ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries Septem ber 1985 / 433 * * * News from the f i e ld Acquisitions • Florida State University, Tallahassee, has ac- quired the collection of Congressman C laude Pep p er’s official and personal papers, docum ents, pho tographs, recordings, books, and m em orabilia. Also included are the papers, m em orabilia, and paintings of M ildred Irene W ebster, the Congress m a n ’s late wife. T he Pepper papers cover his politi cally active life from his years as Florida legislator in the 1920s, as U.S. Senator during the 1930s and 1940s under Roosevelt and T ru m an , to his career as U.S. Representative from the 1960s to the present. Highlights of the collection include a la tter from FDR delivered to the Senator on April 11,1945, the day before the President died, and correspondence w ith W inston C hurchill and other w orld leaders. • The San Diego State University Library re- ceived a gift of science fiction books and m a n u scripts from Jean Sutton, author and alum na of the university. The Jeff Sutton Collection contains the research notes, m anuscripts, publicity m aterials, correspondence, and other miscellaneous m aterials of the late Mr. Sutton, form er W orld W ar II photo graphic correspondent and research engineer in the Apollo program . In addition to over 29 titles o books and short stories w ritten by Sutton, some in collaboration w ith his wife, there are original m a n uscripts of m any of his most popular space novels: Apollo at Go, Beyond Apollo, The Missile Lords, and W hisper fro m the Stars. • San F ra n c is c o S ta te U n iv e r s ity ’s J. P a u l Leonard L ibrary celebrated its 2,000,001st acqui sition in June w ith a lecture by W illiam Paisley, professor of com m unications at Stanford U niver sity, on “2 Million and One and Beyond: Forces Shaping the L ibrary of the F u tu re .” The item cho sen as the lan d m ark acquisition was an optical vid eodisk entitled, Voyager: Exploring the O uter So lar System. • S outhern M ethodist U niversity, D allas, re- ceived a gift of photographs and books pertaining to Theodore Roosevelt. A gift of L aw rence H. and Doris A. B udner of Dallas, the collection includes original photos of Roosevelt from the archives o U nderw ood & U nderw ood, a New York new spa per service. • The University of Colorado, Boulder, D epart- m ent of Special Collections has received a virtually com plete collection of th e Vale Press from CU alum nus W alter W. Smith of New York City. The V ale Press was founded in 1896 in L ondon b ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ f ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ f ­ y Charles Ricketts. Its purpose was to publish the great English classics in a b eau tifu l form . T he Smith collection contains 39 of the 45 books p u b ­ lished before the press closed in 1903, as well as ephem era and m ansucript m aterial. • The University of Kansas L ibrary, Law rence, has acquired the papers of retired Congressman L arry W inn Jr., who was a Kansas representative in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1966 to 1984. W inn was second-ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs C om m ittee and the ranking m inority m em ber on the Science and Technology C om m ittee. His papers include correspondence, speeches, cam paign files, press clippings, publicity releases, and photographs. • The University of M innesota L ibrary, Minne- apolis, has acquired a collection of over 1,200 ren ­ derings, sketches and models from w hich the Tw in C ity Scenic Studio of Minneapolis produced th e a t­ rical scenery and backdrops. The T w in City Scenic Collection includes scenic renderings for vaude­ ville, various Masonic Scottish Rite degree in itia­ tions, th e C hicago W o rld ’s F a ir M innesota Ex­ h ib it, th e R ingling B rothers C ircus, and scenic units for professional, college, and high school th e­ aters in all parts of the United States. It is the larg ­ est collection known th a t chronicles the work of one scenic studio. The T w in City Scenic Studio was established in 1896 and located in the Bijou T he­ atre in Minneapolis. D uring the theatrical boom in the 1920s, the studio opened branches in D etroit, Syracuse, P h ila d e lp h ia , M ilw aukee, an d F o rt W orth. T he L ibrary plans to exhibit portions of the collection both locally and on a national tour. • The University of U tah L ib rary ’s M iddle East Collection has acquired the papers of Fayez A. Say- egh, senior consultant to the K uw ait Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1967-1980. The collection in­ cludes unpublished m anuscripts, books, articles, pam phlets, new spaper columns, conference a d ­ dresses, speeches, interviews, and a personal