PRESERVATION AND ACCESS AWARDS
Division of Preservation and Access
Announced: April 2002

BRITTLE BOOKS AND SERIALS

Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, IL
Outright: $350,000
The cataloging of 1,500 titles and the preservation microfilming of 275,000 pages of foreign newspapers held in United States repositories. (24 months)
Website: http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/info/icon/icon.htm

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Outright: $538,555
The preservation microfilming and enhanced cataloging of 2,200 embrittled volumes on American agricultural history and rural life published between 1820 and 1945 that are held by land grant university libraries in Michigan and North Carolina, and the selection of volumes for future filming by libraries in Georgia, Illinois, and Ohio. (24 months)
Website: http://usain.org/preservinitiative.html

Southeastern Library Network, Inc., Atlanta, GA
Outright: $700,000
The preservation microfilming and enhanced cataloging of 7,700 embrittled volumes on American history, literature, religion, higher education, and economic development published between 1800 and 1970 that are held by 16 members of the Southeastern Library Network located in eight southeastern states. The participants include Atlanta-Fulton County's Auburn Avenue Research Library and City of Raleigh and Wake County Library (both public); the State Library of Florida; and 13 university libraries: Emory, Furman, Georgia Institute of Technology, Kentucky State, Mississippi State, North Carolina Central, North Carolina State, Tulane, Florida, Kentucky, Miami, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Virginia Union. (24 months)
Website: http://www.solinet.net/preservation/preservation_templ.cfm?doc_id=67

University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX
Outright: $263,188
The preservation microfilming of 356 Mexican newspapers comprising 145,000 pages, published between 1810 and 1899. (24 months)
Website: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/benson/

UNITED STATES NEWSPAPER PROGRAM

Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI
Outright: $352,504
The preservation microfilming of 500,000 pages of newspapers, as part of Michigan's participation in the United States Newspaper Program. (24 months)
Website: http://www.libofmich.lib.mi.us/services/usnewsproj.html

Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, IL
Outright: $226,200
The cataloging of approximately 2,000 newspaper titles in six Chicago-area counties, as part of Illinois's participation in the United States Newspaper Program. (24 months)
Website: http://www.chicagohs.org/collections/newspaper.html

New York State Library, Albany, NY
Outright: $580,525
The cataloging of 5,600 newspaper titles and the preservation microfilming of 804,000 pages of deteriorating newsprint, as part of New York's participation in the United States Newspaper Program.
(24 months)
Website: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Outright: $535,513
The cataloging of 4,000 newspaper titles as part of Tennessee's participation in the United States Newspaper Program. (24 months)
Website: http://toltec.lib.utk.edu/~spec_coll/newspaper/tnphome.htm

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, Philadelphia, PA
Outright: $390,000
Match: $80,000
A regional preservation field service program that provides preservation surveys, workshops, technical consultations, and educational materials to libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations in the Mid-Atlantic states. (24 months)
Website: http://www.ccaha.org/

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Outright: $230,167
Five one-week workshops on the preservation of digital resources and the development and maintenance of an online introductory tutorial on digital preservation. (24 months)

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ
Outright: $95,562
Scholarships for ten students in each of two academic years (2002/3 and 2004/5) to attend the Preservation Management Institute (PMI), a year-long certificate program designed for librarians and archivists in small to mid-size institutions with preservation management responsibilities but limited formal preservation training. (36 months)
Website: http://scils.rutgers.edu/programs/pds/pmi.jsp

Southeastern Library Network, Inc., Atlanta, GA
Outright: $580,000
Match: $20,000
A regional preservation field service program that provides preservation surveys, workshops, technical consultations, and educational materials to libraries and archives in the Southeast. (24 months)
Website: http://www.solinet.net/preservation/preservation_home.cfm

Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
Outright: $240,835
Training in basic archival practices and policies for staff at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
(24 months)

University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX
Outright: $460,000
Match: $80,000
The education of preservation administrators and conservators in the care of library and archival collections. (24 months)
Website: http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/programs/pcs/

