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lar book budget and thus avoiding the limita­
tion of the support of undergraduate programs 
and the support of beginning master’s pro­
grams. Transcending the highly significant im­
mediate benefits has been the effect exerted by 
the successful administration of the grant on 
the member institutions. . . . Participation in 
this successful cooperative venture has sparked 
a series of interinstitutional projects and has 
united the librarians into a well functioning 
organization having established lines of com­
munications and a scheduled program of meet­
ings and workshops. . . . Last but by no means 
least among the benefits is the spark of en­
thusiasm which the successful accomplishment 
of this cooperative endeavor infused into the 
association at a time when financial problems 
seem to become overwhelming and are creat­

ing an atmosphere of pessimism in the private 
institutions.” ■ ■

BUILDING PLANS NEEDED
If you are building a new library or making 

substantial physical changes in your library, the 
Library Administration Division of the Ameri­
can Library Association will appreciate receiv­
ing pictures, slides, floor plans, sketches, ex­
planatory materials, and a copy of your written 
building program.

These materials are needed in the buildings 
collection used by librarians, architects, and 
other building planners.

For details about this collection write Mrs. 
Ruth R. Frame, Executive Secretary, LAD, 
ALA, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 
60611. ■■

News From the Field
ACQUISITIONS

•  The library at Eastern New Mexico Un i­
versity has recently acquired several valuable 
collections of science fiction materials. The 
first of these to be processed are the papers of 
Edmond Hamilton and his wife, Leigh Brack­
ett Hamilton. Both of the Hamiltons are suc­
cessful and prolific free-lance writers, largely 
in the field of science fiction. Their papers, 
which they donated to ENMU as a gift, span 
a period of forty-four years and include ap­
proximately 3,000 items.

Augmenting these materials will be the Jack 
Williamson Collection, which has been given 
to the university but not yet processed, and 
duplicates of Piers Anthony Jacob manuscripts. 
In addition, the Science Fiction Writers of 
America (SFWA) recently designated ENMU 
as a regional depository for the Southwest. As 
such, the university will receive, on a regular 
basis through SFWA, copies of publisher do­
nated science fiction novels and anthologies. 
These, plus the archival materials, will be 
available to students and scholars in the field 
of science fiction.

•  Georgetown University has acquired a 
complete collection of materials dealing with 
former Senator Eugene J. McCarthy’s 1968 bid 
for the Presidency. It is the largest archive 
dealing with a presidential primary ever as­
sembled, according to Robert Metzdorf, an ap­
praiser of books and manuscripts and the eval­
uator of the collection. The materials have 
been deposited in the Gunlocke Special Col­

lections Department of the university’s Joseph 
Mark Lauinger Memorial Library.

Georgetown received the collection from the 
McCarthy Historical Project, a group of friends 
and supporters of the former Minnesota sen­
ator who raised the funds required to assemble 
the materials. A staff of about ten persons spent 
more than a year collecting and arranging 
the collection before it was given to George­
town.

The assemblage occupies more than 200 
file drawers, not counting 40,000 newspaper 
clippings, and more than 200 reels of video­
tape and motion picture film. It also has a file 
of posters and original artwork related to the 
campaign.

The materials detail McCarthy’s campaign 
from its inception in 1967 when his candidacy 
was not taken too seriously, through the New 
Hampshire primary, President Johnson’s with­
drawal in March 1968, the murders of Martin 
Luther King, Jr., and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, 
and the stormy Democratic national conven­
tion in Chicago.

The collection is broken down into four pri­
mary categories: national files, state files, oral 
history tapes and transcripts, and files of manu­
scripts and taped materials relating directly to 
McCarthy.

•  An unusually fine collection of rare and 
first editions of the writings of August Strind­
berg has been given to the New York Univer­
sity Fales Library by Arvid Paulson, Swedish- 
born actor-writer-translator. The Paulson col­
lection is noteworthy, not only because of its