#library grant

UCSF Archives has been awarded a $99,325 “Pitch-An-Idea, Local” grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Library Services and Technology Act. 

The Archives will take the nearly 200,000 pages of textual AIDS/HIV historical materials which have been digitized as part of various digitization projects and will extract unstructured, textual data from these materials using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and related software. The project team will prepare the text as a research-ready, unstructured textual dataset to be used for digital humanities, computationally-driven cultural heritage, and machine learning research inquiries into the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. 

The provincial government says it’s investing $45 million in public libraries across B.C., and a portion of that will be earmarked for the Okanagan. On Friday, Vernon-Monashee MLA Harwinder Sandhu said Okanagan Regional Library will receive nearly $1.7 million from the province. According to the province and Sandhu, the money will help libraries modernize, give patrons better access to…