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Grants and Acquisitions

Brown Universitys JohnHay Library has received a $72,466 Title-IIC grant from the U. S. Department of Edu- cation for a two-year project to provide original cataloging for 4,000 books, pamphlets, and serials in the H. Adrian Smith Collection of Conjuring and Magicana. The Smith col- lection covers the art, theory, and history of magic as a per- formance art and includes a copy of the second edition of Hocus Pocus Junior (London, 1635) signed on the title page “Harry Houdini, London, Jan 4/1904, The Jail Breaker.”

Northern Illinois University (NIU) hasbeen awarded $2,475 from the Cooperative Collection Management Coordinating Committee of the State Library of Illinois for the acquisition of the San Francisco Bay Area Gay and Lesbian Serials microfilm collection—almost all of the major lesbian and gay publications produced in Northern California between 1950 and 1990 as well as a significant number of lesser- known and short-run journals. The gay press collection already housed at Northern emphasizes both the regional press of the Midwest and the newspapers of record from cities with substantial homosexual communities. According to NIU, this acquisition will create the largest single microfilm collection of this genre at any research library in the United States. The collection presently includes titles from Canada, England, and France as well as the United States. The NIU collection began in 1982 as a project to create an index to The ADVOCATE under the direction of Robert B. Marks Ridinger.

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, has received a continuation grant of $125,000 in outright funds and $108,658 in matching funds from the National Endowment of the Humanities. The grant supports the U.S. Center of the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC) for an additional two years. The LIMC is an international project of nearly 40 countries to publish a pictorial dictionary of classical mythology. The U.S. Center is located in Alexander Library on the Rutgers Campus.

The University of Califor- nia, Irvine’sEast Asian Collection recently re- ceived two grants from Japanese sources. For the second consecutive year, the Japan Foundation ap- proved a two million yen ($16,000) grant to support the library’s Japanese acqui- sitions program. A $10,000 grant was also provided by Toshiba International, To- kyo (with the assistance of the Irvine-based Toshiba America Electronic Components), to aid in col- lection development.

The University of Manitoba Libraries received three grants from the Canadian Council of Archives (CCA): $8,310 will be used to process papers of Manitoba playwright and screenwriter Maxwell Charles Cohen; $4,800 will process records of the university’s now-defunct Centre for Settlement Studies; and $20,000 is for preservation microfilming of archival records.