ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL News ■ N ovem ber 2002 /  743

Grant and Acquisitions

Ann-Christe Galloway

The General Libraries o f the University
of Texas-Austin has b e e n  aw ard ed  $192,268 by 
th e  Texas T elecom m unications Infrastructure 
F u n d  (a sta te  p ro g ra m  to fo ste r a n  a d v a n c e d  
telecom m unications infrastructure) to further 
th e  d e v e lo p m e n t o f th e  T ex a s A rchival 
R esources O n lin e  (TARO) program . TARO is 
d e sig n ed  to assist scholars a n d  citizens across 
Texas in locating im portant archival m aterials 
re la tin g  to th e  h isto ry , c u ltu re , social, a n d  
e c o n o m ic  c o n d itio n s o f th e  state. See h t tp : / /  
ta ro .lib .u te x a s .e d u / for m ore inform ation.

SOLINET has been awarded tw o  grants
from the National E ndow m ent for the Hum ani­
ties (NEH) for preservation programs. A $580,000 
grant will go toward continued support of preser­
vation field services a n d  a $700,000 grant will 
support a cooperative preservation microfilming 
project. SOLINET is a nonprofit organization serv­
ing m ore than 2,300 libraries in 10 Southeastern 
states and the Caribbean.

The Inform ation Institute of Syracuse
at Syracuse U n iv e rsity ’s School o f In fo rm a ­
tio n  Studies has b e e n  a w a rd e d  a $5 m illion, 
five-year co n tra ct from  th e  U.S. D e p artm en t 
of Education to o perate the departm ent’s Edu­
cation Digital Library Initiative. T he contract 
com bines the w o rk  o f the institute’s G atew ay 
to  E d u c a tio n a l M aterials a n d  V irtual R efer­
ence D esk projects.

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

A m erican n ovelist James Ellroy has
d o n a te d  a m ajor g ro u p  o f re sea rc h  m aterials 
fo r his lite ra ry  a rc h iv e s at th e  U n iversity o f 
South Carolina’s (USC) Thomas C ooper Library. 
Ellroy, author of 15 books, including The B lack 
D a h lia  (1987), L.A. C o n fid e n tia l (1990) , and 
the m em o ir M y D a r k  Places (1 9 9 6 ), se lec te d  
USC as the hom e for his literary papers in 1999. 
Since then, Ellroy has ad d ed  a second group of 
p a p e rs a n d  Richard Layman, a USC alum nus, 
has donated the autograph manuscripts for L A .

Confidential and Ellroy’s novel White J a z z  (1992). 
This sum m er, Ellroy m ade a third m ajor d o n a ­
tion: th e  m anuscript a n d  m ultiple typescripts 
fo r h is la te st n o v e l The C old S ix  T h o u s a n d  
(2001); file c o p ie s o f his m agazine co n trib u ­
tio n s; m o re  th a n  300 d iffe re n t e d itio n s , 
reprintings, and translations o f his books; and 
a larg e c o lle c tio n  o f  fram e d  p o ste rs, p h o to ­
graphs, a nd o ther visual materials.

Author and music historian Frank Driggs
has d o n a te d  his collection of oral histories to 
the Miller Nichols Library at th e  U niversity o f 
M issouri-Kansas City. T he oral histories, c o n ­
d u c te d  from  1956 to  1986, cap tu re  the truths 
o f the developm ent of jazz as related by a host 
o f m usicians a n d  b a n d  le a d e rs w h o  d e fin e d  
the tradition. T he collection includes oral his­
to rie s by A ndy Kirk, B u ste r Sm ith, G e n e  
Ramey, T h am o n  H ayes, Je ss e  Stone, a n d  Ed 
Lewis; m any of them  survive as the only know n 
record o f a m usician’s experiences a n d  voice. 
T h e  375 o ra l h isto rie s, h o u s e d  in  th e  M arr 
Sound Archives, have b een inventoried (http:// 
w w w .um kc.edu/lib/spec-col/driggs_inv.htm ) 
a n d  are in the process of being preserved a nd 
m ade available for research and scholarship.

The U niversity a t A lb a n y  has been
n a m e d  th e  official re p o s ito ry  o f  th e  WAMC 
Radio station’s program s, new sletters, p h o to ­
g ra p h s, a n d  o th e r archival m aterials. WAMC 
produces m ore nationally syndicated programs 
than any National Public Radio syndicate out­
side the h o m e  station. T he WAMC collection 
consists o f m ore than 1,000 o p e n  reel a n d  cas­
sette tapes of original radio program m ing g o­
ing back to 1977. The collection includes m any 
pro g ram s p ro d u c e d  in A lbany b ut h e a rd  n a ­
tionally and internationally, including “The Best 
o f O u r K n ow ledge,” “T he B ook S how ,” “T he 
Capitol C o n n e ctio n ,” a n d  “T he E nvironm ent 
S how .” A dditional recordings include special 
events, folk festivals, a n d  c o v era g e  for local 
a n d  state political e v e n ts .

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