ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 326 / C&RL News ■ A p r il 2000 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 Five C o lle ge s o f Ohio, Inc. receiveda three-year grant of $475,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to strengthen the teaching of information literacy. The members of the consortium are the College of Wooster, Denison University, Kenyon College, O berlin College, and Ohio Wesleyan University. The focus of the grant is to build partnerships between librarians and faculty members and to integrate information literacy into courses across the curriculum. Grant funds will be used to support a professional development program for librarians to become leaders in teaching information literacy skills, a curriculum developm ent program for faculty who will collaborate with librarians on curricular projects, the development of comprehensive resource materials, and faculty-librarian workshops to demonstrate effective approaches and encourage further collaboration. Ray English, director of libraries at Oberlin College, will direct the project. Johns Hopkins University has received a $2 million commitment from the Hodson Trust to endow the directorship of the Digital Knowledge Center—Milton S. Eisenhower Library’s information technology research and development department. The director will provide leadership for the center’s mandate to promote the application of technology to teaching and scholarly communication. The director will also develop collaborative initiatives with faculty and other technology units across the university and with external academic and corporate partnerships. The N ortheast D ocum en t Co n se rvation Center (NEDCC), in Andover, Massa­ chusetts, has been awarded a grant of $59,150 from the Organizational Support Program for Cultural Organizations by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. This is the first of three years of funding, which will provide vital funds for NEDCC’s outreach services to Massachusetts cultural organi­ zations. NEDCC provides outreach services to help museums, libraries, and historical organizations preserve cultural heritage collections. Rutgers has received tw o grants totaling $127,502 from the New Jersey Department of E nvironm ental P ro te c tio n ’s (DEP) Geographic Information System division. The grants will allow two Rutgers librarians, Linda Langschield and Ronald Jantz, to build the New Jersey Environmental Digital Library. This library will be a Web-based, full-text/image collection of reports, maps, theses, and multimedia reports on the state’s environment. The New Y o rk A cad em y o f M edicine has been awarded a $435,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to be used over a two-year period. The grant will fund four projects designed to upgrade the library’s online catalog and to make records of the library’s holdings more accessible to the public. The grant will also be used to convert 125,000 m onographic catalog entries to electronic form by OCLC, Inc., upgrade records for periodicals that already appear in the online catalog, and for a retrospective “authority control” project that will result in the standardization of all subject headings and author’s names. A c q u i s i t i o n s The 2,000-volum e collectio n o f th e late George Levitine has been donated to the University of Maryland (UM) by his wife. While the Art Library will be the primary beneficiary of this 2,000-volume gift. Spe­ cial Collections will receive several hun­ dred valuable rare books. Levitine was pro­ fessor emeritus and former head of the Art Department at the University of Maryland, Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres C&RL News ■ A p ril 2 0 0 0 / 327 (Knight o f the O rd er o f Arts and Letters), and m em ber o f the Institute f o r A d v a n c e d S tu d y ( 1 9 7 7 - 7 8 ) . U n d er his leadership, UM’s art his tory and art programs g ain ed n ation al re c o g n ition . L ev itin e ’s c o l l e c t i o n o f e m b l e m G e o rg e Levitine b o o k s b e c a m e t h e c e n te r p ie c e in his li brary. T h e L evitin e C o lle c tio n is a lso rich in titles, m o stly from F ra n c e in th e 18th an d 19th c e n tu rie s, c o n c e r n in g art, artists, cultural analysis, and the d iscu ssion o f m at ters o f tastes an d e sth e tic s. L ev itin e’s p u b lic a tio n s in c lu d e n u m e r o u s a r