National Leadership Grants

September 2009 Grant Announcement

California  |  Connecticut  |  District of Columbia  |  Georgia  |  Guam  |  Hawaii  |  Illinois  |  Louisiana 

Massachusetts  |  Michigan  |  Minnesota  |  Missouri  |  New Jersey  |  New York  |  North Carolina 

Ohio  |  Pennsylvania  |  Tennessee  |  Texas  |   Utah  |  Washington 

California

University of California, Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA
Award Amount: $351,398; Matching Amount: $352,042
Grant Category: Advancing Digital Resources

Contact: Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan
Assistant Professor
(310)206-8320; srinivasan@gseis.ucla.edu

Project Title: "Creating Collaborative Catalogs: Using Digital Technologies to Expand Museum"
This three-year project will develop an innovative open-source, online collaborative catalog system and set of best practices that will dynamically expand the cultural and historical knowledge of Native American objects held in museum collections. This project will allow museums to gather indigenous perspectives while maintaining their existing metadata, and creates a refined model that museums can use to include Native American perspectives within their community context. UCLA is partnering with the Denver Art Museum, Museum of Northern Arizona, Denver Museum of nature and science, Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, and A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center on this project.

University of California, Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA
Award Amount: $249,342; Matching Amount: $133,868
Grant Category: Advancing Digital Resources

Contact: Mr. Stephen Davison
Head, UCLA Digital Library Program
(310)267-5135; sdavison@library.ucla.edu

Project Title: "The Next Generation Sheet Music Consortium"
The University of California and its partner, Indiana University, will develop tools and services to meet the needs of both data providers (libraries, museums, historical societies, and other curators of sheet music collections) and users of sheet music (musicologists, performers, cultural and art historians, etc.) as identified from a needs analysis that was funded by a 2007 planning grant from the IMLS National Leadership Grant program. Tools and services developed in the project will enable institutions with limited technical knowledge to participate in the metadata aggregation service of the Sheet Music Consortium (http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic) and will provide users with a richer set of services, including the ability to contribute structured metadata to the collection, write annotations, and link to related materials of interest across consortium collections. In addition, cataloging guidelines and tools will be developed to support and encourage standardized descriptive practices and facilitate merging and downloading of metadata records from the consortium’s Web site.

College Of Veterinary Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences - Pomona, CA
Award Amount: $100,000; Matching Amount: $102,726
Grant Category: Planning Grants

Contact: Dr. Margaret Barr
Professor of Virology and Immunology
(909)469-5667; pbarr@westernu.edu

Project Title: "Correlation of Snow Leopard Genetics with Immune Function: A Model for the Integration of Functional Genomics into"
This project will design a cohesive strategy for integrating methods of functional genomics into the captive breeding plans of endangered species in order to enhance species diversity and robustness. This planning grant will support a strategic planning workshop for interested parties, establish partnerships, and collect "proof of principle" data, in preparation for using snow leopard immune-genomics as the test case for this model. The final performance product, in partnership with the Great Plains Zoo and Museum and the University of Oregon, will be a submission for a full NLG Project Grant on this topic.

University of California, Santa Cruz - Santa Cruz, CA
Award Amount: $615,175; Matching Amount: $795,549
Grant Category: Advancing Digital Resources

Contact: Ms. Virginia Steel
University Librarian
(831)459-2076; vsteel@ucsc.edu

Project Title: "Creating a Virtual Terrapin Station: Blending Traditional & Socially Constructed Archives for Research, Teaching"
The University of California, Santa Cruz Campus will digitize materials from its Grateful Dead Archive and make them available in a unique and cutting-edge Web site, the Virtual Terrapin Station. The Virtual Terrapin Station will provide access to Grateful Dead Archive materials and tools to facilitate public contributions to the archive. This project will enable the university to convert a significant part of a traditional archive to digital form and make it available online while simultaneously experimenting with the impact of fostering, creating, and curating a large, socially constructed archive. The project will develop a click-through permissions form for content contributors and will extend the reach of the Grateful Dead Archive to the academic research community. It will also implement and contribute to the development of the IMLS-funded exhibition tool, Omeka (http://omeka.org).

Connecticut

Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocesan Corp - Bridgeport, CT
Award Amount: $50,000; Matching Amount: $0
Grant Category: Planning Grants

Contact: Dr. Margaret Dames
Superintendent of Schools
(203)416-1375; mdames@diobpt.org

Project Title: "Creating Global Learning and Cultural Centers through Advancing Digital Resources in our School Libraries"
Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocesan Corp., working with the State Library of Connecticut, will investigate strategies to enhance parochial school libraries and build strategic partnerships with other school libraries and public libraries. They will explore issues around broadcast redistribution of synchronous and asynchronous learning tools, the capacity to network library holdings and access workflows, and resource sharing among partner institutions. The goal is to develop a plan to make the school libraries a hub through which the individual student on a laptop, or a team working in a connected classroom, can access international learners and global resources.

Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University - New Haven, CT
Award Amount: $249,399; Matching Amount: $129,837
Grant Category: Demonstration

Contact: Ms. Jane Pickering
Assistant Director for Public Programs
(203)432-0798; jane.pickering@yale.edu

Project Title: "Peabody Event-Based Teachers Collaborative"
The Peabody Event-Based Teachers Collaborative is a unique professional development model with two primary audiences: K-12 school teachers and their students; and other informal education organizations. It will provide 50 teachers with professional development and resources based on curricula required by public school districts, and will model a new approach to customizing those curricula using Event-Based Science, an inquiry-based method based on real-life events. All project activities and goals will be evaluated using quantitative methods. and the program results will add significantly to the understanding of the role museums play in schools.

