ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries December 1989 / 1017 W o m e n ’s S tu d ie s S e c tio n Executive: Friday, January 5,2:00-4:00 p.m.; T ues­ day, January 9, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Communications: Saturday, January 6, 9:30-11:00 a.m.; Monday, January 8, 9:30-11:00 a.m. C onference Program Planning—Chicago, 1990: Monday, January 8, 8:00-9:00 a.m. C o nference Program Planning— Atlanta, 1991: Sunday, January 7, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Nominating: Monday, January 8, 8:00-9:00 a.m. Publications: Monday, January 8,11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Technical Services: Sunday, January 7, 4:30-5:30 p.m. ■ ■ News from the Field Acquisitions • C olorad o State U niversity, F o rt Collins, recently acquired records representing nearly a century of history o f th e developm ent and activities o f th e W om en’s Athletic and D ance D epartm ents, th e W o m e n ’s A th le tic A sso cia tio n a n d th e W om en’s R ecreation Association. This new addi­ tion to the University Archives constitutes a p o ten ­ tially rich prim ary resource for th e study o f early w om en’s physical education and for th e broader subject o f th e contribution o f w om en faculty to higher education, especially in th e first half o f the 20th century. • C orn ell U n iversity Library, Ithaca, New York, has received the Biblioteca Ayacucho from P resident Carlos Andres Perez o f Venezuela. This massive series, designed to presen t m odem edi­ tions o f im portant literary and historical texts from throughout th e Latin American region was inspired and sponsored by P resident Perez during his first term (1975-1980). O n his recent visit to th e C or­ nell campus to receive th e H enry E. and Nancy H orton Bartels W orld Affairs Fellowship, Perez delivered the first 135 volumes o f th e series which is projected to double in size by 1992, th e 500th an­ niversary o f C hristopher C olum bus’ initial voyage to America. • D allas T h eological Seminary, Dallas, Texas, has received th e archival materials o f CAM In te r­ national, a missionary agency headquartered in Dallas, Texas. F o u n d ed in 1890 by C. I. Scofield, th en pastor o f F irst Congregational C hurch in Dallas, as the C entral American Mission, it becam e CAM International after extending its work to Mexico, Spain, and South America. T he Mission has had a close association with Dallas Seminary, founded in 1924 by Lewis S periy Chafer, who served as general secretary o f th e Mission from 1921-1924. The CAM International records in ­ clude administrative correspondence, mission re c­ ords, publications, m inutes of Council and Board meetings, news and prayer letters, and miscellane­ ous m aterials. T h e Mission designated Dallas Seminary as th e repository for its archives in O cto­ b e r 1989. The collection consists at this tim e o f 15 boxes of records. • K en t State U n iversity Libraries, Ohio, have recently acquired th e papers of Thomas Richard W irth, a veteran o f th e N ew York Art scene of the past two decades, including correspondence with p ro m in en t artists, examples o f “mail art,” and ephem era such as art announcem ents and catalogs. W irth arrived in New York in th e early 1960s and soon becam e friends with artists, w riters, and ac­ tors. W irth participated in th e mail art m ovem ent both as a recipient o f work from such networks as th e Ontological News Service and as an artist using th e postal service. His collection includes th e 1982 drawing, “Mi Californita,” by his long-time friend Ira Joel H aber, and an altered photograph in Brian Buczak’s “You Are H e re ” series. Also in th e collec­ tion are letters from poets Michael Andre, David R attray and Carol Berge, com poser Stephen Sond­ heim , d ire c to r M elvin B ern h ard t, b ookbinder G e ra rd C h a rrie re , e d ito r Jo sep h M cC rindle, filmmaker Roger Jacoby, and artists William An­ thony, B uster Cleveland, John Evans, Ray Johnson, Lowell N esbitt, Carlo P ittore and May Wilson. W irth, a native of Minnesota, died in 1987 at the age o f 47. • T he U n iversity o f C aliforn ia at Berkeley’s E ast Asiatic Library has received a major collection o f C hinese books through a bequest m ade by the late E lizabeth Huff, head o f th e library during its first 20 years, beginning in 1947. She left a scholar’s working library of m ore than 5,000 volumes o f C hinese literature, classics, philosophy, and his­ tory. In addition to reference works in C hinese, 1018 / C&RL News Japanese, English, and French, th ere are nearly 250 monographs in W estern languages: transla­ tions of Chinese poetry and literary classics, and critical studies of Chinese literature. Among the books are several rare items. There is a single specimen volume from the voluminous Imperial M anuscript Library, the Ssu-k’u c h ’uan-shu, com ­ m is s io n e d by th e C h ’ie n - lu n g E m p e r o r (1736-1796), Chuan 3 and 4 o f th e Chu-yeh lu, a 15th-century work. There is a fragm