ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries

Columbia University has and Humanities Research received a $150,000 grant Council of Canada award from the Andrew W. Mellon and a $500 development Foundation to fund a three- G rants grant from the Canadian year extension of its Mellon Library Association to fund Preservation Administration and research on “Leadership for Internship Program. The pro Excellence in Canadian gram, initiated in 1982, trains University Libraries: Crite qualified administrators to fill ria for Success.” preservation positions in re Acquisitions search libraries through the Stanford University's country. Graduate School of Busi ness received a major gift Drexel University's Col to establish a high-tech re lege of Information Studies search facility within the received $118,400 from the U.S. Department Jackson Library. Named after its donors, Claude of Education to fund eight doctoral fellowships and Louise Rosenberg, both Stanford alumni, in the 1992-1993 academic year. the Rosenberg Corporate Research Center will occupy most of the first floor of the three-story Kansas Slate University (KSU) received an library and will contain the library’s entire ref additional $600,000 from a Florida woman to erence area. The library was combined with expand the development of a new engineer the Business School’s computing services into ing library. The money will allow KSU’s Col a single Department of Information Resources lege of Engineering to create an undergradu last year. ate library. In September Alice Fiedler of St. Petersburg, Florida, gave $1.4 million to estab The University of California at Santa Cruz lish the engineering library. received and matched donations from six promi nent Santa Cruz county families to establish a Kansas State University will receive $2 $24,000 endowment. The endowment will sup million from H. D. “Joe” and Joyce Vanier Hale port purchase of research materials for UCSC’s of Overland Park to help expand and renovate Asian American holdings. it’s Farrell Library. The Hales committed the gift anonymously last November before a ref The University of Michigan's School of erendum that committed $5 million in student Information and Library Studies (SILS) has re fees to a proposed $27 million library expan ceived over $300,000 in grants and fellowships. sion and renovation project. Students passed Faculty member Amy Warner received a the referendum with 97% approval. “K-State Stu $140,060 grant from the National Institutes of dents aggressively sought private financial par Health to explore and identify regular linguis ticipation, and our commitment is in direct re tic patterns in Medline subject terminology. sponse to their challenge. Joyce and I are thrilled Karen Drabenstott received a U.S. Department to join this partnership because every great of Education grant of $95,500 to test a new university is built around a great library,” said subject access design in which search trees con H. D. Hale, who is chairman and chief execu trol system responses and determine appropri tive officer of ADM Milling Co. of Leawood, a ate subject searching approaches and user que subsidiary of the Archer Daniels Midland Co. ries. Search trees may prove effective for subject of Decatur, Illinois. Joyce Vanier Hale is vice- searching online catalogs. The SILS received president of Star A Land and Cattle Co. and $80,800 from the U.S. Department of Educa co-owner of Cedar Creek Ranch near Manhat tion to fund six doctoral fellowships in the tan, Kansas. Three of the couple’s six children 1992-93 academic year. are Kansas State University graduates. The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Redeemer College's chief librarian, Daniel Center of the University of Texas at Austin has A. Savage, received a $1,500 Social Sciences been awarded a $228,869 Preservation grant 4 1 4 / C&RL News from the National Endowment of the Humani ers for limited sale to the throngs of spectators ties to conduct a two-year study of the mass who attended the executions of criminals. The deacidification of paper in archive and manu Renier Collection contains many items for which script collections. About 350 linear feet of the no other copies are recorded. The broadsides, center’s 20th-century literary archives and manu many bearing woodcuts and moralizing verse, scripts collections will receive treatment at the supplement the Newgate Calendar and court diethyl zinc (DEZ) mass deacidification pilot plant reports of notorious crimes. operated by Akzo Chemical in Deer Park, Texas. Victorian novelist George Gissing's manu The University of Victoria Archives received scripts, letters, and first editions contained in a backlog reduction grant from the Canadian the Pforzheimer Collection have been acquired Council of Archives to make the information in by the Lilly Library at Indiana University. Gissing the School of Music Concert Tape Archives avail is best known as the author of New Grub Street able in the form of a microcomputer database (1891), Charles Dickens, A Study (1898), and The and printed finding aid. The archives contain Private Papers o f Henry Ryecraft (1903). recordings of faculty concerts, student recitals, guest recitals, scholarly papers, and symposia Drama titles from the 16th-18th centuries sponsored by the School of Music between 1968 were given to Ohio State University (OSU) and the present. Libraries’ Rare Book and Manuscript Division. The collection of over 400 titles in 363 vol umes contains nineteen 17th-century quartos of plays by Shakespeare; plays by other promi nent dramatists of the period (Beaumont and Acquisitions Fletcher, Congreve, Crowne, Davenant, Dryden, Fielding, and Shirley); and contempo Mezzo-soprano Jennie Tourel's papers rary source materials (Holinshed’s Chronicles have been donated to the Twentieth Century (1577), the Douai-Rheims Bible (1582-1610), Archives in the Department of Special Collec and Grafton’s Chronicle (1569)- The books were tions at Boston University. Tourel, who died donated by the family of the late Stanley J. Kahrl in 1973, was known for her art song interpre of the OSU’s Department of English. tations, particularly French and Russian songs. She performed with the Opéra Comique in Paris, Papers of Thomas Affleck, a prominent the New York Metropolitan Opera, and the 19th-century agriculturalist and writer, have New York Philharmonic under the direction o been donated by his descendant, W. J. “Jack” Arturo Toscanini. Tourel was a close friend of Bowen of Houston to the Sterling C. Evans Li Leonard Bernstein. brary at Texas A&M University. Affleck’s South ern Rural Almanac and Plantation and Gar Children's books submitted for consider den Calendar is one of his best-known works. ation for the Sugarman Children’s Book Award The Affleck Papers consists of letters, scientific will be donated to George Washington writings, personal correspondence, photo University’s (GWU) Gelman’s Library. The bi graphs, and a scrapbook of news clippings, ennial Sugarman Award is a regional award that circulars, pamphlets, and other ephemera. They recognizes quality children’s literature. The also contain the work of Mary Hunt Affleck, a promi books will be housed in the children’s book nent early Texas poet and literary figure. section and used as a circulating resource for GWU students and area teachers. The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin The Renier Collection of 19th-Century En has acquired the literary archive of British nov glish Crime Broadsides has been acquired by elist and critic Christine Brooke-Rose (1926- ). the Harvard Law School Library. Dating from Included in the collection are over 1,000 letters 1812-1868, the 110 broadsides graphically de from friends and colleagues including Anthony scribe murders and other sensational crimes of Burgess, Umberto Eco, and Angus Wilson. The the period; most contain accounts of the ex papers also contain autograph manuscripts, ecutions and dying words of the accused. Many notebooks, pre-publication materials, and pub of the broadsides were printed by local print lished editions of Brooke-Rose’s work. ■ June 1992 / 415.

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