PRESERVATION AND ACCESS AWARDS
Division of Preservation and Access
Announced: February 2006

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Outright: $713,895
The preservation microfilming or digitization and enhanced cataloging of 4,435 deteriorating volumes from four states and bibliographic selection by two other states of embrittled volumes on American agricultural history and rural life published between 1820 and 1945 that are held by land grant universities in those states.
http://usain.org/Preservation/preservinitiative.html

New York Public Library, New York, NY
Outright: $360,200
The preservation microfilming of 4,000 deteriorating volumes on the history of banking and finance in the United States published from 1800 to 1950.
www.nypl.org/

American Institute of Afghanistan Studies, Durham, NC

Outright:	$118,012
Match:	$13,000

The digital reformatting of 2,600 hours of Radio Afghanistan analog music tapes created from 1960 to 1980 that document a significant period of Afghan history and culture.
www.jhfc.duke.edu/aias/

American Jewish Historical Society, New York, NY
Outright: $193,660
Arrangement, description, and preservation of 320 linear feet of archives and digital reformatting of 216 hours of audiotapes from six collections documenting the Soviet Jewry Movement in the United States.
www.ajhs.org/

American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Outright: $127,450
The arrangement, description, preservation treatment, and rehousing of the papers, photographs, plans and drawings of two Egyptian architects, Hassan Fathy and Ramses Wissa Wassef. An Internet accessible finding aid would be created in English and in Arabic.
www.aucegypt.edu/

Appalshop, Inc., Whitesburg, KY
Outright: $226,629
Cataloging archival records that document the content of the organization's multi media collections, creating finding aids, and rehousing and the selective reformatting of audio and moving image collections.
www.appalshop.org/archive

Arhoolie Foundation, El Cerrito, CA

Outright:	$39,126
Match:	$117,294

The digitization of 10,000 45 rpm records in the Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings, the creation of images of the record labels and a finding aid, and the mounting of the audio recordings on the bilingual UCLA Digital Library Web site.
www.arhoolie.com/arhoolie_foundation/projects.html

Bessemer Historical Society, Pueblo, CO
Outright: $240,000
Arrangement and description of 300 cubic feet of archival records related to the mining and steel industries, trade unions, and labor relations at a Colorado fuel and iron company from 1872 to 1993.

Franklin Furnace Archives, Inc., New York, NY
Outright: $124,030
Digitizing and creating Web access to archives of performance art, installations, and other works of variable media presented in the first ten years of the Franklin Furnace, yielding approximately 12,650 digital records.
www.franklinfurnace.org/

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Outright: $266,287
Cataloging, digitizing, and mounting on the Web 36,000 photographic images from the Peabody Museum Photographic Archives that document archaeological and ethnographic objects and major expeditions, dating from 1866 to the 1930s.
www.peabody.harvard.edu/photo/introduction.html

Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO
Outright: $330,619
The arrangement, description, and creation of an online finding aid and a searchable index for St. Louis Court civil cases from 1866 to 1868.
www.sos.mo.gov/archives/

National Council for the Traditional Arts, Silver Spring, MD
Outright: $250,000
The second phase of a project to digitize 4,670 hours of original analog sound recordings of folk and traditional musical arts from festivals, concerts, tours, and studio sessions from the 1960s to the present.
www.ncta.net

National Film Preservation Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Outright: $350,000
The production of a three set DVD of films about American social issues that were created as 40 silent films during the initial decades of the motion picture era; a book of program notes and scholarly commentaries will accompany the set.
www.filmpreservation.org

New York Public Library, New York, NY

Outright:	$299,978
Match:	$25,000

Enhancing descriptive records and rehousing 1,200 linear feet of records documenting the conception, planning, realization, and operation, from 1935 through 1945, of the 1939 New York World's Fair.
www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/nywf39fa.pdf (64-page PDF)

Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Outright: $297,028
The arrangement, description, and preservation of 39 collections (comprising almost 800 cubic feet of personal papers and organizational records) documenting newspaper journalism in Chicago from the late 19th century through the 20th century.
www.newberry.org/

Puerto Rico Public Broadcasting Corporation, San Juan, PR
Outright: $315,750
Preserving, cataloging, and digitizing analog sound recordings that date from 1957 to the present and the creation of a bilingual online database for access.
www.tutv.puertorico.pr/cprdp/convocatorias.htm

University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK
Outright: $164,929
Preserving and cataloging 150 reels (62,500 feet) of 16mm film documenting the history and culture of Alaska Native communities from the 1940s to 1975. The project would repair and rehouse the film, create online finding aids, and produce copies for scholarly and educational uses.
www.uaf.edu/library/apr/filmarchives.html

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Outright: $161,399
The creation of encyclopedia entries and searchable metadata to accompany digital facsimiles of 100 16th century French books.
www.lib.virginia.edu/small/collections/gordon.html

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Outright: $279,507
The digitization and enhanced cataloging of 11,000 hours of news specials broadcast by national news networks from 1968 to 2003.
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/

American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
Outright: $242,511
The continued creation 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.
www.americanantiquarian.org/fdp.htm

