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The Ham Museum of Art supports the submission of a grant proposal to the Institute of Museum and
Ubrary Services for a National Leadership Grant, Collaborative Plamnnin Grant: Level II. The project
wil be a collaboration between the Ham Museum of Art and the Digital Library Center, University of
Florida Libraries and is titled He!ios ConnectIrg Florida's Asian Colfections.

The project continues Jason Steuber's leadership role established in loo8 at the Florida Association
of Museums Conference and was reaffirmed in 2oo9 as he was appointed project leader for
developing and continuing a group of Asian art curators throughout the state of Florida. Steuber's
scholarly research publications focus on collections and collection histories related to Asran art
making him the ideal candidate to be the principal investigator for this project.

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Helios: Connecting Florida's Asian Collections
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Abstract

Helios: Connecting Florida's Asian Collections planning project, spearheaded by the University of Florida's Samuel P.
Harn Museum of Art, continues the strong and established collaboration with University of Florida's Si.ailiier Libraries,
in partnership with the Norton Museum of Art, Lowe Art Museum, Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens, Museum of
Fine Arts, Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Polk Museum of Art, and Appleton Museum of Art. The project team
seeks IMLS NLG funding for Phase II of a four-phase planning process for collectively sharing important Asian artistic
and cultural assets across the Sunshine State, both physically and virtually, with curators, scholars, museum-goers, K-12
institutions, university and college institutions, and the general public. As the Helios project emerged from panels during
the 2008-2009 Florida Association of Museums (FAM) annual conferences, it aligns with goals set forth in the IMLS
Connecting to Collections initiative in Florida.

Asia, as defined for the purposes of the proposal, follows roughly the geographical areas impacted by the historical Silk
Routes via land and sea trade migrations. As such, the region to be included in the grant request is geographically defined
as follows: Persia (roughly present-day areas of Iran) in the West; moving eastward to Japan with Mongolia and Korea as
the northern boundaries; and moving southward encompassing all areas now known as Afghanistan, Pakistan, India,
China, Tibet, Himalayas, ouilicai Asia to Indonesia.

This Collaborative Level I Planning Grant requests funds to cover costs related to completing Helios Phase II: compiling a
statewide, online, searchable inventory of Asian art and cultural assets in collections of Florida museums. Florida is not a
state widely recognized for its Asian cultural assets; however, the number of objects and rare books related to Asian art
and culture held by these museums and the UF Libraries exceeds 20,000; and there are future museum partners with Asian
collections yet to join the effort. One of the major goals of the four phased planning and implementation process is the
creation of an online Florida Asian arts and culture portal, hosted within the University of Florida's Digital Center
(UFDC), with attributions for each partner's digital contributions and broad searching capabilities. Costs for Phase II
include: salary and travel expenses for a UF Museum's Studies student, facilitation services, laptop, and travel to FAM in
2010 and 2011.

The benefits of Helios will be far-reaching since it bridges the physical Asian collections and the digital online presence
of these collections. Curators, scholars and educators will, for the first time, have access to centralized searchable records
for these collections, enabling future loans of objects, collaborative exhibitions and promotional strategies, improved
access for scholarly research and educators in the area of Asian Studies, and most importantly statewide collaborative
planning for leveraging extant cultural resources. The Helios project is an innovative and proactive solution to issues
museums and libraries are now addressing that center on how to provide open and free access to their content-rich
holdings. It will exemplify how to engage new and diverse audiences without borders or barriers to Asian collections in
Florida.






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Institute of Museum and Library Services
Helios: Connecting Florida's Asian Collections

Budget Justification


The University of Florida, Ham Museum of Art in collaboration with the UF Libraries respectfully requests $43,816 to
support Phase II of planning processes for the Helios project.

Personnel Salaries & Wages:

In order to carry out the Helios project the following Ham Museum of Art employees will lead the effort as described in
the narrative key roles.

Jason Steuber, as principal investigator will lead the project using 10% of cost share time throughout the year as necessary
to supervise the project. Other Ham Museum personnel include a new position, Asian Art Curatorial Assistant, at 15%
cost share. This position is currently advertised as of January 25, 2010 and will be filled by April 30, 2010. Total
personnel salaries and wages cost share is $17,090.

Sarah Smith, graduate student at the Ham Museum (budget request at 100% or 40 hours per week for the full grant period,
totals $33,857) will serve as the primary site visit and data collection lead.

In terms of the UF Libraries' costs and contributions, four staff members are participating and two are included in the
budget as follows.

David Hickey will serve as the Libraries' lead on the project and this proposal requests 1% of his annualized salary and
benefits ($745). Bess de Farber will serve as the Helios project planning facilitator for a total of 2.5% ($2,496) of her time
which is also a budget request. The total request for the Libraries' participation in the project is ($3,241). These funds
will be used for student employment in order to support the roles of Hickey and de Farber as they participate in the Helios
project.

Travel:

The Helios project involves site visits to each of the current and future partner institutions, as well as FAM annual
meeting participation to present findings. Details for the proposed visit schedule and outlined travel costs based on single-
day roundtrips (RT) and multi-day roundtrips as well as gas, tolls, lodging, and per diem is found on Supporting
Documentation pp. 10-11. All distances calculated are based on departing from the Ham Museum of Art, University of
Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

Sin2le-day trips, no hotel required:

Polk Museum of Art 257 miles RT
800 East Palmetto Street
Lakeland, Florida 33801-5529

Appleton Museum of Art 82 miles RT
Part of Central Florida Community College
4333 E Silver Springs Blvd.
Ocala, FL 34470-5001

Museum of Arts & Sciences 230 miles RT
352 S. Nova Road






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Daytona Beach, Florida 32114

Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens 150 miles RT
829 Riverside Avenue
Jacksonville, FL 32204-3336

Two-day/one night trips, hotel required

John & Mable Ringling Museum 360 miles RT
5401 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, FL 34243-2161

La Quinta Inn & Suites, 1803 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34234 Rate: $105 per night

Museum of Fine Arts 304 miles RT
255 Beach Dr. N.E.
St. Petersburg, FL 33701

Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront, 333 First Street South, Saint Petersburg, FI 33701 Rate: $144 per night

Three-day/two night trips, hotel required

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens 580 miles RT
4000 Morikami Park Rd
Delray Beach, FL 33446-2305

Hampton Inn (Morikami rates available), 1455 Yamato Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431 Rate: $159 per night

Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami 685 miles RT
1301 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables, Florida 33124-6310

Holiday Inn, 1350 South Dixie Highway, Coral Gables, FL 33146 Rate: $127 per night

Norton Museum of Art 546 miles RT
1451 S. Olive Avenue
West Palm Beach, FL 33401

Hilton, Palm Beach Airport, 150 Australian Ave., West Palm Beach, FL 33406 Rate: $169 per night

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum 690 miles RT
Florida International University
10975 S.W. 17th Street
Miami, FL, 33199

Best Western, Miami Airport West, 3875 NW 107th Ave., Miami, FL 33178 Rate: $140 per night

FAM hotel cost estimated at $150 for one night for UF Libraries' team (3 rooms) (city not selected yet for Fall 2010 as of
January 2010).

The total hotel costs for site visits is estimated at $1439. The total hotel costs for the FAM planning session is $450.
Therefore, the total hotel costs for the entire Helios project is $1,889.






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Rental car

UF has a state contracted rate of $28.95 per day. The total number of car rental days required for the Helios project is 24.
This will allow respective round trips for current and future partner institution site visits and for the UF team for in-state
travel to FAM Conference. The total rental car cost for the Helios project is $695.

Tolls

The state of Florida has multiple turnpike and local highway tolls and this cost is estimated at $100 based on experienced
travel to the east coast and South Florida.

Fuel

The total roundtrip miles to respective current and future partner institution site visits (including limited local travel) is
4,100.

Based on national transportation statistics, the average automobile miles per gallon (MPG) is 22.
(http://www.bts.2ov/publications/national transportation statistics/html/table 04 23.html)

The average Florida price per gallon for fuel is $2.90.
(http://www.eia.doe.2ov/oil gas/petroleum/data publications/wrgp/mogas home page.html)

Therefore the total fuel use for 4,100/22 is 186 gallons; and 186 at $2.90/gallon totals $539 for fuel.

Per diem Meals

Per diem at UF is $36 a day. At 20 days for $36 (full travel days) and 4 days (partial days) are calculated at $12 (one
meal travel day). The total for per diem meals is $768.

Supplies & Materials:

The Helios project, with all its required site visits, has included a budget request for $1,948 for purchasing a Dell
Precision M2400 laptop, based on the e-quote received from Dell. It has the necessary software, memory and technical
specifications to manage the data collection, as well as accessing online materials, for this project, per evaluation and
recommendation by UF Libraries' Digital Library Center (DLC) staff. In order to support the Ham Museum of Art's
student during the estimated 11 site visits, DLC staff have recommended the purchase of a mobile Internet access Verizon
USB 760 modem USB at $60. Total request is $2,008.

Services
A contract with Verizon for monthly mobile access through the 760 modem USB is available for $60 per month ($720)
for the duration of a year.








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IMLS
Budget Form
Project Title: Helios: Connectinq Florida's Asian Collections


Section A-Detailed Budget
Year: 1
Budget detail for the period from: 9/1/2010

1. Salaries & Wages


Through: 8/31/2011


Method of Cost $ Grant $ Cost
Name/Title of Position No. Computation Funds Sharing


$ Total


Jason Steuber, Curator
TBA, Curatorial Associate
Sarah Smith, Asia Art Reg Ast
David Hickey, Library Lead
Bess de Farber, Library Facilitator


10% of $71,400
15% of $38,000
100% of $31,320
1% of $58,264
2 5% of $75,000


31,320
583
1,875
33,778


7,140 $
5,700 $
$
$
$
12,840 $


7,140
5,700
31,320
583
1,875
46,618 SUBTOTALS


2. Fringe Benefits


$ Salary Base
278% $ 583
331% $ 14,715
81% $ 31,320


$ Grant $ Cost
Funds Sharing
162
621 $ 4,250


2,537
3.320 $


$
$


$
4.250 $


$ Total
162
4,871
2,537
7.570 SUBTOTALS


3. Consultant Fees


Name or Type of Consultant


No of days in project


Daily rate of
compensation


$ Grant $ Cost
Funds Sharing


$ $ SUBTOTALS


Avis car rental
Tolls ($25 per trip)
Fuel
Lodging
Lodging
Meals


No of persons No of days
1 24
1 8
1 24
1 20
3 1
1 24


5. Supplies and Materials

Item
Dell Laptop-Precision M2400
Verizon USB 760 modem USB



6. Services

Item
Monthly Mobile Access Contract


8. Other Costs


$ Subsistence Costs


Basis/Method of Cost
Computation
Dell e-quote
Verizon website


Basis/Method of Cost
Computation
$60 @12 mths



Basis/Method of Cost
Computation


$ Transportation
Costs
$695
$100
$539
$1,439
$450


$ Grant $ Cost
Funds Sharing


$ Grant
Funds
1,948
60
2,008


$ Cost
Sharing
$
$
$


$ Grant $ Cost
Funds Sharing
$ 720 $
$ 720 $


$ Grant $ Cost
Funds Sharing
$ $


$ Total
695
100
539
1,439
450
768
3,991 SUBTOTALS



$ Total
1,948
60
2,008 SUBTOTALS


$ Total
$ 720
$ 720 SUBTOTALS


$ Total


$ $ SUBTOTALS


$ Grant
Funds
$ 43,816


9. Total Direct Costs


Rate


4. Travel


$ Total


$ Cost
Sharing
$ 17,090


$ Total
$ 60,906






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10. Indirect Costs

Read the instructions about Indirect Costs before completing this section.
CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX BELOW and provide the information requested.


X Current indirect cost rates) have been negotiated with a federal agency (for item
A, indicate the name of the agency and date of agreement expiration; complete item B).

Indirect cost proposal has been submitted to a federal agency but not yet
negotiated (for item A, indicate the name of the agency and date of proposal; complete

_- Applicant chooses a rate not to exceed 15% of direct costs (complete item B).


Item A.


Name of federal agency: Department of Health and Human Services


Expiration Date: 8/31/2011


Item B.


Rate % of $ Base
0.33 $ 60,906


Proposal Date: 1/28/2010


$ Grant $ Cost
Funds Sharing $ Total

$ $ 20,099 $ 20,099


$ $ 20,099 $ 20,099 SUBTOTAI

$ Grant $ Cost
Funds Sharing $ Total


PROJECT COST TOTALS (Direct and Indirect for Budget Period) $ 43,816 $37,189 $ 81,005


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Helios: Connecting Florida's Asian Collections
University of Florida/ Harn Museum of Art
Narrative

Helios: Connecting Florida's Asian Collections
Museum Library Collaboration: Collaborative Planning Grant: Level I

Helios: Connecting Florida's Asian Collections planning project, spearheaded by University of Florida's Samuel P. Harn
Museum of Art, continues the strong and established collaboration with University of Florida's Siaiuilicr Libraries, in
partnership with the Norton Museum of Art, Lowe Art Museum, Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens, St. Petersburg
Museum of Fine Arts, Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Polk Museum of Art, and Appleton Museum of Art. The
project team seeks IMLS NLG funding for Phase II of a four-phase planning process for collectively sharing important
Asian artistic and cultural assets across the Sunshine State, both physically and virtually, with curators, scholars, K-12
institutions, university and college institutions, and the general public. As the Helios project emerged from panels during
the 2008-2009 Florida Association of Museums (FAM) annual conferences (See Supporting Documentation p.1), it aligns
with goals set forth in the IMLS Connecting to Collections initiative in Florida. It also will provide a model for FAM's
current statewide planning project funded by IMLS (http://www.flamuseums.org/programming/c2c/). In addition, the
Helios project will assist the Harn Museum to fully utilize the 2008 IMLS digitization grant and the digitization of the
Asian art collection (http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?b=UF00087447) in collaboration with Sn ailicir, Libraries for greater
online accessibility and research (http://ufdcwebl.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?h=harn).

Asia, as defined for the purposes of the proposal, follows roughly the geographical areas impacted by the historical Silk
Routes via land and sea trade migrations. As such, the region to be included in the grant request is geographically defined
as follows: Persia (roughly present-day area of Iran) in the West; moving eastward to Japan with Mongolia and Korea as
the northern boundaries; and moving southward, encompassing all areas now known as Afghanistan, Pakistan, India,
China, Tibet, Himalayas, and tlh iIicas, Asia to Indonesia.

Assessment of Need

Florida is not a state widely recognized for its Asian cultural assets. Surprisingly, within the state, Asian art and cultural
treasures have been a driving component in the development of significant private collector and public museum
collections, both for university-based and nonprofit organizations. Whether one looks at the development of private
collections that now are housed at public museums, such as the Norton Museum of Art and The Morikami, or examines
collections and educational programs set into motion at university campuses, as was the case with the late Indian art
expert and University Gallery Director Professor Roy C. Craven at the University of Florida (UF), Asian art and cultural
materials in Florida have been of keen interest since the early part of the twentieth century. For example, in terms of
statewide collaborations in support of Asian collections, nearly fifty years ago Craven worked with the Ringling Museum
of Art to produce Indian Sculpture in the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Gainesville, University of Florida
Press, 1961).

