ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 242 / C&RL News News from the fie ld ACQUISITIONS • E m o r y U n i v e r s i t y ’s Pitts Theology Library, Atlanta, has opened to serious researchers the Afri­ can Orthodox Church Archives (1880-1974). The collection contains approximately 5,000 items of manuscript and printed material documenting the history of an independent native South African church and the role of its archbishop, Daniel W il­ liam Alexander (1882-1970). The material was shipped to the United States by the present head of the Church who feared that problems in South Af­ rica might result in the extinction of this all-black church and the loss of its records. The Pitts Library acquired the collection in 1981 and has since proc­ essed the material and created a finding aid for its use. Inquiries should be addressed to Anita K. De- laries, Curator of Archives and Manuscripts, Pitts Theology Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322. •The H e n r y F o r d M u s e u m , Dearborn, Michi­ gan, has acquired the Dunbar Collection of travel materials. The collection consists of prints, broad­ sides, original drawings, manuscripts, maps, coin­ age, tickets, and other documents illustrating the origin and development of travel and transporta­ tion between 1680 and 1910. It was assembled by Seymour Dunbar in the process of compiling his four-volume history of travel in the United States and contains more than 1,750 prints and drawings. The Museum has also added the Huegely Mill Collection of records, ledgers, orders, and corre­ spondence reflecting wheat prices and the methods of production of the Huegely Mill of Nashville, Illi­ nois, for the period 1850-1875. • I n d i a n a U n i v e r s i t y ’ s L illy L ib ra ry , Bloomington, has acquired a collection of letters and diaries of Sir Harold Nicolson (1886-1968), British diplomat and man of letters, and his wife, Lady Victoria Sackville-West (1892-1962), novel­ ist and poet. The letters, about 10,500 exchanged between 1910 and 1962, offer a rich glimpse of the literature, history, and landscape architecture of the Edwardian Era. •The N a t i o n a l L i b r a r y o f C a n a d a has ac­ quired from one of Canada’s leading authors, Ga- brielle Roy, a large collection of literary documents and personal papers which reflect the evolution of her career. The collection includes the author’s manuscripts, several in different versions, and some unpublished works, as well as rare examples of feature articles and fiction published in periodi­ cals. It also contains the scripts of a film made from her most famous novel, The Tin Flute, publisher’s proofs, books with handwritten notes, and foreign- language editions of her novels and short stories. • O h i o S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y ’s Commerce Library has acquired a collection of fifty historical fire marks representing insurance companies from 18 different countries. F ire marks were plaques placed on buildings to show early fire brigades which company owned the structure. The collec­ tion includes eight American, eleven British, and eight German fire marks. The earliest is a fire mark issued around 1860 by the Home Insurance Com­ pany of New York, and the most recent was pro­ duced in the early 1950s by the General Insurance Company of Cyprus. • S y r a c u s e U n i v e r s i t y ’s Bird Library has re­ ceived a collection of rare editions of music from the 17th through the 20th century. Included in the collection, which was donated by violinist Louis Krasner, professor of music at Syracuse from 1949 to 1971, includes first editions of scores by Beethoven and M ozart, and a unique p re­ publication copy of Alban Berg’s Violin C oncerto with original hand markings. Other highlights are: first, early, and rare editions of books on the violin and string instruments; a collection of Napoleona materials; original manuscripts by 20th-century American composers; and an original death mask of Alban Berg made by Anna Mahler. •The U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a , L os A n g e l e s , Music Library has received music scores, anno­ tated books and treatises, research notes, corre­ spondence, and recordings of Sol B ab itz (1911-1982), a Los Angeles violinist and music scholar. The Babitz Archive was presented to the library by his widow, Mae Babitz. •The U n i v e r s i t y o f P i t t s b u r g h has acquired the economic and philosophical papers of the En­ glish philosopher Fran k Plum pton Ramsey (1903-1930). The papers consist of his working notes, reading notes, and drafts of his published and unpublished manuscripts. The acquisition is significant because of Ramsey’s contributions to the foundations of modern mathematics, logic, probability, and economics. The Ramsey papers will join those of the logical empiricists Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach which are in the Special Collections Department