ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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B row n U niversity's John 
Hay Library has received a 
$72,466 Title-IIC grant from 
the U. S. Department o f Edu­
cation for a two-year project 
to provide original cataloging 
for 4,000 books, pamphlets, 
and serials in the H. Adrian 
Smith Collection o f Conjuring 
and Magicana. The Smith col­
lection covers the art, theory, 
and history of magic as a per­
formance art and includes a 
copy of the second edition of 
Hocus Pocus Ju n io r (London,
1635) signed on the title page “Harry Houdini, 
London, Jan 4/1904, The Jail Breaker.”

N o rth e rn  Illinois U n iv e rs ity  (N IU ) has 
been awarded $2,475 from the Cooperative Col­
lection Management Coordinating Committee 
of the State Library of Illinois for the acquisi­
tion of the San Francisco Bay Area Gay and 
Lesbian Serials microfilm collection—almost all 
of the major lesbian and gay publications pro­
duced in Northern California betw een 1950 and 
1990 as well as a significant num ber o f lesser- 
known and short-run journals. The gay press 
collection already housed at Northern em pha­
sizes both the regional press of the Midwest 
and the new spapers o f record from cities with 
substantial homosexual communities. Accord­
ing to NIU, this acquisition will create the larg­
est single microfilm collection of this genre at 
any research library in the United States. The 
collection presently includes titles from Canada, 
England, an d  France as well as the United 
States. The NIU collection began in 1982 as a 
project to create an index to The ADVOCATE 
under the direction of Robert B. Marks Ridinger.

Rutgers, the State University o f N e w  Jer­
sey, h as rec eiv e d  a co n tin u a tio n  g ran t o f 
$125,000 in outright funds and $108,658 in 
matching funds from the National Endowment 
of the Humanities. The grant supports the U.S. 
C e n te r o f th e  L ex ico n  I c o n o g r a p h ic u m  
Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC) for an additional 
two years. The LIMC is an international project 
of nearly 40 countries to publish a pictorial 
dictionary o f classical mythology. The U.S. 
Center is located in A lexander Library on the 
Rutgers Campus.

G r a n t s  
and 

Acquisitions

The University o f Califor­
n ia , I r v in e ’s East Asian 
C o lle c tio n  r e c e n tly  r e ­
c e iv e d  tw o  g ra n ts from  
Japanese sources. For the 
second consecutive year, 
the Japan Foundation ap­
proved a two million yen 
($16,000) grant to support 
the library’s Japanese acqui­
sitions program. A $10,000 
grant was also provided by 
Toshiba International, To­
kyo (with the assistance of 
the Irvine-based Toshiba 

America Electronic Components), to aid in col­
lection development.

The U niversity o f M a n ito b a  Libraries re ­
ceived three grants from the Canadian Council 
of Archives (CCA): $8,310 will be used to pro­
cess papers of Manitoba playwright and screen­
writer Maxwell Charles Cohen; $4,800 will pro­
cess records o f the university’s now-defunct 
Centre for Settlement Studies; and $20,000 is 
for preservation microfilming of archival records.

Acquisitions

A  lib r a r y  o f Josiah W e d g w o o d  in fo r­
mation collected by Elizabeth Chellis has been 
donated by Lucille Stewart Beeson to the Bir­
m in g h a m  M useum  o f  Art. The 1,200-volume 
library includes a core collection of 18th-cen­
tu ry  b o o k s  d o c u m e n tin g  th e  fa c ts  o f 
W edgw ood’s world including the impact of the 
discovery of classical artifacts on 18th-century 
European tastes. Also included are 21 letters, 
13 o f w hich w ere inscribed or w ritten by 
Wedgwood.

H e n r y  S. V illa r d , fo rm e r U.S. a m b a s ­
sador to three African nations, has donated his 
papers to the Twentieth Century Archives at 
B oston  U niversity. Villard’s career as a for­
eign service officer spanned a period from the 
late 1920s to the early 1960s. As a diplomat he 
served at posts in Tehran, Rio de Janeiro, 
Caracas, and Oslo and as ambassador to Libya,