ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C&RL News ■ October 1999 I 775 G r a n t s a n d A c q u i s i t i o n s Ann-Christe Young University o f Virginia Library has received a $500,000 grant from th e A ndrew W. Mellon F oundation to fu n d P hase II o f th e Early American Fiction digitization project. P hase I is a M ellon-funded W eb archive o f o v er 560 volum es o f A m erican p ro se fiction from 1789 to 1850, an d is n e a r com pletion after th ree years o f w ork. P hase II will ex te n d the archive to 1875 a n d m ake available online texts from such w riters as Louisa May Alcott, Samuel C lem ens, N ath an iel H a w th o rn e , H erm an Melville, H arriet B eecher Stowe, a n d 90 oth er 19th-century novelists. Am igos Library Services has been awarded a $601,909 N ational E n d o w m en t for th e H um anities grant for funding its im aging an d preservation activities thro u g h Ju n e 2001. A dditionally, th e grant will e n ab le Amigos to enhance its coordinating role w ith th e Regional A lliance fo r P reserv atio n , a n a tio n w id e , cooperative training a n d resource-sharing project am o n g 14 leading preservation an d conservation centers. T e x a s Te ch U n iv e r s it y ’s S o u t h w e s t Collection has received a $20,000 grant from th e T e x a s S tate L ib rary a n d A rc h iv e s Com m ission to e n te r its oral history collection in to th e T ex as T ech U niversity Library c o m p u ter catalog. T he project will create co m p u ter bibliographic records for th e 2,800- plus oral history interview s in th e Southw est C ollection’s hold in g a n d m ake th o se records available for public access thro u g h th e Internet a n d th e O nline C om puter Library Center. “W hen w e stared collecting oral histories in th e mid-1950s, m any o f th e early pioneers w ere in th eir 70s a n d 80s, b u t th ey co u ld still rem em b er w h at it w as like to arrive o n the South Plains in a co v ered w a g o n ,” said Project D irector Ja n e t N eugebauer. P rin ce to n U n iv e rs ity h as re ce iv e d a $250,000 grant from th e Getty G rant Program. T he university’s In d ex o f Christian Art will use th e grant to s u p p o rt th e initial p h ase o f a project to create an online, digitized, searchable catalog o f th e m edieval m anuscripts in the c o lle c tio n o f th e P ie r p o n t M organ Library in N ew Y ork. T h e re s u ltin g re s o u rc e w ill m a k e av a ila b le to sc h o la rs fo r th e first tim e, 1 ,0 0 0 y e a r s o f W e s t e r n m e d i e v a l ic o n o g ra p h y o r g a n iz e d in a s e a r c h a b le o n lin e d a ta b a se . T rin ity U n ive rsity has re ce ive d a H igh e r E ducation T echnology A dvancem ent G rant o f $188,886 from th e T elecom m unications Infrastructure F und B oard, a state agency in Austin, Texas. T he grant will allow Trinity’s Elizabeth H uth C oates Library to pu rch ase eq u ip m en t to en h a n c e Internet access a n d to im prove distance learning capabilities. University o f South Carolina’s Film Library has b e e n a w a rd e d a film p reserv atio n grant o f ap p ro x im ately $16,000 in th e third an d final ro u n d o f th e $1.1 m illion A m erican Film Institute (AFI) C hallenge G rant series. The aw ard s w e re m a d e by a five-person p an el fro m f u n d s in th e 1999 A F I/N a tio n a l E n d o w m en t fo r th e Arts (NEA) C hallenge G rant raised by AFI. Major co n trib u to rs to the g r a n t i n c l u d e B l o c k b u s t e r , t h e F ilm F o undation, a n d NEA. T he film library ’s aw ard will b e u se d to p reserv e e n d a n g e re d n e w sre e l footage th a t exists only as nitrate- b a se d cam era negatives in a collection of 35m m Fox n ew sreel outtakes. Specifically, th e g rant will b e u se d to p reserv e 32 reels d ep ictin g th e B alkan reg io n from 1924 to 1930. T h e film library w as a recip ien t o f a sim ilar g ran t from AFI in 1997. A c q u i s i t i o n s Th e a rc h iv e o f P aul Z im m e r, a p o e t w h o d irected th e poetry program s at the University o f P ittsburgh an d the University of Iow a presses since th e 1960s, has b e e n acquired by the University o f R ochester. This Ed. n o te : Send y o u r new s to : G rants & A cq u isitio ns, C&RL News, 50 E. H u ro n St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e -m a il: ayou n g @ ala .o rg . mailto:ayoung@ala.org 776 / C&RL News ■ October 1999 trove, p ack ed in 30 boxes, includes Zim mer’s co rresp o n d en ce by A uden, Stephen Spender, E. M. Forster, G erald H eard, an d E dw ard , Upward; an d h u n d re d s o f family letters. t E lle n L o u ise P a y s o n ’s p ro fe s s io n a l landscape architecture designs have been acquired by the University o f Maine. H er prom inence in w hat is k n ow n as the “G olden Age o f American gardens” w as acknow ledged in som e o f the leading publications of her time. And as a w om an practicing a craft and profession in w hat historically h ad b e e n a m ale-dom inated field, she h e l p e d r e d e f i n e th e character and qualities that established the distinctive­ ness of American gardens and estates. For decades the w hereabouts of much of Payson’s original plans, drawings, and other works w ere unknow n. It w asn’t until after h e r death in 1977 that family m em bers d is c o v e r e d a s i z a b le c o lle c tio n o f o rig in als stored in a large chest at a family hom e in Portland. The archives o f Yaddo, th e d istin g u ish e d artists’ . Payson estate in c o m m u n ity in S aratoga et, New York. Springs, N ew York, has b e e n a c q u ire d th e N ew York P ublic Library. S p en cer a n d K atrina T rask fo u n d e d Y addo in 1900, w ith a vi­ sio n o f n u rtu rin g th e ta le n ts o f w riters, painters, com posers, an d o th e r creative art­ ists. Y addo has h o s te d th o u s a n d s o f art­ ists, in c lu d in g Ja m e s B a ld w in , L eo n ard B erstein, E lizabeth B ishop, T rum an Capote, L angston H u g h es, a n d W illiam C arlos Wil­ lia m s. M any a r t is t s — in c l u d in g C a rs o n McCuller, K atherine A nne Porter, a n d J o h n C h eev er— m a in ta in e d a rich p e rs o n a l c o r­ re s p o n d e n c e w ith E lizab eth A m es, w h o w a s Y ad d o ’s ex e c u tiv e d ire c to r from 1926 to 1969; a n d th a t c o rr e s p o n d e n c e form s a significant p a rt o f th e co llectio n . T he col­ le c tio n also in clu d es th e p e rs o n a l archives o f the Trask family; adm inistrative files; and d o c u m e n ts p e rta in in g to th e Lowell Affair, o n e o f th e m o s t n o to r io u s m o m e n ts in Y ad d o ’s history. ■ personal an d profession papers, especially as director o f th e tw o university poetry series b u t also as an im portant practicing poet. In addition, th e archive contains significan correspondence from writers including Marvin Bell, H ayden Carruth, Annie Dillard, Jo h n Engels, Clayton Eshelman, G eorge Garrett, am ong others. T here is also correspondence w ith Raymond Carver, Jam es Dickey, Ralph Ellison, Seamus Heaney, Richard Hugo, and o th e rs . N ow w rite r-in -re s id e n c e at th e U niversity o f M ontana, Z im m e r c o n t i n u e s to co rrespond w ith writers from his hom e. J e n k in s G a rre t t has d o n a t e d h is T e x a s P ostcard Collection to the U niversity o f T exas at A rlington (UTA). Garrett, a Fort W orth attorney, businessm an, civic leader an d n o te d co llecto r of T e x a n a , a c q u ir e d th e postcards over a ten-year p e rio d . T h e c o lle c tio n in c lu d e s 13,438 T ex as postcards, w hose subjects sp a n th e 20th century. A m ong th e im ages h e The Charles S acquired, it w as difficult Manhass fo r h im to c h o o s e a favorite, b u t street scenes p rio r to 1915 give him the m ost pleasure. Nearly 320 cities and to w n s are rep resen ted in th e collection, w hich dates from 1903 to 1996. Author Christopher Isherwood’s complete literary archive has b e e n acq u ired by the H untington Library. Ish erw o o d (1904-84), an English-born, naturalized U.S. citizen, is the a u th o r o f plays, screenplays, novels, and nonfiction. T he tales in his b o o k The B erlin Stones fictionalized his stay in pre-Nazi Berlin from 1929 to 1933, an d w ere ad ap te d as the play I A m a C am era an d as the m usical and film Cabaret. A m ong th e n o tab le m aterials are m ultiple drafts o f his w orks, show ing extensive revisions; n o teb o o k s an d early m anuscripts (including un p u b lish ed poem s) by W. H. Auden, Ish erw o o d ’s close friend an d literary collaborator; lengthy files of C8RL News ■ October 1999 / 777