Funded Projects
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Details of projects for: 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012
2008 Projects
Amistad Research Center
Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations
Principal Investigator: Christopher Harter, Director of Library and Reference Services
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston
Providing Access to African American Collections at the Avery Research Center
Principal Investigator: Harlan Greene, Director of Archival and Reference Services
California Historical Society
California Ephemera Project
Principal Investigator: Mary Morganti, Director of Library & Archives
Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School
Foundations of Public Health Policy
Principal Investigator: Kathryn Baker, Deputy Director
Emory University
Archives from Atlanta, Cradle of the Civil Rights Movement: The Papers of Andrew Young, SCLC, and NAACP-Atlanta Chapter
Principal Investigator: Susan McDonald, Coordinator, Arrangement and Description Services
Getty Research Institute
Uncovering Archives and Rare Photographs: Two Models for Creating Accession-level Finding Aids Using Archivists' Toolkit
Principal Investigator: Susan Allen, Associate Director & Chief Librarian, Research Library
Goucher College
Mapping Special Collections for Research and Teaching at Goucher College
Principal Investigator: Tara Olivero, Special Collections Librarian & College Archivist
Library of Congress
Library of Congress Multi-Sheet Map Series Collection: Africa
Principal Investigator: Morgan Cundiff, Senior Standards Specialist
Litchfield Historical Society
Litchfield Historical Society's Revolutionary Era and Early Republic Holdings
Principal Investigator: Linda Hocking, Curator of Library & Archives
New York University
The Records of the Communist Party, USA: A Preservation and Access Project
Principal Investigator: Richard Louth, Director, Office of Sponsored Programs
Northwestern University Library
The Africana Posters: Hidden Collections of Northwestern and Michigan State University Libraries
Principal Investigator: Lori Arp, Assistant to the University Librarian
Robert W. Woodruff Library - AUC
Processing Voter Education Project Collection
Principal Investigator: Loretta Parham, CEO/Library Director
University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley
Cataloging Hidden Archives of Western Botany and Beyond
Principal Investigator: Brent Mishler, Director
University of Michigan Library
Collaboration in Cataloging: Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan
Principal Investigator: Jonathan Rodgers, Head, Near East Division
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Hidden Collections in the Philadelphia Area: A Consortial Processing and Cataloging Initiative
Principal Investigator: David McKnight, Director, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
2009 Projects
Brooklyn Historical Society
Uncovering the Secrets of Brooklyn's 19th Century Past: Creation to Consolidation
Principal Investigator: Chela Weber, Director of Library and Archives
College of Charleston
Jewish Heritage Collection
Principal Investigator: Dale Rosengarten, Curator, Jewish Heritage Collection
Free Library of Philadelphia
Milestones in 20th-Century American Children's Literature at the Free Library of Philadelphia
Principal Investigator: Anne Lee, Chief, Materials Management Division
George Mason University
Uncovering a Forbidden World: Providing Access to East German Art, Culture, and Politics
Principal Investigator: Melissa McAfee, Head, Special Collections & Archives
Lehigh University
The Moravian Community in the New World: The First 100 Years
Principal Investigator: Lois Black, Curator, Special Collections
Marquette University Libraries
Catholic Social Action Access Project (CSAAP)
Principal Investigator: Jean Zanoni, Associate Dean of Libraries
Newberry Library
French Pamphlet Collections at the Newberry Library
Principal Investigator: Jennifer Thom, Cataloging Projects Manager
North Carolina State University Libraries
Changing the Landscape: Exposing the Legacy of Modernist Architects and Landscape Architects
Principal Investigator: Linda Sellars, Head, Technical Services for Special Collections
Northeast Historic Film
Intellectual Access to Moving Images of Work Life, 1916-1950
Principal Investigator: Karan Sheldon, Co-founder
Smithsonian Institution
Exposing Biodiversity Fieldbooks and Original Expedition Journals at the Smithsonian Institution
Principal Investigator: Rusty Russell, Collections Manager
The California Digital Library
Uncovering California's Environmental Collections: A Collaborative Approach
Principal Investigator: Daniel Greenstein, Vice Provost
The Regents of the University of California
San Francisco Examiner Photograph Archive Project
Principal Investigator: Charles Faulhaber, James D. Hart Director, The Bancroft Library
University of Southern California Libraries
Excavating L.A.: USC's Hidden Southern California Historical Collections
Principal Investigator: Dace Taube, Regional History Librarian
Yale University
Song, Speech, and Dance: Special Collections from the Recorded Sound Archives at Yale and Stanford Universities
Principal Investigator: Kendall Crilly, Associate University Librarian, Program Design
2010 Projects
American Museum of Natural History
For the People, for Education, for Science: Web Access to the American Museum of Natural History Archives
Principal Investigator: Barbara Mathé, Museum Archivist
Arizona State University
Labor Rights are Civil Rights/Los Derechos de Trabajo Son Derechos Civiles
Principal Investigator: Michael Lotstein, Assistant Archivist
Black Metropolis Research Consortium
The "Color Curtain" Processing Project: Unveiling the Archives of Chicago's Black Metropolis
Principal Investigator: Adam Greene, Professor of History
Board of Trustees, Leland Stanford Junior Univ.
