ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 618 / C&RL News ■ JulyAugust 2000 G r a n t s a n d A c q u i s i t i o n s Ann-Christe Young The U n iv e rsity o f C a lifo rn ia , R iv e rsid e (UCR), has received a grant of nearly a half­ million dollars to expand the number of Web-based academic resources the virtual library INFOMINE ( http://infomine.ucr.edu) offers. The Institute o f Museum and Library Services awarded the grant from its National Leadership Grants fund, a program that supports leading-edge activities in the field o f library and information science. With this grant and another received last year from the Fund for the Improvement o f Post-Secondary Education, UCR librarians and researchers in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering over the next two years will develop software that is expected to expand the virtual library from its current 20,000 resources to more than 100,000 and perhaps eventually to 1 million. C o r n e lI U n iv e rs ity is th e re c ip ie n t o f a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a three-year project, titled “Project Euclid,” to create an online repository for independent mathematics and statistics journals. The majority o f these independent journals have faced economic tensions and technical hurdles in making the transition to becoming Web-based publications. In Project E u clid , C orn ell U niversity Library is collaborating with Duke University Press to set up a virtual “one-stop” Web site where researchers and scholars can access dozens o f important mathematics and statistics titles. The project will support the entire span of scholarly publishing from preprints to the distribution of published journals. It will also provide journal editors with Web-based publishing tools to streamline their editorial and peer-review processes and publish in a more timely and cost-effective manner. W est V irgin ia U niversity's (WVU) Eberly College of Arts and Sciences in Morgantown, West Virginia, recently received three gifts totaling more than $2.5 million in memory o f C. Eugene Bennett— an alumnus, success­ ful chemist, entrepreneur, and real estate developer. The gifts, which will benefit the Department o f Chemistry, the Eberly College and WVU Libraries, were made by Bennett’s wife, Edna Bennett Pierce. The gifts will be used to enhance programming and graduate student support in the Department of Chem­ istry and Eberly College, and increase chem­ istry holdings in university libraries. The gifts have also created the Bennett Chemistry Pro­ gram Enhancement Fund, the C. Eugene Bennett Fellowships in the Department of Chemistry, and the C. Eugene Bennett Aca­ demic Enrichment Fund in Eberly College. The gifts also will enhance the chemistry publications collection and fund the estab­ lishment of the Bennett Periodicals Depart­ ment in the new Wise Library. Pierce has pledged an additional $1.5 million to increase the enhancement fund in the chemistry de­ partment, the library endowment, and to com­ plete the Bennett Periodicals Department. Rochester Institute o f Technology's Image Permanence Institute (IPI) in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences has received a $355,450 grant from the National Endow­ ment for the Humanities (NEH) to continue its work in saving archival collections in the humanities, arts, and sciences. The award will help fund the project Computerized Infor­ mation System for Preservation Management. This work builds on earlier results of NEH and Mellon Foundation grants that focused on advanced data-collection hardware and application software for institutional collec­ tions. A comprehensive field trial of the sys­ tem with 80 museums, libraries, historic sites, and archives will fill a key aspect of the project with expected feedback and modifications to the system. The system features a set o f hard­ ware options for gathering temperature and humidity data, a powerful software applica­ tion for data analysis, a database on environ­ mental needs o f different objects, and a Web Ed. note: Send y o u r news to : Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: ayoung@ala .org. http://infomine.ucr.edu mailto:ayoung@aia.org C&RL News ■ July/August 2000 / 619 site. The new project will focus on integrat­ ing the system and creating a “critical mass” o f several hundred database records cover­ ing the principal types o f items in historical, fine art, natural history, library, and archive collections. IPI has focused on not-for-profit research in traditional film and microfilm pres­ ervation work, alongside technical issues and problems o f digital imaging for use in library and archive collections since 1985. A c q u i s i t i o n s A co lle c tio n o f m a te ria ls re la te d to Irish author, critic, playwright, and Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett (1906-89) has been given to the University o f Delaware in Newark. Beckett is best known for his work W aiting f o r Godot, which was published in 1952. The collection, comprised o f more than 150 boxes, was the gift of Sir Joseph Gold prior to his death. “Gold’s collection o f the work of Samuel Beckett was world-renowned and we are honored that he chose the University of Delaware Library as the home for this collection,” said Timothy Murray, head of special collections. Gold was retired general counsel and director o f the legal department o f the International Monetary Fund. M alone M eurt (M alone D ies) (1951), M olloy (1951), and L ’In n om m able (T he U nnam able) (1953) are included in the collection. T h e w o r k in g lib r a r y o f S a d e q C h u b a k , one o f Iran’s foremost novelists, has been given to the University o f Virginia (UV) in Charlottesville. Consisting o f 1,020 items, Chubak’s library contains many Persian literary masterpieces and several rare Persion w ork s. Farzan eh M ilani, UV a s so c ia te professor o f Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures and Studies in Women and Gender, said researchers will now be able to study and understand Chubak’s own literary tastes and views on Persian literature from his extensive annotations in the margins o f numerous books in the collection. Milani first met Chubak when moved to America from Iran 21 years ago. This friendship was instrumental in the family’s decision to give the library to UV after Chubak’s death in 1998. The A n n e M. C ra n sto n co lle ctio n o f 4,355 cookbooks has been donated to the Huntington Library. Cranston (1906-93) came to Southern California with her husband William E. Cranston in the early 1930s. He founded the Thermador Company in Los Angeles, and she began to collect cookbooks, a pastime she continued throughout her life. The collection contains several thousand “trade” cookbooks, published by major American publishers over the last 150 years, and an equal number o f so-called “charitable" cookbooks (sold to support various causes) from the same period. Included in the collection are books such as La Cuisine Creole (New Orleans, 1885), documenting one of America’s best and strongest regional culinary traditions; T reasurer’s Cactus B arrel (Phoenix, u n d a y N ig h t S u p p e rs (1907) a n d La C uisine re o le (1 8 8 5 ) f r o m t h e A n n e M . C ra n s to n olle ctio n . 1960s), which showcases the influence of Mexican foodways upon Anglo culture; and the only known copy o f The Little Gem C ookbook, by the Ladies o f the Auburn Library Association o f Auburn, California (1888). ■ In the May 2000 issuationsflariicCe o f C&RL News, we did not clearly convey that the $20,000 grant Columbia University received from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation supplemented a $200,000 grant provided by the National Endowment for the Hu­ manities in 1999. Also, in the Ju n e issue, w e listed Blackw ell’s Information Services as the sponsor of the Excellence in Academic Li­ braries Award. The award is actually funded by Blackwell’s Book Services. The editors regret the errors. S C C 620 / C&RL News ■ JulyAugust 2000