Partnerships & Grants

The Libraries are engaged across campus, around the state, and throughout the world on a number of programs and grant-funded projects.

• Antarctica Geospatial Information Center: Collecting, Creating, Delivering and Archiving for the Community
The Libraries are providing digitization, metadata, and data archiving research and support for this NSF-sponsored project in the Department of Geology and Geophysics.
• EthicShare: A Collaborative Virtual Community
Research and collaboration site for ethicists. Project Page
• Google Digitization Project
A collaboration with Google and the CIC (a consortium of the Big 10 institutions plus the University of Chicago) to digitize millions of volumes in partner library collections.

• HarvestChoice; Better Choices, Better Lives
HarvestChoice brings together information to better target agricultural investments in developing countries.
• MnKnows
Portal to Minnesota's Online Library Services, including the Electronic Library for Minnesota and the Minnesota Digital Library. Provided by Minitex, an information and resource sharing program of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and the University of Minnesota Libraries.
• A Multi-Dimensional Framework for Academic Support
A completed project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, that examined research behaviors of faculty in the humanities and social sciences.
• Preserving the Ephemeral: An Archival Program for Theater and the Performing Arts
In cooperation with Penumbra Theatre Company, we are working to create a method of documenting all aspects of theater productions so the resulting materials are preserved for future generations.
• Supporting the Research Needs of Scientists
A completed project aiming to understand the research behaviors and information resource and service needs of scientists and graduate students in the sciences.
• TechLens: Enhanced Digital Libraries through Recommendation
Using citations, personal bibliographies, and metadata to synthesize recommender systems.