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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  

Dartmouth College Library’s Digital Library 
Program has received a gift from the Manton 
Foundation to create a $3 million endowment. 
An additional $1 million endowment will sup-
port preservation and education programs for 
The Epic of American Civilization, a mural in 
the Reserve Reading Room of Baker Library 
painted by Mexican artist José Clemente 
Orozco between 1932 and 1934. In recogni-
tion of the Manton gift, the Reserve Reading 
Room on the lower level of Baker Library will 
be renamed The Orozco Room. The 3,200-
square-foot mural traces the history of the 
Americas from the migration of the Aztecs 
into central Mexico to the development of 
modern, industrialized society. In addition to 
conserving the mural, the $1 million endow-
ment will support programs facilitating their 
study and use for educational purposes. 

Kent State University 
has received a grant 
of $75,000 from the 
Kulas Foundation of 
Cleveland, Ohio, to 
create a music multi-
media listening and 
computing laboratory 
in the renovated and 
expanded Performing 
Arts Library. The Per-
forming Arts Library 
will draw together 
the music, theater, 
and dance collections and services in an 
expansion and reorganization of the existing 
Music Library. The Performing Arts Library 
will include two computing classrooms, new 
listening, circulation, and reference facilities, 
and reorganized collections and study spaces. 
Kent State University Libraries and Media Ser-
vices also received two major gifts in support 

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Catherine Mulholland donated a collection of docu­
ments to California State University­Northridge’s 
Oviatt Library. 

of music and its planned Performing Arts Library. 
The John Mack Estate has given to Kent State the 
music collection of Mack, the late principal obo-
ist of the Cleveland Orchestra, faculty member of 
the Cleveland Institute of Music, and founding 
faculty member of Kent/Blossom Music. 

Acquisitions 

Cat h e r i n e  M u l h o l l a n d ’s  2 0 t h  Ce nt u r y  
collection of family documents, manuscripts, 
books, and photographs has been received 
by California State University-Northridge’s 
Oviatt Library. Few families have had a larger 
impact on the development of Los Angeles and 
its San Fernando Valley than the Mulhollands. 
William Mulholland, Catherine’s grandfather, 

brought inexpensive 
water from the Sierra 
Nevada Mountains 
and Owens Valley 
to metropolitan Los 
Angeles and its San 
Fernando Valley and 
made urbanization 
possible during his 
tenure with the Los 
Angeles Department 
of Water & Power. 
Her donated col-
lection is a treasure 
trove of fi rst-person 

history and documentation of one of Los 
Angeles’ most important families. Catherine 
Mulholland is one of the foremost chroniclers 
of not just the Mulholland family, but the his-
tory of the San Fernando Valley from its early 
formative years. She has maintained a long 
and fruitful relationship with CSU-Northridge 
and its Oviatt Library. She feels that the Oviatt’s 
central location in the San Fernando Valley and 
her long association with the library makes 
it the ideal place for the preservation and 
display of her family’s legacy. 

C&RL News July/August 2008  422 

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