List of Grants Received

Grants Awarded & Submitted - (1998-1999)

Grants Awarded, July 1, 1998-June 30, 1999

Susan Barnes, Veterinary Medicine Library. New York State Coordinated Collection Development Aid Program. South Central Research Library Council. $5,052. July 1, 1998-June 30, 1999.

David Block, Olin Library. New York State Coordinated Collection Development Aid Program. South Central Research Library Council. $18,518. July 1, 1998-June 30, 1999.

Katherine Chiang, Mann Library. Agmaps: A Site for Interactive Mapping of Agricultural and Environmental Data. College of Agriculture & Life Sciences. $13,060.

Phillip Dankert, Industrial and Labor Relations Library. New York State Coordinated Collection Development Aid Program. South Central Research Library Council. $5,769. July 1, 1998-June 30, 1999.

John Dean, Department of Preservation and Conservation. Cornell Anti-Slavery Pamphlet Collection. U.S. Department of the Interior. $330,000.

John Dean, Department of Preservation and Conservation. Conducting Series of Workshops on Basic Conservation and Preservation Techniques. South Central Research Library Council. $7,765. July 1, 1998-June 30, 1999

John Dean, Department of Preservation and Conservation. Needs Assessment and Development of a Preservation Plan at the Sino-Nom Institute, Hanoi. Harvard Yenching Institute. $11,575. July 1, 1998-June 30, 1999.

John Dean, Department of Preservation and Conservation. Library Preservation Intern From Burma. Open Society Institute. $15,200. January 1, 1999-June 30, 1999.

Elaine Engst, Division of Rare and Manuscripts Collections. Samuel May Anti-Slavery Collection: Proposal for Retrospective Conversion of Catalog Records at Cornell University Library. South Central Regional Library Council. $20,651. July 1, 1998-December 31, 1998.

Elaine Engst, Division of Rare and Manuscripts Collections. Migrant Agricultural Workers in New York State: A Documentary Survey. New York State Documentary Heritage Program. $9,963. July 1, 1998-June 30, 1999.

H. Thomas Hickerson, Division of Digital Library and Information Technologies. Making of America II: The Guilded Age. National Endowment for the Humanities [subcontract with the University of California, Berkeley. $10,000. July 1, 1998-June 30, 1999.

Anne Kenney, Department of Preservation and Conservation. Design, Plan, and Implement a Digital Archiving Program for Digital Image Collection. Institute of Museum and Library Services. $200,000. December 31, 1998-June 29, 2000.

Anne Kenney, Department of Preservation and Conservation. Workshops on Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. National Endowment for the Humanities. $223,697. May 1, 1999-December 31, 2001.

Anne Kenney, Department of Preservation and Conservation. Preserving Cornell's Digital Collections: Implementing an Archiving Strategy. Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation. $144,696 worth of equipment.

Fred Kotas, Wason Collection. Book Acquisitions. Japan Foundation. $16,000.

Janet McCue, Mann Library. New York State Coordinated Collection Development Aid Program. South Central Research Library Council. $6,134. July 1, 1998-June 30, 1999

Janet McCue, Mann Library. Dissemination and Preservation of Digital Agricultural Economic Data on the Internet. U.S. Department of Agriculture. $35,000. October 1, 1998-September 30, 1999. [Extension of existing agreement.]

Linda Stewart, Mann Library. Preserving the Heritage of the New York/Northeast Agriculture Natural History and Natural Resources. New York State Library, Division of Library Development. $161,156. July 1, 1998-June 30, 1999.

Sarah Thomas. Connect Cornell University's Making of America Collection of 19th Century Journal Literature with the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program. Library of Congress. $75,000.

Sarah Thomas. Project Euclid -- Electronic Publications Cluster in Mathematics. Mellon Foundation. $27,000. March 1, 1999-August 1, 1999.

Sarah Thomas. Security and Reliability in Component-based Digital Libraries. National Science Foundation. $750,000. February 1, 1999-January 31, 2003.

Total received: $2,086,236

Grant Proposals Submitted, July 1, 1998-June 30, 1999

Barbara Berger, Department of Preservation and Conservation. The Witchcraft Collection: A Project to Preserve and Enhance Access at Cornell University. National Endowment for the Humanities. $522,353.

John Dean, Department of Preservation and Conservation. State Aid 1999/2000, New York State Library. $126,000.

Hana Dedina, Central Technical Services. Conversion of LC Class PQ Shelflist Records in the John M. Olin Library, Cornell University. South Central Regional Library Council. $50,000.

Zsuzsa Koltay, Mann Library. Program to Develop the Information Retrieval Abilities of Extension Educators. U.S. Department of Agriculture. $35,077.

Janet McCue, Mann Library. Roots of Our Future: Preserving Yesterday’s Discoveries for Tomorrow’s Sustainable Practices. Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. $200,000.

Wallace Olsen, Mann Library. Preserving the History of the United States Agriculture and Rural Life, 1820 to 1945: State and Local Literature -- Phase III. National Endowment for the Humanities. $978,356.

Wallace Olsen, Mann Library. Improving Access to Archival Records of U.S. Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Life. National Endowment for the Humanities. $425,250.

Marty Schlabach, Mann Library. Library Information Access and Collaboration through Mobile Computing. College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. $27,000.

Total requested: $2,364,036