ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 166/C&RL News Grants and Acquisition Hugh Thompson The Association of Re search Libraries has received a $125,000 grant from the Andrew W. M ellon Founda tion for the second phase o f the Latin Am ericanist Re s e a rc h R e s o u rc e s P ilo t Project. Begun in 1994 with Mellon support, the project’s overall goals are to broaden the array o f Latin Americanist resources available to stu dents and scholars, to re structure access to these col lections on a comprehensive scale, and to assist libraries in containing costs. Duke University L ib ra ry 's John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and Afri can-American Documentation has received a $200,000 grant from the Glaxo Foundation. The grant w ill fund acquisitions to the center’s col lections and underwrite annual research awards for undergraduate, graduate, and local high school students. The center w ill focus espe cially on identifying, acquiring, and preserving documentation o f black experiences and ac complishments during the 20th century. The Folger S h ak e sp e a re Library has re ceived $25,000 from the Marpat Foundation to fund conservation treatment on 28 Shakespeare first folios from the library’s holdings, along with 45 items selected from the Folger’s STC collec tion o f English printed books from 1475 to 1640. The library’s collection o f first folios (79) is the largest in the world. Cataloging the folios was com pleted in 1992 and the Marpat project w ill com plete conservation treatment o f this collec tion. The Folger has also received a $100,000 grant from the Carl and Lily Pforzheim er Foundation for conserving and cataloging the library’s col lection o f 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Shakespeare folios, published in 1632, 1663, and 1685 respectively. The library w ill undertake the two-year project early this year, creating an online record for each fo lio which w ill include information such as former owners and manuscript annotations. The grant also provides funds to conserve 84 o f the 117 folios in the collection. Finally, the Folger has received $100,000 from the Gladys Brooks Foundation to estab lish the Gladys Brooks A c quisitions Endowment Fund. The major gift w ill support the acquisition o f rare books across disciplines. McM αster U n ive rsity’s Archives and Research Col lections has received a two- year $37,500 grant from the Social Sciences and Humani ties R esearch C ou n cil o f Canada to further strengthen its collection o f British prose fiction o f the 18th century. The funds w ill be used to acquire monographs o f British prose fiction and periodical publica tions that printed short anecdotes, narratives, and prose fiction. N ew Y o rk U n iversity's Ta miment Insti tute Library and Robert F. W agner Labor Ar chives have received a $9,900 grant to conduct a 12-month survey o f w o m en ’s history records o f N ew Y ork ’s health-related organizations. The survey w ill identify records with historical sig nificance, recomm end preservation measures when needed, and foster the developm ent o f cooperative collecting strategies among inter ested repositories. Sa n Jacinto Com munity College has re ceived a grant for $26,000 from the Fondren Foundation to fund a program o f instruction for 60 faculty members and librarians from three campuses on the use o f the Internet. The goal is to train individuals in each subject division and in the libraries to be proficient in using the Internet. Union Co llege in Sch en e ctad y, N e w York, has received an $800,000 grant from the Kresge Foundation for the renovation and ex pansion o f Schaffer Library. T o release the grant funds, the college must raise the remaining $4.9 million needed to fund the project no later than Novem ber 1, 1996. The program w ill result in added space for continued growth o f the gen eral collection; improvement in Special Collec tions accessibility and preservation; new infra structure for accommodation o f new media; and the addition o f a language lab, technological instruction center, and writing center. March 1996/167 The U niversity of Sa n Francisco has re ceived a $650,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation toward construction o f an extension to the G leeson Library. The n ew building w ill include a 4,400-square-foot glass atrium that w ill serve as a study area for stu dents and space for university functions. Other facilities w ill include computer workstations, seminar and group study rooms, a n ew art ex hibition area, multimedia study carrels, and a specially equipped study and service area for disabled students. Victoria U niversity in Toronto has re ceived a grant o f $20,000 from the Social Sci ence and Hum anities Research C ouncil o f Canada. The grant w ill fund the acquisition o f the microfilm o f John Maynard Keynes’s pa pers in K in g ’s C ollege, Cambridge, for the Woolf/Hogarth Press/Bloomsbury Special Col lection. W entw orth Institute of T ech no lo gy's Alumni Library, located in Boston, Massachu setts, received a $90,000 grant from the G eorge I. Alden Trust. The m oney w ill be used for new computer equipm ent to upgrade library sys tems and library instruction. Wentworth offers bachelor’s degrees in architecture, design, en gineering, and technology. A cquisitio ns The papers of the Irish poet Thomas Kin- sella have b een acquired by the Robert W. W oodruff Library o f Emory University. This ex tensive collection includes numerous manu scripts for each o f Kinsella’s published collec tions o f poems, as w ell as correspondence and related materials. Also included are research materials on an eighth-century Irish epic trans lated by Kinsella in 1969, and a large b oo k collection o f Kinsella’s works. The Law rence S. Rudner Holocaust M e morial Collection o f books and private papers has been acquired by the North Carolina State Ed. n o te: Send your news to: Grants & Ac quisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chi cago, IL 60611; e-mail: hugh.thompson@ala.org. University Libraries. The collection o f the late Rudner, a longtime English professor at North Carolina State, contains more than 1,900 books and videotapes, unfinished manuscripts, and research materials reflecting Rudner’s extensive investigations into European Jewish culture and the Holocaust. The manuscript collection con tains difficult-to-find resources on the Jewish experience before, during, and after the H o lo caust. Also included are books on journalism and film, research areas in which Rudner was interested. T w o a c q u isitio n s, o n e reflecting the Afro-Cuban, Black Catholic, and Haitian Cre ole culture in Miami, and the other a collection o f jazz memorabilia and recordings, have been donated to the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University. The Marvin Ellis papers in clude manuscripts, photographs, and clippings that document the Little Haiti cultural experi ence in Miami. The Lloyd and Helen Smith jazz collection includes more than 500 original jazz recordings, with Okeh, Bluebird, and Colum bia impressions. Books, clippings, and jazz memorabilia o f hundreds o f artists from the 1930s to the 1960s are in the collection. A collection of m anuscript documents and research files o f the Center for Advanced Research in Phenom enology, an international organization o f philosophers w ith headquar ters at Florida Atlantic University, has been ac quired by the Special Collections Department at the University o f Memphis Libraries. The ap proximately 60 boxes o f materials represent the w o rk o f students o f p ro m in en t A m erican phenomenologists such as A lfred Schutz, Aron Gurwitsch, and Dorion Cairns, all o f w hom were teachers at the N ew School for Social Research in N e w Y ork City, and all o f w h om w ere them selves students o f the thinker and founder o f the phenom enological movement, the German philosopher Edmund Husserl. The archives and w orking library of the late Sally W eaver, on e o f Canada’s leading an thropologists, have been acquired by the Uni versity o f W aterloo Library. The archival por tions o f the papers include a w id e range o f government publications, correspondence, the ses, research papers, and journal articles. W eaver’s scholarly interests included studies o f native Indian cultures and indigenous popula tions o f Australia and Norway. ■ mailto:hugh.thompson@ala.org