PRESERVATION AND ACCESS AWARDS
Division of Preservation and Access
Announced: November 2003

Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI
Outright: $348,570
The preservation microfilming of 400,000 pages of newspapers, as part of Michigan's participation in the United States Newspaper Program. (24 months)
http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17449_18643---,00.html

Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, IL
Outright: $422,062
The surveying and cataloging of newspaper titles in 12 counties in northwest Illinois and the microfilming of approximately 240,000 pages, as part of Illinois's participation in the United States Newspaper Program. (24 months)
http://www.chicagohs.org/collections/newspaper.html

Pennsylvania State University, Main Campus, University Park, PA
Outright: $350,000
The preservation microfilming of approximately 222,210 pages of newspapers, as part of Pennsylvania's participation in the United States Newspaper Program. (24 months)
http://www.statelibrary.state.pa.us/libraries/cwp/browse.asp?A=2

University of the State of New York, Albany, PA
Outright: $680,866
The cataloging of 5,600 newspaper titles and the preservation microfilming of about 600,000 pages of deteriorating newsprint, as part of New York's participation in the United States Newspaper Program. (24 months)
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/

Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, Philadelphia, PA
Outright: $402,000
Match: $80,000
A regional preservation field service program that provides preservation surveys, workshops, technical consultations, and educational materials to libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations in the Mid-Atlantic states. (24 months)
http://www.ccaha.org/

Foundation of American Institute for Conservation, Washington, DC
Outright: $201,492
Professional development through workshops offered around the country for conservators responsible for the care of humanities collections. (24 months)
http://aic.stanford.edu/faic/

New York University Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
Outright: $300,000
Match: $50,000
The development and implementation of a two-year graduate degree program in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation. (24 months)
http://www.tisch.nyu.edu/page/home

Southeastern Library Network, Inc., Atlanta, GA
Outright: $579,518
Match: $20,000
A regional preservation field service program that provides preservation surveys, workshops, and educational materials to libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations in the Southeast. (24 months)
http://www.solinet.net/

State University of New York Research Foundation, Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Outright: $221,000
Graduate training of conservators specializing in the preservation of material culture collections, including ethnographic and archaeological materials. (24 months)
http://www.buffalo.edu/

University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Outright: $165,967
Graduate education in the conservation of material culture collections. (24 months)
http://www.udel.edu/

University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX
Outright: $460,000
Match: $80,000
The education of preservation administrators and conservators in the care of library and archival collections. (24 months)
http://sentra.ischool.utexas.edu/programs/pcs/

Upper Midwest Conservation Association, Minneapolis, MN
Outright: $425,000
Match: $30,000
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/

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Outright: $323,594
Educational programs focused on making more effective and efficient use of environmental control for preserving humanities collections. (24 months) http://www.rit.edu/~661www1/sub_pages/8contents.htm

Adams Museum and House, Inc., Deadwood, SD
Outright: $5,000
The preparation of a disaster preparedness and response plan to protect the museum's collections, which document the history of the city of Deadwood and the Black Hills of South Dakota. The project includes onsite training for the museum's staff and volunteers as well as the staff of neighboring cultural organizations. (18 months)

Adirondack Museum, Blue Mnt Lake, NY
Outright: $3,200
A conservation assessment of four large outdoor objects, including a locomotive and a passenger car, an ore cart, and a Barienger Brake, used in logging operations. These objects are used to interpret the history of tourism, mining, and logging in the Adirondack region of upstate New York. (18 months)

Alaska State Library and Archives, Juneau, AK
Outright: $5,000
The preservation assessment of the 19th Century territorial and 20th Century statehood records of Alaska. (18 months)

Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository, Kodiak, AK
Outright: $2,981
A preservation assessment of the museum's audio-visual collection on Native Alaskan language and culture and on-site collections care and preservation training for the museum's staff and the staff of nine other local repositories. (18 months)

American Precision Museum, Windsor, VT
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of environmental monitoring equipment, storage shelving, and the services of a conservator who would provide onsite collections care training for the museum's staff and volunteers. The collection consists of industrial and household machines, tools, and related archival materials that document the history of technology from the early 19th through the mid-20th century. (18 months)

Amherst Museum, Amherst, NY
Outright: $4,600
The purchase of supplies for the rehousing of humanities collections, which document the history of Amherst and the Niagara Frontier region of New York. (18 months)

