New York State Library

Division of Library Development

October 2002

State Librarian and Assistant Commissioner for Libraries Janet M. Welch has announced 34 grants to libraries, historical societies and other organization to preserve deteriorating library research materials. The grants, totaling $500,000 are part of a $2.24 million comprehensive, statewide program to preserve endangered materials important to the State.

The 2002 awards include projects that will preserve a number of collections of unique photographs, brittle newspapers and archives, scrapbooks and other activities. Examples of grants awarded this year are:

AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE (JDC) -- Preservation Microfilming of Archival Collection -- $30,000 -- The "Counties and Regions" section of the Annotated Catalogue of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 1933-1944 will be preserved on microfilm.

DEWITT HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY -- SCRAPBOOK COLLECTION STABILIZATION PROJECT -- $13,791 -- 432 scrapbooks documenting life and events in Tompkins County from the 19th -20th century will be repaired and re-housed in custom made phase boxes.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND ARCHIVES -- PRESERVING MONTGOMERY COUNTY'S PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY -- $3,039 -- 146 glass plate negatives created by local photographers and documenting building, people and events in Montgomery County. Interpositives, duplicate negatives and prints will be created to insure the preservation of these images.

ROCHESTER REGIONAL LIBRARY COUNCIL -- RELIEF FOR CAREGIVERS OF LOCAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS -- $9,382 -- Seven workshops on the preservation of paper based collections will be offered. Topics to be covered are basic and preservation, disaster preparedness, and will include formats such as rare books, and manuscripts, audiotapes, and photographs.

APPLICATIONS FOR 2003

The New York State Program for the Conservation and Preservation of Library Research Materials provides $500,000 each year for preserving materials in the collections of libraries archives, historical societies and similar agencies. There is strong competition for the $500,000. The maximum grant award is $30,000.

Applications for the 2003 cycle are due on December 6, 2002. Questions about the program should be addressed to: Barbara Lilley, Conservation/Preservation Program Officer, New York State Library, 10C47 Cultural Education Center, Albany, NY 12230. Telephone: (518) 486-4864, E-mail: blilley@mail.nysed.gov or visit the Conservation/Preservation web site.

2002-2003 New York State Program for the Conservation and Preservation
of Library Research Materials Discretionary Grant Award Winners

INSTITUTION Adirondack Museum
PROJECT TITLE Adirondack Oral History Preservation Project
CITY Blue Mountain Lake
COUNTY Hamilton
AWARD AMOUNT $26,872

INSTITUTION American Craft Council
PROJECT TITLE Preservation Survey of the American Craft Council Archives
CITY New York
COUNTY New York
AWARD AMOUNT $3,008

INSTITUTION American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
PROJECT TITLE Preservation Microfilming of Archival Collection
CITY New York
COUNTY New York
AWARD AMOUNT $30,000

INSTITUTION American Museum of Natural History Library
PROJECT TITLE Rare Book Repair and Rebinding Project
CITY New York
COUNTY New York
AWARD AMOUNT $30,000

INSTITUTION Barnard College Archives, Wollman Library
PROJECT TITLE General Preservation Planning Survey for the Barnard College Archives
CITY New York
COUNTY New York
AWARD AMOUNT $2,555

INSTITUTION Bronxville Local History Room, Bronxville Public Library
PROJECT TITLE Bronxville Local History Room Newspaper Microfilming Project
CITY Bronxville
COUNTY Westchester
AWARD AMOUNT $12,600

INSTITUTION Buffalo Museum of Science
PROJECT TITLE Negative Preservation Grant
CITY Buffalo
COUNTY Erie
AWARD AMOUNT $29,961

INSTITUTION Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, The Ambrose Swasey Library
PROJECT TITLE Unbound serials rehousing
CITY Rochester
COUNTY Monroe
AWARD AMOUNT $5,536

INSTITUTION Dewitt Historical Society of Tompkins County, New York
PROJECT TITLE Scrapbook collection stabilization project
CITY Ithaca
COUNTY Tompkins
AWARD AMOUNT $13,791

INSTITUTION Geneva Historical Society
PROJECT TITLE Microfilming Early Land Transactions-Abstracts & Survey Notes
CITY Geneva
COUNTY Ontario
AWARD AMOUNT $765

INSTITUTION Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame
PROJECT TITLE Photographic Glass Plate Repair/Conservation/Reformatting and Rehousing
CITY Goshen
COUNTY Orange
AWARD AMOUNT $19,956

INSTITUTION Huntington Historical Society
PROJECT TITLE Conservation treatment of selected archival material: maps, broadsides, and documents
CITY Huntington
COUNTY Suffolk
AWARD AMOUNT $7,155

INSTITUTION Huntington Memorial Library
PROJECT TITLE Preservation and Conservation of the Bresee Family Collection [1850-1997]
CITY Oneonta
COUNTY Otsego
AWARD AMOUNT $2,660

