David Brodherson, Baruch College
Panel: Library
Title: "Print Room Pioneers: History of the New York Public Library and Frank Weitenkampf"
Abstract:
Normally art museums collect art! Nevertheless, in 1899 the New York Public Library became the second library in the United States, only after the Library of Congress, to establish a whole administrative division with a curator--the first curator was Frank Weitenkampf-- to acquire, manage, display and interpret art, in particular prints. My almost complete manuscript explains the history of this pioneering effort including important events, biography, philosophy, theory and practice in the New York Pubic Library. This grant will fund the acquisition of illustrations and purchase of a laptop computer to help finalize the manuscript.
Ching-Jung Chen, City College
Panel: Art History
Title: "The Wentworths: A Story of Two Conversation Pieces"
Abstract:
This project will explore the socio-economical implications of the conversation piece through a case study of two pictures, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, and His Family by Gawen Hamilton (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa) and The Finch Family by Charles Philips (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven). These two paintings were commissioned respectively by Thomas Wentworth (1672-1739) and Thomas Watson Wentworth (1693-1750), rival descendants of the great Thomas Wentworth (1593-1641), Earl of Strafford. At the time they were engaged in a race to build the most magnificent country house in south Yorkshire and claim the honor of the preeminent Wentworth. The meaning and purpose of these two pictures will be investigated by reconstructing the history of their commissions within the context of the rivalry between the two families. This research will be the first to study these two important examples of English conversation pieces in their political and social context. It will present a vivid picture of the intrigue and maneuver in the English countryside as well as provide insight into the patronage and significance of the conversation piece, a subject that has remained largely unexplored.
Valeda Dent, Hunter College
Panel: Library
Title: "When Libraries Are Scarce: The Relationship Between Rural Libraries and Student Academic Performance in Northern Ghana & Burkina Faso"
Abstract:
Ewa Dzurak, College of Staten Island
Panel: Library
Title: "Explorations in comparative librarianship: BUW's transformation - a study of dynamic change in post communist Warsaw University Library 2000-2007"
Abstract:
BUW is an example of a large Eastern European academic library that was fast forwarded into the 21st century. The whole region strives to reach international standards in various areas of economy, politics, education, etc. The role of the libraries, providers of access to information cannot be overlooked in this larger scheme of transformation of countries going from communist governments that limited access to almost any kind of information to free market economies with free access to almost any kind of information. BUW opened, for the first time, part of its stacks to the users and became a hosting site for a first shared bibliographic database in Poland. Those actions required complex changes in bibliographic description and reclassification of the entire collection. The library decided to adapt Library of Congress Classification scheme and in subject cataloging to create Polish own subject headings list from a translation of a combination of LCSH (American) and RAMEAU (French) subject headings. The library also decided to fully implement MARC21 format as a standard of bibliographic description. Those changes deeply influenced many aspects of bibliographic control practices in BUW. The project is an inquiry of the process of how decisions were made to adapt those standards and how those standards were implemented, from the moment of translation of the standards through librarians training program to workflow in daily practice. The process of translation of cataloging tools, staff training materials, and other needed documents seems especially interesting since it poses many problems and also adds another layer to the already challenging transformation. The literature of the subject is scarce in English. The number of articles in the late nineties considered problems associate with automation of the libraries in Eastern Europe but it is difficult to find materials about changes in cataloging practices there. This project might fill this gap.
Mee-Len Hom, Hunter College
Panel: Library
James Kaser, College of Staten Island
Panel: Library
Title: "San Francisco in Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography"
Julie Lim, CUNY Law School
Panel: Law & Criminal Justice (with Prof. Sarah Valentine)
Michael Miller, Queens College
Panel: Library
Title: "New Media Commons, 2010: The State of the Art in Academic Library Media Services Support"
Abstract:
The purpose of this project and proposal is to gain funding to visit and survey seven advanced media services units in academic libraries and to fund a short half-day seminar as a forum to share the findings. A survey of the seven units will support the development of a research article to be published in a peer reviewed journal. This type of publication fills a benchmarking, planning, and standards gap in the professional literature of librarianship and media services disciplines. A seminar will also be planned to bring the findings to CUNY and other regional academic librarians and faculty needing to plan for and to utilize up-to-date media services facilities.
Jennifer Oates, Queens College
Panel: Music (with Prof. James John, Dept. of Music)
Title: "Hamish MacCunn Partsongs: Recording and Score Production"
Abstract:
Aisha Pena, Baruch College
Panel: Women's Studies
Title: "Ten Influential Muslim Women in the United States Working in Human Rights"
Abstract:
Many concerns for American Muslims have escalated since 9/11, issues with family education, employment and religion that have made their assimilation and acculturation complicated. Today, American Muslim women are confronted with negative biases and stereotypes that continue to shadow the efforts and responsibilities they put forth in society. As Muslim women become involved in the educational and economical systems in the US, the issues of their identity and their human rights can no longer be addressed with a sense of uncertainty. The biographies of ten Muslim women that contribute to human rights issues of American Muslims will be significant and a way to see how these issues is being addressed. These women are active in organizations, such as Muslim Women League, North American Council for Muslims Women and the Federation of Muslim Women and they are helping to raise awareness and build bridges between American Muslims and the American public.
