Ann-Christe Galloway Grants and Acquisitions

The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library understanding of Gorham and, by extension, at Syracuse University has received a grant American manufacturing. for The Gender, Black Feminism and Envi­ ronmental Justice Special Collection, part of Brown University Library has received a a multifaceted project funded by a 2006–08 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Founda­ Ford Foundation grant. The project will tion to develop a Web­based citation parsing examine how African American mothers service, which will improve access to campus and other women in caretaker roles defi ne scholarship. Library staff will use the $73,000 the term “environment”. The Syracuse Com­ award to improve functionality for the Direc­ munity Mapping and Photo Voice Project, an tory of Research and Researchers, a service initiative that allows participants to create a offered through the Office of the Vice Presi­ photo document of positive and negative as­ dent for Research, by providing OpenURL pects of their environment, is an integral part links to the scholarly content of more than of the study. The Community Folk Art Cen­ 40,000 citations in the directory. The new ter and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial functionality will significantly enhance the Library (MLK), both units of the Department directory, which serves an important role in of African American Studies, will collaborate helping Brown faculty promote their own re­ on the project. The MLK Library will serve search activities and enables members of the as the repository for research conducted for Brown community to keep track of ongoing the grant and as a source for both campus research on campus. and community based investigation of the project’s focus. Acquisitions Brown University Library will be able to begin development of a comprehensive database devoted to the study of the Gorham The papers of Cyril Lionel Robert James Manufacturing Company with a $29,609 grant (1901–89), West Indian polymath and giant of from Institute of Museum and Library Services, 20th­Century intellectual history. During his along with the Brown Forman Corporation. long career in North America, the Caribbean, Brown will work in conjunction with the Mu­ and Europe, James was a political organizer, seum of the Rhode Island School of Design to Marxist theorist, historian, literary and cultural design the digital collection, which will draw critic, novelist, playwright and short­story on collections of Gorham silverware held by writer, teacher, cricketer, and sports com­ museums from around the world. The grant mentator. The James papers reunite fi les and will enable staff members to create a Web books from the writer’s residences in Lon­ site to house archival drawings, sketches, don and in Washington, D.C. They include and product descriptions based on catalogs correspondence, notebooks, manuscripts, produced by Gorham Manufacturing and held and a substantial portion or James’ working by the Brown Library. Users will be able to library, many books of which contain sub­ identify their own pieces and contribute their stantial annotations. Of particular interest is own descriptions of their personal holdings to an unfinished autobiographical manuscript. the virtual catalog, thereby leading to a fuller Michael Ryan, Director of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, said that researchers will find James’ papers especially valuable Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; for James’ extensive correspondence with e-mail: [email protected]. key political fi gures and intellectuals such as

December 2007 761 C&RL News Kwame Nkrumah, George Padmore, Mbiyu his studies he was introduced to legendary Koinange, Eric Williams, Norman Manley, American composer George Antheil and Michael Manley, and Maurice Bishop. Among began almost five years of intense study in the intellectuals who James corresponded advanced composition and orchestration, with are Lionel Trilling, Lewis Mumford, Mark during which time the two also formed a Van Doren, Basil Davidson, Daniel Guerin, close and lasting friendship. Throughout his Alice Walker, Wilson Harris, V. S. Naipaul, distinguished career, Lees has composed in George Lamming, Maxwell Geismar, E. P. a wide variety of genres. His works have Thompson, John Berger, Michael Foot, and been commissioned and performed by en­ many others. sembles and soloists throughout the United States and Europe, including the New York American composer Benjamin Lees archive Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, has been acquired by Yale University’s Irving S. Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Gilmore Music Library. The comprehensive Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, archive, which was a gift from the composer, St. Louis Symphony, Royal Philharmonic Or­ includes manuscript sketches and scores for chestra, and l’Orchestre Philharmonique de all of Lees’s compositions, as well as cor­ Monte Carlo. The composer’s many awards respondence, concert programs, reviews, include a Fromm Foundation Award (1953), photographs, and biographical materials. two Guggenheim Fellowships (1954, 1966), Born to Russian parents in Harbin, China a Fulbright Fellowship (1956), a UNESCO in 1924, Lees arrived in the United States Award for String Quartet No. 2 (1958), and in 1925. He and his parents settled in San the Sir Arnold Bax Society Medal, the fi rst Francisco where he began piano study at awarded to a non­British composer (1958). age five. After military service in World War He also received a Grammy nomination in II he attended the University of Southern 2004 for his Symphony No. 5. Lees’s mu­ California and studied composition, har­ sic is published exclusively by Boosey & mony, and theory. Shortly after completing Hawkes.

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