Grants and Acquisitions

Abstract

The Mellon Foundation has awarded a $110,000 grant to the Penn State University Libraries’
Eberly Family Special Collections Library to support a two-year national study
examining how environmental and climate-related archival materials are collected, used,
and understood across academic institutions and community organizations. The project,
“Use and Availability of Environmental Collections in Archives: A Study of Academic
Archives and Their Communities,” aims to produce a large-scale framework for surveying
environmental archives across the United States and criteria for identifying new priorities
for their acquisition and preservation. The project will investigate the types of environmental
collections institutions hold, how they are described, the research disciplines that
rely on them, and the