ACRL College & Research Libraries News

College & Research Libraries News

News from the Field

ACQUISITIONS

• Case Western Reserve University’sKulas Music Library, Cleveland, has been selected as a full depository for recordings of Radio Canada International by the Canadian government. An initial deposit of 740 LP recordings of music and the spoken word in French, English, and Spanish have been recieved. Some of the items included are Canadian history and affairs, a social documentary on UFOs, fundamental environmental issues from the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, criminology, Sigmund Freud, King Tut. children’s programs, theater, and arts broadcasts. Musical recordings also include non-Canadian music by Canadian performers and represent folk, jazz, pop, classical, and sacred.

•The National Library of Canada. Ottawa, has acquired a large collection of books, papers, and artifacts from Percival Price, the renowned authority on campanology (the art of bell-ringing) and from 1927 to 1939 the first Dominion carillonneur. The collection includes photographs, drawings and design plans of bells and bell towers around the world, sound recordings, recital programs, maps, posters, brass rubbings, and plaster casts. It also features some two dozen small bells, including a rare early Japanese temple bell and several examples of Chinese wooden bells. About onethird of the collection is directly related to Canadian carillons and carillonneurs.

•Saint Josephs University’sDrexel Library, Philadelphia, has received a substantial collection of material pertaining to the work of Martin I.J. Griffin (1842-1911), a leading figure in Philadelphia Catholic historiography and the founder of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia. The material consists of several thousand pieces of correspondence, scrapbooks, pamphlets, and a complete set of the American Catholic Historical Researches, which Griffin edited.

•The University of California, Los Angeles, has received an important addition to its holdings on Japanese-American studies in the Department of Special Collections with the donation of the papers of the late professor T. Scott Miyakawa, the first director (1962-1965) of the Japanese-American Research Project at UCLA. In addition to 500 volumes of books on Japanese and Chinese culture and Asian-American studies, the Miyakawa collection contains numerous valuable personal papers. Among these are twenty document boxes of JARP materials gathered while he directed the project, diaries and oral history tapes of prominent Issei on the east coast, documents and research materials used in his writing of The New York Japanese and the Development of the U.S.-Japan Trade‚ biographical materials of Jokichi Takamine and Kiyoshi Kawakami, and papers collected while he was chairman of the Sociology Department at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

•The University of Rochester has acquired for its Edward G. Miner Library a remarkable documentary record of pioneer life and medical practice in Upstate New York. Thirty-nine diaries of Dr. Samuel Beach Bradley, who practiced medicine in Greece, New York, from 1821 to 1880. were presented to the library by his greatgranddaughter. Pearl Smith, of Rochester. Bradley's diary, which spans nearly 70 years, records the daily personal, social, and professional events in his life as a pioneer local physician.

GRANTS

•The New York Academy of Medicine has been awarded a $1.6 million contract to administer and coordinate the National Library of Medicine’s Regional Medical Library Program. The agreement covers the states of Maine, Vermont. New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Delaware, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The Regional Medical Library Program was established by the National Library of Medicine in 1967 as a nationwide library network designed to provide health professionals in any part of the country with rapid access to a basic level of information services for the benefit of patient care, health care education, and research. As one of the seven designated Regional Medical Libraries in the United States, the Academy's library will work closely with NLM in a variety of programs that will enable librarians to share expertise and physical resources, to improve efficiency and performance for meeting information needs in health sciences libraries. and to implement improved methods for biomedical information exchange.

•Rutgers UniversityLibraries, New Brunswick, New Jersey, have received a grant from the Council on Library Resources to investigate the nature of the use of government publications in the Archibald S. Alexander Library. The grant is for a six-month study.

•Yale Universityhas been awarded a Title II-C grant of $400,000 by the U.S. Office of Education to undertake a joint project with Cornell and Stanford University Libraries, the Hoover Institution, and the Research Libraries Group. The goal is to design and implement enhancements to RLIN that will facilitate the acquisition, cataloging, and management of manuscript and archival materials. The development of a standard bibliographic exchange format will enable Cornell. Stanford, and Yale to integrate their manuscript and archival holdings into RLIN, thereby creating the foundation for a national database. Project activities in 1983 will include determining cataloging standards; establishing guidelines for authority control: and producing user documentation for dissemination to other RLG institutions.

NEWS NOTES

•The National Agricultural Library. Beltsville, Maryland, has signed a cooperative agreement with the Land Tenure Center Library at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, to provide a machine-readable record of that library’s monographic holdings and indexed journal literature. The Land Tenure Center Library is a unique resource collection and provides information services specializing in agricultural development, agrarian reform, and rural development, particularly in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The project will take from six to nine months for conversion and will be available as an adjunct file of AGRICOLA, or in separate tapes for use by other computerized systems.

•The New York Public Library opened the doors of its Central Research Library and Annex to the public on January 6, the first Thursday since 1975. thanks to challenge grants from Chase Manhattan Bank and historian Barbara W. Tuchman. Only the busiest units, including the General Research, Economic & Public Affairs, and Microforms Divisions, will be open on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. ■■