The University Library has a rich history of sponsored projects. Our faculty and staff regularly seek grants and other opportunities. They develop ideas into innovative, funded projects.
This page lists and describes grants awarded to faculty and staff through campus and external programs. If you have an idea for a new grant the Library might pursue, please contact a Librarian.
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| Project | Investigators | Status | Sponsors | Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archiving the W.S. Merwin Papers | Lynne Thomas | Active | US Department of the Interior | $135,869.00 |
| Illinois Digital Newspaper Project VI | Celestina Savonius-Wroth, William Schlaack | Active | National Endowment for the Humanities | $324,189.00 |
| Digital News Archive: Setting the Stage for a Trusted Repository for Unique Sources of the Times | Christopher Prom, Myung-Ja Han | Active | Campus Research Board | $27,500.00 |
| Parthenon at Illinois: Studying interaction through historic and emerging replication techniques | Mary Ton, Elias Petrou, Victoria Austen, Christa Deacy-Quinn | Active | Campus Research Board | $30,000.00 |
| No Longer at the Margins: A Digital Project to Amplify Access to the Archives of Women in Science | Bethany Anderson, Mary Ton, Kristen Wilson | Active | National Endowment for the Humanities | $58,985.00 |
| Muslim Lives in a Shifting World: Revivals, Encounters, and Identities in Late Soviet and Contemporary Eurasia, 1970s-Present | Joseph Lenkart | Active | Campus Research Board | $30,000.00 |
| Creating Enhanced Access to the Papers of David Pines | Bethany Anderson, Joanne Kaczmarek | Active | American Institute of Physics | $9,729.00 |
| University of Illinois Library Open Educational Resources (OER) | Sara Benson | Completed | Illinois Secretary of State (State Library) | $150,000.00 |
| Illinois Digital Newspaper Project V | Celestina Savonius-Wroth, William Schlaack | Completed | National Endowment for the Humanities | $299,991.00 |
| Email Archiving in PDF: From Initial Specification to Community of Practice | Christopher Prom, Joanne Kaczmarek | Completed | Institute of Museum and Library Services | $284,326.00 |
| Catalyzing African Community Archives for Social Good | Christopher Prom, Clara Chu, Janis Shearer, Jessica Ballard-Lawrence | Completed | Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (former name) | $99,991.00 |
| Email Archives: Building Capacity and Community | Christopher Prom | Completed | Mellon Foundation | $857,000.00 |
| Doris Duke Indian Oral History Program Archives: Revitalization and Community Building | Bethany Anderson, Jennifer Davis, Christopher Prom | Completed | Doris Duke Foundation | $196,000.00 |
| Oral Histories of ASCGLA Leaders | JJ Pionke | Completed | Campus Research Board | $20,805.00 |
| Experiences of Technology and Campus Infrastructures for Qualitative Research | Jess Hagman | Completed | Campus Research Board | $5,400.00 |
| An examination of the role of a digital library in North Korea: A case study of Pyongyang University of Science & Technology | Yoo-Seong Song | Completed | Campus Research Board | $15,240.00 |
| Saving Her Words: Preserving the Gwendolyn Brooks Papers | Jennifer Teper | Completed | Institute of Museum and Library Services | $115,237.00 |
| Traditional Cultural Expression Investigation in Collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization | Sara Benson | Completed | Campus Research Board | $23,380.00 |
| IDEA (Innovation, Disruption, Equity, Access) Institute on Artificial Intelligence | Clara Chu | Completed | Institute of Museum and Library Services | $20,538.00 |
| Prioritizing Privacy: Training to Improve Practice in Library Analytics Projects | Lisa Hinchliffe, Kyle Jones (IUPUI) | Completed | Institute of Museum and Library Services | $249,198.00 |
| Democratizing Science for Women: A Digital Domestic Science Archives Project | Bethany Anderson | Completed | Campus Research Board | $20,948.00 |
