ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 140 / CirRL News ing inform ation about the participants’ activities. 4) U tilization of a centralized database to be de­ veloped by the L ib rary of Congress. W h ile coord in ation of existing program s w ill contribu te much to building an effective national preservation strategy, the participants identified a num ber of areas that still need to be addressed: 1) New cooperative program s must be esta b ­ lished in areas where preservation needs cannot now be met locally. 2) E xistin g preservation education program s leading to a certificate and/or a degree must be sup­ ported and others need to be established. 3) Sh o rt-term train in g and education should co n tin u e and be expanded and a d d itio n a l, in ­ depth training opportunities should be developed. 4) Research and development projects must be sponsored at appropriate scientific facilities to in­ vestigate and evaluate the application of science to preservation problems. 5) W h ile research and development into infor­ m ation preservation technologies such as optical and video disk are ongoing, proven methods such as m icrofilm ing must receive continued support so th at the content of endangered m aterials will be preserved. 6) T h e development and/or adoption of stan­ dards by national organizations such as ANSI pro­ vides a valuable service to the preservation profes­ sion and should continue. 7) Support and funding of the field services of re­ gional preservation programs should continue. 8) F in ally , participants agreed to continue their com m unications and inform ation exchange on a regular basis as one way of prom oting continued national cooperation and decided to meet again in D ecem ber 1986. T h e C o n feren ce provided an opportunity for professionals engaged in sim ilar projects to meet each other and share com m on concerns. T h e p a r­ ticipants concurred that the challenge posed by the deterioration of the nation’s collections can be met m ore effectively as cooperative preservation pro­ grams are supported and expanded, and that n a­ tionw ide coordination am ong regional preserva­ tion programs should be continued. ■ ■ News from the Field Acquisitions • T h e A uburn U niversity L ib ra rie s, A uburn, A lab am a, have received several acquisitions of note. T h e university lib rary ’s Special Collections D e ­ partm ent has added to its collection of Bibles w ith the acquisition of a 1541 G reat B ible, a 1575 Bish­ ops’ B ible and a 1582 Rheims New Testam ent. Th e G reat B ible, a revision of the 1535 Coverdale B ible, was commissioned by Thom as Crom w ell because the 1535 B ib le had been prepared mostly from L a tin and D utch translations w ithout a com plete com parison w ith Greek and Hebrew texts. C over­ dale com pleted the first edition in 1539; the volume acquired by Auburn is thought to be from the fifth edition. T h e Bishops’ B ible was com pleted in 1568, the work of “able bishops and other learned m e n ,” whose efforts w ere coord inated by A rchbishop M atthew Parker. T h e volume acquired by Auburn appears to be from the sixth edition. T h e C atholic Rheims New T estam ent, sponsored by C ardinal W illiam Allen and translated and annotated by Gregory M artin and others, was known at the tim e for its unabashedly controversial annotations. All three acquisitions are housed in the Treasure Room of Auburn’s Ralph Brow n D raughon L ibrary. A uburn’s L ib rary has also received a significant aerospace studies/aviation history collection. T h e collection, w hich was purchased from H am pton Books, N ew berry, South C arolin a, numbers be­ tw een 5 ,0 0 0 and 6 ,0 0 0 item s and is esp ecially strong in m aterials for the study of the history of flight. W h ile most of the collection is composed of m onographs and serials, th ere are a num ber of technical reports and m anuals, governm ent agency docum ents, and other forms of printed m aterial. M uch of the collection is in English, but there is a significant am ount of G erm an language m aterial. O th e r la n g u a g es re p re se n te d in c lu d e F r e n c h , Spanish, Ita lia n , Russian, and several others. •H arvard University’s Andover-Harvard T h eo ­ logical L ib rary , C am bridge, Massachusetts, has received a unique archive of tapes, slides, and peri­ odicals relating to the influential Indian religious teacher Sri Anandam ayi Ma (1 8 9 6 -1 9 8 2 ). T h e ar­ chives were com piled by G ary E m p ie, a young A m erican who lived in one of Sri M a’s ashrams for eight years, until his death in 1981. Sri Ananda­ mayi M a taught by answering questions put to her, and E m p ie gathered 139 cassette tapes of these questions and answers, as well as film s, slides, and photographs of M a, and magazines and books re­ lating to her life and work. T h e archives were pre­ sented to H arvard by M r. and Mrs. R obert Em p ie and M ärkell Brooks. 