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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  I l l i n o i s  a t  U r b a n a ­
Champaign (UIUC) has received two grants 
from the Institute of Museum and Library 
Services (IMLS). The first grant of $91,562 is 
for the project “Metadata for You and Me: A 
Training Program for Shareable Metadata.” In 
partnership with Indiana University, UIUC’s 
University Library will develop and conduct 
a training program to address the needs of 
library, museum, and cultural heritage profes­
sionals in the creation, development, and use 
of shareable descriptive metadata. The sec­
ond grant award of $249,983 is for the project 
“Building a Framework for Preservation and 
Access Decision Making for Audio­Visual 
Collections.” UIUC’s University Library will 
develop and test an audio­visual self­assess­
ment program for preservation of and access 
to endangered recorded sound and moving 
image collections. 

Purdue University has received a $1 million 
gift to build its first archives documenting the 
lives and accomplishments of the university’s 
women. The Susan Bulkeley Butler Women’s 
Archives will provide resources visitors can 
use to learn about Purdue history and the 
key roles women faculty and alumnae have 
played in the university’s growth. It also 
will be a site for seminars and exhibits in its 
Stewart Center location. The archives will 
include an oral history program featuring 
recorded interviews with key women leaders, 
an acquisition program to gain important ma­
terials through donations and purchases, and 
a lecture series focused on women leaders at 
Purdue. The archives also will provide grants 
for researchers from around the country to 
use the archives and provide support for a 
staff member specializing in women’s studies 
to work in the archives. 

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e-mail: agalloway@ala.org. 

Acquisitions 

An archive of materials chronicling the his­
tory of Japanese and East Asian fi lm, collected 
by the renowned documentary fi lmmaker and 
film historian Makino Mamoru, has been ac­
quired by Columbia University’s C. V. Starr East 
Asian Library. The collection contains material 
dating back to the earliest moving pictures in 
Japan and the start of domestic fi lm produc­
tion during the Meiji period (1868–1912), and 
continues to the present. It includes a wealth of 
rare print materials, including full runs of trade 
press and fan periodicals, flyers, posters, and 
other publicity materials. Of particular inter­
est to scholars are a number of early original 
scenarios with directors’ shooting notes and 
handbooks for the live benshi narrators of 
Japanese silent fi lms. 

The Planned Community Archives Collec­
tion (PCA) has found a permanent home at 
George Mason University. Though placed 
on deposit in 1987, the collection was of­
ficially gifted to the George Mason University 
Libraries this year. The collection consists of 
correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, 
publicity, maps, architectural drawings, slides, 
videotapes, and photographs that chart the 
history of the planned community and new 
town movement worldwide. The PCA Col­
lection is approximately 675 linear feet and 
is particularly strong in its documentation of 
the history of Reston, Virginia, including Res­
ton­related oral histories, plans, photographs, 
and records of civic organizations. The PCA 
Collection also contains information from 
planned communities and new towns from 
across the United States, such as Greenbelt, 
Maryland, and Woodland, Texas, and com­
munities abroad such as People’s Freeway, 
Israel, and Saint Quentin, France. 

The papers of poet and author Charles 
Bukowski (1920–94) have been acquired by 
the Huntington Library. Bukowski’s widow 

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donated a collection of his corrected drafts of 
novels and poems, fan letters, photographs, 
and audiovisual material, as well as rare edi­
tions of his books and scarce, ephemeral 
printings from small presses. In his poetry and 
prose, Bukowski used experience, emotion 
and imagination, along with violent and sexual 
imagery, to capture life at its most elemental, 
where there is no artifice or posturing, but just 
the getting on with day­to­day survival at the 
harsh edge of society. Born in Germany in 1920 
to an American father and German mother, 
Bukowski grew up in Los Angeles, enduring a 
childhood and youth marked by bullying from 
other boys and regular beatings from his abusive 
father. After spending several years collecting 
rejection slips trying to make a life as a writer, 
in the mid­1950s Bukowski began publishing 
in underground newspapers like Open City and 
L.A. Free Press. His first book of poetry, Flower, 
Fist, and Bestial Wail, appeared in 1959. In the 
decade following, his work was discovered by 
John Martin, proprietor of the Black Sparrow 
Press, and the Santa Rosa­based publisher issued 
nearly all of his subsequent 40­plus books. In 
addition to such volumes of poetry as Burning 
in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems, 
1955–1973, Bukowski wrote short stories, and 
such novels as Post Offi ce (1971), Factotum 
(1975), Women (1978), Ham on Rye (1982), Hol­
lywood (1989), and Pulp (1994, the year of his 
death). His screenplay, Barfl y, based on his own 
life, was produced as a theatrical release in 1987, 
starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway. Matt 
Dillon starred in a film adaptation of Bukowski’s 
novel Factotum that opened in August. 

Works by internationally known North Caro­
lina photographers now are on display in the 
Robert B. House Undergraduate Library at the 
University of North Carolina(UNC)­Chapel Hill. 
Ann Stewart, a Chapel Hill art consultant who 
represents the artists, donated the photos to 
the UNC Library. Stewart is the granddaughter 
of Robert B. House, chancellor of the univer­
sity from 1945 to 1957, for whom the library 
is named. Ten large format black­and­white 
prints by two of the photographers—Bill 
Bamberger and Margaret Sartor—were hung 

“Katherine in the Playhouse Built by her Father,” 
Monroe, Louisiana, 1989, by Margaret Sartor. 

in the Christopher B. Smith Instructional Lab 
on the library’s main floor, and a 40­by­50­inch 
color mural by Alex Harris will join them. The 
photos depict scenes of the American South 
from the early 1980s through 2002. The pho­
tographers’ works are in the permanent col­
lections of major museums, including the San 
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul 
Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Museum 
of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum 
of Art in New York, and the North Carolina 
Museum of Art in Raleigh. 

The Kamlet Chemical Laboratories Collection, 
as well as a gift to establish the Jonas Kamlet 
Memorial Fund, have been donated to the 
University of South Florida. In addition to 
preserving Kamlet’s scientifi c achievements, 
the fund will reveal the research of the chemist 
and inventor. The collection is approximately 
400 linear feet and was delivered in nearly 
three dozen filing cabinets. The collection 
documents basic chemistry advancement from 
1940 to the mid­1960s. As a consulting chem­
ist, Kamlet produced more than 100 patents, 
including the blood glucose meter, which is 
today’s standard approach for diabetes testing. 
Kamlet collaborated with Miles Laboratories, 
where he developed a process for recovering 
paper­mill wastes. He obtained a patent for 
the production of d­tartaric acid, a pregnancy 
test strip, and other inventions. 

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