Project Grant LG252384OLS22
- The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) received a $206,269 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants (CFDA 45.312) program. This funding will support an online workshop series on climate resiliency for librarians, archivists, and other cultural workers. The workshops, informal climate circles, and conference meetings will help identify key actions these professionals can take to build community-level climate action...
- The Federal Grant Award of $143,489 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (CFDA 45.313) will fund the "Consortial Collaboration for Academic Library Leadership Success (CCALLS)" project. This 2-year project (August 1, 2024 - July 31, 2026) will engage library consortia to establish a national continuing education program to develop academic library workers' assessment skills. The project aims to enable library...
- 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 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 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 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...
- The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded a $217,498 Project Grant to the Califa Group under the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (CFDA 45.313) to plan and implement a two-day forum exploring the components needed for a diverse library and information science workforce. The forum will bring together professionals from archives, special collections, library programs, historically black colleges and universities, and related organizations to identify skills required for success...
- The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $124,391 National Leadership Grants for Libraries (CFDA 45.312) project grant to Temple University and Texas A&M University. The project will host a virtual national forum to convene specialists in digital humanities research, library data services, copyright, and information policy. The goal is to develop a legal framework and guidelines to enable libraries to support computational research on copyrighted contemporary cultural...
- 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...
- This $249,975 Project Grant was awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants for Museums (CFDA 45.312) program. The funding will support a collaborative effort between West Chester University of Pennsylvania, Indiana University Bloomington, Western Michigan University, and Delaware County Community College to develop a CareerLIT learning module series. This project aims to transform the ways libraries serve college students by providing a...
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 development among varied institutions and consortia. As the National Leadership Grants program aims to strengthen library and museum services for the public, the CCLP specifically seeks to overcome barriers inhibiting wider implementation of interoperable systems, data exchange standards, governance models, and assessment tools for collaborative collection management. Ithaka S+R will conduct research on current cooperative collection development practices through a $223,116 subaward. Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration & Innovation and Lehigh University Libraries will administer the project and coordinate its core activities.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $598.0k | 7/15/22 |