Grants Received in All Previous Years
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Thanks to the following granting agencies for their generous support of our digital projects:
2014
National Endowment for the Humanities
A We the People grant to the University of New Mexico and the UNT
Libraries for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP),
“Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.”
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
TexTreasures grant for digitizing the Dallas Voice.See the Dallas
Voice collection.
Tocker Foundation
Grant to digitize the Texas Senate Papers of Barbara Jordan in
partnership with Texas Southern University. See the Barbara C. Jordan
Archives collection.
Tocker Foundation
Grants to digitize historical newspaper issues:
- The Cleveland Journal & Illustrated Paper Boy in partnership with the Austin Memorial Library
- Various titles in partnership with the Refugio Public Library.
- Various titles in partnership with the Carl & Mary Welhausen Public Library.
- The Polk County Enterprise in partnership with the Polk County Library. See the Polk County newspapers collection.
- The Willacy County News in partnership with the Reagan Memorial Library.
- The Bandera Bulletin in partnership with the Bandera Public Library.
- Various titles in partnership with the Depot Public Library.
- Various titles in partnership with the Jacksboro Public Library.
- The Dublin Progress in partnership with the Dublin Public Library. See the Dublin Progress collection.
- Various titles in partnership with the Eastland Public Library. See the Eastland Centennial Memorial Library materials.
- The West Weekly News & Westlake Noviny in partnership with the West Public Library. See the West News collection.
- The Hondo Anvil Herald in partnership with the Hondo Public Library. See the Hondo Area newspaper collection.
2013
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
Funds to participate in DPLA’s National Endowment for the Humanities
grant as a service hub.
Ladd and Katherine Hancher Library Foundation
Grants to digitize historical newspaper issues:
- Various Cedar Hill titles in partnership with the Zula B. Wylie Public Library. See the Cedar Hill newspaper collection.
- The South Jetty in partnership with the Port Aransas Public Library. See the South Jetty collection.
- Various titles in partnership with the Boyce Ditto Public Library. See newspapers from Boyce Ditto Public Library.
National Endowment for the Humanities
A We the People grant to the Oklahoma Historical Society and the UNT
Libraries for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP),
“Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.”
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
The UNT Libraries and Texas Historical Commission received a
TexTreasures grant for digitizing applications from their Recorded Texas
Landmarks program. See the Recorded Texas Historic Landmark Files.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
The UNT Libraries support of TexTreasures grants for Mesquite Public
Library, Lamar University, Bertha Voyer Memorial Library. See materials
from Mesquite Public Library, and Lamar University.
Tocker Foundation
Grants to digitize historical newspaper issues:
- Various county titles in partnership with the Rockdale Public Library.
- The Palacios Beacon in partnership with the Palacios Public Library. See the Palacios Beacon collection.
- Various titles in partnership with the Carson County Library.
- Various titles in partnership with the Kerens Public Library. See the Kerens Tribune collection.
- Various Bosque County titles in partnership with the Bosque County/Meridian Public Library. See the Meridian Tribune collection.
- The Seminole Sentinel in partnership with the Gaines County Library. See the Seminole newspaper collection.
- The Schulenburg Sticker in partnership with the Schulenburg Public Library. See the Schulenburg Sticker collection.
- The Baylor County Banner in partnership with the Baylor County Library. See the Baylor County Banner collection.
- Various papers from Lipscomb in partnership with the Higgins Public Library. See the Lipscomb County newspaper collection.
2012
National Endowment for the Humanities
A We the People grant to the University of New Mexico and the UNT
Libraries for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP),
“Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.”
Texas Jewish Historical Society
Grant to support digitization of the Texas Jewish Post. See the
Texas Jewish Post collection.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
The UNT Libraries, Dallas Municipal Archives, and the Sixth Floor Museum
at Dealey Plaza received a TexTreasures grant for “Fifty Years Later:
the John F. Kennedy Assassination,” a grant to digitize and provide free
public access to primary sources related to the assassination of John F.
Kennedy. See the John F. Kennedy collection.
