ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 527September 1986 / News from the Field Acquisitions •The Bowling Green State University Libraries and Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green, Ohio, have recently acquired 16,000 popu­ lar music recordings from a Panama City, Florida, collector. The collection features examples of early rock and roll and all country music #1 hits from 1949 to 1982. Bowling Green also acquired 6,000 volumes and hundreds of manuscripts belonging to the late Sam Pollock, an Ohio labor leader. The archive in­ cludes much primary material documenting labor history and early runs of labor, socialist, and com­ munist periodicals. •Coppin State College, Baltimore, Maryland, officially opened the Cab Calloway Jazz Institute with the donation of the personal papers and mem­ orabilia of the famed bandleader. The collection features more than 300 photos, paintings, record­ ings, movie and play scripts, and other Calloway items, including his popular canary yellow zoot suit and directing baton. The legendary enter­ tainer, whose career spans more than 60 years, ap­ peared at the opening ceremony with his wife and officials of the college. • Cornell University’s Olin Library, D epart­ ment of Rare Books, has received the papers and memorabilia of the late William Stringfellow, who died in March 1985. Stringfellow, regarded by many as the most important U.S. theologian of his generation, was also a lawyer and the author of some 14 books, most of which focus on the practice of Christian ethics in modern society. On leaving Harvard in 1956, he settled in East Harlem and worked as legal counsel for the poor and for out­ casts of all kinds, including homosexuals. He was also an early critic of American involvement in Vietnam. • Harvard University’s Houghton Library has acquired the surviving correspondence between Theodore Roosevelt, an 1880 Harvard graduate, and his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee. More than three dozen letters, part of a group of family docu­ ments and photographs relating to the marriage and preserved by their daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, were recently presented to the Library by her granddaughter, Joanna Sturm. Roosevelt met Alice Lee in 1878 while a junior at Harvard. Engaged after a 15-month courtship, they were married in October 1880, following his graduation, and lived in New York City while Roosevelt began his political career as a member of the State Assembly at Albany. Alice died on Valen­ tine’s Day, 1884, two days after giving birth to their daughter. After eulogizing her in a privately printed memorial, Roosevelt never mentioned his wife again, not even in his autobiography, pub­ lished in 1913. Until now it had been assumed that Roosevelt had destroyed virtually all their corre­ spondence. •The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, has become the depository of the political papers of U.S. Senator Charles Mathias Jr. (R-MD). The col­ lection includes Mathias’ papers from 1958 to the present, covering his term in the Maryland House of Delegates as well as three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and three in the Senate. Containing correpondence with every president since Eisenhower and many foreign heads of state, the papers are notably important in the areas of civil rights, environmental concerns, and foreign relations. An original sponsor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Mathias was chief sponsor of the Vot­ ing Rights Acts of 1965 and 1982, and introduced the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Mathias will join the faculty at the University’s School of Advanced In ­ ternational Studies following his retirement from the Senate early next year. • M illersville U niversity’s Ganser L ib ra ry , Pennsylvania, recently acquired a 1748 edition of Tieleman J . van Braght’s M artyrs’ M irror from Frederick Kring, a university alumnus. The vol­ ume, the largest printed in colonial America, con­ tains biographies of Christian martyrs from the be­ ginning of Christianity up to the 16th century. It became a favorite among the pacifist Protestant sects while they were in Holland, and many wished to have a translation in their native German. The feat was accomplished in three years by Amish brothers using local materials and a local transla­ tor. •The New York State Library’s Manuscripts and Special Collections unit, Albany, has acquired an interesting collection of materials on early teleg­ raphy. The papers of the Bishop Gutta Percha Company, a pioneer in the development of insu­ lated telegraph and electrical cables and wires, were received as a donation from the company’s last president. Through inventive methods the company developed the insulation used on the first telegraph across the Hudson and Harlem Rivers, as well as the first cable across the Atlantic Ocean. The company was also the first in New York City to 528 / C & RL News institute the eight-hour workday. The Library has also obtained a collection of am­ brotype photographs of the Hidley family of Rens­ selaer County. The only known portrait photo of Joseph