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NEH Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Resources

Deadline: July 15, 2009: Applications for projects to unify, integrate, or aggregate humanities collections and resources are strongly encouraged.

Grants support projects that preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as books, journals, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, art, and objects of material culture. To ensure that significant collections are preserved and available for research, education, or public programming in the humanities, applications may be submitted for the following activities:

digitizing collections;
arranging and describing archival and manuscript collections;
cataloging collections of printed works, photographs, recorded sound, moving image, art, and material culture;
preservation reformatting;
deacidification of collections; and
preserving and improving access to humanities resources in “born digital” form.

Applicants may combine preservation and access activities within a single project or concentrate either on preserving or providing intellectual access to collections and humanities content. Projects to digitize collections may focus on the holdings of a single repository or multiple repositories. All digitization projects should be designed to facilitate sharing and exchange of humanities information.

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NEH Small Grants to Libraries program

Deadline: January 30, 2009 This funding opportunity offers successful applicants a $2,500 grant from NEH for exhibition-related expenses and for exhibition programming.

“Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War” has been designated as part of NEH’s We the People program, exploring significant events and themes in our nation’s history and culture and advancing knowledge of the principles that define America.

Using the Constitution as the cohesive thread, “Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War” offers a fresh and innovative perspective on Lincoln that focuses on his struggle to meet the political and constitutional challenges of the Civil War...

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NEH Guidelines for Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions

Deadline: May 14, 2009 Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions, such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, ... and colleges and universities, improve their ability to preserve and care for their humanities collections. These may include special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine arts, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, and historical objects.

Applicants must draw on the knowledge of consultants whose preservation skills and experience are related to the types of collections and the nature of the activities that are the focus of their projects...

Small and mid-sized institutions that have never received an NEH grant are especially encouraged to apply.

Preservation Assistance Grants may be used for:

General preservation assessments
Consultations with professionals to address a specific preservation issue, need, or problem

Purchase of storage furniture and preservation supplies
Purchase of environmental monitoring equipment for humanities collections
Education and Training

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