NNYLN's Technology Service Innovation and Digitization Grant programs are to assist member organizations in using technology to enhance user services, promote improved access to research resources, and demonstrate best practices that can be emulated by other organizations in the region.
Awards are recommended to the following:
Massena Public Library - $3000 for “Patron Services Business Center”, that would provide the public with equipment and supplies for the creation of high-quality business materials, including promotional materials, newsletters, and brochures.
Thousand Islands Arts Center/Hand-Weaving Museum - $8683 for “Digitizing of the Hand-Weaving Collections”, which includes the accessioning, photographing, digitizing, and cataloging the collections of Marjorie Ruth Ross and Myra Young. Approximately 325 pieces will be digitized and loaded onto the statewide New York Heritage site.
Potsdam Public Library – $3064 for “Be Able to Read Again!” which entails the acquisition of a DaVinci HD Video Magnifier with text to speech capabilities for those with visual or other physical disabilities.
Paul Smiths College – $9995 for “Preserving for the Future & Digitizing the Past: Paul Smith’s College Photographs”, which will double the number of digitized photographs held by the College, telling more of the story of Paul Smith’s College and its community to a wider audience, bridging the earlier photographs of the Paul Smith’s Hotel Company with the newly digitized materials from Paul Smith’s College.
Hunter Rice Health Sciences Library - $3406 for “High Speed, High Mobility Computing for Medical Literature Research”, which will provide software and equipment to improve Library services to the Samaritan Graduate Medical Education (GME) Program.
Canton Free Library - $1725 for “Common Threads”, which will provide five portable sewing machines with carrying cases, along with specialized fiber tools that can be out of reach of the average hobbyist, thus providing patrons with tools for hands-on learning.
