ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 274 News from the Field ACQUISITIONS • The Robert W. Woodruff Library of E m o r y U n i v e r s i t y , A tlan ta, has a c q u ire d P ro fe ss o r Richard Ellm ann’s personal collection of the writ­ ings of W. B. Yeats. Ellmann is Goldsmiths pro­ fessor of English Literature, New College, Oxford University. The collection includes first editions of Yeats’ works, rare copies of periodicals edited by Yeats, books for which he wrote prefaces and introductions, and publications in which his ear­ liest poems were printed. • The William S. Middleton Health Sciences L ib rary , U n i v e r s i t y o f W i s c o n s i n , has p u r­ chased a collection of 380 titles in the history of immunology from Dr. Julius M. Cruse, Jr. Since the purchase, Cruse has given the library about 500 additional titles. • The Manuscript Collection o f the John Hay Library of B r o w n U n i v e r s i t y has acquired since July 1, 1977: the George Corliss, 1817-88, Papers (ca. 700 items); the Solomon Drowne, 1753-1834, Family Papers (a 3,000-item addition to an exist­ ing collection); the Larry E ign er, 1 9 2 7 - (a 150-item addition to an existing collection); the Harvey O’Connor Papers, ca. 1960-70 (5 linear feet); the Clark Ashton Smith, 1893-1961, Papers Out o f S t o c k ? B a c k O r d e r s ? If y o u r w holesaler has long d e­ lays in co m p le tin g " o u t of s to c k " and " b a c k o rd e rs", w h y n o t t ry the firm th a t sp e cialize s in this area. C u rre n t im p rin ts are easy to deliver b u t it tak e s a p e rso n alize d , sp ecial­ ized a tte n tio n to give y o u reliable serv ice on b a ck list o r o th e r hard-to- get item s. A t B o o k House w e call it " C o n ­ cern ed S e rv ic e " and it w o rk s every d a y fo r a grow ing c lie n te le in clu d ­ ing a ca d e m ic lib raries ju st like you rs. – Caltl 5hB 17-8e49-2 OO 117 K Coll ect – H S IN C E 1962 JO B B E R O S SER U VIN G L S IB R A E R IE S W ITH A N Y BO O K IN PR IN T 208 W EST CHIC AGO STREET JONESVILLE. MICHIG AN 49250 (9,000 items); and the John B. Watson Papers, 1905-46 (ca. 30 linear feet). T h e L ib ra ry has now p ro cessed and m ade available: the Eli H. Canfield Papers, 1844-1898 (1,100 items); the Samuel Sullivan Cox Papers, 1852-1902 (950 items, reprocessed); the (Usher) Parsons Family Papers, 1611–c. 1900 (950 items); the C h arles P h ilb rick , I I , P ap ers, 1 9 4 5 -1 9 7 2 (1800 items); the Eli Thayer Papers, 1843-1903 (1 ,5 0 0 item s: re p ro cessed ); th e C lark A shton Smith Papers, 1893-1961 (9,000 items); the Oscar W egelin Papers, 1899-1966 (500 items); and the John B. Wheelwright Papers, 1910-1940 (15,000 items). GRANTS E d it o r s N ote: A nn ette F ern assisted in th e p r e p a ­ ration o f this a rticle. • The United States Office o f Education has awarded grants totaling $ 5 .8 million to twenty- five university and research libraries for 1979-80. The grants w ere awarded under the T itle II-C program o f th e H ig h e r E d u c a tio n A ct for strengthening library resources. F ifteen o f the twenty-five awards were new this year. T he largest single category o f grants was for special collections. Nine libraries received awards totaling nearly $2 million for programs to p re­ serve, catalog, and provide access to special col­ lections. The U n i v e r s i t y o f S o u t h e r n C a l i f o r ­ n i a , Los Angeles, was awarded $200,000 for the preparation o f an index to the Universal Pictures Collection; the H e n r y E . H u n t i n g t o n L i r r a r y and Art Gallery in San Marino, California, r e ­ ceived a grant of $225,000 for preservation and conservation; Y a l e U n i v e r s i t y will use $160,000 to preserve rare manuscripts in history, political science, and related fields and to prepare and dissem inate su b ject guides; the U n i v e r s i t y o f K a n s a s , Lawrence, was awarded $115,000 to pre­ pare a catalog of 14,000 rare titles in the history of economics; H a r v a r d U n i v e r s i t y has a grant of $300,000 to make master negatives and