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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 National Endowment for the Humanities 
(NEH) has awarded $500,000 to SOLINET 
to support its regional Preservation Field 
Services program for libraries, archives, and 
museums. The grant will fund education and 
training, reference services, consulting, and 
provision of free information resources to 
strengthen programs to preserve and protect 
collections in cultural organizations. 

C. V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia 
University has received a gift of $20,000 from 
The Gracious Glory Buddhism Foundation to 
purchase of a set of Republican­era Buddhist 
periodicals, as well as $50,000 to establish 
an endowment in the name of The Gracious 
Glory Buddhism Foundation, which will sup­
port the acquisition and conservation of Chi­
nese Buddhism studies library materials. Two 
collections have been acquired with the gift. 
The fi rst, Hai chao yin (Sound of the Tide), 
is a 42­volume reproduction, including index, 
of the complete run of more than 350 issue of 
the periodical with its start in 1920 and end in 
1949. The second, Minguo fo jiao qi kan wen 
xian ji cheng, is a comprehensive collection 
of reprint serials on Buddhism Studies from 
the Republican Period. 

Acquisitions 

The archives of author Cormac McCarthy 
have been added to the Southwestern Writ­
ers Collection (SWWC), part of the Wittliff 
Collections at the Alkek Library, Texas State 
University (TSU)­San Marcos. The acquisi­
tion of the McCarthy Papers resulted from 
years of ongoing conversations between the 
renowned author and collections founder 
Bill Wittliff, who negotiated the proceedings 

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on behalf of TSU McCarthy’s literary papers 
document his entire writing career. At the 
core are notes, correspondence, handwritten 
and typed drafts, setting copies, and proofs 
of each of his ten novels—from the Pulitzer 
Prize­winning The Road (2006) back to The 
Orchard Keeper (1965)—as well as the draft of 
an unfinished novel. Additionally, the archive 
contains more than 250 pieces of professional 
correspondence and original materials related 
to his work on the 1994 play, “The Stonema­
son,” as well as four screenplays, including 
“No Country for Old Men,” which McCarthy 
began as a script in 1984 then adapted as a 
novel 20 years later. In February the Joel and 
Ethan Coen movie based on McCarthy’s No 
Country book garnered four Oscars, including 
Best Adapted Screenplay (by the Coens) and 
Best Picture. In order to maintain the integrity 
of the Cormac McCarthy Papers, SWWC has 
contracted right of first refusal to purchase 
all future materials relating to work by the 
author, who is in the process of writing three 
new novels. For more information, visit www. 
thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu. 

A jazz archive has been donated to St. 
Edward’s University. Valued at more than 
$47,000, the collection of more than 2,300 
long­playing records was donated by Edward 
N. Meyer, a St. Edward’s University adjunct 
faculty member. The pre­1945 recordings fea­
ture the work of small groups led by, among 
others, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, 
King Oliver, Freddie Keppard, Bunk Johnson, 
Jimmie Noone, Johnny Dodds, and Henry 
“Red” Allen. There are also a large number of 
recordings of big bands led by Benny Good­
man, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, and 
Artie Shaw. The post World War II recordings 
focus mainly on pianists who carried on the 
earlier traditions. Large sections are devoted 
to the work of Oscar Peterson, Andre Previn, 
Ray Bryant, Ralph Sutton, Derek Smith, Don 
Ewell, Thelonious Monk, Erroll Garner, and the 
postwar recordings of Art Tatum. 

290C&RL News March 2008

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