ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 786 / C&RL News News from the Field ★ ★ ★ Acquisitions • Alfred U niversity’s H errick M em orial L i­ b ra ry , A lfred, New York, has acquired for its Openhym Collection of Modern British L iterature and Social History a rare surviving copy of the first publication, in 1917, of Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s H ogarth Press. The 31-page volume, enti­ tled Two Stories, was w ritten, set in type, and printed on a hand press by the Woolfs in their Rich­ m ond, Surrey, home. W oodblock illustrations were supplied by Dora Carrington, and the print run was 150 copies. The Openhym Collection also recently received for its letter archive representing 100 British au­ thors, poets, and artists, a hand-w ritten letter from Virginia Woolf to Siegfried Sassoon dated April 28, 1924; forty-two of Dora C arrington’s largely un­ published letters to novelist and editor David G ar­ nett; and letters by 28 British authors—including T. S. Eliot, Rebecca West, Aldous Huxley, and E. M. Forster—to Ursula Boberts, a British poet who used the pen name of Susan Miles and wrote to her colleagues m ainly about a burgeoning British peace movement of the time. • Colorado State University Libraries, Fort Col­ lins, have received the papers and other career m e m o ra b ilia of C arl Akers, lo n g tim e D enver broadcaster and commentator. Included in the col­ lection are scripts, scrapbooks, correspondence, awards, and an Emmy won for a docum entary on G reat Sand Dunes National Park. The Libraries also became the repository for the papers of the Colorado C hapter of the American Public Works Association. The collection includes 20 cubic feet of papers dating back to the chapter’s founding in 1962. • Hanover College Library, Hanover, Indiana, has acquired the archives of Sen. W illiam E. Jen­ ner, a prom inent figure in Indiana politics for over 15 years. The gift has been made by his widow, Mrs. Janet C. Jenner. The archives contain several thousand documents detailing Jenner’s political ca­ reer including w ritten and printed materials from his tenure in the U.S. Senate, and w ritten and printed materials from his term as the chairm an of the Indiana Republican State Central Committee. O ther m aterials in the archives include texts of speeches and addresses; several tapes of radio ad­ dresses; a few television interviews recorded on 16 mm film; citations from several civic and honorary groups; originals of political cartoons and columns; and more than 200 photographs of Jenner w ith fel­ low politicians, foreign officials, athletes, and en­ tertainers. Jenner, who died in 1985, is best known for his 13 years in the U.S. Senate. D uring his tenure in W ashington he served on the Labor and Public W elfare Committee, the Judiciary Committee, the Rules and Administration Committee, the Finance Committee, the Joint Committee on Printing, and the Joint Committee on Im m igration and N ation­ ality Policy. • H arvard Business School’s Baker Library has received its third annual donation of historic m i­ crofiche of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commis­ sion filings. The collection is the gift of Disclosure Incorporated. This installment includes a collec­ tion of all public company documents filmed d u r­ ing 1968 as filed w ith the SEC, consisting of annual reports, 10-Ks, 8-Ks, and N 1-Qs. The silver halide microfiche masters of documents will be stored at Iro n M o u n ta in , H a rv a rd U n iv ersity ’s u n d e r­ ground, climate-controlled archive in New York State. In addition, H arvard will make the micro­ fiche accessible to scholars for research purposes. • The Lehigh University Libraries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, have received the extensive personal papers of novelist, poet, translator, and investiga­ tive reporter Les W hitten, a 1950 magna cum laude graduate of the University. The W hitten Pa­ pers span the years 1928 to the present and include m anuscripts, research notes, news articles, and clippings. Also included is correspondence w ith publishers and notables as diverse as John Lennon, Sen. R obert Dole, and FBI D irector J. E d g ar Hoover; personal and fam ily correspondence; books; tapes; film; photographs; and memorabilia. W hitten followed a successful carrer w ith Radio Free Europe, the W ashington Post, and the Hearst new spapers by joining Jack Anderson and the “ W ash in g to n M e rry -G o -R o u n d ” in 1969. He shared the byline w ith Anderson until 1978. His celebrated reports have covered major stories such as W atergate, Abscam, Iran-C ontra, the nuclear test ban treaty, and the expose of the “Broken T rea­ ties” Indian papers. W hitten has published eleven books including the novels The Alchemist, Conflict of Interest, and A Killing Pace; a biography, F. Lee Bailey; a book of poems, Washington Cycle; and a translation of Baudelaire’s poetry. The Abyss. • The Rochester Institute of Technology, Roch­ ester. New York, has acquired a 39-issue collection of Camera W ork, one of the most im portant pho­ tography periodicals ever published. Noted pho­ tographer Alfred Steiglitz published the magazine D ecem ber 1988 / 787 from 1903 to 1917, and only 1,000 copies of each isuue were printed. Copies still in existence are con­ sidered collector’s items. The collection, a gift of the Kodak Company and part of the company’s his­ torical files, is now stored in the Institute’s Archives and Special Collections Departm ent. •Texas A & M University’s Evans L ibrary, Col- lege Station, has received a