Friends of the SMU Libraries/Colophon

Grants 2008

The Friends of the SMU Libraries Grants Committee met on April 28, 2008 to review grant proposals submitted by the libraries.  The committee was chaired by Toni Terry and included Judy McMillin, Karen Mortazavi and Donna Wellington.  Amy Carver was ex-officio.  The following grants were approved by the committee:

$5,835 to the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection at the Hamon Arts Library for the preservation treatment of 12 35mm feature films.

$4,500 to Central University Libraries to purchase electronic access to Nature Online back to 1987.

$3,500 to the DeGolyer Library to add to the Colophon Collection of modern American literature.

$2,000 to Bridwell Library and the DeGolyer Library for the Sam Houston portrait restoration project.

$2,000 to the Jerry Bywaters Special Collections of the Hamon Arts Library for the conservation of sixty works of art on paper by noted Texas regionalist artist Merritt Mauzey.

$1,995 to Central University Libraries for the purchase of the International Encyclopedia of Communication Online.

$1,776 to Bridwell Library for the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures edited by Suad Joseph.

$1,000 to the Hamon Arts Library for partial funding of Illustracion artistic, a late nineteenth- and twentieth-century journal from 1882-1917.

$748.70 to the Exhibits Committee to purchase new book cradles and new books about making exhibits.

$550 to the Fort Burgwin Library for the purchase of the book Taos Artists and their Patrons 1898-1950 by Dean A. Porter, Teresa Hayes Ebie, Suzan Campbell and the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art.

$500 to the Business Information Center for DMA 2007 Response Rate Trends Report.

$350 to the Business Information Center for the Guide to Indian Markets – 2006.

Amount of grants:  $24,754.70

Grants approved for yearly distribution:

$3,000 to CUL to assist in funding the production of the CUL annual report publication.

$2,000 to support two Library School Scholarship Awards.  This year’s recipients are Greg Dawson from the Hamon Arts Library and Melanie Gibson from the Bridwell Library.

$500 to the SMU Libraries to support the Effective Use of Information Technology Staff Award

$500 to the SMU Libraries to support the Employee of the Year Staff Award

TOTAL of all 2008 grants:  $30,754.70