Princeton University Library's proposal is for a two-year project to digitize and publish in its open-access digital library a selection of Persian language periodicals, covering the tumultuous stages of the intellectual, political and social history of Iran and the Iranian press, from the Qajar dynasty at mid-19th century, leading up to the 1979 revolution. The collection is held in its entirety by the Library's Near East Collections, and was selected for its importance to interdisciplinary scholarship, its documentation of a period of modern Iranian domestic history that is otherwise difficult to study, its mostly unique holdings at Princeton, the limited accessibility of the materials due to their fragility, and the difficulty of discovery due to collection-level cataloging. This hidden collection would be irreplaceable if lost: preserving it and making it discoverable and globally accessible online will provide an invaluable boon to students and scholars of Iran worldwide.

The United Nations, founded in 1945 with 193 Member States is guided by the purposes and principles in its founding Charter, taking action on issues confronting humanity. The United Nations Secretariat has been providing the international community with information relating to its activities including maps of areas where they have been operating. The purpose of this project is to develop a comprehensive inventory, catalogue, digitize, and increase the accessibility of the maps produced by the United Nations since its establishment for the international community.

The St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis will digitize materials from the Waterways Journal Collection at the Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library. The full collection comprises 219 linear feet of research documents accumulated by the editors of the Waterways Journal, the leading trade journal in the United States for inland waterway industries such as shipping and barge operators. The main achievement of this project will be digitizing the full run of the Waterways Journal from 1892 to today. Scanning will be done from original prints with microfilm backups for missing issues. From the larger research collection assembled by the editors of the journal over the past century, rare and related objects will be scanned as copyright allows.

The Summit Historical Society is partnering with the Breckenridge Heritage Alliance to digitize collections held by each organization. We have worked collaboratively within the last year to establish the Sandra F. Pritchard Mather Archive Room where all of our cartographic, photographic, and ledger collections will be housed and made readily available to the public for research. Over 700 maps and 800 photographs have already been rehoused and moved to this location, but require further processing as we move through the digitization project. In addition, the ledgers need full processing. The Society is creating a new website and, using Omeka, we will be able to display digitized collections in virtual exhibits. Our materials range from canvas to linen maps and ledgers on onion-skin paper. We need to process the photographs more thoroughly to determine all formats.

"Digitizing Atwater,” a collaborative project based at Wesleyan University, focuses on the papers of Wilbur Olin Atwater (1844-1907; Wesleyan B.A. 1865; Yale Ph.D. 1869), among the most important American scientists of the 19th century. Atwater's groundbreaking work in nutrition science resulted in the popularization of the calorie; his vilification by the Methodist church for his findings regarding the nutritive value of alcohol was a great controversy of the day. Atwater was also the founder of the first U.S. Agricultural Experiment Station. At Wesleyan, Atwater's professional papers will be processed and digitized, and two collections of Atwater family papers will be digitized; at the University of Connecticut, records of the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station (SAES) will be digitized. Over two-and-a- half years, beginning in May 2016, "Digitizing Atwater” will digitally co-locate four interrelated collections of papers, making available the cohesive corpus of work by Atwater, his colleagues, and family.

The South Dakota State Archives proposes to digitize three significant collections that address Native Americans in South Dakota. These collections will be digitized in two years and made available online through the South Dakota Digital Archives. The project includes the development of a crowdsourcing website to assist in transcribing handwritten documents and improve discoverability. The Mary C. Collins Family Papers document missionary work among the Sioux Indians from 1875 to 1910. The collection of John R. Brennan, Pine Ridge Agency Superintendent from 1900 until 1917, documents relations with Native Americans at the agency. These collections consist of correspondence, diaries, photographs, and Native American ledger art. The Native American photograph collection features individuals, camps, and reservations from the 1860s to the 1900s. The project will promote understanding of Native American tribes on the plains of Dakota Territory during the pivotal point of pioneer settlement and the development of the reservation system.

This project aims to digitize and digitally catalog the archives of the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory (VPL) of The University of Texas at Austin over two years. The archival materials consist of 554 cubic feet (cf) of uncatalogued and undescribed maps, field notes, research permits, correspondence, images, artwork, and other documents relating to the history of paleontology in Texas and North America. The fossil holdings at VPL house approximately 250,000 cataloged specimens, the seventh largest vertebrate collection in the US. The archival materials represent the scientific and historic context for specimens collected from the late 19th century to the present day, and held in trust as a State, Federal, and Navajo Nation repository.

