ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL News ■ December 2003 /  765

G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n s Ann-Christe Galloway

Co lu m b ia  U n iv e rsity  w a s a w ard ed  
$129,025 for a tw o-year project to rerecord 
2,000 hours o f at-risk recordings docum enting 
Jewish experiences in Europe an d  New York, 
as well as local history, culture, an d  social 
developm ents in New York State during the 
20th century. The recordings com e from 
Columbia University, the State University of 
New York-Binghamton, and the University of 
Rochester. The library is also a participant in 
a se co n d  p ro ject aw a rd e d  $81,000 an d  
m anaged by the University o f Rochester. The 
aw ard, for th e p rese rv a tio n  o f historic 
photographs 2003-2004, will address older 
photographic collections on unstable film 
bases and acidic photographic pap er mounts. 
They will preserve and m ake accessible these 
valuable collections by g enerating copy 
negatives, contact print “reference” copies, 
a n d  n e w  arch iv al m a ste rs as n e e d e d . 
Specifically, Columbia’s role in this project will 
be to preserve historical film negatives and 
prints from the Avery Architectural and Fine 
Arts Library, the Samuel Gottscho Collection, 
and the Empire State Building Archive.

New  Je rse y  State  Lib ra ry  an d  R u tg e rs 
University have b ee n  aw arded a $460,000 
Institute o f Museum and Library Services 
grant to build “The N ew  Jersey  Digital 
Highway,” a portal to the state’s historical and 
cultural heritage materials. The grant will 
focus o n  accessing an d  u sing digitized 
collections of materials available in libraries, 
historical societies, museums, an d  archives 
around the state so that educators, students, 
and the public can have access to these 
materials online for their research and personal 
use. Rutgers University Libraries will build the 
portal and technical infrastructure to support 
and house the New Jersey Digital Highway. 
The first collection, w hich will b e built by 
contributions from many institutions, is “The 
Changing Face o f Newjersey: The Immigration 
Experience from Earliest Times to the Present. ”

SOLINET received a $50,000 g ra n t from  
the A ndrew W. Mellon F oundation to extend

the reach o f its regional Preservation Field 
Services program. Preservation Field Services 
p ro v id es e d u c atio n al a n d  in form ational 
services to  libraries, archives, historical 
societies, an d  oth er organizations in the 
Southeast to improve the ability of institutions 
to preserve and provide access to their 
information resources for as long as they are 
n eed ed  and useful. During the grant, experts 
will w ork w ith SOLINET staff to develop tools 
and content that will speak effectively to 
uninform ed com munities about the benefits 
of preservation in an institutional context and 
will seek to identify additional opportunities 
for raising awareness, linking institutions to 
information, training, and other programs 
that can help improve preservation planning 
and practice. The impact an d  effectiveness 
of the outreach program  will be m easured 
over 24 months.

North Carolin a State  U niversity (NCSU) 
Libraries has received a $270,000 grant from 
the National Science Foundation to develop 
InsideWood, an extensive, Internet-accessible 
w o o d  an a to m y  re se a rc h  d atab a se. The 
funding for InsideW ood covers w ork at both 
NCSU Libraries an d  the College o f Natural 
R eso u rces o v er a tw o -y ea r tim e sp an . 
InsideW ood will build o n  existing databases, 
sp ecim en  collections, an d  p h o to g rap h ic 
images at NCSU an d  other institutions. NCSU 
holds 6,916 database records covering extant 
and fossil angiosperms, extant conifers, and 
h ardw ood fibers (these records are available 
on computer diskette but not over the Internet), 
31,919 w o o d  samples, 4,000 m icroscope 
slides, an d  4,050 photom icrographs collected 
over the past 114 years. Project researchers 
will create a W eb site w ith nonexclusive, 
o p en  architecture to allow for long-term 
sustainability o f th e d atab ase for w o o d  
identification.

Ed. n o te : S end y o u r  n e w s  to : G ra n ts & A cq u is itio n s , 
C&RL News, 50 E. H u ro n  S t, C hicago, IL 60611-2795; e- 
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766 / C&RL News ■ December 2003

A c q u i s i t i o n s

The pap ers o f fo rm e r ch ie f U.S. arm s 
control negotiator Ambassador Paul C. Wamke 
h a v e  b e e n  a c q u ir e d  b y  G e o r g e to w n  
University’s Lauinger Library. Wamke, w ho 
died in October 2001 at the age of 81, served 
as the director of the U.S. Arms Control and 
Disarmament Agency (ACDA) and chief ne­
gotiator for the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks 
(SALT) during President Jimmy Carter’s ad­
ministration. The papers contain considerable 
evidence of the developm ent o f W arnke’s 
thought related to SALT, ACDA, and other top­
ics. In the texts o f his m any speeches and 
articles, found in this collection in both draft 
and final forms, the essential issues are pre­
sented in a m anner to inform and convince 
the interested layperson.

