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Dawn Mueller G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n s  

The New York Public Library (NYPL) has 
received two grants totaling $30 million that 
will enable the library to pursue a range 
of new initiatives to acquire, preserve, and 
improve access to materials, while also 
implementing a series of fi nancial stabiliza­
tion measures. The gifts comprise $25 million 
from financier Robert W. Wilson and $5 mil­
lion from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 
A major part of the Wilson gift will support 
a large endeavor to catalog and process 
numerous archival collections at the NYPL’s 
performing arts library. It will also allow the 
library to make significant strides in develop­
ing technology. The Mellon grant will sup­
port the operations of the research libraries 
over the next three years. The foundation’s 
most recent grant brings its total giving to 
$29 million. 

Cornell University Library has received a 
$269,000 National Leadership Grant from 
the federal Institute for Museum and Library 
Services to develop an internship program 
for Native American librarians in preserva­
tion management and practice. The library’s 
Department of Preservation and Collection 
Management will develop a two­year intern­
ship program to train twelve Native American 
librarians to establish and maintain programs 
to preserve cultural heritage materials at tribal 
colleges and universities. 

T h e  U n i ve r s i t y  o f  M i s s o u r i ­ Co l u m b i a  
Libraries has received an endowment from 
an anonymous donor to provide fi nancial 
support for its Interlibrary Loan Services. 
The donor recently received a Ph.D. from 
the university and wished to credit the Inter­
library Borrowing Department for helping 
achieve this goal. This endowment, directed 
at the increasing amounts of fees and other 
charges associated with interlibrary borrow­

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ing, may be the first of its kind in major 
research libraries. 

The University of California­Santa Cruz 
(UCSC), has received a $500,000 gift to 
benefit Special Collections in the University 
Library. The endowment will be established 
in honor of the late Miller and Bunny Outcalt 
and their lifelong partnership in the fi eld of 
photography. Proceeds will be used to fund a 
permanent staff position dedicated to work on 
the extensive photography archives housed 
at UCSC. The new photo archivist position 
will help the library to process collections, 
inventory, catalog and index photographs, 
and prepare finding aids for the materials, as 
well as to appraise the physical condition of 
the collections and plan for preservation and 
conservation. 

T h e  U n i v e r s i t y  o f  I l l i n o i s  L i b r a r y ­
Urbana­Champaign has been awarded $239,000 
in federal partnership funds to protect and 
preserve its Carl Sandburg Collection. The 
funds are part of the 2004 “Save America’s 
Treasures” federal grant program, which seeks 
to conserve some of America’s most signifi ­
cant cultural treasures. The library is one of 
60 organizations and agencies throughout the 
country that received funding, including 35 
historic properties and sites and 25 nation­
ally significant collections of artifacts, docu­
ments, and artistic works. The grant will fund 
a combination of treatments to preserve the 
collection, which includes Sandburg’s personal 
library of more than 2,800 volumes; roughly 
300,000 pages of literary manuscripts; more 
than 3,000 photographs; more than 25,000 
letters of correspondence with notable con­
temporaries such as Ernest Hemingway, Ezra 
Pound, and Franklin D. Roosevelt; more than 
45,000 newspaper clippings; and more than 
600 audiovisual materials. 

The University of Wyoming (UW) Libraries 
received a $1 million dollar gift endowment 

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from Carol McMurry and Pat Spieles of Love­
land, Colorado. Their gift will be doubled 
to $2 million by state matching funds ap­
proved by the Wyoming State Legislature to 
encourage private contributions of more than 
$50,000 for UW endowments. 

Acquisitions 

Lynda Petty, wife of stock car racing legend 
Richard Petty, has donated a large collection 
of materials documenting her husband’s career 
to the Appalachian State University Libraries 
Stock Car Racing Collection. The donation, 
which covers 1958–2003, includes newspaper 
and magazine articles, fan letters, scrapbooks, 
promotional and charitable materials, awards 
of recognition, photographs, books, and race 
programs. The Stock Car Racing Collection is 
the only library in the country open to the pub­
lic that focuses specifically on stock car racing. 
It contains more than 500 books, periodicals, 
and videos; an extensive clippings fi le cover­
ing more than 1300 subjects; photographs; 
posters; and promotional materials. 

Emory University has acquired the largest 
private English language poetry library from 
Raymond Danowski. Highlights include the 
rare first printing of Walt Whitman’s Leaves 
of Grass (1855); T.S. Eliot’s Prufrock and 
Other Observations (1917), inscribed to “Miss 
Emily Hale” by the author; W.H. Auden’s 
first collection of poems, privately printed; 
and Allen Ginsberg’s second book, Siesta in 
Xbalba, printed on a mimeograph machine 
on a ship near Icy Cape, Alaska. The col­
lection, considered the largest ever built by 
a private collector, comprises some 60,000 
books as well as tens of thousands of peri­
odicals, manuscripts, correspondence, and 
other materials. Danowski, who collected 
the extensive library over a period of nearly 
three decades, donated it to Emery so that 
it can be shared and celebrated within the 
world of literary scholarship. 

The UCLA Library has acquired the papers 
of Harry Crane (1914–99), creator of The 
Honeymooners and a prolifi c writer of radio, 
television, and film comedy. The collec­
tion encompasses scripts, correspondence, 
photographs, topical humor publications 
and awards spanning his career from the 
1940s through the 1990s. It includes pieces 
Crane wrote for Frank Sinatra; items from 
the television specials Crane created for 
Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme; material 
he wrote for Joey Bishop, Perry Como and 
Alan King; scripts for major award programs 
such as the Academy Awards, Emmy Awards 
and Golden Globes; and Crane’s unique gag 
files. The Crane collection will reside at the 
Arts Library Special Collections, which houses 
rare and unique materials in the visual and 
performing arts, with particular strengths in 
film and television, radio, and Los Angeles 
theater and art. 

The Rutgers University Libraries received 
the collection of hundreds of English lan­
guage dictionaries of historic scope and 
breadth, formerly owned by Rutgers Univer­
sity President Edward Bloustein (1925–1989), 
recently donated by his daughters Elise and 
Lori to the libraries’ Special Collections and 
University Archives. The Bloustein Diction­
ary Collection features a copy of one of 
the first known published English language 
dictionaries, a bilingual Latin­English word 
list entitled Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et 
Britannicae published in 1573 by Thomas 
Cooper. The Bloustein collection also con­
tains several representations of the rivalries 
by scholars that often spurred the devel­
opment and publication of well­known 
dictionaries. 

SUNY Maritime College’s Stephen B. Luce 
Library has received the historical ledgers of 
the Moore­McCormack Archives. The collec­
tion consists of sixty­four ledgers that were 
maintained by the Office of the President of 
the Moore­McCormack shipping company 
from 1928 to 1970. 

January 2005  67 C&RL News