District of Columbia

Council on Library and Information Resources - Washington, DC
Award Amount: $96,879; Matching Amount: $45,142
Grant Category: Planning Grants

Contact: Dr. Amy Friedlander
Director of Programs
(202)939-4758; afriedlander@clir.org

Project Title: "Collaborative Planning (Co-Plan) to Support an Infrastructure for Humanities Scholarship"
The Council on Library and Information Resources, in partnership with Tufts University, will lead a collaborative planning process engaging scholars and academic librarians to examine the services and digital objects classicists have developed, their future research needs, and the roles of libraries and other curatorial institutions in fostering the infrastructure on which the core intellectual activities of classics and many other disciplines depend. On the basis of extensive consultation with librarians, archivists, and humanities scholars, they will identify and describe a set of shared services layered over a distributed storage architecture that is seamless to end users, allows multiple contributors, and leverages institutional resources and facilities. Much of this architecture exists at individual projects and institutions; the challenge this project will address is to identify the suite of shared services to be developed.

Gelman Library System, George Washington University - Washington, DC
Award Amount: $399,290; Matching Amount: $1,271,006
Grant Category: Advancing Digital Resources

Contact: Miss Martha Whittaker
Director, Content Manager
(202)994-6304; mwhittaker@gelman.gwu.edu

Project Title: "Cultural Imaginings: the creation of the Arab World in the Western Mind"
The libraries of George Washington University and Georgetown University will digitize their jointly held collections of Western literature on the Middle East and works by Middle East and North African authors comprising more than 2,500 volumes. The collections will be freely accessible to scholars and the general public worldwide. As part of the digitization process, the project team will test and evaluate the performance of a Kirtas 2400 book scanner and assess its capacity to produce high-quality/high-volume digital scans of bound volumes. Both libraries will produce enriched metadata records necessary for discovery, access, and long-term management and preservation of the digital content created, using robust metadata standards. Virtual and physical exhibits highlighting the collection will be produced. The physical exhibit will open at the Gelman Library and travel to selected libraries and/or museums around the world. A virtual exhibit will be hosted on the IMLS-funded Omeka virtual exhibit platform (http://omeka.org/).

Georgia

Association of Southeastern Research Libraries - Atlanta, GA
Award Amount: $328,329; Matching Amount: $333,313
Grant Category: Demonstration

Contact: Mr. John Burger
Executive Director
(404)592-4830; jburger@aserl.org

Project Title: "ASERL Collaborative Federal Depository Project"
The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL), in partnership with the University of Kentucky and the University of South Carolina, will create collaborative centers of excellence among federally designated regional depository libraries to improve access to federal government publications and create a model for improving depository library services and operations. Working within the current legal mandate and policies of the Federal Depository Library Program, ASERL and its partners will test a plan to create a comprehensive collection of tangible, legacy federal documents in two subject areas, with cataloging and provision of expert subject-based reference support services. The University of Kentucky will focus on Works Progress Administration documents; the University of South Carolina will address Department of Education documents. The project will document and test the feasibility of a model that could lead to the creation of subject-based centers of excellence among all depository libraries and seeks to provide workable solutions to address the increasing cost of managing, preserving, and providing access to large collections of federal government publications. This project will provide a model for the future development of shared current and digital federal depository collections and related services, and aims to influence the development of policies and workflows of shared legacy print archives of nongovernment material.

Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center - Atlanta, GA
Award Amount: $857,005; Matching Amount: $897,244
Grant Category: Advancing Digital Resources

Contact: Mr. Tyler Walters
Associate Director
(404)385-4489; tyler.walters@library.gatech.edu

Project Title: "The GALILEO Knowledge Repository: Advancing the Access and Management of Scholarly Digital Content"
The Georgia Institute of Technology, in partnership with the University of Georgia, Georgia State University, the Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Southern University, Valdosta State University, Albany State University, North Georgia College and State University, and the College of Coastal Georgia, will build a statewide institutional repository (IR) called the GALILEO Knowledge Repository. The partners will also host a national symposium on statewide and consortial repositories, create instructional materials, conduct consortial IR training, and offer consulting services. This project will advance scholarly communication by expanding the use of IRs by U.S. colleges and universities and by increasing the number of professionals with knowledge and skills in managing consortial IRs.

Guam

University of Guam - Mangilao, GU
Award Amount: $401,118; Matching Amount: $401,118
Grant Category: Demonstration

Contact: Mr. Kevin Latham
Assistant Professor/Info Services Librarian
(671)735-2332; klatham@uguam.uog.edu

Project Title: "Information Literacy for Future Island Leaders"
The University of Guam (UOG) library will create a comprehensive system of graduate student support through new bibliographic instruction (BI) classes, research services, and digital resources. The UOG library team will design services and instruction to support graduate programs and research using both traditional and digital resources. The project will address research needs at Micronesia’s only American institution of higher education offering graduate programs by creating advanced information literacy classes, a research assistance center for graduate students, and a faculty and graduate student research blog, and by digitizing the UOG Thesis and Special Projects Collection. UOG faculty-ranked librarians will teach the graduate BI classes and manage the project. The project will demonstrate and test methods of advanced academic research assistance and instructional tools that can serve as models for libraries seeking to respond to student research needs.

Hawaii

Honolulu Zoo - Honolulu, HI
Award Amount: $29,158; Matching Amount: $22,180
Grant Category: Planning Grants

Contact: Dr. Kathy Carlstead
Research Scientist
(808)971-2503; kcarlstead@honzoosoc.org

Project Title: "Ensuring good welfare for elephants in North American Zoos"
Experienced animal welfare researchers and elephant managers at zoos are developing a study of elephant welfare utilizing the entire population of North American zoo elephants. This project is for a planning phase that will incorporate all 78 elephant-holding zoos into the study, and bring together the ten project staff to design it. This is in preparation for a project that will develop assessment tools for elephant management styles, physical and social environments, elephant temperament and behavior, and handler attitudes and behavior in zoos across the United States.

