Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Related Grant Programs
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NEH Division of Preservation and Access |
must be humanities focused |
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Humanities Collections and Reference Resources: Implementation Grants |
7/18/13 |
arranging and describing and cataloging museum, library, archival collections; implementing preservation measures; digitizing collections, or preserving and improving access to born-digital resources; developing databases, virtual collections, digital tools, or other electronic resources; creating encyclopedias; preparing linguistic tools, such as historical and etymological dictionaries, corpora, and reference grammars; developing tools for spatial analysis and representation of humanities data, such as atlases and geographical information systems (GIS); and designing digital tools to facilitate use of humanities resources. |
up to $350K |
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Humanities Collections and Reference Resources: Foundations Grants |
7/18/13 |
To help in the formative stages of initiatives to preserve and create access to humanities collections or to produce reference resources, Foundations grants will support planning, assessment, and pilot activities that incorporate expertise from a mix of professional domains. Drawing upon the cooperation of humanities scholars and technical specialists, these projects might encompass efforts to prepare for establishing intellectual control of collections, to develop plans and priorities for digitizing collections, to solidify collaborative frameworks and strategic plans for complex digital reference resources, or to produce preliminary versions of online collections or resources. |
up to $40K |
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12/3/13 |
Planning grants to: Examine low-energy alternatives to environmental control; Analyze and develop more energy-efficient climate control systems; Evaluate the effectiveness of preventive conservation strategies previously implemented. Implementation grants to: Manage interior relative humidity; Install HVAC systems; Install storage systems and re-house collections; Improve security and fire protection of collections; Upgrade lighting systems |
Planning: up to $40K; Implementation: up to $400K |
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5/1/13 |
Preservation and Access Research and Development grants support projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. These challenges include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the nation’s cultural heritage—from fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence—and to develop advanced modes of searching, discovering, and using such materials. |
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5/1/13 |
50K-125K to support workshops for: preservation and care of humanities collections; methods and materials for the storage of collections; environmental monitoring programs; disaster preparedness and response; best practices for cataloging art and material culture collections; proper methods for the arrangement and description of archival collections; best practices for sustaining digital collections; standards for digital preservation, and care and handling of collections during digitization |
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5/1/13 |
General preservation assessments; Consultations with professionals to address a specific preservation need; Purchase of storage furniture and preservation supplies; Purchase of environmental monitoring equipment; Education and Training (disaster recovery, collections care, standards and best practices for digitizing collections) |
up to $6K; no cost share; for smaller and mid-sized institutions only |
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NHPRC |
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6/11/13 |
ER Program Planning in order to develop institutional capacity to capture and preserve permanently valuable electronic records ($75,000 max); Collaborative projects to establish or improve ER archives ($300,000 max) |
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6/11/13 |
Digitizing entire collections, up to $150,000 |
Per item cost for textual materials between $1 and $2 |
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6/6/13 (pre-1820 materials); 10/3/13 (post-1820 materials) |
Grants are awarded for collecting, describing, preserving, compiling, editing, and publishing documentary source materials. |
Priority is to support editions that have plans to publish their results as a free online resource. $20-250K annually per grant. |
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| Documenting Democracy: Access to Historical Records | 10/3/13 | Support projects that promote the preservation and use of the nation’s most valuable archival records. Eligible activities include establishing archives programs; processing archival collections at the basic or detailed levels; surveying and accessioning archival records; and converting existing archival collection finding aids to new online formats. | |
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9/5/13 |
Provide statewide archival services, including professional education, public information about records and archival programs, and other activities to implement state plans. |
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IMLS |
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1:1 match required except for funds for student support |
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15-Dec |
Conservation initiatives at varied levels: Planning and Implementation grants to provide safe conditions for their collections; develop an emergency plan; assign responsibility for collections care; and work together to increase public and private support for, and raise public awareness about, collections care. |
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15-Dec |
This program supports projects to develop faculty and library leaders, to recruit and educate the next generation of librarians, to conduct research on the library profession, and to support early career research on any area of library and information science by tenure-track, untenured faculty in graduate schools of library and information science. It also supports projects to encourage careers in librarianship, to build institutional capacity in graduate schools of library and information science, and to assist in the professional development of librarians and library staff. |
$50K-$1M |
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1-Feb |
National Leadership Grants support projects that address challenges faced by the museum, library, and/or archive fields and that have the potential to advance practice in those fields. Successful proposals will seek innovative responses to the challenge(s) identified in the proposals, and will have national impact. |
Project and Collaborative Planning Grants from under $50K up to $1M |
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1-Dec |
National Leadership Grants (NLG) for Museums support projects that address current and future needs of the museum field and that have the potential to advance practice in the profession so that museums can improve services for the American public. Successful proposals will generate results such as models, new tools, research findings, services, practices, and/or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend and leverage the benefits of federal investment. |
Project and Collaborative Planning Grants from under $50K up to $1M |
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1-Jul; 1-Dec |
In less than a year, your museum can complete a self-study, have a site visit by a peer reviewer and begin implementing recommendations. |
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12/2/13 |
funds can be used for a wide variety of projects, including ongoing museum activities, research and other behindthe-scenes activities, planning, new programs, purchase of equipment or services, and activities that will support the efforts of museums to upgrade and integrate new technologies |
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2/1/13 |
Up to $25K to test approaches such as exploring the potential of highly original, experimental collaborations; implementing new workflows or processes with potential for substantial cost savings; testing new metrics or methods to measure the impact of promising tools or services; rapid prototyping and testing of new types of software tools, or creating useful new ways to link separate software applications used in libraries, archives, or museums; offering innovative new types of services or service options to museum, library, or archive visitors; or enhancing institutions’ abilities to interact with audiences in new ways to promote learning or improve services, such as through the deployment of innovative crowd-sourcing techniques. |
no match required |
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12/2/13 |
CAP provides a general conservation assessment of your museum's collection, environmental conditions, and site. Conservation priorities are identified by professionals who spend two days on-site and three days writing a report. The report can help your museum develop strategies for improved collections care and provide a tool for long-range planning and fund-raising. |
museums only |
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