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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
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$5,000 |
British Schools and Universities Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
to support the digitization of the Royal Institute of British Architects Nomination Papers
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$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
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$25,000 |
Center for Research Libraries
Chicago, IL
toward support of the third phase of incorporation of digital technologies in the Libraries’ operations
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$15,000 |
Chamber Music America, Inc.
New York, NY
toward support of a planning grant for CMA’s Archive Project
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$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
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$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
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$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)
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$15,000 |
Duke University Libraries
Durham, NC
toward support of the NC Encoded Archival Context Intern project
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$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
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$20,000 |
Franklin & Marshall College
Lancaster, PA
to support the completion of the digitization of the Lancaster (Intelligencer) Journal newspaper (1796 and 1836)
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$8,000 |
Guild of Book Workers, Inc.
New York, NY
to support the production of an exhibition catalogue, to celebrate its 100th anniversary
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$5,000 |
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Becket, MA
to support archival work related to the 75th anniversary season
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$25,000 |
Lambeth Palace Library
London, England
UK
to support the conversion to electronic format of the Library’s catalogue of archives and manuscripts
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$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
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$8,000 |
Library of America, Inc.
New York, NY
toward support of the publication of American Religious Poems: An Anthology by Harold Bloom
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$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
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$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
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$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
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$6,000 |
New York State Archives Partnership Trust
Albany, NY
toward support of the publication New York Archives
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$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
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$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)
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$17,000 |
Printed Matter, Inc.
New York, NY
toward support of bibliographic services and an archive of publications by artists
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$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
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$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)
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$12,500 |
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Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
to support editorial research for Volume VI of the History of Cartography project at the University of Wisconsin
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$22,000 |
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University at Albany Foundation
Albany, NY
toward general support of the third International Conference on the History of Records and Archives ICHORA III
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$10,000 |
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University of California, Los Angeles, School of Information Studies
Los Angeles, CA
toward support of the California Rare Book School
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$10,000 |
University of Chicago Library
Chicago, IL
toward support of a conference and publication devoted to scholarship on the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae
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$16,000 |
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University of Kansas School of Law
Lawrence, KS
to support the development of a database of American law booksellers’ catalogues from 1780-1860
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$5,600 |
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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
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$20,000 |
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University of Virginia, Media Studies Program
Charlottesville, VA
to support the digital project Artists Books Online
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$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)
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$5,000 |
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Yale University, Oral History American Music School of Music and Library
New Haven, CT
toward support of the Oral History American Music project
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$22,000 |
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