ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 428 / C &RL News News from the field ACQUISITIONS • E m o r y U n i v e r s i t y ’s Pitts Theology Library, Atlanta, has opened its collection of the personal papers of Henry Edward Manning (1822-1892), the Cardinal of Westminster who is best remem­ bered for his introduction and advocacy of the doc­ trine of papal infallibility. The collection consists of 10 linear feet of manuscript and printed mate­ rial, including his speeches, sermons, and sermon notes. • I n d i a n a U n i v e r s i t y ’ s L illy L ib ra ry , Bloomington, has been given the private collection of Elizabeth W. Ball by the George and Frances Ball Foundation of Muncie. The primary impor­ tance of the collection is in its outstanding examples of children’s books. The collection has been ap­ praised at $2 million and is the most valuable single gift to the Lilly Library since J.K . Lilly Jr. pre­ sented his collection to the university in 1956. One hallmark of the collection is the manuscript nur­ sery library prepared by Jane Johnson for her son George William Johnson between 1745 and 1750; the 363 pieces include hand-colored cards with al­ phabets, pictures with moral explanations, and small story books. Other items in the Ball gift are horn books, harlequinades, street cries, miniature books, mechanical books, and story books of every description. GRANTS • C e n t e n a r y C o l l e g e , Hackettstown, New Jer­ sey, received a grant of $25,854 from the Charles E . Culpeper Foundation. The grant will enable the College to purchase materials for the Taylor Me­ morial L ibrary, including audio-visual equip­ ment, reference materials and periodicals in the fields of education, business, fashion merchandis­ ing and design, equine studies, and fine arts. • F r a n k l i n a n d M a r s h a l l C o l l e g e , Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has been awarded a $23,000 grant from the National Historical Publications and Rec­ ords Commission to initiate an archival program. The College will celebrate its bicentennial in 1987. • S o u t h e r n I l l i n o i s U n i v e r s i t y ’s Morris L i­ brary, Carbondale, has been awarded $76,766 in LSCA funds through the Illinois State Library to conduct the third phase of the Illinois Cooperative Conservation Program. ICCP is a statewide out­ reach project to provide conservation information, training, and services to all types of libraries in Illi­ nois. During Phase Three, ICCP will continue its publication and information services and hold two series of hands-on workshops. Also emphasized during this phase will be the development of mod­ est conservation treatment services for local history materials. For more information, contact Hollis Onken, Illinois Cooperative Conservation Pro­ gram, Morris Library, Southern Illinois Univer­ sity, Carbondale, IL 62901; (618) 453-5122. •The 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 u f ­ f a l o Libraries have received a $168,000 Title II-C renewal grant to add full bibliographic descrip­ tions of books in its poetry collection to the OCLC database. The co llection , started in 1935 by Charles D. Abbott, a former director of the library, is a comprehensive collection of 20th century E n ­ glish language poetry that includes James Joyce, E zra Pound, W allace Stevens, and M arianne Moore. The grant, which runs through next De­ cember, provides for an additional librarian and two additional catalogers. • T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f C o n n e c t i c u t L ibrary, Storrs, has been awarded a $68,000 HEA Title II-C grant to create full bibliographic records for mate­ rials in the Geigul Puerto Rican Collection. The records are to be entered into OCLC and the Na­ tional Union Catalog. The Geigul Collection is a comprehensive body of materials on all aspects of Puerto Rican life over the last 150 years. College Library Standards The ACRL Ad Hoc College Library Stan­ dards Committee will hold two open meetings to receive comments on the 1975 College L i­ brary Standards. The meetings are scheduled for: Friday, January 6, 2 :0 0 -5 :3 0 p.m . and Sunday, January 8, 2 :0 0 -4 :0 0 p.m. The committee has been charged with: ex­ amining the 1975 College Library Standards in the areas of a) non-print collections and ser­ vices, b) Collections (Formula A), Staff (For­ mula B), and Budget (% of E and G), c) net­ working and cooperative associations; and recommending revisions which result in a more useful standards document. Please contact: Jacquelyn Morris, Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on College Library Standards, Irving Martin Library, University of the Pa­ cific, Stockton, California 95211, (209) 946- 2434, for