ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 8 News from the Field A C Q U IS ITIO N S • The Bowling Green State University Li­ brary, Bowling Green, Ohio, recently acquired an extensive collection of materials relating to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s life and times. The col­ lection includes books, periodicals, pamphlets, letters, photographs, and press releases, and was assembled by a private collector, Eugene Ockuly, a physician in Toledo, over a period of more than thirty years. • The Manuscript D epartm ent of Duke Uni­ versity Library, D urham , North Carolina, re­ cently acq u ired th e personal papers of Chris Costner Sizemore, who is widely known as the subject of the book and movie, The Three Faces of Eve. Sizemore, who publicly identified herself as Eve in 1975, underwent therapy for multiple personality disorder in the 1950s. Since then she has integrated her personalities and spoken wide­ ly on behalf of local and national mental health associations. The papers include poems and other writings, diaries, drawings, photographs, tapes of interviews, and some printed material. Additional items will be added to the collection when Size­ more and her cousin, Elen Pittillo, complete a new biography. • The Library of Congress celebrated the ac­ quisition of the Vernon Duke Collection with a special coniert on O ctober 14 devoted to his music. Duke is known for his theater and popular songs, art songs, and cham ber music, some of which he composed under his Russian name, Vla­ dimir Dukelsky. The collection includes Duke’s musical manuscripts dating from 1919, before his departure from Russia, as well as his major works which he com posed in Paris and th e U nited States. • The Libraries of Loyola University, Chica­ go, have an n o u n ced th e form ation of a Paul Claudel Collection. This collection of the French Catholic a u th o r’s works will com bine the 150 volumes currently held by Loyola with many new donations and purchases. Some recent acquisi­ tions include 116 volumes from the Claudel Ar­ chives at the University of Zürich, and 30 volumes from the Société Paul Claudel in Paris. • The Temple University L ib raries, P h il­ adelphia, have received for their Urban Archives Collection 150 oral history interview s of indi­ viduals prom inently associated with th e Phil­ adelphia Renaissance era from the 1940s to the early 1970s. The interviews wêre conducted by Walter M. Phillips, Sr., a retired civic leader and one of the original members of the Greater Phil­ adelphia Movement in 1947. The interviews are still in progress and so far include two governors, th re e m ayors, and n u m ero u s o th e r political figures as well as bankers, lawyers, educators, and judges. • The University of Utah’s Marriott Library, Salt Lake City, has obtained the original drawings and personal papers of John Hudson, a gold rush Forty N iner who helped chart the G reat Salt Lake with Captain Howard Stansbury. The maps and letters were purchased for the library by the Friends of the Library organization. GRANTS • The Bibliographic Center for Research, Denver, Colorado, has been awarded a $57,125 grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education. The grant will improve the teaching of online bibliographic searching through the use of computer-assisted instruction. Accord­ ing to BCR, the effectiveness and costs of compu­ ter-assisted instruction will be com pared with those of traditional workshop training for teaching librarians and other information specialists how to conduct online literature searches. If the methods prove cost-effective they will be incorporated into the ongoing training activities at the Center. • The Librarv of PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE, Clin- ton, South Carolina, has received a $500,000 gift from retired South Carolina businessman James H. Thomason and his wife, Sarah Dunlap Thoma­ son. The grant will provide salary supplements for the library staff and will ensure the upkeep of the James H. Thomason Library, the result of a $750,000 donation made eleven years ago. The 120,000 volum e lib rarv is well known for its emphasis on bibliographic instruction. • The University of Oklahoma L ibraries, Norman, have been awarded a $6 million endow­ ment fund for acquisitions. According to Sul H. Lee, dean of the university libraries, this endow­ m ent is part of the continuing commitment by the university to strengthen its library. The uni­ versity has already provided $12 million for build­ ing expansion and $700,000 in permanent enrich­ ment funds to the libraries’ budget base. • Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, has received a $50,000 grant from the Pew Me­ morial Trust. The award will be used to replace the present library card catalog with a more flexi­ ble and efficient computerized system. Wheaton has just completed a $4.3 million library building expansion and renovation program, and has em ­ barked on an intensive collection developm ent program. NEWS NOTES • Harvard University has completed remodel­ ing of its Museum of Comparative Zoology Li­ 9 brary. The reconstruction of the library’s public and working areas was one part of the three-year reorganization proposal subm itted by librarian Eva Jonas in 1978 and approved by m useum director A. W. Crompton and the faculty. The largest stack room of the old library is now a ref­ e ren ce read in g room. New lighting, air con­ ditioning, a circular circulation and reference desk, and furnishings which include prized trea­ sures from the museum itself have enhanced the atmosphere. The limited-access rare book room has been restored in its original Victorian style and now provides an appropriate setting for the historic collection. • Both Miami University Library, Oxford, Ohio, and Northern Illinois University Librar­ ies, DeKalb, have recently celeb rated the ac­ quisition of their one-millionth volume. Miami’s monograph, Report o f the Lords Commissioners fo r Trade and Plantations (1772), was a response to Thomas Walpole and Benjamin Franklin on their proposal to create a new crown colony in the Ohio River region. The book was presented at a meeting of the Friends of the Library Society on October 23. N orthern Illinois volume, Bvron’s Poems on Various O ccasions (Newark, 1807), was cele­ brated in September. A 22-page pamphlet com­ m em o ratin g th e occasion is available free of charge from the Rare Book Departm ent, North­ ern Illinois U niversity L ibraries, D eK alb, IL 60115. • Sangamon State University L ib rary , Springfield, Illinois, became the fourteenth Illi­ nois academic library to utilize the Library Com­ puter System (LCS) for circulation of materials under the auspices of the LCS Network Project. This project is an attem pt to develop an online library resource sharing network based upon the circulation and bibliographic searching capabili­ ties of the University of Illinois Library Compu­ ter System. Public terminals allow patrons at par­ ticipating libraries to search the com bined 4.5 million titles in the database to locate materials they need. W hen a particular title is located it can be ordered by the library circulation staff on another term inal which will generate a paging slip at the library owning the item. O ther Illinois academic libraries which have joined the system recently are: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago; Catholic Theological Un­ ion, Chicago; Northern Illinois University, DeKalb; St. Xavier College, Chicago; Lake Forest Col­ lege, Lake Forest; and Illinois State University, Normal. • The State University of New York Col­ lege at Brockport’s Drake Memorial Library has collaborated with the college’s Educational Communications C enter to produce a library in­ struction program for freshmen which began this fall. The program is re q u ire d of all incoming freshmen as part of their year-long general educa­ tion communication skills course. During the fall sem ester freshm en view videotapes on library orientation, basic reference materials, the card catalog, and periodical indexes, and com plete workbook exercises in the library to supplement information presented in the tapes. At a future date a full description of the program will be available from ERIC. GALLAUDET TOUR PLANNED A tour of the new L earning C e n te r of Gal­ laudet College, the only liberal arts college in the world designed exclusively for hearing-impaired students, will be offered free of charge to ALA M idw inter Conference participants on Monday afternoon, February 2. Transportation will be provided by Gallaudet College and will leave the Sheraton Washington every 30 minutes from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. Tours will take approximately 2½ hours, including the round trip. The Learning C e n te r opened on January 5, 1981, and integrates the resources and services of the Gallaudet College Library and parts of Col­ lege Educational Resources (television, instruc­ tional development, and photography). For information and reservations, contact: Judy Cox, Administrative Support Librarian, Gallaudet College Library, 7th and Florida Avenues, N .E ., Washington, DC 20002; phone (202) 651-5566.