ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Grants 
a n d  

cquisitionsA
A n n -C h riste Y o u n g

H a r v a r d  U n iv e rs ity  Li­
brary’s Preservation Center 
received  a $1 million grant 
from the National E nd ow ­
ment for the Humanities. The 
grant will fund a tw o-year 
project to microfilm materi­
als published betw een 1800 
and 1950 docum enting the 
history o f science in America. 
B o ok s, pam phlets, and jour­
nals will b e selected  in four 
su bject areas: history o f an­
th ro p o lo g y , h istory  o f  a s ­
tronom y, and American his­
torical textbooks in m athem atics and science.

V ir g in ia  C o m m o n w e a lth  U n iv e r s ity ’ s 
health scien ces library, Tom pkins-M cCaw  Li­
brary, on  b eh a lf o f  the Northwest Virginia Ryan 
W hite Title II Consortium, has b e e n  awarded a 
$33,209 AIDS Information Outreach Project con ­
tract by the National Library o f Medicine (NLM). 
The contract will expan d  NLM’s AIDS informa­
tion outreach program to six com m unity-based 
organizations in the primarily rural, northwest 
section o f Virginia, enabling staff m em bers to 
a c c e s s  HIV/AIDS e lec tro n ic  inform ation re ­
sources.

Boston U n iv e rs ity ’ s School o f T h e o lo g y  
Library w as aw arded a grant o f $ 1 17,000 to 
con serve and electronically catalog a historic 
collection o f  approxim ately 3 ,500 early hym­
nals. T he collection, w hich was given to the 
university early this century by Methodist cleric-

sch o la rs C harles S. Nutter 
and Frank J. Metcalf, allows 
sch o la rs to study ch a n g es 
b e t w e e n  e d itio n s  o f  th e  
sam e w ork, com p are titles 
from  o n e denom ination to 
another, and track the work 
o f  printers an d  en g rav ers 
over a period o f years.

The T a m p a  C am pus Li­
brary at the U niversity o f 
S o u th  F lo r id a  h a s  b e e n  
awarded a $100,000 grant by 
the Florida Public Post Sec­

Revised LSTA g ra n t guidelines
A revised set o f grant guidelines has b een 

issued by the Institute o f  Museum and Li­
brary Services (IMLS) for the National Lead­
ership Grants or Contracts, within the Library 
Services and T ech nolog y Act, itself a part o f 
the Museum and Library Services Act o f 1996.

For further information or to consult the 
guidelines them selves, con tact Mamie Bittner 
at IMLS at (2 0 2 ) 6 0 6 -4648 or visit the IMLS 
W eb  site at http://www.imls.fed.us/guide
lines/natlead.pdf. IMLS anticipates that the fi­
nal grant guidelines will b e available in Ja n u ­
ary 1998.

ondary Distance Learning Institute to establish 
the state’s D istance Learning Library Initiative 
Reference and Referral Center. T h e Center will 
serve as a library for students and faculty par­
ticipating in distance learning in higher educa­
tion across the state w ho have referen ce ques­
tions o r n eed  to b e  referred to appropriate 
agen cies for such information. T he cen ter will 
m ake information available via various modes 
o f com m unication including the postal service, 
an 8 00 num ber, electronic mail, and the W eb.

The F o lg e r S h a k e s p e a re  L ib ra ry  has 
b e e n  awarded a grant o f  $ 6 00,000 from The 
Andrew W. M ellon Fou nd ation to com p lete 
cataloging and electronic conversion o f biblio­
graphic records for its rare b o o k s collections. 
T h e three-y ear project will focu s on printed 
bo o k s from 1 5 0 1 -1 8 0 0  and is the m ost am bi­
tious cataloging initiative ev er undertaken at 
the library.

