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

Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
Outright: $486,165
The cataloging of approximately 1,350 newspaper titles and the preservation microfilming of 270,000 pages of newsprint, as part of Virginia's participation in the United States Newspaper Program.
(36 months)
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwedo/vnp/index.htm

University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
Outright: $427,751
Match: $240,000
The preservation microfilming of 484,849 pages of deteriorating newsprint to complete California's participation in the United States Newspaper Program (USNP). The project would also preserve 16,000 reels of negative microfilm and establish an archive to continue and maintain the work accomplished by the California Newspaper Project. (36 months)
http://cbsr26.ucr.edu/cnp/index.html

University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign, IL
Outright: $700,000
The cataloging of newspaper titles held by repositories in southern Illinois, the survey of collections in the southeastern part of the state, and the microfilming of 63 unique titles at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (24 months)
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/techserv/inp/webpages/main.htm

Amigos Library Services, Inc., Dallas, TX
Outright: $594,000
Match: $30,000
A regional field service program, which provides workshops, consultations, preservation surveys, disaster response assistance, reference services, and educational materials on preservation and digital imaging to libraries, archives, and historical organizations in the Southwest. (24 months)
http://www.amigos.org/

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)
http://www.bacc.org/

Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies, Mt. Carroll, IL
Outright: $275,000
Educational programs focused on the care of humanities collections for staff of museums and historical organizations. (24 months)
http://www.campbellcenter.org/

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Outright: $312,809
An online introductory tutorial on the basics of digital preservation and six one-week workshops for advanced training in the preservation of digital materials in cultural institutions. (24 months)
http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/

George Washington University, Washington, DC
Outright: $429,863
Development and testing of a distance learning curriculum in collections care and management, which would be offered to 30 participants from cultural repositories across the country. (24 months)
http://www2.gwu.edu/~mstd/index2.html

Heritage Preservation, Washington, DC
Outright: $210,180
The preparation and dissemination of a "Field Guide to Emergency Readiness and Response," which would provide step-by-step advice on how to salvage humanities collections immediately after a disaster. (24 months)
http://www.heritagepreservation.org/

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Outright: $348,441
The development and testing of best practices for preserving analog sound recordings by converting them into digital form. (18 months)
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/sounddirections/

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Outright: $435,673 The construction and testing of a non-invasive state-of-the-art optical scanning system that will recover recorded sound from a variety of mechanical formats, including 78 rpm, shellac, acetate, wax, and recording discs. (24 months)

University of California, Berkeley, CA
Outright: $267,419
Match: $40,000
Incorporation into the Unicode standard of 14 historical and minority language scripts. (24 months)
http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/

University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
Outright: $277,294
The development of tools that will facilitate the process of digitizing and encoding Latin incunables.
(24 months)
http://daedalus.umkc.edu/incunables/index.html

Adams County Historical Society, Gettysburg, PA
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of supplies to rehouse negatives in the Walter B. Lane Photograph Collection focusing on regional Pennsylvania history in the latter half of the 20th century. (18 months)

Alabama Historical Commission, Montgomery, AL
Outright: $5,000
A workshop on environmental monitoring for the staff of 13 historic sites across Alabama, which are managed by the Alabama Historical Commission. (18 months)

Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
Outright: $3,500
A general preservation assessment of the library collections and the physical facility housing documents and objects related to the history of Albany and the Hudson Valley since the 18th century. (18 months)

American Alpine Club, Golden, CO
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment and the rehousing of the club's photographic collection that documents the history of mountaineering and mountain regions throughout the world, ca. 1870 through the 1950s. (18 months)

Animas Museum, Durango, CO
Outright: $5,000
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)

Anthology Film Archives, New York City, NY
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment of archival moving image and paper-based materials, dating to the latter half of the 20th century, which would provide a basis for developing long-term conservation, preservation, and cataloging plans. (18 months)

Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Richmond, VA
Outright: $5,000
Consultation with a conservator to develop a storage plan for material culture collections that document the history of Virginia from 1607 to the present. (18 months)

Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of storage furniture and supplies to rehouse architectural works on paper and photographs that are related to the architecture of Miami. (18 months)

Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT
Outright: $5,000
Purchasing storage furniture and materials to preserve material culture collections that relate to the history and culture of southern Vermont and New England. (18 months)

Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
Outright: $5,000
A general preservation assessment of the museum's collections, which represent world cultures as well as local and regional history. (18 months)

Bernardsville Public Library, Bernardsville, NJ
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of preservation supplies to rehouse books, scrapbooks, photographs, and maps related to local history. (18 months)

Bessemer Historical Society, Pueblo, CO
Outright: $3,500
The purchase and installation of environmental monitoring equipment to provide information about the fluctuation of temperature and humidity in a facility containing archives relating to a fuel and iron company, 1872-1990s. (18 months)

Betsy Ross House, Philadelphia, PA
Outright: $5,000
The development of an emergency preparedness and response plan for the Betsy Ross House, which preserves collections of tools, furnishings, and decorative arts of the 18th century and items with a documented provenance to Ross and her descendants. (18 months)

Boys and Girls Harbor, Inc. New York City, NY
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment of rare periodicals, music manuscripts, graphic prints, and ephemera that reflect the history and theory of Afro-Caribbean Latin music. (18 months)

Break O’ Day Farm and Metcalfe Museum, Inc. Durham, OK
Outright: $5,000
Purchasing environmental monitoring equipment and storage furniture and materials to preserve art, archival, and material culture collections related to the life and times of frontier artist Augusta Metcalfe (1881-1971). (18 months)

Bridgeport Public Library, Bridgeport, CT
Outright: $3,500
A conservation assessment of 200 rare circus posters that date from 1882 to the 1980s. (18 months)

Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives, Butte, MT
Outright: $3,500
Hiring a consultant to produce a disaster preparedness/emergency response plan and the purchase of supplies to ensure the long-term care of 12,500 linear feet of archives related to mining, labor, and local history, 1860 to 1990. (18 months)

California State University, San Bernadino, CA
Outright: $5,000
An assessment of the Robert F. Fullerton Art Museum's preservation efforts, the treatment needs of Egyptian ceramic artifacts, and training of staff and volunteers. (18 months)

Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
Outright: $3,500
A preservation assessment of the current condition and the need for storage and a reading room for the Rare Book Collection of materials focused on the theological heritage of John Calvin. (18 months)

Cameron University, Lawton, OK
Outright: $5,000
Purchasing storage materials, an environmental data logger, and light filters, and hiring a consultant to conduct a workshop on emergency preparedness, response and recovery to preserve a collection of documents on the history of the university, the town of Lawton, and Native Americans. (18 months)

Carbon County Museum, Rawlins, WY
Outright: $5,000
A general preservation assessment and on-site training workshop on the care of material culture collections that relate to the history and culture of south-central Wyoming. (18 months)

Christiansburg Institute, Inc. Christiansburg, VA
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment of archival and artifact collections related to a school for African Americans in Virginia from 1866 to 1966. There would also be a workshop on basic preservation and archival practices. (18 months)

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of two storage cabinets to house the Folgers Coffee Silver Collection, a group of 96 English silver coffee pots and serving accessories dating from the 18th and early 19th centuries. (18 months)

City of Gloucester, MA
Outright: $3,500
A preservation assessment of archives that document the local history of Gloucester, Massachusetts, from 1634 to 1874. (18 months)

City of Las Cruces, NM
Outright: $3,500
A preservation assessment for archives that document the history of Las Cruces, New Mexico, from the early 1900s to the present. (18 months)

Coastal Carolina University, Loris, SC
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment and the purchase of supplies for archives related to the institution as well as to local history, from 1898 to the present. (18 months)

Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of rehousing supplies, disaster supplies, and storage furniture for the collections of the college archives, which consists of family, town, and county records dating from 1790 to 1970. (18 months)

Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of storage furniture and rehousing of 75 American Indian clothing and textile items, which date from the 1840s to the 1920s. (18 months)

Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury, VT
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment and the purchase of boxes and other supplies to re-house the museum's manuscript papers and watercolor collection of 20th-century German artist, Helmut Siber. (18 months)

Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment of 526 linear feet of institutional archives and 209 linear feet of special collections related to Catholic education and to the university's history. (18 months)

Friends of Hildene, Inc. Manchester, VT
Outright: $3,500
Consultation with a conservator to work with the repository's staff to safeguard and rehouse images dating from the 1840s through the 1970s in the organization's Lincoln Family Photograph Collection. (18 months)

Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA
Outright: $5,000
A conservation assessment of the museum's Shaker manuscript collection. (18 months)

Geneva Public Library, Geneva, IN
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment and creation of a management plan for the care of archives related to Indiana history. A consultant would also conduct training in the management and preservation of archives for library staff. (18 months)

Goddard College, Plainfield, VT
Outright: $5,000
An assessment of the preservation, disaster response, security, and facility needs of the library as well as a review of collection policies and practices for archives related to the history of the college. (18 months)

Gold Nugget Museum, Paradise, CA
Outright: $5,000
Purchasing storage furniture and materials to rehouse material culture collections related to the history and culture of northern California. (18 months)

Governor Drummer Academy, Byfield, MA
Outright: $5,000
A general preservation assessment and the purchase of supplies for correspondence, ledgers, sermons, scrapbooks, glass-plate negatives and other photographs, books, lithographs, prints, and other materials that document local history and the history of Dummer Academy, a school founded in 1763. (18 months)

Hagaman Memorial Library, Meriden, CT
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment of 165 linear feet of archives related to the history of East Haven, Connecticut, and surrounding areas. (18 months)

Historical Society of Rockland County, New City, NY
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of environmental monitoring equipment and consultation with a conservator to establish a monitoring program and develop a plan for the storage of collections, which document the agricultural and industrial history of the county. (18 months)

Hot Springs County Museum and Cultural Center, Thermopolis, WY
Outright: $5,000
Hiring a consultant to conduct an assessment of storage conditions and a training workshop. The project would also purchase storage furniture and preservation materials for collections that relate to the history and culture of central Wyoming. (18 months)

House of the Seven Gables, Salem, MA
Outright: $5,000
Consultation with a conservator and the purchase of storage supplies and shelving for the Nathaniel Hawthorne collection, which includes documents, personal belongings, and books pertaining to Hawthorne. (18 months)

Hubbard Museum of the American West, Ruidoso Downs, NM
Outright: $5,000
Purchasing storage furniture and materials to rehouse material culture collections that relate to the history and culture of southern New Mexico. (18 months)

Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of map filing cases and related archival supplies for the rehousing and stabilizing of maps and aerial photographs of the region held by the university library. (18 months)

Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of a flat file cabinet as well as archival boxes and mats to rehouse a collection of 20th-century art prints. (18 months)

Idaho State History Society, Boise, ID
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of storage enclosures to re-house archival and oral history holdings that document the legislative, public, and architectural history of Idaho during the 20th century. (18 months)

Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Outright: $3,500
A preservation needs assessment of the library's special collections and rare books. (18 months)

Indiana Medical History Museum, Indianapolis, IN
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of environmental monitoring equipment to measure relative humidity and temperature in the museum's 1895 building, which houses collections that document turn-of-the-century medical laboratories and research. (18 months)

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment of original television programs and selected unedited footage created since 1968 by the university's public broadcasting station. The videotapes document local, regional, and national events, history, and culture. (18 months)

Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, San Juan, PR
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment of audio recordings created from the 1950s through 1970s that document political, historical, and cultural events in Puerto Rico. (18 months)

Jack Straw Productions, Seattle, WA
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment of the organization's audio collection that focuses on the history and culture of the Puget Sound region of the American Northwest, and includes public forums, economic and political programs, music, documentaries, and interviews since 1962. (18 months)

Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington, DC
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of storage shelving and preservation supplies to rehouse a collection of correspondence, sermons, publications, photographs, and memorabilia related to 20th-century Jewish history in Montgomery County, Maryland. (18 months)

