ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 308 / C&RL News ★ ★ ★ News front the fi e l d Acquisitions • The Concordia Historical Institute, St. Louis, has received a large private collection of books and manuscripts illustrating the era of the Lutheran Reformation. Most of the books were brought to the United States by Pastor O ttom ar Fuerbringer, a founding professor of Concordia Seminary, in 1839. Included in the collection are numerous first editions of tracts and pam phlets w ritten by M artin Luther, a 1580 L atin edition of the Book of Con­ cord, and some untranslated 16th century m anu­ scripts. •T e x a s C h ristian U niversity L ib ra ry , F o rt W orth, has received an im portant collection of 160 first and early editions, along w ith biographical and critical works, of British novelist Anthony Trollope (1815-1882). The collection includes an almost complete set of first editions of the Barset- shire and Palliser novels, m any in the original cloth. The collection was a gift from the Friends of the TCU Libraries. • T h e U niversity of Kansas Music L ib ra ry , Lawrence, has received a collection of over 500 re­ cordings of m ilitary and concert bands from Paul E. Bierley, of Columbus, Ohio, author of John Philip Sousa: American Phenomenon. This collec­ tion of 78-rpm recordings covers the first three dec­ ades of the 20th century, including a unique 1902 test pressing of a Sousa Band recording m anufac­ tured in Montreal. • The University of Michigan Library, Ann Ar- bor, has acquired a collection of T hai im prints originally developed by Thai linguist William J. Gedney. The collection consists of approximately 7,000 monographs, 316 serial titles, and 73 m anu­ scripts. The Gedney Collection spans the period 1837-1980 and focuses on the critical periods of transition in Thai society from absolute monarchy to constitutional m onarchy and from the Japanese occupation to the status of pre-W ar state. Included are many literary and biographical works printed upon the occasion of crem ation ceremonies. • T he U niversity of Pennsylvania Music Li- brary, Philadelphia, has been given a large wooden cabinet once owned by the composer Ludw ig van Beethoven. The cabinet was dedicated in a cere­ mony on April 29 as p art of the music library’s new quarters. Beethoven’s cabinet, a tall w ardrobe, was p art of the furnishings in his Vienna home un­ til his death in 1828. It was donated by Cecilia Drinker Saltonstall, of Stratham , New Hampshire. • The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, has acquired the papers of W illard H untington W right (1888-1939), the author of a series of popu­ lar detective novels featuring the urbane detective Philo Vance. The m ain body of the papers, which includes 1,563 items covering the years 1899-1978, is composed of correspondence between W right, his first wife, daughter, and mother; also included are manuscripts, printed m aterial, articles about W right, legal and financial papers, and photo­ graphs. • T he W h alin g M useum L ib ra ry of th e O ld D artm outh Historical Society, New Bedford, Mas­ sachusetts, has completed cataloging of the Cory Family papers, 1762-1929, a project funded by the National Endow m ent of the Humanities. The col­ lection documents four generations of a W estport Point, Massachusetts, family involved in shipping, ship-building, whaling, weaving, and m erchan­ dising. Grants • T he M usic L ib ra ry A ssociation has been aw arded a grant by the National Endow m ent for the Humanities to study the feasibility of a major cooperative bibliographical program covering the music published in the United States since the 1820s. Key elements of the project involve: estab­ lishing a working definition of the scope of m aterial to be covered; the feasibility of an inter-related program for photocopying materials; prospects for cost-sharing contributions or other tangible forms of support from those institutions th a t might p a r­ ticipate in a cooperative program ; and the range, definition, and level of authoritv work for the data involved. The Association will prepare a final re­ port this summer. • The University of California, Los Angeles, re- ceived a g ran t of $9,700 from th e Japan-U .S . Friendship Commission to purchase library m ate­ rials on Japan-U .S. business relations. H alf the funds were from the Commission and the other half were m atched by