ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

Grants and Acquisitions

The Wayne State Uni- versityLibrary and Informa- tion Science Program has re- ceived three Library Training Grants from the U.S. Depart- ment of Education. The grant will fund five full-time library and information sci- ence graduate fellowships. Three fellowships will be used to prepare individuals as school library media spe- cialists to work in urban school settings. One fellow- ship will prepare a technical sçrvices specialist. And one fellowship will be used to prepare for specialization in science information service within a research library setting. The fellowships provide tuition, fees, books, and a stipend for one year.

The Southern Illinois University at Carbondalereceived a $10,000 grant from The Friends of Morris Library to acquire new technology. The funds will be used to purchase Masterplots II CD-ROM, a database of essays conveying theme, style, plot, and characters of more than 2,900 works of literature, and Multi- media Encyclopedia of Mammalian Biology, a multimedia encyclopedia with full motion video sequences, clear animal sounds, and more than 4,000 high resolution photographs and maps of mammalian life. The grant will also be used to purchase three CD-ROM computer workstations, one for each of the products listed above and a third for the Oxford English Dictionary.

The University Libraries of the University at Albany,State University of New York, have received a 1992-93 Library Support Grant from The Japan Foundation. The grant consists of 97 English-language books, valued at $4,400, to support the University’s new academic program in Japanese studies. The books cover Japanese history, geography, political science, economics and business, sociology, education, philosophy, religion, arts, and languages and literature.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hillhas received a $170,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to preserve fragile historic papers of key Southern leaders and make them more accessible to scholars. UNC-CH will use the grant to describe, arrange, catalog, and microfilm documents dealing with fundamental el- ements of the South’s devel- opment into a commercial, industrial, and modern re- gion. Papers in the project include those of New South promoter and Charlotte in- dustrialist Daniel Augustus Tompkins; Populist vice presidential candidate Marion Butler; Girl Scouts of America founder Juliette Gordon Low; and U.S. Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina. The project, expected to take about two years to finish, will involve 1.25 million items totalling about 4 million pages.

The Research Libraries Group has received a $62,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to begin developing a national database on RLIN of information about primary materials in American literature—correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, and ephemera—often critical to research but difficult for impossible to locate. This one-year pilot project, Research Resources in American Literature (RRAL), began on March 1, 1993, and involves four RLG members: the Beinecke Library at Yale University, the Dartmouth College Library, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Houghton Library at Harvard College, where RRAL project’s editorial office is located. The four participants will identify research materials relating to an initial list of 125 American authors and develop methodologies to survey, describe, and catalog them in RLIN.

Augustana College's Mikkelsen Libraryhas received a $8,550 grant from the Mary Chilton DAR Foundation to be used to purchase computer equipment and a CD-ROM subscription to A merica: History and Life a comprehensive index to books and journal articles about American history and culture.

The Library of Congress has received a$75,000 grant from the Margaret Thatcher Foundation to support a training program this summer for 10 Russian librarians at the Library of Congress and selected local libraries throughout the United States.