However, within the field of Asian culture, Florida-based museum and private Asian collections have yet to be fully
documented, studied, loaned, and exhibited in such a way as to fulfill their potential for contributing to the canons of
Asian art and cultural history. Furthermore, these diverse collections have yet to be fully acknowledged and enjoyed by
the museum-going public and students across Florida's classrooms (K-12 and undergraduate/graduate degree programs).

The quantity and degree of peer institutional interest in collaboration across Florida provides further evidence of need to
combine forces around this cultural theme. Beginning in 2008, project leader Jason Steuber (Cofrin Curator of Asian Art,
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, UF) initiated and organized annual planning meetings hosted by FAM for Asian art
curators to discuss Asian art collections in the state. These sessions resulted in a new dynamic network of Asian art
curators for sharing information about their institutional collections as well as loaning works among participating
museums. Despite the initial successful results of FAM sessions, Steuber and his fellow curators clearly see the urgency
for more work to facilitate greater knowledge and appreciation of the Asian collections within the state. From the FAM
sessions, a shared common goal emerged: the need for an online portal to Asian Collections in Florida that is both
innovative and accessible. The primary goal, as defined by this need, is to initiate and promote the facilitation of real and






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virtual access to Asian collections as well as Asian-related curriculum improvement throughout the state's educational
systems.

While there have been a handful of previous exhibitions and catalogues that cover art from all Florida collections (such as
Roy C, Craven's The Art of India from Florida Collections, 1981: University Gallery, University of Florida, and others
published from 1960 to 1999-See Supporting Documentation p.2), information for individual museum holdings is not
readily available either separately or in any consolidated form.

The Harn Museum's collection is one example that speaks volumes for the need to establish a statewide system of Asian
collection assets. With more than 1,700 works, the collection spans a timeframe ranging from the Neolithic period
through cutting-edge contemporary art. It covers a vast geographic distribution area, from Central Asia in the west to
Japan in the east, and from Mongolia and China in the north to the southernmost points of India and Southeast Asia. The
strengths of the collection are evident in ceramics, jades, and metal works and are further augmented by stone sculptures,
paintings, and prints. In 2003, the Harn Museum recognized the growing importance of Asian art in its collection as well
as in its donor base. The result was the establishment of the first Asian art curator position. In 2007, the Harn Museum
took the next step in advancing Asian art by establishing the Cofrin Curator of Asian Art endowment. This curator not
only oversees the exhibition, study, and publication of the Asian art collection, but also leads the vision for the new $20
million David A. Cofrin Asian Art Wing currently under construction and slated to open in 2011. Since 2008, Jason
Steuber has been reviewing the entire collection and performing an assessment of holdings and strengths. Thus far the
collection has been redefined according to regions of cultural origins for the works owned by the museum: China (450
objects, Neolithic-Contemporary); Japan (450 objects, 16th century-Contemporary); India (350 objects, first century-
1950s); Korea (60 objects, third century-1950s); Burma (10 objects, 10th century-18th century); Cambodia (20 objects,
10th century-18th century); Iran (15 objects, 9th-19th century); Pakistan (10 objects, first century-1950s); Thailand (200
objects, 300 BCE-18th century); Tibet (10 objects, 12th-19th century); and Vietnam (200 objects, 13th through 17th
century).
Overviews of partners in the Helios project and their respective Asian collections are as follows:
Founded in 1941, the Norton Museum of Art maintains approximately 850 Asian objects, ranging from the third
millennium BCE to the contemporary. The vast majority is from China (567) and is comprised of three-dimensional
objects (jade, bronze, stone, ceramic), with only a handful of paintings or other two-dimensional objects. The collection
also has works from Japan (about 180), Korea (about 5), Tibet (about 25), and Vietnam and Southeast Asia (about 8). The
Norton is engaged in ongoing discussions with professors at local colleges and universities. Professors of Chinese
language, art, history, and Asian studies at Florida International University (FIU), Florida Atlantic University (FAU), and
Palm Beach Community College (PBCC) regularly receive invitations to use the Norton's Chinese collections, special
exhibitions, and programs as teaching resources. Recent programs include: docent-led tours of the Chinese collection for
Palm Beach Atlantic University (PBAU) Humanities Students, FAU professor of Asian Studies Kenneth Holloway's
lecture on his new book, visits from PBCC Ceramics students to the Chinese Collection each semester, and "Chinese
Corner" language study groups co-hosted by the Norton and the local branch of the US China People's Friendship
Association and attended by students from FAU, PBCC, Norwood University, and primary and secondary schools'
students. As a member of the Asian Studies advisory board at FIU, the Norton's Chinese curator has assisted the Frost
Museum of Art with questions related to their Asian collection and upcoming Asian exhibitions.
Founded in 1950 and opened to the public in 1952, the Lowe Art Museum maintains 5,177 objects in its Asian collection
and ranks among the largest in the southeastern US. Regions represented in the collection are China, Japan, Korea, India,
and Southeast Asia. Recognizing the importance of establishing an online presence with open access, all works have been
digitized and will be available in late 2010. Again, like the Harn, Frost, and Appleton museums, the Lowe Art Museum is
associated with a college or university: University of Miami.
Established in 1977, the Morikami Museum's Japanese art and ethnographic materials total over 7,500 objects, including
both fine art and objects of daily life dating from the Jomon period (c. 2,000 BCE) to the modern period. With funding
from the Freeman Foundation, 1,084 objects with thorough metadata have been organized in a digital collection. The
Morikami also maintains an extensive library collection of 7,500 volumes and 2,000 magazines related to Japanese history
and culture, with some information on law, many of which are written in Japanese, as well as some research material on
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card catalog system at the museum is the only means of searching this collection. The Morikami has a long history of
collaborative partnerships, and co-presenting cultural programs with FAU, FIU, University of South Florida and
University of North Florida.
Opened in 1965, the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts has an Asian art collection composed of more than 500 works
drawn from across Asia, including China, India, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia. Of particular note are Hindu sculptures
from the 11th through 13th centuries as well as selections of ceramics and paintings from China, Japan, and Korea. The
Museum of Fine Arts engages students from the University of South Florida, Eckerd College, and St. Petersburg College.
Opened in 1977, the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum (formally The Art Museum at FIU) houses 373 Asian
works in their collection with works that date from 4700 BCE through the late 20th century. Regions represented span
from Persia in the west to Japan in the east and south through India to Southeast Asia. Strengths of the collection are
found in sculptures, paintings and works on paper, textiles, and decorative arts. Similar to the Harn, Lowe, and Appleton
museums, the Frost is linked with FIU as its university partner.
Opened in 1966, the Polk Museum of Art houses several hundred Asian works in its collection, with strengths in Korean
pottery and metal wares, Chinese and Japanese ivories, porcelains, paintings, prints, and textiles as well as Indian
decorative arts. The Polk Museum focuses on Asian works as one of its five main collecting areas. Similar to the Harn,
Lowe, Frost, and Appleton museums, the Polk Museum collaborates with the International Academy of Design and
Technology.
Opened in 1987 based on a private art collection, the Appleton Museum of Art's Asian collection is composed of over
600 religious and secular works from China, India, Japan, Tibet, and Southeast Asia. Hindu art is depicted by fine Indian
sculptures of the 10th through 12th centuries. Buddhist art is represented by Indian, Tibetan, Thai, and Burmese sculpture
and textiles. The Chinese collections feature porcelain, jade, and metal vessels, ceramic funerary sculpture, jades,
religious works, snuff bottles, and furniture. The Museum's Japanese collection highlights include netsuke, bronzes of the
Meiji period, textiles, and an elegant palanquin. Similar to the Harn, Frost, and Lowe, the Appleton Museum is linked
with Central Florida Community College.
Collectively, the known number of Asian arts and cultural materials held in these and future partner institutions, plus
objects and rare books held at the UF Libraries, exceeds 20,000. Combined annual attendance for current and future
partners is over 500,000. As evident by the association of museums with universities throughout the state of Florida, the
Helios project continues this important collaboration between museums and universities by hosting the Asian collections
across the Sunshine State. Important to note is that the list of Florida museums with Asian collections includes others not
listed in this narrative, but which have been invited to take part in the Helios project (See Supporting Documentation
pp.3).

The audience tiers who will benefit from Helios' planning results include: Asian art and cultural artifact professionals
such as curators, professors (art history, history, anthropology, museum studies, Asian Studies, Languages, religious
studies, gender studies, architecture, design, fine art), museum directors, art and book dealers, conservation scientists,
current undergraduate and graduate Asian art professionals-in-training, museum education staff, Asian art collectors, and
others. Current impediments to sharing information about collections with these groups, and loaning items in collections
among participating Florida institutions and beyond, include: lack of introductions to Florida-based Asian collections
either on-line or in traditional publications and the absence of a collective network throughout the state that promotes the
collections.

National Impact and Intended Results

The national impact and intended results are such that the Helios project will demonstrate that collaboration assists to
significantly improve access to works and reference materials heretofore unavailable to audiences. The creativity of the Helios
project addresses the issue of museum and library collaborations by focusing on collections of Asian art throughout
Florida. This is demonstrated in the development of a database portal to provide a single access point of information and
scholarship. No other state in the US has such a portal and the development of the portal will serve as a model address
various collections in museums. The Helios project design reflects a clear understanding of current museum/library issues
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Original contributions to the working knowledge of Asian art curators, professionals, students, and collectors by providing
much needed access and formal introductions to museum collections of Asian art in the state of Florida. The Helios
inventory database will have the potential to improve scholarship on Asian art and the history of collections of Asian art
in Florida, the US, and beyond. As the Smithsonian Institution Freer-Sackler Museum recently put forward on their
website, the history of Asian art history and the history of the provenance issues/contexts of Asian art collecting in the
West involve not only issues of cultural heritage (as protected by UNESCO Cultural Heritage Laws by 1970), but also
World War II Nazi-era collecting circumstances related to Asian art in Europe. The access to the Asian art materials
provided by the portal will positively impact the art historical canon of Asian art, benefiting all audience members in this
division. This is, however, just one example of the application for this particular audience. Other needs well-served by the
project will include a more complete understanding of rare works of Asian art that will undoubtedly become part and
parcel of the critical inquiries into Asian art histories and theories as well as fresh research opportunities for students and
scholars to work with objects firsthand.

Though the American south has not traditionally been a strong force in Asian Studies, Florida's educational focus on
Asian studies is growing. In response to the rapid rise in the economic, political, and cultural significance of Asia,
academic institutions statewide are increasingly providing resources to acquire Asian languages interdisciplinary courses
on social science and humanities issues. A disciplined understanding of Asia is important as the national economic,
political, and cultural map is reshaped. The knowledge provided to students studying in Florida and beyond, widens
horizons, enriches them personally, and deepens their ability to engage any professional field.

Asian studies programs in Florida are widespread and ever increasing throughout the state (See Supporting
Documentation, pp. 4-6). As noted, well over twenty universities, both private and public, have undergraduate and
graduate courses as well as degree programs focused on Asian-related fields. Areas covered by these various schools
include cultures, languages and literature; history; business; social sciences; economics; religion and philosophy;
geography; and politics. The Helios project fosters the concept of inreach whereby Florida-based collections source their
own materials and develop projects based on the respective strengths of their Asian collections. By documenting the
collections across the Sunshine State, Helios will better serve primary goals of outreach to universities and the public
through exhibitions, traditional print and online publications, and access to materials.

Current issues in the museum field that present barriers to contributing to a statewide resource, such as planning for
Helios, vary widely depending on each participating museum's level of curatorial and registrarial development. Some
museums don't have the collection information in any uniform manner, even in paper, and instead maintain a mix of card
catalogs, indexes, catalogs, and other support materials with no single comprehensive source. Museums have different
systems where those various systems rely on diverse organizational philosophies and are more difficult to view
holistically. Museums may have the same objects with the different systems each serving only some of the museums'
overall needs. Some haven't entered all or any objects into an electronic system. Museums use software packages that are
cumbersome for internal users and either do not have any version accessible to external users or the external system is
also inadequate to fully engage a collection. Often, these packages are expensive with increased costs when more
material, users or partners are added essentially making collaboration more difficult instead of facilitating collaboration
and innovation.

Helios advocates the creation of asset-based, rather than need-based virtual community, on a statewide basis, with making
previously "invisible institutional assets visible." According to research conducted at Northwestern University, while a
need-based community focuses on "needs, deficiencies and problems," an asset-based community begins with a
commitment to uncovering the community's capabilities and assets. This and other work has demonstrated that
investment in asset-based models is the most effective way of solving problems, as long as a need can be rapidly and
accurately linked to an asset." In this case, the need is to leverage extant Asian collections for the benefit of future
research and learning. (See Supporting Documentation pp.7).

Addressing these issues directly, the Helios project's intended outcome is that of greater engagement by the public with
Asian materials firsthand and second-hand, such as through publications and virtual online resources. Changes in the field
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collections of Asian art in Florida; enhanced awareness of Asian art works in Florida via increased usages in scholarly
writings on Asian art; more engaged students with works readily available for original research across diverse disciplines;
and increase in exchanges among Florida-based Asian art collections. In addition, Helios will introduce the casual
museum visitor to an access point that can be used in planning to visit museum attractions throughout Florida, and to
provide a consolidated access point that is free and open where visitors can learn more about Asian art and cultural
resources in Florida. Due to ongoing cutbacks to public school opportunities to study the arts, Helios will well serve
public schools (K-12) since it will provide much needed information to students and teachers who otherwise would not
have access. Finally, the Helios project will be shared with all university programs that focus on Asia so as to offer
another avenue of data and materials for research.

The University of Florida (UF) through the assets of the Harn Museum, through technology resources at its Digital Center
(UFDC) featuring over four million digital pages (http://ufdcwebl.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/), and its Asian Studies program has
over 50 years of tradition focusing on Asian collections across the state through collaborative projects, making it uniquely
qualified to lead this project. The UF Asian Studies program, for instance, has managed, with the support of the College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences and funding from Freeman and Japan Foundations in 1995, 2001, and 2005, to triple in size,
with 28 core faculty members in seven different departments. As the flagship university of a ten-university system, UF
boasts the only full four-year program of language study in Chinese and Japanese in the state and B.A degrees in East
Asian Languages and Literatures and Asian Studies, with over 350 students in 95 majors enrolled in language study. This
year the university added a professor of Chinese, and interviews for another professor for Chinese Studies will initiate this
spring. Another example of many efforts being made by both museums and institutions of higher education to support
Asian studies in the state's K-12 classrooms is UF's Florida Seminar under the National Consortium for Teaching About
Asia auspices, one of 50 thirty-hour seminars for middle and high school teachers in East Asian history, geography,
literature and culture funded by the Freeman Foundation.

Other Florida museums have made significant in-roads into bridging resource gaps for teaching about Asian cultures. The
Morikami has a long history of partnering with Asian studies and museum programs at the Harn, Norton Museum of Art,
Florida International University, University of South Florida and University of North Florida, especially in training K-12
teachers and volunteer docents in the teaching of Japanese arts and culture. The Norton Museum of Art not only
collaborates with local universities and colleges, it also engages in K-12 tours as well as showing a cd-rom (Treasures of
( lo, n, Art) outside the Chinese exhibition galleries.

