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Rio Hondo College has received $20,000 
from Verizon to fund “Children’s Story Time 
@ Rio Hondo College: A Campus Collabora-
tion,” a collaboration between Rio Hondo 
College Library and the Rio Hondo College 
Child Development Department and Child 
Development Center/Lab School. “Children’s 
Story Time @ Rio Hondo College” will teach 
students how to identify and use the chil-
dren’s learning resources provided by the Rio 
Hondo College Library. These resources in-
clude books, puppets, and felt board stories. 
The library is working with Child Develop-
ment Department instructors to select story 
time materials and educate students. In coor-
dinating the Verizon grant, librarian Monique 
Delatte developed and taught classes that 
focused on subjects such as selecting story 
time books, developing activities to enhance 
the stories shared at story time, discovering art 
through children’s literature, and coordinat-
ing opportunities to volunteer with children 
in the community. The grant also funded a 
Very Hungry Caterpillar-themed carpet and 
matching child-sized furniture setting.

University of Pittsburgh School of Information 
Sciences and Health Sciences Library System 
were awarded a $991,311 grant from the Insti-
tute of Museum and Library Services to support 
the creation of a post-master’s health sciences 
librarian certificate program to help address a 
national need for librarians and information 
managers in the health sciences. The 15-credit 
program provides a focused curriculum address-
ing current issues in health sciences librarianship 
and is offered online to lend working students 
flexibility. University of Pittsburgh’s program will 
prepare students for positions in health sciences 
libraries in academic medical centers, hospitals, 
public health agencies, research institutes, and 
other health care settings. 

Acquisitions

A collection of illustrator Edward Gorey’s 
(1925–2000) materials have been donated 
to Keene State College’s Mason Library. The 
collection consists of more than 60 items, 
including books, magazines, and broad-
sides. Gorey is best known for his gothic 
style illustration in black-and-white, and his 
numerous children’s books, although he did 
publish adult books, as well. He published 
works under his own name and also under 
many playful pseudonyms. Soem of his most 
famous works are The Doubtful Guest (1957) 
and The Guilded Bat (1966).

The papers of Peter Maas (1929–2001), 
journalist and author, have been acquired by  
Columbia University Libraries. A native New 
Yorker, Maas came to public attention in the 
1960s as an investigative reporter and one 
of the first representatives of the “new jour-
nalism,” a movement that included Hunter 
Thompson, Gay Talese, and Tom Wolfe. The 
new journalism introduced the techniques of 
fiction into reporting and developed a unique 
hybrid style of journalism. Maas’ big break 
as a reporter came when he obtained access 
through the FBI to Mafia hitman, Joe Valachi 
in the 1960s. Although plagued by lawsuits 
and controversy, Maas’ interviews with Valachi 
eventually saw light in 1969 as The Valachi Pa-
pers, a popular book that also had great critical 
acclaim. Maas was able to trump the success 
of the Valachi book with Serpico (1973), his 
account of the New York City detective who 
blew the whistle on rampant police corrup-
tion. Both books were made into movies. 
Maas is the author of more than 12 books, 
including an account of one woman’s war 
against state government corruption, two ex-
posés of government spying as well as another 
book on organized crime, Underboss (1997). 
The Maas Papers include his correspondence 
files, published and unpublished manuscripts, 
notes, and printed matter. 

G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n sAnn-Christe Galloway

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