Appendix B
Grants since FY2001
FY2006 (7/1/05 – 6/30/06)
Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, $236,393
To help renovate and expand the Main Library's Information Arcade.
7/1/05 – 6/30/07
FY2005 (7/1/04 – 6/30/05)
National Endowment for the Humanities, $393,000(our portion is $67,872)
The Libraries is one of four CIC participating institutions awarded an NEH grant to preserve research materials important to scholarship dealing with U.S. railroads and their influence on American life, landscape, history, and technology.
10/1/04 – 9/30/06
State Historical Society, Inc., $24,100
The Special Collections Department received funds to digitize and preserve portions of the Redpath Chautauqua collection.
7/1/04 – 6/30/06
State Historical Society of Iowa, REAP/Historical Resource Development Program, $25,682
The grant “Mujeres Latinas: Preserving the History of Iowa Latinas and their Families” will enable the Iowa Women’s Archives to hire a Spanish-speaking staff person to conduct oral histories of Latinas in Iowa.
3/30/2005 – 9/30/2007
University of Illinois, $20,000
Hardin Library has been awarded a contract for testing Internet performance between the National Library of Medicine and the University of Iowa. By participating in the "NLM-Centric Internet Performance Evaluation Network," Hardin Library will be contributing to a greater understanding of network connectivity issues between the NLM and Iowa. Data from this project will inform technology staff members on both ends and will help in the management, evaluation and troubleshooting of the network.
4/1/05 – 12/31/05
Humanities Iowa, $10,285
“Iowa in Ghana: Michael Warren and the Bono-Takyiman” (traveling exhibit)
University of Iowa Provost Office, Committee on Diversity, $2,000
To produce a recruitment video aimed at out-of-state librarians, specifically targeting those from historically underrepresented groups; to be posted on the Libraries’ website.
3/2005
National Film Preservation Foundation, $4,760
For the University Archives to restore and duplicate the film “Experimental Studies in the Social Climates of Groups, Parts One and Two.”
5/1/2005 – 7/1/2006
FY2004 (7/1/03 – 6/30/04)
Institute of Museum and Library Services, $392,347
The Libraries, in partnership with the UI School of Library and Information Science, Iowa State University Library and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, received a grant to recruit and educate nine potential university science and health sciences librarians.
10/31/03 – 8/31/2006
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa, $9,000
The Rita Benton Music Library received ten computer workstations which allow students to access Internet resources, as well as view DVDs, listen to CDs, and have in-library access to the music library’s streamed audio reserves.
National Film Preservation Foundation, $2,588
The Iowa Women’s Archives will restore a 1960 instructional film, “Iowa Test of Motor Fitness.”
National Television and Video Preservation Foundation, $375
The University Archives will restore a 1970 master’s thesis, “Environmental Works,” by Michael Eilenfeldt.
10/15/2004-12/1/2004
FY2003 (7/1/02 – 6/30/03)
National Library of Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, $47,449
Hardin Library received a grant to design The Iowa Access for Public Health Information web site to help the state’s local public health agencies find needed information quickly and prepare for public health emergencies. Hardin librarians will also train public health officials around the state on how to use the site, which will be designed and implemented in collaboration with the UI College of Public Health, the Iowa Department of Public Health and the Iowa Association of Public Health Agencies.
National Film Preservation Foundation, $7,700
To restore and duplicate two titles “A Unit in Developing a Basis for Appreciation and Understanding of Modern Dance Through the Use of Films and Discussions,” by Luellen Bowles, and “Suite of Original Dance Compositions,” by Thelma Dodson. Both were filmed in 1939 and represent important early efforts to popularize dance through the instructional medium of motion picture film. They are also believed to be the first master’s theses at Iowa to utilize motion picture film.
Instructional Computing Award, University of Iowa, $4,865
To Scott Fiddelke, Digital Media Projects Manager, Hardin Library Information Commons, for the creation of a tool that will simplify and make more flexible the process of creating narrated lectures for web delivery.
Arts and Humanities Initiative, $4,800
Awarded to Gary Frost, Conservator, to produce additional bookbinding models representing more recent 19 th century production bindings, and to identify actual exemplars of the models that may already be in the collections.
FY2002 (7/1/01 – 6/30/02)
Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, $194,922
To purchase access to on-line backfiles of scientific journals and other resources. (remainder of Science Information Literacy Initiative grant)
Colleges and Universities Affiliation Program, U.S. Department of State, $180,000
A three-year cooperative effort between the UI and the University of Ghana to utilize digital technologies to facilitate preservation, storage, analysis, and exchange of scholarly information.
State Historical Society of Iowa , $7,848
Voices from the Land: An Oral Documentary Project in Iowa , Iowa Women's Archives’ Rural Women's Project
Japan Foundation , $7,395
Japan Foundation Library Support Program, to support the Japanese film collection.
FY2001 (7/1/00 – 6/30/01)
Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, $269,685
Science Information Literacy Initiative
University of Illinois-Chicago, $24,994
Enabling Access to Health Information Resources for Non-Metropolitan and Underserved Health Professionals in Iowa