ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries May 1989 / 419 Nominating: Sunday, June 25, 8:00-9:00 a.m.* University Libraries Section Program: Saturday, June 24, 2:00-4:00 p.m . Steering: Saturday, June 24, 9:00-11:00 a.m .; Monday, June 26, 9:00-11:00 a.m. Conference Program Planning—Chicago, 1990: Saturday, June 24, 11:30 a .m .-12:30 p .m .; Tuesday, June 27, 8:00-9:00 a.m. Conference Program Planning—Dallas, 1989: Sat­ urday, June 24, 9:30-11:00 a.m . C u rre n t T opics P la n n in g : S u n d ay , Ju n e 25, 9:00-11:00 a.m ., 2:00-4:00 p.m . Guidelines for Branch Libraries Review: Satur­ day, June 24,2:00-4:00 p .m .; Tuesday, June 27, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Nominating: Sunday, June 25, 11:30 a .m .-12:30 p.m.* O rg an izatio n and Bylaws: Sunday, Ju n e 25, 9:30-11:00 a.m .; Tuesday, June 27, 9:30—11:00 a.m. P e rfo rm an ce M easures: S unday, Ju n e 25, 9:30-11:00 a.m .; Tuesday, June 27, 9:30—11:00 a.m. Policy and Planning: Sunday, June 25, 2:00-4:00 p.m .; Tuesday, June 27, 8:30-11:00 a.m . Promotion and Publications: Sunday, June 25, 9:00-11:00 a.m .; Tuesday, June 27, 9:00-11:00 a.m . Western European Specialists Section Program: Monday, June 26, 9:30 a.m .-12:30 p.m . Executive: Saturday, June 24, 2:00-4:00 p .m .; Tuesday, June 27, 2:00-4:00 p.m . Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Discussion Group: Sunday, Ju n e 2 5 ,11:30a.m .-12:30p.m . College and Medium-Sized Libraries Discussion Group: Sunday, June 25, 9:30-11:00 a.m. Conference Program Planning—Chicago, 1990: Tuesday, June 27, 8:00-9:00 a.m. C o n tin u in g E d u c a tio n : S unday, Ju n e 25, 9:30-11:00 a.m. Florence Conference Proceedings: Tuesday, June 27, 11:30 a.m .-12:30 p.m . G eneral Discussion G roup: M onday, June 26, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Germanists Discussion Group: Sunday, June 25, 9:30-11:00 a.m. M artinus Nijhoff International West European Specialist Study G rant Award: Sunday, June 25, 4:30-5:30 p.m.* Nominating: Monday, June 26, 8:00-9:00 p.m.* Publications: Sunday, June 25, 8:00-10:00 p.m. P u b lic a tio n s —D ire c to ry : S unday, Ju n e 25, 8:00-9:00 a.m. P u b lic a tio n s —N e w sle tte r: S unday, Ju n e 25, 4:30-5:30 p.m . R esearch an d P la n n in g : T u esd ay , Ju n e 27, 9:00-11:00 a.m. W omen’s Studies Section Program: Sunday, June 25, 9:30 a .m .-12:30 p.m . Executive: Friday, June 23, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Executive—Section Review: Tuesday, June 27, 2:00-5:30 p.m . C om m unications: Sunday, June 25, 4:00-5:30 p.m . Conference Program Planning—Chicago, 1990: Saturday, June 24, 9:30-11:00 a.m. General Membership Meeting: Monday, June 26, 9:30-11:00 a.m ., 2:00-4:00 p.m. Nominating: Sunday, June 25, 4:00-5:30 p.m.* Technical Services: Sunday, June 25, 4:00-5:30 p.m . ■ ■ News from the F ield Acquisitions • Texas A&M University, College Station, has acquired m ore th an 700 Chinese-language vol­ umes of literature, history, political science, art, travel, and science as a gift from the state educa­ tion commission of China in honor of the univer­ sity’s commitment to attracting and educating Chi­ nese students. This is the first extensive gift of foreign-language materials presented to the uni­ versity’s Sterling C. Evans Library. • The University of British Columbia, Vancou- ver, has acquired the personal papers of B.C. au­ thor Jane Rule. The papers range from 1947 to 1984 and include notes, manuscripts, and corre­ spondence relating to her published and unpub­ lished novels and short stories; biographical and autobiographical material, college papers, teach­ ing records, non-fiction manuscripts; and personal and professional correspondence. Rule has pub­ lished many books including Desert o f the Heart (1964), Contract w ith the W orld (1980), and M em ­ ory Board (1987). • The University of California, Berkeley, has ac- quired the surviving papers of one of France’s top scientists at the tim e of the French