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Grants and Acquisitions

Hugh Thompson

Appalachian State University’sW. L. Eury Appala- chian Collection has re- ceived a grant of $35,000 from the Broyhill Family Foundation to complete the processing and preservation of the papers of Senator James T. Broyhill. From 1963 to 1986, Broyhill served first in the U.S. House of Repre- sentatives and then in the Senate. Previous to receiv- ing the grant, Don W. Wil- son, executive director of the George Bush Presidential Library (and former archivist of the United States) examined the col- lection and made specific recommendations for its processing.

The Associated Colleges of the South, aconsortium of 13 colleges throughout the South, has received a grant of $1.2 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a cooperative electronic library project. The grant will underwrite a three-year effort featuring joint electronic access to indexes and periodicals. The program also will involve cooperative efforts to train library personnel in the use of various kinds of technology. The objective is to expand access of students and faculty to electronic materials, to develop a model to analyze journal pricing, and to effect a substantial cost containment through collaboration.

The Iliff School of Theology in Denver,Colorado, has been awarded a $500,000 challenge grant by the Kresge Foundation. The grant is part of a three-year effort to raise $6 million in support of the Iliff s 104-year-old mission as a national leader in seminary education. The Kresge grant will be applied toward the construction of a new education center to house Iliffs theological library and to provide multiuse space.

North Carolina State University, DukeUniversity, and the University of North Caro- lina-Chapel Hill have re- ceived two Title VI grants from the U.S. Department of Education’s Center for Inter- national Education. The Tri- angle South Asia Consor- tium, an educational coop- erative comprised of the South Asia faculties at the three institutions, received a three-year grant totaling $286,957 for various collec- tion enhancement activities. The institutions also received a $170,062 two-year grant to fund the Triangle East Asia Studies Project: Deepening Area and Language Studies in an Internationalizing Region. The library portion of the grant is intended to strengthen library resources for undergraduate students with the purchase of reference books, films, and basic sets.

Acquisitions

Materials from the 1991 movie Thousand Pieces of Goldhave been donated to the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles by director and independent filmmaker Nancy Kelly. The movie tells the story of Lalu, a Chinese woman who is sold into slavery as a wife and prostitute in an 1880s Idaho mining town. Among the significant artifacts from the movie are the dragon’s head from the Chinese New Year celebration, the Golden Flower and Prosperity Chinese store sign, and the knife with which Lalu scares off a would-be customer, threatens suicide, and reclaims her identity. The donation enhances the museum’s “fictional West” collections, which document ways in which film and other media have shaped perceptions of the region and its inhabitants.

A collection of more than 450 historicchildren’s books has been donated to the Education and Social Science Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by the Arlington Heights, Illinois, Memorial Public Library. The collection includes readers, school texts, series books, and works of fiction. Among the books are seven dating from 1790 to 1833, including the woodboard-bound 1790 A Grammatical Institute of the English Lan- guage and an 1827 Hale’s History of the United States. Other valuable additions in- clude a tum-of-the-century edition of The Baby’s Opera by noted English illustrator Walter Crane, a first edition of The Wiz- ard of Oz, and an 1866 edition of Evangeline.

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A large collection of more than3,000 books, magazines, and other mate- rials relating to the downtown New York writing scene from 1975 to the present has been acquired by the Fales Library of New York University. To be known as the “Downtown Writers Collection,” the materials were collected by Ron Kolm, a poet, editor, and member of the downtown scene. The col- lection includes signed first editions by such authors as Kathy Acker, Lynne Tillman, Gary Indiana, Walter Abish, Spalding Gray, Patrick McGrath, and Harry Mathews. Also featured are complete runs of important literary magazines of the period, ‘zines, posters, flyers, catalogs of exhibitions, and announcements for readings, all of which give a sense of the arts scene dur- ing the height of the Soho and East Village writ- ing explosion.

The Wee, Wee Mannie and the Big, Big Coo from My Bookhouse—In the Nursery (1925) at U of I-Urbana.

The papers of Canadian children’swriter Carol Matas have been acquired by the University of Manitoba Libraries. Matas’s book Lisa received both the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young Readers and a Notable Book Award from the New York Times Book. Review. The collection includes handwritten and typed drafts and revisions of her published and unpublished novels, stories, and plays; correspondence to publishers, agents, and readers; and research notes and signed copies of various editions of her 14 published novels. ■

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