The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the Television Academy Foundation a $350,000 grant for the preservation of its online archives documenting the history of television.

The Defense Media Activity (DMA) has awarded the USC Libraries’ Digital Repository a five-year contract to digitize a collection of media documenting more than 100 years of U.S. armed forces history. 

A new home for a rich digital collection of culturally significant dance-performance recordings will be created by the USC Libraries and the USC Kaufman School of Dance.

Thanks to a $560,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation under its Arts and Cultural Heritage program area, the USC Libraries and the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance will create a new home for a rich collection of recordings of more than 1,200 culturally significant dance performances digitized at hubs in New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., over 15 years by the Dance Heritage Coalition.

The USC Digital Humanities Program launches, previewing the innovative scholarship it will support.

USC is the best long-term home for digital collections of research, cultural and business value, dean says.