ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 146 News from the Field ACQUISITIONS • The Shipm an Library, Adrian C o l l e g e, Michigan, recently received over 400 books and a substantial number of scholarly journals from Wil­ liam T. Ross, professor of anthropology and for­ m er d ire c to r o f th e Asian S tudies C e n te r at Michigan State University. Ross contributed the works, part of his personal library, on the occa­ sion of his retirem ent from MSU. The collection includes a wide range of anthropology material and a large number of texts relating to Asia, par­ ticularly India and Pakistan. • The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documenta­ tion, Carnecie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, recently announced the acquisition of a major col­ lection of original watercolors, drawings, pub­ lished works, and correspondence by the English Victorian artist and illustrator, Kate Greenaway, 1846-1901. The extensive collection was given to the institute by Frances Hooper of Kenilworth, Illinois. Assembled over more than thirty years, this is generally accounted the largest private col­ lection of Greenaway materials in the world. • F lorida State University Libraries, Talla­ hassee, recently acquired two significant and rare editions of Edward Lear’s Book o f Nonsense, orig­ inally published in 1846. The new editions are the second (1855) and third (1862) which bring to ten the number of editions held by the library’s Shaw Collection. The library will be compiling and indexing th eir holdings to compare differ­ ences in the various copies and editions. • Indiana University, Bloomington, has been presented with the papers of former U.S. Senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind). The material from 18 years of Congressional service fill over 1,300 cartons and will eventually occupy about 600 standard length shelves in the Lilly Library. Until 1990 the files will be stored for research use only. • Loyola University’s E. M. Cudahy Mem­ orial Library, Chicago, has received the working library and papers of the late F ath er Edward Surtz, S. J., 1909-1973, a distinguished Renais­ sance scholar, from th e Je su it C om m unity at Loyola. Surtz was co-editor of St. Thomas More s Utopia, the Yale University Press edition of 1965. The manuscript for a book Surtz was writing at the time of his death (a critical edition of Thomas Cranm er’s Censurae) is included in the papers, as well as many photocopies of sixteenth century manuscripts obtained from the British Museum Library. • M ississ ip p i State U niversity’s M itchell Memorial Library has announced the acquisition of the papers of David R. Bowen, U.S. Repre­ sentative from Mississippi’s Second Congressional District since 1973; the 1960-1969 office files of the Mississippi Republican Party; and the records of th e D elta and Pine Land Company, 1907- 1969, once the largest cotton plantation in the world. • St . Louis University’s W indegger Library has received fifty books on Judaic contributions to the field of social responsibility as the first addi­ tion to a special library collection on religious foundations, m odern philanthropy, and social work. The focus on the Judaic tradition carries out the request of an anonymous contributor, whose gift was in the memory of Morris Nadel, a sign painter and decorator. Included in the col­ lection are Abraham Cohen, The Teachings o f Maimonides, and Marc Lee Raphael, Understand­ ing Jewish Philanthropy. • The U niversity of D elaware L ibrary, Newark, has acquired a collection of the personal correspondence of William Butler Yeats (1865— 1939) which features 67 unpublished letters and telegrams written in 1931-39 to Swami Shri Puro- h it, an In d ian m ystic who w ith Yeats co ­ tran slate d th e U panishads into E nglish. The Yeats letters will be added to the Irish literature collections of the library which already include extensive Yeats holdings. • The U niversity of O regon L ib rary , Eugene, has received a collection of rare books from the library of W illiam Alfred Q uayle, a M ethodist Episcopal bishop who died 55 years ago. The 1,500 volumes include a first edition of Boswell’s Life o f Johnson, several first editions of George Eliot’s works, and the works of Milton printed by Baskerville in Edinburgh. O ther col­ lection highlights are an early illuminated manu­ script, seven incunabula, the serialized first print­ ings of Charles Dickens’ novels, and over thirty books o f literary criticism w ritte n by Bishop Quayle. • The U niversity of W ashington Library, Seattle, has acquired the official papers of Sen. Warren Magnuson (D-Wash). The papers include M agnuson’s personal books, g o v ern m e n t and other publications, awards, photographs, corres­ pondence, and other items accumulated during 44 years of public service in Congress. The gift will be completed after all items are processed and the university has informed Magnuson which items it wishes to retain and how they will be used. Because of the magnitude of the gift it may be several years before certain sections of the papers are opened and processed. The collection also includes documents from Magnuson’s prede­ cessor, former Congressman Marion Zioncheck. • W hittier College, California, has acquired an o utstanding collection of m aterials by and about John G reenleaf W hittier, 1807-1892. The gift was donated by the estate of Frederick M. 147 Meek, formerly pastor of Old South Church, Bos­ ton, who had amassed a major Whittier collection over 30 years. Highlights of the 7,000-item col­ lection are copies of limited editions and associa­ tion copies, virtually all the published works of the Quaker poet in all states, issues, and editions, runs of newspapers to which Whittier contrib­ uted, magazine