Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

in support of studies of the potential for collaboration with The New-York Historical Society regarding  library collections

Collaboration - New York Historical Society

to help cover the losses the New York Public Library’s Research Libraries incurred from the reduction in New York City support as a result of the events of September 11, 2001

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund - Research Library

for use as an endowment of three fellowships for resident scholars in the New York Public Library’s Center for Scholars and Writers, and for spendable funds to support near-term fellowships and related expenses

Fellowships at the Center for Scholars and Writers

to cover the losses New York City’s three public branch library systems have incurred from the reduction in government support of core operations as a result of the events of September 11, 2001

Disaster Recovery Relief Fund

for use by its Library for the Perfoming Arts toward the costs of curatorial staff and research for its public programs

Performing Arts - Library

for use by its Library for the Performing Arts toward costs of curatorial staff and research for its public programs

Library for the Performing Arts

to support the development of new models for the curation of shared library print collections

Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP) Implementation—Phase Two

toward completion of the Oral History program of the Dance Collection of the Library and Museum of the Performing Arts

Dance Collection of the Library & Museum of the Performing Arts

to assist the Dance Collections of the Library & Museum of Performing Arts in establishing an oral history program

Dance Collection of the Library & Museum of the Performing Arts - Oral History Program

to support services in the Research Libraries division while the Library implements a major organizational and financial restructuring plan

Restructuring Assessment

to support the refinement and extensibility of software that would improve shared-print collection management among library consortia

Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP) - Phase IV

to support initiatives of the new president

President's Initiative Fund

to support internships for preservation administrators

Research Library Preservation Internships

to support the William G. Bowen Endowment for Technology and Scholarship, and to support the new position of director of technology and scholarship and related expenses

William G. Bowen Endowment for Technology and Scholarship

to support the preservation of the Library’s general research collections

Preservation Endowment

toward costs of automating the bibliographic records of the serial titles in the Library's research collections

Serials Collections Automation

to support a study of the restructuring and integration of the Library’s divisions so as to achieve economies and improve services

matching endowment of its research libraries

Unrestricted Endowment

matching endowment to support cataloguing in The Research Libraries

Collections Cataloging

toward the costs of rehabilitating and preserving the Main Public Catalog of the Research Libraries

Catalogue Preservation

to provide budgetary relief from "underwater" endowment funds

Relief for Underwater Endowments

to support a permanent endowment to maintain collections at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Schomburg Endowment 

to support the development of archives for long-term maintenance of electronic journal publications

Archiving of Electronic Journals

to support initiatives in digital services

Research Collections and Preservation Consortium (ReCAP) Implementation

to support the development of a web archive of syllabi related to contemporary black life and culture in the United States

Developing the #SchomburgSyllabus

to support an investigation into the future uses of dance videos and films

Dance Film & Video Needs Analysis

to support the preservation of audio and moving image collections

Preservation of At-Risk Audiovisual Collections

to support planning for a systematic analysis of possible scholarly and educational uses of dance video and film

Dance Video and Film

to support the development of a plan to process and catalog the archives of Cuban scholar Fernando Ortiz

Archives of Fernando Ortiz 

for use by its Performing Arts Research Center to improve coordination, research, and public programming of its performing-arts exhibitions

Performing Arts - Research Center

to support partial costs of a conference on the theoretical and practical aspects of publishing in the digital age

Books in Browsers V

to support planning by three research libraries to transform a shared shelving facility into a shared collection

Research Collections and Preservation Consortium 

to support a comprehensive survey of the library’s photograph holdings and their condition

Photograph Collection Survey

to support the preservation of collections not previously available to the public, and the organization of a conference on the Future of the Black Archive

Future of the Black Archive

Preservation of At-Risk Audiovisual Collections—Phase Two

toward costs of developing its Scholars-in-Residence Program

Scholars-in-Residence [Post-Doctoral Fellowships in the Humanities]

to support a survey of the content and preservation needs of audiovisual collections

Audio & Moving Image Collections Inventory & Preservation Needs Assessment

to continue support for the preservation of collections at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture that were not previously made available to the public

Future of the Black Archive Phase II

to support the Schomburg Center in collection enhancement activities, including digital infrastructure improvements and user engagement efforts

Ethnic Studies Futures: Africana Studies and African American Studies

to support continued expansion of Jail & Prison Services programming

Jail & Prison Services

to support capacity building and expansion of the Correctional Services’ Reference-by-Mail Program

Correctional Services Reference-by-Mail Program

to support capacity-building and expansion by the Correctional Services’ Reference-by-Mail Program

to endow and support fellowships for scholars at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers

Center for Scholars and Writers Fellowships

General

Dance Preservation

for use by the University Archives in developing appraisal guidelines for scientific and technological materials

Strengthen Resources

Annual Contribution

endowment of the position to be known as "The Andrew W. Mellon Director of The Research Libraries"

Humanities Scholarships

Artists as Catalysts

Artists as Catalysts Navigation Image

Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 