ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries December 1986 / 733 ★ ★ ★ News from the Field Acquisitions volumes of English R om antic works, the donation of form er University of Texas at Austin professor W illis P ratt. T h e collection focuses in p articu lar on L ord Byron (1 7 8 8 – 1 8 2 4 ), and on Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792– 1822), and contains m any 19th- and 20th-century editions of their works, as well as the David Masson edition of D e Q uincey and an 1810 edition of R obert Southey’s T h e C u rse o f K e h a m a . A p articular highlight is two bound volumes, dated 1822– 23, of T h e L ib e r a l , a periodical founded by Byron, Shelley, and Leigh H unt, who, w ith critic W illiam H azlitt, were its principal contributors. • T h e University of Arkansas L ib raries, F a y etteville, have opened for research the papers of J . W illiam F u lb rig h t, form er D e m o cra tic Senator from Arkansas. T h e collection documents the pub­ lic career of the Senator, whose career spanned the years 1942– 1974, the last 15 years of w hich were spent as chairm an of the Foreign Relations C o m ­ m ittee. T h e papers consist of m ore than 1 ,300 lin ­ ear feet of constituent, official and personal corre­ spondence, m em oranda, legislative bills, speeches and other records. Featured is m aterial relating to the origin and adm inistration of the Fulbright pro­ gram of academ ic exchange for students, teachers, professors and researchers. Now in its fortieth year, the Fulbright program was introduced shortly af­ ter W orld W ar I I , when funds from the sale of sur­ plus U .S. w ar properties abroad were m ade avail­ able for ed u cational exchanges. T h e F u lb rig h t exchange files com plem ent the recently acquired historical collection of the Bureau of E d ucational and C ultural Affairs donated by the U .S. In form a­ tion Agency. T h e C o u n c il for In te r n a tio n a l E x c h a n g e of Scholars and the N ational Association for Foreign Student Affairs have also designated Arkansas as the perm anent repository of their records. Both are directly involved in the adm inistration of exchange programs and services. • T h e University of C aliforn ia, Los Angeles, Biom edical L ib ra ry ’s History and Special C o llec­ tions Division has received eighteen unique photo­ graphs of the laboratories and procedures of pio­ neer physiologist Ivan P. Pavlov (1849– 1936). The photos are the gift of D r. M ary A .B . B razier, pro­ fessor em erita of anatom y. Through an anonymous donation, the Division was also able to purchase the very rare first edition of Andreas V esalius’ E p it o m e of 1543. • T h e University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a donation of m ore than 1 5 ,0 0 0 letters, • Butler University, Indianapolis, In d ian a, has been selected to house the N ational T ra ck and Field Hall of F am e L ib rary C ollection. T h e collec­ tion will be m aintained in a special section of the R are Books Room as a cooperative project between Butler and the N ational T ra ck and Field Hall of Fam e. Included are the official report of the 1912 Stockholm O lym pics; a 1936 B erlin Olympics pro­ gram , among others; early Millrose Games pro­ grams, early issues of S p a ld in g ’s A th le tic L ib r a r y , and books on coaching techniques and equipm ent changes over the years. T h e University, with a long track and field tradition, was the site of the form er Butler Relays. •E h w a W om an ’s University, Seoul, K orea, re cently acq u ired an im p o rtan t collection of K o reana dating from 1563 to the early 20th century and consisting of nearly 5 ,0 0 0 volumes. T h e books feature early printings (by woodblock) of Korean literatu re, early Korean views of the world, and W estern accounts of Korea in the 19th and 20th centuries. R are works include Kyung Sei Chung’s C o lle c t io n o f W o o b o k ’s W o r k s (1 5 6 2 – 1 6 3 3 ), 32 volu m es p rin te d by w o o d b lo ck ; th e c o lle c te d works of Ram Chung (1569– 1641), also printed by w oodblock; and Shi Yearl Song’s W o rk s on W o rd s a n d B e h a v io u r . W estern works include Basil H all’s V o y a g e to C o r e a (1820). T h e collection was do­ nated bv C arl Ferris Overfield M iller, a former res ident of Pennsylvania now residing in Korea. •T h e Em erson College Archives, Boston, have acquired a collection of articles by E linor Hughes, dram a and film critic for the B o ston H e r a ld from 1927 to 1966 and the first w om an critic for a Boston evening new sp ap er. T h e c o lle c tio n dates from 1927 to 1950 and includes 37 bound scrapbooks of reviews, feature stories and interviews with stage and film stars. Hughes also presented the college with an 1893 volume of articles on A m erican bu r­ lesque and actors of the New York stage, w hich fea ­ tures original playbills and lithographs dating back to 1840. •The Pennsylvania State University L ibraries, University Park, have received the gift of 2 ,6 0 0 musical recordings from the late C larence I. Noll, dean emeritus of the College of Science and profes­ sor of chem istry until his retirem ent in 1971. The recordings are devoted chiefly to jazz with an em ­ phasis on the big band era. • Texas A&M University, College Station , re cently received a collection of approxim ately 500 transcripts, tapes and films from the estate of the 734 / C &RL News late social scientist Gregory Bateson (1904– 1980). Bateson, a former UC regent and UCSC faculty member, received