H. Hidley, an im portant 19th-century American folk artist who painted Upstate New York townscapes, is included. •Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, recently ac­ quired a collection of significant biographical in­ fo rm atio n on W o lfg an g Amadeus M ozart (1756-1791). Included are 149 cloth and 47 paper- bound volumes on the composer, many of which are in German and several of which are pre-1850 imprints. Also acquired were 10 framed portraits of Mozart and an early square piano believed to have been built around 1780. Ephemeral material from the collection, donated by the estate of a New Bavaria, Ohio, collector, includes a holograph let­ ter dated 1642 and a sixth edition of Samuel John­ son’s Dictionary (1785), as well as 100 imprints from Germany and Austria dating from the W W II period, of interest to scholars of the Third Reich. •Ohio State University’s Library for Communi­ cation and Graphic Arts, Columbus, has received the personal papers of the late W alt Kelly, cartoon­ ist and creator of Togo. Some 15 boxes of materials have been shipped so far, including letters, records, poetry and comment, examples of the Pogo books based on the strip, and letters from fans as far away as Cambodia and New Zealand. The collection has been donated by Kelly’s widow, Selby Kelly, of New York City. •Oregon State University, Corvallis, has been chosen as the depository of the personal, scientific, and peace papers of Linus C . Pauling (1901– ), eminent chemist and humanitarian. The collection will also include the papers of Pauling’s late wife, Ava Helen Pauling, a noted feminist leader and so­ cial activist. The Pauling papers include a series of Pauling’s scientific notebooks developed over the last 50 years, a large volume of correspondence to and from both Paulings, a collection of Pauling’s original manuscripts for his voluminous publica­ tions which include more than a dozen books and 500 articles, and a substantial collection of reprints and books collected by Pauling to aid in his scien­ tific work. Pauling is the only person to have won two Nobel Prizes as an individual working alone. His work on the nature of the chemical bond re­ sulted in the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954; in 1962 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership among the international scientific com­ munity in calling for the nuclear test ban treaty signed the next year by the United States and the Soviet Union. •Texas A&M University’s Evans Library, Col­ lege Station, has purchased the personal library of a noted American archeologist and former director of the American School of Classical Studies in Ath­ ens. The collection, of approximately 2,000 books and bound periodicals, includes excavation reports from such classical sites as Delphi, Sardis, and D e­ los. Among the books acquired is a very early ar­ chaeological study, Cochin’s Observations upon th e A n tiqu ities o f th e Tow n o f H ercu lan aeu m (London, 1756), and many 19th-century titles. Also part of the collection are works by prominent archeologists including Carl Biegen, Gisela M.A. Richter, and J.D . Beazley. Especially important are the complete runs of several rare journals pub­ lished by the Archaeological Society of Athens, in­ cluding H esperia, Praktika (dating back to 1837), and Ephim eris A rchaiologiki (dating to 1897). • W heaton C ollege’s Billy Graham C enter, W heaton, Illinois, has received records of the Moody Memorial Church in Chicago dating back to the 1870s. The collection includes the papers and other items of such noted evangelists such as Harry Ironside, and contains memorabilia relating to Chicago’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 as well as issues of T h e M o o d y C h u r c h N ew s dated 1910-1970. •Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut, has acquired the papers of poet, novelist, and es­ sayist Robert Penn W arren (1905– ) . Consid­ ered by many to be the the nation’s pre-eminent man of letters, W arren was appointed U.S. poet laureate in February 1986. The archive includes working and final drafts of virtually all of W arren’s writings from 1929. Yale will also receive W arren’s incoming correspondence dating from the same time, some 17,000 letters from writers, editors, scholars, critics, and friends. The same purchase has also resulted in a bibliographically complete collection of all W arren’s printed works in their first and subsequent editions. Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, W arren is the author of the widely acclaimed novel All the K in g’s Men and his New and S elected Poem s, 1923-1985 (published last year). G r a n t s •Augustana College’s Mikkelsen Library, Sioux F a lls, South D ak o ta, has received a grant of $20,000 from the Helene Fuld Health Trust of New York. The money will be used to purchase books and periodicals to support the health sciences pro­ grams of the college. •Brandeis University’s Department of Special Collections, W alth am , Massachusetts, has re­ ceived a grant of $27,000 from the Abraham Lin­ coln Brigade Archives (ALBA) a non-profit organi­ zation dedicated to the preservation and study of materials related to the American participation in the Spanish Civil W ar (1936–39). Brandeis will ini­ tiate a program to catalog its collection of Spanish Civil W ar materials and to preserve a group of some 200 rare posters. Included in the collection are more than 7,000 monographs, 200 serials, and more than 5,000 rare photographs, including 400 530 / C & RL News of Nazi origin, as well as personal memorabilia, propaganda films, recordings, and the Archives of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, and the Spanish Refu­ gee Aid Committee. • Harvard University has received a $100,000 gift from the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation of New York for preservation of the collections in the Harvard College Library. Much of the money will go toward preserving the Judaica Collection. The gift is part of a $3.6 million drive to complete the third stage of renovation of the library and follows a 1981 endowment of $500,000 from the Founda­ tion for the purpose of microfilming Judaica hold­ ings. • T he Johns Hopkins U niversity’s M ilton S. Eisenhower Library has received a $204,000 grant from the Andrew W . Mellon Foundation to pro­ vide a program of preservation education to aca­ demic and research libraries across the country. Continuing an earlier Mellon grant, the new three- year program will place greater emphasis on spe­ cial problems of paper conservation. An important part of the program will be the production of in­ structional videotapes for the purpose of teaching preservation methods to library and archival staffs. The University plans to offer a series of two-day workshops in preservation techniques beginning this fall. Six consultancies and four internships will also be offered in each of the three years. •Lake Forest College, Illinois, has received a $75,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foun­ dation to endow a venture capital fund for its li­ brary. Annual income from the fund will be used to study new ways to provide traditional services to li­ brary users and to identify and foster the develop­ ment of new services. •The Missouri Botanical Garden’s Library, St. Louis, has been awarded a grant of more than $240,000 from the U.S. Department of Education to complete the recataloging and reclassifying of its collections on the O C LC database. The project be­ gan in 1978 and is now expected to be complete by 1990. Much of the money will be shared with the New York Botanical Garden. Together, the two li­ braries hold approximately 80% of the world’s printed literature on plant distribution and floristic studies, plant identification, the history of botany and agriculture, and many other botanical topics. •The New York University School of Law has been awarded a challenge grant of $1 million from the Kresge Foundation of Troy, Michigan, toward the construction of the Law School’s new under­ ground library and the renovation of its existing li­ brary facilities. The grant is contingent upon the School’s raising an additional $4,350,000 in order to complete the project, of which more than $1 m il­ lion has already been raised. The expanded portion of the library will open this fall, with the renova­ tion of the existing library to proceed shortly there­ after. •The Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, has received a matching grant of $21,000 from the N ation al H isto rical P u b licatio n s and Records Commission to preserve and make available the Museum’s m aritim e history m anuscript co llec­ tions. The collections document the participation of Salem and New England in the lucrative trade with Africa, Asia, and Oceania from the late 17th through 19th centuries. •The Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society, Seattle, has received a NHPRC grant for the pres­ ervation of the Joe Williamson photographic col­ lection. The photographs depict the maritime his­ tory of the Pacific Northwest from the 1880s to 1950s, including a wide variety of ships, many coastal towns and industries, and the Alaska gold rush. •Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New J er­ sey, has been awarded a grant of $144,208 from the National Endowment for the Humanities in sup­ port of the Bibliographic Phase of the New Jersey Newspaper Project. New Jersey is one of several states and repositories participating in the United States Newspaper Program, a national effort to promote the newspaper as a valuable source of his­ tory and culture. New Jersey Newspaper Project staff will catalog the approximately 3,000 Ameri­ can new sp apers lo c a te d in 5 3 7 rep o sito ries throughout the state, making them available on the O C LC database. Rutgers will serve as the head­ quarters for the project. •Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection, Lubbock, has received a National Historical Publi­ cations and Records Commission grant for preser­ vation and improved access to a local television newsfilm and videotape collection documenting west Texas since the mid-1950s. •Tulane University’s Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, New Orleans, has received a $750,000 grant from