PRESERVATION AND ACCESS
GRANT AWARDS
Division of Preservation and Access
Announced: April 2000
BRITTLE BOOKS AND SERIALS
American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD
Outright: $120,850
The preservation microfilming and cataloging of 1,900 brittle volumes
dating from 1850 to 1950 in the collections of the Niels Bohr Library
of the Center for the History of Physics. (18 months)
Columbia University, New York, NY
Outright: $907,652
The preservation microfilming of 8,190 brittle Slavic language pamphlets
and monographs published from 1850 to 1960, and the cataloging of 8,320
titles held in the Russian and East European collections. (24 months)
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Outright: $913,519
The preservation microfilming of 7,590 brittle books from the collections
on the history of science, emphasizing economic botany, comparative zoology,
the history of astronomy, and public health and medicine, published between
1800 and 1950. (24 months)
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Outright: $875,713
The preservation microfilming of 8,527 brittle books from the collections
on the history and culture of Latin America published between 1850 and
1950. (24 months)
UNITED STATES NEWSPAPER PROGRAM
Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
Outright: $575,621
The cataloging of approximately 2,400 newspaper titles and the preservation
microfilming of 76,000 pages of deteriorating newsprint, as part of Virginia's
participation in the United States Newspaper Program. (24 months)
University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
Outright: $510,000 Match: $300,000
The cataloging of 1,200 newspaper titles and the preservation microfilming
of 800,000 pages of deteriorating newsprint, as part of California's participation
in the United States Newspaper Program. (24 months)
University of Illinois, Urbana, Urbana, IL
Outright: $305,965
The cataloging of 1,100 newspaper titles as part of Illinois' participation
in the United States Newspaper Program. (24 months)
University of Oregon, Eugene, Eugene, OR
Outright: $232,353
The preservation microfilming of 600,000 pages of deteriorating newsprint,
as part of Oregon's participation in the United States Newspaper Program.
(12 months)
EDUCATION AND TRAINING AMIGOS
Library Services, Inc., Dallas, TX
Outright: $610,000 Match: $20,000
A regional field service program, which provides workshops, technical
consultations, preservation surveys, and educational materials on preservation
and digital imaging to libraries, archives, and historical organizations
in the Southwest. (24 months)
Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies, Mt. Carroll, IL
Outright: $250,000
Educational programs to train staff of museums and historical organizations
in the care of material culture collections. (24 months)
New York University Conservation Center, New York, NY
Outright: $170,000
Graduate education in the conservation of material culture collections.
(24 months)
Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, MA
Outright: $160,000
Two School for Scanning conferences and four workshops entitled To Film
or To Scan, offered around the country for staff in libraries, archives,
and historical organizations. (24 months)
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Outright: $250,000
Training of conservators specializing in the preservation of material
culture collections, including ethnographic and archaeological materials.
(36 months)
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Outright: $140,000 Match: $110,000
The creation and administration of a two-year degree-granting graduate
program in Moving Image Archive Studies (MIAS). The program will be administered
jointly by the Film and Television Archive, the Department of Film and
Television, and the Department of Information Studies. (24 months)
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Outright: $250,000
Graduate education in the conservation of material culture collections.
(36 months)
Upper Midwest Conservation Association, Minneapolis, MN
Outright: $335,000 Match: $20,000
A regional preservation field service program that provides surveys, workshops
and seminars, disaster assistance, and information services to museums,
historical organizations, libraries, and archives in the Upper Midwest.
(24 months)
MATERIAL CULTURE COLLECTIONS: NATIONAL HERITAGE PRESERVATION PROGRAM
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
Outright: $131,361
The creation of a digital image database of the Congo Ethnology Collection,
representing over 135 years of systematic research and fieldwork and including
fieldnotes and photographs. (18 months)
Chippewa Valley Museum, Eau Claire, WI
Outright: $324,787
The rehousing of material culture collections in a centralized preservation
center with improved environmental control, security, and fire protection
systems. (36 months)
Henry Ford Musem & Greenfield Village, Dearborn, MI
Outright: $405,005
The rehousing of the museum's material culture collections in a newly-built
research center and storage facility. The material culture collections
that will be rehoused include: clothing and accessories; rugs, carpets,
and other domestic textiles; childhood-related collections; posters, prints,
maps, design drawings, and photographs; paintings; mirrors; political
and fraternal artifacts; and jewelry. (27 months)
Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum, St. Leonard, MD
Outright: $136,237
The creation of a computerized database of 162,360 catalog records representing
nearly one million objects from 31 major prehistoric and historic archaeological
sites in Maryland. (24 months)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
Outright: $650,000
The rehousing of 60,000 archaeological artifacts from the Art of the Ancient
World Collection, which includes reorganizing the storage area, installing
new storage cabinets, updating catalog records, and digitizing photos
of each object for a database. (60 months)
Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT
Outright: $147,112
Improved documentation of a 4000-object textile collection, resulting
in a computerized database of cataloging records and digitized images
of the objects. (32 months)
National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, D.C.
