May 2015 285 C&RL News

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The University of California-Irvine (UCI) 
Libraries were awarded a $36,531 grant from 
the National Endowment for the Humani-
ties (NEH), to expand projects that provide 
an essential underpinning for scholar-
ship, education, and programming in the 
humanities. The grant will allow the UCI 
Libraries Research Resources division to 
work strategically with other library divi-
sions, university academic units, faculty, 
and community partners to further facilitate 
student use of cultural materials, rare col-
lections, and digital technology. The UCI 
Libraries has created a task force—headed 
by John Renaud, assistant university librarian 
for research resources, and with oversight 
from an NEH program manager—around the 
implementation of programs and resources 
funded by this grant. 

The University of Miami’s Cuban Heritage 
Collection (CHC) has received a $2 million gift 
from The Goizueta Foundation. In 2010, Ani-
ta Casavantes Bradford, a doctoral student at 
the University of California-San Diego, went 
to Miami to conduct historical research as 
part of the inaugural class of the Graduate 
Fellowship Program. Her work, and that of 
many other emerging scholars who have 
taken part in the program, inspired the gift 
from The Goizueta Foundation that will lead 
to the program’s expansion and permanent 
establishment at CHC. A part of Momen-
tum2: The Breakthrough Campaign for the 
University of Miami, $1 million of this gift 
will endow The Goizueta Foundation Gradu-
ate Fellowship Program, allowing CHC to 
continue awarding research opportunities to 
doctoral candidates from across the United 

States. Additionally, The Goizueta Founda-
tion has challenged the University of Miami 
to raise $500,000 in support of CHC. Once 
these funds are secured, the foundation will 
match with a gift of $1 million for the second 
endowment to support the continued growth 
of CHC’s collections through acquisitions, 
preservation, and digitization. 

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

Frederick Fried Coney Island Collection,  
an array of memorabilia, photographs, 
blueprints, and other resources that docu-
ment the rise and decline of one of New 
York City’s most iconic entertainment 
destinations, as well as a laboratory for 
modern commercialized urban culture, 
has been acquired by Columbia Univer-
sity Libraries/Information Services Rare 
Book and Manuscript Library. The Coney 
Island collection—already processed and 
in use by researchers—consists of mate-
rial created and collected by Frederick 
Fried (1908–94) and William F. Mangels 
(1867–1958) in the course of document-
ing and writing about the history of the 
amusement industry and the public culture 
of Coney Island, in Brooklyn. It includes 
32 feet of photographic materials, draw-
ings, blueprints, newspaper and magazine 
clippings, research notes, published and 
unpublished writings, brochures, printed 
advertisements, correspondence, trade lit-
erature, sheet music, and ephemera. The 
photographic content ranges from “Bathing 
Beauties” to “Amusements” to “Freakshow” 
performers. Blueprints and architectural 
drawings in the collection give detailed 
designs for rollercoasters, carousels, min-
iature railroads, and other amusement rides 
and pleasure pavilions. 

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