Pennsylvania State University (Pennsylvania State University, University Libraries)

The Penn State University Libraries and the Penn State George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, in partnership with the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, the State Library of Pennsylvania, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, will lay the groundwork for a multiyear library-archive-scholar collaboration to digitize primary source materials held in Pennsylvania archives and special collections. The one-year planning grant will identify and assess materials of potential value to advance research into the Northern home front during the Civil War. It will also develop an agenda for improving access through description, digitization, preservation, and perhaps publication. The partners will model how scholars, librarians, and archivists can work together to promote a new scholarship and improve access to a wide range of archival collections.