ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 602 / C &R L News significance to the applicant’s professional devel­ opment. At the time of application, candidates must sub­ mit evidence that arrangements have been worked out with a British university, research library, or national library to host the grantee. All applications, including references, must be eceived by C IES before January 2, 1987. For fur­ er information, contact: Steven A. Blodgett, ouncil for International Exchange of Scholars, 11 upont Circle, N .W ., Washington, DC 20036; 202) 939-5416. r th C D ( News from the Field Acquisitions •Iowa State University, Ames, has acquired the papers of Dr. Norman Borlaug (1914– ), known as the father of the “Green Revolution.” Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970, Borlaug developed a disease-resistant, high-yield hybrid wheat strain that has contributed enormously to lessening severe malnutrition and starvation around the world. Borlaug’s papers span more than forty years of sci­ entific research and humanitarian service and in­ clude extensive correspondence, reports, speeches, clippings and other materials. They will be housed in the library’s Archives of American Agriculture. •Mississippi State University’s Mitchell Memo rial Library has received the papers of journalist W illia m T u rn er C atled g e (1 9 0 1 – 1 9 8 3 ), who served as managing editor (1951– 1964) and execu­ tive editor (1964– 1968) of the New York Times. The collection includes 12 cubic feet of correspon­ dence, reports, notes, and memorabilia document­ ing Catledge’s professional and personal life. The Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, has designated the collection a national his­ toric site in journalism. •The Queens College Library of the City Uni versity of New York, Flushing, has received an ex­ tensive collection of early childrens’ literature illus­ trations. The gift was presented by Professor G a­ briel Laderman, former chairman of the College’s Art Department. About one-quarter of the more than 200 items, which date predominantly from the 18th and 19th centuries, are not listed in NUC or the O C LC database. The collection will be fea­ tured at the inaugural exhibit of the Benjamin Ro­ senthal Memorial Library, scheduled for comple­ tion in late 1987. •The University of Texas at Austin has acquired a major bequest of 287 classical texts printed in Venice between 1494 and 1588 by the Aldine Press. The collection is the gift of the estate of the late Giorgio Uzielli, an Italian-American stockbroker and book collector. The Aldine Press was founded in 1494 by Aldus Mantius, known as the first scholar-printer, whose dolphin-and-anchor logo ecame a familiar mark in the printing world at he turn of the 16th century when three-quarters of ll the classics made their first modern appearance nder that imprint. The Uzielli collection contains he most famous of all Aldine editions, a five- olume set of Aristotle’s works published between 495 and 1498, the first major Greek text to be rein­ roduced in the original to the Western world by he invention of the printing press. Other volumes nclude E rotem ata, a 1495 Greek grammar by onstantine Lascaris, the first major book printed y Aldus; the H ypnerotom achia Poliphili by Fran­ esco Colonna; a 1501 edition of Virgil’s writings rinted entirely in italic type, which Aldus is cred­ ted with inventing; two 1513 volumes of Plato, the irst in the original Greek; and other unusual and are items. The collection will be housed at the niversity’s Harry Ransom Humanities Research enter. Texas has also acquired a collection of between ,000 and 9,000 photographs and negatives do­ ated by photographer Russell Lee shortly before is death August 28. The collection will be housed t the Barker Texas History Center at the Univer­ ity. Best known for his depression-era images of ural America as a photographer for the Farm Se­ urity Administration, Lee also worked for private orporations and national magazines during his 40- ear career. The bulk of the collection dates from he past 30 years, when Lee worked as an indepen­ ent photographer primarily in the Southwest. Im ­ ges range from 1950s political rallies in hot, dusty exas towns to a reunion of wizened cowboys and a 977 trip on a Mississippi riverboat. A resident of ustin since 1947, Lee taught in the University’s rt Department from 1965 to 1973. rants •Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, nd Swarthmore College, Philadelphia, recently eceived $20,000 from the Pitcairn-Crabbe Foun­ ation to organize and publish information