Planning Collaborative Practices for Archiving Farmworker Communities’ Histories
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Preliminary Two Page Proposal
Planning Collaborative Practices for Archiving Farmworker Communities’ Histories– (cash: $149,900; cost share: $11,818) Institute of Museum and Library Services – National Leadership Program Planning Grants
Full Proposal
Planning Collaborative Practices for Archiving Farmworker Communities’ Histories – (cash:$136,126; cost share: $26,982) In partnership with the Farmworker Association of Florida, the Rural Women’s Health Project, and the University of Miami, the project team seeks to design, plan, and document partnerships between academic libraries and farmworker community-based organizations that will identify collaborative practices and strategies to document the experiences of marginalized, under- and mis-represented communities for national replicability. Activities include: 1) four community events with an oral history acquisition component; 2) a presentation of the Farmworkers’ Voices Symposium and two Zoom meetings with national and community partner leaders; and 3) a documented plan including topics and content to include in a draft of training modules, a draft of a best practice guide, and project survey instruments and analyses with broad open access distribution to be used during a future implantation phase; and, 4) outreach to other partners for participation during the implementation phase. (Project team: M. Vargas-Betancourt (PI), J. Cusick (Co-PI), J. Nemmers (Co-PI), and S. Stapleton (Co-PI), (Co-PI); Kineret Ben-Knaan (Research and Assessment Librarian and Subject Liaison for Judaic Studies, University of Miami Libraries) with A. Soto, John Diaz (IFAS, Director of Alliance for Inclusion, Diversity and Equity); and Beatriz Skokan (Head of manuscripts and Archives Management, University of Miami Libraries); and Nat Phensiriph and (Audio/Video Media Manager, University of Miami Libraries)) (Start date: 09/01/2022; end date: 08/31/2024) Institute of Museum and Library Services – National Leadership Program Planning Grants
Supporting information
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Revitalizing the Digital Library of the Caribbean
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Full Proposal
Revitalizing the Digital Library of the Caribbean (Full Proposal) – (cash: $2,000,000) This project team seeks to build and sustain the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) will reinforce and strengthen the organization and its collections to allow dLOC’s community to flourish in the years to come. By intentionally collaborating with Partners to address unmet needs, the project proposes to directly invest in the Caribbean institutions and people who comprise the dLOC network. The project will scaffold programmatic supports for executing core activities such as digitization and preservation workflows, copyright, and the ethical reuse of dLOC collections in teaching and research. (Project team: L. Taylor (PI), P. Collins (Co-PI), B. Keith (Co-PI), with T. Digby, F. Durant, T. Hodges, C. Johnston, J. Nemmers, L. Perry, and L. Santamaria-Wheeler) (start date: 9/01/2021; end date: 8/31/2026) Andrew W. Mellon Foundation – Public Knowledge Program
Between Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter: Preserving the Journalistic Recordings of Burning Spear Media, 1972-2010
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Between Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter: Preserving the Journalistic Recordings of Burning Spear Media, 1972-2010 – (cash: $49,841) In partnership with Burning Spear Media, LLC, this team seeks to digitize and make publicly accessible 1495+ audio and video recordings dating back to 1971. These media document the history of the Black Power struggle through activities of the Uhuru Movement. Recordings include conferences, workshops, freedom schools, Sunday meetings, homeless activism, protest marches, speeches, electoral campaign activities, and activists’ personal accounts. Collection content includes 12 sessions of the International Tribunal on Reparations to Black People in the U.S., Huey Newton’s last speeches, and presentations by Omali Yeshitela in London and Africa. Recordings chronicle the continuity and growth of the Black Power Movement and Pan-Africanism from 1971 to 2021. (Project team: A. Hines (PI), C. Dinsmore (Co-PI), F. Durante (Co-PI), with T. Digby, A. Charnas, P. Collins, L. Perry, A. Stich, and L. Taylor) (start date: 05/02/2022; end date: 04/30/2023) Council on Information and Library Resources – Recordings At Risk Program
Middle Grade and Young Adult Books with Black, Indigenous People and People of Color: Where are they?
