ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


278 / C&RL News ■ A p r il 2003

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

The University o f Pittsburgh has been
awarded a $242,157 National Leadership Grant 
by IM LS for a library/museum collaborative 
project. In this two-year project, the University 
of Pittsburgh’s Digital Research Library— in 
collaboration w ith the university’s Archives 
Service Center, the Carnegie Museum of Art, 
and the H istorical Society of W estern 
Pennsylvania— w ill create a W eb portal for 
increasing access to the collections of visual 
images documenting Pittsburgh held in local 
repositories. “Historic Pittsburgh” w ill serve as 
the gateway to the multi-institutional visual 
collections and related descriptive information.

The Ringling School o f A rt and Design
has received $500,000 for its endowment from 
the Ringling School Library Association for 
student scholarships and library acquisitions. 
Founded in 1975, the association has donated 
$2 m illion to the college.

Johns Hopkins University's George
Peabody Libraiy has received a $325,000 Save 
Am erica’s Treasures grant to improve the 
library’s ability to preserve its research 
collection. The university w ill upgrade and 
modernize the heating and air conditioning 
system in the library, which opened in 1878.

The Research Library o f the New York
State Historical Association (N YSH A ) has 
received a $5,000 grant from the Baird 
Foundation in Buffalo, New York, for a pilot 
project to develop a Web-based visual database 
of NYSHA’s photographic archive of the Smith 
and Telfer Studio. Photographers Washington 
G. Sm ith and Arthur J. Telfer, from 
Cooperstown, New York, took these images 
that document life in small town America from 
1853 to 1953.

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

The papers of Elizabeth David (1913- 
92), the foremost British food w riter of her

day and author of nine definitive books, have 
been acquired by the Schlesinger Library of 
the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at 
Harvard University. The collection of David’s 
correspondence, diaries, travel journals, hand­
written recipe files, and photographs is ex­
pected to be available later in the year. The 
approxim ately 100 boxes of materials that 
make up the Elizabeth David papers contain 
voluminous correspondence with over 500 
well-known authors, editors, chefs and others 
in the food industry, including Julia Child, James 
Beard, Jeremiah Tower, and Alice Waters. The 
collection also contains eight cartons of David’s 
handwritten recipe files, photographs of David 
taken by fashion photographer Cecil Beaton, 
records documenting the history of her books, 
and her diaries and travel journals.

The corporate archives o f Harrah's En­
tertainment, Inc., have been donated to the 
special collections division of the University 
of Nevada Libraries in Las Vegas. Harrah’s was 
the creation of the late W illiam  F. Harrah, 
who parlayed a single bingo parlor in Reno 
into one of the largest gaming and hotel cor­
porations in the world, with major properties 
in Las Vegas, Reno, Lake Taho, Atlantic City, 
and Laughlin. The collection, consciously de­
veloped as a corporate archives by Harrah’s, 
includes extensive promotional, entertainment 
and financial publications and files, photographs, 
clippings, film, videotape, and a large assortment 
of promotional items and mementos. The dona­
tion also contains William  Harrah’s significant 
personal collection of historic playing cards and 
artifacts and documents from his antique auto­
mobile collection. ■

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