ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 179 News from the Field ACQUISITIONS • C o l u m b i a U n i v e r s i t y has acquired a collec­ tion o f the papers and m anuscripts o f David Abrahamsen, forensic psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author. A major part of the collection consists of source material used by Abrahamsen in his 1977 book, Nixon vs. N ixon: A n E m otional Tragedy, including a 16-page rem iniscence by Nixon on his ch ild h oo d . Also found in th e Abrahamsen papers are many letters from David Berkowitz, the notorious “Son of Sam” killer, at whose trial Abrahamsen served as an expert wit­ ness for the prosecution. • F l o r i d a St a t e U n i v e r s i t y ’ s Stro zier L i­ brary, Tallahassee, has been presented with a major collection of early Bibles and other rare books of significant value for the study of English Protestant thought betw een the 16th and 19th centuries. The collection includes a first edition o f the King James B ible, a first edition of the Geneva Bible, a Stephanus New Testament, and a Torah in scroll. • T h e S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y o f N e w Y o r k a t B i n g h a m t o n ’s Special Collections D epartm ent has acquired the Frances R. Conole Archive of sound recordings. The archive, which includes both disc and tape, is devoted to the preservation of 20th-century vocal art as recorded over the last ninety years. More than 3,000 singers are repre­ sented in the holdings along with 4,000 complete performances of over 400 operas. An important feature of the collection is the total recorded out­ put of many artists, including the complete dis­ cography of Maria Callas, Jussi B joerling, B e ­ niamino Gigli, and Nicolai Gedda. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f A r iz o n a , Tucson, has re­ ceived a substantial gift of Russian books and pe­ riodicals on geology, mining, and prospecting from Constantin Popoff, an Arizona alumnus. The collection contains serials of the Institute of Min­ ing of the Soviet Akademiia Nauk, elusive and out-of-print guides to mineral resources in the Soviet Union, and handbooks and treatises on mining and oil drilling. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f M is s i s s ip p i has received the papers and personal library of Herschel Bric­ kell, noted book columnist and literary editor of the New York E v en in g Post in the 1920s and 1930s. The collection consists of over 3,500 vol­ umes with a substantial number of advance re­ view copies in dust jackets of American fiction from 1920-1940, including Faulkner editions and fiction of the Harlem Renaissance writers. There is also a large number of letters to Bickell from Margaret Mitchell, Eudora Welty, Julia Peterkin, and Ellen Douglas. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f N e w H a m p s h i r e ’s D imond Library, Durham, has acquired a collection of original letters o f the poet Galway Kinnell (1 9 2 7 - ). K innell often uses northern New England as a focus of his work. The archive is 33 years of Kinnell’s extensive correspondence with poet and critic Charles Bell of Santa F e and in­ cludes about 300 letters, 350 drafts of poems, and 19 book manuscripts. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f T e x a s ’ Humanities R e­ search Center, Austin, has acquired the archives of Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly from 1928 to 1966. The papers include more than 7,500 letters from contributors, 600 original man­ uscripts, and over 10,000 carbons of W eeks’ let­ ters to writers, among them Ernest Hemingway, Evelyn Waugh, John Kenneth Galbreath, Robert Frost, and Conrad Aiken. GRANTS • D av id s o n C o l l e g e L i b r a r y , North Carolina, has been given $220,000 for a permanent book fund by Mrs. E rn est B. Obering of Oklahoma City in return for helping her father become “a truly educated m an.’’ The donation will be in­ vested as the Joseph Abrams Bailey Memorial Endowed Book Fund honoring Obering’s father, an 1883 Davidson graduate. T he fund will be used to purchase approximately 440 new books per year in perpetuity. • L o u g h b o r o u g h U n i v e r s i t y o f T e c h n o l o g y Library, England, has been awarded a grant of £62,000 for three years by the British Library Research and Development Department to con­ tinue to support the British Library Information Officer for User Education Project. The primary aims of the project are to investigate, co-ordinate, promote and develop library and information user education in all types of libraries in Great Britain. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f K an sas’ Kenneth Spencer Research Library, Lawrence, has been awarded a $139,808 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities for the processing of English his­ torical and literary manuscripts of the 16th to 19th centuries and the preparation of a catalog. Over 400 subject collections in this area will be processed with the funds, which with a similar number already processed will be described in the guide. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f T e x a s H ealth Science C enter at San Antonio Library has received a $19,700 research grant from the National Library of M edicine to evaluate the 197 7 -1 9 8 0 mono­ graph holdings of twelve medical libraries and the N LM . P rincip al in v estig ator will be V irginia Bowden, associate director of the library. The study will provide detailed inform ation about size, overlap, distribution and shifts in the current 180 monograph holdings, and will evaluate whether the TALON Cooperative Acquisitions Program has had a measurable effect on the col­ lections of participating libraries. NEWS NOTES • T he C e n t e r f o r R e s e a r c h L i b r a r i e s , Chicago, has accepted ownership and managerial control of the Foreig n Newspaper M icrofilm Project (FNMP) from the Association of Research L ib ra rie s , e ffectiv e January 1. T h e p ro je c t, originating at Harvard in 1938, is designed to maintain a pool of current foreign newspaper ti­ tles on microfilm and has been housed at the Center since 1956. C RL’s absorption of the project provides for all present participants, whether or not members of the Center, to continue to take part in the project; however, no new non­ CRL members may participate without first b e­ coming Center members. • The U .S. O f f i c e o f F o r e i g n A s s e t s C o n ­ t r o l has lifted its ban on the importation of single copies of published materials from Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, and Cambodia, according to a January issue of the Federal Register. The Customs Service can now release to individual or institutional addressees any books, newspapers, magazines, films, phonograph records, microfilm, microfiche, posters, and similar materials pub­ lished in these countries. ■ ■ People PROFILES D on L . B o s s e a u , university librarian at the University of Hawaii, has been named librarian of San Diego State University effective this sum­ mer. He has also served as director of libraries at E m ory U n iv ersity and at the University of Texas at El Paso. From 1966 to 1972 he worked at th e U n iv ersity of California, San Diego, as assistant university lib rarian and head of computer applications. Prior to his work at UCSD, Bosseau was as­ sistant librarian and re­ Don L. Bosseau search associate at Gen­ eral Atomic in La Jolla and a research engineer at Allis-Chalmers Nu­ clear Division in Milwaukee. He holds a master’s in engineering from the University of Kansas and an MLS from the University of Hawaii. In five years as chief administrator for the col­ lections at the Manoa campus in Honolulu, Bos­ seau has been actively involved in reorganizing the library’s structure to accommodate new com­ puter systems. St e v e n s W. H i l y a r d has been appointed uni­ versity librarian at the University of Southern Maine, effective July 1. Hilyard was most re­ cently director of the library at Pittsburg State University, Kansas, from 1976 to 1982. Prior to that he was college librarian at New England Col­ lege (1966-1976), assistant librarian at Grand Val­ ley State Colleges (1965-1966), and administrative assistant to the librarian at Bowdoin College (1962-1963). Hilyard recently com pleted most of the re­ quirements for a doctorate in the administration of educational media and technology at Boston University, and has begun work on a dissertation on “educational, experiential, and personality characteristics of academic educational media directors.” His MLS is from the University of Michigan. He is also involved in consulting, with experi­ ence in the implementation of technology and building planning and design. B r u c e M. H u r l b e r t has been named director of lib rary serv ices at Lycom ing C olleg e, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, effective February 1. Prior to this appoint­ ment he was assistant director of libraries for adm inistration at V ir­ ginia C om m onw ealth U n iv ersity , w here he had also served as as­ sistant director for the academic campus. From 1968 to 1972 he held several p o si­ tions at Florida Atlantic U n iv ersity , th e most r e c e n t b eing that of Bruce M. Hurlbert assistant d ire cto r for technical services. Hurlbert received an MLS from Florida State University in 1968. J ohn G. J a f f e has been named director of li­ braries at Sweet Briar College, Virginia. Since 1979 Jaffe has been acquisitions librarian, rare