ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 46 / C &R L News News from the Field A C Q U IS IT IO N S • C a s e W e s t e r n R e s e r v e U n i v e r s i t y ’s Kulas Music Library, Cleveland, has been selected as a full depository for recordings of Radio Canada In­ ternational by the Canadian government. An ini­ tial deposit of 740 LP recordings of music and the spoken word in French, English, and Spanish have been recieved. Some of the items included are C a­ nadian history and affairs, a social documentary on UFOs, fundamental environmental issues from the United Nations Conference on the Human Envi­ ronment, criminology, Sigmund Freud, King Tut. children’s programs, theater, and arts broadcasts. Musical recordings also include non-Canadian mu­ sic by Canadian performers and represent folk, jazz, pop, classical, and sacred. •The N a t i o n a l L i b r a r y o f C a n a d a . Ottawa, has acquired a large collection of books, papers, and artifacts from Percival Price, the renowned au­ thority on campanology (the art of bell-ringing) and from 1927 to 1939 the first Dominion carillon­ neur. The collection includes photographs, draw­ ings and design plans of bells and bell towers around the world, sound recordings, recital pro­ grams, maps, posters, brass rubbings, and plaster casts. It also features some two dozen small bells, including a rare early Japanese temple bell and sev­ eral examples of Chinese wooden bells. About one- third of the collection is directly related to C ana­ dian carillons and carillonneurs. • S a i n t J o s e p h s U n i v e r s i t y ’s Drexel L ibrary, Philadelphia, has received a substantial collection of material pertaining to the work of Martin I.J. Griffin (1842-1911), a leading figure in Philadel­ phia Catholic historiography and the founder of the American Catholic Historical Society of Phila­ delphia. The material consists of several thousand pieces of correspondence, scrapbooks, pamphlets, and a complete set of the A m erican C a th o lic His­ torical R esearch es, which Griffin edited. •The U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a , L os A n g e l e s , has received an important addition to its holdings on Japanese-American studies in the Department of Special Collections with the donation of the pa­ pers of the late professor T . Scott Miyakawa, the first d ir e c to r (1 9 6 2 -1 9 6 5 ) o f th e Ja p a n e s e - American Research Project at UCLA. In addition to 500 volumes of books on Japanese and Chinese culture and Asian-American studies, the Miya­ kawa collection contains numerous valuable per­ sonal papers. Among these are twenty document boxes of JARP materials gathered while he directed the project, diaries and oral history tapes of promi­ nent Issei on the east coast, documents and research materials used in his writing of T h e N ew York J a p ­ a n e s e a n d t h e D e v e lo p m e n t of t h e U .S .-Ja p a n T ra d e‚ biographical materials of Jokichi Takamine and Kiyoshi K aw akam i, and papers collected while he was chairman of the Sociology Depart­ ment at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. •The U n i v e r s i t y o f R o c h e s t e r has acquired for its Edward G . Miner Library a remarkable doc­ umentary record of pioneer life and medical prac­ tice in Upstate New York. Thirty-nine diaries of Dr. Samuel Beach Bradley, who practiced medi­ cine in Greece, New York, from 1821 to 1880. were presented to th e lib r a r y by his g reat- granddaughter. Pearl Smith, of Rochester. Brad­ ley's diary, which spans nearly 70 years, records the daily personal, social, and professional events in his life as a pioneer local physician. G R A N T S •The N e w Y o r k A c a d e m y o f M e d i c i n e has been awarded a $ 1.6 million contract to administer and coordinate the National Library of Medicine’s Regional Medical Library Program. The agree­ ment covers the states of Maine, Vermont. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con­ necticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. D elaw are, and the C om m onw ealth of Puerto Rico. The Regional Medical Library Program was established by the National Library of Medicine in 1967 as a nationwide library network designed to provide health professionals in any part of the country with rapid access to a basic level of infor­ mation services for the benefit of patient care, health care education, and research. As one of the seven designated Regional Medical Libraries in the United States, the Academy's library will work closely with NLM in a variety of programs that will enable librarians to share expertise and physical re­ sources, to improve efficiency and performance for meeting information needs in health sciences li­ braries. and to implement improved methods for biomedical information exchange. • R u t g e r s U n i v e r s i t y Libraries, New Bruns­ wick, New Jersey, have received a grant from the Council on Library Resources to investigate the nature of the use of government publications in the Archibald S. Alexander Library. The grant is for a six-month study. F ebru ary 1983 / 47 • Y a l e U n i v e r s i t y has been awarded a Title II-C grant of $400,000 by the U.S. Office of Education to undertake a joint project with Cornell and Stan­ ford University Libraries, the Hoover Institution, and the Research Libraries Group. The goal is to design and implement enhancements to RLIN that will fa cilita te the acquisition, cataloging, and management of manuscript and archival materi­ als. The development of a standard bibliographic exchange format will enable Cornell. Stanford, and Yale to integrate their manuscript and archival holdings into RLIN , thereby creating the founda­ tion for a national database. Project activities in 1983 will include determining cataloging stan­ dards; establishing guidelines for authority con­ trol: and producing user documentation for dis­ semination to other RLG institutions. NEW S NOTES •The N a t i o n a l A g r i c u l t u r a l L i b r a r y . Belts­ ville, Maryland, has signed a cooperative agree etmn with the Land Tenure Center Library at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, to provide a machine-readable record of that library’s mono­ graphic holdings and indexed journal literature. The Land Tenure Center Library is a unique re­ source collection and provides information services specializing in agricultural development, agrarian reform, and rural development, particularly in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The project will take from six to nine months for conversion and will be available as an adjunct file of AGRICOLA, or in separate tapes for use by other computerized systems. •The N e w Y o r k P u b l i c L i b r a r y opened the doors of its Central Research Library and Annex to the public on January 6, the first Thursday since 1975. thanks to challenge grants from Chase Man­ hattan Bank and historian Barbara W . Tuchman. Only the busiest units, including the General Re­ search, Economic & Public Affairs, and Micro­ forms Divisions, will be open on Thursdays from 10 a.m . to 6 p.m . ■ ■ PEOPL E PROFILES M a r i e E l e n a K o r e y has been appointed head of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, effective in January. She replaces Howell Heaney who has retired after more than 25 years with the Free Library. Korey, formerly cura­ tor of printed books at the Library Company of Philadelphia, is a gradu­ ate of Chestnut Hill Col­ lege with an MLS from D rexel U niversity. Among her writings for nation al jou rnals are: “Philadelphia Book Col­ M arie K orey lectors” in the A m erican B o o k C o l l e c t o r and a profile of the Library Company for the Wilson L i­ b rary Bulletin. W ith librarian Edwin W olf she co­ edited “A Quarter of a Millenium.” an exhibition celebrating the Library Company's 25th anniver­ sary. Korey currently serves as secretary of ACRL's Rare Book and Manuscript Section. She has also served on the Nominating Committee of the Biblio­ graphic Society of America and is vice president for programs of the American Printing History Associ­ ation. J a m e s H . M a y has been named dean of informa­ tion services at California State University, Chico, effective February 1. May has served since 1974 as associate library director at Sonoma State Univer­ sity. He has a doctorate in library science from Co­ lumbia University (1978), an MBA from Harvard, and a bachelor’s in civil engineering from Stanford University. May has worked with a New York international business consulting firm: spent six years in top management posts with Pandex. Inc., a subsidiary of Macmillan Publishing Company: served as di­ rector of the Center for Communication and Infor­ mation Research at the University of Denver: and acted as a consultant for Information Access Cor­ poration. He was a vice president and director of the Santa Rosa Computer Center, and has been ac­ tive in NASA communications technology satellite work.