Tocker Foundation
Grants to digitize historical newspaper issues:
- The Rusk Cherokeean in partnership with the Singletary Memorial Library. See the Rusk Cherokeean collection.
- The Claude News in partnership with the Claude Public Library. See the Claude News collection.
- The Atlanta Citizens Journal, and the Naples Monitor in partnership with the Atlanta Public Library. See the Atlanta Citizens Journal collection.
- The Nolan County News, and Sweetwater Reporter in partnership with the Sweetwater City-County Library. See the Sweetwater Reporter collection.
- The Winnsboro Weekly News, and Mineola Monitor in partnership with the Mineola Public Library. See the Mineola newspaper collection.
- The Crosbyton Review, and Crosby County News in partnership with the Crosby County Public Library. See the Crosbyton Review collection.
- The Mexia Herald in partnership with the Gibbs Memorial Library. See the Mexia newspaper collection.
2011
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
An IMLS National Leadership Grant for Advancing Digital Resources. For
this project, the UNT Libraries, together with the Networked Digital
Library of Theses and Dissertations, the Educopia Institute/MetaArchive
Cooperative, and the libraries of Virginia Tech, Rice University, Boston
College, Indiana State University, Pennsylvania State University, and
the University of Arizona will develop and share a toolkit of
guidelines, educational materials, and a set of software tools for
life-cycle data management and preservation of electronic theses and
dissertations (ETDs).
National Endowment for the Humanities
A We the People grant to the UNT Libraries for the National Digital
Newspaper Program (NDNP), “Chronicling America: Historic American
Newspapers.” The Library of Congress serves as the technical advisor
for the NDNP. The award funds digitization of Texas historical
newspapers, and for the grant UNT serves as lead institution with our
partners at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the
University of Texas.
National Endowment for the Humanities
A We the People grant to the Oklahoma Historical Society and the UNT
Libraries for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP),
“Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.” The award funds
digitization of Oklahoma historical newspapers, and for the grant UNT
serves as technical advisor for its partners at the Oklahoma Historical
Society.
Summerlee Foundation
Grant to the UNT Libraries and the UNT History Department for “Digital
Austin Papers.”
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
The UNT Libraries and the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at
UT Austin have received a TexTreasures grant for “Early Texas Newspapers
III,” a grant to digitize and provide free public access to the earliest
Texas newspapers held by the Center for American History. See the
collection Early Texas Newspapers.
Tocker Foundation
Grants to digitize historical newspaper issues:
- The Bastrop Advertiser & County News, in partnership with the Bastrop Public Library. See the Bastrop Advertiser collection.
- The Alto Herald, in partnership with the Alto Public Library. See The Alto Herald collection.
2010
Amon G. Carter Foundation
Grant to the UNT Libraries for “Texas Cultures Online.” In response to
educators’ needs for more multimedia materials that support teaching
about the many cultures of Texas, UNT seeks to digitize cultural
heritage collections that represent various ethnic and cultural groups.
Through funds provided by the Amon G. Carter Foundation, UNT will offer
digitization mini-grants for collections of historically significant
cultural resources. See the collection Texas Cultures Online.
Humanities Texas
A project to develop and present online lesson plans for The Portal to
Texas History that incorporate the interactive style of learning. See
The Portal to Texas History’s Resources4 Educators.
National Endowment for the Humanities
A We the People grant to the University of New Mexico and the UNT
Libraries for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP),
“Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.” The award funds
digitization of New Mexico historical newspapers, and for the grant UNT
serves as technical advisor for its partners at the University of New
Mexico.
National Endowment for the Humanities
A We the People grant to the UNT Libraries for “Mapping the
Southwest.” For this project, UNT will partner with the University of
Texas at Arlington (UTA) to catalog and digitize 5,000 historic maps
from the collections of UTA for online access through The Portal to
Texas History. See the map collections from the University of Texas at
Arlington.
