ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 46 / C&RL News Grants a n d Acquisitions H u g h T h o m p s o n The M α g a le L ib r a r y a t Centenary College o f Loui­ siana is the beneficiary o f a bequest totaling $300,000 from the estate o f the late philanthropist Joanna Gun­ ning Magale. The funds will be used for an endowment for the library, which was n a m e d in m e m o r y o f M a g a le ’s h u sban d, John Francis M agale, after his death in 1974. E m o ry U n iv e rs ity has re ­ ceived a $250,000 grant from the Andrew W. M ellon Foundation to explore the feasibility o f electronic journal publication in the field o f re­ ligious studies. The three-year project w ill be carried out in cooperation with Scholars Press and is an important part o f Emory’s Virtual Li­ brary Project supported by a three-year plan­ ning grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. The main focus w ill be to study four areas that frequently inhibit the successful adaptation o f scholarly journals into electronic media. The lib r a r y a t H e id e lb e rg C o llege in O h io is the beneficiary o f a bequest from former as­ sistant librarian Henry S. Montague Jr. The li­ brary w ill share with the Music Department the proceeds from an endow m ent o f $400,000. Montague served on the library staff from 1954 to 1963. T h e S o u th e a s t e r n L i b r a r y N e t w o r k (SOLINET), headquartered in Atlanta, has re­ ceived a grant o f $420,000 from the U.S. D e­ partment o f Commerce through the Telecom ­ munications and Inform ation Infrastructure Assistance Program o f the National Telecommu­ nications and Information Administration. The grant will fund a two-year demonstration project to link and integrate distributed regional infor­ mation resources, focusing on library special collections and state government information. T u lα n e U n iv e r s ity ’ s A m is tα d R e se a rch Center has received a $6,500 conservation as­ sessment grant from the National Institute for the Conservation o f Cultural Property. The grant w ill enable Amistad, which holds a collection o f African American art and a 10-million-docu­ ment archives, to evaluate its current collection care poli­ cies, procedures, and envi­ ronmental conditions. The U n iv e rs ity o f lo w a Libraries has received a grant o f $702,272 from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust to support the establishment o f the Health Sciences Informa­ tion Arcade facility in the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, and the creation o f a m odel training program for library staff and faculty on networked and mul­ timedia information resources. V ir g in ia C o m m o n w e a lt h U n iv e r s it y ’ s Tom pkin s-M cC aw Library and the Virginia Southside Area Health Education Center have received an information access grant for $89,970 from the National Library o f Medicine. The grant w ill support the develo pm en t o f V irgin ia’s Southside Health Inform ation Consortium, which consists o f 17 health care institutions in 13 counties in Southside Virginia, and whose purpose is to facilitate access to current health care information. The S a v a g e L ib r a r y a t W e s te r n S ta te College o f Colorado recently received a $60,000 grant from the Tem ple H oyne Buell Founda­ tion o f Denver as part o f its renovation cam­ paign. Savage Library, one o f only tw o build­ ings on Colorado’s western slope designed by architect Temple Buell, was constructed in 1939. The funds w ill permit completion o f the last phase o f renovation. A cquisitions The p e rs o n a l lib r a r y o f re fe re n c e w o r k s used by artist Mary T. Bowling in creating her art has been acquired by the Special Collec­ tions Department o f Cal Poly’s Kennedy Library. Bowling, w h o died in January 1995 at age 77, was w e ll kn ow n for giant m osaic plaques (called intarsias) displayed in West Coast build­ ings. Am ong the books are works on the his­ January 1996 / 47 tory, anthropology, art, and cosmology o f pre-Columbian Central America. The collec­ tion includes vo lu m es in Swedish, German, French, English, and Spanish, as well as facsimile editions o f Mayan manuscripts, chronicles o f early explorers, and govern­ ment documents. A m a jo r p o r tio n o f th e Upsala College Library Col­ lection has been acquired by Florida Gulf Coast University. Century-old Upsala in East Orange, N ew Jersey, closed in 1995. The acquisition in­ cludes 65,500 books, CDs, Carlos Fuentes in a cemetery in Haworth, England, in 1991.videotapes, and 150 micro­ filmed years o f the New York Times, and has a value o f more than $4 million. Highlights o f the collection are the Abraham Lincoln book collection and books by Sven Hedin, a Swedish explorer w h o traveled much o f Asia early in this century. The p a p e rs o f M e x ic a n p la y w r ig h t Ru- dolfe Usigli have been acquired by Miami Uni­ versity Libraries in Oxford, Ohio. The collec­ tion includes original manuscripts o f plays, diaries, and correspondence. In addition to his dramatic work, Usigli served as Mexican am­ bassador to several countries. He was awarded M exico’s prestigious National Prize for Letters in 1972, when he was recognized as the cre­ ator o f modern Mexican theater. The p a p e r s o f M e x ic a n a u t h o r a n d statesman Carlos Fuentes have been acquired by Princeton University Libraries. The collec­ tion consists o f more than 125 linear feet o f materials dating from 1942 to the present. Fuentes is the author o f numerous novels, plays, screenplays, short stories, essays, criticism, and works o f journalism in a literary career span­ ning five decades. He was a leading figure in the literary “boom ” o f the 1960s when previ­ ously unknown Latin American writers began attracting international audiences. Fuentes’s ca­ Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Acquisi­ tions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; e-mail: hugh.thompson@ala.org. reer has also included service as a diplomat and ambassa­ dor for Mexico, and fellow in the Humanities at Princeton. The p a p e rs o f M o le fi Kete Asante, professor and chair o f the Department o f African American Studies at Temple U n iversity, have b een ac­ quired by the Amistad Re­ search Center at Tulane Uni­ versity. Asante is the author o f 37 books, more than 200 journal articles, and founder o f the first Ph.D. program in African American studies. He also cofounded the Journal o f Black Studies in the 1960s and served as its editor. His pa­ pers are the first deposit to what is the nation’s first Afrocentric Archive, which will document the Afrocentric paradigm taught by its leading proponents. A c o lle c tio n o f p r o p e r ty - h o ld in g re co rd s and inventories o f buildings and installations originally ow ned by the American Agricultural Chemical Company has been donated by the IMC Agrico-Phosphate Company to the Univer­ sity o f South Florida Tampa Campus Library. The records contain detailed descriptions and photographs o f company structures built at Pierce, Pebbledale, and Tiger Bay. The major­ ity o f the records date from 1903 to the 1920s. The collection provides excellent sources for studying the domestic and industrial architec­ ture o f Florida phosphate towns, as w ell as cultural insights on life in these towns provided by detailed information on workers’ houses. A co lle ctio n o f so m e 1 ,3 0 0 p h o to g r a p h y books has been donated to the library o f Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington, by Floyd and Shirley Daniel o f Seattle. The collec­ tion was compiled by Mr. Daniel during a life­ time career in photography, first as a photo- journalist and later as a cinematographer and motion picture producer, including many years as production manager o f the Boeing Co. M o­ tion Picture and Television Department. The collection is very strong in Western American landscape photography, Farm Security Admin­ istration photographs o f the Depression era, and photojournalism o f the ’30s through the ’60s. ■ mailto:hugh.thompson@ala.org