ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 206 / C&RL News ★ ★ ★ News from the f i eld Acquisitions • Bow ling G reen S tate U n iversity’s P op u lar Culture L ibrary, Ohio, has acquired the Jeffrey J. Gailiun collection of more th an 1,800 vintage p a ­ perback books. The collection represents a cross section of m ass-market paperback genres and in­ cludes T a u c h n itz E ditions from th e 1920s and Pocket Books from the 1930s. The L ibrary has also received 370 n u m b ers of th e tra v e l m ag azin e W here and a nearly complete run of the Comics Buyer’s Guide. • C alifornia State University, Long Beach, has received the donation of tw o original Ansel Adams photographs, “Boards and Thistles, San Francisco, California, 1950,” and “Cem etery Statue and Oil Derricks, Signal Hill, California, 1939.” Both are 16" x 20" prints from Adams’ Portfolio VII. The University is located about three miles from Signal Hill, w here Adams m ade the latter photograph at the height of the Long Beach oil boom. The library now holds 24 Adams prints. • The Cincinnati Historical Society, Ohio, has m ade available for use by scholars and the general public the Daniel J. Ransohoff Photographic Col­ lection of 28,638 black and w hite negatives, in­ cluding positive m icrofiche copies of each. The or­ ganization of the collection and the m icrofiche reference set were funded by a grant from the N a­ tional E ndow m ent for the H um anities. D atin g from 1934 to 1981, the images reflect R ansohoff s lifelong co m m itm en t to co m m u n icatin g social problems through still photography. The C incin­ nati native and social worker docum ented such subjects as A ppalachian assimilation, u rban hous­ ing conditions, and the work of local agencies in­ cluding U nited Appeal and C om m unity Chest. Ransohoff’s ph o to g rap h s w ere selected by the United W ay of America for use in its national cam ­ paign publicity m aterials in 1964, 1967 and 1969. In 1955 photographer E dw ard Steichen selected a Ransohoff photograph for use in his “Fam ily of M an” exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. • Colum bia University, New York City, has re- ceived the papers of the late political columnist Jo­ seph K raft (1924-1986), an alumnus. Among the 9,600 items donated by K raft’s widow, Polly W in­ ton Kraft, are letters from Joseph Alsop, W arren E . Burger, G erald R. Ford, H ubert H. H um phrey, George McGovern, A rthur M. Schlesinger J r . , and Caspar W. W einberger. Also included are m an u ­ sc rip ts of n e w s p a p e r a n d m ag a z in e a rtic le s , speeches, diaries, cassettes and videotapes of inter­ views, photographs, and an unpublished history of the investment firm Lehm an Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Inc. The m aterials date from the beginning of K raft’s career in 1950 until his death last year. D u r­ ing th at tim e he w rote for magazines and newspa­ pers around the w orld, including th e N ew Yorker, Harper’s M agazine, the N ew York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the W ashington Post. At the tim e of his death K raft’s colum n for the Los A n ­ geles Times was syndicated in 200 newspapers. The collection is housed in Colum bia’s Rare Book and M anuscript Library. • H a r v a rd U n iv e rsity ’s H o u g h to n L ib ra r y , C am bridge, has acquired three im portant m an u ­ script collections: the archives and m anuscripts of Rudolph Kolisch, the papers of W illiam Empson, and the papers through 1983 of John Ashbery. Violinist Kolisch (1896-1978) was one of the most influential performers of 20th-century music. The Kolisch Q uartet, founded in Vienna in 1922, and the Pro Arte Q uartet w hich he led from 1945 on, after em igrating to the United States, both sys­ tem atically presented the works of m odern com­ posers. An innovator in perform ance style, Kolisch form ed close friendships w ith m any of the leading musicians, artists and intellectuals of the period, and h a d a lifelong association w ith com poser Arnold Schoenberg, to whose sister he was m ar­ ried. The Kolisch papers include the the full scores used by the quartets—w hich offer a record of the evolving techniques of m odern perform ance—and letters from m any well-known figures including Béla Bartók, Karl Amadeus H artm ann, Max Re­ g er, R oger Sessions, K a rlh e in z S to c k h au se n , George Grosz, and Theodore