2024

Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, New York, NY
Ailey Archives Digitization
$19,000

American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
Letters from Freedom: Chase Family collection
$20,800

American Printing History Association, New York, NY
“APHA @ 50: Printing History Past, Present and Future” Conference
$4,900

Arts Resources in Collaboration, New York, NY
EYE ON DANCE Legacy Archive and Access Project
$10,000

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
BAM FY25 Archives – Peggy Jarrell Kaplan and Tom Caravaglia Collections
$15,000

Brown University, Providence, RI
Cataloging and Access for Business Records and Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collections
$25,000

Center for Jewish History, New York
Digitizing the records of the Baron de Hirsch Fund
$20,000

CODEX Foundation, Berkeley, CA
Catalogue book arts library and implement online system
$4,000

Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Digital Infrastructure for Scholarship and Library Services
$20,000

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Out of Harm’s Way: Creating Access and Environmental Security
$17,000

DC History Center, Washington, DC
Ancestral Threads: The Quander Family Collections Project
$13,000

Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Research Library Collection Survey & Assessment Project
$25,000

HBCU Library Alliance, McDonough, GA
10th Membership Meeting Conference
$14,000

Historic Yellow Springs, Chester Springs, PA
Planning Process to Digitize Oral History
$4,500

Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Cataloguing the Single File Folder Collection
$20,000

Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), New York, NY
Hiding in Plain Sight Part II: Tracing the Footprints of 16th-17th Century Jewish Books Through a Collaborative Cataloging Project
$26,300

Letterform Archive, San Francisco, CA
Living/Non-Latin Scripts Curation and Digitization
$12,000

Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Summer Internships 2025
$10,000

Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, Mount Vernon, VI
Conserving, Digitizing, and Exhibiting the Edward Wendell Collection
$18,100

Museum of Printing, Haverhill, MA
Book Arts Library Database
$20,000

New York Philharmonic, New York, NY
Digitizing the Pierre Boulez Papers
$24,000

New York Public Library, New York, NY
The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History
$20,000

New York Society Library, New York, NY
270th Anniversary Exhibition Book Conservation
$3,000

New-York Historical Society, New York, NY
Digitizing the Philip Hone Diary, 1826-1851
$20,000

Paley Center for Media, New York, NY
Increased Digitization of the African American Collection
$18,000

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, New York, NY
The Taylor Archives 2024/25
$25,000

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia, PA
Who Was Mrs. John B. Smith: Reparative Authority Work on Women’s Names in PHS Digital Collections
$18,900

Rare Book School, Charlottesville, VA
Professional Education Scholarships
$20,000

Redemptorist Fathers Mission Advancement, Washington, D.C.
Cataloging the Shroud of Turin Collection at the Redemptorist Archives
$11,700

Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, Princeton, NJ
"Between Past and Future: RGME Spring & Autumn Symposia in 2024 for Teaching in the Liberal Arts with Original Sources, at Vassar College and Beyond"
$24,000

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Creating Access to the Tomoko Miho Archives
$18,000

Tate Americas Foundation, New York, NY
Cataloguing for the Guy Brett Library acquisition
$24,900

Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Watkinson Library Institute Workshop for Teaching with Special Collections and Archives
$5,000

Ukrainian Museum of Canada, Saskatoon, SK
Digitization of Ukrainian Canadian Journals and Newspapers
$10,000

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Completing the Colbeck Collection Catalogue
$22,000

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
PhiloBiblon: From Siloed Databases to Linked Open Data via Wikibase
$20,000

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Pacific Asia Museum digitization and research of glass plate negatives
$15,000

Urban Archive, New York
Digital Collections Access for Museums, Libraries, Archives, and Historical Societies
$15,000

Wells Book Arts Center, Aurora, NY
Summer Institute 2024
$5,500

2023

Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, New York, NY
Ailey Archives Digitization
$20,000

American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, Evidence of Working Women, 1830-1900: Access via Cataloging and Digitization
$22,200

