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ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries News from the Field Acquisitions conifers since 1937. The collection will be housed in Special Collections in Morgan Library. • The Kent State University Libraries, Ohio, • The Archives of Appalachia, Johnson City, has acquired a major collection of books and arti­ Tennessee, has acquired the Mary Barnicle-Till- facts on the history of crime presented by Albert I. man Cadle Collection, an important group of field Borowitz, author of A Gallery of Sinister Perspec­ recordings. The late Mary Elizabeth Barnicle was tives, published by the Kent State University Press one of a handful of early American folklorists who in 1982. He has amassed a research collection of realized the importance of field recordings. The more than 6,000 volumes about the history of collection consists of over 500 field recordings crime in the United States, England, and France which include original recordings of such folk primarily in the 19th and 20th centuries. Items in music luminaries as Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, the collection include a history of thieves published Sarah Ogan Gunning, Aunt Molly Jackson, Sonny in Rouen in 1636, a 19th-century Ohio imprint Terry and Brownie McGee, Jim Garland, and oth­ about the murder of president McKinley’s brother- ers as well as recordings of the Adams family, the in-law, and major holdings about Jack the Ripper, first commercially-recorded sacred harp singers. poison mysteries, presidential assassinations, and • The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation the Mayerling suicides. Borowitz and his wife also Library, Virginia, recently received the papers of are donating an important Sherlock Holmes collec­ the Major-Marable family of Charles City and tion. The collection, which will be housed in Kent’s Sussex Counties, Virginia. The papers Department of Special Collections, also includes (1703-1929), donated by the Major family, docu­ original broadsides, a grouping of Staffordshire ment the economic life of planters, merchants, and pieces relating to criminal cases, paintings and their families near the James River in colonial, post­ other artwork and ephemera. revolutionary, and antebellum Virginia. This col­ • The Ohio University Libraries, Athens, re- lection (4.5 cubic feet) consists of correspondence,. cently received a large body of personal papers receipts, and accounts which concern plantation from Jack Matthews, Distinguished Professor of management, slavery, tobacco crops, and estate English at Ohio University and author of the novels administration. Also included are account books Hanger Stout, Awake (1967) and Sassafras (1983) for a tavern (1794), a postmaster (1840s) and and the recently released essays, Memoirs of a medical doctors (1830-1850). Among the indi­ Bookman. The collection includes manuscripts for viduals who generated these papers are Hartwell many of his nearly 200 published short stories, for Marable (d. 1774), John Major (1740-1810), poetry, for some of his novels, and for his essays on George B. Major (1804-1872), shoemaker Jacob book collecting. The materials span the decades Trappell (d. 1800) and overseer Turner Jackson (d. from the early 1950s to 1989. 1782). The papers not only document 18th-century • The Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL), economic life, they also shed light on everyday life Washington, D.C., have purchased a large portion in colonial Virginia by detailing purchases, debt, of the Franklin Institute’s former Trade Catalog taxes, credit, and legal matters. In addition, the Collection consisting of some 56,500 items. The papers mention several hundred names of mer­ catalogs range in date from the mid-19th to the chants, planters, and others including prominent mid-20th century and cover a full range of Ameri­ members of the Tyler and Harrison families. can machinery and manufacturing, agricultural, • Colorado State University, Fort Collins, and technological development, reflecting the his­ recently acquired a collection of rare books do­ torical interests of the Franklin Institute. The Fran­ nated by Dana K. Bailey to the University’s Morgan klin Institute was the pre-eminent technical insti­ Library. Bailey’s collection consists of books about tute of the 19th century, and the purchase of this science and nature that date from the 1700s national treasure by the SIL lays the foundation for through the 1900s. Many of the books contain generations of productive research in a dozen and hand-painted, color lithographs and illustrations. more areas of scholarly interest. Many of the cata­ Bailey, botanist, physicist, and explorer, has col­ logs in the collection were presentation copies and lected books about the study of plants, particularly contain the signature of the authors. Some 2,500 142 / C&RL News Tell us what you need, and we’ll locate and send to you any article from over 6,000 journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities pub­ lished since 1986. We do it through The Genuine Article® document delivery service. And we save you money, too... Because using The Genuine Article is like having subscriptions to all of the world’s leading journals—but with­ out the expense. And you can reduce costs even further with one of our high-volume plans. You get all this—and fast delivery, too. Once we receive your order, we mail your articles within 48 hours. 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Stebel, Other fields with substantial representation are author of the recently published novel Spring mining and drilling machinery, pre-1900 machine Thaw and a film writer who played a key part in the tools, geology and mineralogy, and agricultural and Australian film revolution, donated by thë author farm machinery. himself. Stebel’s papers include successive working • Southern Methodist University’s DeGol- drafts of his novels Spring Thaw, The Collaborator, yer Library, Dallas, has acquired a major collection and The Vorovich. They also include materials of the works of Southwest writer and artist Paul from The Shoe Leather Treatment, a biography of Horgan. The collection consists of over 2,300 an escapee from an institution for the criminally items, including all of Horgan’s books in first edi­ insane, and screenplays on which Stebel worked, tions, his contributions to books, periodical publi­ notably Picnic at Hanging Rock and Storm Boy. cations, criticism, translations, artwork, correspon­ Both films won best-picture awards at the Austra­ dence, and manuscripts. It was assembled over a lian Film Awards. 35-year period by Sally Zaiser of San Francisco. Paul Horgan, one of the major figures in American arts and letters, was born in 1903 and spent many of Grants his younger years in the Southwest, particularly New Mexico. Out of his experience he has written numerous essays and works of history and fiction. • The Center for Research Libraries, Chi- The acquisition of the Horgan collection is, in part, cago, has received a $236,331 bibliographic access a gift of Zaiser. grant from the U.S. Department of Education • The University of California, Berkeley s under the Higher Education Act Title II-C Bancroft Library has acquired proofs of the wood- Strengthening Library Resources Program. This cuts from a masterpiece of the Kelmscott Press, award will enable retrospective conversion of The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, printed in 425 56,000 Roman-alphabet records for monographs copies and finished in 1896. William Morris de­ in the center’s card catalog. The federal funds are signed the type, the binding, the ornaments, and financing all of the production costs. laid out the book and Edward Burne-Jones de­ • Colorado State University, Fort Collins, signed the 87 illustrations. The 18 proofs are a gift has been awarded $250,000 by the Anheuser- of Norman H. Strouse. The Strouse proofs are Busch Foundation to be used for a current periodi­ printed on stiff paper (except for one) in the strong cals room in the main library building, Morgan black German ink that Morris favored despite the Library. The room to be named for Anheuser- objections of his pressmen. The Bancroft has three Busch will be designed and stocked to house both complete copies of the Kelmscott Chaucer avail­ general interest and specialty periodicals used by able for comparison, each in a different binding. the more than 18,000 students enrolled at Colo­ The copy in the full pigskin binding was also pre­ rado State. • The Commission on Preservation and Ac- Is your department the best? cess, Washington, D.C., has received $254,000 from the Getty Grant Program to develop a joint task force and support research and demonstration If your answer is yes and you are a library projects on preservation microfilming for brittle manager, John Lubans at Duke University books and photographs. The Commission’s pro­ wants to hear from you. He is in pursuit of posal to the Getty Grant Program was based upon departments in all types of libraries that have the needs and priorities identified by a group of art achieved organizational excellence. If you historians, art librarians, technical specialists, and have some supportive, quantitative (prefera­ an academic press publisher of art books during a bly comparative) data to show how your unit is three-day seminar at Spring Hill, Wayzata, Minne­ faster and more productive in quantity and sota, in September 1988.
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