ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


198/C&RL News

Grants 
and 

Acquisitions

Hugh Thompson

Alvem ia College's Frank 
A. Franco Library Learning 
Center has received $20,000 
from the Arcadia Foundation 
to increase its collection o f 
materials in the areas o f early 
childhood, elementary, and 
secondary education. The 
funds will be used to pur­
chase books, audiovisual 
material, educational soft­
w are, and a m ultim edia 
workstation.

The Center fo r Research 
Libraries (CRL) was awarded $228,646 by the 
U.S. Department o f Education under its Strength­
ening Research Library Resources Program (HEA 
Title II-C) for a one-year project to increase 
researchers’ access to foreign newspapers in 
the CRL collection. The focus o f the project is 
to catalog the backlog o f foreign newspaper 
titles and add bibliographic and holdings infor­
mation to CRLCATALOG (the Center’s online 
public access catalog), to the OCLC database, 
and to the Research Libraries Group’s RLIN 
database.

Radcliffe College has received a grant 
from the Carl J. Herzog Foundation to endow 
the position o f curator o f manuscripts at the 
Schlesinger Library on the History o f Women 
in America. The funding consists o f a $250,000 
gift plus a two-year challenge grant, under 
which the Herzog Foundation will match con­
tributions up to $625,000. If the challenge is 
fully met, Radcliffe College will receive a total 
o f $1.5 million to endow  the curatorship.

The Research Libraries Group (RLG) has 
received an unrestricted grant o f $600,000 from 
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to be spent 
over the next two years to improve RLG’s op­
erating infrastructure and broaden its services.

Ed. note: Entries in this column are taken 
from library newsletters, press releases, and other 
sources. To ensure that your news is considered 
fo r publication, write to: Grants & Acquisitions, 
C&RL N ew s, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 
60611-2795. Photos related to your news will 
be considered fo r  publication.

The grant will support bring­
ing some contracted services 
in-house and carrying out 
institutional changes to im­
prove long-term efficiency 
and economy.

Trenton State C ollege's 
Roscoe L. West Library has 
been awarded a competitive 
grant o f $25,000 from the 
Central Jersey Regional Li­
brary Cooperative, and has 
b e en  design a ted  a T e le ­
phone Reference Referral 

Center. The library will provide telephone ref­
erence assistance and referral to the 180 mem­
ber libraries o f the regional cooperative, which 
covers Mercer, Monmouth, and Ocean coun­
ties in N ew  Jersey.

The University o f A rizona Library has 
received a $24,000 grant from the Council on 
Library Resources to develo p  methods and 
models for achieving quality goals and produc­
tivity improvements in research libraries. The 
results will be compiled into a resource note­
book and made available to other libraries 
through the Association o f Research Libraries 
Office o f Management Services.

The University Center in G eorgia Librar­
ies’ Special Collections Group has received a 
grant o f $228,966 from the National Endow­
ment for the Humanities and $70,000 from the 
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation in N ew  
York. The funds w ill be used for a two-year 
project to enter descriptions o f the libraries’ 
manuscript collections (som e 2,500 personal 
papers, diaries, business records, and organi­
zational records) into RLIN and OCLC.

The University o f Hartford's Allen Music 
Library has received tw o grants from the Will­
iam and Alice Mortensen Foundation totaling 
$12,325 to be used for the acquisition o f books; 
art music scores or parts and music theater v o ­
cal scores; sound recordings o f art music, mu­
sic theater, and folk music; and music theater 
videos.

The University o f Illinois Asian Library 
has received an $18.000 Library Support Pro-



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gram Award from the Japan Foundation to pur­
chase material on modern Japanese drama and 
theater. The 450-volume collection o f 20th-cen­
tury works w ill emphasize post-World War II 
Japanese theater and will include plays, drama 
criticism, histories o f Japanese theater, video­
tapes, and the collected works o f contempo­
rary playwrights.

The University o f North Carolina at Chapel 
Hill’s Health Sciences Library has been awarded 
a $302,000 grant from the Kate B. Reynolds 
Charitable Trust to provide health care w ork­
ers in rural North Carolina electronic access to 
health information. Selected 
community, migrant, and 
rural health centers, and 
county health departments 
will be connected to the li­
brary by computer. A  con­
nection is planned for at 
least on e primary health 
care site in all 100 North 
Carolina counties and in 
other sites where the com ­
puter technology is already 
in place.

The University o f Penn­
sylvania Library has re ­
ceived $30,000 from  the 
Gladys K r ie b le  D elm a s 
Foundation o f N ew  York to 
catalog and preserve some 
medieval and early modern Samue
codex manuscripts o f Ital­
ian origin. Penn’s library holds more than 1,400 
codex manuscripts ranging in date from the 12th 
to the 19th centuries, and from Europe, the co­
lonial Americas, and the Islamic world. Catalog 
records will be entered into the Archival and 
Manuscript Control database o f RLIN in a cata­
loging format developed at Penn for codices. 
Holdings information will be shared with OCLC.

The University o f Redlands in C alifor­
nia has received a large gift from Frank Moore, 
the retired co-owner and editor o f the Redlands 
Daily Facts, and his w ife Sidney, for the com­
puter automation o f Armacost Library. The gift 
completely funds the second phase o f automa­
tion, which w ill include computers and soft­
ware to enable library users to determine what 
materials are held by the library and what is 
available, as w ell as supporting administrative

functions such as accounting and management 
o f periodical orders and subscriptions.

A cq u isitio n s
A  collection o f correspondence betw een  
Samuel Beckett, the Irish novelist and play­
wright w h o w on the Nobel Prize for Literature 
in 1969, and Alan Schneider, the man w ho di­
rected every Beckett play premiere in America, 
has been acquired by Boston College’s John J. 