In this three-year project, the University of Oklahoma, National Weather Center Library, and National Severe Storms Lab will collaborate to digitize a variety of rare books and archival materials related to the study of severe storms and will make them publicly and freely available through a digital repository. All three partners are providing content to be digitized, including rare books and archival materials ranging from maps, slides, and photographs to documents and field notes. The project comprises development of a metadata workflow; digitization and metadata creation; ingest into a publicly accessible digital repository with metadata exposed for harvesting; submission of metadata to subject-specific aggregators; and promotion of the project and repository to diverse scholarly communities. The project will make accessible online for the first time these significant, diverse assets in the history of atmospheric science and will create many new entry points for scholarly inquiry as well as future projects.

University of Oklahoma Libraries' Western History Collections proposes a two-year project to digitize five manuscript collections consisting of approximately 58,000 pages and nine collections comprising 4,900 photographs related to the Wild West Shows of the 19th and early 20th century. The collections document the business operations of the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch and Wild West Show in Marland, Oklahoma, including its eventual dissolution during the Depression years; the Pawnee Bill Ranch and the various Wild West shows of Pawnee Bill (Gordon W. Lillie) in Pawnee, Oklahoma; and the daily lives of a husband-wife pair of Wild West show performers, D. Vernon Tantlinger and Edith Tantlinger. The project consists of digitizing all items, creating technical and descriptive metadata, developing a name authority list, providing online access through OU Libraries' Digital Library, and implementing a crowdsourced transcription program.

The Buffalo Bill Center of the West's McCracken Research Library (MRL), in collaboration with Yellowstone National Park's Heritage & Research Center (HRC), will digitize and make freely available a vast collection of material from their respective repositories. The collections include maps, atlases, scientific papers, pamphlets, souvenirs, photographs, journals, and other rich ephemera from both Yellowstone National Park and the Shoshone National Forest. Established in 1891, Shoshone National Forest was the nation's first; it directly abuts Yellowstone, the world's first national park. This iconic region, and the perception people have of it, has served to fire imaginations all over the world. The three-year project will create open access to collections which will serve not only scholars and researchers in biology, geology, popular culture, and environmental and American history, but members of the general public, who remain enchanted by one of the last intact ecosystems in the lower forty-eight states.

This project will comprehensively digitize more than 3,060 Shaker manuscripts from six collections. Participants include Hamilton College, Winterthur Library, Hancock Shaker Village, Fruitlands Museum, Shaker Museum at South Union, and Enfield Shaker Museum. 125,500 pages of content will be scanned. Archival quality TIFF images will be created, and also publicly accessible JPEG2000 and PDF files for each item. The collection will be hosted by Hamilton College, whose staff will oversee metadata creation, website development, and management of digital files. The completed digital library will provide scholarly access to a broad variety of Shaker manuscripts, including journals, theological and historical writings, account books, real estate records, financial records, membership records, hymn books with musical notation, and correspondence.

Throughout history women have served important and vital roles in military institutions everywhere, yet military historiography reflects astonishingly little of women's activities in the armed forces. This model archive and research collection will serve as a pilot project to introduce a new field, women's military history. For more than 30 years our curators have collected primary documents and images, secondary materials, and an 800 volume library that together furnish historical evidence of the military roles of women. Grant funding in 2014 enabled the hiring of an archivist to launch this expansive project. We have gained affiliation with the Smithsonian Archive Group, access to the Smithsonian's Archivist Toolkit, and will import into AT 100 linear feet of materials by the end of 2015.Thus proving feasibility, we seek to hire staff to digitize the collection by the end of 2016, forming a singular online resource for the new field of study.

The project will digitize and archive 14 boxes ( approximately 5000 items ) of Washington obituaries dating from 1900 to the late 1930's and digitize; archive 10 boxes of unprocessed news clippings and newspapers from U.S newspapers dating from the 1883 to 1930. The digitized material will be uploaded onto The Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History database, which is an open source CONTENTdm database averaging 70,000+ hits a month. Digitizing the collection will complete the project started under the WPA and allow fresh new eyes to scan the history of the WPA and the World at large from 1883-1938.

