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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  

Johns Hopkins University has been awarded 
a $500,000 challenge grant from the National 
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) that 
will provide an endowment for collections 
and a librarian to support the university’s 
Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Jewish Studies 
program. The program was established in 2002 
to coordinate the many academic activities 
at Johns Hopkins dedicated to the study of 
Jewish history, literature, language, politics, 
and religion. Johns Hopkins’ proposal was 
the only NEH challenge grant that focused 
on building endowment resources for an 
academic research library. Under the terms 
of the challenge, Johns Hopkins will receive 
$500,000 from NEH if it can raise $2 million for 
the program from nonfederal sources by July 
2009. The libraries and the Krieger School of 
Arts and Sciences will join fundraising efforts 
to meet the challenge. 

The University of California-Santa Cruz 
(USCS) has received a gift of $100,000 from 
the Hugh Stuart Center Charitable Trust in 
San José to create a new California History 
Room in the newly expanded and renovated 
Dean E. McHenry Library. The room will be 
established with the aim of introducing a new 
generation of UCSC students and local com-
munity members to the diverse history of the 
central California coast. It will provide state-
of-the-art facilities and services to expand and 
preserve the UCSC California history collection 
and make it broadly accessible to the campus 
and community. 

Th e  N at i o n a l  S c i e n ce  Fo u n d at i o n  h a s  
awarded a three-year grant of more than a 
half-million dollars to the University of North 
Carolina-Chapel Hill and Virginia Polytechnic 
Institute and State University to develop a 
digital library curriculum. The project is called 

Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Acquisitions, 
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e-mail: agalloway@ala.org. 

“Collaborative Research: Curriculum Develop-
ment: Digital Libraries.” Barbara Wildemuth, 
principal investigator for the project, said, 
“The research will focus on developing and 
field-testing individual lessons/modules that 
can be incorporated within courses or used 
to support an entire course.” 

New York University’s (NYU) Division of 
Libraries, in partnership with the Tisch School of 
the Arts, has received a grant of $639,000 from 
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to assist in 
the research and development of methodologies 
and systems for their preservation work. The 
grant supports the collaborative work of the 
Libraries’ Preservation Department and the Tisch 
School’s Moving Image Archiving and Preserva-
tion program. The new initiative will be focused 
on learning how to better manage moving im-
age and sound materials in the context of large 
research library collections and how to direct 
preservation efforts to rescue them. 

Acquisitions 

The Leila Miccolis Brazilian Alternative Press 
Collection has been acquired by the Univer-
sity of Miami. The collection is a rare and 
extensive archive of Brazilian underground 
journals, periodicals, and newspapers that 
were produced and circulated during the 
military dictatorship in the last century. Prior to 
its acquisition by the University of Miami, this 
collection, which contains thousands of items, 
attracted Brazilianists from all over the world 
to visit renowned poet Leila Miccolis in her 
home in a remote town in the State of Rio de 
Janeiro. The collection contains materials that 
reflect countercultural resistance, in its widest 
possible sense, and includes, but is not limited 
to, university publications, theater, musical 
pieces, concrete poetry, neo-concrete poetry 
and other vanguard/avant-garde artistic experi-
mentation, film reviews, and “fanzines.” 

264C&RL News April 2006

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