ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

News from the field

ACQUISITIONS

•Emory University’sPitts Theology Library, Atlanta, has opened its collection of the personal papers of Henry Edward Manning (1822-1892), the Cardinal of Westminster who is best remembered for his introduction and advocacy of the doctrine of papal infallibility. The collection consists of 10 linear feet of manuscript and printed material, including his speeches, sermons, and sermon notes.

•Indiana University’sLilly Library, Bloomington, has been given the private collection of Elizabeth W. Ball by the George and Frances Ball Foundation of Muncie. The primary importance of the collection is in its outstanding examples of children’s books. The collection has been appraised at $2 million and is the most valuable single gift to the Lilly Library since J.K. Lilly Jr. presented his collection to the university in 1956. One hallmark of the collection is the manuscript nursery library prepared by Jane Johnson for her son George William Johnson between 1745 and 1750; the 363 pieces include hand-colored cards with alphabets, pictures with moral explanations, and small story books. Other items in the Ball gift are horn books, harlequinades, street cries, miniature books, mechanical books, and story books of every description.

GRANTS

•Centenary College,Hackettstown, New Jersey, received a grant of $25,854 from the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation. The grant will enable the College to purchase materials for the Taylor Memorial Library, including audio-visual equipment, reference materials and periodicals in the fields of education, business, fashion merchandising and design, equine studies, and fine arts.

•Franklin and Marshall College,Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has been awarded a $23,000 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to initiate an archival program. The College will celebrate its bicentennial in 1987.

•Southern Illinois University’sMorris Library, Carbondale, has been awarded $76,766 in LSCA funds through the Illinois State Library to conduct the third phase of the Illinois Cooperative Conservation Program. ICCP is a statewide outreach project to provide conservation information, training, and services to all types of libraries in Illinois. During Phase Three, ICCP will continue its publication and information services and hold two series of hands-on workshops. Also emphasized during this phase will be the development of modest conservation treatment services for local history materials. For more information, contact Hollis Onken, Illinois Cooperative Conservation Program, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901; (618) 453-5122.

•The State University of New York at Buffalo Libraries have received a $168,000 Title II-C renewal grant to add full bibliographic descriptions of books in its poetry collection to the OCLC database. The collection, started in 1935 by Charles D. Abbott, a former director of the library, is a comprehensive collection of 20th century English language poetry that includes James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Marianne Moore. The grant, which runs through next December, provides for an additional librarian and two additional catalogers.

• The University of Connecticut Library, Storrs, has been awarded a $68,000 HEA Title II-C grant to create full bibliographic records for materials in the Geigul Puerto Rican Collection. The records are to be entered into OCLC and the National Union Catalog. The Geigul Collection is a comprehensive body of materials on all aspects of Puerto Rican life over the last 150 years.

•The University of Kansas Library, Lawrence, has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant of $55,562 for a Slavic Cultural Heritage Project. The grant will allow for the appointment of assistant instructors to prepare, publicize, and deliver presentations on various aspects of the Slavic cultural heritage in selected towns in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri. Lectures will be accompanied by reading lists and exhibits of books, periodicals, and photocopies of archival materials.

•The University of Toronto Library has been awarded three grants by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada under its program of support for special collections. A grant of $20,000 was awarded to strengthen the History of Science Collection in the Fisher Rare Book Library; a $10,000 grant was awarded in support of the music collection “The Age of Debussy and Mahler: Romanticism to Modernism”; and $20,000 was granted for continued support of the Canadian fiction in English Collection.

Toronto has also received a $10,000 grant from the Council’s Fleeting Opportunities Programme, which requires matching funds. The grant enabled the library to purchase a collection of materials to strengthen its English Theatre and Drama Collection.

NEWS NOTES

•Pennsylvania State University,University

Park, has launched a study to determine the effect of user education programs on the public’s use of online catalogs. The study is supported by a grant from ARL’s Office of Management Studies with funds provided by the General Electric Corporation. The study focuses on evaluating four methods of educating patrons in the use of the online catalog in use at Penn State, the Library Information Access System—online assistance, audio-visual presentations, printed guides, and classroom instruction. The study will also determine how patrons react to an online catalog and their efficiency in searching the catalog during a six-month period.

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received its three-millionth volume on October 12. Instead of the usual single commemorative volume the library was given three hundred 16th century books. All of the books were produced and published by the Estienne family, the great Renaissance printing and publishing dynasty of Paris and Geneva. The gift was made by the Hanes Foundation for the Study of the Origin and Development of the Book. The books were from a collection formed over many years by Fred Schreiber, proprietor of the New York antiquarian book firm of E.K. Schreiber. Among the many notable books in the collection is the first complete edition of Plato (1578), a first edition of John Calvin’s Statutes of the New Academy (1559), and what may have been the first children’s book, Charles Estienne’s Naval Science for the Young (1537). ■■

new choice assistant editor

Helen MacLam

Helen M. MacLam has been appointed assistant editor for social sciences at Choice magazine, effective October 17.

As collection development librarian at Dartmouth College for the past sixteen years, Mac-Lam has been responsible for selection in several social science fields, including anthropology, psychology, and sociology. She has been active in several professional organizations, serving as vice-president of the National Association for Interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies and as an associate editor for their publications.

MacLam received her graduate library degree from the University of Michigan and holds a master’s degree in Afro-American Studies from Boston University. Her undergraduate work was done at Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio, where she majored in sociology with minors in music and psychology.

In 1975 MacLam received a grant to participate in the Research Program for Ethnic Studies Librarianship at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee. Her research on Lemuel Haynes, an eighteenthcentury black New England pastor, has been published.

Choiceis the principal reviewing medium for scholarly materials in the U.S. ■ ■