Getty Images and Stand Together Announce Inaugural Grant to Preserve HBCU's Historical Archives
Greetings Colleagues,
I trust you're well and in good spirits. Loretta Parham, AUC Woodruff Library (GA), forwards the message below.
Take care,
Sandra
Good morning. Hope you have seen this announcement. I can imagine that a cohort of schools making a thematic joint application might be well received.
Loretta Parham, CEO & Director
Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library www.auctr.eduhttp://www.auctr.edu
We will always provide service that exceeds the customer's expectation...Because We Care!
Sandra M. Phoenix
HBCU Library Alliance Executive Director
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
111 James P. Brawley Drive SW
Atlanta GA 30314
404-978-2118 (office)
404-702-5854 (cell)
http://www.hbculibraries.orghttp://www.hbculibraries.org/
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Thank you for this information on the Getty Images grant, however, are
there opportunities for the HBCU Library Alliance and its digital library
to be at the forefront of such an initiative? Our early work to build a
digital HBCU library involved learning to digitize our own
collections/images and to host them as an Alliance, thereby having complete
control over the assets, how they would be used and the royalties or cost
recovery for our own library or institution.
Of course, this grant may be a good opportunity, especially since Getty has
a tremendous reach to showcase our institutions and preserve our story,
however, I do hope that our institutions will make sure that they
understand the long term advantages or the legal and fiscal ownership
concerns in advance. For example, how do we share our collections with
each other if we have to access them or be cleared from an external
for-profit organization? Also, we really have to make sure that we clearly
own the rights to the images through the proper documentation in our
archives. I would like to know more about what next steps, if any, are
being planned for the Alliance's digital library and how we can assist our
members in digitizing their holdings when it is to our advantage. Perhaps
Getty would help us sustain our own digital library and empower us. Also,
each institution has its own story that is unique and should be preserved
for its uniqueness, although we are all HBCUs. How are the funds generated
from individual institutions distributed to other HBCUs? Also, I did not
see a member from an HBCU or HBCU library on the panel of judges in the
grant announcement. That member would have been a good addition to the
panel of judges, if we were given a chance for input before the grant was
announced.
Thanks for sharing this announcement with the membership. These comments
and questions are offered only for consideration.
On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 8:15 AM Sandra Phoenix sphoenix@hbculibraries.org
wrote:
Greetings Colleagues,
I trust you’re well and in good spirits. Loretta Parham, AUC Woodruff
Library (GA), forwards the message below.
Take care,
Sandra
Good morning. Hope you have seen this announcement. I can imagine that a
cohort of schools making a thematic joint application might be well
received.
Loretta Parham, CEO & Director
Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library www.auctr.edu
We will always provide service that exceeds the customer’s
expectation…Because We Care!
Sandra M. Phoenix
HBCU Library Alliance Executive Director
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
111 James P. Brawley Drive SW
Atlanta GA 30314
404-978-2118 (office)
404-702-5854 (cell)
http://www.hbculibraries.org
sphoenix@hbculibraries.org
Honor the ancestors, honor the children and those yet to come.
Building Capacity for Humanities Special Collections at HBCUs – Become an
ally and partner with us to protect, preserve and share a more authentic
record of American history. Follow this link *
http://hbculibraries.org/humanities-2019.html for more information.
Follow this link http://hbculibraries.org/ and click on the Donate Now button
to invest in this project. Your support is appreciated.*
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Dean, Levi Watkins Learning Center
Project Director, National Center for the Study of Civil Rights
And African-American Culture
Alabama State University
Montgomery, AL 36101-0271
From: Janice Franklin [mailto:jfranklin@alasu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2021 7:19 PM
To: Sandra Phoenix sphoenix@hbculibraries.org
Cc: hbcu-libadmin@lists.hbculibraries.org
Subject: Re: Getty Images and Stand Together Announce Inaugural Grant to Preserve HBCU's Historical Archives
Thank you for this information on the Getty Images grant, however, are there opportunities for the HBCU Library Alliance and its digital library to be at the forefront of such an initiative? Our early work to build a digital HBCU library involved learning to digitize our own collections/images and to host them as an Alliance, thereby having complete control over the assets, how they would be used and the royalties or cost recovery for our own library or institution.
Of course, this grant may be a good opportunity, especially since Getty has a tremendous reach to showcase our institutions and preserve our story, however, I do hope that our institutions will make sure that they understand the long term advantages or the legal and fiscal ownership concerns in advance. For example, how do we share our collections with each other if we have to access them or be cleared from an external for-profit organization? Also, we really have to make sure that we clearly own the rights to the images through the proper documentation in our archives. I would like to know more about what next steps, if any, are being planned for the Alliance's digital library and how we can assist our members in digitizing their holdings when it is to our advantage. Perhaps Getty would help us sustain our own digital library and empower us. Also, each institution has its own story that is unique and should be preserved for its uniqueness, although we are all HBCUs. How are the funds generated from individual institutions distributed to other HBCUs? Also, I did not see a member from an HBCU or HBCU library on the panel of judges in the grant announcement. That member would have been a good addition to the panel of judges, if we were given a chance for input before the grant was announced.
Thanks for sharing this announcement with the membership. These comments and questions are offered only for consideration.
On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 8:15 AM Sandra Phoenix <sphoenix@hbculibraries.orgmailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> wrote:
Greetings Colleagues,
I trust you’re well and in good spirits. Loretta Parham, AUC Woodruff Library (GA), forwards the message below.
Take care,
Sandra
Good morning. Hope you have seen this announcement. I can imagine that a cohort of schools making a thematic joint application might be well received.
Loretta Parham, CEO & Director
Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library www.auctr.eduhttp://www.auctr.edu
We will always provide service that exceeds the customer’s expectation…Because We Care!
Sandra M. Phoenix
HBCU Library Alliance Executive Director
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
111 James P. Brawley Drive SW
Atlanta GA 30314
404-978-2118 (office)
404-702-5854 (cell)
http://www.hbculibraries.orghttp://www.hbculibraries.org/
sphoenix@hbculibraries.orgmailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org
Honor the ancestors, honor the children and those yet to come.
Building Capacity for Humanities Special Collections at HBCUs – Become an ally and partner with us to protect, preserve and share a more authentic record of American history. Follow this link http://hbculibraries.org/humanities-2019.html for more information. Follow this link http://hbculibraries.org/ and click on the Donate Now button to invest in this project. Your support is appreciated.
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Janice R. Franklin, Ph.D.
Dean, Levi Watkins Learning Center
Project Director, National Center for the Study of Civil Rights
And African-American Culture
Alabama State University
Montgomery, AL 36101-0271