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Grants and Acquisitions

Carnegie Mellon Univer-sity has received more than $1 million from the Teresa and H. John Heinz III Foun- dation, the Heinz Company Foundation, and the How- ard and Vira I. Heinz endow- ments. The funds will be used to develop an elec- tronic, historical archive of the papers of the late Sena- tor H. John Heinz III of Pennsylvania. The university and CLARITECH, the Pitts- burgh-based, text-retrieval and information-management company that provided the software for the system, will pro- vide additional funding of $450,000.

The Hoover Institution has received agrant of $355,177 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a two-year project in cooperation with Research Libraries Group to develop an electronic link between the Russian State Archival Service and archives around the world. The project will catalog archival material in repositories in Russia and enter the records into RLIN.

Texas Tech University Library has received a grant of $97,066 from the Hoblitzelle Foundation in Dallas. The funds will be used to purchase preservation equipment for the new Southwest Collection/Special Collections’ Library state-of-the-art preservation laboratory.

The University of California, Berkeley's,library has been awarded an HEA II-B grant from the Department of Education Institutes program for $125,000 to fund a nine-month training institute to prepare four ethnic minority librarians for careers as academic research librarians in scientific disciplines.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science has received a grant of $63,826 from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to sup- port a year-long project to renew the library and infor- mation science master’s pro- gram through a set of inte- grated core courses.

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The University of Ken-tucky Libraries has received a $118,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Educa- tion to implement a state-of- the-art Ariel document trans- mission system linking the major libraries of Kentucky’s eight state-sup- ported universities; $70,821 in matching funds from the universities is also being used.

The University of Virginia Library wasawarded a grant of $123,621 from the Department of Educations’ HEA Title II-C program. The funds will be used in support of a yearlong project to continue the processing, cataloging, and retrospective conversion of the holdings of the Manuscripts Division of the Special Collections Department, specifically the historical collections acquired before 1960.

Acquisitions

The University of Wisconsin-Stout Library has received a $35,000 staff development endowment. The gift is maintained by the Stout University Foundation in honor of David P. Barnard, who served as professor and dean of learning resources for 41 years, and will allow library faculty and academic and classified staff to pursue professional improvement activities.

Materials chronicling the life and workof William Grant Still have been acquired by Duke University’s Special Collections. Still was the first black American composer of classical music to have a piece, his AfroAmerican Symphony, performed by a leading orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in 1931. The collection contains tapes and CDs of Still’s music and facsimiles of his compositions that total more than 200 pieces.