ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


376 / C&RL News ■ May 1998

G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n s Ann-Christe Young

The Milton S. Eisen h o w er Library of Johns 
Hopkins University received an $8,000 grant 
from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to 
create a Spanish-language version o f Calipr, 
a w idely used preservation assessm en t 
software package. To date there is no such 
assessment tool available to Spanish-language 
institutions.

The Frick Art Reference Library of the Frick 
Collection has received a $140,000 award 
from the Eugene V. & Clare E. Thaw Charitable 
Trust to cover a two-year project (1 9 9 8 -9 9 ) 
for the retrospective conversion o f 70,000 
auction sale catalog records into SCIPIO, the 
international database for shared holdings of 
sale catalogs. The project will support the 
library’s efforts to make documentation about 
its collection o f auction sale catalogs more 
w id ely  a c c e s s ib le  to th e in te rn a tio n a l 
community o f researchers and scholars.

The U niversity of North Carolina at Chapel 
Hill’s School o f Information and Library Science 
(SILS) received a second estate gift from 
professor Lester E. Asheim for $137,000. 
Asheim was William Rand Kenan Jr. professor 
at SILS from 1975 until his retirement in 1984. 
In 1990 he established the Lester Asheim 
Scholarship Fund with a $30,000 endowment. 
Scholarships have since been awarded yearly 
from that fund to doctoral students with 
potential for making a positive professional 
c o n t r ib u t io n  to  th e  a d v a n c e m e n t o f  
information and library services and research.

Syracuse U niversity (SU) Library's Belfer 
Audio Laboratory and Archive received a 
$270,000 grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas 
Foundation to catalog and provide W eb 
access to its 180,000 pre-LP disc records 
(dating from 1 895-1950) and 22,000 cylinders 
( 1 8 9 5 - 1 9 2 9 ) . Eventu ally test p ressin g s, 
broadcast acetates, private recordings, and 
other one-of-a-kind materials will be included 
in the Belfer database, which is designed to 
dovetail with recording cataloging efforts 
also underway at the U.S. Library o f Congress

and the National Library o f Canada. The 
catalog o f B elfer’s recordings will reside in 
SUMMIT, the SU Library’s public access 
catalog.

W ashington University Libraries received a 
$150,000 gift from Hellen Ingram Plummer in 
memory o f her son, poet Jam es Merrill. The 
gift will fund a three-year project that will 
allow the libraries to catalog, preserve, and 
microfilm Merrill’s papers, which form a 
cornerstone o f the libraries’ renowned Modern 
Literature Collection. Merrill, who died in 
1995, was the author o f 14 books o f poetry, 
including the posthumously published A 
S catterin g  o f  Salts, and he was the recipient 
o f two National Book Awards, the Bollingen 
Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Rebekah 
Joh n so n  Bobbit Prize for Poetry.

A c q u is it io n s

The Radio History Society (RHS) has joined 
forces with the George Washington University 
(GW U) to create a permanent archive and 
exhibit on the history o f broadcasting for use 
by students, scholars, hobbyists, and the 
public. With the signing o f a “Memorandum 
o f Intent,” GWU and RHS have established 
the framework for the relationship, which 
will include the transfer to GWU o f RHS’s 
extensive collection o f library-related research 
material. Ultimately, the university will also 
provide exhibit space for the RHS’s vast 
collection o f artifacts including radio and 
television sets, m icro p h o n es, and other 
broadcast equipment.

T exa s Tech U n ive rsity's A th letics C o l­
lection dating from 1925 to the present is now 
a v a ila b le to p atro n s o f the So u th w est 
Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas

Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Acquisitions, 
C&RL News, 50 E. Huron S t, Chicago, IL 60611-2795; 
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T ech  University. T he co lle ctio n  primarily 
co n sists o f files from T ex as T e c h ’s Sports 
In fo rm a tio n  O ffic e  and h ig h lig h ts the 
athletic departm ent’s key research materials 
and p u blications. T he holdings are divided 
accord ing to gam e program s, media guides, 
and sports inform ation files. W ithin the 
co lle ctio n , 32 b o x e s con tain  new  releases, 
c o r r e s p o n d e n c e ,  s t a t i s t i c s ,  a n d  
m em orabilia. O ne b o x  is devoted entirely 
to printed m aterials, w hile tw o others 
co n tain  record b o o k s. An additional 11 
b o x e s  o ffer program s and seven b o x e s 
hold m edia guides.

The A sante Collective Biography Project 
(A C B P ) A r c h iv e s  w e r e  d o n a te d  to  
Northwestern University. The purpose o f 
ACBP, donated by Professor Emeritus Ivor 
Wilks, is to provide a readily accessible 
source o f information for the student o f the 
Asante past and to lay foundations for a future 
D ic tio n a r y  o f  G h a n a i a n  N a tio n a l B iog rap h y . 
The core o f the collection is som e 12,000 
cards that document items o f biographical 
information drawn from a wide range of 
published, archival, and oral sources and 
include material in English translation from 
Akan, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, French, German, 
and Hausa texts.

U.S. A rm y General G eorge S. Patton's 
(1 8 8 5 -1 9 4 5 ) papers documenting his World 
War I career have been acquired by the 
University o f North D akota’s Chester Fritz 
Library. The collection includes diaries, letters, 
reports, maps, photographs, general orders, 
and related printed ephem era from the war. 
T h e  c o lle c t io n , a p p ra is e d  at 
$ 1 ,4 0 0 ,0 0 0 , was preserved and 
brought together by Sereno Elmer 
Brett (1891-1952), who was Patton’s 
second-in- command in World War 
I.

The W illiam  Emil Suida/Bertina 
S u id a d  M a n n in g  lib ra ry  w as 
purchased by Emory University 
Library. Suida was an eminent art 
historian and one o f the founders 
o f the Viennese art historical school. 
Though he died in 1959, his library 
was expanded by his art historian H arry Lev
daughter, Bertina Suidad Manning, o f M a n a

and his son-in-law— Robert Manning, who 
was in charge o f the distribution o f the 
Kress C ollection  o f Italian R en aissan ce and 
B aro q u e paintings to d ozen s o f Am erican 
m useum s. T he Suida co lle ctio n  co n sists o f 
a p p ro x im a te ly  1 5 ,0 0 0  v o lu m es and is 
largely devoted to the history o f European 
art from the late Middle Ages to the end o f 
the 18th century. T he library also has a 
s u b s ta n tia l c o m p le m e n t o f  N o rth e rn  
E u ro p e a n  m aterial c o v e rin g  th e sam e 
period.

The papers of the late W. D. "Dub" Rogers, 
former Lubbock, Texas mayor, are now 
available at the Southwest Collection/Special 
Collections Library at Texas Tech University. 
Rogers, who died in 1993 at the age o f 72, was 
elected mayor o f Lubbock in 1966 on a write- 
in candidacy and served two terms. The 
collection contains 71 boxes o f materials 
highlighting his mayoral career including city 
council meetings, files on special services, 
photographs o f city activities, and visits from 
dignitaries.

Harry Levinson, m anagem ent sch o la r and 
co n su lta n t, has d o n ated  his e x te n s iv e  
management library o f more than 300 volumes 
to Bentley College. A pioneer in combining 
theories o f psychology and management, 
Levinson is chairman o f the Levinson Institute 
and has held academic positions at the Harvard 
Business School, Harvard Medical School, the 
Sloan School at MIT, and other universities. 
He is the author o f several books on the 
p ractice o f m anagem ent, organizational 
diagnosis, and leadership.

son (rig h t) shares a la u gh  w ith  B entley Professor 
m e n t A a ro n  N urick.

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