TexShare TexTreasures Latest News Archive
November 2009
Read
the Press Release (PDF file)
The exciting projects that have been funded are:
- “Houston Oral History Project”
($25,000) – The Houston Public
Library is partnering with Houston Mayor Bill
White to preserve and make the videorecordings
of significant Houstonians available on the web.
This grant will convert an additional 288 hours
of audiotapes from cassette or reel-to-reel to
digital format along with transcripts for the
collection.
- “The Bexar Archives” ($19,930)
- The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
at the University of Texas at Austin will create
a research tool, called Bexar Archives Online,
which joins digital images of the original Spanish
documents with the corresponding English-language
translations.
- “Marion Butts Photography Negatives
Project” ($17,571) - The Dallas
Public Library will use the photographic records
produced by Marion Butts, an African-American
photographer and editor of the Dallas Express,
as well as other primary source materials such
as maps, Negro city directories and oral histories
to develop a series of online Texas-focused, TEKS-based
lesson plans targeting seventh grade students.
The records chronicle Dallas and Texas history
during the segregation and civil rights eras.
- “Lady Bird Johnson Photo Collection
Project” ($16,610) – The
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University
of Texas at Austin will digitize and provide access
to a unique collection of photographs of Claudia
Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson. She is
the wife of former President Lyndon B. Johnson,
and was born in Karnack, Texas. As the First Lady
of the United States from 1963-69, she was an
advocate for nature, beautification and conservation
of natural resources. Most of the photographs
in this collection date after her return to Texas.
- “Itinerant Photographer Collection”
($14,389) – The Harry Ransom Center
at the University of Texas at Austin will preserve
and digitize a collection of glass plate negatives
depicting local businesses owners and employees
in Corpus Christi, which were taken by an unidentified
photographer in February 1934 during the Depression.
The center will provide an online finding aid,
an online catalog record and an online exhibit
of the fragile items now in danger of emulsion
loss.
- “Tejano Voices Project”
($6,500) – The University of Texas
at Arlington Library will digitize and describe
13 oral history interviews from notable Tejanos
and Tejanas from across Texas conducted in 1992-2003
by Dr. Jose Angel Gutierrez, associate professor
of political science at UT Arlington. Many of
the interviews emphasize the personal struggles,
from individuals of Mexican decent, who are the
first in their communities elected or appointed
to government offices. The interviews also reflect
the history of the Tejano community as it pressed
for an end to racial segregation in the state
and access to political power in the post-WWII
period.
August 2009
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
August 2008
See the TexTreasures
Grant Program Guidelines. (Word file)
Download a MS Word File
Reader, if needed.
Please note:
applications are due March 14, 2008. Funded
projects will begin September 1, 2008.
Apply online using the Grant Management System
(see below).
For more information, please contact our TexShare
Coordinator at texshare@tsl.state.tx.us
TexTreasures Grants
FY2009 Grant Review Timetable
March 14, 2008 ...........................Grant
Applications due
March 17-April 8, 2008.............. Staff reviews
April 9, 2008.................................Staff
comments sent to applicants
April 21, 2008...............................Applicant
responses due
April 28-May 28, 2008..................Peer review
group scores grants
June 16, 2008........ ......................Notify
all applicants of preliminary results and appeal
process
July 7, 2008....................................Applicant
appeals due to P. Rudd
July 9, 2008....................................Notify
applicants of P. Rudd decision
July 24, 2008................................. Applicant
appeals due to Commission
August 4, 2008............................. Commission
meeting
August 18, 2008........................... Mail
contracts to grantees
Sept 1, 2008.................................. Grants
begin
