Project Grant LG260441OLS26
- The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded Colonial Williamsburg Foundation $1,574,536 on September 1, 2026, under the National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to develop History.org, a free digital learning platform for K–12 U.S. history and civics education commemorating the 250th anniversary of American Independence. Colonial Williamsburg will partner with 49 museums and the Organization of American Historians to create online curated collections and object-based lessons...
- The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded the University of Maryland, Baltimore $199,906 on September 1, 2026, under the National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to create a unified, publicly accessible digital portal consolidating over 2,900 digitized items from the Health Sciences and Human Services Library's historical collections documenting two centuries of medical, pharmaceutical, dental, nursing, and social work education at the nation's first public medical school. The...
- The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded Internet Archive $594,200 on September 1, 2026, under the National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to launch CWGOV, a nationally scaled program for preserving and providing access to critical local government information. CWGOV will provide web archiving and digital preservation training, tools, and support to state and local government information professionals. The program will establish a community of practice and peer support...
- The University of Virginia Library, in partnership with the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, received a $149,842 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.312 - National Leadership Grants) to develop a community web portal focused on harnessing generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to foster the creation and adaptation of open educational resources (OER). The project aims to aid librarians, educators, AI practitioners,...
- The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University $946,806 on September 1, 2026, under the National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to investigate how artificial intelligence-generated metadata functions in digital library infrastructure. Virginia Tech's Libraries will conduct empirical research to determine whether large-scale machine-generated metadata can reliably serve as structural infrastructure in patron-facing digital...
- 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 awarded Colonial Williamsburg Foundation $1,333,026 on September 1, 2026, under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to develop Revolutionary Kids, a multimedia educational project commemorating the 250th anniversary of American Independence. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, in partnership with iCivics, is producing eight animated videos and eight 22-page digital graphic novels designed for elementary classrooms. The project will create...
- The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) $357,988 on September 1, 2026, under the National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to plan an investigation of the auditability of large language models for relevance screening in evidence synthesis. Virginia Tech's University Libraries will conduct iterative experiments to improve the accuracy and auditability of AI-assisted screening workflows used in evidence...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The College of William & Mary received a $661,478 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), awarded September 1, 2025, with a completion date of August 31, 2028. The award funds the design, development, and evaluation of StoryBridge, a web-based intergenerational digital-storytelling platform that enables older adults and youth to...
- The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University $1.226 million on September 1, 2026, under the National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to research privacy-preserving artificial intelligence architectures for digitized library collections. Virginia Tech Libraries, in collaboration with the Virginia Tech Sanghani Center for AI and Data Analytics and Northwestern University Libraries, will investigate how agentic AI systems...
The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded $1.5 million to the College of William and Mary on September 1, 2026, under the National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312) to identify and preserve web resources referenced in archived US local and national television news. The College of William and Mary, in collaboration with Old Dominion University and the Internet Archive, will develop novel artificial intelligence tools to detect web citations in US television news broadcasts and build a public database linking archived web pages to the TV programs that cite them. Core deliverables include multi-modal machine learning and deep learning models for web citation detection and context classification; a large-scale web-to-TV news citation database; context banners on archived web pages referenced in TV news; and analysis of information flow patterns from the web to broadcast media. The project will enable journalists, researchers, and the public to trace how information moves between online and broadcast media. Performance occurs in Williamsburg, Virginia, with a period of performance extending through August 31, 2029. The award is structured as a Project Grant, the standard assistance type under National Leadership Grants, which supports projects generating models, tools, research findings, or practices that can be widely adapted, scaled, or replicated across the library and archival professions.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $750.0k | 8/4/26 |