of Hillman L i­ brary. • W h e a t o n C o l l e g e Library, Illinois, has ac­ quired the literary papers of Frederick Buechner, author of eleven novels and nine non-fiction works dealing with religious topics. The Buechner papers July /August 1983 / 243 are now part of the college’s special collections, which also include the C .S. Lewis papers in the Wade Collection. •The Y o r k U n i v e r s i t y Archives, Downsview, Ontario, have acquired a collection of literary and political papers of the Canadian playwright, the­ ater director, and teacher Herman Voaden. Dur­ ing the 1920s and 1930s Voaden was a leading ex­ ponent of C an ad ian n ation al dram a and the concept of “symphonic theater” that encompasses all the living arts. The collection covers the years 1897-1975 and includes Voaden’s personal diaries, correspondence, drafts of plays, notebooks, and approxim ately 700 playbills (1 9 2 6 -1 9 4 5 ) from Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Europe, and Asia. GRANTS •Seven Association of Research Libraries mem­ bers have received research grants of up to $4,000 each, as part of the Public Services in Research L i­ braries Project supported by a grant from the Gen­ eral Electric Foundation and operated by A RL’s Office of Management Studies: U n i v e r s i t y o f A r i z o n a — developing library in­ struction programs in a scientific discipline. C o r n e l l U n i v e r s i t y — identifying appropriate library services for agriculture researchers. U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s , U r b a n a — assessing the needs of “invisible” users (those using the library via outside computers). M i c h i g a n S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y — i d e n t i f y i n g a n d a n a l y z i n g n o n -u s e r s . N e w Y o r k U n i v e r s i t y — assessing users’ effec­ tiveness with an online catalog. P e n n s y l v a n i a S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y — comparative analysis of four types of user instructions for an on­ line catalog. T e x a s A&M U n i v e r s i t y — the librarian’s role with end-user use of commercial databases. The projects were selected from a pool of 23 by an advisory committee consisting of ARL library directors and a corporate information specialist. Each library will submit a final report that in­ cludes the methodology, findings, and conclusions of its projects. These reports will be available to the profession from the Office of Management Studies. • G e o r g e t o w n U n i v e r s i t y , W ashington, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from Merck & Company, Rahway, New Jersey, for the develop­ ment of the Pharmaceutical Information Exchange (PIE) at the Dahlgren Memorial Library, George­ town University Medical Center. This computer­ ized database, to be called Rx, will provide biblio­ graphic listings of jo u rn al articles and other reference materials describing the actions and uses of new pharmaceutical products. The PIE system will be the basis for a research study to test whether computerized pharmaceutical information can re­ duce the time interval between the introduction of a product and the physician’s use of it. • T h e L i b r a r y o f C o n g r e s s has been given $500,000 by the Mary Pickford Foundation to sup­ port screenings and related programs to further the study and awareness of the history and develop­ ment of the motion picture industry and its impact on the world. A week-long celebration at the li­ brary last May 10-17 included the dedication of a film theater named in honor of Mary Pickford, an exhibition, a one-day symposium dealing with the life, times, and films of Mary Pickford, and a five- day series of silent films. •The R e s e a r c h L i b r a r i e s G r o u p , Stanford, C a lifo r n ia , has been aw arded a g ran t of $1,350,000 by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W . Mellon Founda­ tion for a cooperative preservation microfilming program. Seven R LG members will participate in the project, which focuses on monographs, U.S. imprints, and Americana published between 1876 and 1900. Most publications in this period were printed on highly acidic paper and are now too brittle to be maintained in their original form. Par­ ticipants plan to survey their collections systemati­ cally and evaluate every American monograph that falls within the period. If curatorial judgment deems a volume worthy of preservation, no other film is located, and the item is suitable for filming, the project will undertake its preservation. RLG also plans to develop model guidelines, procedures, CLR Invites Applications for the 1984-85 Internship Program The Council on Library Resources invites ap­ plications for the 1984-85 Academic Library Management Intern Program. A maximum of five librarians will be chosen to spend nine months working with directors and senior ad­ ministrative staff at host libraries. Each intern will be awarded a stipend equal to basic salary and benefits (up to $25,000) for the nine-month period. Some assistance with moving and other expenses will also be pro­ vided. Applicants must be citizens of the United States or Canada, or have permanent resident status in either country. Experience, education, references, and other factors will be considered in selecting interns. Nearly all past interns have had at least five years of professional library ex­ perience. Applications must be postmarked no later than October 3, 1983. For further information and application materials, write Academic L i­ brary Management Intern Program, Council on Library Resources, 1785 Massachusetts Ave­ nue, N .W ., Washington, DC 20036; (202) 483- 7474. 