Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 607.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 07:05:44 +0100
From: "Aguera, Helen" <HAguera@neh.gov>
Subject: NEH Guidelines for Preservation and Access Projects
New Guidelines and Application Instructions for
Preservation and Access Projects
National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities is a grant-making
agency of the United States (U.S.) federal government that supports
projects in the humanities. U.S. nonprofit associations, institutions, and
organizations are eligible applicants. NEH's Division of Preservation and
Access supports projects that will create, preserve, and make available
cultural resources of importance for research, education, and lifelong
learning. Projects may encompass collections of books, journals,
newspapers, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving
images, sound recordings, and objects of material culture held by
libraries, archives, museums, historical organizations, and other
repositories.
The division will be accepting applications in July 2003 for
three of its funding categories.
1) Research and Development Grants support projects that address issues
of major significance to libraries, archives, and museums (such as efforts
that help establish standards or a consensus of best practice for the use
of digital technology to preserve or enhance access to humanities resources).
The application deadline is July 1, 2003 for grants beginning January 2004.
<http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/researchdevelopment.html>http<http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/researchdevelopment.html>://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/researchdevelopment.html
2) Reference Materials Grants may be requested to create dictionaries,
encyclopedias, databases, electronic archives, historical atlases,
bibliographies, descriptive catalogs, guides, and other types of research
tools and reference works.
The application deadline is July 15, 2003 for projects beginning May 2004.
<http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/referencematerials.html>http<http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/referencematerials.html>://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/referencematerials.html
3) Grants to Preserve and Create Access to Humanities Collections fund
the following activities: cataloging; arrangement and description;
documentation; preservation microfilming of brittle books and serials; mass
deacidification of items not yet embrittled; conservation treatment;
transfer of materials to more stable media; creating digital surrogates to
enhance intellectual accessibility; and creating oral histories; and
conducting archival surveys.
The application deadline is July 15, 2003 for projects beginning May 2004.
<http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pcahc.html>http<http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pcahc.html>://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pcahc.html
Prospective applicants seeking further information are encouraged to
contact the division's staff (at 202-606-8570 or at
preservation@neh.gov). The staff will read draft proposals that are
submitted six weeks before the deadline. A list of recent awards is also
available
at
<http://www.neh.gov/news/awards/PreservationFeb2003.html>http://www.neh.gov/news/awards/PreservationFeb2003.html
The postal address is:
Division of Preservation and Access
NEH, Room 411
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20506 (U.S.A.)
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