Grant Opportunity:Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grants 2013 The Portal to Texas History at the University of North Texas is accepting applications for its Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant series. Each grant will provide up to $1,000 of digitization services to libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and other groups that house historical materials. All of the materials will be scanned at the UNT Libraries and hosted on The Portal to Texas History. August 15, 2013: Applications due September 1, 2013: Notification of project acceptance September 15, 2013: Digitization begins Save the Date! September 19-21, 2013 University of North Texas, Denton, Texas Digital Frontiers is an annual conference that brings together users and builders of digital resources for research and education. Registration opens July 15th. All are welcome. More details: disco.unt.edu/df13 Texas Cultures Online: Mission Accomplished! With the generous support of the Amon Carter Foundation, the UNT Libraries completed their latest, large-scale digitization project titled Texas Cultures Online, which features more than 16,000 historical items that showcase Texas’ diverse cultural heritage. Seventeen institutions, consisting of large and small public libraries, universities, private family collections, museums, and historical societies participated in the project. Primary and secondary teachers will especially appreciate the Texas Folklife Festival collection belonging to the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Institute of Texan Cultures. More than 4,000 photographs capture traditional customs, foodways, and folk dancing of a range of ethnic groups in Texas that include the Czech-Moravians, Lebanese, Koreans, Poles, Germans, Scandinavians, Mexican Americans, Irish, and Native Americans,to name just a few. Newest Collection: Scouting Magazine The Boys Scouts of America asked the UNT Digital Libraries Division to digitize a fullrun of Scouting Magazine to celebrate the magazine’s centennial anniversary. Reading through 100 years of issues provides an interesting reflection of social and political changes in the country. The magazine helped promote rationing and victory gardens during both World Wars and encouraged assisting the poor during the Depression. In later decades, environmental issues, physical fitness, volunteering, and science werethe main topics. Summer 2013 Family at the Beach, Museum of the Gulf Coast Grant Opportunity:Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grants 2013 The Portal to Texas History at the University of North Texas is accepting applications for its Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant series. Each grant will provide up to $1,000 of digitization services to libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and other groups that house historical materials. All of the materials will be scanned at the UNT Libraries and hosted on The Portal to Texas History. August 15, 2013: Applications due September 1, 2013: Notification of project acceptance September 15, 2013: Digitization begins Save the Date! September 19-21, 2013 University of North Texas, Denton, Texas Digital Frontiers is an annual conference that brings together users and builders of digital resources for research and education. Registration opens July 15th. All are welcome. More details: disco.unt.edu/df13 Texas Cultures Online: Mission Accomplished! With the generous support of the Amon Carter Foundation, the UNT Libraries completed their latest, large-scale digitization project titled Texas Cultures Online, which features more than 16,000 historical items that showcase Texas’ diverse cultural heritage. Seventeen institutions, consisting of large and small public libraries, universities, private family collections, museums, and historical societies participated in the project. Primary and secondary teachers will especially appreciate the Texas Folklife Festival collection belonging to the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Institute of Texan Cultures. More than 4,000 photographs capture traditional customs, foodways, and folk dancing of a range of ethnic groups in Texas that include the Czech-Moravians, Lebanese, Koreans, Poles, Germans, Scandinavians, Mexican Americans, Irish, and Native Americans,to name just a few. Newest Collection: Scouting Magazine The Boys Scouts of America asked the UNT Digital Libraries Division to digitize a full run of Scouting Magazine to celebrate the magazine’s centennial anniversary. Reading through 100 years of issues provides an interesting reflection of social and political changes in the country. The magazine helped promote rationing and victory gardens during both World Wars and encouraged assisting the poor during the Depression. In later decades, environmental issues, physical fitness, volunteering, and science were the main topics.
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