ACRL College & Research Libraries News

Association of College & Research Libraries

Grants and Acquisitions

Columbia University hasreceived a $150,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund a three- year extension of its Mellon Preservation Administration Internship Program. The pro- gram, initiated in 1982, trains qualified administrators to fill preservation positions in re- search libraries through the country.

Drexel Universitys Col-lege of Information Studies received $118,400 from the U.S. Department of Education to fund eight doctoral fellowships in the 1992-1993 academic year.

Kansas Slate University (KSU) received anadditional $600,000 from a Florida woman to expand the development of a new engineering library. The money will allow KSU’s College of Engineering to create an undergraduate library. In September Alice Fiedler of St. Petersburg, Florida, gave $1.4 million to establish the engineering library.

Kansas State University will receive $2million from H. D. “Joe” and Joyce Vanier Hale of Overland Park to help expand and renovate it’s Farrell Library. The Hales committed the gift anonymously last November before a referendum that committed $5 million in student fees to a proposed $27 million library expansion and renovation project. Students passed the referendum with 97% approval. “K-State Students aggressively sought private financial participation, and our commitment is in direct response to their challenge. Joyce and I are thrilled to join this partnership because every great university is built around a great library,” said H. D. Hale, who is chairman and chief executive officer of ADM Milling Co. of Leawood, a subsidiary of the Archer Daniels Midland Co. of Decatur, Illinois. Joyce Vanier Hale is vice- president of Star A Land and Cattle Co. and co-owner of Cedar Creek Ranch near Manhattan, Kansas. Three of the couple’s six children are Kansas State University graduates.

Redeemer Colleges chief librarian, DanielA. Savage, received a $1,500 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada award and a $500 development grant from the Canadian Library Association to fund research on “Leadership for Excellence in Canadian University Libraries: Crite- ria for Success.”

Stanford University'sGraduate School of Busi- ness received a major gift to establish a high-tech re- search facility within the Jackson Library. Named after its donors, Claude and Louise Rosenberg, both Stanford alumni, the Rosenberg Corporate Research Center will occupy most of the first floor of the three-story library and will contain the library’s entire ref- erence area. The library was combined with the Business School’s computing services into a single Department of Information Resources last year.

The University of California at Santa Cruzreceived and matched donations from six prominent Santa Cruz county families to establish a $24,000 endowment. The endowment will support purchase of research materials for UCSC’s Asian American holdings.

The University of Michigans School ofInformation and Library Studies (SILS) has received over $300,000 in grants and fellowships. Faculty member Amy Warner received a $140,060 grant from the National Institutes of Health to explore and identify regular linguistic patterns in Medline subject terminology. Karen Drabenstott received a U.S. Department of Education grant of $95,500 to test a new subject access design in which search trees control system responses and determine appropriate subject searching approaches and user queries. Search trees may prove effective for subject searching online catalogs. The SILS received $80,800 from the U.S. Department of Education to fund six doctoral fellowships in the 1992-93 academic year.

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centerof the University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a $228,869 Preservation grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities to conduct a two-year study of the mass deacidification of paper in archive and manuscript collections. About 350 linear feet of the center’s 20th-century literary archives and manuscripts collections will receive treatment at the diethyl zinc (DEZ) mass deacidification pilot plant operated by Akzo Chemical in Deer Park, Texas.

The University of Victoria Archives receiveda backlog reduction grant from the Canadian Council of Archives to make the information in the School of Music Concert Tape Archives available in the form of a microcomputer database and printed finding aid. The archives contain recordings of faculty concerts, student recitals, guest recitals, scholarly papers, and symposia sponsored by the School of Music between 1968 and the present.