Research Library Program
2002 Grant Recipients

Grants Approved in Support of
Research Libraries

2002

American Academy in Rome
New York, New York

To support the preservation and access of the American music collection by American Academy composers

$40,000
American Folk Art Museum
New York, New York

To support the exhibition Fraktur Treasures from the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (jointly funded with the Humanities Program) ($10,000 total)

$5,000
American Friends of the British Museum
New York, New York

To help support an exhibition on Discovery and Learning in the Age of King George III, in the King's Library at the British Museum

$42,000
American Friends of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Inc.
New York, New York

To support the cataloguing and rehousing of the English Stage Company/Royal Court Theatre Archive of the Theatre Museum

$40,000
American Philosophical Society
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

To support the creation of EAD finding aids for a collection of manuscripts of Benjamin Franklin

$30,000
Binghamton University
Binhamton, New York

To support the services of a professional Archival Assistant to reorganize the Max Reinhardt Archives

$33,000
Butler University
Indianapolis, Indiana

To support assessment of restoring Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo artifacts

$3,000
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California

To support the Oral Histories Online Project

$20,000
Cambridge in America
New York, New York

To support the Newham College Archives in the installation for collections management software, and cataloguing of the Jane Harrison papers

$35,000
Cambridge in America
New York, New York

To support cataloguing of manuscript and archive collections in the Royal Commonwealth Society Library at the Cambridge University Library

$40,000
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

For interim support of preservation services office, and toward a matching National Endowment of the Humanities grant

$20,000
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

To support a meeting of east coast development officers from libraries participating in the Bone Direct partnership

$7,500
Dance Notation Bureau, Inc.
New York, New York

To support the annotation of Sweet Purgatory and a Balanchine work

$25,000
Frick Collection
New York, New York

To support a scholarly lecture series

$15,000
Gasprinsky Crimean Tatar Library
Crimea, Ukraine

To support an international conference, A Library as a Center of Dialogue of Cultures In Multiethnic Society

$7,660
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

To support a matching NEH grant for a web based project, World History Matters: Teaching and Learning Through Online Primary Source

$30,000
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Lee, Massachusetts

To support digitization, processing, and photo organization of the Jacob's Pillow Archives

$30,000
Library Company of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

To support a conference on library history in April, 2002

$7,000
Loyola University
New Orleans, Louisiana

To support the cataloguing of manuscripts and other materials in the Robert Giroux collection

$6,000
Marlboro College
Marlboro, Vermont

To support the microfilming of the College's Plans of Concentration

$5,000
Museum of Modern Art
New York, New York

To support the processing and preservation of MOMA Library and Archives research collections

$25,000
Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc.
Mystic, Connecticut

To support the creation of finding aids for the Library's collection

$40,000
The New York Public Library
New York, New York

To support the creation of collection-level records for manuscripts in the Henry W. and Albery A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature

$35,000
The New York Public Library
New York, New York

To support the encoding and posting of finding aids online for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division

$35,000
New York State Archives Partnership Trust
Albany, New York

For support of a NEH matching endowment fund for the Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Program

$15,000
New York State Historical Association
Cooperstown, New York

To support the acquisition of an integrated online library system to improve access to its collection

$40,000
New York University
New York, New York

To provide support to complete the organization of processing Sir Harold Acton's papers at Villa La Pietra in Florence, Italy

$40,000
The Newberry Library
Chicago, Illinois

To support the cataloguing, processing, and preparation of manuscripts of the Edward E. Ayer collection on American Indian history

$20,000
Oneida Community Mansion House
Oneida, New York

To support the completion of the Historic Structure Report

$8,000
Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

To support documentation and preservation of the Philadelphia Dance Collection

$30,000
University of California
Los Angeles, California

To support a full-time project archivist, and materials for re-housing the Eric Gill collection

$35,000
University of California
Los Angeles, California

To support a conference on Jewish Communities in Early Modern Italy, to be held at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (jointly funded with the Humanities and Venetian Research Programs) ($15,000 total)

$5,000
University of California
Berkeley, California

To provide salary support for a technological staff to improve access to the Bancroft Library's collection of ancient Egyptian papyri

$15,000
University of Oxford
Oxford, England

To support the publication of a corpus of medieval library catalogues from Great Britain

$20,000
University of Edinburgh USA Development Trust, Inc.
Edinburgh, Scotland

For support of The History of the Book program over the next five years

$21,000
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

For travel and lodging for two scholars working in Rome on the Vatican Archives Project

$5,300
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia

To support Traditions of Exemplary Women: A Digital Research Collection for the Study of Women in Early China

$8,000
Wells College
Aurora, New York

To support the Victor Hammer Fellow in the Book Arts

$12,000