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748/ C&RL News

Grants
and

Acquisitions

Hugh Thompson

Carnegie Mellon Univer­
sity has received more than 
$1 million from the Teresa 
and H. John Heinz III Foun­
dation, the Heinz Company 
Foundation, and the H ow­
ard and Vira I. Heinz endow­
ments. The funds will be 
used to develop an elec­
tronic, historical archive o f 
the papers o f the late Sena­
tor H. John H einz III o f 
Pennsylvania. The university 
and CLARITECH, the Pitts­
burgh-based, text-retrieval 
and information-management company that 
provided the software for the system, will pro­
vide additional funding o f $450,000.

The Hoover Institution h as received a
grant o f $355,177 from the National Endow­
ment for the Humanities for a two-year project 
in cooperation with Research Libraries Group 
to develop an electronic link between the Rus­
sian State Archival Service and archives around 
the world. The project will catalog archival ma­
terial in repositories in Russia and enter the 
records into RLIN.

T e x a s Tech U niversity L ib ra ry h a s re­
ceived a grant o f $97,066 from the Hoblitzelle 
Foundation in Dallas. The funds will be used 
to purchase preservation equipment for the new 
Southwest Collection/Special Collections’ Li­
brary state-of-the-art preservation laboratory.

The U niversity of California, B e rk e le y's,
library has been awarded an HEA II-B grant 
from the Department o f Education Institutes 
program for $125,000 to fund a nine-month 
training institute to prepare four ethnic minor­
ity librarians for careers as academic research 
librarians in scientific disciplines.

The U n iv e rsity  of Illinois at U rban a-
Champaign’s Graduate School o f Library and 
Information Science has received a grant o f

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$63,826 from  the W .K . 
Kellogg Foundation to sup­
port a year-long project to 
renew the library and infor­
mation science master’s pro­
gram through a set o f inte­
grated core courses.

The U n iversity of Ken ­
tucky Libraries has received 
a $118,000 grant from the 
U.S. Department o f Educa­
tion to implement a state-of- 
the-art Ariel document trans­
mission system linking the 

major libraries o f Kentucky’s eight state-sup­
orted universities; $70,821 in matching funds 

rom the universities is also being used.

he U n iversity of V irg in ia L ib ra ry w a s
warded a grant o f $123,621 from the Depart­
ent o f Educations’ HEA Title II-C program. 
he funds will be used in support o f a year­
ong project to continue the processing, cata­
oging, and retrospective conversion o f the 
oldings o f the Manuscripts Division o f the 
pecial Collections Department, specifically the 
istorical collections acquired before 1960.

cq u isitio n s
he U n iversity of W isconsin-Stout Li­
rary has received a $35,000 staff development 
ndowment. The gift is maintained by the Stout 
niversity Foundation in honor o f David P. 
arnard, who served as professor and dean of 

earning resources for 41 years, and will allow 
ibrary faculty and academic and classified staff 
o pursue professional improvement activities.

aterials chronicling the life an d  w o rk
f William Grant Still have been acquired by 
uke University’s Special Collections. Still was 

he first black American composer o f classical 
usic to have a piece, his AfroAmerican Sym­
hony, performed by a leading orchestra, the 
ochester Philharmonic Orchestra in 1931. The 
ollection contains tapes and CDs o f Still’s mu­
ic and facsimiles o f his compositions that total 

more than 200 pieces. ■

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