ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 6 7 2 / C&RL News G ra n ts a n d Acquisitions A d a m s S ta te C o lle ge Li brary, Alamosa, Colorado, which serves as a major re source for a large rural area in southern Colorado, has received an LSCA Title III grant for $11,519 to enhance the formal partnership b e tw een the College’s School o f E d u catio n a n d th e 14 public school districts in the area. The m oney will pur chase a kit of print and video science fair preparation ma terials for each school dis trict thus enhancing the abilities of elementary and middle school students to successfully p re pare for science fairs. Another goal o f the project is to assist in the academic preparation o f these students for better use o f the Adams State Li brary w hen they reach high school. Students a t A drian College in A drian, Michi gan, opened their academic year with a new full-text database service thanks to the college’s class of 1992. As their parting gift, the class pledged $23,000 to endow library subscriptions online and CD-ROM databases w hich provide the full text of periodicals, reference works, and other documents. H a h n e m a n n U n iv e rs ity L ib ra ry received a three-year $445,000 grant from the National Library of Medicine to build an integrated in formation and communication system to sup port the university’s research community. The grant will support the developm ent o f data bases of faculty research expertise and resources, online docum ent ordering w ith delivery of full text to the researcher’s workstation, and a com munications module for conferences, bulletin boards, calendars, and information on funding opportunities. These services, w hich also in clude on-site access to GenBank and other se quence databases, will be called the Research Information Service (RIS). L a ra m ie C o u n ty C o m m u n ity C o lle g e Li brary has received a $50,000 grant from the Union Pacific Foundation. The gift will b e used to establish an endow m ent (70%) and to make some immediate purchases of books and equip m ent (30%). T h e N o r t h e a s t D o c u m e n t Conservation Center (NEDCC), Andover, Massachu setts, received an $889,000 grant from the National En dowment for the Humanities to provide funds to NEDCC’s field service program for in stitutions in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states. The goal of NEDCC’s field service program is to bring preservation to institutions in its area by emphasizing the prevention of deterioration and the need for systematic planning for the protection of collections, to stimulate preserva tion activity, and to improve the ability of insti tutions to maintain their collections. R eed C o lle g e re c e iv e d a $ 3 0 , 0 0 0 g r a n t from the Oregon Community Foundation to help purchase the personal library of noted Port land architect A. E. Doyle. The Doyle collection consists of about 500 books and folios and is valued because it was once the w orking re source library o f one o f Portland’s leading ar chitects at the turn o f the century. Reed College also received a $65,000 plan ning grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust of Vancouver, Washington. The grant is for the Portland Area Library System (PORTALS), a cooperative endeavor of academic, public, and special libraries to provide im proved li brary and information services. The goal is to create the capabilities o f an electronically ac cessible research library in the Portland area. St. John's College, Santa Fe, N e w M exico, received a $67,438 grant from the U.S. D epart m ent of Education enabling its Meem Library to becom e a contributing mem ber in state and national library networking activities. The library will join OCLC thro u g h AMIGOS, the New Mexico Education network NEDCOMM, and will participate in the sharing of serial holdings through the state CD-ROM project. The U n iv e rs ity o f A la b a m a Libraries has been given assets w hich will result in a $1 mil lion perm anently endow ed fund know n as the John H. and Carolyn Cobb Josey Library En dow m ent Fund. The donors. Mr. and Mrs. lohn N ovem ber 199 2 / 673 H. Josey o f Birmingham, chose to support the libraries as a w ay o f contributing to the future of higher education in Alabama. The m oney will assist the libraries’ developm ent o f infor mation technology. The University o f N o rth C arolina a t Chapel H ill (UNC-CH) will receive state-of-the-art mul timedia com puter equipm ent valued at $1 mil lion from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM). The equipm ent will be u sed to access digitized audio and video materials and to sup port projects that take advantage o f multimedia and a fiber-optic netw ork coming to UNC-CH next year. The library plans to digitize original d o cu m en ts, im ages, recordings, an d v id eo materials from its Southern collection. That da tabase of electronic materials will be available to students and faculty on the netw ork and in specially eq u ip p ed classrooms. Students will be able to prepare electronic term papers that incorporate interviews and video clips o n the com puter screen. W h itm a n C o lle g e 's P enrose M e m o r ia l Li brary received a $240,000 endow m ent from the estate of Ruth McBimey, Whitman class of 1939. McBimey, retired director o f libraries an d pro fessor emerita o f Boise State University, died in March 1991. She w as head librarian of the Ameri can Library in Paris (1947-53) and received the Palmes A cadem ique from the French govern m ent for this work. Proceeds from the McBimey endow m ent will be used for library materials and autom ation at Penrose. A cquisitions The 7 0 ,0 0 0 volum es o f the N a z a re th Col lege (Kalamazoo, Michigan) Library w ere ac quired by the Baker C ollege system for its seven cam puses in Michigan after Nazareth College closed its doors at the en d o f the 1992 aca demic year. The Nazareth collection provides a liberal arts balance to Baker College’s computer, business, and medical collections. G e o rg e O r w e ll's o rig in a l h a n d w r itte n manuscript of N ineteen Eighty-four has been given to B row n U n iversity’s Jo h n Hay Library by Daniel G. Siegel, B row n Class o f 1957 and president o f M & S Rare Books. T he m anu- script, containing about 44% o f the published text, is the only know n holograph m anuscript o f the w ork, an d is the only extensive Orwell manuscript know n to survive. As Orwell’s widow w rote in a letter to Siegel, this m anuscript is a very “rare docum ent” for “G eorge always threw aw ay all his mss. letters etc., so his actual w ork ing m ethods are very badly docum ented.” The m anuscript consists of 143 leaves w ritten on 183 pages and contains both handw ritten and typed sheets. The latter are heavily overwrit ten. Nineteen Eighty-four, published in 1949, was O rw ell’s last work; he died in 1950. A total o f 2 3 2 editions o f M elville 's M o b y Dick, in 31 languages, w ere donated by alum nus William S. Clark, class of 1942, to Dart m o u th C ollege, w hich already has a substan tial M elville co llectio n . C lark says h e w as m otivated by an urge to collect books, not by a love of the epic itself: “I found it difficult to get through.” The p a p e rs o f th e B e c k w ith -F o x f a m ily have been acquired by the H untington Library. The 1,000-piece collection details the careers of Edward G. Beckwith and Jo h n L. Fox. Beckwith w as instrum ental in the com pletion of the gov ernm ent survey for a Central Pacific Railroad route. During the Civil W ar he served under G eneral Banks in U nion-occupied Louisiana. Fox served as a surgeon in the U.S. Navy dur ing the U nion blockade of southern ports. The J a n e t H o b h o u s e (1 9 4 8 -1 9 9 0 ) p a p e rs docum enting her life and career as a novelist, art critic, and biographer of Gertrude Stein have b een do n ated to Rutgers U n iversity Libraries b y A nne V irginia H o b h o u s e B erg en . T he H obhouse papers include letters, appointm ent books, m anuscripts o f pub lish ed w orks, an unpublished autobiography, unpublished es says and reviews, and reviews of h er work. The papers o f p oet James Arlington W rig h t have b een acquired by the U n iversity o f Min n eso ta . Wright (1927-1981) w as a poet and teacher w ho held positions at the University of Minnesota, Macalester College, and H unter Col lege. H e received num erous awards an d p u b lished widely, including eight books of poetry. The collection includes correspondence, jour nals, m anuscripts o f Wright’s poetry and prose, photographs, clippings, writings about Wright, and teaching notes from his various posts. ■