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first ever received by DePaul, and the largest NE
grant ever given to the university.

• Em ory University, Atlanta, receive
$750,000 to support the creation of an endowmen
fund for library acquisitions in the humanities.

•  The John Carter Brown Library (Rhod
Island) will endow two staff positions and the activi
ties of a Center for New World Comparative Stud
ies with its $383,180 challenge grant from NEH.

•  Saint Bonaventure University {Ne
York) will support the endowment of library acqui
sitions in the humanities with its $250,000 chal
lenge grant.

•  The Folger Shakespeare Library, Wash
ington, D.C., received a $100,000 matching gran
from the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Founda
tion. The general operating grant was made i
recognition of the library’s Diamond Jubilee anni
versary year, which is being celebrated through
out 1992 with a series of special events and ne
programs for the general public. New program
introduced this year include Saturday activitie
for families with young children, an evening lectur
series, a series of gallery talks by exhibition cur
ators, and a scheduled tour program. These pro
grams will be followed in subsequent years b
other initiatives aimed at increasing the accessibil
ity of the Folger Library and its educational an
cultural resources for diverse segments of its com
munity.

•  The University o f Indiana Libraries (IUL)
Bloomington, have been awarded two grants fro
the Department of Education to facilitate retro
spective conversion. The Music Library receive
$178,000 to provide a centralized Name Authorit
Cooperative center for all of the participating li
braries of the Associated Music Libraries Group
and to retrospectively convert some sound re
cording titles. The second grant totals $74,000 an
is for conversion of the Latin American Material
Project. IU L will convert 22,600 titles in the subje
areas of Caribbean, Central, and South America
history and literature. The university will also con
vert brief records for 1,000 titles from the pamphle
collection.

•  The North C arolina State Universit
(NCSU) Libraries, Raleigh, received a U.S. De

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partment of Education Title II-D research and 
demonstration grant of $71,690 to continue the 
NCSU Digitized Document Transmission Project. 
The project investigates the transmission of digi­
tized documents via campus telecommunication 
networks and the national NSFnet/Intemet net­
work. During the first year of the project worksta­
tions were installed, network linkages were tested, 
and documents were transmitted between institu­
tions. The NCSU Libraries and Computing Center 
are developing a model for distributing the digitized 
research materials across campus networks directly 
to the scholar. The project began in 1988with initial 
funding by the U.S. Department of Agriculture 
and additional equipment donated by Apple Com­
puter, Inc.

•  The University o f Arkansas at Little Rock
received a $1 million grant from the Ottenheimer 
Brothers Foundation to strengthen library collec­
tions and upgrade library technology. The library 
also received a $25,000 grant from the Jonsson 
Foundation to purchase technology and science 
materials.

• The University o f California, Santa Bar­
bara, has been awarded $127,800 by the National 
Endowment for the Humanities for the writings of 
Henry David Thoreau for 1991-93. The project, 
located in the library, will produce new editions of 
all of Thoreau’s works including his journal and 
correspondence. Ten volumes have been published 
of an anticipated 30.

• The University o f Illinois at Urbana- 
Cham paign received an $18.7 million private gift 
to honor William Wallace Grainger, a pioneer in the 
distribution of electrical equipment and compo­
nents, to construct the Grainger Engineering Li­
brary Information Center. The planned 12,000 
square foot facility will be a part of the University 
Library system, university librarian David Bishop 
said, ‘This generous gift in memory of William 
Grainger enables us to be in the forefront of library 
service and technology, which are so important to 
the engineering comm unity. The new... center will 
provide the opportunity . . .  to develop one of the 
most sophisticated and effective information dis­
semination capabilities in existence while still satis­
fying traditional library needs. ” Grainger gradu ated 
from the University of Illinois College of Engineer­
ing in 1919 and went on to found W. W. Grainger, 
Inc., a leading distributor of equipment, compo­
nents, and supplies to the commercial, industrial, 
contractor, and institutional markets.

• W hitm an College’s Penrose Memorial Li­
brary, Walla Walla, Washington, received a $26,463 
LSCA Title III PULSe grant from the Washington 
State Library Commission to enter detailed serials 
holdings records intothe WLN database, andthecoflege’s 
Innovative Interfaces INNOPAC online catalog and 
circulation system. ■ ■