University of California, San Francisco (San Francisco, CA 94143-2203)
Polina E. Ilieva (Project Director: July 2016 to March 2021)
PW-253755-17
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Preservation and Access
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Totals:
$315,000 (approved)
$315,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
7/1/2017 – 12/31/2019
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Digitizing and Providing Access to Historical AIDS Records
The University of California,
San Francisco, Library, collaborating with San Francisco Public Library and the
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, will digitize 150,000
pages from 49 archival collections related to the early days of the AIDS
epidemic in the Bay Area and make them widely accessible to the public on the
Internet. These collections document the activities, in the mid-1980s, of
hospitals, health-care providers, activists, and organizations whose response
to AIDS helped establish the San Francisco model of compassionate AIDS care as
the worldwide standard. The diverse materials in these collections were created
during an important period in recent history that reached deeply into the life
of the community. The digitized collections will be a valuable resource for the
study of humanities-related issues in disciplines such as history, literature,
medicine, jurisprudence, journalism, and sociology by scholars, students, and
the public.
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