ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries April 1986 / 281 News from the Field Acquisitions • The LaGuardia Archives at the LaG uardia Community College of the City University of New York has acquired the records of the New York City Housing Authority for the years 1934-1 9 7 4 . The Authority is the largest municipal housing author­ ity in the nation. The records include minutes, re­ ports, chairm an’s files, secretary’s files, statistical tenant d ata, project files, clippings and photo­ graphs. •The Louisiana State University Libraries, B a ­ ton Rouge, have acquired the papers of the Rom a­ nian emigre poet Andrei Codrescu. Codrescu, now on the faculty of the university’s English D ep art­ ment, is a poet, editor, translator, and com m enta­ tor for National Public Radio. The collection in­ cludes correspondence, rough drafts, and proofs of literary works, and docum entation concerning emigre life, including correspondence with Rom a­ nian dissidents residing in Paris during the 1960s and 1970s. Codrescu was born in Rom ania in 1946 and emigrated to the United States in 1966. He gained U .S. citizenship in 1981. Codrescu has pub­ lished six volumes of poetry and is the founder and editor of the review journal Exquisite Corpse. •Millersville University of Pennsylvania’s G an­ ser Library has acquired the Carl Van Vechten Me­ morial Collection of Afro-American Arts and L e t­ ters from Bruce Kellner, a Van Vechten scholar and member of the university’s English faculty. The collection consists of first editions of books, rare pamphlets, letters, documentary photographs and illustrations of the Harlem Renaissance, in ad­ dition to numerous original Van Vechten photo­ graphs, including postcard photos. Authors repre­ sented include Langston Hughes, Jam es Weldon Johnson, and Van Vechten himself. The postcards depict many of the most notable Afro-American performers, artists, and athletes of the 1930s, many of whom are shown before they becam e known. •The New York Public Library has purchased the m an u scrip t of A u strian com poser G ustav M ahler’s Symphony No. 5. The manuscript, which was thought to have been lost, was acquired by the library’s music from the firm of C .F . Peters, the original publisher of the work. The manuscript is in the hand of M ahler’s wife Alma, with extensive corrections in the orchestration of the work by the composer, therefore lending credence to her asser­ tions that she provided practical contributions to her husband’s works. The manuscript reveals that th e o rch e s tra tio n of th e sym phony m arked a change in the composer’s style, and that it gave him considerable difficulty; at least seven different stages of the work can be discerned. The funds for the purchase were made available by the O tto Kinkeldey Fund. •The University of California, Santa Barbara, has acquired the papers of director and playwright Luis Valdez and the archives of El Teatro Campe- sino, the theater he founded. Valdez, best known as the author of the 1978 play “Zoot S u it,” is re­ garded as the preeminent Chicano dramatist in the nation. He founded the theater in 1965 as an activ­ ist ensem ble to gather support for the union- organizing effort of the United Farm Workers. B e­ fore sh iftin g its focus to C h ican o cu ltu re, the theater company won an “O bie” award in 1968 for “creating a workers’ theater to demonstrate the politics of survival.” Unlike archives that are devel­ oped after the life of an organization or individual, the collections will be the repository of a working playwright and theater group. The collections will include unpublished and ongoing scripts, corre­ spondence, lectures, original artwork, video and film footage, costume renderings, articles and re­ views, set and prop designs, extensive photograph and poster collections, and dissertations and books written about the theater ensemble. •The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library has received a collection of rare books relating to the discovery, exploration, conquest, and colonization of the New W orld. Most of the 77 books in the collection are 16th, 17th, and 18th- century editions of the works of the Spanish chroni­ clers, or cronistas. The collection was purchased from Bernard J. Flatow , a 1941 graduate of the university. The collection includes a second edition of Novissime hystoriarum omnium repercussiones (Venice, 1503) by the Augustinian monk Jacopo F i­ lippo Foresti of Bergamo. In this edition is one the first known published accounts of Columbus’s dis­ coveries. The collection also includes the 1507 Paesi N o v a m en te re tr o v a ti by F r a c a s ta n o da M on- talboddo, discussing voyages of Columbus and Vespucci, and the very rare 1516 edition