University of Hawaii, Department of Information and Computer Sciences - Honolulu, HI
Award Amount: $249,918; Matching Amount: $86,193
Grant Category: Demonstration

Contact: Dr. Violet Harada
Professor
vharada@hawaii.edu

Project Title: "Pathways to Excellence and Achievement in Research and Learning (PEARL)"
Faculty and librarians at the University of Hawaii (UHM) will design, implement, and assess a team-based model of professional development for high school librarians and teachers collaborating to help high school students construct rigorous, inquiry-focused, capstone research projects. The UHM team will cooperate with the Hawaii Department of Education and the Hawaii P-20 Partnerships for Education to address the “expectation gaps” between the standards students must meet to earn a high school diploma and the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in their post-high school pursuits. The gaps identified include many 21st century skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, interpreting information, and analytic reasoning. The project will produce a training guide that can be used to create similar professional development programs, including training agendas, instructional materials, and recommended resources. The end goal of this three-year initiative is to produce a replicable model of professional development that may be used in other training contexts.

Harold L. Lyon Arboretum, University of Hawaii - Honolulu, HI
Award Amount: $248,952; Matching Amount: $173,975
Grant Category: Research

Contact: Mrs. Nellie Sugii
Junior Researcher
(808)988-0470; sugii@hawaii.edu

Project Title: "Rescue, Recovery and Storage of Hawaii's Most Critically Endangered Native Plants"
This project will prevent further extinction of Hawaiian plant species by creating and improving new strategies and techniques for ex situ conservation, which includes in vitro plant and seed bank propagation and storage. This will be accomplished by developing a set of standardized protocols in handling education, developing an interactive reporting system, developing new strategies for seed conservation, and conducting research that will prolong the plant culture storage shelf-life. A Web page will disseminate research results, new protocols, and standards to other botanical gardens and research centers.

Illinois

Chicago Zoological Society - Brookfield, IL
Award Amount: $58,299; Matching Amount: $42,927
Grant Category: Planning Grants

Contact: Dr. Jason Watters
Behavioral Research Manager
(708)688-8433; jason.watters@czs.org

Project Title: "Linking Behavioral types and Animal "Job Performance" with Population Management in Zoos"
The Chicago Zoological Society, in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society/Bronx Zoo, will investigate the potential of broadening the way zoos currently manage animal populations. Modern zoos often ask animals from the same population to perform many different jobs. Some zoo animals are asked to be breeders, others to be exhibit animals, and still others to be program or education animals. An animal's behavioral type or personality is likely to influence its success in the role to which it is assigned. This project will examine the potential benefit of considering behavioral types in assigning animals to different roles.

Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago Horticultural Society - Glencoe, IL
Award Amount: $99,679; Matching Amount: $86,382
Grant Category: Planning Grants

Contact: Ms. Jennifer Schwarz Ballard
Manager, Center for Teaching and Learning
(847)835-6832; jschwarz@chicagobotanic.org

Project Title: "The Floral Report Card: A Climate Change Education Initiative"
The Chicago Horticultural Society will partner with the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, the North Carolina Botanical Garden, Northwestern University, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, and the University of Washington to develop an effective model for engaging youth in the issue of climate change. Using gardens, citizen science, and technology, collaborators will develop a curriculum and teaching strategies that will appeal to young people and supply content that will be disseminated to students and teachers from large, urban public school systems.

Kohl Children's Museum - Glenview, IL
Award Amount: $69,188; Matching Amount: $40,028
Grant Category: Planning Grants

Contact: Dr. Marites Pinon
Vice President of Programs
(847)832-6600; mpinon@kohlchildrensmuseum.org

Project Title: "Traveling Exhibit Seed Program"
This is a collaborative planning project with the Association of Children's Museums (ACM) to create the Traveling Exhibit Seed Program, a leadership model for the creation and distribution of high-quality, developmentally appropriate, engaging traveling exhibits. In addition, this project will result in the Traveling Exhibit Support Action Plan, developed with an emphasis on serving the needs of smaller and emerging institutions that have limited administrative and financial resources. Once complete, this project will foster the production of traveling exhibits designed for children up to age eight that will benefit children’s museums nationwide.

Louisiana

Louisiana's Old State Capitol Museum of Political History - Baton Rouge, LA
Award Amount: $96,600; Matching Amount: $51,422
Grant Category: Planning Grants

Contact: Mrs. Christina Melton
LPB Archive Coordinator
(225)767-4248; cmelton@lpb.org

Project Title: "Louisiana Legacy Library of Digital Moving Images Planning Project"
Louisiana's Old State Capitol Museum of Political History will partner with the Louisiana State Archives and Louisiana Public Broadcasting to preserve and catalogue the state’s film and video according to accepted preservation/archive standards for moving images and to expand public access to this invaluable resource. The project will plan for the preservation and access to endangered video recordings of the history and culture of the people of Louisiana over the past half-century, drawn from television and news broadcasts. This digital resource will provide a national model for collaborative collection building between diverse institutions.

National World War II Museum, Inc. - New Orleans, LA
Award Amount: $333,887; Matching Amount: $333,887
Grant Category: Advancing Digital Resources

Contact: Mr. Peter Parrie
Director of Information Systems and Technology
(504)527-6012x602; paul.parrie@nationalww2museum.org

Project Title: "Bringing Oral Histories to Life - Unlocking the Power of the Spoken Word"
The National World War II Museum will partner with National History Day to design and implement a methodology to enable video oral histories to be accessed and explored in innovative ways. Content will be made available to a wider audience, which will have the ability to participate in describing and referencing oral histories in a manner not currently possible. This project will develop methods of digitizing, indexing, and segmenting oral histories that can be used by other institutions to perform the same activities with their own holdings.

