RPC Grant Awarded for Previous Years 2013 — 2014

Recipient Project Title / Description Request Amount of Award Date of Award
Mary Laskowski and Michael Norman A Collection Explosion: Evaluating a Collection 145 Years in the Making Support for hourly wages

$4,200

8/14/2013

Shuyong Jiang

Open Access in China Travel support

$1,990

9/16/2013

Caroline Szylowicz

Retracing the provenance history of a 1782 French manuscript from the RBML collection Travel support

$3,967.00

10/14/2013

Jenny Emmanuel Taylor

Acquiring Financial Management Literacy Support for survey analysis tools

$300

12/4/2013

Paula Kaufman and Bob Burger

Curricular Use of Mobile Computing Technology by a First-Year Learning Community Support for hourly wages

$2,202.20

12/9/2013

Dan Tracy

Research Books for Untenured Faculty Purchase books

$1,200

12/12/2013

Yoo-Seong Song

Assessing the collection of North Korean materials at Chinese and Korean research libraries Travel support $2,184 12/16/2013

Lynn Wiley

Scholarly ebook adoption by humanists, social scientists and scientists: a survey series at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to determine user impressions and predictions for ebooks by discipline Support for gift card for participation and hourly wages $4,125 1/14/2014

Kelly McCusker

Survey of Distance Students and Instructors Gift cards for participation $50 1/22/2014
JoAnn Jacoby, Susan Avery, David Ward, Kathleen Kern Student, Instructor & Librarian Evaluations of Chat Reference Transcripts Support for hourly wages and survey incentives $5,854 2/3/2014
Kirstin Dougan iPads in the Music and Performing Arts Library Poster printing charges $77 2/3/2014
Peg Burnette Conduct a Research Audit of campus level interdisciplinary biomedical research Support for hourly wages $1,201.20 2/3/2014
Mara Thacker, Steve Witt, Tom Teper Measuring and Sustaining the Impact of Foreign Publications in a Research Library Support for hourly wages $1,680 2/27/2014
Steven Witt In Defense of Peace: Libraries, Civil Society and the Founding of UNESCO Travel Support $3,172 3/12/2014
Antonio Sotomayor The Triangle of the Empire: The YMCA in Puerto Rico, 1898-1930s Travel Support $3,482.12 3/12/2014
Laila Hussein Mustafa Disaster Management in National library and Archive in the Middle East in time of war Travel and hourly wage support $5,000 5/6/2014