Grants Received in 2011

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Thanks to the following granting agencies for their generous support of our digital projects:

Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
An IMLS National Leadership Grant for Advancing Digital Resources. For this project, the UNT Libraries, together with the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, the Educopia Institute/MetaArchive Cooperative, and the libraries of Virginia Tech, Rice University, Boston College, Indiana State University, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Arizona will develop and share a toolkit of guidelines, educational materials, and a set of software tools for life-cycle data management and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).

National Endowment for the Humanities
A We the People grant to the UNT Libraries for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), “Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.” The Library of Congress serves as the technical advisor for the NDNP. The award funds digitization of Texas historical newspapers, and for the grant UNT serves as lead institution with our partners at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas.

National Endowment for the Humanities
A We the People grant to the Oklahoma Historical Society and the UNT Libraries for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), “Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.” The award funds digitization of Oklahoma historical newspapers, and for the grant UNT serves as technical advisor for its partners at the Oklahoma Historical Society.

Summerlee Foundation
Grant to the UNT Libraries and the UNT History Department for “Digital Austin Papers.”

Texas State Library and Archives Commission
The UNT Libraries and the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at UT Austin have received a TexTreasures grant for “Early Texas Newspapers III,” a grant to digitize and provide free public access to the earliest Texas newspapers held by the Center for American History. See the collection Early Texas Newspapers.

Tocker Foundation
Grants to digitize historical newspaper issues: