ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries November 1988 / 691 them in the many projects and activities of the As­ sociation. Staffing Over the past 5 years, ACRE staff has remained at 10-11 FTE, while the number of new projects has continued to increase. Our staff is relatively stable, w ith low turnover. The use of office auto­ mation has probably contributed to the capacity for taking on additional projects and has definitely begun to save money in design costs as electronic publishing has gradually been implemented. In FY 1988, Beverley Washington replaced Ka­ ren D uhart as Cathleen Bourdon’s administrative secretary and Cheryl Robinson-Smith became as­ sistant editor of C&RL News when Gus Friedlan­ der returned to graduate school. Sandy Donnelly’s status changed from full-time employee to p a rt­ time consultant. Summary As we begin our fiftieth year, ACRE is an associ­ ation with a bias for action through a program of publications, educational activities and other proj­ ects directed tow ard goals set by members. M an­ agement is also strong, with a good financial strat­ egy and a stable structure and valuable hum an resources, including committed volunteer mem ­ bers and a capable staff. ■ ■ ★ ★ ★ News from the Field Acquisitions • Cornell University L ibraries, Ithaca, New York, has received a 143-volume collection of books about the history and design of lace. The books are from the collection of Elizabeth Kacken­ meister of W illiamsport, Pennsylvania, who died last year. Among the donated volumes are books tracin g the developm ent of a cottage industry around lace making and the changing designs and patterns of lace. • George Washington University’s Gelman Li­ brary, Washington, D .C ., has received a collection of 1,000 Chinese-language books from Chinese Ambassador Han Xu. The collection was donated by the State Education Commission of the People’s Republic of China. The gift includes a variety of works in politics, economics, education, the arts, geography and history. • The L ib rary of Congress’ Music Division, Washington, D .C ., has received the largest com­ posite gift of music materials in the division’s his­ tory. It consists of a large quantity of autograph music manuscripts, letters, and documents span­ ning the history of musical creativity from the 12th century to modern times. The gift will become part of the M oldenhauer Archives at the L ibrary of Congress. The archives were established in April 1987 by an earlier gift from Hans Moldenhauer, the renowned pianist and author who died in Octo­ ber 1987, and were previously supplemented with major manuscripts of Johannes Brahms acquired in 1988 from Mary Moldenhauer, his widow. W ith this bequest, M oldenhauer also established the Moldenhauer Archives Foundation at the Library of Congress. • The Massachusetts Institute of Technology L i­ braries, Cambridge, have received a collection of ten rare early mathematics and mechanics books. The books are the gift of MIT alumnus John D. Stanitz, who for over thirty years worked to build an outstanding collection of historically im portant works in the areas of solid mechanics, fluid me­ chanics, mathematics, machinery, and energetics. The collection includes works by L eonard Euler, Niccolo Tartaglia, and Thomas Harriot. • The M iam i University L ibraries, Oxford, Ohio, have received the original photographs, drawings, and papers of engineer and explorer Robert Brewster Stanton from his 1889-1890 ex­ ploration of the Colorado River. The three and one-half linear feet of materials, including corre­ spondence from William Henry Jackson, Frederick S. D ellenbaugh, and other “men of the W est,” were used by the donor, Dwight E. Smith, in edit­ ing Stanton’s diaries and notes for the 1965 book, Down the Colorado. This material, which aug­ ments the diaries previously given to the New York Public Library, includes materials given to Smith by Stanton’s daughter, Anne Stanton Burchard. • The Ohio University Libraries, Athens, have received the Sammy Kaye Collection of mem orabi­ lia associated w ith the celebrated bandleader. Kaye (born Sam Zarnocay) graduated from Ohio University in 1932 w ith a civil engineering degree. The collection includes musical scores and arrange­ ments, broadcast transcripts, phonographs, news­ paper clippings, scrapbooks, correspondence, and 692 / C&RL News photographs which document Sammy Kaye’s ca­ reer. • The University of Alberta Library, Edmon- ton, has received a collection of Japanese books from President Hiroshi Kurimoto of Nagoya Uni­ versity of Commerce and Business Administration. President Kurimoto’s father, who founded the Na­ goya University, was a graduate of the University of Alberta (Class of 1931). The collection consists of 292 titles and 584 volumes w orth about $32,000. About half of the books are on Japanese language and literature; the other half includes treatises on Japanese culture and history, materials on Bud­ dhism , and general reference tools. Especially noteworthy is a newly revised edition of Tetsuji Morohashi’s authoritative Chinese-Japanese dic­ tio n ary , Dai Kan-Wa Jiten, and th e com plete works of Japanese authors Sosetsu