Humanities Program
1999 Grant Recipients

Grants Approved in Support of
Research Libraries

1999

American Friends of Cambridge University
New York, New York

For access and preservation of photographic collections at the Shackleton Memorial Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England

$32,000

American Ireland Fund
New York, New York

For the conservation laboratory at the Chester Beatty Library at Dublin Castle, Ireland

$15,000

American Printing History Association, Inc.
New York, New York

For guest speakers at APHA's national conference, October, 1999

$5,000

American Trust for the British Library
New York, New York

For the automation of India Office Records catalogues at the British Library, London, England

$50,000

American Trust for the British Library
New York, New York

For continuation of the Stefan Zweig music series at the British Library, London, England

$20,000

Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

For an electronic catalogue of the Mary Reynolds Collection of books on Dada and Surrealism

$18,000

Centro Studi Americani
Rome, Italy

For organization, classification, and recording of archives documenting the history of the Center for American Studies, from 1918 to the present

$40,000

Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

For its preservation services program

$30,000

Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

For conservation of and access to the Andrew Dickson White Collection of Architectural Photographs

$40,000

Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
Washington, D.C.

For a task force of scholars and librarians to consider the role of artifacts in library collections

$35,000

Drew University
Madison, New Jersey

For a one-day conference on the "History of the Book: The Next Generation"

$4,000

Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

For a two-year grant to support development of the North Carolina Archives Online Project

$80,000

Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

For a planning meeting to develop North American archival description content standards

$5,000

The Grolier Club of the City of New York
New York, New York

For the catalogue to accompany the exhibition, "A Century for a Century: Fine Printing 1900-1999"

$15,000

Literary Classics of the United States, Inc.
New York, New York

For the updating of collections of Library of America volumes in branch libraries of New York City

$35,000

National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario

To support the contribution of Canadian holdings to the Research Libraries Group Archival Resources service

$27,797

New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation
Newark, New Jersey

For a three-part lecture series: "Bricks, Mortar & Spirit II: Newark Through the Prism of Philip Roth"

$5,000

New School University
New York, New York

For support of the Harry Scherman Library at the Mannes College of Music

$10,000

Oneida Community Mansion House
Oneida, New York

For an Historic Structure Report on the Tontine section of the Mansion House complex

$8,000

Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Washington, D.C.

For the library exhibit, "Voyages of Discovery," New York City, 200l

$15,000

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing
Madison, Wisconsin

For travel expenses of trainee scholars to SHARP conferences in Mainz, Germany, 2000 and Williamsburg, Virginia, 2001

$12,000

Society of Scribes, Ltd.
New York, New York

For the exhibition "Artist & Alphabet - 20th Century Calligraphy and Lettering Art in America"

$1,000

The Trustees of Columbia University
New York, New York

For the retrospective conversion of the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

$20,000

The Trustees of Columbia University
New York, New York

For a two-year grant to support full accessibility to legacy manuscript collections relating to performing arts and theater history

$80,000

University of California Santa Cruz Foundation
Santa Cruz, California

For preservation, digitizing, and cataloguing of Italian glass lantern slides from the Branson DeCou Collection

$14,000

University of Chicago Library
Chicago, Illinois

For a matching grant to digitize and for finding aid conversion of the first fifty years of Poetry Magazine

$30,000

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

For documenting the American South database of: North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920

$5,000

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

For processing and cataloguing records of the American Poetry Review

$25,000

University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

For the Harry Ransom Humanities Center, to convert finding aids to literary archives for web access

$30,000

Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

A two-year grant to support the conversion of the Art Gallery's catalogue, Imaging America, to digital form

$80,000

Yale University Library
New Haven, Connecticut

Travel and per diem costs for three United States representatives to attend EAD Day meeting in London

$5,300