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Syracuse University has received $505,000 
from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to 
support the positions of director and sound 
archivist for the library’s Belfer Audio 
Laboratory and Archive. The library will 
work closely with the College of Arts and 
Sciences, the College of Visual and Per-
forming Arts, the S.I. Newhouse School of 
Public Communications, and the Maxwell 
School of Citizenship and Public Affairs to 
integrate Belfer resources into their schol-
arly work and to make it easier for scholars 
to discover and use audio resources in a 
digital environment. The award also pro-
vides funding to equip a smart classroom 
in the Belfer facility.  

Acquisitions

The papers of Professor Hungdah Chiu  
have been made available by the Thur-
good Marshall Law Library of the Univer-
sity of Maryland School of Law. Chiu, pro-
fessor emeritus of law at the University of 
Maryland School of Law, has also taught 
at National Taiwan University and at Na-
tional Chengchi University in the Republic 
of China and served as a research associ-
ate at Harvard Law School for six years. He 
has written, edited, and is coauthor of many 
books in English and in Chinese and more 
than 130 articles in the field of international 
and comparative law and Chinese studies, 
including The Future of Hong Kong (with Y. 
C. Jao and Y. L. Wu, 1987) and The Draft Ba-
sic Law of Hong Kong: Analysis and Docu-
ments (1988), International Law of the Sea: 

Cases, Documents and Readings (with Gary 
Knight, 1991), and Modern International 
Law (in Chinese, 1995, two volumes). Chiu 
has served as president of the Association of 
Chinese Social Scientists in North America 
(1984 through 1986), president of the Amer-
ican Association for Chinese Studies (1985 
through 1987) and Minister without portfo-
lio (Minister of State) of the Executive Yuan 
(cabinet) of the Republic of China (1993 
through 1994). He is past president of the In-
ternational Law Association. The collection 
consists of four boxes and multiple bind-
ers arranged in two series. Visit www.law.
umaryland.edu/marshall/specialcollections 
/chiupapers/ for more information.

The writings of Margaret Anna Cusack 
(1829–99) are now in a special collection 
permanently housed at the Daniel A. Cannon 
Memorial Library at Saint Leo University. Cu-
sack was a convert to Catholicism who be-
came a nun, as well as a 19th-century social 
activist and prolific author. Writings by and 
about Cusack were donated to the library 
by Sisters Janet Davis Richardson and Ro-
salie McQuaide, both members of the Con-
gregation of Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, 
an order originally established by Cusack in 
the 1880s. In Ireland, Cusack was known as 
Sister Francis Clare. She wrote devotional 
materials for many years and a history of 
the country. She also worked on behalf of 
famine relief in Ireland, and advocated for 
the poor and the undereducated, becoming 
an advocate of peace and justice initiatives. 
She later came to the United States to work 
with young Irish women who emigrated to 
escape poverty. More than once, however, 
Cusack had difficult relationships with au-
thorities in her adopted church. Ultimately, 
she left the religious life and returned to 
England, where she had been raised in the 
Anglican Church. 

G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n sAnn-Christe Galloway