PLALA Projects - 2007
May, 2007
Archivo Arzobispal de Piura, Piura, Peru. A project to conserve, describe, and make accessible a significant portion of the Archive's holdings. $13,900.
Biblioteca "Raúl Augusto Cortazar," Museo Etnográfico "Juan B. Ambrosetti," Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. A project to provide basic conservation facilities and improved shelving for the Library. $20,000.
Fundación Internacional Jorge Luis Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina. A project to conserve, describe, and make accessible the Library's holdings. $17,500.
Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. A project to clean and catalog the "José Honorio Rodrigues" collection. $20,000.
September, 2007
Biblioteca del Instituto Universitario ISEDET, Buenos Aires, Argentina. A project to conserve and restore a group of rare books held by the Biblioteca. $12,590.
Biblioteca Juramir Ferreira Lima, Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental, Manaus, AM, Brazil. A project to digitize various original documents held by the Biblioteca. $6,620.
Centro de Servicios Bibliográficos, Fundación Xavier Albó, La Paz, Bolivia. A project to install a security system in the Centro's library. $10,000.
Hemeroteca Nacional de Guatemala "Clemente Marroquín Rojas," Guatemala, Guatemala. A project to prepare preservation microfilm of the newspapers "Diario La República" and "Diario de Centroamérica," to the extent that the budget allows. $10,000.
December, 2007
Archivo Baldomero Alejos, Lima, Peru. A project to digitize the photographic negatives held by the Archivo. $9,810.
Archivo Histórico del Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia. A project to organize, conserve, and microfilm historical documents from the Archivo. $5,000.
Biblioteca Central, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. A project to improve environmental conditions and preserve the holdings of the
Biblioteca Arata, a dependency of the Biblioteca Central. $9,100.
Instituto de Etnomusicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru. A project to preserve and digitize the recently acquired collections of Peruvian composers Daniel Alomía Robles and Teodoro Valcárcel. $14,550.
Museo Ixchel del Traje Indígena, Guatemala, Guatemala. A project to clean, conserve, and digitize the Museo's ethnographic slides collection. $10,405.
Development Grants
Centro de Estudios Históricos e Información Parque de España, Rosario, Argentina. Support for CEHIPE's ongoing preservation reformatting activities within Argentina. $70,000. (September, 2004)
Centro Nacional del Patrimonio Fotográfico, Santiago, Chile. Support for the Centro's ongoing program to identify, catalog, and preserve photograph collections within Chile and also in other areas of Latin America. $70,000. (June, 2005)