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Grants and Acquisitions

Hugh Thompson

Cal Poly’s Kennedy Li-brary has received a $4,000 Whitney-Carnegie Award from the American Library Association to publish, index, and microfilm back issues of the ethnic journal Artist and Influence: The Journal of the Archives of Black American Cultural History. The cultural arts publication is illustrated with portraits and includes interviews of well-known artists, musicians, poets, designers, and playwrights. The money was awarded to Paul Adalian, head of the library’s Reference Department, and Susan Duffy, professor of speech communication.

The Center for Research Libraries hasbeen awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities on behalf of the South Asia Microform Project for $220,660 and an additional $39,175 contingent upon receipt of matching funds. The grant will be used for microfilming and cataloging significant early 20th-century Indian monographs in Marathi, Gujarati, Sindhi, Konkani, and English, the major languages of western India.

Texas Tech University's Southwest Collection has received a grant of $105,760 from an anonymous donor to provide for the care, preservation, and availability of the Frank Reeves Photograph Collection and Exhibits, photos and news clippings that document the West Texas ranching industry from the 1920s to the 1970s. The collection contains 16,000 printed photographs, 50,000 unprocessed negatives, and several boxes of news clippings.

The University of California at SantaCruz has received a grant of $75,944 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the microfilming and computer indexing of the Mary Lea Shane Archives of the Lick Observatory, which is housed in the University Library. The archives include journals, copybooks, and correspondence of early directors, astronomers, and others at the observatory from 1875 to 1937, including founder James Lick and others instrumental in planning and constructing the observatory.

Clark University in Massachusetts hasreceived a $106,000 grant from the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation to establish a book preservation facility and model training program for the Worcester Area Cooperating Libraries. Participating libraries include the Colleges of Worcester Consortium Inc., the Worcester Public Library, the Worcester Art Museum, and the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology.

The University of Manitoba Librariesrecently received a grant of $12,744 from the Adaptive Technology for Libraries Program of the National Library of Canada. With matching funds, the university has been able to acquire an optical character recognition scanner and three workstations to provide voice and largeprint access to the libraries’ online catalog.

Virginia Commonwealth University's(VCU) Tompkins-McCaw Library has been awarded a two-year grant of $290,000 from the National Library of Medicine to make available a Drug Information Automated Library throughout the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) Campus of VCU. The drug information resource will consist of MICROMEDEX, commercially available databases, and information developed by the MCV Hospital Drug Information Center.

Wayne State University's African American Educational Archives (AAEA) Initiative has received $310,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to survey 33 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HCBU).

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Benjamin Speller

The survey will be directed by Robert Smith, AAEA project director at Wayne State, and Benjamin Speller, dean of North Carolina Central University’s School of Library and Information Science. The survey will result in a description of HCBU archives and special collections.

Acquisitions

Microfilmed copies of documents relating to the actions of the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War are being acquired by Brandeis University working in cooperation with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. The documents, which are located in the Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of Modern History in Moscow, were shipped to Moscow in 1939 by the military heads of the International Brigade to prevent their capture by Franco’s advancing forces. They range from military orders of the day to private correspondence and shed light not only on the role played by Americans but that of other foreign volunteers in supporting the Spanish Republic.

The collection of the Horatio Alger Society has been acquired by the University Libraries of Northern Illinois University. The Society is comprised of dedicated collectors of the works of the immensely popular Horatio Alger Jr. (1832-1899), who published more than 100 works of fiction which sold in excess of 200 million copies.

More than two million items relatingto gay and lesbian people, their history and culture, from the archives of the ONE Institute will be housed at the University of Southern California Libraries, Los Angeles. The collection includes books, periodicals, pamphlets, photographs, posters, slides, films and videotapes, clothing, and other artifacts. There are also historical documents and artifacts from the women’s suffrage and early gay rights movements, as well as materials about gay and lesbian politicians, writers, artists, musicians, scientists, and other international figures who were prominent in the days when society was far less accepting of lesbians and gays.

The William J. Gaughan Collection hasbeen acquired by the University of Pittsburgh for its Archives of Industrial Society. The collection contains an extensive assortment of documents, photographs, films, architectural drawings, and maps chronicling decades of operation at U.S. Steel’s Homestead Works. It includes more than 22,000 photographic prints and negatives taken of the Homestead plant, its workers, and the workers’ activities in the communities surrounding the plant. Company publications, reports, and internal memos, much of which deals with personnel issues, shed light on employment practices and the workplace culture of both workers and managers.

The University of Waterloo Library,Ontario, has received the archives of the Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain, which played a central role in raising awareness on the acid rain issue and in the passage of the U.S. Clean Air Act in 1990. Included in the collection is a broad variety of documents such as memoranda, letters, research studies, and polls from government agencies, elected officials, public interest groups, and scientific institutions in both the U.S. and Canada.