Massachusetts

Museum of Science, Boston - Boston, MA
Award Amount: $100,000; Matching Amount:$0
Grant Category: Research

Contact: Christine Reich
Manager of Research and Evaluation
(617)589-0302; creich@mos.org

Project Title: "Taking action toward inclusion: Studying institutions that include people with disabilities in museum learning"
The purpose of this proposed research study is to generate for the museum field an enhanced understanding of the institutional conditions that prevent museum professionals from taking action to include people with disabilities in museum learning. This study will describe the range of actions taken, or not taken, toward inclusion at six museums of a diverse range of disciplines and sizes. It will generate new understandings institutional leaders and professional development organizations can use to take action to change institutional conditions, cultures, and practices so that museum professionals are better able to create museum learning experiences that are welcoming and inclusive of people with disabilities.

WGBH Educational Foundation - Boston, MA
Award Amount: $487,681; Matching Amount: $487,686
Grant Category: Advancing Digital Resources

Contact: Ms. Karen Cariani
Director, WGBH Media Library & Archives
(617)300-4286; karen_cariani@wgbh.org

Project Title: "The Boston TV News Digital Library: 1960-2000"
The WGBH Media Library and Archives, in collaboration with Northeast Historic Film, Cambridge Community Television, and the Boston Public Library, will develop the Boston TV News Digital Library: 1960–2000, the first online resource offering a city’s commercial, noncommercial, and community cable TV news heritage to educators and the public. The purpose of the collaboration is to use, test, and demonstrate open source tools to assist custodians of similar resources, while creating an online library offering 40 years of urban moving image materials, resulting in approximately 70,000 news records. The project will establish a new collaborative model for community institutions committed to collection stewardship; combine all known Boston heritage television collections to develop a comprehensive digital library in a powerful open source repository with a dynamic front end; preserve and make accessible unique digital assets with comprehensible rights and relevant descriptive metadata; research and create essential rights modules for clarifying legal issues relating to local TV news collections; provide curricular context for study of urban history using primary source materials in classrooms and at community institutions; and devise an outreach strategy to raise awareness of the individual collections and the new digital library to support sustainability.

Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Murray Research Archive, Harvard College -
Award Amount: $823,016; Matching Amount: $825,380
Grant Category: Advancing Digital Resources

Contact: Dr. Gary King
David Florence Professor of Government
(617)495-2027; king@harvard.edu

Project Title: "A Policy Based Archival Replication System for Libraries, Archives, and Museums using a Virtual Private LOCKSS"
Working with the Odum Institute for Research (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), the Roper Center for Public Opinion (University of Connecticut), and the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (University of Michigan), Harvard will develop and distribute a production-ready open source tool for verified distributed replication of digital collection data, based on an existing prototype. The tool will allow any library, museum, or archive to audit replication of its content across an existing LOCKSS network and will allow groups of collaborating institutions to automatically and verifiably replicate each others’ content. Project partners will develop the prototype tool into a self-contained system that can be installed, used and maintained by institutional staff with limited technical expertise. The result will be a set of widely dissemination open source (OSI licensed) tools that can be used easily by libraries, museums, and archives. The system will provide a technically and organizationally feasible way to ensure that replicated collections are both institutionally and geographically distributed and allow for the development of increasingly measurable and auditable trusted repository requirements. Project results will enable libraries, museums, and archives to safeguard digital content against most common threats by enabling them to establish compliance with emerging trusted repository standards.

Wheaton College - Norton, MA
Award Amount: $86,770; Matching Amount: $53,678
Grant Category: Planning Grants

Contact: Mr. Scott Hamlin
Director of Technology, Research & Instruction
(508)286-3767; hamlin_scott@wheatoncollege.edu

Project Title: "Publishing TEI Documents for Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Planning a Service, Building a Community"
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has become the main vehicle for transcribing and encoding primary source and archival texts. TEI is the ideal standard for preserving archival documents, representing them digitally for teaching, learning, and research, as well as making them available to scholars. The long-term goal of this planning project is to identify and develop an implementation plan to allow scholars and archivists from a wide array of liberal arts schools to store and display their TEI-enhanced digitized texts. Project participants will conduct a survey of smaller colleges to identify peers who work with TEI and would benefit from joining in a community investment in the collection tool. Grant participants will explore the variety of tools that are available and determine which one is best suited for the task. The primary audience for this service will be faculty at smaller liberal arts colleges and their supporting libraries and information technology services units.

Michigan

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
Award Amount: $247,262; Matching Amount: $247,262
Grant Category: Advancing Digital Resources

Contact: Dr. George Alter
Research Professor
(734)615-7652; altergc@umich.edu

Project Title: "Rescuing and Archiving Social Science Data"
Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the world’s largest social science data archive, will work with members of the institutional repositories (IR) community to preserve and reuse legacy social science data. Over the last 50 years, improvement in data processing technology has resulted in increased amounts, formats, and complexities of research data on a variety of social, economic, and political subjects. Through its participation in the Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/datapass/datapass.html), funded through the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program, ICPSR has discovered hundreds of social science data sets that are in danger of being lost forever and that could be reanalyzed with current techniques. The project will salvage many important legacy studies and their supporting data sets by converting them to new formats and will at the same time develop tools and workflows to improve the archiving of current data. The project intends to develop robust partnerships with the IR community, establish preservation best practices for archiving social science datasets, and identify and design archiving support services with specialized data archiving and dissemination tasks.

Michigan State University, MATRIX, Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online
Award Amount: $319,284; Matching Amount: $333,063
Grant Category: Library and Museum Collaboration

Contact: Mr. Dean Rehberger
Associate Professor
(517)355-9300; rehberger@mail.matrix.msu.edu

Project Title: "Oral History in the Digital Age"
New technologies offer great potential for advancing the practice of oral history. However, they also introduce new questions and issues. Michigan State University, through the MATRIX Center and the Michigan State University Museum, will partner with the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center, the American Folklore Society, and the Oral History Association to recommend standards and best practices for digital oral history. Seven multidisciplinary working groups recruited from experts and practitioners from museums, libraries, and scholarly societies will work online, at meetings such as national conferences, and in a symposium at the Library of Congress to produce recommendations around core topics including intellectual property, transcriptions, digital video, technology, scholarship, preservation, and access. Final recommendations from all groups will be published as a guide to conducting digital oral history.