Revolution, Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827). The 25 boxes of scientific and personal papers are the literary re­ mains of a devastating fire in 1925 at the Laplace 420 / C &R L News fam ily’s C h âtea u de M ailloc in N o rm an d y th a t consum ed L aplace’s library a nd m uch of his corre­ spondence. A noted astronom er, m athem atician, and physicist, L aplace was also a m inister under N apoleon B onaparte and a founder of th e Legion of H onor. His collection includes m anuscripts of articles on astronom y, physics, and m athem atics; corrected proofs of his treatise on astronom y, E x­ position d u Systèm e du M onde; household receipts and business papers detailing L aplace’s purchases; passports, certificates of good citizenship and n a ­ tional guard service, and receipts for tax paym ents an d “v o lu n ta ry ” contributions; extensive social correspondence by L a p lace’s w ife; and his son E m ile’s service records, account books, and diaries. • T h e University of Iow a Libraries, Iow a City, has received a copy of the first edition of W illiam H arvey’s Exercitatio A natom ica de M otu Cordis et Sanguinis in A nim alibus (Anatomical Treatise on the M ovement of the H eart and Blood in Animals) published in 1628 in F rankfurt. As th e first book to describe the flow of blood through the body in a circular fashion, the w ork is considered the first im ­ p o rta n t book in th e history of medicine. O nly 58 copies are know n to exist th roughout the w orld. ♦ T h e U niversity of M assachusetts L ib ra ry , Am herst, has acquired the 900-volume Portuguese collection of the late Susan C . Schneider, professor of history at th e University of Massachusetts, Bos­ ton. T he collection has num erous works covering m any periods of Portuguese civilization and cul­ ture, b u t it focuses on tw o special periods: the 18th century (and th e em inent statesm an the M arquês de Pombal) and th e contem porary period. It in ­ cludes some 175 pub licatio n s covering th e last years of the Salazar governm ent and th e volatile period of transition to th e present system; a few clandestine works appearing before the overthrow of the dictatorship; some publications of national liberation movements in th e Portuguese African colonies; a num ber of manifestos, proceedings of m e e tin g s a n d o th e r p u b lic a tio n s o f p o litic a l groups; and disseminations of workers’ organiza­ tions an d w om en’s groups. • T he University of Texas a t Arlington Libraries have acquired a vast collection of valuable histori­ cal m aterials concerning Texas and th e Southwest as a gift from T ed W . M ayborn of deCordova Bend Estates at G ranbury, Texas. The donation is the first in a series of gifts to the library by M ayborn and has an appraised value of $140,000. Amassed over a period of 50 years, th e collection is one of the largest Texana collections still in p rivate hands. Item s include m ore th a n 1,400 original maps; m ore th a n 800 individual newspapers from across the country reporting on m ajor events in th e history of Texas; several hu n d red pam phlets; biographies; personal diaries; early county histories; 250 litho­ graphs from the 19th century; and research files on num erous topics. Grants • A cadia U niversity, W olfville, Nova Scotia, has received a g ran t of $42,921 from the Social Sci­ ences and H um anities Research Council of C an ad a to acquire m aterials to strengthen its collection of Baptist m aterials. The funds have been used to ac­ quire m aterials on th e Protestant R eform ation and on the Baptist trad itio n in N orth America. • T h e A ub u rn U niversity L ib ra ry , A labam a, has been aw arded a $112,577 T itle II-C grant to catalog titles of works published in th e C onfeder­ acy during th e Civil W ar, and works published in F rance d u rin g th e French Revolution. T he C on­ federate Im prints collection of 6,188 items includes books a n d m iscellaneous p u b lic a tio n s ra n g in g from religious tracts and