Adorno. In the m an ­ uscript portion of the papers are proofs of several of Schoenberg’s m ajor works corrected by him , auto­ graph works by avant-garde composer Luigi Nono, and letters from Schoenberg and Alban Berg. The papers of W illiam Em pson (1906-1984) are of interest to students of poetry and m odern liter­ ary criticism. Em pson’s texts Seven Types o f A m b i­ guity (1930), Some Versions o f Pastoral (1935), The Structure o f Com plex W ords (1951), and M ilto n ’s God (1961) have each suggested new and contro­ versial ways of reading literature. An im portant b u t unprolific poet (his Collected Poems fill only one small volume), Em pson’s style is m arked by am biguity and complex analogies. The papers ac­ q u ired by H oug h to n include correspondence, drafts of unpublished poems, and proofs and type­ April 1987 / 207 scripts of his last book, to be published posthu­ mously. The papers through 1983 of poet John Ashbery include poems and correspondence. Ashbery, dis­ tinguished professor at the Brooklyn College cam ­ pus of the City University of New York, is consid­ ered by m any to be the greatest living Am erican poet. He has published some 20 volumes of poetry (most recently Selected Poems, 1985), and has been aw arded tw o Guggenheim Fellowships, a Pulitzer Prize, th e N ational Book A w ard, the N ational Book Critics Circle A w ard, and a M acA rthur Prize Fellowship. Ashbery is also a noted a rt critic whose work is often com pared to the works of the painters of the New York School w ith whom he is associ­ ated. H arv ard ’s Frances Loeb L ibrary has received the personal and professional papers of Eleanor R aym ond, a 1917 g rad u a te of th e C a m b rid g e School of A rchitecture and a noted architect. The collection comprises a complete record of her work from 1929, w hen she opened her own office in Bos­ ton after some years in partnership w ith a form er teacher, H enry A therton Frost. Included are ap­ proxim ately 1,500 architectural plans, draw ings for some 300 projects, extensive client correspon­ dence, project photographs, and diaries. Raym ond specialized in the design of houses, and her projects included one of the first New E ngland houses in the I n te r n a t i o n a l Style (R achel R ay m o n d H ouse, 1931); the acclaim ed Sculptor’s Studio for Amelia Peabody (1933); an experimental plywood house (1940); an early example of upscale cluster housing (H am m ond C om pound, 1941); and one of the first successful solar buildings in the northeast (Peabody Sun House, 1948). • Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, has acquired the rem ainder of th e senate and personal papers of Senator Russell B. Long. The latest gift of some 225,000 item s brings the to tal nu m b er of items to nearly one m illion. Selected correspon­ dence, speeches, photographs, and legislative and com m ittee files will be m ade available to research­ ers in the next several years. • Oberlin College, Ohio, has acquired the Her- bert K. G oodkind collection of m aterials relating to the playing, m aking and teaching of stringed in­ strum ents. Purchased jointly by Oberlin and the Violin Society of Am erica, the collection comprises m ore th an 2,000 books and auction catalogs from the 17th through the 20th centuries, 2,500 periodi­ cal issues from the 19th and 20th centuries, and various other m aterials including correspondence. Several of the earliest items are quite rare and are not listed in E dw ard Heron-Allen’s exhaustive 1894 bibliography of the violin. Highlights of the collec­ tion include the first edition of Leopold M ozart’s treatise on violin playing, published in 1756, the same year his son W olfgang Amadeus was born; an album of 60 original album en photographs of p ian ­ ist and composer F ranz Liszt, eight of them w ith Lizst’s signature; an extremely rare 1747 treatise on the physics of violin tone production; an early 18th- century volume entitled The A rt o f Playing on the Violin, published in London and attrib u te d to violinist/composer Francesco G em iniani, thought to be the first work of its kind; a 1687 F rench tre a ­ tise on the violin, described as one of the oldest works on the theory of bow ed instrum ents; 40 books on composer and legendary violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini, including works published d u r­ ing his lifetime; and 24 books published since 1776 