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March 2016 161 C&RL News

Washington University Libraries in St. Louis 
(WUSTL) has been awarded a two-year, 
$250,000 grant from the Council on Library 
and Information Resources to support the 
“Revealing Visual Culture: Digitizing Modern Il-
lustrated Periodical Tear Sheets in the Walt Reed 
Illustration Archive” project. The project will 
create digital images and supporting metadata 
for 150,000 tear sheets contained in the Walt 
Reed Illustration Archive. During the two-year 
project, an outside vendor will create digital 
files and initial metadata, and WUSTL Libraries  
staff will supervise student assistants to enhance 
the metadata and perform quality control. The 
resulting image database will be completely 
available to the public. WUSTL Libraries has also 
been awarded a two-year, $517,000 grant from 

the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support 
the “Documenting the Now” project. Formed 
as a collaboration with University of California-
Riverside and University of Maryland, the 
project will build from Washington University’s 
Documenting Ferguson work and related efforts 
to develop a cloud-based application that will 
enable researchers to gather and analyze social 
media posts on Twitter related to social move-
ments. Grant funds will support the hiring of a 
project coordinator at WUSTL Libraries, as well 
as contract programmers who will work with 
the tech development team located at University 
of Maryland’s Maryland Institute for Technology 
in the Humanities. This project was initially 
developed by Meredith Evans (now director of 
the Carter Presidential Library and Museum), 
with Chris Freeland (AUL at Washington Uni-
versity Libraries) stepping in to make the final 
submission and lead the project after Evans’s 
departure. 

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

were very gracious about acknowledging and 
correcting errors. I hope that my work has 
made a modest contribution to the histories 
of those institutions as well as to the history 
of research library leadership. 

Almost every institution has called upon 
current employees to fill in as directors during 
periods between permanent director appoint-
ments. Most often these are library managers 
or faculty drawn from teaching departments. I 
have included the names of those individuals 
that were provided by their institutions but 
have made no attempts either to find the 
names of those not provided or to track down 
information about each of those individuals. I 
included information about those individuals 
when it appeared in various press releases or 
in the library literature. ARL has indicated its 
interest in adding information about interim 
appointees to the database. 

Once I had as complete a set of names 
as was practical, I searched to find additional 
information about each person. In addition 

to the information I found in the published 
book and journal literature, including LIS 
article databases and standard library en-
cyclopedias and biographical dictionaries, I 
searched institutional archives sites; institu-
tional public affairs office websites; general 
biographical reference sources, such as Who’s 
Who Online; campus newspapers; college 
and university catalogs; and general search 
engines such as Google and Bing.

In the end I was able to construct what 
I think is a reasonably accurate database. I 
am confident that it contains errors and will 
be grateful to receive corrections or to have 
those corrections made in the database, 
which is available openly at the address 
provided near the top of this article. I hope 
that the community will keep it updated as 
time goes on.

Note
1. Readers can openly access the results of 

this work at http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78980.  

(“Where did they come from?,” continues from page 134) 

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