ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 352 / C b R L News entered by the University of Chicago Library. Catalogues aw arded honorable mention in the second division were “The Dark Side of the E n­ lightenm ent,” from the Houghton Library, H ar­ v a rd U niversity, and “ Theories of th e E a rth , 1644-1830: The History of a G enre,” sponsored by the Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, Missouri. “James Joyce at 101,” from the McFarlin Library, the University of Tulsa, received honorable men­ tion in the third division. The awards will be presented by Beverly Lynch at the RBMS program m eeting at ALA Annual Conference in New York (see schedule this issue for time), and the winning catalogues will be on dis­ play both at the RBMS Preconference and the pro­ gram meeting. Divisions were based upon unit costs for produc­ ing the exhibition catalogues. Catalogues p u b ­ lished between January 1, 1983, and August 31, 1985, were eligible for this year’s competition. Criteria for granting the awards include excel­ lence in the areas of accuracy and consistency of presentation, clarity, quality of design and useful­ ness of catalogues to the intended audience. The committee served as jury w ith some consultation with outside experts. Seventy eligible entries were ceived. Entries for September 1, 1985, through August , 1986, must be subm itted by September 30, 86. F or fu rth e r in fo rm a tio n , c o n ta c t Sally each, Chair, RBMS Committee for Awards for xhibition Catalogues, H arry Ransom Humanities esearch C e n te r, U n iv ersity of Texas, P .O . raw er 7219, Austin, TX 78713-7219; (512) 471- 15. ■ ■ re 31 19 L E R D 91 News from the field Acquisitions • T he New York University A rchives, New York, has acquired the professional papers of Bayrd Still, director of the Archives. Still, whose association w ith NYU began in 1947, served as head of the History D epartm ent, 1955-70, as act­ ing d ean of th e College of Arts and Science, 1958-60, and as acting dean of the G rad u ate School of Arts and Science, 1971. Upon his retire­ ment from teaching in 1974, Still became director of the Archives, and was active in the organization of the university’s sesquicentennial celebration in 1981-82. His scholarly works include Milwaukee: The History o f a City (1946, 1955), Mirror fo r Gotham: New York as Seen by Contemporaries from Dutch Days to the Present (1956), and Urban America: A History w ith Documents (1974). The collection, which spans 60 years, includes material from Still’s years as a graduate student at the Uni­ versity of Wisconsin, where he studied under the historian Frederick L. Paxson; his early teaching career at w hat is now the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee and Duke University; the w ar years in the Army Air Force Historical Office; and his long association w ith NYU. Included are correspon­ dence, articles, speeches and research notes, many on the history of NYU, Greenwich Village, and New York City. • The University of California, Los Angeles De- partm ent of Special Collections, Manuscript Divi­ sion, has acquired two manuscripts of note. One is a Henry Miller notebook, containing notes of his tour around the United States in 1940-41. The otebook contains material which Miller used for he A ir-C o n d itio n e d N ig h tm a re (New York, 945-47) and complements other notes, m an u ­ cripts, typescripts, and drawings in the Henry iller Papers at UCLA. The notebook includes ore than 200 pages of holograph notes, an itiner­ ry of the trip, and five original drawings. Some of he entries in the notebook were repeated verbatim n the book, but much of the notebook contains un­ ublished materials th at will contibute to further iller scholarship. The notebook is one of the few iller m anuscripts not originally deposited at CLA by Miller. It was sold by Miller in 1942 and emained in private hands until its acquistion by CLA. UCLA has also acquired the manuscript of Fe- erigo Com m andino’s translation of Archimedes ca.1553), the copy which Paolo Manuzio used to rint the Aldine edition (Venice, 1558). The m anu­ cript is in the handw riting of both Guidobaldo dal onte and Commandino himself, whose m argina­ ia offer both translation corrections and printing irections which were carried out in the printed dition. C om m andino was the most im portant ranslator of Greek m athem atical treatises in the 6th century. • The University of Denver’s Houston Fine Arts enter is now the home of one of the ten largest ance libraries in the country, the M artha Faure arson Dance Library. The collection came to the niversity when DU purchased Colorado W om­ n’s College. A recent bequest from the now de- n T 1 s M m a t i p M M U r U d ( p s M l d e t 1 C d C U e funct Agnes Kragh H earn F oundation has enabled the University to move th e library to m ore spacious accom m odations in the C enter’s Lyle T ru e G allery and to retain D enver Post music and dance critic Glenn Giffen as p art-tim e curator. In addition to books and periodicals, th e collection consists of press kits, p h o to g rap h s, posters, videocassettes, audiotapes, and