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Reports the acquisition of the library and archives of the Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA) by the Manfield Library at the University of Montana. Information on the collection and materials of the library; Historical background of OWAA; Members of the OWAA.

Discloses the decision of poet Leonard A. Slade Jr. to give his personal papers to his alma mater, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Composition of the collections of papers donated to the university.

Reports on the presentation of a Library Services and Technology Act grant to the University of Illinois in Chicago, for a project to add catalog records for medical monographs in its collection to online catalogs. Grant amount; Online catalogs included.

Reports that in 1998, Warren Wilson College received a $ 2 million gift from Rob Pew of Fletcher, North Carolina, for the renovation and expansion of the college's library. Who this gift honors; Description of improvements to the library.

Reports the acquisition of the Warren and Margot Coville Collection of the Clarence H. White School of Photography by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Reports on the bequest received by the Western Maryland College (WMC) from the estate of longtime benefactor Samuel H. Hoover in Maryland. Value of the bequest; Significance of the bequest for a major scholarship fund; Establishment of the largest library endowment at WMC.

Reports on the National Leadership Grant received by the Spingfield College in Preservation of Digitization Grant in Springfield, Massachusetts. Value of the grant; Provisions of the grant.

Reports on the renewal grant received by the Visual Information Systems Center (VISC) in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. Value of the grant; Allocation of the grant for the continuation of the work of VISC on the Pennsylvania Technology Infrastructure Database and the Pennsylvania Technology Atlas.

Reports on the grant received by Hope College from the SBC American Partnership Awards for Independent Colleges program in Holland, Maryland. Value of the grant; Provisions of the grant.

Reports the donation of the personal papers of organ transplant pioneer Thomas Starzl to the University Library System of the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. Highlight on the medical career of Starzl; Contributions of Starzl to the field of organ transplantation.

Reports on the total amount received by the Rutgers University under the United States Department of the Interior's `Save America's Heritage' grant program to preserve the Roebling Collection. Collection of papers of father and son bridge engineers, John A. and Washington Roebling; Designs and other documentation for bridges and structures; Papers of several generations of family members.

Reports that the Special Collections Department of the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) Libraries has received a gift from the Moran Family Trust Fund to establish an endowment for the preservation and maintenance of rare documents and collections. Other uses of earnings from the endowment.

Reports that the Thomas and Kathleen Clarke Collection has been acquired by the Boston College. Profile of Thomas and Kathleen Clarke and their role in the Irish history and politics; Items included in the collection.

Reports that the University of Nebraska Lincoln Libraries has received a gift from the estate of Mildred Othmer Peterson who attended the university and worked as student assistant in the library. Profile of Peterson.

Reports on the grant received by the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Libraries from the Texas State Library and Archives' TexTreasures program. Use of the grant to partially fund a project called Tejano Voices which will provide improved access to oral history interviews conducted during the 1990s by UTA political science professor Jose Angel Gutierrez.

Reports the endowment received by Oregon State University (OSU). Sources of the grant; Statement of OSU libraries director Karyle Butcher on the endowments; Use of the funds to improve access and delivery of digital information.

Reports on the donation of Edgar Allan Poe's essay 'A Reviewer Reviewed,' written on the author's own hand, to the New York Public Library's Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature by Professors Burton R. and Alice M. Pollin. Background information on the essay.

Announces the completion of a one-year retrospective cataloging project for ca. 650 pre-1900 maps of various areas of the Earth and 12,000 mainly 20th-century maps of California, at the Map and Imagery Laboratory of the University of California-Santa Barbara's Davidson Library. Source of funding for the project; Web site for searching the maps.

Reports on the University of Michigan's acquisition of a grant to expand its digital library environment in Ann Arbor. Project highlights.

Reports that the Indiana University's Digital Library Program in Bloomington, Indiana has received a National Leadership Grant to digitize and present on the Web Kodachrome slides taken by amateur photographer Charles Weever Cushman. Grant value; Topics documented in the photographs.

Announces that a copy of the Siku Quanshu Electronic Database and site license was donated to Harvard University by alumni Victor Fing, chair of Prudential Asia, and Gabriel Yu, chair of Italade Enterprises Ltd. `Siku Quanshu' or `Complete Library in Four Branches of Literature' as a comprehensive encyclopedia of Chinese scholarship from antiquity to the 18th century.

Reports on the donation of the papers of Professor Louis S. Feuer to Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Background information on the intellectual endeavors of Feuer; Publications authored by Feuer.

Announces Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio's receipt of a grant in thousands of dollars from the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation to expand and upgrade computer facilities at the university's Plain Dealer Electronic Learning Center.