sermons to treasurer’s re­ ports. The F rench Revolutionary Pam phlet collec­ tion includes 7,000 political, religious, cultural, an d financial publications from betw een 1787 and 1800. T he cataloging of these collections will m ake access to them easier statew ide. • T h e G re e n M o u n ta in C o lle g e L i b r a r y , Poultney, V erm ont, has been aw ard ed a $5,000 g ran t from th e George I. Alden T rust to enhance collection developm ent in the hum anities and so­ cial sciences. • H arv ard University, C am bridge, Massachu- setts, has been aw arded a $50,000 grant from the H enry Luce F oundation to enable th e Visual Col­ lection in the Fine Arts L ib rary expand its unique exchange program for photographs of O riental art. T he a w ard , to be expended over a three-year pe­ riod, will fund th e purchase of photographs of O ri­ ental a rt in th e U nited States an d E urope to be ex­ c h a n g e d fo r p h o to g r a p h s fro m E a s t A sian collections and will help support the w ork neces­ sary to foster the exchanges. H arv ard is one of the few institutions in the U nited States now carrying out such an exchange program w ith C hina, in p a rt because the task requires specialized skills. • T he Johns H opkins U niversity M edical Li- b rary , Baltim ore, M aryland, has been aw arded a $282,808 g ran t from the Council on L ib rary Re­ sources for its L aboratory for A pplied Research in Academic Inform ation. The overall objective of the L aboratory is to investigate and develop the means needed by th e Hopkins faculty to create or a c q u ire , sto re, d is trib u te , a n d use b io m ed ical knowledge in electronic form . T he C L R funds will enable th e University, over the next five to eight years, to develop its L aboratory into an academ ic division w ith research, service, and teaching re­ sponsibilities. • T he O hio University Libraries, Athens, have b een a w a rd e d a $3.75 m illio n N E H challen g e g ran t to fund the expansion of th ree program s: col­ lection developm ent, cataloging, an d p reserva­ tion. The am ount of the a w ard is $750,000, contin­ gent upon the L ibraries’ ability to raise a t least $3 422 / C& RL News million in m atching funds over a three-year period. About 63 % of the aw ard will fu n d collection devel­ opm ent in th e hum anities including acquisition of advanced research m aterials in philosophy, a rt, music, and 11 other areas; th e acquisition of spe­ cialized lib rary m aterials for new scholars; and as­ sistance in reach in g th e $1 m illion goal for th e S o u th east Asia C o llectio n E n d o w m e n t. A bout 10% of the aw ard will support cataloging of both new hum anities m aterials and existing collections, an d 27 % of the aw ard will fund th e new ly estab­ lished preservation program , including th e estab­ lishm ent of a p erm anent preservation endow m ent an d the brittle books program . • T he Parkland College L ibrary, C ham paign, Illinois, has been aw arded an $11,989 N E H grant to support planning of an exhibition utilizing the D ’Arcy Collection of advertising a rt to explore the role of p r in t advertising in sh ap in g social, eco­ nom ic, and cu ltu ral life in key historical periods from 1890 to 1970. • Saint M artin ’s College, Lacey, W ashington, has been aw ard ed a $100,000 grant from UST, Inc. to build a new library. T he present library occupies small quarters in th e school’s central adm inistra­ tion building. Plans call for th e construction of a new library nearby, in th e central core of college property. UST, In c., of G reenw ich, C onnecticut, is th e p a re n t com pany of tw o W ashington w in ­ eries. • Stockton State College, Pom ona, New Jersey, has been aw arded a $114,290 N E H grant to exam­ ine the subject of th e varied and ongoing roles th a t w om en have filled in the m ilitary and in an tiw ar activities. T he grant was aw arded in conjunction w ith the A tlantic C ity and A tlantic C ounty Public Libraries. • T h e U niversity of C a