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C&RL News June 2012  370

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has 
awarded a grant of $143,000 to Penn State 
to investigate how faculty create and man-
age personal information collections. Led 
by Associate Librarian Ellysa Stern Cahoy 
and Associate Professor of Science Educa-
tion Scott McDonald, the 15-month eth-
nographic study will examine in detail 
how faculty save, share, cite, and archive 
scholarly information. Cahoy and McDon-
ald will collaborate with a team of Penn 
State librarians and a research anthropolo-
gist who will help conduct the study. The 
research team will invite selected faculty 
from liberal arts, humanities, social sci-
ence, and science disciplines to share how 
they build, maintain, and archive their per-
sonal information collections. In February, 
Cahoy presented a paper on this topic at 
the 2012 Personal Digital Archiving Confer-
ence in San Francisco, titled “Faculty Mem-
ber as Micro-Librarian: Critical Literacies for 
Personal Scholarly Archiving.” In addition, 
she also recently authored a blog post (at 
http://1.usa.gov/IflsLa) on personal digital 
archiving for the Library of Congress. 

The Princeton University Library has been 
awarded a two-year grant from the Na-
tional Endowment for the Humanities to 
inaugurate the Blue Mountain Project, a 
project to create digital editions of avant-
garde arts journals produced in Europe and 
North America between 1848 and 1923. Blue 
Mountain draws on the depth of Princeton’s 
collections and the expertise of its staff to 
bring curators, librarians, scholars, and digi-
tal humanities researchers together in order 
to create a free, trusted digital repository of 
important, rare, and fragile texts that both 
chronicle and embody the emergence of 
cultural modernity in the West. More infor-

mation about the Blue Mountain Project 
is available at http://diglib.princeton.edu 
/bluemountain.   

A c q u i s i t i o n s

The Catholic Library Association has entered 
into an agreement with Villanova University 
to digitize its historical collection of indexed 
periodical records. This collection, now avail-
able only in paper format, covers the years 
from 1930 to 1980, the years before the 
Catholic Periodical Literature Index was digi-
tized. Plans are underway for the completed 
records to be available on the Web sites of 
both the Catholic Library Association and 
Villanova University. The Catholic Research 
Resources Alliance (CRRA) has also indicated 
a strong interest in offering the completed 
project through their portal, as well.

Historical records of the Justice for Janitors 
campaign in Los Angeles, documenting the 
activities of the labor organization with deep 
links to the city’s working-class immigrant 
and African American communities, have 
been acquired by the UCLA Library. Donated 
by Services Employees International Union 
United Service Workers West, the records 
document the movement’s development of 
innovative organizing and research strategies, 
demographic changes in the building-service 
workforce, and the transformation of labor 
union policies toward immigrant workers. 
The Justice for Janitors collection includes 
business records, correspondence, educa-
tional and training materials, publications, 
and an extensive collection of photos, among 
other content. Most of the materials date from 
1985 to 2000, with a few items dating back to 
the 1940s. The collection will be housed, pre-
served, and available for research in UCLA 
Library Special Collections in the Charles E. 
Young Research Library. 

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