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Council of American Overseas Research Centers, Washington, D.C.
Online Library Catalogue
$83,000 awarded October 2001
The American Overseas Digital Library Program, a collaborative project of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, received Getty funding to make the library holdings of its research centers located in the Middle East and the Mediterranean Basin accessible to scholars worldwide. The Council's member centers, which include the American Research Centers in Egypt and Turkey, the American Institutes for Maghrib Studies in Morocco and Tunisia, the American Center for Oriental Research in Jordan, and the American Institute for Yemeni Studies in Yemen, are working together to create a Web-based union catalogue of their collective library holdings. To date, their remote locations have made it difficult for most scholars to take advantage of their unusual and valuable holdings. Designed to meet the needs of scholars, the Digital Library Program will provide online access to bibliographic records, full-text materials, article-level indices, digitized maps, and other resources. Grant funds are supporting costs for a short-term project coordinator and the conversion of the library records to a standard format.
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Inner courtyard view of the Tangier-American Legation Museum, Morocco. Council of American Overseas Research Centers. Photo: copyright David Magier.
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New Europe Foundation
To support residential fellows and visiting lecturers at New Europe College
$225,000 awarded in September 2004
The New Europe College in Bucharest, Romania was awarded a three-year grant in the amount of $225,000 for continued support of a residential fellow and visiting lecturer program. Philosopher and art historian Andrei Plesu founded New Europe College (NEC) with money from the Hannah Arendt prize in 1994 as an independent institute for advanced studies in the humanities and social sciences. The goals for NEC since its founding have been to cultivate new methods and areas of research, to promote contact between Romanian scholars and their peers worldwide, and to encourage Romanian scholars to remain in the country. Getty support for this program began with a grant in 2000; the new grant continued this support as well as providing funds for library acquisitions. The continued presence of visiting faculty through this program has had a far-reaching impact on the intellectual life of the College, in particular on Romanian art historians who until recently were isolated from other European or American colleagues.
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