PLALA Projects - 1999

May, 1999
Archivo General de la Nación, Bogotá, Colombia. (A project to microfilm documents from the archdiocesan archives of Popayán.) $10,000.

Area de Investigación y Documentación Histórica Parque de España, Rosario, Argentina. (A project to microfilm the manuscript Censo General de la Provincia de Santa Fe of June, 1887.) $4,950.

Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas en la Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (A project to catalog the Centro’s collections.) $10,000.

Instituto Raúl Porras Barrenechea, Lima, Peru. (A project to organize, preserve, and describe the Instituto’s holdings.) $10,000.

Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (A project to mount descriptions of the Museu’s collections on the Internet.) $10,000.

September, 1999
Archivo Histórico, Convento San Francisco Solano, Río Cuarto, Argentina. (A project to organize and describe the Archivo’s documentary holdings.) $6,000.

Biblioteca Mauricio Magdaleno, Zacatecas, Mexico. (A project to organize and inventory the holdings in the Hemeroteca.) $2,100.

December, 1999
[Archivo Departamental de Amazonas, Chachapoyas, Peru. (A project to organize and preserve the Archivo’s holdings through the purchase of a personal computer and a photocopy machine.) $4,850. (Cancelled following post-election staff changes. A similar but separate project was approved in August, 2001.)]

Archivo Histórico de la Arquidiócesis de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico. (A project for conservation work and the preparation of a guide for materials held by the Archivo Histórico.) $7,500.

Archivo Histórico del Museo Mitre, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (A project to support conservation work and the preparation of duplicate copies of documents held by the Archivo.) $6,150.

Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, Santiago, Chile. (A project to complete an inventory of documents held in the manuscripts collection of the Library’s Sala Medina.) $12,000.

Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos ?Bartolomé de las Casas, Cusco, Peru. (A project to prepare an inventory and provide basic conservation for materials in the Centro’s Fototeca Andina.) $14,000.

Fondo de Investigación y Documentación de la Música Tradicional Chilena Margot Loyola Palacios, Valparaíso, Chile. (A project to support conservation work and supplementary processing for sound recordings held by the Fondo.) $9,000.

Fundación de Protección a la Infancia Dañada por los Estados de Emergencia, Santiago, Chile. (A project to organize and describe 2,000 case files from PIDEE’s archive.) $8,000.

Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, Peru. (A project to organize and process the personal library of Dra. María Rostworowski, recently acquired by the Instituto.) $7,500.

Sociedad Franklin, Biblioteca Popular, San Juan, Argentina. (A project to prepare preservation microfilm of regional newspapers in the Sociedad’s collections.) $20,000.