ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 110 N ew s from the F ield A C Q U IS IT IO N S • The City University of New York’s Fine Arts Library of its H erb ert H. Lehman College has re­ ceived the personal music collection of the late Irwin Kraus, music and recordings librarian of the F ord­ ham branch of the New York Public Library. Kraus’ brother, R obert M. Frank, donated some 1,040 music books, 50 journal titles, 700 tapes, 440 cas­ settes, and many concert programs and librettos. Vocal music is very well reflected in the collec­ tion, which also includes radio interview s with perform ers and composers as well as a growing num ber of out-of-print performances. • The College of Charleston, South Carolina, has acquired th e m inutes of th e Friendly Moralist Society, 1841-1856, a free Black mutual aid society of Charleston. Included are m em bership listings, financial data, addresses and proceedings, and the argum ents given regarding a num ber of significant contemporary social issues. The manuscript is the earliest known docum ent of its kind and th e only ante-bellum free Black society m inutes for C harles­ ton, w here a substantial free Black community ex­ isted from the late eighteenth century. • George Washington University’s G elman Library has received the professional library of M ur­ ray W ebb Latimer, an expert in labor relations and union benefits. The gift comprises some 240,000 manuscripts and more than 6,000 volumes. Latimer served under Franklin D. Roosevelt and was a lead­ er in developing the Social Security System. • The Illinois State Historical Society Li­ brary, Springfield, has acquired the congressional records of former U.S. Rep. John B. Anderson (R- I11.) and form er U.S. Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson (D- I11.). Both collections include documents, photo­ graphs, publications, audio and video tapes, and motion picture films. The Anderson collection in­ cludes records of his presidential campaign in 1980, while the Stevenson collection covers campaign material, speech files, legislative research, and a wide range of local and national political material. N either collection will be available for research until the library has examined and cataloged the m anu­ scripts. • The State University of New York at Buffa­ lo has been selected as the repository for the Jargon Society Archives, which will be housed in its Poetry and Rare Books Collection. The archives are the result of the initiative of author Jonathan Williams, part of the mainstream of the Black Mountain liter­ ary movem ent, who began publishing the works of his innovative contem poraries in 1951. The material includes m an u scrip ts, c o rre sp o n d e n c e , p h o to ­ graphs, postcards, and personal messages, and after it has been processed will be used to construct an accurate literary history of th e period. The Poetry and Rare Books Collection has also received the complete published and unpublished writings of the American anti-war poet, Anthony Ostroff (1923-1978). • The Roger M. Blough Learning C enter at Sus­ quehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, has received a complete set of copies of the personal papers of Vidkun Quisling, the minister president of Norway under G erman occupation in W orld W ar II who was executed for treason in 1945. The papers w ere donated by Maria Quisling, his widow, in rec­ ognition of the publication of an article on Quisling in the Susquehanna University Studies in 1959. • Texas Tech University Library, Lubbock, now owns the largest collection of Turkish folktales in Turkish on magnetic tape (680 hours of record­ ings) extant outside Turkey itself. H oused in a li­ brary room arranged for this purpose, the Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative also includes English trans­ lations, notes, indexes, supporting materials, and all re la te d c o r r e s p o n d e n c e for tw o d e c a d e s of fieldwork. • The University of Rochester, New York, has been given a nearly com plete collection of works by and about the noted British author John Ruskin (1819-1900). The collection includes first, early, and rare editions and was donated by Sydney Ross of Troy, New York. In addition to 434 volumes, the Ruskin materials include th ree original letters to Ruskin and 22 w ritten by him. • The University of Texas at Austin has been given the correspondence received by the family of William Royer, Jr., during th e tim e he was held hostage in Iran. Royer, who donated th e material to the Barker Texas History C enter, was a 1961 gradu­ ate of the University of Texas. Don Carleton, direc­ tor of the center, said that the letters are valuable as a study of American society at that particular point in time. G R AN TS • The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the D eaf, W ash in g to n , D C ., has b e e n awarded $1,000 by the National Endow m ent for the Humanities to evaluate the rare archival material housed in their library. The Volta Bureau Library has a rare book collection containing every major treatise relating to the deaf and education of th e deaf up to 1925 and includes Bell’s early books, note­ books, and letters on hearing, deafness, and eugen­ ics. • Radcliffe College, C a m b rid g e , M as­ sachusetts, has ,been awarded a $250,000 grant from the National E ndow m ent for th e H umanities to help local comm unities develop programs about women. The project, entitled “W omen in the Community: W here W ere They? W here Are They? W here Are 111 They Going?” will enable the Schlesinger Library to work with public libraries to be selected in seven communities throughout the country to prepare programs about women for local audiences. The programs will be planned by local teams in each of the communities. Each team must include a public librarian, an academic librarian, a member of a com­ munity organization, and a women’s studies scholar. Four-member teams sponsored by a public library are invited to apply to a training session to be held at the Schlesinger Library in August, 1981. For further information contact: Barbara Haber, project direc­ tor, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, 10 Gar­ den St., Cambridge, MA 02138. The Schlesinger Library has also received a gift of $50,000 from Roger Clapp of Cambridge to establish the Mary Lizzie Saunders Clapp Fund in memory of his mother. The fund will be used to award grants to scholars to cover the costs of travel and other ex­ penses related to research at Schlesinger. A mem­ ber of the Class of 1886, Mrs. Clapp was enrolled at Radcliffe when it was known as the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women. • Saint Joseph College’s Pope Pius XII Li­ brary, W est H artford, C onnecticut, has been awarded an $8,000 grant from the Ensworth Charit­ able T rust. F u n d s will be u sed to pu rch ase elementary and secondary curriculum materials in special education to be added to the library’s Curri­ culum Materials Center. • Teachers College Library/Columbia Uni­ versity, New York, has been awarded a $100,000 challenge grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities toward renovation and preservation of the library. The grant will help complete a $7.7 million reconstruction project in 56-year-old Russell Hall. Extensive modernization of facilities, expan­ sion of storage capacity from 450,000 to 624,000 volum es, and arch itectu ral preservation work already are underway. Teachers College Library is the largest library of education in the United States. • The University of Florida, Gainesville, ded­ icated its 55,000-volume Isserand Rae Price Library of Judaica on March 8 in ceremonies honoring a Jacksonville fam ily who gave th e u n iv e rsity $400,000 to support and expand the collection. The Prices were instrumental in establishing the Jack­ sonville Jewish C enter in the late 1920s. The Li­ brary of Judaica, founded in 1977 and one of the largest in the country, includes the 40,000-volume Mishkin Collection gathered by Rabbi Leonard C. Mishkin of Chicago. The ceremony presented the library with its official name and thanked the donors for their contribution, which will be used to catalog the collection. NEWS NOTES • The Chicago Public Library Cultural C enter is presenting a historical exhibition of over 130 sci­ ence fiction books and magazines entitled “Science Fiction and Fantasy: Masterworks from the Lilly Library,” through May 16. The Lilly Library of Indi­ ana University in Bloomington has loaned the ex­ hibit materials. A first edition of Mary Shelley ’s 1818 classic, Frankenstein, is on view, as well as works by Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. Leguin, and samples of sci-fi pulp magazines. • The University of California, Riverside, li­ brary has added its millionth volume, a rare facsi­ mile edition of William Blake’s Songs o f Innocence and Experience, published in 1955. The volume is one of a series of limited-edition Blake facsimiles published by Trianon Press. Celebrating its three millionth acquisition, the University of Pennsyl­ vania library, Philadelphia, has added the first edi­ tion of William Penn’s book. No Cross, No Crown (1669). The book, a plea for equality and morality which Penn wrote while in prison, was donated to the library by Haverford College. • The University of Maryland’s Music Li­ brary, College Park, has begun to process the Inter­ national Piano Archives at Maryland, one of the world’s largest collection of piano records which includes many releases of early recordings and many rare discs. Supported by a 1979 grant from the Ford Foundation, the library will microfilm and index over 13,500 33 and 78 rpm phonodiscs in a pilot project using techniques designed as the basis of a nationwide union catalog of sound recordings. The completed catalog will perm it musicologists to com­ pare records visually by noting each disc’s unique matrix (identification) number, label contents, and configuration of grooves. The microfilm photos of the collection will be placed on cassettes which can be read on a microfilm cassette reader. The biblio­ graphic data will be MARC-tagged and eventually entered directly into the OCLC database. Mi-Kal County-matic, Inc., of Syracuse is producing the microfilm cassettes which will be available in 1982. The Associated Audio Archives, a consortium of the five largest record archives in the United States (Library of Congress, Yale, Syracuse, Stanford, and the New York Public Library) is expected to catalog and make available their collections in the same way as Maryland. LPSS Meeting Slated All members of ACRL’s Law and Political Sci­ ence Section are urged to attend the mem­ bership meeting scheduled for 8 a.m ., Sunday, June 28, 1981, in San Francisco. Plans for the future of LPSS will be discussed. Members are invited to present proposals for section projects and activities.