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DEI Consulting Grants

SCRLC made funds available to support a round of DEI grants to support two (2) to seven (7) hours of consulting time with Dr. Kawanna Bright. Members of SCRLC --governing or affiliate-- were encouraged to apply for this expert assistance to help their organization make systematic changes related to DEI. Projects were encouraged to include but were not limited to the following:

  • Assessing where your organization is at with respect to DEI and the development of a plan to address DEI;
  • Creating and conducting DEI assessments for your organization;
  • Determining a plan to incorporate DEI following a DEI assessment.

Applications were due July 1, 2023.

 

Consulting must be completed between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024. 

 

For your reference, the DEI Consulting Grant Application can be found here: .DOCX or .PDF

 

2023 Grant Recipients

  • Alfred University Libraries were awarded 7 hours of consulting time, valued at $2,450 to reflectively review their Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) work and consider next steps, i.e., what would it look like organizationally to more deeply integrate anti-racism and anti-oppression efforts as a core part of their daily library work? AUL created a Commitment to Anti-Racism & Anti-Oppression in 2020 and they have been working toward various concrete steps necessary to "walk the walk" of their commitment. Their work with Dr. Bright will help this effort to move forward.
  • Ithaca College Library was awarded 7 hours of consulting time, valued at $2,450 for projects involving collections, classification, and policies in technical services. The Collections component will include increasing access to works that are authored by or focus on voices from communities that have traditionally been marginalized or excluded from academic scholarship. For Classification, they will remove LGBTQ+ materials from Library of Congress classification to mitigate harm to LGBTQ+ patrons. For Policies, they will 1) update their collection development policy to formally commit to diversifying their collections; 2) create/post a statement on potentially offensive and harmful content; and 3) review/update other existing policies as appropriate. 
  • Seymour Library (Auburn) was awarded 6 hours of consulting time, valued at $2,100 to 1) re-examine and potentially revising their current DEIA statement; 2) align their DEIA initiative with their new strategic plan/develop metrics to ensure forward movement with DEIA; 3) incorporate DEIA in ongoing decisions at the Board and staff level; and 4) empower staff and Board to respond to any negative comments about the Library's DEIA efforts.

Congratulations to all recipients! They will share the results of their work in a webinar to be held on May 30, 2024. SCRLC is unable to offer this grant during the 2024-2025 fiscal year, but hopes to offer a similar grant opportunity in the future. Contact Mary-Carol Lindbloom with any questions.


Digitization Grants

SCRLC routinely supports creative proposals to improve regional access and resource sharing through technology. Digitization projects allow materials to be accessed regionally through New York Heritage, New York State Historic Newspapers, the Empire Archival Discovery Cooperative, and the Empire State Immersive Experiences projects.

For 2023-2024, applications are especially encouraged for:

  • partnerships increasing representation of and with communities that have been historically and systematically oppressed
  • geographically underrepresented communities in the SCRLC region
  • innovative approaches to availing digitized collections, e.g., walking tours, virtual tours (e.g. participation in the 360-degree Empire State Immersive Experience project), and HistoryForge participation.

Screenshot 2024-02-26 091705.pngApplications were due Friday, April 12, 2024.

The application packet for 2024-2025 can be viewed here: .DOCX or .PDF

Feel free to contact Claire Lovell with any questions.

 


2024 Grant Recipients

  • Cayuga Onondaga BOCES SLS: $4,430 to digitize yearbooks from Auburn, from 1924 through 2004, including multiple public high schools that once existed in the community before Auburn High School opened in 1971.

  • Chenango County Historical Society & Museum: $5,000 to continue digitizing the Robert Bellamy collection and the Mary Fargo collection. The Bellamy collection reflects the community of people of color around Norwich, including records of the AME Zion church. The Fargo collection is the only known set of comprehensive material associated with a female entrepreneur and business-owner in Chenango County.

  • Cortland County Historical Society: $2,450 to digitize the Helen Jewett McAleer postcard collection, which features postcards from her uncle, the famous mathematician and Cortland native, David Eugene Smith.

  • Elmira College: $4,200 to digitize their yearbooks, The Iris, as well as their Alumnae Bulletins and Campus Magazines.

  • Fenimore Art Museum Library: $4,604 to digitize the Mohawk Courier (1838-1859) and Glimmerglass (1909-1968) for New York State Historic Newspapers.

