ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 6 0 4 /C&RL News The American Library A s s o c ia tio n h a s b e e n aw arded $210,000, plus a matching grant of $10,000, by the Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives of the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a national tour of panel exhi­ bitions about the life and times of Duke Ellington en ­ titled “The Musical Genius of Duke Ellington.” The Dance Heritage Co­ alition, founded by the Harvard Theatre Col­ lection, the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the Li­ brary of Congress, and the San Francisco Per­ forming Arts Library and Museum, has been aw arded $963,000 by the National Endowment for the Humanities to begin a national coop­ erative project to significantly increase access to dance research materials. Hudson Valley Community College in New York has been aw arded $150,000 by the New York State Archives and Records Admin­ istration to begin the first phase of a project to create a telecommunications netw ork among local governments that will connect them to each other, to the state government, and ulti­ mately to the information superhighway. The Massachusetts Institute of Technol­ o g y has received a grant of $61,509 from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission for a l6-m onth project to create approximately 600 collection-level MARC AMC format records using the Research Libraries In­ formation Network. The Osler Library at McGill University in Montreal has received a $25,000 endow m ent Ed. n ote: Entries in this column are taken ro m library newsletters, press releases, a n d other sources. To ensure that y o u r news is considered o r publication, write to: Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 5 0 E. H u ro n St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795- Photos related to y o u r news will be considered f o r publication. G r a n ts a n d Acquisitions Hugh Thompson f f from the Board of Associated M edical S e rv ic e s/H a n n a h Institute for the History of Medicine in Toronto to sup­ port ongoing restoration and conservation projects. Michigan Technological University in Houghton has b een granted $84,870 from the National Historical Pub­ lications and Records Com­ m is s io n fo r a 2 8 -m o n th project to arrange and d e­ scribe th e reco rd s o f the Quincy Mining Company and the Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Mining Company. Southern Methodist University's Brid- well Library in the Perkins School of Theology has received a gift of $10 million from the J. S. Bridw ell F o u n d atio n to estab lish th e J. S. Bridwell Foundation Endowed Library Fund. The gift will provide a continuing stream of income to the Bridwell Library. The State University of N ew York Health Science Center in Brooklyn has received a grant of $52,000 from the National Historical Publi­ cations and Records Commission to increase access to and use of its archives of health records of historical significance. The University of California, Berkeley, Library has received a U.S. Department of Edu­ cation Title IIB grant of $109,000 to fund a Berkeley Institute for the Recruitment, Educa­ tion, and (Re)Training of Minorities in Academic Libraries to aid minority librarians in furthering their careers. The Carlson Health Sciences Library at the University o f California, Davis, has received a $25,000 grant from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to introduce health profession­ als in rem ote sites or in inner city areas to GRATEFUL MED®, NLM’s software tool that will link them to information services from a health sciences library. The University of Michigan's School of Information and Library Studies has received a $4.3 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foun­ October 1994/ 605 dation to provide national leadership in edu­ cating information professionals through pro­ viding graduate fellowships, hiring faculty, and supporting pilot projects in creating and ac­ cessing information. The University of Texas at Austin's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center has re­ ceived $181,716 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to catalog and create auto­ mated access to the Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ar­ chive, an invaluable resource for the study of American publishing history, literature, and culture in the twentieth century. Williams College in Williamstown, Mas­ sachusetts, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation to support preservation initiatives. Funds will be used over a two-year period to construct and equip a small state-of-the-art conservation lab­ oratory for the College Archives and Chapin Library of Rare Books. Additional funds will be used to survey the collections in order to select materials to be reformatted or conserved in the laboratory. A cq u isitio n s The Bert Corona Oral History Collection has been donated to the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives at the University of Cali­ fornia, Santa Barbara, as a joint gift of profes­ sor Mario T. Garcia and Bert Corona, a labor organizer in the Mexican-American community in the 1930s-1950s. The materials document Corona’s life history as published in Garcia’s Memories o f Chicano History: The Life a n d Nar­ rative o f Bert Corona and includes extensive taped interviews with Corona along with tran­ scriptions, documents, and photographs. Graham Greene's personal library of Victorian detective fiction has been acquired by the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University. The collection, which was begun by Greene and Dorothy Glover in the last years of the Second World War, includes 613 works of mystery and detection dating from the earli­ est days of the genre up to the turn-of-the-cen- tury (Edgar Allen Poe through the early work of Arthur Conan Doyle). A large collection of special event man­ agement materials from two leaders in that field, Joe Jeff Goldblatt and Nancy Lynner, has been acquired by George Washington University’s Gelman Library. The donation includes video­ tapes, audiocassettes, and documents, includ­ ing the original manuscript of Goldblatt’s pio­ n eering b ook, Special Events: The A rt a n d Science o f Celebration. A collection of scholarly journals be­ longing to Henry A. Fischel, a professor in the Department of Near Eastern Language and Lit­ erature and the Program of Jewish Studies, has been acquired by the Indiana University Librar­ ies, Bloomington. The large collection includes monographs, pamphlets, and journals in Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, German, French, and English, all concerning the impact of Hellenism on Near Eastern languages and literature. The personal papers of A. C. Greene, noted journalist, historian, and radio and tele­ vision commentator, have been acquired by the Special Collections Division of the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Among the pa­ pers are a 30-year collection of daily journals maintained by Greene, voluminous correspon­ dence with various literary figures (including most Texas writers of the 1960-1990 period), much material about Greene’s involvement with the Texas Institute o f Letters, and historical materials on Texas railroads and industries. ■ (Internet cont.from page 566) ed to topics such as AIDS, biology, cancer, di­ abetes, disability information, epidemiology, etc. Access: World Wide Web, URL: gopher:// tjgopher.tju.edu/11/medical/bytopic or gopher: tjgopher.tju.edu. Of course, it’s beyond the scope of this arti­ cle to list all health resources available on the Internet. There are over 300 listserv lists alone. Over the years this author has cataloged about 700k worth of resources in a document titled Lntemet/Bitnet Health Science Resources. It cov­ ers a vast array of listservs lists, newsgroups, e- publications, databases, gophers, WWW serv­ ers, and much more. The document is available via anonymous ftp from ftp2.cc.ukans.edu in th e d ir e c to r y p u b /h m a tr ix as th e file medlstxx.txt or .zip. The xx in the address is the date of the release and will change with updates. ■ tjgopher.tju.edu/11/medical/bytopic tjgopher.tju.edu ftp2.cc.ukans.edu