Project Design / Evaluation Plan
This project will:
1. Conduct a statewide assessment covering each of the collections
2. Create a searchable inventory of Asian collections in museums, including books
3. Develop communication networks among museums, and educational partners

In order to create these needed resources for the future development of the portal, this project will:
Hire a museum research specialist who will
o travel to each of the Asian art collections, gathering the collection information
o compile the information into an assessment report and inventory database
coordinate meetings for curators/key personnel at FAM in 2010 and 2011
o the assessment report will be distributed prior
o the meeting will use the assessment information to:
develop a list of requirements that are needed to prepare each of the museums to participate in the
portal, and ensure ongoing participation
develop a list of conceptual and technical needs for the portal
facilitate discussions/exchanges among collection institutions and educational partners
distribute and collate evaluation information to/from partners

Technologists from the University of Florida Libraries' Digital Library Center will assist with any questions on
technologies and contribute their relevant technical expertise to the planning discussions.






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The planning process is envisioned as the second of four discrete phases of the larger project:

Phase I (2008/09) Phase II (2010/11) Phase III (2011/12) Phase IV (2012/13)
Planning meetings Statewide assessment and Statewide convening for Online portal for sharing
discussing the state of Asian searchable inventory of strategies and training: digital collections,
Collections in Florida and Asian physical and online digitizing collections, promotional plans,
need for sharing information collections in museums, promoting collections, and exhibition plans,
about collections including libraries at developing sharing educational-use plans; other
museums (IMLS funding collections for exhibitions plans to leverage Asian
request) assets

The project's scope, goals and activities, planning process, implementation, and expected results are as follows:
The project's scope involves gathering information on Asian art collections in Florida-based museums through
collaborations with each museum through which the museums share facts and figures from their collection. The
project scope involves gathering data and images from the museum collaborators so as to design and implement
an on-line portal for Asian art in Florida-based museum collections.
The project's goals and activities involve a series of communications with each museum in the state of Florida that
houses Asian art collections. The planning process involves communicating with the core group of participants
and information sharing. Collaborators will provide information on their collections as requested by the project
questionnaire as well as additional s itisl ins, for eventual development of the portal.
The communications will involve emails, telephone calls and museum site visits. Activities involved will include
discussions with each museum's staff about respective Asian collections, the cataloging system, history of
exhibitions, policies for and desires to loan objects, on entering the required data needed to develop an Asian art
portal as well as sharing initial prototypes of the portal with museum collaborators to gain insights and feedback
to make the eventual portal more accessible.
Helios proposes efficient, effective and reasonable approaches: Growing out of the FAM interests in Asian art in
Florida collections, the project continues the trajectory of museums coming together to share information on their
collections in a manner that both the general public and Asian art expert can enjoy new benefits of open access.
The approaches of the project involve continuing discussions and collaborative measures established in 2008 at
FAM via emails, telephone calls, and museum visits.
Based on discussions with participating museums, the methodology and design for scope are appropriate to gather
and use data in a manner to develop an on-line database that is searchable by object type, country of origin, time
period, extant photography/metadata, and other important attributes (publications, etc). By standardizing
questions/requests of facts regarding each collection, the project team will be able to organize the data in various
manners to engage the public and Asian art experts. Methodology involves a standardized questionnaire and
museum site visits to work closely with museum collaborators as well as gain first-hand knowledge of each
collection's holdings and an image database suitable for online applications.
The degree to which planning tasks are likely to result in clearly articulated goals and objectives for the project is
very high since all members involved in the collaboration directly benefit from increased awareness and usage of
their Asian art collections, while the collaboration among the museum and library directly addresses how and why
links between objects on display and research tools through the UF Digital Center are a new direction for the
future.
Evidence that the planning process appropriately involves all partners is found with the letters of collaboration
commitment from museums with Asian art collections as well as the work already underway between the Digital
Library and Harn Museum of Art's Asian art collection.
The institutional responsibilities for the project's implementation and management are to coordinate all
communications with museum collaborators and deliver data to the Digital Library so that a database can be
developed. Management of all communications will be through the project leader. In addition, the project leader
will initiate and coordinate any site visits and/or conference calls required during the planning process.

Sufficient resources are available to gather information from each of the museum collaborators as well as technical
expertise by the project director and UF Digital Library Center to develop data and database. The UF Digital Collections






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(UFDC) is powered by a robust content and collection management system known as SobekCM. SobekCM is a custom
.NET application with Lucene indexing and SQL database, designed by the UF Digital Library Center. SobekCM fully
supports UF's digital collections and digital collection objects, beginning with the internal tracking and management of
items. Item records can be entered directly into SobekCM's tracking system using several available template forms,
imported from existing record types (MARC or METS/MODs), and imported from spreadsheet listings of records.

As a full content and collection management system, SobekCM allows for external user-display of all items and record
information and internal-only display. Internal users can log in through the same online system and, when logged in, see
the same records and item materials with additional administrative options and internal notes. The parallelism between the
two views is to ensure internal and external users see as much of the same information within the same interface as
possible, to allow internal users to better understand how their materials will be dipla\ ed to external users. The similarity
between the two views also enhances the development of a critical knowledge base about how the items and collections
are described and displayed, easing communication among internal and external users when discussing particular items,
collections, and related concerns.

Items in SobekCM can be browsed and searched by keyword and advanced search fields, for separate or multiple
collections and by separate and multiple holding institutions. For instance for Helios, users could search only the Harn
Museum's Asian Art Collections or only the Norton Museum's Asian collections, or all of their and other institutions'
materials simultaneously.

As a content and collection management system, SobekCM supports items throughout the digitization process, from only
records all the way to compound and complex digital objects within customized, discrete digital collections. After records
are entered, internal users can load digital objects through an online self-submittal form or they can use the SobekCM
Toolkit (currently in use for the Digital Library of the Caribbean in three languages for over a dozen partners) that guides
them through the digitization and loading process for digitized items. In addition to supporting the loading of digital
items, SobekCM is also the content management system powering the collections' web pages. For all of these
components, the UF Digital Library Center supports partners through training for using the Toolkit and online self-
submittal form, assistance and training for loading records, and web design and content support to ensure digital records
and materials have the necessary context to be as findable and useful as possible. The other technologies within SobekCM
further enhance the support and service model with OAI for metadata harvesters, allowing all records in the UF Digital
Collections to be harvested by an OAI harvester, including WorldCat, Florida on Florida, and the National Library of
Australia's Trove, among others. All records and items within the UF Digital Collections are also findable through
commercial web searches, including Google searches, and all new technologies that enhance one area of the UF Digital
Collections enhance all others. Other information about the UFDC is available here:
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/digital/digitalservices/. An example of the possibilities for Helios' future digital portal is
available here, demonstrating how the UFDC serves as the library catalog for Haitian partnering organizations. In this
example UFDC serves as a great digital collection system and library catalog and museum catalog, avoiding metadata
mapping problems or acceptable format limitations that most library and museum systems present.
http://ufdcweb 1.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?m=hdPD&b=UF00095845 &v=00001

The planning project has a high likelihood of resulting in the future successful development of the portal. Further,
sustainable future support is already being planned. On-going curatorial duties do not exclude working on the
collaborative venture, especially since the portal project continues Steuber's leadership role established in 2008 FAM as
the project leader for developing a group of Asian art curators in Florida.

The evidence provided that the project will create, implement and document workable models that have the potential for
wide adaptation and will produce far-reaching results are found in the engagement of the library with museums
participating in FAM's Asian art collections in Florida group that began in 2008. Evidence is also found in the project
questionnaire (See Supporting Documentation, p.8) that will serve as the first step to gathering raw data for the portal.
Evidence may also be found on-line with current applications of information and images shared between museums and
libraries. Examples of the UF Digital Library Center's staff current work on elements for the future portal may be viewed
through the following links:
Map: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?c=asial&m=hitportal






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Flipbooks: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/digital/projects/labs/flashbooks/QinDingXiQingGuJian/
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/digital/projects/labs/flashbooks/UF00095997 00001/UF00095997.swf
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/digital/projects/labs/flashbooks/UF00095998 00001/UF00095998.swf
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/digital/projects/labs/flashbooks/UF00095999 00001/UF00095999.swf

After the conclusion of the planning process, implementation will begin:
The implementation of the information gathered will be in the form of an on-line database with images and new
information on current exhibitions at each of the museums across Florida. Titles of exhibitions, mapping options
for travel, and examples from each collection will enable visitors to engage the Asian collections in Florida in a
manner never before available to them.
Expected results are that more audiences will be exposed to the diverse Asian collections in Florida while also
awareness will be increased among scholars/students of the types of works available for research.
Information will be shared with partners via direct emails, telephone conversations, and museum visits.
Information will be available on-line for participants to view/review content and to make s i ilhna' chancess.
Decisions will be made in a collaborative manner using consensus facilitation methods. The project leader will
coordinate and document decision processes and archive them.
The relationship between the project and other similar projects in the museum and library fields may be found in
its goal of increasing collaborations among libraries and museums. Libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) are
currently focused on the need to integrate their disparate information silos so that users can search across library,
archive, and museum holdings using a single interface. The UF Libraries and Harn Museum are in the process of
integrating information on holdings, with the addition of books in the Harn Museum Reading Room to the
Libraries' catalog in 2007, and with the cataloging and integration of records for the Harn's collections into
Libraries' catalog through UFDC during 2009/10 (See Supporting Documentation, p.9).
The assessment methods to measure project outputs, outcomes, findings, and products will be able to be tracked
by various methods. Future tracking, reporting, and analytics of usage with detailed usage statistics will be
provided through UFDC's current online system with a detailed description of definitions for the types of usage:
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?m=htd ; therefore ensuring accurate usage numbers and types of usage statistics on
the portal.
The evaluation plan is integral to project design since museum collaborators will want to demonstrate benefits of
the project for their museums. Success in evaluations by both the public end-users and internal museum
collaborators ensures both user types will benefit from the project and return to it again and again to view Asian
art in Florida-based museum collections. Evaluation of Helios project will involve partner institutions responding
to the following queries:
o Information gathered by the Helios project was openly shared in a constructive manner?
o Site visits were conducted to your institution?
o Follow-up responses to queries and istueslins, were integrated in a timely manner?
o FAM meetings in 2010 and 2011 addressed issues and provided status updates on the Helios project?
o What were some of the expected and unexpected outcomes of the Helios project for your institution?
o Was your institution able to track usages by museum visitors and online users? If so, please provide
examples of each.
o Was your institution able to identify new educational partners based on the Helios project? Did your
institution notice an increased participation by educational partners?
o Did the Helios project assist in better understanding your collection internally? Assist in better
understanding by the public (both everyday museum visitor and museum specialist)?
o Has your institution either made loans or received loans from partner institutions participating in the
Helios project? If so, please explain.
o Does your institution's staff use Helios for museum projects?
o Does your institution plan to continue updating its holdings on the Helios site?
o Please provide any additional comments and/or suggislions.
The degree to which planning will result in a project that will significantly impact current issues in the field
cannot be overestimated. Planning is essential to develop an innovative model that addresses each of the various
museum collections while bringing the information of these collections together in a standardized manner by
which the user can learn about each collection and engage the collections on-line or by an in-person visit to the






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galleries. Current issues in the field that are related to collection histories and provenance issues are at their initial
stages as witnessed by the recent provenance project initiated by the Freer-Sackler Museum in Washington, D.C.
The planning of the Asian art portal for Florida-based collections will ensure a successful project that will be the
first of its kind.

Project Resources: Budget, Personnel, and Management

Costs for Phase II include: salary and travel expenses for a UF Museum's Studies graduate student, facilitation services,
laptop, mobile broadband access card, and travel to FAM meetings in 2010 and 2011.

Harn Museum of Art Staff
Jason Steuber (10%, cost share) was appointed as the Cofrin Curator of Asian Art in 2008. His research interests include
the history of collecting and exhibiting Asian art. Previously, he served as an Asian art curator at the Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and was appointed as the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellow in the Department
of History of Art, Glasgow University. He has contributed to major projects, including the 1999 international loan
exhibition The Golden Age of ( loi, \, Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from The People's Republic of China, held at
the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the 2004 two-volume set New Perspectives on China's Past: ( li1u \,
Archaeology in the Twentieth Century, published by Yale University Press. He has written articles for international
journals, including Apollo, Arts of Asia, Ari.A iiaPa, ifi, The Burlington Magazine and Gugong Wenwu Yuekan (\an iall
Palace Museum Monthly of( hm, \, Art). His 2008 book, ( mla, 3,000 Years of Art and Literature, was published by
Welcome Books. Steuber holds bachelor's degrees in East Asian languages and cultures and Chinese History from the
University of Kansas, where he also received his master's degree in East Asian languages and cultures. Role: Lead and
coordinate Helios: Connecting Florida's Asian Collections.

Sarah Smith, (100%, budget request) graduate student in Museum Studies at UF, has been part of the registration
department since 2006 as both student intern and now as part-time Asian Art registration assistant. Having firsthand
knowledge of Asian art works and registrarial database management experience, she is responsible for coordinating the
collection assessment and data entry for the Harn Museum's Asian art collection. Role: Travel to Helios partner
institutions to gather primary information for entry into assessment report and Helios inventory database for future
automated portal.

Asian Art Curatorial Assistant, (15%, cost share) a multi-year position to be filled by early 2010 at the Harn Museum.
Role: The curatorial assistant will support Helios project team members Steuber, Taylor, and Smith to gather, coordinate,
assess, and enter data; communicate with Helios partners; and to perform other duties as needed, such as future FAM
annual conference panel meetings.

UF Libraries Staff
Laurie N. Taylor, PhD (as needed), is the Interim Director of UF's Digital Library Center (DLC). She came to DLC in
2007, and has taught undergraduate courses and workshops on digital media since 2000. Taylor serves as technical
director for the Digital Library of the Caribbean and the Florida Digital Newspaper Library. Her published research
articles include digital media, library and information science, Open Access, and literature; and she co-edited a collection
on digital representations of history and memory, Playing the Past: Video Games, History, and Memory. She serves as the
technical director for the Digital Library of the Caribbean and Co-PI on America's Swamp: the Historical Everglades, to
digitize six archival collections. Role: Technical advisor in planning the future portal and automating the database.

C. David Hickey (1%, budget request) is Associate University Librarian/Asian Studies Bibliographer at the UF
Libraries. Achieving tenure in 2007, he has been active in the Council on East Asian Libraries as Chair of the
Committee on Public Service 2005-2008, and has served twice on the Executive Board. Hickey's responsibilities
include overall development and management of Asian Studies collections, including selecting and evaluating print and
electronic materials. Specifically as Chinese Collection Manager and Japanese Collections Coordinator, coordinates all
aspects of native script and western language collection development and management, collaborates with academic
faculty in building up holdings. Role: Oversee inclusion of UF Libraries' materials in the inventory, and liaise
regarding cataloging information.






Helios: Connecting Florida's Asian Collections
University of Florida/ Harn Museum of Art

Hikaru Nkano (as needed) is East Asian Cataloger and Japanese Collections Coordinator, and holds a BA in Art Theory
from Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya, Japan, an MS in Education Technology from Radford University and
MS in Library & Information Science from Florida State University. She will work with Hickey and the project team
providing any necessary cataloging and coordination of Japanese materials. Role: Providing support to Hickey related to
Japanese objects and cataloging information.

