ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 94 / C &RL News Out-of-print titles are available from University Microfilms International, 300 N. Zeeb R d., Ann Arbor, MI 48106. Titles in Print No. 39—Libraries fo r Teaching, Libraries fo r R e­ search: Essays fo r a Century. Richard D. John­ son, comp. (1977). $15. No. 40—Book Selling and Book Buying: Aspects o f 19th Century British and North American Book Trades. Richard Landon, ed. (1979). $15. No. 41 — W omen View Librarianship: Nine Per­ spectives. Kathryn Lundy, ed. (1980). $8. No. 42— The Spirit o f Inquiry in Library Science: T he G ra d u a te L ib r a r y S ch ool at C h ica g o , 1921-1951. John Richardson. (1982). $35. No. 43— The L an d scap e o f Literatures: Use o f Subject Collections in a University Library. Paul Metz. (1983). ISBN 0-8389-3286-X. $30. ■ ■ News from the fie ld ACQUISITIONS • E m o r y U n i v e r s i t y ’s Robert W . Woodruff L brary, Atlanta, has received the papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Claude Sitton, an alum­ nus and editor of the Raleigh News and Observer. The collection includes materials from his years as chief Southern correspondent for the New York Times (1958-1968), as well as correspondence and writings from his career in North Carolina. Cover­ age of civil rights activities figures prominently in his earlier papers. • M i c h i g a n St a t e U n i v e r s i t y , East Lansing, has been given a collection of 83 boxes of clippings and ephemera on clothing and fashion by Ada Tucker Green, of Birmingham, Michigan. Included are items on fashion designers, Detroit area artists, miniatures and dolls, leaders in the Detroit area art and antiques world, the progress of women in the arts, catalogues of the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Henry Ford Museum, travel guides, and hotel brochures. • T e x a s A&M U n i v e r s i t y , College Station, has acquired the papers and memorabilia of Johnnie Mae Hackworthe (1904-1980), founder of the con­ servative Children of God sect. She also cam ­ paigned unsuccessfully as a candidate for Governor of Texas, the U.S. Congress, and the Presidency. The collection will be useful to students of conserv­ ative Christianity, Texas politics, and the Kansas C ity, Mexico, and Orient Railway of Texas, of which her husband was an official. •The U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a , B e r k e l e y , has purchased two major Russian collections. The first is the library of the English bookman, John S.G . Simmons, librarian of All Souls College, Oxford, and consists of more than 1,550 books, pamphlets, and periodicals dealing with Russian and East E u ­ ropean book culture. Many of the pieces bear the autographs of the Soviet Union’s leading bookmen. i Especially noteworthy are the holdings of Soviet periodicals and monographs published before 1935 ­ and very rare small printings published after 1960. The second collection is that of San Francisco collector A.N. Kniazeff, which consists of 182 indi­ vidual items, all published in Harbin, Tien Tsin, Shanghai, and other centers of Russian emigration to the Far East. The collection is especially rich in Russian-language scholarly monographs and in dictionaries of Far Eastern languages. •The U n i v e r s i t y o f C o l o r a d o , Boulder, Music Library has received a portfolio of sheet music which includes a copy of every piece of music pub­ lished by the Tolbert R. Ingram Publishing Com­ pany. This compnay was active in Denver in the early 20th century and published popular music of all kinds, much of which deals with Colorado and Denver as subjects. •The U n i v e r s i t y o f I o w a , Iowa City, has been given a large collection of materials on railroads by Iowan John P. V an d er Maas. The gift consists of 40 document boxes of employee and public timetables from railroads throughout the world; train regis­ ters from West Liberty, Iowa, and Phillipsburg, Kansas; train orders; menus; street car transfers; and a miscellany of printed and manuscript items. •The U n i v e r s i t y o f M i c h i g a n ’s Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Ann Arbor, has acquired the Lois Orr papers relating to the Spanish Civil W ar of 1936-1939. The papers con­ sist of books, pamphlets, serials, documents, leaf­ lets, posters, correspondence, and typescripts of her experiences as a socialist in the early days of the war. •The U n i v e r s i t y o f T e x a s a t A u s t i n has re­ cently acquired the papers of Argentine writer Ju ­ lio Cortezar, author of Rayuela