FROM THE COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES (CLIR)
Recordings at Risk
A national regranting program administered by CLIR to support the preservation of rare and unique audio and audiovisual content of high scholarly value through digital reformatting. Generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the program will run five competitions from January 2017 to April 2019 and will award a total of $2.3 million.
Grant Amounts
Awards from the open competitions range from $10,000 to $50,000 and cover costs of preservation reformatting for audio and/or audiovisual content by qualified external service providers.
Eligible Grant Activities
Digitization of audio and/or audiovisual materials
Deadline: February 8, 2019
Complete information and guidelines: https://www.clir.org/recordings-at-risk
Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Enabling New Scholarship through Increasing Access to Unique Materials
A national grant competition administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) for digitizing rare and unique content in collecting institutions. The program is generously supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is built upon the model of CLIR’s Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program (2008-2014).
Grant Amounts
Single institutions – $50,000 to $250,000
Collaborative, multi-institution applications – $50,000 to $500,000.
Eligible Grant Activities
Digitization of collections of scholarly value
Deadline: April 3, 2019
Complete information and guidelines: https://www.clir.org/hiddencollections
QUESTIONS?
Interested in working with NEDCC on a digitization or audio preservation project?
Contact:
Terrance D'Ambrosio, Director of Imaging Services, tdambrosio<at>nedcc<.>org
or
Bryce Roe, Manager of Audio Preservation Services, broe<at>nedcc<.>org
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