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

2020

Adirondack Experience, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
ADKX Historical Ephemera Digitizing Project
$11,000.00

American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
Critical Upgrade for Digital Asset System
$12,000.00

American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
AFI Digital Preservation Project
$6,000.00

Bibliographical Society of America, New York, NY
Describing the Material Text
$19,000.00

Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Digital Preservation of Helmut Hirsch Papers and Historical Materials
$10,000.00

Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
Center for Brooklyn History, Shiffman Collection Digital Transfer
$14,000.00

Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL
Vivian Maier Collection Project
$14,800.00

Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH
Collating Wrangel Island: Inhabiting the “Uninhabitable.” 1900-1930
$17,000.00

Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY
Digitization of 19th- and Early 20th-Century Newspapers from Otsego County
$17,350.00

Green-Wood Historic Fund, Brooklyn, NY
Providing Access to the Records of Green-Wood Cemetery
$12,000.00

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA
Blake’s Barn Archival Collections and Services
$16,000.00

Kean University Foundation, Union, NJ
Digitizing the Collection of the Papers of Florence Dwyer, America’s First Republican Woman Elected to Congress
$10,000.00

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York, NY
Sharing Archival Treasures: Expanding Virtual Programming in the La MaMa Archive
$10,000.00

Library of America, New York, NY
Digitizing Backlist Titles for Reprinting and E-Book Production
$16,000.00

Maine Maritime Museum, Bath, ME
Online Public Access to Sea Journals
$9,000.00

Museum of Chinese in America, New York, NY
Archive Fire Recovery: drying out damaged artifacts embodying Chinese American history as first steps of long-term restoration process
$20,000.00

Museum of Performance + Design
San Francisco, CA
Preserving Bay Area Dance Legacies
$6,000.00

New York Public Library, New York, NY
COVID-19 Dance Worker Narratives Project
$16,000.00

Northern Kentucky University Research Foundation, Highland Heights, KY
Melville’s Print Collection Online (MPCO)
$4,050.00

Oneida Community Mansion House, Oneida, NY
Archives & Collections Inventory/Move
$17,908.00

Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL), Philadelphia, PA
Chronicling Resistance
$10,000.00

Rare Book School, Charlottesville, VA
RBS Online Initiative: Convening Communities of Learning
$10,000.00

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Cataloging and Digitizing Historical Type Specimen Catalogs
$13,000.00

Roundabout Theatre Company, New York, NY
Archival Maintenance and Enhancement
$12,000.00

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Processing the Forrest J. Ackerman Papers
$17,000.00

The American Trust for the British Library
Brooklyn, NY
Cataloguing and digitizing The Canterbury Tales at the British Library
$15,000.00

The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Book Art Catalogue Collections Migration Project
$15,000.00

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Expanding Research Access to The Met’s Kleinberger Galleries Records
$13,000.00

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Harlem Speaks Oral History Collection
$12,000.00

University Enterprises, Inc. on behalf of California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
Southeast Asian Resource Research Collection Artifact & Photograph Digitization Project
$13,710.00

University of Edinburgh USA Development Trust, Inc., New York, NY
Archival collections of William Speirs Bruce
$15,500.00

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation
Las Vegas, NV
Robert Paluzzi Panoramic Photograph Digitization Project
$13,405.00

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Asia Pacific Museum Japanese Collections Survey
$15,000.00

University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation, Burlington, VT
Marlboro College Archival Project at the University of Vermont
$17,500.00

Urban Archive, New York, NY
Collection Management and Engagement Program (CMEP)
$13,000.00

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Delia Zapata Olivella Papers
$20,000.00

Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Winterthur, DE
Digitization of Shaker Manuscript Hymnals in the Winterthur Library
$12,000.00

2019

Academy of American Poets, New York, NY
Archive Project
$15,000.00

American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
AFI Digital Preservation Project
$6,000.00

American Foundation for the Blind, Arlington, VA
Digitization of Scrapbooks Contained in the Helen Keller Archive
$5,000.00

American Printing History Association
New York, NY
Expanding Representation in Printing History through “One Press, Many Hands” Conference
$3,500.00

Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, LA
Operatic and Classical Music, an African American Perspective
$12,000.00

Arts Resources in Collaboration, New York, NY
EYE ON DANCE Legacy Archive Project
$7,500.00

Arts Resources in Collaboration, New York, NY
EYE ON DANCE Legacy Archive Project
$7,500.00

Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
Institutional Library Cataloging Project
$3,000.00

Bluegrass Heritage Museum, Winchester, KY
Documenting and Digitizing Archival Documents and Artifacts
$7,000.00

Boise State University, Boise, ID
Data Visualization at Melville’s Marginalia Online
$8,400.00