Lavaca County, Hallettsville, TX
Outright: $3,500
A preservation assessment and one-day workshop to preserve archives that document the local history of Lavaca County, Texas, from 1846 to the present. (18 months)

Lee Strasberg Creative Center, New York, NY
Outright: $5,000
A general preservation assessment of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, films and audiotapes related to the career of director, actor, educator Lee Strasberg (1920-1982). (18 months)

Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN
Outright: $5,000
An environmental survey of the Carnegie-Vincent Library and the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum, which document Abraham Lincoln's life and times, local and regional history, and the history of the university. (18 months)

Lincoln Public Library, Lincoln, MA
Outright: $3,500
A preservation assessment of books, archives, photographs, maps, newspapers, and audio and videotapes related to the history of Lincoln, Massachusetts, from 1754 to the late 20th century. (18 months)

Los Angeles County Law Library, San Gabriel, CA
Outright: $3,500
A preservation assessment of the library's entire collection with special attention to federal and California primary law materials. (18 months)

Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association, Concord, MA
Outright: $5,000
Consultation with conservators who will help the museum's staff develop a plan for the storage of its collections, which include books, documents, photographs, and textiles belonging to Alcott and her family. (18 months)

MacGregor Charitable Trust, Estes Park, CO
Outright: $5,000
Hiring a conservation consultant to train staff and purchasing environmental monitoring equipment, storage furniture and materials to rehouse textiles, paper collections, and objects of material culture that relate to the history of ranching in Colorado. (18 months)

Mark Twain House, Hartford, CT
Outright: $3,500
An assessment of the conservation treatment needs of the museum's Victorian era paintings and works of art on paper. (18 months)

Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of acid-free storage materials for eleven collections of papers related to the history of Maryland and the mid-Atlantic, ranging from the 18th to the 20th century. (18 months)

Mendocino County Museum, Willits, CA
Outright: $3,500
Purchasing environmental monitoring equipment to assess the storage environment of material culture collections that relate to the history and culture of northern California. (18 months)

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of hanging files and storage cabinets for the manuscript collections of the Traditional Arts Research Collection in the Michigan State University Museum. (18 months)

Mississippi Library Commission, Jackson, MS
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment and three one-day workshops for archives that document the formation and growth of library service in Mississippi from 1926 to the present. (18 months)

Monroe County Historical Society Museum, Bloomington, IN
Outright: $5,000
Purchasing environmental monitoring equipment to preserve material culture collections related to the history and culture of central Indiana. (18 months)

Multnomah County Records Program, Portland, OR
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment and the purchase of storage enclosures for archives that document the history of Multnomah County, Oregon, from 1906 to 2001. (18 months)

Museum of Chinese in the Americas, New York, NY
Outright: $5,000
Consultation with a conservator who will develop a preservation plan for 77 Chinese dresses custom-tailored in the 1930s and 1940s and 26 intricate Chinese opera costumes from New York City's oldest Chinese opera club. (18 months)

Museum of History and Art, Ontario, CA
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment of the museum's historical collections and the curator's participation in a three-day workshop on collections care. (18 months)

Myers University, Brecksville, OH
Outright:
$5,000
A preservation assessment of books, pamphlets, catalogs, objects, and ephemera related to the history of the university and business education in Ohio in the 19th and early 20th centuries. (18 months)

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. Cooperstown, NY
Outright: $2,000
The purchase of storage materials to rehouse objects related to American popular culture. (18 months)

New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA
Outright: $5,000
Consultation with conservators who will provide preservation training for staff and volunteers on environmental monitoring and on the storage and display of quilts. (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)

New York Public Library, New York, NY
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment and the purchase of archival supplies for books and other collections that document the history of the Lower East Side, with an emphasis on immigrants and immigration. The collections are housed at the Seward Park Branch Library. (18 months)

Newport News Public Library System, Newport News, VA
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment of archives, manuscripts, maps, and other records related to the history of Newport News, Virginia, from the 1820s to the 1980s. A workshop would educate staff on proper preservation procedures. (18 months)

