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G ran ts 
and

Acquisitions

The Henry Ford Museum 
& G reen field  Village, 
Dearborn, Michigan, has re­
c e iv e d  a $ 7 5 ,0 0 0  g en era l 
o p e r a t in g  s u p p o r t g r a n t 
from the Skillman Founda­
tion, a private grant-making 
o rg a n iz a tio n  fo u n d e d  by 
R ose P. Skillm an in 1960. 
T h e  g r a n t s u p p o r ts  th e  
m useum ’s formal and e x p e­
riential learning programs, 
w h ich  in clu d e an aw ard-
w in n in g  p artn ersh ip  w ith 
D e t r o i t ’s W o o d w a r d  E l
em entary School (in coop eration with the Uni­
versity o f M ichigan-Dearbom ) and mentorships 
for at-risk students in w estern W ayne County.

M em orial U n iversity of N ew foundland , 
Canada, has received grants totalling $34,000 
from the Social Sciences and Humanities Re­
search Council o f Canada in support o f its mari­
time history and Irish studies collections. The 
funds will b e  used to purchase 19th-century 
Irish new spapers and manuscript census mate­
rial for parts o f New England.

Northwestern University Library, Evanston, 
Illinois, has received grants totaling over $6,000 
from the Illinois Cooperative Collection Man­
agem ent Coordinating Committee to fund pur­
chases o f materials within Illinois in coop era­
tion with eight other Illinois university libraries. 
Acquisitions will include exp en sive polym er 
titles not held by Illinois lending libraries, pres­
ervation photocop ies o f important 19th- and 
early 20th-century m athematics books, a 35-
reel microfilm set entitled “American Indian Cor­
respondence: T he Presbyterian Historical Soci­
ety C ollection o f  M issionaries’ Letter, 1833–
1893 “ The grant will also support production 
o f  a preservation microfilm o f the Illinois Brief, 
a new spaper published by the Illinois Chapter 
o f  the ACLU.

N orw ich U n iversity received a  $ 2 8 ,0 0 0  
grant from Digital Equipment Corporation to 
a c q u ir e  a c o m p u te r  s y s te m  fo r th e  n ew  
Kreitzberg Library. T he system will significantly 
improve the services to the library’s users and 
will support the growing need s for com puting 
in library research and administration. Norwich

is a charter m em ber o f the 
Verm ont Automated Library 
N etw ork, w h ic h  c o n n e c ts  
the university with Middle-
bury C o lleg e, th e U niver­
sity o f  V erm ont, th e fou r 
Verm ont State colleges, and 
th e Verm ont State Library 
system.

The Center for Electronic 
T e x ts  in th e H u m an ities, 
headquartered at the Alex­
a n d er Library at Rutgers 
University, New Jersey, has 

received a $300,000, three-year grant from the 
N ational E ndow m ent for the Hum anities to 
identify, disseminate, and preserve texts in e lec­
tronic, or com puter-readable, form. T he fund­
ing will allow  the phased developm ent o f a 
consortium o f m em ber institutions that will mark 
the beginning o f a global electronic library. The 
center, a joint project o f Rutgers and Princeton 
universities, was established in 1991 to pro­
vide a national focu s for the creation and use 
o f electronic texts in the humanities.

The University of Alberta, Edmonton, has 
received three grants for specialized collections 
from the Social Sciences and Humanities Re­
search Council. T he awards include $20,000 for 
acquisitions in native studies, $8,000 for Chi­
nese studies, and $6,400 for Jap an ese studies.

The University of M issouri-Columbia has 
received  a n ew  $97,000 grant from the U.S. 
D epartm ent o f Education’s Strengthening Li­
brary Resources Program o f the Higher Educa­
tion Act to continue cataloging a special col­
lection o f rare books about the social, religious, 
econ om ic, and political history o f 19th-century 
Great Britain. About one-fourth o f the collec­
tion relates to critical and econ om ic issues and 
conditions in Ireland. About 75 percent o f  the 
materials are not listed in the catalogs o f  any 
o th e r A m erican  lib ra ries. T h e  p ro je c t w as 
inititated with a $101,975 grant last fall.

