C&RL News January 2016 46 The University of Illinois Library and the Graduate School of Library and Informa- tion Science (GSLIS) have been awarded $398,844 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services through its Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. Harriett Green, English and digital humanities librarian at the University Library, is the principal investigator on the project, “Digging Deeper, Reaching Fur- ther: Libraries Empowering Users to Mine the HathiTrust Digital Library Resources.” J. Ste- phen Downie, GSLIS professor and associate dean for research and codirector of the Ha- thiTrust Research Center (HTRC), and Beth Sandore Namachchivaya, associate university librarian for research, are co-principal inves- tigators on the project. The project will “de- velop a shared curriculum for use in academic libraries [as well as] a train-the-trainer series designed to assist librarians in getting started with the tools, services, and related research methodologies of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC).” This project brings together noted experts in research and practice both at the University of Illinois as well as other institutions to further digital humanities re- search. Working with the University of Illinois principal investigators will be colleagues from Indiana University, Northwestern University, Lafayette College, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill, and HTRC. The University of Toronto (UT) has been awarded a grant of $773,000 USD ($1,034,750 CAD) from the Andrew W. Mellon Foun- dation to develop digital tools to support manuscript study. The funding will be used by the university to support a partnership between its library and its Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS) to further develop the widely adopted and award-winning open source digital scholarship platform Omeka, facilitat- ing its increased use in the digital manuscript studies field. The Mellon Foundation’s grant will enable the building of infrastructure and capacity at the UT Libraries to support digital scholarship, foster further technical and intel- lectual collaboration between UT and other research institutions, and contribute to the community development and adoption of standards-compliant, interoperable, modu- lar digital scholarship tools that are closely informed by scholarly needs. The 30-month project began in October 2015, and is being led by coprincipal investigators Sian Meikle, director, Information Technology Services, UT Libraries and Alexandra Gillespie, UT associate professor, English and Medieval Studies. The UT Libraries and CMS will develop these tools in collaboration with Benjamin Albritton and the Mirador development team based at Stan- ford’s Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Dorothy Porter (curator of Digital Research Services, Penn Libraries), and her group at Penn State’s Kislak Centre for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. The George A. Smathers Libraries at the Uni- versity of Florida was awarded $5,431 Project Ceres funds to expand access to Florida agri- cultural research. The award is for the project Increasing Accessibility to Rare Florida Agri- cultural Publications, which supports digitiza- tion and preservation of 57 print issues from the Marston Science Library and seven other Florida institutions. University of Nevada-Las Vegas University Libraries Special Collections, which houses the Center for Gaming Research and one of the world’s largest collections of research material on gaming, has been awarded a $129,600 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. This grant will support a two-year project titled “America’s Great Gamble: A Project to Promote the Discovery of Sources About the Expansion of Legalized G r a n t s a n d A c q u i s i t i o n sAnn-Christe Galloway Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; email: agalloway@ala.org. January 2016 47 C&RL News Gambling Across the United States” that will increase the discoverability and usability of three archival collections on gaming and gam- bling: the Katherine Spilde Papers on Tribal Gaming (1974–2012), the Eugene Christian- sen Papers on Gaming (1970–2008), and the Gary Royer Papers on Gaming (1955–1996). These collections will provide new evidence and historical context surrounding the rapid expansion of casinos and legalized gambling in the United States between 1970 and 2010. “America’s Great Gamble” will offi cially launch on April 1, 2016. A c q u i s i t i o n s A collection of materials from Lewis Carroll has been acquired by the University of South Florida Libraries. The collection of approxi- mately 200 items, includes unique manuscript material by Carroll, ephemera, and signifi cant illustrated editions, dating from 1861 to 2000. In addition to the unique manuscript mate- rial, the collection supports research in recep- tion and publication history of Carroll as well as study of 19th- and 20th-century illustration. The breadth encompassed in the collection’s illustrations, both in terms of type of illustra- tion (lithograph, etching, modern fi ne press wood blocks) as well as number of illustra- tors represented, is particularly signifi cant. The Richard J. Howe Mechanical Musical Instrument Literature Collection has been acquired by the Stanford University Archive of Recorded Sound, a leading music archive with more than 400,000 items in its perma- nent collection. The collection consists of over 225 linear feet of publications and docu- ments comprising more than 14,000 items. With this acquisition, Stanford Libraries will make available important primary source documents for research to support the newly launched Player Piano Project. The collec- tion will be housed at the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound. The collection contains a signifi cant number of rare brochures and trade catalogs dating from 1854 to 1992, pub- lished by the companies that manufactured piano players and player pianos, organs, mu- sic boxes, nickelodeons, phonographs, and other mechanical music machines. Of par- ticular importance is a defi nitive collection of the literature pertaining to the three major types of reproducing piano systems—Ampi- co, Duo-Art, and Welte-Mignon—containing more than 90 percent of the items published on these three systems in the United States, plus a substantial amount of literature on reproducing pianos from England and Ger- many. Nearly every major company in the mechanical music business is represented, including piano players and player pianos by the Baldwin Piano Co., Chickering & Sons, Steinway, and Wilcox & White Co.; organs by Estey, Mason and Hamlin, and Story and Clark, Wurlitzer; phonographs and jukeboxes by Wurlitzer and RCA Victor; music boxes by Jacot & Sons, Lyon & Healy, and Mermod Freres; nickelodeons by the Berry-Wood Pi- ano Player Co., the Marquette Piano Co., and Nelson-Wiggen Piano Co.; orchestrions by E. Boecker Organ & Orchestrion Co., Ludwig Hupfeld, and Limonaire Freres; and many others. Upcoming ACRL e-Learning ACRL is offering a variety of online courses and webcasts this winter. Upcoming top- ics include: Framing the Framework Part Two: In- novative Instructional Partnerships for Librarians and Writing Faculty (Webcast: February 10, 2016) The Library Workplace in the 21st Century (Online Course: February 22–March 12, 2016) Visit the ACRL e-Learning website at www. ala.org/acrl/onlinelearning for complete details and a full listing of upcoming ACRL e-Learning events.