and Libro de Ma­ n u el, to add to its N ettie L e e Benson L a tin American Collection. Included are manuscripts of one unpublished and three published novels. February 1984 / 95 UT-Austin has also received a collection focusing on the events, opinions, and im pact of the assassi­ nation of President John F . Kennedy. Included in the 1,700-piece collection are books, magazines, newspapers, and pamphlets tracing aspects of the assassination from the initial news coverage to the most recent theories on the perpetrator(s) of the crim e. Numerous foreign publications reflect reac­ tions as far away as Iceland and Korea, and offer special insight into the opinions of the foreign press and foreign leaders. • Y a l e U n i v e r s i t y has received a gift of over 100 rare T ibetan manuscripts and four 19th-century T ibetan religious paintings. The manuscripts are 13th-century copies of the religious teachings of the 8th-century teacher, Padma Sambhava. GRANTS • C o l g a t e U n i v e r s i t y , H am ilton, New York, has received a grant of $100,000 from the Gladys Brooks Foundation to support the purchase of li­ brary materials for the study of non-western cul­ tures. The grant will establish an endowment to purchase a wide variety of recently published sec­ ondary sources— newspapers, m onographs, and scholarly journals— as well as prim ary documents relevant to C olgate’s Asian studies program. • H a r v a r d C o l l e g e L ibrary has been awarded a grant of $188,402 from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission in support of a 2-year project to survey and create records con­ cerning m anuscript collections at H arvard and Radcliffe. The prim ary goal of the project is to make these collections more accessible to students and scholars through improved collection descrip­ tions and increased name and subject access. • T he N o r t h e a s t D o c u m e n t C o n s e r v a t i o n C e n t e r , A n d o v er, M a ss a ch u s e tts, has b een awarded a 3-year grant from the National Endow ­ ment for the Humanities to continue its field ser­ vice program. T he m ajor activity is short-term, on­ site c o n s u lta tio n to sm all and m ed iu m -sized repositories in New England, New York, and New Jersey. Letters of application for a consultation and collection survey should be sent to Mildred O ’Con­ nell, Field Service D irector, N E D C C , Abbot Hall, 24 School Street, Andover, MA 01810. • S h a w U n i v e r s i t y , R aleigh, North C aro lin a, has received a $34,176 grant from the National E n ­ dowment for the Humanities to facilitate the ar­ rangement and description of the Shaw University Archives. The project will provide the framework and foundation for an ongoing archival program and will serve as a prototype for the establishment or upgrading of archival programs at similar insti­ tutions. • S o u t h e r n I l l i n o i s U n i v e r s i t y , Carbondale, has received two grants from the National Histori­ cal Publications and Records Commission in sup­ port of the Ulysses S. G ran t Association. F irst, $15,000 has been provided to fund a 10-month fel­ lowship for someone interested in historical editing to work with the G rant materials. Second, $43,234 will aid in the continuation of editorial work and publishing volumes in T h e P ap ers o f Ulysses S. G rant series. •The U n i v e r s i t y o f T e x a s a t A u s t i n has been awarded a $180,998 T itle II-C grant to catalog 10,000 monographs in the Benson L atin American Collection. Full bibliographic data on the books will be added to the O C L C database. NEWS NOTES •The L i r r a r y o f C o n g r e s s has opened a Social Science Reading Room on the fifth floor of its John Adams Building in an area form erly called the Thomas Jefferson Reading Room. The room now houses m ajor print and selected microform refer­ ence collections in the fields of business, economics, political science, sociology, and education. The new reading room is the latest step towards the ar­ rangement of the Library of Congress as a vast “multi-m edia encyclopedia,” in the words of li­ brarian of Congress D aniel J. Boorstin. This con­ cept calls for the future orientation of the library’s services and collections around the M ain Reading Room in the Jefferson Building, which would func­ tion as an index to the library’s resources. •The U n i v e r s i t y o f T e x a s a t A u s t i n ’s Hum ani­ ties Research Center was renamed the Harry R an­ som Humanities Research Center by the U T Sys­ tem B o a rd o f R e g e n ts on D e c e m b e r 9. T