the Pew Memorial Trust to complete retrospective conversion of the library’s card cata­ log system. The project is expected to be completed by May 1988. •The University of California, Los Angeles, has been awarded a grant in the amount of 650,000 yen by the Japan Foundation. Part of the foundation’s 1986 Library Support Program, the money will be used by the UCLA Oriental Library to acquire the 60-volume reproduction edition of the Tsushin zenran, the first diplomatic correspondence of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The collection ranges from the closing days of the Tokugawa regime in 1853 to the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Divided into two parts, the work is considered a treasure for its wealth of historical source material and will be of considerable value to Japanese scholars. • The University of Idaho, Moscow, has re­ ceived a partial matching grant of $55,000 from the NHPRC to appraise, arrange, and describe the records of more than 50 mining companies from September 1986 / 531 the Coeur d’Alene region of northern Idaho. The project will also develop general appraisal guide­ lines for the records of hard rock mining compan­ ies. • T h e U n iversity of Illin o is at U rb an a- Champaign has received a private gift of more than $1 million to establish the C. W alter Morten- son and Gerda B. Mortenson Distinguished Profes­ sorship for International Library Programs. The primary purpose of this new position will be to pro­ mote international peace, health, education and understanding through programs at the library on the Urbana-Cham paign campus. Exchanges of people and materials will be a main responsibility of the professorship, with connections to China and African nations of particular interest. In addi­ tion, the professor funded by the gift will oversee institutional and personal links with libraries and librarians in foreign countries, faculty involvement in international programs, and promotion of re­ search and teaching that further international un­ derstanding. • T he University of M aryland College Park Campus libraries have been awarded a three-year, $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The money will be used to orga­ nize and make available for study and research the Gordon W . Prange Collection on the history and development of Japanese education during the early years of the Allied Occupation of Japan, when the Japanese educational system underwent drastic and far-reaching reforms. The Endowment also awarded $49,817 in federal matching funds. The collection contains copies of many publica­ tions issued in Japan from 1945 to 1949, when cen­ sorship was ended, ranging from scholarly mono­ graphs to popular literature, and including school textbooks, study guides, and other education- related items. Many of the publications were ini­ tially printed in limited quantities due to extreme shortages, were often recycled for their paper con­ tent, and were not systematically collected by ei­ ther U.S. or Japanese libraries at the time. • T h e U n iversity o f M in n e so ta ’s Ow en H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine, Minneapolis, has announced the be­ quest of $1,052,000 from the estate of Dr. George Eitel. The late Dr. Eitel, a well-known Minneapo­ lis surgeon, had previously established an endow­ ment for the purchase of rare surgical texts. •The University of Missouri Libraries, Colum­ bia, have been awarded a two-year grant of up to $73,205 from the Council on Library Resources for “Developing Leadership in Academic Librarian­ ship: The UMC L ib raries’ In tern -Scholar Pro­ gram .” The program will train up to eight junior librarians in leadership, administration, and ad­ vanced library skills, with the aim of giving them an expanded view of their profession and a better understanding of the university environment. It will include in-house seminars and discussion groups led by senior staff and visiting scholars, and exercises designed to build self-knowledge and teamwork skills. •The Utah Museum of Natural History of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, has received a N ational H istorical P u b lication s and Records Commission grant for the preservation of photo­ graphic negatives of archeological excavations in the Great Basin and northern Colorado plateau. The photographs document early American cul­ tures, such as that of the Anasazi people. N ew s n o te s • Drexel University’s College of Inform ation Studies, Philadelphia, will provide a team of fac­ ulty members hired by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Office of the National Park Service to design an in­ formation system that will enable the NPS to han­ dle a greater volume of queries more efficiently. At present the agency maintains vertical files of some 11,000 documents which it must access daily in or­ der to respond to questions from professionals throughout the country. By creating an “info- bank,” the team hopes to resolve the backlog and enable staff to find answers quickly and efficiently. The 18-month, $100,000 project could serve as a model for streamlining operations at other NPS re­ gional