ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 162/C&RL News The Am erican Library Association, in cooperation with the Newberry Library in C h icago and the New York Public Library, has received a $435,000 grant from the National Endow­ ment for the Humanities for a project entitled “The Many Realms o f King Arthur.” The project w ill include an exhi­ b ition in tw o form ats— a traveling freestanding panel and a tabletop version— for display in libraries; a read­ ing and discussion program theme package; an exhibition catalog; and educational materi­ als that will accompany the exhibition. “The Many Realms o f King Arthur” w ill explore how the legend has been depicted through the cen­ turies in literature, history, art, and music. Cleveland State University Library has been awarded a grant o f $45,000 from the John P. Murphy Foundation o f Cleveland, Ohio. The grant w ill allow archival and preservation work to begin on the Cleveland Union Terminal Pa­ pers, a donation from Gerald Adams in 1982 that includes correspondence, construction re­ ports, financial records, railroad operation records, and other records dealing w ith con­ struction and operation o f the Terminal Tower. The materials are part o f a special collection b eing created coverin g the social, political, and econ om ic history o f the greater C leve­ land area. Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio, has re­ ceived tw o grants totaling $1 million for con­ struction o f a n ew library and the developm ent o f its humanities collection. The National En­ dowm ent for the Humanities awarded $400,000 as its part o f a challenge grant in which $1.2 million had already been committed. A $600,000 com pletion grant was awarded by the Kresge Foundation o f Troy, Michigan. The funds are part o f a $7.1 million goal for the library con­ struction and its overall capital campaign. Holston Academic Libraries, Inc., a con­ sortium o f academic libraries in Northeast Ten­ nessee and South w est V irgin ia, has b een O T i f ‹i r / – i û n C / i ^ O 0 0 9 o c t n o c o r - n n / l i n c M l l m t i n t /"\r a five-year Title III grant from the U.S. Department o f Edu­ cation. The consortium is in the process o f implementing a shared, integrated system with this grant. Funding will cover retrospective conver­ sion, softw are, hardware, high-speed telecommunica­ tions links, and personnel re­ quired to integrate b ib lio­ g ra p h ic r e c o rd s o f th e m em b er lib ra ries and to im p le m e n t datab ase e n ­ hancements. The integrated system w ill contain over 550,000 volumes and 2,000 current serial titles. The Tri-State College library Cooperative, serving 32 academic and special libraries in the Philadelphia area, has received a Title III LSCA grant from the State Library o f Pennsylvania. Grant funds w ill be used to plan and present a series o f three workshops focusing on collabo­ rative collection development; describing ex­ isting models and projects both within and out­ sid e o f P e n n s y lv a n ia ; an d fo s te r in g the developm ent o f collaborative collection devel­ opment and resource sharing projects. The University o f Hartford Libraries has received a $24,980 grant from the William & Alice Mortensen Foundation to expand CD- ROM capacities within the university. The fund­ ing permitted purchase o f tw o Virtual-server/ Gateway-286 computers and peripherals. The most frequently used CD-ROM databases in the University Libraries are n o w connected through a network computer system allowing multiuser and multisite applications. Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries has received a second $10,000 gift from John A. Mapp, an honorary member o f the VCU Friends o f the Library Board and former dean o f the VCU Evening College and Summer Ses­ sions. An earlier gift o f $10,000 was made pos­ sible by M app’s great-great grandfather’s pur­ chase o f one $10 share in the Maryland National Bank in 1806. The share was passed from gen­ eration to generation until 1988, w h en it was worth $10,000 and the Mapps donated it to the VCU Libraries. The latest gift w ill be used to Grants a n d Acquisitions Hugh Thompson March 1994/163 provide students and faculty with services that will complement honors courses. Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, has received a grant o f $326,000 from the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust o f Portland, Oregon. The funds w ill be used for the automation o f the College o f Law Library and the incorpora­ tion o f its bibliographic records into the Mark O. Hatfield Library’s existing Innovative Inter­ faces system. Grant m oney will also be used to add serials and acquisitions modules to the existing library system and for a variety o f other systems and database enhancements. Acquisitions A major collection of first editions of Ameri­ can literature and history has been acquired by Bennington College’s C rossett Library, Bennington, Vermont. The gift o f approximately 800 volumes was made jointly by Daniel M. Friedenberg and John-Platt Enterprises, Inc., o f which Friedenberg is president. The collection includes such rarities as The Education o f Henry Adams from the first private edition o f 75 cop­ ies, as w ell as first editions o f Cooper, Haw­ thorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, and Twain. Signed presentation copies o f Whitman’s Leave o f Grass and Henry James’s The Lesson o f the Master are also included. Am ong twentieth-cen- tury authors represented are first editions o f James Baldwin, Raymond Chandler, T. S. Eliot, and Ralph Ellison. A gift of 28,000 volumes from the Coun­ cil on Foreign Relations Library has been re­ ceived by the Hunter College Libraries, N ew York City. Consisting o f monographs, interna­ tional government documents, and papers, the collection extensively covers global politics, his­ tory, and econom ic issues. In particular the collection emphasizes the post-World W ar II era and Soviet-American relations. The Council’s mission to improve understanding o f interna­ tional issues and shape American foreign policy has resulted in a particularly strong foreign af­ fairs collection. The editorial records and files of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc., one o f the nation’s most respected independent publishing houses, have s been acquired by the New York Public Li­ brary. The archive, which spans the years 1946 through 1980, contains correspondence detail­ ing the manuscript selection process, negotia­ tions for foreign and subsidiary rights and per­ missions, and royalty agreements, and provides a rare glimpse into the public and personal lives o f authors. Am ong the many notable items is correspondence betw een T. S. Eliot and his wife, Valerie Eliot, and Robert Giroux, Eliot’s editor. The writings include such procedural matters as the scheduling o f lecture tours, read­ ings, and social engagements, to more personal needs, such as hiding Eliot’s health concerns from the media. The archives of the magazine Factsh e e t Five, probably the largest known collection o f alternative literature o f the 1980s, have been acquired by the New York State Library’s Manuscripts and Special Collections Depart­ ment. Factsheet Five was the brainchild o f Mike Gunderloy, the founder, editor, and publisher for the magazine’s first decade beginning in 1982. He wrote most o f the reviews and pub­ lished 44 issues o f the journal, which abstracted and reviewed thousands o f “zines,” publications usually created by one person for love rather than m oney and focusing on a particular sub­ ject. The reviews covered an amazing spectrum o f zines: issue-oriented, both far left and far right; underground literature and poetry; erotica; avant-garde rock and punk music; adult com ­ ics; and a host o f other topics. The Texas Postal History Collection of Walter G. Schmidt has been acquired by the Special Collections Division o f the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries. Schmidt was a retired military officer w h o was an avid stamp collector and compiler o f postal history and information. The collection includes a com pre­ hensive list o f more than 20,000 Texas post offices along with newspaper clippings on lo­ cal history for each office. It covers Texas post offices and postmasters from the Spanish era through the 1970s. ■ Ed. note; Entries in this column are taken from library newsletters, press releases, and other sources. To ensure that your grant and acquisition news is considered f o r publication, write to Pam Spie­ gel, Assistant Editor, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795.