ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries October 1987 / 571 Conclusion ACRL has h ad another good year. P ro g ram m at­ ically, several new ideas are under developm ent. T h e stre n g th of m e m b e r c o m m itm e n t, w h ich drives th e organization, is excellent and we can look forw ard to another good year. ■ ■ ★ ★ ★ News from the field) Acquisitions • Bennington College, V erm ont, has received more th a n 2,000 works on th eater, including plays, historical studies, critical works, and other texts, from the estate of the late E d w ard T. Kirby. Kirby, who died in 1985, was a noted playw right and the author of Ur-drama: The Origins o f Theater. The collection includes works on G reek an d R om an theater; m edieval dram a; T udor dram a; Chinese, Siamese and In d ian dram a; and rare volumes on the Japanese Noh theater. There are also a num ber of im portant works by im p o rtan t Russian direc­ tors, playw rights and d ram a theorists as well as a u ­ thoritative histories and reference works. Among notable foreign works is Les voies de la creation theatrale, a survey of plays, theatrical essays and photographs edited by Denis Bablet. • The University of Illinois a t Chicago has re- ceived the archives of the annual In tern atio n al D e­ sign Conference at Aspen (IDCA). T he brainchild of W alter Paepcke, head of C ontainer C orporation of America, IDCA was inagurated to Provide a fo­ rum for designers to engage in discussions of the quality of design and the relationship design has w ith business an d to exchange ideas w ith th e ir peers from around the w orld. The ID CA archive preserves the papers and presentations of a large num ber of internationally know n designers and businessmen including Ivan Cherm ayeff, Charles Eames, R. Buckminster F uller, Gyorgy Kepes, and F rank Stanton. Over the years, Chicago designers, including Robert H u n ter M iddleton, Bruce Beck, Jay D oblin, M orton Goldsholl, Albert Kner, John Massey, H e rb e rt Pinzke an d D eF orest Sackett, have h ad m ajor involvement. Among the m aterials in the archive are the official records of each con­ ference, from th e first in 1951 on “D esign as a F unction of M anagem ent” through the most recent in 1987 on “Success and F a ilu re .” In the collection are copies of papers presented, transcribed confer­ ence records, tape recordings of meetings, corre­ spondence, and a w ide range of graphic m aterials produced in conjunction w ith the conference. Grants • T he Association of Research L ibraries, Wash- ington, D .C ., has received a $45,000 grant from th e C ouncil on L ib ra ry Resources to conduct a th ird Institute on Research Libraries for L ibrary an d In fo rm atio n Science F aculty. T he in stitu te will be held in the sum m er of 1988, w ith 12 faculty participating. Previous institutes w ere held in 1984 and 1986, at w hich librarians and library and u n i­ versity adm inistrators joined library educators in studying the forces th a t influence the cu rren t and fu tu re conditions of research libraries. T he 1988 in ­ stitute will concentrate on the library school curric­ ulum as it relates to research libraries. • D alhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Acadia University, W olfville, have each re­ ceived a $30,000 grant from the Social Sciences and H um anities Research Council of C an ad a to sup­ p o rt their specialized research collections in strate­ gic studies. T he funds have been provided to p u r­ chase m icroform collections of docum ents and reports in th e fields of diplom atic history, in te rn a ­ tional relations, m ilitary affairs and arms control. D alhousie’s m ajo r acquisitions w ill be of post- W orld W ar II records of U.S. governm ent agencies involved in m ilitary and diplom atic planning, such as the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the departm ents of Defense and State. A cadia’s acquisitions will be of a sim ilar n atu re b u t will concentrate on the pre- W orld W ar II period. • H ofstra University, H em pstead, New York, has received $3,000 from th e New York State Dis­ cretionary G ran t Program for the Conservation/ Preservation of L ib rary Research M aterials. The grant will be used for the deacidification, restora­ tion, encapsulation, m icrofilm ing and cataloging of the holdings of the M acready/M eyer T heatrical C ollection, a com b in atio n of books, h andbills, playbills, m anuscripts, and correspondence re la t­ ing to the career of British Shakespearean actor W illiam Charles M acready (1793-1873). Among the items are those w hich concern the infam ous As­ tor Place Riots of 1849, sparked by the rivalry be- 572 / C&R L News tween M acready’s fans and those of his America counterpart, Edw in Forrest. • Indiana University-Purdue