And remember the NINCH Guide to Good Practice <http://www.ninch.org/guide> that has a section on funding in its Project Planning chapter. David Green On Sep 20, 2004, at 5:54 PM, Sarah Brophy wrote: > Margaret - AAM's grants for museums book is available from them...and > you can get access to a useful portion of the foundation center's > database for 19.99 a month to do your research www.fdncenter.org. > > OR you can talk to folks who've digitized their collections and will > share donor information. > > If you haven't already read it, have a look at _Introduction to > Imaging_ put out by Getty (and available through AAM). > IMLS has an on-line guidelines for digitization projects. > > And remember - the process (digitization) isn't as important as your > material is now and will be in the future...so your grant application > is about preserving and a providing access to a collection...not just > digitizing it. > > Good luck! SB > > > Sarah S. Brophy - bMuse > > Carlisle, MA 01741 > > www.gis.net/~bmuse > > Visit http://noncredit.middlesex.cc.ma.us/f04/ "Fundamentals of > Raising Money Through Grants" in Bedford, MA, Fall 2004 > > look under "writing and publishing" to register > -----Original Message----- > From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On > Behalf Of Margaret Lyman > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 5:41 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Guide to Funding Sources > > > Is there a directory of funding sources out there? I think it was > called something like the "Big Book of Grants". We are trying to find > grants to cover a project to digitize our photograph and glass slide > collection. > > > > Margaret Lyman, Interim Director > > Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia > > 19 South 22nd Street > > Philadelphia, PA 19103-3097 > > 215-563-3737 x244 > > 215-561-6477 (fax) > > [log in to unmask] > > > ========================================================= Important > Subscriber Information: > > The Museum-L FAQ file is located at > http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed > information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail > message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message > should read "help" (without the quotes). > > If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail > message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message > should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). > ========================================================= Important > Subscriber Information: > > The Museum-L FAQ file is located at > http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed > information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail > message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message > should read "help" (without the quotes). > > If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail > message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message > should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).