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Ann-Christe Galloway G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n s  

Columbia University, New York Univer­
sity, and SUNY Stony Brook libraries 
have received $37,000 from New York State 
for a Columbia­led effort to preserve and 
photocopy endangered color atlases and 
other oversized materials. The volumes 
to be copied include municipal atlases 
published in Europe and the United States 
in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 
and a distinctive, large­format Chinese arts 
journal published between 1934 and 1937. 
Many of the items are in constant use by 
library patrons and show signs of extensive 
damage and deterioration. The project will 
produce approximately 4,350 preservation 
photocopies on acid­free paper that can be 
shelved in open­stack areas of the libraries, 
so that the originals can be protected in 
closed or off­site storage facilities. 

James Madison University (JMU) Libraries has 
been awarded a 2005 National Leadership 
Grant from the Institute of Museum and 
Library Services (IMLS) for $158,593 to fund 
the research and development of computer 
games that will teach health information 
literacy and general information literacy. 
The project will be developed in partner­
ship with the libraries, JMU’s Center for 
Instructional Technology, and JMU’s Center 
for Assessment and Research Studies. Over 
the next three years, the project will sup­
port the development of interactive games 
to help students in the health sciences learn 
about health literacy and the revision of 
sections of Go for the Gold, JMU Libraries’ 
online information literacy tutorial, into a 
gaming format. 

Cornell University Library has received 
one of 61 grants awarded this year through 
the federal government’s “Save America’s 

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Treasures” program. The $250,000 award will 
support the conservation and preservation 
of the library’s new Native American Collec­
tion. Valued at $8.3 million, Cornell’s Native 
American Collection documents the history 
and ethnology of native peoples of the Ameri­
cas, from the colonial period to the present. 
Widely acknowledged as one of the most dis­
tinguished collections of its kind, the core of 
the collection was formed in the early 1900s 
by George Heye, founder and director of the 
Museum of the American Indian. In 1930, the 
museum transferred its Native American book 
collection to the Huntington Free Library and 
Reading Room in the Bronx. In May 2004 the 
Huntington Library formally transferred the 
collection to Cornell, where it could be better 
cared for and made more accessible to stu­
dents, researchers, and the Native American 
community. Among the collection’s treasures 
are field notes by 19th­century ethnographers 
and records of archaeological expeditions, 
rare dictionaries of native languages, an al­
bum of original drawings by George Catlin, 
and a 1765 manuscript peace treaty between 
Britain’s superintendent of Indian affairs and 
the Delaware Nation. 

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 )  
Appalachian Center and UK William T. Young 
Library’s Special Collection and Digital Pro­
grams have received a $200,503 two­year 
grant from the National Endowment of the 
Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation 
and Access to create detailed descriptions 
of more than 50 Appalachian­related col­
lections. The material exceeds 30,000 linear 
feet of manuscripts, archives, and audiovisual 
recordings. The NEH project will allow library 
staff to process 20 collections that have previ­
ously been unavailable to the public, includ­
ing papers of coal companies and resource 
extraction industries in Eastern Kentucky. 
Other collections include the papers of promi­
nent regional authors, such as Harriette Simp­
son Arnow and George Ella Lyon. The papers 

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of prominent Eastern Kentucky families and 
civic leaders—such as the Means­Seaton fam­
ily, who fi gured significantly in development 
of the iron industry in Ashland, and Cora 
Wilson Stewart, who founded the Moonlight 
School in Morehead and gained national 
attention in her fight against illiteracy—will 
receive upgraded fi nding aids. 

Acquisitions 

The papers of John Weitz (1923–2002), a 
seminal figure in the development of U.S. 
ready­to­wear fashion, have been received 
by the New School University Libraries’ 
Anna­Maria and Stephen Kellen Archives 
Center for Parsons The New School for 
Design. Weitz helped define the Ameri­
can look, established the fi rst signature 
menswear line, and shaped the lucrative 
possibilities of licensing a designer’s name. 
Weitz was at times a spy, a race car driver, 

an author, and a photographer. He was 
also a visiting lecturer at Parsons (1975–77, 
1986–88, and 1992–95). 

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not have a global navigation mechanism of 
any sort. There is a strictly linear progression 
into the database and then a hammering of 
the “back” button to return to the homepage. 
There is no consistent site branding or banner, 
and the IP address is still numeric once in 
the site; sometimes it is impossible to know 
if you are still in the database. 

If the resources in this database are 
unique, there is little in the way of metadata 
that would make them useful for researchers. 
Students and teachers of geography at the 
high school or undergraduate level may ben­
efit from these materials. However, younger 
students and the general public would be 
better served by USGS Maps or National 
Geographic.—Sheri Webber, Florida State 
University, slw04f@fsu.edu 

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