ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 300 / C&RL News ■ A p ril 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 Cornell University has received a $297,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to preserve and digitize a u n iq u e collection of ephem era, published materials, and artifacts from U.S. national p o ­ litical campaigns (1800-1976) and make the information available and searchable on the Web. The goal of the project is to make more widely know n and accessible the Susan H. Douglas Collection of Political Americana in Cornell’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Col­ lections. There are approximately 5,500 objects of political memorabilia dating from 1789 to I960. The finished collection will be repre­ sented by more than 35,000 online images, searchable by year, candidate, and format. T h e U n iv e r s it y o f I l l i n o i s U rb a n a - Cham paign (UIUC) has received a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to build a program to protect and preserve endangered library materials. Under the terms of the award, UIUC will receive $700,000 in endow m ent funds on a two-to-one matching basis, contingent u p o n its ability to raise $1.4 million during the next five years. The funds will provide permanent support for library pres­ ervation efforts. UIUC will receive an outright gift of $300,000 to design and equip a conser­ vation laboratory by spring 2003- Nassau Com m unity College has received an $85,000 Perkins III grant from the New York State D epartm ent of Education to es­ tablish a new e-com m erce lab. The University o f Mississippi's Center fo r th e Study of S outhern Culture has receiv ed a $50,000 p lan n in g gran t from th e N ational E n d o w m e n t for th e H um anities (NEH) to c o m p o se th e Mississippi Encyclopedia. Fea­ tu rin g listin g s fro m A dam s C o u n ty a n d A lco rn State U n iv ersity to a u th o r Stark Y oung a n d th e to w n o f Z ion Hill, th e o n e- v o lu m e h a r d b a c k e d itio n w ill in c lu d e 2,5000 e n tries c o n ta in e d w ith in 800 p ag es a n d is set to b e p u b lish e d in late 2005 or 2006. N orth C a ro lin a Sta te U n iv e rsity (NCSU) has b e e n aw ard ed a $48,100 grant for a joint project w ith the Biltmore Estate Com pany and the Forest History Society to create a W eb-based resource for research on the forestry history of North Carolina. The aw ard is a North Carolina ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage O nline) EZ-Library Services and T echnology Act digitization dem onstration grant. The Carl Alwin Schenck Collection, h oused in the Special Collections D epartm ent o f the NCSU Libraries, forms the foundation of forestry history resources am ong the three institutions. The NCSU Libraries plans to digitize m ore th an 1,000 photographs (from 1889 to 1951) that detail life at the first school of forestry in the United States, the Biltmore Forest School (founded by Schenck), forest- study tours in Europe and America, and fo re stry tra in in g p ro g ra m s. T e x t-b a s e d d o c u m e n ts s e t fo r d ig itiz a tio n in clu d e Schenck’s diaries, journals, a n d letters dating from 1890 to 1954. A c q u i s it io n s A n g e lo S ta te U n iv e rs ity 's W est T e xas Collection (WTC) has received six major collections to its holdings: 1) The Rob Junell p a p e rs inclu d e th e official reco rd s and co rresp o n d en ce o f the retiring chairm an of th e Texas H ouse A ppropriations Committee. The p ap ers date from 1988, his first year in office, a n d cover his political career. 2) The H ouston Harte papers cover the career of the San Angelo Standard-Tim es publisher from 1942 until his death in 1972. Harte was a friend a n d confidant of Lyndon Baines Johnson. The materials include personal and business correspondence, photographs, and 23 scrapbooks. 3) Papers from the Ulmer Bird collection cover the d o n o r’s experience as a E d . n o te : Send y o u r news to : Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-m ail: ayoung@ ala.org. mailto:ayoung@ala.org C&RL News ■ A p ril 2002 / 301 chaplain in W orld W ar II and his subsequent W est T exas c a re e r w h e n h e se rv e d as postm aster of Sanco in Coke County and was the ow ner of several West Texas new spapers. 