ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


226/C&RL News

librarians w ill be selected for the first year o f 
the tw o-year program  and w ill arrive at the 
university in May 1994.

The University o f Sa s k a tch e w a n  Librar­
ies, Saskatoon, Canada, have received a grant 
o f  $16,000 from  the Social Sciences and Hu­
manities Research Council o f  Canada in sup­
port o f their agricultural collection. The award 
w ill be used to purchase the Food and Agricul­
tural O rganization documents collection in full- 
text microfiche from 1988 to the present.

A cquisitions
The Hancock Family Papers, the business
papers o f  Boston merchant Thomas Hancock 
and his neph ew  John, the revolutionist, have 
been acquired by the Baker Library at Har­
vard University. T he papers w ere on loan to 
the library from the Historic G enealogical Soci­
ety and w e r e  a cq u ired  in h o n o r o f  M ary 
Chatfield, former librarian o f  Baker Library. The 
collection, which also includes the papers o f 
publisher Daniel Henchman (father-in-law o f 
John Hancock) and the business records o f Peter 
Faneuil, contains a range o f  information on the 
social, econom ic, and material culture o f  co lo ­
nial N ew  England, com plem enting other col­
lections on 18th-century life in the library’s His­
torical Collections Department.

The preparation of photographer Harold
Edgerton’s papers for access has been com ­
p leted  b y  the M assach u setts In stitu te o f

(Washington cont.from page 218) 
column is urgently needed. I f you are not part 
o f your state’s library delegation to Legislative 
Day on April 19, then write to your representa­
tive and senators in support o f  restoration o f 
funds for HEA II college library technology, re­
search library resources, and research and edu­
cation programs. Libraries are the infrastruc­
ture for education and research. The federal 
stimulus for HEA II activities is needed to make 
meaningful the goal o f connecting every school 
and library to the information superhighway. 
Please send a blind cop y o f  your letter to the 
A LA Washington O ffice so w e  can make use o f 
your examples. ■

Technology (M IT ) Archives. The core o f  the 
collection documents Edgerton’s research ac­
tivities in his laboratory at MIT, his research 
and developm ent w ork  for the U.S. military in 
W orld W ar II, and his field w ork applying flash 
photography and sonar techniques to under­
water exploration. His laboratory notebooks are 
a consistent record o f  his research at the insti­
tute from  1930 to 1990 and are a valuable re­
source for learning h o w  advances in science 
and te c h n o lo g y  are m ade. T h e y  illustrate 
through notes, diagrams, data, and photographs 
the step-by-step evolution o f his ideas.

The archives o f the National Network of
Hispanic W om en, a national resource center 
that links professional w o m en  with on e another 
and strives to provide role m odels for young 
Hispanics, have been acquired by the Califor­
nia Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA), 
part o f the University o f  California, Santa 
B arbara’s Special Collections. The collection 
records the accomplishments o f Chicanas in the 
areas o f  education, politics, and the arts, and 
provides a substantial addition to the Chicano/ 
Latino com ponent o f CEMA.

A gift o f 5 7 3  historical children's b o o k s ;
17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century fin ely printed 
books; and m odern w orks on the history o f 
children’s literature has been received by the 
University o f  Arizona from Margaret Maxwell, 
recently retired professor o f  library science, w h o 
taught award-winning cataloging classes. High 
spots in the collection include a representative 
sampling o f  late-19th-century textbooks, sev­
eral 19th-century chapbooks, a 1650 Elzevir im­
print, and an Isaiah Thomas printing o f the Holy 
Bible dated 1793.

A collection of 2 5 ,0 0 0  item s related to the
Equal Suffrage League o f  Virginia and its suc­
cessor, the Virginia League o f W o m en  Voters, 
has been accessioned by the Virginia State 
Library and Archives and is n o w  available 
for use by researchers and historians. The col­
lection was originally given  to the library in 
1942 by Ida Mae Thom pson, a clerk with the 
W o rk s  P ro gre s s  A d m in istra tio n  H isto rica l 
Records Survey. It contains correspondence, or­
ganizational records, newspaper clippings, but­
tons, postcards, and other items documenting 
the League’s efforts to w in  the vote, as w ell as 
to pass child labor law  reform  and fo o d  and 
drug regulations. ■