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Grant Funding for Digitizing Local Collections
For visual resources curators interested in teaming up with libraries and museums to offer original digital materials to the public, IMLS (The Institute of Museum and Library Services) is an important source of grant funding. In addition to supporting research and innovation in delivery of services, awards are available for creation of digital content from local primary resources. These awards are in two main areas: National Leadership Grants for Libraries, and National Leadership Grants for Library-Museum Collaboration. A summary of annual grant application deadlines can be found in the calendar section. For more information on IMLS programs, see: http://www.imls.gov.
A review of recent awards listed on the IMLS site reveals those projects which have included database access to graphic materials.
Selected recent awards
National Leadership Grants for Libraries – Preservation or Digitization Category
Northern Illinois University Libraries
Mark Twain's Mississippi Project
Partnering with Tulane, St. Louis Mercantile Library, and the Newberry Library, Northern Illinois will mount on a free-use Internet site text, image, sound, and related data about society and culture on the Mississippi River from 1830-1890. The project will explore the integration of text and image materials into new geo-spatial interfaces.Cornell University Library, John M. Echols Collection on Southeast Asia
Images of Southeast Asia
The John M. Echols Collection on Southeast Asia will digitize text and illustrations taken from early Western travel narrations and first-person accounts of life in Southeast Asia before 1927.University of Tennessee – Knoxville, Hoskins Library
Digital Access for WPA Photographs
The University of Tennessee, in partnership with the University of Kentucky's Webb Museum of Anthropology and the University of Alabama's Museum of Natural History, will digitize and create an on-line database of WPA commissioned photographs of archaeological projects conducted in preparation for Tennessee Valley Authority dam construction in the 1930s.
http://www.lib.utk.edu/~outreach/grants.html
Selected past awards/completed projects
Preservation or Digitization Category
Brandeis University Libraries
Daumier Lithographs
Works of caricaturist Honore Daumier (1808-1879), with descriptions and translated captions searchable in on-line catalog, plus online exhibit and timeline. http://www.library.brandeis.edu/specialcollections/daumier/University of Minnesota
A Summons to Comradeship
University of Minnesota Libraries and the Minneapolis Public Library are making available on their Web sites a digital database from holdings of 8000 World War I and World War II posters.
http://digital.lib.umn.edu/warposters/warpost.htmlIndiana University
Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection
Nearly 18,000 Kodachrome color slides comprising the lifework of a dedicated amateur, with scenes of travel and daily life from 1938-1969.
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/new/cushman/New York Public Library
Picture Collection Online
A treasure trove for image researchers – 30,000 digitized public-domain clippings and plates from New York Public Library’s Mid-Manhattan branch. Project included studying users’ interaction with digital image information resources.
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/Free Library of Philadelphia
The Centennial Exhibition Philadelphia 1876
Web access to more than 1,200 rare silver-albumen photographs and related original materials documenting the 1876 exposition.
http://libwww.library.phila.gov/CenCol/index.htm
Selected recent Awards
National Leadership Grants for Library-Museum Collaboration
University of Washington Libraries
Northwest Olympic Peninsula Community Museum Project
The University Libraries, working with Olympic Peninsula Tribal Associations, the Claallam County Historical Society, and other partners, will document artifacts and events of tribal heritage in the Pacific Northwest through photographs, videotape, and oral histories. The community-based project will create Web sites, kiosks, workshops, and curriculum materials.
http://contentdm.com/news/articles/uwgrant.htmlWayne State University Library System
Digital Dress
A partnership of the Detroit Historical Museums, Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, and the Meadow Brook Hall, with Wayne State University, will create a Web portal of 5,000 digital images of men's, women's, and children's clothing and accessories representing 200 years of fashion. The project, the first shared digital library of historic costumes, will also create a thesaurus of historic costume terms.
http://www.lib.wayne.edu/geninfo/units/lcms/dls/grants/ddgrant.phpUniversity of California, Merced
The University Library, in collaboration with the Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center in the San Joaquin Valley region, will pilot a model of collaboration for developing significant online research collections through the use of Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) encoding. as well as digitize holdings of the Institute, including 454 hanging scrolls and 46 folding screens.
http://www.shermanleeinstitute.org/
Selected Past Awards/Completed Projects
National Leadership Grants for Library-Museum Collaboration
IUPUI University Library, Indianapolis Museum of Art and others
Community Project
Digitized art reproductions were made available to pilot groups in schools and libraries, in a collaboration coordinated to support lifelong learning activities in central Indiana. Digital resources developed locally and mounted for access through the internet include the Hoosier Artist Project and a WPA Murals project.
http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/imls/index.html
