Grants

Thanks to the following granting agencies for their generous support of our digital projects:

2007

• Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation
  A grant to support digitization of materials from the Heritage House Museum, Orange, Texas.
  
  
• Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS)
  A grant for "Optimizing the User Experience in an Architecture for Rapid Development." The UNT Libraries will develop a model for an iterative user-centered design process in a rapid development framework that digital libraries can implement to improve the usability and effectiveness of their resources for targeted user groups. This project will focus on the information-seeking behavior and needs of genealogists, who constitute a third of all digital library users.
  
  
• Adeline & George McQueen Foundation
  Additional funding to the UNT Libraries for "Where the West Begins: Capturing Fort Worth's Historic Treasures. Participants will include the UNT Libraries, Texas Christian University, the Amon Carter Museum, the University of Texas at Arlington, Fort Worth Jewish Archives, the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame, Log Cabin Village, Cattle Raisers Museum, Lockheed Martin Archives, Archives of the Central Texas Conference United Methodist Church, the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, and the Cowtown Coliseum. The grant period ends in August of 2008.
  
  
• Tocker Foundation
  Grant to digitize early newspaper issues of the Tulia Herald, in partnership with the Swisher County Library.
  
  
• National Endowment for the Humanities
  A We the People grant to the UNT Libraries for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers." The Library of Congress serves as the technical advisor for the NDNP. The Award will fund digitization of Texas Newspapers, and for the grant UNT serves as lead institution with partners at the Center for American History at the University of Texas, and Texas Tech University.
  
  
• Tocker Foundation
  Grant to digitize historic town records from Clarendon, Texas, in partnership with the Burton Memorial Library.
  
  
• Amon G. Carter Foundation
  Grant to the UNT Libraries for "Where the West Begins: Capturing Fort Worth's Historic Treasures. Participants will include the UNT Libraries, Fort Worth Public Library, Texas Christian University, the Amon Carter Museum, the University of Texas at Arlington, Fort Worth Jewish Archives, Tarrant County College NE, the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame, Log Cabin Village, Cattle Raisers Museum, Lockheed Martin Archives, Archives of the Central Texas Conference United Methodist Church, Dallas Public Library, University of Houston, and the Cowtown Coliseum. The grant period ends in August of 2008.
  
  
• Summerfield G. Roberts Foundation
  Grant to the UNT Libraries for the Adopt a Book Digitally program. This gift will allow us to digitize nearly 250 books from the participating partners for this project: UNT, Austin College, the Star of the Republic Museum, Austin Public Library and Dallas Public Library. Selected books will include city and county histories, city directories, biographies of notable Texans, and other Texana titles.
  

2006

• The Summerlee Foundation
  Grant to the UNT Libraries for phase II of "Rescuing Texas History through the Digitization of At-risk Photographs and Maps" Through funds provided by the Summerlee Foundation of Dallas, the Portal to Texas History^SM offers digitization mini-grants for at-risk local history materials. The awardees include the Anderson County Historical Commission; Austin History Center, Austin Public Library; Bosque County Historical Commission; Childress County Heritage Museum; Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History; Dallas Heritage Village; FBC Heritage Museum Unlimited; First Christian Church, Port Arthur; Heritage House Museum, Orange; Historic Rose Marine Theater; Kemah Historical Society; Museum of the American Railroad; Palestine Public Library; Sanger Public Library; Sulphur Springs Public Library; Texas Lutheran University; and Val Verde Historical Commission.
  
  

• Humanities Texas
  Grant to the UNT Libraries to launch an initiative to develop and present online lesson plans that incorporate the interactive notebook style of learning. In total, twenty lesson plans will be developed by master teachers accomplished in creating this type of innovative curriculum. This project is made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.  See the lesson plans in My Texas History Notebook.
  

2005

• The Forrest C. Lattner Foundation
  Grant to the UNT Libraries and its partners the Courthouse-on-the-Square Museum, the Denton Public Library, and Texas Woman's University for "From Plowshares to Diplomas: Digitizing Early Denton History," which will focus on local Denton history. The grant will end December of 2007.  See the Denton materials.
  
  
• The Summerlee Foundation
  Grant to the UNT Libraries, "Rescuing Texas History through the Digitization of At-risk Photographs and Maps" Through funds provided by the Summerlee Foundation of Dallas, the Portal to Texas History^SM offers digitization mini-grants for at-risk local history materials. Awardees include the Clay County Historical Society, the Genevieve Miller Public Library, the Palestine Public Library, the Laredo Public Library, the Archives of the Big Bend at Sul Ross State University, the Moore Memorial Public Library, the University of Texas Pan-American, the Clark Hotel Museum, the Austin Public Library, the Killeen Public Library, and Concordia University at Austin. See the collection Rescuing Texas History.
  
  
• Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
  As a partner in the Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative (THDI), the UNT Libraries' Portal to Texas History^SM will play an important role in supporting a statewide digital gateway through the Library of Texas at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. THDI is a cooperative project to identify, describe, digitize, preserve, and make broadly accessible special collections of Texas history and culture held by libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies in Texas. For this grant initiative, the Portal to Texas History^SM team will develop and integrate an Open Archives Initiative (OAI) harvester into its existing architecture, to support another means of providing access to materials from diverse institutions. In addition, new content will be added to the Portal to Texas History^SM, and in turn to the Library of Texas, from partners at the Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum, the Boyce Ditto Public Library, the Marshall Public Library, the Weatherford College Library, the Weslaco Bicultural Museum Society, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
  
  
• Humanities Texas
  Grant to the UNT Libraries and the Deaf Smith County Public Library to digitize 3900 large format negatives of historic photographs of Deaf Smith County. This collection represents a wealth of primary source images that document the people, places, and culture of Hereford and the surrounding county. By presenting resources that are not widely available, the "Deaf Smith County: Frontier Communities of the Llano Estacado" project will benefit all Texans by highlighting an under-represented area that richly illustrates Texas's cattle and farming tradition. This project is made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. See the Deaf Smith County Library collection.
  
  
• Humanities Texas
  Grant to the UNT Libraries and nine partner institutions to digitize items illuminating the life and career of Lorenzo de Zavala, empresario, statesman and Texas revolutionary. Participants are University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at Arlington, Southern Methodist University, the Texas State Archives, the San Jacinto Museum of History, the Dallas Historical Society, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Library, the Texas General Land Office and the Sam Houston Regional Library. This project is made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. See the Lorenzo de Zavala Online project.
  

2004

• The Summerlee Foundation
  Grant to the UNT Libraries to support project development for the Portal to Texas History^SM. This generous gift covers travel, distribution and development of promotional materials. 
  
  
• Tocker Foundation
  Grant to Alvord Public Library to digitize various local records including Alvord incorporation papers; minutes of the town board, 1888-1917; and the Audubon town history. Materials were digitized at UNT and made accessible through the Portal to Texas History^SM.  See the Alvord materials.
  
  
• National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
  Grant to the collaborative partnership of the California Digital Library, New York University, and UNT to create a research program that will develop partner networks and infrastructure for archiving Web-based material, and will address effective strategies for the capture, curation and persistent management of these materials. Learn more about this program.
  

2003

• State of Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund (TIF)
  Grant to the UNT Libraries to create a technical structure for The Portal to Texas History. The grant covers the cost of hardware and software to assist with discovery, preservation and file management for digital collections.
  
  
• TexTreasures
  Grant to the UNT Libraries to digitize over 7,000 pages of historical content, "From Republic to State: Debates and Documents Relating to the Annexation of Texas, 1836-1856." The material includes books, pamphlets, maps, letters and land grants.  See the Annexation materials.