California State Univer Porter’s wooden coffin, sity-San Marcos has received which she kept in her apart a $1 million donation to es ment and delighted in tablish a university library. Grants shocking friends with it. Por The current library is tem ter, who died in 1980, was porarily housed in classroom and cremated and the coffin not space and it has already be used. come necessary to have compact shelving off-cam The Research Libraries pus to accommodate current Acquisitions Group has been given holdings. The money, $200,000 to help fund its col pledged over two years, was laborative digitization pro given by W. Keith and Jean Tara Weikum ject, “Studies in Scarlet.” The Kellogg, philanthropists and two-year project will create supporters of the university a virtual library collection since its beginning seven years ago. around the central theme of marriage and sexu ality in the U.S. and the United Kingdom from The Hill Monastic Manuscript Library at 1815–1914. Awarded by the National Center Saint John’s University has received a $400,000 for Automated Information Research, the project grant from the Andrew W. will test the theory that an Mellon Foundation to develop electronic collection for schol guidelines and systems for arly research can be created cataloging medieval and re cooperatively, made widely naissance manuscripts in elec available, and be maintained tronic form. The three-year for future use. project called Electronic Ac cess to Medieval Manuscripts New York University’s will develop standards for en Elmer Holmes Bobst Library coding core-level and detailed has been given $500,000 by manuscript descriptions in Barbara Goldsmith to estab MARC and SGML. lish the Barbara Goldsmith Curatorship in Preservation. The University of M ary The money will enable the li land at College Park (UMCP) brary to expand its conserva Libraries have received a tion and preservation efforts $10,000 grant from the of its many embrittled vol Summerlee Foundation of umes. Dallas for preserving and in creasing access to the papers Ohio University Libraries of well-known author Kath has received $50,000 for the erine Anne Porter. The funds Archives and Special Collec will enable the libraries to re tions Department. The process the papers so that a money, given by the estate of portion can be microfilmed. Constance Sands, who made During the 1960s Porter do the bequest in honor of her nated her entire personal li aunt, Candus Martzollf, a long brary and much of her vast time library employee in the collection of papers to UMCP, early 20th century, will serve and now the Porter Papers as a general endowment fund represent one of the largest for the department. literary archives of a single au Katherine Anne Porter’s wooden thor at any U.S. institution. coffin is now part of the collec The University of Ver Also part of the collection is tions at the Univ. of Maryland. mont has been given $157,413
4 2 8 / C&RL News by the National Endowment for the Humani scripts, notebooks, artwork, correspondence, ties to coordinate a statewide newspaper project and photographs. The author of 14 books of which will locate, catalog, and preserve news poetry, Merrill was the recipient of two Na papers published in the state from the 18th tional Book Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, a National century to the present day. The project was Book Critics Circle Award, and served as poet begun in 1982 to ensure that America’s histori laureate for the state of Connecticut. Merrill’s cal newspapers are preserved as resources. work has been one of the cornerstone’s of WU’s Vermont is the 50th state to be funded, and Modern Literature Collection. when the project is complete, holding records for all the newspapers published in the U.S. Historical materials and memorabilia will be recorded in OCLC. associated with the Italian patriot and revolu tionist Giuseppe Garibaldi have been given to Queens Library’s Langston Hughes Com the University of South Carolina. The collec munity Library and Cultural Center in Jamaica, tion contains Garibaldi’s personal library, let New York, has received two grants totaling ters, illustrative materials, 19th-century news $112,000 from the State Department of Educa papers, medals, and other diverse items relating tion/The University of the State of New York. to Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, the 1860 The first grant for $100,000 will be issued to reunification of Italy. Garibaldi led an overthrow the Black Heritage Reference Center to docu of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies which led ment the history of African descent in America. the way to Italian unification. Donated by An The second grant will help fund a cultural arts thony Campanella, a leading authority on project which will allow musical artists and Garibaldi, the collection is expected to be val poets to present lectures and demonstrations ued at $1 million after appraisals. in local elementary and middle schools and public libraries. Papers of prominent members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) are now open at the University of New Mexico. The papers relate to the trial of three men accused in 1975 of killing two FBI agents. Also included Acquisitions in the material are the federal investigations of AIM and American Indian issues such as land Correspondence by Tennessee Williams, rights, religious freedom, and discrimination. the political archives of Group Research, Inc., and the papers of Czech writer Vera Blackwell A collection of early 20th-century Ameri have been acquired by Columbia University’s can and European literature was given to the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Letters, post Chester Fritz library at the University of North cards, and telegrams written by Williams to his Dakota (UND). The collection, given by Car family were part of a purchase at Sotheby’s ole Anderson, a 1946 graduate, includes some which also included a photograph of the play privately bound books and some first editions, wright and a DMV document. Group Research, and is valued at more than $14,000. Inc.’s political archives include press releases, news stories, and other print documents de The Charlotte and Lloyd Wineland Col tailing the right-wing political movement’s rise lection of Native American and Western Ex to power in the U.S. from the 1960s to the ploration Literature has been acquired by the present. The Vera Blackwell acquisition includes Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The collection, correspondence, papers, scripts, and transla consisting of 88 volumes of rare books, includes tions of the Czechoslovakian writer/director/ the first published version of Lewis and Clark’s actor and is now part of the Bakhmeteff Ar journals, written in their own words. The works chive of Russian and East European History and are important to the study of the American West Culture. and Indians of North America. ■
The papers of American poet James Merrill have been given to Washington Uni Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Ac versity (WU) in St. Louis. Comprising more than quisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chi 80 linear feet, the collection includes manu cago, IL 60611; e-mail: [email protected].
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