ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


48 / C&RL News ■ January 2002

G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n s Ann-Christe Young

Western Maryland College (WMC) has 
received a $2.9 million b eq u est from the 
estate of longtime benefactor Samuel H. 
Hoover, which will double a major scholarship 
fund and estab lish  th e largest library 
endowment at WMC. The earnings from the 
invested funds can be used for general support 
of library initiatives. The estate gift brings total 
giving by Hoover and his wife Elsie to WMC 
to more than $5 million. A philanthropist and 
retired dental surgeon, Hoover died in 2000, 
and Elsie died in 1995.

Hope College is one o f five Michigan 
schools to receive a $10,000 award from the 
SBC A m eritech Partnership Awards for 
Independent Colleges program. Through the 
grant, English and library faculty involved in 
the first-year composition course will meet 
during the spring and summer to consider 
how to effectively incorporate information 
technology—such as electronic books—into 
the college’s information literacy program.

The Visual Inform ation Systems Center 
(VISC) in the University of Pittsburgh’s School 
of Information Sciences has received a $1.1 
m illio n  r e n e w a l g r a n t fro m  th e  
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The grant 
was awarded to VISC to continue its work on 
the Pennsylvania Technology Infrastructure 
D atabase (PTID) and the Pennsylvania 
Technology Atlas (PTA). PTID is an annual 
comprehensive survey effort to document 
an d  evaluate th e state o f inform ation 
technology of more than 29,000 Pennsylvania 
organizations, including all schools, libraries, 
hospitals, municipalities, utilities, research 
organizations, and high-tech companies. The 
information is stored in a database and is 
a v a ila b le  o n  th e  W eb at h t t p : / /  
w w w .sis.pitt.edu/~oit. PTA is an annual 
summary and analysis of the data provided 
on CD-ROM with an accompanying magazine.

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Springfield College has been awarded a 
one-year National Leadership Grant in Pres­
ervation or Digitization Grant for $92,780 from 
the Institute of Museum and Library Services 
(IMLS) to digitize its historical resources re­
lated to the history of the YMCA movement. 
Springfield College began as the International 
YMCA Training School at Springfield, and the 
college’s ties to the YMCA remain strong. The 
grant will identify, preserve, and provide digi­
tal access to nearly 2,000 images. The project 
builds on Babson Library’s recent digital and 
preservation efforts, including the digitization 
and Web mounting of the Cliff Smith YMCA 
Postcard Collection numbering nearly 5,000 
items (http://www‚ymcapostcards.com) .

A c q u i s i t i o n s

Organ transplant pioneer Thomas Starzl, 
professor of surgery at the University of 
Pittsburgh (UP) School of Medicine, has donated 
his personal papers to UP’s University Library  
System (ULS). The papers, at least 200 linear 
feet, reflect Starzl’s medical career before, during, 
and after his significant contributions to the 
field of organ transplantation. The collection 
includes extensive correspondence with many 
key people in the transplantation field that 
Starzl amassed when writing his book The 
Puzzle People: Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon 
(University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992). Most of 
the materials date from 1981, the year Starzl 
arrived at UP, but some reflect his previous 
work at the University of Colorado.

The Warren and M argot Coville Collec­
tion of the Clarence H. White School of 
Photography has been acquired by the Library 
of Congress. The collection consists of 281 
photographs and related materials by White 
and his students (1914-42). There are also 
historical materials about students and teachers 
that broaden and revitalize a period in the 
history of photography that is of increasing 
interest to students of photography, educators, 
and researchers. ■

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