Bess de Farber, (2.5%, budget request) UF Libraries' grants manager, holds a Master's in Nonprofit Management from
Florida Atlantic University and is a Certified Professional Facilitator through the International Association of Facilitators.
She has over 20 years experience facilitating/training in collaboration development, especially in Florida's arts and culture
community. Role: Facilitate planning meetings for Harn and UF Libraries' staff, and with Helios partners.

Dissemination:

Dissemination will be accomplished via several means. First, upcoming FAM annual conference meetings (beginning in
2010) will highlight the Helios project as part of the Asian art curator panel session. Second, the Helios project will work
with FAM's efforts toward expanding its IMLS-funded Connecting to Collections program. Third, the Helios project will
be published in international Asian art journals, such as Orientations, Arts of Asia, and the Asian Art Newspaper. Fourth,
each of the partner institutions will communicate the importance of the Helios project to their constituents in traditional
print offerings and electronically. In addition, the UFDC at Sinilici, Libraries' is OAI (Open Archives Initiative)
compliant, allowing all OAI harvesters free access to the metadata and free and complete access to the linked digital
objects. Items in UFDC are already harvested by WorldCat's OAlster, Florida on Florida, and many others.

Sustainability:

On one hand, the lasting impact of the Helios project involves its ability to continually update its database and provide
current information regarding the collection and exhibition of Asian art in Florida. The impact of a single portal to various
collections enables scholars and novices alike to engage the collections in a manner never previously available. The
increases in accessibility and knowledge of current exhibitions and museum holdings will engage the visitors to the site
well into the future.

On the other hand, the Digital Library Center (DLC) facilitates and focuses the Libraries' development and integration of
digital programs and services within and extending from UF. It was established in 1999 to support ongoing research while
preserving and enhancing access to materials. Given the UF's role as the primary preservation partner for Florida and the
Caribbean, the DLC has expanded into a large-scale digitization facility. Because of the infrastructure costs for digital
preservation and perpetual online open access, the DLC leverages the robust infrastructure of the SobekCM System to
support all internal and collaborative projects. SobekCM features a robust standards-reliant infrastructure that allows for
the automatic translation among multiple metadata standards (MODS/METS, MARC, DC, PREMIS) for maximized
interoperability across access and preservation systems, ensuring ongoing digital preservation as files are migrated
forward as needed and maintained in consistent, redundant formats.

Moving toward an innovative digital collection focused on access to Asian collections throughout the Sunshine State
allows for future potential implementing of eLearning, eExhibitions, and eScholarship. These dynamic new e-platforms
approach sustainability by allowing works and materials to be exhibited, researched, and studied through free and open
access while avoiding scenarios where works could potentially be exposed to damage and deterioration. Thus, another
aspect of sustainability involves physical conservation of works from potential real-world harm, while eliminating travel
costs and lessening the carbon footprint for those who will soon have increased digital access to these rich and unique
collections.







Helios: Connecting Florida's Asian Collections
University of Florida/Ham Museum of Art


Helios Project Outline and Timeframe
September, 2010 August 31, 2011


Timeframe Activity
1st Quarter Schedule and complete 11 site visits, review collections, catalogs, collections management
(Sept. 1-Nov. 30) systems, and gather inventory data
Attend Florida Association of Museums annual Conference with Helios partner institutions
Search for additional participants

2nd Quarter Schedule and complete additional site visits
(Dec. 1 Feb. 28) Follow up with partner institutions regarding progress and data accuracy
Design and input database inventory


3rd Quarter Complete design of database
(March 1 -May 30) Input database inventory Complete database inventory
Plan upload of data into UF Digital Center

4 Quarter Receive input on database usage from all participants
(June 1- Aug. 31) Evaluation of results
Make improvements as necessary
Complete IMLS Final Report







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University of Florida/Ham Museum of Art



Summary Budget


$ IMLS $ Cost Share $ TOTAL COSTS

1. Salaries & wages $ 33,778 $ 12,840 $ 46,618
2. Fringe benefits $ 3,320 $ 4,250 $ 7,570
3. Consultant fees $ $ $
4. Travel $ 3,991 $ $ 3,991
5. Supplies & materials $ 2,008 $ $ 2,008
6. Services $ 720 $ $ 720
8. Other costs $ $ $

TOTAL DIRECT COSTS (1-8) $ 43,816 $ 17,090 $ 60,906

9. Indirect costs $ 20,099

TOTAL COSTS (Direct and Indirect) $ 43,816 $ 37,189 $ 81,005


Project Funding for the Entire Grant Period

1. Grant Funds Requested from IMLS $ 43,816

2. Cost Sharing:
a. Cash Contribution
b. In-Kind Contribution
c. Other Federal Agenices*
d. TOTAL COST SHARING $ 37,189

3. TOTAL PROJECT FUNDING (1+2D) $ 81,005

% of Total Costs Requested from IMLS 54%






Organizational Profile Helios: Connecting Florida's Asian Collections
University of Florida/Ham Museum of Art
Date organization was incorporated: September 20, 1990

Mission
The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art promotes the power of the arts to inspire and educate people and enrich their
lives. To this purpose the museum builds and maintains exemplary art collections and produces a wide variety of
challenging, innovative exhibitions and stimulating educational programs. As an integral part of the University of Florida,
the museum advances teaching and research and serves as a catalyst for creative engagement between the university and
diverse local, state, national and international audiences.

Organizational Overview
a) Overview
The Harn Museum of Art distinguishes itself among university art museums as a creative laboratory for the visual
arts. Accordingly, the Harn unites the university and the wider community to make groundbreaking contributions to
research, teaching, and service. The Harn strives for innovation in its exhibition schedule and the means of outreach as its
mission.
Fully accredited by the American Association of Museums, the Harn Museum of Art is located on the campus of
the University of Florida and houses collections that currently contain approximately 6,770 works. The 86,800 square foot
facility includes 35,675 square feet of exhibition space, two classrooms for educational programming, a 200-seat
auditorium, and a cafe. The Bishop Study Center offers interpretive support through books, videos, and software with
lending privileges to teachers. The museum broke ground in July 2009 for a 22,000 square foot addition for exhibition
space, art storage and art conservation. Admission to the museum remains free of charge to everyone.
The active collecting areas are international contemporary art, African art, Asian art, modern art of Europe and the
Americas, and photography. In addition to permanent collection exhibitions, the museum organizes original temporary
exhibitions and hosts traveling exhibitions. Current educational programming includes docent-led tours (available by
advance request in several languages), lectures, gallery talks, films, performances, outreach programming (including
programming for seniors and the visually impaired), Family Days and Tot Time with hands-on art-making activities,
interdisciplinary curriculum resource units for K-12 schools, and teacher workshops. The Harn Museum collaborates
extensively on programming and research with academic units of the University of Florida, and provides internships and
research opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students.
b) Previous activities
The Harn Museum of Art facilitates the maintenance, installation, and de-installation of 9 galleries composed of
35,675 square feet. Throughout the year, the registration and preparation staff executes the installation and de-installation
of an average of 8 to 10 temporary exhibitions per year. Temporary exhibitions remain on display for approximately 3
months at a time, and the galleries that display objects from the permanent collection have planned periodic rotations
during the year. The Harn's education staff maintains contacts with university faculty, K-12 educators, and interested
parties to include the broad community demographic in educational programming related to exhibitions.
c) Community
The Harn Museum of Art serves the approximately 240,082 residents of Alachua County and outlying
populations of north central Florida. The museum attracts scholars, artists and visitors from around the world and
currently has approximately 841 members. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the general demographics of
Alachua County are as follows: Ethnicity: White 73.7%, African-American 19.5%, Hispanic or Latino origin 7.3%, Asian
4.7%, American Indian and Alaska Natives 0.3%. Income: Median household income $38,075; per capital income
$18,465. Education level: Bachelor's degree or higher (percent of persons over the age of 25) 38.7%, high school
graduates (percent of persons over the age of 25) 88.1%. Age: Under 5 years old 5.6%, Under 18 years 18.8%, Persons 65
years or over 10.2%.
d) Special Efforts
The Harn programs with sensitivity to the local demographic and engages the community appropriately. The
museum serves the university community by providing an array of public programs that complement academic curricula
and scholarly publications featuring the museum's permanent collections. The Harn also encourages the interest and
participation of local students by offering internships, Museum Nights, and the MUSE (Museum University Student
Educators) program. The Harn's Looking Beyond Sight and Art for Life programs offer interactive activities for the
visually impaired and people in assisted-living facilities, respectively. Family audiences are served by regularly scheduled
Saturday Family Days, Tot Time for young children twice monthly, studio art classes and the Bishop Study Center with
its library, art games, videos, hands-on collection of art and other resources.








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1. Applicant Information
a. Legal Name (5a from Face Sheet): University of Florida
b. Organizational unit (if different from Legal Name) : Ham Museum of Art
c. Organizational Unit Address


Street1i: PO Box 112700
City: Gainesville
State: FL
d. Web Address: http://www.harn.ufl.edu
e. Type of Institution (Check one):


Street:
County: Alachua
Zip+4/Postal Code: 32611-2700


D Academic Library D Library Association D School Library or School District
D Aquarium D Library Consortium applying on behalf of a School
D Arboretum/Botanical Garden D Museum Library Library or Libraries
0 Art Museum D Museum Services Organization/ D Science/Technology Museum
D Children's/Youth Museum Association D Special Library
D Community College D Native American Tribe/Native D Specialized Museum**
D Four-year College Hawaiian Organization D State Library
D General Museum* D Natural History/Anthropology D State Museum Agency
D Graduate School of Library and Museum D State Museum Library
Information Science D Nature Center D Zoo
D Historic House/Site D Planetarium D Institution of higher education
D Historically Black College or D Public Library other than listed above
University D Research Library/Archives ZOther, please specify:
D History Museum
*A museum with collections representing two or more disciplines equally (e.g., art and history)
**A museum with collections limited to one narrowly defined discipline (e.g., textiles, maritime, ethnic group)


2. Grant Program or Grant Category
Di a. 21st Century Museum
Professionals
LI b. American Heritage
Preservation Grants
c. Congressionally Directed Grants
d. Connecting to Collections:
Statewide Grants
EPlanning
lImplementation
e. Conservation Project Support
- General Conservation Survey
D Detailed Conservation Survey
D Environmental Survey
D Environmental Improvements
D Treatment
D Research
Di Training


f. Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian
Program
D Master's-level Programs
E Doctoral-level Programs
E Pre-professional Programs
E Research (early career development)
] Research (other than early career
development
[]Continuing Education
D Programs to Build Institutional Capacity
D g. Museum Grants for African
American History and Culture
h. Museums for America
D Engaging Communities
D Building Institutional Capacity
Di Collections Stewardship


i. National Leadership Grants
Select Museum or Library:
0 Museum
El Library
Select Funding Category:
E] Project Grant
0 Collaborative Planning Grant
Select Project Category:
El Advancing Digital Resources
El Demonstration
0 Library Museum Collaboration
El Research
j. Native American/Native Hawaiian
Library Services
El Basic Grant only
El Basic Grant with Education/
Assessment Option
Ei Enhancement Grant
El Native Hawaiian Library Services
k. Native American/Native Hawaiian
Museum Services
El Programming
Li Professional Development
Di Enhancement of Museum Services


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3. Request Information
a. IMLS funds requested: $43,816.00 b. Cost share amount: $37,189.00

4. Museum Profile (Museum Applicants only)
a. Is the institution either a unit of state or local government or a private not-for-profit organization that has tax-exempt
status under the Internal Revenue Code and that is organized on a permanent basis for essentially educational or
aesthetic purposes? Z Yes D No
b. Does the institution own or use tangible objects, whether animate or inanimate? Z Yes D No
c. Does the institution care for tangible objects whether animate or inanimate? Z Yes D No
d. Are these objects exhibited by the institution to the general public on a regular basis through facilities the institution
owns or operates? Z Yes 1 No
e. Is the institution open and exhibiting tangible objects to the general public at least 120 days a year through facilities the
institution owns or operates? Z Yes r No
Institution's attendance for the 12-month period prior to the application: Onsite: 82,388 Offsite:
Year the institution was first open and exhibiting to the public: 1990
Total number of days the institution was open to the public for the 12-month period prior to application: 306
f. Does the institution employ at least one professional staff member, or the fulltime equivalent, whether paid or unpaid,
who is primarily engaged in the acquisition, care, or exhibition to the public of tangible objects owned or used by the
institution? Z Yes D No

Number of full-time paid institution staff: 32 Number of full-time unpaid institution staff:
Number of part-time paid institution staff: 30 Number of part-time unpaid institution staff: 171
g.
Fiscal year Revenue/ Expenses/ Budget deficit Budget surplus
Support Income Outlays (if applicable)* (if applicable)*
Most recently
completed FY2009 $2,669,593.00 $2,849,292.00 $179,699.00
Second most recently
completed FY2008 $2,788,007.00 $2,734,649.00 $53,359.00

*If Institution has a budget deficit or surplus for either of the two most recently completed fiscal years, please
explain the circumstances of this deficit or surplus in the Text Responses section of the application.

5. Project Partners
In the space below, please list the names of any organizations that are official partners in the project. All official partners
must include a completed Partnership Statement Form in this package.
UF Smather's Libraries, Norton Museum of Art, Lowe Art Museum, Morikami Museum, Museum of Fine Arts St.
Petersburg, Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Polk Museum of Art, Appleton Museum of Art

6. Native Hawaiian Organization Eligibility (Native American/Native Hawaiian Programs only)
Is the institution an eligible not-for-profit organization that primarily serves and represents Native Hawaiians (as defined in
Title 20 U.S.C. Section 7517; if yes, see Proof of Eligibility requirements)? DYes Z No


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7. Institutional Profile (Native American Library Services Grants only)
a. Number of hours per week the library collection is accessible to patrons:
b. Number of staff dedicated full-time to library operations:
c. Number of staff with part-time library duties:
d. Number of holdings (books, journals, media):
e. Number of circulation transactions per year:
f. Does library staff have access to the Internet? ] Yes 1 No
g. Does the library provide public access to the Internet? E Yes 1 No
h. Amount of operating budget for library services in most recently completed fiscal year:
i. Identify which of the following activities will be supported by grant funds (check all that apply):
D Expand services for learning and access to information and educational resources.
D Develop library services that provide all users with access to information.
D Provide electronic and other linkages between and among all types of libraries.
D Develop public and private partnerships with other agencies and community-based organizations.
D Target library services to help increase the access and the ability to use information resources for individuals of
diverse backgrounds, with disabilities, or with limited functional literacy or information skills.
D Target library and information services to help increase the access and the ability to use information resources for
persons having difficulty using a library, and for underserved urban and rural communities.
j. Maintenance of Effort (check the appropriate response):
D FY 2009 expenditures will equal or exceed previous 12 month grant period. Maintenance of effort is assured.
D FY 2009 expenditures will not equal or exceed previous 12 month expenditure. Maintenance of effort is not assured.
D Maintenance of effort does not apply.