American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
Outright: $274,506
The continued creation of a union catalog of pre 1877 North American imprints (NAIP.) In this phase, 2,000 titles published from 1831 through 1840 would be cataloged, records for 600 pre 1801 imprints and for 300 19th century juvenile titles would be created, and 900 existing records for juvenile titles would be enhanced.
www.americanantiquarian.org/naip.htm

American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA

Outright:	$125,000
Match:	$200,000

The continuing preparation of a descriptive catalog of 1,000 feature length motion pictures produced in the United States from 1971 to 1980.
http://afi.chadwyck.com/home

American Philological Association, Philadelphia, PA

Outright:	$227,989
Match:	$30,000

The preparation of two volumes of "l'Année philologique," a comprehensive bibliography of research in all fields of classical studies.
www.annee-philologique.com/aph/

Association for Documentary Editing, Reston, VA
Outright: $65,100
Creation of the third edition of the "Guide to Documentary Editing."
http://etext.virginia.edu/ade/

CUNY Research Foundation, New York, NY
Outright: $282,260
The abstracting and indexing of pre 1967 Festschriften in music for inclusion in the series, "Abstracts of Music Literature."
www.rilm.org/

Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Outright: $324,011
The completion of an electronic database on transatlantic slave voyages by adding 8,000 new entries, by enhancing an additional 9,000 entries, and by creating a two tier Web based resource to serve scholars, students, and the general public.
www.emory.edu/

Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
Outright: $264,953
Completion of volumes four and five of the "Dictionary of Virginia Biography." Each of the hardbound volumes will contain 500 entries. Volume four is scheduled for publication in 2009 and volume five for 2013.
www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwedo/pubs/dvb/index.htm

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Outright: $275,000
Phase III of the Quilt Index, which would integrate data on twelve additional quilt collections and contextual materials into the online repository, currently holding data on 4 state quilt projects and 3 institutional collections.
www.quiltindex.org/

New York University, New York, NY
Outright: $302,774
The addition of 25,000 pages of books, documents, and serials published in Afghanistan from 1870 through 1930 and held in repositories in Kabul to the Afghanistan Digital Library.
dlib.nyu.edu/divlib/bobst/adl/

Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Outright: $340,000
Digitization of 19 printed volumes of the "Atlas of Historical County Boundaries," a reference work designed to provide information about the creation and boundary changes of every county in the United States, from the 1600s to 2000. The project would create Web based interactive maps as well as distribute the data for integration into a geographic information system (GIS).
www.newberry.org/ahcbp/atlasabout.html

RIPM Consortium Ltd., Baltimore, MD
Outright: $325,000
The development of an online full text retrieval system for 467,500 scholarly articles on music contained in a searchable database that incorporates materials in 13 European languages covering the period 1800 to 1950.
www.ripm.org/

Texas A & M Research Foundation, College Station, TX

Outright:	$285,000
Match:	$40,000

Creation of an image archive of interpretive illustrations in printed editions of Cervantes' "Don Quixote" from 1620 to the present.
www.csdl.tamu.edu/cervantes/V2/CPI/index.html

University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Outright: $325,000
Creating the first phase of the online "Encyclopedia of Egyptology" with 500 entries on the history and culture of Egypt from 5500 BCE to 641 CE.
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/egyptology/

University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
Outright: $300,000
Enhancement of the English Short Title Catalog's (ESTC) 18th century records to include 6,600 new titles, information about additional holding institutions, and subject access.
estc.ucr.edu/

University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Outright: $325,000
The completion of an online archive of all 1,857 broadside ballads collected by the English diarist Samuel Pepys (1633 1703), accompanied by transcriptions, sung versions of the ballads, and background essays.
emc.english.ucsb.edu/ballad_project/

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Outright: $248,976
The South Asian Union Catalogue, describing19th and 20th century books and periodical publications; this phase will focus on materials published in eastern South Asia (eastern India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and colonial Burma) and will list the locations where these materials are held throughout the world.
www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/southasia/

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Outright: $325,000
The preparation of an online lexicon of Sumerian, the first documented written language dating from 3300 BC.
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 A.D. 650 and 1150.
www.doe.utoronto.ca/

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Outright: $325,000
Cataloging and describing over 5,250 titles in the Tibetan Buddhist Canon (the "Kangyur" and "Tengyur") with comparative data on multiple editions, searching tools, and links to digital editions, images of the artifacts, translations, and bibliographic sources.
www.thdl.org/index.html

University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Outright: $325,000
The creation of an image and text database of 30,000 photographs made by William Brumfield, which represent 2,400 examples of Russian architecture of all types and periods.
depts.washington.edu/ceir/brumfield/

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, NY

Outright:	$100,000
Match:	$45,000

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.
www.yivoinstitute.org/

Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
Outright: $228,026
The preparation of language description tools for Wichí (an indigenous language of South America spoken in Argentina and Bolivia) with focus on the undocumented Central Pilcomayo dialect.
www.emich.edu/

Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL
Outright: $175,000
Documentation of Edo North languages of Nigeria through linguistic analysis of oral narrative samples that will be transcribed and translated. The project would also prepare a digital archive of the field recordings.
www.siue.edu/

University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX
Outright: $348,000
Digital archiving of Mexican, Central, and South American linguistic materials to be made accessible by The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA).
www.ailla.utexas.org/site/welcome.html