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Grants and Acquisitions

Hugh Thompson

The American Theologi- cal Library Association has been awarded $150,000 by the Lilly Endowment, Inc., in support of a project for the preservation of 300 periodi- cals, 1875–1950. This grant will be supplemented by an equal amount as the federal matching portion of a 1993– 1995 National Endowment for the Humanities grant of $482,986 also supporting the project.

The California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego Campus, has been awarded a $25,000 National Science Foundation grant for Internet connection. The grant covers purchase and installation of hardware, maintenance, and connection. Internet access will be available for the resources at the Research and Training Center on Mental Health for Persons Who Are Hard-of-Hearing or Late Deafened.

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has been awarded a grant of $225,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on behalf of the Latin American Microform Project, to produce a research tool for Latin American scholars, historians, and political scientists. During the one-year project, a contractor will be employed to digitize from microfilm held at CRL a core set of executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil’s national and provincial governments from independence to 1990. The project will provide bibliographic access to the electronic versions of the titles, and electronic indexing to the contents of the documents.

The Indiana School of Medicine's Ruth Lilly Medical Library has received an award of $145,500 from the Indianapolis Foundation to provide 30 simultaneous dial access uses of the medical library’s health databases: MEDLINE, Cancerlit, Cumu- lative Index to Nursing and Allied Health, and Health Planning and Administration. The information will be available to the medical pro- fession throughout the state, including rural areas.

Louisiana State Univer- sity has been awarded a to- tal of $470,000 by the Louisiana Board of Regents to fund two projects: the addition of Phase III libraries to the LOUIS network and the development of an engineer- ing component for network access. Funds for the Phase III academic libraries will be used for data conversion. In the second project, Compendex (Engineering Index) and Inspec (Science Abstracts databases) will be loaded on InfoShare, a module of the NOTIS System, and made accessible to the state’s engineering schools.

Ohio State University has received a gift of $50,000 from the Universal Press Syndicate and Companies through its Andrews and McMeel Foundation to sponsor the 1995 Festival of Cartoon Art. The triennial festival is hosted by the university’s Cartoon, Graphic, and Photographic Arts Research Library, the nation’s largest cartoon-related academic library. The theme of the upcoming festival is the American newspaper comic strip in honor of the centennial of the first publication of the Yellow Kid in 1895.

The University of Florida, Gainesville, has received a grant of $140,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to provide worldwide electronic access to two historic Caribbean newspapers—Haiti’s Le nouvelliste and Cuba’s Diario de la marina—including many older issues that can no longer be found on the islands. Indexes and abstracts of the newspapers will be available on the Internet from the George A. Smathers Libraries in 1995. The Mellon Foundation project establishes an electronic network to support Latin American studies, a discipline which has had insufficient access to research materials published outside the United States.

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Acquisitions

More than 10,000 broadcast-quality audio recordings of vintage radio news and entertainment programming from the 1920s to 1961, spanning the “golden age of radio,” have been acquired by American University’s Bender Library. Donated by Washington, D.C., radio historian and WAMU-FM on-air personality John R. Hickman, the collection includes reel-to-reel tapes, metal and vinyl discs, electronic transcriptions from studio masters, and books. Included are episodes from most major radio series of the era, such as Amos ‘n’ Andy, Fibber McGee and Molly, and The Jack Benny Program. Historic radio news broadcasts include the first live remote of Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 return to the U.S., the Hindenburg crash, and Edward R. Murrow’s wartime reports from London.

A collection of more than 7,000 maps of the former Soviet Union has been acquired by the University of Alberta Library, Edmonton.

The sheets include topographical series dating from the inter-war period in 1:50,000,1:100,000, and 1:200,000 scales, as well as other topographical maps dating from the late 19th century to the end of World War II.

A gift of 3,000 books of Russian literature in English has been received by the University of California, Irvine, Library from Ellendea Proffer, proprietor of Ardis Publishers. The gift includes a first edition of Pushkin’s poem Poltava‚ as well as an assortment of other rare books. Ardis Publishers is the largest publisher of Russian literature in the original and in English translation outside the Soviet Union.

The Barry Broadfoot Collection is now available in the University of Manitoba Libraries’ Department of Archives and Special Collections. Barry S. Broadfoot is a well-known Canadian journalist and author. After a career in journalism from 1955 to 1972, he began publishing books on Canadian history based on his extensive oral history interviews with ordinary Canadians. The collection contains contracts, manuscripts, correspondence, and reviews of Broadfoot’s books. Also included are two unpublished manuscripts, essays, articles, newspaper clippings, and journals.