National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Grant to the UNT Libraries for “The Civil War and Its Aftermath: Diverse
Perspectives.” For this project, the UNT Archives will digitize more
than 22,000 pages of 19th century archival materials providing a
contemporary look at the effects of the Civil War and its aftermath from
different sides of the war. Online access will be provided through The
Portal to Texas History. See the collection The Civil War and Its
Aftermath: Diverse Perspectives.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
The UNT Libraries and the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at
UT Austin have received a TexTreasures grant for “Early Texas Newspapers
II,” a grant to digitize and provide free public access to the earliest
Texas newspapers held by the Center for American History. See the
collection Early Texas Newspapers.
Tocker Foundation
Grants to digitize historical newspaper issues:
- The Caldwell Register, Caldwell Chronicle, and Caldwell News-Chronicle, in partnership with the Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library. See the Caldwell News and Burleson County Ledger collection.
- The Breckenridge American, in partnership with the Breckenridge Public Library, and The Cherokeean in partnership with the Singletary Memorial Library. See The Breckenridge American and The Cherokeean.
2009
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
An IMLS grant for “Classification of Government Websites in the
End-of-Term Archive: Extending Depository Libraries’ Collection
Development Practices.” In this project, UNT is partnering with the
Internet Archive to classify, in accord with the SuDocs system, the
materials in the 2008–2009 End-of-Term (EOT) Web, collected by UNT,
which represents the entirety of the federal government’s public Web
presence immediately before and after the 2009 change in presidential
administrations. The project will also identify metrics to translate
measurable units for selected materials in Web archives to units more
familiar to libraries and more recognizable by university
administrators. More information is available at the eotcd project
Web site.
National Endowment for the Humanities
A We the People grant to the UNT Libraries for the National Digital
Newspaper Program (NDNP), “Chronicling America: Historic American
Newspapers.” The Library of Congress serves as the technical advisor
for the NDNP. The award funds digitization of Texas historical
newspapers, and for the grant UNT serves as lead institution with
partners at the Center for American History at the University of Texas,
and Texas Tech University.
National Endowment for the Humanities
A We the People grant to the Oklahoma Historical Society and the UNT
Libraries for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP),
“Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.” The award funds
digitization of Oklahoma historical newspapers, and for the grant UNT
serves as technical advisor for its partners at the Oklahoma Historical
Society.
Tocker Foundation
Grants to digitize historical newspaper issues:
- The Breckenridge American, in partnership with the Breckenridge Public Library. See the The Breckenridge American.
- The Aspermont Star, in partnership with the Stonewall County Library. See The Aspermont Star.
2008
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
As a partner in the Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative (THDI), the
UNT Libraries’ Portal to Texas History has partnered with the Texas
State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) for the grant, “Train
to Share: Interoperability Training for Cultural Heritage Institutions.”
TSLAC is the lead organization for the three-year project to develop
state-wide workshops, adapted from the Library of Congress “Cataloging
for the 21st Century” series, to provide training on interoperability
measures of digitization projects, and principles of sharable metadata
developed in a project previously funded by IMLS.
Summerlee Foundation
Grant to the UNT Libraries for “Rescuing Texas History.” Through funds
provided by the Summerlee Foundation of Dallas, The Portal to Texas
History will offer digitization mini-grants for at-risk local history
materials. The grant will begin in January of 2009. See the collection
Rescuing Texas History, 2009.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
UNT received an LSTA Cooperation grant to microfilm, digitize, and
provide free public access to the Bartlett Tribune from 1902-1978. See
The Bartlett Tribune.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
The Portal team and the Center for American History at UT have received
a TexTreasures grant for digitizing “Early Texas Newspapers: 1829-1861,”
a comprehensive grant to microfilm, digitize, and provide free public
access to the earliest Texas newspapers held by the Center for American
History. See the collection Early Texas Newspapers.
2007
Adeline & George McQueen Foundation
Additional funding to the UNT Libraries for “Where the West Begins:
Capturing Fort Worth’s Historic Treasures.” Participants will include
the UNT Libraries, Texas Christian University, the Amon Carter Museum,
the University of Texas at Arlington, Fort Worth Jewish Archives, the
Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame, Log Cabin Village, Cattle Raisers Museum,
Lockheed Martin Archives, Archives of the Central Texas Conference
United Methodist Church, the Texas State Library and Archives
Commission, and the Cowtown Coliseum. See the collection Where the West
Begins.