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Donald and Miriam MacMillan Collection Processing Project
$17,000.00

Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL
Lyric Opera of Chicago Collection Processing and Access
$14,226.00

Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar
Colorado Springs, CO
Scholarships for librarians and others serving special communities
$13,000.00

Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT
The Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program (CCHAP) Archive Project
$10,000.00

Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Upgrade to Special Collections Search Hub
$12,000.00

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Freedom on the Move
$18,000.00

Council of Independent Colleges, Washington D.C.
Re-Defining the Role of the Academic Library in Support of the Institutional Mission: A Planning Grant
$5,000.00

Duke University, Durham, NC
Advancing Diversity in the Library Preservation Profession
$8,000.00

Duke University Press, Durham, NC
Carlyle Letters Online (CLO)
$12,500.00

East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
Cataloging the Lewis Deneumoustier Collection in the Archives of Appalachia
$19,799.00

Erie Canal Museum, Syracuse, NY
Revealing Hidden Collections
$8,000.00

Friends of the British Film Institute
San Francisco, CA
Archival supplies for preserving the paper archives of Michael Powel, year one
$15,000.00

Harry Bertoia Foundation, St George, UT
Digitize, index and make publicly available the Harry Bertoia Archives
$7,500.00

IFAR, International Foundation for Art Research
New York, NY
Enhancements to the Catalogues Raisonnés Database
$20,000.00

King’s College London, London, England
The Georgian Papers Programme
$8,000.00

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York, NY
Archives Film Storage and Accessibility Project
$16,000.00

Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
35th Biennial International Paper Historians Congress
$9,000.00

Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
“Walt Whitman at 200” exhibition and public programs
$10,000.00

National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Curator for the Ian Rankin Archive
$14,000.00

New York State Archives Partnership Trust
Albany, NY
New York Archives Magazine Support
$9,000.00

New-York Historical Society, New York, NY
Digitization of the Subway Construction Photograph Collection, 1900-1950
$20,000.00

Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR
Monner Photographs Preservation and Access Project - Phase I
$10,000.00

Palisades Interstate Park Commission
Bear Mountain, NY
Cataloging and Preserving the Palisades Interstate Park Commission Archives
$12,250.00

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, New York, NY
The Taylor Archives
$25,000.00

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Launching the Duchamp Research Portal
$8,000.00

Rare Book School, Charlottesville, VA
Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography annual meeting, “Bibliography at the Borders”
$19,850.00

Research Foundation of CUNY, New York, NY
Graduate Archival Fellowships to Establish a Memory Lab for Campus and Community Engagement - Queens College
$14,500.00

Roundabout Theatre Company, New York, NY
Pels Theatre Production Records Cataloguing Project
$16,000.00

Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble, New York, NY
Transfer of Sokolow Records to the Library of Congress
$5,500.00

Stony Brook Foundation, Inc., Stony Brook, NY
Acquisition of Early English and 18th Century Books Online
$18,000.00

The Book Club of California, San Francisco, CA
A Shimmer of Joy: One Hundred Children’s Picture Books in America by Chris Loker
$5,000.00

The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Walt Whitman’s Words: Inspiring Artists Today
$10,000.00

The Grolier Club of New York, New York, NY
Exhibition Catalogue for “The Best-Read Army in the World”
$10,000.00

The Melville Society, Boise, ID
Melville’s Origins, the 12th International Melville Society Conference
$8,000.00

The Rosenbach Museum and Library
Philadelphia, PA
American Voyager: Herman Melville
$10,000.00

The Royal Oak Foundation, New York, NY
Blicking’s Library Cataloguing
$18,000.00

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Amherst, MA
SHARP 2019 Conference: Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the Book
$7,500.00

UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Cataloging and Digitizing of Italian and Italian-American Diaspora Recordings
$10,900.00

University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
Entangled Manuscripts. An international conference of the “Practices of Knowledge Selection” project
$8,000.00

University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Piranesi: Print, Book, Screen
$10,000.00

University of Wisconsin Foundation, Madison, WI
History of Cartography Project
$18,000.00

University of Wyoming Foundation, Laramie, WY
Catalog Foreign Language Titles Donated to the Law Library by Wyoming Supreme Court Justice Blume
$3,000.00

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
International Symposium for Music Encoding Initiative
$8,000.00

Villanova University, Villanova, PA
Irish Studies Digitization Project
$10,000.00

Wells Book Arts Center, Aurora, NY
Wells Summer Institute 2019 - Scholarships and Residency Extension
$5,000.00

2018

American Friends of the Victoria and Albert Museum, New York, NY
Exploration photographs from the Royal Photographic Society Collection
$20,000.00

