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- Spearheaded by Stephanie Wiles and Anne KennyKenney
- 4 year Mellon grant for library and museum to work together to improve access to photography collections for teaching
- Joint curator will be hired to be posted soon, emphasizes teaching and looking at collections and recognizing value
- 2 year archivist/cataloger to work at RMC, job to be posted later in the fall
- Mostly pertains to RMC and Kheel, no digitization component, developing teaching sets
- Teaching sets of a few hundred images of those that have not been digitized
- Will allow HFJ to have money to hire a curator longer term
- Mellon wants to see how we collaborate and can these two cultures work together as a research institution
- Andy Grunberg to help with organization as a consultant
- Categories for teaching sets: history of photo, Asian studies, landscape and the environment, labor and work, inequality and the legacy of discrimination.
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- 13 proposals, 6 positioned for budgets
- Process of assembling rough budgets
- One graduate proposal on prison writing
- VRA will meet again in May, announced in May/June
- About to burp out 5 or 6 collections that are A&S projects – Exciting!
Map librarian position vacant and the position is under review and using the opportunity to look at the map collections . Martin (graduate student) can manage questions until the end of May, Eliza can help too, and Howard has a good knowledge of the cartography collection. Map library is still open for regular hours.
Wednesday, March 22 at 10 in Olin 703
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