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

U n iv e r s it y  o f I llin o is  a t U rb an a
Cham paign Library has received  a grant o f 
$ 1 58,000 from the Institute o f Museum and 
Library Services to support the creation o f an 
electronic database o f historical material. O nce 
scanned in, the material— im ages and texts 
contributed by local m useum s, libraries, and 
archives— will b e  accessib le by the W eb  to 
children and their teach ers in three local 
elem entary schools.

The Council on Library and Information
Resources (CLIR) has been  awarded $300,000 
by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. 
The Hewlett Foundation made the grant in 
response to a proposal from CLIR that outlined 
its projected initiatives in four program areas: 
preservation and access, digital libraries, 
econom ics o f information, and leadership.

The U niversity of South Florida (USF)
has received a donation o f $3 million from 
retired attorney A. B. Angle to support the 
Virtual Library and the Resource Center for 
Florida History and Politics. T he donation 
could also b e  m atched with a gift from the 
state. Liz Sism ilich, d irec to r for library 
developm ent, said, “Money could go toward 
purchasing electronic databases and journals. 
It can also help us digitize materials and place 
them  on the Internet.” Angle had earlier 
donated $200,000 to the library and has a 
fourth-floor study room  nam ed in his honor.

The New Jersey State Library has awarded
554 grants totaling $5,150,872 under its Libraries 
2000 Plan. The plan provides for each public 
library to have at least o n e Pentium  com puter 
with Internet access. Academic libraries also 
received grants under the plan in clu d in g the 
Hub Library program, Integrated Online Library 
Systems Implementation grant, Im p lem en tin g  
2 3 9 .5 0  and W e b P a c  T e c h n o lo g y , and the 
A cad em ic Libraries (VALE) D atabase A ccess 
p ro je c t. T h e s e  grants also  h e lp e d  stim ulate 
a n o th e r $ 3 .5  m illio n  in n etw o rk  eq u ip m en t 
to th e p u b lic  lib raries from  B ell A tlantic 
N ew Je rs e y .

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

Papers of the late Roy Davis Holt Sr.,
a W estern author and public education leader, 
h a v e b e e n  a c q u ire d  b y  th e So u th w est 
Collection/Special Collections Library o f  Texas 
T ech  University. T he collection includes 31 
b o x es o f  recently processed materials on  the 
history o f  T exas and the West. Holt, w ho died 
in 1985, w rote numerous W estern articles for 
publications such as The Cattlem an, Sheep 
a n d  G oat Raiser, True West, and Western 
H orsem an . The collection contains research 
files used in writing his three books. They 
include C hildren In d ia n  Captives, So You 
Don't Like Texas, and H eap M any Texas Chiefs. 
T he materials include correspondence, literary 
productions, news clippings and personal 
files, printed material, teaching files, scrapbook 
material, and memorabilia.

Acollection of works of Jean-Paul Sartre
has been  acquired by the B einecke Rare B ook 
and Manuscript Library. The collection includes 
the library o f tape recordings that Jo h n  Gerassi 
amassed during his work on the 1989 biography, 
fe a n -P a u l Sartre: H ated  C on science o f  His 
Century. These include tapes o f 36 interviews 
with Sartre prior to the writing o f the biography, 
In addition, the library has acquired several 
unpub-lished manuscripts that Sartre gave to 
Gerassi. T hese include a four-hour lecture on 
ethics presented by Sartre in 1964 at the 
Gramsci Institute in Rome; 800 pages o f notes 
for lectures on  ethics that Sartre intended to 
give at Cornell (he can-celled his visit to protest 
the American bom bing o f North Vietnam); the 
uncorrected typescript o f a volume on ethics 
that differs from the published text; and four 
pages o f notes in Sartre’s hand identifying the 
books h e read  during v arious p erio d s in his 
life. ■

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