PRESERVATION AND ACCESS AWARDS
Division of Preservation and Access
Announced: February 2004

GRANTS TO PRESERVE AND CREATE ACCESS TO HUMANITIES COLLECTIONS

Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, IL
Outright: $350,000
The creation of 1,000 cataloging records and the preservation microfilming of 250,000 pages of foreign newspapers held in United States repositories. (24 months)
http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=4&l2=20&l3=96

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Outright: $619,164
The preservation microfilming and enhanced cataloging of 2,700 embrittled volumes on American agricultural history and rural life published between 1820 and 1945 that are held by land grant university libraries in three states, and the selection of volumes for future filming by libraries in four other states. (25 months)
http://usain.org/Preservation/preservinitiative.html

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Outright: $650,996
The preservation microfilming and enhanced cataloging of 6,350 embrittled volumes on the history of science published between 1820 and 1950 that focus on the histories of medicine, astronomy, forestry, scientific biography, and scientific expeditions. (24 months)
http://preserve.harvard.edu/resources/microfilming.html

Southeastern Library Network, Inc., Atlanta, GA
Outright: $646,164
The preservation microfilming and enhanced cataloging of 5,000 embrittled volumes on American history, literature, religion, higher education, and economic development published between 1800 and 1970 that are held by 17 members of the Southeastern Library Network located in ten southeastern states and Puerto Rico. (24 months)
http://www.solinet.net/preservation/preservation_templ.cfm?doc_id=67

University of Illinois, Urbana, Urbana, IL
Outright: $393,953
The preservation microfilming and enhanced cataloging of 1,300 deteriorating volumes and the repair of an additional 2,000 volumes, published from 1832 to 1975, on the history of American railroads and their influence on American life and culture from 1820 to 1950, drawn from the collections of five Committees on Institutional Cooperation libraries. (24 months)
http://www.google.com/u/illinoisedu?q=cache:NBXBcEb-iYQJ:www.cic.uiuc.edu/groups/PreservationOfficers/archive/ProgramDescription/MicrofilmingSummaries.pdf+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Outright: $450,000
The preservation microfilming and enhanced cataloging of 4,300 embrittled volumes and minor repairs to an additional 1,500 volumes on American church history dating from 1800 to 1959. (24 months)
http://www.nd.edu/~presunit/services/reformatting.shtml

American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
Outright: $240,000
Match: $50,000
The cataloging of 10,100 imprints documenting American history and culture from 1801 through 1820, as part of the North American Imprints Program梐n electronic union catalog of books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the United States and Canada before 1877. (24 months)
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/broadsides.htm

Barnes Foundation, Merion Station, PA
Outright: $95,397
The processing of 200 linear feet of the institution's archives and the personal papers of its founder, Dr. Albert C. Barnes (1872�51.) (24 months)
http://www.barnesfoundation.org/

Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT
Outright: $180,000
The documentation of 3,806 artifacts of the Connecticut Historical Society's Home Life Collection, which includes furniture, clocks, fabric furnishings, metalware, ceramics and glassware that depict the history of technology and industry, the development of the decorative arts in the domestic environment, and the exchange of goods and ideas within American society from the settlement of Connecticut to the present. (24 months)
http://www.chs.org/

Denver Public Library, Denver, CO
Outright: $82,095
The preparation of online finding aids for 280 collections that cover the history of the American West since the mid-19th century. (25 months)
http://www.denver.lib.co.us/

Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Outright: $110,000
Match: $10,000
The cataloging of 4,000 pamphlets dealing with politics and religion, written by or for African Americans and published from 1877 to 1980. (24 months)
http://specialcollections.library.emory.edu/brochure-aa.html#2

Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Outright: $220,000
Match: $25,000
The cataloging and preservation of approximately 50,000 pieces of Civil War-era ephemera in both printed and manuscript form. Two thousand items will be selected to be digitized and mounted on the Internet. (24 months)
http://librarycompany.org/index1.htm

New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY
Outright: $151,888
The arrangement and description of 523 linear feet of archival and manuscript collections related to the history of horticulture, gardening, and landscape design in the United States since the mid-19th century. (24 months)
http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/MertzLibrary.asp

New York Public Library, New York, NY
Outright: $115,000
The arrangement and description of 200 linear feet of the papers of the playwright and screen writer Paddy Chayefsky (1923�81), as well as the creation of an EAD finding aid that will be mounted on the New York Public Library Web site. (24 months)
http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/the/the.html

New York City Department of Records and Information Services, New York, NY
Outright: $120,092
The preservation microfilming of 130 linear feet of New York County grand jury dismissed indictment records from 1844 to 1900 and the creation of a searchable database and finding aids. (18 months)
http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/home.html

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Outright: $209,908
Digitization and enhanced cataloging of over 1,300 hours of linguistic sound recordings and associated transcriptions with field notes that contain samples of 107 American Indian languages in cultural context, such as music and stories. They will be available on the Berkeley Language Center website and CD-ROM copies. (24 months)
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/

University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
Outright: $0.00
Match: $135,417
The digital imaging and cataloging of 8,500 stereoscopic photographs, which show scenes of indigenous people in settings depicting more than eighty cities in the Middle East, Central Asia, India, and Pakistan during the first half of the 20th century. (24 months)
http://cmp1.ucr.edu/

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Outright: $295,507
The cataloging and creation of online digital access to American and British children's literature, published from 1870 to 1889, when color printing first became common. (24 months)
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/baldwin/baldwin.html

