Hidden Collections Registry - Dev

Items

• KUT Radio Collection

  To make available to scholars, students and other library users 60,000 CDs and 4000 LPs formerly held by The University of Texas at Austin radio station KUT.

• Santa Ynez Valley Historical Archives

  Our project objective is to research and catalog nearly 80% of the SYV Historical Museum's collection. The Museum was started in 1961 by a group of local women who recognized that it was vitally important to preserve the history of the Santa Ynez Valley. That fledgling collection has since grown to include over 10,000 items most of which have never been inventoried, researched, or catalogued properly. The Museum's plan is to research and catalog its collection employing a number of new techniques and the reinvention of older ones. Once the project is completed a number of Virtual Exhibits will be created to aid educators teaching local and state history.

• Uncovering the Stone-Campbell Movement and its Impact on Education, Politics, and Religion in the Western United States and Japan

  Pepperdine University Libraries seeks funding for a two-year project to catalog 19 collections related to the Stone-Campbell Movement and its impact on Japan and the Western United States. Collections to be processed include the personal papers of prominent leaders within the movement in Japan and the U.S., including ministers, missionaries, scholars, theologians, politicians, and university presidents. Also included are the records of several major churches and church-related programs with long histories in Japan, the Los Angeles area, and in other areas of the West Coast. Understanding the history of this important American social and religious movement and its widespread impact will be greatly enhanced by access to these materials.

• Eiko Ishioka papers

  The Eiko Ishioka collection at the Academy Foundation's Margaret Herrick Library comprises the film-related personal documentation and artistic output of production and costume designer Eiko Ishioka (1938-2012). This analog/born-digital collection is unprocessed and contains manuscripts, drawings, photographs, textiles, and costumes, along with a myriad of CD-Rs, DVD-Rs, floppy disks, and portable hard drives. After the 18 month grant period, the collection will provide a deeper understanding into the process of a maverick designer who consistently broke convention across artistic disciplines (BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, 1992; Cirque du Soleil Varekai, 2002; Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, 2008) and a case study in mixed-format processing.

• Providing Access to Primary Sources Documenting the Studio Craft Art Movement in America

  This project will provide detailed finding aids for 115 unprocessed archival collections that document the studio craft movement in America from the mid-20th century to the present. These newly accessible collections, along with more than 270 related oral history interviews will comprise the world's largest single source of primary materials for the study of American craft. The project will also create unprecedented contextual online access via a dedicated webpage that will feature a comprehensive "guide” to these archival resources, with links to newly created EAD finding aids and oral history transcripts, enhanced with user-contributed essays and other features. The project will culminate in a symposium on craft scholarship.

• A peak at over 50 years of WWII history and the Space Race

  The USS Hornet Museum is asking for assistance for a 12 -month long program to hire a conservation consultant and new staff person to catalog and re-housing part of our extensive hidden collection of 8mm and 16mm film reels, as well as our collection of color, and black and white photographs, negatives and slides from over 25 years of service by the USS Hornet Aircraft Carrier by the United States Navy. Since the technology is constantly changing and the film material naturally dissolves from age, the urgency to preserve these historic audiovisuals and photographs from WWII and the Apollo space rescue is vital for preserving the history of the United States.

• Innovation into Practice: Providing Access to Records of Pioneers in Science and Technology

  Two-year project to arrange and describe 35 archival collections relating to the research, teaching, professional activities and government roles of scholars and pioneers in the sciences, documenting new directions and the innovative impact of leaders in the disciplines of physics; nuclear, chemical, agricultural, and biomedical engineering; and veterinary and zoological health. Notable among the collections are papers of Raymond LeRoy Murray, who created the groundbreaking nuclear engineering curriculum at NC State and was a key figure in the design, construction and operation of the country's first private nuclear reactor, the only one of its kind used for teaching and research.

• Obscured Moving Image Innovators at Anthology Film Archives

  Anthology Film Archives (AFA) requests funding to make accessible a significant number of paper collections related to individuals whose works serve as primary source records of cultural movements in the history of cinema and twentieth century art. The Jerome Hill Library at AFA holds the world's largest collection of paper materials documenting the history of American avant-garde and independent filmmaking. Due to limited staff and a growing number of unprocessed collections, scholarly access to materials has become difficult. The proposed 36-month project will initiate cataloging and facilitate access to selected materials through the creation of EAD finding aids and MARC records, made available through AFA's digital collections website.

• Expanding Access to the Performing Arts in San Diego

  The Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC), San Diego Youth Symphony & Conservatory (SDYS), and San Diego Civic Youth Ballet (SDCYB) seek funding to catalog and make accessible a collection of up to 10,000 photographs, newspaper clippings, programs, and audio and video recordings from SDYS and SDCYB, San Diego's oldest youth performing arts institutions. The project will coincide with the institutions' 70th anniversaries, as well as the 2015 Balboa Park Centennial Celebration, providing a unique opportunity for SDYS and SDCYB to share their rich histories with scholars and the general public. Following the cataloging process, the collections will be made available on the Balboa Park Commons and Google Art Project online portals.

