ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries 32 / C &R L News _________ ★ ★ ★ News front the Hield Acquisitions • Eastern New Mexico University’s Jack Wil- liamson Science Fiction L ibrary, Portales, has been designated a regional repository by the Sci­ ence Fiction O ral History Association. D uring the past decade, SFOHA has been active in recording hundreds of interviews w ith science fiction writers, editors, fans and scholars as well as in taping con­ vention sessions and other programs. Cassette cop­ ies of the tapes have been placed in the library. • The L ibrary of Congress, W ashington, D .C ., was presented w ith a recorded collection of 118 hours of American English dialect samples by rep­ resentatives of the C enter for Applied Linguistics at a November 12 ceremony. The donation m arked the completion of a four-year project initiated by the Center, an independent, nonprofit organiza­ tion founded in 1959. Preserved on 10-inch, non- ferrous m etal reels, the speech styles and verbal arts of a broad spectrum of American people are repre­ sented. Some of the recorded voices are familiar: those of Fiorello La G uardia, Groucho Marx, and E leanor Roosevelt. O thers are those of persons w ho, despite their celebrity, are seldom heard: A m elia E a r h a r t , Ja c k D em p se y , a n d H .L . Mencken. The greater p a rt of the collection con­ sists of the voices of unknown individuals whose statem ents form a kaleidescope of the American ex­ perience: Gullah speakers from coastal South C ar­ olina; sharecroppers from Arkansas; Puerto Rican teenagers in New York City; Basque sheepherders from Colorado; a M andan Indian from South D a ­ kota; C roatian, Serbian, and Slovenian workers from the Minnesota Iron Range; Chesapeake Bay w aterm en from Smith Island, M aryland; newly- arrived Vietnamese im m igrants in northern V ir­ ginia; bear hunters from the G reat Smoky Moun- tin s; a F re n c h b la c k c reo le fro m s o u th e rn Louisiana, and m any others. The speech samples are supported by docum entary inform ation th at will m ake them useful to linguists, folklorists, th e­ a tric a l p erform ers, and o th er p o te n tia l users. M any sam ples have com plete, v erb atim t r a n ­ scripts, and all provide the nam e and address of the contributing collector, the date of recording, and data regarding the social, cultural, and geographi­ cal circumstances of the speakers. The collection was draw n from the archives of 50 linguists, dialec- tologists, folklorists, and other speech collectors. The L ib rary has also received a collection of 8,000 photographs and documents relating to his­ toric buildings and artifacts in the state of Missouri and the Mississippi Valley. The collection is the work of travel author Charles van Ravenswaay, p h o to g ra p h e r A lexander P iaget, and la te r, his brothers Carlos and Paul. W ork on the collection began in 1931, w hen van Ravenswaay recognized the need to docum ent the vanishing buildings and artifacts of the early American frontier. It is esti­ m ated th a t more than 80 % of the sites represented have been destroyed or substantially altered during the past 50 years. The donation will be added to the L ibrary’s Prints and Photographs Division. • M edgar Evers College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, has acquired a collection of journals, pam phlets, bulletins, leaflets, books, photos, clippings, articles and papers relating to economic, political and social issues in southern Af­ rica from the 1960s to the present. The bulk of the m aterial deals w ith Nam ibia and issues resulting from apartheid. Journals range from Soldier o f Fortune to the South African Labour Bulletin and N ew Africa. The collection, of approximately 120 cubic feet, was acquired through the Mission E du­ cation and C ultivation Program D epartm ent of the United Methodist C hurch, and the C hurch of the Intercession, both of New York City. Indexes and descriptive bibliographies are planned. • T he New York P ublic L ib ra ry , New York City, has received a collection of more than 3,000 volumes, drawings, and other items on the history of paperm aking from Leonard B. Schlosser, chair­ m an of the Lindenm eyr Paper C orporation. In ­ cluded are ancient specimens of Japanese paper dating to 770 A .D .; the first book of trades, p u b ­ lished in F rankfurt in 1568, w ith illustrations of p a ­ p erm ak in g by Jost A m m an; early engineering works, including one by Vittorio Zonca (Padua, 1607), showing a stam ping mill for the preparation of paper pulp; and the first great technical work on paperm aking, A rte de faire le papier (Paris, 1761). Books unique in America include Thomas C hurch­ y ard ’s A Sparke o f Friendship (1588), the earliest description of English paperm aking, printed on paper w aterm arked w ith the royal arms of Eliza­ beth I. A num ber of volumes relate to the search for raw m aterials for paper, such as studies by Jacob C hristian Schaffer (Regensburg, 1765-71). Others illustrate the role of paper production and its devel­ opm ent in the industrial revolution, including the first practical treatise on board and paper m anu­ facture in the United States (1866). An extensive se­ lection of books relates to the revival of paperm ak­ ing by hand, including collections of the works of D ard H unter and