ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 390 / C&RL News News from th e Field Acquisitions • American University in Washington, D.C., has been given the papers o f the National Commis­ sion on the Public Service. The commission, known as the Voleker commission after its chair, former Federal Reserve chairman Paul A. Voleker, was created in 1987 to recom m end ways to improve the quality o f federal government civil servants. • Vanderbilt University’s Divinity Library has acquired the Judaica library and archives o f Rabbi Nahum Norbert Glatzer, thanks to the generous support o f Raymond and Arlene Zimmerman, with additional support from the Heard Library Society. The Judaica collection o f more than 4,100 items includes writings by the great 19th- and 20th- century German Jewish thinkers. The archive con­ sists o f Franz Rosenzweig manuscripts, correspon­ dence, and ephemera; Martin Buber manuscripts and correspondence; and correspondence b e ­ tween Glatzer and the Zunz and Ehrenberg fami­ lies. Also purchased with the collection are the Schocken Book Archives, several boxes o f materi­ als dealing with Schocken Books’ publications during Glatzer’s tenure as director. Grants • Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the University o f North Caro­ lina at Chapel Hill libraries have received a grant o f $100,000 for a two-year project as part o f the Council on Library Resources (CLR) program “ Setting Library Policies and Priorities in Research Universities.” Called “ Cooperative Information Resources Development: A Constituency Based Policy Analysis,” the project will seek to enhance and refine longstanding, successful, cooperative programs to develop research library collections and information services. The universities will study how to extend cooperative collection devel­ opment, particularly to the sciences and to elec­ tronic information, to develop mechanisms for ongoing faculty participation in cooperative infor­ mation resource development, and to recommend a general policy and funding framework for inter­ university collaboration in providing information services. Faculty, university administrators, and librarians from the three universities will partici­ pate in a series o f retreats to clarify the issues and to develop an action agenda for strong collaborative information policy in the future. The proximity o f the three Research Triangle university libraries makes the development o f creative strategies for cooperative access especially promising. • Eastern Washington University in Cheney has been awarded $416,700 over a five-year period, by the Department o f Education, to strengthen its holdings in support o f the liberal arts curriculum. The grant calls for the addition o f approximately 9,300 titles in Books fo r College Libraries. This effort will bring Eastern’s holdings o f the BCL from 51% to over 70%. • Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG ) has been awarded $175,000 by the Henry Luce Foun­ dation to support the third phase o f a cooperative project to establish an international online union catalog o f Chinese rare books in R L IN . The project will result in the creation o f machine-readable records for a total o f over 6,000 rare Chinese materials held by major North American institu­ tions, France’s Bibliotheque Nationale, andPeking University and the Chinese Academy o f Sciences, both in Beijing. • South Dakota State University Library in Brookings has received a grant o f $8,000 from the Mary Chilton D AR Foundation, Sioux Falls, to assist with the establishment o f a South Dakota room to house one o f the state’s largest collections o f South Dakota materials. The grant will be used to purchase lacunae, including municipal and county histories written within the past decade as many South Dakota communities celebrated their centennials. • The University o f Maine System libraries are currently implementing two grant programs. In association with the Maine State Library, the li­ braries have been awarded $56,950 by the Depart- June 1 9 9 1 / 391 ment o f Education under its Title II-D College Library Technology and Cooperation Grants Pro­ gram. The grant is for providing users o f the Uni­ versity o f Maine System online catalog access to the collections o f the major libraries o f the Maine Regional Library System. The holdings o f the Maine State Library and the Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library will be added to URS US ‚ the shared online catalog o f the U niversity o f Maine System Libraries. Support for the project was also obtained from the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, Inc. A grant o f $83,500 will create electronic access through URSUS to these two collections o f governmental materials. Plans for building on this project call for adding