The New York Public Library has received over $1 million in grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to preserve rare, at-risk materials.
The major grant provides $944,571 for a two-year project to microfilm items from the library’s Latin American collection, considered one of the largest in the country. Another grant will offer $133,440 for a two-year project to preserve and improve access to the records of the National Civic Federation, a New York-based conservative think tank advocating capitalism.
“These collections are among the most important in the library, and are presently among the most physically endangered,” said NYPL Senior Vice President William Walker. “This critical support from the National Endowment for the Humanities—for which we are profoundly grateful—will allow these valuable collections to remain extant and accessible for research.”
Posted April 12, 1999.