ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 636 / C&RL News search on information behavior through user stud ies. My interests are, however, not confined to the narrow field of library and information science. I propose to undertake a study of the academic and intellectual elite in India soon. The areas for advanced research in India in the coming years are likely to be as follows: a) informa tion management, b) user education, c) user stud ies, d) subject indexing, and e) a public libraries system. Interview er’s note: The keen interests in re search and publication seem to be a tradition in In dian academic librarianship. The record which Professor Kumar has produced so far is impressive and he has still been productive after his retire ment. Other librarians I met are also very active in research and publishing. Professor A nand P. Srivastava, librarian of the University of Delhi Li brary System, whose duties in administration and management are probably the heaviest among aca demic librarians in the country, has been publish ing one monograph dealing with a subject disci pline bibliography and research methods every year. Another younger colleague, H. K. Kaul, li brarian of the India International Centre in New Delhi, had shown me half a dozen of his published works on Indian literature, and bibliographic and travel guides to particular regions. The most pro lific author I have ever met is Attar Chand, refer ence librarian of the Chinese and Japanese Studies Library at the University of Delhi. As the two-time winner of the President of India’s prize in writing, he has published 56 non-fiction books and 20 bibli ographies as well as some 25,000 essays and articles that have appeared in newspapers and magazines over a period of 30 years. ■ ■ News from the Field Acquisitions • Harvard University, Cambridge, Massac setts, has acquired two collections of note. The uni versity library has received the first installment of a gift of Urdu books from Pakistani President Zia ul- Haqq. The gift was made on behalf of the people of Pakistan in recognition of the contributions made by Harvard Professor Annemarie Schimmel to the study of Urdu literature and Indo-Muslim culture. The books that comprise the first installment of the gift include a 13-volume set of the Urdu journal Nugush, devoted to the study of the prophet Mu hammad. The remaining installment of the gift will be selected with Professor Schimmel’s ap proval. The university’s Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library has acquired a collection of more than 175 books relating to Beethoven. The collection was the gift of the university’s Fanny Peabody Professor of Mu sic Emeritus Elliott Forbes. The books formed Forbes’ working collection, and enhance what is already a considerable collection of works about the composer available in the university’s music li brary. • Louisiana State University’s Hill Memorial brary, Baton Rouge, has received the senate and personal papers of U.S. Senator Russell B. Long (D-LA). The collection contains m ore th a n 740,000 item s, in c lu d in g correspondence, speeches, press releases, photos, and other political memorabilia. The papers were a gift from Long, who will retire in 1986 after 38 years in the Senate. u In addition to the papers of the senator, the gift inh L cludes valuable materials regarding the political career and death of Long’s father, Huey P. Long, who was assassinated in 1935. The elder Long had been governor of Louisiana and, at the time of his death, a member of the U.S. Senate. The collection includes the only three known copies of the coro ner’s report of the death of Carl Weiss, Long’s re puted assassin, who was killed by Long’s body guards after the assassination. • The United Theological Seminary Library, Dayton, Ohio, has received the collections of two prominent American church historians, Sidney E. Mead and Paul H. Eller. The Mead collection re flects Mead’s special interest in church history as it relates to the intellectual, social and cultural his tory of America, while the Eller collection con cerns the former Evangelical Church and the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. • The University of Missouri, Columbia Li braries has acquired the Anthony C. DeBellis Col lection of Italian Literature. The collection con tains the work of distinguished poets, historians, i scholars and philosophers in contemporary edi tions from the 16th to the 19th century. The collec tion, a gift from the Friends of the University Li b ra rie s, is n am ed for a form er professor of Romance languages at the university. • The University of Texas at Austin acquired A C Q U IS IT IO N PERSPECTIVES 6. B o o k H o u s e is in its f o u r t h g e n e r a t i o n o f a u t o m a t i o n . O u r c u s t o m s o f t w a r e a llo w s u s th e fle x ib ility to a c c e p t o r d e r s g e n e r a t e d t h r o u g h y o u r c o m p u t e r i z e d s y s te m o r in th e m a il. O u r p o li c y is to d e v e lo p a w o r k i n g c o m p a t ib i lit y w