ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Gra n ts 
a n d  

Acquisitions
T a ra  W eik u m

The University of Califor
nia at Riverside has received 
$10,079 from the Librarian’s 
Association of the University 
of California to expand and 
e n h a n c e  INFOMINE, the 
library’s Internet W eb re­
source management tool and 
search engine.

H arvard College Library 
has been given $1 million 
dollars to establish a Fund for 
British Civilization. Donated 
by an anonymous member of 
the class o f 1947, the money will support the 
College Library’s collections in the Houghton, 
Fine Arts, and Widener libraries in the fields of 
British literature, art, culture, and history.

The M ilton S. E ise n h o w e r L ib ra ry  a t 
Johns Hopkins University has been given a half 
million dollars to create an endowment for pur­
chasing pre-twentieth-century scholarly mate­
rial. Winifred Claude Gordon bequeathed the 
money to establish a memorial for her late hus­
band and for her father-in-law. The endow­
ment will enable the library to enlarge its rare 
book collection.

The M a rin e rs’ M useum  h a s received a 
matching grant o f $145,000 a year from 1996– 98 
from the Commonwealth o f Virginia to create 
an electronic database o f its Research Library’s 
card catalog and provide computer access to 
its database. The museum’s Research Library 
and Archives contain more than 75,000 volumes, 
including ship’s logs, vessel registries, account 
books, and diaries. They also consist of materi­
als relating to the Civil War, slave trade, the im­
migrant experience, and lifesaving.

Eleven Co m prehensive Research Lib rar
ies of New York State have been awarded a 
$50,000 planning grant by the Andrew W. Mellon 
Foundation for the project “The Making of New 
York: Past, Present, and Future.” The project will 
advance the development of a New York State 
Digital Library. Included in the grant are the li­
braries of New York University; Columbia Uni­
versity; Syracuse University; The University of 
Rochester; the State University of New York at 
Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, and Stony Brook;

the New York State Library; 
and the New York Public Li
brary. The libraries will work 
to g eth er to digitize New 
York-related resources.

The U n iversity of North 
D akota, Grand Forks, Li­
brary has received its sixth 
consecutive grant from the 
International Council for Ca­
nadian Studies and the Ca­
nadian Consulate General in 
M in n ea p o lis. T h e grants 
have allowed the university 

to purchase more than $30,000 worth o f mate­
rials relevant to Canadian studies.

The Sm ithsonian Institution’s H irshhorn 
Museum and Sculpture Garden has received 
numerous donations to support an exhibition 
o f Richard Lindner’s works. The German-born 
artist’s work reflects such influences as adver­
tising, modernism, and street life. The Smith­
sonian Institution Special Exhibition Fund, 
Conde Nast Publications, and a number of other 
foundations are funding the exhibition.

The U niversity of T e x a s a t Arlington Li
braries Special Collections Division has received 
a grant from the A. H. Belo Corporation Foun­
dation to fund the processing of the papers of 
author and journalist A. C. Greene. Greene 
worked as a reporter and editor in Texas for 
many years and has written twenty books that 
focus on local and regional history.

W a y n e  S ta te  U n iv e r s it y ’ s S h iffm a n  
Medical Library has received funding for a 
model program called “Health Science Infor­
mation Tools 2000.” Awarded by the American 
Honda Foundation, the money will fund the 
program, which was developed in collabora­
tion with the Detroit Public School’s Crockett 
Career and Technical Center. “Tools 2000” will 
teach students how to use the Internet to ob­
tain health care information.

The W a sh in g to n  U n iv e rsity  L ib ra rie s 
have received a bequest o f $4 million from 
P h ilip  M ills A rn o ld , an alu m n u s o f  th e 
university’s School o f Engineering. The money 
will be used to maintain the Arnold Semeiology



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Collection, established in 1966 from Arnold’s 
contributions, and will support other activities 
in the Special Collections Department and the 
University Libraries.

