The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will support a second year of research on the state of need, knowledge, and commitment to mass deacidification for the North American research library community. The study group will also include NYU and Yale University libraries. […]
Category: Gifts & Grants
Dramatic Puppets and Masks
RBML is requesting support from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation to make accessible the nearly 450 puppets and 138 masks from the former Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum, which are now housed at RBML. James Brander Matthews (1852-1929), America’s first professor of dramatic literature, created a Dramatic Museum at Columbia in 1911 to supplement his teaching. […]
The Getty Foundation: Papers of Meyer Schapiro
RBML submitted a proposal to the Getty Foundation to process the papers of art historian and critic Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996). The collection includes Schapiro’s research files, which came to Columbia by bequest from his widow, as well as earlier gifts of audio tapes, correspondence, and gallery invitations. The goal of the project is to process […]
Preserving Audio Historic Content
The Preservation and Digital Conversion Division is applying to the Mellon Foundation for support for its project Preserving Historic Audio Content: Developing Infrastructures and Practices for Digital Conversion. The project proposes to preserve 820 audiotapes from OHRO while developing a fully functional infrastructure for audio preservation. A decision is expected in June. […]
NEH Awards $340,217
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $340,217 to the Libraries Digital Programs Division for Phase 6 of APIS: Advanced Papyrological Information System. This two-year grant will further develop APIS and its Papyrological Navigator, load cataloging and images from partner institutions, and expand its long-term digital preservation repository. […]
AG Foundation Funds Oral History
Agnes Gund’s Foundation, the AG Foundation, has given OHRO a grant to record an oral history of twenty women in the visual arts. The project is named The Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts, in honor of the recently deceased painter and printmaker. […]
Starr Library Receives Foundation Support for Collections
The Starr Library recently received contributions from both the Kajima Foundation and the JCC Fund (the Japanese Chamber of Commerce) to support collection building in the area of Japanese studies. […]
New Award from Mellon for Web Resources Project
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a one-year grant of $156,000 to Columbia University Libraries, in partnership with the University of Maryland Libraries, to support planning for the systematic, holistic collection and preservation of web content. Columbia and Maryland will each focus on a different subject area to explore variations in the amount, depth, […]
Mass Deacidification Project
The Libraries recently completed an assessment of a deacidification treatment and methodology called CSC Booksaver, used in Germany. A study group, also including NYU and Yale, was convened and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to evaluate CSC Booksaver’s potential for adoption in North American research libraries. […]
The Amistad Digital Resource for Teachers
In partnership with Dr. Manning Marable of the Center for Contemporary Black History, CDRS completed the prototype of its web-based multi-media resource to help secondary school teachers teach African-American history. This first phase was funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation. The resource is now available: http://www.amistadresource.org. […]