The School of Inform ation an d  Lib ra ry 
Science at the University of North Carolina 
at Chapel Hill has b e e n  awarded a total o f 
$ 168,400 for student fellowships by the Depart­
m ent o f  Education under the Library Career



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Training Program. T he awards will support a 
year o f full-time study for seven doctoral stu­
dents and six m aster’s degree students. Recruit­
ing for the m aster’s fellow ships will em pha­
size three specialty areas— cataloging, systems 
analysis, and children’s services. T h e profes­
sional school currently offers two m aster’s d e­
grees, a post-m aster’s certificate o f  advanced 
study, and a doctoral degree in information and 
library science.

The U n iversity of W est Flo rid a L ib ra ry , 
P ensacola, has received a $9,976 grant from 
the Florida State Historical Records Advisory 
B oard to com pile and publish a new  com pre­
hensive guide to Special Collections and West 
Florida Archives.

Virginia Commonwealth University Librar­
ies, Richmond, have b e e n  awarded a grant from 
the National Historical Publications and Records 
Com mission to process the manuscript collec­
tion o f  a prom in ent Virginia suffragist. T he 
$30,720 grant will fund a full-time, on e-year 
position to process the Adele Goodm an Clark 
papers. Items in n eed  o f preservation treat­
m ent will b e identified and a guide to the col­
lection will b e produced.

The W ayne State University Library Sys­
tem, Detroit, has b e e n  awarded a $90,000 grant 
from the U.S. Departm ent o f Education to add 
records o f manuscript collections and oral his­
tory holdings o f the W alter P. Reuther Archives 
o f Labor and Urban Affairs into the OCLC data­
b ase. T h e archives con tain o n e o f the most 
im portant archival collectio n s in the United 
States on  the history o f  the North American 
labor m ovem ent. T h e Reuther Archives and 
W ayne State University Library System are part­
ners in this venture and will share staffing and 
expertise to com p lete the project.

A cq u isitio n s
A  collection of more than 8 ,5 0 0  books,
1,100 periodicals, personal papers, and other 
materials has been  acquired by Abilene Chris­
tian University Library, Texas, from the fam­
ily o f Dr. LeMoine G aunce Lewis, a biblical stud­
ies professor at the university from 1949 to 1985. 
An om nivorous reader and collector, Lewis specialized

 in early church history. His collection 
includes materials written in a variety o f lan­
guages, am ong them  German, French, Hebrew, 
and Latin.

The p a p e rs an d  p ro fessio n al lib ra ry  of 
Jo h n  Eliot Allen, professor emeritus o f geology 
and author o f m ore than 240 m onographs and 
articles, have b e e n  acquired by the Branford 
Price Millar Library at Portland State Univer­
sity. Allen’s library consists o f over 9 00 pieces, 
including books, serials, pam phlets, and maps. 
Among the papers are geologic field manuals, 
typescripts o f Allen’s articles and books, and 
his professional and personal correspondence.

The book collection of John Beaufort, for 
many years the international drama and film 
critic for the Christian Science Monitorh as been  
acquired by Teikyo Post University’s Traurig 
Library and Learning Resources Center in Water-
bury, Connecticut. T h e collection, consisting o f 
approxim ately 1,900 volum es o f drama and lit­
erature, w as d on ated  by B ea u fo rt’s widow, 
Francesca Bruning.

An ex ten sive collection of litera ry and 
historical first editions in English and American 
literature has b e e n  acquired by the University 
o f Delaware Library. An e sp ecially  rare item 
is the Audubon edition, The Birds o f  America 
fro m  Original Drawings‚ published in 1860. It 
has chrom olithography b y Julius B ien  and c o n ­
tains 105 double elep hant plates depicting 150 
sp ecies o f birds. O nly 49 cop ies o f  the volum e 
are know n to exist. T he gift was given by C. 
Porter Shutt o f  Montchanin, Delaware. ■

(Washington cont.from page 565)
President Hardy Franklin w rote to Vice-Presi
d ent G ore to tell him o f ALA’s con cern s about 
the printing recommendations. Franklin said the 
radical restructuring o f the D epository Library 
Program called for requires evaluation and thor­
ough exam ination before going forward, and 
pointed out that the proposed decentralization 
would result in increased costs and less effi­
c ien cy  for all participants: “T here w ould b e 
neither a single point o f access to publications 
for depository libraries, n or a single m echa­
nism for administering the Depository Library 
Program .” ■

Carol C. Henderson is deputy executive director o f 
ALA’s Washington Office; bitnet: cch@alawash.org

mailto:cch@alawash.org