of Pietro M a r tire d ’A n g h ie r a ’s D e o r b e n ov o d e c a d e s , among other notable cronista works. •The University of Texas at Austin has obtained a papyrus collection of approximately 150 items dating from the period between the 3rd and 1st centuries B .C . T h e collection, which was pur­ chased by the university’s Harry Ransom Humani- 282 / CćrBL N ews ties Research Center from a Dutch collector, in­ cludes a mixture of documentary, historical, and literary papyri, among them marriage contracts, land documents, and receipts of financial transac­ tions. The material in the collection dates from the Ptolemaic period, while the bulk of other papyrus collections date from the Roman era, between the 1st and 4th centuries A.D. The papyri in the UT collection were retrieved from m um m y w ra p ­ pings. Among other items in the collection are peti­ tions to some of the earliest Ptolemaic rulers, the earliest dating to 282 B. C .; various documents con­ cerning parcels of land (size, nature, acquisitions, sales) and the regulations of land irrigation; and administrative documents, one which contains the name of a royal official who is also mentioned by the Greek historian Polybius. • The Archives of the Billy Graham Center at W heaton College, Illinois, have acquired the p a­ pers of the evangelist and missionary Oswald J. Smith. Smith, who died January 25 at 97, contrib­ uted to North American understanding of and sup­ port for foreign missions through his world travel and the activities of his People’s Church of To­ ronto. He supported the missions of hundreds of missionaries from 35 faith missionary societies, and was the author of 34 books. The collection includes correspondence, sermon notes, photographs, audio tapes, clippings, and hymns. Travel grants to international conferences The ALA International Relations Com m it­ tee is offering grants of $300 to assist members of the Association to attend their first interna­ tional library conference. The criteria for receiving a 1986 Bogle Inter­ national Library Travel Fund grant are that each applicant must: 1) be a member of the American Library As­ sociation; 2) be planning to attend his or her first inter­ national conference, either in the United States or abroad; 3) have manifested some interest in interna­ tional activities in his or her professional career; 4) have some institutional support as evi­ dence of the institution’s commitment to inter­ national relations; 5) promise to present a report to the Grants Subcommittee within three months after the co n feren ce ends for w h ich th e g ra n t was awarded. Application forms may be obtained from: Mohammed M. Aman, Chair, ALA/IRC, Uni­ versity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, School of Li­ brary and Information Science, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201. Forms should be re­ turned no later than May 15, 1986. Grants • T he Lower Colum bia C ollege L ib ra ry , Longview, Washington, has received an LSCA T i­ tle II grant of $112,042 to create a cooperative net­ work with the Longview Public Library. The col­ lege w ill in sta ll th e p u b lic li b r a r y ’s D ynix computerized system to provide users of both facili­ ties with access to a joint online catalog. ♦ The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been aw arded a grant of $250,000 by the MacArthur Foundation In te rn a tio n a l Security Program . The M IT L i­ braries have been allocated $15,000 for the first year of the grant, with the possibility of renewal for an additional two years. The funds are designated for the purchase of materials in the field of arms control and international security. Special em pha­ sis is being given to acquiring government docu­ ments and other prim ary source materials essential for research. • The New York Psychoanalytic Institute’s Brill Library has been awarded $18,964 from the New- Land Foundation to support the preservation and editing of unique film footage of Sigmund Freud and other early psychoanalysts. The footage was shot in Vienna, Berlin, and Paris in 1927 and 1928. • Rutgers University L ibraries, New Bruns- wick, New Jersey, have received an OCLC Retro­ spective Conversion G rant of $13,750 from the New Jersey Departm ent of Education. Fifty thou­ sand records are to be converted. • The University of Waterloo, Ontario, has re- ceived a $1,526 grant from the Social Sciences and H um anities Research Council of C anada. The funds will be used to purchase a collection of more than 400 items relating to Dr. Marie Stopes and her pioneering work in birth control education in E n­ gland beginning in 1918. The grant was made un­ der the “Fleeting Opportunities” provision of the Council’s “Support to Specialized