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Middle Grade and Young Adult Books with Black, Indigenous People and People of Color: Where are they? (Full Proposal) – (cash: $427,100; cost share $434,404) The project team, in partnership with Bates College and California State University-Fresno, with promotional support from state library associations, seeks $427,100 to enhance the discoverability of middle grade (MG) and young adult (YA) novels featuring Black and Indigenous people and People of Color (BIPOC) characters. The two primary goals of this project are to: 1) create a database that identifies not just who are included in MG/YA books featuring BIPOC characters, but how they are represented and 2) to create a freely available analysis tool that can easily be used by librarians to analyze the diversity of their own MG/YA novel collections. (Project team: R. Elrod (PI); Krista Aaronson, PhD (Co-PI, Bates College Diverse BookFinder Director), B. Kester(Co-PI), with Suzan Alteri (Anne Nixon Center Librarian) and , A. Asher, K. Bague, A. Baird, L. Campbell, T. Digby, A. Glenn, H. Hawley, J. Heckathorn, A. Hines, T. Hodge, C. Johnston, , Kenneth Kidd, PhD (Department of English), A. Lindell, X. Ma, G. Mahar, M. Meke, M. Nolan, Pang, L. Santamaria-Wheeler, L. Spears, and L. Taylor) (start date: 09/01/2021: end date: 08/31/2024) Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Leadership Grant, Community Catalyst Implementation
Planning for Open Grants: Fostering a Transparent and Accessible National Research Proposal Infrastructure
Planning for Open Grants: Fostering a Transparent and Accessible National Research Proposal Infrastructure (Full Proposal)- (cash: $99,833; cost share: $41,218) The project team seeks to: (1) convene diverse groups of stakeholders so that a multifaceted research ecosystem is represented throughout the planning process; (2) investigate the scale of challenges and solutions in establishing an open grants repository; and (3) develop a metadata schema and aggregation plan for organizing grant proposals. Although open practices have increased transparency in many aspects of research, such as publications (e.g. open access and preprints), statistical analyses (e.g. code-sharing practices and platforms), and materials (e.g. data repositories, reporting standards), the research funding ecosystem remains largely opaque. Although open practices have increased transparency in many aspects of research, such as publications (e.g. open access and preprints), statistical analyses (e.g. code-sharing practices and platforms), and materials (e.g. data repositories, reporting standards), the research funding ecosystem remains largely opaque. (Project team: H. Ye (PI), P. Collins (Co-PI), with B. de Farber, C. Johnston, B. Keith, C. Nicholich, X. Ma, and P. Smith) (start date: 08/01/2021; end date 01/31/2023) Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Leadership Grant, National Digital Platform Planning
Digitizing FL Newspapers for Public Use
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Digitizing FL Newspapers for Public Use – (cash: $53,040; cost share: $17,738) The project team, in partnership with four Florida Multitype Library Consortium institutions, plan to broaden the historical and geographical coverage of the Florida Digital Newspaper Library (FDNL) hosted by the Libraries, by providing public digital access to an additional 200,000 pages of pre-1928, Florida historical newspapers. This project will: 1) select and digitally convert up to 230 reels of microfilm containing 72 titles, representing37 Florida counties, to a digital format (see attached document “Newspaper Titles List”) 2) ingest the digitized items into the UF Florida Digital Newspaper Library; 3) provide statewide training library personnel on how to access and use FDNL, focusing on the newly digitized historic titles as examples of unique primary resources available through this collection; 4) update catalog records to include name authority formats to publisher and editor names, contributing names to Name Authority
Cooperative Program standards (NACO) where none exist 5) provide redundant storage for the collection’s preservation in perpetuity; 6) conduct pre- and post-training surveys for training participants; 7)publicize and promote newly digitized newspapers and the FDNL to the citizens of Florida; and, 8) offer new digital files to the State Library for use in Florida Memory, and other repositories. (Project team: C. Dinsmore (PI), and F. Durant (Co-PI), with A. Hines, A. Charnas, L. Perry, and L. Spears) (start date: 07/01/2021; end date: 08/30/2022) Florida Dept. of State, Division of Library and Information Services, Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA)
Monographs of Cuban Heritage for Public Access
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Monographs of Cuban Heritage for Public Access – (cash: $9,952; cost share: $10,577) The project team, in partnership the Davis Library at University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill (UNC), plan to digitize approximately 70,000 pages of Latin American and Caribbean content including approximately 307 titles, including 42 rare Cuban monograph titles held at the Libraries and UNC. All of the targeted Cuban heritage titles have been deemed rare due to scarce availability among holding institutions as determined through the findings of an international survey. The monograph holdings for digitization included in this proposal are 37 reels of 35mm microfilm and eight sheets of microfiche held by the two partner institutions. Unlike other digitization projects, this one features monographs rather than newspapers. (Project team: C. Dinsmore (PI), F. Durant (Co-PI), with N. Caraballo, A. Charnas, S. DeRoche, L. Perry, and A. Soto) (start date: 07/01/2021; end date: 06/30/2022) Center on Research Libraries (CRL), Latin American Materials Project (LAMP)
