Program

Preservation and Access: Preservation/Access Projects

Period of Performance

10/1/2004 - 9/30/2006

Funding Totals

$393,953.00 (approved)
$393,953.00 (awarded)


Preservation Microfilming of Books and Serials Related to the History of American Railroads

FAIN: PA-50687-04

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Champaign, IL 61801-3620)
Barbara M. Allen (Project Director: July 2003 to May 2007)

The preservation microfilming and enhanced cataloging of 1,300 deteriorating volumes and the repair of an additional 2,000 volumes, published from 1832 to 1975, on the history of American railroads and their influence on American life and culture from 1820 to 1950, drawn from the collections of five Committees on Institutional Cooperation libraries.