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Washington University in St. Louis Libraries 
has received a four-year, $550,000 grant from 
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to pre-
serve Henry Hampton’s award-winning 
civil rights documentary “Eyes on the Prize: 
America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954–1965,” 
as well as Hampton’s complete, unedited 
interviews recorded on film for the docu-
mentary. The grant is the largest ever re-
ceived by University Libraries. “Eyes on the 
Prize” is a six-episode documentary on the 
American civil rights movement. Originally 
broadcast in 1987 on Public Broadcasting 
Systems stations throughout the country, the 
documentary uses both archival footage of 
the events depicted and contemporary in-
terviews. Among those interviewed for the 
documentary were Curtis Jones, cousin of 
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American 
boy murdered in Mississippi in 1955; Coretta 
Scott King, wife of the Rev. Martin Luther 
King Jr.; and Burke Marshall, head of the 
Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department 
of Justice during the Kennedy administra-
tion. 

Council on Library and Information Re-
sources (CLIR) has been awarded $117,567 
by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for re-
search on how to build capacity for data 
curation within disciplines. The project 
will be managed by CLIRs Digital Library 
Federation (DLF). The project will consist 
of three interrelated activities. The first 
will be an environmental scan of profes-
sional development needs and of educa-
tion and training opportunities for digital 
curation in the academy. The second will 
be an anthropological study of five sites 

where digital curation activities are under 
way. The third will be a report that ana-
lyzes the results of the two research ef-
forts and includes a proposal, informed 
by the findings, for amending the curricu-
lum for CLIRs Postdoctoral Fellowship in 
Academic Libraries program.

Acquisitions

A collection relating to Émile Zola and 
French theater, valued at more than 
$150,000, was donated to the John M. Kelly 
Library of the University of St. Michael’s 
College in the University of Toronto (http://
stmikes.utoronto.ca). The James B. Sanders 
Collection includes 40 autographs letters 
from novelist Émile Zola, and as many first 
editions of his novels; papers from Denise 
and Maurice LeBlond, Zola’s daughter and 
son-in-law; correspondence from stage 
director André Antoine, who was one of 
the first directors to embrace cinema; more 
than 80 plays in their original wrappers, 
bearing dedications by the playwrights, ap-
proval stamps from the Censorship Bureau, 
or stage directions; photographs of actors 
and actresses from the turn of the century; 
correspondence from playwrights, journal-
ists, and novelists; periodicals, playbills, 
and assorted ephemera. Following an ex-
tensive inventory completed by D. Speirs 
and Y. Portebois (professors from the De-
partment of French Studies at the Univer-
sity of Toronto), the collection is now in 
the process of being fully cataloged and 
will become available to researchers by the 
end of 2011. Further information is avail-
able from the Kelly Library Special Col-
lections and Archives (specialcollections. 
kellylibrary@utoronto.ca). 

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