ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


166/C&RL News

Grants
and

Acquisition

Hugh Thompson

The Association of Re­
search Libraries has received 
a $125,000 grant from  the 
Andrew  W. M ellon Founda­
tion for the second phase o f 
the Latin Am ericanist Re­
s e a rc h  R e s o u rc e s  P ilo t  
Project. Begun in 1994 with 
Mellon support, the project’s 
overall goals are to broaden 
the array o f Latin Americanist 
resources available to stu­
dents and scholars, to re­
structure access to these col­
lections on a comprehensive 
scale, and to assist libraries in containing costs.

Duke University L ib ra ry 's John Hope
Franklin Research Center for African and Afri­
can-American Documentation has received a 
$200,000 grant from the Glaxo Foundation. The 
grant w ill fund acquisitions to the center’s col­
lections and underwrite annual research awards 
for undergraduate, graduate, and local high 
school students. The center w ill focus espe­
cially on identifying, acquiring, and preserving 
documentation o f black experiences and ac­
complishments during the 20th century.

The Folger S h ak e sp e a re  Library has re­
ceived $25,000 from  the Marpat Foundation to 
fund conservation treatment on 28 Shakespeare 
first folios from the library’s holdings, along with 
45 items selected from the Folger’s STC collec­
tion o f English printed books from 1475 to 1640. 
The library’s collection o f first folios (79) is the 
largest in the world. Cataloging the folios was 
com pleted in 1992 and the Marpat project w ill 
com plete conservation treatment o f this collec­
tion.

The Folger has also received a $100,000 grant 
from  the Carl and Lily Pforzheim er Foundation 
for conserving and cataloging the library’s col­
lection o f 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Shakespeare folios, 
published in 1632, 1663, and 1685 respectively. 
The library w ill undertake the two-year project 
early this year, creating an online record for
each fo lio  which w ill include information such 
as former owners and manuscript annotations. 
The grant also provides funds to conserve 84 
o f the 117 folios in the collection.

Finally, the Folger has received $100,000 
from the Gladys Brooks Foundation to estab­

lish the Gladys Brooks A c­
quisitions Endowment Fund. 
The major gift w ill support 
the acquisition o f rare books 
across disciplines.

McM αster U n ive rsity’s
Archives and Research Col­
lections has received a two- 
year $37,500 grant from the 
Social Sciences and Humani­
ties R esearch C ou n cil o f  
Canada to further strengthen 
its collection o f British prose 
fiction o f the 18th century. 

The funds w ill be used to acquire monographs 
o f British prose fiction and periodical publica­
tions that printed short anecdotes, narratives, 
and prose fiction.

N ew  Y o rk  U n iversity's Ta miment Insti­
tute Library and Robert F. W agner Labor Ar­
chives have received a $9,900 grant to conduct 
a 12-month survey o f w o m en ’s history records 
o f N ew  Y ork ’s health-related organizations. The 
survey w ill identify records with historical sig­
nificance, recomm end preservation measures 
when needed, and foster the developm ent o f 
cooperative collecting strategies among inter­
ested repositories.

Sa n Jacinto Com munity College has re­
ceived a grant for $26,000 from  the Fondren 
Foundation to fund a program o f instruction 
for 60 faculty members and librarians from three 
campuses on the use o f the Internet. The goal 
is to train individuals in each subject division 
and in the libraries to be proficient in using the 
Internet.

Union Co llege in Sch en e ctad y, N e w
York, has received an $800,000 grant from  the 
Kresge Foundation for the renovation and ex­
pansion o f Schaffer Library. T o  release the grant 
funds, the college must raise the remaining $4.9 
million needed to fund the project no later than 

 Novem ber 1, 1996. The program w ill result in 
added space for continued growth o f the gen­
eral collection; improvement in Special Collec­
tions accessibility and preservation; new  infra­
structure for accommodation o f new media; and 
the addition o f a language lab, technological 
instruction center, and writing center.