American Printing History Association, New York, NY
Hebrew Metal Type Casting Intensive - Pilot Program
$5,000

Art Libraries Society of North America, Westford, MA
Raising the profile, expanding the footprint
$12,000

Art Libraries Society of North America, Westford, MA
Elevating Students in the City of Inclines
$7,500

Arts Resources in Collaboration, New York, NY
EYE ON DANCE Legacy Archive and Access Project
$10,000

Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
Albert C. Barnes Correspondence Archives Accessibility Project
$27,800

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
FY23 Archives – Peggy Jarrell Kaplan and Tom Caravaglia Collections
$12,000

Chagrin Falls Historical Society, Chagrin Falls, OH
Digitizing The Exponent (1904-1964): Preserving the Newspaper for the Chagrin Valley and Vicinity
$13,580

Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY
A Preliminary Condition Assessment of the Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Collection
$22,600

Genealogical Forum of Oregon, Portland, OR
Integration of Archive Material into Collection
$17,400

George C. Marshall Foundation, Lexington, VA
Digitization of the George C. Marshall Photo Collection
$6,000

HBCU Library Alliance, McDonough, GA
Building Capacity for Humanities Collections
$16,000

Historic Saranac Lake, Saranac Lake, NY
John Black Library Cataloging Project
$5,000

Historic Yellow Springs, Chester Springs, PA
Digitizing the Archives: From Revolutionary Hospital to Community Art Center
$12,000

Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
The Penn Family Papers at HSP
$17,400

IFAR, International Foundation for Art Research, New York, NY
Catalogue Raisonnés Database enhancements, updates and improved accessibility for users with disabilities
$25,000

Jacob Leisler Institute, Hudson, New York, Transcription, translation, and digitization of primary source documents
$3,000

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA
Jacob's Pillow Archives Digital Infrastructure
$20,000

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York, NY
Preserving Off-Off Broadway: Digitizing La MaMa’s Performance Footage
$20,000

Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Summer Internship Program
$15,000

Martha Graham Dance Company, New York, NY
Expansion of Martha Graham Center digital archives
$12,000

New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA
Early Photographs: Capturing the Light of New Bedford: 1840-1920
$20,000

New York Philharmonic, New York, NY
Kurt Masur Papers
$25,000

New York Public Library, New York, NY
Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance
$22,000

New York Society Library, New York, NY
Charging Ledger Conservation and Digitization (1804-1806, 1813-1818)
$12,000

Onondaga Historical Association, Syracuse, NY
Barstow Transit Collection Records
$20,000

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, New York, NY
The Taylor Archives 2023/24
$30,000

Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport, ME
Creating public access to maritime manuscripts
$12,200

Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL), Doylestown, PA
A PACSCL Library System: A 21st Century Approach
$21,960

Ramapo College Foundation, Mahwah, NJ
Making the Jane Addams Papers Accessible to the Public
$12,880

Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, Princeton, NJ
Building the Plan for Recording, Structuring, and Accessing the RGME Library & Archives
$4,500

Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Watkinson Library Institute
$5,000

UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Italian Recordings of Columbia Records, 1923-1950
$10,000

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Processing Native American Language Materials for Teaching and Research
$24,000

University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K.
Cataloguing the John le Carré archive at the Bodleian Libraries.
$23,000

University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Philadelphia, PA
Digital Scriptorium Graduate Student Fellowship in Digital Manuscript Description Practices
$17,000

University of Toronto, Dictionary of Old English, Toronto, Canada
Dictionary of Old English
$20,000

Urban Archive, New York, NY
Increasing Access to Digital Collections for Museums, Libraries, Archives, and Historical Societies
$15,000

Vermont Historical Society, Barre, VT
Restorative/Reparative Cataloging Project
$17,000

Wells Book Arts Center, Aurora, NY
Wells College Summer Institute 2023
$5,000

2022

Academy of American Poets, New York, NY
Illuminating American Poets in History through Archives
$15,000

