C&RL News December 2018 634

G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n sAnn-Christe Galloway

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Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, email: 
agalloway@ala.org.

A team led by the Penn State University  
Libraries, in collaboration with the Uni-
versity of Missouri–Kansas City University 
(UMKC) Libraries, was recently awarded 
$99,429 in grant funds from the Institute 
of Museum and Library Services’ National 
Leadership Grants program. The grant, 
titled “Collective Responsibility: National 
Forum on Labor Practices for Grant-Funded 
Digital Positions,” will enable the team to 
host two meetings to explore labor issues 
that inform the experiences of grant-funded 
digital laborers in the libraries, archives, 
and museums communities along with 
developing ethical labor practices for grant-
funded positions. The project, led by Ruth 
Kitchin Tillman, cataloging systems and 
linked data strategist for the Penn State 
University Libraries, and Sandy Rodriguez, 
head of Digital Archives and Stewardship at 
UMKC Libraries, will run from October 1, 
2018, through March 2020 and will consist 
of two meetings for up to 40 participants 
in 2019, one in spring on “Experience” 
and one in fall on “Practices.” Both meet-
ings seek to foster collaboration between 
funders, institutional participants, and 
grant laborers to learn from those already 
doing the work and challenge barriers to 
progress.

Council on Library and Information Re -
sources (CLIR) has been awarded $2.75 
million by the Andrew W. Mellon Foun-
dation to help establish sound data man-
agement in African American and African 

Studies by building a professional cohort 
of knowledgeable specialists through post-
doctoral positions. The grant will support 
two overlapping cohorts of five fellows 
each, starting in summer 2019, working at 
U.S. or Canadian institutions with strong 
programs in African American and African 
Studies. CLIR will post fellowship open-
ings in early December 2018 at https://
www.clir.org/fellowships/postdoc. The 
candidate application deadline will be 
January 4, 2019, with fellows announced 
in June 2019.

I n d i a n a  U n i v e r s i t y  ( I U )  L i b r a r i e s  h a s 
received a $1.2 million grant from the 
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop 
the ability to search digitized audiovisual 
files. IU Libraries will work extensively 
with project partners at University of Tex-
as-Austin, New York Public Library, and 
information management consultant AVP. 
Together the team will develop and test 
a scalable Audiovisual Metadata Platform, 
known as AMP, to generate searchable 
time-stamped descriptions for audiovisual 
content.

A c q u i s i t i o n s

A complete set of the early S oviet ar t 
magazine Tvorchestvo (roughly translated 
as “Creation”), including all 23 issues 
running from 1918 to 1922, has been ac-
quired by the Graphic Arts Collection at 
Princeton University Libraries. The print 
runs of Tvorchestvo gradually decreased 
from 10,200 to 20,200 copies in 1920, 
10,000 copies in 1921, and 5,000 copies 
in 1922.  

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