ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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 o f Louisville Librar­
ies University Archives and Records 
Center will participate in a $200,000 
National Endowment for the Humani­
ties grant awarded to Michigan State 
University to launch The Quilt Index. 

This collaboration also includes the 
Illinois State Museum, the Michigan 
Quilt Project/Michigan State Univer­

sity Museum, and the Quilts of Ten- 
nessee/Tennessee State Library. Each 
of the partners will digitize a portion 
o f its extensive records as part o f the 
index’s initial development. The Quilt 
Index will be a comprehensive online 
research tool providing wide access 
to information about publicly and pri­
vately held quilts.

Marshall University has received $100,000 
from Speedway and The Ashland Inc. Foun­
dation to support the University Libraries’ Year 
o f the Book Endowment.

A c q u is itio n s

Former West Virginia Congressman and 
Secretary o f State Kenneth Hechler has do­
nated his papers, photographs, and memora­
bilia to Marshall University— along with a 

$25,000 contribution to support the preser­
vation o f the collection. Hechler, 86, helped 
edit T h e  P u b l i c  P a p e r s  a n d  A d d r e s s e s  o f  
F r a n k li n  D e l a n o  R o o s e v e l t  and served as a 
speechwriter for President Harry S. Truman 
in the late 40s and early 50s. O f his long years 
in public service (1957-2001), Hechler is 
proudest o f being the only congressman to 
march with the Reverend Martin Luther King 
Jr., in Selma, Alabama; playing a key role in 
funding black lung disease benefits and pass­
ing the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety

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Professor M arilyn Zarzeski (left) o f the University o f 
Mississippi School o f Accounting and Howard Davidson 
o f Booneville, Mississippi, a UM A ccounting Hall o f 
Famer, w ith  an accounting book th a t was printed in 
the 1500s.

Act of 1969; and bringing together the secre­

taries of state and attorneys general of 33 states 
to support limits on campaign spending. Fol­
low ing his service w ith Truman, H echler 
joined the faculty in Political Science at the 

then Marshall College (1957). His students 
convinced him to run for Congress, and—  
against the odds— he won. He served as Rep­

resentative from West Virginia’s 4th District 

from 1959 to 1977. He won election as Secre­
tary o f State in 1985 and served in that office 
through January 2001. He is currently teach­
ing an honors symposium on “The Truman 
Years” at Marshall. Hechler has written six 
books (including T h e  B r i d g e  a t  R e m a g e n ,  
which was later made into a movie) and has 
been the subject of a biography, K e n  H e c h l e r : 
M a v e r i c k  P u b l i c  S e r v a n t , by the late Charles 
H. Moffat.

The accounting library collection o f the 
American Institute of Certified Public Accoun­
tants (AICPA) has been acquired by the Uni­
versity of Mississippi. The collection of 125,000 
ite m s in c lu d e s  P a c io li’s S u m m a  d e  
A r i t h m e t i c a ,  G e o m e t r i a ,  P r o p o r t i o n i  e t  
P r o p o r t i o n a l i t a  printed in Venice in 1494. The 
AICPA will retain copies of all its own publi­
cations, including T h e J o u r n a l  o f  A c c o u n ­
t a n c y ,  T h e  CPA L etter, and various newslet­
ters and technical guides. ■

1022 /  C&RL News ■ November 2001

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