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Faculty Grants for Digital Library CollectionsIn 2004 the Library launched its Faculty Grants for Digital Library Collections program with the twofold goal of supporting teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences and adding to the Library’s digital holdings. Now, in its second year, nine grants were recently awarded, totaling $200,000, to fifteen faculty members from the colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Architecture, Art and Planning; Arts and Sciences; and Engineering. Awards range from $5,000 to $36,000 and will be made in the form of digital collection development services and systems coordinated by Digital Consulting and Production Services (DCAPS). We received forty-five inquiries from seventy-seven faculty members as a result of our promotional campaign, which launched in January and included a postcard and e-mail to all faculty in the humanities and social sciences and an article in the Cornell Chronicle. During February and March, DCAPS and Library staff from various units collaborated with faculty to investigate the feasibility of projects and to create technical implementation plans and estimated budget sections of the proposal application. About ten potential applicants determined that their projects required additional research for refinement and decided to work with DCAPS over the coming year and apply in the future. For the April 8 deadline we received twenty-six proposals representing thirty-three faculty members from twenty-two departments, requesting a total of $760,000 in funding. In late April the review group chaired by Sarah Thomas and comprising faculty and librarians evaluated the proposals and selected nine projects. The digital collections created through the grants program will become a part of Cornell’s digital library and made available to scholars and students to discover and use via open access Web-delivery platforms. This year, funding to support the faculty grants program has been provided by alumnus and CUL Advisory Council member Arthur Penn ’56. DCAPS is currently in the workflow-planning stage for the new projects, scheduled for completion by May 2006. Concurrently, 2004 projects have been under way since September 2004, and, as of May 1, more than 4,000 slides, 10,000 monograph pages, and 7,000 newspaper pages have been captured as digital images. Multiple projects will be completed by early summer; individual announcements will be made on the Library Gateway. More information about the grants program is available at its Web site. Please e-mail DCAPSif you have questions or comments. Institute for Resource Information Systems,
Landscape Architecture, City and Regional
Planning, Crop and Soil Sciences Romance Studies “The History of the Left in the Twentieth Century”—covers mostly textual data: out-of-print or hard-to-find journals, pamphlets, and books from left-wing intellectual, artistic, political, and literary circles. Journals include Los Libros (Argentina) and La Cultura en Mexico. Primarily text digitization and portal development History KMODDL—monographs focusing on critical historiography of science and technology. Digitize a selection of books and short texts on the history and theory of machines to support “mechanical” scholarship in the humanities. Text digitization and integration into existing KMODDL site. East Asia Program Philosophy Paper archives of the annual Rockefeller/NVR new media art fellowship competition—digitize approximately 100 folders of application and dossier materials. Text and image digitization and portal development. Southeast Asia Program Publications—digitize SEAP back-catalog Data Papers series for open access. Established in 1950 and numbers approximately 120 titles. Text digitization and DLXS delivery platform. History  Albany Commissioners of Indian Affairs, 1723-1755—a body of primary materials
detailing relations between the Six Iroquois Nations and the Anglo-American colonies
(principally New York). Digitize the microfilmed copy held at the National Archives
of Canada Microfilm. Digitization of manuscripts with transcriptions.
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New York State Aerial Photographs—expand,
enhance, and encourage the use of historic aerial photographic data by provision
of electronic imagery accessible through a Web server. A rudimentary, prototype
Web interface has been created with the intention of allowing users to view
and download multi-year imagery for their area of interest, as well as a management
system for storing, retrieving, and archiving the data. Currently contains
600 historic aerial photographs in a pilot for Tompkins County. Digitize additional
2,500 photos and enhance delivery platform from existing prototype. 
Bruno Bosteels 
East-Central Europe Primary Sources. At the core of the project is a collection
of unique primary sources on the Polish Solidarity movement owned by CUL—a
rich collection of samizdat (self-published) publications from Wroclaw. Primarily
text digitization and DSPACE integration of materials. 
German Studies, Mechanical Engineering 
Cornell East Asia Book Series—digitize twenty discontinued monograph
titles. Mostly scholarly monographs, they cover a broad range of topics, forming
historical and literary translations to modern economic analysis. Text digitization
and DLXS delivery platform. 
Medieval Philosophy and Theology—digitize ten years of back issues
and set up as open access via DPubS. Text digitization and DPubS delivery platform
for open-access journals. 
Comparative Literature and English 
Art History, History, Asian Studies