ACQUISITIONS, GIFTS, COLLECTIONS SEALANTIC FUND, INC., has appropriated $875,000 to strengthen the library collections of the eighty-two seminaries accredited by American Association of Theological Schools. Each institution will be offered a chance to match grants up to a maximum of $3,000 a year for the next three years. The matching funds must be over and above the library's present book budget. A select number of institutions that demonstrate the greatest creativity in the planning and

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... ve improvement of their library efforts in the program will be eligible for an additional two-year grant. They will receive two dollars for each one dollar they spend beyond the existing book budget, up to a maximum grant of $6,000 a year. Thus, it may be possible for a library to increase its book budget by a total of $36,000 over the entire period. The Sealantic pledge will extend to 1966. THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA LIBRARY has completed cataloging of the manuscripts and printed material of Thomas Wood Stevens relating to his activities in the American theatre. Covering approximately 45 linear feet in nearly 70 document boxes and many folio cases, the collection includes extensive personal corespondence from 1899 to his death in 1942, scrapbooks, hundreds of clippings, programs, and photographs, and almost 60 prompt books (most of them personally annotated). Steven's writings are represented both in manuscript and printed form. In addition, there are 58 original etchings by Stevens and a collection of almost 100 private press books, chiefly those of the Blue Sky Press (1899-1907), with which he was associated. The collection was given almost exclusively by Stevens' widow, now deceased, in the years following his death, but some scrapbooks and private press items, including early "little magazines," were contributed by friends and former students. A detailed 24-page description of the collection has been prepared by Phyllis Ball, the special collections librarian. THE LIBRARY of the University of Alaska has received $2,000 from Milton Rabinowitz of New York City for the purchase of history and physics books. THE LIBRARY of Colorado College, Colorado Springs, has received a gift of $4,000 from an anonymous donor. The sum is for purchase of books in the field of physics. THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE LIBRARY has acquired the diplomatic papers of the late Assistant Secretary of State, George S. Messersmith. During his career with the U. S. Department of State, Messersmith held posts as ambassador to Uruguay, Austria, Mexico, and Argentina, and as American consul in Berlin from 1930 to 1934. A gift of Mrs. Messersmith, the papers date from 1932 to 1947. They include copies of letters and confidential, secret, and top-secret dispatches to secretaries of state during this period and extensive notes on projeced memoirs. THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA LIBRARIES have received from the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings estate some correspondence and unpublished manuscripts of the author. Included in the gift are the research notes compiled by Mrs. Rawlings for her projected biography of Ellen Glasgow. THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY has counted twenty-nine hundred titles in the library of musical arrangements given by the Chicago radio station WGN in 1957. The collection of operatic, concert, and popular music covering thirty years was acquired by the Division of University Extension through efforts of Professor Bruce Foote, faculty member of the School of Music, who has appeared on many WGN programs. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY has purchased a facsimile of Lindisfarne Gospels with the gift of $400 from the 1961 graduating class. Another gift of $300 for books about Japan was given by the Japan Society. NOVEMBER 1961 465 JAMF.S STILL, a distinguished poet, has given his papers to the library of Morehead (Ky.) State College. A room named in his honor will house his manuscripts, published articles, pictures, and mementos. MANUSCRIPTS recently acquired by the Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Mo., include selected papers of James E. Webb, representing his service as director of the Bureau of the Budget and undersecretary of state, and other professional activities; John M. Redding, former government official and publicity director of the Democratic National Committee; Frieda B. Hennock, former member of the Federal Communications Commission; Stanley Andrews, former administrator of the Technical Corporation Administration, and James Boyd, former director of the Bureau of Mines and defense materials administrator. THE AMES LIBRARY of South Asia has been moved from St. Paul to the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota. The library became the property of the university under terms of a 1952 agreement between the board of trustees of the Ames Library and the university's board of regents. It will be housed on the fourth floor of Walter Library, and will be administered as a special unit of the university library. The seventy-five thousand items include books, maps, charts, official papers, and other materials relating to Pakistan, Afganistan, India, Ceylon, Burma, Tibet, Persia and Malaya. Primarily historical, the collection, nevertheless, covers many subjects. RECENT PURCHASES and gifts have strengthened the special collection on the North American Indian in the Bemidji (Minn.) State College Library. AFTER FOUR YEARS of negotiation, New York University's Library of Judaica and Hebraica has acquired on microfilm the David Kaufmann manuscript collection. David Kaufmann (1852-99) was a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Hungary and world-famous scholar of Jewish history, culture, and religious philosophy. The collection includes manuscripts pertaining to the Bible, codices, commentaries on Hebrew literature; documents relating to NUMBER 10 of the National Science Foundation's Scientific Information Activities of Federal Agencies series is on the Veterans Administration. This ten-page report describes the organization and mission of the administration and subject fields it covers. waukee. He was previously chief of technical services there after graduating M.S.L.S. in 1959. Born in Cudahy, Wis., in 1932, he did his undergraduate work in the fields of engineering and history. Member of Beta Phi Mu and Wisconsin Library Association (he is secretary-treasurer of the college and university section 1960-61), Mr. Krikelas is married and has two sons.