PRESERVATION AND ACCESS AWARDS
Division of Preservation and Access
Announced: February 2007
FISCAL YEAR 2007 GRANTS
PRESERVE AND CREATE ACCESS TO HUMANITIES COLLECTIONS
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
The continued creation of a union catalog of all books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed before 1877 in the United States and Canada.
This project would enhance 7,150 records and create 500 new records for imprints from the period 1801 through 1820.
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/
American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD
The digitization and mounting on the Internet of 500 oral history transcripts and brief audio excerpts of interviews
with notable physical scientists.
http://www.aip.org/history/nbl/
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
The digital imaging of 25,021 ethnographic artifacts and associated data from Mexico and
South America documenting over 200 ethnic groups from Amazonian, Andean Highlands, Gran Chaco,
Mexican, and Tierra del Fuego culture areas.
http://www.amnh.org/
Autry National Center, Los Angeles, CA
Digital imaging and cataloging of 15,000 California Indian ethnographic objects,
archaeological artifacts, and sound recordings from the collections of the Southwest Museum.
http://autrynationalcenter.org/about.php
Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
The cataloging, conservation, creation of finding aids,
and mounting on the Internet of 26,963 images that document African American history
and culture in Pittsburgh from 1935 to 1975.
http://www.cmoa.org/teenie/info.asp
Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, IL
Microfilm reformatting of 500,000 pages of Latin American newspapers
held in United States repositories, the cataloging of Latin American newspaper holdings
at partner institutions, and the expansion and enhancement of a database of international newspapers.
http://www.crl.edu/
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Creation of encoded archival description (EAD) finding aids for 558
linear feet of archives and the digitization of 20,000 historical
and legal records related to the history of 20th century water policy
along the Columbia and Colorado river basins.
http://welcome.colostate.edu/
Columbia University, New York, NY
Arrangement, description, preservation, and selected digitization
of the New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry records, comprising
399 linear feet and 560 architectural drawings.
http://www.columbia.edu/
Emory University, Atlanta, Ga
The mass deacidification of 6,500 volumes,
the cataloging of 4,000 volumes, and the rehousing of
embrittled materials from the Danowski Poetry Library.
http://www.events.emory.edu/Output/DailyDetail.cfm?EventID=19390
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
| Outright: | $85,620 |
| Match: | $34,380 |
| Total: | $120,000 |
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Arranging, describing, conserving, and rehousing
400 linear feet of records of the Chew family of Philadelphia.
The documents consist of diaries, correspondence, account books,
land papers, building plans, household accounts, wills, news clippings,
maps, financial records, and genealogies covering the period from 1760 to the present.
http://www.hsp.org/
Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
| Outright: | $161,852 |
| Match: | $50,000 |
| Total: | $211,852 |
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Arrangement and description of 90 linear feet of archives,
including 80,000 photographs, correspondence, and business records created by
Maynard L. Parker (1900 96), noted photographer of American architecture and landscapes.
The project would also digitize a selection of 5,000 photographs for mounting on the Internet.
http://www.huntington.org/
Indiana University, Bloomington, Bloomington, IN
The implementation and testing of a paradigm of best practices devised in a previous NEH Research
and Development project for preserving analog sound recordings by converting them to digital form.
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/sounddirections/
Iraq Memory Foundation, Washington, DC
A project to archive and annotate more than six million pages of documents of the former
Saddam Hussein regime and Ba'th Arab Socialist Party in Iraq (1991 2003)
at a documentation center to be established in the city of Erbil, in northern Iraq.
http://www.iraqmemory.org/en/index.asp
Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Cataloging and conserving 2,884 pre 1820 pamphlets, broadsides, bound books,
and other imprints published in America from the Michael Zinman Collection.
http://www.librarycompany.org/
New York Historical Society, New York, NY
| Outright: | $241,456 |
| Match: | $106,324 |
| Total: | $347,780 |
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Cataloging, rehousing, and preserving 18,000 pamphlets, including speeches,
political tracts, annual reports, biographical sketches,
catalogs, and sermons dating from the 19th and 20th centuries.
https://www.nyhistory.org/web/
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
The preservation microfilming of 120 linear feet of manuscripts related to
Russian émigrés and their organizations from 1917 to the 1930s.
http://www.stanford.edu/
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
The training of Afghan library staff in digitization and modern cataloging procedures,
who would then scan and mount on the Internet 6,000 titles selected from the archival
collections of the Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University.
http://www.library.arizona.edu/
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Arrangement, description, and preservation of some 180,000 photographs, including 30,000
glass plate negatives, from the archives of the "San Francisco Examiner," 1919 to 1998.
The project would also create Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids and digitize 2,000
of the most significant and fragile photographs for mounting on the Internet.
http://www.berkeley.edu/
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
The creation of catalog records, metadata, and an
Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aid for 1,506 Persian and Arabic
manuscripts dating from the 11th through the 19th centuries; 304 manuscripts
would be digitized and mounted on the Internet.
http://www2.library.ucla.edu/libraries/2627.cfm
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The creation of a virtual archive of archaeological data
on ancient Mesopotamia, focusing on sites in the Diyala Region of
northeast Iraq (3200 1800 BCE), which incorporates a relational,
expandable database to be mounted on an existing Web site at the
Oriental Institute.
https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/projects/diy/
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Cataloging 7,500 American and British titles in children's
literature published between 1890 and 1910 and providing online access
to 2,500 titles containing color illustrations.
http://www.ufl.edu/
REFERENCE MATERIALS
American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
The completion of a database of American electoral returns from
1788 through 1825, which would enable the study of electoral participation,
democratization, and party development in the early Republican Era.
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/
Brown University, Providence, RI
Incorporating three early 20th century periodicals,
"The English Review," "Scribner's," and "Poetry:
A Magazine of Verse," into a digital archive,
the Modernist Journals Project.
http://www.brown.edu/
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA
The creation of a Geographic Information Systems
(GIS) software tool that will enable users to construct
complex multi layered and time based queries to analyze
the growth and development of Colonial Williamsburg.
http://research.history.org/JDRLibrary/Digital_History_Center.cfm
Columbia University, New York, NY
| Outright: | $150,000 |
| Match: | $200,000 |
| Total: | $350,000 |
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Preparation of the "Encyclopædia Iranica," a multi disciplinary
reference work and research tool on Iranian history and civilization
from prehistory to the present.
http://www.iranica.com/newsite/home/index.isc
CRCL INC, San Clemente, CA
Preparation of a lexical database, an etymological dictionary,
and a collaborative Web site for research on the Mon Khmer languages,
which include the national languages of Vietnam and Cambodia as well of communities in India,
China, Burma, Malaysia, Laos, and Thailand.
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
The development of a collaborative, bilingual, online archive documenting the Bracero Program,
which brought Mexican guest workers to the United States between 1942 and 1964.
http://www.gmu.edu/
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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.
http://www.harvard.edu/
International Center of Medieval Art, New York, NY
Preparation of "Gothic Sculpture in America," volume three of a four volume descriptive
catalog of medieval sculpture in public collections in the United States.
http://www.medievalart.org/
Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Completion of the "Digital Atlas of Historical County Boundaries," illustrating
all changes in the boundaries, names, organization, and attachment of every United
States county from 1619 to 2000.
http://www.newberry.org/
RIPM Consortium Ltd., Baltimore, MD
The compilation of 12 volumes documenting music and musical life in
Europe and the United States during the 20th century.
http://www.ripm.org/
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
The compilation of an etymological dictionary and thesaurus
of Proto Sino Tibetan, the common ancestor of languages spoken
in China, India, and Southeast Asia.
http://stedt.berkeley.edu/
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
| Outright: | $69,722 |
| Match: | $15,000 |
| Total: | $84,722 |
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The upgrading and enhancement of a Web based bio bibliographical database,
PhiloBiblon, which currently provides access to major projects on the culture
of medieval and early modern Spain.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Philobiblon/phhm.html
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
The editing of a comprehensive database for the period 1913 1928
that documents the daily recording activities of Victor Talking
Machine Company and Victor Records, the largest American record company
in business from 1900 to 1950.
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/pa/pa.html
University of Oregon, Eugene, Eugene, OR
The creation of a Web site and a printed atlas on the archaeology
and early history of the Mongolian High Altai.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/%7Ealtay/
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
| Outright: | $91,760 |
| Match: | $77,000 |
| Total: | $168,760 |
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Preparation of the first dictionary of Gandhari,
one of the major languages of early Buddhism spoken in the region of Gandhara
(modern northern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan) between the 300 B.C. and A.D. 300.
http://www.washington.edu/
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI
| Outright: | $260,000 |
| Match: | $350,000 |
| Total: | $610,000 |
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The compilation of the fifth and sixth volumes 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: | $230,000 |
| Match: | $120,000 |
| Total: | $350,000 |
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The continued preparation of the fourth volume of "The History of Cartography," entitled
"Cartography in the European Enlightenment."
http://www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart/
DOCUMENTING ENDANGERED LANGUAGES
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Enhanced description of and access to linguistic materials, including fieldwork notes,
manuscripts, and audio recordings that document over 130 endangered American Indian languages.
http://www.berkeley.edu/
University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Preparation of a dictionary of Klallam, an endangered Salishan language spoken
in Washington state and Vancouver Island, and the archiving of Klallam texts
and audio/video materials.
http://web2.unt.edu/news/story.cfm?story=10431
STABILIZING HUMANITIES COLLECTIONS
FOR FEDERALLY DESIGNATED DISASTER AREAS
FOR HURRICANES KATRINA AND RITA
Louisiana Museum Foundation, New Orleans, LA
Relocating the collections of the Louisiana State Museum to the Old Mint
Building in New Orleans and the installation of enhanced storage capacity.
http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/publica.htm
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Perkinston Campus, Perkinston, MS
The purchase of dehumidifiers and air circulation equipment for library and
archival collections affected by Hurricane Katrina.
http://www.mgccc.cc.ms.us/
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
The purchase and installation of an environmental system,
compact shelving, and lighting; and roof repairs.
http://www2.tulane.edu/main.cfm
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