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Grants and Acquisitions

The Library of Michigan(LM) Foundation has received a $305,000 gift from Lansing’s Talbert and Leota Abrams Foundation to fund acquisi- tions that will increase the size and breadth of LM’s genea- logical materials collection. The new grant brings total gifts by the Abrams Founda- tion to LM since 1987 to more than $500,000. According to state librarian James Fry, the gift should move the national ranking of LM’s collection from its present number 10 “to one of the top five of all American libraries.”

The New York Public Librarys OrientalDivision received a gift of $1.3 million from Japanese publisher Kodansha, Ltd. to expand and increase access to the collections. One of the foremost resources for Asian, Indian, and Middle Eastern studies, the Oriental Division houses nearly 300,000 books, journals, and other materials. Kodansha’s gift will enable the division to continue collecting and preserving a broad spectrum of materials, and to improve public access to its resources by renovating its reading room.

The Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL)received $37,500 from the James Smithson Society for a one-year pilot program to establish a post-graduate residency for minorities in library and information science. The residency will improve SILs effectiveness in responding to culturally diverse programs, to increase the number of minorities on its staff, and to enhance the career potential of minority members of the library profession.

The School of Information and LibraryScience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been awarded a total of $169,600 by the Department of Education under the Library Career Training Program (Title ITB). These funds will provide fellowships for two master’s degree students and ten doctoral students entering the school in the fall of 1992.

York University Libraries, Ontario, havereceived a grant of $22,235 from the Ontario Council of Archives for a Humidity Control Replace- ment Program. The grant was awarded under the Conservation Plan for Ca- nadian Archival Records- Cost Shared Cooperative As- sistance Programme and will support acquisition and instal- lation of new air supply units.

The Libraries of the Uni-versity of Washington (UW) and the University of Or- egon (UO) have been awarded grants of $135,000 and $65,000 re- spectively from the Henry Luce Foundation to support further library development in the field of Southeast Asian Studies. The Southeast Asian Studies Programs at the two universities, to- gether with the program at the University of British Columbia, make up the Northwest Re- gional Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies. At UO the funds will be used to support acqui- sitions activities and to strengthen vernacular cataloging capabilities. The UW will use the money primarily for cataloging activities.

In addition, the Foundation has made avail- able another $80,000 to the two programs: $30,000 for each institution for research assis- tantships, and $20,000 to be jointly allocated as small grants to support predissertation re- search and travel.