• The William Greaves Film Collections

  The William Greaves Film Collections have been hidden for 26 years. In 1988, the Schomburg Center acquired the materials for 19 documentary films covering black history, current affairs and culture in the 1960's & ‘70's. The 500 boxes of footage and interviews went straight to NYPL storage where they remained unidentified. As the new curator, Ms.Lynch prioritized finding the Greaves collections. Staff unearthed all the boxes and reduced unidentified material by nearly 50%. A CLIR grant will insure the next critical step: making the works available. The goal is to process, create finding aids and catalog records for each film collection. Now that the pioneering filmmaker is 87, it is time for his work to be unhidden, and available.

• The St. Marianne Cope Collection Cataloging Project, consisting of an archive and a museum collection

  The St. Marianne Cope Collection contains over a century of documentation about St. Marianne Cope, a Sister of St. Francis who in October 2012 was canonized as only the 11th Saint in U.S. history. The collection offers uncommon insight that will appeal to scholars. The primary outcome of the St. Marianne Cope Collection Cataloging Project (SMCC-CP) is the efficient processing and cataloging of diverse St. Marianne Cope Collection items in their native controlled vocabularies, in one software package that also produces an online searchable catalog. To accomplish this important project we seek a $57,675 grant to allow us to hire a full time project archivist, purchase the necessary software and training and complete the one year project.

• An Institution Grows with Brooklyn: Revealing 150 Years of Brooklyn Historical Society's Evolution

  This project will create MARC encoded bibliographic records for "hidden” institutional archive materials at the Brooklyn Historical Society (those with missing, inaccurate, or incomplete descriptive records in finding aid or MARC format), and make them accessible online to scholars, general public, and students K-PhD. Records provide unprecedented research material on the development of libraries, museums, historical societies, and other 19th- and 20th-century civic institutions. This project will also assess and update BHS's existing Record Retention Policy and implement a revised policy through staff training sessions in order to set future priorities for arrangement, description, conservation, digitization, and other initiatives.

• The J.D. Mason Special Collections

  The collections of the First Presbyterian Church of Miami date back to 1896 when the congregation was first founded. It includes memorabilia from the earliest settlers and pre-dates the founding of the city of Miami. The collection consists of an range of items manuscripts, books, photographs, architectural drawings, film, oral histories, artifacts, paintings and commemorative plaques (dating to approximately 1899). The library was begun by the granddaughter of the first minister of First Presbyterian, W.W. Faris in the 1930's. The volunteer librarians from the church have amassed the collection through the years. We are now poised to actively process the collection to be used by researchers and the community.

• Artpark Archives: 1973-2000

  This two-year project will focus on the arrangement and description of the Artpark Archive collection, resulting in the creation of a DACS-compliant intellectual finding aid accessible through the Burchfield Penney's custom-built content management system (CMS). Artpark, an outdoor venue in upstate New York, opened in 1974 to provide avant-garde artists and performers, teachers, students, and the public a space to create, celebrate and explore the arts. Through state-sponsorship, it offered residencies to national and internationally known artists through the mid-1980s. The collection currently totals about 180 boxes, in a range of materials, of which approximately 60% are thought to be unique to this collection.

• Educators, Researchers and Clinicians: providing access to health sciences collections to advance health worldwide.

  The UCSF mission is driven by the idea that when the best research, best education, best patient care converge, great breakthroughs are achieved. The goal of this project is to catalog and describe personal and professional papers of 10 educators, researchers and clinicians whose work significantly contributes to health progress. These collections showcase interdisciplinary approaches to global health espoused by these leaders, and document how scientific research is translated to patient care. Their work is connected through a strong commitment to public health and eradication of chronic and infectious diseases. The completion of this project will help researchers and practitioners learn from the past in addressing contemporary challenges.

• Revealing Our Melting Past: Providing an Sustainable Future for the Roger G. Barry National Snow and Ice Data Center Archives

  The climate is changing rapidly. Archival data is essential to the study of climate change over time. The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is responsible for managing, archiving, and disseminating cryospheric and polar data. Today, these data are digital. However, hidden within the NSIDC is a collection of historical expedition notebooks, photographs, manuscripts, maps, ice charts, glass plates, and films documenting the history of polar exploration, glacier photography, and climate change. We seek to create access to these collections and move them to the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries, an organization that has a mission to manage and facilitate use of these the types of collections.

• The Philadelphia Social History Project: Providing Access to Critical Datasets and Data Analyses

  This project will restore access to the work of the Philadelphia Social History Project (PSHP) by processing the PSHP records (including dataset documentation and codebooks, publications and maps) and the papers of the Project's founder, Theodore Hershberg. Data dictionaries and computer processing instructions hidden within the archive are critical to deciphering much of PSHP's output about social conditions in 19th-century Philadelphia. PSHP data held at other institutions remains, literally, unintelligible without access to these documents. At the completion of this project, finding aids enhanced with geospatial coordinates and with a network of links will allow scholars to connect and reuse PSHP data held at Penn and other institutions.

