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Division of Preservation and AccessThrough the Division of Preservation and Access, NEH provides leadership and support to combat the physical deterioration of humanities collections in America’s libraries, museums, archives, and historical organizations. The Endowment also helps ensure access to these collections for the purposes of research, education, and public programming. Other funding goes to the creation of reference works--dictionaries, atlases, encyclopedias, and databases--that document the history and culture of the United States and the world. In fiscal year 2001, grants went to support preservation and access activities in 239 institutions in forty nine states, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. The thirteenth year of a congressionally mandated initiative for the preservation of brittle books and serials was completed in 2001. When the current projects are finished, the intellectual content of more than 1,046,091 endangered volumes will have been preserved on microfilm. Eighty-three libraries and library consortia have cooperated in this national effort, which began in 1989. Newspapers chronicle the daily life of Americans across the country. They document civic, legal, historical, and cultural events that have occurred in every region of the nation during the past three hundred years. All fifty states, two U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia have been involved in the Endowment’s United States Newspaper Program, a national initiative to catalog and preserve on microfilm the country’s newspapers on a state-by-state basis. At the conclusion of the current projects, more than 151,500 historic newspaper titles will be available in a national database and approximately sixty two million deteriorating newspaper pages will have been transferred onto microfilm. Grants made in fiscal year 2001 will preserve, stabilize, and provide intellectual access to museum, archival, and other collections important to the study of American social, cultural, and religious history. The collections include sound recordings, textiles, photographs, historical and archaeological artifacts, rare books, correspondence, manuscripts, and other documents. Among the reference works that received grants in 2001 are the Dictionary of American Regional English, the English Short Title Catalog, and the American Film Institute’s Catalog of Feature Films. Grants will support an international project called The History of Cartography and other works that are the foundation for research across many disciplines of the humanities, including the Database of Classical Bibliography and the Chicago Hittite Dictionary. NEH grants will also support the expansion of the Database of Spanish Golden Age Verse, the compilation of new volumes in the series Buildings of the United States, and the continuation of a digital corpus of papyri held by American universities. New reference works will provide bibliographic access to theses and dissertations on American Indians, data on indigenous languages in Latin America, a dictionary for the Osage language, a digitized corpus of the correspondence of Dolley Madison, land records for the state of Missouri, and a searchable corpus of Spanish historical texts. Another project will develop a database of images and information about American quilts. Five grants went to create state and regional encyclopedias covering the Midwest, New England, New Jersey, New York, and Oklahoma. A sixth encyclopedia will document the achievements of Latina women. Sixteen humanities councils received grants to develop online encyclopedias for their states. The Endowment supports projects that will establish new preservation procedures; address issues that have a national impact on libraries, archives, and museums; and generate standards for the use of digital technology in preserving or providing access to humanities resources. In 2001, two awards went to develop standards for making archival documents, publications, and reference works accessible in electronic form. A third award supported the creation of a computer-based tool for animating Labanotation, a notation system for recording dance movement. With awards up to $5,000, Preservation Assistance Grants support preservation assessments, onsite consultations, preservation training, or the acquisition of supplies and equipment. In fiscal year 2001, a Preservation Assistance Grant of $5,000 was made to Victoria Mansion in Portland, Maine, to hire a consultant to help the museum monitor the effect of environmental conditions on the long-term preservation of its collections. The Laredo Public Library in Texas received a $5,000 Preservation Assistance Grant to assess five archival collections in Laredo and convene a training seminar in basic preservation and maintenance of archival holdings for the staff of those five institutions.
George F. Farr, Jr.
Grants assist in the care of humanities collections and in the availability for use by the public.
92nd Street YM-YWHA
Ackley Heritage Center
Alabama Humanities Foundation
Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens
Alice T. Miner Museum
Amagansett Historical Association
American Antiquarian Society
American Film Institute
American Film Institute
American Folklore Society
American Institute of Physics
American Museum of Natural History
American Theological Library
AMIGOS Library Services, Inc.
AMIGOS Library Services, Inc.
Andy Warhol Museum
Animas Museum
Austin Independent School District
Becket Athenaeum, Inc.
Benzie Area Historical Society
Berea College
Billings Preservation Society, Inc.
Birmingham Museum of Art
Branford Electric Railway Association, Inc.
Bunker Hill Community College
Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives
Cameron University
Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Standards
Campbellsville University
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
Chemical Heritage Foundation
Chippewa Valley Museum
Cincinnati Museum Center
Clark County Museum
Clermont County Public Library
Cleveland Police Historical Society
College of Charleston
Columbia University
Columbia University
Connecticut Humanities Council
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
Cornell University
Corpus Christi Public Library
Country Music Foundation, Inc.