collection of letters and memorabilia relating to one Texas soldier’s partici­ pation in the “war to end all w a rs.” M ilton J. Gaines of Dallas enlisted in the army on July 4, 1917, and served through the duration of the war as well as through several months of occupation in Germany. He was a member of Company A, 117th Supply Train, 42nd Division, popularly known as the “Rainbow D ivision,” made up entirely of vol­ unteers from Texas and Oklahoma. He was dis­ charged with the rank of corporal on May 1 5 ,1 9 1 9 . The collection includes letters Caines wrote home to his mother and letters written to Gaines by a friend. Typical of soldiers’ w artim e correspon­ dence, the letters reveal no real news of the war as military restrictions prohibited writing about such matters. Cut out and marked-through portions of the letters indicate Gaines broke the rules occasion­ ally; most of the letters are marked approved by the censors, but in a few cases the censor’s approval ap­ peared only on the envelopes. The letters do con­ tain complaints about the politics of promotion in the military, requests for magazines and letters, and expressions of optimism in the ability of U .S. troops to d e fe a t th e G e rm a n s. S u rp ris in g ly , though, there are no complaints about food and only a few remarks about the weather. In addition to the letters, the collection includes a large number of souvenirs of the war including American, Germ an, and Rritish patches, buttons, pins, ribbons, and epaulets; G ain es’s dogtags; shrapnel and a minnie ball; a Rainbow Division ring; a handkerchief from Mineola, Long Island, New York, where the division was stationed briefly before being shipped to France; a small U .S. flag; a complete bound set of the reprint edition of Stars and Stripes; a seven-volume set entitled Source Records of the Great W a r; and a satirical printed document entitled “Last W ill and Testam ent of Adolph Hitler, alias Adolph Schickelgruber.” The Milton J. Gaines Papers were presented to the Archives by Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. W endler; Mrs. Wendler is Gaines’s sister. •The University of Maine at Orono’s Raymond H. Fogler Library has acquired a collection of liter­ ature on the spruce budworm from the U .S. D e­ partment of Agriculture. The archive consists of more than 5 ,0 0 0 items including U .S. and C an a­ dian federal agency reports, experim ent station documents, proceedings of symposia, books, and journal articles. The collection served as the basis of an extensive bibliography entitled North A m eri­ can Coniferophagous C houstoneura: A Bibliogra­ phy, published by the USDA in April 1988. • Y ale U niversity’s Reinecke R are Rook and M anuscript L ib rary , New Haven, C onnecticut, has acquired the papers of the Polish poet and es­ sayist Aleksander W at (1900-1967). The collection contains all of W a t’s extant papers including m an­ uscripts, notebooks, diaries, photographs, docu­ ments, and a large file of correspondence with Pol­ ish and non-Polish writers. Described by a member of the Yale Slavic Departm ent as “one of the most re m a rk a b le lite r a r y and p o litic a l fig u res of tw entieth-century Poland,” W at was born in W a r­ saw to a Jewish family. He emerged on the cultural scene in 1920 as one of the founders of the Polish futurist and dadaist movement and soon became the acknowledged leader of the literary avant- garde in Poland. In 1926 he published a collection of philosophical tales, Bezrobotny L u c y fer (L u c i­ f e r U nem ployed) , in which he anticipated with a remarkable degree of foresight many of the prob­ lems of modern civilization. In addition to W a t’s manuscripts and diaries, the collection includes tape recordings of his My C entury conversations (1977); long series of letters from such representative members of the Polish emigre community as Milosz, Zygmunt H ertz, Jerzy Giedroyc, Josef Czapski, Gustav Herling- Grudzinski, and Konstanty Jelenski; and a set of the now very rare Miesiecznik L iteracki ( T h e L it­ erary Monthly) which W at founded in 1929 and edited until 1932 when the periodical was closed down by Polish authorities. Grants •The Association of Research Libraries, Wash- ington, D .C ., has received a $145,167 grant from the Office of Preservation at the National Endow ­ ment for the Humanities in support of preservation plann ing in research lib raries. T h e three-year grant will help provide training for six experienced preservation librarians to serve as consultants to li­ braries participating in the Office of Management Services (OMS) Preservation Planning Program. The Preservation Planning Program (PPP), origi­ nally developed with NEH funding in 1982, is a structured self-study process that enables libraries to implement workable, comprehensive three- to five-year plans for preservation. The new grant will also support the conduct of the PPP at ten ARL libraries using teams of newly-trained consultants and experienced OMS staff. A third component of the grant will fund the evaluation of the PPP by Margaret Child, assistant director for research ser­ vices at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. • The Brandeis University, W altham , Massa- chusetts, Special Collections Departm ent has been awarded a $100,000 T itle II-C grant by the U.S. Departm ent of Education to enable it to increase national awareness of and access to the resources of the Vito Volterra collection of monographs, peri­ odicals, and offprints recently donated to the li­ 788 / C&RL News brary. Vito Volterra (1860-1940), the noted Ita