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

American Theological Library Association, Chicago, IL
Outright: $265,300
A consortial project for the preservation microfilming of 1,600 volumes from 152 brittle journals and serials on African American religious history and culture printed from 1850 to 1960. (24 months)
http://www.atla.com/

Columbia University, New York, NY
Outright: $699,666
The preservation microfilming and cataloging of 7,000 brittle Slavic language volumes published from 1850 to 1960 that are held in the university's Russian and East European collection. (24 months)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services/preservation/NEH.html

New York Public Library, New York, NY
Outright: $700,000
The preservation microfilming of 7,246 deteriorating volumes on the history of the textile and fibers industries in the United States from 1800 to 1950. (24 months)
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/grd/human.html

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Outright: $232,799
The preservation microfilming of 3,000 Chinese language monographs on Chinese history and culture published before 1976 and the digitization of 100 heavily used pamphlets. (24 months)
http://www.library.pitt.edu/

Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
Outright: $587,403
The cataloging of approximately 2,000 newspaper titles and the preservation microfilming of 61,000 pages of deteriorating newsprint, as part of Virginia's participation in the United States Newspaper Program (USNP). (24 months)
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwedo/vnp/index.htm

University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
Outright: $540,000
Match: $260,000
The cataloging of 500 newspaper titles and the preservation microfilming of 805,000 pages of deteriorating newsprint, as part of California's participation in the United States Newspaper Program (USNP). (24 months)
http://cbsr26.ucr.edu/cnp/index.html

University of Illinois, Urbana, Urbana, IL
Outright: $542,775
The cataloging of 1,600 newspaper titles as part of Illinois' participation in the United States Newspaper Program (USNP). (24 months)
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/techserv/inp/webpages/main.htm

AMIGOS Library Services, Inc., Dallas, TX
Outright: $628,300
Match: $30,000
A regional field service program, which provides workshops, 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/preserve.html

Balboa Art Conservation Center, San Diego, CA
Outright: $250,000
A regional preservation field service program that provides preservation surveys, workshops, technical consultations, and educational materials to museums and historical organizations in California, Arizona, Oregon, and Washington. (24 months)

Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies, Mt. Carroll, IL
Outright: $262,500
Educational programs for mid-career conservators and for staff of museums and historical organizations in the care of humanities collections. (24 months)

New York University, New York, NY
Outright: $178,486
Graduate education in the conservation of material culture collections. (24 months)

American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
Outright: $700,000
The improvement of storage and the creation of digital images for 10,470 ethnographic textiles from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Pacific Islands, North America, Mexico, and Central and South America. The textiles will be rehoused in new storage cabinets and digital images will be added to the online database of the museum's anthropology holdings. (24 months)

Maine State Museum, Augusta, ME
Outright: $125,114
The documentation of 6,200 artifacts that illuminate the history of Maine in the 19th and 20th centuries. (24 months)
http://www.state.me.us/museum/

Museum of New Mexico Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
Outright: $113,155
Documentation of 7,394 objects from the historic ceramic, textile, and fine arts collections of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology. (24 months)

Oakland Museum/Museum of California Foundation, Oakland, CA
Outright: $700,000
The purchase of storage furniture and the rehousing of the museum's art, history and ethnographic collections, which focus on the history of California and the American West. (17 months)

Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Outright: $258,635
The purchase of storage furniture and the rehousing of the de Saisset Museum's collections, which include fine and decorative art, historical objects, and anthropological artifacts. (24 months)

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, AL
Outright: $211,961
The cataloging of archaeological collections assembled by the Alabama Museum of Natural History from 1,100 surveys and nearly 100 excavations of prehistoric and historic sites in Alabama. (24 months)

University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK
Outright: $697,211
Rehousing and improving storage of the museum's archaeological, ethnographic, and historical collections, which focus on the prehistory and history of Alaska and the circumpolar North. (36 months)

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Outright: $83,984
The creation of an online database with associated digital images of the Florida Museum of Natural History's archaeological ceramic and bead collections. These collections represent the range of European and Euro-American ceramic and bead types found at historic period sites throughout the Americas from 1492 to ca. 1880. (12 months)

Brown University, Providence, RI
Outright: $137,749
The completion of an online textbase edition of The New Age, a British weekly magazine of politics, literature, and the arts published in the early decades of the 20th century in London. (24 months)
http://www.modjourn.brown.edu

City University of New York Research Foundation,
Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY
Outright: $175,000
Match: $65,000
The addition of 10 volumes to 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. (24 months)
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/class/dcb.htm

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA
Outright: $339,381
Creating an Urban Culture Atlas, a map-based electronic compendium that will integrate access to cataloged images and research on American colonial history, architecture, and archaeology held at Colonial Williamsburg. (24 months)
http://www.history.org/

