New Guidelines and Application Instructions for the July 1,
2002 Deadline
National Endowment for the Humanities
Division of Preservation and Access
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH
http://www.neh.gov ) is a grant-making agency of the U.S. federal government
that supports projects in the humanities. Eligible applicants are: U.S.
nonprofit associations, institutions, and organizations, as well as U.S.
citizens and foreign nationals who have been legal residents in the United
States for a period of at least the three years immediately preceding the
submission of the application.
NEH's Division of Preservation and Access supports projects
that preserve and make available the full range of humanities collections
that are important 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. Grants are also given for the
creation of research tools and reference works (such as dictionaries,
encyclopedias, and databases), for national and regional preservation
training programs, and for research and demonstration projects that may
explore the use of digital technology.
In addition to the types of projects that have previously
been eligible for support, institutions will be given the opportunity to
define a corpus of materials of significance to the humanities and present a
plan of work that employs whatever action may be deemed most appropriate to
the nature and condition of the materials and their eventual use.
Applicants will be expected to justify their choice of a possible variety of
preservation and access strategies, which might include: microfilming,
digitization, or the creation of other types of surrogates; deacidification,
conservation, or stabilization; and the cataloging or arrangement and
description of materials.
Since the division will continue to require that any
original materials preserved with NEH support must be returned to an
environment that meets national standards for preservation, libraries and
archives will now be eligible to apply to the division for grants to
stabilize their holdings. Such proposals may request funding for the
improvement of environmental conditions (including climate control), the
installation of security, lighting and fire-prevention systems, and the
purchase of storage furniture.
Prospective applicants seeking further information are
encouraged to contact the division's staff (at 202-606-8570 or at
[log in to unmask]). The staff will also continue to read draft proposals
that are submitted six weeks before the deadline. Final decisions for
applications submitted to the JULY 1, 2002 deadline will be announced the
following April.
The Guidelines and instructions can be downloaded from the
NEH Web site: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/preservation.html . A
list of recent awards is also available at:
http://www.neh.gov/news/recentawards.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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