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ENDOWMENTS
PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR FACULTY RESEARCH AND
COLLECTION
Contact:
Kent Mulliner, 593-2701, mulliner@ohio.edu
ATHENS,
Ohio -- Ohio University's Alden Library purchases more than
$100,000 in library materials each academic year in response
to faculty requests for research materials.
Through
two endowments, the library has awarded $69,000 in response
to faculty requests to acquire research collections with a
second round of proposals due May 1.
The 1804
Special Library Endowment was established to add rare and
notable collections to the library. The Arts and Humanities
Junior Faculty Endowment aims to help recruit and support
new tenure-track faculty members by acquiring research
materials in their areas of interest. Created with
substantive funding from the National Endowment for the
Humanities, materials acquired for the Junior Faculty
Endowment must reflect a humanistic approach to
academics.
Proposals
funded by the 1804 Special Library Endowment include:
- Post-World
War II British cabinet papers on microfilm requested by
Associate Professor of History Norman Goda, $6,975, with
an additional $3,000 from the department of history;
- papers
of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and other
Chamberlains on microfilm requested by Associate
Professor of History Lyle McGeoch, $7,666, with $6,100
from the department of history;
- microfilm
copies of the Chillicothe Gazette to support research on
local history requested by George Bain, head of Archives
and Special Collections, $9,920, with $4,500 in matching
funds from geography, journalism and special collections;
- selections
on the Vietnam War on microfilm requested by Jeffrey
Ferrier, reference librarian in the Southeast Asia
Collection, $4,4723, with $4,270 in matching funds from
Southeast Asia, Contemporary History Institute and the
Fleeman Endowment for Francophone materials; and
- the
Cleveland Workhouse and House of Refuge and Correction
Records on microfilm requested by Steven Hartsock,
assistant professor of social work, and Carolyn Tice,
associate professor of social work, $2,460 plus $300 in
matching funds from social work.
Proposals
funded by the Arts and Humanities Junior Faculty Endowment
include:
- Assistant
Professor of History Joel Allen, for part of Aufstieg und
Niedergang der Romische Welt, $10,748;
- Associate
Professor of English Marsha Dutton, Assistant Professor
of English Andrew Escobedo and Assistant Professor of
History Mary Frances Smith, the complete Patrologia
Latina of J.P. Migne, $16,495;
- Assistant
Professor of History Ann Fidler, part of Nineteenth
Century Legal Treatises on microfilm, $11,377; and
- Assistant
Professor of Classics Lynne Lancaster, for books and
databases on classical Rome, $8,121.
For more
information on endowment funds and the proposal format,
contact Kent Mulliner, collection development coordinator,
593-2707 or mulliner@ohio.edu.
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