Ann-Christe Galloway Grants and Acquisitions

University of Maryland’s Libraries and Acquisitions Nonprint Media Services has received a $100,000 grant for the “Acquisition of Digital The archive of (1962– Video Distribution Rights for High Demand 2008) has been acquired by the Harry Ran- Video Programs.” The libraries will negotiate som Center at the University of Texas-Austin. with video vendors for the rights to place Wallace (1962–2008) is the author of Infinite approximately 300 of its highest demand Jest (1996), (1987), educational and documentary video programs Girl with Curious Hair (1988), and numerous on the Films@UM Web site, where they may collections of stories and essays. The archive be viewed online on demand, 24 hours a day, contains manuscript materials for Wallace’s 365 days a year. books, stories, and essays; research materials; Wallace’s college and graduate school writings; Indiana University (IU) has received a juvenilia, including poems, stories, and let- $2.38 million grant from the Andrew W. Mel- ters; teaching materials and books. Highlights lon Foundation to develop software created include handwritten notes and drafts of his specifically for the management of print and critically acclaimed , the earliest electronic collections for academic and re- appearance of his signature “David Foster search libraries around the world. IU will lead Wallace” on “Viking Poem,” written when he the Kuali OLE (Open Library Environment) was 6 or 7 years old, a copy of his dictionary project, a partnership of research libraries with words circled throughout and his heavily dedicated to managing increasingly digital annotated books by Don DeLillo, Cormac Mc- resources and collections. Together, these Carthy, John Updike, and more than 40 other libraries will develop “community source” authors. Materials for Wallace’s posthumous software that will be made available to librar- novel are included in the archive ies worldwide. but will remain with Little, Brown and Com- pany until the book’s publication, scheduled The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineer- for April 2011. The Wallace materials are being ing, and Technology in Kansas City, Missouri, processed and organized and will be available has received a $50,000 grant from the Burl- to researchers and the public in fall 2010. ington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railroad to establish a full-text database that will provide Billy Porterfield, Texas journalist and award- digital access to a significant collection of winning author of several books, has donated approximately 150,000 pages of 19th-century his major archive to the Wittliff Collections railroad periodicals describing the history of at Texas State University-San Marcos. As a railroads in the United States and the technol- reporter for the Houston Chronicle in the ogy involved in building them. The anchoring early 1960s, Porterfield won the Ernie Pyle theme of the project will be the “History of Memorial Award. In 1967, after stops at the the Transcontinental Railroad.” Among the Detroit Free Press and the Chicago Daily railroad journals to be digitized are Ameri- News, he became the first writer selected can Railroad Journal (1832– ), Mechanics for the Dobie-Paisano Fellowship, a writer’s Magazine (1822– ), and 19th-century issues retreat at the former ranch of J. Frank Dobie of Scientific American. southwest of Austin. In 1969 he joined Jim Lehrer at KERA-TV in Dallas as a commenta- tor on Lehrer’s nightly news program, later Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; taking over for Lehrer as executive producer. e-mail: [email protected]. He also produced and narrated several prize-

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may10b.indd 269 4/22/2010 12:22:16 PM winning documentaries for public television. time travel, which is missing from the London Porterfield’s writings have appeared in edition. Holt also introduced some minor a number of publications, including The editorial changes, like Americanization of the Saturday Evening Post, Texas Monthly, The language. The American first edition also mis- New Braunfels Zeitung, the Malakoff News, spells the author’s name—H. S. Wells—said and The Chautauquan. Porterfield’s archives Gwido Zlatkes, associate librarian, who found comprise approximately 35 boxes and include a science fiction book dealer with a copy of clippings, correspondence, manuscripts for all the book for sale. of his major books, numerous photographs, and other memorabilia. The Michalak Collection, a collection of broadsides and rare volumes highlighting A first American edition of H. G. Wells satire and caricature in 19th-century Britain, The Time Machine has been acquired by has been acquired by Loyola University- Chi- the Eaton Collection at the University of cago Libraries. Thomas J. Michalak (Loyola California-Riverside, becoming one of only class of 1963) assembled this collection fea- 25 repositories in turing the work of the world to own a illustrators George copy. The purchase Cruikshank, Robert was made possi- Cruikshank, Hablot ble with a $10,000 K. Browne (Phiz), grant from the B. Thomas Rowland- H. Breslauer Foun- s o n , a n d J o h n dation. When Eng- Leech in works by lish novelist H.G. William Harrison Wells completed Ainsworth, William his manuscript of Combe, George The Time Machine, Cruikshank, Charles he submitted cop- An image from the Michalak Collection. Dickens, Pierce ies to publishers Egan, Charles Le- in New York and London. Both publish- ver, and Robert Smith Surtees. The collection ing houses—Henry Holt in New York and includes first editions of Dombey and Son Heinemann in London—produced separate (1848, in parts) and Sketches by Boz (1839, editions, the Holt version appearing a few extra illustrated) by Dickens; A Man Made of weeks before the better-known Heinemann Money (1849, in parts) by Douglas Jerrold; edition in 1895. Because the London edition Tom Burke of “Ours” (1843-1844, in parts) was the source of all subsequent printings, by Lever; and Mr. Romford’s Hounds (1864- fewer copies of the American edition survive. 1865, in parts) by Robert Smith Surtees. In The book is regarded as Wells’ finest work and addition, the collection includes runs of is credited with popularizing the concept of Ainsworth’s Magazine (1842–46), Bentley’s time travel and with introducing the term “time Miscellany (1837–39), Douglas Jerrold’s Shil- machine” into the English language. Many ling Magazine (1846–48), and The Illumi- scholars consider it the first work of science nated Magazine (1843–45). The broadsides fiction that is informed by scientific facts, or highlight the work of George Cruikshank, “hard science.” The Holt edition of The Time including several of his famous Napoleonic Machine differs from the Heinemann edition in caricatures, Isaac Cruikshank, and James important ways, including significant passages Gillray. Thomas and Jo-Ann Michalak have that are added or omitted. For example, the also established an endowment for the opening of the book includes a discussion Loyola University Chicago Libraries Special of the scientific and metaphysical aspects of Collections as part of their gift.

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