CLRC is happy to announce the recipients of 2016 member library RBDB funding:

Baldwinsville Public Library: $5,000 for Digitization of High School Yearbooks 1887-present. The library will scan as many yearbooks as possible from their collection, and make them available online and via NY Heritage.

Moon Library, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry: $3,045 for the project, Empire Forester Yearbook Digitization. The collection of yearbooks will be available to alumni, current students and their relatives worldwide through SUNY ESF’s Digital Commons and through NY Heritage.

Fayetteville Free Library: $2,000 for the project Fayetteville Historic Newspaper Archive. The project will digitize reels of Fayetteville NY historic newspapers which are held in microfilm, and make them accessible electronically and via NY State Historic Newspapers.

Dunham Public Library: $3,000 for Whitesboro Central School, Whitestown Seminary and Notable People of Whitesboro Digitization. The project will digitize the library’s collection of artifacts from these collections and add them to New York Heritage.

Hamilton College: $5,536.50 for the Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection. The library will digitize the remaining items in a unique collection of Caribbean manuscripts, and make them available online and through the Digital Public Library of America.

Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary: $2,000 for the project Retrospective Conversion of Core Russian Orthodox Collection.  The library will complete the cataloging of this highly unique collection to machine-readable form so the collections are visible in OCLC’s WorldCat.

Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary: $2,000 for Orthodox Russia Online Index. The project will create a searchable online index for the periodical Orthodox Russia from 1928 to the present.

OCM BOCES School Library System: $10,000 for the OCM BOCES School Library System Resource Sharing. The project will build a user-friendly union catalog that will improve resource sharing throughout the region, having a positive impact on the system’s 65,000 students and 9,000 teachers.

Marcellus Free Library: $2,500 for Marcellus High School Yearbook Preservation. The project will digitize 50 Marcellus High School yearbooks and make them available online, as well as adding them to NY Heritage.

Little Falls Public Library: $1025 for Little Falls Symphony Orchestra. The project will digitize unique materials and artifacts related to the Little Falls Symphony Orchestra, and make them widely available through NY Heritage.

All of these projects will enhance resource sharing within the region and beyond, as they will make unique materials both discoverable and accessible to a broad audience. Congratulations to all of the 2016 RBDB awardees! The application process for 2017 awards will begin in November, 2016.