ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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A cquisitions
H u g h  T h o m p s o n

Ca l P o ly’s K e n n e d y  Li­
brary has received a $4,000 
W h itn ey -C a rn e g ie A w ard 
from the American Library 
Association to publish, in­
dex, and microfilm back is­
sues o f th e ethnic journal 
A rtist a n d  Influence: The 
Journal o f  the Archives o f 
B lack A m erican C ultural 
History. T h e cu ltu ral arts 
publication is illustrated with 
portraits and includes inter­
views o f w ell-know n artists, 
musicians, poets, designers, 
and playwrights. The m oney was aw arded t
Paul Adalian, h ead  o f the library’s Referenc
D epartm ent, an d  Susan Duffy, p rofessor o
speech communication.

The Center for R esearch Lib raries ha
b ee n  aw arded a grant from the National En
d ow m ent for the Humanities on behalf o f th
South Asia Microform Project for $220,660 an
an additional $39,175 contingent u p o n  receip
o f matching funds. The grant will be used fo
microfilming and cataloging significant earl
20th-century Indian m onographs in Marathi
Gujarati, Sindhi, Konkani, and English, the majo
languages o f w estern India.

T e x a s Tech U n iversity 's Sou th w est C o l
lection has received a grant o f $105,760 fro
an anonym ous do n o r to provide for the care
p reserv atio n , a n d  availability o f th e  Fran
Reeves P h otograph Collection an d  Exhibits
photos and new s clippings that docum ent th
West Texas ranching industry from the 1920
to the 1970s. The collection contains 16,00
printed photographs, 50,000 unprocessed neg
tives, and several boxes o f new s clippings.

The U n iversity of C a lifo rn ia a t Sa n t
Cruz has received a grant o f $75,944 from th

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H um anities for th e m icro­
filming and com puter index­
ing o f the Mary Lea Shane 
Archives o f the Lick O bser­
vatory, w hich is h oused in 
the University Library. The 
archives in clu d e journals, 
copybooks, and correspon­
dence o f early directors, as­
tronomers, and others at the 
o b se rv a to ry  from  1875 to 
1937, in c lu d in g  f o u n d e r  
James Lick and others instru­
mental in planning and con­

structing the observatory.

C la rk  U n iversity in M assachu setts h as 
received a $106,000 grant from the Charles E. 
Culpeper Foundation to establish a b ook pres­
ervation facility and m odel training program  
for the W orcester Area Cooperating Libraries. 
Participating libraries include the Colleges of 
Worcester Consortium Inc., the Worcester Public 
Library, the W orcester Art Museum, and the 
W orcester Foundation for Experimental Biol­
ogy.

The U n ive rsity of M an ito b a L ib ra rie s 
recently received a grant o f $12,744 from the 
Adaptive Technology for Libraries Program of 
the National Library o f Canada. With matching 
funds, the university has b ee n  able to acquire 
an optical character recognition scanner and 
three workstations to provide voice and large- 
print access to the libraries’ online catalog.

V irg in ia  C o m m o n w e alth  U n iv e rsity 's 
(VCU) T om pkins-M cC aw  Library has b e e n  
aw arded a two-year grant o f $290,000 from the 
National Library o f Medicine to m ake available 
a Drug Information Automated Library through­
out the Medical College o f Virginia (MCV) Cam­
pus of VCU. The drug information resource will 
consist o f MICROMEDEX, commercially avail­
able databases, and information developed by 
the MCV Hospital Drug Information Center.

W a y n e State U niversity's African A m eri­
can Educational Archives (AAEA) Initiative has 
received $310,000 from the National Endow ­
m ent for the Humanities to survey 33 Histori­
cally Black Colleges and Universities (HCBU).

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Robert Smith B enjam in Speller

The survey will be directed by Robert Smith, 
AAEA project director at Wayne State, and Ben­
jamin Speller, dean o f North Carolina Central 
University’s School of Library and Information 
Science. The survey will result in a description 
of HCBU archives and special collections.

A c q u is it io n s
Microfilmed copies of documents relat­
ing to the actions of the International Brigade 
in the Spanish Civil War are being acquired by 
Brandeis University working in cooperation with 
the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. The 
documents, w hich are located in the Russian 
Center for the Preservation and Study of Mod­
ern History in Moscow, w ere shipped to Mos­
cow in 1939 by the military heads of the Inter­
national Brigade to prevent their capture by 
Franco’s advancing forces. They range from 
military orders of the day to private correspon­
dence and shed light not only on the role played 
by Americans but that of other foreign volun­
teers in supporting the Spanish Republic.

The collection of the Horatio A lger So­
ciety has been acquired by the University Li­
braries o f Northern Illinois University. The So­
ciety is comprised of dedicated collectors of 
the works o f the immensely popular Horatio 
Alger Jr. (1832-1899), w ho published more than 
100 works of fiction which sold in excess of 
200 million copies.

M ore than tw o million items relating 
to gay and lesbian people, their history and 
culture, from the archives o f the ONE Institute 
will b e housed at the University of Southern 
California Libraries, Los Angeles. The collec­

tion includes books, periodicals, pamphlets, 
photographs, posters, slides, films and video­
tapes, clothing, and other artifacts. There are 
also historical docum ents and artifacts from the 
w om en’s suffrage and early gay rights move­
ments, as well as materials about gay and les­
bian politicians, writers, artists, musicians, sci­
entists, and other international figures who were 
prominent in the days w hen society was far 
less accepting of lesbians and gays.

The W illiam  J. G au g h an  Collection has 
been acquired by the University of Pittsburgh 
for its Archives of Industrial Society. The col­
lection contains an extensive assortm ent of 
docum ents, photographs, films, architectural 
drawings, and maps chronicling decades of o p ­
eration at U.S. Steel’s Homestead Works. It in­
cludes more than 22,000 photographic prints 
and negatives taken of the Homestead plant, 
its workers, and the w orkers’ activities in the 
communities surrounding the plant. Company 
publications, reports, and internal memos, much 
of which deals with personnel issues, shed light 
on em ployment practices and the workplace 
culture of both workers and managers.

The U n iv e rsity  of W a te rlo o  L ib ra ry , 
Ontario, has received the archives o f the Cana­
dian Coalition on Acid Rain, which played a 
central role in raising awareness on the acid 
rain issue and in the passage o f the U.S. Clean 
Air Act in 1990. Included in the collection is a 
broad variety of documents such as memoranda, 
letters, research studies, and polls from gov­
ernm ent agencies, elected officials, public in­
terest groups, and scientific institutions in both 
the U.S. and Canada.

Advertiser index
Academic 334
American Psychological cover 2
Ameritech Library Serv. cover 3
Baker & Taylor 323
Blackwell 318
EBSCO 315
Engineering Information 327
Roper Center 307
SIRSI 342
Sociological Abstracts 337
Todd cover 4