Minnesota

Minnesota Children's Museum - Saint Paul, MN
Award Amount: $50,000; Matching Amount: $24,391
Grant Category: Planning Grants

Contact: Ms. Jill Measells
VP of Learning Experiences
(651)225-6018; jmeasells@mcm.org

Project Title: "Supporting Early Literacy Learning: A Model Partnership between Children's Museum and Public Libraries"
The Minnesota Children’s Museum, in partnership with the Dakota County Library System, Hennepin County Library System, Saint Paul Public Library System, and other partners in the region, will develop and test an innovative early literacy program. Project partners will work closely with nationally recognized experts in early literacy and with local teachers and educational system administrators to ensure that the program is relevant and useful for those communities. The project will explore new ways that libraries and museums can bring their unique expertise together for new collaborations.

Missouri

Saint Louis Zoo - Saint Louis, MO
Award Amount: $48,977; Matching Amount: $11,200
Grant Category: Planning Grants

Contact: Cheryl Asa
Director of Research
(314)646-4523; asa@stlzoo.org

Project Title: "Assessment of the feasibility of incorporating mate choice in AZA managed breeding programs to improve"
Extensive results from scientific studies demonstrate that mate choice is an integral, if not central, feature of most breeding systems in nature, but this method is often not employed in zoos. Partnering with the Chicago Zoological Society and the Global Conservation Network, the Saint Louis Zoo will convene three workshops to bring together scientists studying the various aspects of mate choice, especially those involving genetic selection, with Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) breeding program leaders to carefully consider potential effects of mate choice on AZA-managed breeding programs and identify model species for research and analysis.

Washington University Libraries - Saint Louis, MO
Award Amount: $376,426; Matching Amount: $386,396
Grant Category: Advancing Digital Resources

Contact: Andrew Rouner
Digital Library Director
(314)935-4022; arouner@wustl.edu

Project Title: "The St. Louis Freedom Suits Legal Encoding Project"
The Washington University Libraries, in partnership with the Missouri History Museum and other contributors within and outside Washington University, will digitize, transcribe, and encode the St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project and supplementary materials. Additionally, they will develop extensions to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for encoding legal documents to reflect legal function, genres, and roles, and employ these extensions in this collection. The resulting extensions and guidelines serve as the basis for a new standard for encoding legal documents, and will receive further development as part of the TEI. The cases in the St. Louis Circuit Court Historic Records Project, especially the suits enslaved persons brought against their tacit “owners,” are important historical documents. The remediation and expansion of the collection will make these documents significantly more accessible to a wider range of audiences. Creating a full-text searchable collection of these documents and enhancing their use will provide new means of understanding the roles of slaves, lawyers, abolitionists, the state of Missouri, and others involved in these cases. The project will not only make these materials available for historical research but will also contribute to the development of new standards for the larger digital library community.

New Jersey

New Jersey Academy for Aquatic Sciences - Camden, NJ
Award Amount: $877,090; Matching Amount: $877,190
Grant Category: Demonstration

Contact: Ms. Angela Wenger
(856)361-1011; awenger@njaas.org

Project Title: "Communities of Learning for Urban Environmental Science - CLUES"
The Communities of Learning for Urban Environmental Science (CLUES) program will build on an existing partnership among four Philadelphia-area museums: the New Jersey Academy for Aquatic Sciences, the Academy of Natural Sciences, the Franklin Institute Science Museum, the Philadelphia Zoo. Eight community-based organizations will also be brought into the project. The CLUES program will create a national model for a museum/community partnership to address cultural inclusion and environmental impact. CLUES will address the need for comprehensive hands-on museum experiences that will explain and interpret information about global climate change. Underserved families will be brought into the discussion of this pressing global issue and empowered to contribute to proposed adaptations and solutions.

New York

Educational Broadcasting Corporation,Thirteen/WNET, Reference Library - New York, NY
Award Amount: $907,352; Matching Amount: $920,291
Grant Category: Advancing Digital Resources

Contact: Ms. Nan Rubin
Special Projects, Technology Planning
(212)560-2925; rubinn@thirteen.org

Project Title: "REFINING A DIGITAL PRODUCTION WORKFLOW IN PUBLIC TELEVISION TO AGGREGATE VIDEO ASSETS FOR EDUCATIONAL USE"
Educational Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) is taking the next step toward refining the digital workflow for its television productions. Creating a set of Media Asset Management (MAM)-based tools will allow multiple groups of users to package digital video content easily for distribution over multiple nonbroadcast channels. EBC's ongoing preliminary efforts to create a fully digital workflow put the organization in a position to take the logical next steps toward integrating a number of related, but often uncoordinated, trends in digital preservation and archiving across the public media landscape. Digital audiovisual material is often harder to store, access, and preserve than analogue video tape and film. This project will make EBC digital content more widely available for cross-platform use, lead the way for public broadcast organizations to adopt system-wide technical standards and metadata schema, and support 21st century skills by making important broadcast material available for classroom use. This project will support and inform national efforts in the area of preserving digital moving images.