Details the grant received by University of North Dakota from the Bush Foundation of Saint Paul and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for participation in JSTOR, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping academic communities make advances in information technology.

Reports on the Library Services and Technology Act grants received by the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources for 1999-2000. Intended use of the grants to support projects that use Stanford resources to model new methodologies for the delivery of library services throughout California.

Announces the donation of the memoirs of the late concert pianist Zinaida Joelson Aleskow to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, by her family.

Reports that the Research Library of the Kansas State Historical Society and the Kansas Collection at the University of Kansas has received a federal grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Intended purpose for the grant including to provide assistance to libraries to develop teaching materials in middle schools, high schools and colleges to be used with the Internet collection.

Reports that Ohio State University in Columbus' Cartoon Research Library has received a grant to support the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art Collection (SFACA). Founding history of SFACA; Intended use for the grant.

Reports on the donation of John Gay's `Beggar Opera' to the Illinois Wesleyan University Library in Bloomington, Illinois. Donor; Collection features.

Reports on the acquisition of a collection of 17th and 18th-century astronomy books by the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Collection highlights.

Reports that war veteran General William Westmoreland has left the bulk of his lifetime papers to the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Collection features.

Reports that the Indiana University Libraries in Bloomington, has received a bequest from singer Johanna Lenz Mendel to create the Mendel Visiting Fellowship at the Lilly Library. Program highlights; Profile on Mendel.

Announces Saint Louis, Missouri-based Washington University's acquisition of first and early editions of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig Van Beethoven's works, formerly owned by musicologist Alan Tyson. Collection highlights; Online address for viewing the collection.

Reports that the University of Georgia in Athens, has received a gift from the Thomas M. Kirbo and Irene B. Kirbo Charitable Trust to assist in the preservation of home movies in southern Georgia. Movies included; Grant amount.

Reports that the United States National Endowment for the Humanities has given a grant to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, to catalog and preserve the papers, recordings and memorabilia of conductor Leopold Stokowski. Terms of the grant; Profile on Stokowski.

Reports that the University of Maryland in Baltimore, has received a grant to support the preservation of the Gordon W. Prange Collection. Plans for the fund; Collection background.

Reports on the presentation of a Bell South grant to University of South Carolina faculty members, to fun the `Automated Collection and Exploitation of Internet-based Databases' project in Columbia, South Carolina. Faculty members included; Grant amount; Project highlights.

Reports that Ford Motor Co. has presented the Texas A&M University in College Station, with a grant to support the development and operation of the its Digital Library project, a joint venture with Silicon Graphics Inc. Project background; Total grant amount.

Reports that Waltham, Massachusetts-based Brandeis University has received a grant from Hewlett Foundation to enhance its general education program. Grant amount; Activities supported by the grant.

States that Angelo State University received $1 million from brothers Edward H. and Houston H. Harte, in order to relocate and expand the Porter Henderson Library's West Texas Collection. Who the collection would be named after; Details on the collection.

Reports that the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill received $3.4 million from deceased businessman Thomas Jack Lynch of Winston-Salem. Which other universities Lynch divided his estate among; How UNC will use the money.

Reports that in 1998 the papers of poet William Meredith were acquired by the Charles E. Shain Library at Connecticut College. What these papers feature; Background information on Meredith's work.

States that the papers of Hermine Dalkowitz Tobolowsky are available at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University. Reference to Tobolowsky's death in 1995; Tobolowsky's contribution to the Texas Equal Rights Amendment.

Reports that records on a program called `Sahabat Remaja,' a correspondence program between Indonesian adolescents and psychology professor Sarlito Wirawan Sarwono are available at the Cornell University Library. Issues dealt with in this program; Details on this program.

Reports that in 1998, the papers of Arthur A. Collins, founder and president of Collins Radio Company, were deposited at the University of Iowa Libraries. Details on Collins' company; Background information on Collins.

States that in 1998 basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian and his wife Lois donated $100,000 to the Henry Madden Library at California State University, Fresno, California. Establishment of the Jerry and Lois Tarkanian Book Fund.

Reports that in 1998, Portland State University's Branford Price Millar Library received funding for the last year of a three-year Library Services and Technology Act grant, which totals $32,000. Purpose of this grant; What is funded by this grant.

States that in 1998 Southwest Missouri State University Libraries received a $58,620 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Details on a project to arrange, describe, and catalog 18 collections from the Ozarks Labor Union Archives; Duration of this project.

Reports that in 1998 Harvard University's Widener Library received $17 million from Katherine B. Loker. What this money will be used for; Loker's comments on her donation.

States that in 1998, the Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund Grant donated $78,700 to the John B. Cade Library at Southern University in Baton Rouge. What this grant was in aid of.