1. Professor Barry Supple and Grahm
Shaw, Head of Asia and Pacific Manuscripts are both available for interview.
They are both members of the advisory
board.
2. The British Library houses
the world’s knowledge, and with over 150 million separate items it is one of the
top three libraries in the world. It is the UK’s national library and the
world’s leading resource for scholarship, research and innovation. Its
collection covers every age of written civilisation, every written language and
every aspect of human thought. Material held by the Library ranges from ancient
Chinese oracle bones to technical reports about the latest scientific
discoveries and today’s newspapers. Users including industrial companies and
academic scholars, have access to the Library’s collection in its Reading Rooms
and via its global document supply services, which supply over 15,000 documents
per day to 20,000 customers in 111 countries. Information on the Library's
collection and services is available on the British Library website at
www.bl.uk
3. The Lisbet Rausing
Charitable Fund is a grant-making charity, established in 2001. The Trustees are
entitled to apply the funds to any charitable purpose in the UK or abroad, in
their own order of priority. Their present policy is to make a few but large
grants, and to support activities of high scholarly, cultural, or social worth.
So far, they have made grants involving total commitments over ten years of some
forty-six million pounds sterling (about sixty-six million Euros, or eighty-nine
million US dollars).
Main research grants:
Dr
David Anderson, University of Aberdeen
“Digitising the photographic archive
of Southern Siberian indigenous peoples”
Southern Siberia, Russia, £42,075,
18 months
Professor Murali Atlury, Sundarayya Vigna Kendram,
India
“Survey, conservation and archiving of pre-1947 Telugu printed
materials and paintings in India” Andhra Pradesh, India
£34,468, 12
months
Professor Pietro Clemente, University of Florence
“Folk theatre
tales: preserving images, sounds and voices of rural Tuscany”
£40,000, 12
months
Professor Caroline Humphrey, University of Cambridge
“The
treasures of Danzan Ravjaa” Mongolia
£38,880, 24 months
Mr Adnan
Malik, Cornell University
“Endangered Urdu periodicals: preservation and
access for vulnerable scholarly resources” Uttar Pradesh, India
£2,650
(initial funding) 1 month
Dr Karma Phuntsho, Aris Trust Centre,
University of Oxford
“Digital documentation of manuscript collection in
Gangtey” Bhutan
£48,000, 12 months
Dr Verlon Stone, Indiana
University
‘Rescuing Liberian History: preserving the personal papers of
William VS Tubman, Liberia’s longest serving President’
Liberia, £48,810 16
months
Dr Geoffrey Robinson University of California, Los
Angeles
“Preserving East Timor’s endangered archives”
East Timor £45,505
12 months
Dr Raul Romero Catholic University of Peru
“Locating
audiovisual ethnographic collections of expressive Andean culture in
Peru”
£41,829 12 months
Mr Thomas Sindilariu University of
Heidelberg
“Securing of the medieval and early modern archival material (14th
to 17th c.) of Brasov/Kronstadt and the Burzenland region (central
Romania)”
£29,921 13 months
Ms Cheryl Stanborough, Yap State
Archives
“First Yap State Constitutional Convention audio tapes conversion
project”
£20,511 24 months
Dr Konrad Tuchscherer, St John’s
University, New York
“Bamum script and archives project: saving Africa’s
written heritage”
Cameroon £54,800 15 months
Dr Jian Xu, Sun Yat-sen
University
“Salvage and preservation of dongjing archives in Yunnan, China:
transcript, score, ritual and performance”
Yunnan, China £46,530 18
months
Pilot projects
Dr Alexandru Balesescu ,
Royal University for Women, Kingdom of Bahrain
“Faces and places in Iran.
Iranian photography at the turn of the 19th century”
Dr Patrick Darling,
Independent researcher,
“Making Professor Ade Obayemi’s life work
available to the world”, Nigeria
Professor Anne Feldhaus, Arizona State
University
Preserving Marathi manuscripts and making them accessible,
Maharashtra State, India
Dr Rolf Foerster, University of
Chile
“Identification of the potential corpus for a Mapuche special
historical collection”, Brazil
Mr Carlos Liberato de Sousa, York
University, Canada
“Pilot project to seek, identify, contact and report on
collections of the endangered archives of the states of Maranhão and Pará in the
Amazon region of Brazil”
Mr Richard Overy, Australian National
University
Tuvalu National Archives preservation pilot project, Pacific
Islands of Tuvalu
Dr Verlon Stone, Indiana University
Resucing
Liberian history: a pilot study to preserve and enable access to Liberia’s
Persidential and National Archives
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