8. Collection and Material Information (Conservation Project Support Grants only)
a. Type of Collection


1 Non-living
1 Animals, living

b. Types of Materials. Use a scale from
primarily affected by the project:


E Natural history/Anthropology
1 Plants, living

1 (primarily affected) to 4 (minimally affected) to show which collection types are


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aeronautics, space/airplanes horological (clocks) photography, negatives
animals, live landscape features, constructed photography, prints
animals, preserved machinery physical science projects
anthropologic, ethnographic maritime, historic ships plants, live
archaeological medals plants, preserved
books medical, dental, health, sculpture, indoor
Ceramics, glass, metals, plastics pharmacological sculpture, outdoor
documents, manuscripts military, including weapons textiles and costumes
furniture/wooden objects motion picture, audiovisual tools
geological, mineral, musical instruments toys and dolls
paleontological numismatics (money) transportation, excluding
historic building paintings airplanes
historic sites philatelic (stamps) works of art on paper




Jan, 15, 2010 3:43PM


Partnership Statement


1. Applicant Organization: University of Florida (Harn Museum of Art/UF Smathers
Libraries)

Other partner members: Appleton Museum of Art of Central Florida Community
College, 4333 E Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala, FL 34470


2. Briefly list the activities that the partner institution has agreed to perform:

Schedule time to meet with visiting museum consultants)

Provide specific information related to Asian collections required for inventory

Participate in one planning meeting at Florida Association of Museums

Provide feedback about design requirements for searchable inventory

3. The applicant organization agrees to all of the following:

Hiring and managing consultants

Developing inventory questions for gathering data about collections

Merging information to create a searchable inventory of Asian collections





Sipatiu ofAuthorzin Official from Applicar Organization Sign of orizing Official from Parner OrganWtlon

Brian C. Miller
Assistant Director of Research _
NuWn of Authorizing Official femm Applicant Organization Nu of Authorizin Oial from Pw rStion



Dat Duate


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Jan. 15, 2010 3:37PM No. 3861 P. 2


January 15, 2010


National Leadership Grants for Museums
Office of Museum Services
Institute of Museum and Library Services
1800 M Street, NW, 9h Floor
Washington, DC 20036-5802

Dear Review Panelist,

Please accept this letter of support for the Samuel P. Ham Museum of Art's planning
grant application. After participating in meetings convened by the project lead, Jason
Steuber, I agree that there is much work to be done to eliminate some of the major
barriers for us to share information about our Asian holdings. Knowing more about
Asian collections in the state is the first step to building collaborative projects that will
ultimately benefit museum visitors who are residents and tourists of Florida. The
eventual development of a statewide digital portal will further advance access to these
important but hidden assets and bring connections to these objectives that have yet to be
imagined.

The Appleton Museum of Art has quite a large collection of Asian works of art and we
feel that this project will be of great benefit to our institution by helping us to understand
how our works fit within the body of Asian holdings in museum's throughout the state. It
will, therefore, help us to better serve our community as we gain a greater understanding
of our Asian collection as we present it to our public.


Sincerely,


4333 E Silver Springs Blvd. Ocala, FL 34470-5001 Tel. 352.291.4455 Fax 352.291-4460 www.applconmuseum.org


APPLETON
MUSEUM OF ART
of CentMal FlHonda COmmuny College










Partnernbip Statement


1. Applicant Organization: University of Florida (Harn Museum of Art/UF Smathers
Libraries)

Other partner members: The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida
International University, 10975 S.W. 17th Street, Miami, FL, 33199

2. Briefly list the activities that the partner institution has agreed to perform:

Schedule time to meet with visiting museum consultants)

Provide specific information related to Asian collections required for inventory

Participate in one planning meeting at Florida Association of Museums

Provide feedback about design requirements for searchable inventory

3. The applicant organization agrees to all of the following:

Hiring and managing consultants

Developing inventory questions for gathering data about collections

Merging information to create a searchable inventory of Asian collections





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Brian C. Miller
Assistant Director of Research
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National Leadership Grants for Museums
Office of Museum Services
Institute of Museum and Library Services
1800 M Street, NW, 9* Floor
Washington, DC 20036-5802

Dear Review Panelist,

Please accept this letter of support for the Samuel P. Ham Museum of Art's
planning grant application. After participating in meetings convened by the
project lead, Jason Steuber, I agree that there is much work to be done to
eliminate some of the major barriers for us to share information about our Asian
holdings. Knowing more about Asian collections in the state is the first step to
building collaborative projects that will ultimately benefit museum visitors who
are residents and tourists of Florida. The eventual development of a statewide
digital portal will further advance access to these important but hidden assets and
bring connections to these objectives that have yet to be imagined.

Our museum, The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International
University has a collection of Asian Art that has been in storage for years and has
had little or no research done on it, except for a few objects on exhibition
currently. We also have a significant Asian Program Endowment that will
support our endeavors to mount exhibitions, do research, and organize programs,
We believe once we can begin using the endowment, we will be able to contribute
greatly to the project proposed by the Harm Museum.

We look forward to collaborations within the state, sharing our resources and
planning exhibitions that can travel for the benefit of all the institutions. FIU is a
university with a large diverse community of students and a campus in China.
The opportunity to promote Asian Art, and educate our students and the South
Florida community about its history and cultural significance is one we must
consider as part of our broader mission at the museum.

We support the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art's grant application and hope it
will be given, consideration.





Carol Damian
Director and Chief Curator





Florida Asian Art Collections Project


Total Asian Art (continent/regmn) art works in Frost Art Museum Permanent Collection: 373

Countresrion reresented: 14
Ancient Gandhare region
Cambodia
China
Himalaya Range
India
Indonesia
Japan
Kazakhstan
Korea
Thailand, Siam
Tibet
Turkey
Uzbekistan
Vietnam


Date Ranges of works: 4700 B.C. late 20e century

ObMict tWes:
Paintings/works on paper: 71
Sculptures: 29
Textiles: 52
Ethnographic: 117
Ceramics: 7
Decorative Arts: 47
Jewelry: 2
Functional: 40
Furniture: 1
Ceremonial: 5
Other: 2









Partnership Statement


1. Applicant Organization: University of Florida (Ham Museum of Art/UF Smathers
Libraries)

Other partner members: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 1301 Stanford
Drive, Coral Gables, Florida 33124-6310

2. Briefly list the activities that the partner institution has agreed to perform:

Schedule time to meet with visiting museum consultants)

Provide specific information related to Asian collections required for inventory

Participate in one planning meeting at Florida Association of Museums

Provide feedback about design requirements for searchable inventory

3. The applicant organization agrees to all of the following:

Hiring and managing consultants

Developing inventory questions for gathering data about collections

Merging information to create a searchable inventory of Asian collections





Signature of "Gihorfing Official from Applicant Organization Sgature of Authorizing Official from Partner Organization

Brtan C. Miller
Assistant Director of Research .5% /, 4
Name of Authorizing Official from Applicant Organization Name of Authorizing Official from Partner Organization



Date Date











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January 20, 2010

National Leadership Grants for Museums
Office of Museum Services
Institute of Museum and Library Services
1800 M Street, NW, 9th Floor
Washington, DC 20036-5802

Dear Review Panelist,

Please accept this letter of support for the Samuel P. Ham Museum of Art's planning
grant application. After participating in meetings convened by the project lead, Jason
Steuber, I agree that there is much work to be done to eliminate some of the major
barriers for us to share information about our Asian holdings. Knowing more about
Asian collections in the state is the first step to building collaborative projects that will
ultimately benefit museum visitors who are residents and tourists of Florida. The
eventual development of a statewide digital portal will further advance access to these
important but hidden assets and bring connections to these objectives that have yet to be
imagined.

There are currently 5,177 objects in the Asian Collection at the Lowe Art Museum,
University of Miami. At this point in time, these objects cannot be viewed by students
and scholars interested in researching this material. Several years ago the Lowe
undertook a project to fully digitize and update the data on our collection. The entire
collection will be on-line through the Museum's redesigned website by Fall, 2010. The
efforts of the Samuel P. Ham Museum of Art fully complement and support the efforts of
the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami to make our Asian Collection more
accessible to our colleagues in the State as well as globally.

Sincerely yours,



Brian A. Dursum
Director and Chief Curator
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami





University of Miami 1301 Stanford Drive Coral Gables, FL 33124-6310 305 284 3535 Fax 305 284 2024 www.lowemuseum.org

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LOWE ART MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
BREAKDOWN OF THE ASIAN ART COLLECTION


ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS = 77
CONTAINERS = 1,259
COSTUMES & ACCESSORIES = 361
EXCHANGE MEDIA = 0
FURNISHINGS = 136
INFORMATION FORMS = 307
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS = 14
RECREATIONAL OBJECTS = 4
TEXTILES = 10
TOOLS & EQUIPMENT = 131
UNCLASSIFIED = 0
VISUAL WORKS = 2,856 [Within this there are paintings (320), drawings
(78), prints (551), sculpture (1,734), and other (173)]
WEAPONS & ARMOR = 22

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Partnership Statement


1. Applicant Organization: University of Florida (Ham Museum of Art/UF Smathers
Libraries)

Other partner members: Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, 4000
Morikami Park Rd., Delray Beach, FL 33446

2. Briefly list the activities that the partner institution has agreed to perform:

Schedule time to meet with visiting museum consultants)

Provide specific information related to Asian collections required for inventory

Participate in one planning meeting at Florida Association of Museums

Provide feedback about design requirements for searchable inventory

3. The applicant organization agrees to all of the following:

Hiring and managing consultants

Developing inventory questions for gathering data about collections

Merging information to create a searchable inventory of Asian collections





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Name of Authorizing Official from Applicant Organization Name of Authorizing Official Partncr Organization



Date Datej




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SMORIKAMI
MUSEUM AID JAPANESE GARDENS


January 8, 2010



National Leadership Grants for Museums
Office of Museum Services
Institute of Museum and Library Services
1800 M Street, NW, 9th Floor
Washington, DC 20036-5802


Dear Review Panelist,


Judith Bronsteen
Daniel DeMott
Jan ice 0 forn
Albert I Geller
Norma C Gelter
Eugene Goldberg
Jon Herrmic
Donald H Kohnken
Hoich Kunrsu
Alvin M Nalkn
David Pernick
Andrew M Saidel
Frank Schnidman
Yoshimi 0. Smith
Nancy Stroud
Mindy Tublitz
Harriett S, Yarmis
Donald T. Yoshino

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Bonnie White LeMay


Tom Gregaersan


Please accept this letter of support for the Samuel P. Ham Museum of Art's
planning grant application. After participating in meetings convened by the
project lead, Jason Steuber, I agree that there is much work to be done to
eliminate some of the major barriers for museums in the state of Florida to share
information about their Asian holdings. Knowing more about Asian collections in
the state is the first step to building collaborative projects that will ultimately
benefit museum visitors who are residents and tourists of Florida. The eventual
development of a statewide digital portal will further advance access to these
important but hidden assets and bring connections to objectives that have yet to be
imagined.

The project conceived by the Ham Museum therefore holds considerable appeal
to the Morikami Museum, a museum of Japanese culture in Palm Beach County,
Florida. Tracing its roots to a pioneering community of Japanese settlers that
existed in the vicinity a hundred years ago, the Morikami Museum holds a
collection of Japanese art and ethnographic materials representing the society that
the Japanese pioneers left behind when they emigrated from their homeland
shortly after 1900.

The Ham Museum of Art's initiative should increase public awareness of
Morikami, its focus, and the educational opportunities it offers by facilitating
public access to its collection. The project will increase public exposure to
Japanese art and culture and expand opportunities for the public to learn more
about them in accordance with Morikami's mission. In addition the project will
increase access to Morikami's collection by academics, students, and museum



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professionals and promote and encourage their research activities. It will facilitate
Morikami staff's own access to information regarding the holdings of other like
institutions and help support exhibition planning. Finally, it will increase
meaningful contacts and dialog among peers representing museums with interests
and goals similar to those of the Morikami Museum.

For these reasons, the Morikami Museum is excited about the proposal initiated
by the Ham Museum and supports the project wholeheartedly.


Sincerely,


Tom Gregersen /
Cultural Director
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens


4000 Morikami Park Road
Delray Beach, FL 33446
P 561.495.0233
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Partnership Statement


1. Applicant Organization: University of Florida (Ham Museum of Art/UF Smathers
Libraries)

Other partner members: Museum of Fine Arts, 255 Beach Dr. N.E., St.
Petersburg, FL 33701

2. Briefly list the activities that the partner institution has agreed to perform:

Schedule time to meet with visiting museum consultants)

Provide specific information related to Asian collections required for inventory

Participate in one planning meeting at Florida Association of Museums

Provide feedback about design requirements for searchable inventory

3. The applicant organization agrees to all of the following:

Hiring and managing consultants

Developing inventory questions for gathering data about collections

Merging information to create a searchable inventory of Asian collections


Signature oTrAut orizing Official from Applicant Organization
.Brian C. Miller
Assistant Director of Researcph
Name of Authorizing Official from Applicant Organization


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ST PETERSBUR G, FL O R I D A



January 26, 2010

National Leadership Grants for Museums
Office of Museum Services
Institute of Museum and Library Services
1800 M. Street, NW, 9th floor
Washington, D.C. 20036-5802

Dear Review Panelist,

I am writing this letter in support of the Samuel P. Ham Museum of Art's planning grant
application. After participating in meetings convened by the project leader, Jason
Steuber, I agree that there is much work to be done to eliminate some of the major
barriers that hinder us from sharing information about our Asian holdings. Knowing more
about Asian collections in the state is the first step to building collaborative projects that
will ultimately benefit museum visitors, whether they are Florida residents or visitors
from across the world. The eventual development of a statewide digital portal will further
advance access to these important but hidden assets, and bring connections that have yet
to be imagined.

The Museum of Fine Arts has significantly grown its Asian collection over the past
decade. It now includes more than 500 art works, dating from the 9th century to the 20th
century, and representing the highpoints of creativity from China, Japan, Korea, India,
Tibet, and Southeast Asia, in paintings, prints, sculptures, textiles, photographs and other
art objects. We recently acquired a major collection of twenty-five Tibetan bronzes from
the 9t century onwards, a rare 18th-century Chinese silk kesi, and a large Han dynasty
(206BC-220AD) ceramic tomb sculpture of a standing horse. The Museum has a
significant carved wooden Jaina shrine from India, one of only seven known in museum
collections worldwide. However, due to an extremely small staff, we are unable to
research these important objects, or even photograph each item. This project grant would
allow us to begin the documentation and research process and to share this information
with colleagues throughout Florida and the world. With this knowledge, we can envisage
potential future exhibitions and collection-sharing opportunities that would benefit the
entire museum community.

Thank you for your consideration of this application.