offices. •Dropsie College’s Board of Trustees voted July 7 to change the name of the Merion, Pennsylvania, institution to the Annenberg Research Institute for Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. The move was made to reflect last year’s decision to cease opera­ tions as a graduate school and be restructured as a postdoctoral research institute. The program of the Institute is to be modeled after the Institute for Ad­ vanced Study at Princeton and other academic re­ search centers. Dropsie College was founded in 1907 as the country’s first nontheological and nondenomina­ tional graduate school for the study of the litara­ ture, languages and culture of Judaism. Under the guidance of W alter Annenberg, chairman of the Institute and former U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, the Institute plans to move to a new site near Independence Hall in Philadelphia. The new structure will include a state-of-the-art research center with clim ate-controlled rare book rooms and computerized databases of ancient manuscript m a teria l. B ern ard L ew is, an in tern atio n ally - recognized scholar of Islamic and Judeo-Islamic Studies, recently left the Princeton Institute and Princeton University to serve as director of the An­ nenberg Research Institute. •The Louisiana State University Libraries, B a­ ton Rouge, have announced the creation of the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Historical Collections. This new department in the division of Special Collections combines under one adminis­ trative structure all of the collections and staff pre- 532 / C& RL News viously designated as the Louisiana Collection, the Manuscripts Collection, the University Archives, and the Russell Long Collection. The reorganiza­ tion was carried out with the intent of making LSU ’s historical research materials more accessible to scholars. • The University of Wisconsin’s Memorial L i­ brary, Madison, has microfilmed a substantial por­ tion of the Ph.D . dissertations written on its cam ­ pus before 1957. So far more than 3,000 disserta­ tions have been photographed, with the film to be stored in an environmentally controlled vault. The university is now accepting orders for positive mi­ cro film copies of the d issertations, a v ailab le through the Interlibrary Loan Department, Me­ morial Library, 728 State St., Madison, W I 53706; (608) 262-3680. . P E O P L E . P ro file s M i c h a e l S t u a r t F r e e m a n , director of library services for the College of Wooster in Ohio, has been named librarian at Haverford College, Penn­ sylvania, effective July 1. A 1968 graduate of Brooklyn College of the City University of New Y o rk , F re e m a n has a m aster’s degree in his­ tory (1970) and an MLS (1971) from the Univer­ sity of Wisconsin. Prior to his six years as d ire c to r of W o o ste r’s Andrews Library, Free­ m an was the assistant M ichael Freem anchief for reference ser­ vices at Dartmouth Col­ lege beginning in 1975, and was named head of that department in 1978. From 1971 to 1975 he was the social sciences librarian and university archivist for Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington. Freeman has written a number of articles and re­ views for L ibrary Journal, C ollege and R esearch L ib ra ries, Jou rn al o f A c a d em ic L ib ra ria n sh ip , C h oice, and the A m erican R eferen ce B ooks An­ nual. He is also co-editor of the New England L i­ brary Association’s G uide to N ew spaper Indexes in N ew England. For two years Freeman has con­ ducted a workshop at Kent State University enti­ tled, “Managing College Libraries,” focusing on a variety of topics including collection development, resource sharing, and library automation. G . M e l v i n H i p p s , executive director of the Bay­ lor Health Sciences L ibrary, Baylor University Medical Center, and professor in the Department Educational Services, ylor College of Den­ try, Dallas, Texas, has en named director of iversity libraries and ofessor at Mercer Uni­ rsity, A tlanta, G eor­ a, effective September 1986. A Phi B e ta K ap p a aduate of the Univer­ ty of North Carolina at h a p el H ill in 1 9 5 8 , ipps received his MLS G. Melvin H ippsgree and C ertifica te Advanced Study from orth Texas State University. He also holds a mas­ r’s degree from the University of North Carolina d a doctorate in education from Duke Univer­ ty. Before joining the staff at Baylor, Hipps served director of the Carr P. and Ruth Collins Library/ e a rn in g C en ter at D allas B ap tist U niversity here he also served as dean of graduate studies. eviously he held posts as chairman of the D epart­ ent of Education, associate academic dean, di­ ctor of graduate studies, and coordinator of pro­ ram s fo r fa c u lty d ev elop m en t at F u rm a n niversity, Greenville, South Carolina. Hipps is co-author and editor of Planned C hange trategies, published in 1982 by Jossey-Bass. C l a u d e J . J o h n s , dean of libraries at the Univer­ y of Northern Colorado, Greeley, since 1976, has en named vice president for university relations of Ba tis be un pr ve gi 1, gr si C H de of N te an si as L w Pr m re g U S sit be