the Bird and Bull Press. January 1987 / 33 • The St. Croix Landmarks Society, U.S. Virgin Islands, has received an extensive collection of West Indian Publications from the private collec­ tion of librarian/author Robert V. Vaughn. This collection of rare and modern publications is housed in the Society’s Research Library at the Es­ tate Whim Plantation. • The University of California, Santa Rarbara, has received a collection of more than 750,000 aer­ ial photographs valued at more than $2 million from Teledyne, Inc., and California State Univer­ sity, Northridge. Included in the Teledyne gift of 600,000 prints and negatives is a major portion of the remaining Fairchild Film Library (named for pioneer aerial photographer Sherman Fairchild), 940 cannisters of negatives and photographs mainly of Southern California intermittently cov­ ering the period 1927 through 1964. The remain­ der of the Teledyne gift is made up of the film li­ braries of five aerial photographic companies acquired over a 20-year period, and includes im­ ages dating to 1890. The Cal State Northridge col­ lection of approximately 100,000 prints and nega­ tives is concentrated on the eastern United States from the mid–1940s through the mid-60s. Span­ ning nearly a century, the depth of the collection will allow researchers to investigate how areas change over time. One of the earlier photographs in the Teledyne collection is a panoramic view of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 recorded by a giant camera carried aloft by 17 kites. The rare imagery will be placed in acid-free containers in a climate-controlled section of the University Li­ brary laboratory. Once an inventory is complete, the library plans to develop a computerized catalog that would provide a brief description of the photos available in an area by entering a set of geographic coordinates. • The University of Delaware, Newark, has ac- quired a manuscript by Henry David Thoreau of historical significance. The 18-page autograph manuscript of “A W inter Walk” bears emenda­ tion and deletions in the hand of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who edited it for publication in The Dial. W ritten in New York in 1843, when Tho­ reau was staying with Emerson’s brother, it was published later that year. It had been revised dur­ ing composition by Thoreau and shortened by at least two pages by Emerson, who also made a few substantive changes, and thus varies significantly from the published text, as it was used as a printer’s copy with all the revisions and deletions observed. “A W inter W alk,” first published in book form in Excursions (1863), has been called Thoreau’s “first fully mature piece of w riting.” The essay contains some of his earliest writings on nature, with allusions to both Walden Pond and the Concord River. Grants • The Case Western Reserve University Li- braries’ Conservation Department, Cleveland, Ohio, was awarded a grant of $3,520 by the Cleve­ land Foundation. The funds were used for prelimi­ nary planning activities for a proposed Cleveland area conservation treatment center for library ma­ terials. In early October George M. Cunha, direc­ tor emeritus of the Northeast Document Conserva­ tion Center, undertook a survey of several area libraries to analyze environmental conditions, as­ sess the current condition of collections, and discuss conservation policies with administrators. In No­ vem ber, as the second grant-funded project, former Stanford University conservation officer Sally Ruchanan presented an all-day seminar enti­ tled “Library Conservation: Administrative Issues and Challenges,” for Cleveland area librarians, administrators and staff. • Davidson Community College, Lexington, Lilly Endowment offers funding The Lilly Endowment, Indianapolis, will com­ mit $24 million to boost the quality and distinctive­ ness of two groups of independent colleges and uni­ versities over the next five years. The funds will be evenly divided between Indiana’s private colleges and universities, and the historically black, under­ graduate institutions affiliated with the United Ne­ gro College Fund. The Endowment, founded in 1937, has had an historic interest in independent colleges and universities, particularly those that serve minorities and Indiana students. All eligible institutions must submit a proposal outlining their “dream of distinction.” They may propose a capital improvement project or other major investment that will help them fulfill that dream. Successful proposals must demonstrate how they will improve education and/or campus life and bring distinction to the institution. Library improvements are eligible for funding, but the grants are not designed to support proposals that will require ongoing funding. Participating schools will compete for grants ranging from $100,000 to $500,000 on a dollar–for- dollar matching basis. All proposals are due by July 1, 1987. The Endowment’s Roard of Directors will determine which proposals it will fund by Septem­ ber 30,1987. Grants will be paid between 1988 and 1991, depending on how fast the institutions can raise their share of funding. For more information, contact the Lilly Endow­ ment, Inc., 2801 N. Meridian St., P.O. Rox 88068, Indianapolis, IN 46208-0068. ■ ■ 34 / C&RL News North C arolina, has received a special grant of $25,000 from the North