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Ann-Christe Galloway G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n s  

The University of Akron (UA) and the Guitar 
Foundation of America (GFA) have received a 
$10,000 grant from the National Endowment 
for the Arts to develop online access to classi­
cal guitar music scores. The grant proposal was 
prepared by GFA and UA library experts and 
calls for a three­phase project to digitize histori­
cally significant scores in the GFA archives and 
create an improved Web portal for the archives 
to interface with a newly designed GFA Web 
site. The GFA archives are housed at the UA 
University Libraries, and include scores that are 
rare or unique editions written and published 
before 1906. A panel of experts will select the 
first 100 scores to be digitized and made avail­
able for download from the archives Web site. 
UA and GFA plan to seek additional grants to 
digitize all signifi cant holdings. 

Historically Black Colleges and Universi­
ties (HBCU) Library Alliance has received a 
$1.2 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon 
Foundation to improve the preservation of 
photographic collections. The University of 
Delaware’s Art Conservation Department and 
the Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET) 
have formed a partnership with the HBCU 
Library Alliance and the Conservation Center 
for Art and Historic Artifacts for this 30­month, 
four­phase initiative to improve the signifi cant 
photographic collections held within HBCUs. A 
recent survey of the HBCU libraries revealed that 
only 22 percent had completed a conservation 
assessment of their photographic holdings. 

The University at Albany (UA) was awarded 
a $180,000 grant from the Getty Foundation’s 
Campus Heritage Initiative to develop a 
long­term plan to preserve and enhance the 
university’s uptown campus, designed in 1961 
by architect Edward Durell Stone. UA’s plan will 
address the preservation of existing structures 

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and identify issues for future campus growth, 
while maintaining Stone’s vision. The plan will 
examine current conditions of the main campus 
and recommend refurbishment opportunities; 
assess landscaping and possible enhancements; 
and advance efforts to educate chief constituents 
and surrounding community about the main 
campus’ quality and character. 

Acquisitions 

A collection from Erica Jong has been acquired 
by Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manu­
script Library. The noted novelist, poet, essayist, 
and best­selling author’s collection provides a 
full and intimate portrait of Jong, from her under­
graduate years at Barnard College to the present, 
said Michael Ryan, director of the library. The 
Jong archive includes correspondence, manu­
scripts, and research notes on a wide variety 
of topics, much of which is unpublished. Of 
special note are Jong’s letters to and from John 
Updike, Henry Miller, and Louis Untermeyer. 
Jong’s best known work, Fear of Flying, has sold 
more than 18 million copies and been translated 
into 30 languages. 

The library of David E. Pingree, internation­
ally renowned historian of the exact sciences 
in antiquity and Brown University faculty 
(1971–2005), has been acquired by Brown. The 
late Pingree’s collection focuses on the study of 
mathematics and exact sciences in the ancient 
world, especially India, and the relationship 
of Eastern mathematics to the development of 
mathematics and related disciplines in the West. 
The collection contains some 22,000 volumes, 
700 fascicles, and a number of manuscripts. The 
holdings consist of both antiquarian and current 
materials published in Sanskrit, Arabic, Hindi, 
and Western languages as well as microfi lm 
and photocopies of manuscript material from 
around the world, much of which is now lost 
in its original format. 

C&RL News September 2007  538 

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