University at Indi anapolis has received a three-year grant by the ne Indiana University Center on Philanthropy to pr vide for a librarian and for the purchase of m ater als to support research and teaching. The fundin comes as p art of a $4 million grant from the Lill Endow m ent to the Center, which will be locate on the IUPUI campus. A significant portion of th grant has been allocated to the University Library housing the C enter’s collection. • M ount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mas sachusetts, has been aw arded a grant of $11,71 from the National Historical Publications and Re ords Commission to microfilm the Mary Lyon p a pers and a collection of letters from leading educ tors in 19th-century New E n g lan d , includin C atharine Beecher, Em m a W illard, Joseph E m e son, Amos Eaton and E dw ard Hitchcock. The m terials d em o n strate th e influence of Lyon an Zilpah G rant Banister, Lyon’s m entor and founde of Ipswich Female Seminary, on the developme of w om en’s higher education around the world. • The New York State Conservation/Preserva tion Coordinated Preservation Projects Program Albany, has aw arded grants totaling $350,000 t various research institutions around the state. Th University of Rochester, C olum bia University Cornell University, the State University of Ne York at Albany, and SUNY/Buffalo will share grant of $61,157 to preserve New York State a lases. Cornell University, SUNY/Binghamton, Sy acuse University, and the University of Rocheste will share a grant of $43,668 to sponsor a region conservation training facility. The Research L braries of the New York Public Library and th New York State L ib ra ry w ill share a g ra n t $69,552 to microfilm New York State newspapers Syracuse University, Cornell University, the R search Libraries of the New York Public Library New York University, and the University of Roc ester will share a grant of $175,623 to preserv acetate-based audio materials. •T h e Puget Sound M aritim e Historical Societ S eattle, W ash in g to n , has received a $34,00 NPIPRC grant for a two-year project to preserv the Joe W illiam son photograph collection. Th photographs depict the m aritim e history of the P cific Northwest from the 1880s to the 1950s, inclu ing a wide variety of ships, m any coastal towns an industries, and the Alaska gold rush. • R adcliffe College, C am b rid g e, M assachu setts, has received a $250,000 gift from the Ca and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, Inc., to esta lish the Carol K. Pforzheimer Student Fellowship at the college’s Schlesinger Library. Five or mor fellowships will be aw arded annually to Harvard Radcliffe undergraduates for research in such area as the history of com munity service and voluntee work, the culinary arts, women and health, an n - w o­ i­ g y d e , - 8 c­ ­ a­ g r­ a­ d r nt - , o e , w- a t­ r­ r al i­ e of . e­ , h­ e y, 0 e e a­ d­ d - rl b­ s e - s r d work and the family. The first fellowships will be aw arded in the spring of 1988. • The St. Louis M ercantile Library Association, Missouri, has received a $71,000 grant from the National Endow m ent for the Humanities to make m uch of its m anuscript and archival collection available to the public. Members of the staff will use the funds to locate, inventory, arrange, pre­ serve and describe holdings, collected by the li­ brary since its founding in 1846, in accordance w ith accepted archival procedure. Among signifi­ cant documents are letters of George W ashington and Association correspondence from figures such as Henry W ard Beecher, W illiam Tecumseh Sher­ m an, Horace Greeley, Ralph W aldo Emerson, and Thomas H art Benton. • The University of G eorgia, Athens, has re- ceived a $417,441 NEH grant to catalog and micro­ film newspapers in Georgia as p art of the United States N ewspaper Program . The grant is for a three-year period and includes $50,000 in m atch­ ing funds. The new funding continues work begun last year under an NEH planning grant, which al­ lowed for a survey of newspaper repositories in Georgia and the identification of prim ary holding locations. Prelim inary research has also provided a count of both in-state and out-of-state newspaper titles and a checklist of in-state newspapers. More than 2.5 million newspaper pages will be filmed and 3,900 titles cataloged as p art of the present project. • The University of M innesota, M inneapolis, has received a $117,000 m atching grant from the Council on Library Resources to investigate the be­ havioral, technological, organizational, financial, and political factors th a t need to be addressed in the design and m anagem ent of academic inform a­ tion centers. The outcome of the year-long project will be a model inform ation center for the H um ­ phrey