External Grants to the Library
- The Califa Group , $2,990, for the “BLM 2020 Photo Cataloging” project (2023-2024). This grant will enable the CSUN Library to create approximately 600 item-level records for the Tom and Ethel Bradley Center's archival collection of digital files related to summer 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Los Angeles.
- National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), $350,000 for the Farmworker Movement Digital Photo Archive, Multimedia Website, and On-Demand Exhibition (2022-2025). This grant supports the processing and partial digitization of 22,000 35mm negatives, slides, contact sheets, and prints, along with 20 oral histories that document the farmworker movement in the 1960s and early 1970s, drawn primarily from the photographic collections of John Kouns and Emmon Clarke in the Tom and Ethel Bradley Center.
- Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) collaborative grant of $680,395 (2019-2021) to support a residency and training program. This grant, a partnership among CSUN, USC and CSU Dominguez Hills, will educate and mentor recent MLIS graduates to become archivists who will then take leading roles in building community-based digital collections.
- National Endowment for the Humanities, $315,000 for digitizing the Tom and Ethel Bradley Center Richard Cross Photographic Collection, 2018-2021.
- Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) funded CSUN's University Library and other institutions with a "Digitizing Hidden Collections" grant focused on Southern California's water infrastructure in the amount of $333,574 (2017-2020).
- IMLS-funded LA as Subject Archives Residency Program (implementation grant). Piloting a post-graduate residency program for recent MLIS graduates in the greater Los Angeles area (2014-2017).
- NEH-funded CSU-wide Japanese-American Confinement Digitization Project (planning grant.) With 7 or 8 other CSU campuses, CSUN investigated the feasibility of creating a system-wide digital repository focused on resources documenting Japanese-American Confinement during World War II, as well as the Japanese-American community in the western United States (2014-2015).
- NEH-funded Digital Database of the African American Photography Collection at the Institute for Arts & Media (implementation grant). The IAM (now the Tom and Ethel Bradley Center) and the University Library have processed and digitized the contents of several collections held by IAM in Sagebrush Hall (2013-2016).
- The University Library is part of a group of CSU librarians and archivists that received a $321,000 implementation grant in 2015 from the National Park Service (NPS) for the CSU Japanese American Digitization Project which is working to create an online repository of Japanese American World War II era internment materials, including manuscripts, legal documents, newspapers, letters, and photographs (2015-2017).
- Along with several other institutions, the University Library received $260,000 from the NEH for the CSU-wide Japanese-American Confinement Digitization Project (implementation grant.) (2016-2018).
- The University Library was awarded a $3,000 grant for “Latino Americans: 500 Years of History” from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA). The funding was used in 2015-2016 to support related public programing.
- Our Digital Collection, “Water Works: Documenting Water History in Los Angeles,” is an important and comprehensive digital collection which was funded by a 2014 $10,000 grant from the Metabolic Studio and contains items documenting the history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct from its conception, to its maintenance, and its continuing impact.
- Women's Health Resources and Gender Research Differences: Outreach at California State University Northridge. $50,000 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) (2012-2013).
- International Guitar Research Archive: Processing of the Vahdah Olcott Bickford Collection, $44,988 funded by the Augustine Foundation, 2010-2011.
- The Mulholland Family Papers, Part II of the Catherine Mulholland Collection, $20,000 funded by the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, 2010-2011.
- Preservation and Archiving of the Catherine Mulholland Collection," $25,000 funded by the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, 2009-2010.
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Grant Project - The University Library was awarded a ground-breaking $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Dept. of Education’s Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) – Title V program (2002-2008). Major focus was on primary and archival materials, which document the experiences of Latino/Chicano leaders and organizations in the Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley area, some of which are included in three digital archives:
These were celebrated in a Latino Archives Exhibit and at grant-funded events. The other focus of the HSI Grant project was the acquisition of almost 3,000 books related to Latino/Chicano Latino history, social sciences, and culture.
- Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Grant (San Fernando Valley History Digital Library)