COLLEGE & RESEARCH LIBRARIES NEWS

News from the Field

ACQUISITIONS

• Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been presented with Ms. Magazine’s ten-year collection of “Letters to the Editor.’ The letters, recognized as a documentary history of women’s consciousness in the 1970s, were deposited at the Schlesinger Library by Ms. editors Patricia Carbine and Gloria Steinem. Since its inception in 1972 the magazine has received an overwhelming reader response. The Preview issue alone resulted in over 20,000 letters from women all over the country describing their life experience. Although nearly 100,000 letters are being donated to the library (and more will be deposited on a continuing basis), the majority will not yet be available to researchers. To protect the identity of the writers, ten years must elapse from the time of writing before they are made public.

• The University of Manitoba Libraries, Winnipeg, have been given the complete research archive of the former Winnipeg Tribune by its owner, Lord Thomson of Fleet. The Tribune ceased publication in summer, 1980, after ninety years. The collection contains ten tons of newspaper clippings indexed and in chronological order; about one million photographs identified and dated; 10,000 books; and miscellaneous equipment.

• The University of Missouri-Columbia Library has received a collection of 246 Limited Editions Club titles and 92 other volumes from J.W. Kerr of Wilmette, Illinois. Each copy in the collection is in very fine or mint condition, and is autographed by either the author or by the illustrator or editor. The Limited Editions Club titles were limited to a press run of 1,500-2,000.

GRANTS

• The University of Manitoba Libraries, Winnipeg, have received a grant of $30,000 from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to purchase materials in the field of Arctic and Sub-Arctic cultural anthropology. The award was granted under the council’s Strengthening of Specialized Collections Program and will be used to acquire out of print materials and to augment and complement the present collection.

NEWS NOTE

• The University of Kansas, Lawrence, held a dedication ceremony on November 18 for its new Business and Economics Reading Room in Summerfield Hall. The dedication honored emeritus professor of economics Richard S. Howey for his service in building the business and economics collections which have gained international recognition. Howey has been library representative for the Department of Economics since 1930. During that time he has amassed one of the largest collections of economics books in the world, a portion of which is now known as the Howey Collection. His new book, a Bibliography of General Histories of Economics 1692-1975 will be published by the Regents Press of Kansas in April. ■■