| Digital Edition of Marcel Proust’s Letters: 2021-2022 Phase | Caroline Szylowicz | Completed | Campus Research Board | $13,140.00 |
| Building Illinois Digital Heritage Hub Engagement and Outreach Program | Thomas Teper, Myung-Ja Han | Completed | Illinois Secretary of State (State Library) | $189,962.00 |
| Preprint Accessibility: Is Early Access to Research Access for All? | Lisa Hinchliffe | Completed | Lyrasis | $6,037.00 |
| Model License Language for Privacy | Lisa Hinchliffe | Completed | Mellon Foundation | $70,500.00 |
| Digital Edition of Marcel Proust’s Letters: 2020-2021 Phase | Caroline Szylowicz | Completed | Campus Research Board | $13,483.00 |
| Small Press Fest | Sara Holder | Completed | City of Urbana | $1,000.00 |
| The Conde de Montemar Family Letters: Transcription and Digital Humanities | Antonio Sotomayor | Completed | Campus Research Board | $18,694.00 |
| The Woodward Collection of Advertising: Documenting American Media, Culture, and Consumer Behavior in the 20th Century | Jennifer Teper | Completed | National Historical Publications and Records Commission | |
| Critical Practice in Text Data Mining Research Cluster | Spencer Keralis | Completed | Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities | $2,500.00 |
| A specification for using PDF to package and represent email | Christopher Prom | Completed | Mellon Foundation | $45,000.00 |
| Illinois Digital Newspaper Project Phases I – IV | Kyle Rimkus, Nathan Yarasavage, Mary Stuart, Celestina Savonius-Wroth | Completed | National Endowment for the Humanities | $1,409,137.00 |
| Transformative Learning Through Zine Making | Sarah Christensen | Completed | Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities | $2,500.00 |
| Information and Environments: Integration of an IoT-powered Recommender System within the FOLIO Open Source Library Platform | Jim Hahn | Completed | Campus Research Board | $24,240.00 |
| Visualizing Digital Scholarship in Libraries and Learning Spaces | Bill Mischo | Completed | North Carolina State University | $18,180.00 |
| Processing Capstone Email Using Predictive Coding | Joanne Kaczmarek | Completed | Illinois State Archives (ISA) | $197,130.00 |
| Digging Deeper, Reaching Further: Libraries Empowering Users to Mine HathiTrust Digital Library Resources | Stephen Downie | Completed | Institute of Museum and Library Services | $398,844.00 |
| Understanding the Needs of Scholars in an Academic Publishing Environment (Afro PWW) | John Wilkin, Allen Renear, Antoinette Burton, Ronald Bailey | Completed | Mellon Foundation | $999,995.00 |
| Disability Awareness in the Library | JJ Pionke | Completed | Campus Research Board | $24,694.00 |
| “From Margin to Center: Reframing the History of Women in Computing and Information Technology through Oral Histories | Bethany Anderson | Completed | Association of Computing Machinery | $4,000.00 |
| Strengthening Innovative Library Leaders: A Program for Library Training Providers | Susan Schnuer | Completed | Gates Foundation | $521,014.00 |
| A Resource Guide about Disabilities, Disability Theory, and Assistive Technologies | JJ Pionke | Completed | American Library Association Carnegie Whitney | $5,000.00 |
| Exploring the Benefits for Users of Linked Open Data for Digitized Special Collections | Myung-Ja Han, Tim Cole, Caroline Szylowicz | Completed | Mellon Foundation | $247,675.00 |
| Presrvation Self-Assessment Program (PSAP) | Jennifer Teper | Completed | Institute of Museum and Library Services | $213,932.00 |
| Increase Access to ILL via LHRs in OCLC | Mary Burkee, Cherié Weible | Completed | Library Services and Technology Act (Illinois State Library) | $24,149.00 |
| Swords and Plowshares Manuscript Research | Cherié Weible | Completed | State Historical Society of Missouri | $200.00 |
| Alfred M. Landon Historical Research Grant | Cherié Weible | Completed | Kansas Historical Foundation | $1,000.00 |