ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


December 1 9 9 6 / 781

Folger Shakespeare Li­
brary has b een  aw arded a 
two-year grant of $175,000 
from the National Endow ­
m ent for th e H um anities.
The grant will allow the li­
brary to catalog online its 
collection of English printed 
books for the period 1641­
1700, w hich will then be 
m atched to records in the 
EngSTC database, enabling 
Folger to contribute about 
3,000 new  records to ESTC 
for the “Wing” period.

Linfield College's Northup Library has
received a $25,000 grant from the George I. 
Alden Trust of Worcester, Massachusetts. The 
grant will permit the library to continue to u p ­
grade com puter equipm ent and software for 
the online system.

Louisiana State University Libraries re­
cently received $182,714 from the 1995-96 Loui­
siana Education Quality Support Fund com pe­
tition. The award will be used to create two 
electronic classrooms in Middleton Library, and 
will support installation of 40 user workstations 
in two instructional laboratories, one of which 
will be equipped with adaptive aids. The new 
facilities will aid instruction and learning of lo­
cal electronic resources and the Internet.

Thomas Jefferson U niversity's Scott
Memorial Library and the Historical Society of 
Pennsylvania have received $25,000 in LSCA 
funding to create the Philadelphia Health-Re­
lated D ocum entary Image D atabase on the 
World Wide Web. Approximately 2,000 images 
representing the early history of American medi­
cine will be preserved through photo repro­
duction and converted to the Photo CD format. 
The images will be stored in an Oracle data­
base, which will be searchable on the Internet.

The University of California, Santa Cruz,
has received a $10,000 endow m ent from June

Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Ac­
quisitions, C&RL News, 5011 Huron St., Chi­
cago. IL 60611; e-mail: htbonipson@ala.org.

Bauman for the University 
Library’s Jewish Studies Col­
lection. The donation will 
establish the Bauman Jew ­
ish Studies Fund in honor of 
B a u m a n ’s la te h u s b a n d , 
Rabbi Morton Bauman, w ho 
contributed his personal col­
lection of Judaica and related 
works to the library in 1993. 
The Bauman collection is 
valued at $10,000 and in­
cludes primary texts of the 
T a lm u d  in H e b re w  a n d  
translations of the Talmud in 

English, along with many other volumes and 
sets.

The University of South Florida (USF)
Tampa Campus Library has received a gift of 
$200,000 from Piers Anthony and his wife, Carol 
Jacob, to endow  the library’s Oral History Pro­
gram. The program allows the USF Library to

N ew  grant program 
announced

The Council on Library Resources an­
nounces a new  grant program in the Eco­
nomics of Information that is being funded 
by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As 
libraries move into a new  age of electronic 
communication and technological informa­
tion, data on the costs of both old and new  
systems is necessary for planning and bud­
geting. The program is intended to stimu­
late research, encourage data collection, and 
prom ote economic analysis of library o p ­
erations and services to allow libraries to 
make effective decisions as they move into 
the future. Examples of topics for study in­
clude cost-benefit analysis of commercial 
document-delivery services, life-cycle cost­
ing models for print and electronic media, 
identification of output measures for ser­
vice benefits, and others. Grants are lim­
ited to a maximum of $25,000. For more 
information, contact Glenn W. LaFantasie, 
Senior Program Officer, Council on Library 
Resources, 1400 l6 th  St., N.W., Suite 715, 
Washington, D.C. 20036; gwlafant@cpa.org.

Grants
and

Acquisitions
Tara Weikum

mailto:gwlafant@cpa.org


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preserve sp o k en  records of historical signifi­
cance. T he gift will b e p aid  over five years an d  
is eligible for a $100,000 m atch thro u g h  the 
State of Florida’s M atching G rant Program . T he 
library h o u ses th e  Piers A nthony C ollection, 
w hich A nthony, a w ell-know n fantasy fiction 
writer, d o n ated  in 1993 an d  to  w hich h e  co n ­
tinues to  add.

Acquisitions
A collection of V ietn am  W a r  cinema 
m aterial has b e e n  acquired by the D epartm ent 
o f Special Collections o f the C onnelly Library 
at LaSalle University in Philadelphia. T he col­
lectio n  includes film scripts, v id eo d isk s, film 
press kits, posters, lobby cards, publicity stills, 
a n d  v id e o c a s s e t te s  c o m p ile d  b y  J o h n  K. 
McAskill during his research an d  creation of a 
V ie tn a m  b i b l i o g r a p h y  o f  film  c r itic is m . 
M cA skill’s d o n a tio n  w ill b rin g  th e  to tal o f 
LaSalle’s Im aginative R epresentations o f the 
V ietnam  W ar Collection to  10,000 items.

W illia m  S a ro ya n ’ s papers and docu­
m ents h ave b e e n  d o n ated  to  th e Stanford Uni­
versity Libraries by the Saroyan Foundation. T he 
w ell-know n A m erican a u th o r a n d  playw right 
w o n  the Pulitzer prize in 1938 for his play The 
Time o f  Your Life‚ b u t refused th e aw ard b e ­
cause h e  believed his o th er w orks w ere just as 
good. Stanford is com piling th e  entire archival 
collection, w hich is currently sp read  o u t at dif­
ferent locations, a n d  will create an  an n u al w rit­
ing aw ard in Saroyan’s nam e. Stanford will also 
nam e its curatorship for British an d  American 
literature after Saroyan, an d  will create a p ro ­
gram  that will en co u rag e reading o f m any liter­
ary figures, including Saroyan.

A donation of 2 8 0 ,0 0 0  historical nega­
tives from  the Fort Worth Star-Telegram have 
b e e n  given to  th e Special Collections Division 
o f the University o f Texas at Arlington Librar­
ies. D ating from  1955-79, the negatives will be 
ad d e d  to an earlier don atio n  o f prints an d  n eg a­
tives dating from  th e  late 19th century to  1955. 
T he n e w  collection includes topics such as the 
Dallas Cow boys, LBJ, NASA, an d  the d ev elo p ­
m ent of th e H ouston Space Center. ■