The University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries and Museum will receive $480,885 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program to carry out a digitization and cataloging project for an at-risk audiovisual collection held by the Institute of Texan Cultures. Key deliverables include cataloging, rehousing, and moving thousands of collection items to climate-controlled storage; digitizing prioritized at-risk items; and providing practical experience for graduate and undergraduate student assistants involved in the cataloging and rehousing work. The project aims to preserve the collection and increase public access to the diverse communities of Texas. An audiovisual archivist will survey the collection and standardize metadata, while a contracted vendor will perform the digitization.
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