A friend of mine in Iowa City passed along information regarding the National
Endowment for the Humanities grant made earlier last year (see the NEH
announcement below). According to an item in the Winter 2005 issue of the
University of Iowa newspaper, the Iowa Spectator, the University of
Illinois-Urbana/Champaign will share the original grant with Northwestern
University, the University of Iowa, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
The Spectator article notes that the grant-supported work will focus on
microfilming vulnerable books, pamphlets and periodicals relating to the role
Iowa and other Midwestern states played in the history of the development and
operation of the national rail network. The effort will dovetail with the 15
manuscript collections relating to the subject which these university libraries
already own.
Ken Currie
Urbana, University of Illinois, Urbana $393,953
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Barbara Allen, (217) 333-8475
HHH PROJECT TITLE: Preservation Microfilming of Books and Serials Related to
the History of American Railroads
DESCRIPTION: The preservation microfilming and enhanced cataloging of 1,300
deteriorating volumes and the
repair of an additional 2,000 volumes, published from 1832 to 1975, on the
history of American railroads and
their influence on American life and culture from 1820 to 1950, drawn from the
collections of five Committees
on Institutional Cooperation libraries.
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