UCSB Library receives $100,000 IMLS National Leadership Grant

From USCB Library news:

"The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded UCSB Library a $100,000 National Leadership Grant for "Always Already Computational: Library Collections as Data." The funds will be used for a series of meetings to develop strategies around library collections that support computationally-driven research and teaching... 

Thomas Padilla, UCSB Library's Humanities Data Curator, is the principal investigator (PI). His co-PI is Laurie Allen (University of Pennsylvania). Project investigators include Stewart Varner (University of Pennsylvania), Sarah Potvin (Texas A&M), and Elizabeth Russey Roke (Emory University)."