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Indiana University (IU) and two partner 
university libraries have received two 
grants totaling $931,000 from the Andrew 
W. Mellon Foundation to support further 
development of the Avalon Media System 
and a study of new business models for 
scholarly publishing. The first of these 
grants provides $750,000 to the IU Libraries 
and The Northwestern University Library 
to support continuing development of the 
Avalon Media System, an open-source soft-
ware product designed to help libraries and 
archives provide long-term online access to 
audio and video collections for primarily 
academic audiences. IU and Northwestern 
have successfully collaborated to release 
three major versions of Avalon since the de-
velopment project began in October 2011 
with funding from a three-year National 
Leadership Grant from the Institute of 
Museum and Library Services. The second 
of these grants, providing $181,000 to the 
IU Libraries and the University of Michigan 
Library, is a key component in a range of 
investigations underway to analyze the vi-
ability of alternative sustainable financial 
models for university presses and other 
nonprofit book publishers. This model 
has the potential to broaden the reach of 
scholarly research, increase the speed with 
which scholars learn about new develop-
ments in their fields, and support the public 
universities’ mission to disseminate their 
faculty’s research findings. The research 
will be accomplished through a mix of 
interviews with key faculty and administra-
tion stakeholders and financial analyses.

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

A collection relating to William Wordsworth  
has been acquired by the Georgetown Uni-
versity Library. Professor Emeritus Paul F. 
Betz donated the collection of books, manu-
scripts, and art relating to William Word-
sworth, associated writers of the British Ro-
mantic Period, and other figures in English 
literary history. Betz taught in Georgetown’s 
Department of English until 2007 and re-
mains active as a Wordsworth scholar and in 
university affairs. The inaugural installment 
of Betz’s gift includes a sampling from the full 
collection: Wordsworth first editions, books 
from the libraries of Wordsworth and his 
friend Robert Southey, a collection of manu-
scripts by 57 lesser-known 19th-century Brit-
ish poets, a run of The European Magazine 
that includes Wordsworth’s first published 
poem (1787, attributed to “AXIOLOGUS”—
“Wordsworth” in Greek), a special copy (one 
of only ten) of William Knight’s edition of 
Wordsworth’s Poetical Works, and many oth-
ers. Other highlights of the Betz collection 
include the rare first edition of Lyrical Bal-
lads (London issue, 1798), one of the first 
major works of the British Romantic era; the 
second edition of Lyrical Ballads, whose 
preface set forth Wordsworth’s manifesto 
for Romantic poetry; first and early editions 
of the rest of Wordsworth’s works, many of 
them presentation or association copies; a 
large number of books from Wordsworth’s, 
Southey’s, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 
libraries (many of them annotated by their 
owners); a substantial number of letters and 
manuscripts by or relating to Wordsworth 
and by a wide array of his contemporaries; 
and associated prints and drawings. In addi-
tion to his gift of the books and manuscripts 
themselves, Betz has funded an endowment 
to support the collection. 

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