ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


136 / C&RL News ■  February 2002

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

The University of Florida has received
fo u r Library Services a n d  T ec h n o lo g y  Act 
(LSTA) grants totally $144,305. The rare b o o k  
collection received $41,220 to en h an ce its 
cataloging records in certain subject and 
chronological areas through 1800 to provide 
full access. Another grant o f $22,385 funds a 
n ew  Internet virtual reference service and city 
census data enhancem ents to the docum ents 
d e p a r tm e n t’s F lorida E lectro n ic F ed eral 
D e p o s i to r y  L ib ra ry  W e b s ite  ( h t t p : / /  
w eb.uflib.ufl.edu/docs/). The Florida Center 
for Library Automation, in partnership with 
the libraries o f eight state universities of 
Florida, has received $70,000 o f LSTA funds to 
catalog all significant special collections in the 
universities’ libraries. The Smathers Libraries 
has also b e e n  aw arded a $10,700 one-year 
Northeast Florida Library Information Network 
grant for the retrospective co p y  cataloging of 
20th century titles in the Baldwin Library of 
Historical American and English Literature.

New York University (NYU) has received a
$732,000 grant from the Mellon F oundation 
for a program  in Moving Image Archiving 
Preservation. The program  is a joint project of 
the NYU Libraries and the D epartm ent of 
Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts 
an d  supports the developm ent o f a m odel 
p ro g ram  ad d ressin g  th e p reserv atio n  of 
cultural, artistic, an d  historical docum entation 
o n  film, videotape, and n ew  moving-image 
media. This project will build o n  an d  support 
th e Tisch School’s n ew  m aster’s d eg ree 
program  in moving image archiving and 
preservation. The grant will su p p o rt the 
appointm ent o f a moving image preservation 
specialist on the Tisch faculty w ho will also 
w ork with the libraries to develop an ongoing 
program  o f preservation to examine, reform at 
(if necessary), appropriately house, and m ake 
accessible materials in the moving-image 
collections.

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Cornell University has received a grant of
$1.56 million for its Digital Library Research 
G ro u p  to d e v e lo p  th e co re in fra stru ctu re 
fo r th e  N ational S cience D igital Library, an 
o n lin e reso u rc e  th a t w ill m ak e h ig h -q u ality  
so u rc e  m aterials in sc ien c e av ailab le to 
stu d en ts from  k in d erg arten  th ro u g h  college. 
T he so ftw are will pu ll to g e th e r in fo rm atio n  
from  h u n d re d s  o f so u rce s in a w id e ran g e 
o f form ats a n d  m ak e it accessib le to  e n d  
u se rs via th e  W eb.

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

Emory University has acquired the Mod­
ern  Poetry Library o f the late J. M. Edelstein. 
Edelstein (1924-1996), a bibliographer, b ook 
collector, and scholar, served as distinguished 
bibliographer in residence at the Jo h n  Carter 
Brow n Library at Brow n University, assistant 
director at the Getty C enter for the History 
of Art an d  th e H um anities, an d  chief librar­
ian at the N ational Gallery o f Art in Wash­
ington, D.C. T he collection contains more 
th an  2,000 volum es, including a n u m b er of 
fine press w orks an d  oth er rare editions, and 
is m ost notable for the extensive n u m b er of 
w orks by p o e t Wallace Stevens. ■

( “Preservation News” continued fro m  page 
131)

online. The articles include “Digital Imaging: 
the New Photographic Research Tool,” “Build­
ing a Digital A rchive,” “W hat are Digital 
Archive Managers?,” “Light Exposure to Sen­
sitive Artworks During Digital P hotography,” 
“Conservation Issues in Digital Im aging,” “A 
Holistic A pproach to Digital Assets M anage­
m ent,” “Practical A pproach to Color M anage­
m ent,” “Do You See W hat I See?,” “Issues in 
Digital Archiving,” and “Content B ased Im­
age Retrieval.”

The issue is available as a free PDF dow n­
load at http://w w w .m cn.edu/spectra.htm . ■

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