ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries October 1988 / 615 ★ ★ ★ News from the Field Acquisitions • The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Li­ braries, Cambridge, have received a collection of rare early mathematics and mechanics books. The books are th e gift of M IT alum nus, John D. Stanitz, who for over 30 years worked to build an outstanding collection of historically im portant works in the areas of solid mechanics, fluid me­ chanics, mathematics, machinery, and energetics. The ten volumes of the gift include works by Leonard Euler, Niccolo Tartaglia, and Thomas Harriot. • Ohio University, Athens, has received a major gift of 430 books from The National Central Li­ brary in Taiwan, Republic of China. The books are a selection of the best of recent publications from Taiwan. This is the third gift of selected publica­ tions from the Republic of China to the university since 1982. Past gifts were made under a coopera­ tive agreement in which the National Central Li­ brary has bartered significant Chinese publications for training of its staff at Ohio University under the latter’s international internship program. • The University of Albany L ibraries’, New York, German Intellectual Emigre Collection has acquired the papers of social scientist W alter A. Friedlaender (1891-1984). The papers include cor­ respondence and writings from the 1920s to 1970s. Friedlaender received a doctorate in law from the University of Berlin in 1913 and was from then un­ til 1933 a magistrate in charge of the local office for youth and social welfare in the Prenzlauer Berg dis­ trict of his native Berlin. He published numerous books and articles on international social services in the United States and Europe. • The University of Arizona Library, Tucson, has received a major donation of Tennessee W il­ liams materials from an anonymous alumnus. The collection consists of 51 items, including a rare, presentation edition of Kingdom of Earth W ith Hard Candy, a signed and illustrated broadside, a holograph manuscript poem dated 1931, and a va­ riety of signed first editions. • The University of Rochester’s E d w ard G. M iner L ibrary (H istory of Medicine Section), Rochester, New York, has recently com pleted processing the papers of W allace Osgood Fenn (1893-1971), chairman of the D epartm ent of Phys­ iology at Rochester’s School of Medicine and Den­ tistry from 1924 until 1959. The Fenn papers in­ clude extensive series of correspondence, reports. manuscripts, and lecture notes, as well as labora­ tory notebooks chronicling Fenn’s research activi­ ties from 1915 to 1971. • The University of Texas Health Science Cen­ ter, San Antonio, has recently purchased the An­ drew A. Sandor Ophthalmology collection with special funds provided from the U.T. Permanent University Fund. The collection includes 389 titles published between the late 1400s and the early 1900s, with the majority from the 19th century when the development of the ophthalmoscope rev­ olutionized the field of ophthalmology. • V irg in ia C o m m o n w ealth U n iversity L i­ braries, Richmond, have received an Ethics Col­ lection endowment from a former alumnus and dean of the MGV School of Dentistry, H arry Ly­ ons. It was established in memory of his sister. Til- lie Lyons, to support a collection of works on pro­ fessional ethics at the university. The collection will feature books and materials that examine ethi­ cal issues and procedures in all professions. • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Uni­ versity, Blacksburg, has received the papers of John T. Parsons and Melvin N. Gough for its Ar­ chives of American Aerospace Exploration. P ar­ sons is a pioneer in the field of numerical control, or the application of computer technology to m anu­ factu rin g , w hich revolutionized a ircra ft and spacecraft production in the 1950s. The Parsons collection contains approximately 200 cubic feet and includes correspondence, memoranda, techni­ cal drawings and s p e cifications dating from 1935 to 1987. Melvin N. Gough was for many years chief test pilot and chief of flight research at the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory of the National Advisory Comm ittee for Aeronautics, the predecessor of NASA. His papers date from 1926 to 1962 and in­ clude his daily logs and reports on aircraft he tested, photographs of experimental aircraft, and correspondence and memoranda. Grants • The Association for Recorded Sound Collec­ tions, Silver Spring, M aryland, has received a $3,500 grant from the National Endowment for the H umanities. The grant will support the dissem­ ination of an 860-page report documenting a year­ long study of standards and procedures relating to the preservation of recorded sound materials. 616 / C &RL News •The Augustana College, Sioux Falls College, Sioux Falls Public and North American Baptist Seminary Libraries, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, have been awarded a challenge grant of $120,000 by the Bush Foundation for a joint automation project. The four libraries plan to join a statewide automation system that includes the ten state- owned libraries in South Dakota. • Columbia University Libraries, New York, have been awarded a grant of $80,000 from the An­ drew W . Mellon Foundation to support preserva­ tion administration internships. The grant will provide for three interns over the next three years, beginning in 1989. The interns spend nine months gaining practical experience in running a preserva­ tion program by working in the Preservation Divi­ sion of the Columbia University Libraries. •The Committee on Institutional Cooperation, C ham p aign , Illin o is, has received a grant of $539,869 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund a coordinated preservation mi­ crofilming project among member libraries to pre­ serve crucial books important for research in vari­ ous disciplines of the humanities. The project involves preservation of collections from the uni­ versities of Chicago, Illinois, Iow a, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, as well as at Indiana Uni­ versity, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, and Ohio State University. •The Iienry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michi- gan, has been aw ard ed tw o grants to ta lin g $77,931, from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The first grant of $38,890 will fund the Museum’s two-year project