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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  

Th e  O v i at t  L i b ra r y  o f  Ca l i fo r n i a  S t ate  
University­Northridge received a $25,000 
grant from the John Randolph Haynes and 
Dora Haynes Foundation to fund the be­
ginning phase of preserving and archiving 
the Catherine Mulholland Collection of 
historical records, research files, personal 
papers, estate documents, and business 
records that document the Mulholland 
family and their ranch; the controversial 
history of the California water wars; the 
political, business, and civic leaders of 
Los Angeles; and the earlier growth and 
development of the San Fernando Valley. 
The Mulholland Family has lived in Los 
Angeles and the San Fernando Valley for 
fi ve generations, starting in the 1880s, and 
has been a influential force in the growth 
and development of Southern California. 
The most famous member of the Mulhol­
land family is Catherine’s grandfather Wil­
liam Mulholland, noted and controversial 
builder of the Owens River Aqueduct, St. 
Francis Dam, and the first head of the Los 
Angeles Department of Water and Power. 

University of North Carolina (UNC)-Chapel 
Hill Library has received grants totaling nearly 
$60,000 to advance digital library research 
and development and preserve unique 
films. In March, the National Endowment 
for the Humanities (NEH) awarded $50,000 
to the library’s Documenting the Ameri­
can South (docsouth.unc.edu) program 
to develop a transcription and annotation 
tool for historical and literary archives. A 
$3,000 grant, announced May 1 by UNC’s 
University Research Council, will under­
write preparation and encoding of the 
journal transcription and preparation of 
the journal image files for the NEH project. 
A $5,000 gift to the UNC Library in 2008 

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from an anonymous donor is also being 
used to support the project. Also in May, 
the National Film Preservation Founda­
tion awarded the UNC Library’s Southern 
Historical Collection (library.unc.edu/mss/ 
shc/index.html) $5,690 to preserve three 
films from the Allard Lowenstein Collec­
tion. Lowenstein, a liberal political activist 
and one­term Democratic congressman 
(1969–71) from New York, graduated from 
UNC in 1949. Lowenstein was murdered 
in his New York office in 1980. The fi lms 
to be preserved include, most famously, 
footage of Lowenstein and friends crash­
ing the royal wedding of Grace Kelly in 
Monaco in 1956. Also to be preserved are 
1958 films of Lowenstein’s travels in North 
Carolina and abroad in Russia, Brussels, 
and South Africa. Prominent individuals 
featured include Eleanor Roosevelt, South 
African author and activist Alan Paton and 
his wife, and former UNC president and 
U.S. Senator Frank Porter Graham. 

Acquisitions 

The personal collection of Robert Lawrence 
Balzer, wine connoisseur, journalist and wine 
educator, was received in 2008 by California 
Polytechnic State University­Pomona Library. 
Balzer is recognized for having had an enor­
mous impact on the California wine industry, 
and on the acceptance of California wines 
worldwide. He began championing quality 
California wines in the 1930s, decades before 
the rest of the world realized their stature. In 
1973, he organized a blind tasting with the 
New York Food and Wine Society, where 
California Chardonnays received the top four 
scores. That contributed momentum toward 
the famous 1976 “Judgment of Paris” blind 
tasting, where California wines received top 
scores over French wines (portrayed in the 
2008 film “Bottle Shock”). 

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The papers of Daniel Talbot, an important 
figure in art­house cinema in the United 
States and founder of New Yorker Films 
have been acquired by Columbia University 
Libraries. The collection is comprised of cor­
respondence files that span more than 30 
years, more than two decades of producer 
reports, contract fi les, files related to New 
Yorker Films, financial records, guest books 
dating back to 1960, and production­related 
ephemera. Talbot founded New Yorker Films 
(1965–2009) as a means to exhibit foreign 
film titles for his now defunct New Yorker 
Theater. He began with the acquisition of 
Bernardo Bertolucci’s Before the Revolution, 
leading the way for New Yorker Films to ac­
quire an illustrious list of more than 400 fi lm 
titles, including Jean­Luc Godard’s Breathless 
and Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah. New Yorker 
Films held the rights for theatrical release to 
theaters and colleges, as well as to distribute 
films in DVD format. In 1981, Talbot opened 
his multiplex venue Lincoln Plaza Cinemas 
at 63rd St. and Broadway creating a major 
hub on the Upper West Side of Manhattan 
for first run independent and international 
cinema. In 2004, Talbot was honored by 
IFP/New York with the Gotham Award for 
Industry Lifetime Achievement. Through his 
exhibition and distribution activities, Talbot 
provided movie lovers in the United States 
with access to works by an impressive roster 
of international filmmakers, including Robert 
Bresson, Claude Chabrol, Rainer Fassbinder, 
Federico Fellini, Werner Herzog, Yasujiro 

Ozu, Ousmane Sembene, and Wim Wenders 
among others. 

L i b ra r y  o f  Co n g re s s  h a s  a cq u i re d  t h e  
archives of the American Society of Com­
posers, Authors, and Publisher (ASCAP) 
Foundation, the not­for­profit arm of the 
world’s largest performing­rights organization, 
representing more than 275,000 creators. The 
ASCAP Collection has been established to 
preserve the history and to create a reposi­
tory for audiovisual materials, photos, scores, 
documents, and artifacts relevant to the rich 
history of the institution of ASCAP and ASCAP 
members as contributors to American culture. 
Materials already received include music man­
uscripts; printed music; lyrics (both published 
and unpublished); scrapbooks; correspon­
dence and other personal, business, legal, 
and financial documents; and film, video, and 
sound recordings. Large, complete archives 
already received include those of ASCAP 
founding member Irving Caesar—writer of 
such memorable songs as “Swanee,” “Tea 
For Two,” and “Just A Gigolo”—and Harold 
Adamson, lyricist of “Around the World in 80 
Days, “I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night,” 
“An Affair to Remember,” and the “I Love 
Lucy” theme. Materials will continue to ar­
rive indefinitely, and those already received 
are currently being prepared for researchers. 
Those interested in using parts of the archive 
are encouraged to submit their requests to 
the Music Division through Ask­A­Librarian at 
www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask­perform.html. 

(“Washington Hotline” continues from page 
416) 

the high­quality audio and video necessary 
to discern subtle forms of communica­
tion central to teaching language, criminal 
justice, and other classes. Motion picture 
representatives argued that the exemption is 
not necessary since faculty can use a video 
camera to tape clips from DVDs playing on 
a TV monitor as an alternative to circumven­
tion. A demonstration of this can be seen at 
vimeo.com/4520463 

In October, the Copyright Office will an­
nounce what exemptions to the anticircumven­
tion rule will be honored over the next three 
years. 

ALA’s comments on the Chafee amend­
ment and the Section 121 hearings are avail­
able at the US Copyright Office Web site at 
www.copyright.gov. 

Jonathan Band’s testimony on behalf of ALA, 
ACRL, and ARL is available at www.wo.ala.org 
/districtdispatch/wp­content/uploads/2009/05 
/library­dmca­1201­testimony.pdf. 

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