ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries July/August 1996/453 Grants and Acquisitions Hugh Thom pson A u g u s t a na C o lle g e in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has r e c e iv e d a grant o f $150,000 for the Mikkelsen Library from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation. The funds will be used to enhance the library’s tech­ nological resources and to upgrade the student com­ puter lab. The Concord Free P u b­ lic Library’s Special Collec­ tions Department has re­ ceived a $10,000 grant from the Massachusetts Board o f Library Commissioners for preserva­ tion o f specific high-demand items o f particu­ lar historical or literary significance in the Vault Collection o f archival and manuscript materi­ als. Items slated for treatment include a 1774 covenant o f Concord residents agreeing to sus­ pend commercial dealings with England, a 1776 Salem-printed Declaration o f Independence, and manuscripts by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. The Episcopal D ivinity School/W eston Jesuit School o f Theology Library has received a grant o f $125,000 from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation to purchase hardware and software and install an online catalog and circulation sys­ tem. The funds will also support improved network communications between the library and the two seminaries it serves. H arvard University's College Library has received a $500,000 grant from the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation o f N ew York to endow stu­ dent assistantships in the Judaica Division. The positions will be called the Littauer Judaica Stu­ dent Assistantships. The L ib ra ry of C o n g re ss (LC) h a s re ­ ceived a $2 million gift from the Ameritech Foundation in support o f its National Digital Library (NDL) Program. The goal o f the LC’s digital program is to make freely available over the Internet approximately five million histori­ cal items by the year 2000, in collaboration with other institutions throughout the country. Ameritech’s gift will support that goal by al­ lowing selected libraries across the United States to d ig itiz e th eir unique American historical collec­ tions for incorporation into the NDL program. The U n iversity of Penn­ sylvania Library has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to catalog its col­ lection o f Marian Anderson papers, which were donated over a 14-year period begin­ ning in 1977. The grant pro­ vid e s ou trigh t funds o f $18,370 and matching funds o f $50,000 to cre­ ate RLIN catalog records for the collection, which includes clippings, programs, photo­ graphs, correspondence, printed and manu­ script scores, and sound recordings that docu­ ment Anderson’s life and career from her birth in 1897 to the year before her death in 1992. California Polytechnic State U niversity’s Robert E. Kennedy Library has been awarded a grant o f $15,000 from the CSU Council o f Li­ brary Directors for the further development o f the California Cultural Studies Digital Library. The Digital Library is designed to link special collections related to California architecture, his­ tory, politics, ethnography, and journalism un­ der one site for easy access by students, fac­ ulty, and research ers. A ccess w ill be accomplished through creation o f finding aids, hyperlinks, and digital images o f selected items from each collection. The U n iversity of British C o lu m b ia's Li­ brary Endowment for Collections has received more than $50,000 from the university’s Parent Appeal campaign. One out o f four parent do­ nors in the spring ‘96 campaign requested that their contributions go to library collections. Acquisitions The p ro fessio n al a n d p e rso n al p a p e rs and memorabilia o f the late Chief Justice o f the United States Warren Burger have been given to the Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College 454/C&RL News o f William and Mary in Williamsburg, where Burger served as chancellor from 1986 to 1993. The collection o f more than two million items includes, in addition to the paper archive, some 150 ceremonial robes, pictures, awards, books written or edited by Burger, and a porcelain sculpture o f an eagle with an American flag in its talons presented to Burger in 1991 by the Commission on the Bicentennial o f the U.S. Con­ stitution. Items in the collection reflect Burger’s childhood and early years through law school to the Department o f Justice and the Court of Appeals. All the decisions from the Supreme Court are included, as well as Burger’s work as chairman o f the Bicentennial Commission. A m a jo r collection o f A fric a n a m a te ri­ als has been acquired by N ew York University’s Elmer Holmes Bobst Library to support the university’s Africana studies program. The 80,000 books, periodicals, and pamphlets cover a wide range o f subjects related to the African diaspora, with material on Sub-Saharan Afri­ can, African American, and Afro-Caribbean cul­ tures. The collection’s wealth o f out-of-print ma­ terials includes a first edition by Philadelphia abolitionist William Stills containing interviews with runaway slaves w ho came through the Underground Railroad. The collection came from the University Place Bookshop, a store in a ninth-floor Union Square apartment that opened its doors in 1932, offering material such as old copies o f Ebony‚ first editions o f poetry by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, and an in-depth selection o f books in original Afri­ can languages. O rig in a l d ra w in g s from the comic strip series F o r Better o r F or Worse have been do­ nated by the creator, cartoonist Lynn Johnston, to the cartoon Research Library at Ohio State University. The donation also includes letters received after the death o f the beloved dog in the comic strip, Farley, after his rescue o f little April from drowning. More than 650 letters re­ flect diverse opinions among readers, some o f whom were offended by the dog’s death, while others were reconciled that the animal’s time had come and went on to share their own per­ sonal experiences with the loss o f a pet. Ed. note: Send y o u r news to: Grants & A c ­ quisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. H u ron St., C hi­ cago, IL 60611; e-mail: hthompson@ala.org. A collection of m o re th an 2 ,0 0 0 ch em ­ istry volumes housed in Harding University’s Brackett Library in Searcy, Arkansas, has been designated as an historical chemical landmark by the American Chemical Society as part o f its effort to increase awareness o f these resources on the part o f science