ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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Grants 
a n d  

Acquisitions

In d ia n a  U n iv e r s it y -
Purdue University Indianapo­
lis has received a $118,000 
grant from the National En­
dowm ent for Humanities to 
study the American Turner 
S o c ie ty  m o v e m e n t. T h e  
Turner movement started in 
the early nineteenth century 
as part o f an effort to reform 
the German states. After the 
failed revolutions o f 1848, 
German political refugees 
brought the Turner ideas 
with them to America where 
they organized Turner societies in most major 
Eastern and Midwestern cities to provide ath­
letic, social and cultural activities in German-
American communities. The Turners w ere ac­
tive participants in abolitionism , the labor 
movement, and calls for civil service reform. 
The American Turners reached their peak be­
fore W orld War I with more than 300 clubs 
and approximately 40,000 members.

The C la u d e  M o o r e  H e a lth  Sciences
Library o f the University o f Virginia has been 
awarded a grant o f $39,220 from the Virginia 
State Library and Archives to develop a citizen 
health information network. Using computer 
workstations at three library sites library users 
of this network will be able to search a database 
that includes pamphlets, summaries in lay language 
from professional journals, definitions o f medi­
cal terms, background information on more than 
300 diseases, and phone numbers for hotlines and 
support groups. The network is expected to be 
in full operation by September, 1993.

Acquisitions
The p ap e rs  o f D aniel M e lc h e r ( 1 9 1 2 – 
1985), chairman o f the board o f R. R. Bowker 
Company from 1961– 1967, have been acquired 
by the University o f Virginia Library. Melcher 
was an innovator in developing professional 
library publications and reference services; he 
founded numerous standard book-trade titles, 
including Books in  P rin t and A m erica n  Book 
Publishing Record. Melcher also established the

International Standard Book 
Numbering (ISBN) system in 
th e m id-1960s In c lu d e d  
among the papers are manu­
scripts and typescripts o f 
Melcher’s many articles and 
books, his professional and 
personal correspon den ce, 
correspondence and w ork­
ing papers concerning his in­
volvem ent in the Institutes 
for the Achievement o f Hu­
man Potential (IA H P), fam­
ily correspondence and pho­
tographs, and manuscripts 

and typescripts o f  his mother, M arguerite 
Melcher.

The O h io  U niv e rs ity  L ib ra ry  received a
grant o f books valued at $8,200 from the Japan 
Foundation. The books, all in English, were 
chosen by the library from a list developed by 
leading Japanese and American scholars. The titles 
will help fill gaps in the library’s collection.

The lib r a r y  a t th e  U n iv e rs ity  o f C a li­
fornia, Irvine, has received 600 volum es o f 
monographic works on Korean literature, his­
tory, and social sciences from the Creation and 
Criticism Company (Changjak-kwa-bipyong), a 
publisher o f scholarly books and journals in 
Korea. Also included in the gift are recent is­
sues o f four journal titles: Creation a n d  Criti­
cism, Women a n d  Society‚ Law a n d  Society‚ and 
C ritical Studies o f  Korean Literature.

The p a p e rs  o f Y . C. Jam es Y en (1 8 9 3 – 
1990), and the archives o f the organization he 
founded, the International Institute o f Rural 
Reconstruction (IIRR), have been acquired by 
C olum bia University’s Rare Book and Manu­
script Library. Born in China and educated at 
Yale and Princeton Universities, Y en  was a pio­
neer in promoting rural developm ent and lit­
eracy among peasant populations in Asia, A f­
rica, and Latin America. The collection dates to 
the 1920’s and includes person al papers, 
speeches, records, and correspondence with 
such figures as Pearl Buck, Justice William O. 
Douglas, Henry Luce, and Eleanor Roosevelt. 
It also documents seven decades o f w ork by 
the IIRR and its predecessors to promote self-
help on three continents. Am ong Y en ’s personal