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New York University (NYU) Libraries and 
NYU Press have received a grant of $786,000 
from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to de-
velop infrastructure to enable publication of a 
new scholarly form: the Enhanced Networked 
Monograph. The three-year project will allow 
the NYU Press to publish monographs that 
feature new ways for readers to engage with 
scholarly works and new workflows for pub-
lishers to create them. The monographs will 
be “networked” in several ways. They will be 
published as open access on the web; weave 
together archival resources from other places 
on the web; bring together communities of 
readers through commentary and annotation; 
and be part of a semantic network that offers 
precise and relevant discovery of concepts 
within each work, across the entire corpus of 
works in the project, and potentially in context 
with a larger body of material. The corpus of 
monographs being enhanced includes backlist 
books from NYU Press and its project partners, 
University of Michigan Press and University of 
Minnesota Press, along with new books from 
NYU Press.

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

Thousands of Western Shoshone Defense 
Project records have been donated to the 
University of Nevada-Reno (UNR) Library’s 
Special Collections and University Archives. 
These papers, donated by Carrie Dann—an 
elder in the Western Shoshone Tribe in Ne-
vada, document the many years Dann and 
her sister Mary engaged in a dispute with the 
federal government over who had control of 
Western Shoshone ancestral territory. A grant, 

one of only 15 nationwide, from the National 
Historical Records and Publications Commis-
sion has made it possible for the records to 
be organized, archived, and made accessible 
to the public UNR. Previously, the annals 
were only available to members of the West-
ern Shoshone Tribe. Mary Gibson, a cousin 
to the Dann sisters, is serving as the project 
archivist. She understands the importance 
of maintaining these records “because there 
are young people today who won’t have the 
benefit of knowing our elders and what they 
went through,” Gibson said. This collection is 
also important because it’s the first from the 
Western Shoshone Tribe, according to Jac-
quelyn Sundstrand, manuscripts and archives 
librarian. These materials are currently being 
processed and the entire archive will be open 
to the public by October 2015.

The materials of jazz pianist Erroll Garner— 
a Pittsburgh-born virtuoso who was one of 
the most influential musicians of his genre—
have been given to the University of Pitts-
burgh Library System. Assembled by his 
longtime agent and manager, the late civil 
rights advocate Martha Glaser, the collec-
tion is an exceptionally complete record of 
a major mid-20th-century musical career and 
of both Garner and Glaser’s roles in remov-
ing racial barriers in the music industry and 
asserting artists’ rights. The materials include 
correspondence, performance and recording 
contracts, photographs, sheet music, awards, 
sound and video recordings, and memora-
bilia ranging from an illustration of Garner 
sketched on a cocktail napkin in a Paris jazz 
club to a telephone book he used to sit on 
while performing to boost his short stature 
(5 feet, 2 inches) so he could better lever-
age the piano keys. To mark the anniversary 
of Garner’s birthday, Sony Legacy released a 
new Garner album on June 15, The Complete 
Concert by the Sea, coproduced by Pitt Jazz 
Studies Director and pianist Geri Allen. 

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