ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries C&RL News ■ D e c e m b e r 1 9 9 9 / 963 G r a n t s a n d A c q u i s i t i o n s Ann-Christe Young U n iversity o f Puerto Rico at M a y a g u ez has received a grant of $2 million under Title V-Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program, by the U.S. Department of Education. The grant will be used to improve clearinghouse capabilities for decision-making, strategic planning, and policy formation; enhance student training and research at sea; and improve the library skills of students by developing a state- of-the-art library research and instruction laboratory. The five-year grant is one of 39 awarded nationwide and one of six awarded in Puerto Rico. University of Virginia has received a $10 million gift from alumnus David A. Harrison III to establish an institute for the study of American history, literature, and culture. The David A. Harrison III Institute will draw on the library’s extensive holdings o f American manuscripts, rare books, and docum ents and will encom pass an exhibition gallery, study areas for visiting scholars, an d a seminar room for lectures and classes. It will be housed in a new 65,000-square-foot facility, which will also contain the Albert H. Small Special Collections Library. Colum bia University, C aliforn ia D igital Library, an d M assachusetts In stitu te o f Technology are the winners o f the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition’s (SPARC) Scientific Communities Initiative (SCI) grant com petition. The grants, w o rth a com bined half-million dollars, are aw arded to spur digital science publishing ventures based in academe. Columbia University Press’s Columbia Earthscape, the Digital Library’s eScholarship, and MIT’s CogNet will each receive substantial support from SCI. SCI’s goal is to stimulate and accelerate the creation of new nonprofit information communities for users in the fields o f science, technology, o r medicine. University of Texas (UT) at Austin has been aw arded $300,000 by the Welch Foundation to sup p o rt statewide access to chemical information resources. The General Libraries will use the funding to expand and enhance its collection o f chemistry reference materials a n d p ro v id e s ta te w id e ac c e ss to th is inform ation via d o cu m en t delivery and reference assistance. All materials acquired will be cataloged in UTCAT, UTNetCAT (the UT online catalog), and in OCLC. Northwestern University has received a $10 million unrestricted lead gift earmarked for building the library’s collections from the Deering family through the Miami Corporation, th e fam ily’s in v estm en t co m p an y . T he endow m ent, w hich will generate $400,000 for the library each year, allows the university library to strengthen and build new “collections o f distinction” to join its holdings in such areas as Africana, transportation and 20th- century music, as well as to enhance various areas o f study. C ollections im m ediately benefiting from the endow m ent include area and ethnic studies, life sciences, economics, and political science. The Council on Library and Inform ation Resources (CLIR) has been aw arded a grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the developm ent o f the Academic Image Exchange (AIE), a project o f the Digital Library F ederation an d th e College Art A sso c iatio n . M aking im a g es a v a ila b le electronically will b enefit teach in g and research in art history and architecture. AIE will enable scholars to share digital images (to which they ow n the rights) of works referenced in the major art history textbooks. It will offer students, teachers, and the broader public curriculum-based sets o f monitor-sized digital im ages fo r th e ir free an d u n restric ted educational, nonprofit use. Penn State University received $51,000 as part o f a N ational E ndow m ent for the E d . n o t e : Send y o u r new s to : G rants & A cq u isitio n s, C&RL News, 50 E. H u ro n St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e -m a il: a yo u n g @ a la .o rg . mailto:ayoung@ala.org 964 / C&RL News ■ D e ce m b e r 1999 H umanities grant to the Committee on Institutional Cooperation. The grant will help preserve th e Luis A lb e r to S á n c h e z ( 1 9 0 0 - 9 4 ) collection. Sánchez was a Peruvian statesm an an d scholar w ho w as a major political an d literary force in Peru for 40 years an d taught at num erous major universities in North an d South America, the Caribbean, Europe, an d the Middle East. He w as a p io n e e r m e m b e r o f th e A m erican P o p u lar R evolutionary political party, w hich ad v o cated social an d political reform. Because o f this affiliation, Sánchez w as jailed an d exiled from Peru in 1932 for 25 years. In 1963, he w as elected to P eru’s senate and continued in a n um ber o f oth er governm ent positions, including vice president (1985- 90). T h e co llec tio n in c lu d es S án ch e z’s personal correspondence and private library o f 40,000 volumes. A c q u i s i t i o n s The papers of Kurt Vonnegut, acclaimed author o f Slaughterhouse Five and Player P ia n o , h a v e b e e n acquired by the Lilly Library at In d ian a U n iv e rs ity . T h e thousands o f pages of V o n n e g u t’s literary papers also include ty p e s c r ip ts , firs t editions, and about 50 rejection slips from the 1940s. “Vonnegut K u rt V o n n e g u t has becom e a literary icon for many,” says Lisa Browar, Lilly librarian. “In the 1970s, his short stories and novels captured the m ood o f a country disillusioned by the w ar in Southeast Asia. Today, he is acknowledged for his astonishing literary range and as a social critic whose wit and irreverence expose society’s frailties.” Vonnegut, a native of Indianapolis, was granted an honorary doctorate from Indiana University in 1973. The lite ra ry papers o f Paul Bow les, the American expatriate writer and com poser, Photo by Jack Buxbaum L ib ra ry s ta ff e xam ine boxes t h a t com prise p a rt o f th e Paul Bowles Archive. have b een acquired by the University of D elaware Library, by arrangem ent w ith the author. The collection includes thousands of items including letters, manuscripts, revisions o f m anuscripts, translations, p u b lis h e rs’ reports, memorabilia, and num erous items h o u sed for m any years in the au th o r’s hom e in Tangier, Morrocco. Since the 1940s Bowles has written num erous works o f fiction, essays, translations, travel writing, poem s, an d other works. Among Bow les’s best-know n fictional w orks are the novels The Sheltering Sky (1949), Let i t Come D own (1952), The Spider’s H ouse (1955); an d his initial short story collection, The Delicate Prey a n d Other Stories (1950). A film o f The Sheltering Sky was made in 1991, starring D ebra W inger an d Jo h n Malkovich. A w a rd -w in n in g p oet B rendan G alvin m ade a surprise gift o f p apers an d docum ents to Hollins University. Galvin has published num erous books o f poetry, including Hotel M alabar, Sky a n d Isla n d Light an d The Strength o f a N a m ed Thing. Galvin’s w ork has earn ed him m any honors an d awards, including the Iowa Poetry Prize for Hotel Malabar; a short listing for the Pulitzer Prize for W inter Oysters; the O. B. Hardison Jr. P o e try P rize, a w a rd e d b y th e F o lg er Shakespeare Library; and the Sotheby Prize of the Arvon Foundation. The narration Galvin w rote for Massachusetts Story, a one-hour docum entary on offshore oil drilling on G eorges Bank, w o n b o th th e First Prize for D o cu m en tary at th e N ew E ngland Film F estival a n d th re e Emmy n o m in a tio n s (1977-78). ■