THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY NEWSLETTER,
Fall 2002

McBEAN GRANT EXPANDS SHOOTING COLLECTION

The National Sporting Library recently acquired 50 contemporary books to enhance the shooting collection.

Earlier this year, the NSL received a generous grant for the Acquisitions Endowment Fund from the McBean Family Foundation of San Mateo, California. The donation is being utilized to enhance the smaller sections of the Library such as the shooting and angling collections.

As a first step, Librarian Robert Weber selected a few books based on suggestions by John H. Daniels, an NSL director and sporting book collector who donated his entire 5,000-volume collection to the Library in the 1990s.

For the shooting, Daniels recommended an expansion of the reference section including books on guns manufactured by Browning, Parker and Winchester. Also he suggested books written by noted authors of fiction and non-fiction shooting books such as Nash Buckingham and Havilah Babcock. Classic books on breeding and training gun dogs for upland game hunting complete the initial acquisition.

A sample of the newly acquired books includes The Complete Guide to Bird Dog Training by John R. Falk (1986), Grouse and Woodcock: A Gunner's Guide by Don I. Johnson (1995), Upland Tales by Worth Mathewson (2000), and The Ducks Unlimited Guide to Shotgunning by Don Zutz (2000).