ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries Ju n e 1983 / 195 erations general supervisor of plastics at Convair’s Lindbergh Field plant, who agreed to help dry the newspapers as a community service. Convair’s preservation efforts were timed so as not to inter­ fere with the plant’s regular workload, on a space and time-available basis. By consulting Butler and studying the most re­ cent research, Ozudogru has devised a new way of drying water-damaged paper that retains the nec­ essary 6 % moisture content of the paper and avoids the usual high cost of the process. Convair transferred the frozen papers to its own freezer locker and put them in an autoclave for dry­ ing. Because the autoclave could process only a few papers at one time, another device with the same properties as the autoclave was sought. Butler and Mike Perry, the group leader of bonded structures at Convair, found that their bonding press could accommodate 8 0 -100 newspapers at one time. The press is usually used for bonding metal assemblies such as D C -10 components. The press is lined with a polyester blanket, ab­ sorbent paper, and the frozen newspapers. The press is closed and heated uniformly by steam to 160-170 degrees while a partial vacuum is created. Damp papers take about 8 hours to dry, but the sat­ urated ones may take up to 16 hours. The UCSD-Convair method of using heat induc­ tion to retain moisture in the paper is a significant improvement in paper preservation. Previous res­ cue efforts, most notably that of Stanford’s Meyer Library flood in 1978 (see C &R L , November 1979, pp. 539-48), had used the techniques of wrapping, freezing, and vacuum-drying, but these left the processed paper very brittle. Paper needs a mois­ ture content of 6 % to be flexible, and the previous method extracted more water than was desirable. Often the vacuum-dried books would be wetted again and re-dried by hand. The time and labor costs were large and the results unpredictable. The San Diego newspapers dried with the bond­ ing press at Convair have been returned to the pub­ lic library. T he restoration was completed on March 28. The dollar value of the papers saved is not calculable. The collection is unique and they were not insured. ■ ■ News from the fie ld ACQ UISITIO N S • S y r a c u s e U n i v e r s i t y Library, New York, has acquired personal diaries, thousands of letters and manuscripts, photography, pamphlets, and books detailing the history of the Oneida Community, one of America’s most successful utopian enclaves. The collection was given to Syracuse by the Ken­ wood Historical Committee, whose members are descendants of the O neida C om m unity (1848-1881). A bust of John Humphrey Noyes, founder of the community, is included in the col­ lection, as are business records, etchings, and steel engravings. Within the next year the collection will be put on microfilm. Until 1991 researchers who wish to use the works must be interviewed by the Kenwood Historical Committee. After that date the collection will be open to anyone with a need to consult primary sources. •The U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a , I r v i n e , L i­ brary has received the renowned Menninger Col­ lection of rare and valuable horticultural publica­ tions, as a bequest from Emma D. Menninger. This outstanding private collection, formed over many decades with a special emphasis on orchid litera­ ture, contains over 2,000 books, pamphlets, and se­ rial volumes ranging in publication date from 1752 to 1983. The prize of the collection is an unbroken run of C urtis’s B otan ical M agazine from its found­ ing in 1787 through 1982. • T he U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a , S a n D i e g o ’s Theater Arts Library has been given the profes­ sional archives of Academy Award-winning actor Charlton Heston. Among the m em orabilia in­ cluded in the gift are movie posters, still photo­ graphs, scripts, sketchbooks, scrapbooks, corre­ spondence, interviews, awards, certificates, and videotapes from the 54 films that span Heston’s 40- year acting career. Heston formally presented his collection to the library at an official ceremony at the Westwood Marquis Hotel on January 28. •The U n i v e r s i t y o f G e o r g i a Libraries Special Collection Division, Athens, has acquired one of the largest collections of private press books, pam­ phlets, and ephemera in the United States. The ba­ sis of the collection was formed over a long number of years by Elmore H. Mundell, a private printer and one-time book designer for the R .R. Donnelley Company’s Lakeside Press in Chicago. Mundell brought together materials from over 1,200 differ- 196 / C &R L News ent private printers. Many outstanding presses are represented, including the G ehenna Press of Leonard B askin , the G rabho rn Press, Henry Morris’s Bird and Bull, the Perishable Press of W al­ ter Hamady, and the Ashantilly Press operated by William Haynes in Darien, Georgia. GRANTS •The A m e r i c a n M u s e u m o f N a t u r a l H i s t o r y , New York, has been granted funds by the U.S. De­ partment of Education for a one-year project to catalog part of its Photographic Collection. One of the project’s goals is to provide subject cataloging at the sub-collection level (not individual images, but groups of related photos). T o confirm the choice and structure of subject terms used during the project, periodic lists of the terms will be dis­ tributed to other natural history institutions for comment. To be placed on the subject terms mail­ ing list, contact Diana Shih, Project Librarian, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024; (212) 873-1300, ext. 541. • H a r v a r d U n i v e r s i t y Library has been granted $1.2 million by the Pew Memorial Trust to support the purchase and development of an