record albums. • The University of Minnesota-St. Paul Cam pus Libraries have received a collection of m ore th a n 5,000 fam ily social sciences volumes from th e N a­ tional Council on Fam ily Relations (NCFR). The catalog contains m aterials covering a w ide variety of topics, including fam ily relations, education, hum an psychology, fam ily social history, and h u ­ m an sexuality. Although most of the titles have a post-1970 p u b lic a tio n d a te , th e co llectio n w as com piled over the past 25 years by R uth Jewson, recently re tire d N C FR executive d irec to r. T he N CFR will also donate to M innesota any subse­ quent volumes as they are acquired. ♦ The University of Texas at Austin L ib rary has acquired, by gift and purchase, a massive archive of m aterials docum enting life in the O ld South be­ tw een 1780 and 1900. The m aterials, w hich have been designated th e N atchez T race C ollection, were acquired for U T-Austin’s Rarker Texas His­ tory C enter. The nam e of th e collection is derived from an old In d ian trail and la ter post road be­ tw een Nashville, Tennessee, and N atchez, Missis­ sippi. T he “ T ra c e ,” an im p o rta n t m ilitary an d com m ercial ro u te from th e 1780s to th e 1830s, passed through th e old N atchez D istrict, w hich had been organized by F rance an d was la ter ruled by G reat R ritain and Spain. It becam e th e richest cotton-grow ing region in th e U.S. in antebellum days. T hrough diaries, correspondence, court rec­ ords, periodicals, household inventories, business ledgers, newspapers, slave bills of sale, m edical records, m aps, broadsides, catalogs, battlefield let­ ters, and sheet music, th e collection paints a pic­ tu re of life in Mississippi and Louisiana during the Old South era as it p ertained to slavery, cotton, the economy, law , m edicine, politics, religion, educa­ tion, plantations, w om en, agriculture, the Civil W ar, and m any other subjects. Grants • Brow n U n iv ersity L i b r a r y , P ro v id e n c e , Rhode Island, has received a $750,000 N EH chal­ lenge grant to establish an endow m ent to cover the costs of library acquistions in the hum anities, in ­ cluding classics, old w orld archaeology, history of m athem atics, history, area studies, language and literatu re, th eater arts, th e history of music and art. The grant will also enable staff to catalog these holdings. The university plans to raise an ad d i­ tional $2,250,000 to provide the necessary fu n d ­ m atching dollars required by the grant. • H a v e rfo rd C ollege, P en n sy lv an ia, has r e ­ ceived a $1 million grant from the Pew M emorial T ru st for th e conversion of th e college’s bib lio ­ graphic records to m achine-readable form . The grant is to be shared by H averford w ith Bryn M aw r and S w arthm ore Colleges, and subsequent phases of the autom ation plan will provide for an in te­ grated online system accessible to all three colleges’ faculty, students and staff. Presently, the three col­ lege libraries utilize O C L C . T he libraries will con­ tinue their in terlibrary loan system, and the O C L C database records will be transferred to the new sys­ tem , providing online access to holdings, biblio­ graphic inform ation, and other library records. In to tal, the three libraries hold almost tw o million volumes, and over seven thousand periodical sub­ scriptions. E ach of the libraries has an extensive collection of governm ent docum ents, rare books, m anuscripts, and microforms. • Rutgers University L ib ra rie s, N ew Bruns- wick, New Jersey, have been aw arded a $25,000 grant from th e New Jersey C om m ittee for the H u ­ m anities in support of th e New Jersey H um anities M edia Resource Service. T he Resource Service cir­ culates films and videos throughout the state of N ew Jersey to co m m u n ity groups an d colleges, schools, health-related institutions, and the busi­ ness com m unity. B rochures, speakers, an d p ro ­ gram m ing are also provided. • The University of Alberta, E dm onton, has re- ceived an $8,000 grant from C a n a d a ’s Social Sci­ ences an d H um anities Research Council to help fund th e acquisition of the Hom e Museum Collec­ tion of artists’ books. This collection of artists’ books was form ed by the Am erican artist Francis Brown, betw een 1971 and 1984. It includes over 400 books produced by artists from the U .S., C a n ­ ada, and m any other countries. Among the artistic concepts em bodied are m inim alism , conceptual­ ism, work by the Fluxists, and correspondence art. Also p a rt of the collection are m any volumes of d o c u m e n ta tio n a n d refe re n c e , plus co rre sp o n ­ dence and m ore th a n 200 periodicals. T he Bruce Peel Special Collections L ibrary, w here the collec­ tion will be housed, has been collecting m odern artists’ books for six years. • The University of Georgia Libraries has re- ceived a $10,000 U nited States N ew spaper Pro­ gram Planning G ran t from the Office of Preserva­ tion of the N ational E ndow m ent for the H u m an i­ ties. T he m ain objective of this planning g ran t is to survey repositories