ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries universities, museum s, historical societies, a r ­ chives, libraries, community organizations, and other non-profit institutions are encouraged to ap­ ply. The NEH Public Humanities Projects offers sup­ port for symposia, film series w ith colloquia, de­ bates, reading and discussion groups, and panel ex­ hibits th a t bring the hum anities to the general public. For this special competition the program is especially interested in collaborative projects or projects th a t com bine various form ats for pro­ grams addressing out-of-school audiences. Awards in this competition will assist applicants in planning non-curricular humanities programs for adults or young people. These activities should provide the general public w ith programs explor­ ing such broad topics as: • th e im pact of the voyages of discovery on such fields as cartography and geography and the trans­ formation of scientific knowledge; • th e tradition of Utopian thought in Western literature and the efforts to realize such ideas in the New World; • th e development of Latin American literature and art or the im pact of the New W orld on Euro­ pean culture; •th e growth of New W orld societies and institu­ tions and the diplom atic and cultural relations among the United States, C anada, and the nations of Latin America. Non-profit organizations w ith resources in the humanities and the ability to reach general audi­ ences are eligible to apply. Priority will be given to those applicants who outline an effective strategy for reaching national, regional, or metropolitan audiences. Planning grants of up to $20,000 will be offered for projects ranging from six months to one year. The deadline for receipt of applications is March 18, 1988. Contact: Public Hum anities Projects, Columbian Quincentenary Planning Grants, Divi­ sion of General Programs, Room 426, National E n­ dowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., N .W ., Washington, DC 20506; (202) 786- 0271. ■ ■ ★ ★ ★ News from the field Acquisitions • Duke University, D urham , North Carolina, has received the archives of the J. W alter Thom p­ son advertising agency, the country’s oldest such firm . T he gift includes a th ree-year, $100,000 grant from the J. W alter Thompson Foundation to support the processing and maintenance of the ar­ chives. Contained among more than three million items are diaries, correspondence and research p a ­ pers from the company’s beginnings, documenting the grow th of the advertising industry and the worldwide expansion of American corporations. Some 1.5 million prin t advertisements, from J. W alter Thompson and its competitors, make up the bulk of the archive. Also included are scripts of radio shows d atin g from the 1920s, w hen th e scripts as well as the ads were w ritten by agencies. Featured are programs starring Bing Crosby, E d­ gar Bergen, and Rudy Vallee, as well as several ra ­ dio soap operas. Also of note is a le tte r from Eleanor Roosevelt in which she refuses to endorse a product in an ad campaign because she would have been identified only as the wife of President Frank­ lin D. Roosevelt. The archive’s extensive market- research materials, including analysis of foreign markets, will be of particular interest to scholars in sociology and psychology. • Hellenic College/Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts, has received the library of Nick John Topetzes, a re­ tired Veterans’ Administration official and former professor at the University of W isconsin. The School’s Cotsidas-Tonna L ibrary received more than 2,000 books and $1,000 to m aintain the col­ lection. • The Library of Congress, Washington, D .C ., has acquired a collection of music and literary manuscripts of Karl Weigl, an Austrian composer who im m igrated to the United States in 1938. The gift, from the late Hans Moldenhauer of Spokane, Washington, includes more than 7,000 pages of sketches and com plete m anuscripts of W eigl’s works spanning his entire career. Included is his prize-winning symphonic cantata, Weltfeier, and his last symphony. The m aterial, most of which is unpublished, will be added to the Moldenhauer Archives, established in 1986. • Michigan State University, East Lansing, has acquired a 1517 edition of the Libro della natura di cavalli by Giordano Ruffo, stablemaster at the Ital­ ian court of Frederick II. This widely translated work on the care and breeding of horses is regarded as the starting point for the regeneration of West­ ern veterinary medicine during the Renaissance, borrowing heavily from Arabic sources. February 1988 / 103 • The M ount Sinai Medical C enter, New York City, has acquired the papers of noted cancer re­ searcher C harlotte Friend, who died in January 1987 w hile a m em ber of the staff. F riend is chiefly know n for her 1956 discovery of a virus th a t causes leukem ia in mice, m ade at a tim e w hen it was con­ sidered unlikely th a t viruses could be linked to h u ­ m an cancers. T he collection, spanning 1939 to 1987, consists of correspondence, internal m em o­ ran d a, speeches, clippings, reprints and aw ards d ocum enting F rie n d ’s w ork and outside profes­ sional activities, and