  • Finger Lakes Library System: $4,400 for the George P. and Susan Platt Cady Library in Nichols to digitize their local yearbook collection.

  • International Motor Racing Research Center: $2,240 to digitize Watkins Glen Grand Prix racing photographs and 15 reels of 16mm film created by Lester “Andy” Gerard (1929-2013), documenting sports car and formula one races at Watkins Glen, N.Y., from 1955 to 1964.

  • Newfield Historical Society: $2,950 to digitize their high school yearbook collection.

  • Seward House Museum: $5,000 to digitize a portion of Fanny Seward’s Library, the only complete collection of books belonging to a teenage girl in the antebellum period.

  • Seymour Public Library District: $2,600 to hire an intern to expand on their HistoryForge project, focusing on the Parker Street neighborhood.

  • Southern Tier Library System: $5,000 to add the Andover Advertiser and the Andover News (ranging from 1869 to 1978) to New York State Historic Newspapers, to continue digitization of the Cuba Patriot, and to digitize a collection of works by the Cuba Poetry Society.

  • SUNY Oneonta James M. Milne Library: $3,130 to digitize the card catalog reflecting the Cooperstown Graduate Program’s oral history collection.

  • The History Center in Tompkins County: $1,020 to digitize the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra’s program collection.

  • Ulysses Philomathic Library and Interlaken Library: $8,000 to digitize microfilmed reels of the Trumansburg Free Press by Advantage Archives and with additional inclusion on New York State Historic Newspapers.

  • Waterloo Library & Historical Society: $4,155 to digitize their high school yearbook collection.

2023 Grant Recipients


2022 Grant Recipients


2021 Grant Recipients

  • Waterloo Library & Historical Society (WLHS): $5,868 - The Executive Director of WLHS, Cyndi Park-Sheils and WLHS Researcher Pamela Becker have 40 microfilmed reels of newspapers from Waterloo, NY dating from 1873 to 1961 digitized and made available on NYS Historic Newspapers.
  • Southern Tier Library System (STLS) and Cuba Circulating Library: $8,000 - The Director of Cuba Circulating Library, Tina Dalton and STLS's Engagement Consultant, Erika Jenns, will digitize 50 reels of microfilmed historic newspapers from Cuba in Allegany County, spanning from January 1866 to December 1986. These newspapers will be made available on NYS Historic Newspapers.
    See Southern Tier Library System's final report for 2021 here.
  • Seymour Public Library District: $6,016 - The Seymour Public Library District will digitize hundreds of photographs from the Cayuga County Historian's Office and Seymour Library's local history collections. The photographs will be added to New York Heritage Digital Collections and Auburn HistoryForge.
    See Seymour Library's final report for 2021 here.
  • Greater Oneonta Historical Society: $6,700 - GOHS's Executive Director, Dr. Marcela Micucci and archivist Shelley Wallace will select materials from GOHS's collections in order to document women's roles throughout Oneonta's history. The digitized materials will be added to GOHS's website, oneontahistory.org, and to New York Heritage Digital Collections.
    See Greater Oneonta Historical Society's final report for 2021 here.
  • Fenimore Art Museum: $7,980 - Fenimore Art Museum's Special Collections Librarian, Joe Festa, will digitize historic newspapers from Delaware County and make them available on NYS Historic Newspapers.
    See Fenimore Art Museum's final report for 2021 here.
  • SUNY Cortland: $7,565.87 - SUNY Cortland's archivist, Jeremy Pekarek, will digitize 5,000 pages of the Cortland Normal News, spanning 1879 through 1913. The college will also digitize other student newspapers, including the Co-No Press (1925-1942), and The Dragon Chronicle (2013-2017). After the Normal News project is complete SUNY Cortland newspapers will be fully searchable from 1879-2017 online on NYS Historic Newspapers. 
    See SUNY Cortland's final report for 2021 here.
  • Chemung County Library District: $2,000 - Maggie Young, the Genealogy & Local History Librarian of Steele Memorial Library of CCLD will digitize their popular but rapidly deteriorating collection of Elmira city directories, which span from 1857 to 1924. Once digitized, these directories will be available on New York Heritage Digital Collections.
    See Chemung County Library District's final report for 2021 here.

2020 Grant Recipients

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