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UCSD Libraries Receives $850,000 from Mellon
Foundation to Support Digital Media Initiatives

        The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Libraries has received $850,000 in grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support strategic digital media initiatives.  The two-year funding will support the cataloging of art images and their deployment in digital form for educational purposes.
        “We are very pleased by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s support,” said University Librarian Brian E. C. Schottlaender.  “ These initiatives will significantly advance our goals of developing rich and sustainable digital collections and infrastructures in support of enhanced information services to UCSD faculty and students.” 
        In carrying out the initiatives, the UCSD Libraries will partner with the Fine Arts Library at Harvard University and the Ingalls Library of the Cleveland Museum of Art to create a prototype Union Catalog for Art Images (UCAI).  As the core of an expandable  catalog, UCAI will bring together approximately 500,000 metadata records describing art works and other images that were created at the three partner institutions in different systems using different standards.
        For the prototype database, the aim is to achieve the broadest possible thematic coverage with the minimum degree of overlap. UCSD and its partners will attempt to address the technical issues surrounding the unification and display of diverse record structures and content, to assess both the viability and utility of database.  After the prototype is created, additional features will be developed for UCAI in subsequent phases of the project.
        In addition to the creation of the UCAI prototype, the initiatives will result in the digitization of a significant portion of the UCSD Libraries’ substantial slide collection.  The digitized collection will be added to the expanding suite of Mellon-funded ArtSTOR collections supporting teaching, research, and scholarship, and will be available to UCSD faculty and students via the campus network to support teaching and learning in art history and related humanities fields.

Leslie Abrams
Head, Arts Libraries
University of California, San Diego

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