ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 3 / C&RL News ■ January 2001 G r a n t s a n d A c q u i s i t i o n s Ann-Christe Young In d ia n a U n iv e rs ity 's (IU ) D ig it a l L ib ra r y Program receiv ed a $ 1 4 7 ,0 0 0 N ational Leadership Grant to digitize and present on the W eb nearly 18,000 Kodachrome slides taken by amateur photographer Charles W eever Cushman (IU graduate in 1917) betw een 1938 and 1969. The photographs document a wide breadth o f American life in skillfully com posed and socially revealing images that add color to the World War II era, which was primarily documented in black and white. “Remember the movie P leasan tυille when the black-and-white world becam e color? That’s what it feels like to see these slides,” said Kris Brancolini, director o f the Digital Library Program. The slides were unknown until a university archivist discovered them in late 1999. They were found, neatly packed and labeled, still in the suitcases in which they were delivered in 1972. To view some o f the images, go to http://www. dlib.indiana.edu/new/cushman/index.html. The U n ive rsity o f M ich igan has received a grant to expand its digital library environment. “The Development o f a Distributed Digital Library o f Mathematical Monographs” project will create a distributed repository of significant historical monographs in mathematics. The repository will contain material from the collections in mathematics from the University o f Michigan, Cornell University, and the State and University Library Göttingen. The work will focus on issues central to the advancement o f digital libraries, including distributed rep o sito ries and integrations o f digital resources, advanced access and retrieval. IM LS g ra n t d e a d lin e 's n ear Applications for all categories o f Na­ tional Leadership Grants for Libraries (e x ­ cept Museum-Library Collaboration must be postmarked February 1, 2001). Appli­ cations, guidelines, electronic fill-in forms, and sample narratives for all Institute of Museum and Libraiy Services (IMLS) grant programs are available at http://www. imls.gov/grants/appl/index.htm. high levels o f interoperability, and models for dissemination and use. T h e U n iv e r s it y o f C a lif o r n ia 's , S a n ta B arb ara, Map and Im agery Laboratory (Davidson Library) has completed a one-year retrospective cataloging project for ca. 650 pre-1900 maps o f various areas of the Earth and 12,000 mainly 20th-century maps of California. The project was funded by LSTA, federal monies administered by the California State Library. To search these maps visit the C alifornia D igital Library W eb site at http://www.cdlib.org and select MELVYL Catalog or go to the Davidson Library Web site at http:,7www.libraiy.ucsb.edu and select PEGASUS; this will require a TN3270 application. A c q u i s i t i o n s E d g a r A lla n P o e 's e s s a y üğA R e v ie w e r Reviewed,” written in his own hand, has been donated to the New York Public Library’s Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature by Professors Burton R. and Alice M. Pollin. In this essay, Poe, writing under the pseudonym Walter G . Bowen, praises himself briefly and with restraint, acknowledging his “scholarship” and “analytic talent.” But most o f the piece is devoted to sharp and occasionally humorous self-criticism. Primarily, Poe takes himself to task for being too severe a critic of others’ literary efforts, pointing out the flaws in his own diction, grammar, and syntax. 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