INSTITUTION José Limón Dance Foundation
PROJECT TITLE General Preservation planning Survey for the José Limón Dance Foundation's Archives
CITY New York
COUNTY New York
AWARD AMOUNT $2,500

INSTITUTION Leo Baeck Institute, Inc.
PROJECT TITLE Preservation Microfilming of David Baumgardt Archival Collection
CITY New York
COUNTY New York
AWARD AMOUNT $30,000

INSTITUTION Long Island Museum of American Art, History & Carriages
PROJECT TITLE Conservation Treatment of the Personal Papers of William Sidney Mount in The Long Island Museum's Kate Strong Historical Library
CITY Stony Brook
COUNTY Suffolk
AWARD AMOUNT $9,774

INSTITUTION Lower Hudson Conference of Historical Agencies & Museums
PROJECT TITLE Training Workshop Course: "Taking Stock: Assessing Space, Storage and Preservation Needs to Prepare Access to Book, Paper and Photographic Research Collections"
CITY Elmsford
COUNTY Westchester
AWARD AMOUNT$13,811

INSTITUTION Metropolitan Museum of Art
PROJECT TITLE Conservation of French Ornament Books before 1800
CITY New York
COUNTY New York
AWARD AMOUNT $27,010

INSTITUTION Montgomery County Department of History & Archives
PROJECT TITLE "Preserving Montgomery county's Photographic History"
CITY Fonda
COUNTY Montgomery
AWARD AMOUNT $3,039

INSTITUTION Museum of the City of New York
PROJECT TITLE Map Collection Conservation Assessment Project
CITY New York
COUNTY New York
AWARD AMOUNT $1,543

INSTITUTION National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum, Inc. Library
PROJECT TITLE Photograph Collection Survey
CITY Cooperstown
COUNTY Otsego
AWARD AMOUNT $2,000

INSTITUTION New York Botanical Garden
PROJECT TITLE Conservation of 19th Century Illustrated Botanical Folios
CITY Bronx
COUNTY Bronx
AWARD AMOUNT $29,334

INSTITUTION The New York Public Library, The Branch Libraries, Donnell Library Center
PROJECT TITLE Preserving 16mm "local history" films in the collection of the Donnell Media Center
CITY New York
COUNTY New York
AWARD AMOUNT $30,000

INSTITUTION Ossining Historical Society Museum
PROJECT TITLE Ossining Citizen Sentinel/Citizen Register Newspaper Microfilming-Final Phase (VI)

CITY Ossining
COUNTY Westchester
AWARD AMOUNT $23,173

INSTITUTION Plattsburgh State University-Feinberg Library, c/o Office of Sponsored Research & Programs
PROJECT TITLE Feinberg Library Special Collections: Container Upgrade
CITY Plattsburgh
COUNTY Clinton
AWARD AMOUNT $4,683

INSTITUTION Putnam County Historical Society & Foundry School Museum
PROJECT TITLE Glass Plate Grant
CITY Cold Spring
COUNTY Putnam
AWARD AMOUNT $23,767

INSTITUTION Rochester Regional Library Council
PROJECT TITLE Relief for Caregivers of Local History Collections
CITY Fairport
COUNTY Monroe
AWARD AMOUNT $9,382

INSTITUTION Rockland County Archives
PROJECT TITLE Preservation of Rockland County Judgement and Mortgage Records (1798-1888)
CITY Pomona
COUNTY Rockland
AWARD AMOUNT $24,445

INSTITUTION Schenectady County Historical Society-Grems-Doolittle Library
PROJECT TITLE Schenectady County Documents Preservation
CITY Schenectady
COUNTY Schenectady
AWARD AMOUNT $3,914

INSTITUTION Schenectady Museum Association
PROJECT TITLE Preservation and Reformatting of Steinmetz Glass Negatives
CITY Schenectady
COUNTY Schenectady
AWARD AMOUNT $11,950

INSTITUTION Siena College, Standish Library
PROJECT TITLE General Preservation Survey for Siena College's Standish Library
CITY Loudonville
COUNTY Albany
AWARD AMOUNT $2,840

INSTITUTION Starr Library
PROJECT TITLE Newspaper Preservation-Microfilming of Gazette Advertiser
CITY Rhinebeck
COUNTY Dutchess
AWARD AMOUNT $7,905

INSTITUTION WNYC Radio
PROJECT TITLE Preservation Formatting of Contemporary Music Radio Programs
CITY New York
COUNTY New York
AWARD AMOUNT $29,752

INSTITUTION Yeshiva University
PROJECT TITLE Preservation of Reel to Reel Audio Tapes-Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry
CITY New York
COUNTY New York
AWARD AMOUNT $24,320

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