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Internship, fellowship, and grant deadlines approaching

The U. S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement Library Programs invites applications for the Strengthening Research Library Resources Program. This award provides financial assistance to major research libraries to maintain and strengthen their collections and to make their holdings available to other libraries whose users have need for research materials. Deadline: October 28, 1991. Contact: Louise Sutherland or Linda Loeb, Library Development Staff, Library Programs, U.S. Department of Education, 555 New Jersey Ave., N.W., Room 404, Washington, DC 20208-5571; (202) 219-1315.

The U.S. Department of Education, OERI-Li- brary Programs invites applications for its College Libraiy Technology and Cooperative Grants Program. These grants are to encourage resource- sharing projects among academic libraries through the use of technology and networking to improve the library and information services provided to them by public and nonprofit private organizations and to conduct research or demonstration projects to meet special needs in using technology to enhance library and information sciences. Deadline: January 17, 1992. Contact: Neal Kaske, Library Programs, U.S. Dept, of Education, 555 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., Room 404, Washington, DC 20208-5571; (202) 219-Í315.

The Council on Library Resources (CLR) invites applications for its Academic Library Management Program. Up to three librarians will be selected to spend nine months working with directors and administrative staff at research libraries. Each intern will be awarded a stipend up to $35,000 equal to basic salary and benefits for the nine- month period. Deadline: October 31, 1991. Contact: CLR, 1785 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Suite 313, Washington, DC 20036; (202) 483-7474.

The Reinecke Rare Rooks and Manuscript Library at Yale University invites applications for its 1992-93 Fellowship Program. The seven named fellowships are to support visiting scholars pursuing post-doctoral or equivalent research in its collections. The fellowships, which support travel to and from New Haven and pay a living allowance of $1,500 per month, are designed to provide access to the library for scholars who reside outside the greater New Haven area. Deadline: January 15, 1992. Contact: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, P.O. Box 1603A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520-1603; (203) 432-2977.

The Rockefeller Archive Center, a division of Rockefeller University, invites applications for its Travel and Research Grants. The competitive program makes grants of up to $1,500 to researchers in any discipline who are engaged in research that requires the use of collections at the Center, which include records of the Rockefeller family, the Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller University, and other philanthropic organizations. Deadline: December 31,1991. Contact: Darwin H. Stapleton, Director, Rockefeller Archive Center, 15 Dayton Ave., North Taπytown, NY 10591-1598; (914) 631-4505.

ANSI approves Serial Item and Contribution Identifier

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approved the Serial Item and Contribution Identifier (SICI), a bar code symbol that includes title, volume, and issue data. The new bar code is designed to facilitate serials check-in and to reduce claims for missing issues. Several major publishers including Kluwer Academic Publishers, B. H. Blackwell Periodicals Division, Elsevier Scientific Publishing, Pergamon Press, and John Wiley & Sons have agreed to print the bar code symbol on all of their journals within six months of approval of the standard, ANSI/NISO Z39.56-1991.

“Swedes in America” symposium held

Swedish-American Bibliography was the subject of a workshop in connection with “Swedes in America,” a symposium held at the Swedish Emigrant Institute in Vaxjo, Sweden, May 31-June 3, 1991. Representatives from Swedish and American libraries and archives discussed methods for re- cording titles of books printed in Swedish in America from the mid-19th century to the 1930s. The first phase of this project was completed with the registration of Swedish-American imprints in the Tell G. Dahllof collection of Swedish Americana at the University of Minnesota (published by the Royal Library in Sweden in 1988). The plan calls for expanding the database, located in the Swedish LIBRIS system, with Swedish-American imprints from other Swedish and American libraries. Contact Mariann Tiblin, Scandinavian Bibliographer, 5 Wilson Library, 309 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455, for more information.

Documents of Dissent are on view at the New York Public Library until February 15,1992. Shown here are a Chinese newspaper and handbill, a Polish Solidarity party bulletin, and an East German exhibition poster showing banners and placards used in demonstrations leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Photo credit: Bob Rubic

Ohio University designated Swaziland depository

The Swaziland Minister of Education, Chief Sipho Shongwe, signed a formal agreement making Ohio University Libraries (OUL) the United States depository for publications from Swaziland. The Republic of Botswana and Malaysia have also designated OUL as their depositories in the U.S.