The N a tio n a l D ig ita l L ib ra ry  P ro g ra m  
at the Library o f Congress will receive a $1 mil­
lion donation from Federal Express to continue 
to add to the electronic American Memory c o l­
lections ( http://www.loc.gov/). T h e collections 
already contain unique items such as selected  
notebooks o f Walt W hitman, early films o f T h o ­
mas Edison, sound recordings o f folk music 
and political sp eech es, and docum ents relating 
to the civil rights m ovem ent and w o m en ’s suf­
frage.

E d . n o te : S en d  y o u r  new s to: G rants & A cqu isi­
tions, C&RL News, 5 0  E. H uron St., C hicago, IL 
606 1 1 ; e-m ail: ayou n g @ ala.org

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W a y n e  State U n iv e rs ity ’ s L ib rary a n d  
Information Science Program has b een  awarded 
an $88,000 grant for the education o f urban 
librarians by the U.S. Department o f Education. 
The grant is part o f the HEA Title IIB  Library 
Education and Human Resource Developm ent 
Program and will fund four full-time library and 
information science graduate fellowships b e ­
ginning winter term 1998.

Acquisitions
A d o zen  historic b illb o a rd s  a n d  th o u ­
sands o f other outdoor advertisem ents have 
b e e n  d onated  to D uke U niversity’s Special 
Collections Library by the O utdoor Advertis­
ing Association o f America (OAAA). T he col­
lection  con tain s subw ay placards, w artim e 
posters, bus displays, photos, and decades o f 
office records and m arketing surveys, among 
other items. A ccess to much o f the new  m ate­
rials is limited at present b ecau se archivists 
are cataloging and arranging the collections, 
but som e introductory information is available 
at the Jo h n  W. Hartman Center’s W eb site at 
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/hartman/.

The records o f th e T a m a rin d  Institute 
are now available at the University o f New 
M exico General Library Center for Southwest 
Research. T he Tamarind Institute was estab­
lished in 1959 to revive and preserve the fine 
art o f lithography. T he records include files 
relating to the creation and administration o f 
the institute through the 1980s; materials re­
lating to the research and publication projects 
done at the institute; and corresp on den ce with 
the artists, printers, and curators w ho have 
worked with Tamarind.

The p a p e rs  o f th e  la te  M . L. R osenthal, 
professor emeritus of English at New York

University (NYU), w ere donated to NYU’s Fales 
Library by his widow, Victoria Rosenthal. The 
collection is valued at over $135,000. Rosenthal 
is renow ned for his books o f literary criticism, 
particularly on 20th-century literature, and his 
ow n poetry. T h e c o lle ctio n  con tain s many 
original letters, cards, typescripts o f poem s, 
and autographed m anuscripts from som e o f 
this cen tu ry ’s m ost w ell-resp ected  authors.

C o m e d ia n  Tim C o n w a y  d o n a te d  those 
m ag ic m o m en ts fro m  “T h e  C arol B u rn ett 
Show ,” along with his other 35-plus years o f 
w ork in telev ision  and m ovies to B ow ling 
G reen State University. Conway, a 1956 gradu­
ate o f Bow ling G reen, has donated much o f 
his work, papers, and personal memorabilia 
for inclusion in the University’s Popular Cul­
ture Library. T h e  d o n atio n  in clu d es sev en  
b o x es o f materials, including television and 
m ovie scripts, press books, other print materi­
a ls , a n d  m o r e  th a n  1 0 0  v id e o t a p e s .

The papers o f evangelist G ra d y  W ilson 
(1919– 1987) are now  available to researchers 
at the Billy Graham Center Archives on  the 
W heaton College campus in Wheaton, Illinois. 
W ilson was on e o f the leaders o f the Billy Gra­
ham Evangelistic Association from its earliest 
days. His papers tell the story o f the post-World 
War II church in America. A guide to the col­
le c tio n  c an  b e  fou n d  at gop h er:/ / g op h er. 
w h e a t o n .e d u : 70/1 l/ W h e a to n _ A r c h iv e s /  
BGC/Guides/Coll/544. ■

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