The National Endowment for the Humanities has published the guidelines for Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions Program (PAG).
The grant application deadline is May 5, 2015. Funded projects would begin January 2016.
The NEH PAG program helps small and mid-sized cultural heritage institutions such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities improve their ability to preserve and care for their humanities collections. Awards of up to $6000 support preservation related collection assessments, consultations, and institutional and collaborative disaster and emergency planning. Preservation Assistance Grants also support education and training in best practices for sustaining digital collections, standards for digital preservation, and the care and handling of collections during digitization. Institutions may request funds for a preservation assessment of digital collections. NEH does not fund digitization or the development of digital programs in this grant category.
Join LYRASIS for a Free Webinar NEH Preservation Assistance Grants. Advanced registration is required to receive log in.
Two sessions are offered: March 11, 2015 3-4pm ET or March. 13. 2015 11am -12pm ET
Attend a session to talk about your project ideas. Based on the recently published grant guidelines, we will be discussing potential projects for humanities collections that are digital and analog. We will also give advice on crafting your narrative and goals.
If you have further questions please contact LYRASIS Preservation Services Librarian Alix Bentrud at: alix.bentrud@lyrasis.org or call 800.999.8558.
Follow the link for the complete Calendar of LYRASIS Preservation Classes
LYRASIS Preservation Services are funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access.