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October 31, 2017 by Gary Price

Recordings at Risk Grants Announced: Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Awards $504,200 to 16 Institutions

October 31, 2017 by Gary Price

From CLIR:

2017-10-31_12-23-31The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) today announced that the following 16 institutions have been awarded Recordings at Risk grants.
Grant Recipients
Institution: Binghamton University Libraries
Project: Learning from Legends: Reflections on the 1960s Collection
Amount: $16,552.50
Institution: Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Project: Standard Hour Broadcast Recordings
Amount: $49,999.43
Institution: Boston College
Project: Sounds of Mid-20th Century Irish-America: Preserving Historic Music Field Recordings for Research Access
Amount: $30,775
Institution: Denver Public Library
Project: Preserving the History of World War II’s Elite Ski Troopers, the 10th Mountain Division
Amount: $22,990
Institution: Duke University Libraries
Project: Radio Haiti Open Reel Audio Tape: Intensive Remediation Project
Amount: $15,889
Institution: Fort Sill Chiricahua/Warm Springs Apache Tribe
Project: Apache Prisoner of War Audio Collection Digitization and Processing Project
Amount: $41,733
Institution: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Project: Preserving Rare Recordings of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and the Free Synagogue Pulpit that are held at The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Amount: $38,240
Institution: Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Project: Preserving the First-Person Oral History Recordings of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Amount: $50,000
Institution: Special Collections & Archives, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University
Project: Documenting the Evangelical Movement in the United States: Digitizing Baptist State Convention of North Carolina Open-Reel Audiotapes, 1957-1980
Amount: $50,000
Institution: Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Project: Debating the Vietnam War: Film and Audio Recordings from the 1960s and 1970s
Amount: $44,405.40
Institution: The Regents of the University of California
Project: Preservation of the H.K. Yuen Social Movement Audio Archive
Amount: $29,210
Institution: The Research Foundation for SUNY on behalf of University at Buffalo
Project: Reel to Reel Tape Recordings of the Creative Associates Recitals at the University at Buffalo, 1964-1980
Amount: $34,136
Institution: Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
Project: Caribbean Folklore Recordings, 1950s-1960s, Digitization Project: the University of Pennsylvania Folklore Department Collections
Amount: $10,132
Institution: University of Maryland, College Park
Project: Preserving the Programming Archives of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. National Public Broadcasting Archives at the University of Maryland
Amount: $21,398.38
Institution: University of Southern California
Project: Lawrence Lipton’s L.A. in the Time of the Beats: Sounds of the 1950s and 1960s Counterculture
Amount: $20,500
Institution: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Project: Preserving and Making Accessible the Dictabelt Recordings of Rod Serling
Amount: $28,239.60
This is the second group of projects supported by the Recordings at Risk awards program, a national regranting program administered by CLIR to support the preservation of rare and unique audio and audiovisual content of high scholarly value. Generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the program will award a total of $2.3 million between January 2017 and September 2018.
CLIR will begin accepting applications for a new Recordings at Risk grant cycle on December 1, 2017.
Learn More
Additional details about each funded project can be accessed here.

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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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