Institute for Public Affairs, based on the findings of the investigation. The center will pro­ vide a set of integrated inform ation delivery sys­ tems and services. Five related research programs will be conducted as p a rt of the investigation. •T h e University of W isconsin-Eau Claire has been aw arded a Japan Foundation Library Sup­ port Program G rant of approximately 300,000 yen ($3,000) to acquire reference and history publica­ tions about Japan. • The U tah Museum of N atural History at the U niversity of U ta h , Salt L ake C ity , has been aw arded a $5,570 NHPRC grant to preserve photo­ graphic negatives of archeological excavations in the G reat Basin and N orthern Colorado Plateau. The photographs docum ent early American cul­ tures, as exemplified by the culture of the Anasazi people. • W ashington University’s Olin L ibrary Sys- tem , St. Louis, Missouri, has received a three-year, $200,000 g ran t from th e B urlington N o rth ern October 1987 / 573 Foundation to support preservation efforts. Funds have been earm arked for preventive preservation, restoration, replacem ent of original m aterials in original or alternative form ats, staff developm ent for preservation and general p atro n /staff aw are­ ness of proper care and handling procedures, and equipm ent and supplies for use w ith alternative media and education in preservation. Basic preser­ vation efforts have been u nderw ay in the central li­ brary system since 1983. • Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, has been aw arded a g ran t of $112,500 by th e An­ drew W . Mellon F oundation, in cooperation w ith the Southern E ducation F oundation of A tlanta, Georgia. T he grant, w hich will be aw ard ed over a three-year period, is intended to im prove the li­ brary’s holdings in the hum anities. W ith current holdings of a p p ro x im a te ly 100,000 v o lu m es, Xavier is the only predom inantly Black C atholic institution of higher education in the U nited States. It is expected th a t the library will be able to in ­ crease its collection by three to five thousand vol­ umes. • York University, O ntario, has received two Specialized Research Collection Program grants from the Social Sciences and H um anities Research Council of C anada. T he first, for $15,000, will as­ sist in the purchase of the British titles and Am eri­ can editions of British titles in th e N ineteenth- Century Legal Treatises microfiche collection. A second grant of $20,000 will support purchases of ethnomusicological m aterials, including record­ ings, books, films and videotapes on th e music of Africa Asia, and L atin America, and of various contem porary musical forms in N orth America. News notes • Cleveland State University Libraries, Ohio, began im p lem en tatio n of a new o rg an izatio n al structure on August 18 to address m ajor changes caused by new autom ation technology. T he new stru c tu re features a collaborative en vironm ent based on team m anagem ent and blending of re ­ sponsibilities. Members of the new m anagem ent team are: George Lupone, deputy director; Philip T ram dack, head of A utom ation Services; Carol P a tric k , h e a d of D o c u m e n t D elivery Services; E d w ard Santa Vicca, head of Collection M anage­ m ent Services; Richard Swain, head of In fo rm a­ tion Services; and the head of Bibliographic Ser­ vices (to be filled). Also notew orthy is a new library Research Office ru n by Janet M ongan, library re­ search officer. F o r d etails an d o rg a n iz a tio n a l charts, co n tact H an n elo re B. R ader, D irecto r, C leveland State U niversity L ib ra ry , 1860 E ast 22nd Street, Cleveland, O H 44115-2403. • The University of Rochester, New York, cele- b rated the opening of the Rossell Hope Robbins L i­ b rary for Medieval Studies at a Septem ber 16 cere­ m ony attended by scholars from E urope, C anada, Australia, India, C hina and Japan. The library is nam ed in honor of its cu rato r and donor, whose core collection reflects his intellectual interests d u r­ ing a distinguished scholarly career of m ore th a n 50 Tenth anniversary tribute to the ACRL Bibliographic Instruction Section and the ALA Library Instruction Round Table At a general m em bership m eeting at ALA An­ nual Conference in San Francisco this sum m er, ALA m em bers adopted the following resolution: W HEREAS, 1987 marks th e 10th anniversary of the organization of both th e Bibliographic Instruc­ tion Section (BIS) of ACRL and the L ibrary In ­ struction Round Table (LIRT); and W HEREAS, the activities of both groups are in direct support of the Am erican L ib rary Associa­ tion’s Priority Area A (Access to Inform ation); and W HEREAS, conference program s by BIS and LIR T on such topics as learning theory, lifelong learning, the research