Sincerely,



. John E. Schloder
Director


255 Beach Drive NE St. Petersburg, FL 33701-3498
Phone 727-896-2667 Fax 727-894-4638




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Partnership Statement


1. Applicant Organization; University of Florida (Ham Museum of Art/UF Smathers
Libraries)

Other partner members: Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Avenue, West
Palm Beach, FL 33401


2. Briefly list the activities that the partner institution has agreed to perform:

Schedule time to meet with visiting museum consultants)

Provide specific information related to Asian collections required for inventory

Participate in one planning meeting at Florida Association of Museums

Provide feedback about design requirements for searchable inventory

3. The applicant organization agrees to all of the following:

Hiring and managing consultants

Developing inventory questions for gathering data about collections

Merging information to create a searchable inventory of Asian collections





Signature f uthorizing Official from Applicant Organization Signature of Authorizing Official from Partner Organization

( Brian C. Miller
SAssistant Director of Research
Name o Authorizing Official from Applicant Organization Name of Authorizing Official from Partner Organization




Date Date




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January 21, 2010

National Leadership Grants for Museums
Office of Museum Services
Institute of Museum and Library Services
1800 M Street, NW, 9th Floor
Washington, DC 20036-5802

Dear Review Panelist,

On behalf of the Norton Museum of Art please accept this letter of support for
the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art's planning grant application. After participating in
meetings convened by the project lead, Jason Steuber, I agree that there is much work
to be done to eliminate some of the major barriers for us to share information about
our Asian holdings. Knowing more about Asian collections in the state is the first step to
building collaborative projects that will ultimately benefit museum visitors who are
residents and tourists of Florida. The eventual development of a statewide digital portal
will further advance access to these important but hidden assets and bring connections
to these objectives that have yet to be imagined.

As a winner of the 2008 National Medal for Museum Service, the Norton
Museum of Art takes its role as a leader in serving the community very seriously.
Digitizing and connecting Asian collections throughout Florida to facilitate research is
directly in line with the Norton's Mission to "...interpret its outstanding permanent
collection and to educate the public through special exhibitions, publications and
programs." This program also helps to strengthen awareness of the arts in our region,
another important component of the Museum's Mission. The Museum works closely
with local universities and professors to share information about our Chinese collection
and broadening access to our collection will greatly enhance those relationships.

We fully support the grant application being submitted by the Samuel P. Harn
Museum of Art and look forward to partnering with them on his project. Thank you for
your consideration of this proposal.


Sincere



Roger Ward
Interim Director and Chief Curator







Polk Museum of Art
MORE THAN AN ART MUSEUM


Partnership Statement


1. Applicant Organization: University of Florida (Ham Museum of Art/UF Smathers
Libraries)

Other partner members: Polk Museum of Art, 800 East Palmetto Street, Lakeland,
Florida 33801

2. Briefly list the activities that the partner institution has agreed to perform:

Schedule time to meet with visiting museum consultants)

Provide specific information related to Asian collections required for inventory

Participate in one planning meeting at Florida Association of Museums

Provide feedback about design requirements for searchable inventory

3. The applicant organization agrees to all of the following:

Hiring and managing consultants

Developing inventory questions for gathering data about collections

Merging information to create a searchable inventory of Asian collections




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Bran C. Miller C'
Aeistant Director of Research
Name of Authorizing Official froun Applicant Organization Name of Authoring Official from Putner Organizantio



Date Date



800 East Palmetto Sheet Lakeland, Florida 33801-5529 T 863.688.7743 F 863.688,2611
info@PolkMuseumcfArt.org www.PolkMuseumofArt.org

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MORE THAN AN ART MUSEUM


January 25, 2010


National Leadership Grants for Museums
Office of Museum Services
Institute of Museum and Library Services
1800 M Street, NW, 9"' Floor
Washington, DC 20036-5802

Dear Review Panelist,

Please accept this letter of support for the Samuel P. Ham Museum of Art's planning
grant application. After participating in meetings convened by the project lead, Jason
Steuber, I agree that there is much work to be done to eliminate some of the major
barriers for us to share information about our Asian holdings. Knowing more about
Asian collections in the state is the first step to building collaborative projects that will
ultimately benefit museum visitors who are residents and tourists of Florida, The
eventual development of a statewide digital portal will further advance access to these
important but hidden assets and bring connections to these objectives that have yet to be
imagined.

This project will prove to initiate a valuable resource for our community and another
means through which the Polk Museum of Art will be able to share its collection with our
audiences at-large. In this world which seems to continue growing ever-smaller, it is
important to emphasize education on an international scale; this database for Asian art
will provide an educational benefit for our schools to inform students about Eastern
culture through art. This database will also benefit older students who can utilize its
contents for research purposes.

The Polk Museum of Art is more than willing to support this endeavor and is happy to
offer information from our permanent collection.

My best,



aniel E. Stetso
Executive Director





800 East Palmetto Street Lakelond, Florida 3380' -5529 T 863,688-7743 F 863.688.2611
info@PoikMuseumofAr .org www.PolkMuseumofArt.org

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Partnership Statement


1. Applicant Organization: University of Florida (Ham Museum of Art applicant
organization)

Other partner members: University of Florida Libraries

2. Briefly list the activities that the partner institution has agreed to perform:

Schedule time to meet with visiting museum staff

Provide specific information related to Asian collections for inventory

Facilitate one planning meeting at Florida Association of Museums and other
planning sessions throughout Phase II

Provide cataloging and inventory consultation and for organizing metadata and
creating searchable inventory

Host online searchable inventory in the UF Digital Collections

3. The applicant organization agrees to all of the following:

Hiring and managing consultants

Developing inventory questions for gathering data about collections

Merging information to create a searchable inventory of Asian collections





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Date Date






UF UNIVERSITY of

UF FLORIDA

George A. Smathers Libraries 535 Library West
Office of the Dean of University Libraries PO Box 117000
Gainesville, FL 32611-7000
352-273-2505
352-392-7251 Fax
www.uflib.ufl.edu




January 25, 2010

National Leadership Grants for Museums
Office of Museum Services
Institute of Museum and Library Services
1800 M Street, NW, 9th Floor
Washington, DC 20036-5802

Dear Review Panelist,

The University of Florida Libraries is pleased to provide this letter supporting the Ham Museum of
Art's planning grant application to inventory Florida's Asian collections. For many years, the Ham
and the UF Libraries have collaborated on collection development, both for scholarly materials and
digital objects. Together, we recently completed the digitization of the Ham's African bead
collection, which include a few 360 degree rotating views of these intricate folk artifacts. Other
examples of collaboration with the Ham include an ongoing exchange program where the Ham
supplies their own published exhibition catalogs to the Libraries and adding the Ham Museum
Bishop Study Center's books to the Libraries' catalog.

We look forward to this exciting new partnership in planning a future portal for increasing access to
Asian collections throughout Florida. This project is important to the Libraries as it supports the
many UF students and faculty, as well as visiting scholars and teachers working in the field of Asian
studies. The searchable inventory created in Phase II will be accessible through the UF Digital
Collections and will join other resources currently featured in the Asian Studies Collections, which
are part of the World Studies Collections.

This proposal has our highest endorsement, as it will greatly advance the study and sharing of
important information, currently unavailable, about Florida's Asian cultural assets.

Respectfully,



4 /dith C. Russell
Dean of University Libraries



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We have further determined that you are not a private foundation within the
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You are not liable for the tax imposed under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA).

Since you are not a private foundation, you are not subject to the excise taxes
under Chapter 42 of the Code. However, you are not automatically exempt from other
Federal excise taxes. If you have any questions about excise, employment, or other
Federal taxes, please let us know.

Donors may deduct contributions to you as provided in section 170 of the Code.
Bequests, legacies, devises, transfers, or gifts to you or for your use are
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Helios: Connecting Florida's Asian Collections
University of Florida/Ham Museum of Art

List of Key Project Staff and Consultants

Bess de Farber

C. David Hickey

Hikaru Nkano

Sarah Smith

Jason Steuber

Laurie N. Taylor, PhD





Helios: Connecting Florida's Asian Collections
University of Florida/Ham Museum of Art
JASON STEUBER


US Address
Telephone
Email


3631 NW 107th Terrace Gainesville, FL 32606
352.682.1411
jsteuber@harn.ufl.edu


AREAS OF EXPERTISE


Museum professional with over 15 years of curatorial and project management experience with AAM-
accredited (American Association of Museums) museum. Focused art historian with 8 years of
university teaching experience and curriculum development in the United States and Europe.
Dedicated to making art accessible to wider audiences.


* Museum Collection Management
* Scholarly Publications and Editing

Proven expertise in the following areas:


Education Outreach
Supervision and Training
Program Development
Focus Exhibitions
Courier


Leadership and Grant Writing
Exhibition Concept and Design


* University Teaching
* Project and Budget Management
* Community Outreach
* Acquisitions
* Donor Cultivation


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


2008-


Cofrin Curator of Asian Art
Samuel P. Ham Museum of Art
University of Florida


2006-2007


2005-May 2006


2002-May 2006


2001-May 2006


Gainesville, FL


Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellow
Glasgow University Glasgow, UK

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History
Johnson County Community College Overland Park, KS

Assistant Curator of Chinese Art
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City, MO

Adjunct Instructor
University of Missouri-Kansas City Kansas City, MO


Curatorial Assistant
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Research Assistant
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Chinese Art Student Intern
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art


Kansas City, MO


Kansas City, MO


Kansas City, MO


1998-2001


1997-1998


1994-1996





Helios: Connecting Florida's Asian Collections
University of Florida/Harn Museum of Art
1993-1994 English Language Instructor
Nanjing University Nanjing, PR China

EDUCATION

2007- Art History Ph.D. Glasgow University (ABD)
Topic: "The 1935/36 International Exhibition of Chinese Art"

2000-2005 Ph.D. studies, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Disciplines: Art History and Religious Studies
Required Ph.D. coursework completed

1996 M.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Kansas

1993 B.A. in Chinese History; B.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures,
University of Kansas

Grants Awarded
The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation
Tang Research Foundation

Select Publications

2010 Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art: Twenty Years, The Collection Catalogue (Co-
edited by Jason Steuber, Laura Nemmers, and Tracy Pfaff) (Co-edited
with Laura Nemmers and Tracy Pfaff). Forthcoming.

2010 "Otagaki Rengetsu and Bai Ming: Ceramics Firsthand at the Samuel P. Harn
Museum of Art, University of Florida" Ceramics: Art and Perception
Issue No. 81 (September 2010). (Co-authored with Laura Nemmers).
Forthcoming.

2009 "Essential Treasures of Modem Indian Art: Works by Jamini Roy at the Samuel
P. Harn Museum of Art" Arts of Asia Vol. 39 No. 6 (November-
December 2009), 112-124. (Co-authored with Allysa Browne).

2009 "Arts of China: Collecting and Collectors, Then and Now" Arts of Asia Vol. 39
No. 6 (November-December 2009), 140-141.

2009 "Symposium Report: Collectors, Collections and Collecting the Arts of China:
Histories and Challenges" Orientations (May 2009), 80-81.

2009 "Collections and Collecting" Encyclopedia of Modern China (4 Vols.) (Detroit:
Charles Scribner's Sons, 2009), Vol. 1: 306-309.

2008 "Tradition and Innovation: Director Marc F. Wilson and Chinese Art at The
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art" Orientations (November-December
2008), 48-55.

2008 China: 3000 Years of Art and Literature. Welcome Books (October
2008).





Helios: Connecting Florida's Asian Collections
University of Florida/Harn Museum of Art
Bess de Farber, MNM, CPF
(Master of Nonprofit Management; Certified Professional Facilitator)

4300 NW 23 Ave., #36 4697 Canal Drive
Gainesville, FL 32606 Boynton Beach, FL 33463
Work: (352)339-6970 501c3@askbess.net (Second residence)

VITAE (abbreviated)

University of Florida Libraries
Grants Manager (October 2008 to present)
Establishing a grants seeking program for training and mentoring librarians and staff in grant seeking
and post award activities with emphasis on planning collaborative projects within UF and beyond.
Managing all grant-related activities. Consistently working with Division of Sponsored Research, pre
and post award, to ensure compliance.

ASK Associates, South Florida
Principal (May 1995 to present)
Services include: facilitating strategic planning retreats; performing environmental scans, writing and
managing grants; developing projects and collaborations; creating feasibility studies; advising executives
and board members on management issues; and training staff members to perform grants and other
management functions. Clients have included organizations focused on arts, culture, community
development, healthcare, social services and philanthropy.
University of Arizona Libraries
Grants & Revenue Manager (May 2005 to September 2008)
Creating the Libraries' first pre and post award grants management processes: including a grants seeking
program for training and mentoring librarians and staff in grant seeking and post award activities with
emphasis on collaborative projects. Managing all grant-related activities. School of Information & Library
Services professor of grant writing for graduate course for librarians.
Nonprofit Resource Institute
Co-Founder, Interim Executive Director, Consultant (May 1998 through February 2001)
Co-founder of NRI utilizing asset-based model for providing technical assistance and training to over
400 participants in: Strategic Planning; Governance/Operations; Funding; Programs/Evaluation;
Marketing/Communications. Collaborating with funders to strengthen nonprofit grantee compliance.
(Quantum Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Community Foundation, Lost Tree Foundation, United
Way, Palm Healthcare Foundation, and Children's Services Council).

Community Foundation for Palm Beach & Martin Counties
Program Officer (October 1994 May 1995)
Managing grant cycles of applications seeking funding for Social Service, Human & Race Relations, and
Arts/Cultural programs in Palm Beach and Martin Counties.
Palm Beach County Cultural Council
Director of Grants & Organization Services (September 1989 October 1994)
Grants management of $2 million in public Tourist Development Cultural Activities funds annually to 45
Palm Beach County cultural organizations.
Pinellas County Arts Council
Financial Manager (May 1985 September 1989) Arts in Education Programs Manager (1987- 89)
Full charge of all financial activity ($400,000 annual budget) of public/private local arts agency,
implementing fund accounting. Managing all grant programs including local, state and re-granting
programs, and coordinating local and state government audits. Negotiating artist contracts; managed
professional artists for Arts-in-Education program.

Sample ASK ASSOCIATES Client List for Arts and Culture Organizations (1995 through 2009)





Helios: Connecting Florida's Asian Collections
University of Florida/Harn Museum of Art

Armory Art Center: Completed an Artists Association Program Feasibility Study

City of Delray Beach, Arts in Public Places: Facilitated three Community Meetings

City of West Palm Beach Art in Public Places Committee: Facilitated Annual Planning Retreat

EPOCH and the Spady Museum: Completed a local environmental scan, internal organizational
assessment, and facilitated planning retreats, which produced a comprehensive strategic plan.

FAU School of the Arts: Provided Grants Writing training, Planning Facilitation, Grants Management

Hispanic Alliance of Palm Beach County: Provided Board Training and Strategic Planning Services

Historical Society of Palm Beach County: Providing ongoing Grants Management Services

Jewish Arts Foundation: Provided Visioning, Environmental Scan and Strategic Planning Facilitation

Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens: Grants Management and Strategic/Program Planning Services;
Preparation of Application to obtain Accreditation from American Association of Museums; Facilitated
Board and Staff Strategic Planning retreats and meetings

Mounts Botanical Gardens: Facilitated Board Planning Retreat; and provided Grants Management

Norton Museum of Art: Grants Management training session

Old School Square Cornell Museum: Provided Environmental Scan and facilitated Visioning Process

Palm Beach Photographic Centre: Provided Grants Management; Program/Festival Development;
Collaboration Development; Planning Facilitation Services

Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach: Strategic Planning Services for Executive Committee

EDUCATION
2003 International Association of Facilitators: Completed certification, recertification in 2009
2003 Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, Master's in Nonprofit Management
1978 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA: Bachelor of Music

INSTRUCTOR/WORKSHOP PRESENTER/FEATURED SPEAKER
2009 University of Florida, CoLAB Planning Session for College of Fine Arts faculty
2008 University of Arizona,Transforming Libraries Through Collaborations Conference: Leader,
CoLAB Planning
2008 University of Arizona Bio5 CoLAB Planning Session for faculty
2007 Association of College & Research Libraries Biennial Conference Workshop: "Library as
Convener: Collaborations that Build Creative Academic Communities"
2007 & 2008 Community Foundation for Broward: CoLAB Planning Workshops
2006 CoLAB Networking Workshop for Sonoran Desert Knowledge Exchange





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Curriculum Vita

C. David Hickey
Asian Studies Bibliographer / Associate Librarian
P. O. Box 117005
Gainesville, Florida 32611-7005
352-273-2779
cdhickey@ufl.edu
http://libguides.uflib.ufl.edu/asian studies

Work Experience:

University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, October 2000 to present,
Asian Studies Bibliographer:
Responsible for the overall development and management of the Asian Studies collections, including
selecting and evaluating materials in both print and electronic media. Specifically as Chinese
Collection Manager and Japanese Collections Coordinator, coordinates all aspects of native script and
western language collection development and management, collaborates with academic faculty in
building up holdings to support current and future programs, and provides on-demand subject
reference service and bibliographic instruction. Awarded tenure in 2007.

