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Acquisitions

The naval history collection of Robert N.

Sheridan of Ronkonkoma, New York, has been acquired by the College of Charleston’s Robert Scott Small Library in South Carolina. Comprised of more than 6,000 monographs, journals, encyclopedias, and bibliographies, the donation is focused on naval history in the 20th century, but also contains works on maritime history, shipbuilding, foreign policy, and military history. The bulk of the collection is comprised of British and American works including major runs of leading serials like Brassey’s Naval Annual, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, and Jane’s Fighting Ships.

The library of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel

laureate in literature, has been acquired by the Judaica Collections at the Florida Atlantic University Libraries, Boca Raton. The collection includes copies of Singer’s books translated into a wide variety of languages. The acquisition also includes Singer’s desk and office furniture. The desk, which comes from Singer’s New York apartment, is the one at which all of his major novels were written.

The papers of Atlanta human and civil

rights activist Frances Freeborn Pauley have been acquired by the Robert W. Woodruff Library of Emory University, Atlanta. Pauley’s papers include correspondence, diaries, organizational records, clippings, and memorabilia from her years as a resident of DeKalb County. During the depression Pauley became a social activist, doing volunteer work for her church- sponsored clinic and developing a program to provide hot lunches to all DeKalb County schools. In the 1940s she became active in the DeKalb County League of Women Voters and in the late 1950s helped establish biracial discussion groups with the Fund for Adult Education. From 1968-73, she worked for the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The papers date from 1919 to 1992.

The personal and professional archives

of Leonard Bernstein have been acquired by the Library of Congress. The archives include more than 200 hours of film and video programs and 1,000 hours of recorded sound. The collection also comprises unpublished musical sketches and lyrics, lecture manuscripts, programs, business records, photographs, and personal papers including correspondence with major figures in the world of arts and letters. These materials will join others that Bernstein donated to the library during his lifetime. The library will work with the Bernstein family foundation, Springate, to convert significant portions of the collection to a digital format for the widest possible availability. The archives will be housed in the Music and Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound divisions of the library.

The Robert Creeley Archive has been acquired by the Libraries of Stanford University, marking the university’s six-millionth acquisition. Robert Creeley is a major presence in contemporary American arts and letters, and his archive is one of the largest and richest in the second half of this century. Known mainly as a poet, Creeley has published 30 volumes of verse since 1952, and his poetic works are now available in Collected (1982) as well as Selected (1991) editions from the University of California Press. The archive features Creeley’s working papers, notebooks, typescripts, and other materials underlying his career as poet, critic, editor, and artistic collaborator. Also included are some 20,000 personal letters, including correspondence with writers such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams.

The papers, books, and correspondence

of science fiction author, editor, screenwriter, and producer George R. R. Martin have been acquired by the Special Collections, Manuscripts, and Archives Department of the Sterling C. Evans Library at Texas A&M University, College Station. The collection contains all the first editions of Martin’s books as well as nearly all known subsequent editions, reprints, and translations. Numerous drafts, scripts, producer’s notebooks, and videotapes are also included from Martin’s work on the new Twilight Zone, the TV series Beauty and the Beast, and other projects. The Sterling C. Evans Library is home to one of the largest institutional collections of science fiction materials in the country.

Over 1,090 reels of the National Diet

Library Meiji Era Books Microfilm Collection have been acquired by the University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries’ East Asiatic Library. The microfilm contains religious and literature holdings covering Buddhism, Japanese literature, novels of the Edo period, modern Japanese novels, and essays and diaries. Like the Library of Congress, the National Diet Library is charged with maintaining a comprehensive collection of materials published in Japan. The library holds the most complete collection of materials published during the Meiji Era, a time of tremendous literary creativity and scholarly productivity, and central to the modernization of Japan.