The leslie-lohman museum of GAY and lesbian art will adopt a more flexible and robust web-based cataloguing software to provide greater public and scholarly access to research on lgbtq+ art and the…

The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art received a $158,890 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the agency's National Leadership Grants (NLG) program. The grant will support the Museum adopting a more robust web-based cataloguing software to provide greater public and scholarly access to research on LGBTQ+ art and artists. This includes accelerating cataloguing efforts, developing a more rigorous online collection database, and recovering staff capacity to make research widely accessible. As part of the project, the Museum will invite independent scholars to review the collection and inform database management, data, and user experience. Additionally, the Museum will develop image digitization and database migration plans to ensure broad scholarly access to the collection. The one-year grant period extends from November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2022.

The leslie-lohman museum of GAY and lesbian art will adopt a more flexible and robust web-based cataloguing software to provide greater public and scholarly access to research on lgbtq+ art and the artists who create IT. Requests from researchers and virtual audiences during the covid-19 pandemic informed the museum's plan to accelerate cataloguing, develop a more rigorous online database for the permanent collection, and recover collection staff to make research accessible. As part of the project, the museum will invite independent scholars to review the collection and inform the database management process, data, and user experience. The museum will develop image digitization and database migration plans to ensure that the collection is widely accessible to scholars of all disciplines.