Research Library Program
2004 Grant Recipients

Grants Approved in Support of
Research Libraries

2004


American Association of the National Galleries of Scotland, Inc.
Washington, DC

To support the cataloguing of the Scottish National Photography Book Collection

$18,000
American Philosophical Society
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

To support the conversion to electronic text of Realms of Gold, a comprehensive guide to the map collections of the APS

$25,330
American Fund of the National Maritime Museum and the Royal Observatory
Washington, DC

In support of the digitization of the Atlantic Neptune collection of 18th-century maps at the National Maritime Museum

$25,000
American Trust for the British Library
New York, New York

To help catalogue and improve accessibility of the India Office's Military Department Records

$35,000
The George Balanchine Foundation, Inc.
New York, New York

To continue support for the preservation of Balanchine's work in the Video Archive Project (jointly funded with the Performing Arts Program) ($10,000 total)

$5,000
Bibliographical Society of America
Cambridge, Massachusetts

To support a conference, Roughing It: Printing and the Press in the West, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Society

$5,000
University of California Santa Cruz Foundation, The University Library
Santa Cruz, CA

To support the construction of a finding aid for the original music manuscript material in the Lou Harrison Archive

$10,000
Cambridge in America
New York, New York

To support the Scott Polar Research Institute: Library, Archives and Museum for installation of all four expedition time lines

$19,000
Cambridge in America
New York, New York

To support the Scott Polar Research Institute, and the William Mills Library Acquisitions Fund

$5,000
Cambridge in America
New York, New York

In support of an exhibition of illuminated manuscripts at the Fitzwilliam Museum

$25,000
Cambridge in America
New York, New York

To support the University Library's cataloguing of materials in the Royal Commonwealth Society collections

$25,000
The Center for Research Libraries
Chicago, Illinois

To support a planning grant to strengthen the national network of Libraries of Record

$25,000
Central New York Library Resources Council
Syracuse, New York

To support the creation of a 2005 Preservation Calendar

$1,000
University of Connecticut Foundation, Inc., University Libraries
Storrs, Connecticut

To support a national symposium to facilitate the adoption and integration among libraries and archives of an image coding system, JPEG 2000

$10,000
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania                

For general operating support

$3,000
Cornell University Library
Ithaca, New York

To support a multi-day symposium on the future of collection development in the first quarter of the 21st century

$15,000
Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Washington, DC

Toward the establishment of a position of Information Services Manager (an NEH matching grant)

$10,000
Dance Notation Bureau, Inc.
New York, New York

To support the notation of Pilobolus's Alruane and a work by Robert Battle

$25,000
Duke University Press
Durham, North Carolina

To support the publication of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle

$15,000
Folger Shakespeare Library
Washington, DC

Paid to Amherst College Trustees in support of a 2006 conference on the History of the Book on the Continent (jointly funded with the Humanities Program) ($20,000 total)

$10,000
Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
Brooklyn, New York

To support the publication of Franklin Furnace's First Decade Online: Providing Intellectual Access to Variable Media Art

$20,000
Grolier Club of the City of New York
New York, New York

In support of the exhibition and catalogue, Lasting Impressions: The Grolier Club Library

$15,000
History of Science Society
Worcester, Massachusetts

Toward the establishment of a position of History and Social Science Bibliographer (an NEH matching grant, jointly funded with the Humanities Program) (total $30,000)

$15,000
Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary
Jordanville, New York

Paid to the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Church Outside of Russia, to support the cataloguing of rare Slavic and Russian manuscripts

$15,000
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Lee, Massachusetts

To support preservation of and access to the Jacob's Pillow archives

$25,000
Library Company of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

To help acquire and move catalogue records of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) to Exlibris's Aleph 500 system

$25,000
The Library of Congress
Washington, DC

To support a symposium, catalogue, and exhibition entitled A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books

$15,000
Loyola University
New Orleans, Louisiana

In support of transportation and preservation of the Joseph-Aurelien Cornet Collection

$15,000
Monash University
Melbourne, Victoria
Australia

To support the University's Centre for the Book in the fields of bibliography, book and library history, and textual editing

$5,000
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario

To support the preparation of the Index to National Gallery of Canada Exhibition Catalogues 1880-1930

$20,000
Natural History Museum of London
London, England

To support preparation of the Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks 1768-1820

$14,000
New York University, Fales Library and Special Collections
New York, New York

To support the cataloguing and assessment of film materials in the Mabou Mines and David Wojnarowicz Collections

$25,000
Printed Matter, Inc.
New York, New York

To support the re-design of Printed Matter's Online Catalogue Raisonné of artists' books

$5,000
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Stockholm, Sweden

To support the preservation of diaries and notebooks from the Andrée Arctic expedition

$10,000
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing
Houston, Texas

To support Presidential representation at the SHARP 2005 Regional Conference in New Zealand

$1,000
Society of Antiquaries of London
London, England

To help complete the digitization of drawings relating to Romano-British antiquities (Britannia Romana)

$6,000
University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Austin, Texas

To support a Samuel Beckett centenary online web exhibition

$18,000
The University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library
Salt Lake City, Utah

To support the Book Arts Program

$5,000