University of Florida Smathers Libraries, July 1995 to October 2000, Chair, Access Services
Department, and Chinese Collection Manager:
Provided leadership in the development, coordination and provision of services that facilitate user
access to information resources in the Smathers Libraries. Served as a member of the management
team in establishing library programs and setting policies, especially those covering public services.

Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania Bailey Library, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, January
1992 to June 1995, Access Services Librarian/Coordinator of NOTIS Online Library System:
Responsible for overall supervision of automated systems, interlibrary loan and circulation, including
reserves, stack control, library privileges and photoduplication services.
Georgetown University Lauinger Library, Washington D. C., September 1979 to
July 1991, Head of the Circulation Department:
Responsible for ongoing automated operations, access privileges, Reserve section, ILL, stack control
and exit security. Performed full-time research in Ph.D. program July 1991 to January 1992.

Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois, March 1977 to September 1979, Assistant
Head of Circulation Services:
Supervised Library exit control, study space assignments, fines and billing, Library limited access and
borrowing procedures, and computerized circulation activities.


Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, Illinois, July 1976 to March 1977, Assistant Circulation
Librarian;


United States Navy, 1969 1973, Commissioned Officer:





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Administrative Assistant in Manned Spacecraft Recovery Section, Hawaii during Apollo 17 and early
Skylab missions; Advisor to South Vietnamese Navy, Nha Trang; Administrative Assistant in
Operations Department, USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5), based in Yokosuka, Japan.

Education:
PhD coursework in Chinese Literature/Language, with minors in Applied Linguistics
and East Asian History, Georgetown University, 1982-1996-completed all
requirements but dissertation;
AMLS in Library Science, University of Michigan, 1976;
MA in Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1975;
AB in Russian Literature, University of Notre Dame, 1969.

Refereed Publications:

1. Hickey, C. David. "Area Studies Libraries in the Global Studies Milieu:
Implications for Non-Roman Script Print Resource Management, and University
Library Budgets and Staffing." Library Collections, Acquisitions and Technical
Services 30, nos. 1-2 (2006): pp. 77 84.

2. Hickey, C. David and Jade Yurong Yang Atwill. "Area Studies Librarians and
International Book Fairs: The Hong Kong Book Fair Experience." Library
Collections, Acquisitions and Technical Services 27, no.1 (2003): pp. 97 105.

3. Hickey, C. David and Shelley Arlen. "Falling Through the Cracks: Just How
Much 'History' is History?" Library Collections, Acquisitions and Technical
Services 26, no. 2 (2002): pp. 97 106.

4. Hickey, C. David. "Serials 'Derelegation' from Remote Storage." Collection
Building 18, no. 4 (1999): pp. 153 160.

National Organization Service:

Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL): Elected by the
national membership to be Chair of the CEAL Public Services Committee (CPS), 2005-2008. April
2005 present; as Chair of one of the six major Standing Committees and as nationally elected
Member-at-Large, served on the CEAL Executive Board twice.

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University of Florida/Ham Museum of Art
Sarah J Smith
1025 SW 2ND Pl Gainesville, FL 32601 -~ (772) 342-1128 ssmith@harn.ufl.edu

Education
Master of Arts, Museum Studies with a disciplinary focus in Art History (pending)
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
August 2008- Present

Bachelor of Arts, Art History
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
August 2004-December 2007

Associate of Arts, General Education
Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville, Florida
August 2002-May 2004


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May 2008-
August 2008


Relevant Work Experience & Training
Curatorial Assistant, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida
Assisting the Asian art curator with various registration and curatorial related tasks
including: cataloguing new acquisitions, Asian gallery installations, research,
updating Asian object files and facilitating the movement and safe handling of Asian
art objects in preparation for the 2010 opening of the new Asian art wing.

Art Cataloguer, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, Florida
Conducted a complete inventory of the entire Levin College of Law's art collection.
Main responsibility included generating a database for the collection of over 400 art
objects. The project required locating objects, recording all object information, taking
photographs, condition reporting, assigning object descriptions and creating a
numbering system for the collection.

Independent Practicum, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida
Assisted with a special project in the registration department which included
preparing over 700 photos for return to lender. Responsibilities included: organizing,
locating, un-framing, re-housing into temporary storage, numbering, tracking
progress, condition reporting, re-housing to final storage location and transportation
to lender.

Juried Arts Exhibition Coordinator, University Galleries, Gainesville, Florida
Coordinated the 2009 School of Art and Art History Student Juried Arts Exhibition
(SAAHJE 09). Duties included: planning and organizing opening event and
installation, managing awards and budget, working with artists and gallery staff to
install and de-install show. Responsible for general gallery duties including installing
rotating exhibitions and working opening events.

Coordinator of Exhibition Design and Installation, University of Florida School of
Accounting, Gainesville, Florida
Responsible for designing an installation focused on the history of accounting for the
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that needed redesigning. Responsibilities included: writing text, designing layout and
illustrations for text panels, building mounts and conserving/preparing artifacts for
display. The project was done under the supervision of School of Accounting and in
conjunction with a freelance graphic designer.

Registration Assistant, Samuel P. Ham Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida
Responsibilities included: location changes, packing and shipping art, condition
reporting for the collection, file making and organizing of the documentary collection
and re-housing objects into storage facilities. Acted as the contact person for
university faculty members for use of the museum's object study room. Coordinated
the University Campus Loan Program overseeing the loan arrangement,
transportation and installation of art to university buildings.

Installation Assistant, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
Assisted in the installation and de-installation of galleries. General gallery preparation
including: label making, painting, moving pedestals and vitrines, vinyl lettering,
assisting with gallery change outs and framing. Assisted with photo shoots, aided in
the inventory of the collection and frames, assisted with the organization of the
storage facilities.

Registration Department Intern, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
Entered data into the collections management database (TMS), assisted with the re-
housing and relocation of objects for the summer renovation, assisted preparation
staff with installations, created exhibition files, made loan and shipping arrangements.

Preparation Department Intern, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
Assist with the de-installation of all galleries during summer renovation, prepared art
for shipping, make wall labels and vinyl lettering, painted and organized woodshop.

Other Work Experience

Customer Service, Classic Comfort Footwear, Gainesville, Florida
Responsible for updating inventory, placing orders and sales; create monthly
schedules for all employees; general upkeep and maintenance of store; responsible for
store displays and appearance; Receiving and shipping of inventory; customer
service.

Volunteer Experience

Participated in the Ham Museum of Art MUSE Program during the spring
semester of 2005. The Museum University Student Educator program created
and organized events for Museum Nights.

Skills

Proficiency in computer applications Microsoft Office, Microsoft Works,
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, The Museum System (TMS: Collection
management database), Signlab
Read French





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SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE
Laurie N. Taylor
Interim Director, Digital Library Center
University of Florida Libraries

ADDRESS: Digital Library Center TEL: (352) 273-2900
Sn.iliicri Library FAX: (352) 846-3702
P.O. Box 117003 EMAIL: Laurien@ufl.edu
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-7003

EDUCATION:
Ph.D. 2006 University of Florida
(English/Digital Media)
M.A. 2002 University of Florida
(English/Digital Media)
B.A. 1999 Jacksonville University
(English)

RECENT POSITIONS HELD
2008 Interim Director, Digital Library Center, George A. Sin.ilicir, Libraries, University of Florida

2007 2008 Digital Projects Librarian, Digital Library Center, George A. Smathers Libraries,
University of Florida
2006- 2007 Associate Director, Flexible Learning, Division of Continuing Education, University
of Florida
2000- 2006 Instructor, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Florida

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Editorial Board, International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations
Modern Language Association
American Library Association
Library & Information Technology Association

GRANTS

Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library (Department of Education; 2009-2014)
Florida Aerial Photographs / From the Air: the Photographic Record of Florida's Lands,
Phase III (Library Services and Technology Act, 2009-2010)
America's Swamp: the Historical Everglades (National Historic Publications and
Records Commissions, 2009-2011)

PUBLICATIONS

Selected Referred Publications
"Snow White in the City: Teaching Fables, Nursery Rhymes, and Revisions in Graphic
Novels," in Approaches to Teaching the Graphic Novel. Ed. Stephen E Tabachnick.
New York: MLA, forthcoming 2009.
Playing the Past: Video Games, History, and Memory, co-edited with Zach Whalen.
Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2008.
"Bioactive," in Gaming in Academic Libraries Casebook, co-authored with Sara Russell
Gonzalez, Valrie Davis, Carrie Newsom, Chelsea Dinsmore, Cynthia Frey, and Kathryn
Kennedy. Ed. Amy Harris and Scott Rice. ACRL, 2008.





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"Gaming Ethics, Rules, Etiquette and Learning." Handbook of Research on Effective
Electronic Gaming in Education. Ed. Richard E. Ferdig. Information Science Reference,
2008.
"Making Nightmares into New Fairytales: Goth Comics as Children's Literature," in The
Gothic in Children's Literature: Haunting the Borders. Eds. Anna Jackson, Karen Coats,
and Roderick McGillis. New York: Routledge, 2008:195-208.
"Console Wars: Console and Computer Games," in The Player's Realm: Studies on the
Culture of Video Games and Gaming. Eds. J. Patrick Williams and Jonas Heide Smith.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, 2007: 223-237.
"Cameras, Radios, and Butterflies: the Influence and Importance of Fan Networks for
Game Studies." Fibreculture Journal 8 (2006):
http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue8/issue8_taylor.html.
"Playing in Neverland: Peter Pan Video Game Revisions," collaboratively written with
Cathlena Martin, in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan In and Out of Time: A Children's Classic at
100. Eds. Carole Anita Tarr and Donna White. Scarecrow Press, 2006.
"Positive Features of Video Games," in Handbook of Children, Culture, and Violence.
Eds. Nancy E. Dowd, Dorothy G. Singer, and Robin Fretwell Wilson. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage, 2005. 247-265.
"Gaming's Non-Digital Predecessors," collaboratively written with Cathlena Martin, in
The International Digital Media & Arts Association Journal 2.1 (Spring 2005): 25-29.
"Practicing What We Teach: Collaborative Writing and Teaching Teachers to Blog," co-
authored with Cathlena Martin, in Lore: an E-Journal for Teachers of Writing (Fall 2004):
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/lore/digressions/content.htm?dis12.
"Open Source and Academia," co-authored with Brendan Riley, in Computers and
Composition Online (Spring 2004): http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/tayloriley/intro.html.
"When Seams Fall Apart: Video Game Space and the Player," in Game Studies: the
International Jounral of Computer Game Research 3.2 (Dec. 2003):
http://www.gamestudies.org/0302/taylor/.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

"Practical Steps Towards Your Local and/or Regional Digitalisation Project," at the
Seminar for Libraries of the Dutch Caribbean Curagao, University of the Netherlands
Antilles. Willemstad, Curagao: September 25-6, 2008.
"Bioactive: A Game for Library Instruction" at the ALA Annual Conference. Anaheim,
CA: June 30, 2008.
"The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC)" in the "Microfilm to Digitization
Roadshow: Hidden Treasures in the Vault" hosted by the OCLC Preservation Service
Centers at the ALA Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA: June 29, 2008.
"Choices for Building Digital Libraries" at the College of the Bahamas' Virtual Library
Committee at the College of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas; Mar. 3, 2008.





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Asian Art Curatorial Assistant Job Description
Position to be filled by April 2010


ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 40% of time

* Asian art collection review of accession files to update and organize according to region, date,
material, etc.
* Research into issues of provenance and significant studies on the respective topics based on
region.
* Manage the database of compiled research and respective files.
* Generate original research files that will be used to develop an Asian art catalogue of the
collection.
* Generate original articles and manuscripts based on the Asian art collection with curator and
academic publishers.
* Assist in manuscript acquisitions and assist in content reviews and editorial processes.
* Generate original articles and manuscripts in collaboration with curator and academic
publishers.

EXHIBITION DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION 40% of time

* Assist curator in research to develop exhibitions (original and loan) for exhibition schedule.
* Propose exhibitions following established guidelines and procedures.
* Assist curator in implementation of exhibitions, including gallery design, text and label writing,
catalogue writing, budget oversight, and fulfillment of any contractual obligations with external
lenders.
* Assist curator in docent training and Ham staff tours for every exhibition curated

COLLECTION PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART HANDLING -10% of time

* Assist in organizing the professional photography of the Asian art collection.
* Work with Registration and Preparation colleagues.
* Professional art handling best practices.

ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES 10% of time

* Participate in the preparation of overall annual exhibition budgets
* Serve on Ham committees and participate in other administrative projects as managed






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Supporting Documentation

Overview of Florida Association of Museums 2008-09: Asian Art in Florida

During the 2008 Florida Association of Museums (FAM) meeting in Miami, a meeting was held on Florida and Asian
Art: Collectors, Museums, and Artworks. The meeting was to focus on historical points of view that explore and answer
the question: What is unique about Florida's Asian art resources and collections? In developing the answer to this
question, the participants sought to plan the development of a network of professionals and collectors associated with
Asian art in Florida that would communicate through the next year to have a shared resource of contact people and
museum locations and holdings.

The meeting was attended by:
Session Leader: Jason Steuber, Cofrin Curator of Asian Art, Samuel P. Ham Museum of Art
Laurie Barnes, Elizabeth B. McGraw Curator of Chinese Art, Norton Museum of Art
Brian Dursum, Director, Lowe Art Museum
Tom Gregersen, Cultural Director, The Morikami Museum
Chang Qing, The Dr. Helga Wall-Apelt Associate Curator of Asian Art, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art

At the 2009 FAM annual in Sarasota, the discussion continued with the conference session "The State of the Field:
Contemporary Asian Art." This was the second of three planned conference sessions gathered Asian art curators and
museum professionals to discuss the roles of the arts of Asia in Florida collections. The 2009 meeting focused on
collection development strategies and exhibition resources related to the field of contemporary Asian art. Participants in
the session reviewed past experiences and exhibitions in Florida, and future plans. Topics discussed included plans for
future exhibitions, projects, and publications, acquisition plans, working with contemporary artists, and feasibility studies
on exhibit collaboration across Florida related to contemporary Asian art. Other goals of the session will be to work
toward developing a topic or media that can be exhibited and discussed across Florida museum collections in 2010.

