ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries March 1984 / 135 News from the field ACQUISITIONS •G eorgetown University, W ashington, has received a m ajor research collection relating to the assassination of A braham Lincoln and the alleged subsequent career of John Wilkes Booth. The col­ lection, gathered by E .H . Swaim of Eden, Texas, contains m aterials w hich some historians have used to su b stan tiate th eir claim s th a t Booth was not killed at the G arrett Farm in Virginia following the assassination, b u t th a t he survived to die peacefully in E nid, O klahom a, in 1903. Letters and affidavits from persons who were involved in the events sur­ rounding the assassination, members of the Booth family and their acquaintances, and individuals who claim ed to have known Booth later in Texas and O klahom a form the bulk of the collection. Of fu rth e r interest is a considerable file of p h o to ­ graphs, including the original tintype, ca. 1872, from w hich Booth was identified w ith the m an us­ ing the nam e of John St. Helen. Georgetow n has also m ade available to scholars the papers of D avid Rankin Barbee, the W ashing­ ton Post jo u rn a list an d h isto ria n w ho devoted nearly 30 years to the study of A braham Lincoln, Rose O ’Neal G reenhow , and the history of Tennes­ see. The collection includes, besides extensive cor­ respondence w ith historians Albert J. Beveridge, H enry Steele Com m ager, and Paul M. Angle, all of B arbee’s ow n research files and the m anuscripts of three unpublished works. •Syracuse University, New York, has finished processing the largest collection of V enetian histor­ ical m anuscripts in North America, housed in the Com m unity College News from Northern Virginia Discount Online Searching. In 1983 tw o of the five N orthern Virginia C om m unity College System cam pus libraries at Alexandria and A nnandale be­ gan online bibliographic search services. Using the “After D ark ” tim e fram e, Alexandria subscribed to Knowledge Index, a subset of D IA L O G , and An­ nandale subscribed to BRS. Searches are done for students, faculty, and staff, based on established need criterias and subject to individual library reg­ ulation. These databases, so far, satisfy most infor­ m ation requirem ents. F u n d in g th e Knowledge Index at A lexandria presented some difficulties, as K I/D IA LO G does not m a in ta in a deposit account system (as does BRS) b u t bills via personal credit cards. Since the Virginia State purchasing policy does not perm it cam pus credit cards, a library staff m em ber has a personal credit card for paym ent. Money for the bill is raised through book sales and other contribu­ tions to the N orthern Virginia E ducational F oun­ dation, w hich handles the funding. At present KI/ D IA LO G is re-exam ining its billing policy. L ib ra r­ ians who cannot easily work w ith the present bill­ ing service m ay w rite D IA LO G to urge the estab­ lishm ent of a deposit account system. W oodbridge W orld W ar II D onation. An anon­ ymous donor m ade a generous contribution to the W oodbridge Cam pus L earning Resources C enter in the form of several carefully arranged and n u m ­ bered scrapbooks, dating from 1941 to 1945. The books contain original posters, cartoons, and news­ p ap er clippings from th e W ashington Post and other local papers on the Pearl H arbor attack and both the E uropean and Pacific theatres of w ar. All the clippings and scrapbooks are still in good condi­ tion and are currently on exhibit in the reference area of the library. Woodbridge-Loudoun Music Teleconferencing. W ith the assistance of the L earning Resources C en­ ters and the Audiovisual D epartm ents, long dis­ tance teleconferencing for music courses tau g h t in L o u d o u n to stu d en ts in W o o d b rid g e , 44 miles aw ay, began in the Fall Q u arter of 1983. Partici­ pants in the pilot program , using a classroom ad ja­ cent to the library, com m unicated to the instructor and other students at other campuses via telephone lines. A portable unit w ith a speaker and a series of microphones, one for each student, plugged into the lines at each cam pus location, and perm itted both the instructor and the students to speak or hear each other by operation of various controls. The instructors also occasionally attended classes in person at each campus. Music theory and music a p ­ preciation courses are being tau g h t again by this m ethod at W oodbridge, Manassas, and Loudoun cam pus locations during the 1984 W inter Q uarter. Students interested in earning an associate of arts degree w ith a m ajor in music can now p articipate in courses, regardless of cam pus lo catio n an d distance.—Ellen England, Reference Librarian, N V C C S W oodbridge Campus. 