Ann-Christe Galloway Grants and Acquisitions

LYRASIS was awarded $1.2 million by the historical, cultural, and social significance Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support dating from post-industrialization to the the next stage of community growth and present. The first call for proposals opens technical development of CollectionSpace. December 1, 2018. CollectionSpace is the only collections management system led by a nonprofit and designed with input from the com- Acquisitions munity. It offers forward-looking features that include mobile-friendly displays, an open application program interface, and The Stanford Libraries have acquired a a multitude of custom profiles for muse- copy of Thomas Laird’s Murals of Tibet, ums and other institutions that hold art, published by TASCHEN Books. This rare artifact, object, and specimen collections 498-paged item, measuring 19.7 by 27.6 of all types and sizes. This new three-year inches and featuring a number of life- award will fund three key areas to further size reproductions of Tibetan Buddhist the CollectionSpace build-out: user com- murals, is one of only a thousand copies munity expansion, accelerating progress produced. Murals of Tibet was produced on the technical roadmap, and the addition by photographer Thomas Laird, who has of staff to ensure continued high levels been working in the Himalayas since of service. the 1970s. For the past ten years he has been working to create life-size images The UCLA Library has received a $5.5 of Tibetan Buddhist wall mural paintings, million grant from Arcadia, a charitable which have been displayed in galleries fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, and private collections across the world. to launch Documenting Global Voices. This Murals of Tibet features images from the new international initiative will preserve monasteries of Drathang, Gongkar Chode, at-risk cultural heritage materials and make Jokhang, Shalu, the Lukhang Temple, them publicly available online on a UCLA- Jonang, Samye, Gyantse Palkor, the Potala hosted website. Through Documenting Palace, Sakya, Drepung, and Nechung. Global Voices, the library will award grants These images are organized in a sequence to archives and cultural heritage organiza- that approximates the route that pilgrims tions around the world. The program will might have taken when going on pilgrim- focus on regions with limited capacity for age to these important sites of Tibetan preservation and where archival materials Buddhist learning and practice. Captured may be in danger of being lost. Document- using multi-image capture techniques, the ing Global Voices complements the British paintings are reproduced in high-quality Library’s Endangered Archives Programme, using five colors of ink, including gold. also funded by Arcadia, which provides The volume is accompanied by a 528-page grants to preserve materials from the pre- scholarly companion volume including industrial era. The new initiative’s contents contributions from Buddhologists such as will include rare and unique materials of Robert Thurman, Heather Stoddard, and Jacob Winkler. Murals of Tibet is available for viewing at the Bowes Art & Architec- ture Library. To access it, place a request Ed. note: Send your grants and acquisitions to Ann- Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, email: for viewing with the Bowes Library staff at [email protected]. the circulation/reference desk.

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