CLIR – Library Stuff http://www.librarystuff.net The library weblog dedicated to resources for keeping current and professional development Thu, 19 Jan 2017 19:51:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.1 94718154 Axiell partners with CLIR to create the Digital Library of the Middle East http://www.librarystuff.net/2016/12/19/axiell-partners-with-clir-to-create-the-digital-library-of-the-middle-east/ http://www.librarystuff.net/2016/12/19/axiell-partners-with-clir-to-create-the-digital-library-of-the-middle-east/#respond Mon, 19 Dec 2016 15:02:39 +0000 http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=19053 “Axiell, the leading vendor globally of collections management software to archives, libraries and museums, today announces its partnership with the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), an independent, nonprofit organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning. Together, the two organizations will explore collaborative opportunities to design and sustain the Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME), leveraging Axiell’s decade long experience in the Middle East, knowledge around preserving cultural heritage and innovative technology solutions for collection management and education.” (via Axiell)

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Smithsonian Libraries Receives 2015 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Award http://www.librarystuff.net/2016/01/22/smithsonian-libraries-receives-2015-digitizing-hidden-special-collections-and-archives-award/ Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:42:37 +0000 http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=17612 “The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has selected the “Biodiversity Heritage Library Field Notes Project” for a 2015 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives award. The award of $491,713 will help support increased accessibility to original scientific documentation found in archival field notes in participating institution collections.Field notes provide valuable, primary research data about species and ecosystems that is often unpublished or unavailable through other sources. They can also be extremely valuable for museum research, providing key specimen data related to study sites, collecting details, and ecology.” (via Smithsonian Libraries Unbound)

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University Receives Grant to Establish D.C. Africana Archives Project http://www.librarystuff.net/2014/01/06/university-receives-grant-to-establish-d-c-africana-archives-project/ Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:29:56 +0000 http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=14400 “The George Washington University has received nearly $496,000 in funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to establish the D.C Africana Archives Project (DCAAP), a collaborative initiative to document African American and African diaspora culture, history and politics in D.C. The 33-month grant was awarded to the Special Collections Research Center at the GW Libraries and the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences’ Africana Studies Program in December through CLIR’s Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program.” (via The George Washington University)

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Columbia University Libraries Receives CLIR Hidden Collections Grant for Human Rights Archives http://www.librarystuff.net/2013/02/28/columbia-university-libraries-receives-clir-hidden-collections-grant-for-human-rights-archives/ Fri, 01 Mar 2013 02:46:33 +0000 http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=12874 “Columbia University Libraries is pleased to announce the receipt of a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) grant to support the project, “Documenting Advocacy: Human Rights Collections in the Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research.” As part of the “Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives Program,” CLIR administers this national effort with the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  The $242,500 grant will fund the processing of three collections over a twenty-eight month period: the archives of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Southern Africa Project, the Physicians for Human Rights, and Human Rights First.”

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