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GRANTS AND ACQUISITIONS
C&RL News, April 2008
Vol. 69, No. 4
by Ann-Christe Galloway
California State University-Northridge (CSU) has received $30,000 from the Augustine Foundation to fund the conservation of the CSU International Guitar Research Archive’s (IGRA) collection of music scores. The grant will cover supplies and cost of labor for putting the scores in new archival enclosures, re-labeling them, cataloguing the collection, and marking them for storage. The Augustine Foundation sponsors the study and performance of classical guitar.
Acquisitions
Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winner and internationally known Georgia-born novelist and poet, will place her archive with Emory University. In 1983, Walker became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which honored her novel The Color Purple. She has written most frequently about the struggle for survival among Southern blacks, particularly black women. She also has given literary voice to the struggle for human rights, environmental issues, social movements and spirituality, as well as the quest for inner and world peace. Walker is widely recognized for her thoughtful weaving of realism with love for humanity and human potential. The archive contains journals that she had been keeping since she was a teenager and drafts of her early works of fiction.
Ed. note: Send your news to: Grants & Acquisitions, C&RL News, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611-2795; e-mail: agalloway@ala.org.
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