ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 638 / C&RL News braries. An author will be selected at Midwinter. Plans were finalized for the October 18-20 meet­ ing in Atlanta to plan a project that would allow ACRL to help libraries in Historically Black Col­ leges and Universities (HBCU’s). ALA released 1987 year-end figures showing th at ACRL exceeded 10,000 members as of August 31, 1987. Equipm ent was received in our Middletown, Connecticut, office for automating the production of Choice magazine through the H. W. Wilson Company. ACRL staff members began training for their newly-established Quality Circle. Joseph Boisse met with ACRL staff and attended the ALA Division Leadership Program for all divi­ sion presidents–elect. As a result, one program in Dallas will be co-sponsored by ALA president Bill Summers and all the ALA divisions. The topic will be “Access to Inform ation.”—JoAn S. Segal. ■ ■ ★ ★ ★ News from the field Acquisitions • The Library of Congress, Washington, D .C ., will acquire the personal papers of internationally known businessman, philanthropist and citizen diplomat Armand Hammer (b. 1898), chairman of the board of Occidental Petroleum Corporation. The Hammer collection will include correspon­ dence and personal papers docum enting H am ­ m er’s remarkable career, from his early years in Moscow as a physician and representative of Amer­ ican businesses to a second career as a petrochemi­ cal entrepreneur, patron of the arts, and champion of cancer research. A special feature will be the nu­ merous films, recordings, and other audiovisual m aterial, some never before seen by historians, documenting Hammer’s contacts with world lead­ ers from Lenin to Reagan. The Library plans a spe­ cial exhibit from the Hammer Collections on the occasion of his 90th birthday, May 21, 1988. D ur­ ing his lifetime and for an interval thereafter the papers may be consulted only with the permission of Hammer or those authorized to act on his behalf. • North Carolina State University, Raleigh, has received a collection of 1,500 mystery novels cover­ ing the period 1920-1950. The volumes are the gift of professor emeritus Jack Levine, a m athem ati­ cian and expert in cryptography. • Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, has acquired the historical records of The Horn Book, the first magazine published with a concern en­ tirely for children’s books and reading. The records include correspondence, illu stratio n s, m a n u ­ scripts, photographs, scrapbooks and printed m a­ terials dating from 1916. The Horn Book was the creation of Bertha Mahoney Miller, a 1902 Sim­ mons graduate who started a children’s bookshop in Boston and eventually sent travelling exhibits of children’s books around the region, developing a large mail-order business. Its correspondence files span generations of editors and include original let­ ters from numerous authors including Beatrix Pot­ ter, L au ra Ingalls W ilder, and W alter De La Mare. • The University of North Carolina at Charlotte has received more than 3,900 volumes from the li­ brary of the late Alice Lindsay Tate of New York City as a memorial to her father, Robert Lindsay Tate. A descendant of a leading textile m anufac­ turing family in Charlotte, Tate pursued an oper­ atic career in various cities during the 1940s and ’50s, and established several collections at UNCC. Included in the present gift are English language materials on Zen Buddhism, Chinese and Japanese literature, the religions of Asia (especially Tibet), and a number of books on Judaica and Hebraica. An additional 1,800 volumes on the occult, UFO phenomena, and archetypal symbols were directed to Johnson C. Smith University, also in Charlotte, in place of the now closed Boggs Academy, a Geor­ gia high school. Additional photos and memorabi­ lia of Tate’s career were included, along with 15 paintings by Russian-born artist Nikolai Konstan­ tinovich Roerich (1874-1947). • The University of Rochester, New York, has acquired the complete papers of novelist, scholar and critic John Gardner (1933-1982). Filling 50 large storage boxes, the archive includes m anu­ scripts and drafts of most of G ardner’s works, in­ cluding The Sunlight Dialogues, Grendel, Mickels- son’s Ghosts, and On Moral Fiction, as well as family papers and correspondence with editors, other writers and admirers. The papers also in­ clude manuscripts for works not yet published as well as original paintings by Gardner, ephemera related to his teaching positions, and personal items like postcards, ticket stubs, grant applica­ tions, and letters from lawyers, accountants, hospi­ November 1987 / 639 tals, and the Internal Revenue Service. Gardner, who published eight novels, five