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Conservation/Preservation Program

2006-2007 Discretionary Grant Awards

New York State Librarian and Assistant Commissioner for Libraries Janet M. Welch has announced 27 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 2006-2007 awards include projects that will preserve a number of collections of unique photographs, brittle newspapers and archives, scrapbooks and other activities.

2006-2007 New York State Program for the Conservation and Preservation of Library Research Materials Discretionary Grant Award Winners

Institution: American Museum of Natural History, American Museum of Natural History Library
Project Title: Scientific Art on Paper Stabilization and Rehousing Project
City: New York
County: New York
Award Amount:: $29,086

Institution: Barnard College Archives, Wollman Library
Project Title: Restoration, Conservation and Microfilming of Four More Student Scrapbooks, 1889-1907
City: New York
County: New York
Award Amount:: $17,146

Institution: FASNY Museum of Firefighting
Project Title: Library Survey Grant for FASNY Museum of Firefighting
City: Hudson
County: Columbia
Award Amount:: $2,454

Institution: Hunter College, Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos
Project Title: Nuyoricans: Community Organization and Cultural Affairs, 1948-1995
City: New York
County: New York
Award Amount:: $30,000

Institution: Iroquois Indian Museum
Project Title: Preservation Survey of Photographic Research Material
City: Howes Cave
County: Schoharie
Award Amount:: $2,836

Institution: Leo Baeck Institute
Project Title: Preservation Microfilming of 22 Collections of Émigré Rabbis
City: New York
County: New York
Award Amount:: $30,000

Institution: Marist College
Project Title: Scenic Hudson Collection Microfilming Project
City: Poughkeepsie
County: Dutchess
Award Amount:: $30,000

Institution: Museum of the City of New York
Project Title: Map Collection Treatment Project
City: New York
County: New York
Award Amount:: $20,670

Institution: New York City Department of Records & Information Services
Project Title: Preservation of Oversized Brooklyn Bridge and NYC Parks Drawings
City: New York
County: New York
Award Amount:: $29,323

Institution: Onondaga Historical Association
Project Title: Onondaga Historical Association Long Range Preservation Planning
City: Syracuse
County: Onondaga
Award Amount:: $3,212

Institution: Ontario County Historical Society
Project Title: Conservation Treatment of Four Ontario County Maps
City: Canandaigua
County: Ontario
Award Amount:: $3,682

Institution: Queens Public Library
Project Title: Long Island Division Planning Project for Environmental Control and Storage
City: Jamaica
County: Queens
Award Amount:: $29,973

Institution: Rochester Regional Library Council
Project Title: RRLC 2006/2007 Conservation and Preservation Workshop Series
City: Fairport
County: Monroe
Award Amount:: $11,244

Institution: Rockland County Archives
Project Title: Preservation of Rockland County Judgment and Estate Records (1906-1914)
City: Pomona
County: Rockland
Award Amount:: $21,339
Institution: South Central Regional Library Council
Project Title: Putting Theory Into Practice; Phase V of a Preservation Awareness Project
City: Ithaca
County: Tompkins
Award Amount:: $13,255

Institution: Western New York Library Resources Council
Project Title: Regional Resource Sharing: Preservation Environment Monitoring and Reporting Program, 2006-2007
City: Buffalo
County: Erie
Award Amount:: $6,920

Institution: St. Bonaventure University
Friedsam Memorial Library
Project Title: St. Bonaventure University Phase Boxing Project
City: St. Bonaventure
County: Cattaraugus
Award Amount:: $5,792

Institution: The Grolier Club of New York
Project Title: Conservation of 17th and 18th Century English and Continental European Auction Catalogues at Grolier Club
City: New York
County: New York
Award Amount:: $15,970

Institution: The Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages
Project Title: Conservation Treatment of the Journals of William Sidney Mount in the Long Island Museum's Kate Strong Historical Library
City: Stony Brook
County: Suffolk
Award Amount:: $10,290

Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Project Title: Conservation of Italian Illustrated Books
City: New York
County: New York
Award Amount:: $30,000

Institution: The New York Academy of Medicine
Project Title: Conservation/Preservation of the Robert Latou Dickinson Notebooks
City: New York
County: New York
Award Amount:: $30,000

Institution: The New York Botanical Gardens, The LuEsther T. Mertz Library
Project Title: Preservation Housing Upgrade: The Encapsulation of Library Materials
City: Bronx
County: Bronx
Award Amount:: $25,950

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:: $19,689

Institution: Westchester County Archives and Records Center
Project Title: Environmental Control Survey and Report for New Archival Space
City: Elmsford
County: Westchester
Award Amount:: $14,700

Institution: Wilderstein Preservation
Project Title: Architectural Drawing
City: Rhinebeck
County: Dutchess
Award Amount:: $6,495

Institution: WNYC Radio, Inc.
Project Title: WNYC Music and Culture Reformatting Project
City: New York
County: New York
Award Amount:: $29,974

Institution: Yeshiva University
Project Title: Preservation Reformatting of Cassette Tapes
City: New York
County: New York
Award Amount:: $30,000


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