Category Archives for Development & Endowment
IMLS Presents New Strategic Plan for 2018-2022 – Transforming Communities
The Institute of Museum and Library Services today released a new plan to guide the agency’s programs and services over the next five years. Transforming Communities, the IMLS Strategic Plan 2018-2022, frames how IMLS will advance, support, and empower America’s … Continue reading
New Digital Research Report Analyses Grant Applications in Arts and Humanities Research
Digital Science’s latest report analyses arts and humanities research through topic modelling of grant applications, unveiling an innovative and richer understanding of the research activity in these disciplines. Read More
What books? Where?
As part of a $50,000 planning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the analysis is aimed at fostering engagement with print resources among library users, particularly with open stack print collections and users within the local community. Read More
New Graduation Data on Pell Recipients Reveals a Gap in Outcomes
These data reveal significant gaps in degree completion by Pell status – and a lot of talent left on the table. Read More
Extending Omeka for a Large-Scale Digital Project
In September 2016, the department of Special Collections and Archives, Kent State University Libraries, received a Digital Dissemination grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) to digitize roughly 72,500 pages from the May 4 collection, which documents … Continue reading
From databases to digital maps, students lend expertise
Penn’s Price Lab for Digital Humanities and Penn Libraries are piloting a program this summer that employs student interns to help with new “incubation” grant projects. The Project Incubation grants, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provide up to … Continue reading
NCSU Libraries Brings In Major Mellon Grant for Visualization
NC State has been awarded a $414,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the advancement of tools and techniques for developing and sharing large-scale visual content for research. Entitled “Visualizing Digital Scholarship in Libraries and Learning Spaces,” … Continue reading
Immersive Scholar
NC State has been awarded a $414,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop extensible models and programs for the creation and sharing of digital scholarship in large-scale and immersive environments. Read More