april11b.indd C&RL News April 2011 244 Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: agalloway@ala.org. The Duke University Libraries have re- ceived a $1.25 million grant from the An- drew W. Mellon Foundation to create a new senior conservator position to help care for the libraries’ extensive research collections. During the next three years, the libraries will raise a matching $1 million to endow the position, while $250,000 of the grant will al- low the libraries to proceed with appoint- ing someone before the endowment is fully funded. The Gumberg Library at Duquesne Univer- sity received a Library Services and Tech- nology Act grant for $20,000 to digitize additional years of the Pittsburgh Catholic newspaper including issues from February 27, 1864 through January 3, 1900. The Pitts- burgh Catholic, America’s oldest Catholic newspaper, has been in continuous publica- tion since March 16, 1844. Through a pilot project, Gumberg Library completed digiti- zation of the 1844-1864 issues. Adding new content to the library’s digital collections will continue to support service to the Catholic community in the Pittsburgh area. It will also enhance the depth of the library’s unique coverage available through the Catholic Re- search Resources Alliance Web site at www. catholicresearch.net/. The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) at the Emory Libraries has received a three-year, $170,000 matching grant for the conservation of African Ameri- can scrapbooks and the creation of digital surrogates to enhance access to the histori- cal materials—the scrapbooks of artists, writ- ers, students, vaudeville performers, preach- ers, and former slaves. The Emory Libraries will provide the matching amount. The 34 scrapbooks selected, with dates ranging from 1883 to 1975, contain items that by na- ture disintegrate quickly or are easily dam- aged, such as folded newspaper clippings, pressed flowers, and single-use paper items such as ticket stubs, napkins and telegram paper. The objects usually were attached with adhesives such as cheap tape, pastes or cement glue, also harmful to the archi- val materials. Once the project begins, the scrapbooks first will be sent to preservation to be stabilized to prevent further damage. Digital surrogates will be created, which will be used in classrooms and MARBL’s reading room, unless researchers request the origi- nals. The Historically Black Colleges and Univer- sities (HBCU) Library Alliance has received a $70,000 grant award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Alliance’s “Pre- serving Our History” project. The two-year project will document and disseminate the history of the HBCU Library Alliance and highlight member success stories. This is the first grant awarded directly to the Alliance. A professional writer will be hired to docu- ment the history and accomplishments of the HBCU Library Alliance. The grant deliv- erables will contribute to the literature about libraries and HBCUs. Acquisitions The collection of trumpet player Fred Mills has been acquired by the University of Georgia (UGA) Libraries. Mills joined the UGA School of Music in 1996 to establish its trumpet program after traveling for nearly 25 years with the legendary Canadian Brass. Mills’ life ended in a September 2009 car accident when he was returning to Athens G r a n t s a n d A c q u i s i t i o n sAnn-Christe Galloway April 2011 245 C&RL News from an overseas performance. The UGA Libraries will house the collection of Mel Broiles, who served as principal trumpet for the New York Metropolitan Opera and was on the faculty at the Julliard School of Music. Mills had acquired Broiles’ compositions, ar- rangements and memorabilia, following his 2003 death, with the intention of creating a repository. The collection also contains the many Canadian Brass arrangements written by Mills. Scrapbooks, show costumes, and artifacts used in performances round out the assemblage. Mills recorded more than 40 albums with the Canadian Brass and was nominated for a Grammy in 1992. He was a founding member of the American Sympho- ny Orchestra, was principal trumpet for the New York City Opera, and was the founding principal trumpet of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in 1969. He was, prior to that ap- pointment, principal trumpet of the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra. After joining the UGA faculty, he helped establish the UGA Brass Quintet and the Bulldog Brass Society, the graduate brass quintet. Because of the immense size of the collection it will not be available to the public until the opening of the new UGA Special Collections Libraries Building, set for fall 2012. A collection of angling and sporting books has been received by the College of Charles- ton’s Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Li- brary. The collection contains more than 2,000 angling and sporting books published between the 17th and mid-20th centuries in Great Britain and the United States. The col- lection, compiled by Greville Haslam, boasts more than 400 volumes of Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler, the third most reprint- ed book in publishing history, exceeded only by the Bible and Pilgrim’s Progress. The collection includes the rare 1655 sec- ond edition, the 1661 third edition, and the 1676 fifth edition. Haslam (1891–1967) served as headmaster of Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania (1921–57). An an- gler, hunter, and world traveller with an in- terest in exploration, his valuable collection of sporting books took him more than 45 years to build. The LaDonna Harris Papers and Americans for Indian Opportunity Records are now avail- able for research at the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections of the Univer- sity Libraries at the University of New Mexico. Processing this collection was made possible through a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. The collection consists of correspondence, docu- ments, photographs, reports, and audiovisual recordings from LaDonna Harris’ life as an activ- ist and from AIO’s four decades of operation as a nonprofit organization involved in advocacy and development projects related to the needs and rights of Native Americans. The bulk of the 140 box collection dates from 1970 to 2000. She is the founder and president of Ameri- cans for Indian Opportunity, an organization dedicated to facilitating initiatives to enrich the cultural, political, and economic lives of indig- enous peoples around the world. The finding aid to the collection is available via the Rocky Mountain Online Archive at rmoa.unm.edu /docviewer.php?docId=nmumss862bc.xml. A collection of 115 catechisms dating be- tween 1493 and 1830 has been acquired by Bridwell Library Special Collections at South- ern Methodist University. In addition to provid- ing essential religious instruction, these popu- lar manuals of Christian doctrine were often the first types of texts used in teaching both children and adults how to read. Spanning five centuries, representing more than 50 authors, and published in 50 different cities, these cat- echisms were printed in 17 different languages including Latin, Greek, and Hebrew as well as European and world vernacular translations. Developed by Bruce McKittrick Rare Books over the last two decades with items pur- chased from booksellers, auction houses, and private parties in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and the continental Europe, the collection was acquired with the assistance of a grant from the B.H. Breslauer Foundation of New York.