lifo rn ia , D avis, E ast Asian Business and D evelopm ent Research Archive has received a donation of over $40,000 w o rth of com puter equipm ent from Acer Technologies C or­ poration of San Jose. The equipm ent will enable th e Institute of G overnm ental Affairs, w here the archive is housed, to expand th e archive beyond its holdings of p rinted m aterials. W ith th e equipm ent th e archive will add com puterized databases and gain access to Nikkei Telecom , a Japanese business news service, and MELVYL, th e online catalog of the UC library system . T he archive is th e only facil­ ity in th e U nited States, and one of only tw o in the w orld, th a t systematically collects inform ation on Asian economies. • The University of C alifornia, Los Angeles, has received a $72,336 grant from th e N ational L i­ b rary of M edicine to develop th e Index o f M edieval M edical Images in N orth A m erica. The index will be compiled to describe images w ith m edical com ­ ponents in all medieval m anuscripts currently held in N orth A m erican collections (an estim ated 55-60 m a n u sc rip ts c o n ta in in g som e 5 ,0 0 0 -6 ,0 0 0 im ­ ages). T h e U n iv e rs ity h as also b e e n a w a r d e d an $80,000 N EH g ran t to support a traveling exhibi­ tion, w ith catalog an d support literatu re, about the influence of th e F rench Encyclopédie in th e history of ideas and th e international spread of “encyclope- dism ” from 1750 to 1950. • The University of H aw aii a t M anoa has re- ceived a $64,000 T itle II-C g ran t to catalog and p ro v id e b ib lio g r a p h ic access to th e T su z ak i/ Reinecke Creole and Pidgin Collection. This col­ lection of linguistic and sociolinguistic m aterials, prose and poetry in the vernacular, is th e result of years of collaborative w ork by Stanley Tsuzaki and John Reinecke. By D ecem ber 1989 th e library will publish a bibliographic finding aid w ith au th o r, ti­ tle, and subject access. ♦ T he University of M innesota’s University Art M u se u m , M in n e a p o lis , h as b e e n a w a r d e d a $163,482 N E H grant to support a traveling exhibi­ tion, w ith catalog, audiotape, and ancillary litera­ tu re, about th e m etam orphosis of black culture and social identity betw een 1917 and 1937. T he University has also been aw ard ed a $24,034 N E H g ran t to support p lanning of an exhibition w ith catalog, study guide, public forum s, and vi­ d eo tap e to explore p o p u la r m yths ab o u t C hris­ to p h er Colum bus and how such myths have arisen. ♦ T he University of Texas a t Austin has received a $5,000 g ran t from a C an ad ian studies library support program to increase their holdings of C a­ n ad ian books. Tw o libraries a t UT will share the aw ard; the L aw L ibrary and the G eneral L ibraries will each receive $2,500. The contribution, m ade through the office of the C an ad ian consul general in D allas, is for current C an ad a-related books, pe­ riodicals, an d audio-visual m aterials published anyw here. The L aw L ibrary w ill use the funds to purchase a num ber of C an ad ian law books, while th e G en eral L ibraries p la n to purchase m ainly m onographs in the social sciences and hum anities. ♦ T he University of W isconsin, M ilwaukee, has been aw arded a $380,000 N EH g ran t to support a traveling exhibition, four facsimile exhibitions, a catalog w ith essays, view er’s guide, videotapes, new sletter, and ancillary literatu re about m aps of th e C olum bian E ncounter in th e Americas. News notes • T he O ld Sturbridge Village Research L ibrary Society, Sturbridge, Massachusetts, has aw arded th e E. H arold Hugo M em orial Book Prize to the book, The D em ocratic D ilem m a: R efo rm , R e­ vival, and the Social Order in the Connecticut Val­ ley o f V erm ont, 1790-1850, w ritten by Randolph Roth. The aw ard is given annually to the book(s) judged to m ake th e most significant contribution to the understanding of th e history and m aterial cul­ tu re of ru ral New E ngland from 