Division of Preservation and Access

In fiscal year 1998, the division completed the tenth year of a multiyear program for the preservation of brittle books and serials. When the eight microfilming projects funded this year (involving thirty-seven institutions) and those that have been undertaken with NEH support at twenty-eight other libraries and library consortia are completed, the intellectual content of approximately 822,000 embrittled volumes will be preserved.

Newspapers chronicle the daily life of America's citizens in small towns and cities across the country. They document the civic, legal, historical, and cultural events that have occurred in every region of the nation during the past three hundred years. All fifty states, two U.S. territories, and the District of Columbia are now involved in the Endowment's United States Newspaper Program, a national initiative to catalog and preserve on microfilm the country's newspapers on a state-by-state basis. At the conclusion of currently funded NEH newspaper projects, more than 133,000 unique newspaper titles will be available in a national database and approximately fifty-eight million deteriorating newspaper pages will have been transferred onto microfilm.

Grants made in fiscal year 1998 also will preserve, provide intellectual access to, and stabilize a variety of museum, archival, and other unique collections that are important for the study of American literature, music, and history (including Native American and African American history and culture); children's literature; the history of botany; and Latin American, African, European, and Asian history and culture.

In fiscal year 1998, two grants were made for regional preservation field service programs that will provide surveys of preservation needs, workshops and seminars, technical consultations, and disaster assistance for hundreds of cultural institutions in the northeastern and southeastern states.

Among the research tools and reference works that received support in fiscal year 1998, are projects to create the Atlas of the Greek and Roman World at the University of North Carolina, the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon at Hebrew Union College, and the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary at the University of Pennsylvania. These projects provide a foundation for research into past cultures. A grant to the Jacob Lawrence Project will support the compilation of a catalogue raisonn‚ of the African American painter, printmaker, and muralist. Other grants will make it possible to continue or complete work on a number of major reference works in the humanities: the Encyclopedia of New England Culture, the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries, the American Film Institute's Catalog of Feature Films, the History of Cartography, and the entry of ten thousand bibliographic records into the English Short Title Catalog database.

George F. Farr, Jr. Director Division of Preservation and Access

Albany Institute of History and Art
Albany, NY
Tammis K. Groft
$121,300 Documenting the Clothing and Accessories Collection

American Antiquarian Society
Worcester, MA
Georgia B. Barnhill
$227,400* Catalog of American Broadsides, 1860-76

American Film Institute
Los Angeles, CA
Patricia K. Hanson
$114,100 AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1951-60

Brown University
Bristol, RI
Shepard Krech
$700,000 Relocating and Rehousing the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology's Collections

CUNY Research Foundation/Brooklyn College
New York, NY
Dee L. Clayman
$18,255* The Database of Classical Bibliography

Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Standards
Mt. Carroll, IL
Mary Wood Lee
$299,000 Collections Care Training

Chicago Historical Society
Chicago, IL
Linda Evans
$198,616* Illinois Newspaper Project: Cataloging

Chicago Historical Society
Chicago, IL
Bernard F. Reilly
$125,900 WFMT/Studs Terkel Archive Cataloging Project

City of Philadelphia - Department of Records
Philadelphia, PA
David M. Weinberg
$183,600 Arrangement, Description, and Preservation of Significant Government Records

Columbia University
New York, NY
Roger S. Bagnall
$299,550 Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS): Phase II

Columbia University
New York, NY
Carol A. Mandel
$870,200 Modern Social and Economic History Preservation Microfilming Project: Phase III

Connecticut State Library
Hartford, CT
Lynne H. Newell
$384,000* Connecticut Newspaper Project: Microfilming

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Anne R. Kenney
$325,800 Preservation Microfilming and Cataloging of the Dante and Petrarch Collections

Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
Wallace C. Olsen
$908,800 Consortial Preservation Microfilming of Agricultural Literature: Phase II

Graduate School and University Center, CUNY
New York, NY
Dee L. Clayman
$10,345* The Database of Classical Bibliography

Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Wolfhart P. Heinrichs
$10,000* Encyclopaedia of Islam

Hebrew Union College
Cincinnati, OH
Stephen A. Kaufman
$199,000* The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
Dearborn, MI
Donna R. Braden
$146,100 Documentation of Collections Relating to Childhood

Hot Spring County Library
Malvern, AR
Mary L. Cheatham
$18,996** Chairman's Emergency Grant for the Salvage of Library Collections after a Lightning Fire

Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
Nanette E. Brewer
$43,531 Reorganizing and Rehousing the Works-on-Paper Collection

Jacob Lawrence Project
Seattle, WA
Peter T. Nesbett
$56,500 Creating a Catalogue Raisonn‚ of Jacob Lawrence

Library Company of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
John C. Van Horne
$97,300 Cataloging the Education and Philanthropy Collection of Printed Materials

Library of Michigan
Lansing, MI
Kathleen A. Menanteaux
$230,599* Michigan Newspaper Project: Cataloging

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Peter S. Donaldson
$20,000* The Shakespeare Electronic Archive Project: Phase III

Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
James R. Grossman
$50,000* The Encyclopedia of Chicago History

Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
John H. Long
$3,250* The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries

Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
John H. Long
$307,900 Compilation of a Multivolume Reference Work: The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries

New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, NY
John F. Reed
$119,600 Arranging and Describing Records Documenting the History of Botany

New York City Department of Records and Information Services
New York, NY Kenneth R. Cobb
$64,206 Preservation Microfilming of the Robert Moses Papers