142 / C&RL News • T he K ent S tate U niversity L ib ra ry , K ent, Ohio, has received a cache of the rare, personal let­ ters of H art C rane (1899-1932), one of America’s major poets. More th an 100 pieces of correspon­ dence between the poet and his parents, publisher, and patron were donated by C rane scholar Vivian H. Pem berton, associate professor of English at KSU’s T rum bull Campus. Pem berton discovered 115 letters in the possession of C rane’s cousin, Betty C rane M adden of Cleveland. The letters include key correspondence between the poet and his fa­ ther w ritten between 1917 and 1931. The majority have never been published. Included among the letters is C rane’s carbon of a 1930 letter to critic Yvor W in te rs d e fe n d in g his 1930 poem “ T he Bridge.” Although the gist of the contents were known, the original had been destroyed by W in­ ters. The collection also includes a 1930 letter to the poet from the widow of John Roebling, engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge, and a letter to C rane’s step­ m other from Peggy Cowley, his companion on the O rizaba, the ship from which he jum ped to his death in 1932. Pem berton’s donation also includes a small pillow em broidered by C ran e’s g ran d ­ m other, subject of his poem, “My G randm other’s Love L etters,” and the poet’s christening gown, ac­ quired from another C rane cousin, Helen H art H urlbert, and her daughter, Zell Draz. • Radcliffe College’s Schlesinger L ibrary, Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, has acquired the papers of Joan Kelly (1928-1982), professor of history at the City College of CUNY and a pioneer in w om en’s history and feminist theory. The papers, which in­ clude syllabi, lecture notes, and other teaching m a­ terials, as well as draft chapters of an unfinished w ork on th e history of fem inism an d fem inist thought, were donated to the library by M artin Fleisher, Kelly’s husband. • The State University College at Buffalo Li- brary, New York, has officially opened the Courier Express Newspaper Collection which was donated in 1984 by Cowles Media of Minneapolis, M inne­ sota, to the Buffalo and Erie County Historical So­ ciety and housed in SUNY-Buffalo’s Butler L i­ brary. Included in the collection is every issue of the newspaper, more th an 100,000 photographs, about one million news clippings and several pho­ tographic works by the late W ilbur R. Porterfield, noted for his scenic p h o to g rap h s of New York State. The lib rary has also received over 3,100 bound volumes (1880-1980s) of the Buffalo Eve­ ning News, the only m ajor newspaper still in exist­ ence in Buffalo, New York. • The Texas A & M University L ibrary, College Station, has purchased four collections from the John C rerar Library. The collections include 2,666 volumes in botany and an additional 750 volumes in the areas of paleology, transportation and gen­ eral geography. Acquisition of the collections be­ cam e possible w h en th e Jo h n C re ra r L ib ra ry merged w ith the University of Chicago and dupli­ cates resulting from the merger became available. • T he U niversity of M assachusetts L ib ra ry , mherst, has received from Professor of English ohn C. Weston 584 items in the field of Scottish iterature. Authors featured in this donation are obert Burns (62 items) and Hugh M acDiarm id 56 items); in the latter group are m any signed and/ r inscribed copies presented to Professor and Mrs. eston. Also included is a rare set of John Jam ie­ on’s A n Etymological Dictionary o f the Scottish anguage, 1879 revised edition, five volumes and upplement. • Yale U niversity’s Beinecke R are Book and M anuscript Library has acquired an extensive col­ ection of m anuscripts and letters by the 19th- century ornithologist and artist John James A udu­ bon. The papers w ere given to Yale by Morris Tyler, Audubon’s great-great-grandson. The do­ nation, m arking the bicentennial of the naturalist’s birth, enriches an already large collection of Audu­ bon m aterials at Yale. Most of the papers are from the period beginning in 1838, w hen Audubon was living in London producing and prom oting The Birds o f America, through the 1840s, w hen he and his sons were collaborating on their second project, The Viviparous Quadrupeds o f North America. The heart of the archive consists of correspondence among Audubon family members, letters to A udu­ bon from colleagues in the natural sciences, and correspondence about the production of The Birds o f America. Grants • T he C enter for Research L ibraries (CRL), Chicago, has been aw arded a grant of $15,000 by the John D. and C atherine T. M acArthur F ounda­ tion for support of a study on the availability of publications of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. in N orth A m erican research libraries. The Center entered into an agreem ent w ith the Academy in 1959, w hereby the Center receives all their publications, except those w ith lim ited distri­ bution. In exchange, the Center purchases U.S. publications for the Academy. Since the C enter’s mission is to acquire rarely held publications which supplem ent and com plem ent major collections in North American libraries, the question arose as to the extent to which the C enter’s Slavic materials duplicate the collections of C enter m em ber li­ braries. An advisory panel chaired by M artin D. Runkle, director of libraries at the University of Chicago, has designed a study based on a random ly selected sample of 578 titles from the Academy’s 1980 bibliography. The sample has been checked against the O CLC and RLIN databases and the holdings of the University of Illinois, U rbana, and the Center. The M acA rthur Foundation funds will be used to support checking the sample against the holdings, both cataloged and uncataloged, of as A J l R ( o W s L s l