The Strategic Digitization Program's selection committee has supported funding the following projects. Digital Library Services staff are currently working with the project sponsors on establishing a timeline for digitization.

In-progress

• Local Book Digitization Pilot Project
  The University of Minnesota Libraries seeks to digitize upwards of 1,500 volumes from its general collections. These volumes represent areas of particular collection strength for the libraries and as such, we seek the opportunity to share these works more broadly to users. Materials will be paper-based, primarily textual materials such as books, pamphlets, and other bound volumes from the University's circulating and closed stacks collections. All materials within the scope of this project were published prior to 1923.
  
  
• Penumbra Theatre Company National Access (Priority on the Production Records)
  The Penumbra Theatre Archive is part of the Givens Collection of African American Literature. Penumbra Theatre is the largest professional African-American theater company in the United States, dedicated to dramatic exploration the African-American experience in America. The collection consists of 87 boxes (130 cubic feet) of materials from throughout the theater’s history (1976-present.) By digitizing as much of the Penumbra Theatre Archives as possible, we have an opportunity to dramatically increase access to by African American Theater History. The Givens Collection has also been asked to create a traveling exhibit that would be displayed locally and nationally. Digitizing priority materials now will be critical to that effort.
  
  Department: The Archie Givens, Sr. Collection of African American Literatures
  Project Sponsor: Cecily Marcus
  
  
• American Terra Cotta Company – Aperture Card Scanning Project
  The proposed digitization project would provide digital access to approximately 3100 images of plans that are currently available only on “aperture cards.” These are IBM cards with a single 35mm microfilm frame mounted on each card, which also has a printed top caption containing information about the commission number, building name, and sheet number or title. The American Terra Cotta Company Records are heavily-used by historic preservation architects, engineers and researchers and provide a wealth of information about the individual buildings represented.
  
  Department: Northwest Architectural Archives
  Project Sponsor: Barb Bezat
  
  
• U.S. Land Grant University Working Paper Series: Preservation and Access
  We have a large collection of uncatalogued working paper series in agricultural economics from over 100 universities and research institutes worldwide. We will digitize selected series from U.S. Land Grant institutions and add them to AgEcon Search.
  
  Department: Magrath Library (AgEcon Search)
  Project Sponsor: Julie Kelly
  
  
• Ames Library of South Asia Maps
  This project would highlight a truly unique collection of maps -- those received from the Ames Library of South Asia. These maps were collected by Charles Ames during his travels in Asia over a period of 50 years. These maps are also of great historical value, as they date between 1540 and 1963.
  
  Department: John R. Borchert Map Library
  Project Sponsor: Ryan Mattke
  
  
• Theses & Dissertations in the University Archives, pre-1923
  This project is the first step in a multiphase project to identify dissertations and theses in the University Archives collections that are within the public domain and thus may be digitized and placed in the institutional repository, the University Digital Conservancy, without the need of a signed deposit agreement. The first phase as described in this proposal will be to digitize all pre-1923 theses and dissertations published at the University of Minnesota from 1887 through 1922.
  
  Department: University Archives
  Project Sponsor: Erik Moore
  
  
• Medical Recipe Manuscripts (part 1 and 2)
  The Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine has a number of medical/culinary manuscript receipt (recipe) books in its collections. These complex manuscripts, compiled volumes of culinary, household, cosmetic and medical recipes span the 16th-19th c. and are rich resources for understanding pre-modern communities. This project proposes to digitize 14 of medical recipe books.
  
  Department: Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine
  Project Sponsor: Lois Hendrickson
  
  
• University Archives – People Photo Files
  The University of Minnesota Archives holds tens of thousands of photographic materials documenting all aspects of the University's history. A major series of these images include photographic reference prints of individual faculty, administrators, and staff. These are often referred to as our "people photo files." We propose to digitize the entire series of photographic prints of people (approximately 7,500 items).
  
  Department: University Archives
  Project Sponsor: Erik Moore
  
  
• IHRC Archives Fragile Newspapers
  The IHRCA are in desperate need of having our fragile newspaper section digitized to provide access to on-site and off-site researchers before they decay irreversibly. There are approximately 180 titles in 134 newspaper boxes. The majority of the newspapers are in languages like Italian, Ukrainian, Polish, Hungarian, Latvian, Slovak, Russian and Finnish.
  