having to do w ith varnish. The establishm ent of N ew York Chapter to com pile resource directory The W om en’s Resources G roup of A C RL’s G reater New York M etropolitan C hapter has been aw arded a $5,000 grant from the Charles H. Revson Foundation. The grant will be used to support the production of a directory, W here to Find Resources on W om en in the Greater N ew York Area. T he original directory, on w hich the new title is based, was compiled by the Center for the Study of W om en and Society of The C ity University G raduate C enter. The Center is co-sponsor of the updated directory, w hich will list m ore th an 160 collections in the G reater New York area. The ACRL/NY W om ­ en’s Resources G roup is chaired by Rose Anne Burstein, director of the Esther Raushenbush L ibrary at Sarah Law rence College. If you believe th at your library has appropri­ ate m aterials, and are not sure w hether a ques­ tio n n a i r e has a lr e a d y b e e n r e t u r n e d to ACRL/NY, please contact L ynn Mullins, head librarian at the Thom as J. Shanahan Library, M arym ount M anhattan College, 221 East 71st Street, New York, NY 10021; (212) 517-0590, as soon as possible. Since the directory is sched­ uled to be delivered to the publisher this spring, it is im portant th at you act quickly. Among the m any interesting collections th a t w ill be in ­ cluded in the directory are the libraries of the Am algam ated C lothing and Textile W orkers Union, the Society of W om en Engineers, the Poetry Society of America, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and the Salvation Arm y Ar­ chives. A reas t h a t th e W o m e n ’s R esources G roup w ould like to have represented are col­ lections on wom en of color, w om en and social work, w om en in retail organizations, wom en in the trad e union m ovem ent, and w om en in child care and consumer movements, as well as the relevant collections in the regional histori­ cal societies. O rder inform ation m ay be requested directly from the publisher, the Fem inist Press at the C ity University of New York, 311 East 94th Street, New York, NY 10128. The price has ten ­ tatively been set at $12.95. 208 / C&RL News the collection at Oberlin marks the beginning of a continuing relationship between the College, with its conservatory, and the Society. • The St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, Missouri, has acquired the photo archive and cor­ porate records of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the 134-year-old newspaper that ceased operations in October 1986. Founded in 1852 as the Missouri Daily Democrat, the paper became a formidable voice for the Union—one of the few major pro- Union newspapers in a slave or border state. After the Civil W ar and until its closing, the Globe- Democrat (renamed in 1875) was a fast and firm organ for the Republican Party and conservative causes. In the 20th century it was considered the city’s newspaper of record and competed with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as the city’s leading news­ paper, but succumbed to mounting financial diffi­ culties in the 1970s and early 80s. Included in the Secondary Guidelines for Collections in English Language and Literature David J. Cooper, Johns Hopkins University, who has been asked by the Research Libraries Group to complete the first draft of the Second­ ary Guidelines in English Language and Liter­ ature begun three years ago and now in urgent need of completion, spoke at the ALA Midwin­ ter Meeting to discuss the draft as it stands and to solicit ideas concerning possible changes. The main problem concerns the proper tools against which to m easure the strength and weaknesses of a library collection. The consen­ sus seems fairly strong regarding 1 and 5 level collections, i.e ., minimal or comprehensive col­ lections. The difficulty concerns w hat tools to use in meásuring 2 ,3 , and 4 level collections— increasingly large and sophisticated research collections. Two obvious candidates are the Books fo r College Libraries I II collection to measure level 2 collections and the New Cam­ bridge Bibliography of English Literature, as well as relevant sections of the M LA Bibliogra­ phy, to measure 3 and 4 level collections. Any other candidates which you feel are rele­ vant would be most appreciated, in particular any comprehensive list of periodicals covering English and