dec07c.indd Ann-Christe Galloway G r a n t s a n d A c q u i s i t i o n s The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library at Syracuse University has received a grant for The Gender, Black Feminism and Envi­ ronmental Justice Special Collection, part of a multifaceted project funded by a 2006–08 Ford Foundation grant. The project will examine how African American mothers and other women in caretaker roles defi ne the term “environment”. The Syracuse Com­ munity Mapping and Photo Voice Project, an initiative that allows participants to create a photo document of positive and negative as­ pects of their environment, is an integral part of the study. The Community Folk Art Cen­ ter and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (MLK), both units of the Department of African American Studies, will collaborate on the project. The MLK Library will serve as the repository for research conducted for the grant and as a source for both campus and community based investigation of the project’s focus. Brown University Librar y will be able to begin development of a comprehensive database devoted to the study of the Gorham Manufacturing Company with a $29,609 grant from Institute of Museum and Library Services, along with the Brown Forman Corporation. Brown will work in conjunction with the Mu­ seum of the Rhode Island School of Design to design the digital collection, which will draw on collections of Gorham silverware held by museums from around the world. The grant will enable staff members to create a Web site to house archival drawings, sketches, and product descriptions based on catalogs produced by Gorham Manufacturing and held by the Brown Library. Users will be able to identify their own pieces and contribute their own descriptions of their personal holdings to the virtual catalog, thereby leading to a fuller Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: agalloway@ala.org. understanding of Gorham and, by extension, American manufacturing. Brown University Library has received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Founda­ tion to develop a Web­based citation parsing service, which will improve access to campus scholarship. Library staff will use the $73,000 award to improve functionality for the Direc­ tory of Research and Researchers, a service offered through the Office of the Vice Presi­ dent for Research, by providing OpenURL links to the scholarly content of more than 40,000 citations in the directory. The new functionality will significantly enhance the directory, which serves an important role in helping Brown faculty promote their own re­ search activities and enables members of the Brown community to keep track of ongoing research on campus. Acquisitions The papers of Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901–89), West Indian polymath and giant of 20th­Century intellectual history. During his long career in North America, the Caribbean, and Europe, James was a political organizer, Marxist theorist, historian, literary and cultural critic, novelist, playwright and short­story writer, teacher, cricketer, and sports com­ mentator. The James papers reunite fi les and books from the writer’s residences in Lon­ don and in Washington, D.C. They include correspondence, notebooks, manuscripts, and a substantial portion or James’ working library, many books of which contain sub­ stantial annotations. Of particular interest is an unfinished autobiographical manuscript. Michael Ryan, Director of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, said that researchers will find James’ papers especially valuable for James’ extensive correspondence with key political fi gures and intellectuals such as December 2007 761 C&RL News mailto:agalloway@ala.org Kwame Nkrumah, George Padmore, Mbiyu Koinange, Eric Williams, Norman Manley, Michael Manley, and Maurice Bishop. Among the intellectuals who James corresponded with are Lionel Trilling, Lewis Mumford, Mark Van Doren, Basil Davidson, Daniel Guerin, Alice Walker, Wilson Harris, V. S. Naipaul, George Lamming, Maxwell Geismar, E. P. Thompson, John Berger, Michael Foot, and many others. American composer Benjamin Lees archive has been acquired by Yale University’s Irving S. Gilmore Music Library. The comprehensive archive, which was a gift from the composer, includes manuscript sketches and scores for all of Lees’s compositions, as well as cor­ respondence, concert programs, reviews, photographs, and biographical materials. Born to Russian parents in Harbin, China in 1924, Lees arrived in the United States in 1925. He and his parents settled in San Francisco where he began piano study at age five. After military service in World War II he attended the University of Southern California and studied composition, har­ mony, and theory. Shortly after completing Statement of ownership and management College & Research Libraries News is pub­ lished 11 times a year (monthly, combining July/August) by the American Library Asso­ ciation, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. American Library Association, owner; Stepha­ nie Orphan, editor. Second­class postage paid at Chicago, Illinois. Printed in the U.S.A.As a nonprofit organization authorized to mail at special rates (DMM Section 423.12), the pur­ poses, function, and nonprofit status of this organization and the exempt status for federal income tax purposes, have not changed dur­ ing the preceding 12 months. E x t e n t a n d n a t u r e o f c i r c u l a t i o n . (“Average” figures denote the number of cop­ ies printed each issue during the preceding twelve months; “Actual” figures denote the number of copies of single issues published nearest to filing date.) Total number of cop­ ies (net press run): Average, 14,251; Actual, 14,629.Total paid/requested subscriptions: his studies he was introduced to legendary American composer George Antheil and began almost five years of intense study in advanced composition and orchestration, during which time the two also formed a close and lasting friendship. Throughout his distinguished career, Lees has composed in a wide variety of genres. His works have been commissioned and performed by en­ sembles and soloists throughout the United States and Europe, including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Royal Philharmonic Or­ chestra, and l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo. The composer’s many awards include a Fromm Foundation Award (1953), two Guggenheim Fellowships (1954, 1966), a Fulbright Fellowship (1956), a UNESCO Award for String Quartet No. 2 (1958), and the Sir Arnold Bax Society Medal, the fi rst awarded to a non­British composer (1958). He also received a Grammy nomination in 2004 for his Symphony No. 5. Lees’s mu­ sic is published exclusively by Boosey & Hawkes. Average, 13,483; Actual, 13,644. Sales through dealers and carriers, street vendors, counter sales, and other non­USPS paid distribution: not applicable. Other classes mailed through the USPS: not applicable.Total paid and/or requested circulation: Average, 13,483 Actual, 13,644. Free distribution by mail:Average, 96;Actual, 95. Free distribution outside the mail: Average, 0; Actual, 0. Total free distribution:Average, 96;Actual, 95.Total distribution: Average, 13,579; Actual, 13,739. Copies not distributed: Office use, leftover, spoiled: Average, 672; Actual, 890.Total (sum of previous entries): Average, 14,251; Actual, 14,629. Percent paid and/or requested circula­ tion: Average, 99.29%; Actual, 99.31%. S t a t e m e n t o f ow n e r s h i p, m a n a g e - ment, and circulation (PS For m 3526, October 1999) for 2006 filed with the United States Postal Service, Postmaster in Chicago, Illinois, October 22, 2007. C&RL News December 2007 762 http:U.S.A.As