Natsume and Ogai Mori. • The University of Massachusetts’ Healey Li- brary, Boston, has received the personal library of Susan Schneider, late professor of history and di­ rector of Latin American studies at the university. The collection contains over 3,500 items, including 1,200 Spanish-language books and pamphlets, pri­ marily of a political nature, published in Central America and the Caribbean during the 1970s and early 1980s. Many of the English-language books deal w ith Latin American affairs. • The University of New Brunswick, H arriet Irv in g L ib rary , F red ericto n , has acquired the manuscripts, letters and publications of Canadian w riter and editor Raymond Fraser. The acquisi­ tion was made possible by the W u Library Fund, established by Hong Kong banker Yee-sun Wu. The Fraser collection includes about 30 m an u ­ scripts, 2,700 letters, and nearly everything he has p u b lish e d . His books in c lu d e Poems f o r the Miramichi (poetry, 1966), The Black Horse Tavern (short stories, 1972), and The Struggle Outside (1975). • Vanderbilt University’s, Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Nashville, Tennessee, has acquired a collection of books, manuscripts and letters be­ longing to John Crowe Ransom and Peter Taylor. The m aterial comes from the private collection of Stuart W right, who is on the faculty at the School of Education at Wake Forest University. Ransom, a Pulaski native, was a member of the Vanderbilt faculty from 1914 to 1937 and was considered the leader of the Fugitives, a group of Vanderbilt w rit­ ers known for their w riting and views on the South in the 1920s and 1930s. Taylor, a native of Trenton and a Vanderbilt alumnus, has won major literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Ritz-Hemingway Award, given in 1987 for A Summons to Memphis as the best novel published in English during the preceding year. The new col­ lection contains 605 volumes from Ransom’s pri­ vate, annotated library, six of his unpublished po­ ems, 182 love letters and numerous manuscripts. • V irg in ia C o m m o n w ealth U niversity Li- braries, Richmond, have received an anonymous gift of $100,000 from a former student to support their collections in art history and English litera­ ture. The gift is p art of the campaign for VCU which recently passed $40 million on the way to its goal of $52 million. Income from the library en­ dowments will help purchase new books which cannot be obtained using its regular budget. Grants • The Auburn University Libraries, Alabam have received a $112,577 Title II-C grant for the cataloging of two major microform sets. The grant will contribute to O C LC ’s Major Microforms Proj­ ect. Confederate Imprints, a set of over 6,000 titles published in the states of the Confederacy during the Civil W ar, and the French Revolutionary Pam ­ phlets, a collection of 7,000 pamphlets, are sched­ uled for cataloging. The University of Alabama Li­ b ra ry w ill be a su b c o n tra c to r for th e F ren ch Revolutionary Pamphlets project. • The Center for Research Libraries, Chicag Illinois, has received a grant of $90,642 for the preservation of newspapers produced by the men in Civilian Conservation Corps camps from about 1934 to 1938. The grant will enable the Center to film these papers, produce service copies in micro­ fiche, and produce a printed bibliographic guide th at indexes the titles, companies and geographic location of the camps. • The Chicago Public Library, Illinois, has r ceived a $14,705 grant from the National Endow ­ ment for the Humanities for a major humanities project th at examines, describes and defines Chica­ go’s composite languages. The project will examine the history, language, and linguistics of the Chi­ cago dialect of American English. The anticipated results of the Am erica’s Polyglot City project in­ clude a series of public programs illum inating the City of Chicago and its diverse populations; an ex­ hibition draw n from the library’s collections and other archives demonstrating the creative use of language by Chicagoans and their contributions to American English; and programs employing d ra­ m atic readings in English and other languages (with translations) and critical analysis to illustrate new methods for learning second languages. • F ort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, h received a $16,665 grant from LSCA Title III funds to catalog 8,200 reference, geology, and forestry ti­ tles and add them to the OCLC database. The an­ thropology, natu ral history, archaeology, busi­ ness, and local and southwest history holdings of six other special and public libraries in southwestern Colorado will also be converted: Mesa Verde Na­ tional Park Museum Library, the Crow Canyon Center for Archaeological Research, Sand Dunes National M onument Library, Mancos Public Li­ a, o, e- as November 1988 / 693 brary, Archuleta County Public Library, and the Carnegie Public Library in Monte Vista. • The Harvard University Library, Cambridge, M assachusetts, has been aw ard ed a T itle II-C grant of $120,000 to film materials too fragile or rare to w ithstand heavy use or interlibrary lending and to improve bibliographical