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Grants

Hugh Thompson

The Art Institute of Chi- cago’s Ryerson and Burn- ham Libraries have been awarded $750,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Founda- tion. The funds, which are part expendable and part to be matched for endowment, will be used to enhance con- trol over the existing collec- tion and to increase access to outside electronic infor- mation resources. The two li- braries together form the sec- ond-largest art museum library in the country, with strengths in archi- tecture, decorative arts, and French art.

An association of five Los Angeles university and college libraries has received a joint grant of $155,000 from the W. M. Keck Foundation. The funds will be used to install a high- quality electronic telecommunication system to share journal articles vital to research in engineering and science. The network will link the libraries at the Claremont Colleges, Occidental College, the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, Los Angeles, and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. The participating libraries will acquire microcomputer workstations equipped with scanners, laser printers, and Ariel software, and connect them to the Internet.

Harvard University’s Harvard-Yenching library has been awarded a grant of $53,500 by the Department of Education’s Foreign Periodicals Program. The grant will allow the library to acquire microfilm copies of the backfiles of 15 provincial newspapers published in the People’s Republic of China from the early 1950s to the mid-1980s and the microfilm backfiles of other newspapers published in South Korea, North Korea, and Japan. Acquiring these materials will fill major gaps in the library’s holdings of East Asian newspapers and periodicals.

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Ottenheimer Library was awarded $375,000 by the National Endowment for the Humanities to strengthen its humanities collections. In addition, $125,000 was awarded by the Jonsson Foundation and $7,500 by the Trinity

Foundation to assist li- brary technological develop- ment.

The University of Cal- gary’s history librarian, Nora D. S. Robins, is the recipient of two Social Science and Humanities Research Coun- cil of Canada Support to Spe- cialized Collections grants. A supplemental grant of $12,000 was awarded for the acquisition of material for the military/diplomatic history collection, which had received $20,000 in 1992- 93- The major acquisition will be War Time Translations of Seized Japanese Documents (2,212 microfiche). The second grant was for $2,500 toward the acquisition of material in Mexican history.

Professor Ray Larson at the University of

California, Berkeley’s (UCB) School of Library and Information Studies has received a $117,770 Title IIB grant from the U.S. Department of Education for the first year of the CHESHIRE Demonstration and Evaluation Project. The CHESHIRE system, an experimental online catalog developed by Larson, will be implemented in UCB’s Astronomy-Mathematics-Statistics Library. It will deploy the next-generation system of advanced information-retrieval techniques in a working library environment and evaluate its use and acceptance by local library patrons and remote network users.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign’s Mortenson Center for International Library Programs has received a $180,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a training and professional development program for Central American academic and research librarians. The grant will allow the center to bring up to 10 librarians from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua to the university library. Three to five librarians will be selected for the first year of the two-year program and will arrive at the university in May 1994.

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The University of Saskatchewan Libraries, Saskatoon, Canada, have received a grant of $16,000 from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in support of their agricultural collection. The award will be used to purchase the Food and Agricultural Organization documents collection in full- text microfiche from 1988 to the present.