Linda Roccos, College of Staten Island
Panel: Library
Title: "Bibliography for the Archaeology Study Collection at the College of Staten Island"
Abstract:
During the 1870s, an American collector of antiquities, Francis MacDonald of Staten Island, New York, travelled frequently to Italy as representative of the Anchor Line (now Cunard). During these trips MacDonald purchased artifacts for his personal collection, chiefly Greek, Roman, and Egyptian antiquities. He died suddenly in 1878, and his collection remained in his home on Staten Island until his wife Eliza's death in 1911, when their son Wallace donated the collection to the just formed Staten Island Museum. These nearly 2000 donated artifacts formed the core of the Archaeology Study Collection, which is on long-term loan to the College of Staten Island and on display in the College Library. The present research project will continue the research for this collection, and the first goal is to provide the bibliography for the catalogue: both for the background of MacDonald's collecting activities, and for the objects in the collection.
Román A. Santillán, College of Staten Island
Panel: Library
Title: "An annotated catalogue and index to collections of New Spain Triumphal Arches and other political festivities and ceremonies, 1528-1821"
Abstract:
The project is an exploration of available resources in all formats of New Spain Triumphal Arches: Indexes to Collections, 1528-1821. For until now, scholars have had remarkably little bibliographic control over the Triumphal Arches, and other political festivities genre. The catalogue will help scholars to find sources among engravings, woodcuts, etchings, music scripts, pamphlets, relations, and the illustrations for pertinent emblems books of the from sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in Mexico.
Katherine Shelfer, Baruch College
Panel: Library
Open Web or Library Databases: What do Students really Prefer?
Abstract:
Angela Sidman, Graduate Center
Panel: Library
Title: "Artist, Collector, Dealer: Medieval manuscripts from the Charles Fairfax Murray collection"
Abstract:
My project aims to create a list of the private sales activities of the Victorian artist, dealer, and collector, Charles Fairfax Murray. Using Murray’s personal papers, which are housed at the John Ryland’s University Library, University of Manchester, I intend to begin an inventory of the sales of items from his own collection that Murray made throughout his life. In particular, I am interested in Murray’s collection and sale of medieval manuscripts and miniatures. Leading Victorian artists and critics such as John Ruskin, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and William Morris were both friends and mentors to Murray, and shaped his ideas on art and society. These ideas are reflected in the art objects he added to his personal collection and those which he advised wealthy collectors and museums to purchase in his role as connoisseur and dealer. By creating an inventory of the manuscripts Murray sold from his own collection, I hope to construct a research tool that sheds light on how this once-prominent man’s personal taste became part of several national collections.
Suzanna Simor, Queens College
Panel: Art History
Title: "Images of the Creed (working title), to be published by Brepols Publishers"
Abstract:
This project is to complete a book manuscript Images of the Creed (working title) and prepare it for publication as a hard cover monograph by Brepols Publishers under the Harvey Miller Publishers imprint in 2008 or 2009. The award will support part of publication and manuscript preparation costs, specifically the cost of obtaining and clearing rights to pictures. The study examines visualizations of the texts of Christianity?s three main summaries of belief, the Apostles?, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds, in Western art, explores their origins and significance, and surveys their historical development to the Reformation. No less than the summary of its beliefs, the creed is central to Christianity. Nevertheless, this is the first study of imaging the creeds. Its publication will benefit scholars working in art history and other areas of medieval studies.
Antony Simpson, John Jay College
Panel: Library
Title: "Witnesses to the Scaffold: First-hand Accounts of Public Executions by English Literary Figures"
Abstract:
Sarah Valentine, CUNY Law School
Panel: Law & Criminal Justice (with Prof. Julie Lim)
Abstract:
Patricia Woodard, Hunter College
Panel: Music
Title: "Hall-Mack: A Publishing Success Story"
Abstract:
The publishing firm of Hall-Mack was founded in 1895 and flourished until the 1930’s, specializing in musical, dramatic, and lesson materials for Sunday Schools, as well as song books for camp and revival meetings. Owner of the copyrights for several of the era's most successful gospel songs, its contributions to the history of gospel hymnody remain largely unexplored. A comprehensive bibliography of Hall-Mack publications is a first step in a larger study of the firm and its collaborators. This PSC-CUNY grant will fund travel to research collections in the Philadelphia area and at Brown University.
