Humanities Program
1998 Grant Recipients

Grants Approved in Support of
Research Libraries

1998

American Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

For the Library of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, in support of The Leonard E. Boyle Chair in Manuscript Studies (jointly funded with the Humanities Program)

$2,500

Association of Art Museum Directors Educational Foundation, Inc.
New York, New York

For a planning meeting to prepare a proposal to the National Science Foundation's Digital Libraries Initiative, Round II competition

$10,000

Centro Studi Americani
Rome, Italy

For installation of a library security system

$30,000

Chancellor, Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford
Oxford, England

For a Finding-Aids Conversion Project of the Bodleian Library

$25,000

The Connecticut Historical Society
Hartford, Connecticut

For the processing, cataloguing, and producing of finding aids for the Oliver Wolcott family manuscript collections at the Society

$25,000

Drew University
Madison, New Jersey

For a lecture series on the History of the Book program (jointly funded with the Humanities Program)

$5,000

Hancock Shaker Village, Inc.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts

A planning grant to link the Hancock Shaker Village and the Shaker Museum and Library, for the management of Shaker research materials

$10,000

Linda Hall Library Trust
Kansas City, Missouri

For fellowship support of visiting scholars conducting humanities research at the Library (jointly funded with the Humanities Program)

$3,000

Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania

For the program in History of the Book, in honor of the late Charles Mann

$5,000

Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, Inc.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

For Encoded Archival Description training workshops for sixteen member institutions

$15,050

Regents of the University of California
Riverside, California

For a three-year grant to support online conversion of the North American English Short Title Catalogue

$120,000

Research Libraries Group
Mountain View, California

For a project to select and convert a pilot group of archival finding aids, using a Research Libraries Group-sponsored conversion service

$40,000

University of Maryland Foundation, Inc.
Adelphi, Maryland

For a project to transfer the collection of master scores from the American Composers Alliance to the University of Maryland Performing Arts Library

$10,000

University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

For a working meeting of graduate archival educators, to discuss issues in educating archivists

$25,000

Wells College
Aurora, New York

For the Victor Hammer Fellowship at the Book Arts Center: to support young printers, bookbinders, and artists (a two-year grant)

$10,000