ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C&RL News ■ September 2003 / 557 G r a n t s a n d A c q u i s i t i o n s A n n -C h riste G a llo w a y The Eugenio María de Hostos Community College Library/CUNY in the South Bronx has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop a seminal collection of works by and about writer Eugenio Maria de Hostos. The collection will support the development of new curricular offerings that will advance the multidisciplinary study of the humanities on the life and works o f this giant in Latin American and Caribbean studies and political thought o f the 19th century. Duke University’s Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library received a $10,000 grant from the National Film Preservation Foun­ dation to preserve nine reels of local films taken by H. Lee Waters, who made movies in 117 towns in North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Virginia in the mid-1950s to early 1940s. The pres­ ervation work, which will be completed in July 2004, entails cleaning and repairing the films, as well as the creation of a negative and a new mo­ tion picture print from the original camera film. In addition, digital broadcast quality and VHS videotapes will be made. Libraries fo r th e Future w as aw arded a three-year, $1.05 million challenge grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to create EqualAccess Libraries networks in ten states by 2005. EqualAccess Libraries is a curriculum developed by Libraries for the Future that strengthens the capacity o f librarians through professional development training and a host of community programs that foster the literacy and communications skills of all library patrons. The state-by-state launch of the program will begin in Pennsylvania, where 61 libraries will benefit, 15 of which will be implemented in 2003. Fisk U niversity has received a $67,934 grant from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission to process, preserve, and make available for research five manuscript and archival collections in the John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. The five collections help to document Fisk’s historical ties to the African American experience in Tennessee and beyond. Materials to be processed are the Jubilee Singers Collection, the Charles S. Johnson Collection, die Thomas Elsa Jones Collection, the Adam K. Spence Family Collection, and the Alrutheus A. Taylor Collection. The grant will also enable the library to prepare electronic finding aids to these collec­ tions and to report data on the newly processed materials to national-level databases. The American Theological Library Asso­ ciation (ATLA) has received more than $265,300 from the National Endowment for the Humani­ ties to ensure access to more than 152 endangered journals (approximately 1,520 volumes) explor­ ing the African American church through preser­ vation microfilming and through the creation and dissemination of bibliographic records o f these journal titles. Titles will be provided by 21 ATLA mem ber libraries and 53 non-ATLA libraries, many holding just one of the titles included in the project. The N ew York University Division o f Li­ braries has been awarded a $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to assist in the preservation of unique video materi­ als held in its Downtown Collection. The Down­ town Collection documents the explosion of ar­ tistic experimentation that took place in SoHo and the Lower East Side o f Manhattan in the 1970s and 1980s. The NEA grant supports a project that will evaluate, catalog, and preserve videotapes from a collection o f 1,240 videos of dance, theater, artists’ interviews, poetry and fic­ tion readings, and performance art in New York City’s downtown scene. A c q u i s i t i o n s M ore than 800 volumes on the Mexican Revolution (1910–1919) have been acquired by Ed. n o te : Send y o u r news to : Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e- m a il: agallow ay@ ala.org. mailto:agalloway@ala.org 558 / C&RL News ■ September 2003 the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, a di­ vision o f the Texas A&M University Libraries. The collection comes from the estate o f Donald C. Turpen, a noted Albuquerque attorney and book collector who worked in Mexico during the 1950s. Turpen’s collection covers nearly every aspect of the Mexican Revolution, according to David Chapman, University Archivist and curator for the Cushing Library’s Texas and the Borderlands Collection. Biographies of notables such as Pon­ cho Villa, Venustiano Cananza, Fransico I. Madero, and Emiliano Zapata are part o f the collection, as well as biographies of lesser-known participants who played pivotal roles in the revolution. The music of the revolution, living conditions o f the poor, and the roles of women are special topics included in the collection, which contains general histories, political and military histories, and so­ ciological and economic studies. The papers o f Chet Huntely, form er broad­ cast journalist and TV news coanchor o f NBC’s Fluntely-Brinkley evening news have b een ar­ ranged and described by the University of Montana’s K. Ross Toole Archives. The repro­ cessed collection includes nearly 30 boxes of ma­ terials by and about Huntley: biographical infor­ mation, personal and professional correspondence; scripts written for his radio and television projects, speaking engagements, and news commentary projects; press clippings primarily spanning his years with NBC; obituaries published in diverse outlets; an extensive photographic collection; a small sam­ pling of news and documentary broadcasts; some three-dimensional memorabilia; and scripts for Huntley’s radio and television broadcasts with his original annotations and changes, which he some­ times added just before broadcast. The collection also includes extensive information regarding Huntley’s role with the Big Sky Resort in Mon­ tana. A 10,000-item collection o f materials from the Speculation Land Company (SLC) has been donated to the W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection at Appalachian State University. The records, dat­ ing from 1775 to 1930, form the largest collection o f original documents tracking the development o f more than 500,000 acres in western North Carolina. They will help historians answer ques­ tions about land ownership, distribution, and the impact o f absentee ownership in the develop­ ment of an 11-county region. Among the materi­ als cataloged is a variety of business and personal correspondence, which sheds light on everyday life in the region. One letter, written in 1907 by former slave Hanna Thompson to the Rev. Baylis Justice, sought help locating her grown children who had, as children, remained in North Carolina when she was sold out of state. A collection o f 33,799 compact discs from MP3.com has been acquired by the Music Depart­ ment at the University o f California-San Diego (UCSD). The collection amounts to more than 30 years’ worth of normal compart disc acquisition. It is estimated that it would take more than three- and-a-half years of nonstop 24-hour listening to hear the entire collection, which ranges from clas sical to jazz to today’s top hits. The gift from MP3.com’s compact disc vault came to UCSD in an effort to enhance the library’s existing record­ ing collection, largely comprised of post-1950 art music. The new additions will also support the expansion of the library’s Digital Audio Reserves Program (DARP), a research and learning tool that streams audio curriculum over the UCSD Intranet so s t udents may do their homework as­ signments and study for music exams from any campus-networked computer. The library o f Ted Hughes, the late poet laureate o f Great Britain, has been acquired by Emory University. At the time o f his death in 1998, Hughes was among Britain’s leading lit­ erary figures and the author o f dozens o f criti­ cally acclaim ed collections o f poems, includ­ ing The H awk in th e R ain , L u percal, Wodwo, and Crow. His 1998 collection, B irth d ay Let­ ters, chronicled his relationship with his first wife, p oet Sylvia Plath, and was an interna­ tional b estseller as w ell as recip ien t o f the W hitbread B o o k o f the Year award. During the course o f his life, he also published many books for children, translations, a critical study o f Shakespeare, and other works. The library, which numbers more than 6,000 volumes, of­ fers students and scholars a detailed map of Hughes’ creative and intellectual development. The earliest books in the Hughes library date from his school days, including a pocket edi­ tion o f Shakespeare’s H em y IVas well as edi­ tions of Wordsworth and Keats, which he read as a school boy. The library includes many works devoted to natural history, folklore, mysticism, religion, and esoteric knowledge. A number of the earliest books in the Hughes library contain sketches and notes in Hughes’ hand. ■ C&RL News ■ September 2003 / 559