Ann-Christe Galloway Grants and Acquisitions The National Endowment for the Humanities on behalf of TSU McCarthy’s literary papers (NEH) has awarded $500,000 to SOLINET document his entire writing career. At the to support its regional Preservation Field core are notes, correspondence, handwritten Services program for libraries, archives, and and typed drafts, setting copies, and proofs museums. The grant will fund education and of each of his ten novels—from the Pulitzer training, reference services, consulting, and Prize­winning The Road (2006) back to The provision of free information resources to Orchard Keeper (1965)—as well as the draft of strengthen programs to preserve and protect an unfinished novel. Additionally, the archive collections in cultural organizations. contains more than 250 pieces of professional correspondence and original materials related C. V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia to his work on the 1994 play, “The Stonema­ University has received a gift of $20,000 from son,” as well as four screenplays, including The Gracious Glory Buddhism Foundation to “No Country for Old Men,” which McCarthy purchase of a set of Republican­era Buddhist began as a script in 1984 then adapted as a periodicals, as well as $50,000 to establish novel 20 years later. In February the Joel and an endowment in the name of The Gracious Ethan Coen movie based on McCarthy’s No Glory Buddhism Foundation, which will sup­ Country book garnered four Oscars, including port the acquisition and conservation of Chi­ Best Adapted Screenplay (by the Coens) and nese Buddhism studies library materials. Two Best Picture. In order to maintain the integrity collections have been acquired with the gift. of the Cormac McCarthy Papers, SWWC has The fi rst, Hai chao yin (Sound of the Tide), contracted right of first refusal to purchase is a 42­volume reproduction, including index, all future materials relating to work by the of the complete run of more than 350 issue of author, who is in the process of writing three the periodical with its start in 1920 and end in new novels. For more information, visit www. 1949. The second, Minguo fo jiao qi kan wen thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu. xian ji cheng, is a comprehensive collection of reprint serials on Buddhism Studies from A jazz archive has been donated to St. the Republican Period. Edward’s University. Valued at more than $47,000, the collection of more than 2,300 long­playing records was donated by Edward Acquisitions N. Meyer, a St. Edward’s University adjunct faculty member. The pre­1945 recordings fea­ ture the work of small groups led by, among The archives of author Cormac McCarthy others, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, have been added to the Southwestern Writ­ King Oliver, Freddie Keppard, Bunk Johnson, ers Collection (SWWC), part of the Wittliff Jimmie Noone, Johnny Dodds, and Henry Collections at the Alkek Library, Texas State “Red” Allen. There are also a large number of University (TSU)­San Marcos. The acquisi­ recordings of big bands led by Benny Good­ tion of the McCarthy Papers resulted from man, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, and years of ongoing conversations between the Artie Shaw. The post World War II recordings renowned author and collections founder focus mainly on pianists who carried on the Bill Wittliff, who negotiated the proceedings earlier traditions. Large sections are devoted to the work of Oscar Peterson, Andre Previn, Ray Bryant, Ralph Sutton, Derek Smith, Don Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; Ewell, Thelonious Monk, Erroll Garner, and the e-mail: [email protected]. postwar recordings of Art Tatum. C&RL News March 2008 290.