collections of short stories, an epic poem, eleven scholarly and critical books, and two translations between 1960 and 1982, died in a motorcycle accident at 49. • The University of Texas at Austin has received a collection of papers of Ben and Henry McCul­ loch, legendary brothers who were Texas Rangers, Indian fighters, veterans of the Mexican W ar, U.S. Army Marshals and Confederate Army brigadier generals. The papers were donated by Dr. O. Ho­ w ard Frazier Jr., director of the thoracic surgery program at the UT Medical School. Spanning the period from the 1830s to the 1860s, they will be of interest to researchers in Texas and Civil W ar his­ tory, and depict courtships and marriages, births and deaths, feuds and religious revivals and the daily affairs of life on a hardscrabble C entral Texas farm. The collection contains 25 letters each from Ben an d H en ry M cC ulloch to th e ir m o th e r, Frances, and 70 other family letters; ten family photographs; a 67-page genealogical record of the McCulloch family; a broadside announcing the March 7, 1862, death of Ben in the Civil W ar and arrangements for his funeral; and other m aterial related to his death. Ben McCulloch (1811-1862) commanded the Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas forces at the battle of Elk Horn, Arkansas, at the time he was killed; following the w ar his brother Henry (1816-1895) was superintendent of w hat became the Texas School for the Deaf. • Yale U niversity’s Beinecke R are Book and M anuscript L ibrary, New Haven, C onnecticut, has acquired the papers of Polish w riter Czeslaw Milosz (b. 1911). A resident of the United States since 1960, Milosz has received many literary hon­ ors in recent years, including the Neustadt Prize for Literature in 1978 and the Nobel Prize for Litera­ ture. A witness to the horrors of W orld W ar II in W arsaw, Milosz worked as a cultural attache in Washington and in Paris in the postwar period be­ fore joining the faculty at the University of Califor­ nia at Berkeley. He retired in 1981. The Milosz ar­ chive contains all of his extant postwar papers, including several unpublished books, some 80 un­ published essays, more than 100 poems th at have never been printed, and scores of letters and trans­ lations. In addition, the papers include some 60 notebooks containing Milosz’s lecture notes, and nearly 300 photographs. Other notable items are Milosz’s holograph draft of his autobiography, Rodzinna Europa (Native Realm, 1959); m anu­ script versions of all his published essays since 1946; sketches for three unpublished novels; and m anu­ scripts for nine unpublished stories. The m anu­ script versions of several poetry collections include original drawings by the author. The papers docu­ ment Milosz’s activity as a translator as well: he has translated many of his own poems into English and French and into Polish works by William Blake, Robinson Jeffers, Thomas Merton, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, W alt W hitm an, and many other American, British, French, Spanish and L ithua­ nian poets. Among correspondence are letters from Saul Bellow, Joseph Brodsky, Albert Camus, Al­ b e rt E in stein , T.S. E lio t, Pablo N eru d a and Thornton W ilder, as well as Polish poets Zbigniew Herbert and Aleksander W at and novelists Witold G om brow icz and Jerzy Andrzejewski. Milosz, whose latest American book, Unattainable Earth, appeared in 1982, has been engaged in retranslat­ ing the entire Bible into Polish. Grants • F ort Lewis College’s John F. Reed Library, Durango, Colorado, has received a $28,000 LSCA Title III grant to catalog 5,500 audiovisual titles and add them to the OCLC database. The holdings of five other public and school libraries in south­ western Colorado will also undergo retrospective conversion. All holdings will also be entered into the database of the MARMOT project, a Western Colorado network. • H arvard University, Cambridge, Massachu- setts, has been aw ard ed a Title I I –C g ran t of $110,000 to continue microfilming its collections during 1987-1988. The grant is the tenth consecu­ tive one aw arded to Harvard since the program be­ gan in 1978. As before, the funds will enable the University Library to improve bibliographical con­ trol of its collection of master microfilm negatives and to film materials too rare or fragile to w ith­ stand heavy use or interlibrary lending. Film cop­ ies of everything reproduced will be available for interlibrary loan and will be sold at cost to other li­ braries; and records of master negatives will be prepared for input into O CLC, RLIN, and the Na­ tional Union Catalog. Filming this year will focus on four Harvard libraries: in Baker Library, pre- 1968 10-K reports of the