PRESERVATION AND ACCESS AWARDS
Division of Preservation and Access
Announced: April 2001

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) http://www.aip.org/history/nblbro.htm

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) http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/services/preservation

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) http://preserve.harvard.edu/news/microfilm.html

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) http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/grd/human.html

Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
Outright: $485,621
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) http://www.lva.lib.va.us/vnp/artne2.htm

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) http://cbsr26.ucr.edu/cnp/index.html

University of Illinois, Urbana, Urbana, IL
Outright: $173,365
The cataloging of 1,100 newspaper titles as part of Illinois' participation in the United States Newspaper Program. (24 months) http://www.library.uiuc.edu/techserv/inp/webpages/main.htm

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) http://libweb.uoregon.edu/preservn/usnp/index.html

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) http://www.amigos.org/

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) http://www.campbellcenter.org/

New York University Conservation Center, New York, NY
Outright: $170,000
Graduate education in the conservation of material culture collections. (24 months) http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/html/cns.htm

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) http://www.nedcc.org/

State University of New York, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY
Outright: $250,000
Training of conservators specializing in the preservation of material culture collections, including ethnographic and archaeological materials. (36 months) http://www.buffalostate.edu/~artcon/

University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Outright: $139,234
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) http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/MIAS.html

University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Outright: $250,000
Graduate education in the conservation of material culture collections. (36 months) http://seurat.art.udel.edu/

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) http://www.preserveart.org/

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) http://www.amnh.org/index.html

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) http://www.cvmuseum.com/

Henry Ford Musem and 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) http://www.hfmgv.org/research/building.html

Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum, St. Leonard, MD
Outright: $136,202
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) http://www.jefpat.org/2archaeology.htm

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) http://www.mfa.org/home.htm

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) http://www.montana.edu/wwwmor/

National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, D.C.
Outright: $650,000
The installation of fire suppression, smoke detection, security, and humidistatic heating and ventilation systems to protect material culture collections at Lyndhurst in Tarrytown, New York. (17 months) http://www.nationaltrust.org/

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) http://www.poehcenter.com/

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) http://www.unm.edu/~finearts/

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) http://www.afionline.org/

City University of New York, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
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) http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/diversity/programs/

City University of New York Research Foundation
Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY
Outright: $169,000
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) http://www.aph.cnrs.fr:8080/AnPhilNet/AnPhilNetUS.html

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) http://cass.etsu.edu/encyclo/EofA.html

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) http://mdavies.for.ilstu.edu/corpus/

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Outright: $199,999
The development of an online database of information and images documenting American quilts.
(24 months) http://www.quiltindex.org/

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) http://lib.nmsu.edu/

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) http://www.allmidwest.org/home2.html

Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, OK
Outright: $149,397
To support the second phase of a six-year project to create a hardbound encyclopedia of Oklahoma history and culture. (24 months) http://www.ok-history.mus.ok.us/ENC/new_page_1.htm

Carolyn F. Quintero, Tulsa, OK
Outright: $52,000
The production of an Osage Indian language dictionary. (18 months) http://www.colorado.edu/ling/cesnalps/Projects/Osage/osage.htm

Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ
Outright: $120,000
The creation of a hardbound encyclopedia of New Jersey. (24 months) http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njencyclopedia

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) http://www.sah.org/bus.html

Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY
Outright: $140,000
Match: $200,000
The completion of a hardbound encyclopedia of New York State. (24 months) http://encyclopedianys.syr.edu/friends/index.html

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) http://cbsr26.ucr.edu/estcmain.html

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)
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/HIT/Hittite.html

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) http://www.du.edu/langlit/

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) http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/

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) http://www.geog.missouri.edu/index.html

University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Outright: $153,837
The completion of a hardbound encyclopedia of New England (Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine). (15 months) http://www.unh.edu/humanities-center/ency.html

University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX
Outright: $249,998
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) http://www.gtli.locaweb.com.br/ailla.htm

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Outright: $63,670
The creation of an electronic archive of the correspondence of Dolley Madison, 1768-1849. (24 months) http://moderntimes.vcdh.virginia.edu/madison/

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) http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html

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) http://feature.geography.wisc.edu/histcart/

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) http://www.92ndsty.org/

American Folklore Society, Arlington, VA
Outright: $30,000
The development of a proto-type, online thesaurus for enthographic and folklore collections.
(12 months) http://afsnet.org/

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) http://www.cofc.edu/~jhc/index.html

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) http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation

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) http://www.country.com/hof/multimedia/hof-multimedia-f.html

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) http://www.theherndonhome.org/

Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, New Orleans, LA
Outright: $30,000
An assessment of the condition of county records pertaining to slavery; a preservation workshop for county courthouse clerks, and the preservation of 2,000 seriously endangered documents. (12 months) http://www.leh.org/

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) http://www.soundportraits.org/on-air/yiddish_radio_project/

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) http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/SpecColl.lib/spec_coll.html

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) http://www.unl.edu/libr/libs/spec/folk.html

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) http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/

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) http://history.utah.org/findaids/C00275/c0275.html

Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, VT
Outright: $20,000
Planning for the development of a prototype digital archive of folklife material. (12 months) http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/

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) http://www.dancenotation.org/

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) http://www.archivists.org/

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Outright: $131,705
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) http://www.tei-c.org/

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) http://www.jsums.edu/maw.htm

Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX
Outright: $3,246
Consultation with an archivist about preserving and making accessible the papers of Texas legislator Wilhelmina R. Delco. (12 months) http://www.tamu.edu/pvamu/library/

University of Southern Mississippi, Hattisburg, MS
Outright: $4,720
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) http://www-dept.usm.edu/~ocach

Alabama Humanities Foundation, Birmingham, AL
Outright: $48,096
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months) http://www.ahf.net/

Connecticut Humanities Council, Middletown, CT
Outright: $50,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months) http://www.cthum.org/

Florida Humanities Council, St. Petersburg, FL
Outright: $49,568
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months) http://www.flahum.org/

Guam Humanities Council, Tamuning, GU
Outright: $15,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for Guam. (12 months) http://www.guam.net/pub/guamhumanities/

Indiana Humanities Council, Indianapolis, IN
Outright: $50,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months) http://www.ihc4u.org/

Maine Humanities Council, Portland, ME
Outright: $48,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months) http://www.mainehumanities.org/

Maryland Humanities Council, Hunt Valley, MD
Outright: $50,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months) http://www.mdhc.org/

Michigan Humanities Council, Lansing, MI
Outright: $50,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months) http://mihumanities.H-net.msu.edu/

Minnesota Humanities Commission, St. Paul, MN
Outright: $48,990
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months) http://www.thinkmhc.org/

Nevada Humanities Committee, Reno, NV
Outright: $43,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months) http://www.unr.edu/nhc/index.html

New Hampshire Humanities Council, Concord, NH
Outright: $50,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months) http://www.nhhc.org/

North Dakota Humanities Council, Bismarck, ND
Outright: $50,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months) http://www.nd-humanities.org/

Ohio Humanities Council, Columbus, OH
Outright: $27,060
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months) http://www.ohiohumanities.org/

Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, Providence, RI
Outright: $49,727
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months) http://www.uri.edu/rich

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Charlottesville, VA
Outright: $45,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months) http://www.virginia.edu/vfh/

Humanities Council of Washington, D.C.
Outright: $50,000
Planning for an online encyclopedia for the state. (12 months) http://www.humanities-wdc.org/