ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


November 1995/ 723

Grants 
and 

A c q u i sitions

Hugh Thompson

Albion College in Michi­
gan, has received a grant of 
$75,000 from the Detroit- 
based M c G re g o r Fund, 
which supports programs in 
health care, education and 
human services, and the arts 
and humanities. The grant 
will be used to add thou­
sands o f records to Albion’s 
Stockwell-Mudd Libraries’ 
computerized catalog and 
improve access to many na­
tional information databases.

Harvard College has received a grant 
o f $52,834 from the National Historical Publi­
cations and Records Commission to implement 
a preservation program for more than 3,000 
daguerreotypes dating from the 1840s and 
1850s, housed at 14 repositories throughout the 
university. The program will improve accessi­
bility to the images by providing consistent bib­
liographic descriptions o f the collections, and 
by creating surrogate images o f many o f the 
items for research use.

Indiana University's School o f Library 
and Information Science was approved for fund­
ing o f a three-year Graduate Assistance in Ar­
eas o f National Need project. The award in the 
amount o f $358,395 will be used to fund six 
Ph.D. fellows in information science.

The University at Albany, SUNY, Univer­
sity Libraries and Computing Center have re­
ceived a three-year grant o f $610,000 from the 
New York State Department o f Transportation 
to fund a program o f computing and informa­
tion literacy education and workforce prepara­
tion. The Information Transport Program will 
provide computing and information manage­
ment skills, education, and internship oppor­
tunities to a selected group o f Albany high

Ed. note: Entries in this column are taken 
from library newsletters, press releases, and other 
sources. To ensure that your news is considered 
fo r  publication, write to: Grants & Acquisitions, 
C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 
60611; e-mail: hugh.thompson@ala.org. Pho­
tos related to your news will be considered.

school students. The goal is 
to prepare minority students 
and w om en for the chal­
lenges o f the automated 
w ork environment in the 
transportation and construc­
tion industries.

The University Libraries 
have also received a $50,000 
bequest from the estate of 
the late Evelyn M. Tarplee, 
class o f 1932, to establish the 
Evelyn M. Tarplee Library 
Technology Progress Fund. 
A  retired school principal, 

Tarplee had been an active supporter o f the 
libraries. As the endowment grows, proceeds 
will be used to purchase hardware, software, 
and telecommunications equipment to provide 
better access to library resources and services.

The University o f M aryland at College 
Park Libraries has received a grant o f $531,095 
from the National Endowment for the Humani­
ties’ Division o f Preservation and Access to sup­
port preservation o f the comprehensive Gor­
don W. Prange Collection o f Japanese pub­
lications dating from 1945 to 1949, featuring 
some 1.7 million items including books, pam­
phlets, magazines, newspapers, news dis­
patches, photographs, and other materials.

The University o f N evad a, Las V egas 
(UNLV) has received a donation o f $1 million 
from International Game Technology (IG T) to 
establish the IGT Library, featuring the Gary 
Royer Gaming Collection, in the UNLV Gam­
ing Institute. The funds will be used to pur­
chase a unique collection o f gaming-related ma­
terials compiled by Gary Royer, a Reno CPA 
and author o f numerous books on gaming.

The University o f South Florida's (USF) 
Tampa Campus Library has received $20,000 
from the MCI Foundation to enhance its tech­
nology initiatives and promote its access via 
the information highway. The grant will en­
able the USF library to purchase equipment, 
including electronic scanners and other com­
munication technology, to expand and enhance 
the library homepage on the World Wide Web.

The university has also received a three-year 
$702,000 grant from GTE as part o f “USF/GTE

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Outreach 2000: A Partnership for Education, 
Technology and Economic Development.” Out­
reach 2000 is designed to increase technologi­
cal capabilities o f the school’s libraries, pro­
vide more scholarships for minority students, 
and support regional economic development.

Vanderbilt University's Eskind Biomedi­
cal Library has been awarded a grant from the 
National Network o f Libraries o f Medicine for 
an AIDS information outreach project. The ob­
jectives o f the project are to increase the dis­
semination o f AIDS-related information in the 
target Middle Tennessee geographic area, and 
to increase awareness o f the online informa­
tion sources developed by the National Library 
o f Medicine.

Virginia C om m onw ealth U niversity's 
Tompkins-McGaw Library has been awarded a 
$25,000 grant from the National Network o f Li­
braries o f Medicine/Southeastem-Atlantic Re­
gion to make HIV/AIDS electronic resources 
available to information and health care pro­
fessionals in the Richmond, Virginia, and Wash­
ington, D.C., areas.

Acquisitions
The papers o f Jane Jacobs, a nation­
ally known urbanologist and architectural critic, 
have been donated by Jacobs to the John J. 
Burns Library o f Rare Books and Special Col­

Upcoming g ra n t deadlines
National Endow m ent fo r  the Humanities

Humanities Projects in Libraries and A r­
chives. Planning and development deadline: 
January 12, 1996; notification date: July 1996. 
For information call: (202) 606-8271; e-mail: 
librariesprogram@neh.fed.us.

Special Projects. Deadline: January 12, 
1996; notification date: July 1996. For infor­
m ation call: (2 0 2 ) 606-8272; e-m ail: 
sρecialρrojectsρrogram@neh.fed.us.

