[Council on Library and Information Resources]<https://t.e2ma.net/click/i28vfb/qsyz6/ubwler> CLIR Awards $546,281 for Recordings at Risk Washington, DC September 28, 2018– The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) today announced that the following 18 institutions have been awarded Recordings at Risk grants: Institution: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Inc. Project: Communities-At-Risk: An Audio-Visual History of Jewish Communities in Transition Amount: $30,798 Institution: Amistad Research Center Project: Continuing to Break the Code: The Field Recordings of Lorenzo Dow Turner at the Amistad Research Center Amount: $34,966 Institution: Art Institute of Chicago Project: Preserving Historic SAIC Lectures: Stan Brakhage (1970–1976) and The Visiting Artists Program (1977–1996) Amount: $16,560 Institution: Autry Museum of the American West Project: Digitizing a Century of Native Voice and Song at the Autry Museum Amount: $31,742 Institution: Jewish Theological Seminary Project: Disappearing Jewish Cultures and Traditions of the Non-Western World: Digitizing Film Footage and Audio Recordings from the Johanna L. Spector Papers and Audio-Visual Materials Amount: $45,943 Institution: Media Mobilizing Project Project: Media Mobilizing Project Social Movement Video Collection 2002–2011 Amount: $28,750 Institution: New Museum of Contemporary Art Project: Critical Dialogue and Public Engagement in Contemporary Art, 1979–2000: Reformatting Analog Audiovisual Recordings in the New Museum Archives Amount: $17,100 Institution: Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York Inc. Project: Leonard Bernstein, James Fassett, and the New York Philharmonic Radio Broadcasts, 1949–1967: Shaping Post-War American Culture for Millions Every Week Amount: $22,608 Institution: Regents of the University of California, Berkeley Project: Saving Film Exhibition History: Digitizing Recordings of Guest Speakers at the Pacific Film Archive, 1976 to 1986 Amount: $45,882 Institution: San Diego State University Research Foundation Project: Recorded Interviews with Postmodern and Contemporary American Writers in the Larry McCaffery Papers Amount: $28,866 Institution: Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill Project: Conserving the Charism: Preservation of the Oral Histories and Legacy of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill Amount: $29,925 Institution: South Dakota State University Archives and Special Collections Project: Rural Representation: Saving the Voices of South Dakota Farmers Union Amount: $19,454 Institution: Texas Tech University Project: Mold Abatement, Restoration, and Digitization of Americana Music Heritage Master Tape Collections at the Crossroads of Music Archive Amount: $49,116 Institution: University of Houston Project: Preserving KUHT Early Educational Films Amount: $23,500 Institution: University of Maryland, College Park Project: Sounds of the Silent Majority: Digitizing the Recordings of Political Culture in the Spiro T. Agnew Papers, 1968–1973 Amount: $30,417 Institution: University of South Carolina Project: Preserving Two Watershed Years of Outtakes from the WIS-TV News Collection, 1968–1969 Amount: $50,000 Institution: University of Utah Project: Regional Voices in a Time of National Change: Preserving and Providing Access to KUTV News Broadcasts January 1977–March 1979 Amount: $20,500 Institution: Walker Art Center Project: Digitizing At-Risk Walker Art Center Sound and Moving Image Collection Recordings Amount: $20,155 More detail on this year’s funded projects can be found at: https://www.clir.org/recordings-at-risk/funded-projects/<https://t.e2ma.net/click/i28vfb/qsyz6/a4wler>. This is the fourth 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 April 2019. CLIR will begin accepting applications for a new Recordings at Risk grant cycle beginning December 3, 2018, at http://bit.ly/CLIRRaRApp<https://t.e2ma.net/click/i28vfb/qsyz6/qwxler>. The Council on Library and Information Resources (www.clir.org<https://t.e2ma.net/click/i28vfb/qsyz6/6oyler>) is an independent, nonprofit organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institution, and communities of higher learning. Council on Library and Information Resources 1707 L Street, Ste 650 Washington, DC 20036, USA Phone: 202.939.4750 www.clir.org<https://t.e2ma.net/click/i28vfb/qsyz6/mhzler> ######################################################################## to manage your DLF-ANNOUNCE subscription, visit diglib.org/announce