American literature. Please direct your comments to: David J. Cooper, MSE Li­ brary, Johns Hopkins University, Charles and 34th, Baltimore, MD 21218. Once the first draft is completed, review com m ents are received, and revisions are made, the Secondary Guidelines are presented to the Collection Management and Develop­ ment Committee of RLG for approval and cir­ culation to members, as well as other interested libraries. collection are some 125,000 photographs covering a wide variety of topics, most dating from 1930 on­ ward. Although the files have not been completely inventoried, those examined include images of Jef­ ferson Barracks during World W ar II, the con­ struction of the city’s Arch, a variety of air, rail, and river transportation scenes, St. Louis build­ ings, sports, political rallies, and crime. Photos of people are arranged alphabetically. The collection includes nearly a thousand glass plate negatives of St. Louis scenes in the 1920s and 1930s, with vivid images of local aviation, including shots of dirigi­ bles, stunt flyers, Army balloons, and a poignant portrait of Amelia Earhart. A separate archive con­ tains a vast collection of approximately ten million newspaper clippings on a numerous topics includ­ ing labor, race relations, government and politics, transportation, education, urban affairs, and bio­ graphical information. The newspaper’s corporate records include board of directors’ minutes, corre­ spondence and business files. The Library plans to inventory, organize, and catalog the collection, which will not be made available for general use until 1988, and is examining means to duplicate the clipping files. • Texas Tech University, Lubbock, has received the papers of Southwest historian William Curry Holden, a longtime faculty member. The collec­ tion includes extensive m aterial on Texas and Southwestern history and culture, native Ameri­ can and Mexican ethnohistory, anthropology and archeology, Southwestern arts and architecture, arid lands, water, women of the Southwest, and the University itself. Some 80,000 items collected by Holden and his wife, Frances Mayhugh Holden, are included. Texas Tech’s Special Collections D epartm ent has also received the gift of several antique maps and prints from Frank Burke of Dallas and Frank Danner of Anchorage, Alaska. Included are maps from the 17th through 19th centuries, many hand colored, depicting regions in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. A number of the items docu­ ment Captain James Cook’s voyages of exploration in the late 18th century. • The University of Arizona’s Special Collec- tions Departm ent, Tucson, has received the papers of best-selling novelist and biographer Elliott Arnold (1912-1980). The gift includes the m anu­ scripts of several of Arnold’s books and short stories as well as correspondence, research files, photo­ graphs, promotional materials and copies of his books in English and various foreign languages. The library has also received a collection of Pol­ ish language books from Viktor Kwast, a retired engineer of Polish descent. Included are dictio­ naries of various types, literary works, and several important works on pianist and composer Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) not readily available in the West. • The University of California, Riverside, has 210 / C&RL News acquired a rare photographic archive on the Mexi­ can Revolution of 1910-17. The photographer, known only by his surname, Osuna, had access to the protagonists on all sides of the war, and cap­ tured the dram a of the era in images of battles, im­ portant political and m ilitary figures, and the com­ m on soldier. T he M exican g overnm ent has requested a complete set of prints from the more than 400 5" x 7" glass plate negatives for the Insti­ tute Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolu­ tion Mexicana. • The University of Hawaii, Honolulu, has re- ceived from Eloise L. Squires, a city resident, a col­ lection of 114 volumes on Morocco, prim arily in English. The collection contains rare and out-of- print titles published from 1682 through the 1950s. Included is a rare two volume set, The Travels of Ali Bey in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Ara­ bia, Syria, and T u rkey b e tw e en th e Years 1803-1807, published in London in 1816. • W abash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, has received