Armenian Cultural Foundation, Arlington, MA
Outright: $5,000
A conservation assessment of the Armenian language newspaper collection and historically important Armenian language books, the curator's registration fee for a preservation management workshop, and storage supplies. (18 months)

Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment of the museum's Macdowell/Eakins collection (1879 to 1916) of 160 historical photographs and 99 other images, as well as conduct a workshop on the handling, housing, and storage of image collections. (18 months)

Assumption College, Worcester, MA
Outright: $4,875
A general preservation assessment of the library and archives of the French Institute, which focuses on the history and culture of the French Canadian immigrants who settled in New England from the mid-19th through the mid-20th century. (18 months)

Avon Free Public Library, Avon, CT
Outright: $3,496
A preservation assessment of the library's special collection on the local history of Avon, Connecticut, a New England community settled in 1645. (18 months)

Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH
Outright: $1,693
The purchase, for the Riemenschneider Bach Institute, of preventative preservation supplies consisting of fluorescent light filter sleeves and library shelf lining, based on the recommendation of a preservation professional. (18 months)

Beaufort Historical Association, Beaufort, NC
Outright: $5,000
Hiring a consultant to install environmental monitoring equipment, train staff and volunteers in the use of the equipment, and revise the society's collections plan to preserve 18th- and 19th-century textiles and artifacts. (18 months)

Benedict College, Columbia, SC
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of storage folders and supplies for the archives, dating from 1892 to the present, that document elementary and higher education for African-Americans. (18 months)

Billerica Public Library, Billerica, MA
Outright: $4,914
The preservation assessment and the purchase of boxes, folders and other supplies needed to re-house the library's special collection of archives and reference publications on the local history of Billerica, MA, a town established in Colonial America. (18 months)

Blair County Historical Society, Altoona, PA
Outright: $3,900
Consultation with a photographic conservator to assess 113 large and 22 small albumen photographs and 296 items of paper ephemera that depict the history of the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1846 to 1893. (18 months)

Bluefield State College, Bluefield, WV
Outright: $4,105
A preservation assessment of the college's Hebert Collection of Negatives (1946-1973) consisting of 5,000 negatives and 1,370 slides that document the history and culture of African-Americans from the Bluefield, West Virginia area. (18 months)

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston, MA
Outright: $5,000
Consultation with a conservator to undertake a preservation assessment of its audio and video collections created since 1943 to make recommendations for transferring them to more stable media. (18 months)

California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento, CA
Outright: $2,600
A preservation assessment of a collection of 19th-century engineering drawings created at the Sacramento General Shops of the California Pacific Railroad (CPRR). (18 months)

Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, Plymouth Notch, VT
Outright: $4,623
The purchase of storage furniture, supplies, and environmental monitoring equipment to preserve archival records and artifacts related to the life and presidency of Calvin Coolidge. (18 months)

Cascade County Historical Society, Great Falls, MT
Outright: $5,000
Consultation with archival and museum specialists to update a preservation publication, "Preferred Practices for Historical Repositories." (18 months)

Chautauqua County, Mayville, NY
Outright: $4,015
The purchase of archival supplies and environmental monitoring equipment to preserve the county's naturalization records, 1814 to1972, and the records of the county's poor farm/almshouse, 1832 to 1959. (18 months)

Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Outright: $5,000
A conservation survey of the furniture in the 1792 Moses Myers House, which is a historic house museum furnished to interpret the daily life of a prominent Norfolk family in the 19th century.
(18 months)

City of Charleston, Charleston, SC
Outright: $2,946
The purchase of storage folders and boxes for the city council archives of meeting minutes, ordinances, and resolutions, dating from 1865 to 2000. (18 months)

Clarion Free Library, Clarion, PA
Outright: $4,750
A preservation assessment of the library's special collection of archives and reference publications on the local history of Clarion County and other nearby counties in Pennsylvania. (18 months)

College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment of the Newhall, Enyeart and Malone Collection of books, periodicals, ephemera, and archives in the history of photography. The consultant will assess the conservation treatment needs of the collection and draft a long-range preservation plan. (18 months)

College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN
Outright: $4,937
A preservation assessment of the Ade Bethune Collection, which includes artifacts and personal and professional materials of the liturgical artist and activist (1914-2002). (18 months)

Colonial Dames of America, Chapter II, Philadelphia, PA
Outright: $4,950
Hiring a consultant to develop an emergency preparedness and response plan and handbook and to conduct workshops to train staff and volunteers in the appropriate procedures to preserve and protect the collections of Lemon Hill Mansion. (18 months)

