Implementing the Greater Southwest Historical Museum Disaster/Emergency Preparedness Plan

Recipient: Mravinec, Kristin (Ardmore, OK 73401 USA) in affiliation with Greater Southwest Historical Museum

Goal: A workshop on disaster training for museum staff who manage a collection of more than 15,000 historical artifacts and archival records pertaining to the history of south-central Oklahoma. Highlights of the collection include furniture, clothing, and other materials that belonged to a family of ranchers in the 1890s; more than 2,000 historic photographs; and artifacts related to the Great Fire of 1895 in Ardmore.

Description: The Greater Southwest Historical Museum proposes to hire a consultant for a two-day workshop on Disaster Training. For Day 1, the agenda would be an overview of the emergency planning and response process. For Day 2, GSHM will partner with the Oklahoma Museums Association for a hands-on workshop. The proposed program would concentrate on the salvage of damaged collections to minimize loss. Staff would then purchase disaster supplies to be used in the event of an emergency. The proposed project would take place from January 2010 to September 2010. The disaster workshop would provide Board and staff members with up-to-date information and skills for proper procedures in handling a disaster or emergency, as past disaster workshop in Oklahoma have been limited. It would allow them to adequately identify and assess risks appropriate to our region. Staff, volunteers, and other museum professionals more importantly would have the knowledge and experience to perform salvage operations.

Grant: 199707 / PG-50963-10,   Category: Museum Studies or Historic Preservation,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation Assistance Grants,   Year Awarded: 2010

Preserving History: An Environmental Assessment of the Greater Southwest Historical Museum

Recipient: Mravinec, Kristin (Ardmore, OK 73401 USA) in affiliation with Greater Southwest Historical Museum

Goal: A general preservation needs assessment of a museum holding furniture, tools, and other artifacts, archaeological materials, textiles, books, and archives related to the history and cultures of Oklahoma and the Southwest from the early 1700s to the 20th century.

Description: The Greater Southwest Historical Museum seeks a Preservation Assistance Grant to hire a consultant to conduct an environmental assessment of its current facilities. The project will evaluate temperature and relative humidity performance of the museum's current heating, ventilation, and air condition system and recommend improvements for creating a stable environment. The assessment would provide low-tech recommendations that would enable the museum's staff to adjust its current climate control systems to function more efficiently within a desirable range. This project will help in understanding and reducing rapid environmental fluctuations that occur on a daily basis to the detriment of the collection relating to the history of south central Oklahoma.

Grant: 189408 / PG-50411-08,   Category: Archival Management and Conservation,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Preservation Assistance Grants,   Year Awarded: 2008

Comic Theory and the Art of Comedy

Recipient: Gutwirth, Marcel (Ardmore, PA 19003-0000 USA) in affiliation with Haverford College (Haverford, PA 19041 USA)

Grant: 151392 / FS-22516-93,   Category: Comparative Literature,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Seminars for College Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1993

Books for Bicentennial Bookshelf

Recipient: Gregory, Susan F (Ardmore, OK 73401-0000 USA) in affiliation with Chickasaw Library System (Ardmore, OK 73401 USA)

Grant: 132449 / GC-20403-87,   Category: American History,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Public Programs - Bicentennial Bookshelf,   Year Awarded: 1987

Books for Bicentennial Bookshelf

Recipient: Ryan, Patricia M (Ardmore, PA 19003 USA) in affiliation with Lower Merion Library Association

Grant: 132559 / GC-20520-87,   Category: American History,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Public Programs - Bicentennial Bookshelf,   Year Awarded: 1987

Conference to Develop Guidelines for the Fair Use of Visual Materials in Scholarship and Research

Recipient: Bober, Phyllis P (Ardmore, PA 19003-2812 USA) in affiliation with College Art Association of America, Inc. (New York, NY 10014 USA)

Goal: To support a conference devoted to explaining copyright issues involved in the use of visual reproductions for scholarly use.

Grant: 139914 / RX-20596-85,   Category: Art History and Criticism,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Conferences,   Year Awarded: 1985

Translation of a Russian Work on the History of Hermeneuticsby G. Shpet

Recipient: Kline, George L (Ardmore, PA 19003-1029 USA) in affiliation with Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 USA)

Goal: To support an annotated translation of "Hermeneutics and its Problems" by the Russian philosopher and historian Gustav G. Shpet (l879-l940), important to intercultural studies, Russian philosophy and cultural history.

Grant: 137523 / RL-*0737-81,   Category: Philosophy,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Translations,   Year Awarded: 1981