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August 28, 2015 by Gary Price

Cornell University Library and College of Arts and Sciences’ Awards Grants to Digitize Four Hidden University Collections

August 28, 2015 by Gary Price

From the Cornell Chronicle:

Some hidden Cornell treasures soon will be available to scholars around the world, thanks to the Cornell University Library and the College of Arts and Sciences’ Grants Program for Digital Collections, which this year awarded four grants.
One such treasure is the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection, which includes more than 10,000 items of apparel, flat textiles and accessories dating from the late 18th century.
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A digital repository for the Sterrett Photographs collection, which documents major archaeological monuments in present-day Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria and Iraq, is another of this year’s grantees. The collection includes more than 50 photos of Palmyra taken by John Henry Haynes in 1885, all but a very few unpublished.
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Benjamin Piekut, associate professor of music, will lead a project to digitize the Lindsay Cooper Archive, currently housed in a London storage locker and inaccessible to researchers. The project is a partnership between Cornell and the University of the Arts London to make Cooper’s scores and archival recordings available. According to Piekut, archival resources for Cooper’s avant-garde music are rare, making a digital archive of this collection important – especially given the “real paucity” of women’s stories in the history of experimental and improvised music.
The fourth project will digitize the full content of “On Our Backs,” a historically important publication used by students and researchers in the visual, political, historical, and gender and sexuality fields, says project lead Kate McCullough, associate professor of English and feminist, gender and sexuality studies. The collection includes photography, artworks, essays, advertising and nonfiction.
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Previous projects funded by Grants Program for Digital Collections
• Anthropology Collections – includes objects covering much of human history and activities. Project lead: Fred Gleach, anthropology, in collaboration with graduate student Eilis Monahan, Near Eastern studies.
• Hip Hop Collection/Conzo Archive – photographic prints by Bronx photographer Joe Conzo Jr. taken between 1977 and 1984, capturing the early years of hip-hop. Project Leads: Steve Pond, music, and Travis Gosa, Africana studies, in collaboration with Katherine Reagan, Cornell University Library.
• Cornell Gem and Amulet Collection – the A.D. White Collection of more than 2,000 plaster casts and impressions of engraved gems and amulets from classical antiquity. Project leads: Caitlín Barrett and Verity Platt, classics.
• Monumentum Ancyranum Squeezes – a collection of fragile squeezes (paper impressions) created in Ankara, Turkey, during the Cornell Expedition to the Assyro-Babylonian Orient in 1907. The project has a 3-D image component. Project leads: Eric Rebillard, classics, and Benjamin Anderson, history of art.
• Experimental Television Center – The video collection of the Experimental Television Center (ETC), a prominent video art collection, as well as associated ephemera and print material. Project lead: Timothy Murray, Society for the Humanities, Comparative Literature, English.

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Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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