online acquisi­ tions system. The new system will provide facilities for the searching necessary to avoid duplication of ordering; it will make all information about the status of new acquisitions available in the Distrib­ utable Union Catalog; and it will begin to auto­ mate the records concerning the library’s 95,000 se­ rials. Harvard’s O n-Line Acquisitions Planning Committee recommended Northwestern Univer­ sity’s N O TIS system as the most adaptable to the university’s collections. It is estimated that conver­ sion to the online system will take between 18 months and two years. • I n d i a n a U n i v e r s i t y - P u r d u e U n i v e r s i t y a t F o r t W a y n e has successfully completed a $1 mil­ lio n en dow m ent cam p aign fo r its W a lte r E . Helmke Library. The campaign, sponsored by the Indiana-Purdue Foundation, began in February 1982 and reached its goal in just over one year. Ninety percent of the contributions cam e from businesses, corporations, foundations, and individ­ uals in the Fort Wayne area, with the remainder contributed by faculty, staff, and alumni. • R o s e m o n t C o l l e g e , Pennsylvania, has been awarded $150,000 from the Pew Memorial Trust to renovate the Gertrude Kistler Memorial L i­ brary. The college plans to upgrade its library to a point of greater efficiency and effectiveness as a learning resource center. • T r i n i t y U n i v e r s i t y , San Antonio, Texas, has been awarded a three-year, $300,000 challenge grant by the National Endowment for the Human­ ities to establish permanent endowments for the purchase of library holdings in the humanities. The grant requires that Trinity raise matching funds of at least three private dollars for each federal dollar awarded. At the end of three years, the total added to the university’s capital campaign will be $1.25 million dedicated to the project. The endowments will provide support for collections in art history, Ju n e 1983 / 197 E nglish and A m erican lite r a tu re , foreign la n ­ guages and literature, history, philosophy, reli­ gion, and theater history and literature. NEWS NOTES • D a r t m o u t h C o l l e g e L ibrary, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been working on a T itle II-C pro­ je c t on “Strengthening Polar Resources” and re­ ports that much of its polar m aterial is now or soon w ill be accessible in national bibliographic data­ bases: R L IN , O C L C , U TLA S, and C O L D (avail­ able through S D C ). T h e project involves recatalog­ ing polar materials, in particular the Stefansson Collection, in the subject areas of exploration, his­ tory, languages, and physical and natural sciences. T h e library can now provide, for the cost incurred in producing a copy: a M ARC form at tape contain­ ing all polar records available in m achine-readable form ; guides to manuscript collections, including a 120-page guide to the Stefansson papers; an inven­ tory of the pam phlet collection; and detailed de­ scriptions of the D artm outh polar collections and the library resources for polar study of the U .S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and E n g in e e r in g L a b o r a to r y , also lo ca te d in Hanover. F or further information, w rite the Ste­ fansson C ollection, D artm outh College Library, Hanover, NH 03755. ■ ■ . P E O P L E . PROFILES Ross W . A t k i n s o n has been appointed assistant university librarian for collection development at the University of Iowa Libraries, Iow a City, as­ suming the responsibili­ ties formerly held by the la te b ib lio g r a p h e r , Frank S. Hanlin. Atkin­ son’s most recent assign­ m e n t w as th a t o f h u ­ m anities bibliographer a t N orth w estern U n i­ v e rs ity w h e re he has served sin ce 1977. His new ap p ointm ent was effective April 1. Atkinson holds m as­ ter’s and P h .D . degrees Ross W . A tkinson in G erm anic languages and lite r a tu r e s from Harvard University. His M LS is from Simmons College, Roston. Atkinson was in m ilitary intelli­ gence in the U .S. Army for four years, was a teach­ ing fellow at Harvard, and has had experience in both the W idener and Harvard L aw School L i­ braries. He has published in his fields of academic inter­ est including the theory of bibliography and 19th- century Germ an literature. He is currently active in A C R L ’s Ribliographic Instruction Section and the W estern European Specialists Section, and will represent the University of Iow a on the Collection Development and M anagement Comm ittee of the Research Libraries Group. J a m e s R . C o x , currently the assistant to the uni­ versity librarian at the University of C alifornia at Los Angeles, has accepted appointment as the uni­ versity librarian at G riffith University, Rrisbane, Australia, following the recent retirement of the foundation librarian, S.R . Page. He will begin his appointment in November. Although nearly all his professional career has been at U CLA , Cox is well known to many Austra­ lian colleagues having been a Fulbright scholar and senior lecturer at the L ibrary School of the C an­ berra College of Advanced Education in 1972. He was also a visiting lecturer at the Graduate School of Librarianship, Monash University, Victoria. Cox has been closely involved w ith the develop­ ment of automated library systems for U C LA and for the University of California in general, and has also specialized in the application and implemen­ tation of the U.S. Copyright L aw . He has pub­ lished widely in professional literature and is the author of an annotated bibliography. A r n o l d H i r s h o n has been named assistant di­ rector for technical services at Virginia Comm on­ w ealth University, R ichm ond, effective M ay 2. F or the last five years he has been the assistant head of the Cataloging D epartm ent at Duke University,