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Grants Approved in Support of
Research Libraries
2007
American Friends of the Churchill Museum
New York, NY
to support the cataloguing of the private papers of General Lord Horne, a senior commander during World War I, for the Imperial War Museum
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$25,000 |
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American Friends of the J. B. Harley Research Fellowship, Inc.
Madison, WI
in support of the J.B. Harley Research Fellowships Trust in the United Kingdom, for the History of Cartography project at the University of Wisconsin
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$22,000 |
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American Friends of the Natural History Museum
London, England
toward support of volume 2 of the Banks Archive Project; the Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820
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$12,000 |
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American Fund of the National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory
Washington, DC
toward support of the cataloguing, digitization, and online publication of the van de Velde maritime drawings in the National Maritime Museum
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$25,000 |
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American Printing History Association, Inc.
New York, NY
toward support of the 2007 conference to be held at UCLA
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$2,500 |
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American Trust for the British Library
New York, NY
toward cataloguing support for the Harold Pinter collection
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$20,000 |
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Americans for Oxford, Inc.
New York, NY
toward support of the Centre for the Study of the Book at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England
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$25,000 |
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Association of Research Libraries
Washington, DC
to support the compilation, design, and production of the ARL 75th Anniversary Commemorative Volume, Celebrating Research, and its website project
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$25,000 |
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Boston Athenaeum (Proprietors of)
Boston, MA
toward support of the bicentennial exhibition, Acquired Tastes; Celebrating the Bicentennial of the Boston Athenaeum, Grolier Club, New York, opening in September, 2007
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$25,000 |
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Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
toward support of the 2007 Next Wave Festival Digitization Project
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$25,000 |
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Cambridge in America
New York, NY
to support the completion of processing and cataloguing of historic records of University Clubs and Societies, now in the Cambridge University Library Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
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$25,000 |
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Cambridge in America
New York, NY
to help support the editing of the M.R. James catalogue at the library of Corpus Christi College, UK
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$20,000 |
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Caxton Club
Chicago, IL
to support the 2008 Caxton Club/Newberry Library Symposium on the Book, Rare Books & the Common Good: American Perspectives
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$4,000 |
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Center for Book Arts
New York, NY
to help support its comprehensive collections documentation project
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$10,000 |
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Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
Philadelphia, PA
to support preservation and education services, and toward a matching NEH grant
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$10,000 |
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Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
to help support a documentation and preservation initiative, Mondays with Merce
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$10,000 |
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Dance Heritage Coalition
Washington, DC
toward support of a Fellowship Program in Dance Documentation and Preservation, and the creation of EAD Finding Aids and Web-based templates
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$20,000 |
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Dance Notation Bureau
New York, NY
toward notation of a series of works by Martha Graham (jointly funded with Performing Arts Program, $20,000 total)
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$5,000 |
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Duke University Press
Durham, NC
toward support of the online HighWire version of the Carlyle Letters
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$20,000 |
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Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
to help support the preservation of archives of videotapes from 1976-1986
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$20,000 |
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Grolier Club of the City of New York
New York, NY
toward production of a catalogue for the 2009 exhibit Vivat Rex!: Commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the Accession of Henry VIII', to be shown at the Grolier Club. This is a joint project of the Grolier Club, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library, and the Pierpont Morgan Library
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$17,000 |
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Independent Media Arts Preservation, Inc.
New York, NY
toward support of a one-day symposium on electronic media preservation
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$2,000 |
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International Foundation for Art Research, Inc.
New York, NY
to support the online Catalogue Raisonnè Database Initiative, devoted to catalogues on paintings and sculpture
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$5,000 |
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Mint Theater Company
New York, NY
toward support of taping The Madras House, for the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center
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$3,000 |
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Mint Theater Company
New York, NY
to support the From the Stage to the Page initiative; two volumes of plays to be distributed free of charge to performing arts libraries across the country
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$15,000 |
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National Library of Scotland
Edinburgh, Scotland
UK
to support digitization plans for the John Murray Archive project, Phase I
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$22,000 |
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The New School
New York, NY
toward support of digitization of scrapbooks documenting the history of the Herbert Sondheim Company, 1923-1947
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$14,000 |
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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
New York, NY
to help support an exhibition, INVENTION: Merce Cunningham & Collaborators
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$25,000 |
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The New York Historical Society
New York, NY
toward support of a project to inventory, catalogue, and conserve the Naval History Society Collection
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$20,000 |
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New York University, Fales Library
New York, NY
to help support the processing of the Franklin Furnace and Matthew Hogan collections
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$25,000 |
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Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
San Mateo, CA
toward support of a three-day conference on archival descriptive systems
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$14,400 |
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The Pierpont Morgan Library
New York, NY
to support the digitization of classical music manuscripts (jointly funded with the Humanities Program, $25,000 total)
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$10,000 |
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Printed Matter, Inc.
New York, NY
toward support of an online catalogue and archive of publications by artists
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$4,000 |
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
New York, NY
toward support of the Artist Files project at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
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$12,000 |
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Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
to support continued development of an archives and records management program (jointly funded with the Humanities Program, $21,480 total)
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$10,740 |
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Syracuse University, Belfer Audio Archives
Syracuse, NY
to support digitization and accessibility via the web cylinder collection in the Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive
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$25,000 |
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University of Arizona Foundation
Tucson, AZ
toward support of Electronic Literature: Digitizing the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s Audio Collections
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$10,000 |
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University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, IA
to support a digital edition of the Collected Letters of James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
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$20,000 |
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University of Michigan, School of Information Studies
Ann Arbor, MI
toward support of a conference, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Archives and the Ethics of Memory Construction
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$4,000 |
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University of Virginia, Media Studies Program
Charlottesville, VA
to support intern scholarships for three participating institutions to create a distributed workflow for Artists’ Books Online
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$15,000 |
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Yale University Library
New Haven, CT
toward support of a web-accessible collection of images of maps and globes by Venetian cartographers from the 16th and 17th centuries
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$25,000 |
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