the UCLA G raduate School of M anagem ent’s Pacific Basin Economic Study Center. Currently published materials will be col­ lected on a more comprehensive basis and retro­ spective titles will also be identified and added. • The University of Kansas Libraries’ Kansas Collection, Lawrence, has been aw arded a grant of $36,800 by the National Endow m ent for the Hu- ACQUISITION QUESTIONS? ANT BO O K THE ANSWERS IN PRINT ARE AT BOOK HOUSE IN THE UNITED STATES BOOTH # 1040 AND CANADA by BOOK HOUSE O PEN ORDER REPORTS BOOK HOUSE COMPLETE DELIVERY BOOK HOUSE S T A N D IN G ORDERS/ C O N T IN U A T IO N S BOOK HOUSE AUTOMATION BOOK HOUSE th eCALL TOLL-FREE TODAY 1-800-248-1146 BO O K In Canada & Michigan HO CALL COLLECT (517) 849-2117 JOBBERS SERVIN U G LI S BRAR E IES WITH ANY BOOK IN PRINT SINCE 1962 208 WEST CHICAGO STREET OCLC Vendor No. 17397 SAN 169-3859 JONESVILLE, MICHIGAN 49250 310 / C&RL News manities to preserve and catalog the Joseph J. Pen­ nell collection of 32,000 glass negatives taken by the Junction City, Kansas, photographer between 1888 and 1922. The significance of the collection lies in the completeness with which it documents daily life in a midwestern town and a nearby Army post (Fort Riley) during a period of change and growth. The Kansas Collection has also been aw arded a N a tio n a l H isto ric al P u b licatio n s an d R ecords Commission supplemental grant of $8,000 to con­ tinue microfilming a selected portion of the J.B. Watkins papers. Watkins was a 19th-century L aw ­ rence business entrepreneur who operated a land mortgage company. • York University Law Library, Downsview, O ntario, has received a grant of $8,000 from C ana­ d a ’s Social Sciences and H um anities Research Council to assist in the collection of English nomi­ native law reports. These original 18th-century re­ ports will strengthen the library’s collection of Brit­ ish prim ary source m aterial. ■ ■ P E O P L E Profiles J ohn K. Amrhein has been appointed director of the library at California State College, Stanislaus, effective August 1. C urrently he is university li­ b r a r ia n a t K u tz to w n U niversity, Pennsylva­ nia. B efore co m in g to K u tzto w n in 1971, he was circulation lib ra r­ ian at Kent State Uni­ versity, Ohio. His other e x p erien ce in c lu d es three years at the Penn­ sylvania State U niver­ sity Libraries as periodi­ cals li b r a r ia n a n d as assistan t lib ra ria n for John K. Am rhein C o m m o n w e a lth c a m ­ puses a n d c o n tin u in g education. D uring his 13 years at Kutztown Uni­ versity, the library collection tripled in size, interli­ brary loan increased by 1400 %, and a com prehen­ sive b ib lio g ra p h ic in s tru c tio n p ro g ra m w as developed. Am rhein holds a bachelor’s degree from D u ­ quesne University, an MLS from the University of P ittsb u rg h , and a m a ster’s in philosophy from Pennsylvania State University. He contributed the philosophy chapter to the second and third editions of Bill K atz’s Magazines for Libraries (1972 & 1978). E llen H offman has been named director of li­ braries at York University, Downsview, Ontario, effective May 1. She was assistant director for p u b ­ lic services at York and had served as acting di­ rector since 1,983. Her previous experi­ ence includes positions as referen ce lib ra ria n (1 9 7 5 -1 9 7 8 ), h e a d of the Reference D e p a rt­ ment (1973-1975), and A tkinson a n d u n d e r ­ g ra d u a te lib r a r ia n (1971-1973) a t York. From 1966 to 1971 she worked at Yale Univer­ Ellen H offm an sity Library. She holds b a c h e lo r’s (1965) and MLS (1966) degrees from the University of Wiscon­ sin, Madison. Hoffman is currently a member of the ACRL Membership Committee and the LAMA Statistics for College and University Libraries Committee, and has been a member of the ALA Reference and S u b sc rip tio n Books R eview C o m m itte e . In 1982-1983 she was a participant in the ARL/OMS C o n s u lta n t T ra in in g P ro g ra m . H o ffm a n has served as chair of the O ntario Geac User Group and is a member of the C anadian Library Associa­ tion. Stanton F. Biddle, associate director for plan­ ning and development at the State University of New York at Buffalo, has been named chief lib rar­ ian at Baruch College of the City University of New York, effective April 30. Biddle was aw arded the first ACRL/ISI Dissertation Fellowship in 1983 for