| Recipient | Project Title/Description | Request | Amount of Award | Date of Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shearer, Janis and Celenia Graves | "Welcome Back - Encouraging Collaboration and Student Engagement" | Conference poster printing. | $76.20 | 10/06/2023 |
| Coker, Cait | "Translation of 15th c. Italian documents on creation of Greek type" | To hire graduate hourly assistants. | $240.00 | 10/05/2023 |
| Carns, Paula | "Hunting for Love: French Gothic Ivory Mirror-backs and Medieval Seals" | Image and copyright permissions. | $1,125.00 | 09/25/2023 |
| Hensley, Merinda | "Training undergraduate researchers as peer reviewers" | Conference poster printing. | $100.00 | 08/15/2023 |
| Emerson, Maria and Janis Shearer, David Ward | "Building the bridge: community collaboration to develop a library program" | Conference poster printing. | $76.20 | 07/18/2023 |
| Roberts, Matt and Maria Emerson | "Finding Their Voice: Assessing the Literature and Languages Library's Contemporary Poetry Collection and It's Effect on Student Readership" | To hire graduate hourly assistants. | $5,122.00 (Award canceled) | 06/20/2023 |
| Anderson, Bethany and Sandi Caldrone | "Understanding the Complexities of Historical Bee Data" | To hire graduate hourly assistants. | $3,585.00 | 06/08/2023 |
| Deeke, Alex | "My Teacher-Self: how future librarians understand teaching identity" | Transcription services and participant incentives. | $2,300.00 | 05/03/2023 |
| Mathews, Emilee | "Reviewing the Reviews: evaluating art exhibition reviews for bias" | To hire graduate hourly assistants. | $2,048.80 | 04/07/2023 |
| Sotomayor, Antonio | "Athletic Activity in Catholic Schools during the 1940's in Puerto Rico" | Research travel expenses. | $1,257.00 | 02/08/2023 |
| Luke, Stephanie and Evie Cordell | "Answering the Call for Community: Establishing an Inclusive and Collaborative Peer-Support System for Early-Career Librarians" | Conference poster printing. | $100.00 | 01/24/2023 |
| Tracy, Dan | "Assessing Opt-in Rates for Transformative Agreements: An Analysis of Two Pilots" | Conference poster printing. | $70.20 | 01/24/2023 |
| Roberts, Matt | Living with Dignity: Harold Pinter and the Ethics of Theatrical Performance" | Research travel expenses. | $585.00 | 01/12/2023 |
| Emerson, Maria and Janis Shearer, Jessica Ballard, Emilee Mathews | "Only the Beginning: Engaging Underrepresented Students at the University of Illinois" | Conference poster printing. | $76.20 | 09/08/2022 |
| Emerson, Maria and Alex Deeke | "Leveraging Virtual Reality to Support Undergraduate Student Research" | Conference poster printing | $72.60 | 07/11/2022 |
| Laskowski, Mary and Teper, Tom | "Trust, but Verify: The Validation of Monograph Retention Commitments at One Research Library" | To hire graduate hourly assistants. | $4,744.00 | 06/23/2022 |
| Bolivar, Belinda | "Trials and Tribulations of Online Tutorials" | Focus group transcription services. | $1,980.00 | 06/10/2022 |
| Hagman, Jessica | "Identifying and exploring qualitative infrastructures in academic libraries: An environmental scan" | To hire graduate hourly assistants. | $689.02 | 03/22/2022 |
| Belovari, Susanne | "Innovative Methods, New Sources and Paradigm Shifts: Viennese Jewish Contributions in Culinary Technology and Culinary Popular Culture Before 1938" | Research travel expenses. | $1,870.00 | 02/25/2022 |
| Johnson, Kirstin | "Music Collection Development and Management" | Book indexing services. | $1,591.00 | 02/03/2022 |
| Benson, Sara and Trei, Kelli | "Copyright Knowledge of STEM Graduate Students" | Participant incentives and transcription services. | $1,500.00 | 12/17/2021 |
| Emerson, Maria | "But where are you really from?: Multiracial Students, Sense of Belonging, and Academic Libraries" | Participant incentives and transcription services. | $1,100.00 | 12/16/2021 |
| Savonius-Wroth, Celestina | "Visions of British Culture from the Reformation to Romanticism: The Protestant Discovery of Tradition" | Book indexing services. | $1,900.00 | 09/01/2021 |
| Pionke, JJ and Spencer Keralis | "The Power of Words: A Text Data Mining Analysis of 30 Years of Library and Information Science Articles about Disability Part 2: Text Data Cleaning." | To hire graduate hourly assistants. | $2,200.00 (Declined funding approval) | 04/23/2021 |
| Sotomayor, Antonio | "The Conde de Montemar Family Letters: Transcription and Digital Humanities." | To hire graduate hourly assistants. | $3,649.60 | 04/19/2021 |
| Mathews, Emilee | "Artists' Race and Gender in the top 45 galleries in New York, compared to the number of Exhibition Reviews in New York-based Newspapers and Magazines, and Exhibition Catalog Publications." | To hire graduate hourly assistants | $4,362.41 | 12/14/2020 |
| Teper, Jennifer | "AIC Accessibility Survey of Continuing Education in the Field of Cultural Heritage Conservation." | To hire undergraduate hourly assistants. | $2,538.10 | 12/07/2020 |
| Anderson, Bethany | "The Cybernetics Thought Collective: Machine-Generated Data Using Computational Methods." | Article processing charge (APC) | 100.00 GBP | 11/30/2020 |
| Belovari, Susanne | "Viennese Cuisine Before Hitler" | Research travel expenses. | $2,949.00 | 10/30/2020 |