Amon G. Carter Foundation
Grant to the UNT Libraries for “Where the West Begins: Capturing Fort
Worth’s Historic Treasures.” Participants will include the UNT
Libraries, Fort Worth Public Library, Texas Christian University, the
Amon Carter Museum, the University of Texas at Arlington, Fort Worth
Jewish Archives, Tarrant County College NE, the Texas Cowboy Hall of
Fame, Log Cabin Village, Cattle Raisers Museum, Lockheed Martin
Archives, Archives of the Central Texas Conference United Methodist
Church, Dallas Public Library, University of Houston, and the Cowtown
Coliseum. See the collection Where the West Begins.
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
A grant for “Optimizing the User Experience in an Architecture for Rapid
Development.” The UNT Libraries will develop a model for an iterative
user-centered design process in a rapid development framework that
digital libraries can implement to improve the usability and
effectiveness of their resources for targeted user groups. This project
will focus on the information-seeking behavior and needs of
genealogists, who constitute a third of all digital library users. The
project Web site and blog is archived at
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc270771/.
National Endowment for the Humanities
A We the People grant to the UNT Libraries for the National Digital
Newspaper Program (NDNP), “Chronicling America: Historic American
Newspapers.” The Library of Congress serves as the technical advisor
for the NDNP. The Award will fund digitization of Texas Newspapers, and
for the grant UNT serves as lead institution with partners at the Center
for American History at the University of Texas, and Texas Tech
University.
Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation
A grant to support digitization of materials from the Heritage House
Museum, Orange, Texas. See the Heritage House Museum materials.
Summerfield G. Roberts Foundation
Grant to the UNT Libraries for the Adopt a Book Digitally program. This
gift will allow us to digitize nearly 250 books from the participating
partners for this project: UNT, Austin College, the Star of the Republic
Museum, Austin Public Library and Dallas Public Library. Selected books
will include city and county histories, city directories, biographies of
notable Texans, and other Texana titles.
Tocker Foundation
Grant to digitize early newspaper issues of the Tulia Herald, in
partnership with the Swisher County Library. See the Tulia Herald.
Tocker Foundation
Grant to digitize historic town records from Clarendon, Texas, in
partnership with the Burton Memorial Library. See the Clarendon
materials.
2006
Humanities Texas
Grant to the UNT Libraries to launch an initiative to develop
and present online lesson plans that incorporate the interactive
notebook style of learning. In total, twenty lesson plans will be
developed by master teachers accomplished in creating this type of
innovative curriculum. This project is made possible in part by a grant
from Humanities Texas, a state partner of the National Endowment for the
Humanities. See the lesson plans in My Texas History Notebook.
The Summerlee Foundation
Grant to the UNT Libraries for phase II of “Rescuing Texas History
through the Digitization of At-risk Photographs and Maps.” Through funds
provided by the Summerlee Foundation of Dallas, The Portal to Texas
History offers digitization mini-grants for at-risk local history
materials. The awardees include the Anderson County Historical
Commission; Austin History Center, Austin Public Library; Bosque County
Historical Commission; Childress County Heritage Museum; Corpus Christi
Museum of Science and History; Dallas Heritage Village; FBC Heritage
Museum Unlimited; First Christian Church, Port Arthur; Heritage House
Museum, Orange; Historic Rose Marine Theater; Kemah Historical Society;
Museum of the American Railroad; Palestine Public Library; Sanger Public
Library; Sulphur Springs Public Library; Texas Lutheran University; and
Val Verde Historical Commission. See the collection Rescuing Texas
History, 2007.
2005
Forrest C. Lattner Foundation
Grant to the UNT Libraries and its partners the Courthouse-on-the-Square
Museum, the Denton Public Library, and Texas Woman’s University for
“From Plowshares to Diplomas: Digitizing Early Denton History,” which
will focus on local Denton history. See the Denton materials.
