ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries July/August 1987 / 411 ★ ★ ★ News from the field Acquisitions • Texas Tech University, Lubbock, has received an archive of Turkish oral narrative and other m a­ terials from W arren S. W alker, professor in the E n ­ glish D epartm ent, and his wife. The archive in­ cludes more th an 3,000 Turkish-language folktales collected throughout the country over a 26-year pe­ riod by the W alkers and their collaborator, Prof. Ahm et E. Uysal. C ontained on m ore th a n 800 seven-inch reels of m agnetic tape, the collection is believed to be the largest of its kind anyw here in the w orld, including Turkey. Also included are refer­ ence works and specialized studies on Turkish folk­ lore, folk music, geography, history, economics, art, architecture, dram a, religion, sociology, poli­ tics, weaving, crafts, costume, cuisine, and travel. The Turkish-language daily newspaper, Hurriyet, the English-language Turkish newspaper, N ew - Spot, various Turkish and Middle East journal se­ ries, and a range of Turkish cultural periodicals supplem ent the archive, along w ith film strips, slides, videocassettes, and recorded music. • Texas Wesleyan College, F ort W orth, has ac- quired an extensive collection of the works of book designer and printer C arl Hertzog. Consisting of 250 items, the collection spans the career of the noted “P rinter at the Pass,” and includes corre­ spondence and archival m aterials collected by the late H enry Ingram . • The University of D elaw are, Newark, has ac- quired a group of rare and im portant draft type­ s c rip ts of e a rly w o rk by n o v e list E rn e s t H e m in g w a y (1899– 1961), w h ic h re v e a l th e m ethod of composition by which he achieved his sp are, u n d e rsta te d w ritin g style. M any of the drafts reflect substantial differences from the p u b ­ lished texts. T. O tto Bruce, H em ingw ay’s com pan­ ion, driver, and handym an, obtained the m aterials from M ary H em in g w ay , th e a u th o r’s w idow , w hen she was sorting out papers Hem ingway had left at Sloppy Joe’s Bar in Key West, Florida. In ­ cluded are more th an 80 typew ritten pages of The Green Hills o f Africa (1935), w ith interlinear and m arginal corrections on 47 pages, m any in the hand of Pauline Hem ingway, the au th o r’s second wife and the “P .O .M .,” or Poor Old M am a, of the novel. The pages correspond to the missing portion of the typescript contained in the John F. Kennedy L ibrary, believed to be the only one extant. Also in­ cluded is a unique typescript of H em ingw ay’s real­ istic play The Fifth Colum n, produced by the T he­ a tre G u ild , I n c ., in N ew York in 1940. T h e typescript is entitled “A P lay,” and is typed, mostly by the author, on at least tw o different kinds of p a ­ per, w ith a note at the end reading, “Finished w rit­ ing M adrid Nov. Finished typeing Nov 23rd 1937.” There are m any m ajor differences between this and the version first published in the volume enti­ tled The F ifth C olum n and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). An early, 28-page d raft of one of these stories, “The Snows of K ilim anjaro,” entitled “The H appy E nding,” contains sentences both de­ leted and added in the published version. The names of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Malcolm Cowley, and several obscenities, w ere om itted from the printed text. Also acquired is an early nine-page draft of the autobiographical story “Fathers and Sons,” and the only recorded copies of a d raft of “A Clean, W ell-Lighted Place,” both included in the collection W inner Take N othing (1940). D elaw are has also acquired the archives of noted New York editor and publisher Seymour Laurence relatin g to a u th o r K urt V onnegut Jr. The files cover the period of th eir w orking relationship, 1966-1976, and includes fact sheets, contract in­ form ation sheets, royalty statem ents, and foreign publication and reprint and movie rights for the ti­ tles Laurence controlled. There are also a consider­ able num ber of photographs by V onnegut’s wife, p h o to g ra p h e r Jill K rem entz, an d a n u m b er of m anuscripts, clipping files from a news service, and other ephem era. Vonnegut, author of a n u m ­ b e r of novels in c lu d in g S la u g h te r h o u s e F ive (1969), was signed by Laurence to a five-book con­ tract in 1965 while still a relatively unknown w riter despite his popularity on college and university campuses. A third acquisition at D elaw are is the archive of contem porary American author M ark H arris, best known for his 1956 baseball novel Bang the D rum Slowly, the second of a trilogy. The corrected m an ­ uscript of the novel, together w ith