Eric Moe, senior com poser on the music 
faculty at the University o f Pittsburgh (UP), 
has donated his music manuscripts to UP’s 
T heodore M. Finney Music Library. The col­
lection includes sketches, fair-copies, and 
c o m p u te r - g e n e ra te d  h o lo g r a p h s  o f th e  
com poser’s w orks from the late 1970s to the 
present, including No Time Like the Present 
(1996), a com mission from Mariss Jansons 
and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Moe 
is the recipient of num erous awards, includ­
ing the Rhonda an d  Walter Lakond Award 
of the American Academy o f Arts and Let­
ters (2002), a G uggenheim  Fellowship, and 
grants from the Fromm Foundation, Meet- 
the-Com poser USA, and Koussevitzky Foun­
d a tio n , a m o n g  o th e r s . H is S o n n e ts  to 
Orpheus w as featured o n  the Works & Pro­
cess series at the G uggenheim  Museum in 
New York in 2000. A founding m em ber of 
the San Francisco-based EARPLAY ensemble, 
he currently codirects the Music o n  the Edge 
new  music concert series at the University 
o f Pittsburgh. Moe joined UP’s music fac­
ulty in 1989 as an associate professor and 
w as prom oted to full professor in 1999-

Civil rights attorney Alan Dershowitz has 
d o n ated  his p ap e rs to B rooklyn College. 
Dershowitz, a 1959 graduate of the college, 
w as president of Executive Council an d  the 
Forensic Society an d  captain of the debate 
team. He received an honorary degree of

Doctor of Laws from the college in 2001. The 
collected papers comprise over 1,000 boxes 
o f memos, manuscripts, letters, legal docu­
ments, clippings and artifacts. From his early 
days at Harvard Law School, w here he was 
appointed full professor at age 28 (the young­
est in the school’s history), Dershowitz’s ar­
chives contain the history o f hundreds of le­
gal, political, and social debates, including his 
w ork on the O.J. Simpson m urder trial, the 2 
Live Crew obscenity case, and the appeal of 
Claus von Bulow’s attem pted m urder convic­
tion— a high-profile case that becam e the ba­
sis of the movie Reversal o f  Fortune. A signifi­
cant am ount of material in the collection deals 
with Jewish-American issues. Dershowitz’s 19th 
and most recent book, The Case For Israel, is 
a vigorous defense in classic legal fashion of 
Israel’s right to exist.

A sia n  A m erican  w rite r Frank C hin has 
donated his manuscripts, letters, unpublished 
scripts, and other papers to the California Eth­
nic and Multicultural Archives, based at the 
University of Califomia-Santa Barbara (UCSB). 
Chin, a graduate o f UCSB, is the author of 
“The Chickencoop Chinaman,” the first play 
authored by an Asian American to b e pro­
duced on a New York stage. He has also writ­
ten other plays, novels, short stories, docu­
mentaries, and literary criticism. Chin is one 
of the founders of San Francisco’s highly ac­
claimed Asian American Theater Workshop, 
now  the Asian American Theater Company, 
w hich just celebrated its 30th anniversary.

A  co lle ctio n  o f m ate ria ls co n ce rn in g  
Jam es Beard, internationally kn o w n  co o k ­
b o o k  author an d  culinary educator, has b ee n  
donated to the Fales Collection at New York 
University’s Elmer Holmes Bobst Library. The 
collection, donated by restaurant consultant 
Clark Wolf, a longtim e friend o f th e late 
Beard, features letters to an d  articles by and 
about Beard, as well as photographs dating 
b ac k  to B eard ’s child h o o d . A ccording to 
Marvin Taylor, head of the Fales Collection, 
the letters w ere given to Wolf by B eard’s 
long-time personal assistant Emily Gilder, w ho 
h ad  rescued them  from the w astebasket b e ­
tw een their desks. Gilder gave them  to Wolf 
not long after B eard’s death in 1985 with 
instructions to “d o  the right thing w h en  the 
time com es.” ■