| PG-50549-09 | Preservation and Access: Preservation Assistance Grants | ONE Institute/International Gay and Lesbian Archives | ONE Archives Shelving and Preservation Project | 1/1/2009 - 6/30/2010 | $6,000.00 | Gregory | L. | Williams | | | | ONE Institute/International Gay and Lesbian Archives | West Hollywood | CA | 90069 | USA | 2008 | Archival Management and Conservation | Preservation Assistance Grants | Preservation and Access | 6000 | 0 | 6000 | 0 | The purchase of archival quality metal shelving to accommodate 350 linear feet of primary sources documenting gay and lesbian history. The project follows on recommendations from a 2006 preservation needs assessment conducted by the Conservation Center for Art and Historical Artifacts.
The ONE Archives Shelving & Preservation Project will be an essential step in addressing our recent NEH Preservation Assessment report by purchasing archival shelving for our manuscript and archival collections. This project hopes to preserve archival materials in a stable environment for humanities scholars. The ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives is the oldest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organization in the United States and its collections consist of some of the most important humanities collections in the United States on this subject. The two million item ONE collection includes 50,000 subject files (nearly 800 feet); 30,000 books; 8000 serial or periodical titles; 1800 feet of community organization archives, personal papers and manuscript collections; 500,000 photographs; and audio/visual collections of more than 1,500 films, 3,000 videos and 1000 audiotapes. |
| PW-50526-10 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | ONE Institute/International Gay and Lesbian Archives | ONE Archives Cataloging Project: Founders and Pioneers | 6/1/2010 - 5/31/2012 | $272,086.00 | Joseph | R. | Hawkins | | | | ONE Institute/International Gay and Lesbian Archives | West Hollywood | CA | 90069 | USA | 2010 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 272086 | 0 | 272086 | 0 | The arrangement and description of 647 linear feet of the institutional and organizational records, personal papers, and research files of the founders and pioneers of the modern lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movement in the United States.
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives is seeking NEH funding for two years to arrange, describe, preserve, and make available to researchers the institutional and organizational records, personal papers and research files of the founders and pioneers of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) movement from the last half of the 20th century in the United States. ONE Archives houses the world's largest research library dedicated to LGBT history. ONE is the oldest LGBT organization in the United States. The archives holds over 2 million items including 250 archival collections. This project will fund the salaries of three archivists to arrange and describe early LGBT research materials in ONE's collections. The ONE magazine files are filled with letters from subscribers and article submissions from (usually pseudonymously) contributors describing in poignant detail gay life in America in the 1950s. |