drafts and p ro ­ duction notes and other m aterials relating to the 1973 film version starring Robert De Niro, are in­ cluded. Among H arris’ non-fiction works, his con­ tro v e r s ia l b io g ra p h y , S a u l B e llo w : D r u m lin W oodchuck (1980), is represented in typescripts, journal entries containing descriptions of meetings w ith Bellow, and a series of letters from Bellow to Harris. O ther correspondents include Jack C on­ roy, R ichard Ellm an, W illiam and M argaret G ib­ son, Elizabeth Janew ay, H arris’ editor A1 H art, his a g e n t Ad S ch u lb erg (m o th e r of a u th o r B udd 412 / C &R L News Schulberg), and m any individuals affiliated w ith th e w orlds of publish in g , th e a te r, an d cinem a. C ontracts for H arris’s 20 books are also included. • T he U niversity of H ouston, Texas, has ac- quired the first and second ty p ew ritten , corrected drafts of L arry M cM urtry’s latest novel, Texasville, together w ith various essays, introductions, and scripts, as well as a synopsis of his P ulitzer Prize­ w inning Lonesom e Dove, w ritten for a television mini-series. • T he University of M ichigan, Ann A rbor, has acquired a collection of p o p u lar sheet music, in­ cluding 4,500 compositions by black musicians and a n o th e r 1,400 w h ic h re fle c t a ttitu d e s to w a r d blacks in A m erica. T h e co llectio n to ta ls some 22,000 items d atin g from the period 1900-1950, and includes m uch m aterial from the H arlem R en­ aissance era of th e 1920s. Included are a vintage edition of Scott Joplin’s “The E n te rta in e r,” as well as first editions of m usic by Jelly Roll M orton, Jam es P. Johnson, Lillian H ard in A rm strong, Fats W aller and E ubie Blake. Also represented are Bert W illiam s, a star of the Ziegfeld Follies and an ac­ co m p lish ed com poser, an d th e b ro th e rs Jam es W eldon Johnson and J. Rosam ond Johnson, w ho w ro te “L ift Every Voice and Sing,” the song com ­ m o n ly re fe rre d to as th e “ N egro N a tio n a l A n­ th e m .” The collection also includes m ultiple edi­ tions of George M. C o h an ’s “You’re a G ran d Old F la g ,” revealing th a t its original title, “You’re a G ran d O ld R ag,” was quickly changed in a second edition because of public outrage at C o h an ’s irrev­ erent w ord choice. 270 songs by Irving Berlin and m ore th a n 100 by George G ershw in are also re p re­ sented, including a copy of “Sw anee” autographed by A1 Jolson. The collection was purchased from M ichael M ontgom ery, a M ichigan alum nus and a ragtim e and jazz pianist w ho has collected sheet music for m ore th a n 30 years. • The University of O regon L ib ra ry ’s Special Collections D ep artm en t, E ugene, has acquired a n u m b er of m anuscripts of p o p u lar w estern novels by the late Ernest Haycox (1899-1950) from the es­ ta te of his w idow , Jill M arie. Included are first- d ra ft copies of 24 novels and m ore th a n 200 short stories w ritte n in the 1930s and 40s. Haycox, whose first stories a p p e a re d in p u lp m agazines of th e 1920s, later published in m ajor m agazines includ­ ing the Saturday E vening Post and C ollier’s, and was noted for his strict attentio n to historically ac­ cu rate detail. His novel Trouble Shooter becam e the m otion picture “Union P acific,” and a 1937 short story, Stage to Lordsburg, w on critical ac­ claim as “Stagecoach,” u nder the direction of John F ord. T he recent gift joins H ay cox’s extensive li­ b rary , donated by his w idow m ore th a n 20 years ago. • T he University of Rochester, New York, has acquired the personal and professional papers of au th o r, historian, and educator Jerre M angione. M angione, now professor of A m erican lite ratu re em eritus at the University of Pennsylvania, was n a ­ tional coordinating editor of the F ederal W riters’ Project of 1937-1939, whose employees included Saul Bellow, R ichard W rig h t, Studs Terkel, and R alph Ellison. He is p a rt of the pro m in en t Roches­ ter fam ily whose m em bers include his nephews, the w ell-know n musicians C huck and G ap M an­ gione. Housed in the D ep a rtm en t of R are Books and Special Collections, the papers include notes, drafts, m anuscripts, and pre-publication m aterials for most of the a u th o r’s published works, several file draw ers of m anuscripts and p rin ted m aterials relating to the F ederal W riters’ Project, correspon­ dence w ith m any w ell-know n w riters and other p u b lic figures, ta p e s, p h o to g ra p h s , a n d o th e r m em o rab ilia. A m ong th e correspondents re p re ­ sen ted a re C o n ra d A iken, L ouise B ogan, Kay Boyle, K enneth B urke, F red erick Exley, P hilip R oth, M ay Sarton, and m any others. T he m a n u ­ script of M angione’s best-know n w ork, M o u n t A l­ legro (1943), donated years ago to the Rochester Public L ib rary , has been generously transferred to the University in the interest of unifying the collec­ tion. • Yale U n iv e rsity ’s B einecke R are Book an d M anuscript L ib rary has acquired the archive of the The D ial, w h ich , u n d e r th e d irectio n of its co­ ow ner, Scofield T hayer, becam e one of the most distinguished A m erican lite ra ry jo u rn als of the 1920s. T he D ial papers w ere originally deposited at Yale in tw o installm ents b eginning in 1950 by agents for T hayer, whose failing health prevented him from m anaging his ow n affairs. T hayer died in 1982, and his heirs h ad p lanned to sell the archive at auction in June 1987, upon w hich Yale agreed to purchase it outright. E dited by C onrad Aiken, V an W yck Brooks, R andolph Bourne, and M arianne Moore, The Dial becam e a legendary forum for m odernist poetry, art, and w riting. Its co n trib u ­ tors included almost all the leading literary and a r­ tistic figures of the day, including E zra P ound, T. S. Eliot, Sherwood Anderson, K enneth Burke, e. e. c u m m in g s , D . H . L a w r e n c e , A m y L o w e ll, B ertrand Russell, W illiam Carlos W illiam s, and W . B. Yeats. E lio t’s poem The W aste L a n d first a p ­ peared in p rin t in the pages of The Dial in 1922. T he archive contains original m anuscripts and typescripts of articles th a t appeared in the m ag a­ zine, including long series of colum ns and special features by M oore, Pound, T hayer, and Eliot. Of note are poems and essays by Eliot, poems and sto­ ries by L aw rence, some of P ou n d ’s early Cantos, poems by W illiam s, and poems and m em oirs by Yeats. D ju n a Barnes, John D ew ey, E. M. Forster, M axim G orki, T hom as H a rd y , T hom as M ann, R ainer M aria Rilke, and C arl S andburg are re p re­ sented by shorter files of m anuscripts. T here are also thousands of letters betw een the editors and co n trib u to rs. A dditional correspondents re p re ­ sented include P adraic C olum , Charles D em u th , E rnest H em ingw ay, G aston Lachaise, A rchibald M acLeish, T hornton W ilder, H erm an n Hesse, Al­ July /August 1987 / 413 fred Stieglitz, and others. The archive also contains financial records and six large scrapbooks of adver­ tising m atter, clippings, and other ephemera. It has been augm ented by additional m aterials dis­ covered in Thayer’s hom etown of W orcester, Mas­ sachusetts, including a substantial file of Pound’s letters, correspondence w ith Moore, and drawings by cummings. The library plans a m ajor exhibit of the Dial m aterials this fall. Grants • C olum bia University’s School of Library Ser- vice, New York City, has been aw arded three Title I I –B fellowships by the U.S. D epartm ent of E duca­ tion. Priority for all three awards will go to m em ­ bers of under-represented groups who are inter­ ested in increased opportunities for professional advancem ent which would otherwise be unavail­ able to them. The C ertificate in Inform ation M an­ agement is intended to provide advanced opportu­ nities for study and training for persons who do not not necessarily wish to pursue a research degree. Emphasis in the program will be on attaining a fundam ental understanding of the principles of bibliographic control, how it is and will be influ­ enced by new inform ation technology, and the im ­ portance of policy as a guiding force. Fellows in the Certificate program will receive full tuition and a stipend of $6,000 for 12 months. • Dalhousie University’s School of Library and Inform ation Studies, Halifax, Nova Scotia, has been aw arded a $42,000 development grant from the university for the strengthening of its facilities and course offerings in the areas of inform ation and com puter technology. Funding will be spread over a three-year period. The School plans to purchase several m icrocom puters and a range of library- specific software, as well as facilities for desktop publishing. Several thesauri, searching manuals for com m erical databases, and related p ublica­ tions will be added to the School’s collection. A por­ tion of the grant will also be allocated as “seed” money for an interdisciplinary program in infor­ m ation m anagem ent w ithin the Faculty of M an­ agement Studies and w ith other relevant university departm ents. • H arvard University, C am bridge, Massachu- setts, has been aw arded $40,000 by Encyclopaedia Britannica, In c ., to support cataloging and conser­ vation of the papers of journalist and author Theo­ dore H. W hite. W hite, a sum m a cum laude gradu­ ate of 1938, served on the Board of Overseers from 1968 to 1974 and donated his archives to the