ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL N ew s m June 2001 / 643

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 Kentucky (UK) Librar­
ies’ book endow m ent is at $62 million and 
growing. As part of a university-wide capital 
campaign, the UK Libraries fundraising com ­
mittee—u n d er the leadership of Lexington 
businessm an, William T. Young—has raised 
contributions from private donors totalling 
nearly $40 million w ith an additional $20 mil­
lion pledged from the state of K entucky’s 
“Bucks for Brains” program. Young, w hose 
initial $ 5-million contribution kicked off an 
earlier $ 58-million cam paign for constm ction 
o f the state-of-the-art library at UK that bears 
his nam e, w as not content to stop once the 
roof was raised on the new  library in 1998. 
Young hopes that the total will reach $120 
million before the cam paign ends. The library 
will use the m oney to expand its collections, 
especially in the areas of research materials 
and databases on science, technology, and 
m edicine.

Indiana University Bloomington (IUB)
has re c e iv ed  a $1 m illion aw ard  from  th e 
A ndrew  W. M ellon F ou n d atio n  to p u rch ase 
e q u ip m e n t for th e  library’s n e w  p re s e rv a ­
tion lab o ra to ry  a n d  to  estab lish an  e n d o w ­
m e n t to s u p p o rt p re se rv a tio n  staff p o si­
tions. An initial gift o f $300,000 w ill assist 
in e q u ip p in g  th e  p la n n e d  lab orato ry, a n d  
a m atch ing grant o f $700,000 (c o n tin g e n t 
u p o n  th e  IUB Libraries raising d o u b le  th at 
a m o u n t in p riv ate fund s) w ill e n d o w  a d ­
ditio nal p o sitio n s in th e  P reserv atio n  D e­
p artm en t. A n e w  $1.7 m illion state-o f-the- 
art p re se rv a tio n  lab o ra to ry  will b e a com ­
p o n e n t of th e  Auxiliary Library Facility, an 
off-site shelvin g facility th a t w ill h o ld  a p ­
p ro x im a te ly  2.7 m illio n le s s e r-u s e d  v o l­
um es from  B loom ington c am pu s libraries, 
in clu din g th e  Lilly Library.

Amigos Library Services has received
a $50,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon 
Foundation to develop plans for strengthening 
the programs and long-term financial structure 
of its Imaging and P reservation Services. The 
planning process should be com pleted by 
May 1, 2002.

Johns Hopkins University's Sheridan
Libraries have b een  aw arded $200,000 by 
the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation to en ­
hance traditional classroom-based humanities 
courses by creating com plem entary online 
resources. Drawing on the expertise of the 
hum anities faculty and the university’s Cen­
ter for Educational Resources, u p  to five u n ­
dergraduate courses will b e supplem ented 
w ith the application of a range of digital tech­
nologies. Launched in the Eisenhower Library 
last fall, the center supports faculty in the 
application of new  m edia and technology in 
teaching. Newly designed humanities courses 
will feature searchable image databases and 
readings, digital versions of primary course 
m aterials lin k ed  to o th er Web resources, 
online writing w orkshops, digital audio ca­
pability for language instruction, and virtual 
discussions.

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

The Society of American Archivists
(SAA) archives have b e en  acquired by the 
U niversity of W isconsin, M ilwaukee. The 
records am ount to m ore than 350 cubic feet 
a nd date from th e founding of the SAA in 
1936 to th e 1990s. Particularly notable series 
include records of the annual m eetings from 
1937; co rresp on den ce relating to the A m e ri­
c a n  Archivist, also dating from 1937; records 
from the late 1940s of the International C oun­
cil of Archives, w h o se m ission w as to su p ­
po rt exchanges b etw e e n  United States and 
foreign archives; records of the first SAA Pro­
fessional Affinity G roups (now  SAA sections) 
from  the 1980s; Problem s in Archives Kits 
or PAKs, as th e y  w e re  m o re c om m on ly 
know n; and records relating to public ar­
chives holdings, som e of w hich form ed the 
basis of Ernst P osner’s 1964 study, A m eri­
c a n  State Archives.

Ed. n o te: S e n d  y o u r n e w s to : Grants & A cqu isitio n s, 
C&RL News, 50 £. H uron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; 
e-m ail: ayoung@ ala.org.