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
Outright: $89,039
The digitization of 18,000 35 mm color slides, dating from 1950 to 1980, that document archaeological sites, excavations, and artifacts from the eastern and southwestern United States, and Europe. Encoded finding aids and machine-readable bibliographic records will also be created for these materials. (18 months)
http://www.umma.lsa.umich.edu/

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Outright: $378,545
Expansion of an Internet-accessible database of archival finding aids and catalog records that will provide access to humanities-related collections in Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming. (24 months)
http://www.unm.edu/~cswrref/engcollect.html

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Outright: $130,000
The arrangement, description, and preservation as well as the creation of an online finding aid for 300 linear feet of the papers of Alma Mahler (1879-1964) and her husband, the playwright and novelist Franz Werfel (1890�45). (24 months)
http://www.library.upenn.edu/rbm/

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Outright: $56,203
The reformatting of 1,814 oral history and linguistics audiotapes (1,665 hours) that document the history, cultures, and languages of forty-six Indian tribes in the American West. (12 months)
http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/index.html

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Outright: $281,154
The digital reformatting and creation of intellectual access to 19,300 hours of analog broadcast news that was captured off the air and recorded to videotape from 1968 to the present. The collection also includes 9,000 hours of news specials since 1968. (24 months)
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/

Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH
Outright: $252,330
A collaborative effort among four libraries and eight regional and state historical societies to preserve and make intellectually accessible 3,100 linear feet of records on the American steel industry (including steel mills, coal mines, and iron ore operations) from the early 19th century to the 1970s. (24 months)
http://www.wrhs.org/template.asp?id=158

American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
Outright: $200,000
The creation of a database of American electoral returns from 1788 through 1825. (24 months)
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/

American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Outright: $120,000
Match: $200,000
The preparation of a descriptive catalog of all feature-length motion pictures produced in the United States from 1971 to 1980. (18 months)
http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/

American Philological Association, Philadelphia, PA
Outright: $183,500
The preparation of two volumes of l'Ann閑 philologique, a comprehensive bibliography of research in all fields of classical studies. (36 months)
http://www.annee-philologique.com/aph/

Brigham Young University, Provo, Provo, UT
Outright: $250,000
The creation of a thirty-million word, online corpus of historical Portuguese texts from the thirteenth century to the present that would allow a variety of linguistic and literary analyses and would also contribute to the development of the Dictionary of the Old Portuguese Language. (24 months)
http://linguistics.byu.edu/home.html

Columbia University, New York, NY
Outright: $25,000
Consultation to create an online version of the Encyclop鎑ia Iranica, a multivolume reference work on the Near East and Central Asia. (12 months)
http://www.iranica.com/

Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY
Outright: $300,000
The incorporation of 9,000 images into the Digital Scriptorium, a union catalog of medieval and renaissance manuscripts from the collections of the Houghton Library of Harvard and an additional six small libraries (Fordham, Notre Dame, and Rutgers Universities, Oberlin College, the Philadelphia Free Library, and the University of Kansas.) (24 months)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/ds/

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Outright: $200,000
Match: $50,000
The creation of an authoritative common base geographic information system for Chinese history from 221 BCE to 1911 CE, in collaboration with Fudan University of Shanghai. This common base can be used to represent, analyze, and share all Chinese historical data with temporal and spatial attributes. (24 months)
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/

Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Outright: $187,120
Match: $75,000
The preparation of a multivolume, citation-based dictionary of all dialects of ancient Aramaic from the tenth century B.C. to 1400 A.D. (24 months)
http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/

Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, CA
Outright: $293,700
Completion of an electronic database containing information on baptisms, marriages, and other vital records held by California missions between 1769 and 1850. The project would also create CD-ROM versions for distribution to libraries and other institutions. (24 months)
http://www.huntington.org/

Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
Outright: $244,432
The preparation of the second and third volumes of the Dictionary of Virginia Biography, a comprehensive reference work of notable figures of the state's past. (24 months)
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/

Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Outright: $325,000
Compilation of the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, which will illustrate all changes in the boundaries, names, organization, and attachment of every United States county from 1619 to 2000. (24 months)
http://www.newberry.org/ahcbp/ie/index.html

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Outright: $200,000
The compilation of an etymological dictionary and thesaurus of Proto-Sino-Tibetan, the common ancestor of languages spoken in China, India, and Southeast Asia. (36 months)
http://stedt.berkeley.edu/

University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Outright: $230,000
The creation of a digital library of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3200 B.C until the dawn of the Christian era and the development of online tools for broad access to the textual data. (24 months)
http://cdli.ucla.edu/

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
Outright: $153,000
Conducting fieldwork on the Dogon languages of Mali, West Africa, for the creation of a reference grammar, dictionary, and collected texts, with commentaries in French and English. (36 months)
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/ling/index

University of Missouri, St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Outright: $355,000
The creation of a digital archive of St. Louis diachronically from 1850 to 1950 that would incorporate text, image, audio, and video formats. (24 months)
http://www.umsl.edu/~virtualstl/phase2/

University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Outright: $302,000
The completion of an online lexicon of Sumerian, the first documented written language dating from 3300 BC. The lexicon would include brief definitions and links to text corpora that illustrate usage of the terms in ancient texts. (24 months)
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/psd/

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Outright: $67,000
Match: $133,000
The preparation of entries for the Dictionary of Old English, a historical dictionary based on the entire extant corpus of Old English texts written between 650 and 1150 A.D. (36 months)
http://www.doe.utoronto.ca/

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI
Outright: $193,000
The production of a microfiche series comprising all extant Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. (24 months)
http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/%7EASMMF/index.htm