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The University of California-San Diego, New 
York University, and the University of Illinois 
at Urbana-Champaign Libraries are teaming 
up to develop a next-generation archival 
management tool, thanks to a grant in the 
amount of $539,000 from the Andrew W. 
Mellon Foundation. The grant will support 
the planning and design of a new software 
tool for the description and management of 
archives, based on the combined capabili-
ties of Archivists’ Toolkit 
and Archon. The two 
predominant open-source 
archival tools are cur-
rently used by numerous 
academic libraries, special 
collections, archives, and 
museums worldwide, in-
cluding universities like 
UCLA and Harvard, the 
Metropolitan Museum of 
Art, and the San Diego 
Zoo. 

The Robert L. Ganyard  
Library Endowment has 
been established at the 
University of Wisconsin-
Green Bay by Debra Ann 
Reilly, medical director of 
the University of Nebras-
ka Medical Center Burn and Wound Center 
in Omaha. The gift honors the memory of 
Reilly’s stepfather, Robert L. Ganyard (who 
was emeritus associate professor of history 
at SUNY-Buffalo), was a teacher, researcher, 
author of The Emergence of North Carolina’s 
Revolutionary State Government (1978), 
and voracious reader. The endowment will 
provide funds to support the mission of the 
Cofrin Library and was established intention-
ally to provide the director the flexibility to 

determine how best to use the spendable 
endowment earnings that will be available 
each year. 

Acquisitions

African American Legacy: The Carol Mundy 
Collection has been acquired by the Uni-

versity of Central Florida 
Libraries. The collection 
was assembled over a 
period of 17 years of 
intensive research by 
Carol Mundy, an avid 
collector. She began col-
lecting about 1993 with a 
purchase of a 1901 edi-
tion of the Complete Life 
of William McKinley and 
Story of His Assassina-
tion. Inside the book, she 
discovered a yellowed 
document from 1870. 
It was correspondence 
from the U.S. Army to 
a soldier in the tenth 
Cavalry, known today 
as the Buffalo Soldiers. 
This discovery sparked 

Mundy’s passion to preserve black culture and 
heritage. The collection consists of books and 
pamphlets, magazines and periodicals, pho-
tographs, and images, illustrations, and docu-
ments and papers. The pre-1800 papers and 
documents consist of noteworthy collections of 
images and documents from the slavery era, in-
cluding pre-Civil War daguerreotypes and glass 
lantern slides; Civil War era illustrated covers; 
an assortment of lithographic images depict-
ing scenes from the slavery era; published 
speeches and articles related to the political 
turmoil that the issue of slavery produced; 
more than two dozen vintage newspapers; and 
original legal documents related to slavery. 

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

One of the more than 600 photographic 
portraits of average individuals and well-
known personalities in the University of 
Central Florida’s Carol Mundy Collection. 

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