Alice Austen House, Staten Island, NY
Processing the Papers of Marginalized Histories: Untold Women, LGBTQ+ and Photographic Stories
$10,000

Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, New York, NY
Digitization of Alvin Ailey's SURVIVORS
$15,000

American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Digital Preservation Project
$6,000

American Friends of Royal Museums Greenwich, New York, NY
Van de Velde 350: Greenwich, Art and the Sea - Re-Imagining the Van de Velde Studio
$9,000

American Trust for the British Library, New York, NY
2023-2024 Transatlantic Fellowship Program - British Library collections in dialogue with U.S. collections 
$15,000

Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, LA
Black in Many Ways: Cataloging Lisa C. Moore and NOMMO Literary Society Library Collections
$12,000

Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
Digitizing, Interpreting, and Disseminating the Albert C. Barnes Correspondence
$10,000

Bibliographical Society of America, Brooklyn, NY
Digital Outreach Project
$15,000

Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Improving Access to the Cultural Heritage of Book Art: Cataloguing the Center for Book Arts Archive
$10,000

Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Assessing Book Arts’ Affordances for People with Physical Mobility Limitations
$11,500

Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL
Processing the Afro-American Patrolmen's League Collection
$15,500

Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar, Colorado Springs, CO
2023 Diverse Voices Fellowship for Early-Career Booksellers
$20,000

Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Cataloging Recent Acquisitions: Local History Resources Relating to Cooperstown and Otsego County, NY
$20,000

George C. Marshall Foundation, Lexington, VA
Digitize the Elizebeth Smith Friedman Collection
$12,000

The Grolier Club of New York, New York, NY
Judging a Book by its Cover: Bookbindings from the Collections of The Grolier Club, 1470–2020
$20,000

Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Improving Access to the Coles House Records
$16,000

Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Cataloging and Preserving Philadelphia's Shipbuilding Collection and Labor History
$17,000

Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY
16th Century Venetian Jewish Books Collaborative Cataloging Project
$13,750

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York, NY
Preserving Off-Off Broadway: Digitizing La MaMa’s Performance Footage
$20,000

Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Hearing Voices: Memoirs from the Margins of Mental Health
$7,000

Long Island University, Brookville, NY
Digitizing Local History Sources 2022-2023
$20,000

Museum of Chinese in America, New York, NY
Digitizing and Cataloguing Oral History Materials Recovered from 2020 Fire
$15,000

Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Pop-Up Books Through the Ages
$19,000

Onondaga Historical Association, Syracuse, NY
Rehousing and Storage of Bernice Buck Blueprint Collection
$3,600

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, New York, NY
The Taylor Archives
$20,000

Rare Book School, Charlottesville, VA
“Building the Book: Makers, Teachers, Collectors”: A grant to support a one-day symposium
$10,000

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, OH
2022-2023 Visiting Scholars
$6,000

The Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, PA
Cataloging The Rosenbach’s James Joyce Holdings
$19,700

Roundabout Theatre Company, New York, NY
Digital Cataloging of Roundabout's CABARET Revivals
$15,000

Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA
Cataloging and Displaying the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy’s Collection
$15,000

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Nature of the Book Exhibition
$10,000

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Harlem Speaks Oral History Collection
$20,000

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Digitization and Metadata Generation of Venetian Legal Manuscripts (14th-18th century)
$7,900

Vermont Historical Society, Barre, VT
Digitizing Vermont History: Planning for a Statewide Collections Platform
$20,000

Wells Book Arts Center, Aurora, NY
Summer Institute 2022
$5,000

2021

Academy of American Poets, New York, NY
Archive Project
$15,000

American Agora Foundation/Lapham's Quarterly, New York, NY
Lapham's Quarterly Prison Program—New York
$7,000

American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Cataloging and Digitizing 19th Century American Photographs of Under-Represented People and Places
$19,900

American Foundation for the Blind, Arlington, VA
Upgrade of the Digital Helen Keller Archive and Digitization and Dissemination of Annual Reports
$11,570

