Research Library Program
2005 Grant Recipients

Grants Approved in Support of
Research Libraries

2006


Amherst College Trustees, Folger Shakespeare Library
Amherst, MA

to support an exhibition on English newspapers entitled Renaissance Journalism: The Development of the Newspaper in Early Modern England

$20,000
American Friends of the Hakluyt Society
New York, NY

to support the publication of The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger

$15,000
American Friends of the Natural History Museum, London
Hallendale, FL

to support completion of the initial volume of the Joseph Banks Indian and Pacific Correspondence project

$12,000
American Friends of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
Washington, DC

to support the cataloguing and digitization of the Royal Institution’s Photograph Collection

$6,000
American Trust for the British Library
New York, NY

to support the creation of online catalogue records for the Julian Marshall Collection of 17th- and 18th -century music manuscripts

$22,000
Bibliographical Society of America
New York, NY

toward support of a conference, Birth of a Bestseller held at the Grolier Club, the Morgan Library and Museum, and the Fales Library at New York University

$5,000
British Schools and Universities Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY

to support the digitization of the Royal Institute of British Architects Nomination Papers

$20,000
Cambridge in America
New York, NY

to support an upgrade of the Scott Polar Research Institute database and to incorporate SPRI records in the Cambridge University Library catalogue

$25,000
Center for Research Libraries
Chicago, IL

toward support of the third phase of incorporation of digital technologies in the Libraries’ operations

$15,000
Chamber Music America, Inc.
New York, NY

toward support of a planning grant for CMA’s Archive Project

$10,000
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL

toward general operating support for a Center for Book and Paper Arts (CBPA) conference and printing of the exhibition catalogue

$8,000
Columbia University
New York, NY

toward support of the “New Approaches to Generating EAD Finding Aids” project, using Columbia University Library’s archival collections as examples

$22,000
Dance Heritage Coalition
Washington, DC

to support the development of a simplified tool for finding aid creation, using diverse archival collections as examples for these approaches (jointly funded with the Performing Arts Program, $20,000 total)

$15,000
Duke University Libraries
Durham, NC

toward support of the NC Encoded Archival Context Intern project

$6,500
Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

to support the digital preservation of the Audio Archive Master Collection in the Sibley Music Library

$20,000
Franklin & Marshall College
Lancaster, PA

to support the completion of the digitization of the Lancaster (Intelligencer) Journal newspaper (1796 and 1836)

$8,000
Guild of Book Workers, Inc.
New York, NY

to support the production of an exhibition catalogue, to celebrate its 100th anniversary

$5,000
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Becket, MA

to support archival work related to the 75th anniversary season

$25,000
Lambeth Palace Library
London, England
UK

to support the conversion to electronic format of the Library’s catalogue of archives and manuscripts

$18,000
Lehigh University Library
Bethlehem, PA

toward support of a digitized version of The New York Saturday Press, a literary weekly of the Pfaff bohemians 1850-1860

$8,000
Library of America, Inc.
New York, NY

toward support of the publication of American Religious Poems: An Anthology by Harold Bloom

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

toward support of the processing of the Monroe Wheeler Papers and the preservation of the Circulating Exhibition Scrapbooks in MOMA’s archives

$25,000
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada

toward support of the creation of a searchable index of art exhibited between 1900 and 1930

$22,000
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
New York, NY

toward support of the Theatre Library Association Symposium II, Performance Reclamation: Research, Discovery, and Interpretation

$6,000
New York State Archives Partnership Trust
Albany, NY

toward support of the publication New York Archives

$20,000
New York University, Grey Art Gallery
New York, NY

to support educational programs and publication of a program guide for the Gallery exhibition, Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle

$13,000
Paul Taylor Dance Company
New York, NY

to support a matching grant for the "Save America's Treasures" project and for preservation of the Taylor archives (jointly funded with the Research Library Program, $20,000 total)

$17,000
Printed Matter, Inc.
New York, NY

toward support of bibliographic services and an archive of publications by artists

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

for continued support to digitize and catalogue prints and drawings from the 18th century

$4,000
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA

to support a new archives and records management program (jointly funded with the Humanities Program, $25,000 total)

$12,500

Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY

to support editorial research for Volume VI of the History of Cartography project at the University of Wisconsin

$22,000

University at Albany Foundation
Albany, NY

toward general support of the third International Conference on the History of Records and Archives ICHORA III

$10,000

University of California, Los Angeles, School of Information Studies
Los Angeles, CA

toward support of the California Rare Book School

$10,000
University of Chicago Library
Chicago, IL

toward support of a conference and publication devoted to scholarship on the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae

$16,000

University of Kansas School of Law
Lawrence, KS

to support the development of a database of American law booksellers’ catalogues from 1780-1860

$5,600

University of Michigan, School of Information
Ann Arbor, MI

to support a new method of teaching undergraduates in research through storygaming, a storytelling and gaming strategy

$20,000

University of Virginia, Media Studies Program
Charlottesville, VA

to support the digital project Artists Books Online

$15,000
Yaddo
Saratoga Springs, NY

to support a historic public project exhibition of the Yaddo archive at the New York Public Library (jointly funded with the Humanities Program, $10,000 total)

$5,000

Yale University, Oral History American Music School of Music and Library
New Haven, CT

toward support of the Oral History American Music project

$22,000