ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries November 1987 / 637 th a t everything takes longer th a n I thought it would—especially the mail service. I have had to use telefax on a few occasions when “we simply must have it by Friday.” Be sure to allow yourself plenty of time. My exchange took longer to arrange than most I know of, but much of that time was spent finding an exchange partner. Another thing I learned was th at in your initial inquiry, make your institution and area as attrac­ tive as possible. I doubt that too many people in Ireland are all that familiar with Vermont. After I described the city and noted that it was located 90 minutes from Montreal and 4 hours from Boston, the area seemed much more attractive. After my initial letter received so few responses, I jazzed it up so th at I emphasized the city and area more. I know this made a vast difference. It has now been two years since I first started to think about the possibility of an exchange. It was hard to believe it until I actually was sitting at my desk at Trinity College. Since most of my time had been taken up with w hat Brid would encounter when she arrived in Vermont, I really hadn’t any time to worry or wonder about w hat awaited me in Dublin. I’m sure when I return next Fall, all the time, frustrations, and worries of the past two years will be just a memory and it will have all been worthwhile. ■ ■ Newberry Library and Center for Research Libraries announce cooperative plan The Newberry Library, Chicago’s pre-eminent humanities research library, and the Center for Re­ search Libraries (CRL) have agreed to inaugurate a program of inter-institutional cooperation. The program stresses improved access to each other’s collections as well as joint projects in preservation and collection development. Newberry Library fellows may now use CRL’s unrestricted collections on site at the Newberry or through interlibrary loan. The Newberry in turn is offering to CRL member institutions, via interli­ brary loan, materials from its collection of Ameri­ can Indian studies on microform. Newberry Li­ b ra ry collections have tra d itio n a lly not been available for loaning to other libraries. The two institutions are planning cooperative collection development to extend their resources. Mutually beneficial collaboration in preservation and conservation will blend the extensive experi­ ence of CRL in preservation microfilming with the significant expertise in conservation and restora­ tion practices of the Newberry staff, which has been a leader in this field. A joint working group has been established to recommend procedures for implementing all areas of cooperation. The Newberry Library, which celebrates its 100th birthday this fall, houses collections in his­ tory and the humanities from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. The N ew berry aw ards some $300,000 annually in fellowships for research in residence, sponsors four centers for scholarly re­ search, and conducts numerous outreach programs to draw public attention to its collections. The Center for Research Libraries was founded in 1949 to provide a means by which the libraries of major research institutions can practice coopera­ tive collection development and management. The Center’s prinicipal program is the acquisition and preservation of a dedicated-to-lending collection, now exceeding 3.6 million volumes and 1.2 million microfilm units, th a t complements and supple­ ments the collections of its 150 member institu­ tions. ■ ■ ACRL executive summary Every month, JoAn Segal, A C R L ’s executive direc­ tor, will summarize Association activity. The “Ex­ ecutive Sum m ary”will highlight accomplishments of broad interest to the Association. Although the New Orleans Conference seems a long way off, Sandy Donnelly has been soliciting new course proposals, advertising scholarships and cooperative courses, and developing new courses on “Negotiating Contracts with Vendors” and “In ­ formation Liability,” based on last spring’s needs assessment. ACRL President Joanne Euster appointed a new Task Force on Awards to review ACRL’s awards p ro g ra m an d m ake re c o m m e n d a tio n s—Joan Chambers chairs the task force. Mary Ellen Davis is working with the ACRL Performance Measures chair Virginia Tiefel to re­ vise and circulate an RFP seeking an author for a M anual o f O u tp u t Measures fo r A cadem ic L i­ 638 / C&RL News braries. An author will be selected at Midwinter. Plans were finalized for the October 18-20 meet­ ing in Atlanta to plan a project that would allow ACRL to help libraries in Historically Black Col­ leges and Universities (HBCU’s). ALA released 1987 year-end figures showing th at ACRL exceeded 10,000 members as of August 31, 1987. Equipm ent was received in our Middletown, Connecticut, office for automating the production of Choice magazine through the H. W. Wilson Company. ACRL staff members began training for their newly-established Quality Circle. Joseph Boisse met with ACRL staff and attended the ALA Division Leadership Program for all divi­ sion presidents–elect. As a result, one program in Dallas will be co-sponsored by ALA president Bill Summers and all the ALA divisions. The topic will be “Access to Inform ation.”—JoAn S. Segal. ■ ■ ★ ★ ★ News from the field Acquisitions • The Library of Congress, Washington, D .C ., will acquire the personal papers of internationally known businessman, philanthropist and citizen diplomat Armand Hammer (b. 1898), chairman of the board of Occidental Petroleum Corporation. The Hammer collection will include correspon­ dence and personal papers docum enting H am ­ m er’s remarkable career, from his early years in Moscow as a physician and representative of Amer­ ican businesses to a second career as a petrochemi­ cal entrepreneur, patron of the arts, and champion of cancer research. A special feature will be the nu­ merous films, recordings, and other audiovisual m aterial, some never before seen by historians, documenting Hammer’s contacts with world lead­ ers from Lenin to Reagan. The Library plans a spe­ cial exhibit from the Hammer Collections on the occasion of his 90th birthday, May 21, 1988. D ur­ ing his lifetime and for an interval thereafter the papers may be consulted only with the permission of Hammer or those authorized to act on his behalf. • North Carolina State University, Raleigh, has received a collection of 1,500 mystery novels cover­ ing the period 1920-1950. The volumes are the gift of professor emeritus Jack Levine, a m athem ati­ cian and expert in cryptography. • Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, has acquired the historical records of The Horn Book, the first magazine published with a concern en­ tirely for children’s books and reading. The records include correspondence, illu stratio n s, m a n u ­ scripts, photographs, scrapbooks and printed m a­ terials dating from 1916. The Horn Book was the creation of Bertha Mahoney Miller, a 1902 Sim­ mons graduate who started a children’s bookshop in Boston and eventually sent travelling exhibits of children’s books around the region, developing a large mail-order business. Its correspondence files span generations of editors and include original let­ ters from numerous authors including Beatrix Pot­ ter, L au ra Ingalls W ilder, and W alter De La Mare. • The University of North Carolina at Charlotte has received more than 3,900 volumes from the li­ brary of the late Alice Lindsay Tate of New York City as a memorial to her father, Robert Lindsay Tate. A descendant of a leading textile m anufac­ turing family in Charlotte, Tate pursued an oper­ atic career in various cities during the 1940s and ’50s, and established several collections at UNCC. Included in the present gift are English language materials on Zen Buddhism, Chinese and Japanese literature, the religions of Asia (especially Tibet), and a number of books on Judaica and Hebraica. An additional 1,800 volumes on the occult, UFO phenomena, and archetypal symbols were directed to Johnson C. Smith University, also in Charlotte, in place of the now closed Boggs Academy, a Geor­ gia high school. Additional photos and memorabi­ lia of Tate’s career were included, along with 15 paintings by Russian-born artist Nikolai Konstan­ tinovich Roerich (1874-1947). • The University of Rochester, New York, has acquired the complete papers of novelist, scholar and critic John Gardner (1933-1982). Filling 50 large storage boxes, the archive includes m anu­ scripts and drafts of most of G ardner’s works, in­ cluding The Sunlight Dialogues, Grendel, Mickels- son’s Ghosts, and On Moral Fiction, as well as family papers and correspondence with editors, other writers and admirers. The papers also in­ clude manuscripts for works not yet published as well as original paintings by Gardner, ephemera related to his teaching positions, and personal items like postcards, ticket stubs, grant applica­ tions, and letters from lawyers, accountants, hospi­