tic le s o n G o y a, e m b le m s , an d F r e n c h art from the 16th to th e 19th c en tu rie s. The archive of British playwright Arnold W esk er has b e e n a c q u ire d b y th e Harry R ansom H um anities R e sea rch C en ter at the U niversity o f T e x a s at Austin. W esk er is th e a u th o r o f 3 6 p lays, 4 v o lu m e s o f sh o rt sto rie s, 2 v o lu m es o f e ss a y s , an d o th e r as so rted w riting. T h e a rc h iv e in c lu d e s o rig i nal han d w ritten m an uscripts an d h a n d -co r re c te d ty p escrip ts fo r all o f W e sk e r’s plays, inclu d ing a trilogy ( C hicken Soup with B a r ley [1958], Roots [1959], an d I ’m Talking A b o u t J e r u s a le m [ I 9 6 0 ] ) , The K itc h e n (1 9 5 7 ) , an d Chips With Everything ( 1 9 6 2 ). T h e re is also a c o n sid era b le am ou nt o f p ro d u c tio n m a te ria ls, c o r r e s p o n d e n c e , p e r son al a cco u n ts o f in c o m e and ex p en d itu re, d ay d iaries, in v itatio n , T V an d rad io p ro d u c tio n s an d in terv iew s, an d h an d w ritten b o o k s o f d ream s. An old psalter, with the Psalms especially a rra n g ed fo r d ev o tio n a l u s e e a c h day o f th e w e e k , fo u n d a n e w h o m e at K in g ’s C o lleg e (a ffilia te d w ith th e U niversity o f W estern O n ta rio ). T h e m an u scrip t p ro b a b ly o rig in a te d in F lan d ers in th e late 14th o r early 15th cen tu ry . T h e p s a lte r is a m il le n n iu m gift to th e c o lle g e from fo rm er C h ie f L ibrarian E liz a b e th R u ssell an d h e r s u c c e s s o r an d cu rren t C h ie f L ibrarian Jo h n C lo u sto n . T h e m an u scrip t is hand-lettered in G othic script o n vellum (c a lf skin), and consists o f 197 leaves, m any o f w hich are beautifully illum inated with floral designs in gold leaf, red, light and dark blu e, light and dark green, and rich violet. The American Alliance for Health, Physi c a l E d u c a t io n , R e c r e a t io n a n d D a n c e (A AH PERD) A rchive C o lle c tio n has b e e n re lo c a te d from th e n a tio n a l h ea d q u a rters in R eston , V irgin ia, to Sp rin g field C o lleg e in S p rin g field , M a ssa c h u setts. AAHPERD s u p p o r ts a n d a s s is ts th o s e in v o lv e d in p h y sical e d u c a tio n , leisu re, fitn ess, d a n c e, h ea lth p ro m o tio n , e d u c a tio n , an d all s p e c ia l t ie s r e la t e d to a c h i e v in g a h e a lth y lifesty le. T h e AAHPERD A rchive C o llec tio n w as e sta b lish e d in 19 6 0 b y M abel L ee, th e first w o m a n p re s id e n t o f th e A llian ce and a le a d e r in th e p h y sic a l e d u c a tio n field . L e e ’s p a p e rs, p h o to s , s p o rt c lo th in g , and m e m o ra b ilia (c o v e rin g th e p e rio d o f 189 9 to 1 9 7 5 ) are a p art o f th e a rc h iv e. D u e to the grow th o f the c o lle ctio n , it b e c a m e n e c essary to find a rese a rch -o rie n te d a ca d em ic in stitu tio n th at w as a b le to m a k e all o f th e m aterials a v a ila b le b y rapid ly p ro c e s s in g th e cu rren t c o lle c tio n and m ain tain in g its fu tu re integrity. More than 700 volumes of classic Chinese b o o k s w e re d o n a te d to th e U niversity o f M ich ig an (U M ) by th e fam ily o f Luen K ing K ao. K ao, w h o e a rn e d a b a c h e lo r ’s d eg re e from UM in 1 9 1 2 , w as o n e o f th e first C h i n e s e s ch o la rs s p o n s o r e d th ro u g h a g o v e rn m en t sch olarsh ip . K a o ’s fam ily gave this gift to UM’s Asia Library. T h e gift in c lu d es h istory, fic tio n , C h in es e c a llig ra p h y , p o etry, and rare C h in ese translations o f w orks b y W e s te r n a u th o r s , s u c h as D ic k e n s , D u m as, H ugo, D e fo e , an d S co tt. O n e im p ressiv e p ie c e from th e c o lle c tio n is a 1695 first e d itio n o f th e c la s sic w o rk “C h in p ’ing m e i,” w h ic h W eiying W an, h ead o f th e Asia Library, d e s c rib e s as a “p io n e e rin g w o rk o f re a lis tic literatu re d ep ic tin g th e s o c ia l life o f 17 th -c e n tu ry C hina. F o r m o re in fo r m atio n a b o u t th e K ao C o lle c tio n , visit th e A s ia L i b r a r y ’s W e b s i t e a t h ttp :/ / a s ia .lib .u m ic h .e d u / in d e x .h tm . ■ Ed. note: S e n d y o u r n ew s to : Grants & A cquisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: ayoung@ ata.org. mailto:ayoung@ata.org