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Grants 
and 

Acquisitions
T a ra  W e ik u m

The M e d ic a l C enter Li
brary at the University o f 
California-Irvine has b een  
awarded $88,000 by the staff 
o f the university’s Medical 
Center to equip an Informa­
tion Technology Center with 
an instruction facility. The 
funds were derived from the 
membership fees o f all the 
affiliated medical profession
als. Also, the campus admin­
is t r a t io n  h a s  p r o m is e d  
$50,000 annually to support 
the facility.

The L ib rary o f Congress has received a 
donation o f $1 million for its National Digital 
Library (NDL) Program for the digitization of 
the papers o f G eorge Washington and Thomas 
Jefferson. The contribution by Reuters America 
Inc. and the Reuter Foundation will enable the 
library to make the nearly 65,000 items in the 
Washington Papers and the 25,000 items in the 
Jefferson Papers available online. The Wash­
ington collections contain correspondence, ac­
count books, and other papers which have been 
an important source for study of the American 
Revolution. Jefferson’s papers comprise his cor­
respondence on a wide array o f subjects such as 
scientific farming and foreign government.

Syracuse U niversity has been g iven a 
$250,000 grant to preserve the Street & Smith 
Archive, a vast collection o f pulp fiction from 
the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries. Obtained 
from the National Endowment for the Humani­
ties’ Division o f Preservation and Access, the 
m oney will enable the university to microfilm 
the popular culture collection and preserve the 
covers o f many o f the novels and serials which 
w ere printed on highly acidic paper and have 
b een  disintegrating over the years. The collec­
tion contains works by authors such as Ja ck  
London and Upton Sinclair, w ho w rote un­
der pseudonym s, and artwork by illustrators 
such as N. C. W yeth and W infield Scott.

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cago, IL 60611; e-mail: tweikum @ala.org.

The U n iv e rs ity  o f th e  
P a c if ic  L ib r a r ie s ’ H o lt-
Atherton Department o f Spe
cial Collections received a 
grant o f $14,410 to catalog 
325 manuscript collections 
on OCLC. The grant came 
from the California State Li­
brary in federal Library Ser­
vices and Construction Act 
(LSCA) funds. The material 
includes the Jo h n  Muir pa­
pers, ethnic and w om en ’s 
stu d ies c o lle c tio n s , G old 
Rush accounts, and many 

more research collections.

A cq u isitio n s
The d iaries o f Jam es M illin d e r H an ks 
have been donated to the Special Collections 
Division at the University o f Arkansas Librar­
ies, Fayetteville. The collection  contains 45
leatherbound books which record daily life from 
January 1, 1865, to May 21, 1909. Hanks was a 
planter, businessman, and member o f Con
gress, and his diaries represent a historical time 
of change in Arkansas and in the Mississippi 
River Valley.

The p e r s o n a l p a p e rs  o f C h a rle s  E. 
Donegan, a social activist, civil rights lawyer, 
and legal educator, have been donated to the 
Amistad Research Center at Tulane University. 
Donegan was a founding mem ber o f the Na
tional Conference o f Black Lawyers, and had a 
long, distinguished career o f legal counsel. He 
has also taught law at many universities across 
the country and is a contributor to the D ictio
n a ry  o f  A m erican  Negro Biography.

C o n g ressm an  C h a rlie  R ose’ s p a p e rs  
have been acquired by the University o f North 
Carolina at Pem broke’s Livermore Library. Rose 
served in Congress for 24 years and designed 
the House’s computer systems. He also sup­
ported the motor-voter bill and worked for Ti
betan independence. His papers will provide a 
look into federal government and legislation 
spanning almost a quarter century. ■

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