ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


442/C&RL News

Grants
and

Inquisitions
Pam Spiegel

The Long Beach C ity
College, California, Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual Student Union 
has received a $5,000 grant 
from Long Beach Lesbian &
Gay Pride, Inc., to purchase 
books and other materials 
relating to lesbian, gay, and 
bisexual issues for the col­
lege library. In addition, the 
group, which is responsible 
for the annual Long Beach 
gay pride parade and festi­
val, awarded $1,000 to the 
college for the purpose o f 
providing four scholarships to students promot­
ing lesbian and gay pride.

N e w  Y o rk  U niversity's Tam im ent Li­
brary has been granted $95,000 from the Na­
tional Endowment for the Humanities to sup­
port a one-year project to arrange, describe,
and disseminate the Greenwich House Collec­
tion. Comprising 120 linear feet o f records, the
collection documents not only the entire his­
tory o f Greenwich House— one o f the oldest
continuously operating social settlements in the
United States— from its founding in 1902 to the
present, but also many aspects o f 20th-century
social reform. It includes photographs, research
notes, case histories, annual reports, and index
cards recording client visits and services ren­
dered.

The University of Virginia Health Sciences
Center, Charlottesville, has received a $136,747
planning grant from the National Library of
Medicine o f the National Institutes o f Health to
continue to develop its extensive computer and
information systems in a coordinated way to
support patient care, education, and research. 
The center is one o f 21 institutions around the
country to receive such funding over the past
decade for the development o f Integrated Ad­
vanced Inform ation Management Systems
(IAIMS). In a complementary initiative, a re­

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cent grant o f $50,000 from 
the National Science Foun­
dation will extend computer 
connections to selected hos­
pitals in the Blue Ridge re­
gion using the Internet. The 
goal is to create a multi­
cam pus n etw ork  ca lled  
VMEDNET that links clini­
cians, librarians, educators, 
students, researchers, and 
administrators.

The V irg in ia  Historical
Society has been awarded 

rant o f $50,262 from the National Endow­
nt for the Humanities to support the Vir­
ia Women’s Manuscripts Access Project. The 
nt will enable the society to increase access 
its collections through the creation o f auto­
ted collection descriptions and a compre­
nsive guide to primary sources concerning 
men.

e Washington Research Library Con­
rtium  (WRLC), Lanham, Maryland, has been 
arded a grant o f $71,777 under the Depart­
nt o f Education’s College Library Technol­
y and Cooperation Grants Program (Title IIA) 
develop an integrated document request and 
nsmission service. The 15-month project has 
o major objectives: 1) to implement a docu­
nt transmission service to support resource- 
aring within and outside o f WRLC; and 2) to 
pport the processing o f document requests 
d the resulting transmission o f documents 
ough a single interlibrary loan workstation. 
e funds will also be used to support one­
e Internet start-up costs and to purchase Ariel 
ipment and software for the WRLC mem­

r libraries and remote storage facility.

ayne State University Libraries, Detroit,
eived a $50,000 donation from Ameritech to 

pport the African American Educational Ar­
ives Initiative. The funds will be used to de­
op a multimedia computer database o f ma­
ials on African American education. With that 
tem, scholars will be able to access docu­
nts, photographs, paintings, film, and sound 
s on the history o f African American educa­

n from pre-Colonial times to the present. The 
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about 18 months and will be housed in the tional, multilingual, and intergenerational. It 
contains personal materials such as family cor­
respondence and photographs; family members’ 
published and unpublished works; Yiddish 
pedagogical materials related to the secular 
school movement in the U.S.; and lecture notes 
and course materials pertaining to classes taken 
by Fishman when he was a student, and those 
Fishman has taught and continues to teach.

A  significant g ift o f the pap e rs, books,
and correspondence o f science fiction writer, 
editor, screenwriter, and producer George R. 
R. Martin has been donated to Texas A&M 
University’s Sterling C. Evans Library. The 
Martin collection is the author’s own library and 

contains all the first editions 
o f his books as well as nearly 
all known subsequent edi­
tions, reprints, and transla­
tions. It also includes scripts, 
videotapes, manuscript mate­
rials, and notebooks. Martin 
is the winner o f three Hugo 
Awards, tw o Nebulas, and 

yitsr one Bram Stoker Award. His eivn books include A Song fo r  Lya U
 e and Windhaven, and his tele­kuD vision credits include Twilight , dd Zone.oT seL Several hundred volumes

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o f Spanish and Chicano litera­

cre
 ture and Mexican/Mexican- otohP American history have been 

donated to the University of ty media librarian 
 Arizona Library by Charles plays laser discs

e Walt Disney Co. Tatum, dean o f the College 
o f Humanities. The gift in­

 cludes 214 new titles for Special Collections, 
 293 gift books for the circulating collections, 
 and some rare Chicano literary journals.
 
 The papers o f Peter A ckroyd h ave been
 acquired by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manu­
 script Library at Yale University. Ackroyd is 

recognized as one o f today’s most brilliant 
chroniclers o f British social and intellectual life. 
He is the author o f several novels, a number o f 

 literary biographies, and criticism. The archive 
comprises all o f his extant papers, including 

 research notes and drafts o f his books, an un­
 published television drama, and drafts o f po­
 ems, essays, lectures, reviews, and correspon­

dence. ■

Purdy/Kresge Library.

Acquisitions
Forty-one loser discs o f W a lt  Disney
cartoons, feature films, sing-alongs, and televi­
sion specials w ere donated to Duke Uni­
versity’s Lilly Library in Durham, North Caro­
lina, by the Disney Company. Highlights o f the 
gift are several previously hard-to-find early 
cartoons such as the 1932 Mickey’s Good Deed 
and two sequences from 1937’s Snow White 
Disney donated the collection 
to Duke in recognition o f the 
university library’s participa­
tion in the filming o f The Pro­
gram, a 1993 Disney release 
film ed partly on the Duke 
campus. The collection will 
increase the p restige and 
depth o f the library’s media 
collection, w hich includes 
documentaries, animated, and 
feature films representing the 
film industries o f nearly 60 
countries.

O v e r  3 0 0  E d w a r d ia n
novels have been acquired by 
the Fales Library o f New York 
University’s Bobst Library.
Written betw een  1900 and Duke Universi
1915, the novels are the works Jane Agee dis
o f minor authors, many o f donated by th
whom are little known. The 
collection represents what the average reading
public was consuming at the time: Cockney
novels, novels about the suffragette movement,
and murder mysteries. The novels depict life
in the South Seas, Australia, India, and the East
End o f London as told by writers George Louis
Becke, William LeQueux, and Mary Elizabeth
Coleridge, among others.

The Joshua A. Fishman and Gella Schweid
Fishman Family Archive has been acquired by
the Stanford University Libraries. A found­
ing father in the field o f sociolinguistics, Fishman
was also an advocate o f small languages the
world over, particularly Yiddish. The archive is
unique in that it is interdisciplinary, interna­