136 / C& RL News Ernest Stevenson Bird L ibrary. T he library form ­ ing the Leopold von Ranke M anuscript Collection, acquired from the noted historian in 1887, includes 4,000 pam phlets, 430 m anuscripts, miscellaneous private papers and letters, as well as 17,000 m ono­ graphic volumes. Syracuse has com pleted catalog­ ing the m anuscript portion of the library and m ade it available to scholars. T he m anuscripts consist of m aterials from the 14th-18th centuries preserved in Ita lia n archives: d ip lo m atic reports, m em o­ ran d a, diaries, chronicles, and histories. T he origi­ nal owners of m any of the bound m anuscripts were the V enetian p atrician families of N ani and D a Ponte. At the core of the collection are m ore th an 100 dispatches from V enetian am bassadors w ritten from 1500 to 1800. A catalog of the m anuscripts was published in D ecem ber 1983 by Syracuse U ni­ versity Press. About 50% of the rem aining portion of th e R anke lib ra ry can be accessed th ro u g h O C L C . • T h e University of California, Berkeley, M anuscripts Division at Bancroft L ib rary has re­ ceived m ore th a n 200 photocopies of letters, tele­ grams, sketches and photographs from the collec­ tion of the G rand Duchess M ariia Alexandrovna, d au g h ter of E m peror Alexander II of Russia. The letters d ate from the last th ird of the 19th century and consist of correpondence from her m other the Em press, her father the E m peror, her ladies in w aiting, and other friends. T he copies were m ade available by the Executive C om m ittee of the M u­ seum of Russian C u ltu re in San Francisco. The Berkeley G eneral L ibrary has also received a com prehensive collection of indexes to m ore th a n 42 provincial Russian periodicals dealing w ith the Russian O rthodox C hurch in the Im perial period. •T h e University of Dayton L ibrary, O hio, has p urchased th e m ajor p a rt of th e lib ra ry of the form er St. L eo n ard ’s Franciscan Sem inary in C en­ terville, Ohio. The collection includes 1,600 rare books, 2,500 reference books, 5,500 journal vol­ umes, and about 33,000 other books, most of w hich cover th e subjects of philosophy and theology. Offered for Adoption T he New York State L ibrary is w illing to give aw ay w h at appears to be a nearly com plete set of trial records from the N urem burg Trials of M ajor W ar Crim inals. There are roughly 140 wooden crates of m im eographed and ph o to ­ copied m aterial in English and various E u ro ­ pean languages. This m aterial was acquired by the L ib rary in the 1950s and does not fit in w ith their collec­ tion policy. If anyone is interested in m ore in ­ form ation about this m aterial, please contact: J. V an der Veer Judd, New York State L ibrary, C u ltu ral E ducation C enter, 6th Floor, Albany, NY 12230. • T h e University of Illinois, U rbana, has re­ ceived a collection of L ittle Black Sambo m aterials collected by the late Mimi K aplan, lib rarian and professor of c h ild re n ’s lite ra tu re a t G o v ern o r’s State University. T he collection, num bering about 100 items covering 75 years of publishing, includes books, records, games, coloring books, puzzles, and other printed m aterials. The original book, w ritten by Helen B annerm an in 1899, was w ith ­ d raw n from open circulation in libraries th ro u g h ­ out the U nited States in the early 1960s as a result of the lobbying efforts of the W orking G roup for the E radication of Color Prejudice. •Villanova University’s Falvey M emorial L i­ brary, Pennsylvania, recently added its 500,000th volum e w ith th e acquisition of an illu m in ated m anuscript of works by St. Augustine produced in Florence, ca. 1456-1480. T he volum e, w hich con­ tains the Confessions along w ith three other works, exhibits m iniature portraits and delicate penw ork decoration. • Wheaton College’s Billy G rah am C en ter, W heaton, Illinois, has acquired the papers of the W om an’s Union Missionary Society, an evangeli­ cal group founded in New York in 1861. The rec­ ords docum ent th e ir m issionary w ork in In d ia, C hina, Jap an , B urm a, Pakistan, Greece, and C y­ prus. CLR Announces Grants The Council on L ibrary Resources has a n ­ nounced a new series of grants for library ed u ­ cation program s to be available in 1984 and 1985. Up to fifteen planning grants of $5,000 will be m ade to cover all or a portion of costs for planning educational activities. Plans th a t are satisfactorily developed m ay be subm itted for funding in a second phase of the program , in w hich up to five im plem entation grants in the range of $25,000-$75,000 will be m ade. T he objective of the program is to assist li­ brarians and library educators who are actively seeking ways to enrich both basic and supple­ m entary education for the profession. G ra d u ­ ate library schools, research libraries, and other divisions of research universities are invited to consider how they m ight contribute to the p ro ­ gram . The first review of planning grant applica­ tions is on M arch 15. Subsequent reviews will be at about 3-m onth intervals thereafter. Re­ views of proposals for im plem entation grants will be on O ctober 1, 1984; April 1, 1985; and O ctober 1, 1985. F or fu rth e r in fo rm atio n , co n tact D ean n a M arcum , Program Officer, Council on L ibrary Resources, 1785 Massachusetts Avenue, N .W ., W ashington, DC 20036. M arch 1984 / 137 GRANTS •Cornell University has been aw ard ed a g ran t of $1.5 m illion from th e Pew C h aritab le T rust for th e developm ent and installation of an integrated inform ation system for th e C ornell Libraries. T he chief com ponents of th e system will be a com plete acquisitions system, an online catalog, a circu