li­ b rary of some 3,000 volumes on Islam , C hristianity and Judaism , in te rn a tio n a l law , Israel and the Jews, the M iddle East and the Arabs, and U.S. for­ eign policy. Fayez held several diplom atic posts as m em ber of the Delegation of K uw ait to the United Nations, advisor to the D elegation of L ebanon, and counselor of the Yemen Delegation. • York U niversity L ib ra ry , D ow nsview , On- tario, acquired a small b u t im p o rtan t group of C a­ n a d ia n , British and A m erican items rela tin g to railw ays from th e p riv a te collection of au th o r- 434 / C& RL News photographer Ralph Greenhill. The acquisition fo cuses on 19th-century railw ay technology and op erations. T here are several early com pany and governm ent reports, some guidebooks and prom o tio n m a te ria ls, an d an im p o rta n t collection o pam phlets relating to New Brunswick railw ay de velopm ent. T he collection includes several classi w orks a b o u t locom otive en g in eerin g , m a n y o them w ith m agnificent technical draw ings, as wel as items w hich deal w ith railw ay m anagem ent and operations, including a book by D redge, The Penn sylvania Railroad (1879), a uniquely detailed ac count of A m erican railw ay practice in the period. Grants • The Am erican A ntiquarian Society, Worces- ter, Massachusetts, received a grant for $49,700 from the Exxon E ducation F oundation, New York. T he aw ard will support the general adm inistration of the Program in the History of the Book in Am eri­ can C ulture. • T he Association of Research Libraries, Wash- ington, has been aw arded a grant of $220,000 by the A ndrew W . Mellon Foundation to support the d e v e lo p m e n t of an o n lin e in v e n to ry of N o rth A m erican research library collections. The project will build on the work of the Research Libraries G roup begun in 1979 and collaborative efforts of RLG and ARL since 1983 to describe and assess re­ search library collections in specific subject areas covering a full range of scholarly interests. D uring ­ ­ ­ f ­ c f l ­ ­ th e three years covered by the grant it is expected th a t th e inventory will grow to include d a ta from nearly 100 ARL libraries. • B randon University, M anitoba, has received a $20,000 grant from C a n a d a ’s Social Sciences and H um anities Research Council to build up the li­ b ra ry ’s Music Collection in the specific area of m u ­ sical theatre. The grant will assist the Music L i­ b r a r y in a c q u ir in g th e c o lle c tio n of p o p u la r musical stage works of the 20th C entury. • T he D e tro it Public L ib ra ry has received a $106,030 Title I I –C grant for the preservation and identification of historic photographic prints and negatives contained in the lib rary ’s N ational Auto­ m otive History Collection. T he photographs to be treated date from 1900 to the 1920s and depict all facets of autom obiles, their m anufacture and their varied uses. • E m bry-R iddle A eronautical University, Day- tona Beach, F lorida, has received a m atching grant from th e E d y th Bush C h a rita b le F o u n d a tio n , W inter Park, for $150,000 over a tw o-year period. The purpose of the grant is to investigate, select, and im plem ent an integrated library system for the Jack R. H u n t M emorial L ibrary. • H arv ard University L ibrary has received a Ti- tle I I –C grant of $227,092 to support preservation m icrofilm ing of approxim ately 900,000 pages of f r a g ile or r a r e m a te r ia ls . T h is is th e e ig h th Strengthening Research Libraries Resources Pro­ gram grant aw arded to H arvard for this project. M aterials scheduled for film ing in the com ing 15 Early m otoring photograph fr o m the D etroit Public L ib ra ry’s N ational A u to m o tive History Collection. Septem ber 1985 / 435 months are publications on W orld W ar II, tem p er­ ance and canals, Slavic publications, prin tin g spec­ imen books, official gazettes, and the U nitarian- Universalist collection. • Johns H opkins U niversity’s E isenhow er Li- b ra ry , B altim o re, has been a w a rd e d $720,000 from the Pew M emorial T rust to assist in the com ­ pletion of th e conversion of its card catalo g to m achine-readable form at. • The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has received a Title I I –C grant to provide national ac­ cess through O C LC to the lib rary ’s collection of scientific and technical publications issued by the Institute from 1861 through 1974. The grant will also allow for bibliographic control and preserva­ tion of m ajor archival and m anuscript collections th a t docum ent the research conducted at M IT in the post-W orld W ar II era. • New York University has been aw arded a Title II–C grant in the am ount of $166,887 to aid in c a ta ­ loging