ent page of a manuscript from the Tun-huang cache, probably of the 9th o r 10th century. Also included is a 16th- century edition o f the encyclopedia, I-wen lei-chu, in 24 fascicles. Included in the gift are 23 paintings, rubbings, works o f calligraphy, and manuscript leaves; she also left to the University o f California 97 ceramic pieces from China, Korea, and Japan and 37 cultural objects o f jade, metal wood, and textiles. These articles have been housed in the Lowie M useum of Anthropology. • The U n iversity o f C o n n ectic u t’s H om er Babbidge Library, Special Collections D e p a rt­ m ent, Storrs, has acquired th e first installm ent of the archives of noted children’s book illustrator and author, L eonard E verett Fisher. It consists of F isher’s com plete correspondence with his p u b ­ lishers, agents, and others, from 1968 to the p re s­ ent. Also included in the first installm ent o f m ate­ rial w ere m anuscripts, galleys, dum m ies, and proofs, as well as notices of personal appearances, clippings, printing blocks, and an oil painting of Fisher. • The U niversity o f Illin ois Library at Ur- bana-Champaign has recently added 219 letters of H. G. Wells (1866-1946) to its extensive collection of W ells’s correspondence housed in the Rare Book and Special Collections Library. Purchased from his daughter, Anna Jane Kennard, of New Zealand, th e letters are addressed to h er and her m other, A m ber Reeves Blanco-W hite, and dated betw een 1906-1939. Included also are 79 leaves from 5 fragments of unpublished drafts o f m anu­ scripts . The letters were purchased with funds from the E. Kenneth Gray Endowm ent. • The U niversity o f M aine, Orono, has ac- quired two collections of business records signifi­ cant to th e history of lum bering in the state. The Ames Collection contains records of S. W. Pope & Co., 1856-1879, John K. Ames, 1879-1899, and Machias L um ber Co., 1899-1950. These e n te r­ prises included tim berland holdings in townships at the headwaters of the Machias River, interests in a log-driving company on the Machias River, a saw­ mill and a company store in Machias, and interests in schooners sailing from Machias. T ogether they m ade up a vertically integrated operation at the center of th e Downeast economy for m uch o f the late 19th century and th e early 20th century. The collection consists of 80 linear feet of day books, journals, ledgers, surveyors records, letter books, store inventories, and o th er business documents. The Coe Collection consists of records o f E benezer Coe and the Coe Family from the 1870s to the 1940s. The Coe interests, based in Bangor, m an­ aged extensive undivided tim berlands in northern and eastern Maine. T he collection consists o f 30 linear feet o f day books, journals, ledgers, letters, and real estate documents. They include tim ber­ cutting records in northern Maine townships dat­ ing from th e 1840s through the 1880s. • The U n iversity o f Texas at A rlington Li- braries have received a vast collection of maps, docum ents, manuscripts, pam phlets, newspapers, and other valuable historical material concerning Texas and the Southwest donated by T ed W. May- born o f deC ordova B end Estates at Granbury, Texas. The donation is th e first in series of gifts to the library by M aybom and has an appraised value o f $140,000. It includes more than 1,400 original maps, many o f which depict Texas and the South­ west. Among the Texas maps in the collection are circa 1884 city maps o f Galveston, Houston, B ren­ ham, and Palestine; a b ird ’s eye view map o f San Antonio, 1891; Charles W. Pressler’s Traveller’s Map o f Texas, 1967; Zebulon M. Pike’s A Map o f the Internal Provinces o f N ew Spain, 1807; and Sidney Morse and Samuel B reese’s Texas, 1844. In addi­ tion to th e maps, the collection includes m ore than 800 individual newspapers from across the United States, reporting from Texas th e events occurring during colonization, the revolution against Mexico, th e republic and statehood periods, and th e Civil W ar and post-war years. The fall of th e Alamo, Travis’ letter, and th e Texas D eclaration of In d e­ pendence are also fully reported in these papers. Also included are several h u n d red pam phlets con­ cerning events in Texas communities, biographies, personal diaries, early county histories, and ap­ proximately 250 lithographs from the 19th century depicting scenes in Texas and Mexico. Grants • The Libraries of th e C larem on t C olleges, Clarem ont, California, have received a total of $68,709 in federal funds provided by the Library Services and C onstruction Act, Title III. T he funds are authorized by th e California State Library for two retrospective conversion projects, which will perm it the Libraries to catalog rare materials and to m ake th e m accessible online to library users throughout California and the country. O ne proj­ ect will process 7,800 musical scores, 4,000 hym­ nals and songbooks, and 9,700 music books. The second will process 7,000 primarily pre-1900 