Harvard Law School honors Archibald Cox

“That Justice Be Done: Archibald Cox’s Life in the Law” is the title of an exhibition staged by the Harvard Law School Library to honor Archibald Cox on the 45th anniversary of his appointment as professor at the Harvard Law School. Two of the 15 exhibit cases examining Cox’s life are devoted exclusively to Cox’s months as director of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force in 1973.

Acquisitions

• Eastern Washington University acquired the personal collection of Wendal S. Jones, professor of music at EWU and a nationally known composer and conductor. Jones’s collection includes scores, sheet music, and books. Jones’s donation includes a cash gift to fund a computer workstation and music database.

• New York State Library has acquired the papers of Judge James T. Foley, former Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, and of Edward W. “Ned” Pattison, congressman from the 29th district of New York. Foley served 41 years on the federal bench, presiding over hundreds of civil and criminal cases. Pattison was chiefly responsible for the comprehensive reform that created the modem Federal Copyright Law passed in 1976.

• The Ohio State University Cartoon, Graphic, and Photographic Arts Research Library has received 1,386 original editorial cartoons from Ray Osrin. The drawings were published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer from 1964 to 1991. This donation adds to the 1,682 cartoons Osrin donated in 1981.

• Radcliffe College’s Schlesinger Library on the History of Women has opened the papers of Crystal Eastman (1881-1928), a social investigator, peace worker, and feminist. Eastman’s study of industrial accidents did much to advance the movement for workmen’s compensation laws.

• The University of Miami has acquired the following collections: the Carson McCullers Collection (the research materials and papers of McCullers biographer, Virginia Spencer Carr); the Amos B. Eaton Papers (a diary written by Eaton during his service in the U.S. Army including the Seminole Indian War); and a letter from Zachary Taylor to General T. S. Jessup (April 27, 1838).

• The Unisys Corporation has donated to the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota records relating to the Burroughs Corporation. Over 500 cubic feet of materials covering over 100 years of the company’s history from 1883 to its merger with the Sperry Corpora-tion.Beginning in 1886 as a firm for practical adding machines, the Burroughs Company had become by the 1980s a major supplier of computer mainframe equipment and systems.

• The University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s Special Collections Division has added several hundred new titles to its Robbie Emily Dunn Collection of American Women’s Detective Fiction. The collection includes Seeley Regester’s The Dead Letter (1867), the oldest known work of American detective fiction written by a woman, and continues through the present.

• The University of Southern California

Cinema-Television Library has acquired the papers and scripts of radio and TV writer/producer David Victor, who died in 1989. Victor created some of the most popular shows of the 1960s and 1970s including “The Rebel,” “Dr. Kildare,” “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,” “Lucas Tanner,” “Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law,” and “Marcus Welby, M.D.”

• Virginia Tech’s Archives of American Aerospace Exploration has received the personal papers of Robert Gilruth, the first director of the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, and six other aeronautical and aerospace leaders, designers, and pioneers. Among the papers of Gilruth, known as the father of the manned space program in the U.S., are a diary kept during the period that included the successful test flight of Mercury-Atlas 2 on F ebruary 2,1961, and a copy of an unpublished personal memoir, “From Wallops Island to Project Mercury, 1945-58.”

Grants & Gifts

• A $269,330 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. will be used by Auburn Theological Seminary to establish the Auburn Center for the Study of Theological Education. The Center will focus on themes such as the financing of theological education, the culture and ethos of theological schools, and teaching.

• The Center for Research Libraries was awarded a $68,860 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities on behalf of the South Asian Microform Project (SAMP) to improve access to 2,00019th-century South Asian publications in Hindi now in the British Library’s India Office Library. The project includes microfilming the volumes for preservation and wider dissemination to scholars and the creation of machine-readable bibliographic records.

• Central College, Pella, Iowa, was awarded $100,000 by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to help fund an integrated library automation system. The library has mounted Innovative Interfaces software on a DECsystem 5000. The College also received a $69,000 equipment grant from the Digital Equipment Corporation toward the project.

