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Grants and Acquisitions

Hugh Thompson

Albion College in Michigan, has received a grant of $75,000 from the Detroitbased McGregor Fund, which supports programs in health care, education and human services, and the arts and humanities. The grant will be used to add thousands of records to Albion’s Stockwell-Mudd Libraries’ computerized catalog and improve access to many national information databases.

Harvard College has received a grant of $52,834 from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to implement a preservation program for more than 3,000 daguerreotypes dating from the 1840s and 1850s, housed at 14 repositories throughout the university. The program will improve accessibility to the images by providing consistent bibliographic descriptions of the collections, and by creating surrogate images of many of the items for research use.

Indiana University's School of Library and Information Science was approved for funding of a three-year Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need project. The award in the amount of $358,395 will be used to fund six Ph.D. fellows in information science.

The University at Albany, SUNY, University Libraries and Computing Center have received a three-year grant of $610,000 from the New York State Department of Transportation to fund a program of computing and information literacy education and workforce preparation. The Information Transport Program will provide computing and information management skills, education, and internship opportunities to a selected group of Albany high school students. The goal is to prepare minority students and women for the challenges of the automated work environment in the transportation and construction industries.

The University Libraries have also received a $50,000 bequest from the estate of the late Evelyn M. Tarplee, class of 1932, to establish the Evelyn M. Tarplee Library Technology Progress Fund. A retired school principal,

Tarplee had been an active supporter of the libraries. As the endowment grows, proceeds will be used to purchase hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment to provide better access to library resources and services.

The University of Maryland at College Park Libraries has received a grant of $531,095 from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Division of Preservation and Access to support preservation of the comprehensive Gordon W. Prange Collection of Japanese publications dating from 1945 to 1949, featuring some 1.7 million items including books, pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, news dispatches, photographs, and other materials.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) has received a donation of $1 million from International Game Technology (IGT) to establish the IGT Library, featuring the Gary Royer Gaming Collection, in the UNLV Gaming Institute. The funds will be used to purchase a unique collection of gaming-related materials compiled by Gary Royer, a Reno CPA and author of numerous books on gaming.

The University of South Florida's (USF) Tampa Campus Library has received $20,000 from the MCI Foundation to enhance its technology initiatives and promote its access via the information highway. The grant will enable the USF library to purchase equipment, including electronic scanners and other communication technology, to expand and enhance the library homepage on the World Wide Web.

The university has also received a three-year $702,000 grant from GTE as part of “USF/GTE Outreach 2000: A Partnership for Education, Technology and Economic Development.” Outreach 2000 is designed to increase technological capabilities of the school’s libraries, provide more scholarships for minority students, and support regional economic development.

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Vanderbilt University's Eskind Biomedical Library has been awarded a grant from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine for an AIDS information outreach project. The objectives of the project are to increase the dissemination of AIDS-related information in the target Middle Tennessee geographic area, and to increase awareness of the online information sources developed by the National Library of Medicine.

Virginia Commonwealth University's Tompkins-McGaw Library has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine/Southeastem-Atlantic Region to make HIV/AIDS electronic resources available to information and health care professionals in the Richmond, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., areas.

Acquisitions

The papers of Jane Jacobs, a nationally known urbanologist and architectural critic, have been donated by Jacobs to the John J. Burns Library of Rare Books and Special Collections at Boston College. The collection includes a number of media, including a film about her work, newspaper and magazine clippings, manuscripts, awards, letters, correspondence, and photographs. A noted preservationist, Jacobs played a major role in stopping the government practice of tearing down old, closeknit neighborhoods and replacing them with what she considered to be architecturally sterile housing projects.

The historical records of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) have been placed with the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University Libraries. The collection, consisting of more than 700 cubic feet of manuscripts, photographs, audiotapes, and videotapes focusing on the CWA and its predecessor union, the National Federation of Telephone Workers (1938–1947), is a significant resource for the study of communications unionism.

A rare map collection of international significance has been acquired by the Golda Meir Library at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. All are original works dating from 1482 to the late 1800s. The collection contains 177 sheet maps and seven rare books, including a 1536 edition of the first-ever atlas of Israel. Many of the maps have fine hand-coloring and gold illumination. A particular rarity is a 1695 Hebrew map by Abraham Ben Yaaqov. There are also maps in English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, and Latin.

The philosophical library of Arthur Aston Luce (1882–1977), a fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, has been acquired by the Special Collections Department at the University Libraries of Notre Dame. Most of the collection consists of works by or about George Berkeley (1685-1753), a philosopher who also attended Trinity. Luce wrote many books and articles about Berkeley’s thought, as well as the definitive biography of him. Included are a number of early editions of Berkeley’s books and annotated personal working copies used by Luce.

The extensive vocal music collection of James Browning, former chief opera critic for Music Journal magazine and former executive secretary for the National Association of Teachers of Singing, has been acquired by the State University of New York at Buffalo’s Music Library. The collection includes hundreds of LPs, audiocassette recordings, and videotapes, including over 300 complete operas and many rarely heard productions.

The personal papers and recordings of Mark Hindsley, the second conductor of the University of Illinois’ world-famous Concert Band, have been acquired by the John Philip Sousa American Band Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Hindsley was the creator of more than 70 transcriptions of orchestral music for bands. The collection includes scrapbooks, recordings, more than 200 books, hundreds of photographs, and correspondence documenting Hindsley’s career and the history of American bands and conductors over a 60-year period.

A large collection of financial and business records from the Nash Finch Company, the nation’s third largest food wholesaler, has been acquired by the Department of Archives and Special Collections at the University of North Dakota Libraries. The collection includes 56 linear feet of records dating from 1894 to 1989, the majority of which date from 1919 to 1960, as well as pictures and other memorabilia that chronicle the development of one of the nation’s foremost Fortune 500 companies.

The papers of the George Wilkins Kendall family are now available for research at the Special Collections Division of the University of Texas at Arlington. Kendall (1809–1867) was a writer, war correspondent, and rancher on the Texas frontier. The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, books, and artifacts, including Kendall’s correspondence with the New Orleans Picayune‚ which he cofounded, with news from the front lines of the Mexican War, his views on Texas annexation, and descriptions of European events from Paris during the late 1840s. Letters to his wife during the 1850s describe daily life of the time.

The Adèle Goodman Clark papers have been made available for research by the Cabell Library’s Special Collections and Archives at Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries. Clark (1882–1983) was a prominent figure in the Richmond and Virginia political and arts communities and is especially known for her involvement in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. The collection contains Clark’s personal papers, as well as the records of organizations with which Clark was actively associated during her lifetime, including the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia (later the Virginia League of Women Voters), Work Projects Administration Arts Project for Virginia, Richmond Diocese of the Catholic Church, and other organizations which focused on education, race relations, and labor.

Beschreibung des Gelobten Landes Canaan,by Heinrich Bunting, a rare 1581 woodcut map from the Middle East Map Collection at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Photo credit: Bill Herrick, UWM Photo Services