Latest
News (TexTreasures Grants)
Up to $100,000 total is
available, with a maximum award of $20,000 for
a single institution and $25,000 for collaborative
grant projects. The deadline
for applications is February 27, 2009.
Funded projects will begin September 1, 2009.
The Texas State Library
and Archives Commission (TSLAC) issues TexTreasures
grants to TexShare member libraries for the
digitalization of special and unique collections
of photographs, newspapers, interviews, and
other historical documents, making them more
accessible to all.
Read
the FY2010 grant program guidelines
(Word file)
Download a MS Word
file reader, if needed.
Apply using
the Grant
Management System (GMS).
Read the Grant
Management System Manual for more details
about the
GMS service. (Word
file)
For more
information, please contact our TexShare Coordinator
at texshare@tsl.state.tx.us
Read
the Press Release (PDF file)
The exciting projects that have been funded are:
1. “Houston Oral History Project”
– The Houston Public Library is partnering
with Mayor Bill White to preserve and make the
video-recordings of significant Houstonians available
on the web.
2. “Early Texas Newspapers: 1829-1861”
- The University of North Texas Libraries and
the Center for American History at the University
of Texas at Austin will partner to microfilm,
digitize, and provide free public access to the
earliest Texas newspapers held by the Center for
American History.
3. “The Witliff Collections”
- The project creates an online exhibit accessing
the primary source materials of researcher Dick
J. Reavis held by the Southwestern Writers Collection
at the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University
about the siege of the Branch Davidians at Mount
Carmel outside of Waco in 1993.
4. “Austin History Center Glass
Plate Negatives” - The Austin History
Center, a division of the Austin Public Library,
will digitize the complete Hubert Jones collection
of 471 glass plate negatives containing subjects
local to Austin and Texas.
5. “Tejano Voices Project”
– The University of Texas at Arlington Library
will digitize and describe 60 of the 174 oral
history interviews with notable Tejanos and Tejanas
from across Texas conducted in 1992-2003 by Dr.
Jose Angel Gutierrez, associate professor of political
science at UT Arlington.
For more information, please contact our TexShare
Coordinator at texshare@tsl.state.tx.us
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