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 Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Texas State Library and Archives (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: 1,632 historic Texas photographs 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: 1,852 historic Texas photographs from the Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs collection (TexTreasures FY2011).
2011
$20,000: 1,240 Texas postcards from the first two decades of the 20th century held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2012).
$32,000: Texas art collectors fundraiser to digitize 743 works of art held by the Bywaters Special Collections.
2012
$20,000: 1,238 prints and negatives depicting the Texas oil industry 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 361 items focusing on the Trinity River Project in Dallas from the Edward C. Fritz Papers, held by the DeGolyer Library.
2013
$20,000: 1,066 prints and negatives depicting Texas industry (non-oil-related) from the Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection, circa 1930s-1960s (TexTreasures FY2014).
2014
$20,000: 1,000 negatives of seven major Texas railroads from the Everett L. DeGolyer, Jr. Collection of United States Railroad Photographs (TexTreasures FY2015).
2015-2016
$50,000: 2,647 photographs, documents and ephemera from the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection, circa 1829-1950s, held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2016 and FY2017).
2017
$25,000: 356 pamphlets, brochures, and books, circa 1866-1936, promoting emigration to Texas at the turn of the 19th century, held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2018).
2018
$25,000: 974 Texas national bank notes from the Rowe-Barr Collection of Texas Currency, held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2019).
2019
$25,000: 411 photographs and imprints, including books, pamphlets, broadsides and serials printed in Texas, circa 1830-1923, held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2020).
2020-2022
$75,000: 5,069 postcards, 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: 408 imprints for the “Historic Texas Imprints: Digitizing Unique and Rare Texas Publications, ca. 1836-1936” project, held by the DeGolyer Library (TexTreasures FY2024).