MATERIAL CULTURE COLLECTIONS:
NATIONAL HERITAGE PRESERVATION PROGRAM

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Outright: $603,786
The purchase of storage furniture and rehousing of 10,500 objects from the museum's collection of Asian art. The collections will be relocated to the newly renovated old Main Library building, the museum's new home, located in San Francisco's historic downtown Civic Center district. (15 months)
Website: http://www.asianart.org/

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Outright: $240,686
Digital photography and enhanced cataloging of 2,400 works of Asian art to create an enriched visual database of the museum's holdings, which will be available on the World Wide Web. (24 months)
Website: http://www.museum.cornell.edu/

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Outright: $149,953
The creation of digital images of 5,900 objects from the museums' textile and costume collections and the incorporation of the images into a database accessible through the museums' website. (24 months)
Website: http://www.famsf.org/

Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY
Outright: $109,986
The purchase of storage furniture and rehousing of material culture collections that document agriculture, arts, crafts, architecture, folk life, industry, military history, technology, and other aspects of Kentucky life. (18 months)
Website: http://www.kyhistory.org/

Public Museum of Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids, MI
Outright: $117,666
The photography and enhanced cataloging of 5,200 artifacts from the museum's ethnographic and immigrant history collection that includes costumes and textiles, folk art, jewelry, and ceramics from Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and Oceania. (24 months)
Website: http://www.grmuseum.org/

Strong Museum, Rochester, NY
Outright: $700,000
The purchase of storage furniture and the rehousing of 480,000 objects that depict American life and the national consumer culture of the 19th and 20th centuries. (36 months)
Website: http://www.strongmuseum.org/

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Outright: $614,740
The purchase of storage furniture and the rehousing of archaeological collections, which number 1.25 million objects and span 12,000 years of human occupation in the southern Plains. (48 months)
Website: http://www.ttu.edu/~museum/

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Outright: $294,958
The creation of a cold storage vault to house and preserve the museum's photography, film and video collections and the purchase of storage furniture for a climate-controlled preparation and viewing room for works on paper. (18 months)
Website: http://www.whitney.org/index.shtml

REFERENCE MATERIALS

American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Outright: $120,000
Match: $200,000
The creation of a descriptive catalog of all feature-length motion pictures produced in the United States from 1971 to 1980. (18 months)
Website: http://www.afi.com/about/catalog.asp

American Philological Association, Philadelphia, PA
Outright: $183,500
Match: $20,000
The preparation of two volumes of l'Année philologique, a comprehensive bibliography of research in all fields of classical studies. (24 months)
Website: http://www.annee-philologique.com/aph/

Columbia University, New York, NY
Outright: $325,000
Match: $350,000
The preparation and publication of the Encyclopædia Iranica, a multi-volume reference work on the Near East and Central Asia. (24 months)
Website: http://www.iranica.com

Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Outright: $314,056
The creation of an online database of 500 popular novels comprising 75,000 digitized pages by American and British women writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with a link or portal between complementary databases at Emory University and Indiana University. (24 months)
Website: http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/wwrp

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Outright: $166,838
The creation of a database of population censuses taken in Guadalajara, Mexico, from 1791 to 1843. Tools and guides to facilitate quantitative analysis of the data will accompany the database. (24 months)
Website: http://www.fsu.edu/~guadalaj/site_guide.htm

Georgia Humanities Council, Atlanta, GA
Outright: $175,640
The creation of the online New Georgia Encyclopedia, a multi-media resource providing information on the history and heritage of the state. (12 months)
Website: http://www.georgiahumanities.org/projects/nge/

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Outright: $79,038
Match: $90,000
The completion of editorial work on the fifth volume of Notable American Women, which will include 500 biographies of women who died in the last quarter of the 20th century. (21 months)
Website: http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/publish/naw.htm

Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Outright: $198,000
Match: $75,000
The preparation of a multi-volume citation-based dictionary of ancient Aramaic, a Semitic language of the Near East and the Classical worlds, which is of central importance for the study of the Judaism and Christianity. (24 months)
Website: http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/

Indiana University, Bloomington, Bloomington, IN
Outright: $239,343
The conversion to electronic form of 564,000 paper-based entries in the annual Film Literature Index (1976–2000), which will be made available on the Internet. (24 months)
Website: http://www.albany.edu/sisp/fatdoc/fli.htm

