ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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characterized life on the farm and influenced 
prairie economics.

The University of Michigan’s School of In­
formation and Library Studies w ill receive four 
annual grants o f  $25,000 from University Mi­
crofilms International (U M I) for the creation o f 
the UMI Information Management Fellowship. 
UM I is a division o f  Chicago-based B ell & 
H ow ell. The en d ow m en t edges the school 
closer to its capital campaign goal o f $1 million 
over the next five years.

The University of North Carolina (UNC) at 
Chapel Hill’s School o f Information and Library 
Science has received an initial endow m ent o f 
$30,000 from  Eleanor and Frederick Kilgour for 
the establishment o f the Eleanor and Frederick 
Kilgour Faculty Research Fund. The fund w ill 
support faculty needs through acquisition o f 
innovative teaching materials and equipment, 
promotion o f research in new  fields, develo p ­
ment o f  n ew  courses, and provision o f funding 
for professional travel. Fred K ilgou r is the 
founder o f OCLC, Inc., and has been a distin­
guished research professor at UNC since 1990. 
The gift w ill count toward the unversity’s $320 
million Bicentennial Campaign for Carolina, o f 
which $281 million has been given or pledged.

Acquisitions
The library of Fr. Louis P. Giorgi, a forme
professor at Cabrini College, Pennsylvania,
has been acquired by the college’s H oly Spiri
Library. The collection o f 3,802 volumes cov
ers philosophy, religion, art, archeology, as
tronomy, travel, and the history o f man and
civilizations. Fr. Giorgi was ordained in 194
and served as associate pastor at St. Donato
and St. Cosmos and Damian. H e was pastor o
St. Justin Martyr in Pennsylvania, a church he
helped build and for which he designed, with
three artists, the stained glass windows.

The Arena Stage collection, consisting of
thousands o f  documents from the Washington,
D.C., theater’s first 40 seasons, 1950-51 through
1990-91, has been acquired by the Harvard The
atre Collection o f  the Harvard University Li­
brary. In addition to comprehensive materials

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from 325 productions staged at Arena, the ar­
chives include such theatrical treasures as hand­
written notes from playwright Thornton Wilder 
concerning the staging o f The Skin o f Our Teeth 
and from actor Ned Beatty requesting an audi­
tion in his early career. The collection w ill o f­
fer an invaluable and unparalleled opportunity 
for researchers to track h o w  this country’s resi­
dent theaters have survived and thrived, by 
studying the extensive records o f an institution 
at the forefront o f the movement.

The archives of Nobel Prize-winning South 
African novelist and short-story writer Nadine 
G ordim er have b een  acquired b y  Indiana 
University’s Lilly Library, Bloomington. Gordi­
mer, author o f  Fridays Footprints and Other 
Stories, Lifetimes Under Apartheid, My Son’s 
Story, Crimes o f Conscience, and Something Out 
There, is a major w orld literary figure noted for 
her sensitive pictures o f h o w  the political tur­
bulence in her native country has affected the 
lives o f  its peop le. The collection  includes 
manuscripts o f her novels and stories; note­
books in which she recorded her research for 
her books; television scripts based on her sto­
ries, speeches, articles, and papers; and about
4,000 received letters from 1949 to 1976, along 
with copies o f her ow n  letters for that period.

The Joseph Papp/New York Shakespeare 
Fesitval Archives have been acquired by the 
New York Public Library for the Perform­
ing Arts. This collection, which provides a his­
tory o f  the N ew  York Shakespeare Festival from 
its inception in 1954, includes the personal 
papers o f Joseph Papp (1921-1991), founder 
o f the fesitval. Under Papp’s leadership, the 
festival became the premiere producing agency 
o f the post-war American theater. The archives, 
a joint gift from Papp’s w id o w  Gail Merrifield 
Papp and the N ew  York Shakespeare Festival, 
will be housed in the library’s Billy Rose The­
atre Collection located at Lincoln Center.

Japan’s Chubu University has presented 
Ohio University with a Japanese library col­
lection which includes 500 books and videos, 
subscriptions to five Japanese newspapers and 
20 journals, and at least 100 additional videos 
and books yearly. Chubu w ill also provide a 
professional librarian for three to six months a 
year to assist in processing the Japanese mate­
rials. The acquisition commemorates 20 years 
o f cooperation between the tw o institutions. ■