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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  

The University of North Carolina-Chapel 
Hill Library has been awarded $216,000 over 
two years by Andrew W. Mellon Founda­
tion for the project “Extending the Reach of 
Southern Sources: Proceeding to Large­Scale 
Digitization of Manuscript Collections.” The 
library’s Southern Historical Collection and 
Carolina Digital Library will use the grant to 
plan for digitizing vast col­
lections of unique historical 
materials and presenting 
them online. The project will 
provide methods for manag­
ing large­scale digitization 
of entire collections in the 
Southern Historical Collec­
tion, one of the world’s larg­
est repositories for original 
materials that document the 
southern United States. 

A t l a n t a  U n i v e r s i t y  
C e n t e r ’ s  R o b e r t  W .  
Woodruff Library received 
a $1 million donation from 
the Bank of America Chari­
table Foundation. The gift 
will be used to upgrade the 
Archives and Special Collec­
tions reading room, which 
supports scholarly access to the many manu­
scripts, books, and artifacts housed within 
the Woodruf Library. Currently, the room is 
home to a number of historically signifi cant 
items, including the books and writings of 
the Morehouse College Martin Luther King 
Jr. Collection. In addition to funding physical 
improvements within the library, the special 
collection staff will receive training in cur­
rent digitization processes and technology, 
further increasing public access to library 
holdings. 

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e-mail: agalloway@ala.org. 

R o b e r t  E l l i s,  a s s o c i a t e  d e a n  o f  
Logsdon Seminar y, inspects the 
Sefer Torah scroll after the accli­
matization process. 

Acquisitions 

An ancient Sefer Torah scroll has been given 
to the Kelley College of Business at Hardin­
Simmons University (HSU). Doyle and Inez 
Kelley, benefactors of the Kelley College 
of Business at HSU, have entrusted HSU 

with the manuscript, 
which is the product of 
a South Arabian Jewish 
Scriptorium in the late 
17th or early 18th cen­
tury. The manuscript 
contains more than 
200 columns compris­
ing the Pentateuch, the 
five books of Moses, 
which appear as the 
fi rst five books of the 
Christian Old Testa­
ment and the Jewish 
Bible. Scribed in He­
brew, on very highly 
f inis hed w hit e c ow 
skin vellum panels, the 
scroll is exceptionally 
tall, at approximately 
27 inches. Lee Biondi, 
rare documents dealer 

and appraisal expert, places the scroll as 
likely coming from Yemen, formerly the 
Biblical region of Sheba, in the southern 
area of the Arabian Peninsula. 

The JCPenney corporate archives has been 
given to the DeGolyer Library at Southern 
Methodist University. The Penney Archives 
includes more than 20,000 photographs, 
and 1,500 linear feet of correspondence, 
speeches, ledgers, catalogs, and company 
publications documenting more than 100 
years of corporate history, as well as ad­
vertisements from 1903 to the late 1990s. 
Also included are the personal papers of 
James Cash Penney (1875­1971), consisting 

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of correspondence, speeches, photographs, 
travel logs, and diaries that document his 
philosophy. Born in Hamilton, Missouri, 
Penney began his retail career in a small 
dry goods store in his hometown. His pa­
pers include records about the company, 
his farming operations, and his various 
philanthropies. In addition, there are also 
manuscript collections of Caroline A. Pen­
ney, his third wife, and correspondence of 
one of his nephews. All of these collections 
are open and available for research. 

University of California-Santa Cruz has 
received a major donation of photographs 
by acclaimed American photographer Brett 
Weston (1911–1993), valued at more than 
$1 million. The photographs are a gift from 
Oklahoma collector Christian Keesee, who 
acquired the Brett Weston Estate in 1996 
and describes Weston as “one of the true 
American masters of photography.” The 
University Library’s Special Collections 
photo holdings were initiated at UC­Santa 
Cruz in the late 1960s with the donation 
of more than 800 project prints by Edward 
Weston, Brett’s father. While a teenager, 
Brett Weston began taking photographs at 
his father’s side in Mexico, and he went on 
to forge a distinguished independent ca­
reer that spanned seven decades. Weston’s 
work has been exhibited and collected 
by major international museums, and he 
was a recipient of both Guggenheim and 
National Endowment for the Arts awards. 
The gift to Special Collections includes 
Weston’s gelatin silver print photographs 
dating from the 1940s to the 1980s, and 
the work represents a number of different 
aesthetic issues that the artist explored. 
Early documentary work, views of New 
York City, Mexican architecture, natural­
istic depictions of California’s Monterey 
Peninsula coast, abstractions based on 
the natural world, and the late Hawaiian 
botanicals are all included, along with a 
very special collection of portraits of Ed­
ward Weston that were taken in the 1930s 
and 1940s. 

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