ith th e a u t o m a t e d s y s te m in y o u r li b r a r y to fa c ilita te re c e iv in g o rd e r s , tr a n s m i tti n g o p e n o r d e r r e p o r t s a n d in v o ic e s e le c tr o n ic a lly . L et’s explore interfacing y o u r a u to m a tio n w ith ours. CALL TOLL-FREE t h e TODAY 1-800-248-1146 BOO K In Canada & Michigan HOUSE CALL COLLECT (517) 849-2117 JOBBERS SERVING LIBRARIES W ITH ANY BOOK IN PRINT SINCE 1962 208 W EST CHICAGO STREET OCLC Vendor No. 17397 SAN 169-3859 JO NESVILLE, MICHIGAN 49250 638 / C&RL News three major collections in 1984. The papers of mathematicians Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III and Raymond L. Wilder were acquired by the Ar chives of American Mathematics, a collection ad ministered by the university’s General Libraries. The Truesdell and Wilder papers include manu scripts of writings, research and lecture notes. Truesdell is a professor of rational mechanics at Johns Hopkins University and Wilder is a member of the mathematics faculty at the University of Michigan. The university’s Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center has received the archives of the Armadillo World Headquarters, the Austin, Texas concert hall that served as a showcase for the state’s musical talent during its heyday in the 1970s. The collec tion includes biographies and photographs of hun dreds of performers, from Texas’ Asleep at the Wheel to Frank Zappa. It also includes promo tional materials, contracts, and financial records, as well as records and demo tapes. A recent tion of Texas poster art supplements the archives with two hundred examples of the concert posters that heralded the appearances at the hall of the na tion’s most celebrated performers. The archives were donated to the Barker Center by Armadillo president Hank Alrich and Texas Music Associa tion President Mike Tolleson. The Middle East Collection of the university’s General Libraries has acquired 3,360 volumes from Egypt, Turkey, and the Arab Gulf States. The collection includes government publications, pre-1962 Egyptian imprints, copies of national de velopment plans and other planning documents, statistical materials, diplomatic studies, and liter ary and religious works. Many of the acquired vol umes were gifts. The volumes were collected by the Middle East Collection head librarian Abazar Sepheri during a month-long visit to the region. • The University of Washington Libraries, Seat tle, has acquired the papers of Seattle poet Richard Hugo (1923-1982). The papers, which reflect Hu go’s later life and work, include notebooks, corre spondence, photographs, and drafts of poems, es says, and novels. Hugo studied with Theodore Roethke, lived in Seattle until 1963, and taught creative writing at the University of Montana, Mis soula, from 1963 until 1982. He edited the Yale Se ries of Younger Poets from 1977 to 1982. Two of his published works, which include 14 poetry collec tions, a novel, and a collection of essays, were nom inated for the National Book Award. Grants • The Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, has received a Title II-C grant of $145,000 to pre serve ethnic newspapers in its collection. The funds will be used to film a number of newspaper files and to gather information that will enable the cen ter to plan future individual and cooperative preservation efforts related to the newspapers. The filming portion of the project will focus on ethnic newspapers from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. The center holds 241 such newspapers, only 90 of which have already been preserved on microfilm. • Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, has re ceived} a gift of $50,000 from alumnus Floyd R. Newman to establish an archival fund. The fund will provide for the preservation of papers and memorabilia of Cornell students who came to the university prior to 1920. The archive will particu larly document the social and educational life of Cornell students in that era. • Harvard University’s Widener Library has re ceived a $500,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation to install a climate control system in the stacks (ten levels which house over 3 million books and periodical volumes) and upgrade its electrical system. • The Northeast Document Conservation Cen- ter (NEDCC), Andover, Massachusetts, has re ceived a grant from the National Historical Publi cations and Records Commission to produce an ad ministrative manual for preservation microfilming in libraries and archives. The project is also sup ported by a partnership with the Association of Re search Libraries, which is funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. • Oberlin College, Ohio, has been granted $500,000 by the Pew Memorial Trust to install an online cataloging system in the main library and its three branches. The total cost of the online catalog will be nearly $1.5 million. It will replace an auto mated circulation system installed in the main li brary almost ten years ago. • The Polytechnic Institute of New