l­ ian m a th e m a ticia n , scien tist, and hu m an ist, amassed a collection of about 5,000 monographs dating from the 15th through 20th centuries, 300 titles of scientific journals, and 17,000 offprints. The collection includes works pertaining to pure science, the beginnings of mathematical biology, the development and application of mathematics in the past one hundred years, and documentary evidence on the sociology and networking of the in­ ternational scientific community between 1880 and 1940. The grant will enable the Library to cat­ alog the offprint collection into a microcomputer- based database that will be available to researchers in print and electronic forms. It will also enable the Library to continue to catalog the monographs and serials in the collection and enter the data into the O C L C database. •The Columbia University, New York, School of Library Service has received a $17,500 grant from the H. W . Wilson Foundation to microfilm 32 titles indexed in the Bibliography of Library E co n ­ omy by H .G .T . Cannon (Chicago: ALA, 1927), the immediate predecessor to Library Literature. A total of 236 volumes will be filmed over the course of two years. •The Houston Area Research Library Consor- tium (H A R L iC ), T exas, has been aw arded a $100,000 HEA Title II-D grant by the U.S. D e­ partment of Education to develop a CD-ROM cat­ alog of the Consortium’s combined collections of books, journals, and other materials. Mareive, Inc. of San Antonio will produce the catalog. The im­ plementation of a union catalog will enable the HARLiC libraries to provide access to more than nine million items and to share these resources more effectively through improved interlibrary loan and coordinated collection development ac­ tivities. The catalog will contain approximately 2.1 million bibliographic records on multiple CD- ROMS. It is anticipated that the catalog will be de­ livered and installed shortly before the beginning of the 1989 fall semester. • Indiana University Libraries, Rloomington, have received a $2.9 million start-up grant from the Lilly Endowment in order to tie all of their li­ brary collections into a single, statewide computer network. The Libraries received $1.6 million from the state in July to fund preliminary equipment and planning. In the next 9 to 18 months, the li­ braries at Indiana’s six public universities, encom­ passing some 15 sites, will computerize their circu­ lation procedures and a significant portion of their card catalogs and periodical collections. Partici­ pating libraries have all agreed to adopt a single computer system (NOTIS) and to share access to their library collections. The Endowment grant w ill also fund the high-tech com puter equip­ ment/programs, and telecommunications links re­ quired to tie all of the libraries together into a uni­ fied statewide network. The Indiana University Libraries have also re­ ceived a collection development grant by the Insti­ tute of Turkish Studies in Washington, D .C . The grant, to be managed by Murlin Croucher, Slavic, Uralic, and Altaic area specialist, will be used to purchase materials from Turkey in Turkish folk­ lore, language, cultu re, and O ttom an E m pire studies. •The Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL), Montgomery, has been awarded a Title II-D HEA grant to install a document delivery net­ work. The grant will provide funds to purchase telefacsim ile equipm ent and p artially support communications costs for the first year of opera­ tion. The Network will link 30 O CLC/SO LIN ET libraries that are in NAAL general and cooperative members. In addition to the academic libraries, other libraries in the network include two federal libraries, two state libraries, and the state’s largest public library. • T h e Pittsburgh Regional L ib rary C enter, Pennsylvania, has received a $21,737 College L i­ brary Technology and Cooperation Grant to pro­ vide microcomputer training to members in higher education institutions in West Virginia. The grant assumes a one-third cost-sharing arrangement on the part of the receiving institution, and the grant money may be used for all related expenses neces­ sary for resource sharing or the implementation of new technologies. The Pittsburgh Regional L i­ brary Center is a not-for-profit membership orga­ nization comprised of libraries and information centers located in western Pennsylvania, West V ir­ ginia, and western Maryland. The training pro­ gram began October 1. •The University of Michigan Library, Ann Ar- bor, has received a $1.4 million grant from the W .K . Kellogg Foundation to begin, with Utlas In ­ ternational, the retrospective conversion of ap­ proximately 1.2 million titles to machine-readable form over an 18-month period. University m atch­ ing funds will provide additional support. SAZ­ T E C International is participating in the project as a subcontractor to Utlas to handle all document preparation, microfilming, search key creation, and original record creation. In addition to m ain­ stream research collections, library records will be converted for transliterated versions of many non­ western language materials, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean titles. Some special collec­ tions are planned for conversion, though non-book materials and musical scores have been excluded from this project. Under the terms of the agreement, Utlas and SA ZTEC will provide complete retrospective con­ version services. The Library’s shelf list cards have been microfilmed on-site for use in the conversion process, and search keys with specific