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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 University Library of Case Western 
Reserve University, in partnership with the 
Buhrer Elementary School of the Cleveland 
Municipal School District, has received a grant 
of $11,162 from the State of Ohio Library 
Services and Technology Act Mini­Grant. 
The grant will be used to support University 
Library’s initiative in “Partnering to Bridge the 
Digital Divide: Teaching 21st Century Literacy 
Skills to Fifth Grade Hispanic Students” and to 
help implement an information literacy train­
ing center. Since 2001, the program has intro­
duced Hispanic students to the technology 
and information competencies that are critical 
for lifelong learning in the 21st century.  As 
the program is currently designed, Buhrer’s 
fifth grade Hispanic students are bused to the 
Library one Saturday per month for literacy 
classes and cultural activities that use Univer­
sity Circle’s museums and cultural institutions. 
For additional information about the program, 
go to www.case.edu/UL/REF/Digital/digital. 
html and click on Buhrer Elementary School. 

Binghamton University has received a 
$40,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foun­
dation to support the “Image of France” project, 
a documentary database for all prints authorized 
for commercial distribution in Paris between 
1811 and 1880. George McKee, director of the 
project, began work on the database in 1994, 
which is currently complete from 1811 to 1830 
and is comprised of about 19,000 entries. The 
grant will allow the work to continue through 
1880 and include nearly 100,000 entries document­
ing almost half a million prints. The project can be 
found at www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/proj­
ects/mckee. 

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

Photographs of Josef Muench, photog­
rapher and long­time contributor to Arizona 

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Highways magazine, have been donated to 
the Northern Arizona University Cline Li­
brary in Flagstaff. The collection spans near­
ly 60 years and consists of more than 40,000 
large format transparencies and negatives. A 
majority of Muench’s work documents the 
American Southwest; of particular impor­
tance are his images of Monument Valley 
and the Grand Canyon, although there are 
hundreds of photographs taken from places 
as wide ranging as Greece and Guatemala. 
The Cline Library is working to create digi­
tal access to the collection and is focusing 
initial efforts on photographs taken on the 
Colorado Plateau. For a sampling, conduct a 
search on “Muench” in the Colorado Plateau 
Digital Archives at www.nau.edu/library 
/speccoll/. 

David Bender, internationally known li­
brarian, former executive director of the Spe­
cial Libraries Association, and alumnus of the 
Case School of Information and Library Sci­
ence has donated his papers to Case Western 
Reserve University’s Kelvin Smith Library. His 
papers will prove to be a valuable resource 
for scholars examining the developments in 
information science over the last four decades 
and the implications for future directions. 
The collection includes letters, speeches, 
book and journal publications, audiovisual 
materials, photographs, plaques, awards and 
certificates. He has established the David R. 
Bender Fund for Library Staff Development 
to be used for development activities, which 
address the educational mission of the library, 
emphasize fields of specialized librarianship, 
and study global information issues. 

Correction 

In the April 2004 issue, a photo of Ann J. 
Grafstein was incorrectly cited as Esther 
S. Grassian in the article “ACRL honors 
the 2004 award winners.” The editors re­
gret the error. 

C&RL NewsMay 2004 / 285 

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