ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL News ■ O cto b er 2000 / 831

G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n s Ann-ChristeYoung

The University of Pittsburgh (UP) has 
received a $10,000 donation from the Polish 
National Alliance (PNA) to help catalog, 
preserve, and make accessible a collection of 
rare Polish books, magazines, and sound 
recordings. The collection was housed at 
A lliance C ollege in Cam bridge Springs, 
Pennsylvania, but was entrusted to the University 
Library  System after that College closed in the 
1980s. In the nine years the collection has been 
housed at Hillman Library, PNA has donated 
$65,000 to support it. UP has cataloged 14,500 
titles from the collection, including 295 music 
scores, 111 sound recordings, and many rare 
books, magazines, and journals, some unique 
to North America. The collection reflects what 
Polish people were reading in the late 19th and 
early 20th centuries— ranging from treasured 
volumes o f poetry to books on what words one 
had to learn to becom e an American Citizen.

Duke University has received a $171,000
grant from the National Endowment for the 
Humanities to preserve and provide wider 
access to the Jo h n  W. Hartman Center for 
Sales, Advertising and Marketing History’s 
archives o f the outdoor advertising industiy. 
T h e  q u a r te r -o f-a -m illio n  item  o u td o o r 
advertising library is the repository for the 
Outdoor Advertising Association o f America’s 
official records, dating from the 19th centuiy, 
as well as several related collections. Among 
the records are hundreds o f thousands o f 
slides and photographs, original artwork for 
m em orable billboards, countless industry 
documents, correspondence, and even films.

The School of Information and Library
Science at the University o f North Carolina at 
Chapel Hill has received a $120,000 gift from 
Cisco Systems Inc. and the Cisco Systems 
Foundation to honor the university’s late 
chancellor. The gift establishes the Michael 
H ooker Graduate Fellow ship in Applied 
Networking, honoring the chancellor who 
died in Ju n e 1999 after a six-month battle with 
lymphoma. Incom e from the gift will support 
the fellowship, which will help pay tuition

and expenses for a graduate Student who is 
studying development and management o f 
networked information systems.

A c q u i s i t i o n s

M aterials from the estate of Keith R.
Porter have been donated to the University of 
M aryland, B a ltim o re  County. P orter is 
considered one o f the founders o f modern cell 
biology and a pioneer in the techniques of 
electron microscopy. The materials were 
provided by Lee D. Peachey, executor o f the 
Porter estate, the Keith R. Porter Endowment 
for Cell Biology. The collection includes more 
than 100,000 photomicrograph negatives from 
1946 to 1996, approximately 4,000 trans- 
parencies of electron micrographs, manuscripts 
for publications, and research files o f notes and 
reprints. Also there are evaluative notebooks 
by subject o f selected photomicrographs, 
correspondence, conference files, admini­
strative files, grant review files, films, a complete 
file o f Porter’s publications, and personal 
biographical information files.

The Circulo Cubano, Tampa, Florida's, 
historic Cuban club in Y b o r City, donated its 
archives to the University o f South Florida in 
Tampa. Preserved in these fragile paper 
records is the story o f an institution that for 
generations has been part o f the lives o f the 
city’s Cuban community. In the late 1800s and 
early 1900s, when Y bor City and West Tampa 
w ere lively, multiethnic “cigar cities” tuming 
out millions o f the world’s finest cigars, the 
Central Espanol, Circulo Cubano, Union 
Italiana, Union Marti-Maceo, and Centro 
Asturiano immigrant mutual aid societies were 
the vibrant hearts o f their communities, centers 
o f cultural and social life for the Cuban, 
S p a n ish , a n d  I ta lia n  im m ig ran ts w h o  
com prised their membership ■

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