NHPRC ARCHIVES PRESERVATION GRANTS
Deadlines Announced

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) supports projects that promote the preservation and use of America's documentary heritage essential to understanding our democracy, history, and culture.

Archives - Basic Projects Grants
Projects may include basic processing, preservation planning, collections development, and establishing archives. Preservation planning activities may include collection-level preservation assessments.

Deadline: October 7, 2010
(Drafts will be reviewed if submitted by August 2, 2010)

Award Information
A grant normally is for one or two years and for up to $200,000. NHPRC provides up to 50% of project costs.

Archives - Detailed Processing Projects Grants
For projects undertaking major detailed processing and preservation of collections of national significance. Collections should have high research demand or substantial preservation challenges.

Deadline:   October 7, 2010
(Drafts will be reviewed if submitted by August 2, 2010)

Proposals under the Detailed Processing Projects category should describe how the repository will process and create detailed descriptions at the series
or file level. In the course of such processing, some selective re-foldering and basic cleaning may be
needed, and applicants must explain whether any
item-level treatment will be necessary, including removing fasteners, opening envelopes, and flattening, copying, encapsulating, de-acidifying, and mending documents.

For collections of fragile textual materials, applicants may apply for grants in support of preservation microfilming or other media. Applicants may propose limited digitization of series or items that have the most potential to benefit a broad public.

Award Information
A grant normally is for one to three years and up to $200,000. NHPRC provides up to 50% of project costs.

For complete NHPRC guidelines, visit: NHPRC
Or contact Alexander Lorch, Program Officer for
Archives:Basic and Archives:Detailed Processing
projects, 202-357-5101

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HOW CAN NEDCC HELP?

NEDCC can aid in the preparation of your grant application by generating estimates for preservation assessments, reformatting, and conservation treatment.

NEDCC provides expert conservation treatment, preservation microfilming, and high-quality digitization. The Center can perform general preservation, collection-level, or item-by-item assessments.

To discuss a grant project with NEDCC, contact:
Walter Newman, Director of Paper Conservation, wnewman@nedcc.org,
Angelina Altobellis, Assessment Program Coordinator, aaltobellis@nedcc.org
or
David Mathews, Director of Imaging Services,
dmathews@nedcc.org

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