Panel: Library
Title: "Print Room Pioneers: History of the New York Public Library and Frank Weitenkampf"
Abstract:
Normally art museums collect art! Nevertheless, in 1899 the New York Public Library became the second library in the United States, only after the Library of Congress, to establish a whole administrative division with a curator--the first curator was Frank Weitenkampf-- to acquire, manage, display and interpret art, in particular prints. My almost complete manuscript explains the history of this pioneering effort including important events, biography, philosophy, theory and practice in the New York Pubic Library. This grant will fund the acquisition of illustrations and purchase of a laptop computer to help finalize the manuscript.
Ching-Jung Chen, City College
Panel: Art History
Title: "The Wentworths: A Story of Two Conversation Pieces"
Abstract:
This project will explore the socio-economical implications of the conversation piece through a case study of two pictures, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, and His Family by Gawen Hamilton (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa) and The Finch Family by Charles Philips (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven). These two paintings were commissioned respectively by Thomas Wentworth (1672-1739) and Thomas Watson Wentworth (1693-1750), rival descendants of the great Thomas Wentworth (1593-1641), Earl of Strafford. At the time they were engaged in a race to build the most magnificent country house in south Yorkshire and claim the honor of the preeminent Wentworth. The meaning and purpose of these two pictures will be investigated by reconstructing the history of their commissions within the context of the rivalry between the two families. This research will be the first to study these two important examples of English conversation pieces in their political and social context. It will present a vivid picture of the intrigue and maneuver in the English countryside as well as provide insight into the patronage and significance of the conversation piece, a subject that has remained largely unexplored.
Valeda Dent, Hunter College
Panel: Library
Title: "When Libraries Are Scarce: The Relationship Between Rural Libraries and Student Academic Performance in Northern Ghana & Burkina Faso"
Abstract:
Ewa Dzurak, College of Staten Island
Panel: Library
Title: "Explorations in comparative librarianship: BUW's transformation - a study of dynamic change in post communist Warsaw University Library 2000-2007"
Abstract:
BUW is an example of a large Eastern European academic library that was fast forwarded into the 21st century. The whole region strives to reach international standards in various areas of economy, politics, education, etc. The role of the libraries, providers of access to information cannot be overlooked in this larger scheme of transformation of countries going from communist governments that limited access to almost any kind of information to free market economies with free access to almost any kind of information. BUW opened, for the first time, part of its stacks to the users and became a hosting site for a first shared bibliographic database in Poland. Those actions required complex changes in bibliographic description and reclassification of the entire collection. The library decided to adapt Library of Congress Classification scheme and in subject cataloging to create Polish own subject headings list from a translation of a combination of LCSH (American) and RAMEAU (French) subject headings. The library also decided to fully implement MARC21 format as a standard of bibliographic description. Those changes deeply influenced many aspects of bibliographic control practices in BUW. The project is an inquiry of the process of how decisions were made to adapt those standards and how those standards were implemented, from the moment of translation of the standards through librarians training program to workflow in daily practice. The process of translation of cataloging tools, staff training materials, and other needed documents seems especially interesting since it poses many problems and also adds another layer to the already challenging transformation. The literature of the subject is scarce in English. The number of articles in the late nineties considered problems associate with automation of the libraries in Eastern Europe but it is difficult to find materials about changes in cataloging practices there. This project might fill this gap.
Mee-Len Hom, Hunter College
Panel: Library
James Kaser, College of Staten Island
Panel: Library
Title: "San Francisco in Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography"
Julie Lim, CUNY Law School
Panel: Law & Criminal Justice (with Prof. Sarah Valentine)
Michael Miller, Queens College
Panel: Library
Title: "New Media Commons, 2010: The State of the Art in Academic Library Media Services Support"
Abstract:
The purpose of this project and proposal is to gain funding to visit and survey seven advanced media services units in academic libraries and to fund a short half-day seminar as a forum to share the findings. A survey of the seven units will support the development of a research article to be published in a peer reviewed journal. This type of publication fills a benchmarking, planning, and standards gap in the professional literature of librarianship and media services disciplines. A seminar will also be planned to bring the findings to CUNY and other regional academic librarians and faculty needing to plan for and to utilize up-to-date media services facilities.
Jennifer Oates, Queens College
Panel: Music (with Prof. James John, Dept. of Music)
Title: "Hamish MacCunn Partsongs: Recording and Score Production"
Abstract:
Aisha Pena, Baruch College
Panel: Women's Studies
Title: "Ten Influential Muslim Women in the United States Working in Human Rights"
Abstract:
Many concerns for American Muslims have escalated since 9/11, issues with family education, employment and religion that have made their assimilation and acculturation complicated. Today, American Muslim women are confronted with negative biases and stereotypes that continue to shadow the efforts and responsibilities they put forth in society. As Muslim women become involved in the educational and economical systems in the US, the issues of their identity and their human rights can no longer be addressed with a sense of uncertainty. The biographies of ten Muslim women that contribute to human rights issues of American Muslims will be significant and a way to see how these issues is being addressed. These women are active in organizations, such as Muslim Women League, North American Council for Muslims Women and the Federation of Muslim Women and they are helping to raise awareness and build bridges between American Muslims and the American public.