about 2,000 letters and documents of Richard Yates, governor of Illinois during the Civil W ar, the gift of the family of Professor Winfred A. Harbison. Included is the typescript of the first three chapters of Harbison’s unpublished Life of Richard Yates. Of note are letters from Rear Admi­ ral Porter written from the Blackhawk in 1863-64, another letter describing a plot on the governor’s life, and various notes and scrapbooks belonging to Yates. Grants • Livingston University, Alabama, has been awarded $6,500 for the purchase of children’s liter­ ature, contemporary fiction, and materials related to the history of the old South. The grant, from the A labam a C om m ission on H igher E d u c a tio n through the Network of Alabama Academic Li­ braries, also includes funds for support of the spe­ cial education collection. • Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, has been awarded a $10,000 endowment grant from the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation of New York, which will be used to establish a Judaica Rook Fund. The funds will also support teaching and re­ search in the Religious Studies Depertment. • The New York Public L ibrary, New York City, has received a $1 million grant from Philip Morris Companies, Inc., to clean its research col­ lection of some 30 million items. The project was launched February 10 at the Library’s 3.5 million volume Fifth Avenue facility. Each book will be taken off the shelf and cleaned with a hand vacuum and/or with soft brushes, and will be wiped with a soft cloth. Highly fragile materials will be placed in a special wrapper and identified for treatm ent by the Library’s Conservation Division. A random sampling of materials in the open stacks that will be cleaned over the next five years include 21 different editions of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, the year books of Descendants of the Signers o f the Declaration of Independence; a three-foot-high volume of plates, Voyage Pittoresque De Constan­ tinople; Great Britain Revenue Frauds: A Com­ mittee Report, 1783-1784, and the latest phone books from around the world. • The Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, has been awarded a grant of $7,000 from the New York State Discretionary G rant Program for the Conservation and Preservation of Unique Li­ brary Research Materials. The funding will allow microfilming of hundreds of scrapbooks of newspa­ per clippings dating back to 1885 that chronicle the history and growth of the Institute. • The Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadel- phia, together with the Library Company of Phila­ delphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, are th e p rin c ip a l recip ien ts of a th re e -y e a r, $550,000 grant by the Mabel Pew Myrin Trust. The th re e are p a rt of th e sixteen-m em ber Philadelphia-Area Consortium of Special Collec­ tions Libraries, formed in 1985. Funds from the grant will address the special needs of the three in­ stitutions and will provide for long-term planning to make the resources of all PACSCL institutions better known. The Rosenbach has joined the Re­ search Libraries Group and will soon begin enter­ ing records of its manuscript and archival holdings into RLIN. • Troy State University, Alabama, has been awarded a $13,000 grant through the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries for the acquisition of instrum ental music, including band scores and backfiles of music periodicals. A smaller grant of $4,178 will be used for the acquisition of mono­ graphs and journals in the area of interpersonal communication for special education. • The University of Alabama at Birmingham has received a Network of Alabama Academic Li­ braries grant of approximately $47,000 for acquisi­ tions at the Mervyn H. Sterne Library and the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences. The Sterne Library will collect materials related to the history, literature, art and archeology of the Ar­ thurian period of English history. The Hill Library will purchase monograph and serial backfiles in the area of substance abuse. • The University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has received a tw o–and-a-half-year, $187,716 grant from the National Endowment for the Hu­ manities as part of the Commonwealth newspaper project. The funds are part of more than $800,000 awarded to the