Children's Museum of Manhattan - New York, NY
Award Amount: $828,143; Matching Amount: $828,952
Grant Category: Demonstration

Contact: Ms. Leslie Bushara
Deputy Director for Education
(212)721-1223; lbushara@cmom.org

Project Title: "National Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Program"
The Children’s Museum of Manhattan will use its grant to increase the capacity of museums to provide community-wide leadership in the fight against childhood obesity by designing, assessing, and disseminating the National Institutes of Health’s We Can! curriculum for children under age eight and their parents. The museum is partnering with the Association of Children’s Museums to undertake this three-year Early Childhood Obesity Prevention project. Research will examine the potential benefits of expanding the We Can! program to include children aged eight and younger.

American Museum of Natural History - New York, NY
Award Amount: $677,993; Matching Amount: $680,996
Grant Category: Demonstration

Contact: Dr. James Short
Director, Gottesman Center
(212)769-5139; jshort@amnh.org

Project Title: "Partnering for Results with Urban Advantage: Creating New Capacities in Museum Professional Development for the 21st Century"
The American Museum of Natural History , in partnership with the New York Hall of Science, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Wildlife Conservation Society/Bronx Zoo, will build and support sustained professional development collaborations between museums and school districts. Through Urban Advantage, a network of museum and school district partnerships focused on improving middle school science education, the project will challenge museum and school district professional development providers to co-design and implement programs aligned with school and museum-based student learning outcomes and assessment measures. Products will include a leadership institute, technical assistance and tools, and national dissemination. The project will generate a new capacity in museum education that transforms professional programs and practices.

Queens Museum of Art - New York, NY
Award Amount: $433,596; Matching Amount: $433,596
Grant Category: Library and Museum Collaboration

Contact: Ms. Lauren Schloss
Education Director
(718)592-9700x131; lschloss@queensmuseum.org

Project Title: "Inviting Institutions: A Collaborative Approach to Family Programming for Audiences with Special Needs"
The Queens Museum of Art, in partnership with the Queens Library and Quality Services for the Autistic Community, will develop and implement a model community-based art therapy program for Spanish- speaking families of children with autism spectrum disorders. These non-English-speaking families face multiple challenges in trying to access library and museum services. The Queens Museum of Art and the Queens Library will reach out together and make their institutions more inviting to such families. Project activities include coordinated staff training on serving this underserved segment of the community, building the Queens Library’s Spanish-language collections on special needs subjects, and events to help these families connect. Over the three-year grant period, the project will produce 25 scheduled activities for families of children with autism spectrum disorders as well as two exhibitions of artwork by students with the disorders.

New York Hall of Science - Queens, NY
Award Amount: $75,205; Matching Amount: $32,552
Grant Category: Planning Grants

Contact: Ms. Preeti Gupta
Senior VP, Education and Public Programs
(718)699-0005x349; pgupta@nyscience.org

Project Title: "Role of Youth Staff in Museum Interactive Learning Experiences (RYSMILE)"
This planning grant partners the New York Hall of Science with the Institute for Learning Innovation to design a multi-institutional research study that will investigate how interactions with youth floor staff contribute to the visitor experience. This research will include informal learning institutions and impact science centers, botanical gardens, zoos, natural history, and art museums that have a youth floor staff program or are planning to implement a similar program in their institutions. The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University and the Rubin Museum of Art in Florida are also partners in this project.

Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology - Rochester, NY
Award Amount: $580,174; Matching Amount: $291,019
Grant Category: Research

Contact: Mr. James Reilly
Director of Image Permanence Inst & Professor
(585)475-2306; jmrpph@rit.edu

Project Title: "Research on Energy Saving Opportunities in Libraries"
Many libraries maintain tightly controlled, energy-intensive environments for their stacks, special collection, and exhibition spaces. For budgetary reasons and because of concern over global climate change, libraries are searching for ways to lower energy consumption responsibly and safely. This project will investigate a promising method for libraries to achieve significant reductions in energy use without compromising the preservation quality of collection environments through a carefully monitored and risk-managed shutdown of air handling units (AHUs) during unoccupied hours. Five partner libraries will help determine through actual experiment and documentation whether it is feasible to save energy in this manner. During the final phase of the project, the team will create a free publication that documents project methodology, results, and suggestions for overcoming potential barriers to implementation. It will also provide actual costs of operation for special environments and recommended best practices for controlled, risk-managed AHU shutdowns. The team will also design a Web-based resource to help libraries maintain the best possible climate for preservation with the least consumption of energy.

Nassau County Museum of Art - Roslyn Harbor, NY
Award Amount: $82,453; Matching Amount: $66,191
Grant Category: Planning Grants

Contact: Ms. Patricia Lannes
Co-Director of Education
(516)484-9338x24; patricialannes@nassaumuseum.com

Project Title: "CALTA (Culture and Literacy through Art)"
The Nassau County Museum of Art will partner with Queensborough Community College to build on a long-standing partnership to plan an innovative, multigenerational visual literacy program, using visual art as a catalyst for literacy and critical thinking in adult English Language Learners (ELLs). While this project will focus on an art museum and adult ELLs, a key objective is to establish a model that may be broadly adapted to diverse institutions and audiences.

North Carolina

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Information and Library Science - Chapel Hill, NC
Award Amount: $492,463; Matching Amount: $83,512
Grant Category: Research

Contact: Dr. Richard Marciano
Professor
(858)534-8345; richard_marciano@unc.edu

Project Title: "Policy-Driven Repository Interoperability (PoDRI)"
The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and the DuraSpace organization (formerly DSpace and the Fedora Commons) are partnering on the Policy-Driven Repository Interoperability (PoDRI) project. The principal focus of PoDRI is to investigate the feasibility of interoperability mechanisms between repositories at the policy level. There is a growing trend toward cross-repository integration, driven by the need for scalable, open, and distributed environments, in which content can be leveraged in a variety of storage spaces. The research project focuses on the integration of an object model and a policy-aware distributed data model with Fedora and iRODS as representative open source software for each model. Project partners, including UNC’s Data Intensive Cyber Environments Center comprise the key architects and developers of Fedora and the iRODS data grid middleware as well as the design and development team of the Carolina Digital Repository, UNC Libraries’ institutional repository, which is based on an integrated Fedora/iRODS infrastructure. The findings and validation work of this project will benefit the library, archival, and museum communities through identification of cross-repository patterns for interoperability.

