Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support the reorganization of services and infrastructure at the Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Asset Platform

to support multiyear interdisciplinary and collaborative research projects utilizing the collections of the Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library Collaborative Research Projects

to endow fellowships for scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at the Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library Post-Doctoral Fellowships

to support the implementation of digital access initiatives at the Folger Shakespeare Library

The Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Access Initiative

toward support of the Folger Institute of Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Studies

The Folger Institute

matching endowment in support of its conservation department

Library Conservation

toward costs of improving the care and management of library collections

Specialized Research Centers/Libraries

to establish "The Andrew W. Mellon Fund," the income to be used to facilitate use of the Library's collections by qualified scholars

Endowment

matching grant for its cataloguing function

Cataloguing Endowment

toward costs of postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities

Postdoctoral Fellowships - Humanities

in support of Mellon Seminars in Interpretation

Mellon Seminars in Interpretation

matching endowment in support of core functions

Independent Research Libraries Program

toward costs of collecting data on the finances of independent research libraries

Independent Research Libraries - Financial Data

to support specific initiatives to strengthen the care of, and improve access to, research collections

Strengthening Care and Access to Research Collections

to support solutions for discovery and access issues in libraries and archives

Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Asset Platform II

to support the retrospective conversion of library card catalogs to electronic format at the Folger Shakespeare Library

Cataloging Special Collections [Folger]

to support planning at the Folger Shakespeare Library for the development of electronic editions, created by undergraduates, of 500 early modern plays

Folger Digital Folio of Renaissance Drama for the 21st Century - Planning Phase

to support staff training and development initiatives at Folger Shakespeare Library

Training and Professional Development

to support summer training institutes in vernacular paleography in collaboration with the Folger Shakespeare Library, Getty Research Institute, Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery, and Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin

Paleography Consortium 

to support summer institutes for training in paleography in collaboration with the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Getty Research Institute, the Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin

to support the Public LAB and the new position of Shakespeare outreach director

Public LAB and Shakespeare Outreach

to support the Public Works and Mobile Shakespeare Unit

Public Works and Mobile Shakespeare Unit

to support the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva, which will generate scholarship, programming, and the creation of resources on bilingual Borderlands Shakespeare appropriations

The Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva

in support of its Shakespeare Electronic Archive project

Shakespeare Electronic Archive Project 

to support the activities of the Royal Shakespeare Company while in residence at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

Royal Shakespeare Company

for support of the Royal Shakespeare Company's residency program at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

Royal Shakespeare Company - Residency Program

for support of engagement of Royal Shakespeare Company's production at Brooklyn Academy of Music at a reduced ticket price scale

Royal Shakespeare Company - 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'

to support Public LAB, the Master Writer’s Chair, and the Under the Radar festival and symposium

New York Shakespeare Festival - Public LAB, the Master Writer’s Chair, and Under the Radar

EEP - Library Automation

to support the development of digital scholarship at a national library

British Library Labs

to assess library needs in Czechoslovakia

Czechslovak Library Assessment

to support reorganization at the research library

British Library Labs - Phase II

to support reorganizations in library and archival services

British Library Labs - Phase III

to support a national research project to identify and address library policies that may serve to create barriers to accessing books and other library resources

Library Card Access Research 

to support the activities of the memory lab at Richmond Public Library

Support for Public Library Memory Labs: Richmond Public Library

to support the activities of the memory lab at Jacksonville Public Library

Support for Public Library Memory Labs: Jacksonville Public Library

Library Support Network

toward costs of travel and related expenses of the Hungarian participants attending the October 1997 Library Automation Conference in Warsaw

to provide improved access to the Internet for Library staff and to introduce a modern system of reader registration and control

EEP - Library Network

to support the activities of the memory lab at Boyle County Public Library

Support for Public Library Memory Labs: Boyle County Public Library

support of an Academic Library Internship Program for administrators of predominantly black college libraries

Academic Library Internship Program

toward costs of incorporating materials from the Chicago Historical Society and the New York-Historical Society into the National Digital Library

National Digital Library Program

toward costs of developing the Hungarian-Slovak Library Network

EEP - Library Network [Hungarian-Slovak]

in support of the October 1997 Library Automation Conference in Warsaw

EEP - Library Automation Conference

to strengthen specific aspects of the theater within a selective program to assist American theaters

Theater Program

to strengthen specific aspects of the institution, within a selective program to assist 18 American theaters

National Theater Program  

Artists as Catalysts

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Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 