ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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News from the Field
ACQUISITIONS

• C l e m s o n  U n i v e r s i t y , Clem son, South 
Carolina, has acquired the public papers and 
memorabilia of U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond 
(R-S.C.), a historic collection spanning 50 years of 
state and national political life. Thurmond, a 1923 
Clemson alumnus, is chairman of the Senate 
Committee on the Judiciary and president pro 
tempore of the Senate. The 1,000 cubic feet of
public papers will take the library’s staff nearly 
three years to organize. By then the university 
plans to have completed the collection’s perma­
nent home in the Strom Thurmond Center for 
Excellence in Government and Public Service, a 
complex of new facilities and programs located 
near the main library.

•  T e x a s  C h r i s t i a n  U n i v e r s i t y , Fort Worth, 
has acquired the Marguerite Oswald collection of
material relating to the assassination of President 
John F. Kennedy. The collection was received 
from the estate of the late Mrs. Oswald, mother
of accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, upon her 
death in 1980. Keystone of the gift is the full 
Warren Commission report on which Marguerite
Oswald inscribed her own comments, such as
“Lee never said this.” Many of the 200 hardback
books in the Oswald collection are signed by the
authors and others are dedicated to Mrs. Oswald. 
Also included are extensive holdings of newspa­
pers and magazines relating directly or indirectly
to the assassination.

GRANTS

• The A s s o c i a t i o n  o f  R e s e a r c h  L i b r a r i e s , 
Washington, has been awarded $53,000 by the 
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of a
program to improve bibliographic access to mi­
croform collections in North American libraries. 
The Mellon award, together with a $20,000 grant
from the Council on Library Resources, assures 
the funding needed to complete the two-year
project.

•  C a s e  W e s t e r n  R e s e r v e  U n i v e r s it y  Library, 
Cleveland, has received a grant of $118,000 from 
the Pew M emorial Trust for a library com ­
puterization program that will monitor users’ 
needs over a period of time. Results of the study
will becom e the basis for establishing b etter
priorities for purchase, storage, and disposal of
items in the collection. By 1990 the university
will have installed a campus-wide information sys­
tem which will be linked with the libraries’ on­
line system.

• The J o h n s  H o p k in s  U n i v e r s it y ’s Milton S. 
Eisenhower Library, Baltimore, has received a
$185,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon

Foundation to strengthen the library’s preserva­
tion program. With this added support, the li­
brary’s current preservation resources (a restora­
tion bindery  and related offices) will be enlarged 
through the addition of a qualified paper conser­
vator, and the program of education and technical 
training will be expanded. The training program 
will enable the Eisenhower Library to conduct 
workshops and sponsor consultancies and intern­

 ships which will be offered to other libraries in 
the mid-Atlantic region and to members of the 
Research Libraries Group. The preservation 
workshops and consultant program will begin in 
the spring of 1982, and the preservation intern­
ships will be available in the fall of 1982.

•  K e n t u c k y  W e s l e y a n  C o l l e g e , Owensboro, 
has received $10,000 from an Owensboro teacher 
to establish the Margaret Julia White Library 

 Learning Center Endowment Fund. White was a 
member of the Settle Memorial United Meth­
odist Church and the gift was made in recogni­

 tion of the college’s affiliation with the Methodist 
Church and its devotion to education. The funds 
will be used to buy books, periodicals, or equip­

 ment for the Library Learning Center.
 • The L i b r a r y  o f  C o n g r e s s  has received a 
 grant of $500,000 from the IBM Corporation to 
 acquire, process, and interpret the papers and 

working materials of Charles Eames (1907-1978), 
an American architect and designer. The grant 

 will also enable the library to sponsor a series of 
events in upcoming years which will evaluate the 
significance of Eames’ work and its impact on the 
living and working environment of America. In­
cluded in the collection are the original negatives 
and prints of each of the 106 educational films 
Eames created, business correspondence from 

 1944 to 1978, approximately 400,000 color slides, 
31,000 black-and-white photographs, production 
materials for exhibits, and drawings for all his 

 major furniture designs. ■■

 
Curriculum Collections

The Curriculum Materials Committee of 
ACRL’s Education and Behavioral Sciences 
Section is studying the various policies on 

 selection and weeding in curriculum collec­
 tions. They are especially in terested  in 
 specific criteria for selection, retention, and 
 removal of curriculum materials. Please send 

comments or copies of policy statements to 
Leslie Bjorncrantz, Chair, ACRL/EBSS Cur­
riculum Materials Committee, Curriculum 
Collection, Northwestern University Library, 

 Evanston, IL 60201.