ACRL College & Research Libraries News

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Grants and Acquisitions

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis has received a $118,000 grant from the National Endowment for Humanities to study the American Turner Society movement. The Turner movement started in the early nineteenth century as part of an effort to reform the German states. After the failed revolutions of 1848, German political refugees brought the Turner ideas with them to America where they organized Turner societies in most major Eastern and Midwestern cities to provide athletic, social and cultural activities in German-American communities. The Turners were active participants in abolitionism, the labor movement, and calls for civil service reform. The American Turners reached their peak before World War I with more than 300 clubs and approximately 40,000 members.

The Claude Moore Health SciencesLibrary of the University of Virginia has been awarded a grant of $39,220 from the Virginia State Library and Archives to develop a citizen health information network. Using computer workstations at three library sites library users of this network will be able to search a database that includes pamphlets, summaries in lay language from professional journals, definitions of medical terms, background information on more than 300 diseases, and phone numbers for hotlines and support groups. The network is expected to be in full operation by September, 1993.