Ann-Christe Galloway Grants and Acquisitions

Columbia University, New York Univer­ Treasures” program. The $250,000 award will sity, and SUNY Stony Brook libraries support the conservation and preservation have received $37,000 from New York State of the library’s new Native American Collec­ for a Columbia­led effort to preserve and tion. Valued at $8.3 million, Cornell’s Native photocopy endangered color atlases and American Collection documents the history other oversized materials. The volumes and ethnology of native peoples of the Ameri­ to be copied include municipal atlases cas, from the colonial period to the present. published in Europe and the United States Widely acknowledged as one of the most dis­ in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tinguished collections of its kind, the core of and a distinctive, large­format Chinese arts the collection was formed in the early 1900s journal published between 1934 and 1937. by George Heye, founder and director of the Many of the items are in constant use by Museum of the American Indian. In 1930, the library patrons and show signs of extensive museum transferred its Native American book damage and deterioration. The project will collection to the Huntington Free Library and produce approximately 4,350 preservation Reading Room in the Bronx. In May 2004 the photocopies on acid­free paper that can be Huntington Library formally transferred the shelved in open­stack areas of the libraries, collection to Cornell, where it could be better so that the originals can be protected in cared for and made more accessible to stu­ closed or off­site storage facilities. dents, researchers, and the Native American community. Among the collection’s treasures James Madison University (JMU) Libraries has are field notes by 19th­century ethnographers been awarded a 2005 National Leadership and records of archaeological expeditions, Grant from the Institute of Museum and rare dictionaries of native languages, an al­ Library Services (IMLS) for $158,593 to fund bum of original drawings by George Catlin, the research and development of computer and a 1765 manuscript peace treaty between games that will teach health information Britain’s superintendent of Indian affairs and literacy and general information literacy. the Delaware Nation. The project will be developed in partner­ ship with the libraries, JMU’s Center for The University of Kentucky (UK) Instructional Technology, and JMU’s Center Appalachian Center and UK William T. Young for Assessment and Research Studies. Over Library’s Special Collection and Digital Pro­ the next three years, the project will sup­ grams have received a $200,503 two­year port the development of interactive games grant from the National Endowment of the to help students in the health sciences learn Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation about health literacy and the revision of and Access to create detailed descriptions sections of Go for the Gold, JMU Libraries’ of more than 50 Appalachian­related col­ online information literacy tutorial, into a lections. The material exceeds 30,000 linear gaming format. feet of manuscripts, archives, and audiovisual recordings. The NEH project will allow library Cornell University Library has received staff to process 20 collections that have previ­ one of 61 grants awarded this year through ously been unavailable to the public, includ­ the federal government’s “Save America’s ing papers of coal companies and resource extraction industries in Eastern Kentucky. Other collections include the papers of promi­ Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; nent regional authors, such as Harriette Simp­ e-mail: [email protected]. son Arnow and George Ella Lyon. The papers

C&RL News December 2005 834 of prominent Eastern Kentucky families and an author, and a photographer. He was civic leaders—such as the Means­Seaton fam­ also a visiting lecturer at Parsons (1975–77, ily, who fi gured significantly in development 1986–88, and 1992–95). of the iron industry in Ashland, and Cora Wilson Stewart, who founded the Moonlight (“Internet Reviews” continued from page School in Morehead and gained national 831) attention in her fight against illiteracy—will not have a global navigation mechanism of receive upgraded fi nding aids. any sort. There is a strictly linear progression into the database and then a hammering of the “back” button to return to the homepage. Acquisitions There is no consistent site branding or banner, and the IP address is still numeric once in the site; sometimes it is impossible to know The papers of John Weitz (1923–2002), a if you are still in the database. seminal figure in the development of U.S. If the resources in this database are ready­to­wear fashion, have been received unique, there is little in the way of metadata by the New School University Libraries’ that would make them useful for researchers. Anna­Maria and Stephen Kellen Archives Students and teachers of geography at the Center for Parsons The New School for high school or undergraduate level may ben­ Design. Weitz helped define the Ameri­ efit from these materials. However, younger can look, established the fi rst signature students and the general public would be menswear line, and shaped the lucrative better served by USGS Maps or National possibilities of licensing a designer’s name. Geographic.—Sheri Webber, Florida State Weitz was at times a spy, a race car driver, University, [email protected]

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