widespread recognition for his “double bind” theory of schizophrenia as well as for accomplishments in many other fields includ­ ing anthropology and literature. The archive con­ tains virtually all surviving Bateson materials from the late 1940s to 1980. Of particular interest is ex­ tensive correspondence with such figures as Marga­ ret Mead, R .D . Laing, Claude L evi-Strauss, John Lilly, and Rollo May. A 350-page guide and 1,000- page index by Bateson scholar Rodney E. Donald­ son have been specially created for the collection. ●The University of Puerto Rico, School of Ar chitecture Library, Rio Piedras, has acquired the architectural drawings collection of the Toro & Ferrer firm, credited with introducing the Interna­ tional Style in Puerto Rico. Included are represen­ tations of more than 200 projects in Puerto Rico and abroad. T h e school has also acquired the Hunter Randolph Collection of landscape draw­ ings and a large collection of drawings by Prairie School architect Antonin Nechodoma. • T h e University of Virginias Alderman L i ­ brary recently acquired a near-complete run of the rare Parisian right-wing newspaper L e F ran ciste. Started in 1933 and censored under the Popular Front regime in 1936, it resumed publication in 1940 under the leadership of Marcel Bucard, then chief of the Francist Party, and was published (with a brief interruption by German order) until its demise in 1944. • West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhan non, acquired a large collection of Abraham L in ­ coln memorabilia at an October 10 Founders Day celebration. The more than 2 ,000 books, photo­ graphs and documents were collected by the late Dr. Charles Aubrey Jones, a public servant and W esley an g rad u ate. Among the items are ex­ tremely rare Republican Party pamphlets from the wartime presidential election campaign of 1864, a soldier’s promotional order signed by Lincoln in 1861, and photographs of Lincoln meeting with Union officers after the Battle of Antietam. Grants • The Academy of Natural Sciences Library, Philadelphia, has been awarded a grant of $10,000 from the Fels Foundation to support a conservation project involving some 250,000 manuscripts of im­ portance to the history of the natural sciences in America. The documents will be placed in acid- fre e c o n ta in e r s and stored und er c l i m a t e - controlled conditions. • Bowling Green State University, Ohio, has been awarded a $76,713 grant by the National E n ­ dowment for the Humanities to catalog 12,000 popular music recordings made between 1950 and 1970 and to add them to the O C L C database. The grant is the second Bowling Green has received since 1985 to catalog its holdings of more than 4 0 0 , 0 0 0 recordings of p opular music. N early 100,000 major label releases have been cataloged to date, with classification by theme, such as Hawai­ ian music and truck driving songs, as well as by art­ ist and title. The latest grant will be used to begin cataloging minor and budget label releases. •Indiana University, Bloomington, and the I n diana Consortium for International Programs have been awarded a two-year $50,000 grant by the United States Information Agency for librarian ex­ changes with the University of Malawi, in south­ east Africa. University of Malawi library dean Steve Mwiyeriwa toured libraries in the United States for three weeks last m onth, visiting the Bloomington campus and the Library of Congress following an earlier visit to the four campuses of the University of Malawi by Indiana library dean Elaine Sloan. Three-month exchanges of librarians are planned to begin shortly. •Stanford University Libraries and the Univer sity of Maryland-College Park Libraries in con­ junction with the University of Delaware Library, the New York State Library, and Texas A&M Uni­ versity Library have been awarded HEA Title II-C grants to catalog Segments One and Two of the Goldsmiths’-Kress L ibrary of E conom ic L ite r a ­ ture. This microfilm collection includes all books published through 1850 held by the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature at the University of London and the Kress L ib rary of Business and Economics at Harvard University, and consists of approximately 60,000 titles. Stanford will catalog imprints from Segment One and its supplement, covering the period from approximately 1460 to 1800, over a period of five years. The catalog will consist of full AACR2 records with full subject ac­ cess and will be input on RLIN and S O C R A T E S , the local online catalog. Authority work will be done within the framework of Stanford’s participa­ tion in the NACO program. When the project is com pleted, m a ch in e -re a d a b le tapes of b ib lio ­ graphic records in full MARC formats will be made available to O C L C and W LN . The University of Maryland-College Park will catalog imprints from Segment Two, dating from approximately 1801 to 1850, over a period of 27 months. As a NACO participant, UMCP will be mainly responsible for providing name authority records to the program and preparing them for use by the other three participating libraries in creat­ ing cataloging records for O C L C . The records will be available to other libraries as a set once the proj­ ect is complete. Progress reports on both projects are planned for the ALA Midwinter and Annual Conferences. •Syracuse University’s Bird Library and School of Education have received a four-year grant of $ 3 ,7 1 6 ,0 0 0 from the W .K . Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan. The funds will be used to We Are Professionals We at E B S a r e d e d i c a t e d to providing libraries with t h e f a s t e s t s e r v i c e , t h e b e s t d i s c o u n t s , b u t a b o v e all, t h e accuracy a library demands. With all this in your favor you owe it to y o u r s e l f to try us … E.B.S. BOOK SERVICE THE BEST C H O IC E . ESTABLISHED 1949 E.B.S. INC. BOOK SERVICE ■ 290 BROADWAY, LYNBROOK, NEW YORK 11563 ■ 516-593-1207 736 / C &RL News establish an electronic access system for Syracuse’s extensive collections on the origins and growth of the adult education movement. Using optical digi­ tal disks, a team of University educators and infor­ mation science specialists will index and store some 650 linear feet of material, including the archives of many associations active in the field of adult ed­ ucation. • The University of California, Riverside, L i brary Collection Development Department has re­ ceived two research grants totalling $15,370 from statewide and local librarian association funds. The grants are to test the widely-held theory that in-house use of library materials follows the same pattern of use as circulation. The project directors hypothesize that in-house use of serials, and of monographs in certain subjects, is significantly dif­ ferent from their circulated use; and that in-house patterns of use may have changed in recent years due to photocopying practices. These factors could have a major impact on collection development policies and practices nationwide. The project will take one and a half years and will examine a repre­ sentative sample of each classification in the entire UC-Riverside collection. •The University of Scranton’s Alumni Memo rial Library/Media Resources Center, Pennsylva­ nia, has received a grant of $495,000 from the Pew Memorial Trust to install a computerized public access system. The Geac equipment will be linked to ASCII public access terminals and to IBM PC multi-purpose staff terminals. •The University of Texas at Austin has received a total of more than $14,000 in gifts and a pledge to establish the A .F . Skinner Chemistry Library E n ­ dowment. The fund is named in honor of the late Aubrey E. Skinner, Chemistry Librarian at UT- Austin for 34 years prior to his death in 1985. News Notes • T h e U n iversity of Illin ois, U r b a n a - Champaign, formally added the seven millionth volume to its collections at an October 8 ceremony. P ereg rin a tio in T erra m S an ctam (“Journey to the Holy Land”) by Bernhard von Breydenbach was acquired by the U. of I. Library Friends through a gift from alumnus and longtime Library Friend John E. Velde Jr. of Omaha, Nebraska. The first travel book ever published, the P ereg rin a tio was also the first to have fold-out illustrations— among them the first map of Palestine ever published— and the first book containing illustrations specifi­ cally made to accompany the text. The author was a German nobleman and dean of the cathedral at Mainz who set out in 1483 on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, taking a large retinue that included Erhardus Reuwich, a recognized woodblock de­ signer. The volume includes seven illustrations of the cities visited en route, including a panoramic view of Venice that folds out to more than five feet long and is completely recognizable to the modern traveller. •Wayne State University, Detroit, will be the site of the new Michigan Center for the Book, ap­ proved recently by the Center’s executive council. Chacona Johnson of Wayne State will be the Mich­ igan Center’s first coordinator. The Michigan Cen­ ter will be the seventh state or regional branch to become affiliated with the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. ■ ■ Harvard incunabula describ James E. Walsh, keeper of printed books at Har­ vard’s Houghton Library, has begun work that will lead to a printed catalog of 15th-century books in the Harvard University Library. Houghton L i ­ brary has the largest number of such incunabula at Harvard, but there are also sizable collections in the Harvard Law School and the Countway L i­ brary, with smaller collections in the Andover- Harvard Theological Library, the Baker Library, and elsewhere. The Harvard collection of incunab­ ula is the third largest in the country (exceeded only by the Library of Congress and the Huntington L i­ brary) and comprises approximately 3 ,500 titles. Since some titles are present in more than one copy, the total number of volumes to be described will probably exceed 4 ,0 0 0 . It is estimated that the project will take five years. If a full-scale description of a title already exists in a standard catalog, the new catalog entry will be abbreviated. Walsh will, however, present de­ ed tailed accounts of provenance and binding, areas ot emphasized in other catalogs of incunabula. he resulting catalog will be the largest detailed ecord of such a collection in the United States.— UL N otes, O c to b e r 16, 1986. ■ ■ Correction Several errors crept into the profile of H. Robert Malinowsky that appeared in the O cto­ ber C &R L N ew s, p. 609. The correct spelling is Malinowsky, not Malinowski as given in the profile. He is on the a d ju n ct faculty of the Uni­ versity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee but is still with the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is still an editorial consultant for Oryx Press. He be­ gan as science librarian at the University of Kansas and left as associate dean. His book is in its third edition. n T r H