Ohio

Ohio Historical Society - Columbus, OH
Award Amount: $49,964; Matching Amount: $25,263
Grant Category: Planning Grants

Contact: Ms. Louise Jones
Research Services Manager
(614)297-2524; ljones@ohiohistory.org

Project Title: "Building Connections: A Collaborative Planning Project"
Graduate schools of library and information science education need appropriate sites for their students to gain skills through experiential learning opportunities such as internships. Historical societies, museums, archives, and other repositories need properly trained staff with the right knowledge and perspectives to help process and manage their collections. The Ohio Historical Society, in a planning grant partnership with the Kent State University School of Library and Information Science, the Ohio Humanities Council, and the Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums, will develop a sustainable and replicable model for cultural heritage organizations and schools of library and information science to address these two widespread needs. This project will solidify and formalize connections between partners and create unique learning opportunities emphasizing the commonalities between skill sets needed for staff in different types of cultural organizations.

Online Computer Library Center/WebJunction - Dublin, OH
Award Amount: $80,537; Matching Amount: $34,720
Grant Category: Planning Grants

Contact: Mr. Clayton Wood
Executive Director
(206)336-9204; woodc@oclc.org

Project Title: "Online Patron Instruction in Public Libraries"
WebJunction is partnering with the San Francisco Public Library to develop a plan for the creation of online patron instruction in public libraries. Libraries are now a part of the critical infrastructure required to fuel individual, community, and national economic development. Patrons depend on their libraries for life-altering, transformational services. Library organizations must therefore identify, understand, and prioritize patron needs and create and deliver services cost-effectively. This project will conduct preliminary research on the state of the library industry for patron instruction; assess needs of both patrons and library staff; pilot a small set of patron-facing online programming in San Francisco Public Libraries; and produce a final evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiencies of the online programs and of the resulting behavioral changes in both patrons and library staff. In addition, it will explore libraries’ potential to leverage more efficient Web-based patron instruction in content areas of high need, in terms of both cost savings for the library and transformational impact on its intended patrons.

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Museum of Art - Philadelphia, PA
Award Amount: $239,650; Matching Amount: $179,375
Grant Category: Advancing Digital Resources

Contact: Ms. Beth Price
Senior Scientist
(215)684-7552; bprice@philamuseum.org

Project Title: "Raman Revealed: A Shared Internet Resource for the Cultural Heritage Community"
The Philadelphia Museum of Art will create the first publicly accessible, comprehensive online Raman spectroscopic database of cultural heritage materials in partnership with the Infrared and Raman Users Group. Raman spectroscopy has become recognized as a powerful analytical tool for the scientific identification of cultural heritage materials, but its utility in the museum field is limited by the lack of readily available, high-quality reference data on known substances. This project will create a fundamental resource for generations of scientists and conservation professionals.

Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh, PA
Award Amount: $100,000; Matching Amount:$0
Grant Category: Planning Grants

Contact: Dr. Karen Knutson
Associate Director, UPCLOSE
(412)624-7047; knutson@pitt.edu

Project Title: "Improving Outcomes in Art Museums: Supporting Family Learning on the Gallery Floor"
The University of Pittsburgh will use its grant to explore questions such as: What do families learn about art, culture, and history by visiting art museums? How can art museums design in-gallery mediation to support more powerful forms of visitor learning? What are the learning opportunities presented by different kinds of art museums? This project is a research and design collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh Center for Learning in Out-of-School Environments (UPCLOSE) and four Pittsburgh museums.

Pennsylvania State University, University Libraries - University Park, PA
Award Amount: $82,702; Matching Amount: $42,395
Grant Category: Planning Grants

Contact: Mr. Mike Furlough
Asst. Dean of Scholarly Communications
(814)863-5447; mjf25@psu.edu

Project Title: "The Pennsylvania Home Front in the Civil War"
The Penn State University Libraries and the Penn State George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, in partnership with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, the State Library of Pennsylvania, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, will lay the groundwork for a multiyear library-archive-scholar collaboration to digitize primary source materials held in Pennsylvania archives and special collections. The one-year planning grant will identify and assess materials of potential value to advance research into the Northern home front during the Civil War. It will also develop an agenda for improving access through description, digitization, preservation, and perhaps publication. The partners will model how scholars, librarians, and archivists can work together to promote a new scholarship and improve access to a wide range of archival collections.

Tennessee

University of Tennessee, Center for Information Studies - Knoxville, TN
Award Amount: $1,000,000; Matching Amount: $219,702
Grant Category: Research

Contact: Dr. Carol Tenopir
Professor, SIS and Interim Director, CIS
(865)974-7911; ctenopir@utk.edu

Project Title: "Value, Outcomes, and Return on Investment of Academic Libraries ("Lib-Value")"
Lib-Value addresses academic librarians’ growing need to demonstrate the return on investment (ROI) and value of the library to the institution and will help guide library management in the redirection of library funds to important products and services for the future. To remain relevant and central to the academic mission, academic librarians need to demonstrate the value that the academic library provides to the campus community and need to use proven methods of measurement to determine where their efforts should be concentrated and how funding should be allocated. Lib-Value will provide evidence and a set of tested methodologies and tools to assist academic librarians in these areas.