local data el­ ements added are being prepared by SA ZTEC for m atching against the Utlas database. After the search is carried out by Utlas, SAZTEC will pro­ D ecem ber 1988 / 789 vide original entry services for any unmatched rec­ ord, and all records will undergo authority control before loading to the Library’s system. The records will be delivered to the Library in bi-monthly ship­ ments of 200,000 records, joining the 900,000 rec­ ords already in the local N O TIS system. By 1990 re­ searchers at the University will be able to locate records for nearly 100 percent of the Library’s col­ lections. • The University of Tennessee’s Knoxville Li- brary and Vanderbilt University Library, Nash­ ville, have been awarded a $108,417 Title II-D HEA grant from the Department of Education to allow for expanded, technology-based resource sharing between the two institutions. Funds will be used to improve bibliographic access to collections, deliver requested materials more efficiently, and begin a program of cooperative collection develop­ ment in science and technology. Each library will have on-site access to the other’s online catalog and documents will be telefaxed between the two li­ braries. Computer generated serials holdings lists will also be used to compare and strengthen collec­ tions. News notes •Bowling Green State University Libraries, Ohio, and the Library Science Program at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, have entered into a contractual agreement for a Research Trai- neeship. Under this arrangement, an M LS student from Wayne State will work at the BGSU Libraries as a half-time employee for a twelve-month period while pursuing the MLS degree. The first occupant of the Traineeship is Mary W righten, a first semes­ ter library science student from Monroe, M ichi­ gan. D uring the first year of the traineeship, Wrighten will divide her time between the Science Library and the main library’s Reference D epart­ ment. Upon completing her degree, she will have two years of practical, professional experience and a broader appreciation for the field of academic li­ brarianship. The two institutions have indicated that the program will continue with future MLS students. • The National Endowment for the Humani- ties, Washington, D .C ., preservation budget has nearly tripled for this fiscal year (which began O c­ tober 1) in a move that will allow the Endowment to launch the first phase of a nationwide program designed to address the problems posed by the dete­ rioration of millions of books and other printed re­ search resources. The appropriation bill for fiscal year 1989 increases the N EH ’s Office for Preserva­ tion budget from $4.5 million to $12.33 million. Under the program, a major portion of the funds will be awarded for projects to microfilm brittle books and other library materials printed on acid paper that has deteriorated to the point of crum­ bling. It has been estimated that as many as 77 m il­ lion of the 300 million volumes in university and re­ search libraries in the United States are in varying stages of deterioration that will result in their turn­ ing to dust by the year 2000. O f those 77 million volumes, it has been estimated that 11 million need immediate attention and of those, some 3 million of the most important volumes of our nation’s heri­ tage should be saved. •Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York, and IBM have agreed to work on a joint project that will help librarians manage and automate li­ braries better. Polytechnic University will act as a national dem onstration site for IB M ’s DOBIS/ Leuven, an integrated easy-to-use online comput­ erized library and document management system that integrates m ajor library functions such as searching, acquisitions, cataloging, and materials borrowing. The two-and-a-half year joint effort will be aimed at enhancing the DOBIS/Leuven sys­ tem, developing courses and materials, and creat­ ing a software program that helps users install the system. IBM is supplying hardware and software valued at $1.9 million. •The United States Institute of Peace, Wash- ington, D .C ., has selected 11 Fellows in its Jen ­ nings Randolph Program for International Peace. T h e aw ards w ere m ade in tw o c a te g o rie s — Distinguished Fellows and Peace Fellows— after a year-long international competition that marked a major expansion of the program. Those named in­ clude former foreign ministers and senior United States government officials, scholars, and other professionals with diverse backgrounds in interna­ tional affairs. Fellows will work for one year or more on a variety of projects adding to existing knowledge on international conflict and methods for achieving peace. International relations topics The ACRL Task Force on International Re­ lations would like to have membership feed­ back on the following questions: 1) W hat specific concerns and issues relating to international relations should A C R L ad­ dress? 2) W hat specific projects for international re­ lations should A CRL complete? 3) How can A CRL cooperate with area stud­ ies sections on international relations? 4) Should A CRL consider international rela­ tions a high priority? Should ALA? If so, what do you suggest to coordinate and unify interna­ tional relations activities? 5) W hat A CRL international relations activ­ ities should receive top priority? Please send your comments by December 30, 1988, to: Maureen Pastine, Chair, A CRL Inter­ national Relations Task Force, W ashington S ta te U n iv ersity L ib r a r ie s , P u llm a n , WA 99164-5610.