h e redesignation honors the former U T Austin presi­ dent and chancellor of the U T System who was in- Domestic Academic Exchanges Available Librarians interested in an exchange of jobs within the United States may be able to make arrangem ents through the N ational F acu lty Exchange. This new program, funded by the Exxon Foundation, brokers the exchange of faculty and staff at U .S. institutions. Academic institutions must join the National Faculty E x ­ change and appoint a campus coordinator in order for their faculty and staff to participate in the program. Forty institutions are currently members and most of them do include lib rari­ ans in the exchange option. Librarians inter­ ested in participating in the program should as­ certain if their institution is a member. Further inform ation can be obtained from N ational Faculty Exchange, Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort W ayne, 2101 Coliseum Blvd. E ast, Fort W ayne, IN 4 6 8 0 5 .— Sandy W hite- ley. 96 / C &RL News strumental in establishing the center. In a related ceremony that also closed the University’s Centen­ nial observance, the library celebrated the addition of its 5-millionth volume. ■■ • P E O P L E • H e n r i e t t e D . A v r a m has been appointed assis­ tant librarian for processing services at the Library of Congress, effective November 7. She will oversee the Library’s operations in the areas of acquisi­ tions, cataloging, cata­ loging products, and the development of related automated systems. A vram has served sin ce August 1980 as that department’s direc­ tor for processing sys­ tems, networks, and au­ tomation planning. She succeeds Joseph H. Ho­ ward, who becam e di­ Henriette D. Aυram rector of the N ational Agricultural Library in July. Avram joined the Library staff in 1965 as assis­ tant coordinator of information systems. Her work on the MARC Pilot Project led to the establishment in 1969 of the L C distribution service for machine- readable cataloging records. In 1970 she was named chief of the MARC Development Office, which was responsible for the design and imple­ m entation of automation systems for technical processing operations. In 1976 she was made head of a new office, L C ’s Network Development Office, which has played a leading role in the design of a computer-based na­ tionwide library network and the development of library network standards in cooperation with N C LIS, C L R , and other organizations. Four years later she became the Library’s first director for processing systems. For her performance and achievements Avram has received L C ’s Superior Service Award (1968), the Margaret Mann Citation in Cataloging and Classification (1971), the Federal W omen’s Award (1974), and an honorary doctor of science degree from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville (1977). She received the 1979 Academic Librarian of the Year Award from A C RL, the 1980 Award for Achievement from L IT A , and the 1981 Melvil Dewey Medal from ALA. W e n d e l l A. B a r b o u r has been appointed direc­ tor of the Captain John Smith Library at Chris­ topher Newport College, Newport News, Virginia, effective August 1983. Barbour was formerly associate director of li­ b ra rie s at G eo rg ia Southern College, Sta­ tesb oro, from 1977 to 1983 and head of read­ ers’ services from 1975 to 1 977. He was head of r e fe r e n c e at In d ia n a U n iv e rsity L ib r a r y , South Bend, from 1974 to 1975 and held the po­ sitions of newspaper li­ W endall A. Barbour brarian and assistant ar­ chivist (1970-1971) and bookstacks librarian (1971-1974) at the University of Illinois Library, Champaign. He was the recipi­ ent of an HEA T itle II Fellowship in Library Sci­ ence from the University of Illinois. Barbour holds an M LS from the University of Il­ linois and a J.D . from John Marshall Law School. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Florida. He has made presentations on legal issues in li­ brary administration and has organized and pre­ sented a program on “Building Libraries for Biblio­ g ra p h ic In s tr u c tio n and User A c c e s s ib ility ” through the ALA L ib ra ry A dm inistration and Management Association’s College and University Libraries Buildings and Equipment Committee at Annual Conference in Philadelphia in 1982. W hile at Georgia Southern College, Barbour wrote the li­ brary’s portion of a 5-year renewable T itle II I grant proposal that has been funded $235,000 by the U.S. Department of Education for its first two years. The grant will be used to automate the li-