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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 UCLA Library has received the largest 
single gift for collections in its history: $5 million 
from the Arcadia Fund. The library plans to use 
gift funds to support efforts to further develop, 
preserve, and make ac­
cessible its collections. 
Funds may also be used 
to enhance end­user dis­
covery of UCLA Library 
holdings, encourage the 
use of materials in novel 
ways, leverage new tech­
nology to attract broader 
audiences to use them in 
instruction and scholar­
ship, and manage and 
make accessible schol­
arship in new formats. 
The Arcadia Fund’s key 
mission is the preserva­
tion of cultural knowledge and materials and 
environmental conservation. 

Acquisitions 

The architectural archives of Norman Jaff e 
(1932–93), American architect perhaps best 
known for his sculptural beach houses on 
Eastern Long Island, New York, have been 
acquired by Columbia University’s Avery Ar­
chitectural and Fine Arts Library. Jaffe built 
more than 600 projects during his 35­year 
career. He received numerable architecture 
awards and also participated in national and 
international exhibitions at leading institu­
tions, including the Museum of Modern Art, 
New York. Jaffe, during a 26­year period of 
practice in the Hamptons (from 1967 until 
his drowning death in 1993) designed more 
than 50 houses in the region, ranging from 

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Charles Tandy, who entrusted Hardin-Simmons 
University with an extensive bible collection, 
pointing to an illustration of King James that was 
defaced by an early owner (when the King was 
particularly unpopular among the churches). 

small weekend hideaways to large summer 
estates straddling the ocean dunes. His other 
notable work on Long Island was the Gates of 
the Grove, the Jewish Center in East Hampton, 

a light­fi lled meditative 
space inspired by the 
wooden synagogues 
of Eastern Europe. His 
final major work, 565 
Fifth Avenue, was a criti­
cal success. The Jaffe 
collection contains ar­
chitectural drawings, 
photographs, business 
profiles, and offi ce port­
folios. A large portion 
of the collection con­
sists of presentation 
drawings, architectural 
drawings, and photo­

graphs from his professional practice. It covers 
approximately 80 built and unrealized projects 
ranging from the early 1960s to the 1990s. 

An extensive bible collection has been 
acquired by Hardin­Simmons University 
(HSU). “The Tandy Collection contains 
several of the most significant Bibles in the 
English language,” said Thomas Brisco, dean 
of Logsdon School of Theology at HSU, “in­
cluding a first edition of the King James Bible 
and a ‘Great She’ Bible—a 1613 edition of the 
King James Version named for the correction 
of a previous printer’s error found in Ruth 3. 
The collection also includes a 1541 edition 
of the Great Bible, the work of the Myles 
Coverdale—a close confidant of William Tyn­
dale—and a first edition of the Geneva Bible 
translated by Protestant Reformers at Geneva 
in 1560. The Geneva Bible was the Bible used 
by William Shakespeare. The Rheims Douai 
Version, the first English Bible designed for 
Roman Catholics, is also represented in the 
extensive holdings.” The collection consists 
of 26 bibles, 19 leaves and fragments, and 31 
volumes of secondary literature. 

192C&RL News March 2009

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