Ann-Christe Galloway Grants and Acquisitions

Simmons College Graduate School of Library argue that there is no detectable difference and Information Science (GSLIS) in Boston in the psychological health of heterosexual has been awarded more than $780,000 by and homosexual men. The university began the Institute for Museum and Library Services offering courses in LGBT studies in 1976, (IMLS) to establish a doctoral program in and those studies became an undergradu- management leadership. The program will ate minor and an offi cial interdisciplinary prepare 15 full-time, working professionals in program in 1997. library and information sciences to move into senior leadership posts in libraries and other Johns Hopkins University has received a information-related organizations. In addi- $717,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon tion to training leaders for management of Foundation to digitize versions of Roman de complex, information-based organizations in la Rose, one of the most popular romances a global society, the Simmons Ph.D. program of the Middle Ages. Begun in 1998 as a close will develop a body of scholarly and practice- collaboration between the Johns Hopkins based research that it will disseminate to the University’s Sheridan Libraries’ Digital Knowl- profession, and will continually update and edge Center and the Department of Romance examine leadership issues in information-re- Languages, the Roman de la Rose project lated organizations. The program’s principal enables new approaches to medieval stud- organizers are Simmons GSLIS professors ies through the creation of digital surrogates, Peter Hernon and Candy Schwartz, both transcriptions, and text and image searching. recognized leaders in their fi elds. The Mellon Foundation funding will help cre- ate a board of advisors, underwrite a technical The UCLA Library has received funding conference and support digitization of more for a collection endowment from the David versions of Roman de la Rose, a story of a Bohnett Foundation to support the acquisi- dreamer pursuing love while encountering tion of materials in lesbian, gay, bisexual, obstacles, adventures, and life lessons along and transgender (LGBT) studies. The en- the way. The project Web site is available at dowment will be used to acquire materials rose.mse.jhu.edu/. for the Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, which The G.W. Blunt White Library at Mystic already houses related collections, includ- Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut, received a ing the personal papers of Evelyn Hooker, grant of $25,000 from the Gladys Krieble Rudi Gernreich, , Paul Monette, Delmas Foundation to support the cataloging Michael Nava, Susan Sontag, and Terry of a collection of 10,000 maps and nautical Wolverton. The research library also has charts. Regions represented in the collection an extensive collection of printed volumes run the gamut from the Indian Ocean, the in LGBT studies in both its circulating and China Sea, the South Atlantic to the Baltic special collections. University of California- and everywhere in between. The material in has a long history of LGBT this collection is almost exclusively from the research, which began in the 1950s with 19th and early 20th centuries, with a small UCLA research psychologist Evelyn Hooker, collection of 16th-, 17th-, and 18th-century who was one of the earliest scholars to charts.

Wright State University has received a Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; grant of $105,000 from the Legacy Resource e-mail: [email protected]. Management Program of the U.S. Depart-

C&RL News October 2005 684 ment of Defense to help the Libraries’ Spe- Fred Ebb (1928–2004), legendary Broadway cial Collections and Archives design an oral lyricist, bequeathed to the Morgan Library his history project as the basis for a Cold War collection of more than 40 drawings and wa- technology-history archive. Wright State will tercolors by 22 different artists, largely those collect, preserve, and manage the resulting associated with German expressionism and research materials as the Cold War Technol- the secessionist movement in . The ogy Archive, which will be part of its existing collection includes sheets by German artists aviation history and aerospace archives. To create the archive, Wright State will hire an archivist/historian to plan and conduct oral history interviews with those who worked in the early development and implementation of Cold War aerospace technology at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, many of whom are in their 80s. Other materials such as let- ters, logs, diaries, planning and discussion documents, photographs, and films will be collected for the archive.

Acquisitions

The archive of Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (1942–2004), renowned feminist author, Seated Man cultural theorist, and independent scholar, Erich Heckel’s (self­portrait, 1912), created with mixed media—in­ has been acquired by the Nettie Lee Benson cluding oil, gouache, and watercolor— is Latin American Collection at the University of one of the drawings bequeathed to the Texas-Austin. The Anzaldúa archive contains Morgan Library. manuscripts of the author’s major published works, including “Boarderlands/La Frontera” Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, and her “Prieta” stories, as well as unpublished Erich Heckel, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, manuscripts, notebooks, correspondence, as well as Austrian artists Gustav Klimt, and lectures, and audiovisual interviews. In total, Egon Schiele. Ebb, along with composer John about 100 linear feet of material is included Kander, his collaborator since 1964, created in the archive. Anzaldúa is widely recognized the musicals Cabaret, Chicago, Woman of for her contributions to women’s and gender the Year, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, and Steel studies in Chicculture and history. She was Pier, among others. The duo also composed born on a ranch in the Valley region of South the song “New York, New York” for Martin Texas, where her family worked in agricul- Scorsese’s 1977 film of the same name; the ture, following the migrant routes for a year. song, recorded by Liza Minnelli and later Anzaldúa experienced first-hand the hardships made a hit by Frank Sinatra, pays homage to of the dispossessed Mexican American com- the lyricist’s birthplace. A particular strength munity along the border with Mexico, and was of the collection is a number of portraits and also confronted by traditional conservatism artists’ self portraits. One of the most powerful within that community as she developed her is that of Heckel, dated 1912, in which the own lesbian identity. These struggles had a artist depicted himself seated in a chromati- profound influence on the trajectory of her cally charged combination of oils, watercolor, education and writing. and gouache.

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