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September 2012 503 C&RL News

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C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; 
e-mail: agalloway@ala.org.

The North Carolina State University (NCSU) 
Libraries has been awarded a $75,000 grant 
for the second year of the digitization project 
“Cultivating a Revolution: Science, Technol-
ogy, and Change in North Carolina Agricul-
ture, 1950–1979.” The project serves stu-
dents, teachers, researchers, and the general 
public by digitizing and making easily avail-
able online a body of primary documents on 
the evolution of agriculture in North Caro-
lina during a critical period in its develop-
ment. The funds to support this work were 
awarded by the State Library of North Caro-
lina and are made possible through funding 
from the federal Institute of Museum and 
Library Services (IMLS) under the provisions 
of the Library Services and Technology Act 
(LSTA) as administered by the State Library 
of North Carolina, a division of the North 
Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.
The materials digitized through “Cultivat-
ing a Revolution” document how farming 
in North Carolina moved from subsistence 
levels to the production of global commodi-
ties, a shift driven in part by research and 
development done at NCSU. During the sec-
ond year of the project, the NCSU Librar-
ies will digitize an additional 15,000 archival 
pages. Upon completion, the project will 
make 114 16mm films and more than 30,000 
archival pages available online. The major-
ity of collections to be curated in the second 
year of the project documents research and 
development in the College of Agriculture 
and Life Sciences during this revolutionary 
time in North Carolina agricultural history. 
For additional information about “Cultivat-
ing a Revolution,” see www.lib.ncsu.edu 
/specialcollections/projects/cultivating-a 
-revolution.html. 

A c q u i s i t i o n s

A 1796 map and 200-plus page ledger will 
find a home at the Alexandria Library. The 
documents belonged to Charles Alexander 
and were used in a case that was heard by 
the Supreme Court. The library is pleased to 
house the manuscript map and related led-
ger of land records at one of the city’s lead-
ing establishments that focuses on local his-
tory and genealogy: The Special Collections 
Branch at 717 Queen Street. Pulling together 
to make this feat possible were contribu-
tions of several organizations, including the 
Alexandria Library Company, Alexandria Fo-
rum, Alexandria Historical Society, Friend-
ship Veterans Fire Engine Association, and 
the Historic Alexandria Foundation.

Materials that trace 60 years of the his- 
tory of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans-
gender (LGBT) social movements in the 
North Texas region will be housed at the Uni-
versity of North Texas (UNT) Libraries under 
an agreement with Resource Center Dallas 
to acquire the center’s archives. The UNT Li-
braries will receive approximately 400 boxes 
of newspapers, periodicals, press clippings, 
audio files, videotapes of gay pride parades 
and other events, music CDs, and movies fo-
cusing on LGBT and HIV/AIDS topics from 
the center’s Phil Johnson Historic Archives 
and Research Library. The libraries will also 
receive t-shirts, buttons, promotion items 
from AIDS walks and fundraising events, and 
uniforms and other materials from gay sports 
teams. The collection will be known as the 
Resource Center Dallas LGBT Collection of 
the UNT Libraries. Large regional and na-
tional archives recording the history and lives 
of LGBT individuals, organizations, and com-
munities are in Los Angeles, New York City, 
and San Francisco, but no such archives ex-
ists in any Southern state. 

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