[Preservenw] NEH Preservation Assistance Grant -- Deadline May 16, 2005 (fwd)

[Gary Menges]

The guidelines for the NEH Preservation Assistance grants are now on the 
NEH website. Gary

NEH Preservation Assistance Grant

Deadline May 16, 2005 for projects beginning January 2006

Type of Award
Successful applicants will be awarded an outright grant up to $5000.

Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-size institutions, such 
as libraries, museums, and historical societies, archival repositories, 
town and county records offices, and colleges, improve their ability to 
preserve and care for their humanities collections. These may include 
special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, 
prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and 
cartographic records, decorative and fine arts, textiles, archaeological 
and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, and historical objects. 
Preservation Assistance Grants can be used for:

*	General preservation assessments
*	Consultations with professionals to address a specific preservation issue, need, or problem
*	Purchase of storage furniture and preservation supplies
*	Purchase of environmental monitoring equipment for humanities collections
*	Education and training

Applicants may combine two or more elements of the project types listed 
above in a single application. For example, an applicant may request funds 
for a consultant to conduct a preservation assessment and an onsite 
preservation workshop for the institution's staff. NEH grants may support 
consultant fees, workshop registration fees, travel and per diem expenses, 
and the costs of purchasing and shipping preservation supplies and 
equipment. For complete description and application information see: 
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pag.html#program Questions? Contact 
the staff of NEH's Division of Preservation and Access at 202-606-8570 or 
at preservation at neh.gov