t io n .

A collection of mate­
rial on  the peo p le living in the rem ote high 
m ountain valleys o f Georgia in Transcaucasia 
and in D aghestan in the northeastern Caucasus 
has b een  acquired by the American G eographi­
cal Society Collection of the Golda Meir Library 
at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The 
donation is the personal collection of Dr. Will­
iam O. Field, a prom inent figure in the history 
o f the American Geographical Society, and in­
cludes books, photographs, glass slides, files, 
notes, films, and diaries from research span­
ning over 60 years on the Caucasus Mountains.

The records of the W orld Evangelical
Fellowship (WEF) have b een  acquired by the 
Billy Graham Center Archives at W heaton Col­
lege in Illinois. The collection docum ents the 
developm ent and activities of the WEF since 
its founding in 1961, as well as activities of 
Protestant Evangelicals in most regions o f the 
world. The 103 boxes of docum ents are mainly 
from the years 1948 to 1986 and include audio- 
tapes o f speeches, seminars, and meetings, and 
over 100 photographs. ■