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Grants and Acquisitions

Hugh Thompson

The American LibraryAssociation has been awarded $210,000, plus a matching grant of $10,000, by the Humanities Projects in Libraries and Archives of the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a national tour of panel exhi- bitions about the life and times of Duke Ellington en- titled “The Musical Genius of Duke Ellington.”

The Dance Heritage Co-alition, founded by the Harvard Theatre Collection, the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the Library of Congress, and the San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum, has been awarded $963,000 by the National Endowment for the Humanities to begin a national cooperative project to significantly increase access to dance research materials.

Hudson Valley Community College inNew York has been awarded $150,000 by the New York State Archives and Records Administration to begin the first phase of a project to create a telecommunications network among local governments that will connect them to each other, to the state government, and ultimately to the information superhighway.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technologyhas received a grant of $61,509 from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission for a l6-month project to create approximately 600 collection-level MARC AMC format records using the Research Libraries Information Network.

The Osler Library at McGill Universityin Montreal has received a $25,000 endowment from the Board of Associated Medical Services/Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine in Toronto to sup- port ongoing restoration and conservation projects.

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Michigan TechnologicalUniversity in Houghton has been granted $84,870 from the National Historical Pub- lications and Records Com- mission for a 28-month project to arrange and de- scribe the records of the Quincy Mining Company and the Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Mining Company.

Southern Methodist University's Brid-well Library in the Perkins School of Theology has received a gift of $10 million from the J. S. Bridwell Foundation to establish the J. S. Bridwell Foundation Endowed Library Fund. The gift will provide a continuing stream of income to the Bridwell Library.

The State University of New York HealthScience Center in Brooklyn has received a grant of $52,000 from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to increase access to and use of its archives of health records of historical significance.

The University of California, Berkeley,Library has received a U.S. Department of Education Title IIB grant of $109,000 to fund a Berkeley Institute for the Recruitment, Education, and (Re)Training of Minorities in Academic Libraries to aid minority librarians in furthering their careers.

The Carlson Health Sciences Library atthe University of California, Davis, has received a $25,000 grant from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to introduce health professionals in remote sites or in inner city areas to GRATEFUL MED®, NLM’s software tool that will link them to information services from a health sciences library.

The University of Michigan's School ofInformation and Library Studies has received a $4.3 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to provide national leadership in educating information professionals through providing graduate fellowships, hiring faculty, and supporting pilot projects in creating and accessing information.

The University of Texas at Austin's HarryRansom Humanities Research Center has received $181,716 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to catalog and create automated access to the Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. archive, an invaluable resource for the study of American publishing history, literature, and culture in the twentieth century.

Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation to support preservation initiatives. Funds will be used over a two-year period to construct and equip a small state-of-the-art conservation laboratory for the College Archives and Chapin Library of Rare Books. Additional funds will be used to survey the collections in order to select materials to be reformatted or conserved in the laboratory.

Acquisitions

The Bert Corona Oral History Collectionhas been donated to the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as a joint gift of professor Mario T. Garcia and Bert Corona, a labor organizer in the Mexican-American community in the 1930s-1950s. The materials document Corona’s life history as published in Garcia’s Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona and includes extensive taped interviews with Corona along with transcriptions, documents, and photographs.

Graham Greene's personal library ofVictorian detective fiction has been acquired by the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University. The collection, which was begun by Greene and Dorothy Glover in the last years of the Second World War, includes 613 works of mystery and detection dating from the earliest days of the genre up to the turn-of-the-cen- tury (Edgar Allen Poe through the early work of Arthur Conan Doyle).

A large collection of special event management materials from two leaders in that field, Joe Jeff Goldblatt and Nancy Lynner, has been acquired by George Washington University’s Gelman Library. The donation includes videotapes, audiocassettes, and documents, including the original manuscript of Goldblatt’s pioneering book, Special Events: The Art and Science of Celebration.

Acollection of scholarly journals belonging to Henry A. Fischel, a professor in the Department of Near Eastern Language and Literature and the Program of Jewish Studies, has been acquired by the Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington. The large collection includes monographs, pamphlets, and journals in Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, German, French, and English, all concerning the impact of Hellenism on Near Eastern languages and literature.

The personal papers of A. C. Greene,noted journalist, historian, and radio and television commentator, have been acquired by the Special Collections Division of the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Among the papers are a 30-year collection of daily journals maintained by Greene, voluminous correspondence with various literary figures (including most Texas writers of the 1960-1990 period), much material about Greene’s involvement with the Texas Institute of Letters, and historical materials on Texas railroads and industries. ■