• From the Bayous and Borderlands to the Billboard Charts: Hidden Collections of American Vernacular Music and Cultural and Political Expression

  UNC-Chapel Hill's Wilson Library seeks support to catalog 46000 rare recordings and process 326 archival multimedia collections in the Southern Folklife Collection (SFC) that document vernacular music and capture grassroots artistic and political expressions across the United States. Together with cataloged holdings, the hidden recordings and collections represent an invaluable scholarly and community resource of 20th-century cultural and regional histories. The project will make use of established strengths in cataloging 78 rpm recordings and processing analog materials. It also will provide an opportunity to refine new models for accessioning and for seamless discovery and access to mixed collections of born digital and analog materials.

• From Bone Wars to Jurassic Park: Education, Outreach, and Research in a University Natural History Museum

  The goal of this 24-month project is to carry out cataloging of: (a) the archives of Yale paleontologists Richard Swann Lull, Charles Schuchert, and John Ostrom; (b) the artist Rudolph Zallinger; and (c) the archives of the Yale Peabody Museum's Education Department. Collectively, the materials will offer new insight on the role of paleontology as a vehicle for the public understanding of evolution that took place both within and beyond the Museum over the course of the 20th Century, encompassing three critical periods to our understanding of the natural world: the "Eclipse of Darwinisim" the "Neodarwinian Synthesis" and the "Dinosaur Renaissance.”

• Finding Freedom: Documenting the Legacy of Slavery and African American History through the Collections of the Maryland State Archives

  The Friends of the Maryland State Archives [MSA] proposes a detailed processing/documentary heritage project of the freedom papers in its collection. This project will fully process 111 manumission and certificate of freedom record series covering the period of 1774-1869 and publish the results online in the Guide to Government Records catalog [http://guide.mdsa.net/]. The MSA will digitize and place images of these record series online as the matching component. This project will be conducted by 3 full time professional archival staff members. Quarterly, each individual will completely process 9 collections, including digitization, and conduct a minimum of 1 public outreach activity based on the material they have processed to date.

• An Untouched Resource: Cataloging the Peabody Museum's Invertebrate Zoology Slide Collection

  The Yale Peabody Museum Invertebrate division houses a vast microscope slide collection which has been developed over the past nearly 150 years. More than 50,000 slides have been made as an augment to research by scientists associated with the museum since its inception. Recently, the slides were physically curated and transferred to archival cabinets. The next crucial phase is to catalog the slides into a structured database to allow for contextual searches, something not presently possible. The goal will be to bring the level of curation to the same standard that has been applied to the rest of the Invertebrate Zoology collection and make the entire data available to scientists and students via the museum's searchable web interface.

• The Leupold Archives (Archives)

  The Archives is a repository of organ music and organ-related items. Its collection is exclusively historical organ music, methods, and organ reference materials, especially nineteenth and early twentieth century out-of-print editions of published organ music, the largest collection of organ music and organ improvisation methods in the United States, and first editions of more prominent works in the established organ repertoire. Optimizing the cataloging process within three years will enhance worldwide accessibility to a unique collection for scholarly study, research, and cultural enrichment. The cataloging projects to be articulated are: OCLC (WorldCat); internal database catalog; and scanned publications for our website.

• Providing Access to the Bose Pacia Gallery Collection (1994-2011)

  The +91 Foundation is a non-profit organization specializing in South Asian contemporary visual arts. The +91 Archives is the archival platform of the organization which focuses on the documentation and preservation of archival material created by the South Asian contemporary art diaspora. The +91 Foundation requests funds to hire a senior level Project Archivist to survey, arrange, process and catalog the Bose Pacia Gallery Collection. The archivist will devise a detailed cataloging plan to work with the various media formats that are in the collection. The plan will 1) survey the collection 2) create a detailed workflow for processing and arrangement 3) catalog and create a Finding Aid.

• The American Academy in Rome: Creating Access to the Records of Academy Life and Works of American Scholars and Artists

  Over a period of 14 months, the American Academy in Rome will survey, preserve and catalog the "American Academy in Rome" archive of materials relating to the Academy's history, architecture, development, and community, including: digital and analog collections of photography, original Academy correspondence and documentation, books, and ephemera. While preservation and cataloging will make in-house use of the collections more user-friendly, the eventual result will be inclusion in and international access through the Academy's new online Digital Humanities Center, the deposit of original materials with the Archives of American Art, and discovery via major professional online directories such as ArchiveGrid.

• Foundations of Dance Research, Part II (Foundations II)

  Foundations II will make available to the public materials in 17 currently hidden collections that illuminate the people, institutions, and concepts significant in American dance during the 20th century. The 12 institutions (the Repositories) holding these collections are 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center; American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (LOC); Bennington College; Berkshire Athenaeum; Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library For The Performing Arts (NYPL); Museum Of Performance + Design (MP+D); National Museum of Dance (NMD); Newberry Library; Temple University; Theatre Historical Society of America (THS); University of New Hampshire (UNH); University of the Arts University Libraries & Archives (UArts).