Pennsylvania State Library, also a cataloging site along with Pennsylvania State Uni­ versity and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The staff at Pitt is responsible for cataloging news­ paper holdings at libraries and other repositories in southwestern and northwestern Pennsylvania. A p r il 1987 / 211 • T he University of South C arolina L ibraries, C olum bia, have been given $504,000 by th e U ni­ versity’s Athletic D e p artm en t. T he money re p re­ sents th e receipts from tw o n atio n ally televised football games in th e fall of 1986—both lost by South C arolina. T he gift will help offset cuts in the Libraries’ budget necessitated by m id-year cuts this year and by reduced state funding for 1987-88. Books purchased w ith th e m oney, the second such gift, will be identified w ith a special bookplate. • T h . e U nivers P ity of V ictoria’s E McPhers O on Li- a P rship in L m onograp E hs an d journa ls. . ■ ■ Profiles Sheila Creth, form er assistant director for ad ­ m inistrative services a t th e University of Michigan, has been n am ed university lib raria n a t the Univer­ sity of Iow a, Iow a City. C reth joined th e staff a t M ic h ig a n in 1982 w ith p rim a ry responsi­ b ility for b u d g e t, p e r ­ s o n n e l, p l a n n i n g a n d building facilities. From 1975 to 1984 she w as as­ sistant director for p e r­ sonnel a t th e University of C onnecticut, and was staff developm ent coor­ d i n a t o r a t C o lu m b ia U niversity (1973-1975) Sheila Crethafter serving as assistant to the director a t the Co­ lu m b ia University C en ter for C om puting Activities (1967-1973). She holds a bachelor’s degree from C olum bia and a m aster’s from the University of C onnecticut. C re th ’s recent publications include a book, Ef– fe c tiv e O n-The-Job Training: D eveloping L ibrary H u m a n Resources, new ly published by ALA. She is co-editor of Personnel A dm inistration in Libraries, an d has w ritten num erous articles for such p ublica­ tions as A dvances in Librarianship, Southeastern Librarian, College & Research Libraries, Drexel Library Quarterly, L ibrary Journal, and the Jour­ nal o f A cadem ic Librarianship, as w ell as chapters in o ther books. She has served on th e JA L editorial board for the past five years. Active in several p ro ­ fessional associations, C reth has received tw o re­ search grants from th e C ouncil on L ib ra ry R e­ sources, and in 1985 was one of 15 adm inistrators selected to p artic ip a te in th e UCLA Senior Fellows Program sponsored by CLR. In addition to ACRL, for w h ich she has ta u g h t co n tin u in g edu c atio n courses, she is a m em ber of th e L ib ra ry Adminis­ tratio n and M anagem ent Association an d the L i­ b ra ry an d Inform ation Technology Association, a n d is a frequent speaker at library conferences. Paul Fasana, associate director for p re p ara tio n services a t th e New York Public L ib ra ry since 1971, has been appointed A ndrew W . Mellon D irector of Research Libraries. F a ­ sana h ad m ost recently served as acting d irector of the NYPL. In his new ca p ac ity , Fasana will h ave overall re s p o n s ib ility fo r th e m a n a g e m e n t a n d a d ­ m inistration of NYPL’s fo u r research librarie s, including public service, collection developm ent, ca taloging a n d conser­ v atio n , fiscal p la n n in g Paul Fasanaa n d re la te d fu n c tio n s. H e w as responsible for the establishm ent of a com prehensive Conserva­ tion Division at the L ib ra ry , w hich now preserves nearly 70,000 items a year, and was active in the form ation of th e Research L ibraries G roup. F a ­ sana has been involved in the publication of an 800- volum e book ca talog th a t has replaced the ten m il­ lion cards in the old card catalog, and in designing an online cataloging system th a t supplem ents the b ra ry , British C olum bia, has been aw arde d a gra nt of $28,685 from the Social Sciences and H u m an i­ ties Research Council of C a n ad a u nder its Special­ ized Research Collections P rogram . T he funds will be used for fu rth e r developm ent of the L ib ra ry ’s c o lle c tio n of re s e a r c h m a te r ia ls on c o m p o ser L udw ig van Beethoven (1770-1827). T he collec­ tion focuses on published facsimiles an d microfilm copies of B eeth o v e n ’s m a n u sc rip ts a n d sk e tc h ­ books, and on p re –W orld W a r II Beethoven schol­