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Grants and Acquisitions

Eckerd College, St. Peters-burg, Florida, has been awarded $24,000 by the Council on Li- brary Resources to fund the first two years of the new College Library Director Mentoring Pro- gram established by the Lead- ership Committee of ACRL’s College Libraries Section. The program is intended to en- hance the leadership capabili- ties of newly appointed col- lege library directors by matching them with expert- enced directors. Ten to 15 newly appointed directors will participate annually. The funds will support campus visits, communication costs, and a three-day seminar given at the end of each year. Individuals interested in partici- pating, either as a mentor or mentee, should write or call Larry Hardesty, Director of Library Services, Eckerd College, P. O. Box 12560, St. Petersburg, FL 33733-2560; (813) 864-8336.

The Folger Shakespeare Library has received an $82,326 U.S. Department of Education Title ITC grant—to be matched by $61,000 from the Folger—for the preservation and improved accessibility of nearly 900 presently uncataloged 18th- and 19th-century non- Shakespeare promptbooks. Some of the more intriguing promptbooks in the collection are Tyrone Power’s 1907 production of Macbeth-, several late 17th-century Shakespeare productions from the Theatre Royal Dublin in which the text is made up of leaves from a third folio of Shakespeare dated 1663-64; and John Barrymore’s 1922 Hamlet, with autographs of the actors, a playbill, sketches, and music.

Title II-C also provided support for a recently completed project to catalog and conserve the Folger’s collection of Shakespeare First Folios, which contains 79 copies plus fragments and is the largest in the world. A total of $94,321 was provided by Title II-C, with $92,531 furnished by the Folger Library.

The Montana Stale University Libraries hasbeen given a grant of $100,888 by the U.S. Department of Education, under Title II-C of the Higher Education Act, to fund the acquisition of materials to further build the libraries’ Yellowstone National Park Collection. The heart of the collection is the Haynes family gift of 1977. The Haynes family was the photography concession- aire in the park from 1881 to 1968.

The libraries of North Carolina State University, Duke University,and the University of North Caro- lina-Chapel Hill have been awarded a $281,669 grant for a second year of funding under the U.S. Department of Education’s Title II-C Strengthen- ing Research Library Resources Program. The joint project on “Documenting the Contempo- rary American South” will enable the three in- stitutions to continue building research collec- tions that will allow scholars to undertake, from a single geographic location, multistate and comparative studies of the post-World War II South.

The University of Iowa (Ul) Libraries hasbeen awarded a four-year $168,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support apprenticeships in book conservation and training workshops for experienced book conservators. Apprentices will begin the four-year program in the fall of 1992 and advanced week-long workshops will be scheduled throughout the four-year period. A previous Mellon Foundation grant of $140,000 was awarded to UI in 1988 for the same purpose.

The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a two-year $661,000 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities to establish a conservation education program. The $575,000 outright grant and up to $86,000 in federal matching funds will enable the university to provide space and resources for the faculty and administration of the Conservation Education Programs, formerly a component of the School of Library Service at Columbia University.

The University of Virginia Library wasawarded a grant for $96,263 from the Department of Education’s HEA Title II-C program, “Strengthening Library Resources.” The funds will be used to support the first year of a proposed three-year project to convert to machine-readable form the 10,873 unconverted manuscripts and University Archives catalog records.