Collections in University Libraries Program .” Such grants must be m atched by library funds. A portion of the matching funds ($1,000) was provided by Kauf­ man Footwear of Kitchener, Ontario. A. R. Kauf­ man donated collections in 1974 and 1983 relating to the history of family planning in Canada. The 1974 donation consisted of the papers and records of the 1936 trial of a nurse, a field worker from Kaufm an’s Parents’ Information Bureau, who was tried for and acquitted of distribution of birth con­ trol information. The second donation consisted of the files and archives of the bureau, a program es­ tablished by K aufm an for low income women which served 25,000 clients during its operation. The newly acquired collection, ranging from 1906 to the 1980s, contains about 130 items that relate directly to Stopes’s work. The collection also con­ tains a large body of supporting materials on the topics of contraception and family planning. • The University of Wisconsin School of Library A pril 1986 / 283 and In fo rm a tio n Studies, M adison, has been awarded a $148,000 grant from the U.S. D epart­ ment of Education to study the role of secondary school, com m unity college, academ ic, public, state, and state institutional libraries in literacy ed­ ucation. A nation-wide survey and nine case stud­ ies form the basis of the study. News Notes • Indiana University and the University of Vir- ginia have arranged a librarian exchange between two of the universities’ librarians. Gail Oltmanns, assistant head in the undergraduate library at Indi­ ana U niversity, B loom ington, and E lizab eth M argutti, a librarian at V irginia’s Clemons Li­ brary, exchanged jobs January 1 and will remain at one another’s post until June 15. Their assignments have been made based upon the needs of the li­ braries in which they are working and taking into consideration their particular interests and abili­ ties. Each librarian is paid by her home institution but enjoys official staff membership in the library which she is visiting. ■ ■ P E O P L E Profile Leslie A. Manning has been named director of the library at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. M anning retu rn s to the university following four years as associate dean for technical ser­ vices and automation at Kansas State University. P rio r to h er w ork at Kansas State, she served for five years as head of te c h n ic a l services at Colorado. Her profes­ sional c a re e r also in ­ cludes service at the Uni­ versity of N eb rask a, Leslie A. ManningLincoln, as head of the serials records section and as reference librarian. Manning received an MLS from the University of Denver, and holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has also com­ pleted coursework in computer science at the Uni­ versity of Nebraska, Lincoln. Her professional activities include membership on the board of trustees of the Bibliographic Center for Research, Inc. (BCR) (1983-87). She is cur­ rently president of that board (1984-86). In addi­ tion, Manning is currently a member of the ACRL S ta n d a rd s an d A c c re d ita tio n C o m m itte e (1983-86), and is vice-chair/chair-elect of the RTSD T ec h n ical Services A d m in istra to rs of M edium -Sized Research L ib raries Discussion Group (1985-86). Her previous professional activi­ ties have included membership on the ACRL Con­ ference Planning Committee (1984-85), the RTSD Technical Services Cost C om m itttee (1981-85), the LITA National Conference Technology Sub­ committee (1982-83), and many committees of the OCLC, Inc., Users Council. She is the author of “Technical Services Admin­ istration” and “C irculation” , both for Library Technical Services Operations and Management, cademic Press, 1984. People in the News Robert H. Patterson, director of libraries at he University of Tulsa, O klahom a, has been amed to assume the additional responsibilities of irecting the university’s central planning opera­ ions. Patterson will manage a newly established lanning office, where he will work with the cen­ ral university administration to expand and im­ lement planning operations for the school. Prior o his service at Tulsa, Patterson was director of li­ raries at the University of Wyoming, and before hat assistant director at the Tulane University Li­ raries. He is the founder and editor of Conserva­ ion Administration News. Patterson is the imme­ iate past president of the Oklahoma Chapter of CRL. His other professional activities have in­ luded membership on the ACRL Chapters Coun­ il (1985), the RBMS/ACRL Ad Hoc Ethics Com­ ittee (1983-84), and the Board of Directors of the klahoma Chapter of ACRL (1982-83). He was ice-president/president-eleet of the Oklahoma A t n d t p t p t b t b t d A c c m O v