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

Ed. note: Send your grants and acquisitions to Ann-
Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, email: 
agalloway@ala.org.

LYRASIS was awarded $1.2 million by the 
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support 
the next stage of community growth and 
technical development of CollectionSpace. 
CollectionSpace is the only collections 
management system led by a nonprofit 
and designed with input from the com-
munity. It offers forward-looking features 
that include mobile-friendly displays, an 
open application program interface, and 
a multitude of custom profiles for muse-
ums and other institutions that hold art, 
artifact, object, and specimen collections 
of all types and sizes. This new three-year 
award will fund three key areas to further 
the CollectionSpace build-out: user com-
munity expansion, accelerating progress 
on the technical roadmap, and the addition 
of staff to ensure continued high levels 
of service.

The UCL A Librar y has received a $5.5  
million grant from Arcadia, a charitable 
fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, 
to launch Documenting Global Voices. This 
new international initiative will preserve 
at-risk cultural heritage materials and make 
them publicly available online on a UCLA-
hosted website. Through Documenting 
Global Voices, the library will award grants 
to archives and cultural heritage organiza-
tions around the world. The program will 
focus on regions with limited capacity for 
preservation and where archival materials 
may be in danger of being lost. Document-
ing Global Voices complements the British 
Library’s Endangered Archives Programme, 
also funded by Arcadia, which provides 
grants to preserve materials from the pre-
industrial era. The new initiative’s contents 
will include rare and unique materials of 

historical, cultural, and social significance 
dating from post-industrialization to the 
present. The first call for proposals opens 
December 1, 2018. 

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

The Stanford Libraries have acquired a 
copy of Thomas Laird’s Murals of Tibet, 
published by TASCHEN Books. This rare 
498-paged item, measuring 19.7 by 27.6 
inches and featuring a number of life-
size reproductions of Tibetan Buddhist 
murals, is one of only a thousand copies 
produced. Murals of Tibet was produced 
by photographer Thomas Laird, who has 
been working in the Himalayas since 
the 1970s. For the past ten years he has 
been working to create life-size images 
of Tibetan Buddhist wall mural paintings, 
which have been displayed in galleries 
and private collections across the world. 
Murals of Tibet features images from the 
monasteries of Drathang, Gongkar Chode, 
Jokhang, Shalu, the Lukhang Temple, 
Jonang, Samye, Gyantse Palkor, the Potala 
Palace, Sakya, Drepung, and Nechung. 
These images are organized in a sequence 
that approximates the route that pilgrims 
might have taken when going on pilgrim-
age to these important sites of Tibetan 
Buddhist learning and practice. Captured 
using multi-image capture techniques, the 
paintings are reproduced in high-quality 
using five colors of ink, including gold. 
The volume is accompanied by a 528-page 
scholarly companion volume including 
contributions from Buddhologists such as 
Robert Thurman, Heather Stoddard, and 
Jacob Winkler. Murals of Tibet is available 
for viewing at the Bowes Art & Architec-
ture Library. To access it, place a request 
for viewing with the Bowes Library staff at 
the circulation/reference desk.  

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