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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 Library of Congress has received a 
Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and 
Archives grant from the Council on Library 
and Information Resources (CLIR) to support 
a project that will catalog 125,000 sheet maps 
of Africa. The catalog records to be produced 
under the $240,240 grant will include geo­
graphic coordinates for each map that will 
permit geographic searching of the cata­
log records. The 
enhanced catalog 
data will make it 
possible to view 
the coverage area 
of individual sheet 
maps using geo­
graphical brows­
ers such as Google 
Earth. The Library 
of Congress col­
lected maps since 
1800, forming the 
G e o g r a p h y  a n d  
Map Division in 
1897 to concen­
trate exclusively on 
the development of 
that collection. At 
present, the division holds some 5.5 million 
maps, 75,000 atlases, 500 globes and globe 
gores, 3000 raised relief images, and 20,000 
digital files. Work on the CLIR­funded project 
will be completed by February 2012. 

The collaborative project “Working for 
Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organi­
zations,” has received $900,000 from CLIR. 
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Founda­
tion, the grant will support the inventorying, 
cataloging, and opening for research of 
civil rights­oriented collections at the Emory 
University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare 

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MSU President Mark Keenum and First Lady Rhonda 
Keenum view a portrait of Ulysses S. Grant at Mitchell 
Memorial Library prior to a program offi  cially accepting 
the Grant Collection for MSU. Photo credit: Jim Tomlinson, 
MSU Libraries. 

Book Library (Atlanta); the Auburn Avenue 
Research Library on African American Culture 
and History (Atlanta); the Amistad Research 
Center at Tulane University (New Orleans); 
and the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the 
Atlanta University Center (Atlanta). 

Louisiana State University has received a 
gift of $100,000 from Terence “Terry” Beven, 

and his wife, Liz. 
The Beven dona­
tion takes the form 
of an endowed 
gift, which will 
help LSU address 
the libraries’ needs 
for many years to 
come. The Bevens 
have a long history 
of service to LSU 
Libraries, and rep­
resent the libraries 
on the Forever LSU 
National Campaign 
Cabinet. They are 
also members of 
the Libraries’ Bene­
factor’s Society and 

Friends of the LSU Libraries. Forever LSU is 
a campaign to attain more than $750 million 
in support for the university by the end of 
the year 2010. 

Acquisitions 

Through an agreement signed with the 
Ulysses S. Grant Association, correspon­
dence, photographs, books, memorabilia, 
and other documents related to the military 
career and presidency of Ulysses S. Grant 
now are being housed at Mississippi State 
University (MSU). In December 2008, MSU 
Libraries officials took delivery of nearly 90 
filing cabinets of original and photocopied 

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manuscripts. Formerly housed at Southern 
Illinois University, the material includes 
letters written to leading political and mili­
tary figures of the day, as well as epaulets, 
headgear, diaries, and other war memora­
bilia. Over the next five years, the Ulysses 
S. Grant Association and MSU Libraries will 
be leading efforts to produce a supplemen­
tary volume, as well as a scholarly edition of 
Memoirs, Grant’s autobiography. The MSU 
libraries also will be working to develop 
a digitized version of the entire series and 
a cumulative index, which will precede a 
formal opening of the collection to visiting 
scholars. 

Jim Hightower—national radio commen­
tator, syndicated political columnist, public 
speaker, and New York Times best­selling au­
thor—has donated his archives to the Wittliff 
Collections at Texas State University­San Mar­
cos. Branded “America’s #1 Populist,” Hight­
ower believes the true political spectrum is not 
right­to­left but bottom­to­top, and he is dedi­
cated to battling the powers­that­be on behalf 
of—in his words—the “powers­that­ought­
to­be”: consumers, working families, farmers, 
environmentalists, small business owners, 
and “just plain folks.” The Hightower Papers 
document every aspect of Hightower’s long 
career; materials are expected to reach ap­
proximately 200 linear feet once everything 
is rehoused in archival boxes and the inven­
tory process is complete. Also of note are 
approximately 600 photographs his staff is 
currently digitizing. Among these are shots 
of Hightower speaking, politicking, and at­
tending various events, as well as pictures 
with such luminaries as Cesar Chavez, Wil­
lie Nelson, Robert Redford, Ann Richards, 
Molly Ivins, Granny D, Ted Kennedy, and 
others. 

The literary archive of Aldous Huxley 
(1894–1963) has been acquired by the UCLA 
Library. The collection contains literary ma­
terials he created subsequent to a devastat­
ing 1961 fire that destroyed his Los Angeles 
home and much of his earlier archive; corre­

spondence, photographs, and audio tapes; 
and typescripts and galley proofs retrieved 
from publishers after his death. Also includ­
ed are the papers of his wife, Laura Huxley 
(1911–2007), author and lay therapist. The 
literary materials include manuscripts and 
working papers for 12 books; 35 essays, ar­
ticles, and speeches; and 31 lectures. Among 
hundreds of letters are love letters between 
the writer and his wife, Laura. There are re­
cordings of many of his lectures and of him 
reading from his novel Time Must Have a 
Stop (1944), and English and French poetry. 
The archive also contains a travel diary, four 
personal notebooks and personal effects, 
including his British passport, a magnifying 
glass, fountain pens, and a leather wallet. 

The Boone and Crockett Club, the oldest 
national wildlife conservation organization 
in North America, has donated its historic 
files, letters, and photographs to the Mau­
reen and Mike Mansfield Library at the Uni­
versity of Montana. The club was founded 
in 1887 by Theodore Roosevelt and a hand­
ful of friends to address declines in wildlife 
populations on a national scale. It was the 
first hunter­conservationist organization of 
its kind. The Boone and Crockett Club has 
been involved in almost every major con­
servation effort in North America, includ­
ing the expansion and protection of Yel­
lowstone National Park, the passage of the 
Migratory Bird Act, and the establishment 
of the federal wildlife refuge system, includ­
ing the National Bison Range in 1908. The 
club also maintains the hunting records of 
native North American big game as a vital 
conservation record in assessing the success 
of wildlife management programs across the 
continent. Throughout the organization’s his­
tory, club members have advocated on be­
half of legislation in support of conserving 
big game and wildlife habitat. In 1992, the 
organization established an endowed chair 
in wildlife biology at the university to teach 
classes and conduct research at the Missoula 
campus and the club’s 6,000­acre Theodore 
Roosevelt Memorial Ranch. 

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