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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection announced that it has been awarded a Joseph Godla, Chief Conservator of The Frick Collection; photo: Michael Bodycomb $1 million challenge grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. When matched over the next four years with $3 million in contributions from other sources, the grant will create a $4 million endowment for the position of Chief Conservator,...
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pjstar.com Tri-County RSS (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Knox College has received a $400,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support faculty research, scholarship and professional development. It is the fifth Mellon Foundation grant awarded to Knox since 2002, totaling nearly $1 million.
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Art History Newsletter (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
From the TAXI Design Network: The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art has announced the appointments of members for 2009–2010. They include Bert W. Meijer, Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut, Florence/Universiteit Utrecht (emeritus), as Samuel H. Kress Professor; Miguel Falomir, Museo Nacional del Prado, as Andrew W. Mellon...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art has announced the appointments of members for 2009–2010. They include Bert W. Meijer, Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut, Florence/Universiteit Utrecht (emeritus), as Samuel H. Kress Professor; Miguel Falomir, Museo Nacional del Prado, as Andrew W. Mellon...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- David Ferriero, the former Andrew W. Mellon Director of the New York Public Libraries and a leader in the field of research librarianship, was sworn in today as the tenth Archivist of the United States at a small ceremony at the National Archives at College Park. Mr. Ferriero will move to Washington and assume his duties full-time in the...
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DigitalKoans (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... in some phase of planning for the OLE project, which was supported by a planning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and led by Duke University. Based on that broad insight, OLE will create a next-generation library system that breaks away from print-based workflows and reflects the changing nature of library materials and new approaches to scholarly work. The project is designed...
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... annual "Evening with the Stars of Energy Efficiency" award dinner on September 17 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C.
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Eastman's Online Genealogy Newslett (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The following announcement was written by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration: WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- Today, the United States Senate voted to confirm David Ferriero as the 10th Archivist of the United States. Mr. Ferriero was the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the New York Public Libraries and is a leader in the field of library science. Mr. Ferriero, who was nominated...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
From the Announcement: Today, the United States Senate voted to confirm David Ferriero as the 10th Archivist of the United States. Mr. Ferriero was the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the New York Public Libraries and is a leader in the field of library science. Mr. Ferriero, who was nominated by President Obama on July 28, [...]
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Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... voted to confirm David Ferriero as the 10th Archivist of the United States. Mr. Ferriero was the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the New York Public Libraries and is a leader in the field of library science. Mr. Ferriero, who was nominated by President Obama on July 28, 2009, will succeed Professor Allen Weinstein who resigned as Archivist in December 2008 for health reasons. Deputy...
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News for Medievalists (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Grover Zinn, Emeritus Professor at Oberlin College, has been awarded an Emeritus Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue his research on the twelfth-century philosopher and mystic Hugh of Saint-Victor. The Mellon Emeritus Fellowship program provides up to $35,000 to support one year of research activities for outstanding scholars in the humanities and social...
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What Really happened (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
September 1929 "There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue." — Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury. October 14, 1929 "Secretary Lamont and officials of the Commerce Department today denied rumors that a severe depression in business and industrial activity was impending, which had been based on a mistaken interpretation of a review...
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... We Legislate Online Safety?", taking place on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 2:15 pm ET at The Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington,
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) will host its third annual online safety conference, Building a Culture of Responsibility: From Online Safety to Digital Citizenship on November 4-5, 2009 at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC. The annual conference brings together top leaders from government, education, industry and the nonprofit sector....
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... resources hosted at the University of Michigan since 2002. Launched with grant support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, OAIster was developed to test the feasibility of building a portal to open archive collections using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). [Our emphasis] OAIster has grown to become one of the world’s largest aggregations of...
