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

Ed. note: Send your grants and acquisitions to Ann-
Christe Galloway, production editor, C&RL News, email: 
agalloway@ala.org.

The Council on Library and Information Resources 
(CLIR) has been awarded $1.12 million by the 
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to implement 
a sustainable, extensible digital library platform 
and set of curatorial processes to federate records 
relating to the cultural heritage of the Middle East. 
CLIR and its Digital Library Federation program 
will work with technical partners at Stanford Uni-
versity and content providers worldwide to build 
on the Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME) 
prototype and create processes to extend the 
DLME. DLME is envisioned as a nonproprietary, 

multilingual library of digital objects providing 
greater security for, preservation of, and access 
to digital surrogates of cultural heritage materials. 
The platform will be portable and reusable for any 
future digital library project, encouraging a global 
coherence of access to and preservation of the 
cultural record. The project team, led by DLME 
Project Director Peter Herdrich, Curatorial Lead 
Elizabeth Waraksa, and a data manager/project co-
ordinator based at Stanford Libraries, will draw on 
best practices from other digital library projects to 
support cost-effective and reproducible curatorial 
workflows for identifying, selecting, and federating 
digital assets that represent both cultural materials 
under threat and objects housed in libraries and 
museums beyond conflict zones.  

students’ final projects demonstrated a more 
developed awareness of the dynamic nature of 
historical inquiry and the stages of the historical 
process. Dowling felt that the hands-on learning 
with the objects fostered better student under-
standing of how to analyze historical objects 
and integrate them into their historical analyses 
as evidence. Based on classroom interactions, 
the instructor believes the students also found 
the experience positive, and the assignments 
challenging yet engaging. Dowling considers 
the assignment effective and will use the same 
series of assignments the next time the course 
is taught with only minor instructional revisions 
to increase student clarity of the assignment’s 

expectations. Further, she intends to execute 
a more evidence-based examination of the ef-
fectiveness of the project. 

From the library perspective, the artifacts 
themselves were undamaged by student han-
dling using the developed protocol and so 
the collection may be used again in the same 
controlled circumstances for this assignment or 
similar assignments.

Note 
1. ACRL’s “Framework for Information 

Literacy for Higher Education,” last modified 
January 11, 2016, www.ala.org/acrl/standards 
/ilframework. 

(“Academic collaboration. . . ” continues from page 325)

Consumer: News Attitudes and Practices in 
the Digital Era,” Pew Research Center, July 
7, 2016, www.journalism.org/2016/07/07 
/young-adults/.

3. Ibid., ACRL, “Framework for Informa-
tion Literacy for Higher Education.” 

4. Michael H. K. Bendels, Ruth Müller, 
Doerthe Brueggmann, and David A. Grone-
berg, “Gender Disparities in High-Quality 

(“Who’s left out . . . ” continues from page 330)

Research Revealed by Nature Index Journals,” 
PLoS One 13 (2018), https://doi.org/10.1371 
/journal.pone.0189136. 

5. Howard Garrison, “Underrepresenta-
tion by Race–Ethnicity Across Stages of U.S. 
Science and Engineering Education,” CBE—
Life Sciences Education 12, no. 3 (2013): 
357–63, https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.12-12 
-0207. 

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