Preservation: Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Awards $405,353 for 13 Recordings at Risk Projects
From a CLIR News Release:
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) today announced that the following 13 institutions have been awarded Recordings at Risk grants:
Institution: Tri-Centric Foundation
Project: Braxton75 Archival Recordings Project
Amount: $28,925Institution: Brown University in Providence in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Project: Brown University Archives Audio-Visual Collection: Global Perspectives from Campus Speeches
Amount: $23,215Institution: Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries, Vanderbilt University
Project: Opening Access to Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Voices: Manuel Zapata Olivella‘s Recordings of Marginalized Cultures and Traditions
Amount: $46,695Institution: Montana Historical Society
Project: Voices of Labor: Preserving the Montanans at Work and New Deal in Montana Oral History Interviews
Amount: $32,118Institution: The Administrators of the Tulane University Educational Fund
Project: “Tell the real story of me”: Mahalia Jackson and Black Gospel Quartets in the South
Amount: $14,903Institution: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
Project: Preserving the Voices of American Jews: Temple Israel of Boston’s Audio Recordings, 1934-1979
Amount: $36,069Institution: Congregation Adath Israel
Project: Preserving the Voices of the Works Progress Administration Arts Projects: Digitizing the WPA Oral Histories Collection, 1938-1984
Amount: $18,570Institution: George Mason University Foundation, Inc.
Project: Preserving the Voices of the Works Progress Administration Arts Projects: Digitizing the WPA Oral Histories Collection, 1938-1984
Amount: $10,820Institution: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
Project: Preserving Circus History through the Digitization of the Tibbals Circus Collection of Buster Bailey Films at The Ringling
Amount: $20,016Institution: Research Foundation of CUNY on behalf of Brooklyn College
Project: “Where the trumpet is expected, the flute will not suffice!” The sermons of the Rev. William Augustus Jones, Jr., 1975-2005
Amount: $41,103Institution: North Texas Public Broadcasting, Inc.
Project: Preservation of KERA Historic Media
Amount: $44,048Institution: University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Project: WWAY News and Societal Change in the Lower Cape Fear
Amount: $44,871Institution: Regents of the University of Minnesota
Project: University Radio at Risk: Digital Preservation Reformatting of Educational Radio
Amount: $44,000[Clip]
This is the sixth group of projects supported by the Recordings at Risk awards program, a national regranting program funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by CLIR to support the preservation of rare and unique audio and audiovisual content of high scholarly value.
Learn more about this year’s funded projects.
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About Gary Price
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.