NEH Preservation Assistance Grants

2010 NEH Preservation Grant guidelines are out.
LYRASIS Preservation can assist.

LYRASIS Preservation Services staff are 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

    <URL: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
preservation<-at->neh<.>gov to discuss and receive helpful tips for a
writing a successful application. You may also contact LYRASIS
Preservation Services Librarians Jessica Leming at
jessica.leming<-at->lyrasis<.>org or Alix Bentrud at
alix.bentrud<-at->lyrasis<.>org, or call 800-999-8558.

A free LYRASIS Preservation class is available on the topic of
developing a grant proposal at

    <URL:http://www.slideshare.net/LYRASIS>

A Delicious page for the links in the class is available here:

        <URL: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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