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University of California-San Diego has 
received $3 million toward the renovation 
of the university’s flagship building, Geisel 
Library, from San Diego philanthropist, literacy 
advocate, and longtime supporter Audrey 
Geisel. The gift kicks off a major initiative to 
transform and revitalize the interior public 
spaces of Geisel Library to meet the evolving 
needs of students, faculty, and other library 
users in the digital age. Geisel’s gift will be 
used to renovate and update the entry level 
of Geisel Library, which opened in 1972 as 
the university’s Central Library. In 1995, the 
William Pereira-designed building—known 
by many as “the spaceship”—was named 
in honor of Audrey and her late husband, 
Theodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel, in recognition of 
a major gift from Audrey Geisel. While many 
of the library’s information resources are 
available online 24/7, more than 1.5 million 
people stream through the Geisel Library and 
the Biomedical Library buildings each year, 
and the library’s vast resources and services 
are accessed more than 5.7 million times via 
the library website. Geisel Library is also home 
to the Dr. Seuss Collection, with more than 
12,000 original drawings, sketches, manuscript 
drafts, books, notebooks, photographs, and 
other memorabilia documenting the creative 
achievements of Theodor Seuss Geisel. 

New York University (NYU) Libraries and 
NYU Press have received a grant of $786,000 
from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to 
develop infrastructure to enable publication 
of a new scholarly form: the enhanced net-
worked monograph. The three-year project 
will allow the press to publish monographs 
that feature new ways for readers to engage 
with scholarly works and new workflows for 
publishers 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 proj-
ect, and potentially in context with a larger 
body of material. The goal of the project is 
to balance the needs of scholars, publish-
ers, libraries, and readers in the creation of 
online works that may contain media and 
archival content in multiple formats, can be 
produced efficiently, are easily discoverable, 
and invite and measure reader engagement. 
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, and 
new books from NYU Press.

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

The family of music promoter Carlton Haney 
has donated his papers to Appalachian State 
University’s W. L. Eury Appalachian Collec-
tion. The Haney collection includes record-
ings Haney made at the shows he produced; 
correspondence related to his business and 
to the pioneering Bluegrass serial publication 
Muleskinner Blues, which he cofounded and 
coedited; businesses records; his Internation-
al Bluegrass Music Association Award (he 
is the only nonmusician who has received 
one); photos; etc. In 1965, Haney produced 
the first multiday Bluegrass festival in Fin-
castle, Virginia. Haney was also an important 
player in the careers of country and western 
artists, including Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, 
Porter Wagoner, Conway Twitty, and Merle 
Haggard—who introduced Haney at a con-
cert in Philadelphia as the “greatest county 
music promoter in the world.”  

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