ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries May 1985 / 257 gram could enrich a com m unity, even one as small as the group in Shakertown. For inform ation on upcom ing NEH workshops, contact Sandra Donnelly, ACRL, 50 E. H uron St., C h ic a g o , IL 60611; (312) 9 4 4 -6 7 8 0 .— D o n n a C am loh, C &R L News. ■ ■ ★ ★ ★ News from the field Acquisitions • D ePaul University L ibrary, Chicago, has re ceived a collection of m ore th an 200 books on the Napoleonic E ra. The books, collected by the late D r. Max Thorek, were donated by his son Phillip. The collection includes m aterials describing the le gal and political events of the early 19th century. • Duke University, D urham , N orth C arolina, has added four im portant first editions to its rare book collection. The earliest is the 1596 edition of E dm und Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, published in tw o quarto volumes by W illiam Ponsonbie. The other three are first editions of John Keats’s E n d y mion (1818) and his first volume of poetry, called Poems (1817), and the first edition of A donais (1821) by Percy Bysshe Shelley. • The Toledo M useum of Art has received a col lection of over 1,100 m odern illustrated art books from Molly and W alter Bareiss. Highlights of the collection are more than 70 books illustrated by P a blo Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec’s Y vette G uilbert (1894) w ith sixteen lithographs of the P arisian singer accom panying the text by Gustave Geffroy, P ierre B o n n ard ’s illustrations for Parallelem ent (1900) by P au l V erlain e, W assily K andinsky’s K la n g e (1913) w h ic h c o n ta in s his p o e try an d woodcuts, and T ristan T z a ra ’s L A n tite te (1949) il lu s tra te d by S u rrealist artists Max E rn st, Joan Miro, and Yves Tanguy. An exhibition featuring these and other works from the collection m ay be seen at the Museum Septem ber 22 through D ecem ber 29, 1985. • W illiams College’s C hapin L ibrary, W illiam stown, Massachusetts, has received collections of Eugene O ’Neill and Robinson Jeffers assembled by D onald S. Klopfer, co-founder of Random House, who began publishing these authors in the early 1930s. The 20 O ’Neill items include one of 12 spe cial copies of A nna Christie w ith original artw ork by A lexander King laid in, galley sheets for an abandoned 1947 edition of A M oon fo r the Misbe gotten w hich was not published until 1952, and a typescript, early page proofs, and an inscribed first edition of Days w ith o u t E nd showing a progression of m ajor textual changes. Among the 23 Jeffers first editions are G rabhorn Press printings of Robinson Jeffers and the Sea, Solstice and O ther Poems, R e turn, and Poems of 1928 w ith a signed Ansel Adams p o rtra it of the poet. Grants • Georgia State University’s Southern L abor Ar chives, A tlanta, has been aw arded a $10,000 grant by the Georgia E ndow m ent for the H um anities and the National E ndow m ent for the H um anities to explore the history of textile workers in A tlanta’s C abbagetow n and the Celanese Textile C om m u nity in Rome, Georgia. The project will involve re search, oral history interviews, exhibits, and a se ries of p u b lic p ro g ra m s to be h e ld in e a c h com m unity. P hotographs, artifacts, and docu m ents p o rtra y in g housing, w orking conditions, child labor, and union activities will become p a rt of a traveling exhibit to be displayed in A tlanta and Rome. • Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute, Baltim ore, has received $27,619 in m atching funds from the National Historical Publications and Rec ords Commission for a tw o-year project to arrange and describe 760 linear feet of institute records d a t ing from 1857 to 1977. • The M oravian Music F oundation, W inston- Salem, N orth C arolina, has received a grant of $25,200 from the W inston-Salem Foundation to undertake corrective conservation measures in its archival collections of m anuscript music. The m u sic collections contain not only the sacred choral compositions of M oravian composers bu t also n u merous works by E uropean composers of the 18th and early 19th centuries. The latter, hand-copied by M oravian m inister-m usicians, are by such com posers as H aydn, Stam itz, D anzi, Beethoven, the sons of J.S. Bach, and Handel. Several sinfonias by Johann C hristian Friedrich Bach, flute duets by Kleinknecht, and string quartets by Stam itz are am ong the unique copies. The F oundation will u n dertake a three-year project to preserve the m ate rial and has employed Tim othy D. P yatt as conser vator to im plem ent the program . • N orthw estern University’s Herskovits L ibrary 258 / C&RL News of African Studies, Evanston, Illinois, has received a $150,000 grant from the Lloyd A. Fry Founda tion. The grant will support a preservation pro gram aimed at ensuring the longevity and useful materials in Africana. A full-time conservation as sistant will be hired to carry out the in-house repair of 400 rare books, coordinate a survey of the gen eral Africana collection, and microfilm rare books and additional items requiring this treatm ent. News notes • Queens College, New York, laid the corner- stone on April 22 for a new library building named after Benjamin Rosenthal, the late Congressman from Queens who served ten full term s in the House. The Rosenthal Library will be completed in 1987 and will house a Regional Archives and Public Policy center for the collection and study of documents relating to the business of Congress and the New York State Legislature. Benjamin Rosen thal’s papers have been deposited at the College and negotiations are now underway with major state and federal figures to give the library their public papers. • The University of Chicago libraries were the subject of three articles in the W inter 1985 issue of the University of Chicago Magazine. The first two describe the collections and services at the new John C rerar Science Library and Chicago’s main facility, the Joseph Regenstein Library. Perhaps of greatest interest is the the third article in the series, “W hat Research Will Be ‘H ot’ in 2084?”, which gives an excellent description of the work of the subject bibliographers, mostly in their own words. • The University of Michigan libraries were sim- ilarly profiled in the University’s Research News for July-September 1984. Produced at the instiga tion of the vice president for academic affairs, this special issue highlights many of the library services at the University of Michigan. Emphasizing access over immediate availability, each section of the is sue features a book that for some reason was not in its proper location in the stacks and goes on to ex plain the work of the library departm ent that could help a puzzled patron find it. In this way the li brary’s acquisitions, cataloging, circulation, inter- library loan, storage facility, online search service, and preservation units were profiled. ■ ■ . P E O P L E . Profiles Virginia M. Bowden has been named library di rector of the Dolph Briscoe Library of the Univer sity of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, effective March 8. Bowden joined the Briscoe Li brary in 1970 as a library systems analyst and has worked in various capacities there including serv ing as associate library director from 1978 and as acting director since September 1984. Bowden received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1960 and worked as a computer programmer before receiving an MLS from the University of Kentucky in 1970. She re ceived a Council on Library Resources fellowship in 1978 for a comparative analysis of current mono graph acquisitions, and was principal investigator of a 1982-1983 National Library of Medicine grant to evaluate the impact of the TALON Cooperative Acquisitions Program. In 1984 she received a grant from the Council on Library Resources to investi gate nursing collections in the Southwest. A member of both ALA and the Medical Library Association, Bowden served as president of MLA’s South Central Regional Group in 1979-1980. She is treasurer of the Council of Research and Aca demic Libraries and a member of the Board of D i rectors of the San Antonio Public Library Founda tion. Susan Ulrich Golden has been appointed assis tant director of libraries for technical services at the University of Delaware, Newark. Golden received her bachelor’s degree in Span ish from M arietta College, Ohio. She holds an MLS from the University of Kentucky and a master’s de gree in linguistics from the University of Illinois, Urbana. Golden comes to Delaware from the University of Illinois where she held the position of assistant director of general services for autom ated systems. She currently is ACRL representative on the LC Cataloging in Publication Advisory Group and was vice-president/president-elect of the ACRL Illinois Chapter.