im ­ prints located in the Philbrick Library o f Dram atic 1 0 2 0 / C&RL News Literature and T heatre History at the Clarem ont Colleges Libraries. • The Com m ission on Preservation and Pub- lic A ccess has been awarded a grant in the am ount o f $300,000 from the William and Flora Hew lett Foundation to help support national and interna­ tional preservation and access programs. T he grant will contribute to th e support of a broad range of preservation programs and projects, both currently operating and to be developed over the next two years. Ongoing programs o f the Commission in­ clude an international initiative to explore coopera­ tive microfilming, a communication program to maintain national visibility and support for the preservation cause, scholarly advisory committees to assist in the indentifìcation o f selection criteria for filming, and a n um ber of technological explora­ tions. • The Library o f C ongress has received a $1,000,000 grant from Jones International, Ltd., andits subsidiary, M ind Extension University (M E/ U), based in Englewood, Colorado, for a Global Library Project that will link th e vast repositoiy of information o f th e Library of Congress with the basic cable television service o f ME/U. The Global Library Project will produce library-related infor­ mational and instructional program m ing for li­ brarians and th e public to be cablecast one hour per day on M ind Extension University beginning Janu- aiy 1, 1990. Mind Extension University is a televi­ sion network devoted solely to continuing educa­ tion via distance learning. The project also will form a task force consisting of industry leaders and futur­ ists to address technological and dissemination is­ sues related to the American M emory program at th e Library of Congress. American M emory is a national program that will provide a series o f prod­ ucts in different formats and m edia and take full advantage of th e unique resources and capabilities o f the world’s largest repository o f knowledge and information at th e Library o f Congress. The p ro ­ gram will disseminate throughout the nation col­ lections that illuminate facets o f American history and culture. American M emory collections will be drawn from Library o f Congress holdings o f m anu­ scripts, sound recordings, books, motion pictures, and graphic and photographic materials. • Pittsburgh R egion al Library C e n te r has been notified of funding for its second College Libraiy Technology Cooperation grant proposal un d er the category of “Service to Institutions” for $20,134 to provide m icrocom puter training to m em bers in higher education institutions in P enn­ sylvania and w estern Maryland. Last year th e C en ter received a grant to provide training support for W est Virginia. The College Library Technology Cooperation G rants program addresses regional and national needs for resource sharing in an at­ tem pt to bring new technologies to libraries. The grant assumes a one-third cost sharing arrange­ m ent on the part of the receiving institution. T here is a $15,000 grant m inim um which may be ex­ ten d ed over a th ree year period. The grant money may be used for all related expenses necessary for resource sharing or the im plem entation of new technologies in th e library. The Pittsburgh Re­ gional Library C en ter is a not-for-profit, m em ber­ ship organization for libraries and information centers in W estern Pennsylvania, W est Virginia, and W estern Maryland. • Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, has been aw arded a challenge grant of $500,000 from the Kresge Foundation for construction of th e D ibner Library o f Technology and Science. The state-of-the-art library and information center will be at th e heart of M etroTech, the $1 billion academic/industrial research park conceived by Polytechnic and co-developed by th e university and F orest City/M etroTech Associates. The Uni­ versity, which has raised more than $14 million to date, needs an additional $1.5 million to m eet the Kresge challenge. M ajor support has come from the late Bern D ibner, a Polytechnic alumnus in whose honor the library wiil be nam ed, from Jo­ seph J. Jacobs, class o f 1937, Polytechnic trustee and form er chairman o f th e board, as well as from th e Pfizer Foundation. • The U niversity o f T e n n e sse e , Knoxville, Libraries recently received a grant from the U.S. D epartm ent o f Education to develop a com puter- based training program for library staffs. The total cost o f the project is budgeted for $103,667, of which the departm ent o f Education is providing $66,901 (67%). E quipm ent provided for the proj­ ect includes seven Apple Macintosh computers and a scanner that turns pictures and other print images into electronic ones for incorporation into the training modules. At th e conclusion o f the developm ent phase, th e com puters will be used as training stations for training and re-training UTK Libraries employees. After the training modules have been tested, they will be m