ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


122 / C&RL News ■ February 2003

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

The University of Tennessee Library, in 
partnership with the Frank H. McClung 
Museum, has been awarded $245,772 by the 
Institute o f Museum and Library Services to 
create an on line database o f  information 
describing archaeological projects undertaken 
by the W orks Progress Administration in the 
1930s before Tennessee Valley Authority dam 
construction flooded these important sites. The 
7,500 images, with their associated field notes 
and artifacts, are a comprehensive collection o f 
information about Native American habitation 
in the Southeast in the prehistoric period.

Temple University Libraries has received 
a $30,000 grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas 
Foundation and a $77,000 grant from  Dance 
Advance, a program  funded by the P ew  
Charitable T rusts, to support the establishment 
and developm ent o f the Philadelphia Dance 
Collection at Temple. This is the first organized 
effort to document and preserve the history o f 
Philadelphia dance.

The  U n iv e rs ity  of Illinois at U rb a n a- 
Champaign (U IU C ) and the H erzog August 
Bibliothek (H AB ) Wofenbuettel have received 
an A lexander von  H um boldt Foundation 
TransCoop award o f  45,000 Euros (U.S. $47,200) 
to support the collaborative research o f “Digital 
Emblematica,” a project to digitize emblems 
from  the UIUC Rare B ook  and Special 
Collections Library and HAB. Thomas Staecker 
(H A B ) and Mara W ade (U IU C ) are the joint 
recipients o f the award, which w ill fund travel 
b etw een  the tw o  research sites, a w orkin g 
conference, a research stay for the UIUC research 
team at HAB, and digitizin g equipm ent for 
HAB.

C o rnell U n iv e rs ity  has received tw o  
major grants for digital library projects from the 
Institute o f Museum and Library Services 
(IMLS). IMLS awarded Cornell $471,724 f o r  a 
three-year project to collaborate with five other 
libraries and museums to develop and test the 
Global Performing Arts Database and $281,449 
for a two-year project to digitize early Western

travel narratives from  the library’s John M. 
Echols Collection on Southeast Asia.

Rutgers University Libraries and tech­
n o lo g y  leaders at the G eorgia Institute o f 
Technology and the University o f Washington, 
have been awarded a $900,000 grant from the 
National Science Foundation to build an online 
catalog o f film, television, and digital vid eo  
images called M oving Image Collections. The 
project w ill catalog science-related m oving 
images held by a variety o f  organizations, 
including archives, libraries, museums, and 
corporations.

Western State College of Colorado has 
received a $1 m illion gift from  alumnus John 
Brach o f Grand junction to purchase books and 
research materials related to the history o f the 
American West for the college’s Leslie J. Savage 
Library.

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

A  collection of letters from the late writer 
and poet Raymond Carver has been donated to the 
library at the University o f California-Santa Cruz 
(UCSC). Valued at $23,650, the donation consists 
o f 26 letters, notes, and cards written to David 
Swanger, UCSC professor o f education and creative 
writing between 1977 and 1984. Carver spent 
three years at the university, teaching poetry and 
writing classes as a visiting lecturer. The 
correspondence documents a period in Carver’s 
life w h en he made the transition from being a 
relatively obscure w riter to b ecom in g a 
com m ercially successful and w ell-k n o w n  
author. Carver is widely credited with revitalizing 
the Am erican short story m ore than anyone 
since Ernest H em in gw ay and Flannery 
O ’Connor. ■

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