Ed. note: C&RL News will run notices o f 
upcoming grant deadlines o f interest to aca­
demic libraries as the information becomes 
available.

lections at Boston College. The collection in­
cludes a number o f media, including a film 
about her work, newspaper and magazine clip­
pings, manuscripts, awards, letters, correspon­
dence, and photographs. A noted preservation­
ist, Jacobs played a major role in stopping the 
government practice o f tearing down old, close- 
knit neighborhoods and replacing them with 
what she considered to be architecturally ster­
ile housing projects.

The historical records o f the Commu­
nications Workers o f America (CW A) have been 
placed with the Robert F. Wagner Labor Ar­
chives at N ew  York University Libraries. The 
collection, consisting o f more than 700 cubic 
feet o f manuscripts, photographs, audiotapes, 
and videotapes focusing on the CWA and its 
predecessor union, the National Federation of 
Telephone Workers (1938– 1947), is a signifi­
cant resource for the study o f communications 
unionism.

A  rare map collection o f international 
significance has been acquired by the Golda 
Meir Library at the University o f Wisconsin-Mil
waukee. All are original works dating from 1482 
to the late 1800s. The collection contains 177 
sheet maps and seven rare books, including a 
1536 edition o f the first-ever atlas o f Israel. Many 
o f the maps have fine hand-coloring and gold 
illumination. A  particular rarity is a 1695 He­
brew map by Abraham Ben Yaaqov. There are 
also maps in English, French, Italian, German, 
Dutch, and Latin.

The philosophical library o f Arthur Aston 
Luce (1882– 1977), a fellow o f Trinity College, 
Dublin, has been acquired by the Special Col­
lections Department at the University Libraries 
o f Notre Dame. Most o f the collection consists 
o f  w orks b y or about G e o rg e  B erk eley 
(1685-1753), a philosopher who also attended 
Trinity. Luce wrote many books and articles 
about Berkeley’s thought, as well as the defini­
tive biography o f him. Included are a number 
o f early editions o f Berkeley’s books and an­
notated personal working copies used by Luce.

The extensive vocal music collection o f 
James Browning, former chief opera critic for 
Music Journal magazine and former executive 
secretary for the National Association o f Teach­
ers o f Singing, has been acquired by the State 
University o f N ew  York at Buffalo’s Music Li-

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brary. The collection includes hundreds o f LPs, 
audiocassette recordings, and videotapes, in­
cluding over 300 complete operas and many 
rarely heard productions.

The personal papers and recordings o f 
Mark Hindsley, the second conductor o f the 
University o f Illinois’ world-famous Concert 
Band, have been acquired by the John Philip 
Sousa American Band Archives at the Univer­
sity o f Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Hindsley 
was the creator o f more than 70 transcriptions 
o f orchestral music for bands. The collection 
includes scrapbooks, recordings, more than 200 
books, hundreds o f photographs, and corre­
spondence documenting Hindsley’s career and 
the history o f American bands and conductors 
over a 60-year period.

A  la rge collection o f financial and busi­
ness records from the Nash Finch Company, 
the nation’s third largest food wholesaler, has 
been acquired by the Department o f Archives 
and Special Collections at the University o f 
North Dakota Libraries. The collection includes 
56 linear feet o f records dating from 1894 to 
1989, the majority o f which date from 1919 to 
1960, as well as pictures and other memora­
bilia that chronicle the development o f one o f 
the nation’s foremost Fortune 500 companies.

The papers o f the G eorge Wilkins Ken­
dall family are now available for research at 
the Special Collections Division o f the Univer­
sity o f Texas at Arlington. Kendall (1809– 1867) 
was a writer, war correspondent, and rancher 
on the Texas frontier. The collection consists 
o f correspondence, photographs, books, and 
artifacts, including Kendall’s correspondence 
with the New Orleans Picayune‚ which he co­
founded, with news from the front lines o f the 
Mexican War, his views on Texas annexation, 
and descriptions o f European events from Paris 
during the late 1840s. Letters to his wife during 
the 1850s describe daily life o f the time.

The A dèle Goodm an Clark papers have 
been made available for research by the Cabell 
Library’s Special Collections and Archives at 
Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries. 
Clark (1882– 1983) was a prominent figure in 
the Richmond and Virginia political and arts 
communities and is especially known for her 
involvement in the Women’s Suffrage M ove­
ment. The collection contains Clark’s personal

Beschreibung des Gelobten Landes Cana
by Heinrich Bunting, a rare 1581 woodcut 
map from  the Middle East M ap Collection at 
the University o f  Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

papers, as well as the records o f organizations 
with which Clark was actively associated dur­
ing her lifetime, including the Equal Suffrage 
League o f Virginia (later the Virginia League o f 
Women Voters), Work Projects Administration 
Arts Project for Virginia, Richmond Diocese o f 
the Catholic Church, and other organizations 
which focused on education, race relations, and 
labor.

(Washington cont. from  page 712)

Technically, the Senate passed H.R. 1617, 
substituting S. 143 as amended. In this way, the 
House and Senate can convene a conference 
committee to work out the differences between 
their proposals. The House-passed H.R. 1617 is 
the CAREERS Act, a block grant bill that in­
cludes an LSTA Consolidation Grant as an ab­
breviated block grant o f the ALA version o f 
LSTA. ALA will report further as debate pro­
ceeds in Congress and elsewhere on these is­
sues.

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