on b t a u t v 1 t t i C b c p i f r U C 7 n h a s r c c y t d a T 1 A A G a r d October 1986 / 603 their historical records of the Quakers’ Philadel­ phia Yearly Meetings. T he combined resources of the two institutions represent the largest collection of Quaker documents in the world. Beginning in 1676 during the tim e of W illiam Penn, they consti­ tute an unbroken record of the sect’s activities to the present, and contain the stories of the Quaker movements for the abo lition of slavery, In d ian rights, prison reform , hospital treatm ent for the in­ sane, w om en’s rights, and education. T h e grant will be used to create a new guide to the com bined collections aimed at m aking the records more ac­ cessible to historical researchers. It will explain the overall organizational pattern of the Philadelphia Yearly M eeting, w hich has historically reviewed the proceedings of m ore than 100 m onthly m eet­ ings in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, D elaw are, and parts of M aryland and V irginia. •Loyola M arymount University’s Charles Von der A he L i b r a r y , L o s A n g e le s, has r e c e iv e d $100,000 from the Jones Foundation to com plete its retrospective conversion project. T h e grant will also be used to assist in acquiring and installing an online public access catalog. • T he Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, has received a grant of $ 1 0 ,0 0 0 from the N ational E n ­ dowment for the Arts to help finance the conserva­ tion treatm ent of selected rare books. A total of 137 books, selected on the basis of their im m ediate need for treatm ent and artistic im portance, will be pre­ served via rebinding or full restoration. M any out­ standing botanical illustrations from past centuries are represented, w ith much of the artw ork and binding of the books hand-created, unique, or oth­ erwise significant. Many of the books also feature early examples of woodcuts, w ith hand-colored plates and extremely high quality paper. •Rutgers University, New Brunsw ick, New Je r sey, has been awarded a grant of $ 1 0 ,2 0 0 by the New Jersey D epartm ent of Higher E d ucation for the sta te’s H um anities M edia R esource Service. The Service circulates humanities films and videos throughout New Jersey, and provides brochures, speakers, and special programs. • T h e University of California Division of L i b r a r y A u to m a tio n (D L A ) has b e e n a w a rd e d $ 3 4 1 ,5 0 0 in federal L ib rary Services and C onstruc­ tion Act funds by the C aliforn ia State L ibrary . The grant provides funding for the third phase of a re­ search project currently underway to develop a dem onstration w ide-area packet radio network. This netw ork will consist of a chain of seven C a li­ fo rn ia p u b lic lib ra rie s ex ten d in g from th e San Francisco Bay Area to Sacram ento, linked to each other and connected to the UC library telecom m u­ nications network. Participants are being selected jointly by the State L ibrary and the D L A . • T h e University of California, Riverside, L i b ra ry has been aw ard ed a T itle I I - C g ran t of $ 1 3 5 ,0 0 0 by the U .S. D epartm ent of E d ucation for the purpose of cataloging the E ato n C ollection of Science F ictio n and Fantasy L iteratu re. Previously unavailable to scholars, the collection will be en­ tered onto the O C L C database. M any examples of foreign-language science fiction and fantasy are represented. N ew s N otes •T h e New Bedford W haling Museum, Massa chusetts, recently com pleted conservation of fifty logbooks docum enting 156 years (1745– 1901) of m aritim e history. T h e tw o-year project was ca r­ ried out by museum staff members w ith funds pro­ vided by a grant from the Institute of Museum Ser­ vices. Five treatm ent stages w ere researched and especially adapted for the p roject, including new methods of leather consolidation, use of enzymes, Scholars surveyed According to a nationw ide survey of scholars in the hum anities and social sciences, most scholars are well satisfied w ith library services and the adequacy of collections for their teach ­ ing needs, for student needs, and for reference needs— but a substantial num ber report that collections are in ad equ ate for th eir research needs. In a report published by the A m erican C oun­ cil of Learned Societies (A CLS) in the Summer 1986 issue of S ch olarly C o m m u n ic a tio n , au­ thors H erbert C. M orton and Anne Jam ieson Price presented the results of the survey, w hich was conducted by A C LS to gather data about scholars as producers and users of books