Columbia County Historical Society, Kinderhook, NY
Outright: $5,000
Preservation training for staff and volunteers and the implementation of an environmental monitoring and integrated pest management program. The archival and material culture collections document the historical and cultural heritage of Columbia County. (18 months)

Columbus State University - Simon Schwob Memorial Library, Columbus, GA
Outright: $3,810
A preservation assessment of archives, manuscripts and bound volumes related to the political, social, cultural, and economic history of Columbus, Georgia, and the surrounding region. (18 months)

Crotched Mountain Foundation, Greenfield, NH
Outright: $5,000
Attending a "Managing Preservation" workshop, as well as the preservation assessment and purchase of environmental monitoring equipment, shelving, and storage supplies to care for the archives of a foundation that document charitable services to disabled children and adults in New Hampshire during the 20th century. (18 months)

Crumley Lutheran Archives, Columbia, SC
Outright: $4,625
The purchase of shelving, ultra-violet light filters, and storage enclosures to preserve the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Southern and Caribbean archives dating from the early 19th century to the 1980s. (18 months)

Dallas Public Library, Dallas, TX
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra archives, dating from the 1940s to the 1990s. (18 months)

Delaware State University, Dover, DE
Outright: $4,470
A preservation assessment of the university's institutional archives, consisting of 109 cubic feet of records related to the history of this historically black institution since its founding in 1891. (18 months)

Dennys River Historical Society, Dennysville, ME
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of archival supplies, shelving, and environmental monitoring equipment and consultation with a conservator who will provide preservation training for the society's staff and volunteers in preparation for rehousing collections that document the history and culture of Eastern Maine.
(18 months)

Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO
Outright: $5,000
Consultation with a conservator to plan and organize a Disaster Preparedness Response and Recovery Plan for the institution's archaeological and ethnographic collections, associated paper-based and audio and image archives, and research library. (18 months)

Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
Outright: $4,190
A conservation assessment and the development of treatment plans for 100 vehicles that range from an 1817 covered wagon to a prototype 1963 turbine Mustang. (18 months)

Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA
Outright: $4,767
A preservation assessment of Archbishop Alemany Library's rare books and special collections, with special attention to two unique manuscripts and one photo portfolio, and a preservation workshop for staff and other local librarians. (18 months)

Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
Outright: $4,992
A general preservation assessment of the collections, the environment, and the facility, and the preparation of a long-range plan addressing current preservation needs and establishing priorities for future projects. Also the purchase of preservation supplies as recommended by the consultant.
(18 months)

Emory and Henry College, Emory, VA
Outright: $2,736
A preservation assessment of the college's institutional archives, 1837 to the present, the records of the defunct Martha Washington College, 1858 to 1931, and the records of an annual conference of the United Methodist Church, 1824 to the 1980s. (18 months)

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Outright: $5,000
A general preservation assessment of a collection of early 20th-century ceramics, now on permanent exhibition in the museum. (18 months)

Ferguson Library, Stamford, CT
Outright: $3,879
The preservation assessment of a local history collection of reference resources and archival holdings related to Stamford, Connecticut. (18 months)

Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, Peaks Island, ME
Outright: $4,230
A preservation assessment and the purchase of storage furniture for the museum's Civil War and local history collections, which document the Fifth Maine Regiment and life on Peaks Island and Casco Bay, Maine. (18 months)

Forbes Library, Northampton, MA
Outright: $1,420
The purchase and installation of dataloggers to provide information about the fluctuation of temperature and humidity in the areas housing special collections. (18 months)

Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL
Outright: $4,943
An overall preservation assessment of the permanent collection, resulting in a comprehensive survey report. (18 months)

Garfield County Public Library, New Castle, CO
Outright: $3,909
The purchase of shelving, storage enclosures, and supplies to re-house the local history collection of rare books, archival records, and reference material. (18 months)

General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, New York, NY
Outright: $4,136
A preservation assessment of the society's collections, including 200 linear feet of archives, and 150,000 books and periodicals that document the history of the guild founded by artisans in 1785 as a mutual protection association. (18 months)

Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, SC
Outright: $4,969
The purchase of archival supplies and furniture to rehouse collections related to the gallery's institutional history, local art and artists, and the built environment of Charleston, South Carolina and surrounding region from 1858 to the present. (18 months)

