New York State Library

Division of Library Development

New York State Librarian and Assistant Commissioner for Libraries Janet M. Welch has announced 25 grants to libraries, historical societies and other organizations 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 2005-2006 awards include projects that will preserve a number of collections of unique photographs, brittle newspapers and archives, scrapbooks and other activities.

2005-2006 New York State Program for the Conservation and Preservation of Library Research Materials Discretionary Grant Award Winners

INSTITUTION: American Jewish Historical Society
PROJECT TITLE: Preserving the Records of New York's Early Jewish Community
CITY: New York
COUNTY: New York
AWARD AMOUNT: $6,070

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

INSTITUTION: Barnard College Archives
PROJECT TITLE: Restoration, Preservation and Microfilming Project for Four Early 20th Century Student Scrapbooks from the Barnard College Archives
CITY: New York
COUNTY: New York
AWARD AMOUNT: $27,540

INSTITUTION: Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos
PROJECT TITLE: Migrant Farm Labor in New York and New Jersey- The Puerto Rican Experience, 1948-1993
CITY: New York
COUNTY: New York
AWARD AMOUNT: $28,500

INSTITUTION: Chautauqua
COUNTY: Archives
PROJECT TITLE: Preservation Microfilming of Court Records Pertaining to Robert H. Jackson
CITY: Mayville
COUNTY: Chautauqua
AWARD AMOUNT: $6,295

INSTITUTION: George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film
PROJECT TITLE: New HVAC System for Rare Vault
CITY: Rochester
COUNTY: Monroe
AWARD AMOUNT: $30,000

INSTITUTION: Juliette K. and Leonard S. Rakow Research Library at the Corning Museum of Glass
PROJECT TITLE: General Preservation Survey of Paper-Based Library Collections
CITY: Corning
COUNTY: Steuben
AWARD AMOUNT: $3,029

INSTITUTION: Lehman College Library
PROJECT TITLE: Bronx Oral History Reformatting Project
CITY: New York
COUNTY: Bronx
AWARD AMOUNT: $29,542

INSTITUTION: Leo Baeck Institute
PROJECT TITLE: Preservation Microfilming of Five Émigré Collections
CITY: New York
COUNTY: New York
AWARD AMOUNT: $30,000

INSTITUTION: Manhattanville College Library
PROJECT TITLE: Conservation and Housing of Selected Medieval Books and Manuscripts in
the Rare Book Collection
CITY: Purchase
COUNTY: Westchester
AWARD AMOUNT: $23,085

INSTITUTION: Metropolitan Museum of Art, The
PROJECT TITLE: Conservation of Italian Architectural Treatises
CITY: New York
COUNTY: New York
AWARD AMOUNT: $30,000

INSTITUTION: Museum of the CITY: of New York
PROJECT TITLE: Changing New York Negative Duplication Project
CITY: New York
COUNTY: New York
AWARD AMOUNT: $24,320

INSTITUTION: New York Botanical Gardens
PROJECT TITLE: European Gardens: Conservation of 16th-19th Century Books from the
Elizabeth K. Reilly Collection
CITY: New York
COUNTY: Bronx
AWARD AMOUNT: $29,150

INSTITUTION: Noble Maritime Collection
PROJECT TITLE: Condition Survey of Noble Maritime Collection Photo Collection
CITY: Staten Island
COUNTY: Richmond
AWARD AMOUNT: $1,860

INSTITUTION: NYC Dept. of Records and Information Services
PROJECT TITLE: Municipal Archives Photograph Re-housing Project
CITY: New York
COUNTY: New York
AWARD AMOUNT: $30,000

INSTITUTION: Plattsburgh State University-Feinberg Library
PROJECT TITLE: Rehousing and Shelving of Historic Newspapers
CITY: Plattsburgh
COUNTY: Clinton
AWARD AMOUNT: $2,362

INSTITUTION: Queens Borough Public Library
PROJECT TITLE: Long Island Division Planning Project for Environmental Control & Storage
CITY: New York
COUNTY: Queens
AWARD AMOUNT: $29,905

INSTITUTION: Rockland
COUNTY: Archives
PROJECT TITLE: Preservation of Rockland County Deeds and Judgment Records 1893-1936
CITY: Pomona
COUNTY: Rockland
AWARD AMOUNT: $29,829

INSTITUTION: Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History
PROJECT TITLE: Preservation Survey of Motion Picture Film Collections
CITY: Jamestown
COUNTY: Chautauqua
AWARD AMOUNT: $2,786

INSTITUTION: Schenectady Co. Historical Society-Grems-Doolittle Library
PROJECT TITLE: Preservation Survey- Schenectady Co. Historical Society-Grems-Doolittle Library
CITY: Schenectady
COUNTY: Schenectady
AWARD AMOUNT: $2,410

INSTITUTION: Schenectady Museum Association
PROJECT TITLE: Preservation of Nitrate Negatives and Conservation Environment Survey
CITY: Schenectady
COUNTY: Schenectady
AWARD AMOUNT: $29,263

INSTITUTION: Wilderstein Preservation
PROJECT TITLE: Conservation Treatment of Maps and Drawings
CITY: Rhinebeck
COUNTY: Dutchess
AWARD AMOUNT: $11,180

INSTITUTION: WNYC Radio, Inc.
PROJECT TITLE: New York & Company Preservation
CITY: New York
COUNTY: New York
AWARD AMOUNT: $29,934

INSTITUTION: Woody Guthrie Foundation
PROJECT TITLE: Woody Guthrie Foundation General Preservation Assessment
CITY: New York
COUNTY: New York
AWARD AMOUNT: $2,940

INSTITUTION: Yeshiva University.
PROJECT TITLE: Preservation of Soviet Jewry Collection
CITY: New York
COUNTY: New York
AWARD AMOUNT: $30,000

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