positives of rare or fragile research materials; the M i s s o u r i B o t a n i c a l G a r d e n in St. Louis, together with the N e w Y o r k C i t y B o t a n i c a l G a r d e n Library, will receive $200,000 to recatalog and reclassify their unique botanical/horticultural collections; C o l u m r i a U n i v e r s i t y was awarded $250,000 for the preservation and bibliographic control of rare bo oks; th e N e w Y o r k P u r l i c L i r r a r y has $300,000 to preserve microrecordings, documen­ taries, pamphlets, and unique items and to make them m ore a c c e s s ib le ; and the A m e r i c a n M u s e u m o f N a t u r a l H i s t o r y , New York City, will use its grant of $242,165 to strengthen and 275 make more readily available its collections in the sciences. Four awards totaling more than $ 1 .5 million went to university libraries for improving access to serials and government documents. The U n i ­ v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a , B e r k e l e y , jointly with the U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a , L o s A n g e l e s , and S t a n f o r d U n i v e r s i t y , will receive $750,000 to enable the three libraries to convert serial titles to machine-readable form and improve resource- sh aring a c tiv itie s ; I n d i a n a U n i v e r s i t y , Bloomington, was awarded $200,000 to provide access to its serial collections; the U n i v e r s i t y o f M i c h i g a n , Ann Arbor, jo in tly with M i c h i g a n S t a t e and W a y n e S t a t e universities, will use $35 0 ,0 0 0 to make the three institutions’ serial bibliographic records more widely available; and C o l o r a d o S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y , Fort Collins, has a grant of $215,000 to bring 10,000 U.S. govern­ ment documents under bibliographic control. Five grants went to libraries to assist in the development of area studies programs: the U n i ­ v e r s i t y o f A l a s k a , Fairbanks, received $150,000 to strengthen its collection of materials dealing with the polar regions; the U n i v e r s i t y o f C h i c a g o was awarded $68,749 to support and prepare a catalog of its South Asian collection; N o r t h w e s t ­ e r n U n i v e r s i t y , E v an sto n, Illin o is, receiv ed $250,000 to strengthen the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies; C o r n e l l U n i v e r s i t y , Ithaca, New York, will use $194,897 to develop Asian resources, including the beginning of ex­ change arrangements with China; and the U n i ­ v e r s i t y o f T e x a s at Austin will get $150,000 to strengthen its Latin American collection and de­ velop cataloging records. Grants for the development and expansion of networks at both the local and national level went to the N e w Y o r k S t a t e E d u c a t i o n D e p a r t m e n t in Albany, which received $250,000 to incorpo­ rate the monographic holdings of the state net­ work into a national data base; to the U n i v e r s i t y o f N o r t h C a r o l i n a at Chapel Hill, which will use $220,500 to improve mutual access to its own co llectio n s and to those of N o r t h C a r o l i n a S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y and D u k e U n i v e r s i t y through the planning of a local bibliographic network; and to the U n i v e r s i t y o f V i r g i n i a , Charlottesville, which, jointly with V a n d e r r i l t U n i v e r s i t y , the U n i v e r s i t y o f S o u t h C a r o l i n a , and the U n i ­ v e r s i t y o f A l a b a m a , received $300,000 to extend regional and national data bases for rare research materials and to increase the availability of the materials at participating libraries. The U n i v e r s i t y o f I l l i n o i s at Urbana will re­ ceive $125,000 to acquire mathematics and geol­ ogy publications, strengthen its Slavic reference serv ice, and add to the Cavagna co llection o f Italian research materials. R u t g e r s U n i v e r s i t y will use $200,000 for the Ginsburg collection of Soviet legal materials, for the conversion of al­ cohol literature to