Memphis Zoo - Memphis, TN
Award Amount: $418,858; Matching Amount: $193,403
Grant Category: Research

Contact: Dr. Andrew Kouba
Director of Conservation Research
(901)333-6720; akouba@memphiszoo.org

Project Title: "Development of Assisted Reproductive Technologies for the Conservation of Endangered North American Amphibians"
The Memphis Zoo will use its grant to conduct research on the conservation of endangered amphibians that are suffering from low reproductive output and declining genetic diversity. These amphibians face imminent extinction without the rapid development of assisted breeding technologies to secure captive assurance colonies. The specific objectives of this study are to develop, apply, and test novel techniques to increase the reproductive output of the targeted endangered amphibian species by developing innovative hormone regimens for fertilization. The Memphis Zoo is partnering with Mississippi State University in their research.

Texas

University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College - Brownsville, TX
Award Amount: $99,276; Matching Amount: $0
Grant Category: Planning Grants

Contact: Mr. John Hawthorne
Manager, Special Collections Archivist
(956)882-7103; john.hawthorne@utb.edu

Project Title: "Planning for the Development of a Border Studies Resource Center"
The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College (UTB/TSC), working with the Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, will develop a plan to create a Border Studies Resource Center (BSRC) to serve institutions of higher education and others on both sides of the U.S.–Mexican border. It will also plan for the development of a digital repository of border studies-related research and resources. Workshops in San Diego, California; Phoenix, Arizona; and El Paso and Brownsville, Texas, will convene border scholars and librarians from the United States and Mexico to invite recommendations from potential partners and users of the Center and to identify content for the digital repository. The project’s goal is to create a consortium of colleges and universities in the two countries as partners in the BSRC.

University of North Texas Libraries - Denton, TX
Award Amount: $631,720; Matching Amount: $317,001
Grant Category: Research

Contact: Ms. Cathy Hartman
Assistant Dean, Digital and Information Technology
(940)565-3269; cathy.hartman@unt.edu

Project Title: "Classification of Government Websites in the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Depository Libraries' Collection Development Practices"
As the Web becomes the dissemination tool of choice for many information producers, many libraries will be collecting materials from this important yet unpreserved information source. Librarians need the capability to identify and select materials in accordance with their established collection development policies, and they also need common metrics to characterize these resources. Organizing the content in Web archives using established schemes is a promising solution to enable the extension of collection development practices to this new class of materials. The development of common metrics will also enable librarians to communicate the scope and value of these materials in the context of their current collections and collecting priorities. In this project, the University of North Texas is partnering with the Internet Archive to investigate these two needs in the area of government information. Government information is represented in many library collections and has a well-established classification scheme, the Superintendent of Documents (SuDocs) Classification Numbering System. The project will classify, in accord with the SuDocs system, the materials in the 2008–2009 End-of-Term (EOT) Web, collected by the University of North Texas, which represents the entirety of the federal government’s public Web presence immediately before and after the 2009 change in presidential administrations. This will demonstrate a process by which government resources can be aligned with an individual library’s collecting priorities and also shared among other institutions utilizing the SuDocs system. The project will also identify metrics to translate measurable units for selected materials in Web archives to units more familiar to libraries and more recognizable by university administrators.

Utah

Brigham Young University Museum of Art - Provo, UT
Award Amount: $800,000; Matching Amount: $920,652
Grant Category: Demonstration

Contact: Dr. Campbell Gray
Director
(801)422-8257; campbell_gray@byu.edu

Project Title: “Islamic Arts Exhibition and Outreach”
This award will fund the development and implementation of a major exhibit on the arts of Islam at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art, including public programs, outreach, and evaluation. Islamic artworks from 14 major world museums will be shown, and consist of calligraphy, paintings, ceramics, carpets, textiles, metalwork, jewelry, and architectural elements. The public outreach for the exhibit will include a digital media program and symposium.

Washington

King County Library System - Issaquah, WA
Award Amount: $998,556; Matching Amount: $1,014,400
Grant Category: Demonstration

Contact: Mr. Jed Moffitt
Director of Information Technology Services
(425)369-3433; jmoffitt@kcls.org

Project Title: "Empowered by Open Source"
The Open Source Library System (OSLS) and the open source model provide an alternative to the current proprietary integrated library system (ILS) software business model used by most public libraries. An OSLS empowers libraries to actively engage in the design and optimization of their own system software. The OSLS business model spreads the development work across a wide range of contributors, extends the potential pool of service providers, and empowers libraries to optimize service to their customers. King County Library System (KCLS), a nationally recognized leader in public library service and technology, will partner with Peninsula Library System (San Mateo, California), Orange County Library System (Orlando, Florida), and Ann Arbor (Michigan) District Library to create and develop the critical infrastructure components that have traditionally been provided by ILS vendors and will establish a peer-to-peer support model for open source libraries. The project will stimulate a growing community of libraries moving to an OSLS that will benefit from and contribute to software applications as well as the support infrastructure.

University of Washington - Seattle, WA
Award Amount: $92,744; Matching Amount: $57,482
Grant Category: Planning Grants

Contact: Dr. Eliza Dresang
Professor for Children and Youth Services
(206)402-4813; edresang@u.washington.edu

Project Title: "Project VIEWS: Valuable Initiatives in Early Learning that Work Successfully"
The purpose of Project VIEWS is to extend the local model of successful early learning services and partnerships in Washington State’s public libraries into an exemplary, evaluated model that could be utilized nationally to support children’s success in school through public library leadership. The University of Washington Information School is collaborating with the Florida State University College of Information; the Washington Early Learning Public Library Partnership of 21 urban, suburban, and rural library systems; and the Washington Foundation for Early Learning, a nonprofit organization supporting early childhood development. Other supporters include the Washington State Library and Early Learning Department, the Public Library Association, and the Association for Library Service to Children. This planning project will increase knowledge of areas in which the early learning initiatives can expand, increase appreciation of stakeholders for collaborative contributions to early literacy, and disseminate a White Paper that documents needed early learning research. The final product will be a plan for expanding existing Washington programs into a national replicable model. The target audiences include public library directors and librarians and their colleagues in partnering organizations.