Indiana University, Bloomington, Bloomington, IN
Outright: $284,456
The preparation of a lexical database and historical dictionary of Louisiana French and a computerized corpus of written texts. (27 months)

Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
Outright: $243,060
The preparation of the New Variorum Hamlet in print and electronic form, which provides a historical list of editors' textual choices, a summary of interpretive commentaries, and appended discussion of major issues related to the play's performance. (36 months)
Website: http://www.global-language.com/enfolded.html

Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Outright: $325,000
The completion of research for a multivolume atlas of historic county boundaries in the United States. The project involves the compilation of maps indicating changes in county boundaries in five states—-Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Kansas, and Nebraska. (24 months)

Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Outright: $165,541
The digitizing, indexing, and creation of Internet access to the American Archives, Peter Force's nine-volume collection of Founding Era papers, 1774–1776. (24 months)

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Outright: $158,076
The cataloging of 6,000 books printed in China before 1796 and held by North American libraries.
(24 months)

Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Outright: $150,000
To create a web-accessible database containing information about the built environment of historic Savannah. (24 months)
Website: http://www.scad.edu/virtualsavannah/vhsversion11/html/beginhere.html

Ted A. Telford, Palm Springs, CA
Outright: $79,741
The revision of the current catalog of 3,000 genealogical titles from collections outside China by adding and integrating 4,000 genealogical titles acquired from repositories inside China. (24 months)

University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK
Outright: $136,393
The creation of a hardbound Alutiiq-English dictionary and an electronic database containing about 9,000 lexical entries of this Eskimo language spoken in Alaska and Siberia. (24 months)
Website: http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Outright: $327,000
The compilation of an etymological dictionary and thematic thesaurus of Proto-Sino-Tibetan, the common ancestor of languages spoken in China, India, and Southeast Asia by over a billion speakers. (24 months)
Website: http://stedt.berkeley.edu/

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Outright: $112,790
The completion of the third volume of a multi-volume etymological dictionary of Old High German (ca. 750 to 1150 A.D). (24 months)

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Outright: $302,000
The preparation of a comprehensive dictionary of Sumerian, the oldest known language to be preserved in written form. (24 months)
Website: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/psd/

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Outright: $67,000
Match: $133,000
The preparation of 2,000 entries for the Dictionary of Old English, a historical dictionary based on the entire surviving corpus of records written in English between 650 and 1150 A.D. (24 months)
Website: http://www.doe.utoronto.ca/

ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
Outright: $175,640
Match: $23,000
The cataloging, and rehousing of 3,000 song sheets and poems printed as broadsides in the United States from 1850 through 1876. (24 months)
Website: http://www.americanantiquarian.org/broadsides

Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC
Outright: $174,456
Cataloging and creating analog preservation masters and use copies of 418 hours of recordings of jam sessions and formal jazz band rehearsals held in W. Eugene Smith's New York City loft from 1957 to 1964. (24 months)
Website: http://www-cds.aas.duke.edu/

City University of New York, Hunter College, New York, NY
Outright: $230,630
The arrangement and description of 902 cubic feet of records documenting the Puerto Rican migration to the United States. The records were created by various agencies of the Puerto Rican government that operated in New York and other states from 1930–1993. (24 months)
Website: http://www.centropr.org/

Columbia University, New York, NY
Outright: $207,289
The stabilization and rehousing of 328 model stage sets created by Joseph Urban from 1914–1933 for New York City theater and opera. In addition, 2,545 digital images will be created from the models and documents and linked to an Internet finding aid. (24 months)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/rare/guides/urban/main.html

Columbia University, New York, NY
Outright: $122,483
The creation of analog preservation masters and CD use copies of 900 hours of oral histories created between 1945 and 1965 that focus on the political careers of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Adlai E. Stevenson, and Robert A. Taft. (24 months)
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services/preservation/audio.html

Davis and Elkins College, Elkins, WV
Outright: $67,349
Preserving and creating access to three sound collections (800 hours) of Appalachian music and oral history that document the history of West Virginia and its music. (12 months)
Website: http://www.augustaheritage.com/

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Outright: $232,344
The arrangement and description of thirteen individual and organizational collections (totaling 827 linear feet) that document the growth of the women's movement in the 1960s and 70s and its response to internal challenges and outside opposition in the 1980s and 90s. (24 months)
Website: http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/index.html

