Libraries Awarded Grants

University of Florida Libraries Awarded Grants

The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries has received four Library Services and Technology Act grants
for 2001 totaling $144,305. The Rare Book Collection, the largest in the state of Florida, received $41,220 to enhance
the cataloging records in certain subject and chronological areas through 1800 to provide full access. Another grant of
$22,385 funds a new Internet virtual reference service and city census data enhancements to the Documents
Department’s Florida Electronic Federal Depository Library Website (http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/docs/). The Florida
Center for Library Automation, in partnership with the libraries of eight state universities of Florida, has received
$70,000 from LSTA to catalog all significant special collections in the universities libraries and will do a trial
implementation of online finding aids using the standard Encoded Archival Description format. The project cataloger will
be based at the George A. Smathers Libraries Resource Services Department.

The Smathers Libraries has also been awarded a $10,700 one-year Northeast Florida Library Information Network
grant for the retrospective copy cataloging of 20th century titles in the Baldwin Library of Historical American and
English Literature. Also a LSTA grant, this is the second one awarded for this project.
 
 
 

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