Project Grant LG250163OLS21
- The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $248,600 National Leadership Grant (CFDA 45.312) to the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (Palci) to streamline the development and ensure the sustainability of Hyku, a digital repository software that provides a robust and flexible platform for institutions to manage, preserve, and provide access to digital content. The project will address Hyku's needs for fiscal and organizational sustainability, efficiency in...
- The Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI) received a $149,893 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants for Museums (CFDA 45.312) program. This 2-year grant, awarded on August 1, 2024, will support the development of a prototype open-source reading list system called PEARL. The project aims to create a tool that can connect to various library catalogs or discovery systems and be integrated into learning...
- The National Information Standards Organization, Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration & Innovation, and Lehigh University Libraries, with 27 partner organizations, will develop the Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP) through a $1.2 million project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The three-year grant will support the creation of best practices, standards improvements, and prototype middleware infrastructure to advance cooperative collection...
- The U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $248,235 National Leadership Grant (CFDA 45.312) to George Mason University and its partners, the Virginia Academic Library Consortium, Scientist.com, and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. This 2-year project, with an end date of July 31, 2026, will scale the development of an open-source, learning management system-integrated open educational resources repository. The key products and services to be...
- This two-year, $149,259 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program will fund the development of an open homework repository by the Virtual Library of Virginia consortium. Working with partner organizations including Galileo, the Louisiana Library Network, and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, the consortium will plan and create a proof-of-concept repository to store and share open educational...
- The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $118,334 National Leadership Grant (CFDA 45.312) to the Consortium of Metropolitan Libraries (COBIMET) to conduct a digital preservation needs assessment for public libraries and municipal archives in Puerto Rico's metropolitan area. The project will develop and implement a bilingual, publicly accessible online database using the Digital Preservation Coalition's Rapid Assessment Model. Key deliverables include a comprehensive needs...
- The University at Albany, SUNY, in collaboration with the Empire State Library Network (ESLN), has received a Project Grant award of $249,996.00 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants (CFDA 45.312) program. The project aims to decrease barriers to implementing archival discovery and delivery systems, enabling under-resourced institutions to provide access to digital objects. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing a...
- The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), in collaboration with Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Minnesota, Duke University, and an advisory board, received a $741,921 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants (CFDA 45.312) program. The grant funds critical research on the economics of investments required for public access to research data. The project aims to conduct surveys and interviews with...
- The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY) received a $232,817 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants (CFDA 45.312) program. The grant supports the development of "Cross-Share", a middleware, server-based solution that will enable discovery, availability lookups, and connections between disparate library resource sharing systems used by ALMA, ILLiad, OCLC, RAPID/RAPIDO, and...
- The Internet Archive, in partnership with the New York Art Resources Consortium, will receive $266,553 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to create a cooperative program for archiving and providing access to web-published art and cultural heritage collections. From September 2021 to August 2023, the project will work with art libraries and museums across the United States to coordinate the curation and archiving of primary...
The Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI), in partnership with the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI), received a $270,486 two-year Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312). The funding will support enhancements to Hyku, an open-source multi-tenant repository platform system suitable for access to diverse materials. This will build upon previous work to improve the national digital repository infrastructure. Specifically, PALNI and PALCI will increase Hyku's flexibility, accessibility, and usability. They will also develop an operational toolkit for consortially managed repository services agnostic to any specific technology. The toolkit will provide guidance and resources to support similar services in other consortia. The work directly addresses critical needs in the museum and library fields around strengthening services for the public articulated by stakeholders and consortia.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $248.1k | 7/15/21 |