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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  

California State University-Nor thridge 
(CSU) has received $30,000 from the Augustine 
Foundation to fund the conservation of the CSU 
International Guitar Research Archive’s (IGRA) 
collection of music scores. The grant will cover 
supplies and cost of labor for putting the scores 
in new archival enclosures, re­labeling them, 
cataloguing the collection, and marking them for 
storage. The Augustine Foundation sponsors the 
study and performance of classical guitar. 

Acquisitions 

Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize -winner and 
internationally known Georgia­born novelist 

and poet, will place her archive with Emory 
University. In 1983, Walker became the fi rst 
African­American woman to win the Pulitzer 
Prize for Fiction, which honored her novel The 
Color Purple. She has written most frequently 
about the struggle for survival among Southern 
blacks, particularly black women. She also has 
given literary voice to the struggle for human 
rights, environmental issues, social movements 
and spirituality, as well as the quest for inner 
and world peace. Walker is widely recognized 
for her thoughtful weaving of realism with 
love for humanity and human potential. The 
archive contains journals that she had been 
keeping since she was a teenager and drafts 
of her early works of fi ction. 

(“Working from afar” continued from page 
218) 
a day or two a week telecommuting would 
work great for me. 

In the end, I think that this experiment in 
telecommuting was a success both personally 
and professionally. My husband and I were 
able to keep our family together, experience a 
vibrant city, and continue to further our own 
professional goals. 

Moreover, I demonstrated that telecom­
muting, either full­time for a limited dura­
tion—or for a few days a week on an on­
going basis—is a viable option to consider, 
one that will provide personal benefi t to 
employees and an increase in productivity 
for their employers. 

Notes 
1. Andrew Pace, “Librarians Not in Librar­

ies,” Computers in Libraries 24 (October 
2004): 32­35. 

2. Will Manley, “Telework, or Watching 
Television,” American Libraries, 33 (April 
2002): 124. 

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3. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Work at 
Home in 2004” U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau 
of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov/news.release 
/homey.nr0.htm. 

4. For a compelling study on the advan­
tages (to both employers and employees) 
of policies promoting benefits such as paid 
leave, childcare, and fl exible scheduling, 
see Barbara Gault and Vicky Lovell, “The 
Costs and Benefits of Policies to Advance 
Work/Life Integration,” American Behavioral 
Scientist 49 (May 2006): 1152–64. 

5. For information about the USU AD­
VANCE program, see websites.usu.edu 
/advance/. 

6. Snappy commentary on the advantages 
and disadvantages of face to face meetings 
for librarians can be found from Meredith Far­
kas, “No more f2f meetings . . . EVER!” Infor­
mation Wants to be Free, meredith.wolfwa­
ter.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/07/21 
/no­more­f2f­meetings­ever/. 

7. For a review of the literature on blurring 
and a study that examines academic parents 
who frequently work from home, see Stephan 
Desrochers, Jeanne M. Hilton, and Laurie Lar­
wood, “Preliminary Validation of the Work­Fam­
ily Integration­Blurring Scale,” Journal of Family 
Issues 26 (May 2005): 442–66. 

236C&RL News April 2008

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