Support for SMU Libraries Digital Collections
SMU Libraries’ Norwick Center for Digital Solutions makes available online tens of thousands of digitized manuscripts, imprints, photographs, works of art, and ephemera online from SMU Libraries special collections.
A major source of funding has been the TexTreasures grant program, underwritten by the (IMLS) and the (TSLAC). Thanks to the TexTreasures grant program, significant Texas-related collections from the DeGolyer Library are now accessible in SMU Libraries Digital Collections.
2009
$9,000: stipend grant from TSLAC to establish a cooperative Texas Artists: Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper digital collection with the with Bywaters Special Collection, a unit of SMU’s Hamon Arts Library; the Dallas Museum of Art; and the Dallas Public Library.
2010
$25,000: from the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs collection, a comprehensive overview of Texas photography, circa 1846-1945, held by the DeGolyer Library. (Summerlee Foundation Texas History Program, 2010)
$20,000: from the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs collection (TexTreasures FY2011).
2011
$20,000: from the first two decades of the 20th century held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2012).
$32,000: Texas art collectors fundraiser to digitize held by the Bywaters Special Collections.
2012
$20,000: from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection, circa 1930s-1960s, held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2013).
$10,000: Opportunity Fund Grant from the Great Western Library Alliance to digitize in Dallas from the Edward C. Fritz Papers, held by the DeGolyer Library.
2013
$20,000: (non-oil-related) from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection, circa 1930s-1960s (TexTreasures FY2014).
2014
$20,000: from the Everett L. DeGolyer, Jr. Collection of United States Railroad Photographs (TexTreasures FY2015).
2015-2016
$50,000: , circa 1829-1950s, held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2016 and FY2017).
2017
$25,000: , circa 1866-1936, promoting emigration to Texas at the turn of the 19th century, held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2018).
2018
$25,000: from the Rowe-Barr Collection of Texas Currency, held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2019).
2019
$25,000: , including books, pamphlets, broadsides and serials printed in Texas, circa 1830-1923, held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2020).
2020-2022
$75,000: , circa 1900-1925, from the John Miller Morris Collection of Texas Real Photographic Postcards and Photographs, held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2021, FY2022, and FY2023).
2023
$40,000: for the “Historic Texas Imprints: Digitizing Unique and Rare Texas Publications, ca. 1836-1936” project, held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2024).