ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 320 News from the Field ACQUISITIONS • I o w a S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y , Ames, has received the papers o f the late Roswell Garst, perhaps Io­ wa’s most famous farmer. Initiator o f the experi­ mental feeding o f corncobs to produce beef, the use o f hybrid seed corn and commercial fertilizer, Garst is also credited with opening up the ag­ ricultural sales and exchanges with Russia and Eastern Europe in the 1950s. The collection cov­ ers forty years o f Garst’s activities and contains c o rr e s p o n d e n c e , re co rd s, d o cu m e n ts, audio tapes, publications, and memorabilia. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a , Sa n t a B a r ­ b a r a , has now com pleted the most com prehen­ sive collection on the west coast o f the works of British author W . Som erset Maugham (18 7 4 - 1965). The major part of the collection was as­ sembled and donated to the library by Raymond Toole Stott, Maugham’s official bibliographer and friend, during the 1970s. The final items were added through a bequest in Stott’s will. The col­ lection now includes nearly all the rare early books, first editions, unusual variants, and a se­ ries o f letters which Maugham wrote to Stott. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s ’ Asian Library has received a gift of nearly 500 volumes of cur­ rent Chinese publications from the National Cen­ tral Library in Taiwan, Republic of China. The collection, which consists o f a wide range o f sub­ ject fields including many multi-volume sets o f Chinese calligraphy and art works, was on exhibi­ tion at ALA Annual Conference in Philadelphia. • V a s s a r C o l l e g e Library, Poughkeepsie, New York, has acquired the 53 notebooks com ­ prising the manuscript journals o f John Burroughs (1837-1921), renowned American naturalist. The notebooks cover the period from 1876 to 1921 and are devoted principally to his observations of nature, although there are also many literary and political comments. Burroughs was a friend o f Ralph W aldo Em erson, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Edison, Theodore Roosevelt, and Henry Ford, and entries in the journal relate to these famous people. GRANTS • M a s s a c h u s e t t s I n s t i t u t e o f T e c h n o l o g y has received a $100,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a pioneering project to develop appraisal guidelines for archival records in science and technology. Under the grant, the Institute Archives and Special Collections o f the MIT Libraries will draw up appraisal guidelines and test their use in several research settings. The project will not be confined to MIT, but will draw upon archival and technical advice from other universities, science and technology-based corporations, and two state archives. This will en­ able investigators to test the general applicability o f the guidelines in various settings. • O h i o St a t e U n i v e r s i t y has received a Title II-C grant from the U.S. Department of Educa­ tion in the amount o f $101,017 to expand the OSU Libraries’ nationally-recognized Charvat Collection o f American Fiction. The collection will be extended in 1983 to include works o f American fiction published during the first quar­ ter of the 20th century. Many of the works in the collection are by obscure authors whose novels were widely read when they first appeared, but have since been largely forgotten. The books are o f interest to social historians and bibliographers rather than literary historians. • The St a t e U n iv e r s i t y o f N e w Y o r k a t B u f ­ f a l o has received a Title II-C grant of $104,063 to increase bibliographic access to the university’ s collection o f 20th Century poetry in English. The grant will support the conversion o f bibliographic records to machine-readable form and the incor­ poration of those records into OCLC. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f K a n s a s Library, Lawr­ ence, has been awarded a Title II-C grant of $148,500 by the U.S. Department o f Education. The award will fund a project to catalog 6,000 valuable Central American titles within the li­ brary’s existing holdings, and will provide for the hiring o f five full-time project staff, an OCLC terminal and printer, student assistance, and some binding and preservation o f the more fragile items. This grant provides first-year funding for what the library has subm itted as a proposed three-year p r o je ct to catalog 20,000 Central American titles. A random sample of uncataloged titles in the library’s Central American collection showed that fewer than half appear on OCLC, and that over half the titles are not included in published holdings o f the University o f Texas or Tulane University. • The U n i v e r s i t y o f P i t t s b u r g h ’ s School o f Library and Inform ation S cien ce has b e e n awarded a $264,016 contract by the U.S. Naval Training Equipment Center to provide technical assistance in the dev elop m en t o f a technical library/information center for the Royal Saudi Naval Forces School at Jubail, Saudi Arabia. Frank B. Sessa, professor emeritus, University of Pittsburgh, and captain, USNR (ret.), will serve as senior project director. The 12-month project will include a needs analysis, selection, classifica­ tion, and cataloging o f a basic collection of tech­ nical books and journals, purchase o f library fur­ niture and equipment, and preparation o f library administrative and procedural manuals. 