machine-readable form, and for making a c c e s s ib le 15 m illion rec o rd s o f th e American imprint file. P r i n c e t o n U n i v e r s i t y re­ ceived $250,000 to index and catalog unique col­ lections and to microfilm Arabic manuscripts, and the U n i v e r s i t y o f W i s c o n s i n , Madison, is the recipient of a $182,000 grant to strengthen hold­ ings and make them more widely available. • The A m e r i c a n A n t i q u a r i a n S o c i e t y , Wor­ cester, Massachusetts, has raised more than the $855,000 needed to match a May 1977 National Endowment for the Humanities challenge grant of $285,000. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the G eorge I. Alden T ru st, the F re d H arris Daniels Fou ndation, I n c ., the G eorge F . and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation, the Stoddard Charit­ able T ru st, and the Surdna Foundation, In c ., contributed gifts of more than $ 5 0 ,000 each to help meet the challenge grant goal. The Surdna Foundation has also recently contributed $35,000 to th e M a n u scrip t E n d ow m en t F u n d o f th e society. • R a d c l i f f e C o l l e g e has re c e iv e d an additional grant of $33,850 from the Rockefeller Fou nd atio n to expand the work o f the Black Women Oral History Project. The project was originally funded in 1976 with a grant of $98,700 from t h e fou n dation . Sp on sored by the Schlesinger Library, the project has already taped interviews with fifty-nine American black women, seventy years of age or older— autobiographical interviews that will provide documentation for historians and social scientists studying the con­ tributions of black women in American society. Copies of the transcripts are being deposited in oral history collections at Atlanta University, Co­ lumbia University, Fisk University, Howard Uni­ versity, Jackson State University, the New York Scholarship A vailable in B ritain T he Nancy Stirling Lam bert Scholarship, sponsored by Blackwell’s, the Oxford book­ sellers, will be awarded in the United States for the first time this year. The scholarship will provide the r e c ip ie n t with a grant of £ 4 ,500 (approximately $9,500 U .S.) for study at th e C o lle g e o f L ib ra ria n sh ip W ales in Aberystwyth. The successful candidate will carry out re­ search on matters of common concern to li­ braries and the book trade. Applicants should submit a formal proposal (not more than 500 words) setting out the topics that they would wish to investigate. Applications should be sent no later than January 1980 to Dr. James S. Healey, Con­ venor of the Committee, Director, School of Library Science, University of Oklahoma, 401 W. Brooks, Rm. 116, Norman, OK 73019; (405) 325-3921. 276 Public Library, Tuskegee Institute, and the Uni­ versity of California at Berkeley. The Schlesinger Library will house the original tapes, transcripts, and supplementary material. • T he U n i v e r s i t y o f M i c h i g a n , Ann Arbor, has received an award of $ 8 3 ,000 from the An­ drew Mellon Foundation to begin the conversion o f a c q u is itio n s data in to a form th at can be processed by computers. • The library at the S t a t e U n i v e r s i t y o f N e w Y o r k a t S t o n y B r o o k has received a grant of $ 2 6 ,6 4 2 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the augmentation and or­ ganization o f a contemporary poetry collection. The grant will be used to acquire copies o f all c o m m e rc ia lly p ro d u ce d au d io ta p e s and videotapes o f poetry readings available in the United States. These tapes will be cataloged and en tered into the O C L C national bibliographic data base. • T h e C l e v e l a n d M u s e u m o f A r t has r e ­ ceived a $ 5,000 grant from the Japan Foundation to strengthen its library resources on Japanese art. The museum library currently contains 4 ,0 0 0 volumes on Japanese art in both Japanese and English and subscribes to about twenty-five peri­ odicals on Japanese art. • B o s t o n C o l l e g e , Chestnut Hill, Massachu­ se tts, has b e e n awarded a ch allen g e grant