ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL News ■ M arch 2002 / 221

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

The U n ive rs ity  o f A rizo n a Library
has received $123,672 from the Institute of 
Museum and Library Services for a two-year 
digital project that will create the Arizona Elec­
tronic Atlas. This Web-based interactive state 
atlas will be accessible to all levels of users. 
The project will develop a model workflow 
and methodology that other organizations can 
use to develop their own Web-based atlases 
and other products using Geographic Infor­
mation Systems (GIS) technologies.

The University o f Michigan has been
awarded a grant for $860,000 from the An­
drew W. Mellon Foundation to support post­
doctoral fellowships focusing on the use of 
the university’s research collections. With the 
grant, and $140,000 in matching funds from 
the Office of the University’s Provost, a pub­
lic goods program that will offer both junior 
and senior postdoctoral fellowships will be 
instituted for a four-year term. The fellow­
ships, which are intended for scholars in the 
fields of the humanities and related social 
sciences, are expected to attract scholars to 
the university whose work would be derived 
from the collections housed on campus. Fur­
ther information about the application pro­
cess may be found at http://www.umich.edu/ 
-provost/publicgoods/.

Cornell University Library (CUL) has
received an $830,000 grant from the Andrew 
W. Mellon Foundation to digitize the remain­
ing records in its card catalog and add them 
to its online catalog. In the 1970s, CUL be­
gan converting records from card to machine- 
readable format, and, since 1983, all records 
for newly acquired materials have been 
added to the library’s online catalog. How­
ever, more than 276,000 bibliographic records 
for items in Cornell’s collections, including a 
large number of humanities and social sci­
ence titles, exist only on paper cards filed in

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traditional, heavy wooden cabinets. This 
means that these titles also have no elec­
tronic bibliographic record in national or in­
ternational databases. CUL will convert all 
of its card catalog records for titles classified 
according to the Library of Congress classifi­
cation system. The project will be completed 
early in 2005.

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

Emory University has acquired the
papers of composer and choral director William 
Levi Dawson. Described as the “Dean of 
African American Choral Composers,” Dawson 
is world renowned for his arrangements of 
Negro spirituals and for his composition of the 
Negro Folk Symphony, premiered in 1934 by 
the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra under 
the direction of Leopold Stokowski. The 
collection includes the scores and sheet music 
of other African American composers, with 
correspondence from John W. Work, William 
Grant Still, George Washington Carver, 
Leontyne Price, and Fanny and Ralph Ellison. 
It also includes hundreds of recordings from 
African American church, high school, college, 
and university choirs and a wide array of 
classical, jazz, blues, and popular music on 
78- and 33-rpm phonodisc, as well as reel-to- 
reel, cassette, and 8-track tape. Dawson’s 
library included books of music theory and 
history (most notably a first edition of the 
novel Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison) and 
hundreds of scores of classical music. The 
papers are expected to be open for research 
early in 2003. ■

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