244 / C&RL News and workforms, compile more accurate data on the cost of preservation microfilming and relevant bib­ liographic control, and test new preservation- related features in RLIN. The libraries participat­ ing in the project are: Brown University, Columbia University, New York Public Library, University of California-Berkeley, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, and Yale University. • S o u t h e r n I l l i n o i s U n i v e r s i t y ’s Morris L i brary, Carbondale, has been awarded a second LSCA Title I grant to extend the Illinois Coopera­ tive Conservation Program (ICCP) into a second phase. Phase Two will deliver a series of intensive, hands-on workshops to train library staff in simple book repair procedures. ICCP will continue to as­ sist all libraries in Illinois to conserve their collec­ tions and preserve important research and local history materials. • T h e U n i v e r s it y o f C o n n e c t i c u t , Storrs, has received a $7,500 grant from the Tinker Founda­ tion to fund phased preservation of a newly ac­ quired collection of books, pamphlets, periodicals, and government documents dealing with Puerto Rico’s history and cultural development. The ap­ proximately 2,200 titles were collected by three generations of the Geigel family of San Juan, and span the past 150 years. •The U n i v e r s it y o f M ic h ig a n Library, Ann Ar­ bor, has received a grant of $88,213 from the Na­ tional Endowment for the Humanities to bring its Labadie Collection of radical materials under greater bibliographic control. The collection, a gift of Detroit anarchist Jo Labadie, contains personal papers, tracts, handbills, union publications, and the publications of numerous minority political and social reform organizations. The grant will be used to develop an online database for 8,000 serial titles and approximately 20,000 uncataloged pam­ phlets. In addition, the Bentley Historical Library will process three Labadie manuscript collections: papers of Mary Hays Weik, William A. Reuben, and the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born. •The U n i v e r s it y o f O r e g o n Library, Eugene, has received a gift of $50,000 from William Bower- man, Oregon’s well-known track coach in the 1950s and 1960s, to aid in the purchase of an auto­ mated acquisitions system. The gift, combined with funds from an earlier contribution made in honor of Bowerman, will enable the library to buy a technical services system known as Innovaq 100. •The U n i v e r s it y o f R o c h e s t e r , New York, has received a gift of $191,484 from the estate of Fanny Knapp Allen to assist in further library automa­ tion. The automation program was started with the aid of an initial bequest of $180,000 from the estate of Mrs. Allen, who died in 1977. The funds will be used to convert cataloging records to machine-readable form. •Two faculty members from V a n d e r b i l t U n i­ v e r s i t y , Nashville, have been awarded a grant from the Council on Library Resources’ Profes­ ­ sional Education and Training for Research L i­ brarianship (PETREL) program. Jordan M. Sce- panski, director of Vanderbilt’s Central/Science Library, and Edwin S. Gleaves, chair of Peabody College’s Department of Library and Information Science, will use the funds to study the information needs, habits, and attitudes of the faculty of the George Peabody College for Teachers. In their study they will analyze existing data on faculty li­ brary use, survey the entire faculty about its information-gathering habits, and interview a rep­ resentative sample to discover effective means of realizing faculty cooperation in the process of change. NEWS NOTES •The C i t y U n i v e r s it y o f N e w Y o r k dedicated the William H. and Gwynne K. Crouse Library for Publishing Arts in an official ceremony on May 10. The Crouse Library, housed in CUNY’s Graduate Center Library, contains 20th-century published materials on a wide range of topics pertaining to the book industry. The Crouses, who have pro­ vided an endowment fund to help maintain the col­ lection, wished to honor the publishing industry in which William Crouse, author of over 50 volumes on automotive mechanics and the former