This project is created in response to feedback from scholars, curators, and students working in the communities of art, design, material culture, and craft requesting more freely available and complete online content documenting contemporary artists working in the fields of clay, fiber, glass, metal, paper, and wood. The project encompasses the digitization of 15,000 rare images and 12,000 unique documents detailing the work of the ACC's College of Fellows, a group of 240 influential 20th-century artists. Materials will be scanned off-site by Backstage Library Works, then returned to the ACC where graduate students in the fields of art history and library science will add metadata. Materials will be uploaded to the library's existing open access online database, as well as to ARTstor, the nonprofit education image collection. Widespread marketing of digitized content using social media and integrative technologies will draw attention to the availability of freely accessible materials.

Harvard University seeks $500,000 to digitize collections documenting two generations of pioneering women scientists from approximately 1840 to the 1970s. The project, estimated at more than 489,000 manuscript pages, will be scheduled for completion over 3 years and will draw from the collections of the Harvard College Observatory, University Archives, Schlesinger, Countway, Ernst Mayr, and Botany Libraries, as well as from the Maria Mitchell Association, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Wellesley, Vassar, and Bryn Mawr Colleges and Tuskegee University. Through advanced imaging and an innovative delivery platform, the project will digitize 37 full collections, unlock data hidden in the papers, and unite a cross-disciplinary selection of collections representing women who created scientific breakthroughs and opportunities for women in science. Focusing on Astrophysics, Biology, Medicine, and the Natural Sciences, the project aims to leverage relationships between content, historical context, and scientific data to foster new discoveries in the humanities and sciences.

Noam Chomsky is considered the founder of modern theoretical linguistics. An influential academic, he is Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Chomsky donated his papers to the MIT Institute Archives & Special Collections, which wishes to digitize his lecture and talks notes. During the two-year project, his handwritten and typed notes will be scanned for preservation and access. The latter, along with metadata, will be made available through a web-based content delivery system. This material will give scholars insight into thought processes of one of the world's most renowned intellectuals. Lecture notes cover his scientific inquiry into linguistics and also significantly reflect engagement in political issues over time. His political notes nicely complement interviews and Chomsky information others have shared on social media sites. A significant number of research inquiries we have received to date have been about his lectures and talks.

This 2 year project will digitize, catalog and describe all of the inter-disciplinary media and documentation found in the holdings of musician, writer, poet, photographer and documentary filmmaker. Collaborative exhibitions and screenings will also occur as a result of the digitization. Roughly 800 reels of 16mm Kodachrome film and audio (close to 150 hours of content) will be digitized along with 30 linear feet of and made available via the web site. Exposure this previously unknown and one of a kind material will provide scholarly research in numerous fields and disciplines across the humanities.

Unprecedented in its scope and comprehensiveness, the Four Valleys collection consists of all paper, photographic, and digital records resulting from archaeological investigations conducted across 180 square kilometers (ca. 70 square miles) within four distinct valleys in northwest Honduras. Its digitalization will offer a unique opportunity for researchers to address questions of political, economic, and cultural change over nearly three millennia (1200BC-AD1532). The archive contains detailed data pertaining to the configurations, sizes, and locations of 941 sites along with the results of excavations at 180 settlements and the analysis of over one million artifacts. The research spans 1983-2013 and has thus far resulted in 47 publications, 128 papers, and 68 PhDs, MAs, and undergraduate honors theses. We propose to: complete digitizing these records; upload them to a sustainable, easily accessible platform; widely advertise their presence; and, evaluate the accessibility and effectiveness of the resulting archive as a tool for archaeological research and teaching.

Scholars know well the history of the rise of the New England textile industry in the nineteenth century, and of its heyday around the turn of the century; less well known is the story of its decline and fall, a process that began in 1879 with the first installation of electric lights, became noticeable in the 1920s, and turned into a collapse after 1955. The Windham Textile and History Museum has a collection of more than 30,000 items that relate to the decline and fall of the textile industry in Willimantic, CT, including documents relating to ethnicity and conflict -- few of which have been digitized. This project will digitize this collection and make it available on the Museum's web site.