New York Public Library
New York, NY
Heike C. Kordish
$23,000* Dance Heritage Coalition: Access to Dance Research Resources

New York Public Library
New York, NY
Heike C. Kordish
$456,500 Preservation Microfilming of Collections on Urban and Ethnic History

New York Public Library
New York, NY
Diana Lachatanere
$165,400 Arrangement and Description of the African American Theater Arts Collections

New York University
New York, NY
Margaret H. Ellis
$218,700 Instruction in the Conservation of Ethnographic and Archaeological Collections

Northeast Document Conservation Center
Andover, MA
Steve Dalton
$202,800 A National Education Program on Digitization

Northeast Document Conservation Center
Andover, MA
Ann E. Russell
$408,400 Regional Preservation Field Services in the Northeast

Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Susan Naquin
$80,000* Creating an International Union Catalog of Chinese Rare Books

Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY
James M. Reilly
$378,100 Effects of Fluctuating Environments on Library and Archive Materials

SUNY Research Foundation/Buffalo
Albany, NY
Frederick C. Tahk
$200,200 Training Program for Conservators of Material Culture Collections

Science Museum of Minnesota
St. Paul, MN
Lori Benson
$700,000 Relocation and Rehousing of Anthropology Collections

Skirball Cultural Center
Los Angeles, CA
Vicki Gambill
$268,100 Relocation and Rehousing the Museum's Collection of Jewish Art and Artifacts

Society for Preservation of New England Antiquities
Boston, MA
Nancy C. Carlisle
$90,000 Documenting Material Culture Collections at the Society's Castle Tucker Facility

Society of Architectural Historians
Chicago, IL
Damie Stillman
$58,446* Buildings of the United States

Southeastern Library Network, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
Julie Arnott
$546,300 Regional Preservation Field Services for the Southeastern United States

Southeastern Library Network, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
Julie Arnott
$913,000 Preservation Microfilming of North and South American and European History and Culture Collections: Phase II

Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Charles G. Palm
$13,012* Preservation Microfilming of the Archival Collections on Poland at the Hoover Institution

Stanford University
Stanford, CA
John R. Perry
$121,361 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
James P. Danky
$123,300 Preservation Microfilming of Selected African American Periodicals

State University of New York
Albany, NY
GladysAnn Wells
$730,400* New York State Newspaper Project: Cataloging and Microfilming

Tufts University
Medford, MA
Gregory R. Crane
$50,000* An Open-Ended Classical Greek Language Database

University of California
Berkeley, CA
Edith R. Kramer
$130,800 Cinefiles: Digitization of Moving Image Documentation

University of California
Berkeley, CA
Peter Lyman
$266,760 The Making of America II Testbed Digitization Project

University of California
Davis, CA
Martha J. Macri
$10,996* Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project: Phase 3

University of California
Los Angeles, CA
Timothy Rice
$80,408 Preserving and Accessing World Music at the Ethnomusicology Archive

University of California
Riverside, CA
Henry L. Snyder
$639,100* The English Short Title Catalog: Wing IV

University of California
Riverside, CA Henry L. Snyder
$849,100* California Newspaper Project: Cataloging

University of Chicago
Chicago, IL Sherry Byrne
$456,494 Preservation Microfilming of Materials in the History of Religions

University of Delaware
Newark, DE Debra Hess Norris
$246,200 Material Culture Conservation Training

University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
Athens, GA
Linda Tadic
$96,590 Cataloging and Preserving Peabody Award Archives of Television Programs on African American History and Culture

University of Illinois
Chicago, IL
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
$32,400* Dissemination of Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange

University of Illinois
Urbana, IL Barbara M. Allen
$913,000 CIC Coordinated Preservation Microfilming Project, 1998-2000

University of Maine
Orono, ME
Pauleena M. MacDougall
$99,500 Preserving and Making Accessible Sound Recordings and Photographs from the Maine Folklife Center

University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
Karen N. Hoyle
$99,352 Arrangement, Description, and Cataloging of the Children's Literature Research Collection

University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH
Burt Feintuch
$165,400 Encyclopedia of New England Culture

University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
Lisa D. Carson
$247,793 Bibliographical Research, American Office of L'Annee Philologique

University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
Patricia B. Dominguez
$91,000 Digitizing North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920

University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
Richard J. Talbert
$92,388 Atlas of the Greek and Roman World

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Ake W. Sjoberg
$272,600* Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary

University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
James B. Lloyd
$253,400* Tennessee Newspaper Project: Cataloging

University of Texas
Austin, TX
Harold W. Billings
$43,500* Texas Newspaper Project: Microfilming

University of Texas
Austin, TX
Karen Motylewski
$256,691 Graduate Training for Preservation and Conservation of Library and Archives Materials

University of Toronto
Ontario, Canada
Antonette Healey
$67,000* Dictionary of Old English

University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
Connell B. Gallagher
$297,600* Vermont Newspaper Project: Cataloging and Microfilming

University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI
David Woodward
$26,185* History of Cartography

Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, MN
Rosemary Furtak
$37,000 Preserving, Digitizing, and Processing Audiotapes

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
Santa Fe, NM
Janet F. Hevey
$96,849 Purchase of Storage Furniture and Rehousing of Native American Art and Ethnographic Collections

Yale University
New Haven, CT
Paul L. Conway
$456,500 British History Preservation Microfilming Project: Phase II

Pao-liang Chu
Arlington, VA
$41,125 A Revision of the Index 20th-Century Chinese Writers and Their Pen Names