The meeting was attended by:
Session Leader: Jason Steuber, Cofrin Curator of Asian Art, Samuel P. Ham Museum of Art
Laurie Barnes, Elizabeth B. McGraw Curator of Chinese Art, Norton Museum of Art
Brian Dursum, Director, Lowe Art Museum
Chang Qing, The Dr. Helga Wall-Apelt Associate Curator of Asian Art, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
James Herring, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University; and
Catalina Jaramillo, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University






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The select bibliography below cites earlier exhibitions focusing on Asian collections for a specific city, state, or the entire
United States. Arranged chronologically, the bibliography demonstrates that universities were among the first organizers
for such location-specific, Asian-collection-specific exhibitions. It is noteworthy that as early as 1981 and 1983
exhibitions were organized and catalogues printed for Asian collections at the University of Florida as well as in Tampa,
Florida, respectively.

Helios: Connecting Florida's Asian Collections improves on these previous models by fully utilizing new technologies
and research methodologies expected by today's general public and seasoned scholars of Asia. The ability of the Helios
project to continuously be updated and share information immediately with on-line visitors either at home or via mobile
internet-ready technologies will enhance the overall appreciation of Asian collections throughout Florida. The open
collaborative nature of the Helios project encourages scholars and novices alike to engage Asian collections throughout
the state by providing a single source portal that is easily navigated and information rich.

Laurence Sickman, et al. Masterpieces ofAsian Art in American Collections. New York: Asia Society, 1960.

University Gallery, University of Minnesota. Far Eastern Art from Minnesota Collections: An Exhibition of Ceramics,
Tomb Figures and Sculpture, Bronzes and Lacquer Objects, Piou,, i,, g, and Graphics. Minneapolis: The Gallery, 1970.

Martie W. Young. Far Eastern Art in Upstate New York. Ithaca: Office of University Publications, Cornell University,
1976.

Jane Langley Corrigan and University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee Fine Arts Galleries. Asian Art from Milwaukee
Collections: An Exhibition Organized by Jane Langley Corrigan, the Fine Arts Galleries, the University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee. Milwaukee: The Galleries, 1977.

Roy C. Craven, Jr., et al. The Art of India from Florida Collections. Gainesville: University Gallery, College of Fine Arts,
University of Florida, 1981.

Daphne Lange Rosenzweig. East by South-East: Tampa Bay Collects Asian Art. Tampa: The Tampa Museum, 1983.

Cincinnati Art Museum. Cincinnati Collects Oriental Art. Cincinnati: The Museum, 1985.

Susan Tai and Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Cultivated Taste: Asian Art from Private Collections. Santa Barbara: Santa
Barbara Museum of Art, 1991.

Amy G. Poster, with contributions by Richard M. Barnhart and Christine M. E. Guth. Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of East
Asian Art from New York Private Collections. New York: Japan Society, 1999.






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Helios Partners:

Appleton Museum of Art, Central Florida Community College
4333 E Silver Springs Blvd.
Ocala, FL 34470-5001

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University
10975 S.W. 17th Street
Miami, FL 33199

Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
1301 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables, Florida 33124-6310

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens
4000 Morikami Park Road
Delray Beach, FL 33446-2305

Museum of Fine Arts
255 Beach Dr. N.E.
St. Petersburg, FL 33701

Norton Museum of Art
1451 S. Olive Avenue
West Palm Beach, FL 33401

Polk Museum of Art
800 East Palmetto Street
Lakeland, Florida 33801-5529

Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida
SW 34th Street and Hull Road
Gainesville, FL 32611-2700

Digital Library Center, University of Florida
Smathers' Libraries
PO BOX 117003
Gainesville, FL 32611-7003

Future Helios Partners:

Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens
829 Riverside Avenue
Jacksonville, FL 32204-3336

Museum of Arts & Sciences
352 S. Nova Road
Daytona Beach, Florida 32114

John & Mable Ringling Museum, Florida State University
5401 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, FL 34243-2161






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Florida Universities with Asian-related Programs

Public Universities:

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University www.famu.edu
Asian Humanities
Asian History

Florida Atlantic University www.fau.edu
Asian Studies
Intro to Asian History
Chinese Language and Culture
Japanese Language and Culture
Modem China, India, and Japan
Asia Pacific Rim Politics

Florida Gulf Coast University www.fgcu.edu
Intro to Asian Studies
Civilizations of Asia: China & Japan
Asian Environments
History of Modem Japan

Florida International University www.fiu.edu
Asian Studies, Institute for Asian Studies
Asian Studies Graduate Certificate
Asian Studies, Institute for Asian Studies
Japanese Studies Certificate
Japan and US
Religion and Japanese Culture
Japanese Literature and Cinema
Chinese & Japanese Philosophy
Asian Environmental Issues
Economics of Asia
Zen and Tea Ceremony
Japanese Language
Pre-modem Japan
New Asian Century
Japanese Religion and Society
Zen and the Arts

Florida State University www.fsu.edu
Asian Studies, College of Social Sciences
Asian Studies, College of Social Sciences
Asian Studies Minor
Japanese Language
History of Modem Japan
Japanese Culture
Japanese Politics
Arts of Japan

New College of Florida www.ncf.edu
Buddhism
Orientalism






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Japanese Politics

University of Central Florida www.ucf.edu
Asian Studies, Department of Political Science
Politics of Japan
Asian Humanities
Contemporary Politics of Asia
Japanese Language

University of Florida www.ufl.edu
East Asian Languages and Literature
Asian Studies
Modem Japan
Japanese Culture
Japanese Language and Literature classes
Asian Politics

University of North Florida www.unf.edu
Minor in Asian Studies, Department of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies
Japanese Civilization
Asian Religions
Asian Art, Culture
Japanese Language and Literature
Intro to Asia

University of South Florida www.usf.edu
Asian Studies Certificate, College of Arts & Sciences
Humanities in the Orient: Japan
Buddhism in China, Japan, Tibet
Japanese Language
Culture of the East and West
Japan Today

University of West Florida www.uwf.edu
Japanese Culture
Philosophies of the East
Japanese Language

Private Universities:

Barry University www.barry.edu
History of Asian Civilizations

Bethune-Cookman University www.cookman.edu
Modem Asian Studies

Eckerd College www.eckerd.edu
East Asian Studies
Minor in East Asian Studies
Japanese Language
Gender/Sexuality in Asian Literature
Contemporary Japanese Families
Modem Japan






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Politics of Japan
China, Japan and the US
Religions of China and Japan
Asian Theater

Florida Southern University www.flsouthem.edu
Comparative Politics of Asia

Jacksonville University www.ju.edu
Geography of Asia
Asian Philosophy
Asian Religion

Lynn University www.lvnn.edu
Politics of Japan

Nova Southeastern University www.nova.edu

Asian History

Ringling School of Art and Design www.rsad.edu
Japanese Art & Culture
Religious Cultures of Asia

Rollins College www.rollins.edu
Minor in Asian Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
Cultures of Japan
Political Economy of Japan
East Asian Politics
Modern Japanese History
Asian Religions
Asian Business Environment

Saint Leo University www.saintleo.edu
Far Eastern Civilization

St. Thomas University www.stu.edu
Asian International Business Environment

University of Miami www.miami.edu
Japanese Language
Development of Asian Civilization
Asian Art

University of Tampa www.ut.edu
Modern Far East
Japan's Modern Centuries
Eastern Thought






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Need-Based and Asset-Based Community References

Kretzmann, J.P., McKnight, J.L. (1993). Building Communities From the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and
Mobilizing a Community's Assets. ACTA Publications. Chicago, IL.

Pinkett, R. (2003). "Community Technology and Community Building: Early Results from the Creating Community
Connections Project." The Information Society 19 (5): 365-379.

Gaved, M., Anderson, B. (2006). "The Impact of Local ICT Initiatives on Social Capital and Quality of Life." C h,/uI, ,a
Working Paper 2006-6. Colchester, University of Essex.






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The Helios questionnaire facilitates data gathering so as to be able to develop a comprehensive overview of Asian
collections in Florida.

Please provide information regarding:

Total Asian works in collection:
Countries represented:
Date Range:
Paintings/works on paper:
Sculptures:
Objects:
Textiles:
Books:
Others:

What percentage of the entire collection do Asian works comprise?

Is there a permanent dedicated gallery space/exhibition for Asian works from the collection?

Percentage of works in collection that is professionally photographed and ready for online usage:

Visitors per year to collection:

Online visitors per year:

List of past and upcoming publications related to Asian works in the collections:

List of past and upcoming exhibitions related to Asian works in the collections:

List of educational partners (K-12; university/college) and activities:

What database management system does the collection use (TMS; ARGUS)?

Is the entire collection accessible online? Does the collection use eMuseum? Other software?

Are library holdings available to the public? If so, how many volumes?






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LAMs (libraries, archives, and museums) references:

Ham Museum of Art (2008). IMLS Digitization Grant,
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?b=UF00087447

Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (October 2, 2009). "Sheridan Libraries
Awarded $20 Million Grant," press release:
http://releases.jhu.edu/2009/10/02/sheridan-libraries-awarded-20-million-grant/

Parry, Marc (September 28, 2009). "After Losing Users in Catalogs, Libraries Find Better
Search Software" Chronicle of Higher Education,
http://chronicle.com/article/After-Losing-Users-in/48588/

Waibel, Gtinter and Rick Erway (2010). "Think Global, Act Local Library, Archive and
Museum Collaboration" (pre-print version of a paper forthcoming in Museum Management and Curatorship):
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2009/waibel-erway-mmc.pdf

Waite-Franzen, Ellen; Stephen McAllister; Jeffrey Horrell; Paolo Mangiafico; Deborah
Jakubs; Molly Tamarkin (2009). "Forging Ahead with Institutional Digital Information Strategies,"
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2009b.fall/Abstracts/Handouts/CNI Forging Mangiafico.pdf
Project update for Dartmouth and Duke campus-wide digital information plans, funded by the Andrew Mellon
Foundation.

Other references:

University of Florida Digital Collections, http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc

Norris, Chris. "It's Not the Size of the Online Collection" MUSEUM (January/February 2010) http://www.aam-
us.org/oubs/mn/onlinecollection.cfm









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January 21, 2010


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Office of Museum Services
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Washington, DC 20036-5802

Dear Review Panelist,

Please accept this letter of support for the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art's planning grant
application. Having reviewed the concept of the grant along with seeing the number of
members participating from the Florida Association of Museums (FAM), I agree that there is
much work to be done to eliminate some of the major barriers for us to share information about
Asian holdings in Florida. Knowing more about Asian collections in the state is the first step
to building collaborative projects that will ultimately benefit museum visitors who are residents
and tourists of Florida. The eventual development of a statewide digital portal will further
advance access to these important but hidden assets and bring connections to these objectives
that have yet to be imagined.

This project will contribute and support the current FAM IMLS funded statewide Connecting
to Collections project and will assist in connecting collections with Florida's diverse audiences.

Thank you for this opportunity to endorse this planning grant application.

Respectfully,





Malinda J. Horton
Executive Director







U FS UNIVERSITY of
UF FLORIDA

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures PO Box 115565
Gainesville, FL 32611-5565
352-392-2422
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January 22, 2010

National Leadership Grants for Museums
Office of Museum Services
Institute of Museum and Library Services
1800 M Street, NW, 9th Floor
Washington, DC 20036-5802

Dear Review Panelist,

Please accept this letter of support for the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art's planning grant
application. I have collaborated with the grant project lead, Jason Steuber, to bring students in
my Japanese Folklore course to the Ham Museum to view examples of 19th century Japanese
woodblock prints from a series containing ghosts and historical figures found in Japanese tales.
The Ham staff kindly provided ample viewing space for students to observe and study these
prints close at hand. Following the viewing, students were charged with making group
presentations on the subject matter and aesthetics of their assigned print, and to translate the
explanatory material in Japanese written in the cartouche. Apart from a single example here and
there, the prints have not been subject to previous academic study or presentation, making this
assignment quite challenging, but rewarding, for our students.

Last summer, I also brought students from my course on Japanese Culture to the Harn Museum
to select from any Japan object on display and work in groups to make a presentation on its genre
and subject matter background to the class. Students were able to select from a wide variety of
media, including prints, ceramic ware, photographs, sculpture, and kimono, from the ancient past
to the contemporary. The Harn staff were very helpful in directing students to print and other
resources for background information on their objects. Museum visits such as these provide
unique learning opportunities for students of Asian languages and cultures to make the
connections between aesthetic paradigms, narrative images, language, and works of art.

I support the goal of the Asian art portal since access online will ensure educational opportunities
for our majors in Japanese language and literature, as well as countless others across many
disciplines. I have found that quite a bit of web investigation is required in order to obtain any
information online about particular genres, and works of Japanese art. Students with initiative
can be quite creative in their searches, and often hit on interesting information, but many
students simply do not know how to search effectively. A portal on Asian art would be of
enormous benefit in providing a gateway point for students.

I would also like to commend the project lead, Jason Steuber, whose commitment to excellence
in exhibition work, and enthusiasm for Asian art, have been a tremendous asset to the Harn
Museum. He is the ideal person to lead this sort of initiative.

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Helios: Connecting Florida's Asian Collections planning project will provide an important
resource for teachers and professors in Florida.

Sincerely,

Ann Wehmeyer
Associate Professor of Japanese and Linguistics




































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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences 107 Anderson Hall
Department of Religion PO Box 117410
Gainesville, FL 32611-7410
352-392-1625
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January 22, 2010



National Leadership Grants for Museums
Office of Museum Services
Institute of Museum and Library Services
1800 M Street, NW, 9th Floor
Washington, DC 20036-5802


Dear Members of the Review Panel:

On behalf of the Department of Religion and the Center for the study of Hindu Traditions
(CHiTra) at the University of Florida, I would like to convey my most enthusiastic
support for the Samuel P. Ham Museum of Art's planning grant application entitled
Helios: Connecting Florida's Asian Collections. I have collaborated with the grant
project lead, Jason Steuber, to bring students of Religion to the Ham Museum every
semester. Starting this semester, we will be bringing large numbers of students in an
interdisciplinary Humanities course to the Ham Museum.

While the academic study of Religion in the west has historically been biblio-
centered, there has been increasing focus on "material culture" in understanding religious
culture. The Ham-and other museums in Florida-have an abundance of riches in their
Asian collections which are invaluable in my courses. I bring my students almost every
semester to look at specific art objects in the Ham. This semester I will be getting two
classes-students from Intro to World Religions and the interdisciplinary Humanities
course, "What is the Good Life?" Jason Steuber is curating a special exhibit with Indian,
Chinese, Korean, and Japanese art specially for this course.

The visual arts are absolutely integral to our education and we in Religion use our
museum resources extensively. The Asian Collection at the Ham Museum will be an








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integral part of an important course that we will be teaching at the University of Florida
over the next few years. In 2010-2011, we anticipate about 1200 students from a single
Humanities course to see the Asian Collection. As this number increases in the following
years, it would be invaluable to have this collection as well as those of other museums in
Florida digitized.
Thanking you for your consideration of this most important project,

Sincerely yours,


Vasudha Narayanan
Distinguished Professor and Chair, Religion
Director, Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions (CHiTra) at UF
University of Florida