ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL News ■ July/August 2003 /  481

G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n s Ann-Christe Galloway

The N e w s film  A rchive a t th e  U niversity 
o f S o u th  C a ro lin a  has been a w arded a $ 5 ,0 5 0  
g ra n t fro m  th e  N a tio n a l F ilm  P re se rv atio n  
F o u n d a tio n . T h e  g ra n t w ill be u sed to preserve 
footage fro m  th e  M o v ie to n e w s C o lle c tio n  o f  a 
1930 in te rv iew  w ith  W . P. B ecker, a C ivil W a r 
w idow . A m o n g  h e r rem inisces are a m ee tin g  
w ith  G e n era l R o b e rt E. Lee in C h a rle sto n  and 
th e  b o m b a r d m e n t o f  F o r t S u m te r, w h ic h  
p re c ip ita te d  th e  o p e n in g  o f  th e  war.

In d ia n a  U n iv e rs ity  (IU ) has re c e iv e d  a 
grant o f $ 4 2 5 ,0 0 0  from  the A n d re w  W . M e llo n  
F o u n d a tio n  to  h elp e x p an d  its dig ita l lib ra ry  o f 
in fo rm a tio n  a b o u t sh ared  n a tu ra l a n d  societal 
resources k n o w n  to p u b lic  policy-m akers as 
“the com m ons.” T hese resources include a diverse 
set o f  elem ents ra n g in g  from  air, lan d , a n d  w ater 
to  g e n o m ic  d a ta , p ro p e rty  rig h ts , a n d  th e  
In te rn e t. T h e  g ra n t will also allow  IU  researchers 
to in itia te  a stu d y  o f  scholarly c o m m u n ic a tio n  
as in fo rm a tio n  c o m m o n s.

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

The jo u rn als o f M ichael McClure— poet, 
essayist, a nd playw right— have been acquired by 
the U niversity o f  California-Berkeley. M cC lure, 
now  70, was on stage at T h e  Six Gallery in San 
Francisco in O c to b er 1955 w hen Allen G insberg 
unleashed his first public reading o f  “H o w l.” 
M cC lure has published 16 books o f poetry, two 
novels, six books o f  essays, ten plays, a nd his essays 
have appeared in Rolling Ston e  and Vanity Fair. H e 
has had feature roles in several films and has 
collaborated w ith m usician Ray M anzarek, o f  the 
D oors a nd Jim  M orrison fame, for live poetry 
readings set to m usic and to produce a jazzy 
perform ance video, “Love L ion.”

M a r v in  J. M ille r , fo r m e r  h e a d  o f  th e
Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), 
has donated his papers to N ew  York University. T he 
papers docum ent his tenure at MLBPA, and include 
correspondence, legal papers, photographs, videos,

a nd artifacts, such as com m emorative bats and 
baseballs. M iller, k now n especially for establishing 
the concept o f free agency that allows players to 
move from  team  to team, was elected head o f 
M LB PA  in 1966. Free agency resulted in a 
h undredfold increase in the highest salaries, but 
M iller also achieved for the players the right to 
a rbitration, the right to veto trades for veteran 
players, a vastly im proved pension plan, and the 
right to bargain collectively. In 1982, he stepped 
dow n as u nion head and has since captured his 
experiences in the book A  Whole Different Ball 
Game: The Sport a n d  Business o f  Baseball.

F ilm m a k e r James Iv o ry  has d o n a te d  a 
large collection o f his papers to  the U niversity of 
O regon Libraries. Ivory, a 1951 graduate o f  the 
U niversity o f O regon, began his film m aking ca­
reer in 1957 w ith the m aking o f “Venice: T hem e 
a n d  V ariations,” w hich was his m aster’s thesis 
p roject at the U niversity o f S outhern California 
film  school. In 1961, he form ed a partnership 
w ith  p ro d u c e r Ism ail M e rc h a n t a n d  novelist-
screenw riter R u th  Praw er Jhabvala th a t led to 
the form ation o f  the p ro d u c tio n  com pany M er­
c hant Ivory, w hich has released nearly 40  films 
earning 30 A cadem y Award nom inations. Ivory’s 
tw o m ost famous films, “A  R oom  w ith  a View” 
(1985) and “H ow ards E n d ” (1992), each w on 
th ree  A cadem y Aw ards. T h e  26  boxes o f  d o ­
n a te d  papers c o n ta in  p ro d u c tio n  files, screen­
plays, photographs, correspondence w ith  actors 
a nd actresses, film m aking notebooks, press kits, 
movie reviews, costum e samples, and oth er film -
related docum ents. D a tin g  from  1947 to 1992, 
the m aterial includes some o f Ivory’s class papers 
from  the U niversity o f  O regon, along w ith let­
ters to his family a nd o ther personal correspon­
dence. Ivory him self organized and identified the 
papers, providing handw ritten notations explain­
ing the significance o f  m any o f the documents. ■

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