Humanities Program
2000 Grant Recipients

Grants Approved in Support of
Research Libraries

2000

American Friends of Cambridge University
New York, New York

For Girton College, University of Cambridge, England, to help expand access to the college archives (e.g. historian Helen Cam)

$45,000

American Friends of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Inc.
London, England

For the cataloguing and digitization of images for the Theatre Museum's Contemporary Dance Trust Archive

$25,000

American Ireland Fund
New York, New York

For the Tercentenary Fund for Archbishop Marsh's Library, Dublin, Ireland (jointly funded with the Humanities Program)

$5,000

Association of Research Libraries
Washington, D.C.

For "Create Change": a member campus educational campaign of issues facing scholarly communication and on actions faculty can take to help transform the system

$15,000

Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
Brooklyn, New York

For the Data Management and Image Server components for an On Line Public Access Catalog at the Brooklyn Museum of Art

$46,000

Byrd Hoffman Foundation
New York, New York

For the preservation and cataloguing of the Robert Wilson Archive photograph collection (jointly funded with Performing Arts Program)

$5,000

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

For "Digital Surrogates of Medieval Manuscripts: Expanding A Scholarly Resource", a research tool to make available through the world wide web manuscripts of the Roman de la Rose in three libraries

$40,000

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

For a two-year project to create encoded electronic versions of finding aids for materials in collections of 16 member institutions (paid to the Corporation of Haverford College)

$110,000

Syracuse University Press, Inc.
Syracuse, New York

For editorial preparation of The Encyclopedia of New York State in 2002

$12,000

Trustees of Amherst College
Amherst, Massachusetts

For a two-year project of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., entitled: "Raising the Curtain: David Garrick at the Folger"

$75,000

The Trustees of Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana

For the establishment of a Center for the History of the Book at Indiana University

$5,000

University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada

For Phase I of a study of "Scholarship in the humanities and archival sources: processes, perceptions and preferences in digitization"

$28,000

Wells College
Aurora, New York

For the Victor Hammer Fellowship Program in the Book Arts

$12,000