ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


662/ C&RL News

Grants 
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A c q u i s i t i o ns

Hugh Thompson

CUNY/LαGuαrdiα Com­
munity College in Long Is­
land City, New York, has re­
ceived a grant o f $74,965 
from the National Historical 
Publications and Records 
Commission to transfer the 
records o f seven settlement 
houses to archival custody, 
arrange and describe them, 
and create descriptions in 
the USMARC AMC format for 
entry into RLIN.

The Virginia Newspaper 
Project at the Library o f Virginia has received a 
grant o f $591,670 from the National Endow­
ment for the Humanities for the next phase of 
its project to identify and catalog Virginia news­
paper titles. The phase includes cataloging and 
entering bibliographic records into the U.S. 
Newspaper Program database, identifying titles 
in need o f preservation, and developing a strat­
egy for processing those newspapers.

The University o f Montana has received 
a $598,000 endowment from an alumnus to add 
to the Mansfield Library’s humanities and so­
cial science collections. The gift came from the 
estate o f Robert L. “Robin” Schafer (class o f ’57). 
The bequest is credited to the University o f Mon­
tana Capital Campaign’s $3 million priority for 
library enhancement.

The University o f South Carolina has re­
ceived a grant o f $37,371 from the National 
Historical Publications and Records Commis­
sion to continue the retrospective conversion 
o f its collection-level catalog descriptions into 
the USMARC format.

The University o f N evad a at Reno has 
received a grant of $54,168 from the National 
Historical Publications and Records Commis­
sion to continue its project to locate collections 
o f privately held manuscripts and archives

Ed. note: Entries in this column are taken 
from library newsletters, press releases, and other 
sources. Write to: Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL 
News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611; 
e-mail: hugh.thompson@ala.org.

o f  N eva d a  w o m en  and 
women’s organizations, so­
licit and acquire the materi­
als, arrange and describe the 
c o lle c tio n s  using the 
USMARC AMC format, and 
enter the descriptions into 
the university’s online cata­
log and OCLC.

V a lp a ra iso U niversity 
has b een  aw ard ed  tw o 
$50,000 three-year grants by 
the Lilly Endowment, Inc. 
The grants w ill support 

rojects in curriculum and institutional devel­
pment. The curriculum development project 
s entitled “Teaching and Learning Diversity at 
alparaiso University” and will produce a wide 
rray o f disciplinary offerings to fulfill the newly 
dopted U.S. Cultural Diversity general educa­
ion requirement. The institutional development 
roject is entitled “Moellering Library’s Self-De­
elopment Initiatives: Training in Public Rela­
ions and Library Development” and will focus 
n recentering the library in the academic life 
f the university.

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A  major collection o f the papers o f Sir 
Roy Harrod, one o f Britain’s most distinguished 
theoretical economists and the official biogra­
pher o f John Maynard Keynes, has been ac­
quired by the British Library in London. It in­
cludes part o f the archive Harrod amassed 
during the research and composition o f his bi­
ography o f Keynes, published in 1951. This com­
prises letters from ‘Bloomsbury’ figures such as 
Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, and Ralph Partridge, 
and contemporaries o f Keynes such as Harold 
Macmillan, recalling and reflecting on the in­
terwar decades. Unpublished memoranda on 
financial relations with the United States and 
postwar social and economic policy reflect the 
breadth o f wartime discussion concerning re­
construction and a new world order.

The first three volumes o f the Stirling- 
South Carolina Edition o f the Works o f James

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Hogg have been presented to the University of 
South Carolina’s Thomas Cooper Library by the 
general editor, Douglas Mack. When complete, 
the work will include about twenty volumes of 
scholarly texts on the work o f Hogg, a Scottish 
poet and novelist. Publisher for the project is 
Edinburgh University Press.

A rare microfilm collection o f books 
published during the most important period of 
Japan’s modernization has been acquired by 
Columbia University’s C. V. Starr East Asian Li­
brary on indefinite loan from the Maruzen Pub­
lishing Company o f Japan. More than 8,000 
reels, representing more than half o f the Na­
tional Diet Library Collection o f books printed 
in the Meiji Era (1868– 1912), include materials 
on philosophy, religion, history, politics and 
foreign affairs, social concerns, economics and 
business, statistics, education, visual and per­
forming arts, crafts, and literature. The micro­
film set includes printed indices and a CD-ROM 
catalog, which can be searched by author, pub­
lisher, key works, and other designations.

Also, the library and personal archive from 
Tennessee William’s Key West home have 
been acquired by Columbia University, adding

(Pubs cont. from  page 661)
ional Education Goals, overcoming fixed library 
schedules and teacher resistance, and making 
connections with public libraries. Targeted at 
elementary school principals and other profes­
sionals in education, this text is recommended 
for education libraries and graduate library 
school collections. $29-95. Scholastic, Inc., Or­
der Dept., P.O. Box 120, Bergenfield, NJ 07621; 
(800) 325-6149. ISBN 0-590-49276-4.

On Television and Comedy: Essays on 
Style, Theme, Performer and Writer, by
Barry Putterman (210 pages, May 1995), is an 
attempt to bring critical analysis o f television 
comedy to the same level as that applied to 
movies and theater. Putterman covers both the 
traditional sitcoms and variety shows o f the ’50s 
and ’60s ( Dobie Gillis, The Monkees, The Sid 
Caesar Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show) as 
well as modern shows that do not fit those 
molds (fust Say Julie! and The Gorgeous Ladies 
of Wrestling ). Although sometimes dismissed 
as vapid, TV comedy often features subtle so­
cial criticism. $28.50. McFarland & Co., Box 611, 
Jefferson, NC 28640. ISBN 0-7864-0067-6.

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to its already extensive collection o f manuscripts 
and papers o f the late American dramatist. In­
cluded are letters, manuscripts, typescripts, 
annotated books, photographs, and ephemera 
documenting the final years o f Williams’s life. 
The acquisition also includes 66 miscellaneous 
pieces o f artwork, among them paintings by 
the playwright and his sister, Rose. ■

Sixties Radicals, Then and N o w : Can­
did Conversations with Those Who Shaped 
the Era, by Ron Chepesiuk (324 pages, March 
1995), is the story o f 18 radicals who partici­
pated in sit-ins and antiwar demonstrations from 
I960 to 1973. Chepesiuk’S interviews with Dave 
Dellinger, Warren Hinckle, Philip Berrigan, Jerry 
Rubin, Bernardine Dohm, Abbie Hoffman, and 
others shed light on the events and personali­
ties o f the period and their perspectives 30 years 
later. A  glossary and bibliography aid interpre­
tation. $39-95. McFarland & Co., Box 611, Jef­
ferson, NC 28640. ISBN 0-89950-778-6.

TCP/IP fo r the Internet, by Marshall Breed­
ing (304 pages, March 1995), evaluates exist­
ing Internet protocol software for both Win­
dows and the Mac. Although Windows ’95 has 
TCP/IP built in, it does not negate the need for 
the feature-rich third-party software described 
here. Sample screens, icons, sample autoexec, 
bat and config.sys files, memory management, 
and ratings for a variety o f features are pro­
vided for the twenty products reviewed. $24.95. 
Mecklermedia, 20 Ketchum St., Westport, CT 
06880. ISBN 0-88736-980-4. ■