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C&RL News February 2012  112

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Co l u m b i a  U n i ve r s i t y  L i b ra r i e s’ Ave r y 
Architectural & Fine Arts Library and the 
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, 
and Preservation (GSAPP) has received a $4 
million gift from the Durst Organization. The 
Durst Organization has also donated Seymour 
Durst’s Old York Library Collection, which 
includes books and ephemeral materials 
about New York City, as well as architectural 
documentation, including renderings, plans, 
and photos from the Durst Organization 
Archives. The Durst Digital Research Labo-
ratory in GSAPP’s Center for Global Design 
and Development will be created with $1.8 
million of the gift. The remaining $1 million 
will create the Durst Fund for Research, which 
will support a series of annual projects at 
GSAPP’s Real Estate Development Program 
over the next five years. Each year, students 
and researchers will relate one aspect of the 
Durst collections to an important question 
facing the future of global cities. Through a 
series of crossdisciplinary activities, such as 
workshops, seminars, symposiums, exhibi-
tions, publications, or short-term visiting 
scholars, this question will be explored and 
answered, further advancing the fields of 
architecture and real estate development.

Acquisitions

Artist and Columbus native George  
Bellows’s (1882–1925) record books and 
ledger has been acquired by Ohio State 
University Libraries (OSU) and Columbus 
Museum of Art. Bellows maintained me-
ticulous records of his artistic production, 
including sales, exhibition showings, and 
documentation of works that were de-

stroyed. He augmented the record books 
with more than 200 thumbnail sketches 
of his original art. Bellows was born and 
raised in Columbus and attended OSU. 
As the joint owners of the record books, 
the museum and the libraries will col-
laborate on programming, exhibition, and 
research availability of these unique re-
sources. In addition to storing the materials 
in the secure, atmospherically controlled 
Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, the 
Bellows documents have been digitized 
and will be available online through 
OSU’s Knowledge Bank (https://kb.osu. 
edu/dspace/), a digital repository. 

The papers of Fred Saberhagen, Chicago- 
born author and best-selling science fiction 
writer, have been acquired by the Depart-
ment of Rare Books and Special Collections 
at Northern Illinois University (NIU). He 
died in 2007 after a prolific writing career, 
publishing 60 novels and numerous short 
stories, in addition to editing anthologies 
and collections. His extensive fiction career 
began with publishing his first short sto-
ries in If and Galaxy magazines in the early 
1960s. Those magazines, along with other 
science fiction and fantasy pulp magazines 
dating back to the 1920s, are included in 
the University Libraries’ collection. Saber-
hagen’s papers consist of more than 20 
boxes of materials. Lynne M. Thomas, cura-
tor of Rare Books and Special Collections 
for NIU Libraries, said “He is perhaps best 
known for the Berserker novels, a series 
of books about interstellar ruthless killer 
machines that predate the Terminator films 
by 20 years . . . His Dracula sequence of 
novels, beginning with ‘The Vampire Tape,’ 
tells Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ from the vam-
pire’s point of view and was published a 
year before Anne Rice’s ‘Interview with the 
Vampire.’” 

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