ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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bam  in W hitehall, W isconsin, in 1974 by D avid 
W ood, g reat g ran d so n  o f his nam esake. The 
diaries, w hich begin in 1865, give terse accounts 
of daily activities a n d  observations by W ood, a 
man w ith d e e p  N ew  E ngland roots, an d  his 
s o n s . A c c o r d in g  to  J a m e s  C u m m in g s , a 
Stillwater, M innesota, b o o k seller a n d  appraiser 
w ho ex am in ed  the diaries, “T h ese form  a n  u n ­
paralleled a cco u n t o f rural W isconsin life in the 
generations follow ing the first w ave o f settlers.”

Grants &  gifts
Arizona State University received two
aw ards totalling $200,000 fo r library acquisi­
tions a n d  fellow ships in Southeast Asian Stud­
ies from  the H enry Luce F o u n d atio n  o f N ew
York. Library acquisitions o f so u th east Asian 
materials will b e  su p p o rte d  b y  $150,000, an d  
fellow ships totalling $50,000 will b e  aw ard ed  
by the Program  for Southeast Asian Studies over
three years.

Harvard University has received $1.5 
million from  th e  Lucius N. Littauer F oundation 
to e n d o w  a n  innovative librarianship in th e 
Judaica Division. T he gift will stren g th en  the 
library’s ability to  ad ap t technology to the need s 
of the library a n d  o f research at Harvard. Ac­
cording to  H arvard’s L ibrary Notes, W illiam Lee 
Front, p re s id e n t o f th e  L ittauer F o u n d atio n , 
stated th at “H ebraica at H arvard h as b e e n  in 
the forefront o f efforts to  u se  n e w  technologies 
to e n h an ce library service to  scholars. …  En­
dow m ent o f this n e w  p osition will n o t only 
strengthen H arvard’s reso u rces b u t also enable 
Harvard to  m aintain a n d  en h a n c e  its efforts in 
the area o f H ebraica librarianship to  th e  benefit 
of scholars th ro u g h o u t th e  w o rld .”

The Hoover Institution w as aw arded 
$953,783 b y  th e  National E n dow m ent for the 
H u m a n itie s  f o r  t h e  p r e s e r v a t i o n  o f  th e  
In stitu tio n ’s E u ro p e a n  p a m p h le t c o llectio n . 
More than 60,000 pam phlets will b e microfilmed 
and reh o u sed  in acid-free enclosures. T he pam ­
phlets rep resen t th e  countries o f W estern, C en­
tral, a n d  Eastern E urope, as w ell as th e form er 
Soviet U nion. C overage for m ost countries b e ­
gins in 1914 w ith the o u tb re a k  o f W orld W ar I 
and concentrates o n  th e  fields o f governm ent 
and politics, revolutionary m ovem ents, th e rise

 

 

 

o f social dem ocracy, th e tw o W orld Wars, an d  
th e  subjects o f p e a c e  a n d  neutrality. They in­
clude the w ritings o f dissidents, tracts o f politi­
cal parties, go v ern m en t p ro p ag an d a, a n d  u n ­
d erg ro u n d  literature.

Rice U n iv e rs ity 's  Fondren L ib ra ry  
received $100,000 from  th e H o bby F oundation 
o f H ouston, Texas. T he gift is to  b e  u se d  for 
enhancing hum anities collections to  su p p o rt the 
w o rk  o f faculty h ired  in disciplines n o t previ­
ously in clu d ed  in  th e  Rice curriculum .

The University of M arylan d  Health 
S ciences Library w a s a w a rd e d  a th re e -y e a r 
$442,677 g ran t fro m  th e  N ational Library o f 
M edicine (NLM) to  create a n  innovative Uni­
fied Medical Language System (UMLS) Search­
ing W orkstation. T he w orkstation will m ake 
use o f UMLS, d ev elo p e d  at the NLM to  m ake 
online searching easier for th o se in health care. 
G ary Freiburger, director o f system s research, 
developm ent, a n d  services, is th e principal in­
vestigator for th e  project. T he ULMS has b e e n  
d ev elo p ed  by  th e  NLM as a solution to  th e p ro b ­
lem  o f m ultiple stan d ard  vocabularies in use 
by the various health care disciplines. T he heart 
o f the UMLS is th e  M etathesaurus, a m assive 
d atab a se w hich links term s from  a variety of 
m edical vocabularies including MeSH, ICD-9, 
CPT, DSM-IIIR, a n d  LCSH. The UMLS Search­
ing W orkstation Project will allow  a researcher 
to  use an y  fam iliar vocabulary an d  th e w o rk ­
station will u se UMLS to  find th e  subject h ead ­
ing ap p ro p riate to  th e  database b ein g  searched.

The libraries at the University of 
N o r t h  C a r o lin a  a t C h a p e l  H ill will receive 
$300,000 o f a $3.65 m illion pled g e th e  E duca­
tional Foundation m ade to the university in 1990. 
T he m o n ey  will b e  u se d  by the A cadem ic Af­
fairs Library a n d  co u n t to w ard  a N ational En­
d o w m en t fo r th e  H um anities (NEH) Challenge 
grant that will s u p p o rt the general hum anities 
collection, special collections, an d  conservation 
laboratory a n d  preservation projects.

P enrose M e m o ria l L ib ra ry  of 
W h it m a n  C o l l e g e  has received an  en d o w m en t 
o f $80,000 from  th e estate o f Ilabelle S hanahan 
M orrison o f Salt Lake City, Utah, w h o  gradu­
ated  in 1928 from  W hitm an College. T he p ro ­
ceed s from  this en d o w m e n t will b e  u se d  to 
acquire m aterials in A m erican history accord­
ing to  M orrison’s w ishes. ■