Uni­ versity last year. He was the China bureau chief of Tim e m agazine from 1939 to 1945, and served later on the staffs of the N ew Republic, The Reporter, and Colliers. W hite is probably best known as the author of the widely-read “Making of the Presi­ dent” volumes, the notes for which are included in the archive. The 300 cubic feet of papers will be of interest to researchers in such diverse topics as C hina during W orld W ar II, the postw ar recon­ struction of Europe, and the development of Amer­ ican television. The archive also includes several boxes of tape-recorded interviews w ith m ajor polit­ ical figures of the last two decades. • Roger W illiam s College, Bristol, Rhode Is- land, has received an enhancem ent grant of $7,163 from the Rhode Island D epartm ent of Library Ser­ vices to acquire the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and produce and distribute an in ­ dex to selected Rhode Island academic libraries to encourage referral and interlibrary access to this resource. News notes • New York University, New York C ity, has m ade available a catalog of the titles represented in the Tam im ent Institute L ibrary’s “Video Collec­ tion on the History of the Labor Movement and Radical Politics in the United States.” The guide, which provides an alphabetical listing and detailed description of the 65 videotapes in the collection, will be a useful tool for researchers and students in the fields of American labor history, radicalism, political science and cinem a studies. Tapes include Eugene Debs and the American M ovem ent, L ife and Times o f Rosie the Riveter, Union Maids, and Wobblies. The Library plans to add to its film and video holdings on these subjects in the future. • The Chinese Rare Book Union C atalog Proj- ect, first proposed by Premier Chou Enlai in 1975 in the afterm ath of the G reat C ultural Revolution, is now in its tenth vear. Under the direction of famed bibliophile Ku T ’ing–lung, D irector of the Shanghai Library (the country’s second largest af­ ter the National Library of C hina in Beijing), col­ lection of catalog cards commenced in 1980, w ith more than 40 experts now involved in final authen­ tication and compilation. The definition of a C hi­ nese rare book in the project is set as: “A published work before 1795. All books of Sung (960-1280), Yuan (1280-1368), and Ming (1368-1644) dynas­ ties are autom atically considered as rare books. Early C h’ing dynasty (1644-1911) books from 1644 to 1795 are on a selective basis. Manuscripts or books now existing only in hand-copied volumes are also perceived as ra re .” The search for Chinese rare books covers the whole of m ainland China. Sources encompass public libraries, university and college libraries, academic institutions, museums, archives, private collections, temples, etc. 782 lo­ cales across the nation have m ade contributions to the catalog, w ith approxim ately 20,000 titles and m ore th a n 130,000 cards collected. The m u lti­ volume catalog will be in five parts: Ching (The Classics), Shih (The Histories), Tzu (The Philoso­ phers), Chi (The Belles-lettres), and Ts’ung (The 414 / C&RL News Collectanea). The catalog, however, will not en­ compass the large number of rare books brought to Taiwan by the Nationalist government in 1949, nor books in minority languages such as Manchu, Mongol, and Tibetan. In Taiwan, the National Central Library has already produced its catalog of Chinese rare books, with all titles microfilmed and entered into an automated database. ■ ■ . P E O P L E . Profiles Stephanie Rogers Bangert has been appointed library director at Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, California. Bangert came to Saint Mary’s in 1983 as special services librarian responsible for developing and directing information services for off-campus pro­ grams. She was named assistant director for infor­ mation services in 1985. Her previous positions have included online reference services librarian at San Jose State University (1978-1982) and head of the Bibliographic Retrieval Unit (BAKER) at the University of California, Berkeley (1973-1978). She holds bachelor’s (1975) and MLS (1977) de­ grees from UC–Berkeley. Active in numerous professional organizations, she was elected to the boards of the Cooperative Li­ brary Agency for Systems and Services (CLASS) and the Bay Area Library and Information Net­ work (BALIN) in 1985. She was elected chair of BALIN in 1986. Bangert’s most recent publication is “Academic Librarians in the Field: Library Service to Off- Campus Students,” published in The Off-Campus Library Services Conference Proceedings (Central Michigan University Press, 1986). 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