ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 330 News from the Field ACQUISITIONS • Georgia State University, Atlanta, has ac­ quired the works of Johnny Mercer (1910-1976), a Georgian whose songs topped the Hit Parade fourteen tim es and who received an Oscar on four occasions. The collection includes the origi­ nal scores for some 1,500 published songs (such as “Moon River,” and “The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe”), hundreds of pictures and awards, and the autobiography Mercer was writing at the time of his death. The material will be housed in a special section of the rare books collection until the completion of a “Johnny Mercer Room” that will be part of a planned library expansion in a new building. • I ndiana State U niversity Library, T erre Haute, has received 524 n in eteen th and tw en­ tieth century dictionaries for their Cordell Collec­ tion of Dictionaries. The volumes were donated by the G. and C. Merriam Company, Springfield, Massachusetts, and all of them were published by companies other than Merriam. The gift brings the number of dictionary volumes in the collec­ tion to nearly 10,000. Many of the volumes in the Merriam gift were collected around the turn of the century as exhibits in a series of legal actions initiated by the Merriam Company involving such issues as unfair trade practices and proprietary rights to the name Webster, which Merriam had acquired from W ebster’s estate in 1844. • The P ublic Archives of Canada, Ottawa, re c e n tly m ade th e la rg e st p u rc h a s e o f early Canadian maps in Canadian history. The collec­ tion comprises 700 maps and atlases and 800 re­ lated books from the private Canadiana collection o f th e late A lexander M acD onald, a T oronto ophthalmologist who died in 1977. Virtually all of the major cartographers from the early sixteenth to the late eighteenth century whose maps show Canada in any way are represented. Highlights include the 1562 state of th e Forlani/Camocio map, which is the first p rin te d map w ith the word “Canada”; a 1612 map showing Henry H ud­ son’s exploration of the bay which now bears his name; and the first state of Samuel de Cham­ plain’s map of New France dated 1632. • The special collections d ep a rtm en t of the U niversity of New M exico Library, A lbuquer­ que, has received the political papers of the late Sen. Joseph Montoya (D-NM). The papers, which go back to the time Montoya served as state legis- A c q u i s i t i o n L i b r a r i a n s ...................... NOW IS THE TIME TO TRY THE BEST SOURCE FOR: • any book in print • accurate invoicing • meaningful reports • rush order service • competitive discounts • PLUS MANY OTHER SERVICES CALL TOLL-FREE TODAY – 1– 800– 248– 1146 – In Canada and Michigan: C A LL COLLECT (517) 849-21 17 A LL ORDERS over 6 weeks old are reg­ ularly claimed to publishers. This results in the earliest possible delivery of every available book, or provides publisher stock status on back orders. 331 lator, were given to UNM officials by members of th e se n ato r’s fam ily, including his wife and daughter. GRANTS • The following institutions are some of the many recipients of grants under the HEA Title II-C Strengthening Research Library Resources Program: American Museum of Natural History, New York—$166,539 to begin the preservation and cataloging of the photographic collection. C ornell U niversity, Ith aca, New York— $284,639 to continue the acquisition and catalog­ ing of serials, dissertations, and archives and monographs for Southeast and East Asia. D artmouth C o l leg e, H anover, New Hampshire—$150,000 to preserve through mi­ crofilming and treatment the collection on polar studies. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor—$300,000 for a joint project with Michigan State University and Wayne State University to create a serials database on OCLC and RLIN. New York P ublic L ibrary—$662,816 for a cooperative project with Columbia University and New York University to improve access and pre­ serve materials in the fields of art and archi­ tecture. University of South C arolina, Columbia— $172,000 to produce an online catalog of the com plete collection of th e “ Fox M ovietone Newsfilm” collection. University of Washington, Seattle—$175,025 to preserve and provide access to rare materials in the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest collection, including explorer journals, photo­ graphs and pictorial materials, and archival re­ cordings of Indian languages. • Beaver C ollege, Glenside, Pennsylvania, has been awarded a grant of $7,570 by the Na­ tional Endowment for the Humanities for the planning of human communication. The Atwood Library and the Philadelphia Miniversity will plan a series of learning ex p erien ces using humanistic perspectives on human communica­ tion to introduce adult learners to the humanities and to develop skills for life-long learning. The project will be aimed primarily at adult minority members of the north Philadelphia and northern suburban areas. • Berea College, Kentucky, has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant of $98,640 to organize and microfilm the records of the Settlement Institutions of Appalachia. Under the grant, those settlement school records having historical value will be microfilmed for inclusion in Berea’s Southern Appalachian archives. This microfilm will be available for those researching the region’s culture, values and changes since the late nineteenth century. • The C enter for Research L ibraries, Chicago, has been awarded a $122,809, HEA Title II-C grant under the Strengthening Re­ search Library Resources Program. The funds will be used for the conversion of the center’s printed card catalog to microfiche. The project will result in an up-to-date integrated sequence of all center holdings, including monographs, se­ rials, and newspapers. • The L ehigh U niversity L ibraries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and the Bethlehem P ublic L ibrary have ann o u n ced re c e ip t of a $24,160 grant for a cooperative project called Li­ braries Online. The grant was awarded by the State Library of Pennsylvania. Libraries Online will allow the two libraries to provide expanded information services to the public and university communities through shared use of bibliographic databases. • The U niversity of N ew Mexico General Library, Albuquerque, has received a $48,000 grant from the N ational E ndow m ent for th e Humanities to work with the UNM Latin Ameri­ can Institute and the UNM Press in producing an annotated guide to the library’s holdings pertain­ ing to Mexico and Mesoamerica. • The University of T exas at Austin has been awarded a $174,000, HEA Title II-C grant to preserve important Mexican research holdings in the General Libraries. Through the new proj­ ect some 450 important, often unique Mexican periodicals and oth er Latin American serials selected from the Benson Latin American Collec­ tion will be preserved through microfilming. Other aspects of the project will include the es­ tablishment of a systematic acquisitions program for publications of state-owned corporations and major private firms, especially in Mexico, and the cataloging of those items in a national biblio­ graphic database. NEWS NOTE • The University of Southern California’s Norris Medical Library, Los Angeles, began to participate in two Area Health Education Center (AHEC) projects September 1. In one project a Norris librarian is conducting a library/learning resources needs assessment of health facilities served by the San G abriel Valley AHEC. Another project, in cooperation with the USC School of Medicine’s Development and Demon­ stration C e n te r in C ontinuing E ducation for Health Professionals, Norris is providing a librar­ ian to expand the National Library of Medicine- funded Self-Directed Learning Program. This program uses the educational strategies of con­ tract learning, educational brokering, and educa­ tional networking for the continuing education of physicians.