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Preserve Cornell's Audio/Visual Heritage

$16,190
107%
Raised toward our $15,000 Goal
123 Donors
Project has ended
Project ended on February 16, at 12:00 AM EST
Project Owners

Your Gift in Action

March 14, 2018

Hello all:

 

We are so grateful for the support you gave to Preserve Cornell's Audio/Visual Heritage crowd funding campaign in February 2017.  Here is a link for you to see all of the films that your support has helped us to preserve through digitization:   https://media.library.cornell.edu/category/University+Archives/5877621

 

Please enjoy and thank you again!

 

Best regards,

Jennifer Sawyer

Final Day - Thank You!

February 15, 2017

Today is the final day for the Cornell University Library's Preserve Cornell's Audio/Visual Heritage crowdfunding campaign.  I want to thank the 121 donors who contributed a total of $16,115!  We are pleased to have surpassed our goal of $15,000.  Thank you for supporting this endeavor that ensures Cornell history is preserved and made accessible.

Jennifer Sawyer

We Have Surpassed Our Goal - Thank YOU!!!

February 13, 2017

We are so pleased to have surpassed our $15,000 goal by raising $15,715 from 118 donors.  Thank you all for supporting this campaign!  Your gifts will ensure that important films, audio tapes, and other media are preserved for future use by students, faculty and scholars.  We are grateful for your interest in supporting this important campaign!!

Jennifer

More than Half Way There!

January 27, 2017

We continue to make nice progress on our Preserve Cornell's Audio/Visual Heritage Campaign.  To date we have raised $9,224 from 56 donors and are more than halfway there.  Thank you to all who have contributed - we are grateful for your support!  We have just a little more than $5,000 remaining to raise with 19 days to reach our goal.  Please share this link https://crowdfunding.cornell.edu/project/3814  with your classmates, family and friends who you think might be interested in helping to preserve some of Cornell's most iconic memories.

Jennifer Sawyer

Good Start to the Campaign

January 20, 2017

Thank you to all who have responded to the Preserving Cornell’s Audio/Visual Heritage campaign.  So far we have raised $5,393 from 33 donors. We have $9,607 remaining and hope we can count on you to help us to reach our goal of $15,000.  Your gift will ensure that important historical Cornell events and lectures captured on film reels, wire recordings, audio tapes and other media are preserved and accessible to scholars.

Jennifer Sawyer

Levels
Choose a giving level

$25

Caring Conservator

A gift of $25 provides support for physical stabilization of audio/visual materials

$50

Access Advocate

A gift of $50 supports the digitization process of vulnerable historic material

$150

Audio Aficionado

A gift of $150 preserves audio of campus lectures and alumni reminiscences

$250

Film Fanatic

A gift of $250 saves the film or video recording of a historic Cornell occasion such as a celebration or athletic event

$500

Past Preserver

A gift of $500 allows for preservation of a small group of items such as a set of faculty oral histories

$1,000

Hard-working Historian

A gift of $1,000 digitizes multiple audio and visual materials and supports the cost to put them online

$2,500

Media Mogul

A gift of $2,500 funds larger digitization projects such as a collection of football games or a lecture series