ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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G e o rg e  W a s h in g to n
U n iv e r s ity ’s G elm an  Li­
brary receiv ed  a $74,000 
grant under the Department 
of Education’s Foreign Peri­
odicals program to add to its 
holdings o f dem ographic, 
s ta tis tic a l, a n d  c u r r e n t 
awareness publications from 
Poland, the Czech and Slo­
vak R epublics, B ulgaria,
Russia, Ukraine, the Trans­
caucasian Republics, and the 
C entral A sian R epublics.
These materials are housed
in the library’s Information Center for the former
Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China.

Harvard University's Eda Kuhn Loeb M u­
sic Library has received a grant of $100,000 from 
Aina Swan Cutler and Henry Harrington Cutler 
to establish the Swan Cutler Finnish Music Fund. 
The intent of the fund is to promote knowl­
edge and appreciation o f Finnish music by al­
lowing the library to develop a comprehensive 
collection of Finnish music scores, recordings, 
books, and other materials. The collection will 
range from classical repertory to jazz and p opu­
lar music, as well as the various folk traditions 
of Finland, including the culture of the Lapps 
and the Karelia region.

The N e tw o rk  of A lab am a Academic Li­
braries has been aw arded $225,000 by the U.S. 
Office o f Education from the Higher Education 
Act to build a statewide online library network 
that will allow any resident of Alabama to ac­
cess library resources electronically. By adding 
PacLink software to their existing NOTIS sys­
tems, the collections of eight participating in­
stitutions will be available, in addition to a bio­
medical library and specialized branch libraries 
for architecture, education, engineering, and vet­
erinary medicine. Users will be able to browse 
over seven million bibliographic records includ­
ing serial holdings records for over 30,000 
unique serial titles.

Oklahom a State University (OSU) Librar­
ies, Stillwater, has received a grant o f $141,000 
from the Mervin Bovaird Foundation of Tulsa. 
The funds will be used by the Oklahoma Re­
search an d  C om m unity N etw ork to install

G ra n ts
a n d

Acquisitions

PACLink to connect the cata­
logs and databases of the li­
braries of OSU, OSU-College 
of Osteopathic Medicine, the 
University of Tulsa, the Uni­
versity Center at Tulsa, and 
the Tulsa/C ity C ounty Li­
brary System.

Oregon State University
Libraries, Corvallis, has re­
ceived a $330,000 three-year 
grant from the U.S. Depart­
ment of Education to dem ­
o n strate th e feasibility of 

making government information on federally 
issued compact disks available to remote users 
through dial-in access and over the Internet. 
The project, which will start with sources from 
the D epartm ent of Commerce including the 
Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic 
Analysis, will increase access to federal infor­
mation for users in the Pacific Northwest and 
will provide a model for other regions of the U.S.

Pennsylvania State University has re­
ceived several contributions to its Campaign for 
the Library, an effort to raise $10 million to 
expand Pattee Library. Recent grants have in­
cluded $150,000 from the Annenberg Founda­
tion; $50,000 from Edward Anchel, president 
of the Penn State Alumni Association, and his 
wife Judith; $50,000 from Penn State alumnus 
Richard DeFluri, a consultant with the Penn­
sylvania Financial Group; and $50,000 from 
Penn State graduate Donald Devorris, president 
of the Blair Companies, and his wife Nancy. 
The planned improvements include a multistory 
addition adjoining the East Wing to house sev­
eral new or expanded “libraries within the li­
brary” in the areas of education, life sciences, 
humanities, and business. Also included is a 
new Library for Special Collections, which will 
provide security and environmental controls for 
rare books, ancient manuscripts, and impor­
tant archives.

The Smithsonian Institution Libraries has
established the S. Dillon Ripley Library Endow­
ment with $278,000 to honor the former Secre­
tary of the Smithsonian Institution w ho founded 
the libraries 25 years ago. The endow m ent will 
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branch systems. A Special Collections Endow­
ment was also established with $343,000 from 
the sale of duplicate books from the libraries’ 
natural history collections to support special 
collections purchases.

