Announcing the 2024-2025 VRA Project Grant Recipient

The Visual Resources Association (VRA) is pleased to present the 2024-2025 VRA Project Grant in the amount of $3,968 to the American Institute of Physics’ Niels Bohr Library & Archives.

The Niels Bohr Library & Archives (NBLA) at the American Institute of Physics (AIP) will complete a pilot project to create and test workflows for born-digital photograph donations. VRA funding will support a graduate student intern for up to 190 hours to process an offered donation of nearly 40,000 digital photographs from one of AIP’s Member Societies with the goal of making the collection available online. The diversity of scientists represented in this collection will help to increase the representation of historically marginalized groups in NBLA's Emilio Segré Visual Archives. This project will also help NBLA strengthen and modernize its approaches to born-digital materials in anticipation of future similar donation offers.