ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 365 New s from the F ield ACQUISITIONS • Alfred University, Alfred, New York, has been presented with an extensive private library of modem British literature and social history by a longtim e benefactor, Evelyn Tennyson Openhym of Wellsville, New York. The collec­ tion, rich in rare signed editions and valued at more than a quarter of a million dollars, was ac­ quired by the donor between 1924 and 1978. Several hundred authors are represented includ­ ing Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, John Masefield, John Galsworthy, Siegfried Sas­ soon, Walter de la Mare, and Rupert Brooke. • The University of South F lorida Library, St. Petersburg, has received the public and par­ tially private papers of the late Nelson Poynter, chairman of the board of Times Publishing Com­ pany. Among other publications, the company has issued the Congressional Quarterly Almanac and the Si. Petersburg Times newspaper. The Poynter Collection contains political correspon­ dence, an extensive portfolio of photographs, and Pulitzer Prize commendation records. • The University of Southern Mississippi Library, Hattiesburg, has acquired for the Lena Y. de Grummond Collection of Children’s Litera­ ture the Robert L. Dartt Collection of over 1,800 books for boys from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A major segment of the col­ lection features over 500 volumes authored by George A. Henty (1832-1902). Other prominent authors represented are Horatio Alger, F.S. Bre- reton, H arry Castlem on, G. Manville Fenn, William H.G. Kingston, Oliver Optic, and Ed­ ward Stratemeyer. GRANTS • Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, has received a major grant of $35,000 from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The grant will be used for the enrichment of special collections for the Aired Whitehead Memorial Music Library through the purchase of the collected works of 21 major composers. • The Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, has been awarded by the National Historical Pub­ lications and Records Commission up to $65,330 in partial support of a project to microfilm for preservation and research selected historically valuable records series from each of Ohio’s coun­ ties. • Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Booth Ferris Foundation of New York to enrich its library collection. The foundation provides financial support to colleges and universities with high academic standards and effective leadership. The new collections will be housed in the space provided by a $4.3 million expansion project which was completed last year and which has in­ creased library space by 50 per cent. NEWS NOTES • The Library Company of P hiladelphia hosted a “Quarter of a Millenium” international symposium October 14-16 to commemorate its 250th anniversary this year. Scholars from six dif­ ferent countries presented papers on “The Intel­ lectual World of 1731. ” A special feature of the celebration was an exhibition of over 250 items from the Library Company’s collections, ranging from a tenth century Greek manuscript to the F irst C ontinental Congress’ address to King George III, and from the earliest known painting of Philadelphia to a first edition of Walt Whit­ man’s Leaves o f Grass. The exhibition will be open in Philadelphia through March, 1982, and will then travel to the Grolier Club in New York for two months. 366 • The library of the State University of New ÏORK.at Buffalo commemorated the acquisition of its two millionth volume on September 17. The book, Rerum Polonicarum, was written in 1584 by Alexandra Guagnino, a knighted Polish soldier turned author. The program featured keynote speaker Oscar Handlin, director of the University Library at Harvard, a panel discussion on "The Book Collector, Rare Book Collection, and the University Library,” and a formal opening of the Rare/Special Materials Collection of the Law Li­ brary. • The University of California. Irvine library hosted a colloquium on academic libraries on Oc­ tober 21 to mark the addition of its millionth vol­ ume, the Latin treatise De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii by Martianus Capella in its first printed edition (Vicenza, 1499). The colloquium featured speakers Millicent D. Abell, university librarian at the U niversity of California, San Diego; Richard M. Daugherty, director of the University of Michigan Library; and Stuart Forth, dean of university libraries at Pennsylvania State Univer­ sity. The colloquium was followed by an evening ceremony featuring historian and educator Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. P eo p le PROFILES Rohert H. Patterson has been named direc­ tor of libraries at the University of Tulsa’s McFarlin Library, effective September 1. Before coming to Tulsa, Patterson was di­ rector of th e U niver­ sity of Wyoming Library from 1976. He also served as assistant direc­ tor for collection devel­ opment at Tulane Uni­ versity Library (1973- 1976), head of special collections cataloging at the University of Texas at Austin (1970-1973), and in various profes­ sional capacities at Tu­ lane from 1965 to 1969. Robert H . Patterson Patterson received his MLS from the University of California at Ber­ keley in 1965, and a master’s degree in Latin American history from Tulane in 1963. He also attended the Institute on the Development and Ad­ ministration of Programs for the Preservation of Li­ brary Materials at Columbia in the summer of 1978. He now serves as chair of the ALA Resources and Technical Services D ivision’s Education Committee and as president of the Western Con­ servation Congress. Patterson has also been vice chair of the Advisory Council to the Bibliographic Center for Research in Denver, and chair of the Wyoming Library Association’s Intellectual Free­ dom Committee. This month he is keynote speaker at the Aller­ ton Institute at the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Pat­ terson is also editor and publisher of Conserva­ tion Administration News, for which he received a $2,000 Officer’s Grant from the C‹ uncil on Li­ brary Resources for editorial support in 1980-82. Other publications include articles on preserva­ tion for the ALA Yearbook and Library Journal, and other professional articles for Colorado Li­ braries, the University of Texas at Austin’s Li­ brary Chronicle, and th e Journal o f Inter- American Studies. Patterson is also reader/panelist for the Na­ tional Endowment for the Humanities, and a con­ sultant on conservation of library materials and establishment of special museum libraries to Gal­ lier House Museum, the Historic New Orleans Collection, and to Koch and Wilson, Architects. PEOPLE IN THE NEWS J effrey H eynen has been appointed by the Association of Research Libraries to head a two- year program designed to improve bibliographic access to microform collections in American and Canadian libraries. ARL has received $20,000 from the Council on Library Resources to initiate the project, and additional funds are anticipated from other sources this fall. Heynen is currently president of Information Exchange Corporation and has served as chair of the ALA Resources and Technical Services Division’s Reproduction of Li­ brary Materials Section. The ARL Microform Project is based upon a planning study conducted for the association by Richard Boss of Information Systems Consultants, Inc. Its purpose is to stimu­ late and coordinate the work of libraries, mi­ croform publishers, bibliographic utilities, and regional networks in providing bibliographic ac­ cess to millions of monographic titles in mi­ croform which are now inadequately cataloged. David Morse of the University of Southern California’s Norris Medical Library has been re­ elected chair of the Pharmacy and Drug Informa­ tion Section of the Medical Library Association for 1981-82. Paul Wasserman of the University of Maryland College of Library and Information Services, has