ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries February 1995/107 Grants and Acquisitions Hugh Thompson The American Theologi­ cal Library Association has been awarded $150,000 by the Lilly Endowment, Inc., in support o f a project for the preservation o f 300 periodi­ cals, 1875– 1950. This grant will be supplemented by an equal amount as the federal matching portion o f a 1993– 1995 National Endowment for the Humanities grant o f $482,986 also supporting the project. The California School o f Professional Psychology, San D iego Campus, has been awarded a $25,000 National Science Founda­ tion grant for Internet connection. The grant covers purchase and installation o f hardware, maintenance, and connection. Internet access will be available for the resources at the Re­ search and Training Center on Mental Health for Persons W ho Are Hard-of-Hearing or Late Deafened. The Center fo r Research Libraries (CRL) has been awarded a grant o f $225,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on behalf o f the Latin American Microform Project, to pro­ duce a research tool for Latin American schol­ ars, historians, and political scientists. During the one-year project, a contractor will be em­ ployed to digitize from microfilm held at CRL a core set o f executive branch serial documents issued by Brazil’s national and provincial gov­ ernments from independence to 1990. The pro­ ject will provide bibliographic access to the electronic versions o f the titles, and electronic indexing to the contents o f the documents. The Indiana School o f Medicine's Ruth Lilly Medical Library has received an award o f $145,500 from the Indianapolis Foundation to Ed. note: Entries in this column are taken from library newsletters, press releases, and other sources. To ensure that your news is considered f o r publication, write to: Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795. Photos related to your news will be considered f o r publication. provide 30 simultaneous dial access uses o f the medical library’s health databases: MEDLINE, Cancerlit, Cumu­ lative Index to Nursing and Allied Health, and Health Planning and Administration. T h e inform ation w ill be available to the medical pro­ fession throughout the state, including rural areas. Louisiana State Univer­ sity has been awarded a to­ tal o f $470,000 by the Loui­ siana Board o f Regents to fund two projects: the addition o f Phase III libraries to the LOUIS network and the development o f an engineer­ ing component for network access. Funds for the Phase III academic libraries will be used for data conversion. In the second project, Compendex (Engineering Index) and Inspec (Science Abstracts databases) will be loaded on InfoShare, a module o f the NOTIS System, and made accessible to the state’s engineering schools. Ohio State University has received a gift o f $50,000 from the Universal Press Syndi­ cate and Companies through its Andrews and McMeel Foundation to sponsor the 1995 Festi­ val o f Cartoon Art. The triennial festival is hosted by the university’s Cartoon, Graphic, and Pho­ tographic Arts Research Library, the nation’s largest cartoon-related academic library. The theme o f the upcoming festival is the Ameri­ can newspaper comic strip in honor o f the cen­ tennial o f the first publication o f the Yellow Kid in 1895. The University o f Florida, Gainesville, has received a grant o f $140,000 from the An­ drew W. Mellon Foundation to provide world­ wide electronic access to two historic Carib­ bean newspapers— Haiti’s Le nouvelliste and Cuba’s Diario de la marina— including many older issues that can no longer be found on the islands. Indexes and abstracts o f the newspa­ pers will be available on the Internet from the G eorge A. Smathers Libraries in 1995. The Mellon Foundation project establishes an elec­ tronic network to support Latin American stud­ ies, a discipline which has had insufficient ac­ 108/C&RL News cess to research materials published outside the United States. Acquisitions M o re than 10,000 broadcast-qu ality audio recordings o f vintage radio news and en­ tertainment programming from the 1920s to 1961, spanning the “golden age o f radio,” have been acquired by American University’s Bender Library. Donated by Washington, D.C., radio historian and WAMU-FM on-air personality John R. Hickman, the collection includes reel-to-reel tapes, metal and vinyl discs, electronic tran­ scriptions from studio masters, and books. In­ cluded are episodes from most major radio se­ ries o f the era, such as Amos ‘n’ Andy, Fibber McGee and Molly, and The Jack Benny Program. Historic radio news broadcasts include the first live remote o f Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 return to the U.S., the Hindenburg crash, and Edward R. Murrow’s wartime reports from London. A collection o f m ore than 7,000 maps o f the former Soviet Union has been acquired by the University o f Alberta Library, Edmonton. The sheets include topographical series dating from the inter-war period in 1:50,000,1:100,000, and 1:200,000 scales, as w ell as other topo­ graphical maps dating from the late 19th cen­ tury to the end o f W orld War II. A g ift o f 3,000 books o f Russian litera­ ture in English has been received by the Uni­ versity o f California, Irvine, Library from Ellendea Proffer, proprietor o f Ardis Publish­ ers. The gift includes a first edition o f Pushkin’s poem Poltava‚ as well as an assortment o f other rare books. Ardis Publishers is the largest pub­ lisher o f Russian literature in the original and in English translation outside the Soviet Union. The Barry B road foot Collection is n ow available in the University o f Manitoba Librar­ ies’ Department o f Archives and Special Col­ lections. Barry S. Broadfoot is a well-known Canadian journalist and author. After a career in journalism from 1955 to 1972, he began pub­ lishing books on Canadian history based on his extensive oral history interviews with ordi­ nary Canadians. The collection contains con­ tracts, manuscripts, correspondence, and re­ views o f Broadfoot’s books. Also included are two unpublished manuscripts, essays, articles, newspaper clippings, and journals.