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College & Research Libraries News

Grants and Acquisitions

The Annenberg Researchm Institutereceived a $3,000 matching grant from the Preservation Needs Assess- ment Program of the Con- servation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA), a program funded by the William Penn Foundation.

This grant will be used by the institute to preserve rare manuscripts and ephemera through improved storage and handling procedures, as well as through conservation treatment. The Annenberg Research Insti- tute supports post-graduate scholarship in Ju- daic and Near-Eastern Studies.

The Boston Public Library received a $1million grant from the Boston-based Amelia Peabody Charitable Trust. The gift will be used to restore the Grand Entrance Hall of the his- toric Copley Square Library designed by 19th- century architect Charles Folien McKim.

The John Jay Library at Brown Universityhas received a grant of $72,466 from the U.S. Department of Education, Title IIC Program for the first year of a two-year project to catalog 4,000 books, pamphlets, and serials in the H. Adrian Smith Collection of Conjuring and Magicana. Us- ing the card catalog created by Smith, 30% of the titles in the collection were converted by OCLC’s Retrocon Service through the Title IIC grant re- ceived in FY 1990-91. The re- maining titles, estimated to require 95% original catalog- ing, will be cataloged on RUN and loaded into OCLC.

Hood College has receiveda $45,695 grant to extend net- working and resource sharing in the state of Maryland by linking the Hood College Li- brary to the same online sys- tem installed at the University of Maryland. Participation in this shared automated sys- tem will provide users at Hood College with access to the combined catalogs of the University of Maryland Sys- tem libraries as well as other systems such as the Univer- sity of California, the Univer- sity of Hawaii, and North- eastern University.

John Cullinane and Arthur Curley check the progress of restoration to the foyer of the Boston Public Library.

Grants of $273,500 and$40,500 from the Indianapo- lis Foundation have been received by academic libraries in Indianapolis.

The $273,500 grant will be divided among the Indiana University School of Dentistry Library, the Indiana University Law Library, the Indiana University School of Medicine Library, the Indiana University-Purdue Uni- versity Libraries, Marian College Library, and the University of Indianapolis Library to de- velop local resource sharing and cooperative development of in-depth collections in speci- fied areas.

The $40,500 grant will be divided equally among the Indiana University School of Dentistry Library, the Indiana University Law Library, the Indiana Univer- sity School of Medicine Li- brary, the Indiana Univer- sity-Purdue University Li- braries, and the University of Indianapolis Library to purchase a complete Ariel workstation based on an IBM PS/2 386sx with an 80 MB hard disk, a laser printer, a scanner, and furniture. Ariel is a document-delivery sys- tem in which a document is scanned into a computer and transmitted over the Internet producing a product superior to telefacsimile.

The Melville J. HerskovitsLibrary of African Studies at Northwestern University has received a three-year grant from the U.S. Depart- ment of Education’s Center for International Education to increase materials in its holdings. The grant, which totals $40,000 for the first year, will enable the library to enlarge its collection of periodical literature.