ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 3 4 6 /C&RL News The W ayne State Uni­ versity Library and Informa­ tion Science Program has re­ ceived three Library Training Grants from the U.S. Depart­ m ent o f E d u catio n . The grant will fund five full-time library and information sci­ ence graduate fellowships. Three fellowships will be used to prepare individuals as school library media spe­ cialists to w ork in urban school settings. One fellow­ ship will prepare a techni­ cal sçrvices specialist. And one fellowship will be used to prepare for specialization in science information service within a research library setting. The fellowships provide tuition, fees, books, and a stipend for one year. The Southern Illinois U n iv e rs ity a t Carbondale received a $10,000 grant from The Friends of Morris Library to acquire new tech­ nology. The funds will be used to purchase Masterplots II CD-ROM, a database of essays conveying theme, style, plot, and characters of more than 2,900 works of literature, and Multi- media Encyclopedia o f M ammalian Biology, a multimedia encyclopedia with full motion video sequences, clear animal sounds, and more than 4,000 high resolution photographs and maps of mammalian life. The grant will also be used to purchase three CD-ROM computer worksta­ tions, one for each of the products listed above and a third for the Oxford English Dictionary. The University Libraries of the University at Albany, State U niversity o f N ew York, have received a 1992-93 Library Support Grant from The Japan Foundation. The grant consists of 97 English-language books, valued at $4,400, to support the University’s new academic pro­ gram in Japanese studies. The books cover Japa­ nese history, geography, political science, eco­ nomics and business, sociology, education, philosophy, religion, arts, and languages and literature. The U niversity of N orth C arolina at Chapel Hill has received a $170,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to preserve fragile historic papers of key South­ Grants a n d Acquisitions ern leaders and make them more accessible to scholars. UNC-CH will use the grant to describe, arrange, catalog, and microfilm docum ents dealing with fundamental el­ ements of the South’s devel­ opment into a commercial, industrial, and modern re­ gion. Papers in the project include those of New South promoter and Charlotte in­ dustrialist Daniel Augustus T om pkins; P o p u list vice p r e s id e n tia l c a n d id a te Marion Butler; Girl Scouts of America founder Juliette Gordon Low; and U.S. Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina. The project, expected to take about two years to finish, will involve 1.25 million items totalling about 4 million pages. The Research Libraries Group has re­ ceived a $62,000 grant from the National En­ dowment for the Humanities to begin devel­ o p in g a n a tio n a l d a ta b a s e on RLIN of information about primary materials in Ameri­ can literature— correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, and ephemera—often critical to re­ search but difficult for impossible to locate. This one-year pilot project, Research Resources in American Literature (RRAL), began on March 1, 1993, and involves four RLG members: the B einecke Library at Yale University, the Dartmouth College Library, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Houghton Library at Harvard College, where RRAL project’s edi­ torial office is located. The four participants will identify research materials relating to an initial list of 125 American authors and develop meth­ odologies to survey, describe, and catalog them in RLIN. Augustana College's Mikkelsen Library has received a $8,550 grant from the Mary Chilton DAR Foundation to be used to pur­ chase com puter equipm ent and a CD-ROM subscription to A merica: History a n d Life a com­ prehensive index to books and journal articles about American history and culture. The Library of Congress has received a $75,000 grant from the Margaret Thatcher Foun­ J u n e 1 9 9 3 / 3 4 7 dation to support a training program this sum ­ m er for 10 Russian librarians at the Library of Congress and selected local libraries through­ out the United States. Acquisitions Alice K ahler M arshall's private archives on w o m en ’s history, valued at nearly $300,000, have b e e n acq u ired b y T h e P e n n s y lv a n ia State U niversity. Thought to be the most ex­ tensive private com pilation o n the subject in the nation, the collection contains more than 6,000 books and hundreds of pam phlets, broad­ sides, buttons, postcards, posters, and games. Also included in the acquisition are more than 400 periodicals, including such rare n ew spa­ pers as Una (1853), the Free In q u irer (1832), and all 941 issues o f the 17th century periodi­ cal, th e O bservator (1681-1684). M arshall w orked o n the W ashington Post before joint­ ing the intelligence branch o f the 2nd Air Force in WWII. More recently, she w orked as a se­ nior research analyst for the state H ouse of Representatives and a speech w riter during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s for several political figures. V . S. N a ip a u l's manuscripts, correspon­ dence, and family memorabilia have b ee n ac­ quired by T he U n iv ersity o f Tulsa. Equally lauded for his fiction and his journalism, Naipaul is the author o f 10 novels, 10 books of nonfic­ tion, an d a collection o f short stories. Born in Trinidad to descendants of Indian immigrants, Naipaul w as ed u cated at O xford University. Naipaul first w on international acclaim in 1961 after the publication of his novel A House fo r Mr. Biswas. His m ost recent w ork, India: A Million M utinies Now, w as published in 1990. The papers of fam ed English biographer Elizabeth Pakenham have b een acquired by the Twentieth Century Archives at B o sto n U niver­ sity. Know n for h er notew orthy biographies of Q ueen Victoria, Q ueen Elizabeth I, and Sir Winston Churchill, Pakenham w as educated at Oxford earning h er degree in classical history and philosophy. Pakenham ’s major w orks in­ clude Victoria, M (1964), Wellington: The Years o f the Sword (1969), The Royal House o f Windsor (1974),- Churchill (1974), and B y ro n ’s Greece (1975). The collection includes P ak en h am ’s m a n u s c rip ts , re s e a rc h n o te s , d ia rie s, an d datebooks. Robert Penn W arren's private w o rk in g library and poetry collection have b een acquired by W estern K entucky U n iv ersity ’s Center for Robert P enn W arren Studies. T he collection contains 2,250 volumes, photographs, a Pulitzer medal, the Presidential Medal o f Freedom, the laurel w reath W arren received w h en he b e ­ came America’s first Poet Laureate, an d other memorabilia. W arren (1905-1989), best know n for his Pulitzer-prizing w inning novel, A ll The K in g ’s Men, left a b ody o f w ork that included 16 volum es o f poetry, 10 novels, a play, a vol­ um e o f short stories, a collection of critical es­ says, a biography, an d tw o studies of race rela­ tions in America. Seven hundred and forty-five watercolor paintings, pencil drawings, and prints by 19th- century artist John Rubens Smith have b een ac­ quired by T he Library o f C ongress. In his time an influential draw ing master, Smith cre­ ated som e o f the finest surviving sketches of America during the Federal period, including views o f Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Phila­ delphia, an d other Eastern seaboard cities. T ra d itio n a l Crafts o f J a p a n , a set of books an d videos on traditional Japanese arts and crafts has b ee n acquired by the Architec- tu re/F in e Arts Library at the U n iv e r s ity o f M anitoba libraries. A gift from the Soroptomist International, this set contains information on everything from ceramics to writing instruments, and will be of particular interest to scholars in the fields o f art, religion, history, textiles, and Asian Studies. This gift is part of a w orldwide distribution sponsored by Fuji Bank Ltd. Charles James A p p e rle y 's unpublished letters and personal papers have b ee n acquired by the U n iv ersity o f V irginia Library’s Marion duPont Scott collection o f sporting books. Con­ sidered by some the first great sports journal­ ist, A pperley w rote vivid, detailed accounts of fox hunting and horse racing in 1820s and 30s u n d er the n om de plum e Nimrod. Eagerly read th ro u g h o u t England an d th e U nited States, A pperley (1778-1843) w as know n for his lively, anecdote-filled accounts, w ritten mainly for The Sporting M agazine, o n e o f the most popular