ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C&RL News ■ June 2000 / 531 G r a n t s a n d A c q u i s i t i o n s Ann-Chri ste Young The American Theological Library Asso c ia tio n (ATLA) h a s r e c e iv e d a tw o -y e a r $564,977 grant from the National Endow ment for the Humanities to support preservation mi crofilming and the creation and dissem ination o f bibliographic records o f 200 rare journal titles published at the turn o f the century. Mi crofilms will b e stored in ATLA’s vault at the National Underground Storage Facility. T he majority o f the titles for this coordinated project are contributed by four key research libraries affiliated with ATLA: Andover-Harvard Library o f Harvard Divinity School, Pitts Theology Li brary o f Emory University, Speer Library o f Princeton Theological Seminary, and Yale Di vinity School Library. ATLA is a professional association o f librarians w ho specialize in the ology and religious studies or w ho have an interest in the bibliography and literature o f religion. The University of Virginia, representing the Virtual Library o f Virginia (VIVA), has been aw arded a $ 2 5 0 ,0 0 0 preservation grant from th e N ational End ow m ent for the Hum anities (NEH). T h e grant will support the creation o f the Virginia Heritage P roject, a database inte grating thousands o f E n cod ed Archival D e scription (EAD) tagged finding aids that de scribe and provide onlin e access to a large b od y o f prim ary sou rce m aterials h eld by m ajor academ ic and research libraries in Vir ginia. “Many o f th e priceless docu m ents o f A m erican history, literatu re, an d p o litical thought reside in the sp ecial collection s o f Virginia’s c olleg es, universities, and o th er re sea rch lib ra rie s ,” said U niversity Librarian Karin W ittenborg. VIVA, fou n d ed in 1994, consists o f the libraries o f the 39 state-assisted c o lleg es and universities w ithin Virginia, and an additional 29 ind ep en den t, not-for-profit edu cational institutions. Plattsburgh State U n iversity o f New Y ork ’s Special C ollections, as part o f a 20- m em ber consortium com prised o f public and private sch o o ls, p u b lic libraries, historical societies, and the regional T each er R esource Center, is sharing a $443,731 grant from the N ew York State Education D epartm ent, O f fice o f T ech nolog y. T h e pu rpose o f the grant is to help stim ulate the focu s o f state, local, and private secto r partnerships on fully inte grating tech n o log y into teach in g, learning, and inform ation access. Materials relating to the history o f north ern N ew York during the period b etw een the World Wars will b e digi tized, m ounted as W eb pag es, and distrib uted for classroom use o n CDs. Plattsburgh’s share o f the grant is in e xcess o f $20,000 worth o f equ ip m en t including an archival digital scanner. “O n e asp ect o f the project will s ee sch o o l teach ers and students collectin g pri mary historical m aterials not already in re p ositories,” said Special C ollections Librarian Wayne Miller. Co rn ell U n iversity's A lb e rt R. M ann Library receiv ed $ 8 65,845 from the National E nd ow m ent for th e H um anities for the p res ervation o f b o o k s, family farm m em oirs, land transaction, and other published materials that dep ict the history o f A m erican agricultural and rural life. Mann Library, w orking on b e h alf o f th e U.S. Agriculture Inform ation Ser v ice, will b e preserving nearly 2 ,700 titles in 8 ,5 0 0 volum es pu blished in Arkansas, Iow a, Kansas, M innesota, New M exico, North Caro lina, and North D akota b etw een 1820 and 1945. This is the third p h ase o f an ongoing project, the National Preservation Program for Agricultural Literature, that b eg an in 1996. M o re in fo rm a tio n is a v a ila b le at http:// ww w . n ew s .Cornell. edu/Chronicles/4.13.00/ Mann-NEH.html. The U n iversity o f Illin o is a t Urbana- Cham paign has receiv ed a National S cien ce Fou ndation grant in e x cess o f $2 8 7 ,0 0 0 to d evelop a W eb-based referen ce tool. Bryan H eidorn, assistant professor o f Library and Ed. no te: Send y o