Research Library Program
2003 Grant Recipients

Grants Approved in Support of
Research Libraries

2003

American Music Center, Inc.
New York, New York

To support integration of AMC 20th-Century Collections with NewMusicJukeBox.org online (jointly funded with the Performing Arts Program) ($25,000 total)

$20,000
Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc.
New York, New York

For the deposit of forty Eye on Dance Archive titles in the Dance Research Collection of the New York Public Library (jointly funded with the Performing Arts Program) ($10,000 total)

$5,000
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

Toward support of a digital archive and web site of images and contextual materials in the field of landscape studies at the Bard Graduate Center

$20,000
Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum
Boston, Massachusetts

To support the online cataloguing of the Library's archives

$20,000
British Schools and Universities Foundation, Inc.
Rome, Italy

To support the conservation of the photograph collection, taken between 1890 and 1925, of Thomas Ashby for the British School at Rome

$8,000
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

To support the work of the Women Writers Project to create guidelines for scholars using the Text Encoding Initiative (jointly funded with the Humanities Program) ($25,000 total)

$15,000
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California

To support the Oral Histories Online Project and preserving archival materials documenting the history of science and research

$10,000
University of Chicago Library
Chicago, Illinois

To support the Italian Women Writers project; specifically the digitization of early Venetian texts (jointly funded with the Humanities Program) ($20,000 total)

$15,000
Council of Independent Colleges
Washington, DC

To support a series of workshops on the transformation of the library in liberal arts colleges (jointly funded with the Humanities Program) ($30,000 total)

$15,000
Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc.
Washington, DC

To support the Fellowship Program in Dance Documentation and Preservation

$22,000
Dorian Woodwind Foundation, Inc.
New York, New York

To support research on the forty-year history of the Quintet

$8,000
Folger Shakespeare Library
Washington, DC

Paid to Amherst College Trustees to provide electronic catalogue access to manuscript collections at the Library - Phase I

$24,000
Foundation Historical Association, Inc.
Auburn, New York

To support the completion of a Historic Structures Report on the Seward House and its outbuildings

$15,000
Grolier Club of the City of New York
New York, New York

For set-up charges for web-based library system software and to complete the conversion process

$14,000
Heritage Preservation, Inc.
Washington, DC

Toward support of the Heritage Health Index for work concerning humanities collections in major U.S. research libraries

$10,000
University of Illinois Foundation, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Urbana, Illinois

To support an international conference, European Modernism and the Information Society

$12,000
Trustees of Indiana University, Center for the History of the Book
Bloomington, Indiana

To support a History of the Book seminar

$2,000
Le Moyne College
Syracuse, New York

To support the 2004 International Association of Philosophy and Literature conference, Virtual Materialities

$4,000
Literary Classics of the United States, Inc.
New York, New York

To support research for the publication of Ezra Pound's, Poems and Translations for the Library of America, Inc.

$15,000
University of London, Institute of English Studies
London, England

Toward support of an international symposium, The History of the Book and Literary Cultures

$20,000
Museum of Modern Art
New York, New York

To support consolidation, processing, and preservation of research resources in the Library and Museum Archives collections

$20,000
National Gallery of Canada
Ottowa, Ontario

For support to digitize catalogues from the first fifty years of the National Gallery's exhibition history

$12,000
New Jersey Institute of Technology Foundation
Newark, New Jersey

To support the application of “spherical panoramic imaging” to teaching and research in architectural history

$7,000
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
New York, New York

To support the George Balanchine's Enduring Legacy exhibit at Lincoln Center

$25,000
New York State Archives Partnership Trust
Albany, New York

To support projects that expand the conservation of Native American Treaties and Land Papers

$25,000
Northwestern University Library
Evanston, Illinois

A two-year grant for support of the Music Manuscript Project at the Northwestern University Music Library

$10,000
Paul Smith’s College of Arts and Sciences
Paul Smiths, New York

For support of the Archives Outreach Program at the Joan Weill Adirondack Library

$10,000
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

To support the processing, cataloguing, and conservation of records of the Painted Bride Art Center

$24,000
Rare Book School
Charlottesville, Virginia

A three-year grant to support expansion of the fellowship program in medieval codicology and paleography

$15,000
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC

To support the digitizing of microfilm of the Walter Pach Papers at the Archives of American Art

$5,000
Society of Antiquaries of London
London, England

To help digitize and catalogue a collection of prints and drawings from the 16th to 20th centuries

$10,000
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, California

To support Digitizing the M.R. James Catalogue of the Matthew Parker Library, a collaboration between Stanford University Libraries and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

$26,000
University of Texas at Austin, School of Information
Austin, Texas

To support a NEH matching grant for the Preservation and Conservation Studies Program for conservator student internships

$25,000
Theatre Library Association
New York, New York

To support a symposium, Performance Documentation and Preservation in an Online Environment, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center

$4,000
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario

To support an international conference on the history of records, records-keeping and archives (I-CHORA)

$2,000
Walker Art Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota

To support the restoration and preservation of the New Music America tapes in the Walker archives

$6,000
The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc.
Winterthur, Delaware

For support of an exhibition, The Winterthur Library revealed: Five Centuries of Design and Inspiration

$3,000
University of Wisconsin Foundation, Department of Geography
Madison, Wisconsin

To support the preparation of line drawings, reference maps, and index for Volume Three, The History of Cartography: Cartography in the European Renaissance

$20,000
Yale University, Oral History, American Music
New Haven, Connecticut

To support the collection and preservation of oral and video memoir archives of American composers

$24,000
Yale University Library
New Haven, Connecticut

To support Information Technology: Basic Education for Archivists, a program in collaboration with Simmons College

$26,000