LYRASIS Preservation Services staff is available to assist institutions who would like to apply for Preservation Assistance Grants.  Designed to help Small-to-Mid Sized Institutions, these grants are for up to $6,000, and are awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access. The grants are open to libraries, museums, historical societies, town and county records offices, archival repositories, community colleges, underserved departments and units within colleges and universities, and other larger institutions that need the funds to help preserve their humanities collections. Funds can be used for needs assessments, consultations, classes, or purchase of preservation supplies.

NEH has recently expanded of the kind of training that Preservation Assistance Grants supports.  In addition to general preservation workshops, these grants will support education and training in digital best practices and the management and preservation of digital resources. LYRASIS offers a complete set of courses related to the digitization of materials as well as digital preservation. Institutions could opt for a single class, a suite of classes or a course personalized for your institution.

Grant details are available on the NEH Web site, at: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pag.html   If you would like to talk more about potential projects after reviewing the guidelines, Call NEH at 202.606.8570 or email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> to discuss and receive helpful tips for a writing a successful application. You may also contact LYRASIS Preservation Services Librarians Jessica Leming at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or Alix Bentrud at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, or call 800-999-8558.

A free LYRASIS Preservation class is available on the topic of developing a grant proposal at: http://www.slideshare.net/LYRASIS . A Delicious page for the links in the class is available here: http://bit.ly/ccsxzT

LYRASIS Preservation Services are funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for Humanities, division of Preservation and Access.


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