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<p>Contact: <a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">Pedro Gonzalez-Fernandez</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><b>CLIR Awards $504,200 for Recordings at Risk</b></p>
<p>Washington, DC, October 31, 2017—The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) today announced that the following 16 institutions have been awarded Recordings at Risk grants:</p>
<p><b>Institution:</b> Binghamton University Libraries</p>
<p><b>Project:</b> Learning from Legends: Reflections on the 1960s Collection</p>
<p><b>Amount</b><b>:</b> $16,552.50</p>
<p><b>Institution:</b> Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University</p>
<p><b>Project:</b> Standard Hour Broadcast Recordings</p>
<p><b>Amount:</b> $49,999.43</p>
<p><b>Institution:</b> Boston College</p>
<p><b>Project:</b> Sounds of Mid-20th Century Irish-America: Preserving Historic Music Field Recordings for Research Access</p>
<p><b>Amount:</b> $30,775</p>
<p><b>Institution:</b> Denver Public Library</p>
<p><b>Project: </b>Preserving the History of World War II’s Elite Ski Troopers, the 10th Mountain Division</p>
<p><b>Amount:</b> $22,990</p>
<p><b>Institution:</b> Duke University Libraries</p>
<p><b>Project:</b> Radio Haiti Open Reel Audio Tape: Intensive Remediation Project</p>
<p><b>Amount:</b> $15,889</p>
<p><b>Institution:</b> Fort Sill Chiricahua/Warm Springs Apache Tribe</p>
<p><b>Project:</b> Apache Prisoner of War Audio Collection Digitization and Processing Project</p>
<p><b>Amount:</b> $41,733</p>
<p><b>Institution: </b>Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives</p>
<p><b>Project:</b> Preserving Rare Recordings of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and the Free Synagogue Pulpit that are held at The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives</p>
<p><b>Amount: </b>$38,240</p>
<p><b>Institution: </b>Oregon Shakespeare Festival</p>
<p><b>Project:</b> Preserving the First-Person Oral History Recordings of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival</p>
<p><b>Amount:</b> $50,000</p>
<p><b>Institution:</b> Special Collections & Archives, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University</p>
<p><b>Project:</b> Documenting the Evangelical Movement in the United States: Digitizing Baptist State Convention of North Carolina Open-Reel Audiotapes, 1957-1980</p>
<p><b>Amount:</b> $50,000</p>
<p><b>Institution: </b>Swarthmore College Peace Collection</p>
<p><b>Project:</b> Debating the Vietnam War: Film and Audio Recordings from the 1960s and 1970s</p>
<p><b>Amount:</b> $44,405.40</p>
<p><b>Institution:</b> The Regents of the University of California</p>
<p><b>Project:</b> Preservation of the H.K. Yuen Social Movement Audio Archive</p>
<p><b>Amount: </b>$29,210</p>
<p><b>Institution:</b> The Research Foundation for SUNY on behalf of University at Buffalo</p>
<p><b>Project:</b> Reel to Reel Tape Recordings of the Creative Associates Recitals at the University at Buffalo, 1964-1980</p>
<p><b>Amount:</b> $34,136</p>
<p><b>Institution: </b>Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania</p>
<p><b>Project: </b>Caribbean Folklore Recordings, 1950s-1960s, Digitization Project: the University of Pennsylvania Folklore Department Collections</p>
<p><b>Amount:</b> $10,132</p>
<p><b>Institution:</b> University of Maryland, College Park</p>
<p><b>Project: </b>Preserving the Programming Archives of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. National Public Broadcasting Archives at the University of Maryland</p>
<p><b>Amount: </b>$21,398.38</p>
<p><b>Institution: </b>University of Southern California</p>
<p><b>Project:</b> Lawrence Lipton’s L.A. in the Time of the Beats: Sounds of the 1950s and 1960s Counterculture</p>
<p><b>Amount:</b> $20,500</p>
<p><b>Institution:</b> Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p><b>Project:</b> Preserving and Making Accessible the Dictabelt Recordings of Rod Serling</p>
<p><b>Amount: </b>$28,239.60</p>
<p>More detail on this year’s funded projects can be found at: <a href="https://www.clir.org/recordings-at-risk/awards">https://www.clir.org/recordings-at-risk/awards</a>. This is the second group of projects supported by the Recordings at Risk awards program, a national regranting program administered by CLIR to support the preservation of rare and unique audio and audiovisual content of high scholarly value. Generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the program will award a total of $2.3 million between January 2017 and September 2018. CLIR will begin accepting applications for a new Recordings at Risk grant cycle on December 1, 2017. The Council on Library and Information Resources (<a href="http://www.clir.org">www.clir.org</a>) is 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.</p>
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