Reanimating African American Oral Histories of the Gulf South: Tailoring Education and Research through Natural Language Understanding
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Reanimating African American Oral Histories of the Gulf South: Tailoring Education and Research through Natural Language Understanding (cash to CLAS: $349,990; to Libraries: $0) An interdisciplinary collaboration between UF Linguistics, Oral History program, and the Libraries will reanimate 500 interviews with African Americans in the Gulf South, a population absent from many other oral history collections, with rich annotations and a web-based customizable interface. The team’s design harnesses computational linguistic methods and is informed by the needs and expertise of three diverse user groups, resulting in a host of improved accessibility outcomes. For education, teachers will be provided an easy to use interface to enhance student engagement with localized curriculum using the interviews. For linguistics, researchers will have access to an unprecedented amount of spoken African American data to investigate African American language change and regionality, and racially-based biases in speech technologies. Finally, oral history programs across the country will be offered a new means of enhancing accessibility into their own archival collections. (Project team: Kevin Tang (Department of Linguistics – PI), Paul Ortiz (Samuel Proctor Oral History Program – Co-PI), with B. Kester, L. Spears, and Deborah Hendrix (SPOHP) (start date: 7/1/21; end date: 6/30/2023) NEH – Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Redressing Native American Oral Histories: Revitalization, Repatriation, and Responsible Sharing of Digital Cultural Heritage
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Redressing Native American Oral Histories: Revitalization, Repatriation, and Responsible Sharing of Digital Cultural Heritage (cash: $200,000; cost share: $20,142) In partnership with the UF Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP), the project team seeks to digitize and make accessible oral history interviews of its Native American History Project collection comprising 967 interviews recorded on audio cassette tapes housed within the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. The project is organized into six stages: 1) creation of a comprehensive inventory and database for the collection; 2) completion of vended digitization of all items in the collection; 3) audio optimization for digitized files; 4) completion of transcriptions of the audio files; 5) development of metadata and ingestion of digitized items into the University of Florida Digital Collections; and, 6) determination of permissions, delivery of digitized files to tribal organizations, and coordination to determine public and private access. (Project team: G. Mahar (PI) with Paul Ortiz, PhD (director, SPOPH), P. Collins (Co-PI), C. Dinsmore (Co-PI), F. Durant (Co-PI), and X. Ma (Co-PI).) (start date: 01/01/2021; end date: 12/31/2022) Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Film on a Boat: Digitizing Historical Newspapers of the Caribbean P0104841
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Film on a Boat: Digitizing Historical Newspapers of the Caribbean P0104841 (cash: $434,124; cost share: $28,448) This three-year project in partnership with the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras (UPR) plans to digitize each institution’s unique, hidden holdings of Caribbean newspapers on master microfilm. The team will digitize and make freely available 800,000 pages of pre-1923 Caribbean newspapers. The partners will produce new second generation microfilm negatives; catalog individual titles; conduct issue-level collation; send to a vendor for digitization, creation of derivative files, and OCR text files; perform quality control on deliverables; and ingest into the Digital Library of the Caribbean and the Biblioteca Digital Puertorriqueña. Once available digitally, these resources will provide scholars with access to previously unavailable information on daily life in the Caribbean to enable new research and research questions from a variety of fields and disciplines on cross-cutting issues including migration, social movements, history, and literature. Selected materials were published in: Antigua, The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Guyana, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Puerto Rico. (Project team: F. Durant (PI), L. Taylor (Co-PI), M. Torres-Alamo (UPR) (Co-PI), M. Vargas-Betancourt, P. Reakes, C. Dinsmore, D. Van Kleeck, A. Hines, H. Huet, L. Perry, S. de Roche, R. Renner, A. Soto, S. Moczygemba, H. Young, J.A. Millán Díaz (UPR), and M. E. Ordóñez Mercado (UPR)) (start date: 1/7/2019; end date: 09/30/2023) Council on Library and Information Resources – Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives