ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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News from the Field
ACQUISITIONS

•  Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, has 
received a five-volume facsimile set of 566 
periodicals published between 1821 and 1831 and 
covering the first decade of independence for 
much of northern South America, a period in 
which Simon Bolivar played such a prominent 
role.

The periodicals, known as “Gaceta de Co­
lombia” (Journal of Colombia), are a gift from the 
Republic of Colombia and were presented to Cor­
nell by Virgilio Barco, Colombia’s ambassador to 
the United States. The set was prepared under 
the auspices of the Banco de la Republica de 
Colombia and contains an extensive index.

•  The University of Houston Downtown 
College’s W. I. Dykes Library has acquired a 
special energy collection and established a new 
Energy Information Service Department. The 
collection consists of about 1,500 volumes of 
books, thirty periodical titles, pamphlets, govern­
ment documents, and newspaper and magazine 
clippings dating from the 1940s. The collection 
was originally owned by a nonprofit, nonpolitical 
organization called EREF (Energy Research and 
Education Foundation), which was founded in 
1969.

•  The University of Oklahoma’s History of 
Science Collection has acquired some 800 addi­
tional volumes including: Archimedes, Aque pon- 
derantium, Pisauri, 1588; Bartholomaeus Angli- 
cus, De proprietatibus rerum, Argentine, 1485; 
Claude Bernard, Lecons sur les propriétés des tis- 
sus vivant, Paris, 1866; Christoph Calvius, Alge­
bra, Romae, 1608; Thomas Digges, Alae seu scalae 
mathematicae, Londini, 1573; Giovanni Gallucci, 
Della fabrica et uso di diversi stromenti, Venetia,

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1597; Edmond Halley, Catalogus stellarum aus- 
tralium, Londini, 1679; Athanasius Kircher, 
Musurgia universalis, Romae, 1650; Marin 
Mersenne, Questiones celeberrimae in Genesim, 
Lutetiae Parisiorum, 1623; and Robert Recorde, 
The Whetstone o f Witte, London, 1557.

GRANTS

•  Elmira College, Elmira, New York, is the 
recipient of a $12,230 grant from the Frank E. 
Gannett Newspaper Foundation for a program to 
microfilm unpublished Mark Twain documents at 
the University of California, Berkeley (Mark 
Twain Papers), Vassar College, and the Mark 
Twain Memorial at Hartford, Connecticut. The 
microfilm collection will include letters from 
Mark Twain and his family written from Elmira 
and letters received by the Clemens family from 
Elmirans in the more than forty years of the fami­
ly’s close association with Elmira, New York.

•  Lehigh University has been awarded a 
$150,000 gift from the ALCOA Foundation to 
help underwrite the construction costs of an addi­
tion to the Mart Science and E ngineering 
Library.

NEWS NOTES

•  The University of Kansas Libraries, Lawr­
ence, is at work on a project to catalog 14,000 
rare titles, published between 1850 and 1930, 
from its Howey collection on the history of eco­
nomic thought. Richard S. Howey, professor 
emeritus of economics at the University, assem­
bled the collection. “His (Howey’s) constant 
attention seems to me to have resulted in a col­
lection of post-1850 literature unmatched else­
where,” says Kenneth E. Carpenter, curator of 
Harvard University’s Kress Library of Business 
and Economics. The University of Kansas Librar­
ies will make the titles known to scholars and 
available through interlibrary loan as they are en­
tered in the OCLC data base. The two-year cata­
loging project is supported by a Title II-C grant 
from the U.S. Office of Education.

•  The Lirrary of Congress (LC) is working
with five research libraries to produce a coopera­
tive name authority file. Each of the five libraries 
will submit to the Library of Congress name au­
thorities for works in special subject areas. The 
University of Texas, for example, will submit au­
thority headings for Latin American materials. 
The five cooperating institutions are the Govern­
ment Printing Office, the Texas State Library, 
Northwestern University, The University of Texas 
at Austin, and the University of Wisconsin at 
Madison. ■■