includes files on her w ork w ith the N ational C ancer Institute, the N ational Academy of Science, and the N ational Institute of H ealth. Also included is a collection of correspon­ dence w ith other scientists as well as personal cor­ respondence. The papers, housed in the Medical C en ter Archives, do not co n tain research n o te­ books or specimens, w hich have been retained by the C enter for Experim ental Cell Biology at M ount Sinai. • The State University of New York a t Albany has acq u ire d th e lite ra ry m a n u scrip ts of K u rt B auchw itz (1890-1974), a G erm an emigré poet who practiced law in his native Halle, G erm any, and later in M ilton, Massachusetts. Bauchwitz is best known for his 1920 volume Der Lebendige. His papers include m anuscript poetry w ritten in Tokyo in 1940 and in the United States from 1941 until his death. In later life Bauchw itz w rote in E n ­ glish under the pseudonym Roy C. Bates. The m a­ terial will be housed as p a rt of the G erm an Em igré Collection in th e D epartm ent of Special Collec­ tions. • The University of California, Los Angeles, has acquired at auction seven incunabula, using funds fro m th e A h m a n so n F o u n d a tio n . P re v io u sly ow ned by the Roman C atholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles as p a rt of the Estelle Doheny collection, the volumes, all p rinted before 1501, are housed in Special Collections in the University Research L i­ b ra ry . T h e books in c lu d e a w o rk by T h o m as Aquinas printed in Italy in 1470 by Sweynheym and P annartz, the tw o G erm an printers who origi­ nally brought the art of prin tin g to Italy. Also p u r­ chased w ere four volumes printed in Venice in the late 1400s by Nicolas Jenson. Six of the books were printed in Italy; the seventh was printed in G er­ m any by a p rin ter whose outstanding work was done in Italy. One is in Italian and the rem ainder are in L atin. • The University of Illinois a t Chicago has been given the papers and library of structural engineer W illiam F. Schmidt, w ho prepared the engineer­ ing designs of several Chicago landm arks. Schmidt is considered a pioneer in the use of flat plate design for ap artm en t and office buildings and in the use of high-strength concrete, and is the author of Ulti- m ate Strength Design Sim plified—A n E quivalent Stress M ethod. The collection contains books on engineering; the business archive of his com pany, W illiam F. Schmidt and Associates; personal p a ­ pers; and a com plete file on the Illinois and C hi­ cago Property O w ner’s League, consisting of news­ le tte r s , n e w s p a p e r c lip p in g s , C o n g re ssio n a l testimony, copies of all League publications, and radio scripts. • The University of Texas a t A rlington’s D epart- m ent of Special Collections has received a num ber of local and regional m anuscript and archive col­ lections including th e 1955-1986 records of the Southwest Region of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers O rganization, once headquartered in Dallas. The bulk of the archive dates from 1978 and comprises m ore th a n 39 linear feet. Of special note are grievance reports, second career training program inform ation, accident reports and other m aterial focusing on problems th a t led to a n ation­ wide PATCO strike on August 3,1981. M aterial re­ lated to th e strike includes new spaper articles, new sletters giving a day-by-day account of the strike, photographs, instructions for picketers, pe­ titions for the Im prisoned Controllers Fam ily Sup­ port F und, song sheets, and records on scab and rab b it employees (rabbits w ere PATCO members who h ad agreed to strike b u t rem ained on the jo b ). The post-strike files contain a preponderance of le­ gal docum ents, especially appeals from fired air traffic controllers desiring rein statem en t, tr a n ­ scripts of M erit Systems Protection Board hearings, and docum ents relating to the PATCO bankruptcy and decertification. Grants • Brow n U niversity’s John C a rte r Brow n Li- brary, Providence, Rhode Island, has received a $203,700 grant from the N ational E ndow m ent for the H um anities for continuing work on its Euro­ pean A m erica n a p ro jec t. T he p ro je c t is a six- volume guide to books about America, N orth and South, th a t w ere printed in Europe betw een 1493 an d 1750. T hree volumes have been published, w ith the fourth expected in the fall of this year. In ­ tended to be an am plification and distillation of Jo­ seph Sabin’s Bibliotheca Am ericana, the project will increase the q uantity of know n A m ericana by about 300% . It is expected to be finished in 1990. • Dalhousie University’s School of L ibrary and In fo rm atio n Studies, H alifax, Nova Scotia, has been aw arded a grant of $52,117 from the Social Sciences and H um anities Research Council of C an ­ ada for com pletion of the Nova Scotian Newspaper project. The grant covers a ten-m onth period and will result in a union list of approxim ately 1,300 n ew spapers p u b lish ed since 1752. R esearchers have exam ined the holdings of some 120 reposito­ ries throughout the province. • The Houston Area Research L ibrary Consor- tium , Texas, has been