control of its collec­ tion of master microfilm negatives. Some of the ar­ eas scheduled for microfilming are: 10-K reports of the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Baker Library; rare books in block-print from the 13th to the 15th centuries in the H arvard-Yenching Library; and scrapbook collections including cor­ respondence and ephem era of notew orthy U.S. women in the Scheslinger Library. Records of mas­ ter negatives will be prepared for entry into the na­ tional databases. • The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, Ohio, has received a grant of $63,000 in outright funds and $75,000 in federal matching funds from the National Endow m ent for the Humanities. The funds will support a three- year microfilming program to preserve and pro­ vide access to over 14,000 cataloged Hebrew m an­ uscripts in the collection of the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem. The project will facilitate access by American scholars to a m anu­ script collection th at is particularly rich in m ateri­ als from Yemen, Persia, North Africa, and other Sephardic communities. • T he H ouston A cad em y o f M edicine-T exas Medical Center Library, has received the first half of a $100,000, two-year grant form the William Randolph Hearst Foundation to develop a library m anagem ent inform ation system. The L ibrary will be among the first medical libraries to imple­ ment a m anagem ent information system (MIS). The MIS will link the gathering and analysis of li­ brary statistics in one autom ated system. • Idaho State U niversity’s Eli M. Oboler Li- brary, Pocatello, has been aw arded a $60,000 gift from the Idaho First National Bank. The gift will be used to purchase the INNOVACQ autom ated serials control system. The installation of the sys­ tem will be completed w ithin approximately 12 months. • Jacksonville University, Florida, has received a $500,000 grant from the St. Joe Foundation. The grant will be used to establish the duPont-Ball L i­ brary Endow m ent Fund, named after Alfred I. du- Pont and his brother-in-law and business manager, E dw ard Ball, who devoted the latter p art of their lives to the enrichment and growth of northern Florida. The gift nearly doubles the library’s cur­ rent endowm ent fund, the annual income from which will be used to m aintain a balanced collec­ tion. • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, has re- ceived a Title II-C grant of $64,800 for the catalog­ ing of a microfilm collection of G erm an Baroque literatu re. The grant will enable the M ilton S. Eisenhower L ibrary to com plete the cataloging and m ake cataloging records available on both RLIN and OCLC. The library expects to complete the project by March 1990. The original collection, consisting of 2,363 titles w ritten between the years 1575 and 1740, is housed at Yale University. • The New York Public Library at Lincoln Cen- ter has received a $1 million gift from the Miriam and Harold Steinberg Foundation, lending support in the areas of education, medicine, and the per­ forming arts. The Library has renam ed the area th at houses its dram a collections The Miriam and Harold Steinberg Reading Room in recognition of the gift. T he read in g room houses m ore th a n 50,000 recordings and circulating and reference books on theater, including a large collection of published plays. The gift will provide funding to establish a new and expanded reading room into which both dram a and dance collections will be consolidated. It also establishes endowments for the purchase of materials for the L ibrary’s dram a collections, and for the presentation of exhibitions. E leven o rig in al ink d raw in g s by th e a rtis t A1 Hirschfeld will also be given to the Library. They depict the playwrights of and scenes from five Pu­ litzer prize-winning plays. • The University of Alabama Libraries, Tusca- loosa, have received a $125,000 grant from the Net­ work of Alabama Academic Libraries, a consor­ tium of seventeen academic institutions offering graduate education. The Network views the total academ ic library resources of its members as a statewide research collection and provides funds to coordinate resource sharing. The grant will be used to strengthen the libraries’ holdings of music scores and sound recordings. Resources added will in­ clude works by lesser known composers, along w ith critical editions in piano, orchestra and voice. Gaps in currently held critical editions will be filled. Coordinated scores and sound recordings will be added for piano and vocal performance and study. Retrospective journal backfiles will also be added. • The University of Arkansas’ O ttenheim er Li- brary, Little Rock, has received a $50,000 grant from the Ottenheim er Brothers Foundation to de­ velop m anagem ent resources. The grant will be used to expand the present m anagem ent collection through the addition of state-of-the-art com puter­ ized inform ation resources and the acquisition of additional m onographs, journals and reference works. Five significant areas of business m anage­ m ent will be developed: computer inform ation sys­ tems, industrial m anagem ent, international m an­ agem