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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  

The libraries at Keene State College and Franklin 
Pierce University have received a $40,000 
grant from the New Hampshire Higher 
Education Assistance Foundation for the 
Joint Records Management and Archive 
Project. The libraries are using the grant 
toward the salary of a shared archivist to 
establish guidelines and procedures ap­
propriate for each institution for improved 
handling of archival materials, institutional 
records management programs, creating 
finding aids for both institutions’ historical 
holdings, and offering services as academic 
support for public history initiatives, such 
as anniversary celebrations, historical com­
missions, and curriculum development. 

Columbia University and the University of 
Maryland have received $156,122 from the 
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the 
development of coherent, holistic models 
for incorporating Web content into research 
library collections. Columbia and the Uni­
versity of Maryland share oversight of the 
project, with Robert Wolven, associate uni­
versity librarian for bibliographic services 
and collection development at Columbia, 
and Carlen Ruschoff, the University of 
Maryland’s director of information technol­
ogy and technical services, taking the lead. 
The Mellon grant will support Columbia 
University Libraries and the University of 
Maryland Libraries in a one­year, collabora­
tive project with three interrelated objec­
tives: to identify actions needed to incor­
porate freely available Web content in the 
libraries’ collection­building processes; to 
estimate the scale of institutional invest­
ment needed to pursue such a program, 
retrospectively and on an ongoing basis; 
and to suggest means by which such local 
investment, as well as the benefits of the 

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resulting collections, can be shared across 
and among the larger research library com­
munity. 

Acquisitions 

Florentine Films of Walpole, New Hampshire, 
has given Mason Library at Keene State Col­
lege 18 boxes of books that were used to 
research documentaries on baseball, archi­
tecture, art, women, the American West, 
and other aspects of American history. 
Over the years, the library has supported 
Florentine Films’ research needs, and they 
have provided the library with copies of 
their productions in addition to listing ac­
knowledgement of the library in their fi lms’ 
credits. 

178C&RL News March 2008

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