Digitization

4 Cornell Digitization Projects Win Grants

• By Leila Meyer
• 09/27/16

Four digitization projects at Cornell University have won grants worth around $5,000 each from Cornell's Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences.

Now in its seventh year, the digitization grants program was developed "to support collaborative and creative use of resources through the creation of digital content of enduring value to the Cornell community and scholarship at large," according to information on the program's site. The program is funded by the university's College of Arts and Sciences and is coordinated by the Cornell University Library.

Projects that received grants this year include:

• Cornell University Blaschka Glass Invertebrate Models project, which will expand and improve the website of the Blaschka Glass Invertebrate Collection, a 10-year-old site used by students and researchers in the fields of science, history and art;
• Punk Music Flyers project, which will digitize a collection of 1,800 punk music fliers for the study of punk and post-punk music, culture, aesthetics, fashion and politics from the late 1970s through the early 2000s;
• International Workers' Order (IWO) and Jewish People's Fraternal Order (JPFO) project, which will curate, conserve and digitize the archives of the Jewish People's Fraternal Order and other sections of the International Workers' Order archives; and
• Digitizing Tell en-Naṣbeh, Biblical Mizpah of Benjamin project, which will scan the plans of Tell en-Nasbeh, an archaeological site near Jerusalem, the records of which were previously available only at the University of California, Berkeley.

Digitization projects funded through the grants program become part of Cornell's digital library and support academic and research activities across the university.

Details about all of the projects that have received grants through the program can be found on Cornell University Library's site.