Elections for the Representative Committee of Librarians [RCL] will be held this December 2007! If you are interested in running for RCL please contact an RCL committee member or the Library senators [Kathleen Kehoe and Karen Green]. For more information on RCL see the RCL page on SWIFT. Kathleen M. Dreyer Chair of RCL […]
Mellon Supports Mapping Gothic France
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded Columbia’s Art History and Archaeology Department a grant of $696,000 to place the great monuments of twelfth-to-thirteenth century France on an interactive map via a geographic information system. Users will be able to correlate the spatial and temporal links between the emergence of France and the production of Gothic […]
NY State Grant Supports Preservation
The Preservation and Digital Conversion Division received a $32,450 grant from the NY State Conservation Preservation Program to provide custom-fitted clamshell boxes constructed of archival-quality materials for 400 rare and special volumes. Several other NY universities, as well as the NY Public Library, will participate in the project, which will begin November 2007 and run […]
Digital Scriptorium
Work on the third phase of the Digital Scriptorium, under an NEH grant of $300,000, has been completed. Digital Scriptorium is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources into a tool for teaching and scholarly research. http://scriptorium.columbia.edu Columbia, in partnership with Oxford and Harvard, is now preparing a new grant […]
Starr Completes NEH Project
The Starr Library recently completed a project to organize, preserve, and provide access to the Barbara C. Adachi Bunraku Collection of Japanese puppet theater, thanks to a $155,358 grant from the NEH. […]
Preservation Microfilming: Slavic Culture and History
With an award of $626,000 from the NEH, the Preservation and Digital Conversion Division recently completed phase 4 of its project to preserve CUL’s exceptionally rich Slavic collections. […]
RBML Completes EAD Project
Stephen Davis and RBML completed a project that tested three different pathways for generating Encoded Archival Description finding aids, thanks to a grant of $22,000 from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. […]
Mellon Foundation: Collection Building for Web Resources
In partnership with the University of Maryland Libraries, CUL submitted a proposal to the Mellon Foundation requesting $156,122 for a planning project to figure out ways to incorporate web content into research library collections. If granted, CUL will focus on the subject area of human rights, exploring variations in the digital content available and how […]
Preservation and Digital Conversion Completes Grammy Project
The Preservation and Digital Conversion Division preserved the Ditson Fund Recordings Archive, recordings of American classical music from 1942 to 1951, with a grant of $40,000 from the Grammy Foundation. Its web site is: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/music/ditson/index.html […]
CDRS Submits New Request to Ford Foundation
CDRS, in partnership with Dr. Manning Marable of the Center for Contemporary Black History, is requesting renewed funding from the Ford Foundation for The Amistad Digital Resource for Teachers, a web-based multi-media resource to help secondary school teachers teach African-American history. Ford also supported the first year of this project. […]