The National Endowment for the Arts awarded $15.8 million for 203 new grants and fellowships December 8. Among the big winners were Chicago's Newberry Library, which received $625,000 to support the position of public programs director and other staffing, operating costs, and public humanities programming; and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, which received the same amount for education and technology.
Among the other library awards announced: $25,000 to the New Britain (Conn.) Public Library; $225,000 to the Topeka/Shawnee County (Kans.) Public Library; $410,000 to the University of Maryland/College Park for a new library technology center; $80,000 to the Williamsburg (Mass.) Public Library; $300,000 to the Peter White Public Library in Marquette, Michigan; $150,000 to the Brooklyn Public Library; and $150,000 to the Library Foundation of Portland, Oregon.
Details are available on the NEH Web site.
Posted December 14, 1998.