Linda Roccos, College of Staten Island
Panel: Library
Title: "Bibliography for the Archaeology Study Collection at the College of Staten Island"
Abstract:
During the 1870s, an American collector of antiquities, Francis MacDonald of Staten Island, New York, travelled frequently to Italy as representative of the Anchor Line (now Cunard). During these trips MacDonald purchased artifacts for his personal collection, chiefly Greek, Roman, and Egyptian antiquities. He died suddenly in 1878, and his collection remained in his home on Staten Island until his wife Eliza's death in 1911, when their son Wallace donated the collection to the just formed Staten Island Museum. These nearly 2000 donated artifacts formed the core of the Archaeology Study Collection, which is on long-term loan to the College of Staten Island and on display in the College Library. The present research project will continue the research for this collection, and the first goal is to provide the bibliography for the catalogue: both for the background of MacDonald's collecting activities, and for the objects in the collection.
Román A. Santillán, College of Staten Island
Panel: Library
Title: "An annotated catalogue and index to collections of New Spain Triumphal Arches and other political festivities and ceremonies, 1528-1821"
Abstract:
The project is an exploration of available resources in all formats of New Spain Triumphal Arches: Indexes to Collections, 1528-1821. For until now, scholars have had remarkably little bibliographic control over the Triumphal Arches, and other political festivities genre. The catalogue will help scholars to find sources among engravings, woodcuts, etchings, music scripts, pamphlets, relations, and the illustrations for pertinent emblems books of the from sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in Mexico.
Katherine Shelfer, Baruch College
Panel: Library
Open Web or Library Databases: What do Students really Prefer?
Abstract:
Angela Sidman, Graduate Center
Panel: Library
Title: "Artist, Collector, Dealer: Medieval manuscripts from the Charles Fairfax Murray collection"
Abstract:
My project aims to create a list of the private sales activities of the Victorian artist, dealer, and collector, Charles Fairfax Murray. Using Murray’s personal papers, which are housed at the John Ryland’s University Library, University of Manchester, I intend to begin an inventory of the sales of items from his own collection that Murray made throughout his life. In particular, I am interested in Murray’s collection and sale of medieval manuscripts and miniatures. Leading Victorian artists and critics such as John Ruskin, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and William Morris were both friends and mentors to Murray, and shaped his ideas on art and society. These ideas are reflected in the art objects he added to his personal collection and those which he advised wealthy collectors and museums to purchase in his role as connoisseur and dealer. By creating an inventory of the manuscripts Murray sold from his own collection, I hope to construct a research tool that sheds light on how this once-prominent man’s personal taste became part of several national collections.
Suzanna Simor, Queens College
Panel: Art History
Title: "Images of the Creed (working title), to be published by Brepols Publishers"
Abstract:
This project is to complete a book manuscript Images of the Creed (working title) and prepare it for publication as a hard cover monograph by Brepols Publishers under the Harvey Miller Publishers imprint in 2008 or 2009. The award will support part of publication and manuscript preparation costs, specifically the cost of obtaining and clearing rights to pictures. The study examines visualizations of the texts of Christianity?s three main summaries of belief, the Apostles?, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds, in Western art, explores their origins and significance, and surveys their historical development to the Reformation. No less than the summary of its beliefs, the creed is central to Christianity. Nevertheless, this is the first study of imaging the creeds. Its publication will benefit scholars working in art history and other areas of medieval studies.
Antony Simpson, John Jay College
Panel: Library
Title: "Witnesses to the Scaffold: First-hand Accounts of Public Executions by English Literary Figures"
Abstract:
Sarah Valentine, CUNY Law School
Panel: Law & Criminal Justice (with Prof. Julie Lim)
Abstract:
Patricia Woodard, Hunter College
Panel: Music
Title: "Hall-Mack: A Publishing Success Story"
Abstract:
The publishing firm of Hall-Mack was founded in 1895 and flourished until the 1930’s, specializing in musical, dramatic, and lesson materials for Sunday Schools, as well as song books for camp and revival meetings. Owner of the copyrights for several of the era's most successful gospel songs, its contributions to the history of gospel hymnody remain largely unexplored. A comprehensive bibliography of Hall-Mack publications is a first step in a larger study of the firm and its collaborators. This PSC-CUNY grant will fund travel to research collections in the Philadelphia area and at Brown University.