of $300,000 from the Charles A. Dana Foundation to help defray the cost o f co n stru ctin g a new $ 13-million central research library. To qualify for the full am ou n t from th e C o n n e c tic u t-b a s e d fo u n d a tio n , th e u n iv e rsity m ust s e c u r e an additional $900,000 by next April 30. The college N o n p rin t P ub lication s In vited T h e A C R L N onprint M edia Publications Board invites the submission o f nonprint ma­ terial that would be of interest to academic li­ brarians. The board will review materials for inclusion in the ACRL Nonprint Media Publi­ cations Series. A ud iocassette tape p rogram s, slid e -ta p e packages, or videotapes on such topics as li­ brary instruction, personnel management, in­ structional developm ent, continuing educa­ tion, e tc., would be most welcome. All publications submitted will be listed in the Publications: N otices section o f C & R L N ew s. Send materials to Dr. Dwight F . Bur­ lingame, D ean o f L ib raries, Bowling G reen State University L ib raries, Bowling G reen , OH 43403. Please include details on the cost of the publication and where it may be ob­ tained. T he m embers o f the A C R L Nonprint Media P u b lica tio n s B oard a re D w ight F . B u rlin ­ game, Pearce Grove, Kathlyn L ee, and Tony Schultzetenberg. has also receiv ed a grant of $ 1 0 ,0 0 0 from the George I. Alden Trust of W orcester, Massachu­ setts, for the new library. MEETINGS O c t o r e r 19: P A L I N E T and the D e l a w a r e V a l l e y C h a p t e r o f t h e A s s o c i a t i o n o f C o l ­ l e g e a n d R e s e a r c h L i r r a r i e s will hold a joint meeting on trends in national bibliographic net­ work services from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m . in Drexel University’s Matheson Hall, Patten Auditorium. Sp eakers will b e : Sue M artin, d ire cto r, Joh ns Hopkins University Library; Philipp H eer, assis­ tant head, U ser Service Division, O C L C , In c.; and Susan Kallenbach, head, Cataloging D ep art­ ment, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. T h e registration fee is $ 3 .0 0 , and a parking perm it for the D rexel U niversity garage is an additional $1.30. Checks should be made payable to D ela w a re V alley C h a p te r , A C R L and mailed to: Larry Taylor, Drexel University Libraries, 32d and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, PA 19104. O c t o r e r 29: The A C R L N e w E n g l a n d C h a p ­ t e r ’s Fall Conference will be held at the College of the Holy Cross in W orcester, Massachusetts. The co nferen ce title is “ AACR 2: Everybo dy’s Problem. The Impact of the Revised Cataloging Rules on Academic Library O perations.” Program participants will include Linda Arret o f the L i­ brary of Congress; Jam es Thompson, Johns Hop­ kins U niversity; David F e rriero, M IT; Barbara G a te s , B row n U n iv e r s ity ; and a N E L I N E T M em ber Services Librarian. Contact: Fay Zip­ kowitz, W orcester Area Cooperating L ib raries, W orcester State College, W orcester, MA 01602; (617) 754-3964. O c t o r e r 2 9 -3 1 : A p p r o v a l P l a n s / C o l l e c t i o n D e v e l o p m e n t , t h e F o u r t h I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e n c e , cosponsored by ACRL/ALA, will be held in the Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee, W iscon­ sin. The conference will present refereed papers written by distinguished collection development lib ra ria n s. E x h ib its and co n su ltation s w ill b e offered by major dom estic and foreign dealers. C o ntact: P e te r Sp ye rs-D u ran , C alifornia State U niversity, Long B each, CA 90840; (213) 498- 4047. N o v e m r e r 5 - 6 : T he R h o d e I s l a n d L i r r a r y A s s o c i a t i o n will hold its Annual C onference at the Sheraton-Islander, Newport, Rhode Island. Contact: Sam Streit, John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912. N o v e m r e r 7 -9 : T he O N L I N E ’79 conference will be held at the Atlanta Hilton, Atlanta, G eor­ gia. 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