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Grants and Acquisitions

Ann-Christe Young

University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign Library has received a grant of $158,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to support the creation of an electronic database of historical material. Once scanned in, the material—images and texts contributed by local museums, libraries, and archives—will be accessible by the Web to children and their teachers in three local elementary schools.

The Council on Library and Information

Resources (CLIR) has been awarded $300,000 by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The Hewlett Foundation made the grant in response to a proposal from CLIR that outlined its projected initiatives in four program areas: preservation and access, digital libraries, economics of information, and leadership.

The University of South Florida (USF)has received a donation of $3 million from retired attorney A. B. Angle to support the Virtual Library and the Resource Center for Florida History and Politics. The donation could also be matched with a gift from the state. Liz Sismilich, director for library development, said, “Money could go toward purchasing electronic databases and journals. It can also help us digitize materials and place them on the Internet.” Angle had earlier donated $200,000 to the library and has a fourth-floor study room named in his honor.

The New Jersey State Library has awarded554 grants totaling $5,150,872 under its Libraries 2000 Plan. The plan provides for each public library to have at least one Pentium computer with Internet access. Academic libraries also received grants under the plan including the Hub Library program, Integrated Online Library Systems Implementation grant, Implementing 239.50 and WebPac Technology, and the Academic Libraries (VALE) Database Access project. These grants also helped stimulate another $3.5 million in network equipment to the public libraries from Bell Atlantic New Jersey.

Acquisitions

Papers of the late Roy Davis Holt Sr.,a Western author and public education leader, have been acquired by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library of Texas Tech University. The collection includes 31 boxes of recently processed materials on the history of Texas and the West. Holt, who died in 1985, wrote numerous Western articles for publications such as The Cattleman, Sheep and Goat Raiser, True West, and Western Horseman. The collection contains research files used in writing his three books. They include Children Indian Captives, So You Don't Like Texas, and Heap Many Texas Chiefs. The materials include correspondence, literary productions, news clippings and personal files, printed material, teaching files, scrapbook material, and memorabilia.

Acollection of works of Jean-Paul Sartrehas been acquired by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The collection includes the library of tape recordings that John Gerassi amassed during his work on the 1989 biography, fean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His Century. These include tapes of 36 interviews with Sartre prior to the writing of the biography, In addition, the library has acquired several unpub-lished manuscripts that Sartre gave to Gerassi. These include a four-hour lecture on ethics presented by Sartre in 1964 at the Gramsci Institute in Rome; 800 pages of notes for lectures on ethics that Sartre intended to give at Cornell (he can-celled his visit to protest the American bombing of North Vietnam); the uncorrected typescript of a volume on ethics that differs from the published text; and four pages of notes in Sartre’s hand identifying the books he read during various periods in his life. ■

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