  Department: Immigration History Research Center Archives
  Project Sponsor: Sara Wakefield
  
  

Approved

• Wildflower Studies - Emma Roberts & Agnes Williams
  Digitize more than 300 beautiful wildflower watercolor paintings from the 1880s and 1890s. They were painted by the sister and second wife of Thomas Sadler Roberts, Bell Museum curator, ornithologist, and author of Birds of Minnesota. They are extremely fragile, the more use they get the more they are deteriorating.
  
  Department: Andersen Horticultural Library
  Project Sponsor: Kathy Allen
  
  
• Clara Barton Diaries
  Four diaries dated 1884-1899 by Clara Barton (1821-1912) . Barton was a philanthropist, nurse, educator, and lecturer. Her work included relief services during the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, the work of the American National Red Cross which she founded, and the National First Aid Association of America. Barton's diaries and journals provide insight into her private views and reflections
  
  Department: Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine
  Project Sponsor: Lois Hendrickson
  
  
• Records of the YWCA of Minneapolis
  Project would scan selected scrapbooks, minutes, photographs and program files from the YWCA of Minneapolis Records.
  
  Department: Social Welfare History Archive
  Project Sponsor: Linnea Anderson
  
  
• Bound Maps
  This project will digitize a unique collection of materials that are otherwise not very accessible. Bound maps are maps that are dissected, mounted on cloth, and bound within covers. As such, they tend to be quite large when unfolded and, therefore, not not as usable as other maps.
  
  Department: Borchert Map Library
  Project Sponsor: Ryan Mattke
  
  
• Rare Atlases
  This project would digitize a 19 rare atlases from our collection that are otherwise not very accessible.
  
  Department: Borchert Map Library
  Project Sponsor: Ryan Mattke
  
  
• Spanish American Political Texts
  Digitization of the journal "Ideologies & Literature." This journal was published at the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Minnesota from 1976 to 1988 and had great impact among Latin American studies scholars in the US and abroad, promoting the concept of the politically committed scholar.
  
  Department: Wilson Library
  Project Sponsor: Rafael Tarrago
  
  
• Newsletters from Agricultural Extension Service
  Digitization of the following newsletters: University farm and home news (OCLC 34921549), Minnesota Extension Service news (OCLC 34913428), Agricultural Extension Newsletter (no record) 1912-1942, Minnesota Nurserymen's newsletter (OCLC 1714425)
  
  Department: Magrath Library
  Project Sponsor: Marlys McGuire
  
  
• YMCA International Work in Palestine/Israel
  YMCA International Work in Palestine/Israel, 21 cubic feet (27 boxes); 1885, 1905-2003 (bulk 1920-1999)
  
  Department: Kautz Family YMCA Archives
  Project Sponsor: Lara Friedman Shedlov
  
  
• Stock Plan Books
  The collection in the Northwest Architectural Archives covers an incredibly diverse variety of publishers, styles and eras.
  We have selected titles that represent this diversity and have included all qualifying volumes (by date) that were published by local (MN) architects, authors or companies. A total of 70 volumes have been included in this project.
  
  Department: Northwest Architectural Archives
  Project Sponsor: Barb Bezat
  
  
• GAZE Magazine and TV show
  This project would digitize a 10 year run of a local GLBT newspaper and several years worth of the companion television show.
  
  Department: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies
  Project Sponsor: Lisa Vecoli
  
  
• U.S. Land Grant University Working Paper Series: Preservation and Access (part 2)
  We have a large collection of uncatalogued working paper series in agricultural economics from over 100 universities and research institutes worldwide. We will digitize selected series from U.S. Land Grant institutions and add them to AgEcon Search.
  
  Department: Magrath Library (AgEcon Search)
  Project Sponsor: Julie Kelly
  
  
• Soviet Women: Old Lives, New Lives
  Digitization of oral history tapes and transcripts for a project that was done in 1991 by the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest in efforts to document the stories of Jewish women from the Soviet Union who had immigrated to the United States during the Cold War.
  
  Department: Magrath Library (AgEcon Search)
  Project Sponsor: Kate Dietrich
  
  

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