Nichols House Museum, Inc. Boston, MA
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment of upholstered furniture and wooden furnishings in the Nichols House, an 1804 house museum in Boston. (18 months)

Ninety-Nines Museum of Women Pilots, Mustang, OK
Outright: $5,000
Purchasing preservation materials to rehouse material culture collections related to the history of women in aviation. (18 months)

Northwest Railway Museum, Snoqualmi, WA
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment of the museum's library and archival collections, which focus on the history of railroads in the Pacific Northwest. (18 months)

Northwood University, Margaret Chase Smith Library, Skowhegan, ME
Outright: $5,000
An assessment of the conservation treatment needs of 70 paintings and works of art on paper in the Margaret Chase Smith Library's collection. (18 months)

Oberlin Heritage Center, Oberlin, OH
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of cabinets and shelving for the storage of costumes, textiles, and other artifacts related to the history of Oberlin, Ohio. (18 months)

Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of supplies for the rehousing of 200 linear feet of selected archival materials related to Oregon's history from 1750 to the present. (18 months)

Passaic County Historical Society, Paterson, NJ
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of shelving to house the museum's costume and textile collections, which date from the 1860s through the 1930s, and to illustrate Paterson's role as a silk manufacturing city. (18 months)

Peabody Institute Library, Peabody, MA
Outright: $2,000
The purchase of preservation supplies to rehouse rare and deteriorating books related to town, state, and national history; the life of philanthropist George Peabody; and natural history. (18 months)

Peaks to Plains Museum, Red Lodge, MT
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of storage equipment and preservation supplies to rehouse archival records, photographs, maps, and other materials related to family, mining, labor, and legal history of the area surrounding Red Lodge, Montana, from the 1880s to the 1970s. (18 months)

People, Inc. Williamsville, NY
Outright: $5,000
A general conservation assessment and the purchase of environmental monitoring equipment to preserve material culture and archival collections related to the social history of western New York state. (18 months)

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment, a staff workshop, and the purchase of preservation supplies to rehouse archives and manuscript materials related to institutional and local history. (18 months)

Queens Borough Public Library, Jamaica, NY
Outright: $5,000
A preservation survey of a map collection that documents the Long Island area of New York from 1634 to the present. (18 months)

Ramsey County Historical Society, Saint Paul, MN
Outright: $5,000
A one-day workshop and the purchase of file folders, boxes, and steel shelves to re-house building permits for St. Paul, Minnesota. (18 months)

Reuben Hoar Library, Littleton, MA
Outright: $5,000
Consultation to develop policies and procedures for the care and use of records that document the municipal history of Littleton, Massachusetts, from 1715 to the present. The grant would also support the purchase of environmental monitoring equipment, a HEPA vacuum, ultra violet light filters and other supplies, and provide staff training. (18 months)

Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine Archives, Richfield
Outright: $2,000
A general preservation assessment to ensure the long-term care of archives and objects related to the history of a Roman Catholic women's religious order, 1851 to 1926. (18 months)

Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston, MA
Outright: $5,000
A conservation assessment of the rare book collection of architectural history, which will identify immediate conservation treatment needs and develop a long-term conservation plan. (18 months)

South Coast Railroad Museum, Goleta, CA
Outright: $5,000
Hiring a preservation consultant to conduct a general preservation assessment and a training workshop to preserve objects of material culture that relate to the history of the railroad in California. (18 months)

South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of ultra-violet light filters and storage cabinets and supplies to re-house a collection of Yanktonai Indian paintings. (18 months)

Southern Mutual Help Association, New Iberia, LA
Outright: $5,000
A preservation and access assessment and the purchase of storage enclosures for the Southern Mutual Help Association's archives that document the history of rural community development in Louisiana from 1969 to the present. (18 months)

Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
Outright: $5,000
A workshop on the basic preservation of art collections, a preservation assessment of paintings and works on paper, and the purchase of a light meter and light-filtering muslin to preserve a collection by modern African American artists. (18 months)

St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure, NY
Outright: $3,500
A conservation assessment of 40 European works of art on paper ranging in date from the 15th to the 19th centuries. (18 months)

