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

The UCLA Library has received a $750,000 
grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Founda­
tion to catalog more than 55,000 rare books 
and make them more accessible to users. 
The project will involve two concurrent ef­
forts focused on rare books in the Charles 
E. Young Research Library Department of 
Special Collections. One effort will create 
online catalog records for some 25,000 
items in a variety of languages and subjects 
that currently have no online record. Many 
of them were acquired before UCLA hold­
ings went online in 1977. The other effort 
will address a cataloging backlog involv­
ing more than 30,000 items acquired since 
1977. The catalog records will be loaded 
into the UCLA Library Catalog (catalog. 
library.ucla.edu) and also into the na­

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tional database OCLC/WorldCat. This will 
make them discoverable by Internet users 
worldwide. 

Acquisitions 

The papers of novelist Kent Haruf have been 
acquired by the Huntington Library, Art Col­
lections, and Botanical Gardens. The Haruf 
archive includes extensive corrected drafts of 
novels and stories, plus correspondence with 
publishers and editors, as well as letters from 
such fellow authors as T. C. Boyle, John Irving, 
Tracy Kidder, Howard Mosher, and Annie 
Proulx. Plainsong (1999) is Haruf’s best­known 
work, which was a National Book Award 
finalist and a Notable Book of the Year for 
both the New York Times and the Los Angeles 
Times. Haruf was awarded the Hemmingway 
Foundation/PEN Citation for his fi rst novel, 
The Tie That Binds (1984). 

C&RL News November 2008  646 

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