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Ann-Christe Galloway G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n s  

Co l u m b i a  U n i ve r s i t y  L i b ra r i e s  h a s  re ­
ceived a grant of $20,000 from the Bay 
and Paul Foundations to support the 
creation of the Center for Human Rights 
Documentation and Research. In creating 
the Center for Human Rights Documenta­
tion and Research, the libraries will ensure 
that students, faculty, and researchers will 
have access to a growing archive contain­
ing more than 25 years of human rights 
documentation, promoting research and 
study in areas of significant importance 
to human rights activities throughout 
the world. The libraries will provide an 
integrated and accessible collection of 
human rights materials (both paper and 
electronic) for current and future genera­
tions of human rights activists. 

California Polytechnic State University­
San Luis Obispo has been awarded $249,000 
from the National Endowment for the Human­
ities (NEH) to arrange, describe, and create 
electronic finding aids for their architectural 
archives on California architect Julia Morgan 
(1872–1957). Original architectural plans, 
drawings, sketches, photographs, transparen­
cies, personal papers, journals, project fi les, 
and correspondence from Morgan’s life and 
career are part of the project. A principal 
goal of the project is to catalog the collec­
tions at Cal Poly to make them accessible to 
researchers. 

Northern Illinois University, along with a 
consortium of U.S. institutions and interna­
tional partners, received $780,000 from the 
U.S. Department of Education to create the 
Southeast Asia Digital Library. The library 
will provide access to research materials and 
bibliographic indexes and will support a wide 
range of research and teaching activities. 

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e-mail: agalloway@ala.org. 

The four­year project will employ standards 
developed and approved by American and 
international library organizations to provide 
free access to archives of textual, still image, 
sounds, and video resources, covering both 
historical and current information from the 
region. 

New S chool University has received a 
grant in the amount of $150,000 from the 
Getty Foundation to support the arrange­
ment and description of the Parsons School 
of Design Institutional Collection. The col­
lection chronicles the evolution of art and 
design pedagogy in America and abroad, 
and tells a compelling story about the in­
tersection of art, design, technology, taste, 
and commerce. The collection contains ap­
proximately 303 cubic feet of manuscripts, 
photographs, moving images, recorded 
sound, and other realia and ephemera 
documenting the school’s history. Among 
these items are sketches from designers and 
Parsons alumni Donna Karan and Isaac Miz­
rahi, from their student days; materials from 
Parsons’ Paris branch, particularly materials 
from the 1920s and 1930s; and videotapes 
of all of the annual Parsons fashion shows 
featuring student work. 

Acquisitions 

Noted Romanian writer, Andrei Codrescu, 
who is currently the MacCurdy Distinguished 
Professor of English at Louisiana State Uni­
versity­Baton Rouge, has given a book and 
periodical collection to the University of Il­
linois at Urbana­Champaign. A prolifi c poet, 
novelist, and essayist who has been described 
in the New York Times Book Review as “one 
of our most prodigiously talented and magical 
writers,” Codrescu’s main interests are creative 
writing, literature, translation poetry, and fi c­
tion. Also interested in film, he wrote and 

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starred in the award­winning movie, Road 
Scholar (1993). 

An album of 17 original drawings and water­
colors by leading French artists and architects 
of the 19th century has been acquired by the 
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library of 
Columbia University. The small album was 
compiled in 1828 as a retirement gift for 
the French painter Pierre Narcisse Guérin 
(1774–1833), direc­
tor of the French 
Academy in Rome. 
Guérin was one of 
the most influen­
tial painters and 
teachers during the 
Revolutionary and 
Napoleonic era. 

The papers of Lloyd 
Richards, theater 
pioneer and pro­
fessor emeritus of 
the Yale School of 
Drama, have been 
donated to Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and 
Manuscript Library. In 1958 Richards was 
asked by friend and colleague Sidney Poitier 
to direct the Broadway staging of Lorraine 
Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. This marked 
the first Broadway production of a play 
by an African American woman, the fi rst 
Broadway production directed by an African 
American, and the first verisimilar portrayal 
on Broadway of a contemporary African 
American family. The Lloyd Richards pa­
pers contain scripts, audiovisual recordings 
of plays, photographs, programs, reviews, 
and correspondence pertaining to plays 
Richards directed, such as August Wilson’s 
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Two Trains 
Running, Athol Fugard’s Master Harris and 
the Boys, and the television production of 
Paul Robeson with James Earl Jones. There 
are also posters of the many productions 
with which Richards has been associated at 
Yale, on Broadway, and in theaters around 
the world. 

One of the mining maps that CONSOL Energy Inc. 
donated to the University of Pittsburgh. 

An extensive collection of mining maps, 
photos, and other archival materials compiled 
over more than 140 years of operations have 
been donated by CONSOL Energy Inc. (the 
largest producer of high­Btu bituminous coal 
in the United States) to the University of Pitts­
burgh Library. The CONSOL Energy Mining 
Archives, most of which date from the 1890s 
through the first half of the 20th century, com­
prises more than 8,000 individual map sheets, 

as well as publica­
tions, engineering 
and survey records, 
and photographs of 
mining activities at 
mines once oper­
ated by Consolida­
tion Coal Company, 
a CONSOL Energy 
subsidiary. The ear­
liest map dates to 
1854, and the entire 
collection represents 
CONSOL Energy’s 
former mining op­
erations in Allegh­

eny, Fayette, Washington, and Westmoreland 
counties in Southwestern Pennsylvania. In 
addition to the collection, with an appraised 
value of more than $228,000, CONSOL Energy 
also has given a $27,000 grant to the univer­
sity to help with the costs of preservation 
and cataloging. 

The Philip Pavia and Natalie Edgar Archive, 
a collection of documentary material reveal­
ing the birth of Abstract Expressionism in 
New York from 1948 to 1970, has been 
acquired by the Robert W. Woodruff Library 
of Emory University. Among the highlights 
are original writings by top figures in 20th­
century American art, including Robert 
Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, and 
John Cage. Also present are records of the 
8th Street Club; original essays, lectures 
and manifestos of It Is, A Magazine for 
Abstract Art; papers from the 23rd Street 
Workshop Club; correspondence; and 560 
original photographs. 

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