Documenting Mexican American & Latino Civil Rights: Records of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund & CA Rural Legal Assistance
Principal Investigator: Michael Keller, University Librarian
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Islamic Arts of the Book at the Smithsonian: Providing for Research Across Disciplines
Principal Investigator: Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator
Getty Research Institute
Open Plan, Open Access: Increasing Researcher Access to Modern Architectural Records
Principal Investigator: Susan Allen, Associate Director & Chief Librarian
Hagley Museum and Library
Z. Taylor Vinson Transportation Collection Processing Project
Principal Investigator: Theresa Snyder, Deputy Director
Northeast Historic Film
Moving Images 1938-1940: Amateur Filmmakers Record the New York World's Fair and Its Period
Principal Investigator: Karan Sheldon, Co-founder
San Diego Historical Society
Enhancing Access to the History of San Diego and the Border Region
Principal Investigator: Jane Kenealy, Archivist
Syracuse University
Grove Press and a New American Morality
Principal Investigator: Suzanne Thorin, Dean of Libraries and University Librarian
The University of Texas at Austin
Revealing Texas Collections of Comedias Sueltas
Principal Investigator: Richard Oram, Associate Director and Hobby Librarian
University of California, Berkeley
Cataloging Hidden Archives of the University of California Museum of Paleontology
Principal Investigator: Charles Marshall, Director, UCMP; Professor, Dept. of Integrative Bi
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Major Railroad Archival Collections
Principal Investigator: Katherine Walter, Chair, Digital Initiatives & Special Collections
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Pruitt and Shanks Photographic Collection: The Life of a Southern Region in 140,000 Images
Principal Investigator: Patrick Cullom, Visual Materials Archivist
University of Pennsylvania
Promoting Research through Rare Book Cataloging Partnerships
Principal Investigator: Regan Kladstrup, Head, Rare Book Cataloging
WGBH Educational Foundation
Exposing Unknown Boston Local TV News Collections
Principal Investigator: Karen Cariani, Director, Media Library and Archives
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
From DNA to Dinosaurs: The Globalization of Science in America and the Development of a University Natural History Museum
Principal Investigator: Tim White, Assistant Director for Collections and Operations
2011 Projects
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Providing Access to the Archives of the American Geographical Society
Principal Investigator: Christopher Baruth, Curator
Amistad Research Center
Increasing Access to Africana Collections: The American Committee on Africa and The Africa Fund Records
Principal Investigator: Laura Thomson, Director of Processing
Brown University Library
The Gordon Hall and Grace Hoag Collection of Dissenting and Extremist Printed Propaganda, Part II
Principal Investigator: Andrew Ashton, Director of Digital Technologies
Center for Jewish History
Illuminating Hidden Collections at the Center for Jewish History
Principal Investigator: Laura Leone, Director of Archive and Library Services
Dance Heritage Coalition
Foundations of Dance Research (Foundations)
Principal Investigator: Libby Smigel, Executive Director
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library (Museum of New Mexico Foundation)
Mapas históricos de Nuevo México = Historic New Mexico Maps
Principal Investigator: Patricia Hewitt, Senior Cataloger
Georgetown University, Lauinger Library
Undiscovered Printmakers: Hidden Treasures in Georgetown University's Library
Principal Investigator: John Buchtel, Head
History San Jose
Documenting Technology Innovation: Perham Collection of Early Electronics
Principal Investigator: James Reed, Curator of Archives and Library
Maine Maritime Museum
Merchant Mariners Muster: Cataloging Crew Manuscripts
Principal Investigator: Nathan Lipfert, Senior Curator
Mennonite Heritage Center (Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania, Inc.)
