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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 

A consortium of libraries at five New York 
State independent colleges and universities 
have been awarded a grant of $250,000 
from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to 
support development of a resource­sharing 
system for academic libraries throughout the 
state. The project, called ConnectNY, allows 
the institutions to share library holdings, 
making the collections of all fi ve readily 
available to students, faculty, and staff. The 
five founding members of ConnectNY are 
Colgate University, Rensselaer Polytechnic 
Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, 
St. Lawrence University, and Vassar College. 
The Mellon Foundation last year awarded a 
$40,000 grant to plan the project. This award, 
for implementation, builds on the success of 
the planning project and pilot project, which 
included handling more than 10,000 book 
requests by the five libraries. Development 
of a mission and goals statement was 
also part of the planning process. Among 
the organization’s goals is the addition 
of five new academic library members to 
ConnectNY in the next three years. 

The New York State Library has received 
a two­year grant of $680,000 from the 
National Endowment for the Humanities 
for continuation of the New York State 
Newspaper Project for the period July 1, 
2004–June 30, 2006. The New York State 
project, part of the United States Newspaper 
Program, locates, catalogs, and preserves on 
microfi lm significant newspapers published 
in New York State since 1725. In operation 
since 1987, the project has microfi lmed 
nearly 3.7 million pages of New York 
State newspapers since 1991. Additional 
information is available at http://www.nysl. 
nysed.gov/nysnp/. 

Cornell University Library’s Department 
of Preservation and Collection Maintenance 

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has been awarded a $97,554 grant by the 
National Endowment for the Humanities to 
develop an online preservation tutorial for 
Iraqi librarians and archivists. To be presented 
in Arabic, “Preserving and Documenting 
Iraq’s Cultural Heritage” will cover all aspects 
of library preservation and provide practical 
answers to a wide variety of questions. This 
project will build upon an existing tutorial 
that Cornell and CLIR developed in 2002 for 
librarians and archivists in Southeast Asia. 
The new tutorial will also be applicable to 
other areas of the Arabic­speaking world. 

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

The James Stevens­Cox STC­SIGLA collec­
tion of 16th­ and 17th­century books, offered 
by Maggs Bros Ltd., was acquired by Ohio 
State University’s Rare Books and Manu­
scripts Library. The 49 titles of the collection 
represent the most rare volumes of Stevens­
Cox’s total collection and those for which 
he is listed as private owner in the revised 
edition of the Short Title Catalogue. These 
volumes include mainly theological and reli­
gious works plus some history, politics, and 
cartography. The acquisition is signifi cant 
because of the extreme rarity of most of the 
collection’s titles, which represent popular or 
ephemeral works in small­format editions that 
typically do not survive. Highlights of this rich 
collection include two items printed by John 
Day; Church of England Visitation Articles 
for Bath and Wells (1606); a folio broad­
side royal proclamation of James I (1608); 
the Yearbooks for Henry VI—1422–1450 
(1503?–1550?); the third English edition of 
Erasmus’s The Prayse of Follie (1577); Mat­
thew Simons’ A Direction for the English 
Traviller (1635), the first English road book 
to include maps; and Augustine’s The Medita­
tions and Manuall (1621). A full description 
of the collection is given in Maggs Bros Ltd. 
Catalogue 1350, STC & Wing: Books printed 
in England 1500–1700 from the library of 
James Stevens­Cox (1910–1997). 

340 / C&RL NewsJune 2004 

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