Burns L ib ra ry  o f  Rare 
Books and Special Collec­
tions. The correspondence, 
w h ich  co vers a 30-year 
period from 1955 to 1984, 
includes over 500 letters 
that cover a range o f spe­
cific questions regarding 
sets, staging, music, and 
production strategies for 
Beckett’s plays.

Photo Revised copies o f much 
o f the published poetry o f 
Robert Penn Warren have 
been acquired by Emory 
University. These working 

credit: 
copies were revised by the 
poet in preparation for a 

Boston College c o lle c te d  ed itio n  w h ich  
 Beckett was never completed. Each 

o f  the m ajor collection s 
was revised, some slightly and others substan­
tially. Warren crossed through tw o entire p o­
ems from  Being Here (1980), w riting “bad 
poem ” in the margin o f one. The revisions are 
an important resource for scholars interested 
in Warren’s poetic development and cast light 
on the concerns o f his final years.

T w o  gifts o f recent publications from  
Taiwan on a variety o f subjects have been re­
ceived by the Ohio University Libraries. A  gift 
o f 200 books was given by the National Cen­
tral Library in Taiwan and 253 books were given 
by the Taiwan-based Cultural Foundation o f the 
United W orld Chinese Commercial Bank.

The Cotsen Children's Collection, a  gift 
o f Lloyd E. Cotsen, a member o f the Class o f 
1950, has been acquired by Princeton Univer-

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sity Library. The collection o f over 20,000 items
includes illustrated books, prints, drawings,
manuscripts, games, puzzles, hornbooks, and
toys. Highlights include a unique, privately
printed first edition o f Beatrix Potter’s The Tal
of Peter Rabbit inscribed as a Christmas present
to Potter’s cousin. The oldest items date from
the 15th century: a Latin primer from 1486 and
a Latin translation o f the ancient Hindu fables
o f “Bidpai” printed in 1489.

The N ational Pasta Association (N P A )
collection, com posed o f  important materials
relating to the developm ent o f the pasta indus­
try in the United States, has been acquired by
the University o f North Dakota in Grand Forks.
The collection includes about 75 volumes o f
unique materials, including issues o f the N PA ’s
first official publication, The New Macaroni Jour­
nal. Historical data is presented about the manu­
facturing and marketing o f pastas, as w ell as
the transition o f the industry from immigrant
family-based manufacturers to multinational
firms.

Custody o f the archives and records o f
both the American Law Institute (A L I) and the
National Conference o f Commissioners on Uni­
form  State Laws (NCCUSL) has been given to
the University o f Pennsylvania Law School’s
Biddle Law Library, which w ill index and in­
ventory the archival materials. Included is com ­
prehensive documentation o f both organiza­
tions’ continuing joint efforts over the past half
century to develop, monitor, and update the
Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). The UCC is
a joint venture o f the NCCUSL and the ALI first
proposed officially in 1940 and initially pro­
mulgated in 1951. It has been enacted in some
form in all 50 states, as w ell as in the District o f
Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Is­
lands.

The personal and business p apers o f
Keith Hayes Kahle, engineer and founder o f
Central Airlines, have been acquired by the
University o f Texas at Arlington Libraries’ Spe­
cial Collections Division. The papers document
the creation o f Central Airlines in Oklahoma
and its subsequent operations from Fort Worth’s
Meacham Field and Am on Carter Field from
1949 to 1967. Included among the 115 cubic
feet o f papers are correspondence, diaries, pho­
tographs, corporate minutes, charts, and scrap­
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effort necessary to create and operate a suc­
cessful airline, one that maintained a perfect 
safety record during its 18 years o f operation.

The Robert C. Gibson Rare Book Collec­
tion, comprising over 4,000 volumes o f rare 
Canadiana, has been acquired by York Univer­
sity Archives and Special Collections. Included 
in the collection are works related to the Arctic 
and early exploration o f North America, pre- 
and post-confederation works, early m on o­
graphs pertaining to provincial and local his­
tory across Canada, and rare works on English 
and European history.

Y ork University has also acquired the pa­
pers o f Herbert Whitakker, a drama critic for 
the Montreal Gazette and Toronto’s Globe and 
Mail. The acquisition includes correspondence, 
lectures, and theater reviews from Whitakker’s 
distinguished career in the theater arts span­
ning the years 1933 to the present, which in­
cluded directing and designing as w ell as criti­
cism.

(Auction cont. from  page 173)

Dinner for two at the Sheraton Gateway 
Suites at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. Do­
nor: Sheraton Gateway Suites. Value: $76. 
Minimum bid: $30. Item #22.

Three nights and four days for up to four 
people at Walt Disney W orld Dolphin 
Hotel, next to Disney-MGM Studios and 
EPCOT ’95 W orld Showcase. Donor: Walt 
Disney W orld Dolphin Hotel. Value: $500. 
Minimum bid: $205. Item #23.

Two dinner entrees at Chauncey’s restau­
rant in Pittsburgh (three sets). Donor: 
Chauncey’s. Value: $40 each. Minimum bid: 
$15. Items #24, #25, #26.

His and hers Ritz-Carlton terrycloth, 
monogrammed bathrobes. Donor: Ritz- 
Carlton Hotel. Value: $200. Minimum bid: 
$100. Item #27.

Crown Enchanted Weekend at the Westin 
William Penn in Pittsburgh, includes 
overnight stay, champagne, and conti­
nental breakfast. Donor: Westin William 
Penn Hotel. Value: $169. Minimum bid: $50. 
Item #28.



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