A cquisitions
The letters a n d  docum ents of A ng elica 
Schuyler Church have been acquired by the 
University o f Virginia Library, with the aid of 
an anonymous donor, after having remained 
in Church’s family for two centuries. Church 
was well acquainted with the likes of Thomas 
Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, and moved 
in the same social circles with many other 
prominent figures of the time. The collection 
will add to the recorded history of the private 
lives o f leading figures in the early republic.

A  m ajo r collection of m aterials relating 
to books printed in the 20th century has been 
given to the University of North Dakota’s Ches­
ter Fritz Library. The acquisition includes ma­
terials published in history, politics, and for­
eign affairs, and was given by Donald Augustin, 
an alumnus of the university. The collection 
will serve as the base for the library’s goal to 
expand its holdings to two million, after re­
cently achieving the one million mark.

M ore than 2 ,5 0 0  reels of microfilm of 
selected archives of the Soviet Communist Party 
and the Soviet State have been acquired by the 
Library o f Congress. The microfilms are part of 
a joint project by the Hoover Institution and 
the Russian State Archives Service of the Gov­
ernment of the Russian Federation to make 
available records of the highest policy-making 
members o f the Soviet regime. The microfilms 
are also available for research at the Hoover 
In s titu tio n  at S ta n fo rd  U n iv e rsity , th e 
Novosibirsk Regional State Archives, the State 
Archives of the Russian Federation, the Rus­
sian Center for the Preservation and Study of 
Documents o f Most Recent History, and the 
Center for Preservation of Contemporary Docu­
mentation.

Ed. note: S end y o u r  n ew s to: G rants & A c­
quisition s, C&RL News, 5 0  E. H u ron  St., C h i­
cago, IL 60611; e-m ail: tw eiku m @ ala.org.

Tw o lithographs b y  19th-century litho­
grapher Jules Lion and two prints by contempo­
rary artist Richard Howard Hunt have been ac­
quired by the Amistad Research Center of Tulane 
University. It is believed that Lion introduced the 
daguerreotype as an art form to New Orleans in 
the 1840s. Hunt is a Chicago-based sculptor and 
his work has been widely exhibited at places 
su ch  as the Art Institute o f  C hicago, the 
Guggenheim, and the Museum o f Modem Art.

A  collection of ra re  music m anuscripts 
valued at more than $10,000 has been acquired 
by the University of South Florida Library. The 
collection includes an 1823 leatherbound set of 
concert music sheets autographed by the com­
posers and performers, a 1730 hand-printed Bre­
viary, a 1480 clothbound book of Gregorian 
chants, and a manual for making Carillon bells.

The p a p e rs of Jo sé S a la z a r  Ila rre g u i, a 
former Imperial Commissioner for Yucatan 
while Mexico was under the rule o f Ferdinand 
Maximilian von Habsburg, are now open for 
research at the Special Collections Division at 
the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. 
The collection includes four boxes of papers 
dating from 1823-98 and portray a chaotic and 
rarely seen era of Mexico’s history. After the 
fall o f Maximilian, Salazar was exiled to New 
York, but he later received amnesty from the 
Mexican government to teach, which he con­
tinued to do until his death in 1892.

The p a p e rs of Ja m e s S. F lan sb u rg , a 
reporter with the D es M oin es R egister since 
1957, have been given to the University o f Iowa 
Libraries Special Collections Department. The 
collection includes subject files, reporter’s note­
books, column drafts, and other papers from 
Flansburg’s career at the Register as a political 
writer and editorial page editor. ■

Correction: ACRL ballots
Jo h n  Sheridan, Head Librarian, Tutt Library/ 

Colorado College, and J a c q u e ly n  McCoy, 
College Librarian, Occidental College, are 
candidates for director-at-large on the ACRL 
Board of Directors. They were incorrectly 
listed as running for the College Libraries 
Section Executive Committee in the Decem­
ber News. The editors regret the error.

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