and ar­ ticles and to obtain their views on a wide range of research issues. O th er survey findings in ­ cluded: In terlib rary loan is regarded as of great or m o d erate im p o rta n ce by 5 2 % of a ca d e m ic scholars; 18% attached the same im portance to com puterized d atabase searches. T hese two services w ere identified as essential for coping w ith inadequate local research m aterials. Forty-five percent of all respondents indi­ cated they either owned a com puter or had one on loan for their exclusive use. This compares w ith only 2% in a 1980 survey. More than 20% considered prepublication distribution of articles by their colleagues to be at least as im portant to them as articles read in journals. T hree out of four respondents considered the peer review process to be biased in favor of es­ tablished scholars, and nearly h alf said th at re­ form is needed. Survey results or subscriptions to S ch olarly C o m m u n ic a tio n may be requested from A C L S, 228 E . 45th S t., New York, NY 10017. O ctober 1986 / 605 deacidification, paper fills, and non-adhesive binding. •Pennsylvania State University, University Park, has issued a progress report stating that some $400,000 of a planned $1 million has been raised for the Paterno Libraries Endowment. The project started two years ago with a five-year planned du­ ration in support of the Penn State Libraries. Major benefactors include the R ich ard King M ellon Foundation and friends, alumni, and several ma­ jor corp orations. T h e Paterno E nd ow m ent is named in honor of longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, an outspoken supporter of aca­ demic libraries as well as a generous donor. •The State University of New York at Albany’s School of Library and Information Science became one of four independent graduate schools of the University as of June 2. W ith the Schools of Crim i­ nal Justice and Social W elfare and the Graduate School of Public Affairs, it now comprises part of the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy and is known as the School of Inform a­ tion Science and Policy. The name change is part of substantial planned curricular growth, with an in­ terdisciplinary Ph.D . program scheduled for 1989. To be included in an enlarged MLS program are re­ vised specializations in records management and archives, information systems development and management, and information policy. The new curriculum is being designed in consultation with the New York State Archives staff. ■ ■ P EOPLE Profiles J o h n W i l l i a m B e e c h e r has been named direc tor of libraries at North Dakota State University Fargo, effective September 1. Beecher had bee acting co-director of the St. Pau l C am pus L i ­ braries at the University of Minnesota. Prior to his service at M in n n eso ta, B e e ch e r was education and psy­ chology lib r a r ia n at New Mexico State Uni­ versity (1 970– 73), and agriculture librarian at the U niversity of I l l i ­ nois, U rb a n a -C h a m paign (1973–82). He re­ Joh n W illiam B eech er ceived his bachelor’s de­ gree in ornamental hor­ ticulture from the University of Illinois in 1964 an his MLS at Illinois in 1966. From 1966-68 Beeche served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay, an was library consultant for the U.S. Agency for In ternational Development and Mexico State Uni versity in 1970. Beecher is the author of recent publications in cluding “Implementing and Managing a Fee-base Inform ation service in an Academic L ib ra ry , published in a guide for health science librarians ­ , n d r d ­ ­ ­ d ” , and “Use of Random Alarm Mechanisms for Ana­ yzing Professional and Support Staff Activities in cence Libraries: Methodology,” published with hree other authors in L ibrary Research. J a m e s A. D a m i c o has been named director of li­ raries at the University of South Alabama, Mo­ ile. D a m ico earned his LS degree from utgers University and is bachelor’s degree in usiness administration rom Long Island Uni­ ersity’s C .W . Post Col­ ege. His most recent po­ itio n was at the niversity of Southern ississippi, w here he as D ire cto r of Cook em orial L ibrary . As ssociate professor in the Jam es A. D am icochool of Library Ser­ ice at U SM , D am ico aught courses in library automation and library anagement. Damico has served at Rice University, Brown niversity, and the University of Dayton, and has orked in the special libraries at General Precision HRB Singer), Thiokol Chem ical Corporation, nd the American Institute of Aeronautics and As­ l S t b b M R h b f v l s U M w M a S v t m U w ( a