ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 3 82/C&RL News Grants and Acquisitions Hugh Thom pson A p p a la c h ia n State U n i­ versity’s W. L. Eury Appala­ chian C o llectio n has re­ ceived a grant o f $35,000 from the Broyhill Family Foundation to complete the processing and preservation o f the papers o f Senator James T. Broyhill. From 1963 to 1986, Broyhill served first in the U.S. House o f Repre­ sentatives and then in the Senate. Previous to receiv­ ing the grant, Don W. W il­ son, executive director o f the George Bush Presidential Library (and former archivist o f the United States) examined the col­ lection and made specific recommendations for its processing. The A sso ciated Co lleges of the South, a consortium o f 13 colleges throughout the South, has received a grant o f $1.2 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a coopera­ tive electronic library project. The grant will underwrite a three-year effort featuring joint electronic access to indexes and periodicals. The program also will involve cooperative ef­ forts to train library personnel in the use o f various kinds o f technology. The objective is to expand access o f students and faculty to elec­ tronic materials, to develop a model to analyze journal pricing, and to effect a substantial cost containment through collaboration. The Iliff School of T h eo lo g y in D en ver, Colorado, has been awarded a $500,000 chal­ lenge grant by the Kresge Foundation. The grant is part o f a three-year effort to raise $6 million in support o f the Iliff s 104-year-old mission as a national leader in seminary education. The Kresge grant will be applied toward the con­ struction o f a new education center to house Iliffs theological library and to provide mul­ tiuse space. North C a ro lin a State U n ive rsity , D uke University, and the University o f North Caro- Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Ac­ quisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chi­ cago, IL 60611; e-mail: hthompson@ala.org. fund the Triangle East Asia Studies Project: Deepening Area and Language Studies in an Internationalizing Region. The library portion o f the grant is intended to strengthen library resources for undergraduate students with the purchase o f reference books, films, and basic sets. A cq uisitio n s M a te ria ls from the 1991 m o vie Thou­ sand Pieces o f Gold have been donated to the Autry Museum o f Western Heritage in Los An­ geles by director and independent filmmaker Nancy Kelly. The movie tells the story o f Lalu, a Chinese woman w ho is sold into slavery as a w ife and prostitute in an 1880s Idaho mining town. Among the significant artifacts from the movie are the dragon’s head from the Chinese N ew Year celebration, the Golden Flower and Prosperity Chinese store sign, and the knife with which Lalu scares o ff a would-be customer, threatens suicide, and reclaims her identity. The donation enhances the museum’s “fictional W est” collections, which document ways in which film and other media have shaped per­ ceptions o f the region and its inhabitants. A collection of m ore th an 4 5 0 historic children’s books has been donated to the Edu­ cation and Social Science Library at the Univer­ sity o f Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by the Ar­ lington Heights, Illinois, Memorial Public Library. The collection includes readers, school texts, series books, and works o f fiction. Among the lina-Chapel H ill have re­ ceived two Title VI grants from the U.S. Department o f Education’s Center for Inter­ national Education. The Tri­ angle South Asia Consor­ tium, an educational coop­ erative com prised o f the South Asia faculties at the three institutions, received a th ree-year grant totaling $286,957 for various collec­ tion enhancement activities. The institutions also received a $170,062 two-year grant to mailto:hthompson@ala.org June 1996/383 books are seven dating from 1790 to 1833, including the woodboard-bound 1790 A Grammatical Institute o f the English Lan­ guage and an 1827 Hale’s History o f the United States. Other valuable additions in­ clude a tum-of-the-century edition o f The Baby’s Opera by noted English illustrator Walter Crane, a first edition o f The Wiz­ a rd o f Oz, and an 1866 e d itio n o f Evangeline. A la rg e co llectio n of m o re th an 3,000 books, magazines, and other mate­ rials relating to the downtown N ew York writing scene from 1975 to the present The W ee, W ee Mannie and the Big, Big Coo fro m My Bookhouse— In the Nursery (1925) at U o f I-Urbana.has been acquired by the Fales Library o f N ew York University. T o be known as the “Downtown Writers Collection,” the materials were collected by Ron Kolm, a poet, editor, and member o f the downtown scene. The col­ lection includes signed first editions by such authors as Kathy Acker, Lynne Tillman, Gary Indiana, Walter Abish, Spalding Gray, Patrick McGrath, and Harry Mathews. Also featured are complete runs o f important literary magazines o f the period, ‘zines, posters, flyers, catalogs o f exhibitions, and announcements for readings, all o f which give a sense o f the arts scene dur­ ing the height o f the Soho and East Village writ­ ing explosion. The p a p e r s o f C a n a d ia n c h ild r e n ’ s writer Carol Matas have been acquired by the University o f Manitoba Libraries. Matas’s book Lisa received both the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young Readers and a Notable Book Award from the New York Times Book. Review. The collection includes handwrit­ ten and typed drafts and revisions o f her pub­ lished and unpublished novels, stories, and plays; correspondence to publishers, agents, and readers; and research notes and signed cop­ ies o f various editions o f her 14 published nov­ els. ■ (Allen cont. from page 373) teaching, collaborating, and information trans­ fer all come together. For some universities this will continue to occur naturally. At other cam­ puses w e may need to work to maintain this presence. For one thing, w e can remind our campus administrators o f the wide array o f ser­ vices provided by libraries, which includes pro­ viding increasingly sophisticated user instruc­ tion (it is drastically easier to show patrons how to navigate electronic resources in person ver­ sus over the phone or through an e-mail re­ sponse), providing A/V labs for asynchronous lecture delivery, and providing study environ­ ments for students and discussion groups, just to name a few. The hub of the cam pu s Let’s also look for additional ways to bring us­ ers into the library to expose them to our ser­ vices. Our library houses the offices for the new campus universal I.D. card, named One-Card. Our library faculty had initially engaged in lively discussion about the pros and cons o f placing this center in the building. In the end w e came to the realization that putting the office in the library would reinforce the concept o f the li­ brary being the hub o f campus. 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