• Colgate University has received $77,500 from the Charles E. Culpepper Foundation to renovate and expand its book conservation laboratory. The library will purchase equipment that will allow the conservation staff to expand their activities to deacidification of brittle paper and restora- tionofsomeofthe library’s collections of rare books and manuscripts.

• Columbia University’s Academic Information Systems group has received a $330,000 grant from Cabletron Systems of Rochester, New Hampshire, to expand Columbia’s networking capabilities and enhance its ability to manage existing networks. Columbia’s data communication network connects desktop computers to local, campus- wide, and international information sources.

• The Craft and Folk Art Museum Library in Los Angeles received renewed funding in the form of a two-year grant of $100,000 from the James Irvine Foundation for the continuing development of the Center for the Study of Art and Culture (CSAC). The Center’s programming will be developed around current issues relating to the exhibition and interpretation of cultural materials.

• Southern Methodist University has received a $1.5 million gift from the Fondren Foundation of Houston to renovate Fondren Library, the University’s central library, which was constructed 50 years ago with funds provided by Walter William Fondren Sr. and his wife, Ella Florence Fondren. W. W. Fondren was one of the founders of the Humble Oil Company, which later became Exxon.

• The Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research at the University of California, Riverside, recently received three grants. Two awards will fund components of the English Short Title Catalog, a machine-readable bibliography and union catalog of the output of the English press to 1801. One of these is for $170,000 in matching funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and will support record creation for the period 1475-1701. The second award is for $85,331 from the Department of Education’s Title II-C Strengthening Library Resources Program and will fund the first year of creation of 22,255 machine-readable AACR2 records for the microfilm set The Thomason Tracts.

• The Center also received $1,402,323 from NEH to fund the first three years of the California Newspaper Project, a part of the U.S. Newspaper Program to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm all of the newspapers published in this country since 1690. The California project is expected to take nine to fifteen years to complete, and one of its products will be the creation and maintenance of a union list of newspapers for California repositories. The bibliographic records will be created and made available in OCLC.

• The University of California, Santa Barbara, has been awarded $127,800 by the National Endowment for the Humanities for the writings of Heniy D. Thoreau. The project will produce new editions of Thoreau’s works including his journal and correspondence.

• An endowment of over $750,000 has been established at the University of Illinois Archives to study student life and culture. The new Steward S. Howe Archival Endowment Fund was created with a $300,000 challenge grant from the Stewart S. Howe Foundation, plus $100,000 in matching funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It was the donation of Stewart Howe’s collection of fraternity- and sorority-related materials to the archives in 1973 that created what is now the country’s largest collection of material on student life.

• The students of the class of 1991 at the University of Maryland at College Park established an endowed book fund for the Hombake Library to provide literature with multicultural themes, authors, or subjects. The students hope to raise $10,000 and double the endowment to $20,000 through challenges and matching gifts. Libraries’ director Joanne Harrar hailed the gift as “particularly significant because students today are seeking to deepen their understanding of the world through cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary studies. Unfortunately, because of budget limitations, it is impossible for the University Libraries to purchase all of the multi-cultural materials being requested by students for their research.”

• The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire has received a Title III grant of $1,650,000 from the U.S. Department of Education to enhance the campus computer network, video instruction, tele- conferencing, and program reception. The grant will assist a recently funded $9 million expansion and renovation of McIntyre Library which will be housed with Computer and Network Services in a newly formed “Information and Technology Resources Center” to be completed in 1994.

• The Sterling Chemistry Library at Yale University has received a $500,000 gift from Robert Maxwell, president of Maxwell Communications and new owner of the New York Daily News. The gift, in honor of retiring chemistry professor Harry H. Wasserman, will fund new electronic services and systems that will provide access to chemical information.

Full-text databases for the humanities scholar

The Patrologia Latina Database

a complete, machine-readable edition of J. P. Migne’s Patrologia Latina from the Patrologiae Cursus Completus.

The English Poetry Full-Text Database

an electronic version of the complete works of 1,350 poets from the Anglo-Saxon era (600 AD) to the end of the 19th century.

Both databases are SGML-encoded in accord with emerging Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standards and published with a liberal networking structure.

For more information, contact Melissa Henderson at 800-752-0515, or write to Chadwyck-Healey Inc., 1101 King Street, Suite 380, Alexandria, Virginia 22314.