PRESERVATION AND ACCESS AWARDS Division of Preservation and Access
Announced: May 2007
FISCAL YEAR 2007 GRANTS
NATIONAL DIGITAL NEWSPAPER PROGRAM (NDNP)
Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
Outright: $349,471
Digitization of 100,000 pages of Virginia newspapers, dating from 1880 to 1910,
as part of the state's participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/
Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN
Outright: $124,108
Digitization of 100,000 pages of Minnesota newspapers dating from 1880
to 1910 as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
http://www.mnhs.org/index.htm
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Outright: $188,085
Digitization of 100,000 pages of New York newspapers, dating from 1880 to 1910,
as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
http://www.nypl.org/
University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
Outright: $400,000
Digitization of 100,000 pages of California newspapers,
dating from 1880 to 1910, as part of the state's participation
in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/
University of Kentucky Research Foundation, Lexington, KY
Outright: $399,886
The digitization of 100,000 pages of Kentucky newspapers dating from 1880 to 1910,
as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/NDNP/kycollections.html
University of Nebraska, Board of Regents, Lincoln, NE
Digitizing 100,000 pages of Nebraska newspaper titles, 1880 to 1910,
scanned from 150 reels of microfilm created by the United States
Newspaper Project that document the history and culture of Nebraska.
http://www.unl.edu/
University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Outright: $247,552
Digitization of 100,000 pages of Texas newspapers, dating
from 1880 to 1910, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
http://www.unt.edu/
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Outright: $247,478
Digitization of 100,000 pages of Utah newspapers, dating from 1880 to 1910,
as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/unews/about.html
STABILIZING HUMANITIES COLLECTIONS
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
Technological upgrades to the society's security system to preserve 200,000 artifacts
reflecting the history of Detroit.
http://www.detroithistorical.org/
Morris Museum, Inc., Morristown, NJ
Outright: | $82,255 |
Match: | $62,735 |
Total: | $144,990 |
The purchase of cabinetry and shelving for the visible storage of the Murtogh D. Guinness collection of American and European mechanical musical instruments and automata, which date from the early 16th to the 20th centuries.
http://www.morrismuseum.org/
Museum of New Mexico Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
Outright: | $451,449 |
Match: | $50,000 |
Total: | $501,449 |
The purchase and installation of compact storage furniture and supplies to rehouse and relocate
10,735 artifacts previously stored at the Palace of Governors building to the newly constructed
New Mexico Museum of History.
http://www.museumfoundation.org/
Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ
Outright: | $500,000 |
Match: | $25,000 |
Total: | $525,000 |
The purchase of storage furniture and the relocation of the museum's 6,882
item regional ethnographic collection to a new repository.
http://www.musnaz.org/
Spertus College of Judaica, Chicago, IL
The purchase and installation of compact storage furniture and the move and re housing of library,
museum, and archival collections to a new storage facility.
http://www.spertus.edu/index.php
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Outright: | $365,000 |
Match: | $50,000 |
Total: | $415,000 |
The purchase and installation of a climate control system, storage furniture,
and cold and sub zero storage for photograph collections and related materials on the American West.
http://www.berkeley.edu/
University of Florida Libraries, Gainesville, FL
The purchase of storage furniture and supplies to rehouse 141,443
artifacts obtained from excavations conducted in 1988-95 at the Calusa
Indian settlement at Pinelands, Florida, that dated to 50-1710 CE.
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
Outright: | $275,000 |
Match: | $25,000 |
Total: | $300,000 |
The relocation of archaeological artifacts to a new repository and purchase of storage
furniture for rehousing the collection from the Egyptian Graeco Roman site of Karanis.
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/
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