further information about these meet­ ings. December 1983 / 429 •The U n i v e r s i t y o f K a n s a s Library, Lawrence, has received a National Endowment for the Hu­ manities grant of $55,562 for a Slavic Cultural Heritage Project. The grant will allow for the ap­ pointment of assistant instructors to prepare, pub­ licize, and deliver presentations on various aspects of the Slavic cultural heritage in selected towns in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri. Lectures will be accompanied by reading lists and exhibits of books, periodicals, and photocopies of archival materials. •The U n i v e r s i t y o f T o r o n t o Library has been awarded three grants by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada under its program of support for special collections. A grant of $20,000 was awarded to strengthen the History of Science Collection in the Fisher Rare Book L i­ brary; a $10,000 grant was awarded in support of the music collection “The Age of Debussy and M ah ler: R om an ticism to M odernism ” ; and $20,000 was granted for continued support of the Canadian fiction in English Collection. Toronto has also received a $10,000 grant from the Council’s Fleeting Opportunities Programme, which requires matching funds. The grant enabled the library to purchase a collection of materials to strengthen its English Theatre and Drama Collec­ tion. NEWS NOTES • P e n n s y l v a n i a S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y , University Park, has launched a study to determine the effect of user education programs on the public’s use of online catalogs. The study is supported by a grant from ARL’s Office of Management Studies with funds provided by the General Electric Corpora­ tion. The study focuses on evaluating four methods of educating patrons in the use of the online catalog in use at Penn State, the Library Information Ac­ cess System— online assistance, audio-visual pre­ sentations, printed guides, and classroom instruc­ tion. The study will also determine how patrons react to an online catalog and their efficiency in searching the catalog during a six-month period. • T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f N o r t h C a r o l i n a a t C h a p e l H i l l received its three-millionth volume on October 12. Instead of the usual single com­ memorative volume the library was given three hundred 16th century books. All of the books were produced and published by the Estienne family, the great Renaissance printing and publishing dy­ nasty of Paris and Geneva. The gift was made by the Hanes Foundation for the Study of the Origin and Development of the Book. The books were from a collection formed over many years by Fred Schreiber, proprietor of the New York antiquarian book firm of E .K . Schreiber. Among the many no­ table books in the collection is the first complete edition of Plato (1578), a first edition of John Calvin’s Statutes o f the New Academy (1559), and what may have been the first children’s book, Charles Estienne’s Naval Science fo r the Young (1537). ■ ■ n e w c h o i c e a s s i s t a n t e d i t o r Helen M. MacLam has been appointed assistant editor for social sciences at Choice magazine, effec­ tive October 17. As collection develop­ ment librarian at D art­ mouth College for the past sixteen years, Mac­ Lam has been responsi­ ble for selection in sev­ eral social science fields, including anthropology, psychology, and sociol­ ogy. She has been active in several professional organizations, serving as vice-president of the Na­ tional Association for Helen M acLam Interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies and as an associ­ ate editor for their publications. MacLam received her graduate library degree from the University of Michigan and holds a mas­ ter’s degree in Afro-American Studies from Boston University. Her undergraduate work was done at Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio, where she ma­ jored in sociology with minors in music and psy­ chology. In 1975 MacLam received a grant to participate in the Research Program for Ethnic Studies Librar- ianship at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee. Her research on Lemuel Haynes, an eighteenth- century black New England pastor, has been pub­ lished. Choice is the principal reviewing medium for scholarly materials in the U.S. ■ ■ Exhibit Space Still Available Booths and table spaces are still available for the Third National ACRL Conference in Seat­ tle, April 4 -7 ,1 9 8 4 . To reserve a booth or table, contact Sandy W hiteley, Exhibits Manager, A CRL, 50 E . Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; (312) 944-6780. DO YOU THINK THIS TO BE A FAIR QUESTION? 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