Grants & Awards
The University Libraries at Virginia Tech is proud to receive the following grants and awards.
Table 1: Recent Grants
Table 2: Historical Grants
| Date | Person(s) involved | Grant/Award Title | Dollar amount | Organization |
| 2008 - 2011 | Tyler Walters, Martin Halbert, Cathy Hartman, Katherine Skinner | MetaArchive: A Sustainable Digital Preservation Service to State and Local Institutions | $325,000 | National Archives and Records Administration |
| Jan 2011 - Dec 2014 | Gail McMillan | ETD Lifecycle Management | $268,458 | Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) |
| Jan 2011 - Dec 2014 | Gail McMillan | Chronicles in Preservation | $300,000 | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) |
| Jan 2012 - June 2014 | Ewing E, Hausman B, Pencek B, Ramakrishnan N | An Epidemiology of Information: Data Mining the 1918 Influenza Pandemic | $123,778 | National Endowment for the Humanities |
| Feb 2012 - April 2014 | Gail McMillan | Chronicles in Preservation (NEH) | $21,659 | MetaArchive Services Group - Educopia |
| 2013 - 2014 | Katherine Skinner, Tyler Walters | The Nexus Project: Spanning Boundaries to Transform Library Leadership | $100,000 | Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) |
| Jan 2013 - Dec 2015 | D Hicks, Todd Ogle | Transatlantic Teacher Scholars Program: Change of Time and Place in the Meuse Argonne American Cemetery | $350,000 | American Battle and Memorial Commission with a subcontract from Learn NC, University of North Carolina |
| July 2013 - July 2015 | David Hicks, Todd Ogle | Transatlantic Teacher Scholars: Change Over Time and Place in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, A proposal to the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) | $58,916 | University of North Carolina Chapel Hill |
| Aug 2013 - July 2014 | Frimpong E, Zhiwu Xie | Modeling How Traits Mediate Fish Vulnerabilities to Specific Habitat Alterations: Extending the Mapping Capability of Fish Traits to Facilitate Modeling | $61,000 | USGS- U.S. Geological Survey |
| Sep 2013 - Aug 2016 | Todd Ogle, David Cline, David Hicks | EXP: Exploring the Potential of Mobile Augmented Reality for Scaffolding Historical Inquiry Learning | $549,039 | National Science Foundation |
| 2014 - 2017 | Katherine Skinner, Christina Drummond, Tyler Walters | Nexus Lab: Leading Across Boundaries | $399,800 | Institute of Museum and Library Services |
| 2014 - 2016 | Julie Griffin, Katherine Skinner, Tyler Walters | ETDPlus: Preserving & Curating ETD Research Data & Complex Digital Objects | $126,214 | Institute of Museum and Library Services |
| April 2014 - Sep 2015 | Zhiwu Xie, Edward A Fox | Archiving Transactions Towards Uninterruptible Web Service | $25,000 | Columbia University |
| Oct 2014 - Sep 2016 | Julie Griffin, Zhiwu Xie | Preserving and Curating ETD Research Data and Complex Digital Objects | $126,214 | MetaArchive Services Group - Educopia |
| 2015 - 2017 | Elliot Shore, Tyler Walters | SHARE Phase II: Expanding and Enhancing the Value of Open Data on Scholarly Research | $1,200,000 | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services |
| May 2015 - June 2016 | Monena Hall, Anthony Wright de Hernandez | Latino Americans: 500 Years of History | $3,000 | ALA Public Programs - Diversity Programming Grant |
| July 2015 - July 2017 | David Hicks, Kurt Luther, Paul Quigley, Andrea Ogier | Mapping the Fourth of July in the American Civil War Era: A Crowdsourced Digital Archive | $74,224 | National Historical Publications & Records Commission |
| Aug 2015 - July 2016 | Good, D.J., Gallo, S., Akers, J., Walz, A., Hu, D., and Baab, L. | “Development of an Interactive Human Body Digital Reusable Learning Object (RLO) to Provide Whole Body Systems-based Learning in Vitamins and Minerals” | $22,000 | 4VA |
| Aug 2015 - Feb 2017 | David Hicks, Todd Ogle | Evaluation and Strategic Visioning for ABMC World War I Online Educational Resources | $125,000 | American Battle Monuments Commission |
| Oct 2015 - July 2016 | Robert Leonard, Andrea Ogier | VT ArtWorks | $25,000 | Institute of Museum & Library Services |
| Oct 2015 - Dec 2016 | Jim Dubinsky, Bruce Pencek | Veterans in Society Summer Institute for College Teachers | $152,250 | National Endowment for the Humanities |
| Dec 2015 - Nov 2016 | Anthony Wright de Hernandez | Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness Exhibition | $200 | ALA Public Programs Office -- Diversity Programming Grant |
| Jan 2016 - Dec 2016 | Todd Ogle, Joe Gabbard, Bill Carstensen and Denis Gracanin | Collaborative Analysis of Large-scale Mixed Reality Data | $100,000 | Microsoft Research |
| Jan 2016 - Aug 2016 | Samantha Parish, Adrienne Serra, Kira Dietz, Nathan Hall | The People, Places, and Things of Montgomery County, Virginia | $10,213 | National Endowment for the Humanities |
| June 2016 - May 2019 | Zhiwu Xie, Edward A Fox, Pablo A Tarazaga, Tyler O Walters | Developing Library Cyberinfrastructure Strategy for Big Data Sharing and Reuse | $308,175 | Institute of Museum & Library Services |
| April 2017 - March 2019 | Aaron Purcell, Samantha R Winn | Women of Design: Revealing Women's Hidden Contributions to the Built Environment | $232,356 | Council on Library & Information Resources |
| May 2017 - Aug 2017 | Anne M Brown | VTF-Brown-Luther and Alice Hamlett Undergrad Research | $2,999 | Virginia Tech Foundation Inc |
| May 2017 - April 2018 | Edward Gitre,Kurt Luther, Marc Brodsky | The American Soldier Collaborative Digital Archive | $50,000 | National Endowment for the Humanities |
| Aug 2017 - July 2018 | R Leonard , Andrea Ogier | VTArtWorks | $222,824 | Doris Duke Charitable Foundation |
| Dec 2017 - Nov 2018 | Nathan Hall, Andrea Ogier, Zhiwu Xie | Developing Library Strategy for 3D and Virtual Reality Collection Development and Reuse | $95,024 | Institute of Museum & Library Services |
| May 2018 - April 2020 | Zhiwu Xie, Edward Fox | Continuing Education to Advance Web Archiving | $248,451 | Institute of Museum & Library Services |
| Oct 2018 - Oct 2019 | Aaron Purcell, Laurel Rozema | They’re Closing Down the Textile Mill: Creating Access to the Fries Textile Plant Records at Virginia Tech | $68,722 | National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the grants-making arm of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration |
| Aug 2019 - July 2022 | Bill Ingram | Opening Books and the National Corpus of Graduate Research | $505,214 | Institute of Museum & Library Services |
| Aug 2019 - July 2020 | Nathan Hall | Community Development Model for Digital Community Archives | $87,151 | Institute of Museum & Library Services |