u r n e w s to : G ra n ts & A c q u is itio n s , C&RL News, 50 E. H u ro n St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e -m a il: a yo u n g @ a la .o rg . mailto:ayoung@ala.org 5 3 2 / C&RL News ■ June 2000 Inform ation S cien ce, and M ichael Jeffo rd s, The Katherine G. Lederer Collection of African American History o f the Ozarks, a group o f approxim ately 7 ,5 0 0 docum ents dating as far back as the Civil War, has b een donated to the Duane G. Meyer Library at Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU). The collection includes more than 2,600 pho tographs o f African Americans from Spring field, Missouri. T he material was collected over a 20-year period by Katherine Lederer, an SMSU professor o f English, and provided the foundation for her 1986 book, Many Thousand Gone: Springfield’s Lost Black His tory. The Lederer Collection documents the before-and-after story o f the region’s African American community and history. The pho tographs, along with the collection’s family, military, and church records, provide the only kn ow n links to many fam ilies w ho fled Springfield following a lynching in 1906. A unique copy of Samuel Eliot Morison’s His tory o f United States Naval Operations in World War II (Boston: Little, Brow n and Company) has b e e n donated to th e N im itz Li brary at the United States Naval Acad emy. The author in scrib ed e a ch s p e c ia lly b o u n d v o l u m e to his w ife , Priscilla, and letters from leading World War II figures were bound into most o f the volumes. Maxine G o o d P in eau d o nated the volumes U.S. Naval Academy receives Morison's H istory o f U n ite d to th e lib r a ry in s in W o rld W ar II fro m th e memory o f her late Pineau. (Left to right): Susan h u sb an d , C aptain l C olle ctio n s and Archives; Roger Pineau, who r a ria n /a s s o c ia te d e a n f o r od Pineau; Andy Pineau; and served as Morison’s rd. assistant during the preparation o f the volumes. A noted naval historian in his own right, and an expert on the Japanese and their language, Pineau edited Commodore Mat thew Perry’s personal journal o f the 1852-54 Jap an Expedition. He wrote, translated, or edited several publications concerning the Pa cific campaign and personalities o f World War II. ■ asso ciate professor o f Natural and Envi ronm ental S cien c es and P ublic Relations and Education Liaison for the Illinois Natu ral History Survey, will supervise a team o f graduate students in library and infor m ation s cie n c e, b iolog y , and linguistics— w ho will d evelop a W eb-based referen ce tool to e n a b le users to visualize the c o n tents o f natural langu age d escrip tion s o f flora and fauna for pu rposes o f iden tifica tion and classification. A c q u i s i t i o n s Nordamerika Vorzuegl¡sch Texas (which translates to “North America, Particularly Texas in the Year 1849: A Travel Account”), written by Prussian schoolteacher Wilhelm Steinert, has been acquired by Southern Meth odist Uni-versity’s (SMU) Library o f Texas. The diary is the fifth volume in a series, produced by SMU’s DeGolyer Library and the Wil liam P. Clements Jr. C en ter fo r Sou th w est Studies, which publishes firsthand a c co u n ts o f 19th- c e n tu r y T e x a s . S te in e r t’s jo u rn ey in c lu d e d n e a r ly d r o w n in g in th e G u a d a lu p e River, contracting malaria, an In d ia n a tta c k near Austin, and a The N im itz Library a t th e ch o lera pand em ic a copy o f Samuel E liot in N ew B rau n fels States Naval O peration a n d e ls e w h e r e . fa m ily o f Captain Roger Dean, head o f Specia A lo n g th e w ay R ichard W e rk ¡n g , lib Steinert commented Info rm a tion ; M axine Go on the health, mode Julienne Pineau Hubba o f living, housing, farms, food, crafts, trade, markets, transpor tation, hunting, and plant and anim al life in m id-19th century Texas. SMU is m aking a lim ited edition o f the English version o f th e d iary a v a ila b le . T o o r d e r c a ll th e D eG olyer Library at (2 1 4 ) 768-3231; it costs $55 plus $5 for shipping and $ 4.08 in Texas sales tax. 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