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Yale University alumnus Walter L.
Pforzheimer has donated his private collec­
tion of more than 15,000 books and 46 linear 
feet of manuscript material to Yale’s Beinecke 
Library. Pforzheimer inherited two collections 
from his father (an almost complete collec­
tion of the French playwright Molière and a 
collection of French armorial bindings, which 
included one of the bindings from the library 
of 16th-century bibliophile Jean Grolier). As 
a student, Pforzheimer began gathering ma­
terials of the Philadelphia-born novelist, short- 
story writer, and humorist Frank Stockton 
(1834-1902). Pforzheimer, a Yale Law School 
graduate, began w orking for the CIA and im­
mediately began to form a collection on the 
intelligence agency. The materials include not 
only manuscripts, official documents, and his­
torical materials, but also fiction and biogra­
phy relating to intelligence and espionage, 
ranging chronologically from the American 
Revolution to the Cold War.

The papers of Américo Paredes (1915- 
99), scholar and humanist, are now  part of 
the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Col­
lection at the University of Texas (UT) at Aus­
tin. The papers (65.5 feet) include manuscripts 
of his published and unpublished work, cor­
respondence, note cards, class notes, audio- 
and videotapes, sheet music and songbooks, 
and files of his editorial w ork for major folk­
lore journals. In 1956, Paredes received his 
doctorate in English from UT, w here he spent 
his scholarly life teaching and developing 
program s an d  centers o n  folklore o f the 
Southwest and Mexico, and for the study of 
Mexican American culture. His best-know n 
w ork With His Pistol in His H and: A Border 
B allad a n d  Its Hero (1958) was the basis for 
the 1982 film The Ballad ofGregoria Cortez.

The NASA/Johnson Space Center's ar­
chives have been acquired by the University 
of Houston, Clear Lake’s (UHCL) Neumann Li­
brary. Representatives from the two organiza­
tions signed a memorandum of understand­
ing for the transfer, which contains copies of 
correspondence, reports, and more than 1,000 
oral history interview tapes and transcripts 
documenting the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo 
programs. Johnson Space Center’s collection 
documents the history and role played by the 
center in NASA’s hum an space flight program.

Renovation at the Neumann Library are un­
derway to meet National Archives and Records 
Administration standards, which call for a se­
cure, environmentally controlled facility. UHCL 
also plans to hire an archivist to oversee the 
collection. The agreement allows for the docu­
ments to be housed at UHCL for 10 years with 
the option for a possible extension.

The archives of the Jewish Historical So­
ciety of the Upper Midwest (JHSUM) will be 
housed by the University of Minnesota Librar­
ies, Twin Cities Campus. The agreement calls 
for JHSUM to place 500 linear shelf feet of 
archives on long-term loan with the Univer­
sity Libraries. The libraries will catalog the ar­
chives and provide access for research by stu­
dents, scholars, and members o f the public. 
The archives contain institutional and organi­
zational records, family histories and genealo­
gies, photos, oral histories, videos, and maps. 
The items focus on the Jewish community in 
Minnesota, and North and South Dakota, with 
additional materials from northern Wisconsin 
and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

The University of Michigan's Special Col­
lections Library has completed cataloging its 
Shakespeare Pamphlet Collection, also known 
as the Crosby Shakespeare Collectanea. More 
than 270 records describe the holdings of the 
p urchase from  the late Jo sep h  Crosby of 
Zanesville, Ohio, a prominent Shakespearian 
scholar of the 19th century. The collection fea­
tures scholarly works by noted Shakespearian 
authorities; theatrical memorabilia; and ivy and 
other foliage from the church walls that cov­
ered Shakespeare’s grave. Particularly well rep­
resented are materials relating to the publica­
tion of John Payne Collier’s “discovery” of a 
copy of the 1632 Second Folio, and its even­
tual exposure as a forgery. ■

( “Preservation... ” continued fr o m  page 637) 
every two years in various international locations. 
‘Works of Art on Paper, Books, Documents and 
Photographs: Techniques and Conservation” will 
be the theme for this congress. The call for pa­
pers requests presentations about study of origi­
nal materials, techniques of manufacture, and 
methods of restoration or conservation. For more 
information, contact: IIC, 6 Buckingham St., Lon­
don WC2N 6BA, England; phone: +44 (0)20 7839 
5975; fax: +44 (0)20 7976. ■