Outright: $650,000
The replacement of electrical wiring and the installation of fire suppression,
smoke detection, and security systems in the mansion. (17 months)
Pueblo of Pojoaque, Sante Fe, NM
Outright: $109,217
The installation of storage furniture and equipment and a fire protection
and suppression system in a 1000-square-foot open collections area within
the new facility of the Poeh Museum, serving six Tewa Pueblos in northern
New Mexico. (12 months)
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Outright: $365,408
Installation of an air-conditioning and climate-control system for collections
of Latin American art and historic European and American photographs,
prints, and paintings. (24 months)
REFERENCE MATERIALS
American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Outright: $114,190 Match: $200,000
The creation of a descriptive catalog of all feature-length motion pictures
produced in the United States from 1971 to 1980. (18 months)
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Outright: $230,620 Match: $68,940
The preparation of a two-volume historical encyclopedia that documents
the contributions of women of Latin American birth or heritage to American
economic and cultural development since the 16th century. (24 months)
City University of New York Research Foundation
Outright: $169,000
Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY
Match: $65,000
The addition of 13 volumes to the Database of Classical Bibliography,
an electronic resource containing the retrospective volumes of the Année
Philologique, the international bibliography of record for the field of
classical studies. (24 months)
East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
Outright: $138,195
The completion of a hardbound encyclopedia of the history, cultures, traditions,
music, and art of Appalachia. (12 months)
Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Outright: $81,400
The creation of a 100 million corpus of historical Spanish texts from
the 13th to the 20th century that will be the most comprehensive searchable
corpus of historical texts for any language that is freely available on
the Web. (14 months)
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Outright: $200,000
The development of an online database of information and images documenting
American quilts. (24 months)
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Outright: $127,893
The creation of an electronic bibliographic database cataloging approximately
12,000 M.A. theses and Ph.D. dissertations about American Indians accepted
by U.S., Canadian, and Mexican institutions since 1890. (24 months)
Ohio State University, Main Campus, Columbus, OH
Outright: $269,693 Match: $150,000
To prepare a one-volume encyclopedia of the American Midwest comprising
more than 1,500 overview essays and entries arranged topically. (24 months)
Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, OK
Outright: $149,402
To support the second phase of a six-year project to create a hardbound
encyclopedia of Oklahoma history and culture. (24 months)
Carolyn F. Quintero, Tulsa, OK
Outright: $52,000
The production of an Osage Indian language dictionary. (18 months)
Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ
Outright: $120,000
The creation of a hardbound encyclopedia of New Jersey. (24 months)
Society of Architectural Historians, Chicago, IL
Outright: $50,000 Match: $150,000
The research for 8 volumes of the Buildings of the United States, a comprehensive
series that documents the history of American architecture on a state-by-state
basis. (24 months)
Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY
Outright: $140,000 Match: $200,000
The completion of a hardbound encyclopedia of New York State. (24 months)
University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
Outright: $500,000
The creation of 17,500 full bibliographic records for items published
from 1642 to 1701, which will complete the base file of the English Short
Title Catalog. (24 months)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Outright: $300,000
The preparation of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary, a comprehensive reference
work on the earliest written Indo-European language, based on all known
cuneiform texts. (24 months)
University of Denver, Denver, CO
Outright: $225,000
The creation of a database of Spanish Golden Age poetry found in over
3,000 manuscripts, books, and chap-books transcribed or printed between
1511 and 1690. (36 months)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Outright: $300,000
The creation of an integrated information system for Internet access to
papyri collections held by major repositories in the United States, which
will combine text, catalog records, bibliography, and images of these
materials. (24 months)
University of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, MO
Outright: $250,178
The creation of an electronic database of the General Land Office's notes
of Missouri's original land survey, 1800-1853. (24 months)
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Outright: $153,838
The completion of a hardbound encyclopedia of New England (Connecticut,
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine). (15 months)
University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX
Outright: $250,000
The creation of an online database of audio and textual materials related
to the indigenous languages of Latin America, many of which are endangered
or already extinct. (24 months)
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Outright: $63,670
The creation of an electronic archive of the correspondence of Dolley
Madison, 1768-1849. (24 months)
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI
Outright: $350,000 Match: $350,000
The completion of volume IV and compilation of volume V of the Dictionary
of American Regional English (DARE), which documents geographical differences
in the vocabulary, pronunciation, and morphology of American English.
