Three New Grant Opportunities for FY 2007
At its May 2006, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission approved going forward with three grant opportunities for the next round of applications. We are now accepting applications against an October 2, 2006 deadline for an Archives Leadership Institute; Digitizing Historical Records projects; and Historical Documentary Editing Fellowships..
Archives Leadership Institute
The Commission seeks proposals from organizations to design and implement an Archives Leadership Institute to provide executive leadership training for archivists and records managers, as well as sharpening skills in nonprofit management and areas of particular concern in archives. The Institute is envisioned as comparable to the Museum Leadership Institute run by the Getty Institute; the Seminar in Historical Administration sponsored by the American Association of State and Local History, the American Association of Museums, Colonial Williamsburg, Indiana Historical Society, the National Park Service, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation; and the Frye Leadership Institute's for Higher Education Professionals; and the NHPRC-sponsored Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents.
The Archival Leadership Institute seeks to bring to tomorrow's leaders the insights and understanding necessary for increasing public use and appreciation of archives. One award, for a period of up to three years beginning in January 2007, will be made, with the expectation that at least two institutes will take place during that period. The total available funds are up to $250,000, and cost sharing may be waived. The Commission anticipates that the developer of an effective institute will have an ongoing relationship with the Commission in future years.
The full announcement is available at: http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/leadership.html
Digitizing Historical Records
The Commission seeks proposals to test and implement cost-effective methods to scan historical record collections and make digital versions freely available on the Internet. The key aspect to this pilot program is to demonstrate how entire archival collections can be digitized and uploaded to the Web, thereby making materials more quickly and readily available to the public.
Projects must focus on digitizing archival components that consist of nationally-significant materials. Archival components may be entire collections or series. The selected materials should already be processed so that projects can use existing information to create metadata for the digitized collection. The selected materials should include enough records to test the feasibility and value of disseminating large quantities of historical sources based on standard archival methods of description and arrangement (most likely using existing Encoded Archival Description finding aids). Goals of these projects are to produce entire collections or series useable online as digital images and descriptions of methods and practices that other institutions can use to reproduce the results.
The Commission intends to allocate one to three awards of up to a total of $150,000 each. Each project may be up to three years in duration. The Commission will provide up to 50 percent of the total project costs, which grantees must match through cost sharing.
The full announcement is available at: http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/digitizing.html
Historical Documentary Editing Fellowships
The Commission will re-institute its Historical Documentary Editing Fellowships in FY 2007. Only current and active NHPRC-supported publications projects are eligible to apply, and the projects themselves will be responsible for screening and hiring their own fellows through the NHPRC grant funds. Applicants should demonstrate the capability to provide strong post-graduate training in documentary editing, including document collection, accessioning, and control; selection; transcription; annotation; proofreading; indexing; and project management.
The Commission provides this funding to ensure that recent History Ph.D.s or advanced graduate students have exposure to historical editing techniques and careers. The host institution may use a limited amount of funds to cover costs of recruiting a fellow and giving the fellow limited travel and educational opportunities.
Awards are for one year grants of $55,000 each, with no cost sharing requirements. Depending on the quality of proposals and availability of funding, the Commission expects to fund one to two fellowship projects, each with a single fellow.
The full announcement is available at: http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/editing.html
All announcements are also available via http://www.grants.gov
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Keith Donohue
Communications Director
National Historical Publications & Records Commission
National Archives -- Room 106
700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20408
202-357-5365
202/357-5914 fax
www.archives.gov/nhprc
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