the holdings o f the Bangor Public Library and the Portland Public Library, thereby creating an online union catalog o f the principal publicly founded resources in Maine. • At the University o f Texas at Austin “ one o f the greatest lovers in the history o f literature” is the subject o f an exhibition that will continue through August. “ Henri-Pierre Roche: An Introduction” is drawn from the university’s collection o f manu­ scripts, journals, letters, and photographs that b e ­ longed to the Bohemian writer whose novels Jules and Jim and Two English Girls and the Continent were used by Francois Truffaut for his films. The exhibit will display for the first time R och e’s jour­ nal, which provided material for his novels and fills 346 notebooks, partly because his love life was so extensive and varied. The Harry Ransom Humani­ ties Research Center at U T has begun a project, in collaboration with a French publisher, to publish the journal in a series o f volumes. News notes • The Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association’s Annual C onference will feature W. David Penniman, president o f the Council on Li­ brary Resources; Jordan M. Scepansld, director, Correction The Friends o f the Library at the University o f Arizona should have been credited for giving $25,000 to purchase two C D -R O M worksta­ tions to facilitate automated searching for li­ brary patrons. Arizona State University was incorrectly identified with this gift in the April 1991 News Notes. C&RL News regrets the error. University Library and Learning Resources, Cali­ fornia State University; and Vinod Chachra, presi­ dent o f VTLS, Inc. The conference, “The Chang­ ing Dimensions: Managing Library and Informa­ tion Services for the 1990’s: A Global Perspective,” will be held on Monday, July 1,1991, at the Atlanta Fulton Public Library. For information contact: R. N. Sharma, University o f Evansville Libraries, 1800 Lincoln Avenue, Evansville, IN 47722; (812) 479-2485; or A. J. Miah, J. Sargeant Reynolds Com munity College Library, 700 East Jackson Street, Richmond, VA 23261; (804) 786-5638. • The Council o f State Library Agencies in the Northeast (COSLINE), OCLC, and five O C LC -affiliated networks— CAPCON, NELI- NET, PALINET, PRLC, and SUNY— sponsored a conference in May on “The Role o f Information in the E conom y o f the Northeast.” Participants from the 11 states that belong to C O SL IN E were selected by the state library agency o f each partici­ pating state to represent equally government, the business sector, and the library community. The conference objectives were to understand better the role o f information in business and econom ic development, determine how business and e c o ­ nom ic interests obtain information, explore the part libraries play in that process, and examine how the information needs o f businesses can be better met. • At Drexel University, three graduate students in the College o f Information Studies are recipients o f scholarships from the Free Library o f Phila­ delphia’s Minority Scholarship Program. The stu­ dents— Frances Aulston, W endy Tann, and Miguel Valcourt— are all residents o f Philadelphia. The Free Library announced the Minority Scholarship Program last summer after receiving a $67,000 Libraiy Services and Construction Act Title I grant to be used for minority recruiting. T o be eligible for the scholarship a student must be a mem ber o f a minority group (African-American, Hispanic, or Asian) and must agree to work for two years in a Pennsylvania public library after receiving a mas­ ter’s degree. Preference is given to Pennsylvania residents, and the student must com plete all coursework within five terms. • Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michi­ gan, has been given stock valued at $58,882 for an endowment in mem ory o f Henry C. Reitz, w ho was head o f the department o f physical sciences from 1963-76. The gift from Reitz’s widow will b e used to provide im proved College o f Arts and Sciences library facilities. L ibrary dean L a w ren ce J. McCrank said he w elcom ed the gift “both for its generosity in support o f a quality academic library for Ferris, and as a historic first in the University’s 392 / C&RL News fundraising efforts to expand and enhance the Timme Library.” Although this is the library’s first endow m ent, FSU students w ere able to win $159,000 for the library last fall by persuading the Michigan State Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education to restore funding from the governor’s veto o f FSU ’s proposed Research Ex­ cellence funding. The monies had been withheld when Ferris raised tuition in its 1990-91 fiscal year budget above 6.5%. Originally, each student would have received a $4.86 tuition-assistance check each term from the state, but lawmakers