Research Library Program
2001 Grant Recipients

Grants Approved in Support of
Research Libraries

2001

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)

$25,000

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

In support of the publication of The Spiral Press (1926-1971): A Bibliographical Checklist

$5,000

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)

$40,000

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)

$5,000

Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc.
Washington, D.C.

To support a fellowship program in dance documentation and preservation

$30,000

Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire

For support of EAD conversion work, including the Stefansson Collection

$30,000

Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

To support the project completion entitled Towards International Descriptive Standards: The U.S./Canadian Standards Reconciliation

$18,000

Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

A two-year grant to support access to major Irish literary archives at Emory University and Boston College

$120,000

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

$15,000

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

$40,000

Museum of Modern Art
New York, New York

To support increased access to MoMA Library and Archives research collections

$40,000

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)

$5,000

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)

$60,000

The New-York Historical Society
New York, New York

To provide salary support for a part-time archivist/records manager over two years

$40,000

Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

To support cataloguing and global electronic access for music manuscripts for the Northwestern University Music Library

$30,000

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

$29,500

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"

$2,500

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.

$30,000

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

$20,000

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
New York, New York

To support computerization of the modern art catalogue, for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy

$15,000

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

$15,000

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

$25,000

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

To support world-wide electronic access of Herman Melville and Charles Olson manuscripts, letters, personal papers and reading library

$40,000

University of Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri

For support of an electronic subject index to all extant pre-1800 British periodicals

$30,000

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

$20,000

University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia

To support the initial construction and establishment of an electronic course on "The History of the Codex Book"

$25,000

University of Washington
Seattle, Washington

To support the creation of a test database for the William Brumfield Russian Architecture Web Archive

$30,000