4) A collection of Elmer Kelton’s writing career includes 250 books a n d m ore than 75 pulp magazines and other ephem era. 5) Mike Cox d onated materials he collected while doing the biography Fred Gipson: Texas Storyteller, published in 1980. The materials include manuscripts, correspondence, and m ovie-related materials from Old Yeller and other movies p ro d u ced from G ipson’s books. 6) Retired West Texas new spaperm an Bill Hinnant gave WTC the research he com pleted over several years on Texas cattle claims to the federal governm ent for losses sustained during the M exican Revolution. The papers o f Canadian fictio n publisher Prairie Fire have been donated to the University of M anitoba Libraries. The papers include ( “New Publications” continuedfro m p a g e 299) International Librarianship: Cooperation and Collaboration, edited by Frances Laverne Carroll and John Frederick Harvey (367 pages, September 2001), brings together 32 essays on how librarians have transferred ideas and tech­ nology to libraries in other, usually less devel­ oped, countries. Specific topics include the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the University of São Paulo library system, the ABINIA Ibero-Ameri­ can network, university libraries in West Af­ rica, IFLA initiatives, librarianship in Iran since 1979, docum entation centers on public health, and international marine science networks. The editors dedicate the book to the m em oiy of Lester Asheim. $65-00. Scarecrow. ISBN 0-8108- 3921-0. Lice n sin g D ig ita l C o ntent, by Lesley Ellen Harris (137 pages, February 2002), covers ev­ ery basic step in the process of negotiating and interpreting licensing agreem ents with vendors of electronic databases or journals. Written from a perspective of global licenses, the instructions and insights will apply equally to Canadian and European agreem ents. Har­ ris p ro v id e s d o w n -to -e a rth d efinitions o f term s fo u n d in agreem ents a n d discusses m any types o f provisions, b o th pivotal and boilerplate, that are found in written licenses. materials relating to the w orkings of this small press, including correspondence, reviews, material relating to the p ress’ annual writing com petitions, a n d manuscripts. D ra w in g s o f T e xas a rch ite ct O 'N eil Ford (1905-82) have been donated to the Alexander Architectural Archive at the University of Texas at Austin by his widow , W anda Graham Ford. T h e gift in c lu d e s 5,540 o rig in a l a rc h ite c tu ra l d raw in g s, 5,484 prints, 40 p r e s e n ta tio n d raw in g s, 39 p re s e n ta tio n sketches, and 63 sheets of photographic materials. The donation covers Ford’s w ork through 1966 and com plem ents an earlier gift to the Alexander Architectural Archive of Ford’s office files, personal papers, and books. Ford’s m ost notable projects include the restoration of La Villita and designs for the n e w cam pus for Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and Skidmore College in New York. ■ Also included is a ch ap ter o n negotiation techniques, and frequently asked questions a n d answ ers. $45.00. Am erican Library As­ sociation. ISBN 0-8389-0815-2. R eading Popular Rom ance in Early M od­ ern E n g la n d , by Lori Hum phrey Newcomb (332 pages, January 2002), examines the ori­ gins of Elizabethan popular fiction and its in­ fluence on more elite literary forms. Newcomb takes Robert Greene’s romance Pandosto (1585) as a case study, addressing Shakespeare’s use of it as a source for The W inter’s Play and how both works w ere modified or recommodified for different audiences up to the 19th century. In the process, Newcomb shows how the crit­ ics’ denigration of popular romances as crude trivialities distanced them from accepted ven­ ues, even though they shared a com m on cul­ tural dynamic. $49.50. Columbia University. ISBN 0-231-12378-7. ( “Preservation new s” continued fr o m p a g e 296) Copies of this b ook are available for $95 from the University of W ashington Press, P.O. Box 50096, Seattle, WA, 98145-5096; phone: (800) 441-4115; toll-free fax: (800) 669-7993; e-m ail: uw pord@ u.w a s h in g to n .e d u ; Web: http ://w w w .w ash in g to n .ed u /u w p ress; ISBN: 0774808608. ■ mailto:uwpord@u.washington.edu http://www.washington.edu/uwpress