editor of McGraw-Hill’s Technical Department, has en­ joyed a long and fruitful career. •The M c N a y A r t I n s t i t u t e , San Antonio, has begun construction of a new addition that will house the museum’s extensive fine arts research li­ brary and the entire theatre arts library assembled by Robert L .B . Tobin. The Tobin Wing, scheduled for a grand opening in March 1984, was made pos­ sible with a $1 million gift from Tobin’s mother, Mrs. Edgar B. Tobin. It is an 8,000-square foot, Unlocked Around the Clock The University Library at California State Úniversity, Long Beach, now has 24-hour ser­ vice for its 32,000 students and faculty. The 24- hour library began on an experimental basis in the Fall Semester of 1982. A recent user survey found overwhelming support for the hours, which will be maintained during the semesters when the university is in session. Uninterrupted access to library resources is a major asset to any academic community, par­ ticularly those in urban areas. “I am pleased with the results and our experiences,” said Peter Spyers-Duran, director of the library. “It serves the needs of the users, it is cost-effective, and we had no problems with security, thanks to the method of operation and staff utilization prac­ ticed.” July /August 1983 / 245 two-story addition designed by Ford, Powell & Carson, In c., of San Antonio. The theatre arts li­ brary, another Tobin gift, places a special empha­ sis on theatre construction and stage design. Before it enters the McNay, the collection will form the basis for a large exhibition to open at the Grolier Club in New York in September. ■ ■ . P E O P L E . PROFILES K e i t h M . C o t t a m , acting director of Vanderbilt University Library since 1982, has been named di­ rector of the University of Wyoming Libraries, Laramie, effective July 1. He replaces Walter F. Eggers, head of the De­ p artm en t of E n glish , who has been acting di­ recto r since August 1981. Cottam will direct the William Robertson Coe Library and the ac­ tivities of the archivist and cu rato r of W y o ­ ming’s American Heri­ tage Center. C ottam has been at K eith M. C ottam Vanderbilt since 1977, where he has served as associate director and deputy of the V anderbilt li­ brary system and assistant director for public ser­ vices and employee relations with the Joint Univer­ sity Libraries, the defunct library cooperative enterprise that formerly served Vanderbilt, Pea­ body College, and Scarritt College. He was also assistant director of libraries for the U ndergraduate L ib ra ry at the U niversity of Tennessee-Knoxville (1972-1977), head of the So­ cial Sciences Library at Brigham Young University (1967-1972), assistant social science librarian at Southern Illin o is U niversity-E d w ard sville (1965-1967), and adult services librarian and li­ brarian trainee with the Brooklyn Public Library (1963-1965). His MLS is from the Pratt Institute. Cottam currently serves as chair of ACRL’s Con­ tinuing Education Committee. He was also chair of the College and University Section of the Utah Library Association, and president (1979-1980) of the Tennessee Library Association. Cottam is co-author of Writer's R esearch H an d­ b o o k : A G uide to Sources (1977), and has written over 20 articles and reports in the fields of library science and higher education. In 1975 he was awarded a fellowship from the Council on Library Resources for a cooperative study with ARL/OMS on the role of managerial and technical specialists in academic and research libraries. In 1979-1980 he was a participant in the first class of the OMS Academic Library Consultant Training Program. G e o r g e V . H o d o w a n e c , director of libraries at Emporia State University, Kansas, has been named director of the university library and learning re­ sources at the University of Akron, Ohio, effec­ tive September 1. He re­ places Pauline Franks, who is retiring at the end of 1983. Hodowanec has been at Emporia since 1975. He was director of the Educational Media lab­ o ratory and assistant professor in the Gradu­ ate School of L ibrary Science at Drexel Uni­ G eorge V. H od ow an ec versity from 1969 to 1974. Prior to that he served as chief librarian in the Cambria-Somerset L ib ra ry System in Joh nstow n , Pennsylvania (1967-1969), director of the Carteret Public L i­ brary (1965-1967), cataloger at Temple University (1962-1963), and reference librarian at the Free Library of Philadelphia (1960-1962). Active in ACRL, Hodowanec is a member of the Standards and A ccreditation Com m ittee and helped to develop the “Guidelines for Extended Campus Library Services” reviewed by that com­ mittee in 1981. He spoke on the history of guide­ lines for library services to extension students at the first National Conference on Extended Campus Services at Central Michigan University in Octo­ ber, 1982. Hodowanec has written many articles for such professional journals as C ollege ir R esearch L i­