INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES

摘要

IMLS announced Save America's Treasures grant awards in February 2011. The following grant projects included a digitization component. Bridgeport Public Library, Bridgeport, CT Barnum and London Circus Posters Two hundred years after the birth of P.T. Barnum of Barnum & Bailey Circus and Ringling Brothers, Bridgeport Public Library holds 47 "Barnum and London" circus posters in need of conservation treatment. Save America's Treasures grant funds will be used to clean, repair, and strengthen the posters and then digitally photograph them, expanding access to the collection.