ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


604/C&RL News

Grants
and

Acquisitions

Hugh Thompson

Arkansas Tech Univer­
sity, Russellville, Arkansas 
has received a grant o f $12.4 
million from the Donald W. 
Reynolds Foundation for the 
construction o f the Ross 
P e n d e rg ra ft Library and 
Technology Center. The gift 
will fund construction, fur­
nishings, and equipment for 
a three-story facility o f ap­
proximately 77,000 square 
feet. Services to be provided 
will include those o f the tra­
ditional collection-based li­
brary as well as leading-edge, technology-based 
informational and instructional services with 
worldwide linkages and accessibility.

Duke University's Perkins Library has 
been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the 
E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation 
o f Richmond, Virginia, to improve the student 
computer and reading rooms, to provide new 
work areas, and to expand stack space. The 
grant launches a long-term plan to enhance the 
library and its collections.

East Central University in A d a, O k la ­
homa, has received a grant o f $500,000 from 
the Ford Family Foundation in Oregon, a gift 
made possible by 1930 graduate Hallie Brown 
Ford. The funds will be used to furnish and 
equip the new  60,000-square-foot Linscheid Li­
brary now  under construction. A  stipulation o f 
the grant requires the university to raise 
$250,000 in matching funds for computer en­
hancement projects on campus.

Louisiana State U niversity Libraries’
Special Collections Division has received a grant 
o f $5,075 to support conservation and exhibi­
tion o f its copy o f Edward Lear’s Illustrations o f 
the Family o f  Psittacidae, or Parrots (London, 
1830– 1832). The funding, which was awarded 
by the Arts Council o f Greater Baton Rouge, 
will support de-acidification and preservation 
o f the 42 hand-colored lithographs in Lear’s 
portfolio, which is part o f the E. A. Mcllhenny 
Natural History Collection.

O k lah om a State U niversity Libraries
have received a grant o f almost $217,000 from

an Oklahoma foundation to 
fund Phase III o f the Okla­
homa Research and Commu­
nity Library (ORACL) Net­
work. The ORACL network 
uses state-of-the-art software, 
PACLink, to give libraries 
access to each other’s online 
catalogs and databases and 
makes them appear as one 
catalog to the user. With 
Phase III, a total o f 11 Okla­
homa libraries and systems 
w ill be connected.

The University o f M aryland at College
Park (UMCP) Libraries have been awarded a 
$10,000 grant from the Summerlee Foundation 
o f Dallas to preserve and make more acces­
sible the papers o f the w ell-know n author 
Katherine Anne Porter, w ho characterized her­
self as “the first and only serious writer that 
Texas has produced.” During the 1960s Porter 
donated her entire personal library and much 
o f her vast collection o f papers to UMCP Li­
braries. The Porter Papers are a rich source for 
the study o f Texas history and the literary, in­
tellectual, social, and political history o f this 
century. Funds from the Summerlee grant will 
enable the libraries to reprocess the papers so 
that a portion o f them can be microfilmed.

The University o f North Dakota, Grand
Forks, Library has received a sixth consecutive 
grant from the International Council for Cana­
dian Studies and the Canadian Consulate Gen­
eral in Minneapolis to purchase materials rel­
evant to Canadian studies. The grants, which 
include a matching component, have allowed 
the libraries to acquire Canadian publications 
valued at more than $30,000.

A c q u isitio n s
A  photographic collection on the his­
tory o f Washington, D.C., “Washington, D.C., 
Then and Now: The Photographic Legacy o f 
Charles Suddarth Kelly,” has been acquired by 
George Washington University’s Gelman Li­
brary. The collection includes a series o f pho­



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tographs taken by J. Harry Shannon, a journal­
ist w ho began working at Washington’s Sun­
day Star in 1890 and used the photos as illus­
trations for his Rambler column, which he wrote
between 1912 and 1927. More than 230 o f
Shannon’s original glass negatives are in the
collection. Also included are more than 500
postcards, some rare, with street scenes and
buildings and a large concentration o f photos
from the period 1898 through 1918. Kelly’s origi­
nal photographs, taken in the late 1970s and
early 1980s, show the Old Post Office Build­
ing, the Washington Monument, the Smithso­
nian Castle, and the U.S. Capitol.

Historical records documenting the cre­
ation o f N ew  England’s oldest and largest pro­
vider o f AIDS services have been acquired by
the Northeastern University Library’s Special
Collections Department. The records, donated
by the AIDS Action Committee, date to the
committee’s founding in 1983 and document
the social, economic, and political barriers that
served to impede society’s response to the AIDS 
epidemic.

The library and archives o f Southern
California fine printer Ward Ritchie have been
acquired by the University o f California, Los
Angeles’ William Andrews Clark Memorial Li­
brary. Included are books by François-Louis
Schmied (1873– 1941), the French art deco book
designer and woodcut artist. Ritchie appren­
ticed for a year in Schmied’s atelier during the
latter’s most productive period. The collection
gives insights into Ritchie’s working methods
as w ell as his associations with Merle Armitage, 
Lawrence Clark Powell, and other figures in
the Southwest book scene at mid-century.

A  rare first edition co p y o f Thom as
W olfe’s Look Homeward, Angel has been do­
nated to the North Carolina Collection at the
University o f North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 
W olfe’s alma mater. The university’s Thomas
W olfe Collection includes more than 15,000
manuscripts, books, and other items, and a rep­
lica o f a bedroom from W olfe’s childhood home
in Asheville. The inscribed copy, which W olfe
presented to his mother, is dated October 15,

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1929, three days before the official publication 
date. Included with the gift are five other vol­
umes— three copies o f O f Time and the River 
and tw o copies o f From Death to Morning,

Photo 

credit: 
Dan 
Sears, 
UNC-CH 

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Thomas W olfe’s inscription to his 
mother in a first edition o f his Look 
Homeward, Angel at the University o f 
North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

which were inscribed for the author’s mother 
and sisters.

A  m ajor collection o f books printed in 
the 20th century, including materials published 
in history, politics, and foreign affairs, has been 
donated to the University o f North Dakota’s 
Chester Fritz Library. The gift, which was made 
by Donald Augustin, an alumnus o f the univer­
sity, numbers more than 10,000 volumes.

The Schαntz/Russell Family Papers, five 
linear feet o f archival materials documenting 
the lives o f two families from 1840 to 1960 in 
Waterloo County, Ontario, have been acquired 
by the University o f Waterloo Library. More than 
1,000 letters provide insight into the lives of 
local pioneer families, and diaries, daybooks, 
business ledgers, and correspondence o f Tobias 
Shantz highlight his career as a nursery-stock 
salesman and itinerant book agent. Included in 
the more than 800 monographs are examples 
o f 19th-century Canadiana, many ornamental 
Victorian publisher’s bindings, books on horti­
culture, early school texts, scarce local imprints, 
and a large selection o f Victorian literature. ■

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