Consortium Wins CLIR Grant | Presbyterian Historical Society

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Summary:

"The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has awarded a prestigious Digitizing Hidden Collections grant to an interdenominational consortium of institutions holding historic records of Philadelphia congregations. The Presbyterian Historical Society is one of the consortium’s 11 collecting groups. The $385,000 grant award enables the consortium to digitize and share online more than 41,000 pages of records from the years 1708 to 1870, including baptismal, marriage, bar mitzvah and burial information. The project was one of 14 recommended for funding in 2017 out of 118 applicants...."

Link:

https://www.history.pcusa.org/blog/2018/01/consortium-wins-clir-grant

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oa.new oa.usa oa.clir oa.ch oa.glam oa.digitization oa.societies oa.libraries oa.history oa.religion oa.humanities oa.ssh

Date tagged:

01/09/2018, 17:37

Date published:

01/09/2018, 16:59