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College & Research Libraries News

Acquisitions

The library of Fr. Louis P. Giorgi, a formerprofessor at Cabrini College, Pennsylvania, has been acquired by the college’s Holy Spirit Library. The collection of 3,802 volumes covers philosophy, religion, art, archeology, astronomy, travel, and the history of man and civilizations. Fr. Giorgi was ordained in 1949 and served as associate pastor at St. Donato and St. Cosmos and Damian. He was pastor of St. Justin Martyr in Pennsylvania, a church he helped build and for which he designed, with three artists, the stained glass windows.

The Arena Stage collection, consisting ofthousands of documents from the Washington, D. C., theater’s first 40 seasons, 1950-51 through 1990-91, has been acquired by the Harvard Theatre Collection of the Harvard University Library. In addition to comprehensive materials from 325 productions staged at Arena, the archives include such theatrical treasures as handwritten notes from playwright Thornton Wilder concerning the staging of The Skin of Our Teeth and from actor Ned Beatty requesting an audition in his early career. The collection will offer an invaluable and unparalleled opportunity for researchers to track how this country’s resident theaters have survived and thrived, by studying the extensive records of an institution at the forefront of the movement.

The archives of Nobel Prize-winning SouthAfrican novelist and short-story writer Nadine Gordimer have been acquired by Indiana University’s Lilly Library, Bloomington. Gordimer, author of Fridays Footprints and Other Stories, Lifetimes Under Apartheid, My Son’s Story, Crimes of Conscience, and Something Out There, is a major world literary figure noted for her sensitive pictures of how the political turbulence in her native country has affected the lives of its people. The collection includes manuscripts of her novels and stories; notebooks in which she recorded her research for her books; television scripts based on her stories, speeches, articles, and papers; and about 4,0 received letters from 1949 to 1976, along with copies of her own letters for that period.

The Joseph Papp/New York ShakespeareFesitval Archives have been acquired by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. This collection, which provides a history of the New York Shakespeare Festival from its inception in 1954, includes the personal papers of Joseph Papp (1921-1991), founder of the fesitval. Under Papp’s leadership, the festival became the premiere producing agency of the post-war American theater. The archives, a joint gift from Papp’s widow Gail Merrifield Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival, will be housed in the library’s Billy Rose Theatre Collection located at Lincoln Center.

Japan’s Chubu University has presented Ohio Universitywith a Japanese library collection which includes 500 books and videos, subscriptions to five Japanese newspapers and 20 journals, and at least 100 additional videos and books yearly. Chubu will also provide a professional librarian for three to six months a year to assist in processing the Japanese materials. The acquisition commemorates 20 years of cooperation between the two institutions. ■