in Georgia to establish prim ary new spaper holding locations w ithin the state, to provide a count of both in-state and out-of state new spaper titles, and com pile a checklist of th e in­ state newspapers. This com pilation will become the basis for fu tu re m icrofilm ing and cataloging. T he g ran t w ill be adm inistered by th e G eorgia N ew spaper Project. T he U nited States N ew spaper Program (USNP) is a cooperative effort am ong the N E H , th e L ib rary of Congress, O nline C om puter L ib rary N etw ork (O C L C ), and th e USNP p artici­ M ay 1986 / 353 354 / C&RL News pants to build a national database of bibliographic and holdings inform ation for new spapers p u b ­ lished in the United States. The program will p ro ­ v id e access to n ew sp ap ers an d p reserv e them through m icrofilm ing. The G eorgia N ew spaper Project began in the 1950s as an effort to preserve G eorgia’s newspapers on microfilm. By 1985 five hundred and seventy titles on over 8,000 reels had been microfilmed. The University Libraries retain the m aster negatives as well as a positive working copy for each title. In addition to providing the means for achieving the m ain objectives of the USNP, the NEH grant will allow the University of Georgia Libraries to host a num ber of planning workshops throughout the state. These workshops will provide a m ethod for involving county offi­ cials, librarians, individuals, historical and genea­ logical societies in the planning for Georgia’s p a r­ ticipation in this program . • T he University of Missouri-Columbia Li- braries have received a $202,757 grant from the U.S. D e p a rtm e n t of E d u catio n to im prove the availability of special collections. The 15-month grant will be used to improve bibliographic access to a p p ro x im a te ly 2 1 ,0 0 0 p re -1 8 0 0 im p rin ts through the national online union catalog operated by O C L C . A pproxim ately 5,200 titles w ill be tre a te d . In a d d itio n , th e u n iv e rsity has been aw arded a $3,000 faculty/librarian research grant from the Council on L ib rary Resources. G ran t funds will be used for the study, “Investigating the Effects of H um an Factors on the O utcom e of a Li­ brary C om puter Literacy P rogram ,” a follow-up to the UMC Libraries’ H .W . Wilson Staff Develop­ m ent Award project on com puter literacy. The new study will explore and docum ent staff percep­ tions and attitudes tow ard com puter technology after com pleting the com puter literacy program . • T h e University of Wisconsin School of L ibrary a n d In fo rm a tio n S tu d ies, M adison, has been aw arded a $148,000 grant from the U.S. D ep art­ m ent of Education to study the role of literacy edu­ cation of secondary school, com m unity college, ac­ a d e m ic , p u b lic , s ta te , a n d s ta te in s titu tio n a l libraries. A nationw ide survey coupled w ith nine exemplary program case studies form the basis of the study w hich will result in the development of a projected role for libraries in literacy education. The project report will be delivered to the D OE in June 1987. News Note • T h e University of W isconsin-M ilw aukee School of L ib rary and Inform ation Science has signed a partnership agreem ent w ith Moi Univer­ sity’s newly established Faculty of Inform ation Sci­ ences at Eldoret, Kenya. The partnership agree­ m e n t, w hich is th e first to be signed b etw een UW -Milwaukee and an African university, pro­ vides for faculty support to Moi University, student exchanges, and exchange of library m aterials. As p art of the agreem ent, UWM-SLIS will assist w ith curriculum design and program development for the Faculty of Inform ation Sciences and consult on library planning, autom ation, staffing, and staff training at MU. SLIS will also provide partial and full fellowships for Moi University faculty to com ­ plete their MLS at UWM. The SLIS will continue to send books and periodicals to Moi University to support instruction and research in the Faculty of Inform ation Sciences. Moi University is the second university to be established in Kenya and is nam ed after Daniel Arap Moi, the president of the R epub­ lic of Kenya. P E O P L E People in the News cess to National Inform ation Systems,” described the range and capabilities of the various inform a­ tion databases available to technicians, researchers and m anagers employed in forestry and the forest products industry. Lenore Coral, librarian of the Cornell Univer­ sity M usic L ib r a r y , has b e e n e le c te d vice president/president-elect of the Music L ibrary As­ sociation. Coral will begin her term as president in February 1987. Holly Ann Gardinier, music librarian at the Bill Coons, current awareness services lib rar­ ian at Cornell U niversity’s A lbert R. M ann L i­ brary, presented a paper at “Software Solutions,” the 2nd Annual C om puter Symposium and Soft­ w are Fair, sponsored by the Forest Resources Sys­ tems Institute and the Forest Products Research So­ ciety an d held in L ouisville, K entucky, A pril 22-24, 1985. The paper, titled “O nline Searching of Bibliographic Databases: M icrocom puter Ac­