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Ann­Christe Galloway G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n s  

The HELIN Consortium, consisting of aca­
demic and hospital libraries, primarily in 
Rhode Island, has received $236,000 to 
fund a two-year project to create a shared 
digital repository using ProQuest’s Digital 
Commons platform. The grant was received 
from the Davis Educational Foundation. 
Member libraries will preserve and make 
accessible current and historical materials 
documenting the social, business, political, 
educational, cultural, and civic life of Rhode 
Island, as well as New England generally. 
The repository will include faculty publica-
tions, student theses, and capstone papers; 
university publications and special collec-
tions; digitized rare books, manuscripts, book 
plates, photographs, slides, maps, artifacts, 
oral histories, and audio and video clips. 
HELIN, an educational collaborative for 21 
years, successfully models interinstitutional 
cooperation and resource sharing to reduce 
costs associated with library collection de-
velopment and automation. 

The University of Rhode Island’s Graduate 
School of Library and Information Studies 
has been awarded a $504,775 grant from the 
Institute of Library and Museum Services to 
continue its Prism program, which prepares 
librarians to work with diverse populations. 
The grant will provide resources for the 
university to offer 12 fellowships for its 
ALA-accredited master’s degree program. 
Students selected as Prism Plus Scholars will 
receive support to allow them to complete 
MLS degrees between January 2006 and 
May 2008. 

Louisiana State University (LSU) Libraries 
is one of the first recipients of a National 
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant 
to help cultural institutions, including college 

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libraries and museums, that were damaged 
by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. NEH has 
designated LSU’s hurricane recovery project 
as a “We the People Project.” These projects 
are recognized for promoting knowledge 
and understanding of American history 
and culture. LSU is one of 19 recipients to 
be awarded an emergency relief grant of 
$30,000 to recover and preserve cultural 
resources in the affected areas. LSU Librar-
ies received the grant for relocation supplies 
and services as well as packing materials 
to be moved, and remedial conservation 
of salvage measures for fl ood-threatened 
collections from multiple institutions that 
include the New Orleans Archdiocese Ar-
chives, the Louisiana State Museum Jazz 
Archives, original 19th-century issues of St. 
Bernard Parish’s only newspaper, church 
records from small churches that no longer 
physically exist in New Orleans and St. Ber-
nard Parishes, and the photographic archives 
of photographer Donn Young of the New 
Orleans Port Authority. LSU is providing 
long-term climate controlled storage for 
these cultural heritage materials. 

Indiana University Libraries, in partnership 
with the University of Michigan University 
Library, has received a grant of $438,000 
from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 
to develop online tools that will make it 
easier for students and faculty to integrate 
electronic library resources into their teach-
ing and learning. Specifically, the two 
universities will build on their leadership 
in digital library and course management 
system development to create software that 
will enable universities across the country 
to take full advantage of online journals and 
databases. Tools developed as a result of this 
grant will link full-text library resources to 
the Sakai collaboration and learning software 
environment. Currently the software offered 
by universities to professors to manage their 
courses—to post assignments, link required 

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readings, or access student work—requires 
that instructors and students visit the library 
Web site separately, with few ways to effec-
tively link resources between the two envi-
ronments. Overwhelmed by this complex 
environment, students sometimes turn to 
Web search engines to find information for 
scholarly research. Innovations developed 
as part of this project will enable profes-
sors to link to thousands of licensed online 
library resources from within the course 
management software. Because the project 
calls for the development of “open-source” 
software, other universities will benefi t from 
the results. 

Acquisitions 

The papers of Hubert Henry Harrison (1883– 
1927), a Harlem writer, public speaker, and 
activist, have been acquired by Columbia 
University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Li-
brary. The collection spans the years 1893 to 
1928 and features manuscripts, scrapbooks, 
diaries, correspondence, photographs, and 
annotated books from Harrison’s personal 
library. With rare letters and personal ex-
changes among pivotal figures, such as 
Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, and A. 
Philip Randolph, the Harrison collection 
documents a critical period of cultural and 
political debate about the role of race and 
class in the United States. Born in the Dan-
ish West Indian colony of St. Croix, Harrison 
became the leading African American voice 
in the Socialist Party of America, as well as 
a founder and lead writer for the World War 
I-era “New Negro” movement. His views 
on the relationship between economic and 
racial injustice had a profound infl uence 
on Marcus Garvey’s black nationalism and 
on A. Philip Randolph’s labor organizing. 
Harrison was instrumental in founding the 
New York Public Library’s Division of Negro 
Literature, History, and Prints, which grew 
into the Schomburg Center for Research in 
Black Culture. Harrison also served as editor 

of New Negro magazine and managing editor 
of Marcus Garvey’s Negro World and was a 
prolific writer of essays and book reviews for 
such publications as the New York Times, the 
New Republic, and the Nation. 

“The Night Before Christmas,” a collection of 
books and memorabilia by Clement Moore, 
was donated to the College of William and 
Mary by Nancy H. Marshall, dean emerita 
of university libraries at the college. Ap-
proximately 1,000 of the collection’s 1,200 
pieces are books. The remaining items are 
music and voice recordings, sheet music, 
Christmas cards, Advent calendars, video 
and audio cassettes, films, lantern slides, 
postcards, photographs, stamps, puzzles, 

From A Visit from St. Nicholas, by Clement 
C. Moore, illustrated by Berta and Elmer 
Hader. New York: Macmillan Company, 
Copyright 1937. 

paper toys, ornaments, View-Master reels, 
blocks, piano rolls, stereopticon cards, 
games, and similar media. Annual displays of 
the collection, ranging from 45-rpm record-
ings of Gene Autry and Rosemary Clooney 
singing the song version of the famous poem 
to a Czechoslovakian paper crèche circa 
1950, are featured in the Special Collections 
Research Center. An annotated catalog, The 
Night Before Christmas: A Descriptive Bibli­
ography of Clement Clarke Moore’s Immortal 
Poem by Nancy Marshall and published by 
Oak Knoll Press, is available from Swem 
Library. 

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