March 1996/167

The U niversity of Sa n Francisco has re­
ceived a $650,000 challenge grant from  the 
Kresge Foundation toward construction o f an 
extension to the G leeson Library. The n ew  
building w ill include a 4,400-square-foot glass 
atrium that w ill serve as a study area for stu­
dents and space for university functions. Other 
facilities w ill include computer workstations, 
seminar and group study rooms, a n ew  art ex­
hibition area, multimedia study carrels, and a 
specially equipped study and service area for 
disabled students.

Victoria U niversity in Toronto has re­
ceived a grant o f $20,000 from  the Social Sci­
ence and Hum anities Research C ouncil o f 
Canada. The grant w ill fund the acquisition o f 
the microfilm o f John Maynard Keynes’s pa­
pers in K in g ’s C ollege, Cambridge, for the 
Woolf/Hogarth Press/Bloomsbury Special Col­
lection.

W entw orth Institute of T ech no lo gy's 
Alumni Library, located in Boston, Massachu­
setts, received a $90,000 grant from the G eorge 
I. Alden Trust. The m oney w ill be used for new  
computer equipm ent to upgrade library sys­
tems and library instruction. Wentworth offers 
bachelor’s degrees in architecture, design, en­
gineering, and technology.

A cquisitio ns
The papers of the Irish poet Thomas Kin- 
sella have b een  acquired by the Robert W. 
W oodruff Library o f  Emory University. This ex­
tensive collection includes numerous manu­
scripts for each o f Kinsella’s published collec­
tions o f  poems, as w ell as correspondence and 
related materials. Also included are research 
materials on an eighth-century Irish epic trans­
lated by Kinsella in 1969, and a large b oo k  
collection o f  Kinsella’s works.

The Law rence S. Rudner Holocaust M e­
morial Collection o f books and private papers 
has been acquired by the North Carolina State

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University Libraries. The collection o f the late 
Rudner, a longtime English professor at North 
Carolina State, contains more than 1,900 books 
and videotapes, unfinished manuscripts, and 
research materials reflecting Rudner’s extensive 
investigations into European Jewish culture and 
the Holocaust. The manuscript collection con­
tains difficult-to-find resources on the Jewish 
experience before, during, and after the H o lo ­
caust. Also included are books on journalism 
and film, research areas in which Rudner was 
interested.

T w o  a c q u isitio n s, o n e reflecting the 
Afro-Cuban, Black Catholic, and Haitian Cre­
ole culture in Miami, and the other a collection 
o f  jazz memorabilia and recordings, have been 
donated to the Amistad Research Center at 
Tulane University. The Marvin Ellis papers in­
clude manuscripts, photographs, and clippings 
that document the Little Haiti cultural experi­
ence in Miami. The Lloyd and Helen Smith jazz 
collection includes more than 500 original jazz 
recordings, with Okeh, Bluebird, and Colum­
bia impressions. Books, clippings, and jazz 
memorabilia o f hundreds o f artists from  the 
1930s to the 1960s are in the collection.

A collection of m anuscript documents 
and research files o f the Center for Advanced 
Research in Phenom enology, an international 
organization o f philosophers w ith headquar­
ters at Florida Atlantic University, has been ac­
quired by the Special Collections Department 
at the University o f  Memphis Libraries. The ap­
proximately 60 boxes o f materials represent the 
w o rk  o f  students o f  p ro m in en t A m erican  
phenomenologists such as A lfred Schutz, Aron 
Gurwitsch, and Dorion Cairns, all o f w hom  were 
teachers at the N ew  School for Social Research 
in N e w  Y ork  City, and all o f w h om  w ere them­
selves students o f the thinker and founder o f 
the phenom enological movement, the German 
philosopher Edmund Husserl.

The archives and w orking library of the 
late Sally W eaver, on e o f Canada’s leading an­
thropologists, have been acquired by the Uni­
versity o f W aterloo Library. The archival por­
tions o f  the papers include a w id e range o f 
government publications, correspondence, the­
ses, research papers, and journal articles. 
W eaver’s scholarly interests included studies o f 
native Indian cultures and indigenous popula­
tions o f Australia and Norway. ■

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