Colleagues, Important Updates!!!! LYRASIS and Partners Receive Third HBCU Photo Preservation Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded LYRASIS and its partners - the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA), HBCU Library Alliance, Image Permanence Institute (IPI) and University of Delaware (UD) Art Conservation Department - a grant of $700,000 to support the preservation of local photographic and magnetic media collections, increase their use in scholarly endeavors, and encourage student engagement therein at a select group of five Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The 28-month project builds on existing activity and accomplishments from two previous preservation grant awards from Mellon to LYRASIS and its partners. This grant award provides a total of 9 years of funding for photographic preservation and related student mentorship and staff development at HBCUs. The program focuses on preservation within the culturally and historically rich special collections of HBCUs. These institutions hold extensive and valuable photographic and audiovisual collections acquired over many years documenting the African American experience, including many recordings from the Civil Rights Era captured on magnetic media, such as audio cassette tapes, video tapes, and reel-to-reel tapes. In addition to preserving and improving access to these collections, this project will support the use of the collection content in educational programming, and training and career mentorship of undergraduate and graduate students in preservation, conservation and related fields. The program will also involve active outreach to other HBCU librarians and archivists to promote preservation best practices. Emory Center for Digital Scholarship/HBCU Library Alliance Summer Institute Allen Tullos and Wayne Morse, co-directors of the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, contacted us in late April regarding participation in a summer institute focused on acquiring technical skills for building select digital projects. The institute was hosted June 16-20 at Emory University (GA). Paste this link http://news.emory.edu/stories/2014/06/er_HBCU_librarians_digital_workshop/campus.html into your address bar for the article published in The Emory Report. Wayne State University -Project iDOL (Increasing Diversity of Librarians) Project iDOL is collaboration between the Wayne State University School of Library and Information Science and the HBCU Library Alliance. Wayne State has received funding from the IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program to increase the diversity of the library profession. In this 3-year project, Wayne State and the HBCU Library Alliance will recruit, mentor, and provide an online Master of Library and Information Science degree to 10 students from historically underrepresented groups in order to achieve greater diversity among practicing library professionals. More than 70 individuals applied for this program. Fifteen individuals were interviewed virtually on June 19th. Richard Rudasill, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, is one of the ten individuals selected to receive the scholarship! Mentor Consultant Marvelyn Thomas, Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library (GA), and recruited mentors will travel to Wayne State in August for mentor training and to meet mentees. Stay tuned! Sandra SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-702-5854 Skype: sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree NW Suite 200 Atlanta,GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (LYRASIS) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children. Register now http://www.hbculibraries.org/html/2014meeting-form.html for the October 26-28, 2014 HBCU Library Alliance 6th Membership Meeting in Atlanta GA!