PRESERVATION AND ACCESS AWARDS
Division of Preservation and Access
Announced: March 2005

American Theological Library Association, Chicago, IL
Outright: $402,000
The preservation microfilming of 2,700 volumes from 400 brittle journals and serials on the religions of Hispanic and indigenous peoples of the Americas printed from 1850 to 1985.
http://www.atla.com/

Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY
Outright: $626,000
The preservation microfilming and cataloging of 5,200 brittle Slavic language volumes published from 1850 to 1960 held in the university's Russian and East European collection.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services/preservation/NEH.html

New York Public Library, New York, NY
Outright: $350,000
The preservation microfilming of 4,000 deteriorating volumes on the history of banking and finance in the United States published from 1800 to 1950.
http://www.nypl.org/

American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
Outright: $307,000
The creation of a machine-readable catalog of all books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the United States and Canada between 1801 and 1820.
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/

American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
Outright: $335,545
The creation of digital images of 17,400 ethnographic artifacts and associated manuscript pages, photographs, drawings, and watercolors from Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, and Australia. The images and accompanying documentation will be added to the online database of the museum's anthropology holdings.
http://www.amnh.org/

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo,
Outright: $249,000
San Luis Obispo, CA The arrangement, description, and creation of digital images and online finding aids for manuscripts by and about California architect, Julia Morgan (1872-1957).
http://www.calpoly.edu/

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Outright: $340,000
The arrangement, description, and minor repairs to 26,400 black-and-white photographic negatives that document African-American history and culture in Pittsburgh from 1935 through 1975. A searchable Internet-accessible catalog and finding aids would be created and 28,000 digitized positive images would also be mounted on the Internet.
http://www.cmoa.org/

Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL
Outright: $170,614
Cataloging 3,537 rare books, serials, and monographic series related to the history of horticulture and landscape design in the Western world from 1400 to 1900.
http://www.chicago-botanic.org/

Columbia College, Chicago, Chicago, IL
Outright: $93,922
The digital reformatting of 130 interviews and musical performances and the arrangement and description of the manuscript papers of three twentieth-century scholars of African-American music.
http://www.colum.edu/

Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY
Outright: $155,358
The arrangement, description, rehousing, and cataloging of a multimedia collection that documents the history of Japanese theater from 1960 through the 1990s. An Internet-accessible finding aid would be created in English and Japanese.
http://www.columbia.edu/

Indiana University, Bloomington, Bloomington, IN
Outright: $200,000
Five expeditions to Ukraine to conduct oral history interviews with surviving Yiddish speakers about Jewish life in the region prior to the Holocaust.
http://www.indiana.edu/

Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum, St. Leonard, MD
Outright: $150,481
Preserving and cataloging 185,000 original archaeological and laboratory records (paper-based reports and photographic images) associated with 34 major historic and prehistoric archaeological sites in Maryland dating from 9,000 BCE to CE 1600.
http://calvert-county.com/patpk.htm

Museum of the Cherokee Indian, Cherokee, NC
Outright: $168,274
A two-year project to digitize Cherokee language materials in the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution and to work with Cherokee elders to translate and assess these materials.
http://www.cherokeemuseum.org/

New York State Education Department, Albany, NY
Outright: $300,000
The creation of 97 online bilingual finding aids and 3,000 linked digital images focusing on the history of New York's Latino population since 1920.
http://www.nysed.gov/

New York University, New York, NY
Outright: $298,115
Creating the Afghanistan Digital Library of rare books and documents published in Afghanistan.
http://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/

Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Outright: $300,000
Providing integrated, consistent, and expanded online access to 1,600 archival and manuscript collections at seventeen institutions in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington, which includes providing administrative and technical support and training participants in encoding and the use of style sheets.
http://nwda.wsulibs.wsu.edu/

Schenectady Museum Association, Schenectady, NY
Outright: $180,412
Digitizing and cataloging 12,000 General Electric Company photographs, dated 1892-1971, and developing a Web site featuring the images that depict the impact of electric power on 20th-century American life. Additionally, cold storage units, boxes, and folders would be purchased to re-house 68,000 acetate and 12,000 nitrate negatives.
http://www.schenectadymuseum.org/

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Outright: $141,516
The digital reformatting, application of retrieval metadata, and cataloging of 583 hours of sound recordings dated 1885 to 1957 that collectively represent nine extinct or endangered Mesoamerican languages.
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/lla/

