ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 94/C&RL News ject, date, publisher, and where the copies are held. Up to one-third o f the entries exist only as a single known copy. The University of Texas at Austin’s G rad­ uate School o f Library and Information Science has been granted $60,000 from the Tem ple Foundation, matching a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, to support the Preservation and Conservation Studies Program. The funds will be allocated to conservator stu­ dent stipends, which will allow qualified and talented students to complete the highly inten­ sive program for the training o f preservation administrators and conservators for library and archive materials. Acquisitions The p apers of A m erican poet Jam es Dickey, along with an extensive collection o f personal and professional items, have been acquired by the Special Collections Department o f Em ory University. The significant acquisi­ tion will be part o f the Floyd C. Watkins Ameri­ can Literary Manuscripts Collection. Personal correspondence from Robert Penn Warren, photos from the m ovie set o f Deliverance, and correspondence from his first w ife are some o f the items in more than 50 boxes o f materials. Familiar to many as the author o f the 1970 novel Deliverance, Dickey is first and foremost a poet. O ver his long career as a man o f letters, Dickey has published more than a dozen collections o f poems, as w ell as three novels. The collec­ tion includes hundreds o f drafts o f poems as w ell as multiple drafts o f his first two novels and other prose writings. The earliest literary manuscripts date from the early 1950s when Dickey was a young and unknown poet. The von Hunersdorf Collection, an impor­ tant library o f rare horse books representing five centuries o f equestrian thought, has been acquired by the National Sporting Library Ed. note: Entries in this column are taken from library newsletters, press releases, and other sources. To ensure that your grant and acquisition news is considered f o r publication, write to Pam Spie­ gel, Assistant Editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795. This illustration is from the Duke of Newcastle’s Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux (Antwerp, 1657), one of the highlights of the National Sporting Library’s new von Hunersdorf Collection. in Middleburg, Virginia. The collection, which features 205 titles in 11 languages, provides a rich selection o f major European texts on riding, training, breeding, cavalry, and veterinary medi­ cine from the Renaissance to the late 19th cen­ tury. The collection traces back to Ludwig Baron von Hunersdorf (1748-1812), a German riding master w ho in 1790 published his ow n treatise on equitation. Through the years, the books w ere passed down through the von Hunersdorf family and supplemented with additional ac­ quisitions. The Ohrstrom Foundation, N ew York, obtained the collection from Richard Baron von Hunersdorf, Ludwigs’s great-great- great grandson, and presented it to the National Sporting Library. The entire collection of the Bing Crosby Historical Society has been acquired by Foley Library at G onzaga University in Spokane, Washington, Crosby’s alma mater. The addi­ tion doubled Gonzaga’s previous collection, making it the w orld’s largest public collection on this entertainer. The items include over 800 78-rpm records, 200 LP albums, 100 books, 700 audiocassettes, 150 videotapes, sheet music, newsclippings, scrapbooks, Bing Crosby col­ oring books, his board game called “Call Me Lucky” (manufactured by Parker Brothers), empty pint cartons o f Bing Crosby Ice Cream, and hundreds o f individual photographs. One o f the highlights o f the collection is a health device called “Stretch to Your Health with the Stars,” a rubberized piece o f equipment in its original box. The library is planning renova­ tions o f the exhibit area in its Crosbyana Room. February 1994 /95 The archives of the Stra†emeyer Syndi­ cate, which includes materials from such clas­ sic children’s mystery and adventure favorites as the Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Bobbsey Twins, and Tom Swift series, has been acquired by the N ew Y o rk Public Library’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Division from Paramount Pub­ lishing. The syndicate was the brainchild o f Ed­ ward Stratemeyer, w h o got his start writing serial stories and dime novels, and w ho was known for having finished the works o f Horatio Alger after Alger’s death. The archives contain more than 7,000 books and 150 cartons, in­ cluding mint editions o f every book ever pub­ lished by the Syndicate, sales records, and out­ lines from numerous books. Books and journals relating to the study of Madagascar were acquired by the Melville J. Herskovits Library o f African Studies at N orth­ western University, Evanston, Illinois. They were donated by Mary Danielli, a scholar w ho first began the collection as a Cambridge Uni­ versity graduate student in the mid-1940s by advertising in out-of-print book magazines for books on Madagascar. The collection o f about 150 volumes includes rare early imprints as well as works in the Malagasy language. A large addition to the Sadakichi Hart­ mann collection was acquired by the U niver­ sity o f California, Riverside. Hartmann (1867- 1944) was an actor, writer, photographer, playwright, poet, lecturer, dancer, and critic o f the arts whose ideas were often ahead o f their time. The new acquisition includes a diary kept by his wife, a series o f pastels by Hartmann, a letter from Ezra Pound, the text o f a eulogy Hartmann gave on the death o f a young child, and photos from the set o f the movie The Thief o f Bagdad, in which Hartmann played the court magician. The collection also includes numer­ ous other photographs, a sculpture, and draw­ ings o f Hartmann by other artists. A 58,000-volume collection of children’s literature from the College & Research Librar­ ies (CRL) has been acquired by the library at th e U n iv e r s it y o f I lli n o is at U r b a n a - Champaign. The acquisition, combined with the more than 43,000 volumes o f children’s lit­ erature already held by the library, makes this the largest collection o f its kind outside o f the Library o f Congress. CRL’s collection dates from the association’s founding in 1949 and includes review copies received from the Center for Children’s Books. ■ (Internet cont.from page 89) This resource offers electronic access to the catalog o f all materials available from the Har­ vard Business School Publishing catalog. Al­ though the catalog is geared towards teaching faculty, students and those in corporate train­ ing and development will find it useful as well. 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