Carolina General Assem- Work in progress Consulting. The Washington State Univer­ sity Libraries are compiling a directory of li­ brarians who have consulted on international development projects, especially in developing countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, or Latin America. Copies of the completed direc­ tory will be available from WSU. If you are in­ terested in being considered for inclusion in the directory, you may request a questionnaire from Elaine Brekke, Owen Science and Engi­ neering Library, Washington State University, P ullm an, WA 99164-3200; (509) 335-2671. Deadline: February 28, 1987. Marketing. For a proposed book on the pro­ fessional image of librarians, the authors would like to hear from any libraries th at have success­ fully created and m arketed products which have generated a profit. Address replies to: Guy St. Clair and Beth D uston, P.O . Box 1259, M urray Hill Station, New York, NY 10016. Iranian libraries. John F. Harvey, former Fulbright consultant and chairm an of the De­ partm ent of Library Science, College of Educa­ tion, University of Tehran, is gathering infor­ m atio n on changes in Ira n ia n lib ra ry and information science policies since the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79. Especially needed is in­ formation on publishing, information science, library education, the Iranian Library Associa­ tion, the status of women librarians, Islamici– zation of libraries, the effect of the Iraqi w ar on libraries, and knowledge of the Koran as a screening device for hiring new staff members. Anyone having factual information useful to this project may request a questionnaire from John P. Harvey, Suite 1105, 82 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005. Spanish d ata exchange. The University of Barcelona’s autom ated catalog contains some 60,000 records, mostly of books published in Spain since 1979, but also including more than 2,000 records from their collection of Spanish bibliography from the 16th and 17th centuries and tapes received from the C atalan Biblio­ graphic Institute. Cataloging is done in accord­ ance with AACR2 and the machine form at is a version of UKMARC. Subject headings are Spanish translations of LC Subject Headings. The library is interested in an exchange of tapes w ith other academic libraries, especially those w ith a m ajor Hispanic collection. They are most interested in current U.S. and European titles to alleviate their cataloging load for cur­ re n t titles. C ontact: Dolors L am arca, Bib- lioteca de la Universität de Barcelona, Gran Via, 58, 08007 Barcelona, Spain. bly to develop a collection related to furniture, art and decoration. Working w ith the Readex Corpo­ ration, the college will microfiche the collection of the Bernice Bienenstock F u rn itu re L ib rary , of High Point, North Carolina. Included are m ateri­ als related to furniture design and construction (some of which date to 1640), interior design and decoration, architecture and ornam entation, and the complete works of Chippendale, Sheraton and Hepplewhite. • M emphis State U niversity, Tennessee, has been awarded a $121,000 grant from the Tennessee State Library and Archives for the first phase of de­ velopment of a Tennessee Union List of Serials. The list will provide greater access to an estimated 64,000 periodical titles and is designed to facilitate resource sharing among libraries. Twenty-eight li­ braries around the state have given tentative ap­ proval to participation in the project, and will pro­ vide current periodical subscription holdings for an initial list. The union list will be available via the OCLC network to all OCLC members and, upon completion of this initial phase of the project will also be available in paper copy to all participating and interested libraries. • The University of California, Riverside, has received a grant of $200,000 from the Ahmanson Foundation to continue work on the Eighteenth Century Short-Title Catalogue for North America. The project also has grants from the National En­ dowment for the Humanities ($499,607) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ($235,000). The compilation of the Eighteenth-Century Short Title Catalogue began at the British Library in London in 1977. Work on the North American side of the project began in 1979 at Louisiana State University and was transferred to UC–Riverside in May, 1986. P u b lic atio n of th e catalo g u e in m icrofiche is planned for 1989. The catalogue will include all ti­ tles printed in the British Isles and British depen­ dencies between 1701 and 1800, as well as library locations for those titles. The data is currently available online through RLIN. • The University of Kansas, Lawrence, has been awarded a grant of $78,057 by the National Histor­ ical Publications and Records Commission for the second and third years of the Kansas Collection’s current project to survey and accession records of the black community in Kansas. ■ ■ Copyright policies The ACRL Copyright Committee is collect­ ing examples of college and university library copyright policies. The committee would wel­ come any policies, and is especially interested in policies dealing with new technologies. Policies may be sent to Mary Lee Sweat, University Li­ brarian, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA 70118.