CLRC is happy to announce the recipients of 2015 member library RBDB funding:
Moon Library, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry: $10,500 for the project, Conversion/Digitization and Preservation of William Harlow’s Film Work. The collection was created by an illustrious SUNY-ESF professor and will have broad appeal.
Fayetteville Free Library: $2,000 for the project Fayetteville Historic Newspaper Archive. The project will digitize reels of Fayetteville NY historic newspapers which are held in microfilm, and make them accessible electronically.
Dunham Public Library: $2,750 for Whitesboro Central School Yearbook Digitization. The project will digitize the library’s collection of yearbooks and add them to New York Heritage.
Cazenovia Public Library: $1,115 for the Cazenovia Oral History project. The library will digitize oral histories recorded by former town historian Peg Ladd in the 1980s, as well as their accompanying time indexes.
Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary: $3,000 for the project Retrospective Conversion of Core Russian Orthodox Collection. The library will continue to convert cataloging for its highly unique collections to machine-readable form so the collections are visible in OCLC’s WorldCat.
Utica School of Commerce: $1,376 for a records upgrade. Current cataloging records for the library’s collection will be upgraded to MARC format and added to WorldCat, making it possible for the library to share its materials via interlibrary loan.
OCM BOCES School Library System: $10,000 for the Syracuse Dioceses Schools Resource Sharing Initiative. The project will help the region’s dioceses schools enhance their MARC records and create a shared catalog. The catalog will be accessible to students from home and will include e-content not previously available to these schools.
Upstate Health Sciences Library: $7,055 for Upstate Digital Historical Collections Cleanup. The project will increase access to historical materials by consolidating metadata for all scanned materials in one centralized database.
Manlius Library: $570 for Digital Oak Leaves. The project will digitize Fayetteville-Manlius High School yearbooks that are currently held by the Manlius Historical Society, and add them to N Y Heritage.
All of these projects will enhance resource sharing within the region and beyond, as they will make unique materials both discoverable and accessible to a broad audience. Congratulations to all of the 2015 RBDB awardees! The application process for 2016 awards will begin in November, 2015.