la­ tion system, and a serials control system. T he li­ b ra ry system will be linked to the larger university system to form a local area netw ork. T he project will also collaborate w ith th e Research Libraries G roup to effect the best interface w ith RLIN. •D alhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, has received a $50,000 g ran t from C a n a d a ’s Social Sciences a n d H u m a n itie s R esearch C o u n cil to strengthen th e ir A frican governm ent docum ents collection. T he funds will be used to acquire m icro­ form docum ent collections of English language­ speaking A frican nations south of the S ahara. •New York University’s R obert F. W agner L a ­ bor Archives has received a $114,671 g ran t from th e N ational H istorical Publications and Records Comm ission to conduct a tw o-year labor records survey in m etro p o litan N ew York. In collaboration w ith C ornell University and th e G eorge M eany A r­ c h iv e s of th e A F L -C IO in W a s h in g to n , th e W a g n e r Archives w ill use th e funds to lay th e groundw ork necessary for a com prehensive, co­ operative collecting strategy to preserve lab o r col­ lections of historical value. T he W agner Archives has also received $14,695 from th e New York Civil Service T echnical G uild to c o n d u ct oral history interview s w ith re tire d G uild officers and m em bers and produce an illus­ tra te d history of th a t organization. Records docu­ m enting th e un io n ’s past w ill be assembled for de­ posit a t th e A rchives, p ro v id in g an im p o r ta n t source for th e little-know n history of w h ite collar and professional unionism in New York City. • Ohio State University, C olum bus, has cre­ ated an endow ed fund for history books w ith a gift m ade by OSU alum nus Paul W atkins. T he fund will be used to purchase books, m icroform s, and com puter-based m aterials for the History L ibrary. W atkins is currently th e m anager of a bookstore n ear th e cam pus. •Southern Illinois University’s M orris L i­ b rary , C arb o n d ale, has received $86,145 from the Illinois R oard of H igher E d ucation to continue its retrospective conversion of serials and other m a te ­ rials for use in th e L ib r a r y C o m p u te r System (LCS), th e au to m ated circulation system used by 23 academ ic libraries in Illinois. •T h e University of California, Los Angeles, M anagem ent L ib rary has been aw ard ed a g ran t of $9,700 to purchase lib rary m aterials on the topic of U .S .-Japanese business relations. T he g ran t was aw ard ed by th e Japan-U .S. Friendship C o m m it­ te e , w ith m a tc h in g fu n d s fro m th e G r a d u a te School of M anagem ent’s Pacific Rasin Econom ic Study C enter. •T h e University of Georgia L ib rary , Athens, has established an endow m ent to b rin g scholars and lecturers to th e university to address issues of interest to th e lib rary faculty. T he fu n d , n am ed in honor of W . P orter K ellam , director of libraries from 1950 to 1973, will provide support for faculty and staff developm ent and enrichm ent. • T h e University of Toronto F a c u lty of L i­ b r a r y a n d In fo rm a tio n Science has receiv ed a $116,000 g ran t from th e L ib rary and C om m unity In fo rm atio n R ranch of th e O n tario M inistry of C it­ izenship an d C u ltu re to fund a new supplem ent to Canadian Selection. T he basic volum e, published in 1978, was designed for small and m edium -sized libraries as a selection aid to books and periodicals about C a n a d a , published in C a n a d a , or w ritte n by C anadians. T he new supplem ent, to be com piled by Mavis C ario u , will include m aterial published th ro u g h 1984. ■ ■ NCES DATA NOW AVAILABLE T he N ational C en ter for E d u catio n Statistics, a division of th e U.S. D e p a rtm e n t of E d u catio n , has announced th a t due to funding cutbacks they will be unable to publish th e institutional d a ta on li­ braries collected in th e 1981-1982 H igher E d u c a ­ tion G eneral In fo rm atio n Survey (HEGIS). NCES has, how ever, m ade this d a ta available to ACRL for publication. L ibrary Statistics o f Colleges and Universities, 1982 Institu tio n a l D ata contains over 180 pages of statistics on over 3,000 com m unity college, college, and university libraries in the U nited States. T he d a ta is presented in th ree tables: T able 1, Collections in Colleges and University L ibraries, by State or O th er Area and Institution. T ab le 2, L ib ra ry O p e ra tin g E x p en d itu res of College and University L ibraries, by C ategory of E xpenditure and by State or O th er Area an d In sti­ tution. T a b le 3, Indexes C o n c e rn in g O p e ra tin g E x ­ penditures, Rookstock H eld at E n d of Year, and L i­ b r a r y S taff (F T E ), C ollege a n d U n iv ersity L i­ braries, by State and O th er Area and Institution. T he H E G IS program was in itiated in 1966. The m ost recen t stu d y p u b lish ed by N C ES covered 1979. Copies of this book are available p rep aid from ACRL at $12 for ACRL m em bers and $16 for no n ­ m e m b ers. T h e ISRN is 0-8389-6640-3. O rd ers should be sent to ACRL/ALA, 50 E. H uron St., C hicago, IL 60611. 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