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DEI Consulting Grants

SCRLC made funds available to support a round of DEI grants to support two (2) to six (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 in April or May of 2024. SCRLC hopes to offer a similar grant opportunity next year. 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 were 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.

Applications were due by Friday, April 12, 2024.

For your reference, the application packet from 2023-2024 can be viewed here: .DOCX or .PDF

Feel free to contact Claire Lovell with any questions.

 

2023 Grant Recipients

  • Broome Tioga BOCES SLS: $4,145 to digitize yearbooks from Chenango Forks CSD and add them to New York Heritage.
  • Cayuga Museum of History & Art: $3,055 to digitize the diaries of Helen Smith Alexander and add them to New York Heritage.
  • Cayuga Onondaga BOCES SLS: $4,925 to digitize yearbooks from the Southern Cayuga CSD and add them to New York Heritage.
  • Chenango County Historical Society: $5,000 to digitize 700+ photographs from the Mary Fargo and Lee Brown Coye collections and add them to New York Heritage.
  • Fenimore Art Museum: $5,234 to digitize public domain newspapers from the 20th Century for New York State Historic Newspapers.
  • Greater Oneonta Historical Society: $800 to acquire archival records of Oneonta-area veterans from World War II and them to New York Heritage and Stories Behind the Stars.
  • Historic Ithaca & History Center in Tompkins County: $7,651 to digitize a collection 5,600+ of tax assessment photographs and add them to New York Heritage and HistoryForge.
  • Seneca Falls Library: $1,457 to digitize early historical documents about the canal and add them to New York Heritage.
  • Seymour Public Library District: $2,000 to create and digitize oral history interviews and add them to New York Heritage.
  • Southern Tier Library System: $5,234 to digitize newspapers from Angelica, NY for New York State Historic Newspapers.
  • Waterloo Library & Historical Society: $3,550 to digitize 15 microfilmed newspapers for New York State Historic Newspapers and a collection of student written magazines and add them to New York Heritage.

2022 Grant Recipients

  • Cayuga Onondaga BOCES SLS: $2,856 to digitize 96 yearbooks from Weedsport Central School District and add them to New York Heritage.

  • Chenango County Historical Society: $2,500 to continue digitizing materials from their archives for New York Heritage.

  • Elmira College: $3,960 for the digitization of their Catalogues and Bulletins, 1855 - 2010, for inclusion on New York Heritage.

  • Fenimore Art Museum: $5,557.50 to digitize 20th Century newspaper titles in the public domain and add them to New York State Historic Newspapers.
    See Fenimore Art Museum's final report for 2022 here.

  • Greater Oneonta Historical Society: $2,000 for Part 2 of "Digitizing GOHS's Women's History Collections," to upload to New York Heritage.
    See Greater Oneonta Historical Society's final report for 2022 here.

  • Houghton College: $3,950 to add the remaining 63 Houghton College yearbooks to their digital collections and New York Heritage.

  • Huntington Memorial Library: $6,000 to digitize Oneonta city directories and local high school yearbooks for New York Heritage.

  • Interlaken Public Library: $6,000 to digitize the Saturday Morning Review, the Farmer Review, and the Interlaken Review for New York State Historic Newspapers.

  • Seymour Public Library District: $2,400 for their oral history project, the Voices of Cayuga County: Continuing the Conversation, and to add to New York Heritage.
    See Seymour Public Library District's final report for 2022 here.

  • Southern Tier Library System: $4,560 to digitize newspapers from Friendship, NY, for New York State Historic Newspapers.
    See Southern Tier Library System's final report for 2022 here.

  • Steele Memorial Library: $6,000 for an ST ViewScan 4 Microfilm Scanner for the library's genealogy department, which they'll use to digitize microfilmed newspapers.
    See Steele Memorial Library's final report for 2022 here.

  • Waterloo Library & Historical Society: $3,705 to digitize Seneca County newspapers for New York State Historic Newspapers.

  • Wells College: $5,720 for a necessary update to their scanner in order to digitize a scrapbook collection for New York Heritage.

 

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

2019 Grant Recipients

  • Candor Free Library - $5,005 to digitize thirty-four microfilm rolls containing 32, 300 pages of Candor and Tioga County newspapers. These include the Candor Courier (1899-1966), the Owego Gazette (1966-1967), and the Tioga County Courier Gazette (1967-1970). The scanning will be outsourced to the Northern New York Library Network (NNYLN) and the newspapers added to New York State Historic Newspapers.
  • Cortland County Historical Society -- $3,245 to create metadata for the Brockway Motor Trucks Collection in New York Heritage.
    See Cortland County Historical Society's final report for 2019 here.
  • Elmira College - $3,000 to digitize 14 rolls of microfilm (12, 600 pages) of Elmira College newspapers. These include Elmira College Weekly and the Octagon, 1917-1988, and The Sibyl, 1871-1917. The microfilm scanning will be outsourced to the Northern New York Library Network, with scanning of printed issues of The Sibyl to be done at the Elmira College Library. The newspapers will be added to New York State Historic Newspapers, and made freely available to everyone at nyshistoricnewspapers.org. Issues of the The Sibyl will also be hosted on New York State Historic Newspapers and in New York Heritage Digital Collections (nyheritage.org).
  • Fenimore Art Museum Library - $2,500 to digitize microfilm of Otsego County historical newspapers. These include selected newspapers from the Oneonta Herald (1853-1923) and the Otsego Republican (1829). The microfilm scanning will be outsourced to the Northern New York Library Network, and the newspapers will be added to New York State Historic Newspapers and made freely available to everyone at nyshistoricnewspapers.org.
  • Ithaca College - $2,680 to digitize 54 volumes of the Cayugan (the Ithaca College yearbook) from 1913-2005, as well as 153 issues of the Ithacan, the Ithaca College newspaper. The newspapers and yearbooks will be added to New York State Historic Newspapers and New York Heritage Digital Collections, and made freely available to everyone at nyshistoricnewspapers.org and nyheritage.org.
  • Seymour Public Library District - $7,279 to microfilm and digitize 1600 pages and 53 rolls of microfilm of Auburn newspapers. These include the Auburn Morning Dispatch/Auburn Weekly Dispatch (1888) and the Advertiser-Journal (1913-1931). The scanning will be outsourced to Advantage Preservation and the newspapers added to New York State Historic Newspapers, and made freely available to everyone at nyshistoricnewspapers.org.
    See Seymour Public Library District's final report for 2019 here.
  • SUNY Cortland - $4,583 to digitize SUNY Cortland student newspapers. These include The Co-No Press (1925-1942), and The Dragon Chronicle (2013-2017). The newspapers will be added to New York State Historic Newspapers and made freely available to everyone at nyshistoricnewspapers.org.
    See SUNY Cortland's final report for 2019 here.
  • Wells College - $5,045 to digitize and describe the Opendore Women's History Collection at the Howland Stone Museum. This collection includes information and resources collection over twenty years of research and investigation by women's history scholar Elsie Gutchess. Digitized materials will be added to New York Heritage and made freely available at nyheritage.org and the book collection will be accessible to the public and searchable in OCLC's WorldCat.
    See Wells College's final report for 2020 here.

 

2018 Grant Recipients

2017 Grant Recipients

2016 Grant Recipients

2015 Grant Recipients

2014 Grant Recipients

2013 Grant Recipients

 
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