the T am im ent Institute L ibrary, a special collection housed in NYU's Bobst L ib rary . T he T am im ent Collection includes the libraries of Max Schachtm an, founding m em ber of the C om m unist Party USA and the Socialist W orkers’ P arty, and Sam Dolgoff, a leading Am erican anarchist. The Schachtm an L ibrary contains the most extensive collection of prim ary sources available on the G er­ m an C om m unist Party. T he project includes eval­ uating the physical condition of each volum e and taking appropriate preservation measures. • N o rth e rn Illinois U n iv ersity , D eK a lb , re- ceived a grant of $141,000 under Title II-C of the H igher E ducation Act for support of Phase II of the enrichm ent of its Southeast Asian Collection p ro j­ ect. Among holdings to be cataloged are serials, newspapers, and children’s books. T he project will also develop softw are for control of T hai language bibliographic records on O C L C . • Ohio University, Athens, received a Title II-C g ran t of $133,500 to catalog m aterials from its Southeast Asia Collection on the O C L C database. The project will also include Southeast Asia M icro­ fich e from th e L ib r a r y of C ongress t h a t lack AACR2 cataloging as a M ajor M icroform Project. A holdings list for the collection will be produced at the conclusion of the project. • The Research L ibraries G roup, Stanford, has received $1 million from the J. Paul G etty T rust for retrospective conversion of m aterials in art. The funds cover local overhead and staff costs for recon by BLG m em ber libraries as well as database usage charges. ♦ Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jer- sey, received $13,750 from the New Jersey State L i­ b rary to fund the retrospective conversion of those Rutgers cataloging records for 1984 and 1985 cap a­ ble of being added to the O C L C database. This will result in the loading of approxim ately 50,000 records. Rutgers has also been aw arded $75,000 by the New Jersey D ep artm en t of H igher E ducation to support acquisitions, program m ing, and delivery of the lib rary ’s New Jersey H um anities Media Re­ source Service. This service makes available to the public films and videos created by the New Jersey C om m ittee for the H um anities, the N ational E n ­ dow m ent for the H um anities, and other states’ h u ­ m anities councils. • T he State H istorical Society of W isconsin, Madison, has been aw arded $125,000 by the U.S. D e p a rtm e n t of E d u c a tio n to begin c atalo g in g 41,000 pam phlets in the C u tter pam phlet collec­ tion. T he collection consists of various kinds of ephem eral publications th a t were acquired by the library betw een 1854 and 1966. • T he State University of New York at Buffalo received a grant for $109,707 under Title I I –C of the H igher E ducation Act. The grant will be used to m aintain the collection of research m aterials on 20th century English language poetry by contrib­ uting holdings to O C LC and upgrading the c a ta ­ loging to conform to national standards. • The University of Arizona, Tucson, received $1,000 from Roy Andersen, aw ard w inning artist, to be used for the purchase of books about p h ila t­ ely. Andersen’s dog stamps won the national prize for most popular United States stam p in 1984, and p a rt of his prize was a $1,000 gift to a library of the artist’s choice. • T he U niversity of C alifo rn ia, Berkeley, re- ceived two grants, one for $256,000 under Title II- C of the Higher E ducation Act, and the other for $146,733 from the N ational E ndow m ent for the H um anities. The money will support the catalog­ ing and conservation of Japanese rare book and m ap collections from the Tokuw aga (1600-1867) and Meiji (1868-1912) periods. The grant project will result in the creation of full bibliographic rec­ ords, as well as the repair and protection of fragile m aterials. • The University of C alifornia’s Division of Li- b rary A utom ation has received a grant of $5,000 from Security Pacific Foundation. T he funds will be used for the installation of additional term inals for the libraries’ online catalog, MELVYL. NEH deadlines Libraries w ishing to apply for a grant from the N ational E ndow m ent for the H um anities for a hum anities project should do so by M arch 21, 1986, for projects to begin after O ctober 1, 1987. M useums an d historical organizations have until D ecem ber 9, 1985, and other educa­ tional institutions or com m unity agencies have until Septem ber 20, 1985. T he deadline to apply for grants from the N EH Travel to Collections program is Septem ­ ber 15, 1985, for projects beginning after D e­ cem ber 15, 1985. 