educators, researchers, and historians. Included in the collection, which documents the progression o f chemical history, are eight books that date to the l600s, the old­ est o f which is a 1609 edition o f B asilica Chymica by Oswald Croll. Among the unique items in the collection are a 42-volume set o f chemistry courses offered by mail from 1900 to 1940 by the International Correspondence School o f Scranton, Pennsylvania, and a 1945 book on radioactivity titled A tom ic Energy f o r M ilitary Purposes, which served as the United States Army’s official history o f the develop­ ment o f the atomic bomb. A collection o f 1 ,5 0 0 French b o o k s a n d manuscripts dating from the late 1400s to the middle o f the 19th century have been acquired by the Stanford University Libraries. The acqui­ sition will be known as the Gustave Gimon Collection o f French Political Economy, in memory o f Gustave Gimon (1907-91), a phi­ lanthropist and leader o f the French Resistance. The collection includes volumes on religious theory, trade with the Americas, colonial policy, and transmission o f economic systems to non- European settings. With works on a variety o f themes in French and European religious, po­ litical, social, cultural, and economic history, the collection demonstrates the interlacing o f economics and political theory in the years before and after the French Revolution. A collection of Rena issαnce-erα b o o ks has been acquired by the University Library at the University o f California, Santa Cruz. The books are primarily Italian scholarly texts printed in the 16th century by many o f the best-known Italian, French, and German scholar-printers o f the Renaissance. Included are Greek and Latin texts o f such scholars as Cicero, Erasmus, Plutarch, Aristotle, and Horace, as w ell as texts in Italian o f Renaissance authors. A collection o f b ro a d s id e s a n d p a m ­ phlets, to be known as the Fuchs/Auspitz Col­ lection o f Broadsides and Pamphlets from the V ie n n a R e v o lu tio n and Its A fterm ath , 1848-1850, has been acquired by the Special mailto:hthompson@ala.org July/August 1996/455 Collections Department o f the University o f Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Donated by Josiah Lee Auspitz, the collection augments the library’s holdings o f German-language Viennese Revolution materials that document the rapidly unfolding events o f the full length o f the revo­ lutionary period up to the aftermath o f the ca­ pitulation o f the revolutionary forces. The p a p e rs of the Franco -R ussian n o v­ elist and revolutionary Victor Serge (1890-1947) have been acquired from his son, the painter Vlady Kibalchich, by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. Serge was a Russian Bolshevik whose life and activi­ ties spanned some o f the most tumultuous years o f the century in Russian and European poli­ tics. He was an organizer o f the Communist International, setting up the Comintern pub­ lishing house and print shop and editing Imprekorr, the Comintern press service in Ber­ lin and Vienna. He was later expelled from the Party, imprisoned in Central Asia, and then ex­ iled, first to Europe and finally to Mexico. The acquisition includes Serge’s research files and drafts o f articles, largely from periods o f his life spent in Marseilles and Mexico (1940-47), as well as manuscripts from some o f his many books. The archive also includes unpublished drafts, photographs, clippings, and correspon­ dence with such figures as Leon Trotsky, André Gide, George Orwell, and Dwight MacDonald. The R hom bus M edia film a rc h iv e , certi­ fied as nationally significant by the Cultural Property Review Board, has been acquired by the York University Archives and Special Col­ lections in Toronto. Rhombus Media was formed in 1979 by three York University film students and produced more than 50 critically acclaimed films. The collection comprises 40 titles, 34 hours o f finished film, plus 720 hours o f raw film and videotape, as well as all pro­ duction materials for the recent world-renowned production Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. ■ (CCUMC cont. from page 440) classroom or lecture hall. Distance education systems integrating computers, video, and tele­ communication technologies can carry ad­ vanced and specialized courses beyond the campus to remote and nearby sites. Communi­ cation tools and computing create electronically linked, global communities. N ew visualization tools provide learning experiences in interac­ tive, virtual environments. The proponents o f educational reform believe that the time is right to make the transition from a teacher-centered environment to a learner-centered one because o f the vast amount o f change required in higher education. Instructional technology as a tool is view ed as a means o f supporting the educa­ tional goals o f the new teaching infrastructure. K eep in g a ll the b a lls in the a ir T w o final presentations were very popular. Ber­ nard Colo’s (Simmons College) “Juggling 101, Keeping All the Balls in the Air: Designing and Building Classrooms o f the 21st Century: A Case Study” described Simmons’ four-month reno­ vation o f three major campus classrooms and the constraints and environments involved, in­ cluding the needs o f a faculty o f diverse teach­ ing styles, incorporating multimedia and com­ puting capabilities, deciding what equipment should be included, incorporating ADA guide­ lines, and following through with the design and installation. C a talo g s on the W eb Finally, Peter Mason presented “W W W Access to Your Catalog: Techniques and Pitfalls” in which he focused on the use o f Medianet to make your media catalog accessible through y o u r W e b h o m ep a g e. H e dem onstrated Medianet’s capability to access your online public access catalog through a W eb home­ page, maintaining your catalog on the Web, creating mediagraphies, and automatic updat­ ing. He demonstrated exporting the data and creating the header, title list, html trailer, order form, detail description file, contact info, de­ tailed annotations, and a mediagraphy list. He encouraged the audience to access http:// www.dymaxion.ns.ca/medianet and click on OPAC options for a demonstration. A useful conference The conference provided a time o f intellectual stimulation, rich networking opportunities, and wonderful amenities. The next conference o f CCUMC will be October 17– 21, 1996, hosted by the University o f Kansas, Lawrence. For more information contact Don Rieck, executive di­ rector, CCUMC, (515) 294-8022. ■ http://www.dymaxion.ns.ca/medianet