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Ann­Christe Galloway G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n s  

T h e  U n i v e r s i t y  o f  K e n t u c k y  ( U K )  h a s  
been awarded $310,000 from the National 
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for 
its participation in the first phase of an NEH 
and Library of Congress program to digitize 
20 million pages from U.S. newspapers in the 
public domain. In the first two­year phase 
of the program, the UK Libraries will focus 
on digitizing more than 100,000 pages from 
Kentucky newspapers published from 1900 
to 1910. During the term of the grant, UK 
and the other five institutions will develop 
processes that will be used by other libraries 
in subsequent phases of the program. 

Nor theastern University in Boston has 
received $175,000 for its two­year project, 
Processing and Providing Access to Boston 
African American and Latino History, from 
the National Historical Publications and 
Records Commission (NHPRC). Support for 
the first year ($90,000) is guaranteed; the 
remainder of the award is pending NHPRC 
funding. The Archives and Special Collec­
tions Department will arrange, describe, and 
make accessible 436 cubic feet of mainly 20th 
century historical records from six private, 
nonprofit organizations relating to social 
justice in the African American and Latino 
communities in Boston. 

The University of South Florida, School of 
Library and Information Science, in partner­
ship with the University of Central Florida 
Libraries, Florida Atlantic University Library, 
and the University of South Florida Tampa 
Campus Library, has received a grant in the 
amount of $758,736 from the Institute of 
Museum and Library Services. The ALSTARS 
grant provides funding for 24 full­time stu­
dents to pursue a curriculum designed to 
educate future professionals for positions 

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in academic libraries. Partner libraries will 
provide employment/internship opportuni­
ties, chart student progress, and coordinate 
students’ advising, mentoring, and curriculum 
needs. This information will be analyzed to 
aid in the development of a model academic 
library curriculum. Students selected will have 
an advanced subject degree, be willing to 
enter into a dual­degree program, or have 
special language skills. 

The University of Iowa has received a 
$236,000 grant from the Roy J. Carver Chari­
table Trust of Muscatine to help expand and 
renovate the main library’s Information 
Arcade electronic classroom. Construc­
tion of the two­year, $1.36 million project 
is expected to begin in 2006. The project 
will expand the arcade by adding a second 
electronic classroom to alleviate pressure on 
the existing room, as well as two others at 
the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences. 
The new classroom will explore the use of 
wireless technology and provide a more fl ex­
ible teaching environment, and it will divide 
much of the existing space into workstations 
that allow for more collaborative learning 
and interaction between students and faculty 
members. 

Acquisitions 

A rare photographic resource related to 
Idaho’s World War II history has been ac­
quired by the University of Idaho (UI). It is 
a handmade scrapbook of 148 original pho­
tographs and two drawings of activities and 
buildings related to the Kooskia Internment 
Camp on the Lochsa River. By mid­February 
1942, federal authorities had rounded up more 
than 3,000 Japanese aliens living in the United 
States. Arrested by the FBI and local offi cials, 
these men were turned over to the Immigration 
and Naturalization Service, who placed them 

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in internment camps. The Kooskia camp was 
not one of the 10 large concentration camps 
where West Coast Japanese­American citizens 
and their families were sent unconstitutionally. 
Rather, it was a road­building site in which the 
inmates were extending the Lewis and Clark 
Highway, now US 12, up the river toward 
Montana. The photographs in the scrapbook, 
estimated to have been taken in 1944, are the 
work of either one of the Japanese inmates or 
one of the federal guards. The photographs 
provide an extensive record of life in the 
camp, with multiple views of the mess hall, 
the canteen, and the recreation facilities, as 
well as scenes of the heavy equipment and 
the construction work on the highway, where 
the Japanese worked closely with the Bureau 
of Public Roads personnel. 

The world’s largest book, according to 
Guinness World Records, has been donated 
to the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Mea­
suring a full 5 feet by 7 feet when open 
and weighing 
133 pounds, 
Bhutan: A Vi­
sual Odyssey 
Across the Last 
H i m a l a y a n  
Kingdom, by 
Michael Haw­
ley, is a pho­
tography book 
c a p t u r i n g  
more than 100 
images of the 
small Asian 
country’s rich 
landscape and 
culture. Each 
copy of Bhu­
tan requires a gallon of ink, 24 hours of 
printing time and more paper than the length 
of a football field. Each digital image was two 
gigabytes, stretching the capabilities of most 
computers and printers. The binding was done 
by the world’s oldest book publisher, Acme 
Bookbinding, and uses an Asian fanfolded struc­
ture combined with European techniques. 

The archive of novelist James D. Houston 
has been designated for the University of 
California­Santa Cruz. Houston, is the author 
of numerous award­winning novels, including 
Continental Drift, The Last Paradise, and, most 
recently, Snow Mountain Passage. He is also 
the author of a wide­ranging set of nonfi ction 
works, including Californians: Searching for 
the Golden State and a memoir of the Japanese 
interment, Farewell to Manzanar, coauthored 
with Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston. The archive 
will also include research and collateral mate­
rial associated with Farewell to Manzanar. 

The papers of writer Jim Harrison have been 
acquired by Grand Valley State University in 
Allendale, Michigan, through funding by the 
Meijer Foundation. Harrison, an international 
best­selling author, has been published in 22 
languages and is the author of fi ve collections 
of novellas (including Legends of the Fall), eight 
novels, ten collections of poetry, a children’s 
book, three works of nonfiction, and his 

memoir, Off to 
the Side. The 
$600,000 col­
lection current­
ly comprises 
approximately 
200 linear feet 
of shelf space. 
It consists of 
manuscripts, 
unpublished 
material, cor­
respondence, 
n o t e b o o k s ,  
screenplays, 
photographs 
and artwork, 
and the works 

of others. There is also a very large section of 
correspondence with noted American writers, 
including Gary Snyder, Robert Bly, Dan Gerber, 
Ted Kooser, Tom McGuane, and Peter Matthies­
sen. Harrison has won a National Endowment 
for the Arts grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, 
and the Spirit of the West Award from the Moun­
tains and Plains Booksellers Association. 

Nancy Gwinn (left), director of the Smithsonian Libraries, and 
Mary Augusta Thomas (right), associate director, standing with 
world’s largest book, Bhutan. 

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