ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 7 1 4 / C&RL News ■ October 1998 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 North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) has received a $3.4 million gift from the late businessman Thomas Jack Lynch o f Winston-Salem. Lynch w orked at a trucking company, managed an apartment complex, and invested in stocks and real estate. Lynch divided most o f his estate among UNC, Campbell University, Wake Forest University, and Hillsdale College. UNC will use the money from the estate to create an endowment. Investment income will be spent on such activities as preserving 19th-century North Carolina books and pamphlets, digitizing or microfilming crumbling books, binding volumes, copying photographic negatives, and re-recording audio and videotapes. The University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) has r e ce iv e d a $20,000 e n d o w m e n t from the K in gfish er Flat Foundation o f Santa Cruz as a tribute to poet and printer William Everson (1912-94). Everson joined the Dominican brotherhood in 1951 and for two decades penned his poetry under the name Brother Antoninus. When he shed his m onk’s robes in 1969, Everson m oved to Santa Cruz, where he remained until his death. He taught poetry at UCSC between 1969 and 1978. Everson also served as master printer o f the Lime Kiln Press, which was housed in the UCSC Library. The Kingfisher Flat Foundation is a nonprofit organization charged with overseeing Everson’s literary estate and his legacy. Angelo State University has received a $1 million gift from brothers Edward H. and Houston H. Harte to relocate and expand the Porter H enderson Library’s West Texas Collection, including the additions o f the Center for the Study o f Southwestern Culture and History and the Elmer Kelton Reading Room. The Hartes asked that the collection be named for longtime San Angelo pediatrician and civic leader Ralph Chase. The collection in cludes approxim ately 2,300 reels o f microfilm, 12,800 monographs, and a large array o f historical documents, manuscripts, and photographs. UCLA's Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library has received a pledge o f $25,000 from Infotrieve, an independent document delivery c o m p a n y . T h e I n fo tr ie v e C o lle c t io n Endowment will be used for the acquisition or licensing o f academic, health, and life sciences journals in all form ats (print, digital, multimedia) in the biomedical sciences. The University of Tennessee (UT) in Knoxville was awarded a two-year supplement o f $253,000 to the Tennessee Newspaper Project (TNP) by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This brings total funding for the period to $597,122. The supplemental funding will allow staff working in middle and east Tennessee to catalog 2,000 newspaper titles in state repositories. TNP is part o f the NEH-funded U.S. Newspaper Program created in 1982 as a cooperative effort to archive and preserve newspapers published from the 18th century to the present. When the cataloging phase o f the project ends in 2004, the staff will have cataloged some 11,000 titles and will then turn their attention to the next phase— microfilming selected newspapers published within Tennessee. The University of Iowa (Ul) Libraries w on a $73,300 grant in the Library o f Congress/ Ameritech National Digital Library Competition to digitize a collection o f paper records relating to Chautauqua performances in the United States. Circuit Chautauqua, which first became popular in 1904, was an offspring o f the lyceum movement and o f the Chautauqua assemblies held at Lake Chautauqua, New York, in the late 1800s. The goal o f circuit Chautauqua was to deliver educational, spiritual, and cultural stimulation to rural and small-town America. The grant will allow UI to digitize the content o f the collection and display them in graphic representations and searchable texts to viewers on the Web. Ed. n o t e : Send yo u r news to : Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 50 Ē. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: ayoung@ala.org. mailto:ayoung@ala.org C&RL News ■ O ctober 1998 / 715 Yale will be able to expand its Librarian- in-Residence program, which brings minority libraries to the New Haven library for a two- year term, thanks to a $220,000 grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. The four-year grant will result in the presence o f tw o residents at Yale concurrently, increasing the effectiveness o f the program b y helping the diversity o f the staff reflect and reinforce the diversity o f the readers. A c q u i s i t i o n s The papers of Benjamin Hooks have been acquired by the McWherter Library o f the University o f Memphis. These materials docum ent H ook s’ involvem ent in local and national politics and service, from his early days as a lawyer w orking to overthrow Jim Crow practices in Memphis to his tenure as head o f the NAACP, his service as a federal judge, and as the first African American m em ber o f the Federal Communications Commission. Jerry Spinelli‚ Newbery Award-winning children’s b o o k author, donated his collection o f personal papers, including manuscripts totaling eight linear feet o f material, to his alm a m ater— G e tty s b u r g C o lle g e in Pennsylvania. The materials will b e co m e part o f the co lle g e ’s special collections. The National Black Writers Conference has donated its nonprint materials from four conferences (1986 ,1 9 8 8,1 9 9 1 , and 1996) to the special collection o f the Medgar Evers College Library, CUNY. A m ong the areas covered: responsibility o f black writers to the community; images o f the black folk in American literature; black literature in the ’90s; and n ew directions o f black literature in the 21st century. Access to their bibliographic records can b e made through the OCLC and CUNY databases. Organization, cataloging, and processing o f the materials w ere made possible through a grant from the Reed Foundation, Inc. LIFE photographer David Douglas Duncan’s archive was acquired b y the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. The archive captures the career o f this award- w inning photographer, containing over 60 y e a r s o f p h o t o g r a p h s , n e g a tiv e s , c o r r e s p o n d e n c e , album s, m an uscripts, eq u ip m en t, and p erson a l m em orabilia. Duncan has been highly acclaim ed for his poignant images o f W orld War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Bob Hope will donate over the next few years personal papers ‚ radio and television broadcasts, scripts, jok e files, films, and other materials from his career to the Library o f Congress. The processing and preservation o f the collection will be supported by a gift from Hope. The gift will also en dow the B ob Hope Gallery o f American Entertainment, a permanent display o f rotating items from the B ob H ope Collection and other collections related to American entertainment. The W. D. Smith, Inc. Commercial P h otography negatives dating from the early 1940s th rou g h 1989 h av e b e e n acquired b y the University o f Texas at Arlington Libraries. T h e W. D. Smith Company o f Fort W orth w as the c ity ’s lea d in g com m ercial photography firm during the last half o f this century. The collection includes approximately 190,000 negatives, both black- and-w hite and co lo r, w h ich d ocu m en t the grow th and dev e lo p m e n t o f Fort Worth, Tarrant County, and the North Texas region. Japanese scholar and critic Maeda Ai's personal library has been acquired by Cornell University. The acquisition was made possible by $400,000 in gifts from alumni, friends, faculty, and faculty emeriti. The Maeda Collection consists o f approximately 13,000 volumes, including early postwar publications and early Japanese translations o f European literature. Although most o f the material encom passes ja p a n ese literature and literary history and criticism, there are numerous volum es on all aspects o f Japanese cultural anthropology, social history, and popular culture. The collection includes 3,000 volumes o f pre-20th-century works with folded, stitch- b ou n d leaves in traditional format. Perhaps the rarest and most valuable items in the collection are the diaries o f the late 19th- century scholar and journalist Narushima Ryuhoku. ■