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News from the Field

ACQUISITIONS

• Bowling Green State University’s Library and Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green, Ohio, was recently presented an extensive Ray Bradbury collection by jwilliam F. Nolan, author of the Logan series of science fiction novels. Believed to be the most complete collection of Bradbury books, manuscripts, periodicals, pamphlets, records, and memorabilia, it was gathered by Nolan, a close friend of Bradbury, over a period of 37 years. Nolan chose Bowling Green as the recipient of his collection because of the university’s reputation as a center for the stuey of popular culture in the United States.

• The State University of New York-Stony Brook Library has been given the public papers, manuscripts, and memorabilia of Senator Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.). The materials will be housed in the library’s Department of Special Collections. Two to five years of cataloging work will be required before the vast collection, housed in over 1,300 cartons one cubic foot in size, can be made available to scholars. The materials include legislative bills sponsored by Javits, extensive correspondence with international leaders, manuscripts, plaques, scrolls, photographs, tapes, and films.

• Temple University’sCentral Library System, Philadelphia, has acquired the archives of the magazine Seven Days as part of its Contemporary Culture Collection. Seven Days first appeared in 1975 and was considered the successor of Ramparts. The leading name on the editorial board was David Dellinger, one of the defendents in the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. The collection includes office files, correspondence, editorial files, published materials, and a selection of Dellinger’s papers as they relate to Seven Days.

• The University of Massachusetts-Boston Library has acquired over 1,000 volumes from the collection of the late Professor Howard Mumford Jones. Donated by Mrs. Bessie Jones, the collection reflects Jones’ wide interests in American and European civilization. Included are many first editions of novels by Willa Cather, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Meyer Levin, Sinclair Lewis, John Steinbeck, and Thomas Wolfe.

GRANTS

• Thirty grants to major research libraries were awarded by the Department of Education in fiscal year 1981 under Title II-C of the Higher Education Act. Some of them were:

Indiana University,Bloomington—$145,000 to catalog the microform set English and American Plays of the 19th Century.

Iowa State University,Ames—$127,975 to both preserve and provide access to the American Archives of the Factual Film.

Newberry Library,Chicago—$131,658 to replace and preserve rare materials on British history and family history, reference works and scholarly journals.

Stanford University,California—$209,013 to catalog the microform set, Early American Imprints 1801-1819.

University of Hawaii,Honolulu—$150,000 to undertake the retrospective conversion of the Pacific Collection into OCLC.

Yale University,New Haven—$228,000 to support the organization, preservation, and automated cataloging of the manuscript and Latin American collections.

• The Cheney State College Leslie Pinckney Hill Library, Cheney, Pennsylvania, has received a grant of $9,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to plan an exhibit of early black newspapers. The exhibit will demonstrate the importance of the black press in articulating the Afro-American experience.

• Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, has been awarded LSCA Title I funds in the amount of $98,048 to develop an Illinois Cooperative Conservation Program. The program will make use of the existing cooperative mechanisms of the Illinois Library and Information Network (ILLINET) and the 18 Illinois Library Systems to channel basic conservation information and assistance to over 1,200 libraries in Illinois. It will address both the conservation needs of rare or local history materials as well as the maintenance and repair of general circulating collections and the proper care and use of audio-visual materials. Components of the program include an information service, workshops, publication of a newsletter, distribution of training materials, and coordination of conservation activities such as disaster preparedness and access to fumigation services. For more information contact ICCP Project Director Carolyn Clark Morrow, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901.

• The University of Kansas Libraries’ Kansas Collection, Lawrence, has been awarded a National Historical Publications and Records Commission grant of $21,000, pending funds available for 1982, to process and preserve the J. B. Watkins papers. Watkins was a 19th century business entrepreneur in Lawrence who operated a land mortgage company. The Kansas Collection has also received $8,813 from the Kansas Committee for the Humanities to prepare a traveling exhibit on women school teachers in Kansas.

• The University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, has been awarded a national resources center grant of $105,000 by the Office of Education to support and develop its West European Area Studies curriculum. In 1981-82 the funds will be used primarily to conduct a survey of the libraries’ statistical collections. During the second year a national symposium for West European specialists will be held in Minneapolis in May, 1983.

NEWS NOTES

• The New York Public Library, in conjunction with the American Trust for the British Library, has begun a project to microfilm nearly 6,000 books destroyed in the London Blitz of World War II. After the project is completed in five years, most of the lost American titles that were lost will be once again available to the British Library. Photocopies of catalog entries for books missing from the library’s shelves for decades will enable the New York Public Library staff to determine what can be replaced by microfilming from its own holdings.

• The University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of California, Berkeley have become the 24th and 25th general members of the rapidly expanding Research Libraries Group headquartered in Stanford, California. RLG’s general programs cover preservation, collection development and management, resource sharing, and automated technical processing via an integrated acquisitions/cataloging system (RLIN).