Goucher College, Towson, MD
Outright: $4,900
A preservation assessment of the library's Special Collections, which include 3,400 humanities volumes and 500 linear feet of college archives. (18 months)

Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA
Outright: $3,740
A preservation assessment of the Pioneer Valley Resource Center collection, which will include the development of a long-range plan for its preservation. (18 months)

Harding University Graduate School of Religion, Memphis, TN
Outright: $3,800
A general preservation assessment and the purchase of storage supplies for mission reports, bulletins, newsletters, pamphlets, personal papers, scrapbooks, photographs, and audio and video tapes related to the operation of the university and the work of the Church of Christ. (18 months)

Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
Outright: $4,856
The purchase of museum storage furniture to house 90 Native American fiber baskets, mats, and boxes, collected from 1870 to1920, which are a part of the Willard E. Yager Collection, bequeathed to the college in 1929. (18 months)

Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Outright: $5,000
The services of a consultant and the acquisition of materials and equipment for setting up programs for integrated pest management and environmental monitoring. (18 months)

Ipswich Historical Society, Ipswich, MA
Outright: $3,035
A survey to assess the preservation and conservation needs of the bound volumes that comprise the first lending library in Ipswich, and a workshop attended by members of the staffs of the Historical Society, the Ipswich Public library, and the Ipswich Town Clerk's Office, that would address preservation issues in small institutions. (18 months)

Jackson State University, Jackson, MS
Outright: $3,155
The purchase of storage furniture and environmental monitoring and control equipment for the Margaret Walker Alexander Collection. (18 months)

James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Outright: $3,970
A preservation assessment of the general humanities and special collections and the library facility in which they are housed. (18 months)

Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, NC
Outright: $5,000
Consultation with two conservators to assess the university's Publication Records Collection and Manuscript and Letters Collection (dating from 1904), the Photograph Collection (1867 to the present), and the Record Album Collection (dating to the 1940s). (18 months)

Kandiyohi County Historical Society, Willmar, MN
Outright: $3,364
The purchase of storage furniture to house the society's humanities collections, which document the history of the county from the mid-1800s to the present. (18 months)

L.C. Bates Museum, Hinckley, ME
Outright: $4,450
The purchase of environmental monitoring equipment and archival storage supplies, and the services of a consultant to supervise installation of the equipment and to provide training for staff and volunteers who will rehouse collections. The collections interpret late 19th and early 20th century life for local Quaker families who settled this area of Maine and for matrons, teachers and orphan children from Good Will-Hinkley Homes. (18 months)

Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
Outright: $5,000
A general preservation assessment and storage supplies for the institution's archives, which document the history of the art center from its founding in 1979 to the present. (18 months)

Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, NC
Outright: $4,495
Staff attendance at an archives preservation workshop and the purchase of preservation supplies for books, pamphlets, and photographs related to the history of Appalachia from the mid-19th century to the present. (18 months)

Lenox Library Association, Lenox, MA
Outright: $5,000
Two workshops on basic preservation processing of archival records and the purchase of metal shelving and storage enclosures and supplies, as well as a thermo-hygrometer environmental monitor, in order to preserve the manuscript papers of a prominent 19th century Massachusetts politician and judge, Julius Rockwell. (18 months)

Lincoln County Historical Association, Lincolnton, NC
Outright: $2,900
A preservation assessment of the Lincoln County Museum of History's humanities collections, which document the history of Lincoln County, North Carolina. (18 months)

Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie, NY
Outright: $5,000
Purchasing storage furniture to rehouse a textile collection that relates to 19th- and 20th-century history and culture in the Hudson River Valley. (18 months)

Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Greenvale, NY
Outright: $3,335
Purchasing storage furniture and supplies to rehouse 54 Pre-Columbian textiles from the permanent collection of Hillwood Art Museum. (18 months)

Longmont Museum, Longmont, CO
Outright: $4,728
A preservation assessment and development of a long-range preservation plan for the museum's artifact and archival collections, which document the history of daily life, special events, local businesses, and interests of Longmont, Colorado. (18 months)

Mackinac State Historic Parks, Mackinac Island, MI
Outright: $4,829
The purchase of museum storage furniture to house historic artifacts and associated documentation at the Petersen Center of Archaeology and History, the repository for historic military, industrial, and domestic artifacts excavated at Fort Michimilimackinac and nearby settlements from the period 1805 to 1876. (18 months)

Maine Historical Society, Portland, ME
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment and the development of a long-range preservation plan for the society's library, archival and material culture collections, which focus on the history of Maine. (18 months)