American Printing History Association
New York, NY
Plenary speaker for joint annual conference “Matrices: The Social Life of Paper, Print, and Art”
$1,500.00

Americans for Oxford, New York, NY
Printing Revolution Exhibition
$14,000.00

Americans for Oxford, New York, NY
The John Stuart Mill Marginalia Online Project – Hyperspectral Imaging Proposal Narrative
$7,000.00

Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc., New York, NY
The Inventory, Cataloging, and Archiving of Ballet Tech’s 45-year History
$2,500.00

Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
Digitizing the Prompt Books from Max Reinhardt’s Collection
$15,000.00

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Donald MacMillan’s Historic Hand-Tinted Glass Lantern Slide Collection
$17,000.00

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
FY19 Digital Archives User Interface Upgrade Project
$12,000.00

Chagrin Falls Historical Society, Chagrin Falls, OH
The Exponent (1874-1883): Preserving and Digitizing Chagrin Valley’s History
$8,000.00

Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL
Processing of Thing Magazine Archives
$15,000.00

Duke University, Durham, NC
Exhibition: “500 Years of Women’s Work: the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection”
$10,000.00

Duke University, Durham, NC
Supplemental Support for Advancing Diversity in the Library Preservation Profession
$5,000.00

Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Ethical Stewardship Today: Collecting, Conservation, and Access in the 21st Century
$20,000.00

Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Improving the Preservation and Access to the Sartain Family Papers
$15,360.00

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA
Dance We Must - Treasures from Jacob’s Pillow, 1906-1940
$14,000.00

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York, NY
Archives Video Preservation and Accessibility Project
$15,000.00

Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Program in African American History 2019 Exhibition “From Negro Pasts to Afro Futures: Creative Black Re-Imaginings”
$15,000.00

Library of Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
The Daniel Labeille/Samuel Beckett Collection
$9,000.00

Maine Maritime Museum, Bath, ME
Cataloging and creating research guides to maritime manuscript collections
$16,000.00

Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
It’s Alive! Frankenstein at 200 exhibition, publication, and public programs
$20,000.00

Muhammad Ali Museum and Education Center
Louisville, KY
The Louisville Sponsoring Group Contract Digitization Project
$13,000.00

Museum of Performance + Design
San Francisco, CA
More Life: Preserving San Francisco Bay Area Theater Recordings
$5,000.00

New York Philharmonic, New York, NY
Update of Permanent Exhibitions
$11,432.00

New York Public Library, New York, NY
The Life and Work of Hal Prince Exhibition
$16,000.00

New York University, New York, NY
Processing the Chris Kraus Papers
$14,000.00

Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Melville at 200
$17,500.00

Onondaga Historical Association, Syracuse, NY
Syracuse Newspaper Photograph Collection
$21,000.00

Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL), Philadelphia, PA
In Her Own Right: A Century of Women’s Activism, 1820-1920
$16,000.00

Rare Book School, Charlottesville, VA
“Bibliographical Pasts and Futures” conference
$15,075.00

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Creating access to the Zapf archive of calligraphy and type design
$5,760.00

Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA
Preserving and Cataloging the Catholic and Jesuit history of Philadelphia
$10,250.00

The Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY
Portal to the Past: Creating Brooklyn Historical Society’s Digital Map Collection
$10,000.00

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA
Nineteen Nineteen: A Centennial Exhibition
$10,000.00

The Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY
Digitizing 19th and 20th Century Jewish Postcards
$10,000.00

The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY
Mertz Library Conference: Botanical and Horticultural Librarianship in the Modern Era: Training and Vision for the Future
$5,000.00

The Shakespeare Globe Trust, London, England
Digitisation of the Sam Wanamaker quarter-inch open reel audio tapes
$8,500.00

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Richard Pohrt, Jr. Historic Native American Photographs collection cataloging
$20,000.00

University of Toronto Libraries, Toronto, Ontario
Discover Archives Project
$20,000.00

University of Wisconsin Foundation, Madison, WI
Student assistants for the History of Cartography project
$20,392.00

Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Book Arts Fellowship
$12,000.00

University of Oregon Foundation, Eugene, OR Catalog the Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection
$8,000.00

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Music Encoding Initiative Developer Meeting and Introductory Tutorial
$11,050.00

University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, WA
Preserving the Jini Dellaccio Collection
$8,500.00

University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, Department of Special Collections, Madison, WI
Cataloging and Preserving the Fry Collection of Italian History and Culture
$9,500.00

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Morgan: Mind of the Collector Symposium
$10,000.00

Western University, London, ON
Research Ready: The Gustav Mahler–Alfred Rosé Collection
$15,000.00