ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C&RL News ■ JulyI A u g u st 1999 / 569 Ann-Christe Young Brandeis University has been awarded a $150,000 g rant from th e H ew lett F o u n d atio n to e n h a n c e its g en eral e d u c a tio n p ro g ram by stren g th en in g interdisciplinary teaching. T he H ew lett F o u n d atio n w ill pro v id e th e grant for a three-year period w ith m atching su p p o rt from Brandeis. T he g rant will s u p p o rt a series o f faculty w o rk s h o p s d e sig n e d to stim ulate discussion o n cam pus o f teaching specific topics o r issues across th e disciplines. F unding will also su p p o rt innovative faculty projects that are multidisciplinary an d teach students to question inform ation from a variety o f sources. Texas A&M University has been awarded a $500,00 grant from the Ford Motor C om pany to su p p o rt the d ev elo p m en t a n d o p eratio n o f th e T exas A&M Digital Library (TAMUDL) project— a joint project w ith Silicon G raphics, Inc. (SGI). TAMUDL is d ed ica ted to th e p res­ ervation o f rare an d fragile collections. A n­ c h o re d b y th e SGI O rigin 2000 server, th e li­ brary will p ro v id e m em b ers o f th e university com m unity w ith a highly accessible, co m p re­ hensive, a n d sh ared resource that will address their individual digitization needs. U n iversity o f Sou th C aro lin a fa cu lty m em bers— B ob Skinder, C aroline Eastm an, Rich S how m an, an d D avid W ethey— have re­ ceived a Bell South G rant for $4,930. T he grant will fu n d th e project “A utom ated C ollection and Exploitation o f Internet-based D atabases.” This project will u se intelligent search agents to target th e num erous biological databases on the Internet. T he biologists will th e n analyze the databases according to their scope, variety, an d o th er variables. Finally, th e databases will b e p lace d o n th e TCL E lectronic S cience Li­ brary page, w h e re th ey will b e in teg rated for classroom an d laboratory use. The University of Maryland was awarded $477,000 to su p p o rt th e p reserv atio n o f the G o rd o n W. P range Collection. F unds will b e earm ark ed fo r th e n e w sp a p e r m icrofilm ing project, w hich has b e e n in progress for several years. T h e P ran g e N e w sp a p e r C ollection in­ cludes 16,000 n e w sp a p e r an d new sletter titles p u b lish e d in J a p a n du rin g th e years im m edi­ ately follow ing W orld W ar II (1945-49). Indiana University Libraries have received a $1 million bequest from Johanna Lenz Mendel to create the M endel Visiting Fellowship at the Lilly Library. T h e p ro g ram will p ro v id e s u p ­ p o rt for visiting scholars w h o se research will b enefit from access to th e M endel Collection. T he collection includes materials from th e Eu­ ro p e a n p resen ce in th e Americas, th e Spanish colonial empire, the independence movem ents in Latin America, m usic, a n d G erm an history an d literature. Mendel, an accom plished singer, em igrated from Austria w ith h e r husband (book collector B ernardo M endel) to Bogata, Colum ­ bia in 1928. B e rn a rd o ’s p u rch ase o f th e anti­ q u a ria n b o o k firm L athrop C. H arper, Inc., ob lig ed th e M endels to m o v e to th e U nited States in the 1950s. The U n iv e rsity o f P e n n sy lv a n ia has receiv ed a $77,720 grant, w hich includes a $15,000 m atching req u irem en t that the library m ust raise, from th e N ational E ndow m ent for the Humanities. T he grant will catalog an d pre­ serve th e p ap ers, recordings, a n d p erso n al m em orabilia o f th e L o n don-born c o n d u c to r L eopold Stokowski. Stokow ski h e lp e d to lead th e P hiladelphia O rch estra to international p ro m in e n c e du rin g his te n u re as c o n d u c to r from 1912 to 1941. H e is m ost w id ely rem em ­ bered as the musical inspiration behind the 1940 D isney classic “Fantasia,” a n d as the orchestra- to r o f som e o f J. S. Bach’s greatest organ works. A m ultim edia exhibition, “Leopold Stokowski: M aking Music M atter,” is lo cated o n th e W eb a t h t t p ://w w w .lib ra ry .u p e n n .e d u /s p e c ia l / gallery/stokow ski. The U n iversity o f Illin o is at C h icag o (UIC) has receiv ed a $64,910 Library Services an d T echnology Act (LSTA) grant for a project E d . n o t e : Send y o u r new s to : G rants & A cq u isitio ns, C&RL News, 5 0 E. H u ro n S t, Chicago, IL 606 11-2795; e- m a il: a you n g @ ala .o rg . G r a n t s a n d A c q u i s i t i o n s http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/ mailto:ayoung@ala.org 570 / C&RL News ■ July/August 1999 to a d d catalog records for 35,500 m edical m onographs in its collection to the university’s online catalog (UICCAT), ILLINET Online, and OCLC’s WorldCat database. T he aw ard will enable the UIC library to com plete the trans­ fer o f records from the card catalog to UICCAT and to other online databases. UICCAT cur­ ren tly in clu d es ap p ro x im ately 1.4 m illion records for books, journals, new spapers, mi­ croforms, documents, theses, and AV resources. The U n iversity o f G eorgia (UG) has received a $40,000 gift from the Thom as M. Kirbo an d Irene B. Kirbo Charitable Trust to assist in the preservation o f hom e movies that sp an three decades o f life in southw estern Georgia. The movies, filmed by th e late An­ drew Avery Sr., an educator from Bainbridge, capture educational, social, agricultural, busi­ ness, a n d religious history from the 1930s through the 1950s. The 25 rolls w ere donated by the Avery family in 1996 to the UG Librar­ ies’ Media Archives. A c q u i s i t i o n s First and early editions of Mozart and B eethoven have b een acquired by W ashington University, formerly the property o f British musicologist Alan Tyson. Tyson is k n ow n for his studies o f music from the classical period, especially the compositional practices o f Haydn, M ozart, B e e th o v e n , a n d C lem en ti. T h e collection is cataloged an d is part of the G aylord Special Collections. While the 168 Mozart editions are all posthum ous, m any o f them are first editions, since m uch o f his music w as still unpublished at his death. The 100 B eethoven editions contain many first editions as well, especially of the orchestral w orks and string quartets. The collection also provides valuable material for the study o f music printing at the time. To view the catalog, visit h ttp :// library.wustl.edu/Catalog and search “Tyson, Alan Form er O w ner” as a n author. Tw enty-one volu m e s o f 17th- and 18th-century astronom y b ooks have b een acquired by the Milton S. Eisenhow er Library at Johns H opkins University. Put on deposit in the Special Collections D epartm ent by Ethan T. Vishniac, professor of Physics and Astronomy, an d Ilene Busch-Vishniac, dean of the School o f Engineering, the collection includes Peter A pian’s 1540 C osm ographia re p le te w ith volvelles— m ovable p a p e r circles u se d to calculate planetary activities. A nother volum e is Nicolaus Copernicus’s 1566 second edition o f D e Revolutionibus O rbium Coelestium, in w hich he mathematically resolves planetary orbits and shifts understanding o f the rotation o f the universe from the Earth to the sun. Also included in the collection are books by Brahe, Gassendi, Huygens, Galileo, Ptolemy, and Sacro Bosco. J o h n G a y ’ s B e g g a r ’s O p e ra w a s donated to th e Illinois W esleyan University Library. The gift w as the w orking collection o f Professor William Eben Schultz, author o f G a y’s Beggar’s Opera: Its Content, History a n d Influence, an d given to the university by his daughter June E. Schultz. The collection consists o f virtually every printing of the Beggar’s Opera through I960, first editions o f m any of Gay’s other w orks, an d first editions o f the w orks of o ther im portant authors for the British Theatre in the 18th century. General W illiam Westmoreland, who served in W orld War II, Korea, an d Vietnam, has left the bulk o f his lifetime papers to the University o f South Carolina. T he papers, dated from 1917 to the present, include letters to the general from four U.S. presidents, books about the w ars he participated in, a draft of his autobiography, comm unications from soldiers w h o served u n d er his com m and, and legal docum ents concerning his libel suit against the Colum bia B roadcasting System. O nly th e general’s Vietnam papers are missing, as these w ere previously d o nated to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin, Texas. ■ C o rre c tio n In th e Ju n e 1999 “A bout th e cover” (p. 433), a painting o f “T he Louisiana State­ ho u se in 1882,” w e stated that the paint­ ing: “… attracted the derision o f Mark T w ain, w h o c o n d e m n e d it as a ‘sham castle’ inspired by th e m edieval rom ances o f Sir Walter Raleigh.” It should have b een the rom ances of Sir W alter Scott. The edi­ tors regret the error. library.wustl.edu/Catalog C&RL News ■ July/August 1999 / 571 M issed T hese R ecent, Live S atellite T eleconferences? 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