The Library of Virginia Foundation was awarded a $345,857 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program (CFDA 15.929). The funding will support the conservation, digitization, and improved access to approximately 700 Virginia legislative petitions dating from 1776 to 1850. Project activities include deacidification, rehousing, and cataloging the petitions, as well as digitizing the collections to mitigate...
The Virginia Department of Historic Resources (DHR), a U.S. state government entity, received a $458,047 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Save America's Treasures (SAT) program (CFDA 15.929) to conserve artifacts recovered from excavations associated with enslaved people living at Kingsmill and other 17th and 18th century plantation sites in Virginia. The 3-year project will include creating a conservation plan, conserving deteriorating metal artifacts,...
The Mariners' Museum received a $830,061 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures (SAT) program (CFDA 15.929) to catalog and digitize over 30,000 photographic negatives from seven collections documenting the history of maritime transportation, shipbuilding, the U.S. Navy, and maritime commerce in coastal Virginia. The museum will hire a digitization specialist and photography intern to digitize and store these at-risk...
The Naval War College Foundation will receive $294,745 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program to inventory, catalog, conserve, and digitize their military history collection from October 1, 2022 to March 31, 2025. The Foundation will hire a collections specialist and college interns to update information on over 350 manuscript collections, 500 oral histories, 4,000 rare books from the 16th century to present, and 600...
The Library of Virginia received a $9,743,209.09 Formula Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Grants to States program (CFDA 45.310). The grant funding will support the library's five-year plan for FY 2023-2027, which focuses on three key goals: 1) fostering the development of community libraries as centers for lifelong learning and civic engagement, 2) facilitating access to information and cultural heritage resources, and 3) supporting the training and...
The Library of Virginia will use $6,161,460.61 in Formula Grant funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Grants to States program to support its five-year plan for fiscal years 2018 through 2022. The plan reflects the purposes and priorities of the Library Services and Technology Act and includes three specific state goals: 1) fostering the development of neighborhood/community libraries as lifelong learning and civic engagement centers; 2) facilitating access to information...
This federal Project Grant award of $235,692.00 was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), to the Library of Virginia Foundation. The funding will support the digitization of 100,000 pages of historical Virginia newspaper content dating from 1860-1963, with a focus on expanding access to African American and German language newspapers, as well as 19th century agricultural...
This $125,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003). The grant supports the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia (UVA) in preserving, digitizing, and providing public access to historical records and documentary sources related to U.S. history. Key activities to be funded include digitizing archival collections, creating online editions of historical...
The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, doing business as the Wisconsin Historical Society, received a $1,506,238 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures (SAT) program (CFDA 15.929) to preserve and provide access to at-risk materials in 26 collections documenting the modern American Civil Rights movement. The 3-year project will stabilize, rehouse, and perform conservation treatments on approximately 490 cubic feet of...
This federal Project Grant award of $125,000.00 from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003) supports the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia (UVA) in preserving, digitizing, and providing public access to historical records and documentary sources related to United States history. The project will involve activities such as digitizing archival collections, creating online editions...