articles, broadsides, handbills, and pamphlets. Most of these latter items reflect his work as an abolitionist and many are unique. There are also over 100 original letters by the poet, many of which are addressed to Governor Claflin of Massachusetts discussing political mat­ ters of the day. • York U niversity Libraries, Downsview, Ontario, have acquired the papers of Margaret Laurence, a Canadian w riter of international reputation. The collection covers the years 1962- 1980 and includes letters from readers, research notes for The Diviners, manuscripts of articles and stories, copies of lectures and addresses, di­ aries and financial records. Also included is a sub­ stantial amount of correspondence with many of Canada’s major contemporary authors such as Earle Birney, Mordecai Bichler, and Marian Engle. GRANTS • The African Stu d ie s Asso c ia tio n, St. Louis, has received a grant of $15,100 through the Besearch Collections Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will be used to prepare a directory to collections of li­ brary and related research materials and informa­ tion services for African studies in the United States. In addition to traditional library resources, the directory will list map collections, audiovisual materials, and computerized databases. Informa­ tion for the directory will be gathered by ques­ tionnaire and from published sources. • D alhousie U niversity Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia, has been awarded a maximum grant of $40,000 to strengthen its research collection of Canadian working class history. The funds were awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to purchase out-of- print materials in microform format. The majority of the materials will be early labor periodicals and some turn-of-the-century Canadian labor news­ papers, the originals of which are owned by the Labour Canada Library, Ottawa, and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library, Madison. • H arvard College Library has received a grant of $500,000 from the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, New York, to establish the Harvard- Littauer Judaica Endowment, income from which will be used to fund preservation microfilming of materials in the lib rary ’s Judaica holdings. According to Charles Berlin, Lee M. Friedman bibliographer in Judaica, the Littauer bequest is the largest preservation endowment yet estab­ lished and the first such Judaica preservation en­ dowment. The endowment will allow the library to continue its Judaica preservation program on a permanent basis, to preserve a vast corpus of literature, and to make it available to libraries and scholars on microfilm. • The U niversity of W ashington Library, Seattle, has been awarded a $17,197 grant from the National Historic Publications and Records for the preservation of the photographic history of the logging industry in the state of Washington. This fund will be combined with an additional $10,000 grant from the Weyerhaeuser Co., a firm specializing in forest products, to conserve 5,000 historic negatives from pioneer photographer Clark Kinsey, 1877-1956. The funding assures the making of master prints, copy negatives on safety film, and a detailed checklist and collection guide to the photographs, which are negatives of cellulose nitrate film stock, a highly combustible material which has been responsible for fires in recent years at the National Archives and else­ where. Technical assistance will be provided by the photographic experts at the Whatcom Museum of History and Art in Bellingham, Washington, where similar conservation work was done for the photographs of Kinsey's brother, Darius Kinsey. All 25 Volumes Are Available For Immediate Delivery HERE IS S U B JE C T -A N D -A U TH O R ACCESS TO MORE THAN 400,000 ARTICLES IN THE BACKFILES OF 531 JOURNALS IN HISTORY, PO LITICAL SCIENCE AND SO C IO LO G Y. CRIS — HISTORY, 1838-1974, in eleven hardcover volumes. More than 150,000 articles from the backfiles of 234 History journals in the English language have been indexed together and published in 9 casebound cumulative subject index volumes and 2 cumulative author index volumes. Articles were assigned to one or more of 313 hierarchical subject categories, and then computer sorted by keyword under each category to give in-depth specificity. CRIS — PO LITIC A L SCIENCE, 1886-1974, in eight hardcover volumes. 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COMBINED RETROSPECTIVE INDEX TO BOOK REVIEWS IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS, 1886-1974 Evan Farber, Librarian of Earlham College and author of the standard reference work, Classified List of Periodicals for the College Library, is the chief compiler of this new set As he points out, "Our set will complement existing indexes of book reviews because the majority of its entries have never been indexed anywhere but in their own journals. "Book Review Digest, for instance, is retrospective to 1905 but quite weak in its coverage of scholarly journals. “ Meanwhile, the new indexes which recently began to cover large numbers of scholarly journals are not retrospective. “Therefore, this substantial gap in coverage can only be filled by an index which is both retrospective and more thorough in its coverage of scholarly journals —namely, our Combined Retrospective Index." 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In a letter dated January 30, 1979, he wrote “ While at JUL (Joint University Libraries, Nashville, Tennessee) I became familiar with your CRIS-History and found it very helpful in my work with their History Department. Because it was so convenient and easy-to-use, it was extremely popular with both students and faculty members." THE GREAT LEAP DRAWKCAB IN RETROSPECTIVE INDEXING TITLES COVERED IN ALL FOUR CRIS INDEX SETS