The Pennsylvania German Textiles of the Goshenhoppen Historians, the Mennonite Heritage Center and the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center
Principal Investigator: Sarah Heffner, Director
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Cataloging Hidden Archives of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Increasing Integration and Accessibility for Interdisciplinary Research
Principal Investigator: Carla Cicero, Staff Curator of Birds
New York Archival Society
Cataloging Artifacts and Related Records of the World Trade Center Attack on September 11, 2001
Principal Investigator: Leonora Gidlund, Director
New-York Historical Society
The New-York Historical Society American Almanac Collection
Principal Investigator: Henry Raine, Director of Digital Programs and Library Technical Services
North Carolina State University Libraries
Acting for Animals: Revealing the Records of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare Movements
Principal Investigator: Linda Sellars, Head of Technical Services for Special Collections
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Cataloging Women in Jazz Collections at the Institute of Jazz Studies
Principal Investigator: Vincent Pelote, Head ofTechnical Services/Sound Archivist
San Diego Museum of Man
Capturing History: Cataloging the San Diego Museum of Man's Photographic Collection
Principal Investigator: Megan DuBois, Registrar
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art
Uncovering Hidden Audio Visual Media Documenting Post-Modern Art at the Archives of American Art
Principal Investigator: Barbara Aikens, Chief
Texas A&M University, Cushing Memorial Library & Archives
Discovering a New World: Cataloging Old and Rare Imprints from Colonial and Early Independent Mexico
Principal Investigator: Felicia Piscitelli, Associate Professor
University of California at Santa Barbara University Art Museum
Cataloguing Southern California's architectural history
Principal Investigator: Jocelyn Gibbs, Curator
2012 Projects
Alabama Folklife Association
Sacred, Secular, and Sewn with Soul: Discovering Alabama’s Folk Culture
Principal Investigators: Mary Jo Scott, Kevin Nutt, and Mary Allison Haynie
American Museum of Natural History
Expeditionary Field Work at the American Museum of Natural History
Principal Investigator: Barbara Mathé
Brooklyn Historical Society
City, Borough, Neighborhood, Home: Mapping Brooklyn’s Twentieth-Century Urban Identity
Principal Investigator: Jacob Nadal
Caffè Lena
Uncovering the American Folksong Revival: Coffeehouse Culture and The Caffè Lena Collection
Principal Investigators: James Parillo and Jocelyn Arem
College of Charleston
The William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection
Principal Investigator: Dale Rosengarten and Harlan Greene
Columbia University
Documenting Advocacy: Human Rights Collections in the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research Columbia University
Principal Investigator: Michael T. Ryan
Columbia University
American View Books
Principal Investigator: Carole Ann Fabian
David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland
David C. Driskell Archive Project
Principal Investigator: Dorit Yaron
Detroit Public Library Friends Foundation
Coleman A. Young Mayoral Papers
Principal Investigator: Patrice Merritt
Jewish Theological Seminary
Jewish Ethnomusicology from the East: The Archives of Johanna Spector
Principal Investigators: Naomi Steinberger and Sara Spiegel
Johns Hopkins University
The Roland Park Company Archives and the Martin L. Millspaugh Archives
Principal Investigator: Jordon Steele
Kentucky Historical Society
The Churchill Weavers Collection—40,000 Textiles Uncovered
Principal Investigator: Jennifer D. Spence
Martha’s Vineyard Museum
Martha’s Vineyard Archives Project
Principal Investigators: Bonnie Stacy, Nancy Cole, and Dana C. Street
Montana Historical Society
Lee Metcalf Photograph and Film Collections
Principal Investigator: Molly Kruckenberg
Museum of the City of New York
Discovering the Future: The New York World’s Fairs Collections of 1939 and 1964 at the Museum of the City of New York and the Queens Museum of Art
Principal Investigator: Lacy Schutz
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives of USC
Out West: The LGBTQ Community Archive Cataloging Project
Principal Investigator: Joseph Hawkins
Open Knowledge Commons
Private Practices, Public Health: Privacy-Aware Processing to Maximize Access to Health Collections
Principal Investigators: Maura Marx, Kathryn Hammond Baker, and Phoebe Evans Letocha
San Diego Air & Space Museum
Increasing Access to Our Aerospace Heritage
Principal Investigator: Katrina Pescador
Stanford University Archives
Documenting Climate Change: The Papers of Stephen H. Schneider
Principal Investigator: Michael A. Keller
UC Santa Barbara Library
Foreign and Ethnic 78s in the UC Santa Barbara Sound Archives
Principal Investigator: David Seubert
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Oral History Cataloging Project
Principal Investigators: Neal Guthrie, James Gilmore, Travis Roxlau
University of Pennsylvania
Uncovering Philadelphia’s Past: A Regional Solution to Revealing Hidden Collections
Principal Investigators: David McKnight and Margery Sly