Ann-Christe Galloway Grants and Acquisitions

Acquisitions film and in live theatre. The collection encom- passes her work as writer, director, producer, Two reformation pamphlets from collector editor, and featured actor. The materials in the and scholar Milton (Mac) Gatch have been collection include play drafts, manuscripts, acquired by Columbia University’s Burke Li- typescripts, correspondence, movie scripts, brary at Union Theological Seminary. Gatch, photographs, movie posters, theatre playbills, former director of Burke Library, donated and directorial schedules totaling over 63 lin- the pamphlets in conjunction with a talk he ear feet. The collection is a wealth of primary gave earlier this year entitled “Reformation and secondary source materials featuring the Pamphlets and Reformation Research: Union’s multimedia works and writings of a prominent First Church Historians.” American writer, speaker, Reformation pamphlets and director. Works rep- are relatively short printed resented include Down works, usually quarto in in the Delta, Angelou’s format, written by the directorial debut fi lm in Reformers and their op- 1998 featuring Alfre Wo- ponents and published in odard, Esther Rolle, and the 16th century (mostly Wesley Snipes; Georgia, before 1550). The two Georgia (1972), Angelou’s pamphlets donated by first original screenplay Gatch are rare examples and musical score; and from his personal col- I Know Why the Caged lection. The first, “Von Bird Sings, a CBS produc- dem pfrundt marckt der tion airing in 1979 based Cutisanen und Tampelknechten,” dating from on the book of the same name starring 1521, is one of at least four copies in the United Diahann Carroll, Esther Rolle, and Ruby States. The second pamphlet, “Beclagung Dee. aines leyens genant Hanns schwalb über vil missbreüch Christliches lebens, vnd darinn The University of South Carolina’s Thomas begriffen kürzlicn von Johannes Hußen,” dates Cooper Library has acquired the personal from 1521, as well. The title page’s woodcut papers of Kaye Gibbons, whose novels about vignette depicts the sale of indulgences, a self-reliant women in the rural South have principle cause of Martin Luther’s Reformation. made her a prominent fi gure in contem- This pamphlet may be one of only two copies porary Southern fiction. Gibbons’s papers of this imprint in the United States. are the first acquired from a contemporary Southern woman writer. They will join Maya Angelou has donated her collection the literary papers of John Jakes, Joseph of film and theatre related materials to the Heller, George V. Higgins, and James Ellroy. Z. Smith Reynolds Library at Wake Forest Gibbons’s archive includes her critical essays University. Angelou’s Film and Theatre Media written as an undergraduate at the University Manuscript Collection contains her expansive of North Carolina and storyboards used for works in major motion picture and television plot development in her novels. Gibbons has won critical acclaim, as well as wide reader- ship. Her fi rst novel Ellen Foster, which she Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; wrote in 1987 at age 26, is considered a clas- e-mail: [email protected]. sic, taught alongside works such as Catcher

June 2007 395 C&RL News in the Rye and To Kill A Mockingbird in high ing drawings, models, photographs, slides, schools and universities. The novel, which and documents, will enable scholars to study earned accolades from Eudora Welty and a significant chapter in post-war American Walker Percy, won the Sue Kaufman Prize domestic architecture. Among the architec- for First Fiction of the American Academy tural gems documented in the collection are and Institute of Arts and Letters and the Louis Koenig’s Case Study Houses #21 and #22, D. Rubin Writing Award. The book’s sequel, which were both executed as part of Case The Life All Around Me, by Ellen Foster, was Study House Program of 1945–1963 for John released last year. Entenza’s Arts & Architecture magazine. Koenig was one of the youngest architects Actor Harold “Hal” Gould’s papers have included in the program, which promoted been acquired by the University at Albany’s modern, indoor-outdoor California living Libraries. Gould has been recognized with through innovative steel-frame design and five Emmy nominations, an Obie, a Los construction. Born in San Francisco in 1925, Angeles Drama Critics’ Circle Award, and Koenig became interested in the structural an ACE Cable TV Award for his varied possibilities and advantages of steel resi- roles. Gould’s career includes Broadway dential construction, while a student at the roles in such plays as John Guare’s House University of Southern California’s School of of the Blue Leaves, Neil Simon’s Fools, and Architecture in the 1950s. Confronted with Jules Feiffer’s Grown Ups. He is most widely the skepticism of his professors, who ques- known for his roles on The tioned the applicability of steel to residential Show, Rhoda, and The Golden Girls. He also architecture, Koenig proved them wrong by had roles in films such as The Sting (1973) designing and building his own steel home through Freaky Friday (2003), and English at a cost lower than that of a traditional wood as a Second Language (2005). frame structure. This innovative structure earned him the American Institute of Ar- The architectural archive of Pierre Koenig, chitects’ House and Home Award of Merit. the internationally celebrated architect Upon graduation, he opened his own archi- whose work helped to define modern ar- tectural practice in . Throughout chitecture, has been acquired by the Special his career, which spanned five decades, he Collections of the Research Library at the never relinquished his goal of producing Getty Research Institute (GRI). This archive, prefabricated homes for the masses. Koenig containing more than 3,000 objects, includ- died in 2004.

(“Librarians as partners...,” continued from page 367) As Purdue Libraries embark on this new initiative to investigate issues and problems and access, one is more often than not talking of applying library science knowledge and about libraries. expertise to multidisciplinary research, it in- “GIS is necessarily, intrinsically interdis- tends to share findings and insights with the ciplinary, as are library systems. I’m proud library community so that others may benefi t of the fact that having a librarian’s universal, from and build upon these projects. abstract perspective on the methods and modes and behaviors of information allows Notes me to see much more clearly how GIS can 1. Purdue e-Scholar, e-scholar.lib.purdue.edu. act as a dumb (but very, very intelligent) 2. See OAI-PMH www.lib.purdue.edu meeting place for information and data from /research/oaisrb/ for a description of this disparate sources.” application.

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