Columbia University Li­ Overseas Chinese Documen­ braries has been awarded tation and Research Center. $58,000 from the Depart­ Alden’s Southeast Asia Col­ ment o f Education to cata­ Grants lection has been working un­ log the contents o f approxi­ der a grant from the Henry mately 50 electronic text sets and Luce Foundation to identify of the ’ Electronic and acquire materials on the Text Service (ETS). ETS was overseas Chinese. The Shao established in 1987 as the Acquisitions gift will aid this activity and first facility in an American serve as a foundation for an to be devoted exclu­ endowment goal of $2 mil­ sively to collecting and pro­ lion necessary for the iden­ viding acccess to electronic tification, preservation, and primary-source texts and re­ cataloging o f the materials. search tools in the humani ties. The grant will provide national and local Princeton University’s Firestone Library online bibliographic access to approximately has been awarded a $600,000 grant from the 50 databases, research tools, and text-analysis King Fahd National Library o f Saudi Arabia to software programs, and hundreds o f analytical support the library’s pathbreaking Arabic book records for the individual texts contained in preservation project. The grant is part o f a long­ selected databases. term project to microfilm and preserve Princeton’s 100,000-volume collection o f Arab Iowa State University’s Parks Library has and Islamic materials, considered one o f the received a $45,000 Title IIC grant from the De­ largest and most comprehensive in the world. partment o f Education for its Special Collec­ The preservation project has been headed by tions. The grant will be used to preserve and Sorbonne-educated Hedi BenAicha, Princeton’s catalog a collection o f 25,000 business, indus­ Arabic bibliographer. trial, and training films. Dating back to 1911, the collection o f 16-millimeter films is the only The Research Libraries Group (RLG) has one o f its kind in the country, with titles as been awarded $404,536 by the National Endow­ varied as Coping With Life and Steam fo r Power. ment for the Humanities (NEH) to support the All of the films were donated by the compa­ fourth phase of its cooperative project to es­ nies or government agencies that produced tablish an international union catalog o f Chi­ them, or from the American Archives o f the nese rare books on RLIN. Contributions by the Factual Film, a collection created by Ott Coelln, NEH to this project now total $683,000. By the founder of Business Screen magazine in 1938. end of phase four in 1995, 13 North American libraries with Chinese rare book holdings will Lenoir-Rhyne College, Warren Wilson have contributed records to RLIN, in addition College, and Mars Hill College, part o f a con­ to the Chinese Academy o f Sciences, Peking sortium of seven western North Carolina col­ University, and Liaoning Provincial Library. leges, will be online in 1994 as the Mountain College Library Network, Inc. The consortium The University of Manitoba Libraries’ Ar­ has received a $300,000 grant from the Charles chives and Special Collections received an E. Culpeper Foundation for the purchase and $18,000 grant from the university’s Research and installation o f an integrated automated system Development Fund to aid in development of to serve all network members. the Archives of Agricultural Experience. The grant recognizes the importance o f agriculture University’s Alden Library has re­ to the history o f Manitoba and will support the ceived a $500,000 grant to establish a first-of- libraries’ archives in its strategy o f identifying its-kind center for the study of Chinese emi­ and acquiring records o f privately held farms grants worldwide, particularly Southeast Asia. and agri-businesses in the Red River Valley. Hong Kong businessman You-Bao Shao has These agricultural records provide a glimpse given the grant to establish the You-bao Shao into the personal triumphs and tragedies that

666 characterized life on the farm and influenced from 325 productions staged at Arena, the ar­ prairie economics. chives include such theatrical treasures as hand­ written notes from playwright Thornton Wilder The University of Michigan’s School of In­ concerning the staging o f The Skin of Our Teeth formation and Library Studies will receive four and from actor Ned Beatty requesting an audi­ annual grants o f $25,000 from University Mi­ tion in his early career. The collection will of­ crofilms International (UM I) for the creation o f fer an invaluable and unparalleled opportunity the UMI Information Management Fellowship. for researchers to track how this country’s resi­ UMI is a division of Chicago-based Bell & dent theaters have survived and thrived, by Howell. The endowment edges the school studying the extensive records o f an institution closer to its capital campaign goal of $1 million at the forefront o f the movement. over the next five years. The archives of Nobel Prize-winning South The University of North Carolina (UNC) at African novelist and short-story writer Nadine Chapel Hill’s School o f Information and Library Gordimer have been acquired by Indiana Science has received an initial endowment o f University’s Lilly Library, Bloomington. Gordi­ $30,000 from Eleanor and Frederick Kilgour for mer, author of Fridays Footprints and Other the establishment o f the Eleanor and Frederick Stories, Lifetimes Under Apartheid, My Son’s Kilgour Faculty Research Fund. The fund will Story, Crimes of Conscience, and Something Out support faculty needs through acquisition o f There, is a major world literary figure noted for innovative teaching materials and equipment, her sensitive pictures o f how the political tur­ promotion of research in new fields, develop­ bulence in her native country has affected the ment of new courses, and provision of funding lives of its people. The collection includes for professional travel. Fred Kilgour is the manuscripts o f her novels and stories; note­ founder o f OCLC, Inc., and has been a distin­ books in which she recorded her research for guished research professor at UNC since 1990. her books; television scripts based on her sto­ The gift will count toward the unversity’s $320 ries, speeches, articles, and papers; and about million Bicentennial Campaign for Carolina, o f 4,000 received letters from 1949 to 1976, along which $281 million has been given or pledged. with copies o f her ow n letters for that period.

The Joseph Papp/New York Shakespeare Fesitval Archives have been acquired by the New York Public Library for the Perform­ ing Arts. This collection, which provides a his­ Acquisitions tory o f the N ew York Shakespeare Festival from its inception in 1954, includes the personal The library of Fr. Louis P. Giorgi, a former papers of Joseph Papp (1921-1991), founder professor at Cabrini College, Pennsylvania, of the fesitval. Under Papp’s leadership, the has been acquired by the college’s Holy Spirit festival became the premiere producing agency Library. The collection o f 3,802 volumes cov­ o f the post-war American theater. The archives, ers philosophy, religion, art, archeology, as­ a joint gift from Papp’s widow Gail Merrifield tronomy, travel, and the history o f man and Papp and the N ew York Shakespeare Festival, civilizations. Fr. Giorgi was ordained in 1949 will be housed in the library’s Billy Rose The­ and served as associate pastor at St. Donato atre Collection located at Lincoln Center. and St. Cosmos and Damian. He was pastor of St. Justin Martyr in Pennsylvania, a church he Japan’s Chubu University has presented helped build and for which he designed, with Ohio University with a Japanese library col­ three artists, the stained glass windows. lection which includes 500 books and videos, subscriptions to five Japanese newspapers and The Arena Stage collection, consisting of 20 journals, and at least 100 additional videos thousands o f documents from the Washington, and books yearly. Chubu will also provide a D.C., theater’s first 40 seasons, 1950-51 through professional for three to six months a 1990-91, has been acquired by the Harvard The­ year to assist in processing the Japanese mate­ atre Collection o f the Li­ rials. The acquisition commemorates 20 years brary. In addition to comprehensive materials o f cooperation between the two institutions. ■

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