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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  

Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, 
and Rare Book Library (MARBL)—in part­
nership with University of Delaware, the 
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center 
at the University of Texas­Austin, Washing­
ton University in St. Louis, and Wake Forest 
University—has been awarded $34,000 from 
the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to 
support the second phase of the Access to 
Major Irish Literary Archives Project. During 
the first phase of the project, and with the 
support of the Delmas Foundation, Emory 
and Boston College worked together to 
develop the Irish Literary Collections Portal 
(www.irishliterature.library.emory.edu). Dur­
ing the second phase, Emory will expand the 
portal with at least 41 additional fi nding aids, 
conduct a survey to identify and add to the 
portal key companion collections at smaller 
repositories, and disseminate the technical 
expertise and tools gained through the fi rst 
phase of the project. 

Atlanta University Center has been awarded 
a $90,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon 
Foundation to develop a comprehensive 
information literacy program for the faculty 
and students of its member institutions: Clark 
Atlanta University, the Interdenominational 
Theological Center, Morehouse College, and 
Spelman College. To assist in the program 
planning, the university will work with Patri­
cia Senn Breivik, nationally known informa­
tion literacy expert and retired dean of the 
San Jose State University Library. 

The University of California-Davis has 
received a gift valued at $5.1 million from 
the estate of Michael and Margaret B. Har­
rison. The gift includes a Western Ameri­
cana collection containing rare books and 
artifacts and an endowment to be used for 

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future purchases. Michael Harrison began 
the collection in the 1920s as an employee 
of the Department of the Interior. There are 
more than 21,000 volumes, including The 
North American Indian (1907–30) portfolio 
set by Edward S. Curtis and Mary Austin’s 
Taos Pueblo (1930), photographed by Ansel 
Adams. Works of art include Michael Wester­
gard’s bronze sculptures of Native Americans 
and western fauna. 

Rochester Institute of Technology’s Image 
Permanence Institute (IPI) has received a 
$750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon 
Foundation to renew funding in support of re­
search and archive preservation standards for 
cultural institutions. IPI is especially known 
for its innovative technology to monitor and 
assess storage environment, and its leading­
edge hardware and software is now in use in 
hundreds of museums, libraries, and archives 
around the world. 

Columbia University has received a $40,000 
grant from the GRAMMY Foundation Grants 
Program to preserve rare American classical 
music recordings collected in the University’s 
Ditson Fund Recording Archive. The preser­
vation project focuses on endangered mas­
ter recordings of early works by signifi cant 
figures in American classical music made 
from 1942 to 1951 and includes composi­
tions by Samuel Barber, Gian Carlo Menotti, 
Douglas Moore, and Virgil Thomson. The 
recordings in the Ditson Archive represent 
a pivotal moment in the history of American 
classical music, encompassing the “Ameri­
canist” style of Copland and Thomson and 
the more experimental work of fi gures like 
Barber and William Schuman. The project 
will clean, rehouse, and create digital cop­
ies of deteriorating tapes and discs, many of 
which were recorded at an annual weeklong 
festival of American music sponsored by the 
Ditson Fund from 1945 to 1952. A list of the 
digitized recordings will be made available 

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on the Columbia Libraries Web site, where 
it will be accessible to anyone searching the 
Internet.  

Acquisitions 

The original artwork by Edward Gorey for two 
children’s books written by Peter Neumeyer has 
been acquired by San Diego State University. 
Donald and the . . ., the fi rst collaboration 
between Gory and Neumeyer, was published 
in 1969 by Addison Wesley and contains 21 
boards of artwork and the publisher’s proof. 
Why we have day and night, Gorey and 
Neumeyer’s last joint project, was published 
in 1970 by Young Scott Books. Included in the 
acquisition are seven leaves intended, but not 
used, in the final version of the book. Gory 
is known for his distinctive, cross­hatched 
line­drawing. He illustrated more than 100 
books, such as The Gashlycrumb Tinies 
and Amphigorey, and is best known for his 
animated introduction to the PBS Mystery! 
series. Neumeyer is a professor emeritus of 
English and Comparative Literature at San 
Diego State University. 

The extensive archive of Joseph Milsand 
(1817–1886)—French philosopher, literary 
critic, and close friend of Victorian poet 
Robert Browning (1812–1889)—has been 
acquired by Baylor University. The archive 
contains more than 4,000 autograph letters, 
original manuscripts of nearly all of Milsand’s 
known writings, and more than 62,000 pages 
of Milsand’s articles, essays, study notes, and 
personal journals. The strength of the archive 
lies in the enormous amount of original 
material that will furnish new information to 
scholars regarding not only Browning and 
Milsand but the entire literary and philo­
sophical milieu of mid­ to late­19th­century 
Anglo­French relations. 

The Adlai Stevenson Collection, with several 
hundred items of memorabilia highlighting 
the lives of families influential in the history 

of Illinois State University (including Aldai 
Stevenson campaign materials from the late 
1800s) has been acquired by Illinois State 
University. Stevenson served as vice president 
to Grover Cleveland, was nominated for the 
presidency in 1900, and ran unsuccessfully for 
Illinois governor in 1908. Stevenson’s grand­
son, Adlai Stevenson II, later became Illinois’ 
governor and the Democratic candidate for 
president in 1952. The handwritten fi rst draft 
of his acceptance address before the 1952 
Democratic national nomination convention 
is part of the collection, which also includes 
personal items ranging from schoolbooks and 
eyeglasses to umbrellas and hats. 

The archive of photographer Robert Giard 
has been acquired by Yale University’s Bei­
necke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. In 
1971, after obtaining two degrees in literature 
and working as a teacher, Giard began his 
professional career as a self­taught photogra­
pher of landscapes and male nudes. In 1985, 
Giard became an itinerant portraitist of gay 
and lesbian American writers. In the midst 
of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, Giard docu­
mented the phenomenon of gay and lesbian 
letters in America through photographic por­
traiture. He embarked upon a pilgrimage to 
the homes of gay and lesbian writers through­
out the United States. The archive contains 
more than 1,500 vintage prints, 7,800 related 
work prints, and extensive correspondence, 
records, diaries, and other papers. 

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—Gary L. Parsons, Florida Atlantic University, 
parsons@fau.edu 

388C&RL News June 2006

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