approved the suggestion presented by officers o f the Associated Student Government that the refund be used for library improvements. FSU’s student government earlier conducted a survey among students and found that 98% considered library improvements the University’s top funding priority. • Kent State University Libraries (Ohio) has established an award in honor o f Robert Lewis to be presented annually to a scholar in theater his­ tory. The first recipient o f the Robert Lewis Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Theater Research will be announced this summer and will receive the award during a black-tie dinner at Kent in N ovem ­ ber. Lewis, one o f Broadway’s most successful directors and the co-founder o f the Actors Studio, willed his papers to Kent’s Department o f Special Collections last year. • The Academic Section o f the Kentucky Li­ brary Association and the College and Univer­ sity Section o f the Tennessee Library Associa­ tion examined personnel, technology, and learning styles during their 1991 joint spring conference on April 11-12. A C R L vice-president/president-elect Anne Beaubien urged the recruitment o f more students with science and social science majors to librarianship. F. W. Lancaster, professor at the University o f Illinois, Graduate School o f Library and Information Science, expressed concern that costly automation projects are taking funds away from collection development and that automation has not improved subject access to books. Randall Hensley, department head, Reference Services, University o f Washington Undergraduate Library, reviewed the four basic learning styles— feeler, in- tuitor, thinker, and sensor— and suggested that librarians adapt their teaching styles to accom m o­ date the varied learning styles o f their patrons. • LIBRAS, Inc., a consortium o f 16 northeast­ ern Illinois private, liberal arts college libraries, celebrated its 25th anniversary during ceremonies at Concordia University, River Forest, in D ecem ­ ber. Bridget Lamont, director o f the Illinois State Library, and Melvin R. George, Oregon State Uni­ versity librarian and founding member o f LIBRAS, addressed the audience. LIBRAS’ goals are to fa­ cilitate resource sharing and cooperative collection development and to promote continuing education and use o f technology among its members. Aurora, Concordia, and Lewis Universities and Barat, C o ­ lumbia, Illinois Benedictine, Judson, Kendall, Lake Forest, North Central, North Park, Rosary, St. Xavier, Trinity, and Wheaton Colleges are members o f the consortia. • At Southern Illinois University, three new named endowments— the Piper-Robeson Fund for Illinois History and Culture, the Eugene T. Simonds Memorial Fund for U.S. Military History, and the Charles D. and Maude B. Tenney Fund for Liberal Arts— have brought the number o f named funds to 13 and the total amount o f library endow­ ments to approximately $365,000. • University o f California at San Diego is involved in a two-year archival project that will result in the first comprehensive record anywhere o f the works o f Chicano artists. Spearheaded by A C R L member Sal Guerena, the project will in­ volve production o f a research collection consisting o f 18,000 slides o f the paintings, serigraphs, post­ ers, murals, and sculpture o f Chicano artists and dissemination o f information about the collection throughout the state. W hen complete, Proyecto C A R ID A D (Chicano Art Resources Information Development and Dissemination) will establish UCSB as a center for Chicano visual arts. The project is supported with an LSCA grant admini­ stered by the California State Library. • University o f Southern California will provide full text o f The Chronicle o f Higher Educa­ tion on its online campus information system dur­ ing an 18-month pilot project with the Chronicle beginning in fall 1991. Campus users will have free, online access to more than a year’s worth o f infor­ mation from the Chronicle using the familiar screens and menus o f USCInfo, the university’s proprietary software. Peter Lyman, executive di­ rector o f USC’s Center for Scholarly Technology, says that “the online Chronicle project is an ideal way for us to explore the demand for line publica­ tions here at USC. W e want to explore the demand for, and use of, full-text data as a resource for faculty members, administrators, and students.” With support from the Chronicle, university researchers will monitor use o f the online newspa­ per. USC will incorporate its research into a larger project, already underway at the university, that focuses on the way people on college campuses make use o f online information resources. The Chronicle hopes to determine whether an elec­ tronic version is feasible and useful with a view toward offering a commercial product. ■ ■