ade available to libraries nationwide for use in th eir training p ro ­ grams. • The U niversity o f W aterloo Library, On- tario, has received a Social Sciences and H um ani­ ties Research Council o f C anada grant o f $35,000 to acquire rare architectural books for the Rosa B reihaupt C lark A rchitectural Collection. T he Rosa B reihaupt Clark A rchitectural Collection consists o f works which have influenced architec­ tural discourse since the 16th century. Now recog­ nized as a national resource, th e collection is indis- pensible for teaching and research which, in turn, link directly to architectural practice and its effect on city planning in Canada. December 1989 / 1021 News notes • The M issouri H istorical Society, St. Louis, has begun construction o f a new storage and con­ servation facility and renovation o f th e form er U nited H e b rew T em p le for its library an d archives. T he new structure will provide 54,000 square feet o f secure, clim ate-controlled space for preserva­ tion o f the Society’s collections. Conservation labo­ ratories, processing areas and research facilities are planned, as well as related staff offices. T he 1927 tem p le building, u sed by th e U n ited H eb rew C ongregation until S eptem ber 17,1989, will house the main library, archives, and pictorial history collections with stacks, offices, and a com m unity m eeting space. T he total cost o f th e new construc­ tion and renovation is estim ated to be $7.5 million. F unding will com e from th e tax m oney received from th e History M useum Sub-district and from private contributions. • T he S tan ford U n iversity Libraries’ experi- ence with the re cen t earthquake is excerpted from a B IT N E T message of O ctober 19, re p rin te d in the Arizona State University Newsletter: “Braun Music C en ter...h ad no structural damage, b u t th e library was a mess with books and o th er m aterials all over th e floor and one of our big card catalog units had fallen over....O th er library facilities on cam pus did not hold up so well. T h ere is major structural dam age in th e old p art o f th e main library which houses all o f th e technical services [including] preservation and special collections. It seems that structural repairs to th a t building, if they can be m ade at all, are likely to take a couple of years. Planning is now going on for th e best way to keep th e technical services operation functioning and how best to extract all of th e rare m aterials from th at building; no one is allowed to e n te r th at build­ ing at this point since it appears th at th e aftershocks are making th e building even less stable. T he u n ­ d e rg ra d u a te lib rary an d several o f th e o th e r branches are still closed pending fu rth e r inspection o f th e facilities for dam age and asbestos problem s. I heard an estim ate th at a third to one h alf of the books w ere knocked off th e shelves library-wide. So it looks like we have a major clean-up effort ahead of us and th at [regular] workflow and receipt o f m aterials, binding, etc., may be d isrupted for some tim e.” ■ ■ P E P O L E Profiles James R. Benn has been appointed research associate at the National Commission on Libraries and Inform ation Science, W ashington, D .C. Benn com es to th e Commission from th e C onnecticut State Library, w here he was director o f th e D e p a rt­ m ent o f Planning and N etw ork Services. In this role, he developed a reorganization plan for th e Division o f Library Services, an autom ation plan for th e Division, conducted a statewide needs as­ sessm ent o f th e state interlibrary delivery system, and served as liaison betw een th e agency and six regional library cooperatives. F ro m 1978 to 1988, B enn was executive director o f th e Southeastern C onnecticut Library Association. H e has taught in th e School of Library Science and Instructional Technology at th e S outhern C onnecticut State University. B enn is a m em ber o f th e American Library Association and th e C onnecticut Library Association. H e has served on num erous com m it­ tees, both within professional associations and in his com m unity. H e has published in th e profes­ sional literature, prim arily in th e areas o f legislation and library adm inistration. A graduate of th e U ni­ versity o f C onnecticut, B enn received his MLS from S outhern C onnecticut State University. The U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Infor­ m ation S cience is a p e rm a n e n t, in d e p e n d e n t agency of th e F ed eral G overnm ent charged with advising both C ongress and th e P resident on m at­ ters relating to national library and information policies and plans, and local libraiy needs and services. Howard D illon has been nam ed director of academ ic inform ation services at C olum bia U ni­ versity Libraries, N ew York. Dillon comes to Co­ lum bia from th e University o f Chicago Library, w here h e was associate director for public services. D illon’s responsibilities include th e developm ent