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Capturing new voices and perspectives: Humanities projects at the Centre College Library delayed by COVID-19. Centre College seeks to fund the new role of Cataloging and Metadata Librarian in its Grace Doherty Library, so that other library staff can complete delayed projects in the archives and digital humanities related to capturing new voices and perspectives. Ultimately, this project will make more resources in the humanities searchable and accessible to students and scholars. The hiring for this position was delayed by the pandemic. This led to a backlog of work and hindered research in the humanities fields.

Purpose: To hire and fund a new Cataloging and Metadata Librarian in the Centre College Library. Activities to be performed: The college will hire a new librarian who will address a backlog in its campus library of over 2,150 local authors and 2,544 local materials for which cataloging was postponed because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. When catalogued, the new librarian will make these materials searchable so that they can be used in the college's courses and in student and faculty research. Having the librarian on hand will free other library staff to complete delayed humanities projects in the college's archives and digital humanities collections. Expected outcomes: This project will make more resources in the humanities accessible and searchable, particularly ones that highlight previously underrepresented voices. Intended beneficiaries: Primary beneficiaries will be the recipient's approximately 1,400 enrolled undergraduate students. More expansively, the recipient maintains a partnership with the Kentucky State Digital Archives, and through the website of those archives the collections in the recipient's library are accessible globally. Subrecipient activities: The recipient does not intend to subaward funds.

Centre College Of Kentucky

45.162 - Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

Kentucky United States

State-Wide

American Rescue Plan: Humanities Organizations (20210514-ARPO)

COVID-19 $117,894 (100%) percent of this Project Grant was funded by COVID-19 emergency acts including the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have decreased 3% from $122,035 to $117,894.