Writers Forum Open Access Project

In late October, 2015 I received notification that I was awarded a $1500 Harold Hacker Award Fund for the Advancement of Libraries. Here is the budget narrative:

The funding would be used to hire an intern for 300 hours @ $12.00/hr, who would first update the 2007 inventory to determine the current state of the collection. He or she would then build a showcase collection on Brockport’s open access institutional repository, Digital Commons@Brockport (http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/), and move 40 existing audio files currently behind a firewall in iTunes, 22 existing video files found on SUNY’s DSpace platform, and 18 existing digital files that are stored on local hard drives to this site. Metadata would be added to enhance the discoverability of the collection, and the catalog records would be created or updated, and links would be updated on the departmental and library webpages. Historical posters, programs and other archival material would be scanned to round out the collection.

While I asked for $3600, I received less than half of that. Since the premiere goal was to create an online, open access collection that is what I will have to focus on.