ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


3 7 8  /  C&RL News ■ May 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

The University o f North Carolina (UNC) 
at Chapel Hill has received a $530,000 grant 
from the E.S.P. Das Educational Foundation, 
a private organization in New York City, to 
produce a 3-D digital rare b ook library. 
UNC’s School of Inform ation and Library 
Science, the university’s academ ic libraries, 
a n d  ibiblio.org., a free library on the W eb that 
is based at UNC, will use the funding to 
introduce the experience of view ing a b ook 
in three dim ensions to the digital form. The 
3-D library will consist of tw o com ponents: 
an interactive system for viewing rare books 
and historically significant material in single 
or collection form, and a set of procedures 
and software tools for scanning, converting, 
and distributing the m aterial online.

The University o f Pittsburgh's East Asian 
Library has received a $223,500 grant over 
four years from the Freeman Foundation to 
build library resources for undergraduate 
students m ajoring in Asian studies. The 
p ro g ra m  in c lu d e s  tw o  c o m p o n e n ts : a 
bibliographic instruction class designed for 
students in the East Asian Studies program  
and a comprehensive undergraduate-oriented, 
W eb-based information service for students at 
th e U niversity o f P ittsburgh a n d  o th e r 
institutions.

Appalachian State University (ASU) is the 
recipient of a 2001-2002 EZ-LSTA Digitiza­
tion D em onstration Grant in the am ount of 
$49,995. The grant will support the develop­
m ent of the W estern North Carolina Heri­
tage (WNCH) Web site by the W. L. Eury 
Appalachian Collection and the Appalachian 
Cultural M useum of ASU and their partners, 
the Southern Highlands Craft Guild, Asheville 
Art M useum, A sheville-B uncom be Library 
S ystem , U n iv e rs ity  o f N o rth  C a r o lin a -  
Asheville Special Collections, and the YMI 
Cultural Center. The WNCH site will build 
u p o n  and incorporate last year’s Land of the 
Sky project (also funded through an EZ-LSTA 
grant to the Asheville-based partners). This 
site will be d eveloped in coordination with

the State Library of North Carolina’s North 
Carolina ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage 
Online) program  and shares its goals of m ak­
ing North Carolina’s cultural heritage avail­
able online to all of its citizens, particularly 
to students in North Carolina’s schools and 
colleges. The primary focus of the first stage 
of WNCH developm ent will be the digitiza­
tion of materials concerning ethnic groups 
and ethnic diversity in the Appalachian m oun­
tains of North Carolina. This project is 100 
percent supported with federal LSTA funds 
m ade possible through a grant from the In­
stitute of M useum and Library Services, ad­
ministered by the State Library of North Caro­
lina, a division of the D epartm ent of Cultural 
Resources.

The UCLA Library has been aw arded a 
challenge grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foun­
dation to help staff address the problem  of 
protecting the most fragile and highly used li­
brary resources. The initial grant of $340,000 
will be used to hire a conservation specialist 
and to establish a conservation treatment labo­
ratory for preservation activities. The founda­
tion will aw ard th e library an additional 
$750,000 if an equal amount is raised from other 
library donors within three years. This fund of 
$1.5 million will be used to create an endow ­
m ent for conservation and preservation.

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

The Snow L. and B. W. C. Roberts Collec­
tion of fiction has been  acquired by the East 
Carolina University Library. The collection in­
cludes m ore than 1,100 novels, novelettes, 
and collections of short stories from 1830 to 
the present, set wholly or partially in North 
Carolina. The collection includes rare titles, 
first editions, original dust jackets or bind­
ings, and authors’ signatures.

Ed. n ote: Send y o u r news to: Grants & Acquisitions, 
C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; 
e-m ail: ayoung@ ala.org.

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The research papers o f th e  
late Gordon W. Prange, history pro­
fessor at the University of Maryland 
(UM) and a scholar on Pearl Har­
bor and World War II, have been 
acquired by UM. Prange is perhaps 
best know n for his 1969 book on 
Pearl Harbor, Tora! Torn! Torn!, 
which was made into a movie of 
the same name. Following his death 
in 1980, several of his works were 
published posthumously, including 
Miracle at Midway wnâAtD awn We 
Slept: The Untold Story o f Pearl Har­
bor. Prange’s working papers in­
clude notes for his early writings 
on Hitler, interviews with U.S. and 
Japanese military figures, correspon­
dence with friends and publishers, 
drafts of books, maps, and lecture 
notes from UM classes. ■

Present at the Prange g ift signing at the University o f Maryland 
were, seated (from left): Dean o f Libraries Charles Lowry and Polly 
and Winfred Prange. Standing (from left): Barbara Harr, assistant 
dean and director o f external relations; Jennie Levine, assistant 
curator for historical manuscripts; DesiderVikor, director o f collection 
management and special collections; Eiko Sakaguchi, curator, East 
Asia and Prange Collections; Amy Wasserstrom, manager. Prange 
Collection; and Lauren Brown, curator, archives and manuscripts.