John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI
Outright: $201,156
The cataloging of approximately 2,000 titles printed in Colonial Spanish America from the 1500s to 1825. (24 months)
Website: http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/

Mariners' Museum, Newport News, VA
Outright: $52,802
The arrangement and description of 12 cubic feet of records created by Edwin Tappan Adney on North American Indian history and culture, focusing on American Indian and Canadian Native canoe building traditions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (24 months)
Website: http://www.mariner.org/

Massachusetts Archives, Boston, MA
Outright: $159,393
The conservation of six volumes comprising 4,000 documents relating to colonial life from 1679 to 1769. (24 months)
Website: http://www.state.ma.us/sec/arc/arcidx.htm

National Council for the Traditional Arts, Silver Spring, MD
Outright: $154,974
The creation of digital copies of 4,500 hours of audio recordings of performances of American folk and traditional music recorded between 1971 and 1999 on formats that are now judged to be unstable or obsolete. (24 months)
Website: http://www.ncta.net/

National Film Preservation Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Outright: $200,000
The production and distribution of a set of Digital Video Discs (DVDs) containing American silent films created from 1922 to 1929. (24 months)
Website: http://www.filmpreservation.org/

New York Public Library, New York, NY
Outright: $256,206
Arranging, describing, rehousing and reformatting the Jerome Robbins (1918–1998) collection, which includes 375 linear feet of office records, 42 scrapbooks, 375 linear feet of photographs, 229 engravings and set and costume designs, 125 films, 762 videotapes, and 895 audiotapes. (24 months)
Website: http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/dan/dan.html

New York State Education Department, Albany, NY
Outright: $260,628
The creation of Internet-accessible finding aids for 102 collections and associated graphics focusing on the environmental history of Adirondack and Catskill parks, 1885–1990. (24 months)
Website: http://www.archives.nysed.gov/holdings.htm

Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Outright: $350,000
The development of an Internet-accessible database of 2,300 finding aids marked up according to Encoded Archival Description, describing archival collections of approximately 25,000 pages held by institutions in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. (24 months)
Website: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/nwda/summary.html

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Outright: $279,203
Arranging, describing, and rehousing the records of architects and landscape architects who worked in the Bay Area Modernist tradition (1930–1980.) The records include 2,600 tubes and 40 flat file drawers of plans and drawings, 600 linear feet of project files, and 30 linear feet of photographs. (24 months)
Website: http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/cedarchives/

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
Outright: $85,465
The arrangement and description of six archival collections, totaling 434 linear feet and dating from 1880 to 1996, that document the history and development of modern American archaeology. Encoded finding aids and machine-readable bibliographic records will also be created for these materials. (18 months)
Website: http://www.lib.umich.edu/spec-coll/collections.html

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
Outright: $219,550
The preservation of and access to historical materials that relate to America's involvement in the Philippines from 1870 to 1920. (12 months)
Website: http://www.lib.umich.edu/spec-coll/collections.html

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Outright: $135,871
The preservation of 1,340 hours of sound recordings related to African American life and culture held by the university's Southern Historical and Folklife Collections. (24 months)
Website: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/index.html

University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
Outright: $280,594
The preservation of 200 audiotapes comprising 1,300 hours of oral interviews, meetings, and speeches documenting the Civil Rights Era in Mississippi from 1944 to 1979. A finding aid to the collection would be mounted on the Internet. (24 months)

University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX
Outright: $113,420
The arrangement, description, and cataloging of 210 linear feet of design portfolios from B. J. Simmons & Co., a London theater and British film costumier, that document the history of theater and film from 1857 to 1964. A finding aid will be posted on the Internet with links to digital images of items selected from the collection. (18 months)
Website: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu

Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, VT
Outright: $160,000
The arrangement, description, digitization, and dissemination via the World Wide Web of audio recordings and related documentation of the history and culture of New England. (24 months)
Website: http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/

Yale University, New Haven, CT
Outright: 219,550
The preservation of 1,200 endangered videocassettes of first-person Holocaust oral history testimonies in 19 languages created from 1979 to 1997. (24 months)
Website: http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/