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May 2014 279 C&RL News

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The University of New Hampshire (UNH)
Library and its partner, the UNH Earth Sys-
tems Research Center received a $474,156 
three-year grant from the Institute for Mu-
seum and Library Services, National Leader-
ship Grants for Libraries Program to build 
PLACE, the Position-based Location Archive 
Coordinate Explorer. PLACE will be a geo-
spatial search interface that uses embedded 
geospatial coordinates and international 
geospatial metadata standards to provide 
an alternative means for discovery of geo-
spatial and geographic information in the 
UNH collections. The project contributes 
to two open source communities: Open 
Geoportal (OGP) and FEDORA Commons. 
The PLACE project work group will build 
new tools not currently available in the 
OGP, such as a new geospatial gazetteer 
tool for improved searching and new time 
series capabilities to easily assess changes 
over time.

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

The archive of the Funding Exchange (FEX), 
a national membership organization of re-
gionally based community foundations dedi-
cated to building a permanent institutional 
and financial base to support progressive 
social change through fundraising for local, 
national, and international grant-making pro-
grams, has been acquired by Columbia Uni-
versity Libraries/Information Services’ Rare 
Book and Manuscript Library. The organi-
zation was conceptualized in the late 1970s 
by young philanthropists armed with inheri-
tances from the Pillsbury Baking Company, 
Sunbeam Bread, and DuPont. Contrary to 
common philanthropic practice at the time, 

they included grassroots activists in their 
grant-making decisions. They created six “al-
ternative” foundations around the country: 
Bread and Roses Community Fund, Haymar-
ket People’s Fund, Liberty Hill Foundation, 
McKenzie River Gathering Foundation, North 
Star Fund, and Vanguard Public Foundation. 
FEX and its member funds have provided 
lead funding for organizations in virtually ev-
ery contemporary movement for progressive 
social change. FEX shaped a donor-advised 
program that helped people with wealth de-
termine which organizations they want to 
support and administers those grants. The 
national office, based in New York City, 
ceased programmatic operations at the end 
of 2012. The FEX Records include more than 
400 boxes of materials or roughly 600 linear 
feet.

The papers of Jonas Salk, noted physician, 
virologist, and humanitarian—best known 
for his development of the world’s first suc-
cessful vaccine for the prevention of po-
lio—has been acquired by the University of 
California-San Diego (UCSD) Library. The 
papers—which constitute almost 600 linear 
feet (or nearly 900 boxes)—were recently 
donated to the library’s Mandeville Special 
Collections by Salk’s sons. While recognized 
worldwide for his significant contributions, 
Salk is particularly noted locally for his 
founding of the Salk Institute for Biological 
Studies, adjacent to UCSD, and the impact 
this had on the city’s metamorphosis into a 
major center for biomedical and scientific re-
search and discovery. The Salk papers cover 
the period from the mid-1940s to his death in 
1995; best documented are activities largely 
related to the development of the Salk polio 
vaccine in the mid-1950s to the early 1960s 
and the founding of the Salk Institute. The 
papers cover general correspondence, files 
relating to polio, Salk’s writings, photo-
graphs, artifacts (including two dictating ma-
chines), and various research materials. 

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