State of New Hampshire Dept. of Resources and Econ. Development, Concord, NH
Outright: $5,000
The installation of light filtering film and interior shades on windows in the 18th-century Wentworth Coolidge Mansion to protect collections from exposure to light. (18 months)

Staten Island Historical Society, Staten Island, NY
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment of a photographic collection created by lifelong Staten Island resident Alice Austen (1866-1952) that documents the changing social history and culture of the community from 1884 to 1936. (18 months)

SUNY Research Foundation, College at Cortland, NY
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of light and environmental monitoring equipment as well as supplies to re-house American and European works of art on paper. (18 months)

Thomas County Historical Society, Colby, KS
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of environmental monitoring equipment, storage furniture, and preservation supplies for records related to 19th- and 20th-century local history. (18 months)

Town of West Newbury, MA
Outright: $3,500
A general preservation assessment and the purchase of storage enclosures for archives that document the history of West Newbury, Massachusetts, from 1735 to the present. (18 months)

Town of Winchester, MA
Outright: $5,000
A preservation and access assessment at three sites for archival, artifact, and special library collections that reflect the history of Winchester, Massachusetts, from the 18th to 20th centuries. (18 months)

Universidad del Este, Carolina, PR
Outright: $3,500
A preservation assessment of the papers of Jesus T. Piñero, who became the first native-born governor of Puerto Rico in 1946. (18 months)

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
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)

University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of storage enclosures and materials to re-house the Arkansas Supreme Court Briefs and Records Collection dating from 1836 to 1886. (18 months)

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Outright: $3,500
An item-level examination of 19th-century bound volumes that document the history of the graphic arts; they include albums of photographs and prints as well as illustrated books. (18 months)

University of New Orleans, LA
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of boxes and file folders to re-house the Supreme Court of Louisiana archives dating from 1890 to 1904. (18 months)

University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment of eleven scrapbooks and photograph albums of Judge Sarah T. Hughes (1896-1985), housed at the university archives, and a workshop on scrapbook preservation. (18 months)

University of Texas, Austin, TX
Outright: $3,500
A preservation needs assessment of the Calvin Littlejohn Photographic Archive at the Center for American History (CAH), which documents the history and culture of Fort Worth's African-American community, ca.1930 through 1980. (18 months)

University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Outright: $3,500
A preservation assessment of the Dupont Library's audio and video materials, maps, blueprints, museum items, and art, related to the university, the affiliated Episcopal Church, Sewanee, and the many writers associated with it. (18 months)

Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Outright: $4,996
The purchase of supplies and preservation training for staff of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. The center's staff will rehouse selected items from a collection of European, English, and North American samplers dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries. (18 months)

Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, Plymouth, VT
Outright: $5,000
A risk assessment, development of an emergency preparedness and response plan, and training of staff and area emergency responders to protect humanities collections at the President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site. (18 months)

Vermont Ski Museum, Stowe, VT
Outright: $5,000
Purchasing storage shelves and supplies to house 193 pairs of cross county and alpine skiing and snowboarding boots dating from the early 1900s to the present that relate to the history and culture of skiing in Vermont. (18 months)

Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of supplies to rehouse 2,750 printed works that document American life from the 17th century to the present. (18 months)

Whitworth College, Spokane, WA
Outright: $3,500
A preservation assessment of collections at the college archives that are related to Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Lutheran history in the American Northwest. The college archivist would also attend a preservation workshop. (18 months)

Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
Outright: $5,000
The purchase of archival shelving for manuscripts and papers of regional figures in special collections at the university library. (18 months)

Wolfsonian Foundation, Miami Beach, FL
Outright: $5,000
A preservation assessment of nine photographic collections comprising images documenting architecture, graphic design, national and international expositions, and travel that illustrate the social history and culture of North America and Europe. (18 months)

Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Outright: $5,000
A comprehensive preservation survey of the university archives and an assessment of its special collection related to aviation history, and the history of the city of Dayton and of the Miami Valley of Ohio. (18 months)