West Virginia
Records Projects
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
$1,500,000 to support the American Congress Digital Archives Portal, which aims to provide open access to collections held by WVU Libraries, Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, Dirksen Congressional Center, Richard Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, and the University of Hawai’i Manoa Library into a single online platform. (ED-104984-24)
Congressional Education Foundation, Shepherdstown, WV
$250,000 to support the digitization of archival records pertaining to those Members of Congress who have represented West Virginia in the United States Senate and House of Representatives. (ED-104983-24)
West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Charleston, WV
$2,226,000 to support the West Virginia State Archival Facilities Renovation Project, including improving environmental conditions, acquiring digitization equipment, obtaining archival supplies, and offering additional educational opportunities for staff members. (ED-104985-24)
Brooke County Library Foundation, Brooke, WV
$194,660 to support the digitization of the Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Collection (1941-1945) of more than 53,000 documents and photographs from the Pacific theater during World War II. (ED-104990-24)
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
$150,000 to support a project to process 40 feminist collections from the 1950s to the early part of the 21st century totaling 325 linear feet plus 45 GB of electronic records and digitize a minimum of 100 representative documents drawn from collections of playwrights, novelists, and historians; the Artemis Sisters Collective Collection; the Women’s Information Center; the university’s Council for Women’s Concerns and the Women and Gender Studies; and the papers of Linda Cooper, a leader for environmental justice who helped create the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge; and others. (RH-103587-23)
West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Charleston, WV
$9, 906 in partial support of the West Virginia board's administrative expenses for one year. (2001-007)
West Virginia State Historical Records Advisory Board, Charleston, WV
$16, 745 for a one-year planning project to complete work on and publish its state assessment report and to develop and publish a strategic plan to ensure the preservation of West Virginia's historical records and documents. (96-013)
West Virginia State Historical Records Advisory Board, Charleston, WV
$39, 850 to analyze the current condition of historical records in the state, identify problems, frame potential solutions, and outline actions that can be taken. (91-124)
City of Charleston, Charleston, WV
$2, 933 for consultation on establishing a city archives. (85-055)
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
$17, 931 to make safety negatives and copy prints of selected nitrate and glass plate negatives in its collection of historical photographs of West Virginia and Appalachia, and to complete the organization of its photographic holdings into a comprehensive reference file. (80-138)
Subtotal (Records Projects) $4,408,025
Publications Projects
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
$53,989 for the Papers of Frederick Douglass. (1994-97)
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
$18,483 for the Papers of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones. (1981)
Fellowships
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
$1,000 for travel funds for its fellowship in historical editing of the Papers of Frederick Douglass. (97-086)
Subtotal (Publications Projects) $73,472
Total $4,481,497