Preservation and Access to Threatened Humanities (PATH)

FAIN: PG-271745-20

Florida State College at Jacksonville (Jacksonville, FL 32246-6624)
Shannon Leigh Dew (Project Director: January 2020 to March 2022)

A preservation assessment and half-day workshop on collections preservation, handling, and storage best practices.  The award would also support the purchase of storage furniture to protect records that document several academic publication series produced by the college since its founding in 1968.  Among them are various literary magazines, such as Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Literature & Art, founded in 1978 and featuring writers such as Alice Walker, E.L. Konigsburg, Marge Piercy, and Elisavietta Ritchie, as well as two interview series, Writer to Writer and Worth Quoting, both of which ran for over a decade.  The collection includes the administrative files, letters, photographs, recordings, and publications for these journals and series.  Over the last few years, the college has begun to digitize and make the materials available for research online.  This grant would provide the applicant with a first-time assessment of their Archives and Special Collections unit to help staff establish preservation priorities and policies.

Provide the first step in archival planning and preservation activities for important humanities publications as well as hundreds of hours of original audio and video recordings by influential authors and public figures over the last three decades.