| Mathews, Emilee | "Counting Demographics in Leadership in Contemporary Architecture Firms: A Comparative Study Across Four Leading Trade Publications." | To hire graduate hourly assistants. | $3,353.07 | 06/04/2020 |
| Pionke, KK and Spencer Keralis | "The Power of Words: A Text Data Mining Analysis of 10 Years of Library and Information Science Articles about Disability." | To hire undergraduate hourly assistants. | $4,200.00 | 05/11/2020 |
| Roberts, Matt | "Ajax in America, or Catharsis in the Time of Terror." | Image rights. | $95.00 | 05/04/2020 |
| Belovari, Susanne | "Viennese Cuisine Before Hitler." | Research travel expenses to Vienna, Austria. | $1,805.00 (Suspended due to COVID-19. Reapproved on March 1, 2021) | 03/06/2020 |
| Roberts, Matt | "New Approaches to Harold Pinter." | Research travel expenses to London, UK. | $2,960.00 (Suspended due to COVID-19) | 03/06/2020 |
| Morris, David | "Pseudo-Joachim of Fiore's De Oneribus Prophetarum (On the Burdens of the Prophets): Disentangling a Complicated Textual Tradition." | Archival research travel expenses to London, UK and Rome, Italy. | $3,390.00 | 01/30/2020 |
| Martin, Piper | "Improving the Graduate Assistant Experience: An Exploratory Content Analysis." | Interview transcription services | $500.00 | 10/31/2019 |
| Carns, Paula | "The Image of the Spinner in the Fourteenth-Century Flemish Devotional Manuscripts." | Archival research travel expense to London, UK. | $987.81 | 10/29/2019 |
| Thacker, Mara and Sarah Christensen | "Creating a Culture of Public Engagement." | Funds to cover poster printing. | $60.00 | 10/29/2019 |
| Benson, Sara | "Copyright Knowledge of STEM Undergraduates." | Gift cards for qualitative study participants and interview transcription services | $1,500.00 | 10/14/2019 |
| Belovari, Susanne | "Viennese Cuisine Before Hitler" | Research travel expenses. | $1,829.20 | 06/17/2019 |
| Sheehan, Beth | The Influence of Journal Publishers on Archaeology Data Sharing | Graduate student support working with ATLAS.ti | $1,377.35 | 03/27/2018 |
| Belovari, Susanne | Expedited Digital Appraisal for Regular Archivists: an MPLP-type approach | Travel from Champaign to German state archives and lodging and meals | $2,750.00 | 02/15/2018 |
| Hahn, Jim | Advancing Serendipity within Online Browsing : Integration of Account-Based Recommendations into VuFind 4 | Academic hourly plus benefits | $4,978.00 | 02/15/2018 |
| Krogman, Alexandra and Christie Wiley | ITHAKA S+R - Research Support Services for the Field of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Transcription Professionals for transcription of 10-15, one hour long interviews | $1,650.00 | 02/15/2018 |
| Szylowicz, Caroline | "Archival research toward the digital edition of Marcel Proust’s correspondence – detailed examination of the Albert Flament archives at the Fondation des Treilles (Tourtour, France);" | Travel from Champaign to Draguignan/Tourtour, France | $1,541.11 | 02/01/2018 |
| Morris, David A. | A Potpourri of Medieval Prophecies: The Carmelite Manuscript of Pierleone da Spoleto and Two Unidentified Texts | Travel and stay in Rome to explore the Archives of the Carmelite Order | $2,960.00 | 11/21/2017 |
| Teper, Jennifer and Miriam Centeno | Counting Diversity in Preservation | Grad student assistance with survey | $4,704.00 | 09/27/2017 |
| Witt, Steven | Libraries, Internationalism, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Travel to Columbia U. to work in CEIP Archive | $2,060.00 | 09/27/2017 |
| Sotomayor, Antonio | Los Juegos del dictador: Rafael Leonidas Trujillo y la solidaridad antillana durante los Juegos Interantillanos de la República Dominicana en 1944 | Travel to Santa Domingo to work on-site at archive | $2,186.20 | 09/07/2017 |
| Kit Condill | Using National Bibliographic Sources to Assess U.S. Collections of Turkic-Language Materials | Undergraduate, graduate, and academic hourly wages | $4,990.50 | 06/02/2017 |
| Jim Hahn | Engineering Virtual Reality Experiences in Library Setting | Academic hourly wages | $4,845.16 | 06/02/2017 |
| Laila Moustafa | British Museum and Library Preservation Plan during World War II | Travel support | $1,880 | 06/02/2017 |
| JJ Pionke | Library Impact on Veterans | Graduate hourly wages | $2,367 | 06/02/2017 |
| Sara Benson and Hannah Stitzlein | A National Survey of Copyright Knowledge in Digital Collections Among DPLA-Contributing Institutions | Survey Creation | $825 | 06/02/2017 |
| Erin Kerby | Veterinary Medical Researchers' Perspectives on Data Management | Transcription services | $1,980 | 05/15/2017 |
| David Ward | Text Mining Reference Transcripts: Sentiment and Topical Analysis | Graduate and other hourly wages | $3,748.23 | 05/05/2017 |
| Antonio Sotomayor | “La colonia soberana: Deporte Olímpico, identidad nacional y relaciones internacionales en Puerto Rico” | Professional translation services | $5,000 | 02/15/2017 |
| Mara Thacker | Exploring Perceptions of South Asian Comics: An Exploratory Study of Readers, Publishers, and Libraries | Travel support and grad hourly wages | $3,515.50 | 11/10/2016 |
| Sara Benson | Can Fair Use Be Adequately Taught to Librarians? Assessing Librarians' Competence and Confidence in Understanding Fair Use Following an Expert Workshop | Instructor lodging and meals, participant incentives, and survey analysis | $3,5383 | 9/26/2016 |