321 NEWS NOTES • The L ib r a r y o f C o n g r e s s has completed a study o f existing governmental library resources and services, jointly funded and sponsored by the National Commission on Libraries and Informa­ tion Science (NCLIS). More than 400 Federal li­ braries o f all types were studied through personal interviews and mail questionnaires. They in­ cluded health, technical and other special librar­ ies as well as academic, school, and general li­ braries in the Midwest, Southwest, and Pacific Coast regions. The overall recommendation of the study, entitled Toward a Federal Library and In­ fo rm a tio n Services N etw ork: A Proposal, ad­ dresses the need for a full-service, multitype Federal library network based on existing re­ sources and services. The plan o f action proposed indicates goals and implementation suggestions that the Federal library community can use as a guide. Responsibility for further action, the study states, depends on the Federal Library Commit­ tee. Copies o f the 130-page report are available for $6 each from the Superintendent o f D ocu ­ ments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Wash­ ington, DC 20402 (Stock No. 030-000-00138-9). • The P e a b o d y I n s t i t u t e Library, Baltimore, became part o f the Johns Hopkins University on July 1. It will be administered by Johns Hopkins’ Milton S. Eisenhower Library as part o f its Spe­ cial Collections Department, but will retain its separate iden tity and stay in its presen t downtown Baltimore location. The Peabody’s col­ lection of 250,000 volumes is outstanding in early science, with additional strength in the Greek and Latin classics, Romance languages, English and American literature, and genealogy. ■ ■ People PROFILES Ja m e s R . K e n n e d y , head librarian for the City o f Lawrence, Massachusetts, has been appointed director o f the Giesel Library at Saint Anselm C o lle g e , M an chester, New Hampshire. At L aw ren ce he served as library consul­ tant to the Merrimack Valley Health Planning C ou n cil and was r e ­ spon sible for the o r ­ ganization and d e ­ velopm ent o f a health planning scien ces li­ brary to serve both re­ gional health planners and health care p r o ­ vider agencies. Before James R. Kennedy goin g to L aw ren ce, K ennedy was library director o f the Jonathan Bourne Public Library, Bourne, Massachusetts, where he instituted services for the handicapped and organized a cooperative effort among public, academic, and military base libraries. K ennedy, a graduate o f Stonehill C olleg e, holds an MLS degree from the U niversity o f Rhode Island and has done advanced studies at the Boston University School o f Business A d­ ministration and the Miami (Ohio) University School o f Business Administration. He began his library career as a part-time reference and circu­ lation assistant at the Walpole Public Library in 1964. G e o r g e C h a r l e s N e w m a n , director o f Shafer Library and assistant dean for cultural arts at Findlay College, Ohio, has been named director o f the Edward H. Bu­ tler Library at the State University o f New York at Buffalo effective Au­ gust 15. Newman has directed library and media ser­ vices at Findlay College since 1977 and was di­ re cto r o f the L. Dale D orn ey C om m u nity Arts Series at Findlay C o lle g e for 1 981-82. Prior to his a p p o in t­ G. Charles Newmanment at Findlay, New­ man was director of li­ brary and media services and assistant dean at G o ld e n W est C o lle g e , H un tin gton B each, California, from 1975 to 1977. Newman holds a bachelors degree in history from the University o f Cincinnati (1965); a master o f arts in teaching degree from Miami University, Ohio (1971); a masters in library science and edu­ cational technology from the University of Michi­ gan (1972); and a Ph.D from the Center for the Study o f Higher Education at the University of Michigan (1978). Newman is the author o f Leadership and the Politics o f Innovative Change: Antioch College under Arthur H. Morgan (1982) and co-author of Limited Growth in Higher Education: Indicators, Impacts and Implications (1976). He has also au­ thored several articles (including the B iblio-