(24 months)
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI
Outright: $200,000 Match: $147,800
The editing and final revision of Cartography in the European Renaissance,
the third of six projected volumes that will trace the history of world
cartography. (24 months)
ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
92nd Street YM-YWHA, New York, NY
Outright: $100,000 Match: $30,000
The processing of 1,280 cubic feet of archival records of the YM-YWHA,
including institutional records and audio and videotapes of musical and
literary events that date from 1874 to the present. (24 months)
College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
Outright: $240,000
The processing of 100 archival collections of approximately 400 linear
feet documenting the Jewish presence in Charleston and South Carolina
from 1750 to the present. (24 months)
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Outright: $228,000
The preservation microfilming and cataloging of 2,250 brittle books in
the university's collection on the history of witchcraft and to repair
600 additional volumes. (24 months)
Country Music Foundation, Inc., Nashville, TN
Outright: $213,475
The arrangement, description, transcription, and preservation of 1,350
hours of audiotapes of 588 oral history interviews with performers, songwriters,
and others in the country music business, dating from the1920s to the
1990s. (24 months)
Herndon Home, Atlanta, GA
Outright: $194,163
The arrangement and description of 310 linear feet of correspondence,
memos, financial accounts, company reports, and photos, 60 audio recordings,
and 175 volumes of business records of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company,
one of the nation's largest African American financial institutions (dating
from 1895 to 1980). (24 months)
Sound Portraits Productions, Inc., New York, NY
Outright: $96,415
The cataloging and reformatting of 400 acetate discs containing 200 hours
of Yiddish radio programs created from 1930 to 1945. (14 months)
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Outright: $22,400
The preservation assessment, reformat testing, and catalog development
for 50 audiotapes created in the New York Loft from 1957 to 1964 and currently
held by the W. Eugene Smith Archive. (12 months)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Outright: $275,000
The creation of digital intellectual access to multi-format historical
material relating to America's involvement in the Philippines from 1870
to 1920. (24 months)
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Outright: $97,435
The microfilming of 291.5 linear feet of archival materials in the Benjamin
Botkin Collection of Applied American Folklore, which includes the papers,
books, and sound recordings of this noted 20th-century folklorist. (24
months)
University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
Outright: $229,677
The arrangement and description of 500 cubic feet of papers of seventy-seven
authors and illustrators of children's literature that include manuscripts,
production materials, personal papers, and correspondence. (24 months)
Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City, UT
Outright: $169,001
The digitization of 6,000 images from the Shipler Commercial Photograph
Collection created from 1890 to 1980 that documents the history and culture
of the state of Utah. A finding aid and Internet access would be provided
for the digitized collection. (18 months)
Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, VT
Outright: $20,000
Planning for the development of a prototype digital archive of folklife
material. (12 months)
RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATION
Dance Notation Bureau, New York, NY
Outright: $243,493
The development of software to translate information between a computer
animation program and a program for dance notation. (36 months)
Society of American Archivists, Chicago, IL
Outright: $118,600
The development of a North American standard for archival description
that would facilitate the communication of archival information in electronic
form. Experts from the United States and Canada will create a manual of
description. (12 months)
TEI Consortium, Charlottesville, VA
Outright: $131,963
The conversion of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines to the
Extensible Markup Language (XML) format, which will allow easier use and
distribution of structured humanities documents via the Web. (24 months)
CONSULTATION GRANTS
Jackson State University, Jackson, MS
Outright: $5,000
Consultation with a preservation specialist about preserving and making
accessible audio- and video-taped oral history interviews documenting
20th-century African American experience in Jackson, Mississippi. (12
months)
Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX
Outright: $5,000
Consultation with an archivist about preserving and making accessible
the papers of Texas legislator Wilhelmina R. Delco. (12 months)
University of Southern Mississippi, Hattisburg, MS
Outright: $5,000
Consultation with a preservation specialist about preserving and making
accessible audio recordings of oral history interviews documenting the
Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1950s and 1960s. (12 months)
ONLINE STATE ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Alabama Humanities Foundation, Birmingham, AL
Outright: $48,096
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months)
Connecticut Humanities Council, Middletown, CT
Outright: $50,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months)
Florida Humanities Council, St. Petersburg, FL
Outright: $49,568
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months)
Guam Humanities Council, Tamuning, GU
Outright: $15,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for Guam. (12 months)
Hawai'i Council for the Humanities, Honolulu, HI
Outright: $6,500
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months)
Indiana Humanities Council, Indianapolis, IN
Outright: $50,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months)
Maine Humanities Council, Portland, ME
Outright: $48,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months)
Maryland Humanities Council, Hunt Valley, MD
Outright: $50,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months)
Michigan Humanities Council, Lansing, MI
Outright: $50,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months)
Minnesota Humanities Commission, St. Paul, MN
Outright: $48,990
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months)
Nevada Humanities Committee, Reno, NV
Outright: $43,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months)
New Hampshire Humanities Council, Concord, NH
Outright: $50,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months)
North Dakota Humanities Council, Bismarck, ND
Outright: $50,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months)
Ohio Humanities Council, Columbus, OH
Outright: $27,060
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months)
Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, Providence, RI
Outright: $49,727
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months)
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Richmond, VA
Outright: $45,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months)
Humanities Council of Washington, D.C.
Outright: $50,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months)
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