ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries April 1994/225 Grants and Acquisitions Hugh Thompson The Art Institute o f Chi­ cago’s Ryerson and Burn­ ham Libraries h a ve b e en aw a rd ed $750,000 b y the An drew W. M ellon Founda­ tion. T h e funds, w hich are part expendable and part to be matched for endowment, w ill be used to enhance con­ trol over the existing collec­ tion and to increase access to outside electronic infor­ mation resources. The tw o li­ braries together form the sec­ o n d - la r g e s t art m u seu m library in the country, with strengths in archi­ tecture, decorative arts, and French art. An a ss o c ia tio n o f fiv e Los A n g ele s uni­ versity and college libraries has received a joint grant o f $155,000 from the W. M. K eck Foun­ dation. The funds w ill be used to install a high- quality electronic telecommunication system to share journal articles vital to research in engi­ neering and science. The netw ork w ill link the libraries at the C larem ont Colleges, O cciden­ tal College, the C alifornia Institute o f T ech ­ nology, the University o f C alifornia, Los Angeles, and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. The participating librar­ ies w ill acquire m icrocom puter workstations equipped with scanners, laser printers, and Ariel software, and connect them to the Internet. Harvard University’s Harvard-Yenching library has b een awarded a grant o f $53,500 by the Department o f Education’s Foreign Periodi­ cals Program. The grant w ill allow the library to acquire microfilm copies o f the backfiles o f 15 provin cial new spapers published in the P eo p le’s Republic o f China from the early 1950s to the mid-1980s and the m icrofilm backfiles o f other newspapers published in South Korea, North Korea, and Japan. Acquiring these mate­ rials w ill fill major gaps in the library’s hold­ ings o f East Asian newspapers and periodicals. The U n iv ersity o f A r k a n s a s a t Little R o ck ’s O tte n h e im e r Library w as a w a rd ed $375,000 by the National Endowment for the Humanities to strengthen its humanities col­ lections. In addition, $125,000 was awarded by the Jonsson Foundation and $7,500 by the Trinity Foundation to assist li­ brary technological d evelo p ­ ment. The U niversity o f C al­ gary’s history librarian, Nora D. S. Robins, is the recipient o f tw o Social Science and Humanities Research Coun­ cil o f Canada Support to Spe­ cialized Collections grants. A s u p p le m e n ta l g ra n t o f $12,000 was awarded for the acquisition o f material for the m ilitary/diplom atic history collection, which had received $20,000 in 1992- 93- T h e major acquisition w ill be War Time Translations o f Seized Japanese Documents (2,212 m icrofiche). The second grant was for $2,500 tow ard the acquisition o f material in Mexican history. Professor Ray Larson a t the University of California, Berkeley’s (U C B) School o f Library and Information Studies has received a $117,770 Title IIB grant from the U.S. Department o f Education for the first year o f the CHESHIRE D em onstration and Evaluation Project. The CHESHIRE system, an experimental online cata­ lo g d evelo p ed by Larson, w ill be im plem ented in UCB’s Astronomy-Mathematics-Statistics Li­ brary. It w ill d ep lo y the next-generation sys­ tem o f advanced inform ation-retrieval tech­ niques in a w orking library environm ent and evaluate its use and acceptance by local library patrons and remote netw ork users. The U niversity o f Illinois a t U rb a n a - Cham paign’s Mortenson Center for Interna­ tional Library Programs has received a $180,000 grant from the A n drew W . M ellon Foundation to support a training and professional d evel­ opm ent program for Central American academic and research librarians. The grant w ill allow the center to bring up to 10 librarians from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nica­ ragua to the university library. Three to five Ed. note: Write to.- C&RL N ew s, Grants & Acquisitions, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611, f o r possible publication o f your grant or acqui­ sition news. 226/C&RL News librarians w ill be selected for the first year o f the tw o-year program and w ill arrive at the university in May 1994. The University o f Sa s k a tch e w a n Librar­ ies, Saskatoon, Canada, have received a grant o f $16,000 from the Social Sciences and Hu­ manities Research Council o f Canada in sup­ port o f their agricultural collection. The award w ill be used to purchase the Food and Agricul­ tural O rganization documents collection in full- text microfiche from 1988 to the present. A cquisitions The Hancock Family Papers, the business papers o f Boston merchant Thomas Hancock and his neph ew John, the revolutionist, have been acquired by the Baker Library at Har­ vard University. T he papers w ere on loan to the library from the Historic G enealogical Soci­ ety and w e r e a cq u ired in h o n o r o f M ary Chatfield, former librarian o f Baker Library. The collection, which also includes the papers o f publisher Daniel Henchman (father-in-law o f John Hancock) and the business records o f Peter Faneuil, contains a range o f information on the social, econom ic, and material culture o f co lo ­ nial N ew England, com plem enting other col­ lections on 18th-century life in the library’s His­ torical Collections Department. The preparation of photographer Harold Edgerton’s papers for access has been com ­ p leted b y the M assach u setts In stitu te o f (Washington cont.from page 218) column is urgently needed. I f you are not part o f your state’s library delegation to Legislative Day on April 19, then write to your representa­ tive and senators in support o f restoration o f funds for HEA II college library technology, re­ search library resources, and research and edu­ cation programs. Libraries are the infrastruc­ ture for education and research. The federal stimulus for HEA II activities is needed to make meaningful the goal o f connecting every school and library to the information superhighway. Please send a blind cop y o f your letter to the A LA Washington O ffice so w e can make use o f your examples. ■ Technology (M IT ) Archives. The core o f the collection documents Edgerton’s research ac­ tivities in his laboratory at MIT, his research and developm ent w ork for the U.S. military in W orld W ar II, and his field w ork applying flash photography and sonar techniques to under­ water exploration. His laboratory notebooks are a consistent record o f his research at the insti­ tute from 1930 to 1990 and are a valuable re­ source for learning h o w advances in science and te c h n o lo g y are m ade. T h e y illustrate through notes, diagrams, data, and photographs the step-by-step evolution o f his ideas. The archives o f the National Network of Hispanic W om en, a national resource center that links professional w o m en with on e another and strives to provide role m odels for young Hispanics, have been acquired by the Califor­ nia Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA), part o f the University o f California, Santa B arbara’s Special Collections. The collection records the accomplishments o f Chicanas in the areas o f education, politics, and the arts, and provides a substantial addition to the Chicano/ Latino com ponent o f CEMA. A gift o f 5 7 3 historical children's b o o k s ; 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century fin ely printed books; and m odern w orks on the history o f children’s literature has been received by the University o f Arizona from Margaret Maxwell, recently retired professor o f library science, w h o taught award-winning cataloging classes. High spots in the collection include a representative sampling o f late-19th-century textbooks, sev­ eral 19th-century chapbooks, a 1650 Elzevir im­ print, and an Isaiah Thomas printing o f the Holy Bible dated 1793. A collection of 2 5 ,0 0 0 item s related to the Equal Suffrage League o f Virginia and its suc­ cessor, the Virginia League o f W o m en Voters, has been accessioned by the Virginia State Library and Archives and is n o w available for use by researchers and historians. The col­ lection was originally given to the library in 1942 by Ida Mae Thom pson, a clerk with the W o rk s P ro gre s s A d m in istra tio n H isto rica l Records Survey. It contains correspondence, or­ ganizational records, newspaper clippings, but­ tons, postcards, and other items documenting the League’s efforts to w in the vote, as w ell as to pass child labor law reform and fo o d and drug regulations. ■