ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL News ■ N ovem ber 1998 / 795

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 University of Rochester has received
a gift of $500,000 from Martin E. Messinger, a 
university trustee w ho re ceived  his 
undergraduate degree in 1949. The gift will 
allow for the complete renovation of the library’s 
main periodical reading room to be named the 
Martin E. Messinger Periodical Reading Room. 
Plans call for refinishing the walls and tables, 
installation o f new electrical wiring with data 
lines, replacement of the florescent ceiling lights 
added in the 1960s with new pendant lighting 
to resemble the original 1930s fixtures, as well 
as the addition o f a new floor surface and 
furniture.

The University of California, Santa Cruz,
has received an award o f 800,000 yen 
(approximately $8,000) from the Japan 
Foundation’s Library Support Program. The 
grant will be received in the form of an in-kind 
gift o f more than 100 English-language titles in 
Japanese studies. The grant is given to two 
dozen institutions each year to support the 
expansion of Japanese studies collections. While 
the university library houses a substantial 
holding in East Asian studies, the grant will 
expand the collection significantly, especially in 
the areas o f Japanese art, literature, history, 
philosophy, and religion.

The University of Iowa's School of Library
and Information Science has received a $60,000 
grant from Rockwell International to research 
and develop a high-tech search engine for the 
Web. The grant money will support a new 
technique called the Adaptive Web Agent for 
Environmental Scanning. “The Adaptive Web 
Agent will have three basic abilities,” said 
Padmini Srinivasan, director o f the School of 
Library and Information Science and the 
principal investigator o f this two-year research 
project. “First, the agent will scan and identify 
relevant information according to user profiles. 
Second, the agent will be able to remove 
irrelevant entries from retrieved results. Finally, 
the relevant information will be automatically 
summarized and routed to the relevant user 
group.”

Southern M ethodist University is the
recipient o f two gifts to process the papers of 
Stanley Marcus and Erik jonsson. Marcus, whose 
family founded Neiman Marcus, is recognized 
as a trendsetter in high-end retail marketing, 
and is still an active civic leader at the age of 93. 
Gifts totalling $60,000 will make possible the 
processing o f the Marcus Archive and the 
publication of a guide to the collection. Jonsson 
was the cofounder and president o f Texas 
Instruments and also served as the mayor of 
Dallas from 1964-70. During his tenure in public 
office, he guided the development of D-FW 
Airport, now a major economic factor in Texas 
and the Southwest. Gifts of $50,000 per year for 
two years will provide for the processing of the 
Jonsson Archive and preparation of a printed guide.

Furman University and Wofford College
in South Carolina, have received a grant o f 
$675,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon 
Foundation. This funding will support a 
continuing program o f collaborative use of 
advanced information technology in a number of 
areas, including the libraries. The program was 
established under a previous grant from the 
Mellon Foundation in 1995. The new grant will 
provide funds for the creation of an information 
technology librarian position who will work half- 
time on each campus. This specialist will enhance 
technology-related public services, provide 
training in the use of information technology to 
faculty, staff and students, and coordinate 
expanded cooperative programs between libraries 
and the two institutions. He or she will also 
provide support for faculty-student information 
technology development teams.

SUNY Buffalo faculty have been award­
ed a two-year Undergraduate Faculty En­
hancement Program grant through the Division 
o f Undergraduate Education o f the National 
Science Foundation. Nancy Schiller, associate 
librarian in the Science and Engineering Library,

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and Clyde Herreid, distinguished teaching 
professor in the B iological Sciences 
Department, have been awarded $119,000 of 
funding for a two-year period. The focus of the 
grant is on fostering case study teaching in the 
sciences. The project involves an annual 
workshop for college science faculty who receive 
intensive training in writing using case studies 
to teach science to undergraduates. The projects 
will be mounted on the Web at <http://ublib. 
bu ffalo.edu /libraries/p rojects/cases/ 
case.html›, developed with NSF support as a 
national clearinghouse for science case studies.

A c q u i s i t i o n s

Edmund Spenser's TheS hepheardes Cal-
ender(London: Hugh Singleton, 1579) has been 
acquired by the Folger Shakespeare Library. The 
items has been 
described as “of 
the highest rarity, ” 
being one of seven 
extant copies, and 
the only one with 
the final quire in 
an early, uncor­
rected state. It is 
Spenser’s earliest 
important work 
and consists of 12 
eclogues, one for 
each month of the 
year, written in 
different meters. T h e S h e p h e a rd e s  C a le n d e r
They are presented 
as dialogues among shepheards, and tell the story 
of Colin Clout, the lovelorn shepherd, who laments 
the cruel treatment of his beloved Rosalind 
through the seasons. The volume, the last copy of 
the first edition in private hands, was acquired 
through a gift/purchase arrangement with James
O. Edwards, a Folger friend and former trustee.

The papers of Ernest V. Joiner, newspaper
editorial writer and editor, have been acquired 
by Texas Tech University (TTU) in Lubbock. 
The collection, dating from 1911, contains six 
boxes of correspondence, awards, photographs, 
speeches, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and 
newspaper editorials Joiner collected or 
authored. The bulk of the collection includes

editorials Joiner authored between 1972-91. 
He began his career in 1955 by purchasing the 
struggling Ralls Banner. His controversial 
editorial columns brought state and national 
attention to the paper, transforming it into a 
success. He sold the Ralls Banner in I960 and 
went to work as editor at Modern Veterinary 
Practice. He left there and purchased the Heppner 
Gazette-Times, then sold that paper, and 
purchased the Sebastol Times.}oiner earned his 
bachelor’s degree from TTU in mass 
communications.

The Muskoka Lakes Association's (MLA)
archives were acquired by the University o f 
Waterloo Library in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 
The MLA was organized in 1894 by a group of 
summer cottagers, and since then has worked on 
behalf of permanent and part-time residents of 
Lakes Muskoka, Rousseau, and Joseph. The 
papers document the issues of interest to the 
association over the last century, which have 
included political and environmental concerns.

The collection of Joseph Wolpe has been
acquired by the University o f Southern 
California’s libraries. The late South African- 
born American psychiatrist helped usher in 
behavior therapy by devising a treatment to 
desensitize phobia patients by exposing them 
incrementally to images of their fears. Highlights 
of the Wolpe archives include his reports on his 
systematic desensitization studies with cats; 
audiotapes of a successful 16-session treatment 
with an intensely phobic client who was socially 
paralyzed by fear o f fainting in public; 
correspondence with Skinner and others in the 
behavior therapy field; and videotapes o f an 
extensive 1994 Wolpe interview.

The General José de San M a rtín  book
collection has been donated to the University of 
Southern California by the San Martín Society 
of the San Fernando Valley. The more than 200 
books relate to the life o f San Martín (1778- 
1850), one of the great liberators of the Americas. 
The collection includes descriptions o f San 
.Martín’s crossing of the Andes in 1817 to defeat 
the Spaniards at Santiago, Chile; a first-person 
account o f the historic meeting between San 
Martín and Bolivar in 1822; a history o f San 
Martín’s sabre; facsimiles of hand-drawn battle 
plans; histories of the wars of independence; and 
collections of San Martín’s correspondence. ■

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