CUNY Research Foundation/Brooklyn College
CUNY Research Foundation/Graduate School and University Center
Dallas Firefighters Museum
Dallas Historical Society
Dallas Theological Seminary
Dance Notation Bureau
Dekalb County Historical Society
Del Mar College
Delhi Historical Society
Dennys River Historical Society
Duxbury Free Library
East Carolina University
East Tennessee State University
East Tennessee State University
Elfreth’s Alley Association
Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation
Ferris State University
Florida Humanities Council
Fort Bend Museum Association
Fort Lewis College
Fulton Mansion State Historic Park
Georgetown College
Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Gold Nugget Museum
GRACE
Grady McWhiney Research Foundation
Greater Portland Landmarks, Inc.
Guam Humanities Council
Hampton University
Harvard University
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Haverhill Historical Society
Hebrew Union College
Henry County Museum and Cultural Arts Center
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield
Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont
Heritage Society of Austin
Hermann-Grima Historic House
Herndon Home
Hibbing Public Library
Highlander Research & Education Center
Historical Museum at Fort Missoula
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
Humanities Council of Washington, D.C.
Humanities Tennessee
Idaho State Historical Society
Illinois State Museum
Illinois State University
Immigrant City Archives
Indiana Humanities Council
iotaCenter
Jackson County Historical Society
Jackson State University
Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum
Jewish Historical Society of Greater
Kandiyohi County Historical Society
Kellogg Public Library
Kimberly Crest House and Gardens
L.C. Bates Museum
Lakeland Public Library
Laredo Public Library
Library of Michigan
Library of Virginia
Lincoln Memorial University
Livingston Depot Foundation
Log Cabin Historical Complex
Long Island Museum of American Art, History
Longue Vue House and Gardens
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Lowndes County Probate Office
Maine Humanities Council
Maine State Library
Manchester Historic Association
Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum
Marion County Historical Society
Maritime Museum Association of San Diego
Maryland Humanities Council
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maysville and Mason County Library
Meharry Medical College
Merry-Go-Round Museum
Miami Museum of Science
Michigan Humanities Council
Michigan State University
Minnesota Humanities Commission
Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
Montana State University
Montgomery County Historical Society
Montgomery County Historical Society
Morehouse School of Medicine
Municipio Autonomo de Ponce
Museum of Art and History
Museum of Fine Arts
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Native American Educational Services College
Nevada Humanities Committee
New Durham Historical Society
New Hampshire Humanities Council
New Mexico State University
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation
New York Public Library
New York Public Library
New York University
Newberry Library
Newberry Library
North Dakota Humanities Council
North Dakota State University, Main Campus
Northeast Document Conservation
Nunez Community College
Oberlin Heritage Center
Ohio Humanities Council
Ohio State University, Main Campus
Ohio State University Research Foundation
Ohio Valley College
Oklahoma Historical Society
Old Jail Art Center
Old Stone House Museum
Park-McCullough House Association
Pejepscot Historical Society
Pikeville College
Plains Indians and Pioneers Museum
Prairie View A&M Research Foundation
Providence Public Library
Pueblo of Pojoaque
Carolyn F. Quintero
Railroad Museum of Minot
Rainy Mountain Kiowa Indian Baptist Church
Region 9 of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
Reno County Historical Society
Renville County Historical Museum
Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities
Rochester Historical Society
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Public Library
Rokeby Museum
Rutgers University Press
Saint Petersburg Historical Society Museums
Saint Petersburg Junior College
Schreiner University
Scurry County Museum
Senator Howard W. Cannon Aviation
Shaker Heights Public Library
Sheboygan County Historical Research Center
Sheldon Museum and Cultural Center, Inc.
Society of American Archivists
Society of Architectural Historians
Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
South Dakota State University
Southwest Texas State University
Squaxin Island Museum, Library, and Research
St. Louis Public Library
SUNY Research Foundation/College at Buffalo
SUNY Research Foundation/College at Plattsburgh
Syracuse University Press
Tennessee Wesleyan College
Texas A&M University at Kingsville
Texas Aviation Hall of Fame
Texas Folklife Resources
Texas Southern University
Tioga Point Museum
Town of Wytheville
Union Station Kansas City, Inc.
University of Alabama
University of Arizona
University of Arkansas
University of California
University of California
University of California
University of California
University of California
University of Charleston
University of Chicago
University of Delaware
University of Denver
University of Illinois
University of Iowa
University of Iowa
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
University of Missouri
University of Nebraska
University of New Hampshire
University of New Mexico
University of Oregon
University of Rhode Island
University of San Diego
University of South Alabama
University of South Carolina
University of South Florida
University of Southern Mississippi
University of Southern Mississippi
University of Texas
University of Texas
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin
University of Toronto
University of Virginia
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin
Upper Midwest Conservation Association
Upper Midwest Conservation Association
Utah Arts Council
Utah Museum of Natural History
Utah State Historical Society
Vermont Folklife Center
Victoria Mansion
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Ward County Historical Society
Warren Wilson College
Washakie Museum
Western Kentucky University
Weston County Museum District
William Alanson White Institute
Winthrop University
Wyoming State Archives
Yellowstone County Museum
Young Harris College
Ziegels Union Church
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