AV Preservation: Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Announces $546,281 in Recordings at Risk Grants

From CLIR:

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) today announced that the following 18 institutions have been awarded Recordings at Risk grants.
This is the fourth 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 April 2019.
CLIR will begin accepting applications for a new Recordings at Risk grant cycle beginning December 3, 2018.

Grant Recipients
Fourth Call (Awarded Fall 2018)

Institution: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Inc.
Project: Communities-At-Risk: An Audio-Visual History of Jewish Communities in Transition
Amount: $30,798
Institution: Amistad Research Center
Project: Continuing to Break the Code: The Field Recordings of Lorenzo Dow Turner at the Amistad Research Center
Amount: $34,966
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Project: Preserving Historic SAIC Lectures:  Stan Brakhage (1970–1976) and The Visiting Artists Program (1977–1996)
Amount: $16,560
Institution: Autry Museum of the American West
Project: Digitizing a Century of Native Voice and Song at the Autry Museum
Amount: $31,742
Institution: Jewish Theological Seminary
Project: Disappearing Jewish Cultures and Traditions of the Non-Western World: Digitizing Film Footage and Audio Recordings from the Johanna L. Spector Papers and Audio-Visual Materials
Amount: $45,943
Institution: Media Mobilizing Project
Project: Media Mobilizing Project Social Movement Video Collection 2002–2011
Amount: $28,750
Institution: New Museum of Contemporary Art
Project: Critical Dialogue and Public Engagement in Contemporary Art, 1979–2000: Reformatting Analog Audiovisual Recordings in the New Museum Archives
Amount: $17,100
Institution: Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York Inc.
Project: Leonard Bernstein, James Fassett, and the New York Philharmonic Radio Broadcasts, 1949–1967: Shaping Post-War American Culture for Millions Every Week
Amount: $22,608
Institution: Regents of the University of California, Berkeley
Project: Saving Film Exhibition History: Digitizing Recordings of Guest Speakers at the Pacific Film Archive, 1976 to 1986
Amount: $45,882
Institution: San Diego State University Research Foundation
Project: Recorded Interviews with Postmodern and Contemporary American Writers in the Larry McCaffery Papers
Amount: $28,866
Institution: Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill
Project: Conserving the Charism: Preservation of the Oral Histories and Legacy of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill
Amount: $29,925
Institution: South Dakota State University Archives and Special Collections
Project: Rural Representation: Saving the Voices of South Dakota Farmers Union
Amount: $19,454
Institution: Texas Tech University
Project: Mold Abatement, Restoration, and Digitization of Americana Music Heritage Master Tape Collections at the Crossroads of Music Archive
Amount: $49,116
Institution: University of Houston
Project: Preserving KUHT Early Educational Films
Amount: $23,500
Institution: University of Maryland, College Park
Project: Sounds of the Silent Majority: Digitizing the Recordings of Political Culture in the Spiro T. Agnew Papers, 1968–1973
Amount: $30,417
Institution: University of South Carolina
Project: Preserving Two Watershed Years of Outtakes from the WIS-TV News Collection, 1968–1969
Amount: $50,000
Institution: University of Utah
Project: Regional Voices in a Time of National Change: Preserving and Providing Access to KUTV News Broadcasts January 1977–March 1979
Amount: $20,500
Institution: Walker Art Center
Project: Digitizing At-Risk Walker Art Center Sound and Moving Image Collection Recordings
Amount: $20,155

Learn More! Details About Each Funded Project is Available Here
See Also: Direct to CLIR’s Hidden Collections Registry
2607 entries as of September 28, 2018.

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