The Humanities Department is offering the Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant to preserve and enhance access to cultural materials vital for scholarship, education, and public programming. This grant supports projects nationwide that strengthen efforts to extend the life of important collections held by libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations. Funding is available for activities such as arranging, describing, cataloging, conserving, and digitizing various materials including books, manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings, artifacts, and digital objects. It also supports the creation of essential reference resources like databases, encyclopedias, linguistic tools, and digital tools for humanities data. The program emphasizes ensuring the longevity of humanities sources, enabling their ongoing use and widespread intellectual accessibility.
Opportunity ID: 85954
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | 20110720-PW |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Grant |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Humanities |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | – |
| Assistance Listings: | 45.149 — Promotion of the Humanities_Division of Preservation and Access |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Apr 06, 2011 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 20, 2011 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 20, 2011 |
| Archive Date: | Aug 19, 2011 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | $350,000 |
| Award Floor: | $0 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | County governments Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education Special district governments Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) City or township governments State governments Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education Private institutions of higher education Public and State controlled institutions of higher education |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | – |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | National Endowment for the Humanities |
| Description: | The Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program supports projects that provide an essential foundation for scholarship, education, and public programming in the humanities. Thousands of libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country maintain important collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and material culture, and digital objects. Funding from this program strengthens efforts to extend the life of such materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology. Awards are also made to create various reference resources that facilitate use of cultural materials, from works that provide basic information quickly to tools that synthesize and codify knowledge of a subject for in-depth investigation. Applications may be submitted for projects that address one or more of the following activities: arranging and describing archival and manuscript collections; cataloging collections of printed works, photographs, recorded sound, moving images, art, and material culture; providing conservation treatment (including deacidification) for collections, leading to enhanced access; digitizing collections; preserving and improving access to born-digital sources; developing databases, virtual collections, or other electronic resources to codify information on a subject or to provide integrated access to selected humanities materials; creating encyclopedias; preparing linguistic tools, such as historical and etymological dictionaries, corpora, and reference grammars (separate funding is available for endangered language projects in partnership with the National Science Foundation); developing tools for spatial analysis and representation of humanities data, such as atlases and geographic information systems (GIS); and designing digital tools to facilitate use of humanities resources. Because ensuring the longevity of humanities sources is critical to enabling their ongoing use, applicants may request support for implementing preservation measures, such as reformatting (including microfilming), rehousing, or item-level stabilization procedures, in the context of projects that also create or enhance access to humanities collections. |
| Link to Additional Information: | http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/HCRR.html |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Humanities Collections and Resources
Division of Preservation and Access Room 411 National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20506 202-606-8570 Email:preservation@neh.gov |
Version History
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Related Documents
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Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Humanities Collections and Resources Division of Preservation and Access Room 411 National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20506 202-606-8570 Email: preservation@neh.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45.149 | PKG00046770 | Apr 06, 2011 | Jul 20, 2011 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
85954 SF424_Short_1_1-1.1.pdf
85954 SupplementaryCoverSheetforNEHGrantPrograms-1.0.pdf
85954 PerformanceSite_1_4-1.4.pdf
85954 Attachments-1.0.pdf
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