RPC Grant Awarded for Previous Years 2015 — 2016

Recipient Project Title / Description Request Amount of Award Date of Award
Jim Hahn and James Whitacre Integrating Indoor Positioning Beacons into Collections Based Wayfinding and Recommendations Hourly wages

$3,950

Aug. 17, 2015

Laila Moustafa, Bethany Anderson and Josh Harris

World War II and the Holocaust: What Can be Done to Save Cultural Heritage in Times of War Travel support 

$884

Aug. 26, 2015

Caroline Szylowicz

An Examination of Marcel Proust’s Reading and Book Collecting Practice Travel support 

$1,195

Sep. 10, 2015

Antonio Sotomayor

The Sovereign Colony: An Index Indexing for a book 

$1,530

Oct. 1, 2015

Mara L. Thacker, Tom Teper, Joe Lenkart and Esra Coskun

Measuring and Sustaining the Impact of Area Studies Collections in a Research Library Poster printing

$72

Oct. 13, 2015

Jane Block

Théo van Rysselberghe and André Gide: New Perspectives Travel support

$3,427

Jan. 27, 2016

Marek Sroka

The Inter-Allied Book Center in London and the Restoration of Czechoslovak and Polish Libraries Copies from archives $460 Jan. 28, 2016

Antonio Sotomayor

Religion and the YMCA in Havana, Club, 1898-1940s Travel Support $1,741.60 Apr. 4, 2016
Harriett Green Digital Humanities and Qualitative Inquiry: Digging into Data on a Large Scale Conference Support $360 Apr. 18, 2016
Erin Kerby and Christie Wiley Experiences in Managing Research Data: Graduate Students and Post-Doctoral Researchers in the Sciences Transcription services and participant incentives $1,018.00 Apr. 21, 2016
JJ Pionke Travel Support to Academic Librarian 4 in Hong Kong, China Travel Support $720 May 23, 2016
Kyle Rimkus, Chris Prom, and Bethany Anderson Evaluating Preservation Risk in Born Digital Electronic Records Hourly wages $4,934.40 May 23, 2016
Atoma Batoma Toward a Pragmatic Framework for African Onomastics: Example of Kabye Proper Names Travel Support $3,285 June 6, 2016
Dan Tracy Understanding Ebook User Behavior among LIS Students: Workflows and Workarounds Hourly wages and participant incentives $4,869.61 June 23, 2016