Maine State Museum, Augusta, ME
Outright: $5,000
The preservation assessment of nine iron cannons recovered in 1995 from the wreck of the English merchant ship Nottingham Galley, commanded by Captain John Deane, which sunk near Boon Island, Maine after striking rocks in 1710. (18 months)

Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
Outright: $4,271
The purchase of supplies to rehouse selected portions of the college archives collection, as recommended in a previously conducted preservation survey. (18 months)

Mason County Museum, Maysville, KY
Outright: $5,000
Consultation with a conservator who would work with the museum's staff and architects as they plan for a new building that will include space for the storage of collections, which document the settlement and development of Maysville, Kentucky and Mason County. (18 months)

Massachusetts Audubon Society, Lincoln, MA
Outright: $5,000
The creation of a collections-handling policy and in-house training and work sessions for staff and volunteers. (18 months)

Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of storage furniture and supplies to preserve correspondence, plans, drawings, photographs, audiotapes and other archival records related to the installation of over 200 art exhibitions since the founding of the museum in 1979. (18 months)

Mepkin Abbey, Moncks Corner, SC
Outright: $4,530
A preservation needs assessment and long range plan for the general collection and special collections of rare books and archives of the Abbey, Henry and Clare Booth Luce, and local rural churches.
(18 months)

Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
Outright: $4,974
A preservation assessment of manuscript collections and printed volumes related to the social, economic, educational, and industrial history of Michigan's Western Upper Peninsula and the Keweenaw copper mining district, 1840s to the present. (18 months)

Middletown Springs Historical Society, Inc., Middletown Springs, VT
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of environmental monitoring equipment and storage supplies, as well as on-site training and supervision for museum volunteers who will move and rehouse the historical society's local history collection in a newly renovated storage room. (18 months)

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Outright: $3,715
A preservation survey of the collections from the institute's Library, Archives, and Slide Library, as well as materials housed elsewhere that document the history and collections of the museum.
(18 months)

Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MO
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of emergency response supplies to protect the society's collections, which document the history of St. Louis, the Louisiana territory, and the American West. (18 months)

Moffatt-Ladd House and Garden, Portsmouth, NH
Outright: $4,956
The purchase and installation of environmental monitoring equipment and the establishment of a program to study the effects of relative humidity and temperature on the museum's collection of furniture, paintings, textiles, and decorative arts, which are displayed in the 1763 National Historic Landmark house. (18 months)

Mohawk Valley Heritage Association, Amsterdam, NY
Outright: $5,000
Hiring a consultant to evaluate storage needs of the collections, develop comprehensive plans for improved storage areas, and train volunteers in procedures for rehousing local material culture and ethnographic collections. (18 months)

Monroe County Public Library, Key West, FL
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment, two workshops on the handling and conservation of paper-based collection and the purchase of storage enclosures and supplies, to preserve Spanish-American War-era sheet music, World War II-era labor identification records, and 19th Century court records, which document Key West local history. (18 months)

Montana Historical Society, Helena, MT
Outright: $3,852
The purchase of environmental monitoring and cleaning equipment to help and preserve the society's microfilm collection of newspapers that represents 95% of all newspapers published in Montana since 1864. (18 months)

Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Outright: $5,000
Purchasing storage equipment and supplies and hiring a consultant to conduct a one-day training workshop for the museum's staff to rehouse 60 Native American textiles in a new storage vault.
(18 months)

Morris County Heritage Commission, Morristown, NJ
Outright: $4,363
The preservation assessment of county judicial and local government records, dating from 1740 to 1968, that document the history of Morris County. (18 months)

Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ
Outright: $4,985
The purchase of museum storage furniture to rehouse the museum's collection of Southwestern Native American jewelry and silver, comprising 2,234 pieces, created by Hopi, Navajo, Zuñi, and Eastern Pueblo peoples from the late 1880s to the present. (18 months)

Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of archival storage furniture and acid-free storage boxes to rehouse 100 oversize photographs in the museum's 20th-century collection, and the hiring of a conservator to oversee the installation of the furniture in a new climate-controlled storage vault. (18 months)

National College of Naturopathic Medicine Library, Portland, OR
Outright: $4,971
A preservation assessment of the facilities, collections, and policies, with particular attention to the special collection of books, pamphlets, and periodicals that focuses on medical movements in Germany and the United States from the early 19th century through the mid-20th century. (18 months)

