Grants and Acquisitions

Ann-Christe Galloway

Ed. note: Send your grants and acquisitions to Ann-Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, at email: agalloway@ala.org.

Acquisitions

U.S. Representative G.K. Butterfield visits Louis Round Wilson Library to examine some of his donated collection and meet with University and Library representatives. January 3, 2022. (Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill)

Retiring congressman G. K. Butterfield has donated papers to the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s University Libraries. His personal collection of papers and photographs will become part of the Southern Historical Collection at the Wilson Special Collections Library. Throughout his life as civil rights activist, lawyer, judge and legislator, Butterfield (NC-01) has always been interested in history. He’s also a self-described “novice archivist” who has accumulated—and carefully labeled—boxes of materials from each chapter of his life. Butterfield has represented North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District for nearly two decades and is a past chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. He announced that he will retire from Congress at the end of the current term.

Photo of William Shakespeare’s First Folio, published in 1623, and gifted to the UBC Library.

The University of British Columbia (UBC) has acquired a first edition of William Shakespeare’s Comedies Histories and Tragedies—a rare book published seven years after Shakespeare’s death and credited with preserving almost half of his plays. The First Folio, as it’s also known, includes 36 of Shakespeare’s 38 known plays, edited by his close friends, fellow writers, and actors. The 1623 publication is considered the most authoritative of all early printings. UBC purchased the First Folio, formerly owned by a private collector in the United States, through Christie’s New York with funding provided by a consortium of donors from across North America and with the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage. For further information, visit vanartgallery.bc.ca.