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Thanks to the following granting agencies for their generous support of our digital projects:
Adeline & George McQueen Foundation
Additional funding to the UNT Libraries for “Where the West Begins:
Capturing Fort Worth’s Historic Treasures.” Participants will include
the UNT Libraries, Texas Christian University, the Amon Carter Museum,
the University of Texas at Arlington, Fort Worth Jewish Archives, the
Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame, Log Cabin Village, Cattle Raisers Museum,
Lockheed Martin Archives, Archives of the Central Texas Conference
United Methodist Church, the Texas State Library and Archives
Commission, and the Cowtown Coliseum. See the collection Where the West
Begins.
Amon G. Carter Foundation
Grant to the UNT Libraries for “Where the West Begins: Capturing Fort
Worth’s Historic Treasures.” Participants will include the UNT
Libraries, Fort Worth Public Library, Texas Christian University, the
Amon Carter Museum, the University of Texas at Arlington, Fort Worth
Jewish Archives, Tarrant County College NE, the Texas Cowboy Hall of
Fame, Log Cabin Village, Cattle Raisers Museum, Lockheed Martin
Archives, Archives of the Central Texas Conference United Methodist
Church, Dallas Public Library, University of Houston, and the Cowtown
Coliseum. See the collection Where the West Begins.
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
A grant for “Optimizing the User Experience in an Architecture for Rapid
Development.” The UNT Libraries will develop a model for an iterative
user-centered design process in a rapid development framework that
digital libraries can implement to improve the usability and
effectiveness of their resources for targeted user groups. This project
will focus on the information-seeking behavior and needs of
genealogists, who constitute a third of all digital library users. The
project Web site and blog is archived at
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc270771/.
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 will fund digitization of Texas Newspapers, and
for the grant UNT serves as lead institution with partners at the Center
for American History at the University of Texas, and Texas Tech
University.
Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation
A grant to support digitization of materials from the Heritage House
Museum, Orange, Texas. See the Heritage House Museum materials.
Summerfield G. Roberts Foundation
Grant to the UNT Libraries for the Adopt a Book Digitally program. This
gift will allow us to digitize nearly 250 books from the participating
partners for this project: UNT, Austin College, the Star of the Republic
Museum, Austin Public Library and Dallas Public Library. Selected books
will include city and county histories, city directories, biographies of
notable Texans, and other Texana titles.
Tocker Foundation
Grant to digitize early newspaper issues of the Tulia Herald, in
partnership with the Swisher County Library. See the Tulia Herald.
Tocker Foundation
Grant to digitize historic town records from Clarendon, Texas, in
partnership with the Burton Memorial Library. See the Clarendon
materials.