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Outright: $200,503
Arranging and describing 2,662 linear feet of archives and manuscripts relating to the history and culture of Eastern Kentucky and Central Appalachia. The records are from 51 collections and date from the mid-19th century to the late 1970s.
http://www.uky.edu/RGS/AppalCenter/home/Links/

Yale University, New Haven, CT
Outright: $300,000
The preservation microfilming and cataloging of 2,500 volumes selected from 16,000 embrittled volumes in the Edward E. Salisbury Collection of Arabic languages and culture. An additional 1,400 volumes would receive minor conservation treatment.
http://www.library.yale.edu/neareast/collection.html

Columbia University, New York, NY
Outright: $350,000
Match: $350,000
Preparation of the "Encyclopædia Iranica," a multi-volume reference work on the Near East and Central Asia.
http://www.iranica.com/

CUNY Research Foundation, Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY
Outright: $200,000
Match: $100,000
The completion of the "Database of Classical Bibliography," an electronic resource containing the retrospective volumes of "L'Année Philologique," the international bibliography of record for the field of classical studies.
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/class/dcb.htm

George Washington University, Washington, DC
Outright: $336,239
The creation of an online edition of Eleanor Roosevelt's syndicated newspaper column, "My Day," which ran six days a week, producing some 7,200 columns from 1935 through 1962.
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers

Guam Humanities Council, Hagatna, GU
Outright: $300,000
The second phase of a seven-year project to create an online encyclopedia of Guam.
http://www.guampedia.com

RIPM Consortium Ltd., Baltimore, MD
Outright: $350,000
The compilation of twelve volumes documenting music and musical life in Europe and the United States during the first half of the twentieth century.
http://www.ripm.org/

Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Outright: $150,000
The creation of approximately 240 entries to be published in the "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy" (SEP), a freely accessible online reference work.
http://plato.stanford.edu/

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Outright: $168,261
The transcription and encoding of field notes on the extinct language of the Mutsun, a California Indian tribe, resulting in a text database and a lexical/dictionary database, to be available also in print.
http://linguistics.arizona.edu/

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Outright: $280,000
Preparation of the "Chicago Hittite Dictionary," a comprehensive historical dictionary of the earliest written Indo-European language that is based on all known cuneiform texts dating from 1650 to 1180 B.C.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/HIT/Hittite.html

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
Outright: $370,000
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.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/apis/apis.html

University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
Outright: $200,000
The final editing of information about slaves and free blacks to be added to an online database containing information drawn from the analysis of petitions to the legislatures and county courts in fifteen former slaveholding states and the District of Columbia, dating from the American Revolution through the Civil War.
http://library.uncg.edu/slavery%5Fpetitions/

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Outright: $225,000
The preparation of a reference grammar of Cemaun Arapesh, an endangered Sepik River language of Papua New Guinea, and the creation of a digital language archive and of a multilingual Web site for educational purposes.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI
Outright: $300,000
Match: $300,000
The compilation of the fifth volume of the "Dictionary of American Regional English" (DARE), which documents geographical differences in the vocabulary, pronunciation, and morphology of American English.
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI
Outright: $200,000
Match: $200,000
The compilation of the fourth volume of the "History of Cartography," entitled Cartography in the European Enlightenment (1650-1800), to be structured as an encyclopedia with approximately 775 entries.
http://www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart/

Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
Outright: $201,226
The digitization of 112,000 pages of Virginia newspapers, dating from 1900 to 1910, as part of a test bed for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/news/index.htm

New York Public Library, New York, NY
Outright: $351,500
Digitization of 100,000 pages of New York newspapers, dating from 1900 to 1910, as part of the test bed for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/grd/resguides/newspapers/index.html

University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
Outright: $400,000
Digitization of 150,000 pages of California newspapers, dating from 1900 to 1910, as part of the test bed for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
http://www.cbsr.ucr.edu/

University of Florida Libraries, Gainesville, FL
Outright: $320,959
The digitization of 120,000 pages of Florida newspapers, dating from 1900 to 1910, as part of a test bed for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/digital/collections/fdnl/NDNP.htm

University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington, KY
Outright: $310,000
The digitization of 100,000 pages of Kentucky newspapers dating from 1900 to 1910, as part of a test bed for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/NDNP/

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Outright: $352,693
Digitization of 100,000 pages of Utah newspapers, dating from 1900 to 1910, as part of the test bed for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/index.html