Securities and Exchange Commission on transportation, finance, and pub­ lic utilities; in Andover-Harvard Theological Li­ b rary , A m erican U n itarian Association letter- books, 1830-1840, and records of the Society for Promoting Theological Education, from 1815; in W idener Library, a pilot project to film European newspapers, chiefly from Southwestern Europe; and in the University Archives, H arv ard com ­ mencement parts (manuscripts for oral presenta­ tions given by selected students, including Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry David Thoreau, and T heodore Roosevelt), and exhibitions, 1649 to date. • Mills College, Oakland, California, has been awarded a grant of $5,894,000—the largest foun­ dation gift in its 135-year history—by the F.W . Olin Foundation, to build and equip a new library. The gift is also the largest ever m ade by the Foun­ dation, headquartered in New York, as well as the first it has m ade to a Northern California institu- November 1987 / 641 tion and to a women’s college. The F.W . Olin Li­ brary will be designed by the San Francisco archi­ tectural firm of Esherick, Hornsey, Dodge and Davis. The interior designer will be Ben Weese of Chicago. W ith 45,000 square feet of space, the two-storey structure will provide room for 300,000 volumes and 280 study stations, electronic work stations, and rooms for video, seminars, and read­ ing. The College’s Albert M. Bender collection of 11,000 rare books will be housed in a special collec­ tions area, a feature of the new building. Construc­ tion is scheduled to begin in the fall of 1988 and the new library is expected to be ready for use at the beginning of 1990. • Pennsylvania State University, University Park, has received $1 million from the Richard King Mellon Foundation of Pittsburgh. The funds have been added to the University’s Paterno Li­ braries Endowment, which provides for the im­ provement of collections. Established in 1984, the Endowment now totals more than $2 million. The Endowment has also received $65,000 from four donors representing Pennsylvania-based trucking firms, and a blue and white tractor–trailer to be used by the Libraries, donated by Mack Trucks, In c., of Allentown. • Radcliffe College, C am bridge, Massachu- setts, has raised more than $3.4 million for the ren­ ovation and expansion of the Schlesinger Library. The more than $2.9 million donated by alumnae, trustees, corporations, organizations, foundations and others by June 30 enabled the College to meet a $500,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Founda­ tion. W ith renovation already underway, the li­ brary expects to officially reopen to greatly ex­ panded quarters in the fall of 1988. New features will include a film and video area, a culinary col­ lection wing, and new reading and conference rooms. • The University of California, Riverside, has received a Title II–C grant of $155,000 to continue cataloging volumes of science fiction on OCLC. The grant is the second such made to the project. The Lloyd J. Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy is one of the largest in the world and contains titles dating to the 16th century. News note • The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, has sold a significant portion of its rare and historical periodicals to a consortium of six Phila­ delphia area libraries. At a private sale in August, approximately 400 serial sets, many complete and dating to the 19th century, were acquired for ap­ proximately $200,000. Earlier this year, the con­ sortium had unsuccessfully sought to buy the Insti­ tu te’s unusual collection of m anufacturing and trade catalogs, later sold to a British dealer. Orga­ nized in 1824, the Franklin Institute has sold off virtually its entire library, citing shifting institu­ tional goals and an inability to care for the collec­ tion. It plans to offer some 9,000 remaining histori­ cal periodical sets for sale at public auction early next year. The Library Company of Philadelphia, a leading member of the consortium, acquired many of the Institute’s 19th-century photography journals at the August sale. The American Philo­ sophical Society purchased about 70 sets related to electricity, physics, and the history of technol­ ogy. ■ ■ ACRLS FAST JOB LISTING Looking for a job? Our Fast Job Listing will send you job postings received at ACRL headquarters fou; weeks before they appear in C &RL News. The Fast Job Listing Service also contains advertisement which, because of narrow application deadlines, will not appear in C&RL News. The ACRL office prepares a Fast Job Listing circular at the beginning of each month and mails it t‹ subscribers first class. 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