ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

Grants and Acquisitions

The North Baker Libraryof the California Histori- cal Society has been awarded a grant of $75,000 from the Durfee Foundation in support of its automation project. The funds are to be used for personnel costs in the current phase of the project, which will include digitizing photographs, printed illustrations, photo- graphs of paintings and three dimensional objects held by the Society, and works of art on paper. The images will be cata- loged into KLIN and the images will be linked to the bibliographic records in the library’s OPAC. Also in this phase, descriptive guides, ephemera lists, finding aids, and the shelf list for photographs will be OCR scanned and made available online.

The University of Southern Californiahas received a $99,953 grant from the Korea Foundation to support USC’s Korean Heritage Library and establish a visiting professorship in Korean studies. At the Korean Heritage Library, the grant will be used to hire additional cataloguing personnel and to finance the use of electronic databases that link East Asian libraries in the United States.

The DePaul University Libraries havereceived a $26,160 grant from the Illinois Cooperative Collection Coordinating Committee to purchase microfiche collections in Latin American Studies (Human Rights Documents 1980- 1988 Latin America and the Caribbean)-, Women’s Studies (Women’s Studies Manuscripts Collection from the SchlessingerLibrary, Radcliff College. Ser. 2: Women in National Politics and Records of the Women ’s International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section, 1919- 1959)-, and African-American Studies (The Albion W. Tourgee Papers).

The College of Charleston's Robert ScottSmall Library received a $27,000 grant from the Post & Courier Foundation to update the library’s microfilm collection of Charleston, South Carolina newspapers. The grant will be used to purchase the Post & Courier microfilm dating back to 1873 as well as antebellum newspapers which are part of the Readex Early American Newspapers collection.

The University ofPittsburgh’s School of Li- brary and Information Sci- ence received NCR equip- ment valued at approx- imately $145,000 through the AT&T University Equip- ment Donation Program. The equipment includes a preconfigured client/server set-up consisting of one model 3445 computer and 20 model 3215 computers, which will be used by students and faculty for general teaching, study, and research.

The New York State Library received agrant of $90,962 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a preservation microfilming project. The grant will allow the library to catalog and microfilm 510 books and 4 archival collections important to the study of Native Americans, in particular the Iroquois tribes. Books to be filmed include works concerned with Native American legal matters, especially land disputes; religious works published in Iroquoian and Algonquin languages; captivity accounts by European-American settlers who were captured and later released or escaped; publications by Society of Friends and other organizations concerned with Native American issues; and Native American serials published throughout the United States.

Colorado College received a $46,579grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, to formalize its archives. The grant will fund a staff position of project archivist for two years. The project archivist’s first order of business will be to conduct a campus-wide survey of historical records, and enter the information in the library’s database.

Texas Tech University Libraries' Southwest Collection received a $509,000 grant to add to the William Curry and Frances Mayhugh Holden Endowment. A $25,000 grant from the Ewing Halsell Foundation was matched by an additional $25,000 from the Houston Endowment, Inc. The William Curry and Frances Holden Endowment was established in 1986 to provide research fellowships in Texas and Southwestern history and related studies and to purchase research materials in the areas of Southwestern history and culture, Native American and Mexican ethnohistory, anthropology, archeology, Southwestern arts and architecture, arid lands, water, and women’s history. Texas Tech University also received a $1,515 grant from the Southwestern Bell Foundation to purchase the Library of Congress’s Subject Headings.