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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  

Th e  t h re e  l i b rar i e s  o f  t h e  Th e o l o g i c a l 
Consortium of Greater Columbus have re­
ceived more than $89,460 in grant funding 
to join a statewide network of academic 
libraries, providing local seminarians with 
access to more than 85 libraries statewide. 
Awarded by the State Library of Ohio and 
the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 
the grant links the libraries of the Method­
ist Theological Seminary in Ohio, Pontifi cal 
College Josephinum, and Trinity Lutheran 
Seminary to the Ohio Private Academic 
Libraries (OPAL) and OhioLINK. The OPAL 
consortium offers more than 1 million titles 
and 3 million individual items to the patrons 
of these academic libraries. All are members 
of OhioLINK, a statewide initiative offering a 
shared database and the reciprocal borrow­
ing of more than 39 million items. Currently, 
students at the three seminaries can access 
materials only from the three consortium 
libraries. In the future, patrons can initiate a 
loan from any of the libraries in the OhioLINK 
network and receive delivery of the items 
from one of the libraries. 

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 
University has received $100,000 from 
Ann Hertzler to endow the Ann Hertzler 
Children’s Cookbook and Nutrition Litera­
ture Archive. Professor of human nutrition, 
foods and exercise at the university from 
1980 to 2001, Hertzler also helped establish 
the Peacock­Harper Culinary History Collec­
tion in 1999. Hertzler endowed the children’s 
archive to ensure its continued develop­
ment, preservation, access, and selective 
digitization. Largely housed in Newman 
Library’s Special Collections, 250 children’s 
cookbooks and nutrition literature titles are 
already available through the library’s online 
catalog, Addison (addison.vt.edu/), along 

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with 2,800 titles in the broader culinary his­
tory collection. 

Acquisitions 

The literary archive of Salman Rushdie 
will be placed at Emory University’s Robert 
W. Woodruff Library. Rushdie is also joining 
the Emory faculty as distinguished writer in 
residence. He is the 
author of nine novels 
including Midnight’s 
C h i l d r e n  ( 1 9 8 1 ) ,  
Shame (1983), The 
Satanic Verses (1988), 
The Moor’s Last Sigh 
(1995), and, most 
recently, Shalimar 
the Clown (2005). 
In 1993, Midnight’s 
Children was selected as “the Booker of the 
Bookers,” the best novel published in the 25­
year history of Britain’s Booker Prize. Rush­
die is equally well­known, however, for the 
worldwide uproar that greeted his 1988 novel 
The Satanic Verses, for being condemned to 
death by the Ayatollah Khomeini, and for the 
ensuing debate over freedom of expression 
that those events prompted. Iran revoked 
the fatwa on Rushdie’s life in 1998, and he 
has since then resumed a more public role, 
including serving for the past two years as 
president of PEN’s American Center, where 
he was a vocal advocate for persecuted writ­
ers around the world. The Rushdie papers 
include multiple drafts of all of Rushdie’s 
novels and other writings from Grimus 
(1975) to Shalimar the Clown (2005), includ­
ing manuscripts of two unpublished novels 
and other writings. The papers also contain 
a large quantity of correspondence with a 
wide literary circle, materials documenting 
Rushdie’s life under the fatwa, notebooks and 
journals maintained since 1973, photographs, 

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and other related personal and literary papers. 
Once processing is completed, the Salman 
Rusdie papers will be the primary resource 
for all subsequent studies of Rushdie’s life 
and work. 

The Institute for Social Ecology (ISE), located 
in Plainfield, Vermont, has given its 4,000 vol­
ume library to Burlington College in Burling­
ton, Vermont. The collection includes books, 
videos, and periodicals on social ecology, 
sustainable design, activism, social change, 
land use, and community development. 
The two institutions, both founded in the 
1970s, both emphasize the individuality of 
each student, and have shared connections 
throughout their histories. ISE students have 
been able to complete their undergraduate 
degrees through Burlington College. 

Film critic Mark J. Huisman has donated his 
papers to Columbia University’s Rare Book 
and Manuscript Library. The Mark J. Huisman 
Papers comprise 30 linear feet 
of materials, including taped 
interviews with prominent fi lm 
industry figures, manuscript 
drafts and published works, 
production notes and records, 
syllabi, academic writing, video­
tapes, film stills, books, periodi­
cals, personal and professional 
correspondence, and memora­
bilia. Huisman, recipient of the 
first undergraduate fi lm studies 
degree at Columbia University, 
has been published in The Vil­
lage Voice, The San Francisco 
Chronicle, The Nation, The Advocate, Out, 
and other publications. He was the founding 
arts editor of LGNY (now Gay City News) and 
a contributing editor for public policy to The 
Independent Film and Video Monthly. Huis­
man won Vice Versa Awards for excellence 
in the gay and lesbian press in 1998 and 
1999. Films produced by Huisman, which 
include The Incredibly True Adventures of 2 
Girls in Love, have appeared at the Sundance 
and Berlin film festivals. He founded The 

Vito Russo Award, a completion grant which 
is awarded annually by the New York Inter­
national Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (The 
New Festival) and which has aided the pro­
duction of a dozen landmark independent 
fi lms, including The Watermelon Woman 
(Cheryl Dunye), Treyf (Alysia Lebow and 
Cynthia Medansky), Trembling Before G­d 
(Sandi DuBowski), and Brother to Brother 
(Rodney Evans), all of which received their 
world premieres at Sundance. 

Designer Myrna Colley­Lee donated her per­
sonal collection of theater memorabilia to 
Mississippi State University’s Mitchel Memo­
rial Library to help students and other li­
brary patrons learn more about theater. The 
collection consists of scripts, photographs, 
breakdowns (what each character wears in 
each scene), rehearsal notes from the direc­
tor, research, playbills, newspaper articles, 
and thank you notes from cast members and 
production crews, as well as other novelties. 

Designer Myrna Colley-Lee 

She has designed the costumes for a play 
commissioned by Bill Cosby, contributed to 
Eugene O’Neill’s video production of Long 
Day’s Journey into Night, and dressed actor 
Kevin Kline and singer Linda Ronstadt. In 
addition to costume designing, Colley­Lee 
also has worked as an art director and set 
designer for both television and fi lm pro­
ductions. Her next project will be as the pro­
duction designer for the independent fi lm 
The Reprieve. 

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