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Grants Approved in Support of
Research Libraries
2001
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American Music Center, Inc.
New York, New York
To support relocation of the American Music Center Collection of 20th Century musical scores and recordings to the New York Public Library for Performing Arts at Lincoln Center (jointly funded with the Performing Arts Program) ($35,000 total)
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$25,000
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American Printing History Association, Inc.
New York, New York
In support of the publication of The Spiral Press (1926-1971): A Bibliographical Checklist
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$5,000
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American Trust for the British Library
New York, New York
To support the cataloguing at the Guilford collection of manuscripts and printed books formed by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827)
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$40,000
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Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
To support the publication of Books in Native American Languages in the Collection of the John Carter Brown Library: A Catalogue with Illustrations (jointly funded with the Humanities Program) ($15,000 total)
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$5,000
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Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc.
Washington, D.C.
To support a fellowship program in dance documentation and preservation
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$30,000
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Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire
For support of EAD conversion work, including the Stefansson Collection
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$30,000
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Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
To support the project completion entitled Towards International Descriptive Standards: The U.S./Canadian Standards Reconciliation
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$18,000
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Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia
A two-year grant to support access to major Irish literary archives at Emory University and Boston College
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$120,000
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French Institute/Alliance Française
New York, New York
To support development and implementation of Project Benjamin, the computerization of library service among 144 Alliance Française chapters in the United States
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$15,000
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Frick Collection
New York, New York
To support accessibility of Frick family archival material relating to the institutional history of the Collection and the Library
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$40,000
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, New York
To support increased access to MoMA Library and Archives research collections
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$40,000
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New Dance Group Studio, Inc.
New York, New York
To support the Center's archival and restoration project, in conjunction with the New York Public Library (jointly funded with the Performing Arts Program) ($10,000 total)
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$5,000
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New York City Ballet, Inc.
New York, New York
A three-year grant to support restoration, preservation, and accessibility of NYCB archives (jointly funded with the Performing Arts) ($300,000 total)
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$60,000
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The New-York Historical Society
New York, New York
To provide salary support for a part-time archivist/records manager over two years
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$40,000
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Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
To support cataloguing and global electronic access for music manuscripts for the Northwestern University Music Library
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$30,000
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Research Libraries Group, Inc.
Mountain View, California
To work with the Direction des Archives de France in support of the preparation and conversion work on Volume II of État des fonds of the private archives section and various collections for EAD treatment for RLG's Archival Resources program
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$29,500
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Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center
Auburn, New York
To support production of a catalogue to accompany the exhibit entitled "Central New York Book Arts: Traditional to Innovative"
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$2,500
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Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University
Cambridge, England
To support the Virtual Shackleton project to preserve and make accessible manuscripts and artifacts relating to the expeditions of Sir Ernest Shackleton in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University. Paid to Cambridge in America.
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$30,000
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Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C.
To support collaborative efforts between the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and staff of the National Museum of American History Behring Center for creation of a searchable, web-accessible database of a collection of manufacturer's trade catalogues relating to scientific instruments, dating from the mid-19th to the early 20th Century
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$20,000
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
New York, New York
To support computerization of the modern art catalogue, for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
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$15,000
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University of California
Berkeley, California
To prepare a web interface to the Digital Scriptorium, a catalogue of medieval manuscripts at The Bancroft Library at the University of California Berkeley
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$15,000
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University of California
Riverside, California
To support a matching grant of the National Endowment of the Humanities toward completion of the English Short Title Catalogue project
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$25,000
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University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut
To support world-wide electronic access of Herman Melville and Charles Olson manuscripts, letters, personal papers and reading library
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$40,000
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University of Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri
For support of an electronic subject index to all extant pre-1800 British periodicals
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$30,000
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
For support of a project, Primarily History: Historians and the Search for Primary Source Materials, the grant to be divided equally between the University of North Carolina and the University of Glasgow, Scotland
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$20,000
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University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
To support the initial construction and establishment of an electronic course on "The History of the Codex Book"
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$25,000
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University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
To support the creation of a test database for the William Brumfield Russian Architecture Web Archive
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$30,000
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