ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


448 / C&RL News ■ April 2001

Grants and Acquisitions Ann-Christe Young

The Massachusetts Institute of Tech­
nology (MIT) has been awarded $145,000 by 
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop 
an archive of dynamic electronic journals, those 
newly emerging scholarly Web sites that pro­
vide a broad range of dynamic content. An 
example of this new species of scholarly pub­
lishing is the MIT Press’s Cognet, which was 
launched in September 2000 to create a com­
munity for researchers and scholars in cogni­
tive and brain sciences. Working with pub­
lisher partners, the MIT Libraries will explore 
and assess possible strategies and technolo­
gies and will plan a model for a safe reposi­
tory for this new form of scholarly communi­
cation.

Oregon State University (OSU) has re­
ceived $2 million from donors to establish 
an endowment with the Oregon Community 
Foundation to benefit the OSU libraries. Funds 
generated from the Gray Family Chair for In­
novative Library Services will allow OSU to 
create an endowed chair that focuses on 
public access to research data and other 21st- 
century information needs. Karyle Butcher, 
director of OSU Libraries, said funds gener­
ated by the endowment will bring a series of 
loaned executives from industry to provide 
expertise in managing massive data collec­
tions and similar information technology 
projects to campus. The endowment also will 
fund a number of efforts to improve access 
and delivery of digital information—with a 
likely focus on natural resources.

Loyola University, New Orleans, has re­
ceived a $500,000 challenge grant from the 
National Endowment for the Humanities to 
establish the Center for the Study of Catholics 
in the South. Loyola will raise an additional 
$1.5 million to endow the center, which will 
promote the study of the role of Catholic and 
ethnic groups in southern history and culture.

Moravian College has received a grant of 
$86,227 from the Reeves Foundation of Do­
ver, Ohio, to support two library needs. The 
major part of the grant will fund the second

in a three-step approach to purchasing and 
installing compact shelving in the library’s 
bound periodicals area. The second part of 
the grant will be used to replace a large num­
ber of chairs in use since the original build­
ing was constructed in 1968.

Marquette University has received three
alumni gifts of $1 million each toward the 
new John P. Raynor Library. Ground-break­
ing for the 120,000 square foot library is 
planned for fall 2001, with a 2003 opening. 
The university has raised more than $24 mil­
lion for the $55 million library, designed by 
Boston firm Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, 
and Abbott and Minneapolis design/build firm 
Opus Corp.

Harvard University has received $295,000 
from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to 
complete the cataloging and digitization of 
20,000 photographs as part of the Arthur and 
Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History 
of Women in America’s Photo Access Project. 
The photographs, with 16,000 previously digi­
tized images, will be available on the Internet 
as part of Harvard’s Visual Information Ac­
cess database (http://via.harvard.edu:748/ 
html/VIA.html).

Acquisitions

The library and archives of the Outdoor
Writers Association of America (OWAA) have 
been acquired by the Mansfield Library at 
the University of Montana, Missoula. The 
collection includes more than 2,500 books 
and approximately 700 linear feet of archival 
material, including photographs. In making 
the gift, OWAA executive director Steve 
Wagner, recognized that the collection 
complemented the library’s other primary 
source materials relating to Montana’s link

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with the green movement. OWAA was 
founded in 1927. In 1999, the association 
moved its headquarters from State College, 
Pennsylvania, to Missoula, Montana. The 
OWAA archives and library mirrors the inter­
ests of the association’s membership, which 
includes editorial personnel associated with 
such publications as Field & Stream, Outdoor 
Life, and Sports Afield, as well as broadcasters 
and prominent reporters and photographers, 
such as Bob Marshall, New Orleans Times-Pica­
yune; Pulitzer Prize winner Horace Carter, 
freelance writer; Pulitzer Prize winner Leonard 
Lee Rue; renowned wildlife and nature pho­
tographer Patrick McManus; noted humor 
writer and author Grits Gresham; and sports- 
man/writer/broadcaster Ted Nugent.

A collection of Ernest Hemingway’s ma­
terials has been acquired by the University of 
South Carolina. The collection, which will be 
called the Speiser and Easterling-Hallman 
Foundation Collection of Ernest Hemingway, 
was acquired though donations from the fam­
ily of Maurice Speiser (1880-1948) of Phila­
delphia and from Edward Hallman of Atlanta, 
a 1950 graduate of the university. Speiser, who 
was Hemingway’s friend and legal advisor for 
many years, amassed the collection and left it 
to his son, Raymond, who continued to add 
appropriate items. The collection, which is 
appraised at $1.7 million, includes numerous 
first editions of Hemingway’s works, as well 
as typescripts, issues and articles from news­
papers and magazines, and correspondence 
between Maurice Speiser and many 1920s 
writers and artists.

An electronic collection of more than
1,000 historical documents and images related 
to the Native Americans of the Southeast is 
now available on the Web via the GALILEO 
Digital Library of Georgia. The number will 
double in late 2001 because of a grant from 
the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 
which provided funding for the digitization 
project. The institute recently agreed to pro­
vide a second grant of $204,000 to continue 
the work, a cooperative venture involving 
GALILEO, the University of Georgia, the Uni­
versity of Tennessee at Knoxville Library, the 
Frank H. McClung Museum, and the Tennes­
see State Library and Archives. The selected 
documents represent the most significant hold­

ings from each collection and range from the 
early 1700s to the mid 1800s. Users can browse 
and search the online collection and view im­
ages of the original documents and transcribed 
text at http://www.galileo.peachnet.edu, select 
“Digital Library of Georgia,” then select “South­
eastern Native American Documents, 1730- 
1842.” If asked for a GALILEO password, se­
lect “Public Databases” at the bottom of the 
password screen.

The book collection of the late Arthur H.
Keeney, former dean of the School of Medi­
cine, has been acquired by the Kornhauser 
Health Sciences Library of the University of 
Louisville. Keeney, a noted ophthalmologist 
and author of more than ten volumes on the 
subject, was a longtime friend of the library. 
The Kornhauser Library received the gift of 
more than 900 titles from Virginia T. Keeney, 
his wife and a child psychiatrist at the uni­
versity. The collection covers the history of 
ophthalmology from Hieronymus Fabricius’s 
Synopsis Libri de Visione Sive de Oculo Visus 
Organo, published in Venice in 1600, to the 
present. Virginia Keeney will provide an ad­
ditional gift to support new furnishings for 
the Arthur H. Keeney, M.D. Room, where 
part of the collection will be housed, and 
also to facilitate processing of the collection.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s only known copy 
of an unpublished 23-ρage pamphlet has been 
acquired by the Huntington Library. Titled The 
Contemporary Review and the Stealthy School 
of Criticism, it was set in proof in 1871, but was 
so completely suppressed before the actual print 
run that no piece of it was thought to survive. It 
rebuts “The Fleshly School of Poetry,” the fa­
mous review by Robert Buchanan, which criti­
cized the pre-Raphaelites and Rossetti in par­
ticular. Bristling with anger and sarcasm, it would 
probably have led to legal action if publication 
had gone forward. On the advice of friends, 
Rossetti cut the more volatile portions (almost 
half the article) and revised the rest; the new 
version was published in The Athenœum in No­
vember 1871. The Huntington’s pamphlet rep­
resents the earlier version, lost for more than a 
century. It surfaced last year uncataloged in a 
batch of miscellaneous material at a London 
auction. The acquisition was made possible by 
a group of donors belonging to the Library Col­
lectors’ Council. ■

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