February 2018 101 C&RL News

G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n sAnn-Christe Galloway

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Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, email: 
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The Binghamton University Libraries were 
awarded a Council on Library and Informa-
tion Resources Recordings at Risk grant for 
the “Learning from Legends: Reflections on 
the 1960s Collection” project. The grant award 
is for $16,552 and was one of only 16 selected 
from the total of 51 applications.

The yearlong pilot project entails preserv-
ing, digitizing, and publishing a gift collection 
of original recorded interviews with 278 civil 
rights leaders, activists, women’s rights lead-
ers, politicians, and Vietnam War veterans 
from the 1960s. The digitization of the record-
ings will make these historic materials broadly 
available to researchers and the public.

Once the audio interviews are converted 
from microcassettes to digital files, Bingham-
ton will hire five students from the Equal Op-
portunity Program on campus to participate 
in an internship. The students will prepare 
metadata for the files and make minor edits, 
as needed. In the future, another cohort of 
students will select excerpts from the digital 
files and combine them with photographs, 
short biographies of the individuals inter-
viewed, and other educational content and 
bring the files to publication as Open Edu-
cational Resources.

The “Learning from Legends: Reflections 
on the 1960s Collection” is part of the Librar-
ies’ Center for the Study of the 1960s, which 
is the nation’s first virtual center promoting 
excellence in research, scholarship, teach-
ing, and programs in the social, cultural, and 
political history of the United States during 
the 1960s.

Arizona State University (ASU) has been awarded 
a $380,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon 

Foundation for a three-year implementation 
project to reinvent the library’s strategy and 
practice for open-stack print collections. The 
work will enable ASU Library to design and 
develop inclusive library print collections for 
ASU Library to engage, educate, and inspire 
scholars and learners of the ASU community.

Under the leadership of University Librar-
ian Jim O’Donnell and Associate University 
Librarian for Collections and Strategy Lorrie 
McAllister, the project—“The Future of the Ar-
izona State University Library Print Collection: 
A Collaborative and Data-driven Approach 
to Stack Design and Curation”—follows a 
yearlong planning process, supported by the 
Mellon Foundation, in which ASU Library 
identified issues and options affecting the 
design of the next generation of open-stack 
print collection for a research library. 

As libraries adapt to new pathways for 
organizing information and access in the 
digital age, institutions face the important 
challenge of preserving print collections 
in ways that best serve the public. What 
becomes of the print collection that users 
see on open shelves in an age when more 
and more of libraries’ collections are shelved 
offsite? Rather than viewing these new forms 
of access as a threat to print, the ASU Library 
recognizes a vital opportunity to leverage the 
design and curation practices in ways that 
engage a broader spectrum of students and 
scholars in new ways.

The vision for revitalizing public en-
gagement with print comes at a key mo-
ment in ASU’s plans to renovate its largest 
library—Hayden Library—and grow student 
enrollment to 200,000 by the year 2025. As a 
result, ASU Library must rethink every aspect 
of its services in order to innovate and scale 
support for scholars and learners who come 
from a variety of backgrounds and take many 
approaches to their education.  

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