The Universidad Adventista de las Antillas
in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, has b een  aw arded 
$49,964 from the U.S. Department of Educa­
tion College Library Technology and Grants 
Program for its Networking and Communica­
tion Project to join UPRENET (the University of 
Puerto Rico Educational Network), SOLINET/ 
OCLC, and to create machine-readable records 
for its retrospective conversion project.

The University of C alifornia-Stanford Li­
brary Consortium has received $97,000 from the 
D epartm ent of Education to acquire, catalog, 
and make available microfilm backfiles of nine 
rarely held new spapers from Tokyo, Taipei, 
Seoul, Shanghai, and Canton. The funds, which 
w ere provided through the Title VI-funded For­
eign Periodical Program, will be divided b e­
tw een Berkeley, Los Angeles, and San Diego 
cam pus libraries.

The Mortenson Center fo r International
Library Programs at the U n iversity o f  Illin o is 
at Urbana-Champaign has received $146,551 
from the Getty Grant program to support a two- 
year program  of visits by art librarians from the 
former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to the 
library. The program, which started in August 
1993, is intended to give the visitors a broad 
know ledge of and exposure to the theory and 
practice of librarianship in America. Visitors also 
will learn to use the advanced tools and tech­
nologies that increasingly are shaping libraries 
and library service throughout the world. The 
entire stay for each participant will range from 
four to six m onths each.

The U niversity o f M a n ito b a  Libraries
received two grants from the Social Sciences 
and Humanities Research Council for the pur­
chase of library materials. The Albert D. Cohen 
M anagement Library received $8,000 to pur­
chase materials to strengthen its organizational 
behavior collection. A $10,000 grant will be used 
by the Elizabeth Dafoe Library for the purchase 
o f materials in the area o f native studies. Mi­
croform sets consisting of back runs o f serials 
and original docum ents for the study of ab­
original history and culture will be acquired.

The U niversity o f N orth D a k o ta , G ran d
Forks, has received a grant from the Norwe­
gian Emigration Fund of 1975. The fund was 
established by the Norw egian Parliament in 
1975 as part of the observation o f the 150th 
a n n i v e r s a r y  o f  o r g a n i z e d  N o r w e g ia n  
em igration to the United States. The grant of 
15,000 kroner will support acquisition of con­
tem porary and antiquarian materials in Norway 
on subjects dealing with Norwegian emigration 
history and relations betw een the United States 
and Norway.

The University of Oregon (UO) Library,
Eugene, has received a grant o f $768,500 from 
the Meyer Memorial Trust o f Portland to team 
with four regional college libraries to provide 
improved library services. More than two-thirds 
o f the grant will be used to upgrade the Knight 
Library’s Technical Services Center to support 
a m erged database containing bibliographic 
records of materials in all formats from the par­
ticipating libraries. Residents throughout the 
state will gain access to the UO library’s two 
million volumes plus the 6.50,000 volumes held 
by the regional colleges. The union catalog 
should be in operation by the sum m er o f 1994.

The University o f Tennessee, K n oxville,
Libraries have received $122,298 from the U.S. 
D epartm ent of Education to aid the creation of 
library-supported scholar’s workstations to pro­
vide convenient, timely user access to informa­
tion in or near the scholar’s workplace. Four 
workstations will be installed in cam pus loca­
tions w here students an d  faculty engage in 
study of the environmental sciences. They will 
serve as a prototype o f an electronic version of 
a branch library. The grant was aw arded com ­
petitively under Title IIA of the Higher Educa­
tion Act.

A c q u is itio n s
The naval history collection of Robert N .
Sheridan of Ronkonkoma, New York, has been 
acquired by the C ollege o f  C h arleston ’s Rob­
ert Scott Small Library in South Carolina. Com­
prised o f m ore than 6,000 m onographs, jour­
nals, encyclopedias, an d  bibliographies, the 
donation is focused on naval history in the 20th 
century, but also contains w orks on maritime