American Friends of the Victoria and Albert Museum, New York, NY
Royal Photographic Society Library Bound Pamphlets
$18,700

Americans for Oxford, New York, NY
Ashmolean - Digitisation of Sir Arthur Evans’s Knossos excavation notebooks (1900-1926)
$12,870

The Banks Archive Project, Nottingham, UK
Indexing the African Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks
$7,000

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
FY21 Archives – Collection Management
$5,000

Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL
Indigenous Pamphlets Critical Cataloging
$14,000

Emory University, Atlanta, GA
The Letters of Samuel Beckett Location Register
$10,000

Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Cataloging Cooper Family Books, Manuscripts, and Related Materials
$11,000

Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
$25,000

Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment
$3,000

Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Improving Access to the J.B. Lippincott Publishing Company Records
$14,750

History Center in Tompkins County, Ithaca, NY
Archival Finding Aids for Increased Public Access
$17,565

International Foundation for Art Research, New York, NY
Catalogues Raisonnés Database
$17,000

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA
Moving Image Digitization Project
$20,000

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York, NY
Preserving Performance: VHS Digitization and Preservation Storage at La MaMa Archives
$15,000

Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Maximizing the J.R.R. Tolkien and the Art of the Manuscript Exhibition
$8,000

Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul, MN
Archival Processing and Digitization of the Personal Papers of George Morrison, Minnesota Artist
$15,400

Museum of Chinese in America, New York, NY
Rehousing of two Chinese American newspaper collections post fire-damage
$11,000

Museum of Performance + Design, San Francisco, CA
Enhanced Access to the Anna Halprin Papers
$7,000

Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT
Passenger Ship Ephemera Cataloging Project
$18,720

New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA,
Papers of the First Baptist Church of New Bedford
$16,000

New York Studio School, New York, NY
Library Internship
$11,000

New-York Historical Society, New York, NY
Digitization of Manuscript Collections Relating to Slavery
$20,000

Onondaga Historical Association, Syracuse, NY
Organization, storage, and cataloging of Henry Keck Stained-Glass Studio Collection
$15,000

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, New York, NY
The Taylor Archives
$20,000

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Processing the Bates & Co. and Carleton Norwood Company collections
$19,210

Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport, ME
Processing, cataloging, and rehousing the Nautical Chart Collection
$11,600

Portland State University, Portland, OR
Study Costs of Immersive Media & Books 2021
$10,000

Ramapo College Foundation, Mahwah, NJ
Making the Jane Addams Papers Accessible to the Public
$17,950

Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, RI
Digital restoration of a massive view of Providence, Rhode Island (ca. 1810) for use in interactive humanities initiatives
$10,000

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Advancing the History of Phototypesetting and Desktop Publishing
$18,035

Save Venice, New York, NY
Cataloging and shelving of 5,000 books in the library of the Venice Committee of the Società Dante Alighieri
$9,083

Scripps College, Claremont, CA
Descriptive Cataloging of Fine and Rare Book Bindings in the Ella Strong Denison Library
$16,400

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
PhiloBiblon: From Siloed Databases to Linked Open Data via Wikibase: Proof of Concept
$10,000

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Post-Graduate Fellowship in Cataloguing pre-1900 American Graphic Materials
$20,000

University of New Mexico Foundation, Albuquerque, NM
Digitization of LaDonna Harris Native American Collection
$17,000

University of Oregon Foundation, Eugene, OR
Graduate Students as Curators: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Acquisition
$9,000

University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Philadelphia, PA
Digital Scriptorium 2.0
$17,000

University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Digitizing the Essence of Jazz radio show
$15,000

University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Dictionary of Old English
$12,500

University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
History of Cartography Project, July 2021–June 2022
$11,392
Vermont Historical Society, Barre, VT
Preserving and Expanding Access to Vermont's History
$18,000

Wellesley College Library, Wellesley, MA
Collecting Artists' Books in Academic Libraries
$9,000