Humanities Texas
Grant to the UNT Libraries and the Deaf Smith County Public Library to
digitize 3900 large format negatives of historic photographs of Deaf
Smith County. This collection represents a wealth of primary source
images that document the people, places, and culture of Hereford and the
surrounding county. By presenting resources that are not widely
available, the “Deaf Smith County: Frontier Communities of the Llano
Estacado” project will benefit all Texans by highlighting an
under-represented area that richly illustrates Texas’s cattle and
farming tradition. This project is made possible in part by a grant from
Humanities Texas, a state partner of the National Endowment for the
Humanities. See the Deaf Smith County Library collection.
Humanities Texas
Grant to the UNT Libraries and nine partner institutions to digitize
items illuminating the life and career of Lorenzo de Zavala, empresario,
statesman and Texas revolutionary. Participants are University of Texas
at Austin, University of Texas at Arlington, Southern Methodist
University, the Texas State Archives, the San Jacinto Museum of History,
the Dallas Historical Society, University of Texas Southwestern Medical
Center Library, the Texas General Land Office and the Sam Houston
Regional Library. This project is made possible in part by a grant from
Humanities Texas, a state partner of the National Endowment for the
Humanities. See the Lorenzo de Zavala Online project.
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
As a partner in the Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative (THDI), the
UNT Libraries’ Portal to Texas History will play an important role
in supporting a statewide digital gateway through the Library of Texas
at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. THDI is a
cooperative project to identify, describe, digitize, preserve, and make
broadly accessible special collections of Texas history and culture held
by libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies in Texas. For
this grant initiative, The Portal to Texas History team will develop and
integrate an Open Archives Initiative (OAI) harvester into its existing
architecture, to support another means of providing access to materials
from diverse institutions. In addition, new content will be added to The
Portal to Texas History, and in turn to the Library of Texas, from
partners at the Jacob Fontaine Religious Museum, the Boyce Ditto Public
Library, the Marshall Public Library, the Weatherford College Library,
the Weslaco Bicultural Museum Society, and the Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston.
Summerlee Foundation
Grant to the UNT Libraries, “Rescuing Texas History through the
Digitization of At-risk Photographs and Maps.” Through funds provided by
the Summerlee Foundation of Dallas, The Portal to Texas History offers
digitization mini-grants for at-risk local history materials. Awardees
include the Clay County Historical Society, the Genevieve Miller Public
Library, the Palestine Public Library, the Laredo Public Library, the
Archives of the Big Bend at Sul Ross State University, the Moore
Memorial Public Library, the University of Texas Pan-American, the Clark
Hotel Museum, the Austin Public Library, the Killeen Public Library, and
Concordia University at Austin. See the collection Rescuing Texas
History.
2004
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
(NDIIPP)
Grant to the collaborative partnership of the California Digital
Library, New York University, and UNT to create a research program that
will develop partner networks and infrastructure for archiving Web-based
material, and will address effective strategies for the capture,
curation and persistent management of these materials. Learn more about
this program.
Summerlee Foundation
Grant to the UNT Libraries to support project development for The
Portal to Texas History. This generous gift
covers travel, distribution and development of promotional materials.
Tocker Foundation
Grant to Alvord Public Library to digitize various local records
including Alvord incorporation papers; minutes of the town board,
1888-1917; and the Audubon town history. Materials were digitized at UNT
and made accessible through The Portal to Texas History. See the Alvord
materials.
2003
TexTreasures
Grant to the UNT Libraries to digitize over 7,000 pages of historical
content, “From Republic to State: Debates and Documents Relating to the
Annexation of Texas, 1836-1856.” The material includes books, pamphlets,
maps, letters and land grants. See the Annexation materials.
2002
State of Texas Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund (TIF)
Grant to the UNT Libraries to create a technical structure for The
Portal to Texas History. The grant covers the
cost of hardware and software to assist with discovery, preservation and
file management for digital collections.
2000
TexTreasures
Grant to the UNT Libraries to digitize the first ten volumes of Gammel’s
Laws of Texas, “Nineteenth Century Texas Law Online: Gammel’s the Laws
of Texas (v. 1-10). See the Gammel’s Laws of Texas collection.