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Grants Approved in Support of
Research Libraries
2005
Amherst College Trustees
Amherst, MA
a two year planning grant for a Folger Shakespeare Library undergraduate research seminar
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$20,000 |
Arizona State University
Phoenix, AZ
toward support of producing a photographic catalogue for the Native American historical photographic collection (jointly funded with the Humanities Program, $5,000 total)
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$2,500 |
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Ball State University
Muncie, IN
toward support of an online database, 'What Middletown Read?, an exploration of the behavior of library patrons between 1892 and 1902, based on surviving borrowing records
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$8,000 |
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The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
Brooklyn, NY
to support the conversion of bibliographic records of the Brooklyn Museum's historical auction catalogue collection
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$25,000 |
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Cambridge in America
New York, NY
Toward support of outreach and public events at the Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College
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$15,000 |
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Cambridge in America, Newnham College Library
New York, NY
toward support in cataloguing the papers of Olive Cook (1912-2002), writer and artist
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$20,000 |
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Chicago Ballet Russe Foundation
Chicago, IL
toward support for condition assessment of materials from the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo for later restoration and exhibition
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$2,000 |
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College of William and Mary in Virginia, the Earl Gregg Swem Library
Williamsburg, VA
to help create the Jefferson Digital Repository, an online database of Thomas Jefferson's letters from 1775-1826
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$10,000 |
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Dance Notation Bureau
New York, NY
to help support the notation of two major dances by Martha Graham and Robert Battle (jointly funded with the Performing Arts Program, $22,000 total)
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$14,500 |
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Duke University Libraries
Durham, NC
for support of the 'Cooperative Preservation of Audio Visual Materials: A Proposed Planning Project'
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$25,000 |
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Emory University
Atlanta, GA
to support the second phase of the 'Access to Major Irish Literature Archives Project,' a collaborative project developing online access to Irish Literary Archives in the United States
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$34,000 |
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Frick Collection
New York, NY
toward development of a 'Center for the History of Collecting in America' at the Frick Art Reference Library
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$25,000 |
Hand Papermaking
Washington, DC
in support of the Summer 2006 issue (vol. 21, no.1) of the Hand Papermaking magazine's 20th anniversary
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$5,000 |
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Heritage Preservation
Washington, DC
for continued support of the Heritage Health Index
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$10,000 |
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Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary
Jordanville, NY
to continue support of cataloguing rare Slavic print and manuscript materials
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$13,000 |
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Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Becket, MA
for continued support to preserve and improve accessibility to the Jacob?s Pillow archives
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$22,000 |
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Jewish Museum, The
New York, NY
to support the preservation of twenty-four, 16mm films of the television series, 'The Goldbergs'
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$12,000 |
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Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries
Baltimore, MD
toward a pilot project to develop a collaborative database of prominent historic Baltimore architecture
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$40,000 |
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Linda Hall Library Trust
Kansas City, MO
toward support of the library's Fellowship Program for visiting scholars
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$10,000 |
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Marlboro College, Rice Library
Marlboro, VT
to support microfilming of the College's Plans of Concentration preservation project
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$5,000 |
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
to support consolidation, processing and preservation of research resources in the Museum's Library and Museum Archives
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$20,000 |
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Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., G.W. Blunt White Library
Mystic, CT
to support cataloguing a unique collection of 10,000 maps and nautical charts from the Library's collection to make them available for historical research
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$25,000 |
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The Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
toward support of two workshops on the History of the Book in early modern Italy (jointly funded with the Humanities Programs, $10,000 total)
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$5,000 |
New York City Ballet
toward support of the NYC Ballet Archives (jointly funded with Humanities and
Performing Arts Programs, $70,000 total) |
$20,000 |
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The New York Preservation Archive Project
New York, NY
to support an online database history of the preservation movement in New York City
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$5,000 |
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The New York Public Library
New York, NY
to help cataloguing of the Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Bruce Jay Friedman archives in the Berg Collection
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$25,000 |
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New York State Archives Partnership Trust
Albany, NY
to support the 'Save America's Treasures' project, for conservation of New York's Revolutionary War Treasures
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$12,000 |
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New York University, Fales Library
New York, NY
toward support in cataloguing and assessing the status of the David Wojnarowicz papers, and the Mabou Mines Archive in the Fales Downtown Collection
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$20,000 |
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Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ
to support a national meeting of tribal and non tribal archivists, historians and anthropologists to develop 'Native American Protocols for American Libraries, Archives, and Information Services'
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$10,000 |
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Poets House
New York, NY
to help fund Library cataloguing activities planned for 2005-2006
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$15,000 |
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The Research Libraries Group, Inc.
Mountain View, CA
toward support of a two-day working meeting at the National Archives (UK) to explore the international interoperability of archival databases
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$30,000 |
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Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing
Houston, TX
toward support of a conference, in Venice, Italy, on 'The Books of Venice' (jointly funded with the Venice Program, $25,000 total)
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$20,000 |
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection Library
New York, NY
to support a photography preservation archive
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$12,700 |
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Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche
Rome, ITALY
toward support of a planning project for the URBS consortium
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$10,000 |
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The University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
Canada
to support the Arctic Institute of North America?s Photographic Archive Database Project
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$12,000 |
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University of California, Los Angeles. University Library
Los Angeles, CA
to support the creation of a digital facsimile of the 1582 edition of Corpus Juris Canonici
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$20,000 |
University of Chicago Library
Chicago, IL
for renewed support of the database for Italian Women Writers |
$10,000 |
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University of Edinburgh USA Development Trust, Inc.
Edinburgh, Scotland
United Kingdom
toward support of the Centre for the History of the Book
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$20,000 |
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University of Illinois, Rare Book and Special Collections Library
Champaign, IL
to support the Making Finding Aids 'Findable' project
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$25,000 |
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University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
toward support of the Text Creation Partnership Conference concerning scholarly uses of Early English Books Online
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$10,000 |
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University of New Mexico Foundation, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
toward support of the American Indian Oral History Collection
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$8,000 |
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University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
A seed grant for student tuition to the Rare Book School program at the University of Virginia
(jointly funded with the Humanities Program, $5,000 total)
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$2,500 |
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University of Toronto Libraries, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
to digitize the Library's complete collection of Wenceslaus Hollar etchings
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$22,000 |
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University of Virginia, Alderman Library
Charlottesville, VA
to support a NEH matching grant and the final development stage to digital scholarship of 'The Rossetti Archive'
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$24,000 |
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The University of Warwick Library
Conventry, England
United Kingdom
to support the creation and installation of a database of the personal papers of Victor Gollancz, publisher, writer and humanist
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$22,000 |
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University of Wisconsin Foundation
Madison, WI
to further develop a South Asian periodicals indexing project; specifically a technical infrastructure
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$8,000 |
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Virginia Historical Society
Richmond, VA
to help provide increased access to its women's history collections
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$8,000 |
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Wells College
Aurora, NY
to support initial costs of a full time Book Binder to the College
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$18,000 |
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The Women's Library
London, England
United Kingdom
toward support of the cataloguing of the personal letters and printed materials of Josephine Butler, a Victorian social reformer
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$25,000 |
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