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Grants and Acquisitions

Hugh Thompson

The American Instituteof Physics (AIP) in College Park, Maryland, has received a bequest of approximately $600,000 from the estate of Rose Hutchisson to endow the Rose and Elmer Hutch- isson Fund. Income from the fund will support the AIP’s Center for History of Phys- ics. Elmer Hutchisson, who served as the AIP’s second director (1957-64), spent a lifetime promoting physics and its community.

Chatham College has recently receivedthree grants totaling $537,000: an anonymous foundation grant of $500,000 to fund the college’s strategic plan for educating women in the 21st century; a $22,000 grant from the Council for Independent Colleges to conduct workshops for faculty on service learning as pedagogy; and a $15,000 grant from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. in support of a chromatology teaching station.

Drexel University's College of Information Studies has received a $1.1 million grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to support the development of the Drexel Curriculum for Information and Computing Professionals.

The Library of Congress's Rare Booksand Special Collections Division has received a grant of $45,000 from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation to support a pilot lecture series on “books that mattered to Western citizenship, statecraft, and public policy.” Subject matter will include classics of Western political philosophy and social thought.

Mississippi University for Women hasreceived a grant of $3,797 from the Snowdoun

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Association of Columbus, Mississippi, to restore and re- produce 20 scrapbooks that were compiled between 1865 and 1922 by Edward Turner Sykes, a local Colum- bus attorney, civil war vet- eran, and state senator (1883-88).

University of Missouri-Kansas City librarians Sharyl McMillian-Nelson and Mari- lyn Graubert have been awarded an $8,000 grant to provide library services to visitors with special needs. The three-part program will offer basic library information in English and five other languages, in large-print and braille formats, and through interpreters for international visi- tors. Staff sensitivity training and collection en- hancement will also be supported by the grant.

The University of North Dakota, Grand

Forks, received a library support grant for the third consecutive year from the Canadian Consulate General in Minneapolis and the International Council for Canadian Studies to purchase materials relevant to Canada.

Wayne State University's Library and

Information Science Program has been awarded two grants: $44,000 from the Title IIB Library Education and Human Resource Development Program of the U.S. Department of Education to fund two full-time library and information science graduate fellowships to assist people who plan to work in urban-area libraries; and $53,000 from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to conduct a pilot archival survey of African American oral history sources to develop a plan for a national survey of these materials.

Acquisitions

The works of Total Quality Management(TQM) pioneer J. M. Juran have been acquired by the GMI Engineering & Management Institute in Flint, Michigan. In a farewell retirement address in Detroit, Juran presented both GMI and Wayne State University with autographed copies of his original book on TQM. GMI was one of the earliest educational advocates of teaching TQM, the concept of involving the work force in the problem-solving process, keeping the customer’s interests foremost in business activities, and making improvement of product and service quality the prime goal of both labor and manage- ment.

A collection of mate-rials dating mainly from the 1790s to the 1830s documenting the life of Loyalist James Moore’s family in New Bruns- wick, Canada, has been acquired by the Harriet Irving Library at the Uni- versity of New Bruns- wick. The collection, which includes mostly letters, provides a rare, intimate view of the daily lives of women in 19th-century New Bruns- wick.

Materials documenting life and timesin the turn-of-the-œntury town of Thurber, Texas, have been acquired by the Special Collections Division of the University of Texas at Arlington. The donations from several sources include newspapers, photographs, drawings, correspondence, brochures, and recipes.

Miners in Thurber, Texas, circa 1906. From the University of Texas at Arlington’s Thurber collection.

Thurber, a company town wholly owned by the Texas and Pacific Coal Company, was home to the miners who worked the local coal de- posits and was distinguished by its consider- able ethnic diversity; between 18 and 23 Euro- pean nationalities were reportedly represented in Thurber. A significant feature of the town’s history, which began in 1888, is its labor strife and beginnings of union organization. Thurber was abandoned in the 1920s with the discovery of oil and the beginning of the Depression.

The papers of the Kitchener-Waterloobranch of the Young Men’s Christian Associa- tion have been acquired by the Doris Lewis Rare Book Room at the Li- brary of the University of Waterloo, Ontario. The papers document the history of the local asso- ciation, which was founded in Berlin/ Kitchener in 1895.

A collection of mate-rial on the people living in the remote high mountain valleys of Georgia in Transcaucasia and in Daghestan in the northeastern Caucasus has been acquired by the American Geographical Society Collection of the Golda Meir Library at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The donation is the personal collection of Dr. William O. Field, a prominent figure in the history of the American Geographical Society, and includes books, photographs, glass slides, files, notes, films, and diaries from research spanning over 60 years on the Caucasus Mountains.

The records of the World EvangelicalFellowship (WEF) have been acquired by the Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College in Illinois. The collection documents the development and activities of the WEF since its founding in 1961, as well as activities of Protestant Evangelicals in most regions of the world. The 103 boxes of documents are mainly from the years 1948 to 1986 and include audio- tapes of speeches, seminars, and meetings, and over 100 photographs.