aw arded an LSCA Title III grant of $107,509 to enter a HARLiC Union List of Serials into the Texas Statew ide Union List of Seri- 104 / C& RL News February 1988 / 105 als. The holdings of the Houston Public L ibrary, the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical C en ter, P ra irie View A&M U niversity, Texas Southern University, the U niversity of Houston and th e University of Texas M edical B ranch at Galveston will be entered into the Union List. The AMIGOS Bibliographic Council, In c., is oversee­ ing the project. • Johns Hopkins University’s Milton S. Eisenho- w er L ib r a r y , B a ltim o re , M a ry la n d , has been aw arded a $1 million N EH challenge grant to im­ prove its collections in the hum anities. The grant, one of a total of 29 aw arded for a total of $12.2 m il­ lion, specifies th a t the L ibrary m ust raise an addi­ tional $4 million over the next four years. Brown plans to use the m ajority of the money for a p erm a­ nent endow m ent dedicated to acquisitions and preservation. • The M onterey Bay Area Cooperative L ibrary System, California, has received a $148,800 LSCA Title III grant to produce a regional union catalog on CD-BOM. Eight pilot state libraries will con­ tribute to the database. The system is a diverse con­ sortium encom passing public, school, academ ic and federal libraries. • The University of British C olum bia, Vancou- ver, has received a $250,000 grant from the C an a­ dian M inistry of A dvanced E d ucation and Job T raining for an autom ation upgrade and network project. The money will be used to increase the ca­ pacity of the UBC m ainfram e com puter, to p ro ­ vide Simon Fraser University and the University of Victoria w ith term inals to access the UBC online files, to give UBC faculty online access to the d a ta ­ bases, and to install eight to twelve public w orksta­ tions. • The University of California, Davis, has re- ceived tw o endow m ents totalling $383,920 for the purchase of library m aterials in zoology. The funds are the bequest of the estate of Tracy I. Storer, late professor and founder of the D epartm ent of Zool­ ogy, and his wife, R uth Risdon Storer, a p ediatri­ cian. The endowm ents are the largest gift funds ever received by the library. • The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, has received a $2.5 million grant from the W eingart Foundation of Los Angeles for construc­ tion of a new Teaching L ibrary on the University Park cam pus. The 24-hour facility will contain pe­ riodicals, reference, and reserve sections, com bin­ ing them into an integrated unit at a central loca­ tion in the library. The five-story building will also house a core collection of 200,000 volumes related to current instruction. A m ajor feature will be h u n ­ dreds of in d iv id u a l co m p u ter and audiovisual workstations w hich will provide greater access to library databases and collections th a n is presently available. The grant is p a rt of a university-wide cam paign to raise $557 million by 1990. • T h e U n iv e rs ity of Illin o is , U rb a n a - C ham paign, has been aw arded an NEH challenge grant of $1 million to establish an endow m ent for the purchase of m aterials in the hum anities, preser­ vation, and im proving scholars’ access to collec­ tions. The library plans to hire additional staff for preservation microfilming and cataloging of hold­ ings onto national databases. Under the term s of the grant, the University must raise an additional $3 million in four years. • The University of Texas a t El Paso has received $1,642,287 from the estate of Lucille B. Pillow of El Paso to establish a library endow m ent. Funds from the endow m ent, the largest single gift in the library’s history, will be used to buy new books and other m aterials. Pillow, who died in 1986, was a graduate of the College of Mines and M etallurgy (now UT El Paso) and taught sociology at the Uni­ versity in the 1950s. ■ ■ M idwest regional conference Academic librarians from five m idwestern states will meet together for the first tim e in La Crosse, Wisconsin, April 27-29, 1988. “Strate­ gies for Effective Service: Bringing Together Libraries, Faculty, Inform ation, and Technol­ ogy” will be the them e for this regional confer­ ence sponsored by the state ACRL chapters in Iow a, M innesota, N orth D akota, South D a ­ kota, and Wisconsin. The keynote address, “Creative Leadership in Academic Libraries: Everyone’s Responsibil­ ity ,” will be given by ACRL President Joanne Euster; other featured speakers will be L ib rar­ ian of Congress James H. Billington, and the President of the University of H ouston, Richard L. Van H orn. The conference will feature a wide range of program s of interest to small and large academ ic library staff members as well as to both technical and public service librarians. Programs will include sessions on PC-based sys­ tems for small college libraries, collection de­ velopm ent, peer presentations, library salaries, and autom ation for governm ent documents. CD-ROM exhibitors will be present to dem on­ strate their products and provide an opportu­ nity for hands-on experience w ith new technol­ ogies. 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