Georgia Humanities Council, Atlanta, GA
Outright: $225,000
The creation of the online New Georgia Encyclopedia, a multi-media resource providing information on the history and cultural heritage of the state. (14 months)
http://www.georgiahumanities.org/projects/nge/

Ohio State University, Main Campus, Columbus, OH
Outright: $106,722
The completion of a one-volume encyclopedia of the American Midwest, comprising more than 1,440 overview essays and entries arranged topically. (12 months)
http://www.allmidwest.org/main_frame.html

Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, OK
Outright: $139,385
The completion of an encyclopedia of Oklahoma history and culture. (24 months)
http://www.ok-history.mus.ok.us/enc/OkEncyclopedia.htm

Oxford University Press, New York, NY
Outright: $325,685
The preparation of volume III of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang, which documents informal American English from colonial times to the present. (24 months)
http://www.oup-usa.org/

RIPM Consortium Ltd., Baltimore, MD
Outright: $324,660
The compilation of 12 volumes that document music and musical life in Europe and the United States during the 20th century. (24 months)
http://www.nisc.com/ripm/default.htm

Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Outright: $300,828
The creation of approximately 300 entries for an online encyclopedia of philosophy. (24 months)
http://plato.stanford.edu

Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY
Outright: $0
Match: $300,000
The completion of the Encyclopedia of New York State. (15 months)
http://encyclopedianys.syr.edu/

University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
Outright: $500,000
The revision of 7,000 substandard records in the English Short Title Catalog, a machine-readable database that will contain bibliographic records and holdings information for all books published through 1800 in Great Britain and its territories, or printed wholly or partly in English anywhere in the world during the period. (15 months)
http://cbsr26.ucr.edu/estcmain.html

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Outright: $178,674
The preparation of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary, a comprehensive reference work on the earliest written Indo-European language that is based on all known cuneiform texts. (12 months)
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/HIT/Hittite.html

University of Maine, Orono, Orono, ME
Outright: $293,511
The completion of the Historical Atlas of Maine. (24 months)
http://www.umaine.edu/canam/About/atstaff.htm

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
Outright: $350,000
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.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/projects/digital/apis/

University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Outright: $200,000
The development of an electronic archive of Walt Whitman's poetical work, which will contain a unified finding aid to his widely dispersed manuscripts and links to digital images and transcriptions of these documents. The archive will also include the Collected Writings of Walt Whitman and other reference materials. (24 months)
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/whitman/

University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV
Outright: $248,653
The development of an online bibliographic database of 30,000 records and selected textual materials produced after 1994 that document Basque history and culture. (24 months)
http://basque.unr.edu or http://www.library.unr.edu/depts/basqlib/

University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX
Outright: $310,557
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.ailla.org/site/welcome.html

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI
Outright: $350,000
Match: $350,000
The 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/

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI
Outright: $200,000
Match: $100,000
The final preparation of volume three, Cartography in the European Renaissance, and the compilation of volume four, Cartography in the European Enlightenment (1650-1800). (24 months)
http://www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart/index.html#Home

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, NY
Outright: $289,500
Match: $229,500
The creation of an encyclopedia on the history and culture of Eastern European Jews from their original emigration to the region until 2000. The encyclopedia will be published in print and electronic form. (25 months)
http://www.yivoinstitute.org/

California State University, Long Beach Foundation, Long Beach, CA
Outright: $161,045
The mounting on the World Wide Web of 575 hours of digitized audio pertaining to women’s history, labor history, Southeast Asian American history, and Mexican American/Chicano history. The interviews will be summarized and indexed by assigned subject terms, which will be fully searchable. (24 months)
http://www.csulb.edu/voaha

East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
Outright: $164,571
The preservation of and enhanced access to moving images from five collections created from 1939 to 1985 that document folk culture and rural life in southern Appalachia. (24 months)
http://cass.etsu.edu/archives/

Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE
Outright: $84,579
The arrangement, description, and preservation of the Raymond Loewy (1893-1986) archives that span the period from 1906 to the 1970s. (18 months)
http://www.hagley.lib.de.us/

Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Outright: $197,000
Match: $50,000
The arrangement and description of 86 archival collections comprising 1,479 linear feet that document the economic and cultural history of Pennsylvania and the mid-Atlantic region from the 17th through the 20th centuries. (24 months)
http://www.hsp.org/

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Outright: $150,526
The preservation of four collections of television programs created between 1948 and 1960 to present information about developments in the sciences to the general public. (12 months)
http://archives.mse.jhu.edu

Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
Outright: $46,636
The digitization and mounting on the World Wide Web of 3,300 19th-century American song broadsides along with searchable text of the lyrics. (18 months)
http://popmusic.mtsu.edu/

Minnesota Orchestral Association, Minneapolis, MN
Outright: $28,050
Match: $50,000
The arrangement and description of 700 linear feet of records, the microfilming of 132 scrapbooks, and the creation of 45 oral histories that document the history of the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra. (12 months)
http://special.lib.umn.edu/manuscripts/perfart.html

Naropa University, Boulder, CO
Outright: $180,000
The digital reformatting and cataloging of 1,600 hours of readings, lectures, and seminars recorded at Naropa University since 1974 by leading writers of the post-WWII avant-garde in America. (24 months)
http://www.naropa.edu/audioarchive

New York Public Library, New York, NY
Outright: $200,200
To support the cataloging of 1,100 oversize Cyrillic-script volumes published between 1700 and 1935 in Eastern Europe and Eurasia and the digitization and conservation of items selected from these volumes. (18 months)
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/slv/collection.html

New York University, New York, NY
Outright: $262,662
The arrangement, description, and cataloging of 500 feet of the archives of the veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, which encompasses 333 feet of manuscript and printed material, as well as audio cassettes and tapes, photographs, film and video, posters, paintings, and memorabilia. The project will create collection-level, machine-readable catalog records; encode finding aids; enhance non-standard microfilm; and create scanned images of photographs. (24 months)
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/

Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Outright: $208,343
The processing and rehousing of 21 collections (comprising over 600 feet of personal papers and organizational records) that document social, political, and cultural activity in Chicago during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Encoded finding aids for these collections and 25 related collections will be mounted on the Internet. (24 months)
http://www.newberry.org/nl/newberryhome.html

Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Outright: $276,289
The preservation of 120 oral histories of jazz musicians recorded from 1972 to 1983 as part of the federally-supported Jazz Oral History Project and held by the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies. (24 months)
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/abtlib/danlib/jazz.htm

University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK
Outright: $144,060
The arrangement and description of approximately 400 linear feet of field notes, correspondence, publications, and other materials pertaining to twenty Alaska Native languages. (24 months)
http://archives.anlc.uaf.edu/

University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
Outright: $207,849
The arrangement and description of 16 collections (245 feet) that document the post-Vietnam War diaspora from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Finding aids will be encoded, machine-readable cataloging records created, and a selection of 1,000 visual items and 4,000 pages of fully searchable text will be digitized and mounted on the Web. (24 months)
http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/collections/sea/seadesc.html

University of Illinois, Chicago, Chicago, IL
Outright: $151,881
The arrangement and description of 181 linear feet of records related to the Jane Addams Hull-House Association, from 1889 to the present. The project would create MARC records that will be available on the university's online catalog and through OCLC and would also create an Internet-based, EAD finding aid. (24 months)
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/index.shtml

University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD
Outright: $97,462
The arrangement and description of 140.5 linear feet of correspondence and manuscripts, 1,500 photographs, and 48 scrapbooks in 18 collections held in the Library of American Broadcasting that focus on women in the broadcasting industry from 1920 into the1980s. A finding aid to the collections would be mounted on the Internet. (12 months)
http://www.lib.umd.edu/LAB/

University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, San Juan, PR
Outright: $239,756
Cataloging and digitization of 9,992 documents and visual materials related to the history and culture of Puerto Rico in the 19th and 20th centuries. The collections include manuscripts, photographs, maps, engravings, posters, and drawings. (24 months)
http://biblioteca.uprrp.edu/

University of South Carolina, Columbia, Columbia, SC
Outright: $251,268
The preservation of 225 original newsreel stories and associated outtakes housed in the university's Movietone Newsreel Collection that date from 1927 to 1929. (24 months)
http://www.sc.edu/newsfilm/

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Outright: $80,287
The creation of an electronic archive of maps, newspapers, court records, travelers’ accounts, photographs, and census data documenting the development and impact of the railroad on the history of Virginia's Eastern Shore. (24 months)
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/research.html

Brown University, Providence, RI
Outright: $171,369
The creation of a guide for encoding printed books published before 1850 using the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines. The guide would be designed specifically for scholarly text projects that are intended for electronic presentation. (24 months)
http://www.wwp.brown.edu/

International Center of Medieval Art, New York, NY
Outright: $150,000
Match: $10,000
The creation and extension of a database of medieval limestone sculpture and architecture of western Europe. (24 months)
http://www.medievalart.org/limestone

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Outright: $393,705
The creation and testing of diagnostic tools to facilitate the identification of deteriorating audio and video formats in magnetic media collections that would enable collection managers to make informed preservation decisions. (36 months)
http://www.rit.edu/~661www1/