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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 of Notre Dame and four 
partner institutions (Notre Dame Law School 
Library, Holy Cross College Library, Indiana 
University South Bend Library, and Valparaiso 
University Library) have received a $194,000 
“Recruiting and Educating Libraries for the 21st 
Century” grant from IMLS. The grant will help 
introduce 42 diverse, college­bound graduat­
ing seniors from Northern Indiana high schools 
to the profession of academic librarianship 
through employment at Notre Dame and its 
partners as summer student assistants. 

The Naval Historical Foundation has 
received a $25,000 grant from the global 
consulting firm of Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. 
The foundation will administer a preservation 
grant to identify, document, and preserve 
materials in the Admiral George Preble 
collection of the Navy Department Library. 
Preble served in the Navy from 1835 until 
his retirement in 1878. He collected valuable 
Navy­related materials that include early naval 
registers, naval tracts, and other works. 

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

Albert A. Howard, a cataloger in Univer­
sity of Southern Maine (USM) libraries for the 
past 34 years, has given USM his collection of 
rare books dating back to the 16th century. 
The Albert A. Howard Book History Collec­
tion will eventually bring more than 1,200 
rare books to USM, as well as an endowment 
for the collection’s care and expansion. The 
collection includes a 1553 edition of the fi rst 
illustrated children’s book; popular poetry 
collections from the 16th century; and a book 
on gardening, published in the late 1500s. The 
first part to be acquired is a collection of 700 
to 800 books printed after 1900, including ref­
erence books, books on illustration, and other 
titles from what are considered “fi ne presses” 
in the United States. The second portion will 

be bequeathed to USM upon Howard’s death 
and includes a collection of 200 titles of early 
printings, among them Henry VIII’s letter to 
Martin Luther (1527). Another portion of 200 
titles features children’s books. 

The extensive records of modernist Bra­
zilian music amassed by Marion Verhaalen, 
member of the School Sisters of St. Francis 
of Milwaukee and faculty member of the 
Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, have 
been acquired by the Nettie Lee Benson 
Latin American Collection at the University 
of Texas Libraries. The Marion Verhaalen 
Collection on Camargo Guarnieri and Twen­
tieth­Century Brazilian Music includes musi­
cal scores, LPs, tapes, CDs, correspondence, 
and notes regarding contemporary Brazilian 
music, especially of the last three decades. 
Verhaalen’s collection began in 1969 with 
her seminal research on the piano music of 
Camargo Guarnieri (1907–93) and Francisco 
Mignone (1897–1986), two of Brazil’s leading 
20th­century composers. 

A collection of presidential campaign 
memorabilia has been acquired by Regis 
University Libraries in Denver. Spanning the 
period from John Adams (an engraving of 
1799) to the present, the collection of 4,500 
items was donated by Aldo and Peggie Notari­
anni, along with a sum of $45,000 to construct 
display cabinets in Regis University’s Dayton 
Memorial Library. Aldo Notarianni is a retired 
Colorado attorney and an alumnus (1945) of 
Regis University. Artifacts represented in the 
collection include posters, lapel pins, fl ags, 
shaving mugs, clocks, crystal and metal trays, 
watch fobs, beer cans, buttons, ribbons, fans, 
paperweights, and parade torches. One gem 
in the collection is the complete edition of 
the “Dewey Defeats Truman” (1948) issue of 
the Chicago Tribune. 

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620 / C&RL NewsNovember 2004 

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