NEH Grants

The following grants were awarded by the National Endowment for the
Humanities.

UC-Berkeley: To support development and testing of computerized
procedures for retrieving archival documents and photographic images
via the Internet.

UC-Riverside: To support the addition of records to the North American
Imprints Project.

Center for Research Libraries: To support preservation microfilming
and cataloging of 8,000 volumes in major languages of western India
held by the library of the University of Bombay for use by scholars in
the U.S.

Chicago: To support cataloging, microfilming, and digitizing of
deteriorated volumes relating to the history, art, archeology,
languages, law, and religions of the ancient Near Eastern and
Mediterranean regions.

Columbia: To support cataloging and preservation of material in the
Joseph Urban Collection documenting theater arts during the first half
of the 20th Century.

Cornell: To support microfilming, conservation, and cataloguing
materials pertaining to Icelandic history, language, and literature
from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries.

Delaware: To support preservation microfilming in participation with
the U.S. Newspaper Program; to support training of students
specializing in the conservation of material culture collections.

Duke: To support cataloging, conservation, and conversion to digital
format papyri dating from the 3rd Century B.C. to the 8th Century A.D.

Florida: To support cataloging and preservation microfilming of
newsprint.

Harvard: To support preservation microfilming and documenting history
of American business and education, Slavic history and culture,
Western European history, and international law.

Illinois: To support preservation microfilming in participation with
the U.S. Newspaper Program.

Johns Hopkins: To support preservation of and automated access to the
Lester S. Levy Music Collection.

Maryland: To support preservation microfilming of and improved access
to Japanese newspapers and newsletters published between 1945 and 1949
during the Allied Occupation.

Nebraska: To support preservation microfilming of material documenting
Mari SandozUs literary career and anthropological research about
Native Americans.

New York Public: To support the arrangement and description of
organizational records and personal papers documenting the post-civil
rights era from 1958 to the present; to support arrangement and
description of records, microfilm, and audiotapes from the publishing
house of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, spanning the period from 1945
through 1980; to support preservation of the White Studio Collection
consisting of images of theater and vaudeville performances in New
York from 1904 to 1936.

Princeton: To support organization, description, and cataloging
records of the Association on American Indian Affairs that provide a
perspective of 20th Century Native American history.

Southeastern Library Network, Inc: To support preservation
microfilming books and pamphlets on U.S.  and Latin Americana, World
War I, and the history of religion.

Tennessee: To support preservation microfilming in participation with
the U.S. Newspaper Program.

Texas-Austin: To support preservation microfilming of Latin American
Monographs in the Nettie Lee Benson Collection; to support
preservation microfilming of newspaper titles.

Yale: To support preservation microfilming and improved access to
volumes concerning the general history of the British Isles and the
religious doctrines that originated there.


NEH Restructures

The following is from an October 16th open letter describing a major
restructuring of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

When adjusting to a budget reduction of almost forty percent, no
program could remain untouched.  Inevitably, we will have to fund
fewer grants.  We opted, however, not to weaken all our efforts by
cutting equally across the board, but to give greater support to those
activities that best meet our guiding tenets; that is, activities that
are best done at the national level, that have long-term impact, that
have few other sources of support, that strengthen the institutional
base of the humanities, and that reach broad sectors of the American
public.

We concluded that the Endowment should focus on the following areas:

* supporting original scholarship,
* preserving the American cultural heritage,
* providing learning opportunities for the nation's teachers, and
* engaging the American public in the humanities.

Reduced in size but not in commitment, we must go on, continuing the
excellent work that the Endowment has done for the last thirty years,
dedicated now more than ever to the mission bestowed on us by our
enabling legislation: to help Americans "achieve a better
understanding of the past, a better analysis of the present, and a
better view of the future."  The National Endowment for the Humanities
is here to stay.

- Sheldon Hackney, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities

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ARL 183
A Bimonthly Newsletter of Research Library Issues and Actions
Association of Research Libraries
December 1995