New guidelines for the National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation
Assistance Grants are now available.  May 15, 2003 is the receipt deadline
for projects that would begin no earlier than January 2004.  Preservation
Assistance Grants of up to $5000 help small and mid-size
institutions--libraries, museums, and historical societies, town and county
records offices, archival repositories, community colleges, and underserved
departments and units within colleges and universities and other larger
institutions--improve their ability to preserve and care for their
humanities collections.  Institutions may request support for the following
activities: 1) General preservation assessments that will help an
institution identify its overall preservation needs and develop a
long-range, prioritized preservation plan to address those needs; 2)
Consultations with preservation professionals to address a specific
preservation issue, need, or problem; 3) Attendance at preservation
workshops; and 4) Purchase of storage furniture, preservation supplies, and
environmental monitoring equipment.

The guidelines may be downloaded from NEH's web site:
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pag.html

Call NEH's Division of Preservation and Access for more information at
202/606-8570.

Laura J. Word
Senior Program Officer
Division of Preservation and Access
National Endowment for the Humanities
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Room 411
Washington, D.C.  20506
202/606-8570
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