436 / C &R L News • The University of M ichigan, Ann Arbor, has received a Title I I –C grant for $166,510 to upgrade the lib rary ’s m athem atics collection. The project includes the preservation, m icrofilm ing, and u p ­ grading of the collection of journals, classical tre a ­ tises, and other works covering the history of m a th ­ ematics, astronomy and science. Another Title I I –C grant was aw arded to the University of Michigan in the am ount of $66,256 for an inventory of its 18th-century books and m a n ­ uscripts. T he inform ation will help u p d ate the Eighteenth C entury Short Title Catalogue. Michigan has also received $120,000 in renewed support from the Andrew W . Mellon Foundation, as well as $60,000 in m atching funds from the N a­ tional E ndow m ent for the H um anities, to allow the library to offer fellowships to archivists, histo­ rians, and other scholars to study problems con­ cerning the adm inistration, preservation, and use of m odern records. The fellowships will be offered for three summers, 1986-1988. For further infor­ m ation, contact Francis X. Blouin, Bentley H istor­ ical Library, University of M ichigan, 1150 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2113. • The University of Texas, Austin, has received a $119,671 Title II-C grant to support research program s at the N ettie Lee Benson L atin American Collection. The funds will be used to underw rite a L atin American cataloging project in 1985-1986 to catalog serial publications of state-owned corpora­ tions in L atin America and other serials relating to energy. • The University of V erm ont, Burlington, has received a $60,000 Title II –C grant to com plete a r­ chival processing of the papers of Senator George D. Aiken and related C an ad ian /American collec­ tions. The m anuscript collection has specific rele­ vance for historians interested in the St. Law rence Seaway Project, Aiken’s 30-year involvement in w ater and agricultural projects linking the U.S. and C anada, and his long-standing concern w ith environm ental issues. • The Yale School of Medicine L ibrary has been given $8,000,000 by Betsey Cushing W hitney of Manhasset, New York, to construct a m ajor ad d i­ tion to the library. It is the largest single gift ever received by the Medical School. The library will be nam ed th e H arvey C ushing/John H ay W hitney Medical L ibrary to recognize two great names in the history of Yale and medicine; they are, respec­ tively, Mrs. W hitney’s late father and husband. The addition and renovation will increase the li­ b rary ’s space for books and readers by 50 % . ■ ■ ACRL units can get staff assistance in writing grant proposals The ACRL staff w ould like to offer assistance to ACRL units working on grant proposals. The ser­ vice is available to official ACRL units (comm it­ tees, sections, discussion groups, chapters, etc.). The ACRL staff recommends the following pro­ cedures: 1) The ACRL unit submits its grant proposal to H eadquarters six m onths before the due date. 2) ACRL staff secures evaluation criteria and sends the proposal and criteria to the Board of D i­ rectors. The ACRL staff and Board of Directors read and critique the proposal. 3) The ACRL staff and Board of Directors return their critiques of the proposal and their suggestions for im provem ent (four months before due date.) The ACRL staff offers assistance to the unit in in­ corporating the suggestions into the proposal. 4) The ACRL unit submits the revised grant p ro­ posal to the Board of Directors for formal approval (two months before due d a te ). The Board reviews and m ay offer fu rth e r suggestions for im prove­ ments. The ACRL staff offers assistance to the unit in preparing the final proposal. 5) If approved by the Board of Directors, the unit submits its proposal to the funding agency. The only step in this process th a t is absolutely re­ quired is the review and approval by the Board of Directors. ACRL units are encouraged, however, to seek th e a ssista n c e of th e A C R L s ta ff to strengthen their grant proposals. ■ ■ Conover–Porter Award for Africana The Archives-Libraries C om m ittee of the Af­ rican Studies Association seeks nom inations for the fourth biennial Helen F. Conover-Dorothy B. Porter Award for excellence in Africana bib­ lio g ra p h y or re fe re n c e w o rk . Any A frica- related reference work, bibliography, or biblio­ graphic essay published separately or as p a rt of a larger w ork during 1983, 1984 or 1985 can be nom inated for the 1986 aw ard, w hich includes a prize of $300. Nominations must be received by D ecem ber 31, 1985. To recom m end a title or for further inform a­ tion, contact: Phyllis B. Bischof, C hair, ASA Subcomm ittee on Bibliography, 208 Main Li­ brary, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. Announcing! 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