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January 2013 53 C&RL News

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C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; 
e-mail: agalloway@ala.org.

LYRASIS, the nation’s largest regional non-
profit membership organization for librar-
ies, has received a $670,000 grant from The 
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for initiatives 
that advance, use, and support of open source 
software and systems in libraries and archives. 
The grant focuses on LYRASIS open source ini-
tiatives to advance sustainability in three areas: 
1) expansion of decision-support services that 
enable effective library decision-making and 
planning before, during, and after adoption; 2) 
fostering community discussion and planning 
to support sustainability of the software itself, 
and the libraries and communities that are de-
veloping it; and 3) raise awareness, provide 
information and educa-
tion, and foster more 
rapid creation of best-
of-breed open source 
software as strategies 
to expand library and 
archival adoption. The 
grant runs for two 
years.  

Northern Kentucky 
University (NKU) has 
received a $50,000 Na-
tional Endowment for 
the Humanities Sustain-
ing Cultural Heritage 
Collections planning 
grant to evaluate the 
environmental climate 
in which W. Frank Steely Library’s Eva G. Far-
ris Special Collections and Schlachter Univer-
sity Archives stores its historical collections and 
permanent university records. The goal is to 
create a sustainable, energy efficient, preser-
vation quality environment for the protection 
of these collections, which have regional and 
national significance. Only 18 of 80 applicants 

nationally received funding. University Archi-
vist and Assistant Professor Lois Hamill is the 
principal investigator for the grant, which will 
bring consultants from the Image Permanence 
Institute of the Rochester Institute of Technol-
ogy, and engineers from Staggs and Fisher of 
Lexington to work with NKU. 

A c q u i s i t i o n s

A 1,200-volume collection of Ernest Hemingway’s 
published works has been acquired by the Irvin 
Department of Rare Books and Special Col-

lections at the Univer-
sity of South Carolina 
Libraries. The collec-
tion was put together 
by C. Edgar Gris-
som of Mississippi, 
who began collecting 
Hemingway items 
more than 50 years 
ago. Last year, Gris-
som published Ernest 
Hemingway: A De-
scriptive Bibliography 
(New Castle: Oak 
Knoll Press, 2011), the 
most comprehensive, 
and now definitive, 
Hemingway bibliog-
raphy. In addition to 

first editions, the collection includes sales-
man’s dummies, uncorrected proofs, and 
many variant and heretofore unrecorded 
dust jackets of Hemingway’s works. The 
collection complements the Speiser and 
Easterling-Hallman Foundation Collection 
of Ernest Hemingway, also at the University 
of South Carolina, which contains the pa-
pers of Hemingway’s Philadelphia lawyer,  
Maurice Speiser, who worked for Heming-
way and many other artists and writers from 
the late 1920s through the 1940s. 

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

Works from the 1,200-volume Hemingway 
collection acquired by the University of South 
Carolina Libraries.