1790-1850. The May 1989 / 423 winner receives $150, a certificate, a one-year sub­ scription to the museum’s publication, The Old Sturbridge Visitor, and a five-year membership to the Old Sturbridge Village Research Library Soci­ ety. Roth’s book uses a great variety of sources in­ cluding tax and land records, population and elec­ tion statistics, and period diaries to shape a social portrait of not one community, but of an entire ge­ ographic region. P E O P L E People in the news F rancesca Allegri, formerly head of Inform a­ tion Management Education Services at the Uni­ versity of North Carolina Health Sciences Library, Chapel Hill, relocated to Champaign, Illinois, in March. She will be teaching, consulting and w rit­ ing in the areas of user education and information m a n ag e m e n t. She co n tin u es as e d ito r of th e column, “Information Management Education,” in Medical Reference Services Quarterly. Annie G. King, library director at Tuskegee In­ stitute, Alabama, has been awarded the Distin­ guished Service Award presented by the Alabama Library Association to an individual who has made a significant contribution toward the development of library service. The aw ard was presented at the association’s annual convention in Birmingham on April 13. King has served at Tuskegee for 37 years. She began her career there in 1952 as a reference librarian, became acting librarian in 1966, and li­ brary director in 1970. W ithin the Alabama Library Association King has worked in the College, University, and Special Libraries Division and served on numerous com­ mittees. Beyond the association she has provided leadership in improving library services for the his­ torically black institutions. She is a charter mem­ ber and currently chairm an of the board of trustees of the cooperative College Library Center in At­ lanta, the national organization established to ex­ tend the benefits of cooperative processing and par­ tic ip a tio n in O C L C to h isto ric a lly b lack universities. She participated in the planning of the Network of A labam a Academic Libraries, and worked with the initial planning group to insure that NAAL would include all the state’s academic institutions offering graduate education; for that NAAL is unique in the nation. She is a current member of the NAAL Executive Council, the sec­ ond time she has been elected to this position. In addition, King chaired the first Resource Sharing Committee of NAAL which developed the proce­ dure for the NAAL reimbursement program that has been successful in promoting the use of library resources throughout the state. Her committee also developed the charge to seek funding to improve the document delivery network. As a result, NAAL will be funded in 1989 to install telefacsim ile equipment in all general and cooperative libraries. Profiles J udith Adams, head of the Humanities D epart­ ment at the Auburn University Libraries, has been appointed director of the Lockwood Library at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Adams began her professional career at Lehigh Univer­ sity where she served as senior reference lib rar­ ia n . F ro m th e re she moved to the Library of Congress, th e n to the N a tio n a l R eference Center for Bioethics L it­ erature at Georgetown University, and then to Oklahoma State Univer­ Judith Adams sity before joining th e staff at Auburn. A grad­ uate of Syracuse University, Adams is the coauthor of several publications including Technology and Values in American Civilization: A Guide to Infor­ mation Sources (Gale Research, 1980), and Jules Verne: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (G.K. Hall, 1980). She co-authors an article called “C urrent Bibliography in the History of Technol­ ogy” th at appears annually in the journal Technol­ ogy and Culture. She has made numerous presen­ ta tio n s a t n a tio n a l co n feren ces, w ritte n an d m anaged grants, and served actively in national as well as local professional organizations. She is cur­