ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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B ro w n  U n iv e rs ity  r e ­
ceived a $600,000 three-year 
grant from the Davis Educa­
tional Foundation to com ­
p le te  a pro ject sta rte d  in 
1984 to  m a k e  th e  u n i ­
versity’s electro n ic library 
catalog of more than six mil­
lion items one of the most 
accessible in the country.
C urrently th e  u n iv e rsity ’s 
online catalog represents 78 
percent of the library’s hold­
ings. Converting the remain­
ing card catalog records into 
m achine-readable form will give researchers 
access to the entire array of docum ents avail­
able through Brown University’s campus net­
w ork as well as several national networks.

Texas Tech University Libraries has re­
ceived a $10,000 grant from the Helen Jones 
Foundation, Inc., for the developm ent of a fine 
arts video collection. The funds will be used to 
purchase videos in the subject areas of art, 
music, theater, dance, performance, and video 
art.

The Center for Bibliographic Studies and
Research at the U n iversity o f  C alifornia, Riv­
erside, has received a grant of $175,000 in di­
rect funds and $250,000 in matching funds from 
the National Endow m ent for the Humanities. 
The grants will be used to fund phase tw o of 
the English Short Title Catalogue, a database 
of everything published in England, its colo­
nies and dependencies, from the advent of the 
printing press to 1800, excluding m aps and 
engravings.

Acquisitions
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
Golda Meir Library has acquired from Loryn 
Romadka, over 500 books from the Rolls Royce 
of book clubs, the Limited Editions Club. The 
Limited Editions Club (LEC) was started in 1929 
by George Macy to offer book lovers an afford­
able entry into the w orld of fine books. Printed 
in limited editions first of 1,500 and later 2,000

G r a n t s
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Acquisitions

copies, th ese  b o o k s w ere 
only available to subscribers. 
Limited Editions Club books 
w ere also n o tew o rth y  for 
their fine illustrations by such 
m odern artists as Matisse and 
Picasso c o m m issio n ed  by 
George Macy. Matisse made 
original d raw in g s for the 
Limited Editions Club edition 
of Jam es Joyce’s Ulysses and 
Picasso illustrated the club’s 
e d itio n  o f A r is to p h a n e s ’ 
Lysistrata. T he c o lle ctio n  
has virtually every title is­

su e d  by the Limited Editions Club from 1929 
through 1981.

An exten sive collection o f M a y  Sarton
p r im a r y  s o u r c e s  h a s  b e e n  a c q u ir e d  by 
W estb ro o k  C o lleg e  from Bradford Dudley 
Daziel. Born in Belgium, Sarton immigrated to 
the United States with her parents at age four 
w hen her father accepted a position at Har­
vard College. Although she established a repu­
tation early in her career as a poet, Sarton later 
branched out to write a num ber of novels, in­
cluding Mrs. Stevens Hears the M erm aids Sing­
ing, and late in life, nonfiction “sketches for an 
a u to b io g rap h y .” Included in the W estbrook 
College acquisition are inscribed first editions 
of Sarton’s w ork, poetry manuscripts, family 
p h o to g ra p h s, a n d  c o rre sp o n d en c e  b etw een  
Sarton and Daziel written betw een 1978 and 
1992.

T w o  lots o f letters fro m  a r t critic John
Ruskin have been acquired by T he H unting- 
to n  Library. Considered by m any one of the 
most im portant art critics of the Victorian era, 
Jo h n  Ruskin was author of a num ber of influ­
ential books on art, including The Seven Lamps 
o f  Architecture. The first lot consists of 77 let­
ters from Ruskin to a young artist, Louis Blandy. 
W ritten b e tw e en  1875 and 1882, the letters 
record Ruskin’s comments on Blandy’s art work, 
a n d  d is c u s s  t h e i r  f r e q u e n t  w a lk s  n e a r  
Brantwood, Ruskin’s hom e in the Lake District. 
The second lot consists of 11 letters, written to 
Ruskin’s close friend Mrs. William Buckland 
b etw een 1848 and 1854, a crucial period in 
Ruskin’s life, during which his marriage faltered 
and his wife divorced him. ■