New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA
Outright: $5,000
A general preservation assessment of the museum's ethnographic collection of 925 artifacts related to the Oceanic and Northern Pacific expeditions by nineteenth-century Yankee whalers, and a more detailed conservation assessment of 120 objects that will be installed in the museum's core exhibit in 2005. (18 months)

New Castle Historical Society, New Castle, DE
Outright: $3,274
The purchase of environmental monitoring equipment to study conditions in the society's two historic house museums, which exhibit collections that document New Castle's history and its Dutch heritage. (18 months)

New Mexico Commission of Public Records- State Records Center and Archives, Santa Fe, NM
Outright: $4,670
Training for members of the commission's archival staff that includes attendance at a two-week summer institute and a one-week workshop on the preservation of still and moving image collections. (18 months)

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York, NY
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of storage furniture and preservation supplies to rehouse books, periodicals, manuscripts, microforms, and electronic records related to local history and New York State genealogy. (18 months)

Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh, NY
Outright: $4,308
A general preservation assessment of the library's special collection on the local history of Newburgh, New York, and related county and state history. (18 months)

Nooksack Indian Tribe, Deming, WA
Outright: $5,000
Hiring a consultant to conduct a preservation workshop for the tribal archives' staff and to purchase storage equipment and supplies for collections related to tribal history, culture, and language.
(18 months)

North Dakota State University, Main Campus, Fargo, ND
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of preservation supplies to rehouse 8,000 photographic prints in archival collections in the university's Institute for Regional Studies that document the history and culture of North Dakota from 1870 to 1915. (18 months)

North Scituate Public Libraray, North Scituate, RI
Outright: $3,154
A preservation assessment of the library's special collection of archives and reference publications on the history of Scituate, Rhode Island. (18 months)

Olmsted County Historical Society, Rochester, MN
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of preservation supplies to rehouse 36,000 photographic prints and negatives from the society's Cutshall Photography Collection that documents the history and culture of Olmsted County, Minnesota since 1850. (18 months)

Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Outright: $2,345
Training for the museum's registrar who would attend a one week workshop, "Preserving Photographs in a Digital World," to be held at the Image Permanence Institute/ George Eastman House in Rochester, New York in August 2004. (18 months)

Pearl S. Buck International, Perkasie, PA
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of supplies and environmental monitoring equipment to preserve archival collections related to the life of Pearl Buck and to organizations that she founded that date from 1890 to the present. (18 months)

Pennsylvania Public Radio Associates, Inc., Chester Springs, PA
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of preservation equipment to monitor the repository's environment and supplies to rehouse the institution's collection of more than 600 audio interviews and documentary programs on contemporary composers and musicians created since the 1980s. (18 months)

Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport, ME
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of storage units and archival-quality map folders for the museum's historic collection of oversized nautical charts. (18 months)

Philadelphia Theological Seminary, Wynnewood, PA
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of environmental monitoring systems--data loggers and smoke detectors--for the library's 20,000 volume rare book collection of theology, philosophy, ecclesiastical history, American history, canon law, and the classics. (18 months)

Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
Outright: $5,000
A long-range preservation plan and a day-long workshop for the project team and board members and other museum professionals in the state. (18 months)

Plymouth Antiquarian Society, Plymouth, MA
Outright: $4,969
Purchasing storage shelving and supplies to rehouse historic textiles from the New England area.
(18 months)

Portland State University, Portland, OR
Outright: $3,600
Two workshops, one addressing emergency preparedness and another collections care and maintenance, whose participants will include the staff members of sixteen repositories in the greater Portland region. (18 months)

Rensselaer County Historical Society, Troy, NY
Outright: $4,572
Purchasing storage supplies and hiring a conservator to conduct a workshop to train staff and volunteers to preserve historic clothing and textile collections that relate to the history of upstate New York. (18 months)

Richard I. Bong WWII Heritage Center, Superior, WI
Outright: $4,988
A preservation assessment, the purchase of environmental monitoring equipment, and attendance at a collections care workshop, which will help the museum preserve its collection of WWII era material culture and archival collections. (18 months)

Rochester Historical Society, Rochester, NY
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of shelving and supplies to rehouse the society's are book collection. (18 months)

Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of supplies necessary to house the archival collection of correspondence, photographs, architectural drawings, and back files of the student newspaper. (18 months)

Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum, Inc., New Bedford, MA
Outright: $3,710
Hiring a consultant and purchasing environmental monitoring equipment to preserve collections in a historic house that relate to the maritime history of Massachusetts. (18 months)

Russell Library, Middletown, CT
Outright: $2,424
The purchase of boxes, folders, polyester film sleeves, and other supplies to re-house archives and manuscripts dating from 1805 to 1977 that document the public history of Middletown, Connecticut. (18 months)

Salt Lake County Records Management and Archives, Salt Lake City, UT
Outright: $4,800
A preservation assessment of Salt Lake County's 19th-century territorial period records. (18 months)

Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, NY
Outright: $3,494
Consultation with a photographic conservator to assess of 295,000 acetate and nitrate negatives and 934 motion pictures that document the history of the General Electric Company from 1878 to 1971. (18 months)

Seneca Falls Historical Society, Seneca Falls, NY
Outright: $4,388
A preservation assessment of archival records related to local history and genealogy from the 1700s to the late 19th century. (18 months)

Sheffield Historical Society, Sheffield, MA
Outright: $5,000
Purchasing storage equipment and hiring a conservator to conduct training for the museum's staff and volunteers to rehouse textile collections. (18 months)

Somerville Public Library, Somerville, NJ
Outright: $4,996
The preservation assessment and the purchase of storage enclosures and supplies to re-house the archives and reference collections pertaining to the history of Somerville, New Jersey. (18 months)

South Dakota State Historical Society, Pierre, SD
Outright: $5,000
The preservation assessment of South Dakota's 19th- and 20th- Century land survey records.
(18 months)

Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum, Ignacio, CO
Outright: $4,730
Consultation with a conservator to complete a disaster preparedness response and recovery plan for the institution's archaeological and ethnographic collections (and associated archives) and holding an on-site emergency preparedness workshop. (18 months)

Southold Historical Society, Southold, NY
Outright: $2,500
A preservation assessment of the society's local history archives, 1650 to the present. (18 months)

St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg, FL
Outright: $5,000
The services of a consultant who will make recommendations for shelving, storage, display, and other equipment and materials to the architects and designers who are planning an area for special collections and archives in the West St. Petersburg Community Library. (18 months)

Stanley-Whitman House, Farmington, CT
Outright: $5,000
A conservation assessment of the Farmington Library, a complete subscription library dating from the 18th century, and the purchase of supplies and environmental monitoring equipment. (18 months)

Stephen Phillips Memorial Trust House, Salem, MA
Outright: $3,914
Purchasing storage supplies to rehouse a clothing collection that relates to the life of women in Massachusetts from the 1890s to the 1930s. (18 months)

State University of New York Research Foundation, Albany, NY
Outright: $4,638
Consultation with an archivist to conduct a preservation needs assessment of the accession files and other collections-related documentation for 3,000 ethnographic objects and two million archaeological artifacts (9000 BCE to CE 1930) housed in the New York State Museum Anthropology Collection, systematically collected since 1843. (18 months)

Sweetwater County Historical Museum, Green River, WY
Outright: $5,000
Training in disaster preparedness and response for staff and volunteers at the Sweetwater County Historical Museum and neighboring cultural institutions. (18 months)

Tampa Bay Library Consortium, Inc., Tampa, FL
Outright: $5,000
Three one-day workshops, "Preservation Management," "Dealing with Disasters in Libraries and Museums," and "Care of Photographic Materials" that would accommodate a total of 90 participants from the staffs of five public libraries which care for local history collections held in the Tampa, Florida area. (18 months)

Tennessee Wesleyan College, Athens, TN
Outright: $5,000
Attendance by library administrators at a preservation management workshop, attendance by staff members at a fundamental and an intermediate book repair workshop, and the purchase of environmental monitoring equipment. (18 months)

Tioga County Historical Society, Owego, NY
Outright: $4,789
Consultation with a security and preservation consultant who will help draft a disaster preparedness and response plan to protect the society's collections of 19,000 objects, which document the industry and community of Tioga County, New York. (18 months)

Tohono O'odham Nation, Sells, AZ
Outright: $4,912
The purchase of storage furniture and preservation supplies for the tribal library and archives' manuscripts, photographs, and other materials related to tribal history that date from 1890 to the present. (18 months)

Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum, Exeter, RI
Outright: $5,000
A general preservation assessment of the museum's 5,000 ethnographic objects and 7,500-item archives that document the heritage of this Native American group located in Rhode Island. Preservation supplies recommended by a consultant would be purchased and a two-day in-house collections care workshop will be conducted. (18 months)

Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS
Outright: $4,825
A preservation assessment of 5,000 linear feet of institutional archives as well records of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. (18 months)

Town of Atkinson, Atkinson, NH
Outright: $3,240
The preservation assessment of the New Hampshire town of Atkinson's municipal archives, dating from 1767 to the present. (18 months)

Tread of Pioneers Museum, Steamboat Springs, CO
Outright: $4,925
A workshop on basic collections care for the museum's staff and board members and a preservation assessment of the museum's collections, which include artifacts and archival materials related to the history of Steamboat Springs and the Yampa Valley. (18 months)

Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block, Tucson, AZ
Outright: $5,000
A general preservation assessment of the museum's Art of the Americas Collection comprising 2,400 artifacts that includes 500 Pre-Columbian artifacts (pottery, jewelry and textiles), 1,100 Mexican folk art objects, 245 dance masks, 108 Mexican votive paintings, and papier mâché, ceramic, metal, and lacquer ware artifacts from cultures in the American Southwest and Central America. (18 months)

Tudor Place Foundation, Inc., Washington, DC
Outright: $5,000
A conservation assessment of 800 works of art on paper documenting the history of Tudor Place, a historic house and museum in Washington, D.C. (18 months)

Tularosa Basin Historical Society, Alamogordo, NM
Outright: $5,000
Hiring a conservator to conduct a general preservation assessment and to hold a training workshop for the society's staff and volunteers to preserve material culture collections that relate to the history and culture of New Mexico. (18 months)

Union Station Kansas City, Inc., Kansas City, MO
Outright: $5,000
Consultation with a conservator to oversee the rehousing of a select group of 300 19th century Native American ethnographic and historic objects that are predominantly from the American Great Plains, and the purchase of museum storage furniture to house these artifacts. (18 months)

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of supplies to rehouse archival holdings and to photocopy fragile documents in order to implement a preservation plan for the Arizona State Museum's collection of 20th Century ethnic research on the American Southwest. (18 months)

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment of the Harn Museum of Art's storage facilities, which house the permanent collection. (18 months)

University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of storage furniture to house documentation of artifact collections held by the Office of the State Archaeologist and housed at the University of Iowa that document the state's cultural heritage for 13 millennia before 1833. (18 months)

University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Outright: $4,620
A general preservation needs assessment for library materials in all formats, and the drafting of a long-range plan for the preservation of the libraries' humanities collections. (18 months)

University of Mississippi, Main Campus, University, MS
Outright: $4,810
A general preservation assessment to develop a long-range preservation plan for the university's Archives and Special Collections Department, which houses a multi-media collection that contains 35,000 printed works, 300,000 images, and 50,000 sound recordings created since the 1930s.
(18 months)

University of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, MO
Outright: $4,218
Hiring a consultant to conduct a preservation assessment and to develop a long-range plan to rehouse and preserve a collection of historic textiles related to the history of Missouri. (18 months)

University of Montana, Missoula, MT
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment that will provide the basis for creating a full preservation program for the library's collections. (18 months)

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Outright: $2,898
A general preservation planning assessment of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts' collections, storage conditions, policies and procedures, and emergency preparedness. (18 months)

University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, WA
Outright: $4,823
The preservation assessment of a collection of architectural drawings that document the history of building in the Puget Sound area from the 1870s to the present. (18 months)

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of museum-quality storage shelving for the collections of large decorative art objects and sculpture at the Elvehjem Museum of Art. (18 months)

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
Outright: $4,927
A preservation assessment of the rare materials collection of the American Geographical Society Library. (18 months)

Webster Museum and Historical Society, Webster, NY
Outright: $5,000
Hiring a consultant to develop a plan to rehouse historic clothing and textile collections that relate to the history and culture of upstate New York. (18 months)

Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of storage furniture and supplies to rehouse the Mountain Heritage Center's collection of transportation-related objects that document life in southern Appalachia. (18 months)

Wheaton Historic Preservation Council, Wheaton, IL
Outright: $5,000
A general preservation assessment of the museum's collections, which focus on the history of the town from its founding in 1830 to the present. (18 months)

Yarmouth Historical Society, Yarmouth, ME
Outright: $4,943
The installation of environmental monitoring equipment and the purchase of supplies needed to rehouse humanities collections, which focus on the history of Yarmouth, Maine, first settled in 1636.
(18 months)