ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 204 / C&RL News G rants and Acquisitions Tara W e ik u m Adelphi University has received a $30,381 grant to support the cataloging o f its W illiam H on e collection. Hone (1780– 1842) is best known for his struggles for freedom o f the press. The National Endowment for the Humanities grant will make the c o lle c tio n accessible through OCLC and RLIN, and will provide valuable in­ form ation for research o f Regency England and reform movements o f the early 19th century. The H enry M adden Library at Califor­ nia State University, Fresno, has been given a $50,000 gift by the Fresno State Athletic Corpo­ ration. The money came from a surcharge on all Fresno State athletic events held throughout the year. The University of South Florida Tam pa Campus Library has received a grant o f $18,007 from the Frank E. Duckwall Foundation to sup­ port the placement o f two photographic col­ lections on the Web. The Burgert Brothers Pho­ tograph Collection and the Robertson and Fresh Photograph Collection represent the develop­ ment o f the Tampa area beginning in the mid- 1800s up to the 1960s. The Milton S. Eisen h o w e r L ib ra ry at Johns Hopkins University has been given $1 million by Ferdinand Hamburger Jr. to support the archives named in his honor. Hamburger, a long-time Hopkins professor, founded the archives in 1971 and they w ere named after him in 1977. The University of Pennsylvania has been given a donation o f $1 million by alumnus Bernard Goldstein and his w ife Patricia to cre ate tw o high-technology centers in the library. The centers will provide the technology neces sary to process and catalog all o f the library’ Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & A c quisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chi cago, IL 60611; e-mail: tweikum@ala.org. ­ ­ s materials including journals, books, magazines, newspa pers, microform, and CD- ROM electronic reference tools. The donation will also create an electronic training classroom. The Special Collections and University Archives De partment at Rutgers Univer sity has been given a $28,000 grant to support the Labor Archives Project. The univer­ sity re c e iv e d the m on ey from the International Union o f Electronic, Elec trical, Salaried, Machine, and Furniture W or ers, AFL-CIO. A cq u isitio n s The papers and library of human right advocate Stetson Kennedy have been acquire by the University o f South Florida in Tampa Kennedy has published several books on hu man rights and has been credited with bein an important deterrent to the Ku Klux Klan The collection is being researched for a pos sible upcoming m ovie by Oliver Stone base on Kennedy’s life spent fighting discriminatio and racism. A Judaica book collection of more tha 10,000 volumes has been given to G eorg Washington University’s Gelman Library. Th collection contains books on religion, philoso phy, classics, and art, and a large amount o out-of-print material. Compiled by Rabbi I. E ward Kiev over a number o f years, the book were donated by his family to enhance ac demic research in Jewish studies. A collection of w o rk s b y H annah Mor (1745– 1833) and other wom en writers o f th late 18th and early 19th centuries has been a quired by the William Andrews Clark Mem rial Library at the University o f California, Lo Angeles. The material includes all o f More’ books in several editions, plus a notebook o reminiscences, table talk, and quotations. ­ k s d . ­ g . ­ d n n e e f d s a­ e e c­ o­ s s f mailto:tweikum@ala.org March 1997 / 205 M aterials relating to the Fruchtbrin­ gende Gesellschaft (Fruitbearing Society), Germany’s oldest learned society, have been acquired by the University o f California, Berke­ ley. The collection contains books, manuscript documents, engravings, maps, and other mate­ rials relating to art, religion, law, theology, his­ tory, music, and many other interests. The Society’s main goal was the recognition o f Ger­ man as a scholarly and literary language. Film com poser Ronald Stein’s collection of more than 600 manuscripts, books, printed scores, recordings, scrapbooks, and memora­ bilia have been acquired by Washington Uni­ versity (W U ) in St. Louis. Included are 61 film score sets, five stage productions, and 26 other works. Stein, a W U alumnus, composed and conducted his first film score in 1955 and con­ ducted more than 90 films over the years, work­ ing with directors such as Francis Ford Coppola and Alex Gordon. The papers of Col. W illiam Black and his son-in-law, Robert S. Winslow, have been acquired by Angelo State University’s Porter Henderson Library. Winslow was a Confeder­ ate veteran and member o f the N ew York and St. Louis Cotton Exchanges who worked on tariff reform for the w oo l industry. The collection re­ lates to the Civil War and the West Texas ranch­ ing industry, and it includes personal and legal papers, ledgers, manuscripts, photographs, and other items dating from 1828 to the 1930s. A major opera collection containing more than 60,000 items has been donated to the Uni­ versity o f Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by the estate o f alumnus Lawrence S. King. The collec­ tion contains opera video laser discs, biographies o f singers, photographs, and rare Russian opera scores; it represents opera recordings from the 1950s to the 1980s. An endowment has been cre­ ated to provide funding for a permanent gradu­ ate assistantship to fully catalog the collection. M ore than 2 5 0 docum ents from the American Colonial and Revolutionary War peri­ ods have been acquired by New York University’s Fales Library. The collection contains letters writ­ ten by George Washington, a land treaty for the first purchase o f land in Connecticut from the Indians, and letters from military leaders during the Revolutionary War. Valued at more than $600,000, the documents were donated by Rich­ ard Maass, an alumnus o f the university. ■ 206 / C&RL News March 1997 / 207 208 / C&RL News