to catalog, inven­ tory, and cross-reference its collection of 5,000 ra­ dio and television artifacts. The second grant of $39,041 will support the Museum’s project to re­ search, docum ent, and catalog a collection of 23,000 paper items including posters, prints, scenic postcards, trade cards, greeting cards and a collec­ tion of travel graphics. •The Municipal Reference and Research Cen- ter, New York Department of Records and Infor­ mation Services, has received a grant for $3,000 from the New York State Discretionary Grant Pro­ gram for the Conservation and Preservation of L i­ brary Research Materials. The grant will provide for the hiring of an environmental consultant to evaluate the Center’s physical environment and recommend corrections and renovations which will provide for maintenance of proper tempera­ ture and humidity levels throughout the Center. The Center is a depository for all official reports and studies published by New York City govern­ ment agencies and has an extensive collection of clippings and pamphlets on City matters. •Seven New York State research libraries have received a $130,000 grant from the New York State October 1988 / 617 Education Department for map preservation. The maps to be preserved are transportation maps and city street maps of New York or areas within the state published prior to 1940. The participating li­ braries are Cornell University, New York Public Library, New York State Library, SUNY Albany, SUNY Stony Brook, Syracuse University, and the University of Rochester. The grant will be coordi­ nated by the State University of New York at Stony Brook, which is the sponsoring library. Each li­ brary will preserve an average of 300 maps from its collection. •The Ohio State University Libraries, Colum- bus, have received a two-year $115,000 award from the National Endowment for the Humani­ ties. The grant will assist in completing a compre­ hensive computerized database of 14,000 titles of American fiction published from 1901 through 1925. The project continues the scholarly work of Lvle H. W right, whose comprehensive bibliogra­ phies of A m erican fic tio n cover th e years 1774-1900. • The Research Libraries Group, In c ., Stan- ford, C alifornia, has been awarded a grant of $500,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, plus an additional $500,000 in m atch­ ing funds, for its Great Collections Preservation Microfilming Project. The grant will be used to support the microfilming of deteriorating scholarly books from seven research libraries, focusing on collections important to scholarship in American history, Chinese history, German literature, Near Eastern and South Asian history, and the history of science, political science, and economics. Partici­ pating in the project will be the university libraries at Columbia, Cornell, Michigan, Princeton, Stan­ ford, and Yale, as well as the New York Public L i­ brary. • The University of Alberta Library, Edmon- ton, Canada, has been awarded three grants total­ ing $50,000 by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada under the Specialized Research Collections Program. The Humanities and Social Sciences Library received $30,000 to purchase microform backfiles of annual and 10K reports for companies traded on the American, New York, and over the counter stock exchanges. The Library received $10,000 to develop its collec­ tion of works on British illustration from 1860 to 1939. And the remaining $10,000 will be used to purchase works in languages other than English or French and backfiles of specialized serials dealing with such subjects as epigraphy, numismatics and ancient art. • The University of California, Berkeley, has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W . Mellon Foundation to be used for preservation of endangered research materials. Berkeley’s East Asiatic Library also received a grant of $192,000 from the U.S. Department of Education for the second year of a special project to catalog and carry out conservation work on special collections of Japanese material. • The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has been awarded a grant of $100,000 from the Los Angeles-based W. M. Keck Foundation to enhance the newly installed Carlyle online public access c a ta lo g , T O M U S. C om bin ed w ith a recen t $100,000 appropriation from the Nevada State Legislature, this funding will enable the library to complete the conversion of the card catalog to the system, to update the processing power of the hard­ ware, and to conduct a systematic data quality con trol p ro ject to ensure the accu racy of the machine-readable records. •The University of New Mexico Library, Albu- querque, has received a $64,000 Title II-C grant to catalog, preserve, and make available for use a unique collection of specialized research materials relating to the Mexican state of Oaxaca. The mate­ rials include newspapers, monographs, pamphlets and political ephemera published in Oaxaca be­ tween the late 18th and the early 20th centuries. •The University of Texas, Austin, Barker Texas History Center has received a federal grant of $33,096 from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. It will be used to process the Robert Runyon Photograph collection, which depicts revolutionary activity in northern Mexico, 1910-1917; the development of the Rio Grande Valley, 1909-1930; and the U.S. military presence at Fort Brown in South Texas in the early decades of this century. The 11,000 photographic negatives and prints in the collection were made by the late Robert Runyon (1881-1968), a Brownsville com­ mercial photographer, and donated to the Barker Center by his family. News note •The University of Texas Health Science Cen- ter, San Antonio, received the Library Project of the Year Award from the Texas Library Associa­ tion on April 20, 1988. The award was presented for the innovative Library Information System/ Drug Information Service (LIS/DIS) project. LIS/ DIS was funded by a National Library of Medicine grant which placed microcomputer work stations with CD-ROM readers in three clinical sites, the Library, and the Drug Information Service, and provided staff support for consultations and assist­ ance with drug-ielated information needs. In addi­ tion to dial-up access to the Library’s catalog and m iniM ED LIN E, the workstations are connected to the Micromedex Computerized Clinical Inform a­ tion System and to an electronic mail/consultation request module.