Howard University's Moorland-Spingarn Research Center is seeking a grant of $177,608 to fund a two year project for the digitization of four manuscript collections: the papers of Alain Locke (the first African-American Rhodes Scholar, and the leading philosopher of the Harlem Renaissance); Arthur Spingarn (a civil rights litigator, noted collector of books and manuscripts created by persons of African descent, and President of the N.A.A.C.P.), Joel Spingarn (a noted literary critic, publisher, member of the Niagara Movement, and President of the N.A.A.C.P.), and Georgia Douglas Johnson (poet, lyricist, essayist, playwright, novelist and musician). Together these collections, none of which are well known or utilized, give unique insights into the fight for civil rights during the early 20th Century, as well as insights into the literary and popular cultures of the same eras.

Over a 21-month period, the Indiana Historical Society (IHS) will process, digitize and catalog more than 170,000 items of personal correspondence, business records, photographs and artifacts in the Madam C.J. Walker Collection (Walker Collection) and Madam C.J. Walker Supplemental Collection (Walker Supplemental Collection). Once a single collection, it was divided with no regard to preserving content. Once reunited, they will comprise the most comprehensive archival collection of materials relating to nationally renowned African American entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker. Even in its partially processed state, the Walker Collection is one of the most requested IHS collections, and its online catalog record is the most accessed. Digitization of its remainder plus the Walker Supplemental Collection will allow for organization, merging and sharing of their content, increase dissemination of knowledge in an easily accessed online format, and digitally preserve the items for future generations.

The Hidden Past of the Pass is a two-year project that will focus on the hidden history of the area known as "the Pass", which includes El Paso, Texas; Ciudad Juarez, Mexico; west Texas; northern Mexico; and southern New Mexico. This project will digitize currently inaccessible historical photographs and historical archives of the El Paso Public Library (EPPL). The project will include historical photographs from EPPL's Aultman, Blumenthal and Calleros collections; the Trost and Trost architectural archives; maps; newspapers; cemetery records; and yearbooks. Metadata will be created for all digital images and the digital images will be cataloged, indexed and uploaded to EPPL's interactive, bilingual web portal. A variety of marketing and outreach strategies will be used to disseminate information about the digitized collections to scholars, academics, historians, genealogists, teachers, students and the general public.

This two-year project will digitize, describe, and make accessible 2,000 hours of historic broadcast footage from the NBC 5/KXAS television news collection held at the University of North Texas. NBC 5/KXAS (formerly WBAP), is the oldest news station in Texas and this collection includes audiovisual items and manuscript records from 1950-2012. During this project, 4,000 Betacam SP tapes will be digitized and approximately 40,000 news stories will be described and made freely available online through the University of North Texas Digital Library and Portal to Texas History. Through an partnership between the University and KXAS we are able to offer unrestricted and complete access to the collection once digitized. By providing access to such a large accumulation of visual materials, the NBC 5/KXAS will provide scholars a new method with which they can shape and expand historical scholarship on a variety of topics of national importance.

The purpose of the project is to digitize the University of Philosophical Research's Library's rare, out of print, and collectible books, manuscripts, periodicals devoted to art, astrology, comparative religion, ancient through modern philosophy, including many rare original editions from the 15th to the 18th centuries. The focus of this digitization effort is to digitize the rare and out of print books, and to make them accessible to our accredited university, students, scholars, in the U.S.and abroad, and the general public. The digitization of the library and rendering it accessible from anywhere in the world, would be a contribution to the dissemination of the knowledge and wisdom therein, but also to the exchange and growth of dialogue, cross cultural and cross discipline learning.

The New Dimensions Media collection -- an extensive archive containing recorded radio broadcasts that feature interviews and discussions with some of the leading thinkers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries -- represents a major resource for interdisciplinary scholarship in the areas of spirituality, consciousness, history, the arts, literature, philosophy, psychology, ecology, social justice, communications, and more. The bulk of the collection consists of 6,500 professionally-produced audio recordings in obsolete media formats, both analog and digital. Paper files and video recordings also exist. Due to preservation issues with the original recordings and insufficient descriptive information overall, the content is entirely inaccessible to researchers. Through a multi-phase project, the collection will be processed in full and the recordings and documents will be digitized for preservation and online delivery. In Phase 1, Stanford proposes to process and digitize 3,200 recordings and 10 linear feet of documents for online access.