ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


894 /  C&RL News ■  Decem ber 1998

G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n s A nn-C hriste Young

The U n iv e rsity  o f C a lifo rn ia  (UC),
Irvine Libraries Department o f Special 
Collections has been awarded a $10,000 
grant from the American Institute o f Physics 
to make the papers o f Frederick Reines, 
UC’s 1995 Nobel laureate in Physics, 
available for scholarly research. Reines is 
known for his experiments in confirming 
the existence o f the neutrino, a discovery 
that spawned the still-thriving field o f 
neutrino physics. The grant will enable 
UC’s Special Collections to organize and 
preserve Reines’ papers, as well as create 
an archive that will be available on the 
In te rn e t via UC’s O n lin e A rchive o f 
California.

The U n iv e rsity  o f P ittsb u rg h  (UP)
Library System has received a grant from 
the Institute o f Museum and Library Services 
to deliver digital copies of Chinese-language 
academ ic journal publications from four 
Chinese research libraries via the Internet 
to scholars throughout the United States. 
UP’s Library System is one o f 41 recipients 
across the country o f this first National 
Leadership Grant Award. UP will use the 
$189,000 award to continue a pilot project 
that establishes a gateway service for U.S. 
scholars to access, free o f charge, hard-to- 
find Chinese language journal publications 
located in libraries in China, Hong Kong, 
and Taiwan. In turn, the system will allow 
Chinese scholars to access U.S. documents.

The U n iversity o f South Florid a (USF)
Tampa Campus Library has received a 
$100,000 gift from A. Bayard Angle to 
benefit its Oral History Program. His gift 
received a $50,000 matching gift from the 
State of Florida’s Challenge Grant Program. 
Angle contributed $100,000 to benefit the 
library’s “Virtual Library” Program earlier 
this year; this gift is also eligible for a 
$50,000 matching gift from the State of 
Florida. Time Warner Trust has also made 
a gift o f $15,000 to benefit the USF Tampa 
Campus Library’s Oral History Program.

A c q u i s i t i o n s

Texas A&M U n iversity's Ste rlin g  C.
Evans Library has acquired the collection of 
George Sabo, a renowned Slavic book dealer, 
consisting of 16,000 items on Russian, Polish, 
and Czech literature and history covering the 
medieval period to the 20th century. The 
collection contains scholarly books published 
during the period 1950-85, primarily in Russian; 
books in Polish, Czech, French, and German 
constitute a smaller portion of the collection.

The Lib rary o f C on gress has acquired
the personal papers of Pamela Digby Churchill 
Harriman, who died in 1997 while serving as 
the U.S. Ambassador to France. Harriman was 
on the Board of Directors of the Commission 
on Presidential Debates (1987-93), chair and 
founder o f the fundraising com mittees 
Democrats for the 80s and Democrats for the 
90s, and national co-chair o f the Clinton-Gore 
presidential campaign in 1992. The papers are 
estimated to contain about 500,000 items and 
cover all aspects of her life, but are most 
extensive regarding her active involvement in 
civic, political, and governmental matters in 
the last 20 years.

The U n iv e rsity  o f N evada's, Reno,
Basque Studies Library has acquired a newly 
discovered Spanish Civil War archive from the 
Basque region in the northern part of the 
Spanish state. It contains more than 5,000 
documents, manuscripts, photographs, maps, 
pamphlets, and artifacts produced by the 
Basque and Republican Governments and the 
Fascist Nationals during the northern front 
campaign of the Spanish Civil War. This 
particular archive, Archivo Guerra Civil-Frente 
Del Norte, was created by Lieutenant José 
M aria H u arte Ja ú r e g u i, th e m ilitary 
commandant in Zarautz.

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