ent, h u m an resources m an ag em en t, and m anagem ent and organization. • The University of N ew Mexico, Albuquerque, has received a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to transfer its most im portant photograph collections to mi- November 1988 / 695 crofiche. It will be done using a process of repro­ duction which yields an image w ith a long tonal scale. Historical photographs from the Henry A. Schmidt Collection and the Cobb Memorial Col­ lection will be reproduced onto tonal microfiche. The Henry A. Schmidt Collection consists of 1,016 original glass plate negatives made between 1890 and 1924 and are largely photographs of outdoor scenes of people pursuing their professional and do­ mestic activities in southern New Mexico. The Cobb Memorial Collection includes 1,023 unique images, mostly of Albuquerque, between 1885 and 1910. • The University of V erm ont’s Bailey-Howe Li- brary, Burlington, has received a Title II-C contin­ uation grant of $100,000 for the identification, ac­ quisition and cataloging of all C anadian docu­ ments on acid rain. The project, which began in 1987, will strengthen the resources of UVM to sup­ port its C anadian Studies Program and its acid rain research programs ongoing in the Colleges of Medi­ cine, Agriculture and Life Sciences, the School of N atural Resources and the U.S. Forestry Station in Burlington. A selection of the identified documents will be forw arded to the National Agricultural L i­ brary and scanned, digitized, and mastered onto CD-ROM disks for distribution to 44 land-grant li­ braries as a full-text database on acid rain. • W ayne State University’s Reuther Archival Library, Detroit, has received a grant from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation of Menlo Park, California. The grant will be used to cover travel expenses related to research for graduate students and other scholars using the Archives. The Ar­ chives’ holdings include the papers of nine labor unions, w orker and social reform organizations and individuals active in the groups. In addition, the Archives have extensive m aterial relating to u r­ ban and international affairs, social welfare orga­ nizations, w om en’s and black history, rad ical movements and civil rights. News note • Oberlin College, Ohio, dedicated its new $1.6 million addition to its Conservatory of Music Li­ brary on September 23. The two-story, 10,000- square foot addition, designed by architect G unnar Birkerts, is the largest building project at Oberlin in 12 years and expands the 24-year-old library fa­ cility in the Conservatory complex by over 150% . It will house the book collection, current periodi­ cals, offices, a seminar room, and expanded study space for students. In a subsequent phase of con­ struction an elevator will be added to the structure, and the second floor, as yet unfinished, will pro­ vide for expansion of the collection and work ar­ eas. Instructional improvement symposium at Bowling Green At Bowling Green State University, Ohio, the University Faculty Development Com m it­ tee sponsored its second annual instructional improvement symposium on September 8-9, 1988. One of the eight sessions addressed infor­ m ation literacy and the library’s contributions to instructional improvement. Sharon Rogers, university lib ra ria n at George W ashington University and former associate director of li­ braries at Bowling Green State University, pre­ sented a provocative address: “Inform ation L it­ eracy: The L ib ra ry ’s Role in In stru ctio n al Im provem ent.” Classroom and library faculty had an opportunity to discuss and question in small groups such ideas as the components of in­ formation literacy, the need for a national p ri­ ority including inform ation skills in the curricu­ lum, and the variety of roles th at librarians play in contributing to instruction. Library faculty members were well repre­ sented in the audiences of the various sessions, which focused on innovative instructional tech­ nologies, the benefits of video for self-analysis of classroom perform ance, active learn in g strategies, and the relationship betw een re­ search and teaching. One expected outcome of the symposium is th at Bowling Green library faculty will be di­ rectly involved in th e contin u in g dialogue about the place of inform ation and research skills development as an instructional objective in the general education core curriculum. W in cash prizes! An all-expenses-paid trip to Europe! Special recognition from your peers! Over $7,000 in cash prizes, an all-expenses- paid trip to Europe, and special recognition from your peers are some of the opportunities available to you and your colleagues through th e ACRL aw ard s p ro g ra m . A chievem ent awards, professional development and research funds, and recognition of outstanding publica­ tions are the types of awards available from ACRL. A full description of the nine ACRL awards may be found in the September 1988 is­ sue of C&RL News. The deadline for most awards is December 1, 1988. Contact Mary Ellen Davis toll free at the ACRL Office for additional information: (800) 545-2433; (800) 545-2444 in Illinois; (800) 545- 2455 in Canada.