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Grants and Acquisitions

Tara Weikum

The University of California at Riverside has received $10,079 from the Librarian’s Association of the University of California to expand and enhance INFOMINE, the library’s Internet Web resource management tool and search engine.

Harvard College Libraryhas been given $1 million dollars to establish a Fund for British Civilization. Donated by an anonymous member of the class of 1947, the money will support the College Library’s collections in the Houghton, Fine Arts, and Widener libraries in the fields of British literature, art, culture, and history.

The Milton S. Eisenhower Library atJohns Hopkins University has been given a half million dollars to create an endowment for purchasing pre-twentieth-century scholarly material. Winifred Claude Gordon bequeathed the money to establish a memorial for her late husband and for her father-in-law. The endowment will enable the library to enlarge its rare book collection.

The Mariners’ Museum has received amatching grant of $145,000 a year from 1996–98 from the Commonwealth of Virginia to create an electronic database of its Research Library’s card catalog and provide computer access to its database. The museum’s Research Library and Archives contain more than 75,000 volumes, including ship’s logs, vessel registries, account books, and diaries. They also consist of materials relating to the Civil War, slave trade, the immigrant experience, and lifesaving.

Eleven Comprehensive Research Libraries of New York State have been awarded a $50,000 planning grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the project “The Making of New York: Past, Present, and Future.” The project will advance the development of a New York State Digital Library. Included in the grant are the libraries of New York University; Columbia University; Syracuse University; The University of Rochester; the State University of New York at Albany, Binghamton, Buffalo, and Stony Brook; the New York State Library; and the New York Public Library. The libraries will work together to digitize New York-related resources.

The University of NorthDakota, Grand Forks, Library has received its sixth consecutive grant from the International Council for Canadian Studies and the Canadian Consulate General in Minneapolis. The grants have allowed the university to purchase more than $30,000 worth of materials relevant to Canadian studies.

The Smithsonian Institution’s HirshhornMuseum and Sculpture Garden has received numerous donations to support an exhibition of Richard Lindner’s works. The German-born artist’s work reflects such influences as advertising, modernism, and street life. The Smithsonian Institution Special Exhibition Fund, Conde Nast Publications, and a number of other foundations are funding the exhibition.

The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries Special Collections Division has received a grant from the A. H. Belo Corporation Foundation to fund the processing of the papers of author and journalist A. C. Greene. Greene worked as a reporter and editor in Texas for many years and has written twenty books that focus on local and regional history.

Wayne State University’s ShiffmanMedical Library has received funding for a model program called “Health Science Information Tools 2000.” Awarded by the American Honda Foundation, the money will fund the program, which was developed in collaboration with the Detroit Public School’s Crockett Career and Technical Center. “Tools 2000” will teach students how to use the Internet to obtain health care information.

The Washington University Librarieshave received a bequest of $4 million from Philip Mills Arnold, an alumnus of the university’s School of Engineering. The money will be used to maintain the Arnold Semeiology

Collection, established in 1966 from Arnold’s contributions, and will support other activities in the Special Collections Department and the University Libraries.

Acquisitions

The letters and documents of AngelicaSchuyler Church have been acquired by the University of Virginia Library, with the aid of an anonymous donor, after having remained in Church’s family for two centuries. Church was well acquainted with the likes of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, and moved in the same social circles with many other prominent figures of the time. The collection will add to the recorded history of the private lives of leading figures in the early republic.

A major collection of materials relatingto books printed in the 20th century has been given to the University of North Dakota’s Chester Fritz Library. The acquisition includes materials published in history, politics, and foreign affairs, and was given by Donald Augustin, an alumnus of the university. The collection will serve as the base for the library’s goal to expand its holdings to two million, after recently achieving the one million mark.

More than 2,500 reels of microfilm ofselected archives of the Soviet Communist Party and the Soviet State have been acquired by the Library of Congress. The microfilms are part of a joint project by the Hoover Institution and the Russian State Archives Service of the Government of the Russian Federation to make available records of the highest policy-making members of the Soviet regime. The microfilms are also available for research at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the Novosibirsk Regional State Archives, the State Archives of the Russian Federation, the Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Most Recent History, and the Center for Preservation of Contemporary Documentation.

Two lithographs by 19th-century lithographer Jules Lion and two prints by contemporary artist Richard Howard Hunt have been acquired by the Amistad Research Center of Tulane University. It is believed that Lion introduced the daguerreotype as an art form to New Orleans in the 1840s. Hunt is a Chicago-based sculptor and his work has been widely exhibited at places such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Guggenheim, and the Museum of Modem Art.

A collection of rare music manuscriptsvalued at more than $10,000 has been acquired by the University of South Florida Library. The collection includes an 1823 leatherbound set of concert music sheets autographed by the composers and performers, a 1730 hand-printed Breviary, a 1480 clothbound book of Gregorian chants, and a manual for making Carillon bells.

The papers of José Salazar Ilarregui, aformer Imperial Commissioner for Yucatan while Mexico was under the rule of Ferdinand Maximilian von Habsburg, are now open for research at the Special Collections Division at the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. The collection includes four boxes of papers dating from 1823-98 and portray a chaotic and rarely seen era of Mexico’s history. After the fall of Maximilian, Salazar was exiled to New York, but he later received amnesty from the Mexican government to teach, which he continued to do until his death in 1892.

The papers of James S. Flansburg, areporter with the Des Moines Register since 1957, have been given to the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections Department. The collection includes subject files, reporter’s notebooks, column drafts, and other papers from Flansburg’s career at the Register as a political writer and editorial page editor. ■

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