process, and library literacy have benefitted th e general m em bership in pursuit of ALA priorities; and W HEREAS, the excellence of the efforts of both groups has been honored through the W orld Book- ALA Goals A w ard program ; and W HEREAS, service in BIS and L IR T has proven to be an excellent train in g ground for cu rren t and future leaders of the Am erican L ibrary Associa­ tion; N O W T H E R E FO R E BE IT R ESO LV ED , th a t the m em bers of the American L ib ra ry Association assem bled at th e 1987 San Francisco A nnual Conference join w ith th e ALA Instruction in the Use of Libraries C om m ittee in recognizing th e im p o rtan t and on-going contribu­ tions of BIS and LIR T ; AND BE IT FU R TH ER RESO LV ED , th a t the Am erican L ib rary Asso­ ciation offer its congratulations to the three th o u ­ san d m em bers of BIS a n d th e tw elv e h u n d re d members of L IR T as they celebrate this ten th an n i­ versary year. Moved by: K aren S. Seibert, C hair, on behalf of the M embers of the ALA Instruction in th e Use of Libraries C om m ittee. ■ ■ 574 / C&RL News years. The Robbins bequest includes holdings in all aspects of Middle English literature, with supple­ m ental m aterials in the fields of Old English, Anglo-Norman and French literatures, medieval history, philosophy, theology, and m anuscript studies. Appraised at $700,000, the library con­ tains at present about 10,000 volumes and sub­ scribes to 40 specialized periodicals. The collection also contains some 5,000 offprints. In addition to donating the collection, Robbins and his wife have made provisions for new acquisitions and have es­ tablished a trust of $160,000 for a fellowship pro­ gram. The annual Helen Ann Mins Robbins Fel­ low ship, to be in a g u ra te d in tw o years, w ill support a female pre-doctoral student for a year’s research in medieval studies at the University. The recipient will be chosen from an international com­ petition. Robbins, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, holds a doctorate from Emmanuel Col­ lege, Cambridge. He has published a dozen books and more than 200 articles and is an international authority in Middle English studies and a specialist in the history of witchcraft. ■ ■ . P E O P L E . Profiles Karin Begg, associate director of libraries at Boston University since 1983, has been appointed assistant university librarian for technical services and automation at Bos­ ton College, C hestnut Hill, Massachusetts, ef­ fective August 17. Begg was systems li­ b rarian at Boston Uni­ versity (1980-1983) and O C L C c o o rd in a to r (1980) at Boston Univer­ sity before assuming the associate directorship. Prior to then she was cir­ culation librarian at the University of V irginia Karin Begg, (1977-1979). Begg b e­ gan her professional ca­ reer at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was catalog editor and head of the Information Of­ fice (1973-1976), Anglo-Germanic original cata- loger (1968-1972), and assistant librarian in the University Museum L ib rary (1966-1968). She holds an MLS from Drexel University (1972) and a bachelor’s degree in art from Brown University, and is presently enrolled in a doctoral program in hum an resource education at Boston University. An active member of ACRL, Begg is currently vice-president/president-elect of the New England Chapter, and serves as its archivist. She has also served on committees of ALA’s Library Adminis­ tration and Management Association and its Li­ brary Information Technology Association, and has been active in New England Library Associa­ tion and Boston University affairs. Peter S. GrahAiM has been appointed associate university librarian for technical and automated services at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. P rio r to com ing to R utgers, G rah am was assistan t d ire c to r for bibliographic control at C o lu m b ia U niversity, where he had also been head of the Book Acqui­ sitions Departm ent. He has also served as sys­ tems officer at Indiana University (1979-1981) and as senior systems an­ alyst with the Research Peter S. Graham Libraries Group (1975- 1978). Graham holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English from Columbia University, a B.Phil. de­ gree from Oxford University, and an MLS from In ­ diana University. An active member of ALA, he is past chair of the Technical Services Costs Comm it­ tee of the Resources and Technical Services Divi­ sion, and is a long-time member of the Renaissance Society of America and the Bibliographical Society (London). Graham has published articles and pre­ sented papers on various aspects of technical ser­ vices in libraries, and has recently served as a con­ sultant for the Pierpont Morgan Library and the American Antiquarian Society.