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American University'sWashington College of Law Li- brary received $100,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Leonard S. Goodman of Washington, D.C., together with approxi- mately 200 rare law books. The collection consists prima- rily of 18th- and 19th-century codes but includes copies of the first American edition of Blackstones commentaries and the very rare Registrant Brevium, thought to be the first law book printed from movable type. The funds will be used to construct a rare book room.

Grants and Acquisitions

Buffalo State Colleges United StudentsGovernment has given $30,000 to Butler Library to purchase new volumes and enhance the college’s computerized public access catalog, known as SHERLOCK. “Traditionally, USG has been more oriented toward supporting social and athletic opportunities for students,” said William Ganley, USG’s vice-president, who originated the idea of the library gift. “But in light of the budget situation, the library seemed like an area we could help that would directly affect the student population and leave a lasting impact.”

Indiana Universitys Lilly Library hasreceived $313,000 from the estate of Ruth Crawford Mitchell of Pittsburgh. Mitchell was a close friend and biographer of Alice Masaryk, daughter of Czechoslovakia’s first president, Thomas G. Masaryk, and had earlier donated a large collection of Masaryk family papers to the Lilly Library. Her bequest establishes an endowment at the Indiana University Foundation, the earnings of which will be used to acquire books, manuscripts, and other materials for the Lilly Library.

The Lilly Library was also awarded $63,000 to complete the cataloging of East European monographs acquired between February 1987 and January 1990. Approximately 1,500 bibliographic records and holdings will be added to the OCLC database and Indiana University’s online catalog, IO, which uses the NOTIS software. The grant was awarded by the Joint Committee on Soviet Studies Library Backlog Program of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies’ Program to Alleviate Backlogs in Soviet and East European Collections in the United States.

Indiana Universitys School of Library and In- formation Sciencewas awarded $182,000 by the Department of Education under the Library Career Training Program (Title II-B). Eight fellowships funded by $90,400 will be targeted at school and public library services for young adults. Three fellowships supported by a $32,400 award will emphasize scientific libraries, and four fellowships awarded $59,200 will support the areas of information systems, networking, and library technology.

Penn States University Libraries hasreceived a $50,000 bequest from faculty member Dorothy V. Harris, a pioneer in the work of sport psychology and women in sport, who died last year. The Dorothy Harris Libraries Endowment, created with a principal of $50,000, will be used to purchase and maintain books, periodicals, and other materials related to sport and exercise psychology. An additional $30,000 donated by Harris will endow the Dorothy Harris Lecture Series, to support visiting lectures by eminent teachers and researchers in sports psychology.

The Research Libraries Group (RLG) wasawarded $906,224 by the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the third phase of a project to microfilm brittle or deteriorating volumes from key scholarly collections in the United States. Phase three of the Great Collections Microfilming Project will take two years, January 1992 to December 1993, and result in the filming of 11,703 volumes from the collections of five RLG member institutions: Columbia (1,000 volumes on Chinese economic and social history), Cornell (1,003 Indonesian and Burmese volumes), Princeton (2,500 volumes related to the study of post-Ottoman Turkey), Stanford (3,200 volumes on the history of sciences and mathematics), and Yale (4,000 volumes on American history). Catalog records for microfilm produced during this phase will be entered on RLIN®.

St. John Universitys Graduate Division of Library and Information Sciencewas awarded $108,000 for ten Higher Education Act, Title IIB fellowships. The fellowships will support the education of school media specialist- librarians.

Southern Methodist University (SMU)received a $500,000 gift from the David Bruton, Jr. Charitable Trust to establish the David Bruton, Jr. Endowed Fund for Library Information Technology at SMU. Income from the endowment will enable the library to continue improving its computer system by providing equipment for patrons to print out information, enlarging the database of electronic publications and campus resources such as the Southwest Film/Video Archives, as well as upgrading the campus’ telecommunications network and linkage to worldwide electronic information services. The Bruton Charitable Trust has been a leading benefactor in establishing library automation at SMU over the past decade. Since 1982 the trust has provided funds to support database conversion, implement NOTIS Systems, and to introduce the Public Online Information System.

The University of Texas at ArlingtonLibraries Special Collection Division has received grants to compile, annotate, and publish a selective guide to its maps of Texas and the Southwest. Grants from the Sid Richardson Foundation, Fort Worth; the Summerlee Foundation, Dallas; and the Abell-Hanger Foundation, Midland, will fund the project. The selective guide will describe and discuss about 750 of the most important maps of Texas and the Southwest. The guide will also include an introductory essay that will examine the cartographic history of the region and detail the role maps have played in its settlement and development.

The U.S. Department of Education hasreceived 26l applications requesting a total of over $34 million under its College Library Technology and Cooperation Grants Program, authorized under Title II-D of the Higher Education Act. Direct grants are made in the following four categories: networking grants; combination grants; services to institutions grants; and research and demonstration grants. Decisions on these applications will be announced by the end of September 1992.

Watch the June Federal Register for the announcement of deadlines for the fiscal year 1993 awards, or for more information contact: Neal Kaske, Office of Library Programs/OERI, U.S. Department of Education, 555 New Jersey Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20208-5571; phone: (202) 219-1871; bitnet: N4K@nihcu; internet: N4k@cu.nih.gov; fax: (202) 219-1725.