York, Brook lyn, has received a grant of $500,000 from the Pfi zer Foundation for the construction of a new high- tech electronic library and information center. The library will be the core of a $500 million, 16 acre, a c a d e m ic /in d u s tria l research p a rk to be co developed by Forest City/Microtech Associates and the Institute’s Metrotech affiliate. The project will integrate Polytechnic’s downtown Brooklyn cam pus, its New York State Center for Advanced Tech nology in Telecommunications, new laboratory and computer facilities, and a landscaped com mons w ith com m ercial space for technology- oriented companies. Construction will begin in 1987. The new library will be named the Bern Dib ner Library and Information Center in honor of a 1921 electrical engineering graduate. • Radcliffe College, Cam bridge, Massachu setts, has been awarded a grant of $750,000 by the Pew Memorial Trust to help finance the expansion and renovation of the Schlesinger Library, a proj ect with an estimated total cost of $3.4 million. The renovation will double the space the library now occupies. Among the planned improvements are December 1985 / 639 new reading rooms, additional open stacks, climate-controlled storage areas, a new security system, and improved access for the handicapped. * The Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, has received a pledge of $225,000 toward the construction of a new library wing from the Frank M. Barnard Foundation. The new wing of the Wallace Memorial Library will house the Bernard C. Middleton Book Collection, one of the finest col­ lections on bookbinding, as well as R IT ’s Melbert B. Cary Jr. Graphic Arts Collcetion. The enlarged space will allow the library to display materials and hold special binding and graphics exhibitions on an expanded scale. • The University of Illinois, Urbana, has re­ ceived a planning grant of $26,878 from the Na­ tional Endowment for the Humanities. The grant supports an international planning conference for a traveling exhibit of Motley designs. Motley is the corporate name used by three British costume de­ signers who have dominated the field of Shake­ spearean costume design in England since the 1920s. The firm has designed costumes for produc­ tions at the Shakespeare Memorial Theater at Stratford-on-Avon, the Old Vic Theater in Lon­ don, and the National Opera. The firm is named for the brightly patterned clothing worn by court jesters in the works of Shakespeare. A national ad­ visory committee is being convened to plan the ex­ hibit. ♦ The State University of New York at Buffalo Law Library has received a grant of $13,600 from the Western New York Library Resources Council for a serials project. The primary purpose of the project is to complete and make corrections in the Union List of Serials database. ■ ■ ProfLEPEOPiles J oan L . C h a m b e r s has been named director of li­ braries at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, effective October 1. Chambers was most recentiy university librarian at the University of Cali­ fornia, Riverside, where she has served since 1981. Her previous posi­ tions have included as­ sistant university librar­ ian for public services at the University of Cali­ fo rn ia, San Diego (1979-1981), and gov­ ernment publications li­ brarian at the University of Nevada, Reno Joan L . C ham bers (1 9 7 0 -1 9 7 8 ). In 1978-1979 Chambers was selected by the Council on Library Resources as an academic library man­ agement intern at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Currently the chair of ACRL’s Professional Liai­ son Committee, Chambers is also on the University Libraries Section Nominating Committee for the 1986 elections, the Library Administration and Management Association’s Non-Library Manage­ ment Associations Task Force, and the Reference and Adult Services Division’s Interlibrary Loan Com m ittee. In 1 9 7 7 -1 9 7 8 she served as ALA Chapter Councilor. Chambers holds a master’s degree in systems management from the University of Southern Cali­ fornia (1985) and an MLS from the University of California, Berkeley (1970). She has an undergrad­ uate degree in English from the University of Northern Colorado. P e a r l B e r g e r , acting dean of Yeshiva Univer­ sity Libraries since early 1985, has been appointed dean of libraries. Berger joined Yeshiva in 1980 as head of technical services, and later served as head librarian at the Pollack Undergraduate Library and head of the Main Center libraries. While there she directed the integration of four separate card catalogs at the Pollack Library, worked to reopen the university’s archives, and supervised the publi­ cation of a catalogue describing the Yeshiva Got- tesman Library’s collection of Hebrew incunabula. A graduate of Brooklyn College, Berger studied at Yeshiva University’s Bernard Revel Graduate School and received an MLS from Columbia Uni­ versity. She is currendy president of the Research and Special Libraries Section of the Association of Jewish Libraries, associate editor of the journal Ju-