National Endowment for the Humanities

PRESERVATION AND ACCESS AWARDS
Division of Preservation and Access

Announced: May 2007

FISCAL YEAR 2007 GRANTS

NATIONAL DIGITAL NEWSPAPER PROGRAM (NDNP)

Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
Outright: $349,471
Digitization of 100,000 pages of Virginia newspapers, dating from 1880 to 1910, as part of the state's participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/

Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN
Outright: $124,108
Digitization of 100,000 pages of Minnesota newspapers dating from 1880 to 1910 as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
http://www.mnhs.org/index.htm

New York Public Library, New York, NY
Outright: $188,085
Digitization of 100,000 pages of New York newspapers, dating from 1880 to 1910, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
http://www.nypl.org/

University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
Outright: $400,000
Digitization of 100,000 pages of California newspapers, dating from 1880 to 1910, as part of the state's participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/

University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington, KY
Outright: $399,886
The digitization of 100,000 pages of Kentucky newspapers dating from 1880 to 1910, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/NDNP/kycollections.html

University of Nebraska, Board of Regents, Lincoln, NE
Outright:$271,016
Digitizing 100,000 pages of Nebraska newspaper titles, 1880 to 1910, scanned from 150 reels of microfilm created by the United States Newspaper Project that document the history and culture of Nebraska.
http://www.unl.edu/

University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Outright: $247,552
Digitization of 100,000 pages of Texas newspapers, dating from 1880 to 1910, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
http://www.unt.edu/

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Outright: $247,478
Digitization of 100,000 pages of Utah newspapers, dating from 1880 to 1910, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/unews/about.html


STABILIZING HUMANITIES COLLECTIONS

Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
Outright:$103,100
Technological upgrades to the society's security system to preserve 200,000 artifacts reflecting the history of Detroit.
http://www.detroithistorical.org/

Morris Museum, Inc., Morristown, NJ
Outright:  $82,255
Match:  $62,735
Total:$144,990
The purchase of cabinetry and shelving for the visible storage of the Murtogh D. Guinness collection of American and European mechanical musical instruments and automata, which date from the early 16th to the 20th centuries.
http://www.morrismuseum.org/

Museum of New Mexico Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
Outright:$451,449
Match:  $50,000
Total:$501,449
The purchase and installation of compact storage furniture and supplies to rehouse and relocate 10,735 artifacts previously stored at the Palace of Governors building to the newly constructed New Mexico Museum of History.
http://www.museumfoundation.org/

Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ
Outright:$500,000
Match:  $25,000
Total:$525,000
The purchase of storage furniture and the relocation of the museum's 6,882 item regional ethnographic collection to a new repository.
http://www.musnaz.org/

Spertus College of Judaica, Chicago, IL
Outright:$400,000
The purchase and installation of compact storage furniture and the move and re housing of library, museum, and archival collections to a new storage facility.
http://www.spertus.edu/index.php

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Outright:$365,000
Match:  $50,000
Total:$415,000
The purchase and installation of a climate control system, storage furniture, and cold and sub zero storage for photograph collections and related materials on the American West.
http://www.berkeley.edu/

University of Florida Libraries, Gainesville, FL
Outright:$284,504
The purchase of storage furniture and supplies to rehouse 141,443 artifacts obtained from excavations conducted in 1988-95 at the Calusa Indian settlement at Pinelands, Florida, that dated to 50-1710 CE.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
Outright:$275,000
Match:  $25,000
Total:$300,000
The relocation of archaeological artifacts to a new repository and purchase of storage furniture for rehousing the collection from the Egyptian Graeco Roman site of Karanis.
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/